52+ min ago (486+ words) Rae Huang, a Presbyterian pastor, nonprofit executive and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has announced her candidacy for the June 2, 2026, Los Angeles mayoral election, challenging incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass. Bass's 2025-26 budget has fueled opposition among workers facing overwork, stagnant wages and crumbling services. Her response to January's wildfires, after slashing fire department funding and leaving positions vacant, intensified public anger over the inadequate response to climate disasters. Under these conditions, little-known figures such as New York's Zohran Mamdani and Seattle's Katie Wilson have gained sudden support. Huang is of the same political type, and like Mamdani and Wilson, her campaign is a political trap. In her campaign launch, Huang states she is "running to make Los Angeles affordable and healthy," promising to "lower our rent," "deliver housing for all," "create an economy for the people, not…...

5+ hour, 30+ min ago (715+ words) Peter Oborne's Complicit: Britain's role in the destruction of Gaza, published by OR Books, lambasts Britain's two main political parties for the "cross-party cartel" through which they "established the political foundation that would make Britain complicit" in genocide and war crimes. Oborne says that Britain bears "heavy responsibility for the deaths in Gaza, third in line only behind Israel and its primary patron and collaborator the United States". That Complicit has become a Sunday Times Bestseller testifies to the widespread opposition within Britain to the support for Israel's ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza by both the former Conservative government of Rishi Sunak and now Keir Starmer's Labour government. His previous books include The Rise of Political Lying (2005), The Triumph of the Political Class (2007), and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a…...

5+ hour, 37+ min ago (537+ words) Muhammed Kendirci, a15-year-old student who was working at a carpentry workshop in the Bozova district of "anl'urfa within the scope of Vocational Training Centers (MESEM), was seriously injured on November 14 when the 20-year-old foreman, Habip A., inflated his rectum with compressed air. The young apprentice, who reportedly sustained serious internal organ damage as a result of this torture, lost his life after five days in intensive care. This raised the number of children who have become victims of work-related homicides to at least 16 since the establishment of MESEM." Information obtained from the family revealed that the investigation was handled carelessly from the very beginning. The perpetrator was first released and then apprehended in another city while trying to flee abroad. Muhammed's trousers, one of the most critical pieces of evidence, were thrown away by hospital staff. Hundreds of people, including Muhammed's…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago (695+ words) As 800 nurses at Henry Ford Health Genesys hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan, near completion or their third month on the picket line fighting for enforceable, safe staffing standards, they are facing ramped up strikebreaking by the multibillion-dollar health conglomerate. Teamster Local 332 has filed unfair labor practice charges over management's attempt to unilaterally impose its supposed contract offer using the bogus pretense of an impasse. Henry Ford Health acquired the operations of what was Grand Blanc Genesys Hospital in the fall of 2024 through a joint venture with Ascension Michigan. Since that time, conditions at Genesys have deteriorated as management has sought to recoup the costs of the acquisition off the backs of staff and at the expense of patient care. The great danger is that the strike continues to remain isolated under conditions where Henry Ford Health is continuing normal operations…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago (509+ words) Trump further pledged to "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries" and declared that "only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation." Trump's call for "reverse migration" comes just over a month after the Department of Homeland Security posted "Remigrate" on X. The list includes Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. The directive took effect immediately, covering all pending and future immigration requests filed on or after November 27, and was issued without public legislative approval. Nearly every country named is either presently under U.S. sanction, military occupation, or targeted in active war planning. Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Iran, Sudan, and Yemen have all been bombed or invaded within the last decade. Marines and private contractors operate openly in Haiti. US military forces and Special Operations planners…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago (1078+ words) On Thursday, Israeli forces carried out a summary execution of two unarmed Palestinians in the West Bank after they had surrendered, in an event recorded live on video. The victims, Yusef "Asa'sah, 39, and al-Muntaser bel-lah "Abdallah, 26, were shown in the video lifting their shirts to prove they had no weapons and lying on the ground in surrender. Israeli forces directed them to enter a building, had them lie on the ground then shot them multiple times in a hail of automatic rifle fire. Since the start of the Gaza genocide, Israeli military forces and settlers have killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, with the perpetrators given legal impunity for these murders. United Nations human rights office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said that the "brazen killing" was "yet another apparent summary execution." The shooting occurred as part of an ongoing assault…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1071+ words) The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke to Hermosillo residents about the November 1 explosion at a Waldo's convenience store, which killed 24 people and injured at least a dozen more. Reports indicate that a fire began at an electrical transformer improperly installed inside the store before causing an explosion. The store lacked basic safety measures, such as emergency exits, and had been operating without a civil protection plan since 2021. The death toll rose to 24 after 81-year-old Marco Segundo Reyes, a Waldo's worker, succumbed to his injuries on November 7. The tragedy is still a raw nerve in Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico. At the corner of the block where the explosion happened, residents have set up a memorial to the victims, including signs demanding, "No more tragedies " no more victims." Bertha, a Telmex employee with decades…...

2+ day, 30+ min ago (877+ words) Yet again the Greens have proven how far they will go, even at the expense of their pretensions to be fighting to avert the climate change catastrophe, in order to shore up the Australian Labor government and deliver the requirements of the corporate ruling class. After talks on Wednesday night between Greens leaders and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Greens helped the government ram through both houses of parliament by Friday morning seven "environmental" bills'about 1,500 pages of legislation'that particularly fast-track critical minerals and other war-related projects. The Greens-assisted revamping of the 26-year-old Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act handed Albanese what the corporate media hailed as a major political win on the last day of parliament for 2025. It also sent a signal of the wider willingness of the Greens to assist the Albanese government to pursue its agenda of…...

2+ day, 55+ min ago (319+ words) New Zealand's attempts to "coerce" the Cook Islands over its relationship with China will not work, Prime Minister Mark Brown said in an interview aired on Cook Islands Television last week. He said the Pacific island country still wants New Zealand support but the two countries need to work together as "partners" with the Cooks maintaining its sovereignty. New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, leader of the right-wing populist NZ First party in the ruling coalition, blocked the payments after Brown signed strategic deals with China in February without "consulting" Wellington. Peters claimed prior approval was required under the terms of the Cook Islands' constitutional position as one of New Zealand's semi-dependent "Realm" countries. In 2001, New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a Joint Centenary Declaration which broadly states that the two governments must "consult regularly on defence and security…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1365+ words) Around 5,000 sanitation workers walked out on November 23 in Jaipur to demand permanent jobs, proper overtime payments and resumption of stalled recruitments for jobs for other family members. The striking workers will be joined next week by workers from other districts, including Ajmer and Bhilwara. The walkout follows long-running protests, including hunger strikes, over these demands. Thousands of All Odisha Anganwadi Ladies" Association members demonstrated near the state assembly building on November 24 for higher wages, pensions, government employee status and other demands. The workers, who staged a similar protest last December, just before the state parliament"s winter session, want 18,000 rupees ($US201) monthly and 9,000 rupees per month for assistants, 5G mobile handsets for official use, and a monthly pension of 5,000 rupees. Hundreds of midday meal scheme workers from across Telangana and organised by the All-India Trade Union Congress protested outside the office of…...