1+ hour, 12+ min ago  (463+ words) The extraordinary prison sentences handed down this week in the Prairieland Detention Center case mark a new stage in the war being waged by the US ruling class against political opposition to its criminal rule. The Justice Department hailed the…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago  (783+ words) Cities across Western Europe have been hotter than much of the Middle East this week. The worst European heatwave in history has pushed temperatures as high as 44. 3 degrees Celsius in France'its hottest ever day'and broken records in half of Europe's…...

8+ hour, 24+ min ago  (798+ words) Operating Theatre Assistants (OTAs) at three major hospitals in Leeds, England belonging to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust began a two-week strike June 22. The hospitals impacted are Leeds General Infirmary, St James's University Hospital and Chapel Allerton Hospital. The members…...

20+ hour, 52+ min ago  (546+ words) The hearing underscored the urgency of an independent fight by postal workers, developing rank-and-file committees to mobilize the broader working class in defense of the post office as both a workplace and a democratic institution. This statement captures the significance…...

21+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1194+ words) Since former special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was charged with five war crimes, allegedly committed during the neo-colonial occupation of Afghanistan, he has been accorded extraordinary treatment by the political, legal and media establishment. The official attitude to Roberts-Smith goes…...

22+ hour, 11+ min ago  (306+ words) On June 24, SGP Chairman Christoph Vandreier and Johannes Stern, editor of the German-language World Socialist Web Site, read out an open letter to Ambassador G'khan Turan in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin. In it, they demand the immediate…...

22+ hour, 13+ min ago  (895+ words) On June 23, the German cabinet presented the recommendations of its expert commission on pension reforms. Chancellor Friedrich Merz (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) announced that his government would implement all 33 recommendations "swiftly." Labour Minister B'rbel Bas (Social Democratic Party, SPD) reinforced…...

1+ day, 10+ min ago  (577+ words) Paz justified the offensive by branding the 51-day workers" uprising "an attempted coup d'tat from narco-terrorism." Bolivia"s place within that offensive was clearly spelled out by Paz"s defense minister Ernesto Justiniano when he announced the preparation of the…...

1+ day, 12+ min ago  (399+ words) A recent report (Extreme Heat and Agriculture) prepared jointly by the United Nations" Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) finds that elevated temperatures around the world threaten the food security and livelihoods of over a…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1744+ words) Alan Greenspan, whose death at the age of 100 was announced on Monday, was chairman of the US Federal Reserve for 19 years, from 1987 to 2006. He will go down in history as the individual who did more than any other to create…...