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Teachers in multiple strikes across Europe, in parts of Belgium, Spain, Portugal, a town in Croatia and one-day national strike in Turkey over funding and conditions; Italy’s journalists walk out over attempts to turn state broadcaster into government mouthpiece, while journalists at radio France to strike Sunday after sacking over Netanyahu joke; cost-of-living protests continue across Iran by workers including truck drivers, construction workers and retirees; Kenyan health workers’ strike in third... Читать дальше...

Around 30,000 people in the UK were infected with hepatitis C and/or HIV after receiving contaminated blood or blood products, including 380 children. At least 3,000 died and the rest were left severely ill.

The launch of Israel’s long-planned assault on Rafah has created a humanitarian catastrophe, displacing tens of thousands of Gazans and threatening the entire population with starvation.

The rise of Chinese hi-tech companies such as Huawei highlight the historic decline of US imperialism which is prepared to resort to all methods to maintain its global economic and military dominance.

The Australian government and media, as well as the US, have deliberately inflated the incident, exploiting it to again ratchet up tensions with Beijing.

The ruling class is terrified of the student protests because it can arouse the working class. A strike vote by graduate students in California shows there is a growing recognition that the methods of class struggle are required.

“What Israel has been doing to the people of Gaza is clearly a war crime and genocide. The Netanyahu administration has violated all the humanitarian laws.” –Bangladeshi student.

TWU rank-and-file members must reject his slanders and countermand the threats of legal action. Instead, workers must organize actions in defense of the students.

The austerity budget is another demonstration of the ruthlessly pro-business, anti-working class character of the Victorian state Labor government.

While paying lip-service to independent thought, every school district official declared support for the Zionist state of Israel.

Political action committees linked to the Biden campaign are attacking the campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein of the Green Party and Cornel West.

President Lula is pursuing a corporatist agenda to integrate the unions into the state in order to suppress the class struggle in Brazil.

This is the text of the introductory speech delivered by Will Lehman, an autoworker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and member of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.

Inspired by anti-genocide protests on campuses across the United States defying a nationwide crackdown coordinated by the Biden administration that has led to thousands of arrests, students are occupying university halls and facilities across the continent.

If such events had taken place in a country like Russia, China or Iran, there would be a massive campaign in the Western media about the dictatorial behaviour of these regimes.

As of writing, 14 sites have been established, at the Universities of Warwick, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, Leeds, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, at Swansea and Newcastle University and at SOAS and UCL in London.