Новости за 04.05.2024

Private bond holders, with the IMF’s tacit support, are seeking to bully the Sri Lankan government into accepting higher repayments or face the withholding of the next tranche of the IMF loan.

India: Tamil Nadu tea plantation workers demand on-time wage payments and improved social conditions; Australia: Child safety support workers strike in Tasmania; Federal court intervenes against striking Queensland’s Cross River Rail construction workers

Health workers in Victoria have rejected Labor’s 3 percent nominal pay increase and voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action including work stoppages of up to four hours.

The threat of a US- and Australian-instigated destabilisation campaign in Solomon Islands remains a very real one.

In the face of mass protests throughout the United States, the Biden administration has made clear it will continue its policy of arming, funding, and politically supporting the Gaza genocide and shielding its perpetrators.

The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan call on members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization to vote “No” on the sellout contract announced by the LEO leadership and organize a strike to halt the repression of peaceful student protests at U-M and nationwide against US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Mancilla, a former official from the Harvard grad student union, is attempting to get out in front of the anti-war sentiment. He played a leading role in passing a UAW ceasefire resolution in December. But that remained a dead letter, and the UAW endorsed Biden only weeks later, with Mancilla in attendance.

Agent of Happiness is a documentary about the “Gross National Happiness” survey conducted in the small kingdom of Bhutan, situated between India and China.

After nine months without a contract, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers announced a “historic” contract for teachers at the same time MPS officials have stated that they will need to cut $110 million, and that “everything is on the table.”

The much-touted “firewall” against the extreme right, which has always been a fiction, is to definitively fall after the European elections.

The Osnabrück decree, which came into force on May 1, has one central goal: making Germany fit for war again, despite its crimes in two world wars, by preparing for war against Russia.

Students, supported by many faculty and other opponents of Israel’s Canadian government-backed genocidal assault on the Palestinians of Gaza, have set up encampments at universities in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.

The decision was first announced in President Petro's May Day speech, delivered Wednesday to tens of thousands of supporters in Bogota.

Around 330,000 people took part in over 450 May Day demonstrations and rallies across Germany on Wednesday.

Retail workers should place no faith in the Verdi trade union, which has once again welcomed a supposed “saviour” for Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof and is actively assisting in imposing redundancies and closures.