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Germany, Europe’s largest economy and manufacturing center, is at the crest of a global layoff wave that must be opposed by an international offensive by the working class to save jobs.
Eyewitness testimony and surveillance footage show Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and his co-workers being pursued, cut off and surrounded by unmarked vehicles that gave no clear indication they belonged to federal agents.
Military policing on California campuses has advanced under Democratic Party rule.
Over 260 members of the University of Michigan community have signed an open letter condemning the federal prosecution of eight pro-Palestinian activists as a political assault on free speech.
Huiteng Footwear, which operated the factory, is just one of more than 5,000 shoe manufacturers employing over half a million workers in the coastal city of Jinjiang, often described as China’s “shoe capital.”
Vucic is banking on the opposition’s weakness ahead of snap parliamentary elections, which are expected to be held at the same time as the presidential election.
Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara this week, President Trump said of the ceasefire with Iran, “To me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them. They’re scum.” This was followed by an announcement of a temporary pause in military action and then still more intense strikes.
The submarine purchase is not just Canada's most expensive ever military procurement. Ottawa is using it is a means to embed itself in Europe’s own massive rearmament program and strengthen their war alliance against Russia.
Behind the backs of the population and under the banner of “innovation,” Berlin’s CDU-SPD government is transforming the German capital into a centre of arms production, drone development and military research.
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry acknowledges the threat of a US military intervention, amid the intensification of Trump’s imperialist offensive against Latin America.
The scenes outside La Moneda, with water cannon dispersing a peaceful march and union leaders dragged into detention, belong to a global pattern of state violence against working-class opposition.
Both use militant-sounding rhetoric only to maintain the bureaucracy's grip over a restive membership employed across major sectors of the economy, while smothering political opposition to the most right-wing, pro-business Labour government in history.
Despite Corbyn expelling three SWP national committee members from Your Party last November, the SWP welcomed him onto the main stage on Saturday. Nielsen (one of those expelled) sat next to Corbyn, chatting amicably, never mentioning Your Party, let alone denouncing its betrayals.
To finance rearmament and war, and to further enrich the wealthy, the government is condemning working people to longer working hours for less money and is abandoning the needy, the sick, the elderly and refugees to their fate.
Labor’s $38 billion cut to disability services—part of a broader austerity agenda funding war over human need—has provoked widespread opposition from recipients, families and workers.
The Australian Education Union is trying to reverse the mass “no” vote against its sellout agreement and impose the same betrayal in violation of the sentiments of educators.
Farmers are being hit from all sides: sharply higher costs for fuel, fertiliser, irrigation, harvesting and transport, and falling rice prices caused by global oversupply and cheaper competitors.
Following the massacre at Negombo Prison, in which 28 people were killed, two more prisoners have died in unexplained circumstances after being transferred to other facilities.
A Minnesota USPS maintenance technician was removed from the St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center by police and referred for a psychiatric evaluation after demanding that management clean human feces from mail-sorting equipment.
South Korea: Public sector workers rally over pay and restructuring; India: Karnataka garbage pickers demand outstanding wages; Bangladesh garment workers demonstrate for unpaid wages; Australia: Mining workers set to strike at BHP Port Hedland; Victorian public hospital doctors prepare for industrial action over wages and conditions.
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Saturday, July 11, 2026
The mass layoffs in Germany’s auto industry and the global war on jobs
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