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24  avril     20h28
UK Prime Minister Sunak pledges 2.5 percent GDP military spending to place economy on a war footing
   Speaking in front of an armoured vehicle and alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw, Poland, Sunak said the increase in military spending is a turning point for European security and a landmark moment in the defence of the United Kingdom.
    20h09
Fifty years since Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
   The article presented below was published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. It explains how the Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Portugal, assisted by pseudo left groups that served as appendages to the main labour bureaucracies, were responsible for its...
    12h46
Mobilize workers against the French police state’s ban on opposition to the Gaza genocide
   The Parti de l’égalité socialiste condemns police prosecutions of union officials and members of the France Unbowed party over their statements in solidarity with Gaza.
    05h09
Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line
   An autoworker died after suffering a medical emergency after waiting a half hour for medical help at the Ford Rouge complex outside Detroit.
    05h09
More Stellantis layoffs at Sterling Heights and Mack Avenue Assembly in Detroit, forced overtime announced in Toledo
   Stellantis laid off workers Monday at Sterling Heights Assenbly and another at the Mack plant in Detroit as it continues its brutal program of job cuts in the wake of the contract.
    04h39
US Senate quickly advances 95 billion global war package
   On Tuesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to invoke cloture on the weapons packages for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as Russia Iran economic sanctions and a TikTok ban. Biden has already promised to sign the legislation once it reaches his desk.
    04h32
Columbia University threatens to deploy National Guard as mass arrests of anti-genocide protesters continue
   On Tuesday night, leaders of the student protest at Columbia University revealed that the university administration had threatened in negotiations to deploy the National Guard to crush the encampment.
    04h18
Biden launches police state crackdown at US universities
   The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist led Republican Party, is criminalizing political opposition to the Gaza genocide, the greatest war crime of the st century.
    04h06
Australia: Workers and youth in Melbourne explain why they support the SEP’s electoral member campaign
   The SEP has received an important initial response, amid widespread hostility towards the major parties and an anti war politicisation fuelled by outrage over the ongoing US and Australian backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
    03h56
ILO report reveals severe gender pay gap in Sri Lankan labour force
   The pay gap between male and female workers is an integral part of the system of capitalist exploitation that ensures lucrative profits for investors.
    03h20
Senate passes TikTok ban, putting it on track for Biden’s signature
   The Senate moved a step closer to an official ban of the social media platform TikTok in the US, an attack on free speech and a major step in the preparations for war with China.
    03h14
Defend democratic rights Support the anti-genocide resolution at Austin Community College
   The ACC IYSSE club urges students to support the resolution being put before the Student Government Association defending pro Palestinian groups and individuals from the bipartisan witch hunt, as part of the beginnings of a political counteroffensive in defense of democratic rights.
    01h34
Number of bodies found in Palestinian hospital mass graves rises to 310 as Israel prepares assault on Rafah
   The horrific discovery over the past hours provides further evidence of Israel’s imperialist backed genocide against the Palestinians, which is set to escalate imminently due to the looming assault on the more than . million Palestinians struggling to survive in Rafah.
    01h13
In Supreme Court arguments, Biden administration demands unrestricted power to separate families without judicial oversight
   In arguments Tuesday, the Biden administration argued that a US citizen has no right whatsoever to challenge the denial of her spouse’s visa, and that she does not even have a right to be provided with any specific reason why.
    01h08
Ocasio-Cortez donates over 250,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
   Ocasio Cortez, a key political prop of the Biden administration, is emerging as a significant financial prop of the Democratic Party in the elections.
23  avril     23h58
New York City’s Koch Theater bows to right-wing pressure, cuts performance of Russian dancers at gala
   In the banning of Russian dancer Maria Khoreva and Korean Kimin Kim, a right wing mob has effectively been allowed to hijack proceedings of one of New York City’s premier cultural institutions on the basis of anti Russian hysteria.
    23h57
The Dmitriev Affair: A confused and confusing film about the historian of Stalin’s Great Terror
   Yuri Dmitriev’s case is important but Gorter’s film is confused and superficial and serves to feed into the anti Russian war propaganda of NATO.
    23h45
SGP candidate Ulrich Rippert at Tesla plant in Germany: Build action committees to prevent layoffs
   The announcement by car manufacturer Tesla to cut , jobs worldwide has triggered great unrest among the workforce. Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei leader Uli Rippert spoke with workers outside the Tesla plant near Berlin.
    23h40
Spain’s Morenoite CRT launches EU election campaign, appealing to Pabloite Anticapitalistas
   The CRT’s posturing as an anti war tendency is exposed by its unsuccessful attempt to form an election alliance with the pro war Anticapitalistas party, which helped found Podemos.
    19h29
UK Tory government passes fascistic Bill on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda
   The fascistic policies being rolled out by London are being implemented everywhere by the capitalist class, as they whip up a foul anti immigration atmosphere the better to pursue policies of austerity and war.
    18h29
Attend UK Postal Workers Rank-and File meeting Sunday: They want Royal Mail on a par with Evri and Amazon
   We urge postal and logistics workers to attend the next online meeting of the PWRFC on April at pm, Oppose Royal Mail’s Assault on the USO Defeat CWU’s Collusion.
    04h56
Poll shows deepening crisis of Australian Labor government amid social distress
   More than percent of all respondents said they would struggle to cope with any unexpected expense, under conditions where costs for housing and other basic essentials have skyrocketed.
    04h38
The SEP (Sri Lanka) launches party development fund to expand its political work
   The SEP has announced an ambitious program to increase its membership, build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and expand its political analysis for the World Socialist Web Site and its publication of Marxist literature in the Sinhala and Tamil languages.
    04h30
Protests erupt on campuses across the US in opposition to the Gaza genocide and attack on free speech
   The ruling class has responded to the rapid spread of protests with a growing state crackdown, including mass arrests at Yale University and NYU.
    04h25
Mobilize the working class in defense of protesters against the Gaza genocide
   The World Socialist Web Site denounces the enormous escalation of state attacks on protesters, including the mass arrests at Columbia, Yale University and New York University, justified on the basis of lies and slander.
    03h52
Nearly 300 bodies discovered in mass graves at Gaza’s Nasser hospital
   The dead include men, women and children, as well as people with clear indications of being medical patients. Some were discovered handcuffed, indicating that victims were killed in mass summary executions.
    03h47
Google employees fired for opposing Gaza genocide hold emergency press conference after 20 more are terminated
   Google employees, who were fired and arrested, reported on their sit in at the company offices in New York and California on April . They continue their fight for an end to the cloud services contract that is supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
    03h42
Financial report shows Teamsters bureaucracy pays 160 people more than 200,000 a year
   The Teamsters bureaucracy consumes over a hundred million dollars a year to pay its bureaucrats lavish salaries and invest in financial assets.
    03h40
Workers Struggles: The Americas
   Federal employees in Uruguay staged a hour protest strike over cuts while the union for graduate teaching assistants at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec announced it had obtained ratification of a sellout deal.
    02h39
Trump hush money cover-up trial opens in Manhattan
   The trial may shed light on the corrupt methods of Trump and bourgeois politics as a whole, but it does not address his real crimes.
    02h02
Weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez-Reed receives brutal sentence over 2021 Rust set death
   In a crass display of class justice, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer weapons handler on the set of the film Rust, was handed the maximum allowable sentence, months in prison.
    01h28
Quebec band critical of Glencore censored as transnational firm continues to pump out toxic emissions
   Owned by the global metals producer Glencore, the Horne Smelter has long been criticized by Rouyn Noranda residents for its massive discharge of toxic materials.
    00h36
Bodycam footage and lawsuits detail police killings of Texas men suffering mental health crises
   Two men were killed one month apart in the fall of , while a third man died in police custody under suspicious circumstances following a voluntary hospitalization for a mental health evaluation.
22  avril     23h20
New Zealand strengthens military ties with Philippines against China
   With the Philippines increasingly playing a critical role in Washington’s aggressive confrontation with Beijing, New Zealand is further integrating into US led warmongering in the Asia Pacific.
    21h14
Police brutally break up peaceful anti-genocide demonstration in Berlin
   The storming of the Palestine Congress was the prelude to an escalation of police violence and the suppression of democratic rights on an enormous scale.
    20h08
As AMLO cracks down on migrants, presidential candidates advocate their super-exploitation in Mexico
   Cruelty and outright criminality against migrant workers in Mexico are driven by cold, profit based calculations.
    19h17
Thousands continue to protest in Britain against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
   This weekend around protests were held nationwide. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in Sheffield, Leicester and Manchester
    05h12
Israeli air strikes kill 22 women and children in Rafah
   Israeli air strikes continue virtually every day as the Netanyahu regime prepares for an imminent ground assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.
    04h54
Biden signs expanded warrantless surveillance law hours after Senate reauthorization of Section 702
   Hours after the Senate passed the reauthorization and expansion of warrantless surveillance by US intelligence just after a midnight deadline, Biden signed the bill into law on Saturday.
    04h41
The films of South Korean director Lee Chang-dong in New York City
   Lee Chang dong, also a novelist and screenwriter, directed several films in the s and early s that were highly and deservedly praised.
    04h31
The bipartisan politics of imperialism: Democratic liberals and Republican fascists unite in funding Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war
   The Democrats and Republicans approved massive additional funding for war against Russia in Ukraine, for Israeli genocide in Gaza, and for the US led war buildup against China over Taiwan.
    04h18
Columbia University students defy crackdown, continue pro-Palestinian protest as solidarity actions spread to other campuses
   The mass arrest of Columbia students and political attacks by the Democrats and Republicans have failed to suppress anti genocide protests, while fueling growing opposition in the working class to the the attack on democratic rights.
    04h07
Open letter to Teamsters General President O’Brien: We demand answers on layoffs
   We workers have every right to take all action deemed necessary to protect our jobs, regardless of whether you choose to sanction them or not. If you will not fight the layoffs, then get out of the way so that UPS workers can do it ourselves.
    04h06
Unionization vote at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee hailed by Democrats and corporate media
   While the large vote to unionize demonstrates the militancy of workers, it will only be a matter of time before workers realize they are in a fight not only against corporate management, but also against the UAW apparatus.
    03h37
In Time magazine comment, Biden lauds UAW President Fain as one of 100 most influential people of the year
   The fact that Biden issued such a statement testifies to the extraordinary seriousness with which the government takes the credibility of the pro war, pro corporate union bureaucracy.
    03h15
Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
   The recent outbreak of a novel Mpox formerly called monkeypox virus, showing sustained transmission between humans with the deadlier clade I lineage, poses a public health to the DRC, the region and the globe.
    02h29
New Zealand survey finds 65 percent agree the economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful
   The Ipsos survey also found that percent oppose the government’s plans for greater spending on the military to prepare for war, which is being funded by cuts to vital public services.
    02h24
This week in history: April 22-28
   Rally for Mumia Abu Jamal; Coup ousts fascistic dictatorship in Portugal ; Lausanne Conference on Israel Palestine; German leader backs Dawes Plan
    02h24
Progressives and Democratic Socialists of America members vote to fund imperialist war against Russia, China
   The fact that not a single Democratic representative voted against the over billion Ukrainian weapons package reveals that there is no lesser evil, between Democrats including the phony lefts and Republicans.
    02h23
German Economy Minister Habeck’s war visit to Kiev
   The trip underlined two things in particular: the aggressiveness with which Germany is resorting once again to militarism and war years after the start of the Second World War, and the central role played in this by the formerly pacifist Greens.