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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (1158+ words) Airport and flight workers across Italy held 24-hour strikes Sunday, with nationwide walkouts by easy Jet flight pilots and cabin crew, ground-handling staff, baggage workers, security personnel and air traffic controllers. Hundreds of local and international flights were delayed or…...
UK Labour government rams through authoritarian National Security Bill
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (1091+ words) The Labour government's National Security (State Threats) Bill passed all its stages in the House of Commons on July 6, becoming law two days later. It represents one of the most far-reaching attacks on democratic rights and press freedom in modern…...
European imperialists seek access to markets, cheap labour and critical raw materials amid deepening great-power rivalries--Part 2
2+ hour, 50+ min ago (502+ words) This is the second and concluding part of the series. The first part was published on July 8, 2026 The EU has also signed a series of strategic partnerships on raw materials and supply chains with African countries. The EU wants to…...
Trump launches new phase of US imperialism's criminal war on Iran
15+ hour, 11+ min ago (597+ words) US President Donald Trump has relaunched American imperialism's illegal war of aggression against Iran, after repeatedly making Hitlerite threats in recent days to destroy the country's basic infrastructure and rain death and destruction on its people. This was coupled with…...
Israel continues Gaza onslaught, after Hamas announces plan to hand power over to UN committee
15+ hour, 12+ min ago (1033+ words) Israel is continuing its criminal genocide and violation of the Gaza cease-fire, killing as many as 16 Palestinians, including a child, in the two days since Hamas announced it was preparing to transfer power to a technical committee backed by the…...
El-Sayed'Stevens debate in Michigan: Neither "progressive" nor establishment Democrats offer anything for the working class
15+ hour, 43+ min ago (808+ words) The televised debate between Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens on Tuesday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan exposed both the sharpening factional crisis within the Democratic Party and the narrow pro-capitalist political limits within which the conflict is being…...
Fiji military commander publicly denounces budget cut
16+ hour, 11+ min ago (981+ words) Fiji's military commander Major General Jone Kalouniwai has responded to budget cuts to the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) with an extraordinary campaign in the Pacific country's newspapers and on social media. Kalouniwai took out full-page advertisements opposing the…...
Italy's summer of struggles: Workers confront Meloni's austerity, war and police state
16+ hour, 21+ min ago (447+ words) The Italian working class is in open conflict with the Meloni government. A wave of strikes concentrated into July, before the legal summer strike ban (franchigia estiva) takes effect, and set to resume with greater force in September signals that…...
Under guise of relief, Pentagon deploys 2, 000 troops to Venezuela, securing semicolonial foothold
17+ hour, 27+ min ago (844+ words) Two weeks after twin earthquakes of magnitudes 7. 2 and 7. 5 struck northern Venezuela on June 24the strongest to hit the country in over a centurymore than 3, 600 people have been confirmed dead, 16, 700 injured, and tens of thousands remain missing. 'There is no support,' one…...
Keiko Fujimori declared Peru's president: imperialism, institutional collapse, and the tasks of the working class
19+ hour, 44+ min ago (880+ words) Fujimori's rise to power unfolds against a backdrop of open US imperialist intervention, a decade of accelerating institutional collapse and intense social crisis. Keiko Fujimori's 2026 victory unfolded under the direct pressure of US imperialism. Washington has been systematically intervening in…...