Новости за 18.05.2024

Houston, Texas saw 100 mile per hour winds (161 kph) from a devastating type of storm known as a derecho on Thursday. Residents affected could be without power for weeks.

The hearings this week featured devastating presentations of what the South African ambassador called the “continuing annihilation of the Palestinian people.”

Supported by the US and its EU allies, demonstrators in Georgia's capital city, Tbilisi, are demanding the reversal of a "foreign agents law and accusing the ruling party of being Putin's "slave."

More universities have issued eviction notices, and an encampment that was previously attacked by Zionist thugs at Monash University has now been dismantled.

That the UAW is calling out only a single campus confirms the warnings made by the WSWS that the bureaucracy is doing everything it can to limit this struggle.

The purpose of Centrepay is to ensure that landlords, utilities and other businesses get the first cut of the pittance from which the unemployed, elderly, disabled, or otherwise disadvantaged are forced to eke out an existence.

While there is rising anger among doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers over stagnant pay and dangerous staffing shortages, the unions are keeping workers’ struggles isolated and divided.

The "Palestine Campus" group explained that the impulse for the protest was the start of the Israeli army's murderous ground offensive against Rafah.

Amid escalating economic turmoil and social discontent the French government is determined to tighten its grip on the strategically significant Pacific colony.

These works of art, in a variety of styles, were part of a flowering that included not only the visual arts but also literature, essays, drama, dance and—perhaps most famously—jazz.

North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul has banned the group “Palestine Solidarity Duisburg” on the pretext of its alleged “antisemitism” and support for Hamas.

While drug overdose deaths decreased slightly in 2023, the US continues to be devastated by the opioid epidemic, with preliminary CDC data showing there were 107,543 overdose fatalities last year.

Any historical appraisal of Bridges, the most notable Stalinist labor official in US history, raises important historical questions for workers today.

Bangladeshi garment workers maintain sit-down protest over Gazipur factory closure; Sri Lankan government health workers walkout; Australia: Wilma Sugar workers in Queensland strike again for pay rise; New Zealand nurses protest staff shortages.

A pseudo-left party rooted in and oriented to privileged sections of the middle class, Québec Solidaire seeks to provide a “progressive” cover to a program whose anti-democratic and historically retrograde character has become manifest.