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Turkish police storm CHP headquarters, as court ousts elected party leadership
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (278+ words) On Sunday, police acting on the orders of the Ankara Governorship stormed the headquarters of the Republican People's Party (CHP) using pepper spray, forcibly removing the party's elected leader "zg'r "zel and his supporters, including deputies, from the building. This…...
After strike betrayal, Los Angeles schools cut more than 1, 000 jobs, with 6, 000 more on the way in the coming years
7+ hour, 29+ min ago (596+ words) According to a newly unveiled "fiscal stabilization plan," the district is preparing cuts totaling more than $3. 6 billion over the next three years, projecting more than 6, 000 total job losses approaching 10 percent of LAUSD's entire workforce, along with pay cuts, seven unpaid…...
People on the shop floor are saying, "Hell no: Nexteer workers denounce third UAW-backed agreement
7+ hour, 30+ min ago (984+ words) Fight the sellout! Join the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee by filling out the form below. Workers at the Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan are outraged over the third attempt by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to ram through a…...
AFSCME Local 3299 rams through poverty contract on University of California workers
8+ hour, 20+ min ago (891+ words) On Friday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 announced the approval of a new contract with the University of California (UC) system. They claim the contract was approved by 96. 4 percent and will cover 42, 000 UC service…...
Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (803+ words) Four months ago, the World Socialist Web Site analyzed the coordinated international offensive to abolish online anonymity and impose universal systems of digital identification under the cynical pretext of "child safety." Since that report, the assault has entered a far…...
Democrats join Republicans to attack Trump over Iran negotiations
8+ hour, 44+ min ago (898+ words) The announcement Saturday by the Trump administration that it had "largely" reached an agreement with Iran has drawn denunciations from broad factions of the US political establishment, with Democrats joining Republicans to attack the proposed agreement as insufficiently advantageous to…...
Chemical disaster at Garden Grove, California aerospace plant displaces 50, 000 people
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (858+ words) On the afternoon of May 21, a catastrophe decades in the making announced its arrival through venting clouds of toxic vapor rising above a densely packed stretch of North Orange County, California." A 34, 000-gallon steel storage tank at GKN Aerospace Transparency…...
Trump administration moves to force green card applicants out of the US
9+ hour, 19+ min ago (468+ words) The Trump administration has announced a sweeping new attack on immigrants legally living in the United States, directing many green card applicants to leave the country and apply through US consular offices abroad, a process that could separate families, destroy…...
Rising unemployment in Australia points to Iran war's deepening impact
10+ hour, 2+ min ago (1261+ words) Job losses among younger workers in Australia pushed up the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate from 4. 3 percent in March to an almost five-year high of 4. 5 percent in April, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). These official results, while understating…...
AI-fuelled Wall Street frenzy raises concerns
10+ hour, 5+ min ago (1359+ words) Either the US stock market has entered a kind of financial heaven where earthly economic laws no longer apply, or the conditions are being created for a crash and a consequent financial crisis of major proportions. The market boosters adhere…...