(2023-04-21). Spain's PSOE-Podemos government sends Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. wsws.org This reckless war policy shared by all factions of the Spanish ruling class once again exposes the pro-imperialist, anti-worker character of Podemos and its pseudo-left allies across Europe.
(2023-04-21). Official autopsy report contradicts Georgia police claim that "Cop City" protester was killed in self-defense. wsws.org The official autopsy report released Wednesday destroys the official narrative that Manuel Terán fired the first shots at police before he was brutally gunned down.
(2023-04-21). Biden's "Irish roots" and the attack on migrants. wsws.org To study the Irish immigrant experience is to learn about social and political oppression under capitalism. It is a history that holds up a mirror to the present, into which Biden and the American media would prefer not peer.
(2023-04-21). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org India: Thousands of Blinkit delivery workers still on strike; Australia: Cleanaway garbage collection workers in Perth strike; New Zealand nurses hold national protests over deepening health crisis…
(2023-04-21). Defeat the CWU's rotten deal with Royal Mail! wsws.org
(2023-04-21). The UK's plummeting wages and the trade unions. wsws.org The massive fall in workers' incomes is the result of the trade union leadership's suppression and betrayal of the strike movement that began last Summer.
(2023-04-21). UK: RMT rail union edges closer to final sellout of rail dispute. wsws.org The RMT is now seeking to conclude the betrayal of its 20,000 members at the rail companies, after already imposing a sellout agreement on its 20,000 members working for the Network Rail infrastructure company.
(2023-04-21). Strike by over 100,000 Canadian federal government workers continues for third day. wsws.org World Socialist Web Site reporters spoke to strikers on picket lines in Kitchener, Mississauga, and Quebec City, who are fighting for inflation-busting pay increases, job security and remote-work guarantees.
(2023-04-21). Australia: NSW Labor government closes PCR COVID testing sites. wsws.org The first substantive policy of the new Labor government in Australia's largest state is to prevent working people from getting tested to see if they have a potentially deadly illness.
(2023-04-21). Pentagon leaks intensify political crisis of Zelensky government. wsws.org As all the lies of the imperialist and Ukrainian war propaganda are blown to pieces, the fate of the Zelensky regime is becoming increasingly precarious.
(2023-04-21). US debt ceiling "debate" inaugurates new round of social austerity. wsws.org What has begun in Washington is not a repeat of previous conflicts over budget policy, but a fundamental turn by the US ruling elite to the destruction of long-established benefits like Social Security and Medicare.
(2023-04-21). Sri Lankan president still blocking local council polls while manoeuvring for an early presidential election. wsws.org Wickremesinghe is banking on the enthusiastic support of big business, the media and sections of the upper-middle class over his so-called ability to secure the IMF $2.9 billion bailout loan.
(2023-04-21). Homelessness soars in Australian state of Queensland. wsws.org The number of people accessing homelessness services in Queensland has risen by 22 percent in just four years—the fastest rate nationally.
(2023-04-21). Build a rank-and-file committee to continue the Rutgers strike! wsws.org The IYSSE urges Rutgers academic workers to build an independent rank-and-file committee to take leadership of the struggle out of the hands of the union bureaucracy.
(2023-04-21). "We're replaceable parts to GM, not human": Workers react to accident at Flint Truck plant. wsws.org Workers denounced unsafe conditions at the GM plant after a young worker was nearly crushed by a falling piece of heavy machinery.
(2023-04-21). Following nationwide trend, Iowa Senate passes bill to loosen child labor laws. wsws.org The Iowa bill represents the latest step in the campaign to dismantle child labor protections, amid a surge of child labor violations across the United States.
(2023-04-21). In Germany, Left Party youth group calls for donations to the Ukrainian army. wsws.org Linksjugend (Left Youth) counts among the organisations belonging to the Left Party that aggressively support NATO's proxy war against Russia.
(2023-04-21). Uncrewed SpaceX rocket Starship explodes after launch. wsws.org The company's CEO, Elon Musk, claims the spacecraft will one day ferry humans to Mars.
(2023-04-21). US Supreme Court declines to hear case of Texas prisoner held in solitary confinement for 27 years. wsws.org The nation's high court declined to hear Dennis Hope's appeal of a Court of Appeals decision to dismiss his Eighth Amendment challenge to his imprisonment in solitary confinement for nearly three decades.
(2023-04-20). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Public sector strike in Greece as workers demand permanent contracts for part-time workers; Stockholm commuter train drivers hold three-day wildcat strike to defend guards, are disowned by union; in Nigeria, aviation workers walked out April 17 over pay and conditions while ExxonMobil workers struck over pay halting oil exports at four terminals…
(2023-04-20). Tens of thousands strike across Norway as Swedish train drivers hold three-day wildcat job action. wsws.org The growth of the class struggle across the Nordic region and its breaking out of the corporatist mechanisms that have suppressed class tensions for decades is inseparable from the transformation of the entire region into a major front in the imperialist powers' war on Russia.
(2023-04-20). South Africa roiled by global crisis of capitalism. wsws.org South Africa, in comparison to its most important trading partners, is a leaf in the gale-force maelstrom of the global economy.
(2023-04-20). Los Angeles teachers union announces sellout three-year deal. wsws.org The agreement was reached to prevent escalating job actions by teachers and school workers and is highly concessionary.
(2023-04-20). Sri Lankan trade unions hold "delegate conference" to derail growing class struggles. wsws.org Union delegates made clear that they will do nothing to stop Wickremesinghe's austerity measures and his anti-democratic attacks.
(2023-04-20). Faculty union ends strike at Illinois universities. wsws.org After isolating striking faculty and staff, University Professionals of Illinois union sent workers back to campuses before they had voted on tentative agreements and without releasing contract details.