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On Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.
The 110 miners who walked 180 kilometers to Ankara to demand payment of their unpaid wages and other social benefits were taken into custody on Tuesday.
Iranian officials said they would not return to talks until the US ended its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while warning that Trump may be preparing a second sneak attack on their country.
Instead of the promised “democracy,” Hungary will get a government consisting of representatives of the banks and the European Union, which will continue the right-wing and undemocratic policies of the ousted Orbán government.
Washington’s witch-hunt of Chinese scholars, which recently claimed a brilliant researcher’s life, exposes the imperialist push to monopolize advanced microelectronics for global conflict.
Virginia voters approve Democratic Party-backed redistricting amendment to shift congressional seats
Voters approved a constitutional amendment transferring congressional redistricting authority to the Democratic Party-controlled legislature, potentially flipping four additional House seats ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Picket lines went up April 21 at Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge and at Harvard Medical School, as graduate students indefinitely halted teaching, grading and research.
The brutal cuts to an already impoverished school district are the direct product of a statewide pattern of betrayal orchestrated by the California Teachers Association (CTA).
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s announcement effectively marks a further major reversal of what is left of Japan’s post-World War II pacifist constitution.
The decision marks the culmination of more than a year in which the Nurses and Midwives’ Association has enforced a strike ban under the phony pretext that the Industrial Relations Commission would reverse years of real wage cuts.
The Open Letter draws a balance sheet of the three-year struggle waged by 50,000 members of the British Medical Association in England for pay restoration and resolving the acute unemployment crisis facing resident doctors in the National Health Service.
The events of the last days expose a hollowed-out, diseased body politic—serving the selfish interests of a grasping capitalist oligarchy.
These unprecedented school shootings are a tragic product of the social crisis rooted in the capitalist system, the normalization of widespread violence and mass death.
The accumulating outrage and horror are inevitably finding expression in artistic circles, with greater or lesser clarity depending upon the artist or group.
The specific aim of the contracts is to block all resistance to massive austerity which will begin, in all likelihood, soon after the agreements are ratified.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with Moscow
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
The “Global Progressive Mobilization”: A bankrupt spectacle in Barcelona
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The weekend conference was a bogus defense of democracy by parties and government leaders who have facilitated the rise of the fascist threat they claim to oppose.
Less than 48 hours remain before the expiration of a ceasefire, which could lead to resumption of full-scale US bombing of Iran.
While the last visit took place under conditions of a temporary diplomatic reopening, the latest delegation presented an ultimatum under threat of military aggression.
Far from representing a step forward in the construction of an international movement against fascism and war, the Porto Alegre Conference was a political platform for blocking the development of a revolutionary and independent struggle by the working class.
The ruling is a victory for Hayam El Gamal and her five children, but the family remains imprisoned and threatened with deportation as the Trump administration continues expanding the immigration police state and the network of for-profit detention camps.
UC workers confront soaring living costs and worsening conditions, as past contracts expose the need to wrest control from the union bureaucracy.
The strike by more than 200 Little Lake educators is part of a broader rebellion by teachers and school workers against poverty wages, healthcare cuts, overcrowded classrooms and the sabotage of struggles by the union bureaucracy.
When Labour MP Apsana Begum arrived onstage, she was met with loud booing and shouts of “When are you leaving Labour?” She portrayed Labour’s housing policy as “progress”, concealing its draconian 7B regulations aimed at penalising immigrant households.
The emergence of figures like Zampolli signals the consolidation of oligarchic domination over political life and the decay of democratic rule.
Authorities have not officially confirmed a motive, but video posted by warehouse worker Chamel Abdulkarim points to anger over low wages and poor working conditions behind the Ontario, California, fire.
With the immediate closure of its regional carrier CityLine, Lufthansa has immediately suspended around 1,300 pilots, stewards and stewardesses, and technical and other personnel.
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) calls for a resounding No vote. Opposition must be mobilised demanding the removal of Ward, Walsh and the entire CWU Postal Executive who serve as Royal Mail’s enforcers.
April so far has seen a wave of layoffs at Disney, Sony Pictures, at arts web platforms and in social media.
The arrests of 22 demonstrators in Brisbane follow police raids conducted by the state Labor governments in New South Wales and Victoria.
This tragedy underscores the plight of hundreds of thousands of working-class people living in slum settlements in both the Malaysian and Indonesian parts of Borneo.
Teachers carried out a one-day strike over medical benefits in several major cities across Colombia last week, while 5,500 municipal workers in Montreal struck for three days to protest stalled contract negotiations.
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