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Global oil companies are raking in additional profits at the rate of $30 million per hour as the result of the price hikes induced by the war.
US Vice President Vance’s remarks Tuesday that Washington is seeking a “grand bargain” with Tehran underscores that US imperialism wants nothing less than the complete reorganisation of the Middle East in its interests, at the expense of all its rivals.
Land and property have become asset vehicles for funnelling billions of pounds from the working class—those who produce society’s wealth—to the billionaires.
As the Trump administration imposes a military closure of Iranian ports, it is notable that 250 years ago this month, on April 6, 1776, the Continental Congress announced that American ports would be open to world.
The Trump administration has ordered preparations for a military attack on Cuba as part of its broader campaign for hemispheric dominance.
The UAW bureaucracy has twice now rejected their democratic vote; student must organize to impose this decision, with or without the approval of corrupt and unaccountable bureaucrats.
Mélenchon organised no significant mobilisation of workers against the war in Iran, while remaining silent about the intrigues Trump used to prepare it.
The German government is planning the most comprehensive attack on public healthcare since Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck introduced statutory health insurance in 1883.
The document is a statement of the Labor government’s complete commitment to US-led wars globally, and above all to preparations for a catastrophic conflict in the Indo-Pacific targeting China.
The new cabinet, in which the Bhumjaithai Party holds 31 posts and its junior partner Pheu Thai holds nine, is unmistakably pro-business and pro-military.
A groundbreaking study in genetics education examines the relationship between the quality of genetics education and the development of racist ideas among young people and the dire consequences for a researcher’s career.
The contract contains huge givebacks on healthcare, sub-inflation pay increases and no meaningful AI protections.
Government employees in Netherlands hold one-day national strike over pay; strikes across London involving academic staff at London Metropolitan University, passenger support staff at a London Stansted airport, bus drivers at Stagecoach and teachers at Great Ormond Street Hospital; strike by judiciary workers in Abia State, Nigeria continues into fourth week
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Iran war brings massive price and profit gouging
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Ukraine’s Zelensky in Berlin: Germany escalates its war offensive against Russia
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With the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s open threats of annihilation against Iran, all pretences are now being dropped in the war in Ukraine as well. Merz and Zelensky visited arms factories together and agreed on measures to return fit-for-service Ukrainian men in Germany to the front line.
The Senate voted 52-47 on Wednesday to reject a motion to move a Democratic Party-sponsored joint resolution to the floor that would mandate the removal of US troops, “from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.”
At the same time, European governments refused to clearly denounce or oppose a US blockade that threatens to cut off their access to energy supplies on which their economies depend.
The agreement addresses none of the workers’ demands which led to a powerful three-week strike, the largest in the US meatpacking industry in more than 60 years.
The death went unreported for a week before the online investigative outlet, the Western Edge, broke the story on April 13.
A trawler carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi migrants has sunk in the Andaman Sea, with about 250 people missing, presumed dead in the absence of any serious search-and-rescue effort.
The Coalition leader called for the reversal of the nominally non-discriminatory immigration program that has existed since the formal end of the blatantly racist White Australia regime in the 1960s.
Following the arrest of Independent Miners’ Union leader Başaran Aksu, miners have launched their march to the capital.
Mass protests are growing in Venezuela as workers face deepening poverty and repression, even while the government opens the country’s oil and mineral wealth to US corporate exploitation.
“We cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare budget,” Robertson said.
The Unite union received a mandate for strike action at the start of April, but no dates have been confirmed.
Rallies at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University sought to divert youth and students into El-Sayed’s Senate campaign, which is backed by the DSA, as well as Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker.
The mayor of New York’s alliance with Trump under conditions of expanding war and attacks on democratic rights is a damning exposure of Mamdani’s political bankruptcy
Trump’s commutations and pardons last year freed militia members charged with the most serious January 6 crimes but left their convictions intact. This new motion seeks to vacate those convictions and dismiss the indictments, helping clear the way for the fascist militia forces to legally rearm.
The cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme target those with so-called “mild” or “moderate” needs, who will be stripped of supports or face drastic reductions.
State censorship efforts are once again being directed against an artist with Palestinian roots. Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul’s (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) department has reprimanded the Goethe-Institut for allowing a work by Basma al-Sharif to be shown in an exhibition in Lithuania.
In less than 100 hours, Swalwell went from frontrunning candidate for governor of California to political oblivion.
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