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New York City nurses arrested as Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul escalate pressure to end 4-week strike
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (726+ words) The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses. New York City police arrested at least 13 nurses Thursday during Day 25 of…...
Mamdani caps 1 month of betrayal with endorsement of right-wing Democrat Kathy Hochul
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (761+ words) After spending an hour with the newly-elected Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani last November, Donald Trump described him as'very rational'and predicted that he would do'really great'things. Mamdani has not disappointed the fascist president. It has been barely a month since Mamdani…...
Layoffs by US firms tripled in January, as mass job cuts accelerate to Great Recession levels
3+ hour, 31+ min ago (644+ words) In 2025, US companies announced more than 1.2 million layoffs, the highest level since 2020, the first year of the pandemic. The figures for the first month of 2026 already indicate that the pace of job destruction is accelerating into the new year. The…...
Trump calls for country to “move on” from Epstein files, as scale and scope of criminality, cover-up expand
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (827+ words) The haphazard release of millions of documents, emails, pictures and videos as part of the Epstein files last Friday has shaken the rotten foundations of the Trump administration. In a hearing last year before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI Director…...
Australia: Labor government pressing ahead with demolition of Melbourne public housing towers
3+ hour, 51+ min ago (1029+ words) Following a December ruling by the Victorian Supreme Court, the state Labor government has escalated its campaign to demolish 44 public housing towers in inner Melbourne and hand the land to private developers." Housing Minister Harriet Shing has announced a second…...
No Other Choice from South Korea: Doesn’t “necessity knows no law” cut both ways?
3+ hour, 56+ min ago (1063+ words) No Other Choice'is a semi-comedy, semi-tragedy, directed by veteran South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Joint Security Area, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, The Handmaiden). It is inspired by Donald Westlake's 1997 novel'The Ax, previously adapted as a film by Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras…...
Trump’s “critical minerals” conference aimed against China
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (1405+ words) The intensification of the economic and tariff war by the Trump regime against China last year revealed a significant weakness in the position of US imperialism. It is now trying to overcome it as the preparations for military conflict'regarded by…...
California worker killed in US Foods distribution facility
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (687+ words) Juan Jacobo, a veteran US Foods worker with approximately 20 years on the job, was killed on January 21 while working in the company's distribution yard in Livermore, California, a major logistics hub serving Northern California. He died during active yard operations,…...
Trump falsifies the history of the Mexican-American War
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (519+ words) As part of its "America 250" campaign, the Trump White House on Tuesday issued a presidential pronouncement commemorating what it calls "our victory in the Mexican-American War." The statement portrays the 184648 conflict as a defensive war forced upon an innocent United…...
1,200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
6+ hour, 49+ min ago (303+ words) In "re-balancing" operations at its Oshawa plant over the remaining two shifts, GM will apply seniority rules. A small number of higher-seniority members from the third shift will be bumped to the remaining shifts, while lower-seniority members across all three…...