Thai court to hear petition to dismiss prime minister
The petition to remove Srettha Thavisin as prime minister at the behest of sections of the military exposes the fraud of Thailand’s “return to democracy.”
•Ben McGrath
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Zionists mount provocation against anti-genocide protest in Manchester, UK, as police arrest students in Oxford
When protesters requested they be allowed to proceed, police pushed them back. At one stage a police officer drew his baton. Meanwhile, a small group of officers formed a line some way in front of the Zionist roadblock.
•Our reporters
Jeremy Corbyn to run as an independent in UK general election
Corbyn’s response to his removal sums up his deep opposition to any political challenge to Labour as he continues his life’s mission of subordinating the working class to this pro-imperialist party.
•Thomas Scripps
G7 steps up economic and financial war against Russia and China
Lawyers are going to be hard at work to devise a scheme whereby the outright theft of Russian assets to finance Ukraine can be made to appear to be compatible with EU and international law.
•Nick Beams
The assault on Rafah and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Securing the US-dominated reorganization of the Middle East requires the systematic crushing of organized resistance by the Palestinian people to Israeli domination, which is only possible through extermination and mass displacement.
•Andre Damon
Macron imposes “republican order” to quash New Caledonia unrest
Amid a massive police-military operation, Macron made it clear in Nouméa that full independence for the French colony is off the agenda.
•John Braddock
Sri Lanka: Statements demanding the immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Together with the indefinite postponement of democratic elections, the arrest of Syrotiuk on high-treason charges signals Ukraine’s headlong plunge into right-wing extremism. The arrest of Syrotiuk is an attempt to silence democratic dissent in society…” – Ameen Izzadeen, senior journalist, Colombo-based Daily Mirror
•Our correspondents
US Department of Justice launches investigation into abuse in Kentucky’s juvenile justice system
The Justice Department launched the investigation into Kentucky’s juvenile justice system following continued reports of “excessive force by staff, prolonged and punitive isolation and inadequate protection from violence and sexual abuse.”
•Milo Stevens
Official briefing on Australian “military secrets” laws points to wartime-like regime
The Labor government’s legislation presents far-reaching threats, especially for university educators and researchers in a wide range of science and technology fields.
•A correspondent
Large turnout for WSWS online meeting for working class to support University of California anti-genocide strike
More than 200 people registered for the meeting from different industries to link the campus protests with workers’ struggles against mass layoffs and other cuts.
•Joseph Hillmeyer
Workers in Berlin condemn police violence against students at Humboldt University
Workers are following events in Gaza with horror and are stunned and angry that the German government is supporting the genocide and assaulting student protests.
•Our reporters
At least 670 dead, two thousand buried alive in Papua New Guinea landslide
The isolated rural Yambili village, with an estimated 4,000 residents, was almost entirely submerged by the landslide.
•Patrick O’Connor
Israeli anti-war activists speak with the WSWS
In the face of a media blackout and intimidation, there is a growing protest movement in Israel against the Netanyahu regime’s war on Gaza. The WSWS spoke with two members of one of the protest groups.
•Tom Peters, Jean Shaoul
Workers must defend Berlin’s Humboldt University students against brutal police violence: Stop the pro-war policy!
The brutality used by police against peaceful protests at Berlin’s Humboldt University on Thursday is an escalation of violence against opponents of war in Germany.
•Tamino Wilck
The US ruling class lurches to right: Kennedy and Trump appeal for support at fascistic Libertarian Convention
While both candidates sought the endorsement of the rabidly pro-capitalist delegates, neither one garnered more than 2 percent of the vote.
•Jacob Crosse
Ten years of Spain’s pseudo-left Podemos party
The recent departure of Podemos from Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government brought to a close another strategic experience of the international working class with the pseudo-left.
•Alejandro López
80 years since the mass murder in Ozarichi, Belarus carried out by the German military
One of the worst war crimes committed by Hitler’s army during World War II occurred in March 1944: the mass murder of thousands of women, old people and children at the Ozarichi death camp in Belarus.
•Verena Nees
Pixar Animation announces layoffs in the midst of the Great Hollywood Contraction
The job cuts at Pixar are happening in the midst of what is being called Hollywood’s “Great Contraction,” part of the jobs destruction affecting every major industry.
•Hong Jian
The case of Samuel Alito: Biden, Democrats shield pro-coup fascists on US Supreme Court
Much press attention has been given to Alito’s role in authoring the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision eliminating the right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Little attention, however, has been given to the role Alito played as a major conspirator in the January 6 coup plot itself.
•Eric London
Chief of Canada’s top spy agency urges shutdown of Tiktok as anti-China hysteria continues
The CSIS director’s outburst is part of a sustained campaign of anti-Chinese hysteria whipped up by Canada’s spy agencies, corporate media, and political elite with the aim of integrating Canada even more fully in the US strategic offensive against China.
•James Clayton
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledges to bring in National Service for 18-year-olds
Launching his military conscription pledge, Sunak said national service was needed because the world was “more dangerous and challenging than it has been in decades… There’s China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. These things aren’t just happening far away, they impact us here at home.”
•Robert Stevens
UK Labour’s filthy manoeuvre over the ICC’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
The Labour Party’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, a vociferous apologist for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, is attempting to posture as a defender of the international rule of law.
•Jean Shaoul, Chris Marsden
Australian universities begin dismantling anti-genocide student encampments
Under the guise of ensuring “safety” on campuses, the administrations are working with the Labor government to strip away the democratic rights to free speech and protest.
•Eric Ludlow
As NATO moves to allow Ukraine to bomb Russia with its weapons, Kremlin floats possible Ukraine cease-fire
While Moscow is signaling that it is seeking a settlement of the war, NATO countries are escalating long-range strikes and threatening to directly enter the war.
•Alex Lantier
China mounts military exercises near Taiwan after new president inaugurated
The Chinese military drills came just days after the installation of Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, who is known for his provocative, separatist views.
•Peter Symonds
Invoking Genocide Convention, International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive
The ICJ ruling, together with the ferocious response of US and Israeli officials, massively discredits and exposes US-NATO imperialism while vindicating the mass protests against the Gaza genocide.
•Tom Carter
“We should have freedom of speech at all costs”: Support builds among Detroit autoworkers for University of California anti-genocide strike
“I have two words for what is going on at campuses across the country: ‘Kent State,’” one Ford worker said. “Students opposing these wars are being beaten and arrested. I agree with the UC strike and we should support them.”
•our reporters
Use of lethal force by US county sheriff’s deputies on the rise
An investigation by CBS News found that deputies who patrol rural areas are three times more lethal than city police departments.
•Alex Findijs
Mobilize the working class against the French state of emergency in New Caledonia!
French imperialism is trying to crush a social revolt driven by a deep social and economic crisis and preparations for imperialist war against China in the Pacific.
•Anthony Torres, Alex Lantier
Pabloite France Unbowed leader speaks on Ukraine war and the class struggle
The interview with Samuel Johsua reveals the obstacles that Pabloism poses to a revolutionary struggle of the working class for socialism.
•Anthony Torres
Government cover-up continues two years after Uvalde, Texas school massacre
Two years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in which 19 students and two adults were killed and 17 others were injured, no one has been held accountable.
•Kevin Reed
2024 Cannes Film Festival: #MeToo shows its reactionary colors
In the face of mass murder in Gaza and unfolding world war, the #MeToo activists demonstrated their indifference to the mass suffering.
•Stefan Steinberg, David Walsh
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan demand abolition of broker system; India: Tea plantation workers in Assam protest unpaid wages; Australia: New South Wales ambulance paramedics strike over rostering; Victorian TAFE teachers escalate action for improved enterprise deal.
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The Board of Regents of the University of California and the subordination of higher education to the war machine
Like other elite universities, the UC system is run like a corporation by a board of multi-millionaires and Democratic Party operatives, and has been deeply integrated into the US war machine.
•David Rye, Elliott Murtagh
Educators in the US demand: Free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk at once!
The Educators Rank-and-File Committee (US) demands the immediate release of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from a Ukrainian prison and urges educators and students to fight for his freedom.
•Educators Rank-and-File Committee (US)
Musician Michael Barenboim, Berlin professors defend Gaza protests at Federal Press Conference
Law Professor Clemens Arzt demonstrated that the violent police action against students protesting the Israeli genocide in Gaza has been illegal in every respect.
•Verena Nees, Peter Schwarz
12,000 Toronto transit workers set for first strike in 16 years as of June 7
While the TTC and the city of Toronto claim there is no money to make desperately needed repairs to infrastructure, the ruling class is showering unlimited cash on the military and providing unlimited funds to wage war abroad.
•Sterling Oliver, Roger Jordan
Stop the genocide in Gaza! Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds Berlin rally for the European elections
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei organised a rally against the genocide in Gaza as part of its European election campaign in the Neukölln district of Berlin, in which many workers and young people participated.
•our reporters
UK Infected Blood Inquiry report: “Justice delayed is justice denied”
More than 30,000 NHS patients were given blood infected with hepatitis C or HIV over a period of three decades, resulting in over 3,000 deaths.
•Robert Stevens
UAW forced by growing anger to expand University of California anti-genocide strike to UCLA, UC Davis
It was clear before the announcement that the two campuses were prepared to walk out, with or without the official sanction of the union.
•Norisa Diaz, Kimie Saito, Tom Hall
Revealing data on escalation of income inequality in Australia
Tax concessions for the wealthy and corporations far outweigh the “not fiscally sustainable” cost of increasing welfare payments by $550 a fortnight.
•Nick Beams
Arrest warrant against Netanyahu undermines German war propaganda
The arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant are based on extremely well-documented facts. They were written by internationally renowned lawyers, whom even the pro-Israel German press cannot accuse of bias.
•Peter Schwarz
Australian Labor government lines up behind US/Israeli attacks on ICC
Labor’s leaders have again backed the Israeli regime, after it has murdered more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza as part of a genocidal ethnic-cleansing campaign.
•Oscar Grenfell
Teamsters push through sellout contract to shut down three-month strike at Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth, Texas
Outrage against the contract by rank-and-file workers prompted the Teamsters to take down their post on Facebook announcing the contract to cover over their betrayal.
•Alex Findijs
The fight against war and the tasks of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP), German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, held its party congress from 12 to 15 April. We are publishing here the resolution that was unanimously adopted by the delegates.
•Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
As student protests over Gaza spread, US House Committee demands further crackdown
Hundreds of students walked out of commencement at Harvard after the main student speaker denounced the administration for barring 13 Gaza protesters from graduating with their class.
•Patrick Martin
With de facto endorsement from Biden, Israel broadens Rafah onslaught
Israel's attack on Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, has now displaced nearly 1 million people and massively intensified famine throughout the entire territory.
•Andre Damon
Britain’s snap general election: A prelude to direct NATO war against Russia
Sunak’s decision on a snap general election was dictated by the need to form a stable government to pursue a rapid escalation of NATO’s de facto war against Russia in Ukraine.
•Chris Marsden
New York City steps up evictions of migrants from shelters
The Democratic Party administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams has begun the removal of migrants from shelters under new rules limiting stays to 30 or 60 days and adopted by the city in March.
•Kevin Reed
After closing restaurants and terminating workers without notice, Red Lobster files for bankruptcy
The full burden of the US-based restaurant chain's downsizing and cost-cutting process will be imposed on the company’s pre-bankruptcy 36,000-strong workforce.
•Barry Grey
Pro-Palestinian artists face ongoing censorship in the US, while rich art collectors demand student protesters be “dragged off campus”
The systematic censorship in the US of artists who express sympathy with the plight of the Gazan population and oppose the genocidal policies of Netanyahu-Biden continues.
•David Walsh
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds European Union election rallies in Duisburg and Munich
On May 18, the SGP organised powerful rallies in Duisburg-Hamborn and Munich-Giesing, two working class districts of major German cities. The SGP candidates and members explained the party's programme and called upon workers to join the party.
•Our reporters
A second US farmworker infected with the bird flu virus
The dairy worker in Michigan fortunately suffered only a mild eye infection, but experts believe that the number of people potentially infected by the deadly virus is far higher.
•Benjamin Mateus
100 years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
The act, a response to the Russian Revolution, was an attack on the entire working class.
•Eric London
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
National 24-hour strikes of public sector workers in both Greece and Portugal over wages; protests in Iran continue over poor pensions, wages and working conditions; Ghana’s judicial workers begin indefinite walkout over non-payment of allowances
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Bust UK councils allowed to sell public assets to cover increasing deficits
Labour Party-run Birmingham Council, covering a population of over 1 million, is imposing £300 million in cuts, and must sell off a staggering £1.25 billion of historic assets, land and property to repay a government bailout loan.
•Ioan Petrescu
Berlin police brutally assault students occupying Humboldt University to protest against the genocide in Gaza
On Wednesday, dozens of students occupied Humboldt University's Department of Social Sciences to protest against the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the university administration.
•Our reporters
Sri Lankan court takes case of violent assault on SEP members
The attack on Wasantha is politically calculated to intimidate him and stop discussion on the SEP’s fight for workers’ independent action committees.
•Our reporters
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Australia demands the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Socialist opponents of the Ukraine war are being demonised as traitors just as opponents of the Gaza genocide are being slandered as antisemitic and terrorist supporters.” – Dr Zewlan Moor
•Our correspondents
Australia: NTEU opposes fight against job cuts and restructuring at Western Sydney University College
What became evident is essentially a partnership between the union and management to stifle opposition by pressuring or encouraging staff members to apply for redundancies.
•Our correspondents
Seeking re-election, Modi and his BJP wage far-right, communalist campaign
The BJP has a long history of communalist incitement and violence. Nevertheless, its current election campaign stands out for the stridency of its fascistic appeals.
•Keith Jones
Seven killed in bus accident in St. Petersburg
An overworked bus driver, having just completed a 20-hour shift the day before, lost control of his vehicle and plunged into the Moika river.
•Andrea Peters
Failed pro-imperialist coup targets Democratic Republic of Congo
The coup took place as Washington and its NATO allies wage a bitter struggle for influence in Africa with China and Russia, amid the NATO-Russia war in Ukraine.
•Kumaran Ira
NATO war on Russia in Ukraine drove attempted murder of Slovakia’s Fico
Fico was targeted for murder over his criticisms of NATO’s war with Russia in Ukraine, and European media are hailing his shooting, claiming it will intimidate Moscow.
•Alex Lantier
Australia: Telstra slashes 2,800 jobs in latest profit-driven restructuring
Telstra’s is the largest job cut announcement by an Australian company so far this year, but takes place in the context of a broader attack on working-class jobs and wages.
•Martin Scott
Members of Congress demand White House authorize Ukrainian strikes inside Russia
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives called on the White House to formally authorize Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russian territory, a move that Russian officials had previously warned would trigger war between Russia and NATO.
•Andre Damon
Academic workers speak out on the University of California picket line: “We should be pushing for a general strike”
The strike by 2,000 academic workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz against the crackdown on Gaza protests continues through Wednesday amidst the threat of an injunction to ban the action.
•Bryan Dyne, Jesus Ugarte, Kimie Saito
The working class must organize to defeat injunction threat against the University of California Gaza strike!
The ruling class wants to set a precedent to ban all political activity in the working class and rip up the core First Amendment right to free speech.
•Tom Hall
Second pro-insurrectionist flag revealed to have flown on property owned by Justice Samuel Alito following Trump coup
One week after the New York Times revealed that an upside-down American flag was flown outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Alito, the paper disclosed that a Christian nationalist “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, carried by pro-Trump fanatics during the January 6 attack, was also flown at Alito’s vacation house in New Jersey last year.
•Jacob Crosse
German Foreign Minister Baerbock’s war visit to Kiev
The plans pursued by German Foreign Minister Baerbock and Defence Minister Pistorius for the expansion of air defences in Ukraine are aimed at preparing for direct NATO intervention in the conflict against Russia.
•Johannes Stern
The welcome reappearance of actor Kevin Spacey
One unsubstantiated claim, which when tested in a courtroom five years later took a jury 45 minutes to dismiss, led to Spacey being driven out of the film, television and theater world.
•David Walsh
Dallas UPS worker dies after falling into trash compactor as company fatalities mount
Juan Chavez, 68, was reported dead at the scene at a UPS facility in Dallas on May 16.
•Alex Findijs
50,000 Canada Post workers face political battle against pro-austerity, warmongering Liberal government
The fight that postal workers must wage is above all political, since the push by management to make Canada Post “profitable” at the expense of its workers is backed to the hilt by the Trudeau Liberal government.
•Roger Jordan
Oppose all capitalist candidates in the Mexican elections — unite workers across the Americas against US imperialism!
The fascistic Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic President Biden have sought to outdo each other in scapegoating and dehumanizing migrants as “illegals.”
•Andrea Lobo, Don Knowland
Brazil’s Morenoite-led union federation cements ties with UAW based on support for war
The recent tour of the US by officials of the CSP-Conlutas union federation served to integrate it into support for the emerging US war against Russia and China.
•Eduardo Parati, Guilherme Ferreira
Students set up pro-Palestine protest camp at Frankfurt's Goethe University
Despite attacks by the police and slanders in the media, protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza are continuing to spread globally and across Germany.
•Marianne Arens
Philadelphia union head charged in dues embezzlement scheme to support Democratic candidates
Union president Chris Woods is being charged with stealing workers’ dues to support Democratic political campaigns
•Landon Gourov
Chinese study finds association between viral persistence and Long COVID
The study excluded patients who had serious, life-threatening infections, demonstrating that even mild cases of COVID can have dire lifetime consequences.
•Bill Shaw
PUBLIC MEETING: Mobilize the working class to defend the University of California strike against genocide!
Workers must take action to defend the strike. It must be expanded not only to the entire University of California system but to the entire UAW membership and other industries.
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Snap British general election on July 4: Socialist Equality Party will challenge Tory and Labour parties of genocide and war
Notwithstanding the fate of the Tories, despised by millions, the problem facing workers in Britain is that there is nothing fundamental to distinguish Sunak’s government from Starmer’s Labour Party.
•Socialist Equality Party (UK)
Political prisoners mount hunger strike as state repression grows in Turkey
Police raids and arrests have expanded after May Day protests in Istanbul. Political prisoners subjected to isolation and ill-treatment are on hunger strike.
•Hakan Özal
Working class life expectancy falling in England
The Institute of Health Equity confirms that life expectancy for the working class is stagnating and falling, while the life expectancy of the wealthiest rises.
•Simon Whelan
League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have joined hands with the fascistic Christian fundamentalist Republicans Mike Johnson and Lindsay Graham to condemn the ICC and assert the right of Israel and the United States to commit war crimes with impunity.
•Jordan Shilton, Andre Damon
US Treasury secretary seeks European support in economic war against China
In the well established tradition of US imperialism, Janet Yellen in a speech in Germany sought to present US actions as benefiting the world.
•Nick Beams
Ann Arbor school board votes for draconian budget cuts
The Democratic Party-controlled school board approved $20 million in budget cuts, including the elimination of 141 positions
•Jacob Crosse
Growing calls for an all-out strike by UC academic workers
The anti-democratic maneuvers of the UC administration are aided by the UAW apparatus, which has called out only one campus and kept the vast majority of workers on the job.
•our reporters
University of California files for injunction against academic worker strike over Gaza protest crackdowns
Tuesday's court filing amounts to a demand that all strike activity of a political character be banned in the United States.
•Tom Hall
University of Michigan police violently clear anti-genocide encampment
Four students were arrested and several more injured after riot police assaulted the peaceful encampment early Tuesday morning. The police attack came less than two weeks after the lecturers’ union forced through a poverty contract that doubled as a political betrayal of the students and workers, who have protested for months against the Gaza genocide.
•Jacob Crosse
Netherlands parties strike agreement on most right-wing government since 1945
Six months after the Dutch general election, three far-right parties together with the Liberals (VVD) of incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte have agreed on forming the most right-wing Dutch government since the Second World War.
•Parwini Zora, Peter Schwarz
Berlin: Thousands demonstrate against genocide in Gaza
On Saturday, in the German capital, Berlin, some 10,000 people demonstrated against the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli regime with the support of the imperialist powers against the Palestinian population in Gaza.
•Our reporters
New Caledonia unrest continues amid massive French security operation
Amid a fierce police crackdown, New Caledonia’s unrest has exposed the class chasm between indigenous workers and youth and the French colony’s political establishment.
•John Braddock
Australian “military secrets” laws threaten researchers
Chilling legislation points to intensifying AUKUS preparations for war against China.
•Mike Head
Pro-independence president inaugurated in Taiwan
Lai Ching-te’s support for US imperialism exposes his phony concerns about “democracy” and “peace” in the Indo-Pacific and around the globe.
•Ben McGrath
Taiwan, the “Axis of Genocide” and Holocaust amnesia
To legitimize their support for the Gaza genocide, Taiwan’s rulers are seeking to whitewash today’s German establishment and the complicity of Zionist organizations, along with the “democratic” imperialist powers, especially the United States and Britain, in the Holocaust.
•Shih-Yu Chou
President Ruto grovels to Washington to put Kenya on the global war map
Kenya and the entire African continent are being drawn into the maelstrom of an expanding global war. The continent’s geostrategic position and vast mineral resources are viewed by Washington as critical in its conflicts with Russia, Iran and China.
•Kipchumba Ochieng
Australia: Police called to shut down SEP campaign as Victorian nurses reject union-government wage cut
The real-wage slashing deal was voted down in a meeting of around 3,000 health workers, despite a concerted attempt by the union leadership to suppress criticism of the proposed enterprise agreement and fraudulently portray it as a win.
•Martin Scott
University of California academic workers launch strike at UC Santa Cruz, as demands grow for system-wide walkout
The strike must become the beginning of a broader action, including the entire membership of the United Auto Workers, against the war and in defense of the students.
•Norisa Diaz, Jesus Ugarte, David Benson
Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee founded in opposition to UAW betrayals and war
“With our brothers and sisters of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), we are for abolishing, not reforming, the UAW bureaucracy, to put power into the hands of the workers.”
•Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee
SEP (Australia) public meeting: Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia is holding a meeting on Sunday, May 26 in Sydney and online to discuss the urgent struggle to free Julian Assange.
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