(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.
(2023-04-20). Australian governments allow Aboriginal communities to be exploited by funeral fund. wsws.org Successive federal and state governments and corporate regulators knew about ACBF-Youpla's exploitive and predatory practices but did little to protect or warn Aboriginal policy holders.
(2023-04-20). Russian pro-NATO oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in prison. wsws.org The charges that were used to imprison Kara-Murza could be used to go after any left-wing critic of the Putin regime's war in Ukraine.
(2023-04-20). Mass layoffs start at Disney as US Federal Reserve's moves to increase unemployment take effect. wsws.org Across the US, job cuts were up 15 percent month-to-month and a whopping 319 percent year-on-year in March.
(2023-04-20). European Central Bank chief warns of global fragmentation. wsws.org Christine Lagarde has warned that there is a danger of the world economy coalescing into two blocs based around the world number one and number two economies.
(2023-04-20). Canada's federal workers' strike and the global resurgence of the class struggle. wsws.org The strike of 120,000 workers is part of a global upsurge of the working class that is driven by the same capitalist crisis propelling the ruling elites in all the major powers towards world war.
(2023-04-20). Fox Corp. to pay $787.5 million for pushing Trump election lies. wsws.org The settlement won by Dominion Voting Systems, falsely accused of helping rig the 2020 elections, was the largest in a US defamation suit.
(2023-04-20). Television and film writers vote overwhelmingly to strike. wsws.org The AMPTP is placing its hopes in the ability of the WGA to control the writers and in its eventual readiness to surrender on the major questions, as it did in the 2007-08 strike.
(2023-04-20). New insight into the possible origin of chipped stone tool technology. wsws.org The use of a hammer-and-anvil technique to crack nuts by monkeys and chimpanzees may represent the precursor of human stone tool technology.