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The NSW state government is promoting a planned “reopening” of the economy over the coming months, as the Delta variant surges out of control in Australia’s largest city.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/sydd-a20.html …

Students, young people and workers participated in a lively discussion on the homicidal policies being pursued by capitalist governments in the pandemic, and the need for a socialist alternative, oriented to the emerging struggles of the working class.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/iyss-a20.html …

The doubling of Wall Street’s S&P 500 index from its March 2020 level is not on indication of economic health but an expression of the parasitism resulting from the Fed’s trillions of dollars of financial support.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/18/mark-a18.html …

The current plan for in-person classes walks back a significant number of already-insufficient restrictions put in place when schools first reopened last spring.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/cpsr-a20.html …

Deere workers say they are determined to win back the concessions the UAW has given up over decades.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/deer-a20.html …

The much-vaunted mitigation measures are not even being systematically implemented across the district, and dilapidated buildings are proving to be an insurmountable barrier in providing necessary ventilation.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/laus-a20.html …

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona declared Wednesday that “our priority must be” to “return to school in person,” even as the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients nationwide hit 85,000.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/pand-a20.html …

The claims that the US war was waged for democracy and women’s rights and against terrorism are even more threadbare than in 2001.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/pers-a20.html …

In-person instruction and optional masking are the rule, not the exception, in West Virginia school districts, even in counties where infection rates are already high.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/wved-a20.html …

Last Sunday the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), broadcast its initial election rally in advance of the German federal elections on September 26.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/sgpe-a20.html …

The doubling of Wall Street’s S&P 500 index from its March 2020 level is not on indication of economic health but an expression of the parasitism resulting from the Fed’s trillions of dollars of financial support.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/18/mark-a18.html …

The Afghan war was a dirty colonial war from the very start, with all that entails: massacres, torture, crime and corruption.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/afde-a20.html …

The four-day festival in Manchester, Tennessee will serve as a superspreader event, contributing to the overloading of health care systems and more deaths.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/bonn-a20.html …

The incident sparked a massive police response in an area that witnessed an attempted coup by a violent mob of Trump supporters just seven months prior.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/mcth-a20.html …

On 3 October 2001, parliament approved a motion presented by Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark, with the support of the phony “left-wing” Alliance, that endorsed the despatch of Special Air Services troops and “totally” supported the US in Afghanistan.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/nzaf-a20.html …

The EY report demands the end of universities as they currently exist, to be replaced by corporate vocational and research services, tailored to the dictates of the corporate elite.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/unis-a20.html …

Workers cannot allow the union to manipulate and coerce them into accepting another rotten deal, especially after the sacrifices and trauma they have had to endure during the pandemic, which is once again being allowed to spread uncontrollably without a...http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/20/nyem-a20.html …

We are publishing here the SGP’s official election spot for the German federal election with subtitles in English, French and Turkish.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/19/spot-a19.html …

The strikers are fighting concession demands that include the slashing of benefit eligibility for temporary workers, and benefit cuts for current retirees, all future retirees and their survivors.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/19/riot-a19.html …

A wall collapse at Immel Nyrstar zinc mine in Mascot, Tennessee on Tuesdaykilled one miner and injured two others, Immel’s second fatal incident this year and the third for Nyrstar.http://wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/07/zinc-j07.html …