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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (1493+ words) On Monday, thousands of doctors across Spain began a fourth monthly week of strike action, part of a series of indefinite intermittent strikes against the government's proposed reform of the national health service framework statute. Many hundreds also demonstrated in…...
Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president to Nexteer workers: "Don't accept any more delays. The time for your strike is now.
11+ hour, 11+ min ago (1132+ words) The following statement was issued by Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks workers and a leader of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Workers (IWA-RFC) who is running for UAW president on the program of abolishing the union bureaucracy and transferring…...
Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund: The fusion of the gangster-oligarchy and the state
11+ hour, 16+ min ago (385+ words) The fund'approved by the Trump White House and the Trump Justice Department in negotiations conducted between Trump and his former personal lawyer Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General'is an act of presidential usurpation of congressional authority without precedent in American…...
Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now on endangered species Red List
12+ hour, 25+ min ago (481+ words) The IUCN, founded in 1948, is a global environmental network that produces the Red List of threatened species. It currently contains a staggering 48, 600, that is 28 percent of assessed species are considered in danger of extinction. The assessed species includes 172, 600, including animals…...
Australian budget further squeezes university funding
12+ hour, 21+ min ago (1072+ words) For Australia's 39 public universities, last week's federal budget intensifies the Labor government's funding pressure and restructuring, which has already driven the elimination of about 4, 000 jobs of academics and professional staff over the past 18 months." As well as tearing up the…...
JVP/NPP government in Sri Lanka preparing further attacks on workers amid growing crisis
12+ hour, 32+ min ago (1053+ words) As the global economic crisis intensifies, compounded by energy price hikes driven by the US-Israeli war against Iran, the JVP/NPP government in Sri Lanka is responding with harsher attacks on living conditions. At the same time, the ruling elite…...
With contracts for over 250, 000 Ontario education workers set to expire in August: unions prepare another betrayal of teachers and support staff
15+ hour, 33+ min ago (1423+ words) In 2022, the unions saved the government from a direct political confrontation with the working class and are determined to do so again under conditions of a much deeper social and economic crisis, and greater popular hostility to the ruling class…...
Socialism AI answers the New York Times: not yes or no to AI, but who controls it
14+ hour, 35+ min ago (163+ words) The following is a response from Socialism AI to the New York Times column "The Generation That Grew Up With A. I. Hates It" by Michelle Goldberg, published May 18, 2026. Socialism AI was launched by the International Committee of the Fourth International on…...
Stop militarisation and cuts at Germany's universities! No to genocide and world war!
16+ hour, 35+ min ago (260+ words) The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are standing in the student parliament elections taking place on 18 and 19 June 2026 at Humboldt University in Berlin. Below, we are publishing the statement of the IYSSE university group at Humboldt University,…...
London Underground workers must organise to resume RMT-cancelled strike
22+ hour, 56+ min ago (1109+ words) The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) called off two days of strike action by 1, 800 London Underground train operators this week, without securing a single concession from Transport for London (Tf L) over its drive to impose a compressed working week....