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Hier — 28 mars 2024World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Strikes across all sectors in Finland against austerity and right to strike extended to four weeks, but unions reduce the number of workers called out; general strike on West Bank after Israeli army kills 10 Palestinians among hundreds murdered since October 7; Kenyan doctors’ national stoppage continues into third week over low pay and poor conditions

Young people speak at UK public meetings on fight to free Julian Assange: “It should be a focus for this generation”

Public meetings held this month by the Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality provoked important discussion among workers and young people on the campaign needed to free WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.

Turkey: TİP’s Hatay candidacy crisis underscores bankruptcy of the pseudo-left’s orientation to the bourgeoisie

The scandal is fundamentally the product of the TİP’s unprincipled collaboration with the CHP, a pro-NATO, right-wing bourgeois party.

Oppose UM’s anti-democratic attack on opponents of US/Israeli genocide in Gaza!

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan (UM) condemns the latest moves by the administration to intimidate and silence opposition to the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Sudan’s “forgotten war” leads to epic suffering and regional instability

Sudan faces famine, displacement, economic breakdown and an almost total absence of international aid. The government, virtually bankrupt, barely functions.

World Health Organization warns of “looming famine” in Gaza

Amid a systematic US-Israeli campaign to deliberately starve the 2.2 million residents of Gaza, the entire population is on the brink of famine.

Zelensky government intensifies shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region in wake of Moscow terror attack

As the crisis of the Ukrainian military on the front has deepened, Kiev has intensified its attacks on Russian territories.

The Baltimore bridge disaster: A product of profit-driven cost-cutting

The collision between the container ship and the bridge has also exposed the collision between private profit and the needs of a modern society, which has at its disposal the technical and economic resources to prevent such disasters.

UPS outlines plans to close at least 200 facilities

Portending a jobs bloodbath, UPS CEO Carol Tomé confirmed the company would be automating “everything.”

Sri Lankan parties in sordid manoeuvres over presidential and national election dates

Irrespective of which election is held first, and whoever wins, all of Sri Lanka’s capitalist parties and their respective leaders are committed to ruthlessly implementing the IMF demands.

New Zealand sinks into recession amid escalating assault on jobs, social conditions

As the far-right National Party-led government imposes thousands of job cuts, its sweeping austerity program underpins a massive transfer of wealth to the rich.

Australian protests against Gaza genocide continue as Labor governments step up police repression

“The protests signify that the people are not in line with the politicians in the parliament and the government. They have a very different position than the public, they are not listening to them; they still align with the Zionists agenda.”

Behind the NBC hiring and firing of Ronna McDaniel

The former chair of the RNC is only one of dozens of discredited and corrupt political operatives given well-paid positions in the corporate media.

Biden embraces Indonesia’s incoming president and notorious Suharto-era general

Washington is whitewashing Prabowo’s history of atrocities as it courts Jakarta in preparation for war with China.

The “divest from Israel” referendum at the University of Michigan and the pro-Democratic Party politics of the DSA

The fight against world war raises the most serious and fundamental political issues. This is already demonstrated by the more than five months of bombings, executions, and deliberate starving of the people of Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian sit-in forcibly removed by Vanderbilt University police, reporter arrested

Vanderbilt University students who organized a sit-in at the office of the chancellor to protest the administration’s suppression of pro-Palestinian voices on campus were forcibly removed on Wednesday and given interim suspensions.

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise—A documentary about the American folk singer

I Am a Noise sheds relatively little light on Baez’s artistic and social development, and what light it sheds on her inner life seems distorted.

German train drivers’ union, GdL, submits to the dictates of the company executive

In its current contract round the German Train Drivers’ Union (GdL) has caved in to the dictates of Deutsche Bahn (DB, German Rail) and is now trying to cover its tracks with its usual bluster and evasions.

New York Times’ Hannah-Jones demands affirmative action programs based on “lineage” from slavery

The essay presents a new and more virulent form of racialism justified, as in the 1619 Project, through the falsification of history.

Leipzig Book Fair: A seismograph for the growing opposition to war, genocide, and Germany’s coalition government

The presentation of David North’s book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair, as well as the Mehring Verlag stand, received great interest under conditions of heightened political concerns.

Stern: The Man, The Gang & The State, produced by Al Jazeera Documentary and directed by Hossam Sarhan

“The Palestinians have been caught up in a struggle against colonialism, imperialism, so that we are talking about class, the class interests of the capitalist class—oil and finance—and opposition from the working class.”

Spanish Acerinox metalworkers strike in Cádiz

The heroic 50-day strike has lost the company almost 1,200 tonnes per day of production and over €3.5 million ($3.80 million) over the last four weeks.

UK ramps up tensions with China, in alliance with the US

Five national newspapers led their front pages Tuesday with the anti-China message and three of them—the Telegraph, the Times and Mail—demanded the government go much further against China.
À partir d’avant-hierWorld Socialist Web Site

Right-wing presidential candidate RFK Jr. picks wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as running mate

Shanahan, 38, is a longtime donor to Democratic Party campaigns and was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the 10th wealthiest person in the world.

Australia: SEP electoral members call on workers and youth to help put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot

“They’re trying to make it harder for minority parties to exist—it’s crazy. I’m for our voices being heard, normal people, not the billionaires sponsoring all the other parties.”

Baltimore-area bridge collapses following collision with cargo vessel

While more details will emerge in the coming days, what is certain is that cost-cutting and profiteering played a central role in the disaster.

Australian government fails to ram through bill to quickly deport non-citizens

This legislation marks a further lurch in a right-wing, autocratic direction, spearheaded by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government.

“Unprecedented” growth of US debt could bring market shock

The Congressional Budget Office director has warned the US could face a Liz Truss style financial crisis.

Terrorist attack in Moscow: The Ukrainian trail

If ISIS or one of its offshoots actually committed the attack in Moscow, this does not speak against but for the complicity of Ukraine and NATO.

Campaigning begins for South Korea’s general election

The two main big-business parties have offered nothing but empty populist pledges while ignoring the major issues facing the working class.

Media blackout of “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett continues as company CEO David Calhoun steps down

The numerous incidents on Boeing aircraft in the past three months reflect the drive of the company’s executives to maximize profits for stockholders to the detriment of safety on its fleet of commercial airliners.

Stellantis fires 400 white-collar workers during mandatory remote workday

Stellantis is continuing its ruthless cost-cutting drive, slashing jobs as it offloads the cost of EV transition onto workers.

Argentine President Milei defends fascist-military junta on anniversary of 1976 coup

The ruling class is desperately seeking to undermine democratic consciousness and popular opposition to the military in order to prepare a return to dictatorial forms of rule.

Canadian imperialism and the Gaza genocide: The contrived, right-wing furor over a cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a vampire

The moral outrage over the La Presse cartoon has nothing to do with opposition to antisemitism. Rather, it serves to legitimize Israel's genocidal policies, intimidate public opinion and sow confusion among workers and young people.

Declaring latest protest in Toronto antisemitic, Canadian political establishment escalates campaign to squash opposition to Gaza genocide

Several hundred people turned out Sunday in Toronto for yet another weekend of protests calling for the Canadian government to stop supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Palestinian-American journalist files lawsuit against firing by CBS News Detroit for his Gaza reporting

Television news reporter Ibrahim Samra has filed a lawsuit against CBS News and its Detroit affiliate WKBD for excluding his reporting and then firing him for objecting to its pro-Israel coverage of the Gaza genocide.

Little Rope: Rock band Sleater-Kinney shows signs of wear

On its second album without the drummer who helped define it, Sleater-Kinney seems enervated and uninspired.

UK High Court puts Assange on the brink of extradition to the United States

The essential task posed before Assange’s supporters is to link his defence to the mass movement emerging in opposition to these crimes. The same eruption of militarism and aggression fuelling the persecution of Assange is producing a mass radicalisation among workers and young people.

Junior doctors mount 96-hour stoppage against de facto pay cut by Labour-run Welsh Assembly

The British Medical Association junior doctors’ leadership presents the Labour controlled Welsh Assembly as a supposed ally in a fight against the Sunak Conservative government in Westminster.

University of Michigan steps up repression of opponents of US/Israel genocide in Gaza

The IYSSE at U-M condemns the latest moves by the administration, including the threat of expulsion, to intimidate and silence opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Liz French on the 40th Anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike: “We were betrayed by the TUC and Labour Party.”

The WSWS spoke with Liz French from Betteshanger, a former pit village in the Kent coalfield in south-east England. Liz was a founding member of the National Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 Miner’s Strike. Among the 200 miners imprisoned during the 1984-85 strike, Liz’s late husband Terry received one of the longest prison sentences of five years.

Over 1,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 each week since August 26

In total, the CDC estimates that there have been roughly 1,185,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, but reliable estimates of excess deaths attributable to the pandemic place the real figure at over 1.4 million.

Pro-NATO media doubles down on propaganda narrative about Moscow terror attack

As with all imperialist war propaganda over the war in Ukraine, the narrative spouted by the New York Times and the Financial Times relies on a complete obfuscation and distortion of facts and context.

David North presents German edition of Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century at the Leipzig Book Fair

On Saturday, David North presented the German edition of his book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century at the Leipzig Book Fair.

US insists UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire will have “no impact at all”

Biden administration officials made it clear that they allowed the resolution to pass because it is “non-binding” and will have “no impact at all” as the US continues to arm and support Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Biden’s budget for world war

The United States will spend more on the military than the next 11 countries combined.

Sri Lankan government, companies and unions conspire to impose poverty wage on estate workers

Irrespective of the outcome of these tripartite meetings the pay rates will not provide a living wage or address the endemic poverty afflicting these highly exploited workers.

US/Japan to strengthen military pact against China

The plans for greater operational control by the commander of US Forces in Japan underscore the fact that the Pentagon is preparing for war with China in the next immediate period, not many years down the track.

Tyson to close Iowa plant, lay off 1,200, leaving devastation in local community

The closure of the Tyson plant in Perry, Iowa, is an attack on workers that is backed by the unions, and can be opposed through the independent mobilization of rank-and-file committees across Tyson plants and workplaces in the United States and globally.

Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!

Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
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