17+ hour, 55+ min ago   (975+ words) At the Royal Mail depot in central Manchester around 30 workers took a leaflet, with a postie telling WSWS reporters, “I’m against war and so are lots of comrades in there [Royal Mail]. I can’t see how we can stop it....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (590+ words) Britain’s plans were announced in coordination with Canada and France, with other countries pledging to follow suit. It comes decades after these governments denounced the settlements while continuing to trade with the businesses that sustain them. Giving the lie to…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (714+ words) The anti-democratic character of Thailand’s new “Peaceful Society Promotion Act” has been exposed within days of taking effect on August 24. On August 28, the Criminal Court terminated proceedings against 15 defendants charged principally with sedition over the September 2020 protests demanding the resignation…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (377+ words) Singam Thayan, of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain, and Athiyan Kandasamy, of the Socialist Equality Party in France, took part in a London Tamil TV programme, drawing attention to the international campaign demanding the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk,…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (263+ words) Within a week, Spain and Morocco reported that roughly 69,500 of those who entered had already returned, leaving a few thousand in Ceuta’s overwhelmed reception centers. There is no evidence that any significant number reached mainland Spain, let alone the rest…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (949+ words) A homeless man was found dead on the morning of August 28 outside the Auckland offices of three MPs from New Zealand’s governing National Party. This followed at least three other deaths reported in the past two months of people living…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (996+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham has unveiled plans for Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain, to use 10,000 young people as unpaid labour under the guise of “work experience”. The “Modern Work Experience Programme” will be launched in October, with Burnham calling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (774+ words) The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) recently convened two emergency meetings of rank-and-file committees (RFCs), the Victorian Educators RFC and a combined meeting of the Western Sydney University and Macquarie University RFCs. Both meetings passed a resolution unanimously condemning the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (523+ words) The origins of the provision invoked by the court are thoroughly reactionary. The Law on Ensuring the Functioning of Ukrainian as the State Language, adopted on April 25, 2019, was a blatant act of discrimination against a large portion of Ukraine’s population…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (763+ words) Thousands of development officers across Sri Lanka took part in a lunch-hour protest on August 31 over long-delayed salary increases and other grievances. They demanded the immediate release of a Cabinet paper the government has repeatedly said was prepared to address…...