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Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/06/gxaf-d06.html

Published: December 6, 2025 02:16

The Lula administration’s recent attacks on the Brazilian postal service are part of a global drive to privatize postal services.

Sri Lanka: JVP/NPP government uses emergency powers to curb free speech as popular anger mounts over Ditwah cyclone disaster

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/06/omcz-d06.html

Published: December 6, 2025 01:30

The Cyclone Ditwah disaster has completely exposed the bankruptcy of the JVP/NPP government and the capitalist system as a whole.

Jacobin’s defense of the Trump–Mamdani pact and the capitalist state

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/06/leoc-d06.html

Published: December 6, 2025 01:25

The article is not an academic exercise. It is a political manifesto by the Democratic Socialists of America and Jacobin’s privileged petty-bourgeois milieu, justifying their open collaboration with a fascistic administration and defending the capitalist


By abstaining on the pensions package, Germany’s Left Party supports the reactionary policies of the Merz government

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/06/qnnn-d06.html

Published: December 6, 2025 01:24

The Left Party’s abstention on Merz’s pensions package exposes its role as a pro-capitalist prop for the most right-wing German government since 1945. By helping push through rearmament, social cuts and policies aligned with the far-right Alternative for


In major attack on public health, CDC recommends delaying Hepatitis B vaccine at birth

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/06/ohib-d06.html

Published: December 6, 2025 01:14

What is being implemented under the guise of “health freedom” is, in fact, the demolition of the very institutions and structures that have protected millions from infectious disease.

FedEx to close Dallas, Texas-area facility, impacting 856 jobs

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/06/drqn-d06.html

Published: December 6, 2025 00:39

The layoffs begin in “phases” starting in January, with the facility fully closing in April, the latest in tens of thousands of job cuts by US logistics firms.

Union sells out New Zealand high school teachers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/gecd-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 23:38

The pay cuts imposed by the PPTA on 20,000 teachers reinforces the need for workers to rebel against the union bureaucracy by forming independent rank-and-file committees to fight against austerity and militarism.

Australian state Labor government to impose life sentences on children as young as 14

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/uzww-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 23:31

The real purpose of the Victorian youth crime laws is to construct new mechanisms of state repression under conditions of a deepening social and economic crisis.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/ydmr-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 20:42

South Korea: National rail and Seoul Metro workers to walk out; Philippines school teachers hold national strike; India: Outsourced power workers protest privatisation in Punjab; Australia: Public sector health workers protest over wages and conditions in


Teaching staff at Bacup secondary school in north-west England strike against virtual teaching introduced by Star Academies Trust

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/cmlj-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 18:49

A reporting team from the World Socialist Web Site spoke with teaching staff about their concerns and why they have decided that strike action was necessary.

16 students arrested in Turkey for protesting deaths of child workers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/vewc-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 18:03

The persecution of students and teachers is a product of the government's agenda to eliminate fundamental democratic rights and establish a presidential dictatorship.

US and European imperialists weaponise “human rights” following Tanzania’s post-election massacre

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/cuqp-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 18:02

The US and European Union are cynically weaponising “human rights” over Tanzania’s post-election massacre to pull the country away from China amid an intensifying scramble for Africa’s critical minerals.

West Contra Costa California educators and classified workers launch joint strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/lcou-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 05:08

The strike by 3,000 educators and support staff has shut down normal operations in one of the San Francisco Bay Area's largest school districts.

More than 7,200 healthcare workers at Oregon Health & Science University authorize strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/ohyk-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 04:45

Healthcare workers at Oregon Health & Science University overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike action, demanding higher wages and safe staffing, as unions work to isolate struggle from broader working class movement.

Video of September 2 killing showed US massacred “shipwrecked” people, House committee leaders say

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/oxnt-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 04:08

U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two “shipwrecked individuals” were “killed by the United States military.”

Crisis and division grip Bolivia’s new right-wing government

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/jpln-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 03:00

Caught between the demands of global finance capital and the resistance of the working class, Bolivia’s ruling class is incapable of governing in the old way.

Australian economy “flat” amid global volatility

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/ncyw-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 02:38

The data shows a drop to zero in the per capita growth rate, under conditions of rising inflation, a continuing cost-of-living crisis and low levels of corporate investment, except for AI-related data centres.

Sri Lanka: The JVP/NPP government moves to cut social welfare

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/dxny-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 02:37

The attack on benefits for the poor is part of unprecedented attacks on living standards, as the government imposes the austerity measures demanded by the IMF.

Massive flooding in Asia leaves over 1,500 dead, hundreds missing

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/pmxo-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 02:35

Capitalist governments around the world have taken no serious steps to address climate change and other forms of environmental degradation that contribute to the extreme weather events now unfolding on a regular basis.

Retired CDC vaccine expert blasts anti-science policy shift

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/txqi-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 02:06

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once the premier disease-fighting institution in the US, and even the world, has been taken over by anti-vaccine quacks under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Royal Oak, Michigan parents oppose fascist high school club

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/qtkg-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 02:06

A packed meeting of the Royal Oak Board of Education heard parents describe the forming of a Turning Point USA club at the local high school as a threat to their children.

Camp Mystic announces plans to reopen with new flood precautions as FEMA chief steps down

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/tpom-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 01:41

The lawsuits allege that camp management was long aware of the risk of flooding at the camp and failed to take action to save the lives of the 25 children who died during the July flood.

Sri Lanka: Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah in central plantation district demand permanent housing and condemn plantation management

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/05/eyit-d05.html

Published: December 5, 2025 00:04

Nuwara Eliya District, with a population of 724,957 and located in a hilly region, is among the worst hit by heavy rainfall, flooding, landslides and stone slides.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/xglo-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 19:18

Tens of thousands in Bulgaria and thousands in France take to the streets to oppose austerity budgets; strikes and protests continue across Iran as currency in freefall; health union suspends Nigerian doctors’ month-long stoppage with demands unfulfilled

Timeline of the Hillsborough disaster and cover-up as it unfolded (1989-2025)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/bcfp-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 19:01

Over 36 years, an orchestrated cover-up was organised by Britain’s ruling elite to ensure that no-one was ever brought to justice over the deaths of 97 Liverpool Football Club supporters.

Final investigation into 97 deaths at Hillsborough stadium caps decades-long cover-up

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/yihm-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 18:56

The Liverpool supporters were crushed and suffocated to death after police gave the order to open an egress gate just before the kick-off of an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989. Thousands of fans were directed


Artists in America face food, housing and healthcare insecurity as global art sales reach an estimated $57.5 billion

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/ueyu-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 06:04

The figures are startling, revealing a body of men and women often obliged to work two, three or four jobs to stay afloat and facing uncertainty and precarity on various fronts.

Zionist lobby groups and the German press attempt to censor pro-Palestinian art exhibition

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/mtsl-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 05:37

A coordinated campaign is underway by Zionist lobby groups and the German press to censor and/or close the exhibition "Commune – The Paradox of Similarity in the Middle East Conflict", which has been on display in Potsdam since mid-November.

30 percent of US corporations planning holiday season layoffs

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/zrue-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 05:37

The picture that emerges is of a massive redistribution of wealth from the working class and more economically vulnerable sections of the middle class to the wealthiest layers of society.

Court rules dissolution of the Palestine Congress 2024 in Berlin was unlawful

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/kmzy-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 05:36

A Berlin court has ruled that the violent shutdown of the 2024 Palestine Congress was unlawful, exposing the arbitrary political actions behind the police operation. The judgment highlights how the German authorities have trampled on democratic rights to


The “garbage” in the White House: Trump’s racist diatribe against Somalis

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/nxze-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 05:35

For the third time in less than a week, Trump, surrounded by cabinet officials and fellow Republicans, denounced all people from Somalia as “garbage.”

Trump’s Ukraine plan destroys alliance with Europe

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/qkpj-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 05:11

Until a few years ago, the US and European powers worked closely together to encircle Russia and bring Eastern Europe and large parts of the former Soviet Union under their control. But now the axis of conflict is shifting. The rivalry between the US and


Ken Mantell, Australian Trotskyist: November 11, 1945–November 30, 2025

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/krnf-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 05:07

It was as a steel fixer that Ken joined the Socialist Labour League, the precursor to the Socialist Equality Party, in the early 1980s. Once convinced of the program and the need to build the revolutionary party, he never wavered.

Postal workers: come forward with information on workplace deaths and unsafe conditions!

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/kqjv-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 04:45

“The only way we will see justice is if we reveal the truth, hold accountable those responsible for the conditions that put us in harm’s way, and set up our own shop floor organizations to take control.”

A top-level warning of heightened global financial risks

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/nawq-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 04:44

The combination of record levels of government debt and the involvement of speculative capital in its financing is presenting “new financial stability challenges,” according to the Bank for International Settlements.

Australian inquest whitewashes the far right over fatal Wieambilla shootout

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/efyw-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 04:16

The inquest into the killing of three police found the Trains were motivated by a psychotic disorder, even though it heard extensive evidence that they were far-right extremists motivated by apocalyptic Christianity and conspiracy theories.

Missouri attorney general calls for ICE investigation of company gathering signatures on behalf of anti-gerrymander referendum

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/zlwq-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 03:14

The Republican attorney general of Missouri, Catherine Hanaway, accused Advanced Micro Targeting of “employing illegal aliens” to gather signatures, part of a multi-pronged effort aimed at shutting down the campaign to reverse the legislature’s unpopular


Hundreds of federal agents begin anti-immigrant raids in New Orleans

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/ykde-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 03:03

The attack is the latest police-state operation carried out by Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security on the orders of Trump.

Mamdani, speaking with comedian Adam Friedland, reviews “productive” meeting with fascist Trump

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/smrg-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 02:47

Reflecting the political character of their milieu, most of Mamdani and Friedland’s half-hour discussion centers on casual, empty-headed conversation, with several interruptions to check soccer scores and ad breaks for nicotine and sexual performance


Sri Lanka: Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah demand permanent housing, not temporary patchwork solutions

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/bzht-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 02:41

A distressed flood-surviving woman asked: “Our parents were submerged in water. We, too, have gone under water. Will our children also suffer the same fate?”

Australia: Two workers killed on Queensland building sites in 24 hours

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/dohj-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 01:33

A series of deaths points to the subordination of workers’ health and lives to the interests of corporate profit through speed-ups, subcontracting and casualisation.

Canada officially loses its measles elimination status amid sustained assault on public health

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/04/pvjt-d04.html

Published: December 4, 2025 00:03

More than 5,000 measles cases have been confirmed in 2025 compared to 147 in 2024, with infections reported in nine provinces and the Northwest Territories. Two deaths have been recorded, both infants exposed to the virus in utero.

Erdoğan government escalates the class war over minimum wage

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/eijo-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 18:09

Following the 2023 presidential elections, Mehmet ƞimƟek was appointed as the Minister of Treasury and Finance to impose the severe austerity program demanded by international and domestic financial capital.

Agency workers join Birmingham bin workers dispute as Unite appeals to strike breaking Labour council and Starmer government

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/okoh-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 18:07

On Monday, agency workers employed through Job & Talent—used to supply the council’s strikebreaking workforce—began indefinite strike action after voting to do so two weeks ago in a ballot organised by Unite. Around 40 agency workers joined the dispute.

TDU conference endorses Trump supporter Sean O’Brien for re-election as Teamsters general president

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/byzv-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 05:34

This is the inevitable outcome of their rejection of a struggle by the rank-and-file to overthrow the corrupt union apparatus in favor of bureaucratic self-reform, and its program of combining workers’ “democracy” without a fight against capitalism.

Trump’s Caribbean murders and the legacy of Nuremberg

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/cjwe-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 05:12

The Trump administration's series of murders in the Caribbean is the consummation of decades of murder, torture and aggressive war by US imperialism, all illegal under the precedent set by the 1945 Nuremberg tribunal.

Trump plans to expand asylum ban, deploy ICE Gestapo against Somali immigrants

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/tbtj-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 04:23

The fascist in the White House delivered a racist rant targeting Somalis as he ordered the ICE Gestapo to Minnesota.

Christmas in Detroit: Holiday galas for the rich as GM workers face mass layoffs and low-income residents are evicted

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/cvjn-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 04:15

At the start of the holiday season, General Motors announced the permanent layoff of 1,140 workers, and dozens of low-income and elderly tenants at the historic Leland House downtown were abruptly told they must leave their homes.

Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/gxdc-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 03:41

Jaber Mohammed, only one among hundreds of prisoners who faced a similar fate, lost five years of his life to a regime of abuse and torture, part of the imperialist reaction to the 9/11 attacks.

More than 50,000 workers demonstrate in Quebec against austerity and anti-strike laws

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/zqdj-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 02:56

Workers’ determination to resist the dismantling of public services and the Legault government’s attacks on democratic rights—including the right to strike—was palpable.

Germany’s Greens approve delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/qwaz-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 02:54

The Greens’ party congress demonstrates that they have moved even further to the right, endorsing the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and preparing for a future war with Russia. Behind their moral posturing lies the real class basis of their


Massive humanitarian crisis looming in the wake of Ditwah cyclone disaster in Sri Lanka

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/rnbi-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 02:50

Heartbreaking scenes reminiscent of the 2004 tsunami are now unfolding across Sri Lanka. Shocking accounts continue to emerge from flood- and landslide-devastated areas as survivors begin to access previously cut-off regions.

Australia: False claims of “backflip” on job and course cuts at University Technology Sydney

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/cwsu-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 02:30

At the UTS rally, union speakers claimed to be “winning,” even as the vice-chancellor’s update showed that the majority of the cuts and course closures are still proceeding.

South Korea ramps up war preparations against China

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/oyew-d03.html

Published: December 3, 2025 02:11

Under Lee Jae-myung and the Democrats, Seoul is marching in lockstep with Washington’s aggressive imperialist agenda, demonstrating that there is no section of the South Korean ruling class opposed to war.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party founding conference: witch-hunts and expulsions against the left

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/zkea-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 19:04

The founding conference began with witch-hunts and expulsions against the left and continued with every conceivable form of bureaucratic skulduggery.

Mehring Yayıncılık holds screenings of Tsar to Lenin in Istanbul and Izmir

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/dtge-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 18:03

At events held by Trotskyist publisher Mehring Yayıncılık to screen the documentary film Tsar to Lenin, UlaƟ Sevinç, chairman of the Sosyalist EƟitlik Partisi, gave a speech on the relevance of the October Revolution of 1917.

Teachers in secondary school in Bacup, England to strike demanding face to face qualified teacher in the classroom

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/educ-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 18:02

School management have employed a virtual teacher 300 miles away in Devon because of the chronic shortage of maths teachers.

US immigration authorities reviewing status of 3.3 million “green card” holders

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/ubsr-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 06:12

The shooting of two National Guard soldiers, one of whom has died, has become the pretext for an assault on the democratic rights of immigrants.

Two Palestinian brothers, 8 and 11, murdered by Israeli drone strike in Gaza

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/dptk-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 05:26

The Israeli military fired a drone strike in Gaza and killed two children in an eastern neighborhood of Khan Yunis on Saturday.

The Wang Fuk Court Fire in Hong Kong: a crime of global capitalism

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/qysx-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 05:01

The catastrophes of Wang Fuk Court and Grenfell are spectacular and tragic eruptions of the miserable, and entirely preventable, world housing crisis. They are not mere excesses, nor failures of regulation, they are an inescapable part of capitalism.

Australia: Yarram workers and residents oppose sawmill closure

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/cwxm-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:59

“It’s not just the 73 people on the ground, it’s the truckies, diesel mechanics, the other shops in town. People won’t be spending money if there’s no money to spend. And it’s right on Christmas.”

The fight against the far-right Alternative for Germany requires a fight against capitalism

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/dsdq-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:56

The mass protests against the AfD are significant, because it is being ever more openly integrated into the political establishment, and substantial parts of its programme–such as the persecution of refugees and the massive rearmament drive–are being


Tens of thousands protest in Giessen against the far-right Alternative for Germany

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/eomn-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:55

As the AfD launched a new Hitler-Youth-style organisation in Giessen, tens of thousands of young people filled the streets in defiance of police violence. Their protests highlighted the widening gulf between the population and the establishment parties


Customs and Border Patrol abducts 2 16-year-old Detroit high school students in predawn raid

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/posj-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:11

In a predawn raid November 20, CBP agents seized two cousins from Venezuela who attend Western International High School

Workers Struggles: The Americas

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/kxje-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:06

Workers at the Gabriel Passos Refinery in Brazil say they will continue their walkout for equal pay, while some 50,000 workers marched through downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest government policies.

Mamdani silent as Tisch’s NYPD attacks protest against Trump’s immigration Gestapo

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/wmlb-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:03

The protest successfully thwarted the ICE/CBP raid, despite violent assaults by the NYPD, which operates under Mamdani’s re-appointed police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.

The Gelfand Case: 1978-1982 (Part 2)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/vryu-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 04:01

This lecture traces the filing of Alan Gelfand’s lawsuit against the SWP and the US government through the outcome of the motion to dismiss in June 1980.

Sri Lanka: Communal provocation over Buddha statue in Trincomalee

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/rhhj-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 02:24

The fact that the JVP/NPP government rapidly caved in to the Sinhala Buddhist supremacists over the statue is a warning that it will not hesitate to resort to communal politics to divide the working class.

Germany rearms for war with Russia in 2026 war budget

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/vmen-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 02:23

Eighty years after the unprecedented crimes of the Wehrmacht and Hitlerite fascism, the ruling class is once again pursuing a massive rearmament program that breaks with all post-war restrictions and is systematically preparing Germany for a third world


Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson signals willingness to meet with fascist Trump

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/wqug-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 00:41

Wilson made no attempt to expose or condemn the criminality of the Trump administration, including the ongoing US-NATO backed war against Russia in Ukraine and the preparation for war against Venezuela.

After London, Ontario police raid homes, six World Beyond War peace activists face charges over protest against arms fair

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/02/psit-d02.html

Published: December 2, 2025 00:33

The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (Canada) unequivocally condemn these raids and charges. They represent a serious escalation of state repression aimed at criminalizing anti-war and anti-genocide dissent under conditions where


UK Labour government to massively restrict right to trial by jury

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/ebxk-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 18:02

The UK government aims to introduce legislation to end jury trials for all cases carrying a maximum sentence of less than five years. The proposals are part of the government's preparations for war abroad and conflict with the working class at home.

UN says Israel has “de facto state policy” of organised torture

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/tqdz-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 18:01

The UN committee found the death toll in Israeli custody to be “abnormally high and appears to have exclusively affected the Palestinian detainee population” and noted that “to date, no state officials have been held responsible or accountable for such


After nationwide strike, Belgian unions block further action against austerity budget

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/acrw-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 10:33

Last week, a powerful three-day nationwide strike movement against austerity halted public services, logistics, and industrial activity across Belgium.

Sri Lanka: Over 330 dead from Cyclone Ditwah, hundreds of thousands impacted

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/gphw-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 05:15

Sri Lankan President's declaration of a state of emergency is aimed not at saving lives, but at suppressing potential social unrest.

Zelensky’s chief of staff and closest ally forced to resign amid massive corruption scandal

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/wqgk-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 04:56

With Yermak’s ouster amid peace negotiations with Russia and growing popular anger, the fate of the Zelensky regime is hanging by a thread.

Italy’s general strike and protest of November 28–29: A political eruption of the working class against war and austerity

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/ital-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 04:55

Italian workers launch the third nationwide strike in three months, confronting austerity, militarism, and war while linking their struggle to global class resistance.

To stop the ICE raids in Chicago: Mobilize the working class through rank-and-file committees

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/muvh-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 04:38

The central question posed by this emerging struggle is how to transform spontaneous resistance—walkouts, neighborhood patrols, school-based defense efforts—into a conscious, organized movement of the working class.

Australian governments invoke Nazi actions to crackdown on democratic rights

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/fvtj-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 04:20

The repressive laws, providing the state with powers to prosecute Nazi “ideology,” are a precedent for further attacks on the working class and the socialist movement.

Kennedy installs anti-vaccine loyalist, Ralph Abraham, to finish purge of CDC

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/eufg-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 03:53

Dr. Ralph Abraham, a former Republican congressman with a record of anti-vaccine activism, has been installed as the second-in-command of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signaling an end to any effective public health activity by the


US war crime exposed, as Trump escalates assault on Venezuela

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/rtcw-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 03:21

The order to slaughter defenseless survivors in the water constitutes a blatant war crime in furtherance of Washington’s entirely criminal and predatory war aims.

German unions silent over their state visit to Israel

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/vqap-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 03:20

The German unions secretly sent a forty-person delegation to Israel to demonstrate solidarity with the Zionist Histadrut amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This revealing silence exposes the alignment of the German trade unions with Berlin’s war agenda.

Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler: November 10, 1956 – November 28, 2025

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Published: December 1, 2025 03:20

Elli joined the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, the predecessor organisation of the SGP, in 1975 at the age of 19 and fought continuously for 50 years for the perspectives of the world Trotskyist movement.

Nuremberg: Where does fascist barbarism come from?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/frjw-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 03:05

The film gives a largely accurate account of the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, but it seeks the cause of the Nazis’ crimes in their individual psychology.

Kshama Sawant runs for Congress posing as an independent socialist

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/pbnk-d01.html

Published: December 1, 2025 01:24

Kshama Sawant’s congressional campaign is an effort to channel workers’ growing opposition to the existing system back into Democratic Party reformism and away from the revolutionary fight against dictatorship and capitalism.

Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza A passionate critique bereft of explanation or remedy

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/30/dhmk-n30.html

Published: November 30, 2025 18:35

While Oborne offer a biting and passionate critique of the UK’s support for Israel and complicity in its genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza, his disgust and moral outrage is no substitute for explaining its causes.

Death of 15-year-old in Turkey underscores widespread child labor exploitation

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/30/xzre-n30.html

Published: November 30, 2025 18:29

Muhammed's death has brought to sharp relief the fact that children are subjected to uncontrolled exploitation, with the cooperation of the government and companies, and the complicity of the trade union apparatus.

As Henry Ford Genesys nurses complete third month on strike, management steps up strikebreaking

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/29/qovw-n29.html

Published: November 29, 2025 05:33

Despite the great determination evinced by nurses, the main danger is that they remain isolated as Ford continues its operations.

Disastrous “Ditwah” cyclone creates immense catastrophe, killing potentially hundreds across Sri Lanka

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/29/etby-n29.html

Published: November 29, 2025 05:07

Natural disasters, including landslides, are not purely natural phenomena but catastrophic creations of the profit-driven capitalist system.

Trump threatens to denaturalize and deport US citizens after D.C. National Guard shooting

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/29/wfcd-n29.html

Published: November 29, 2025 05:05

The administration is using the shooting, committed by a long-time CIA asset, as a pretext to to strip citizenship from naturalized and native-born residents alike.

Death toll reaches 128 in horrific Hong Kong apartment fire

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/29/odjw-n29.html

Published: November 29, 2025 05:03

Two hundred people remain unaccounted for as emergency crews continue search, recovery and support operations in the catastrophic and preventable 43-hour fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong.

Summary execution in the West Bank: Trump’s “peace” deal in practice

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/29/svxv-n29.html

Published: November 29, 2025 03:57

The summary execution of two Palestinians in the West Bank reveals the "peace" deal signed by Israel and sanctified by the U.N. Security Council as nothing more than an enabling act for genocide throughout all of Palestine.

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