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23  mars     05h12
Homeless Australians dying 30 years younger than the national average
   Studies suggesting that even a brief period of rough sleeping can have an enormous impact on health and life expectancy are of particular concern amid a rise in homelessness, including among people with paid jobs.
    05h11
At least 60 dead, 145 wounded, in Moscow terrorist attack
   Regardless of the immediate culprit of Friday’s terrorist attack, it is clear that it took place in a context of an expanding and escalating war against Russia by the imperialist powers.
    04h48
Dana Corporation workers forced to remain on job after near-catastrophic water system failure in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
   No attempts were made by management or the UAW to account for employees even though four different fire departments responded to the emergency.
    04h41
Australia: NSW Labor, Canterbury-Bankstown Council ban discussion of Gaza genocide at Lakemba Ramadan night market
   Labor, working with Zionists and police agencies, is trying to prohibit discussion of the Gaza genocide in a working class area of Sydney with a major Middle Eastern and Islamic population.
    04h35
The Democrats’ all-out war on third parties and independent candidates
   The Democratic Party is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, operatives and propaganda to ensure that workers and youth will have no choice in the US presidential election except Biden and Trump.
    04h27
Australia and UK ratchet up AUKUS war preparations against China
   Backed by the Biden administration, the defence and foreign affairs ministers of the UK and Australia signed far reaching new military and intelligence agreements in Adelaide on Friday.
    04h24
Deep rifts remain after Chinese foreign minister visits Australia
   For all the attempts to claim that visit improved relations, none of the underlying issues were resolved as Canberra aligns with Washington in its war plans against Beijing.
    04h01
Japan hosts anti-China security support talks with Pacific Island foreign ministers
   With its eyes on the wider Pacific, Japanese imperialism is asserting its interests as it did prior to and during World War II and ramping up preparations for a US led war with China.
    04h00
More details emerge exposing pro-corporate character of 2023 UAW contracts
   On Friday Stellantis announced further cost cutting, stating that US salaried employees in engineering, technology and software will be terminated as of March , about percent of its salaried workforce.
    03h25
Israeli regime praises fraudulent US-backed Gaza ceasefire resolution
   The resolution would have given the United Nations’ imprimatur to the US Israeli genocide in Gaza, specifying conditions for ongoing and future operations by the Israeli military.
    02h48
One week after Flint teachers’ sickout, school board refuses to pay contractual wages
   The Flint school board is stonewalling teachers’ demands instead offering to renegotiate an existing settlement to force through further budget cuts. For its part, the union has refused to honor the teachers’ strike vote and is participating in talks.
    02h38
Georgia executes Willie James Pye despite his intellectual disability
   Pye, , was put to death by way of lethal injection in Georgia on Wednesday evening after all of his legal efforts, including a request for stay of execution by the US Supreme Court, were exhausted.
    01h52
Neo-Confederate Texas state law remains at center of attacks on migrants
   Texas is openly defying federal constitutional authority to an extent without precedent since the civil rights struggles that resulted in the end of Jim Crow apartheid and school segregation.
    01h45
PEN America in crisis as writers withdraw from World Voices Festival over Gaza genocide
   The writers advocacy group is seeking to conciliate critics over its silence on the murder of writers, journalists and artists in Gaza by the Israeli regime.
    00h40
Pseudo-left Workers’ Cause Party (PCO) denounces WSWS for exposing fascist coup attempt in Brazil
   The article consists of a miserable attempt to deny the established fact that former president Bolsonaro and the Brazilian military top brass actively prepared a fascist coup d’état.
22  mars     21h55
With mass auto investments in Brazil and Argentina, capitalism recognizes the Pink Tide’s Lula and fascist Milei as loyal servants
   The fact that the transnational corporations see the policies of the fascist Milei and the PT’s Lula as alternate means of securing their interests shows that the Pink Tide poses no real alternative to the turn toward dictatorship in Latin America.
    21h48
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
   India: Bengaluru information technology workers demonstrate over jobs and work rights; Bellsonica auto parts factory workers protest in Manesar; Sri Lankan customs workers impose bans; Australia: Transgrid electricians in NSW and ACT strike for pay rise.
    19h06
Documenting and misrepresenting the 1984-85 British miners’ strike
   Their overriding message is that the critical experience of class struggle in post war Britain was essentially a tragic misunderstanding. However heroic and self sacrificing the miners’ actions over their year long strike, the escalation was regrettable, and moderation could have ensured the...
    04h50
Migrant workers destitute after collapse of Buildhub in New Zealand
   Hundreds of Latin American workers who spent tens of thousands of dollars to move to New Zealand have lost everything in the collapse of the company, which many workers accused of deceiving and exploiting them.
    04h49
Australia: Health Services Union hails meagre award win for aged care workers
   The union’s claims of a historic improvement and a . percent pay rise is a complete fraud.
    04h21
Australia’s Rich List: Bonanza for billionaires amid cost-of-living crisis
   Amid the ongoing soaring cost of living for ordinary workers and cuts to social spending in order to fund militarism and genocide, the Australian published an editorial calling the list cause for celebration.
    03h29
Democratic Party escalates efforts to block third parties from US presidential ballot
   On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the Democratic Party has assembled a new team of lawyers tasked with blocking third party candidates from appearing on the ballot.
    02h29
US 152 million pre-wedding bash of Asia’ richest man shows contempt of billionaires toward workers and rural poor
   This immense accumulation of wealth in the hands of a handful of billionaires should be ended and those resources should be used to resolve the miserable living conditions of hundreds of millions of Indian workers and poor.
    02h26
2021 Rust movie set shooting tragedy: The product of low-budget, cost-cutting filmmaking
   Local and state officials, with the complicity of the film industry and the industry’s unions, have made every effort to scapegoat Gutierrez Reed, a young, inexperienced film worker, years old at the time.
    02h20
San Diego Unified School District to cut more than 400 jobs
   The hundreds of positions being let go include teachers, bus drivers, counselors, cafeteria workers, and janitors.
    02h09
The fraud of Biden’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza
   The Biden administration hopes that by proclaiming its support for a ceasefire loudly enough, it will make the world’s population forget that it fully supports and enables the US Israeli final solution of the Palestinian question.
    02h09
Canada Post demands sweeping concessions in contract talks as postal union keeps workers demobilized
   The WSWS urges postal workers ready to fight CPC’s outrageous concessions demands to draw the necessary conclusions from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ complicity in undermining their working conditions. The only way forward is through the construction of rank and file committees at every...
    01h57
Genetic makeup of modern Europeans derived through ancient migrations from Asia
   The studies provide further confirmation that modern populations are the result of a complex mixing of migrants of varying origins and cultures that have nothing to do with the pseudo concept of race.
    01h46
French army prepares to send ground troops to Ukraine
   These statements confirm that Macron and the French army command intend to escalate the war, trampling underfoot deep working class opposition to war.
    01h37
Polish Post plans to cut thousands of jobs
   The majority state owned Poczta Polska has announced a new cuts programme that could cost the jobs of, postal workers.
    01h35
Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts
   With a few exceptions, increasing warming leads to greater exposure to drought, fluvial and coastal flooding, and greater declines in biodiversity and crop yields.
21  mars     19h13
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
   French public sector workers in national hour pay strike but dispute threatened by unions’ compromise offer if included in negotiations; workers at Iran’s Aghajari Oil and Gas Exploitation Company join ongoing protests across energy sector and by medical workers, sugar workers and retirees over...
    19h02
Greek government enacts private university laws, facing down mass protests with police repression
   Greece’s ruling elite, with many ties to those in power during the junta era, wants to quell an area of society that has long been a bastion of left wing ideology and activity.
    05h05
Sri Lanka: Ceylon Electricity Board witch-hunting workers opposed to privatisation
   The trade unions have isolated victimised CEB workers, further exposing them to management’s bullying actions and opening the way for the government’s privatisation and cost cutting agenda.
    04h43
Oppose Zionist harassment of Gaza genocide opponents at the University of Melbourne
   Zionist activists from the Melbourne University Jewish Students Society have twice sought to disrupt IYSSE campaigns opposing the Gaza genocide.
    04h28
Australia: Coles supermarket workers face union-management attack
   Workers are voting on a proposed union management agreement that will worsen conditions, increase casualisation and keep wages barely higher than the legal minimum, with no guaranteed annual increases.
    04h22
Wall Street hits record high on the back of Fed decision
   According to dot plot projections by members of the Fed’s governing body, interest rates will drop . percentage points by the end of the year.
    04h11
Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer receives support against Zionist smear campaign
   Even in the entertainment industry, where defense of the Gazan population against homicidal bombings, massacres, starvation and disease can mean the end of one’s career, voices have been raised in Glazer’s defense.
    03h36
Israel allegedly carried out mass summary executions at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
   Based on interviews with survivors who were detained and tortured at the hospital, Euro Med said that Israeli forces had been carrying executions for three days in a row.
    03h32
The American oligarchy and the 2024 election
   The contest between Biden and Trump is in reality a competition for the favor of the few hundred billionaires who monopolize the wealth of the United States and control its political system.
    02h54
Allegations of staggering criminality by Boeing spelled out in complaint by whistleblower John Barnett, released by lawyers after his death
   As more information emerges in the suspicious death of Barnett, lawyers for the longtime Boeing Quality Manager released his full whistleblower complaint Wednesday.
    02h01
Australia: Tasmanian Labor leader tries to distance herself from AUKUS
   Rebecca White and the Labor leaders are trying to secure enough votes to form a government by posturing as having reservations about the preparations for a potentially catastrophic US led war with China.
    00h22
Leipzig Book Fair: David North to present his book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
   Mehring Verlag will be presenting its new book titles at the upcoming Leipzig Book Fair. The highlight will be the launch of Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty First Century by David North.
20  mars     23h59
Nurses overwhelmingly authorize strike in Staten Island, New York
   The, nurses at Staten Island University Hospital are demanding safe staffing and better pay, but they can place no confidence in the New York State Nurses Association to help them achieve their goals.
    23h23
Professors file lawsuit against University of Pennsylvania administration’s witch-hunt of opposition to Israel’s genocide
   The lawsuit accuses both the trustees and billionaire backers of UPenn alongside the United States government of attacks on universities and academic staff under McCarthyite conditions.
    18h04
Sunak UK government oversees catastrophic teacher shortage and education funding crisis
   Teacher numbers in the UK are showing no signs of improving as recruitment and retention of teachers continue to fall due to the pressures of the profession.
    04h41
An appeal from David North: Build the socialist movement against war and fascism Support the WSWS
   Amidst the descent of capitalism into barbarism, the arming of the working class with a socialist perspective is of decisive importance. For this reason, the World Socialist Web Site needs the support of all of its readers.
    04h33
Timeline proves ABC sacked Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf at behest of Zionist lobby
   Evidence to the Fair Work Commission shows that Lattouf was the victim of a politically motivated conspiracy, involving rabid Zionists and the top echelons of ABC management.
    04h24
Australia: Ballarat Gold Mine reopens days after fatal collapse
   Kurt Hourigan, a year old father of two, was killed in the collapse, and a year old worker sustained life threatening injuries to his lower body.
    04h15
Russian miners trapped 30 stories below ground
   Rescuers have been unable to establish contact with the miners trapped underground at the Pioneer gold operation, and it is unknown whether the workers, who range in age from to , have any food or water.