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Trump says anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have  leading health policy role in his administration

Australian university educators send message of support to striking US Boeing workers

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Bill Clinton defends mass murder of civilians in Gaza genocide

Sri Lanka’s JVP government drops election promise to abolish terrorism law

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Opposition to job cuts mounts as Ford announces months-long shutdown of EV truck plant in Rouge complex 

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European Union imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs

IAM union announces third sellout deal to end Boeing strike, with vote the day before US presidential election

Trump kickstarts campaign to overturn 2024 election results

Bird flu virus detected in pigs for the first time in US

Ontario NDP doubles down on witch hunt of pro-Palestine legislator Sarah Jama

Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales survives assassination attempt

Volkswagen demands 20 percent wage cut

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right uncovers the race science conspiracy

Palestinian academic secures legal victory against witch-hunt at Sheffield Hallam University

Israeli strikes on Iran: A dress rehearsal for a wider war

Bernie Sanders calls on workers and youth outraged  over Gaza genocide to vote for Kamala Harris

Parents and teachers protest closure of Acero charter schools in Chicago: “2,000 of our students will be displaced”

Harris’s Washington speech: Coverup and complicity in the face of fascism

Israeli massacre of children in Gaza is “greatest of any conflict in recorded warfare,” UN expert warns

Three US governors issue joint statement demanding end to Boeing strike

All eyes focused on crucial government meeting in China as economy continues to slow

US Supreme Court approves voter purge in Virginia

Western Sydney University IYSSE Annual General Meeting elaborates socialist perspective against war and genocide

Canada Post workers overwhelmingly authorize strike

Samsung India workers speak out after CITU’s betrayal of their 37-day strike

At least 158 dead as flash floods in Spain devastate Valencia

Labour’s first budget a downpayment on its offensive against British working class

Macron visits Morocco as NATO-Russia war spreads across Africa

Workers and young people speak out against CFMEU administration at SEP (Australia) meeting

Sri Lankan president again declares: No increase to public sector salaries

After plant closures announced at VW: For a global rank-and-file campaign against job cuts in the auto industry!

Israel massacres 93 in Northern Gaza airstrike, bans UN humanitarian organization

As billionaires pour millions into second coup, Trump agitates against vote in Pennsylvania

French far-right government threatens to impose militarist austerity budget by decree

2024 Nebraska Senate race: A cesspool of political reaction

Aurora, Ontario arts center censors anti-genocide artists and closes down exhibition as “the best possible business decision”

Following federal “hospital reform” measures, Left Party leads the way in closing hospitals

Sudan’s civil war and “world’s worst” humanitarian crisis unleashed by imperialist scheming

Trump’s fascist rally at Madison Square Garden

Georgian president refuses to recognize election results, appeals for Western backing

Japan’s LDP suffers electoral defeat for only the third time since 1955

SEP meeting in Australia calls for building worker rank-and-file committees to fight CFMEU administration

Labor’s cuts set to destroy over 1,000 jobs at Australian universities

Canadian postal worker calls for unity with Boeing strike: “We are all in this together”

Norfolk Southern conductors reject sellout deal by more than 81 percent

Ballot boxes lit on fire in 3 states ahead of US election day

Volkswagen plans closure of 3 plants in Germany, cutting tens of thousands of jobs

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Frankfurt Historical Museum suspends Gaza protest encampment spokesperson as a guide

Protest against removal of pro-Palestinian teacher shuts down Philadelphia school board meeting

Yet another fatal accident on German Rail

Greek strike wave against brutal austerity attacks

Over 75 infected and 1 killed so far by McDonald’s E. coli outbreak

Sumar official Iñigo Errejón resigns amid nationwide #MeToo witch-hunt in Spain

UN humanitarian chief warns “entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying”

Oppose the pro-genocide purge on US college campuses!

An interview with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, co-directors of Where Olive Trees Weep, filmed on the occupied West Bank: “You cannot imagine the extent of the injustice”

German government to discontinue wastewater monitoring for COVID-19

Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee hosts public meeting to discuss international strategy to win strike

North Korean troops deployed to Russia, as US/NATO ramps up Ukraine war

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Washington Post owner Bezos blocks endorsement of Harris

Growing opposition among US postal workers to sellout contract

Australian Labor’s defeat in Queensland election underscores historic political crisis

British Commonwealth summit dominated by tensions over climate crisis and war preparations against China

Gold price surging to new record highs calling into question role of the dollar

Workers speak out on war, genocide and the social crisis at Queensland polling booth

Two Toronto pro-Palestinian protesters arrested, charged with wearing COVID masks

A record high 9.3 million food banks users in UK

UK study shows that COVID-19 vaccine lowers the risk of cardiovascular complications

Lisbon rocked by a week of anti-police protests after fatal shooting

Israel, with US support, attacks Iran

Award-winning Iranian-German photographer asked to apologise for saying “Free Palestine”

As Trump promises fascist retribution, Harris and Obama downplay Republican coup plotting at Atlanta, Georgia rally

Socialist autoworker Will Lehman’s message to Boeing strikers: Build rank-and-file committees to take control of your fight from the IAM bureaucrats!

Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk

UAW officials threaten World Socialist Web Site reporters at Eaton picket lines

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The World Bank has warned that the number of Africans living in extreme poverty is set to rise from 424 million before the pandemic in 2019 to 463 million this year, more than one third of the continent’s 1.2 billion population.

Herder Yusuf Abdullahi walks past the carcasses of his forty goats that died of hunger in Dertu, Wajir County, Kenya on Oct. 24, 2021. The aid agency Oxfam International warned Tuesday, March 22, 2022 that widespread hunger across East Africa could become "a catastrophe" without an injection of funds to the region's most vulnerable communities. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

African countries face double whammy of debt crisis and food crisis

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