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H5N1 avian flu spreads among Australian bird population
24+ min ago (702+ words) Australia confronts a rapidly evolving outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza (bird flu). The outbreak began in late June, when two infected migratory seabirds were found on a remote beach in Western Australia. Now, 290 “positive events”—confirmed infections of one or more…...
Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population
57+ min ago (621+ words) Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally. To these complaints, Lütke responded with enthusiasm to…...
After canceling strike vote, union officials ram through Michigan Medicine nurses’ contract
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (959+ words) On July 24, the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council (UMPNC) announced that 7,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had voted by 94 percent to ratify a three-year tentative agreement negotiated by the union bureaucracy on July 10. Both the tentative…...
Second deadliest Ebola outbreak on record spreads across the eastern Congo
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (337+ words) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had recorded 5,290 confirmed cases of Ebola and 2,516 confirmed deaths as of August 19, across 56 of 151 health zones in six provinces, according to DRC health ministry figures compiled by the European Centre for Disease Prevention…...
Jaffna fishermen protest against bottom trawling, Tamil nationalists divert anger along communal lines
1+ day, 27+ min ago (917+ words) Fishermen in northern Sri Lanka have recently held protests against commercial fishing vessels from India, whose bottom-trawling operations are inflicting serious damage on their livelihoods. The fishermen are being squeezed from two sides: by big fishing corporations and by the…...
“The state has to make a precedent that no worker will rise”: Interview with a defender of victimized workers in Noida, India
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (879+ words) Eight activists associated with the labour advocacy group Mazdoor Bigul (Workers’ Bugle) remain in jail, booked under 11 separate First Information Reports (FIRs) across five police stations. Two of them—Aakriti Chaudhry and Satyam Verma—have been subjected to the colonial-era…...
State takeover of Fort Worth ISD leads to 800 resignations, 569% increase in uncertified teachers
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (404+ words) The Texas Education Agency (TEA) took over Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) in October 2025, due to low test scores at a single school for five consecutive years. Within three months of the move, nearly 800 teachers had resigned their positions,…...
General Motors Mexico workers defend Bogdan Syrotiuk and support Will Lehman’s campaign
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (459+ words) The statements from Mexican autoworkers linking the two cases cut through the nationalist divisions that the corporations, governments and the union apparatus work ceaselessly to foment. His crime was to call for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against…...
David North answers questions at the international Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (264+ words) I hope that answers your question. Yes, Trotsky accepted responsibility for the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising. And I think one has to understand the circumstances under which that occurred. Clearly it had certain tragic elements to it. But the…...