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Talisman Sabre military exercise in Australia: A dress rehearsal for war against China
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/tpwd-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 05:04
Involving almost 40,000 troops and some of the most potent weaponry in the world, the biannual war games have been transformed into a dry run for a US-led onslaught against China.
Residents denounce Labor’s demolition of Melbourne towers: “Shame on the government, they are taking advantage of vulnerable people!”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/lulb-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 04:26
Labor’s profit-driven demolitions—the largest destruction of public housing in Australian history—is part of a sweeping assault against the entire working class.
Trump, Republicans maneuver to defuse Epstein crisis
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/vuhq-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 04:04
Release of the Epstein files could implicate hundreds of leading political and corporate figures, Democrats and Republicans, documenting the corruption and depravity of the entire ruling class.
Zohran Mamdani woos Wall Street
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/idfm-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 03:09
The candidate for New York City mayor’s rightward shift reflects the class character of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
A 19-year-old killed in California meat grinder: Workers must take control of safety!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/jivm-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 03:08
Workers must organize actions from below to enforce the necessary safety measures to make sure such deaths never happen again.
Australia’s rising jobless rate points to trade war impact
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/mkxp-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 02:42
The number of officially unemployed people is up by 9.6 percent over the past 12 months, accelerated by the Trump administration’s worldwide tariff war.
The human cost to children of Trump’s cuts to food stamps and Medicaid
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/nawr-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 02:05
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” offers tax cuts to the wealthiest at the expense of low-income children’s health and education.
Interview with Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei, writer-director of COVID pandemic documentary Blame: "I wanted to be a filmmaker guided by curiosity, not ideology"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/gioo-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 02:04
Blame offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
Disaffection grows in US military amid ICE raids and domestic deployments
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/eyee-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 01:20
President Donald Trump’s deployment of 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to support federal immigration raids has triggered growing disaffection among sections of the US military.
Contract details expose sellouts of Safeway and King Soopers strikes in Colorado
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/19/swks-j19.html
Published: July 19, 2025 00:13
Workers at both companies went on strike this year, only for the UFCW to isolate and betray them.
In memory of Nathan Steinberger: a fighter against fascism and Stalinism
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/xqlz-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 23:26
July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in the Soviet Union.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/zbqk-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 22:49
India: 3,000 outsourced Vijayawada municipal sanitation workers strike; Odisha dairy workers strike for permanent jobs; West Bengal child development workers demonstrate; Australia: Helensburgh coal miners walk out again; New Zealand nurses vote for…
Hinkley Point C nuclear plant construction workers take wildcat action against management bullying
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/mcoc-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 17:03
Unite and the GMB, the two main recognised trade unions on the site have not produced a press release on the workers’ action. Theirs is a guilty silence over such a vital issue as management intimidation.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in Turkey strike against the government’s misery wage offer
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/qodv-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 16:58
Among workers who have endured decades of the unions’ suppression of class struggle and an intensifying austerity offensive in recent years, there is a growing sense that things are no longer bearable.
Sordid scandal erupts in the UK over cover-up of military leak of Afghan names
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/ojkl-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 16:58
Unacknowledged by all is the fact that any harm which might have come from the leak would have been just the latest blood spilled in a war jointly pursued by Labour and Tory governments, at the cost of up to 250,000 lives lost directly as result of the…
Former California OSHA inspector: “totally out of control” lockout/tagout standards factored in death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/jhot-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 15:40
The plant’s use of “cheater keys” to override lockout/tagout procedures is how people get killed,” he said.
US Senate votes to end funding of public broadcasting
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/yqxs-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:47
By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in 1967 under Lyndon Johnson.
The return of the Epstein scandal and the criminality of the US ruling class
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/fpde-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:46
The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Epstein and his ties to the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis.
Philadelphia municipal workers condemn union isolation while details emerge of tentative agreement for white collar workers
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/usgc-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:35
Philadelphia’s municipal workers are voicing anger at their unions, AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, charging that union officials continue to isolate rank-and-file struggles and push through deals that fall short of members’ real needs.
What’s behind the Trump-Powell clash
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/rvdb-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:27
Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in Trump’s incessant demands for a rate reduction is the rising interest bill on US government debt.
Victoria’s “truth-telling” commission: Australia’s Aboriginal elite demands a greater slice of the pie
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/jsjg-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:24
For an exercise nominally about the oppression of Aboriginal people, the Yoorrook Justice Commission was notable for its uncritical embrace of big business politicians and its celebration of the ascent of an Indigenous upper middle class.
German government welcomes Trump’s escalation of war against Russia
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/cjhd-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:15
Hardly any other government reacted to this massive escalation with such enthusiasm as the German one.
The contract at Thyssenkrupp: Management and union agree to massive attack on jobs and working conditions
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/ca41-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 04:14
The “social” contract at Thyssenkrupp, agreed last weekend by the IG Metall union and the company's top management, represents a historic attack on workers.
Meeting: Ban Labor’s demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers! Fight for a socialist housing program!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/qutf-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 03:54
The demolition can only be halted through the mobilisation of the working class, not through appeals to the government carrying it out.
Muslim youth detained for nine months in Sri Lanka under draconian anti-terror law
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/rrdf-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 03:34
Suhail, 21, an aviation student from Mawanella, was arrested last year after being accused of posting an Instagram photo showing an Israeli flag being trampled.
Death toll rises in Fall River, Mass. assisted living tragedy: Safety violations and fire department understaffing exposed
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/vhzq-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 01:52
The preventable tragedy at Gabriel House demonstrates the potential suffering posed to vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly, by the savage cuts to social programs in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” relied upon by millions.
Peruvian police clash with artisanal miners’ protests
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/wxnc-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 00:56
After the failure to extend the REINFO program and the rejection of MAPE, President Boluarte claimed that "Only illegal miners are on the streets," criminalizing artisanal miners.
Nationwide strike by Republic sanitation workers in the US poses need for fight against Teamsters bureaucracy
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/lthf-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 00:06
The same playbook used by the AFSCME union to sabotage the city workers’ strike in Philadelphia is now being used by the Teamsters to limit and prepare to shut down the fight at Republic.
Mother of Tyson worker who died in meatpacking plant reveals new information about her son’s death
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/tekb-j18.html
Published: July 18, 2025 00:05
In the face of a total coverup by Tyson, complete silence from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and a wall of state obstruction, Allison has received critical information and support from one crucial source: Casen’s coworkers.
UN report documents Israel’s relentless destruction of Palestinian education and culture
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/erer-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 22:43
The report details the wholesale destruction by the Israeli state of educational, religious and cultural institutions in Gaza and on the West Bank.
Interview with plant pathologist on witch-hunt of Chinese researchers at University of Michigan
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/uwnm-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 21:31
"It's Irresponsible to say these scientists were planning to commit agroterrorism.”
Britain and Germany sign “friendship” treaty centred on militarism and war
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/fbfh-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 19:28
There wasn’t a single policy laid out that didn’t concern the mad rush to rearmament and war, other than the intensification of anti-immigration measures.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/qyat-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 19:05
Delivery drivers escalate protests in Germany, Italy; strikes and protests continue across Iran; workers begin indefinite strike in Ogun State, Nigeria
22 British trade union heads oppose prosecution of Stop the War Coalition leaders, but make no call to mobilise against Starmer government
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/uxut-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 18:47
The union leaders’ declaration contains no call to arms to defend the core democratic rights now under state attack. No mobilisation is proposed of the millions of workers these leaders officially represent.
Israel’s attack on Syria heightens tensions between Tel Aviv and Ankara
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/yeqm-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 18:27
These events highlight the falsity of claims that the regime change that took place in December 2024 with the support of the US and its allies, including Turkey, would bring democracy and peace to Syria, and point to the risk of a regional war.
20-year-old Palestinian American beaten to death by Zionist mob in the West Bank
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/fsoo-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 05:17
Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen from Tampa, Florida, was beaten to death in the West Bank by a mob of fascist Zionist settlers wielding sticks and bats when he attempted to defend his family's land.
Social crisis deepening in New Zealand
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/lewl-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 03:43
Falling real wages, higher living costs, increasing unemployment and homelessness are all intensifying amid growing class inequality.
Milwaukee transit workers vote to authorize strike
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/lnbs-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 03:24
On July 9 workers at the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) voted by 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize a strike, another indication of the growing anger and militancy among workers across the United States, and internationally, where waves of…
US Supreme Court greenlights destruction of Department of Education
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/ayvs-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 03:04
In a decision with far-reaching implications for democratic rights and public education, the US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education.
The surge of XFG (Stratus) as the next dominant variant of Omicron globally
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/vzdf-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 02:54
XFG (Stratus) is the latest subvariant of Omicron that is gaining momentum in the summer surge of the pandemic. However, given the rapidly evolving crisis of public health and healthcare, centered in the political maelstrom of imperial capitalism,…
Japanese government facing losses in upper house election
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/jcrw-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 02:46
The political crisis in Japan is being compounded by Trump’s tariffs and demands that the government commit to a US-led war against China over Taiwan.
Minnesota Nurses Association ratifies contract for 15,000 nurses, leaving Advanced Providers strike isolated
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/minn-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 01:51
The contract ratification follows more than four months of closed-door talks between the MNA and hospital administrators.
Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme: For today’s “ruthless capitalist … there is no shame, everything happens with cameras and microphones on in front of everyone”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/17/bcvq-j17.html
Published: July 17, 2025 01:13
The film is a sprawling satire about a shameless, domineering businessman and his various relationships, economic and personal.
Indiana Kroger workers reject second sellout contract approved by UFCW Local 700
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/jfqh-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 23:55
In 2022, workers at Kroger formed a rank-and-file committee to oppose the union sellouts and push for strike action. With the UFCW sabotaging the potential for a nationwide grocery strike, such a rank-and-file rebellion is once again needed.
Fascist terrorist cell uncovered in Canada’s military
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/xxzg-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 23:50
The fascist plotters had amassed a vast arsenal of weapons, were actively seeking recruits for their militia, and reportedly planned to “seize land.”
Amid protest against attacks on Berlin universities, union leader demands seat at the table to decide on cuts
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/08ae-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 23:34
The main issue for the Verdi union is not to oppose the cuts, but to take part in deciding when and where the axe should fall.
Letter from a rank-and-file Chicago educator to teachers in Philadelphia and California
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/vcve-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 22:59
An educator urges his counter-parts in other cities to draw the lessons from the betrayal in Chicago and wage a counter-offensive against the Democrats and Trump.
19-year-old crushed while cleaning industrial meat grinder in Vernon, California
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/qasa-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 22:59
The horrific death of a 19-year-old industrial janitor at Tina’s Burritos in Vernon, California exposes the deadly reality facing workers under capitalism: deregulation, union complicity, and a state that protects profits over human life.
UK police use Palestine Action proscription to target protest mentioning “Gaza” and “genocide”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/qkxk-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 18:34
A Canterbury police officer threatened a protester that “mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that, it will come under proscribed groups which are terror groups… which we have suspicion that you’re supporting, based on your actions here, in…
The Tony Blair Institute’s filthy role in planning the ethnic cleansing and “reconstruction” of Gaza
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/whsu-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 17:52
Today, as grotesque as is Blair’s involvement in the filthy work of drawing up plans for a post-genocide Gaza, it is more than matched by his disciple Starmer.
2 deaths from massive storms in the New York-New Jersey area
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/dumm-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 04:45
A series of intense storms struck the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area on Monday, triggering flash flooding that caused the death of two women when their vehicle was swept up by ferocious waters in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/mbun-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 04:34
Peruvian peasant miners strike, blockade roads; Hospital workers rally across Latin Ameica; California garbage haulers join growing national strike against Republic Services; Rio Tinto steelworkers begin strike in Quebec.
French Prime Minister Bayrou presents class war budget
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/sgkk-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 04:16
The budget would impose sweeping cuts to social programs to free up tens of billions of euros for the ongoing military build-up and NATO war plans against Russia.
Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/fzea-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 04:16
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme, which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hit $120,000.
Spanish unions impose sellout contract on Cádiz metalworkers strike
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/yaxt-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 04:15
The sell-out of the Cádiz strike shows the need for workers to build rank-and-file committees and take their struggles out of the hands of corrupt union bureaucracies linked to Spain's ruling social-democratic and pseudo-left parties.
Australia: More than 1,500 Kinetic and CDC bus drivers strike in Victoria
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/hnxt-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 02:09
In the fourth 24-hour strike since May, drivers protested against declining real wages and attacks on their rosters and other working conditions.
Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/jykc-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 02:06
Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.
David Cousins, songwriter and singer for the Strawbs, dead at 85
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/iuvi-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 02:01
Cousins was widely recognized for his emotionally dynamic and expressive voice. He could shift from fragile vulnerability to commanding or angry theatricality within a single phrase.
What is driving the university job cuts across Australia? Labor’s pro-corporate and war agenda
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/fmkh-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 01:59
Rank-and-file committees have called a national public meeting on August 2, to take forward the fight against the Labor government-led onslaught on university jobs and conditions.
AFSCME announces sellout for Philadelphia white collar workers, after public meeting discusses need for rank-and-file rebellion to renew citywide strike
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/nuwa-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 01:52
The agreement is aimed at blocking a growing rank-and-file rebellion and preventing the resurgence of a powerful citywide strike movement.
Cuomo announces independent mayoral bid as Mamdani seeks “partnership” with New York City business leaders
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/16/rxtp-j16.html
Published: July 16, 2025 00:50
The former governor made his pitch to Wall Street, attacking Zohran Mamdani’s “unrealistic proposals and divisive agenda.”
Quebec’s CAQ government makes further massive cuts to public education
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/kwnn-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 21:40
At the same time as it slashes hundreds of millions of dollars from school budgets, the CAQ government has moved to gut education workers’ right to strike.
President Gabriel Boric and the rightward shift of the Chilean pseudo-left
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/fqvt-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 20:31
Boric used his final Public Account address last month to justify the record of Apruebo Dignidad, which has gone further to the right than any government since the return to civilian rule.
Former head of the British Army General Patrick Sanders declares “realistic possibility” of war with Russia within five years
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/kpiw-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 17:46
Sanders “cited Finland as an example the UK should consider,” the Telegraph reports, telling the paper, “Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air attacks from Russia. We…
Edinburgh students defy authorities in graduation ceremony walk-outs, protesting Gaza genocide
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/sznf-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 17:33
Students unfurled flags and banners, with slogans including, “Fund teaching not genocide” and “No graduates in Gaza”, before walking out of the graduation halls, to cheering and clapping.
Unite forced to suspend Angela Rayner’s membership by rising opposition to Starmer Labour government
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/nylv-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 17:13
The leader of the UK’s second largest union has gone on record to state that, despite her best efforts, justifying partnership with this right-wing party of big business has become politically hazardous in the face of the mass hostility in the working…
Former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert denounces Gaza “humanitarian city” plan as concentration camp for Palestinians
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/hitj-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 10:24
While the mass killings at aid sites and refugee camps continue, former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is calling the US-Israeli “humanitarian city” near the Egyptian border, where as many as 2 million Palestinians will be relocated, a concentration camp.
South Australian supermarket wage-theft case settles for $5.5 million
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/rrqa-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 04:32
More than 500 current and former employees of 23 Foodland stores will receive back-pay after a four-year Federal Court case.
Democrats, media cheer as Trump escalates Ukraine-Russia war
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/tihc-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 04:10
The response demonstrates that Democratic Party opposition to Trump centered on issues of foreign policy, particularly the war against Russia, not Trump’s attacks on the working class at home
Trump slaps 30 percent tariff on Sri Lanka
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/rlfm-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 04:10
The Sri Lankan trade union bureaucracies responded to Trump’s tariffs by assuring the government and big business of their willingness to cooperate.
2,000 sanitation workers at Republic Services involved in nationwide strikes
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/jstk-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 03:51
The strikes are all the more significant given the strike earlier this month by 9,000 Philadelphia city workers, including sanitation workers, was betrayed by the union bureaucracy.
Superman: Trump forces outraged by defense of immigrants and … “human kindness”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/jvcy-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 03:45
The hostility to the film in certain quarters emerges out of the high level of social and political tensions in the US.
Trump’s shutdown of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board will “mean more accidents, more explosions and more deaths”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/vhuy-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 03:32
“Closing the CSB will mean more accidents at chemical plants, more explosions and more deaths.”
9 dead in Fall River, Mass. assisted living facility fire: A sign of systemic neglect in US elder care
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/htmd-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 03:26
The harrowing accounts from survivors of the Gabriel House fire reveal a tragedy long in the making.
Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against the Trump administration
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/tsjv-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 03:13
Khalil is a key target in the White House’s efforts to overthrow the United States Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship.
Austin, Texas firefighters denounce refusal to deploy department’s rescue teams to areas impacted by historic flash floods
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/poop-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 02:55
In a statement, the Austin Firefighters Association demanded a “full investigation” and urged “investigative journalists and the public to help uncover the truth.”
Washington demands Australian government commit to war on China
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/wocu-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 02:55
The Trump administration is insisting on guarantees from Australia, as well as Japan, of involvement in any, potentially “imminent,” US war against China.
President Gabriel Boric and the right-ward shift of the Chilean pseudo-left
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/qbne-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 02:35
What is truly striking about President Gabriel Boric’s fourth and final televised annual address is just how far to the right his pseudo-left coalition government has travelled over three years in office
Republican congressmen escalate witch-hunt against Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/bwun-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 01:23
The letters mark a significant escalation of the persecution of U-M postdoctoral researchers and Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han, directly integrating the federal legislative branch into the anti-China witch-hunt.
Jaime AlanĂs GarcĂa falls 30 feet to his death fleeing ICE agents in California immigrant raid
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/15/qcdt-j15.html
Published: July 15, 2025 00:02
From Camarillo to MacArthur Park, ICE raids and military operations signal California’s role as a testing ground for dictatorship.
US child health plummets amid austerity and inequality
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/fpjl-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 23:50
A comprehensive new study lays bare the deadly toll of austerity, inequality and profit-driven healthcare are consigning an entire generation of working class children in poor health.
Ofcom’s “reform” of Royal Mail letters opens the spigots for KĹ™etĂnský’s profiteering
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/ytue-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 17:50
Ofcom’s announcement, slashing mail deliveries across the UK, was a foregone conclusion. It will deliver annual cost savings of ÂŁ425 million to billionaire Daniel KĹ™etĂnský’s EP Group.
More than 80 UK protesters arrested, former head of the army speaks of “proxies”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/uvvb-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 17:36
Roughly 300 police were mobilised in London, arresting 46 people for holding signs reading “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/yzxv-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 04:55
The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing further questions to be raised about the stability of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
Teamsters bureaucrats feign outrage as UPS announces buyout plans for full-time drivers
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/buyo-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 04:44
The so-called “Driver Voluntary Severance Plan” is the latest part of the company’s jobs massacre, including plans to eliminate 20,000 jobs this year.
Australia: Allegations of abuse in childcare centres expose deep systemic crisis
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/juff-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 04:36
The conditions in the sector are the product of relentless privatisation, and a resulting assault on jobs, wages and safety standards.
US Secretary of State fobs off concerns in Asia over Trump tariffs
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/hpvr-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 04:33
The ASEAN communique did not name the US, but its opposition to the tariffs was obvious, expressing concern over “rising global trade tensions and growing uncertainties” and “unilateral actions relating to tariffs.”
Detainees and legislators report inhumane conditions at Florida concentration camp in Everglades
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/fune-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 04:18
Two weeks after President Donald Trump toured the new detention facility in South Florida swampland, hundreds of immigrants, many of whom have never committed a crime, are suffering in hellish conditions.
Texas halts flood catastrophe search efforts as new, life-threatening weather event approaches
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Published: July 14, 2025 04:18
Local officials informed the public on Sunday that rescue personnel, equipment and vehicles were being removed from the area because of an imminent threat posed by renewed storms.
As voting begins on sellout contract for Philadelphia city workers, Mayor Parker declares AFSCME bureaucrats “are my people”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/evqy-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 04:11
The TA was announced in order to break the powerful eight day work stoppage, the largest municipal strike in the city in nearly 40 years. It occurred as white collar municipal workers began voting Thursday about whether they would launch their own strike…
“The last summer of peace”: Imperialist powers rearm for global war
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/pefw-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 03:55
The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty plotting of all the imperialist powers.
Southern California UFCW forces sellout deal on grocery workers through sham vote
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/urbe-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 03:23
To ram through a sellout deal, the UFCW gave workers no time to read or review the full contract, fast-tracking a vote designed to suppress opposition and silence democratic participation.
Carnegie Mellon University to host Trump as he continues attacks on universities, students and science
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/divt-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 03:10
The decision by the Carnegie Mellon University administration to host President Trump for an “Energy” conference on July 15 lend credibility to Trump’s attacks on universities, students and science as he continues his transformation into a dictator.
New South Korean president continues war planning with US, Japan
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/decy-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 03:07
Democrat Lee Jae-myung is following the same anti-China militarist agenda as his right-wing predecessor, who was impeached and removed from office after a failed military coup attempt last year.
Students and academics protest massive cuts at Berlin universities
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/fvwe-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 02:20
German universities are facing the biggest austerity programme of the postwar era. State governments in Berlin and across the country plan to slash millions from research, teaching and infrastructure.
Peru’s far right rams through amnesty for human rights violators
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/bgoj-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 02:02
In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international human rights bodies.
HHS boss RFK Jr. abruptly cancels meeting of a critical US task force on preventive health
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/lpft-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 01:55
The abrupt cancelation by HHS RFK jr. of a critical preventive health task force meeting last week has once again raised alarms among health organizations about the viability of the current healthcare infrastructure in the US.
Photographer Nan Goldin denounces Israeli's"live-streamed genocide" in Gaza—and that mass murder takes the lives of two more Palestinian artists
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/olrz-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 01:39
Goldin, who is Jewish, told the crowd of 2,500, "Anti-Zionism has been totally conflated with antisemitism, which is convenient for Israel."
Trump’s tariff war threatens Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and copper exports
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/cugr-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 01:13
Trump’s latest two industrial sector tariffs—200 percent on pharmaceuticals and 50 percent on copper—have serious implications for Australia.
Kentucky turns back the clock on workplace safety
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/14/cgta-j14.html
Published: July 14, 2025 00:30
Kentucky legislature removes workplace safety standards, passing measures that improve profits at the expense of workers’ lives.
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