Новости за 10.05.2024

Elphicke is seeking to salvage her political career by jumping ship to a Labour Party expected to easily win a general election later this year, and she can do so by joining a party whose programme is identical to that of the Tories.

This is the text of the speech delivered by Alex Lantier, the national secretary of the Parti de l'Egalité Socialiste (PES) in France, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.

Voting by lecturers at the University of Michigan finishes today on a sellout tentative contract agreement entered into by the Lecturers’ Employee Organization.

This is the text of the speech delivered by Christoph Vandreier, the national secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.

Workers at Warren Stamping told WSWS reporters that the recent strike vote over health and safety at the plant reflected anger over a range of issues including job cuts.

Labor government figures and media commentators are increasingly explicit that their denunciations of the small student encampments are only part of a broader campaign to ban all protests against the genocide.

Wickremesinghe’s so-called pay hike, which is backed by the unions, will do little to overcome the massive increases in the cost of living for plantation workers and their families, let alone lift them out of the desperate social abyss they confront.

The only way to stop the war and defend our rights is by taking matters into our own hands as the working class, who create all of society’s wealth.

Weekly unemployment in the US jumped by more than 10 percent, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the share labor receives of national income has fallen to an unprecedented 55.8 percent as of the first quarter of 2024.

The crushing of the GWU encampment is part of a nationwide counter-offensive against student protests as the Israeli government prepares to enter and annihilate the remnants of survivors in the city of Rafah.

Media reports provided extensive coverage to comments by US President Joe Biden late Wednesday that the US would not provide large bombs or artillery shells for offensive operations in Rafah. However what is at stake are merely tactical differences over how best to proceed with the onslaught.

The vote Wednesday was the first time in US history that the minority party supported the candidate of the majority to oversee the House of Representatives.

Speakers at the Sydney rally once again promoted the fraud that the federal Labor government that has backed Israel’s barbaric war for seven months can be pressured to change course.

Jake, a history student at California State University, Los Angeles, recently spoke with the World Socialist Web Site about the Gaza solidarity encampment established on campus last week.

The same politicians claiming peaceful protests against genocide are intolerable disruptions to “order” never batted an eyelash when hospital morgues were stuffed full of bodies during endless and continuing surges of the pandemic.

Workers face high inflation, falling wages, and mass layoffs while the Democrats collaborate with the unions to suppress the class struggle.

In a roundtable discussion this week, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp defended Israel’s massacre of Palestinian civilians by advocating military brutality as a general principle.

The IG Metall union has been agreeing to job cuts and wage reductions for years, claiming this improves “competitivity” and so made jobs safer. Now, 3,700 workers face the loss of their livelihoods.

This is the text of the speech delivered by Andy Thompson, an IYSSE member in the US, to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.

This is the text of the speech delivered by Cheryl Crisp, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the 2024 International May Day Online Rally.