1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (719+ words) The horrific death of a 69-year-old man in Oldham exposes the consequences of the social care, housing and local government funding crisis confronting millions of working-class people across Britain. John (a pseudonym from a safeguarding review) was found by his…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago  (808+ words) This is the first of a three-part series. Many commentators, arguing that the US'Israel war on Iran is faltering despite overwhelming firepower, have placed the primary blame on Washington's junior partner, Israel and on Donald Trump personally for supposedly allowing…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (398+ words) The High Court in Nairobi on Friday froze a Trump administration plan to open a 50-bed offshore Ebola camp at a Kenyan air base, on the very day it was to begin operating. The order halts the starkest expression yet…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (568+ words) The apparatus speaks to workers as if they were children. Translated into plain language, their message is: "Your vote does not matter. Your opinions have no influence on our operations with the company, which we represent. Shut up, and do…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (458+ words) On May 25, the Moratuwa Magistrate's Court in Sri Lanka continued its hearings into the criminal case arising from the violent assault on Socialist Equality Party (SEP) members Dehin Wasantha and Lakshman Fernando near the University of Moratuwa in November 2023. The…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (965+ words) Australia's union apparatus has signalled its full support for the federal Labor government's war and austerity budget, which was handed down earlier this month. Their endorsement is a clear statement that the unions stand ready to enforce the brutal cuts…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (772+ words) These operations are part of a broader turn to police-state methods by Labor at state and federal level, as it deepens its participation in escalating imperialist violence internationally and imposes a historic assault on the social rights of the working…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (354+ words) On Thursday night, federal immigration thugs violently attacked protesters and journalists outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, swinging batons, deploying pepper spray and arresting at least six people in an effort to break an ongoing blockade…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1005+ words) Thousands of students protested across New Zealand on May 28 against the right-wing coalition government's austerity budget, released on the same day, which will increase the cost of a university degree by several thousand dollars. Hundreds rallied in Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1108+ words) The strike by over 900 sanitation workers at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh was called off on May 21 after the Shimla Municipal Corporation agreed to restore a 10 percent annual salary hike provision withdrawn by the corporation. The workers were organised by the Shimla…...