Britain’s gestapo-style operation began this week. On Wednesday, the Home Office put out a celebratory video showing immigration enforcement goons raiding houses, bringing out people detained in handcuffs and bundling them into a van.
Widespread stoppages in Greece on May Day across most sectors denounce Gaza genocide and austerity; ongoing protests in Iran against cost-of-living crisis by pensioners, industrial and agricultural workers; doctors and clinicians strike continues in Kenya for almost two months over staff shortages, pay cuts and lack funding
The single word judgement after an inspection by schools’ watchdog Ofsted, that a school is either outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate, will remain says government, despite universal condemnation.
We encourage spreading this initiative to campuses across the country and drawing in broader layers, including working-class youth and workers in key industries, to defend the encampments against attack from the corporate media and political establishment.
The decision raises the prospect of turmoil in international currency markets where the Japanese yen has been falling and hit its lowest rate against the dollar in 34 years on Monday.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Tuesday that a military assault on Rafah “would be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.”
Teamsters Local 952 rushed through a sellout agreement for OCTA bus operators with a very slim majority and a sizable abstention.
Students have taken a courageous stand. But their actions anticipate an even more powerful movement in the working class. The issues they have raised can only be resolved not on the campuses but in the factories, warehouses, railroads and docks.
The unions called the rallies in order to block any mobilisation of the working class and to bolster illusions in the deeply discredited Labour Party, which agrees with austerity and with New Zealand’s integration into US imperialist wars.
The fascist ex-president suggested possible prosecution of Biden, immunity for police violence, and the military round-up of 20 million immigrants.
Last week’s oral arguments before the US Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for any actions he took while president, including his attempted coup of January 6, 2021, brought out divisions among the nine justices over criminality in the White House.
The ongoing Israeli mass murder in Gaza and stepped up brutality and repression on the West Bank provide immediate, living context, if such be needed, for Farah Nabulsi’s film.
The CAQ government is determined to push through an employer-dictated construction industry “modernization,” aimed at boosting profits at the expense of workers’ jobs and safety.
General Motors announced last Friday the shutdown of its manufacturing plants in Colombia and Ecuador, eliminating about 1,300 jobs, along with thousands more indirectly.
A new law will extend arbitrary police powers, enabling the state to limit and ban protests.
This underscores the potential internationally for students protesting the genocide to mobilize the working class to halt the genocide and the war.
