Jacobin backs Kiliçdaroğlu's reactionary campaign in Turkish elections
Pseudo-left groups support Kiliçdaroğlu for his bitter hostility to the developing movement in the working class and his support for the NATO war on Russia.
•Alex Lantier
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Australia: 95-year-old Clare Nowland dies after police tasering
Born in 1928, Nowland lived through the Great Depression, World War II and more than three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but did not survive an encounter with NSW Police.
•Martin Scott
Erdoğan runs phony “anti-imperialist” populist campaign in Turkish elections
Erdoğan can posture as an anti-imperialist and a friend of working people and refugees thanks to the political bankruptcy of his rival, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
•Ulaş Ateşçi
Russian fascist with ties to leading German neo-Nazis led Ukrainian-backed incursion of Russia
The incursion provides an object lesson in the character of the war waged by NATO against Russia.
•Clara Weiss
Germany launches police-state crackdown on climate protesters
According to the authorities, raids were carried out on a total of 15 buildings in seven federal states. The actions recalled the darkest period in German history.
•Johannes Stern
Transatlantic: The plight of artists and intellectuals fleeing the Nazis in 1940
One of the most remarkable collections of political and cultural figures ever assembled, reduced by the defeats of the working class to a wretched condition, is gathered in Marseille.
•Joanne Laurier
Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride demands freedom for Julian Assange
Assange faces life behind bars for revealing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as a publisher. McBride could be jailed indefinitely for exposing the same atrocities as a whistleblower.
•Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell
“60 Minutes” exposé reveals massive Pentagon price-gouging
The scale of the criminality revealed by the TV program prompted senators from both parties to announce an investigation into the Pentagon.
•Jacob Crosse
Berlin police open criminal investigation aimed at silencing Roger Waters
The State Security Department at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has announced that a criminal investigation has been initiated against Roger Waters for “incitement of hatred” for dressing in a Nazi-like uniform during his recent concerts in the capital city of Germany.
•Kevin Reed
Car haulers remained locked out at a CSX railhead facility
The lockout occurred following a breakdown in talks on May 9 between auto service contractor Auto Warehouse Company (AWC) and Local 355.
•Leon Gutierrez
COVID spreading through schools in Australia
Outbreaks in New South Wales schools give an indication of the severity of a new pandemic wave across the country.
•Carolyn Kennett
What our strike is about: An open letter from the Clarios Workers Rank-and-File Committee
This letter was issued by a group of Clarios workers in Ohio who have formed the Clarios Workers Rank-and-File Committee. The strike by 525 workers is nearing the end of its third week after workers rejected a second UAW-backed contract.
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US and European powers scramble to acquire critical minerals necessary for EV vehicle production
The US and its European and Japanese allies are trying to coordinate their increasingly nationalist, protectionist measures to create a battery supply chain as an alternative to China.
•Gabriel Black
Video: Stellantis workers at Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Michigan support striking workers at Clarios
This week, the World Socialist Web Site spoke to autoworkers at Warren Truck outside of Detroit about the ongoing strike of 525 Clarios workers in Ohio.
•Our reporters
Ultium Cell workers in Lordstown, Ohio support Clarios strikers: “Everyone needs to stand together”
The UAW is keeping autoworkers at the Ulitium Cell factory in Lordstown Ohio in the dark about the Clarios strikers near Toledo.
•Samuel Davidson
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
India: Haryana municipal workers protest; Philippines milk factory locks out workers; UGL workers in Queensland, Australia protest again; New Zealand teacher unions call off strikes.
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Trudeau government orchestrates massive growth in partnerships between Canadian military and universities
A critical aspect of the rapid escalation of Canadian militarism over recent years has been the co-opting of major universities by the military and defence sector.
•Omar Ali
Argentine pseudo-left coalition FIT-U joins section of Peronist government in a “united front”
The May 18 “Federal March” in Buenos Aires joined the misnamed Left and Workers Front-Unity (FIT-U) with organizations that directly belong to the Fernandez government.
•Andrea Lobo
Royal Mail: A hedge fund that delivers parcels
Any acceptance of the CWU’s claims that Royal Mail workers and the company share a “mutual interest” is a road to defeat.
•Laura Tiernan
Postal workers speak ahead of Sunday’s rank-and-file Zoom meeting: “The union is in Royal Mail’s pocket”
“Forced revisions have made start times later… while the so-called union rep stands by and lets it happen.”
•Our correspondents
The next escalation in the war against Russia: US sends largest warship ever constructed to Norway
Following the announcement at last week’s G7 meeting by the United States that it would send F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine, the US and its Ukrainian proxy forces have carried out a series of massively provocative actions aimed at further escalating the conflict.
•Andre Damon
Autopsy reveals Detroit kindergartner Jimari Williams’ death was from Hib infection: What parents and teachers need to know
It has finally been revealed that the six-year-old died of Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome after being infected by Haemophilus influenzae beta in an outbreak at Marcus Garvey Academy in April.
•Benjamin Mateus and Zac Corrigan
Sri Lankan government’s “let it rip” policy produces COVID-19 surge
Colombo continues to cover up the growing danger of a new wave of the deadly COVID-19, while maintaining its criminal “let it rip” policies which place profits before human lives.
•Wasantha Rupasinghe
Clarios workers defiant as support grows for solidarity action by all autoworkers to win crucial strike
The courageous stand by the auto battery workers has struck a powerful chord among GM, Ford and Stellantis workers who see the nearly three-week strike as the opening shot in their contract battle.
•Jerry White
Assange’s brother and Australian lawyer speak out: “Julian must be brought home”
Lawyer Stephen Kenny warned: "If we don't have people telling us the truth like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, then we are going to be ignorant. Our democracy is at stake."
•Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell
DeSantis joins Republican presidential race, challenging Trump from the right
The candidacy of the Florida governor is another step in the shift of the Republican Party towards outright fascist authoritarianism.
•Patrick Martin
Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for 2021 attack on US Capitol
While the sentences are two of the longest handed down so far in the January 6 cases, both judgments are well under the prosecutors’ request and recommended minimum sentencing guidelines.
•Jacob Crosse
Spy agency-instigated anti-China furor within Canada’s political establishment intensifies after rapporteur’s report
The Trudeau government’s Special Rapporteur has endorsed the reactionary, pro-war narrative of a Chinese threat to Canadian “democracy.” But because he rejected and qualified some of the claims made in illegal intelligence leaks and opposes a public inquiry, he is being pilloried.
•Keith Jones
Clarios workers in Germany declare support for striking workers in Ohio: “They should get what they demand”
WSWS reporters spoke with workers at the Clarios factory in Hanover, Germany, who expressed their support for the courageous strike being carried out by their American colleagues in Toledo, Ohio.
•Our reporters
Australian unions hail announcement of new Qantas boss
As chief financial officer, Vanessa Hudson presided over a $1 billion cost-cutting plan during the pandemic, which included the destruction of “at least 6,000” jobs.
•Martin Scott
HDP, pseudo-left back anti-refugee, anti-Kurdish candidate Kılıçdaroğlu in Turkish elections
The Kurdish-nationalist HDP is backing Kılıçdaroğlu’s right-wing campaign even after he pledged to attack the democratic rights of Kurds and refugees.
•Ulaş Ateşçi
Behind Boric’s defeat and strengthening of fascists in vote on Chile’s constitution
The party receiving the most votes was the fascistic Republicans, led by José Antonio Kast, the son of a Nazi German officer and admirer of US president Donald Trump.
•Mauricio Saavedra
Australia: Telstra targets poor with price hike while slashing jobs and wages
While increasing its lowest-cost mobile phone plans by 20 percent, Telstra is slashing hundreds of jobs and imposing real wage cuts.
•Noel Holt
San Francisco Chronicle writers hold lunch-hour picket to protest low wages
The one-hour walk-out highlights the dire conditions facing news writers, and the need to unite their struggle with ongoing strikes in Hollywood and New York.
•Jesus Ugarte
Striking television and film writers rally in New York City
Writers spoke with the WSWS and discussed the wider context of the strike and the need to unite all workers in a common struggle against the increasingly difficult situation they face.
•Philip Guelpa
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Europe is seeing a wave of teachers’ strikes over pay, funding and workload in Germany, Romania, Hungary, Northern Cyprus, and Finland.
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Police lies unravel over events leading to deaths of two boys in Cardiff, Wales
It was clear to many in the area that only minutes before their deaths, the boys were pursued by a police van while riding an e-bike. This sparked hours of riots.
•Robert Stevens
G7 summit ultimatum sets stage for war with Russia
The G7 summit from 19 to 21 May marks a major step towards a nuclear third world war. The G7 gave Russia an ultimatum that leaves no room for diplomatic solutions.
•Peter Schwarz
Stella Assange at Sydney rally: “It’s not just Julian who has lost his freedom, but all of us”
Stella Assange, wife of imprisoned Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, spoke at a rally in Sydney yesterday morning demanding his immediate freedom.
•Oscar Grenfell
Attendees at Sydney protest defending Assange speak out
“We need people like Julian, so we know what’s really going on in the world. Biden is trying to get a US journalist out of Russia, and he said, ‘Journalism is not a crime,’ so why hasn’t Julian been released?”
•Our reporters
Independent autopsy rules death of Georgia prisoner who was “eaten alive” by lice and bed bugs a homicide
Disturbing new details revealed in the autopsy report of Lashawn Thompson revealed that his death was the result of being deliberately denied medical care while incarcerated.
•Jacob Crosse
South Carolina legislature passes law banning abortions after 6 weeks
The Republican-dominated South Carolina Senate passed a law on Tuesday banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy along with a host of other requirements that will effectively end the procedure in the state.
•Kevin Reed
Union abruptly ends strike of New York City resident physicians
The Committee of Interns and Residents has sent its members back to work at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens without allowing them to vote on the tentative agreement, which will do nothing to improve their poverty wages.
•Erik Schreiber
UAW President Shawn Fain on Clarios strike: Empty phrases and outright lies
In his first public comments on the more than two-week strike, the new UAW president tried to conceal the bureaucracy’s attempt to sabotage the decisive struggle.
•Jerry White
Pacific leaders’ meeting ramps up US-led anti-China offensive
Papua New Guinea and Washington signed an anti-China Defense Cooperation Agreement giving the US military sweeping “boots on the ground” access to the country.
•John Braddock
Lawsuit exposes horrific conditions in Washington D.C. jail
The conditions that impact the United States’ most poor and vulnerable in the country’s capital are a clear exposure of the government’s rank hypocrisy about “human rights” and “democracy.”
•Bill Mertz, Nick Barrickman
Roger Waters in Berlin: A powerful musical and political statement against fascism, militarism and war
There were two exciting evenings in the almost sold-out Mercedes-Benz Arena. Many thousands of Berliners of all generations praised the music of the now almost 80-year-old former Pink Floyd mastermind and his clear political messages.
•Johannes Stern
Australia’s Gold-Tweed Coast bus workers fight to prevent another union betrayal at Kinetic
Kinetic workers are again taking industrial action over pay and conditions, concerned that the Transport Workers Union is about to strike another rotten deal with the global bus conglomerate.
•Mike Head
Australian Labor’s budget cuts real spending on schools, maintains lucrative subsidies for private system
While continuing to starve public schools of desperately-needed funding, the Albanese government is maintaining the lucrative flow of public monies into the private schools.
•Patrick O’Connor
Manufactured crisis over US debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare
Behind the mutual recriminations between the two capitalist parties, there is a basic agreement: All of the social gains made by the working class in the course of more than a century of struggle must be wiped out to pay for the escalating war drive of the American ruling class.
•Barry Grey
Workers Party imposes austerity in Brazil
Lula has seen a 13 percent drop in his approval rating as his government deepens austerity policies designed to guarantee profits and foreign debt payments.
•Eduardo Parati
Norfolk Southern announces limited paid sick leave for railroad engineers
The deal will give engineers five days of paid sick leave, far less than what train crews were demanding when their strike was banned by Congress last year.
•Alex Findijs
Navalny: Imperialism’s right-winger in Moscow
The documentary’s only contribution, no doubt unintentional on the part of its producers, is to reveal Navalny as a well-to-do crude dimwit; a right-wing man with neither ideas nor principles but eager to do business with anyone.
•Andrea Peters
Chinese health authorities warn of a new surge in COVID-19 infections with the XBB subvariant
Chinese health authorities warn of another wave of COVID-19 Infections to peak at the end of June with more than 65 million weekly infections.
•Benjamin Mateus
Spain’s pseudo-left Revolutionary Left promotes Mélenchon in France, Podemos government at home
Revolutionary Left aims to strengthen the authority of these parties in order to block a movement on their left against the capitalist state in France and Spain.
•Santiago Guillen, Alejandro López
Turkish elections: Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu both call to deport refugees, for “law and order”
Both candidates in the run-off are united in deporting millions of refugees and consolidating a “law and order” regime in the name of “fight against terrorism.”
•Ulaş Ateşçi
Introduction to new pamphlet from Mehring Books: Marxism vs. Critical Race Theory
The pamphlet, which presents a criticism of critical race theory and identity politics from the left, is now available from Mehring Books.
•Tom Carter
CWU “postpones” vote on Royal Mail deal to head off rejection: Demand strike action and remove Ward and Furey!
It is time to put an end to this grotesque farce! It is no longer necessary for a ballot to be held on a deal that should never have been agreed in the first place. The CWU has all but openly admitted it would have been rejected.
•Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
Amazon workers hold strike votes at UK Midlands warehouses, GMB union seeks recognition
Strikes at Amazon warehouses show the determination of this critical group of workers to improve their conditions. But this requires a programme based on internationalism, class struggle, and the primacy of workers’ needs over Amazon’s profits.
•Joe Mount
A message of solidarity to Royal Mail workers from a Belgian postal worker
“You have strikes in Britain, Germany, France and Holland, it’s everywhere today. It is like a little bit of a spark because COVID really showed the importance of essential workers and their value.”
•Our correspondent
Postal workers slam Communication Workers Union agreement with Royal Mail: “It’s a surrender deal to appease the company.”
Postal workers explain that the earlier revisions have not been overturned and they are facing further demands without any opposition from the CWU or through its direct collusion.
•Our reporters
Right-winger wins Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary on law and order platform, pseudo-left candidate comes in third
Cherelle Parker won the nomination on a pro-police platform and pseudo-left Helen Gym came in third, under conditions of worsening social conditions in Philadelphia.
•Landon Gourov, Douglas Lyons
“It’s time we stand up together and fight for what we need”: Statements of support pour in for striking Clarios workers
The courageous stand by the 525 striking Clarios workers has won widespread support from workers across the US and internationally.
•Our reporters
Australia: Union faces opposition at Macquarie University staff meeting
NTEU officials anxiously prevented debate on a Committee for Public Education motion calling for the formation of a rank-and-file committee to take forward the fight at Macquarie and a broader struggle.
•Our correspondents
Neo-Nazi facing multiple charges after ramming security barrier outside White House with U-Haul truck
The driver, 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri, reportedly expressed his affinity for the Nazis and Hitler in an interview with the Secret Service following the attack.
•Jacob Crosse
Australian parliamentary inquiry into Long COVID downplays crisis
Despite receiving 566 submissions, many from Long COVID sufferers and concerned scientists and doctors, the report minimalised the impact of this “mass disabling event.”
•Frank Gaglioti
Outrage continues over police tasering of 95-year-old woman in Australian nursing home
What happened to Clare Nowland speaks volumes about two critical issues—the rising levels of police violence and the appalling conditions in chronically-underfunded aged care homes.
•Mike Head
With Nova Scotia government support, Halifax education authority uses strikebreakers against support workers
While the strikers confront a hostile government and employer, their struggle for wage increases and improved working conditions has resonated powerfully throughout the working class.
•Carl Bronski
Oakland, California teachers union pushes through sellout contract
The union had called off a strike without a vote last week, with only nine days left in the school year as a method of pressuring teachers to accept the sellout contract.
•David Brown
To combat “fake news,” India’s far-right government creates new body of state censors
The Modi government is trying to eviscerate the citizenry’s constitutionally protected democratic right to free expression on social media by creating a bureaucracy to suppress “fake, false or misleading” news, especially about its own actions.
•Kranti Kumara
Syriza’s rout in the Greek general election
The role of Syriza in Greece is a strategic experience for the international working class, demonstrating the bankruptcy of claims made by pseudo-left tendencies around the world that meaningful change can be made by voting their pro-capitalist parties into government.
•Robert Stevens
Michigan hospital merger threatens jobs and patient services
UM Health, run by the University of Michigan regents, took over Lansing-based Sparrow Health last month.
•Michael Anders
Lower Colorado River basin states reach agreement to conserve minimal water, avoid federal cuts
While the deal has been praised as a breakthrough after months of failed negotiations, the one million acre-feet of water saved each year is far below the nearly four million the Bureau of Reclamation says will be necessary to balance demand and supply in the basin.
•Alex Findijs
Moving exhibition depicting devastation of Hollywood blacklist opens as television and film strike continues
On loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare focuses on 1947, the year that eight writers, one producer and a director were hauled before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC).
•John Burton
Resident physicians strike at Elmhurst hospital in Queens, New York
In a fight for improved pay and benefits, the residents are waging the first strike by New York City doctors since 1990.
•Robert Milkowski
US Border Patrol agents shot and killed Arizona man at his home in remote border community
The shooting occurred in the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, which, according to the CBP, has the highest number of use-of-force incidents across the agency with 158 incidents reported so far this year.
•Joshua Rodriguez
Canada’s trade union bureaucracy flaunts its support for pro-war, pro-austerity Trudeau Liberal government at CLC convention
In their successful campaign to win re-election at the labour federation’s triennial convention, CLC President Bruske and her leadership team boasted about their role in brokering the anti-worker NDP-Liberal parliamentary and governmental alliance.
•Roger Jordan
NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China
Three years after the Trump administration terminated EcoHealth’s grant to study bat coronaviruses in China, the NIH has reinstated the grant with full funding.
•Benjamin Mateus
Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left academic preaches phony “alternative” to IMF austerity
Students should turn to the working class and wage a fight for its political independence from all parties and agencies of the bourgeoisie, including the trade unions and pseudo-left organisations such as the FSP.
•Kapila Fernando, K. Ratanayke
Tory anti-strikes bill passes latest vote as UK trade unions mount token protest
The Tories’ large majority is waving the strike bill through its parliamentary stages, but its smooth passage into law is being guaranteed by the lack of any organised opposition.
•Thomas Scripps
The rebellion at Clarios and the way forward
Striking autoworkers at the Clarios battery plant in Ohio have rejected a second UAW-backed contract by more than 75 percent. They require the support of the entire working class to carry forward the struggle.
•Joseph Kishore
Ukrainian-backed far-right saboteur units stage largest attack on Russian territory yet
The attack is part of a dangerous new phase of the war and brings to the fore the true war aims of the imperialist powers: the break-up of the Russian Federation and the direct subjugation of the entire region.
•Clara Weiss
Widespread opposition against “Cop City” police training center at Atlanta city council meeting
Hundreds of Atlanta residents showed up to voice their opposition to the Atlanta City Council public hearing as it prepares to grant over $30 million in public funds to building a new militarized police training facility.
•Kranti Kumara
Bangladesh releases a major strategic policy document
In the face of ongoing political and economic pressure from Washington, the government is attempting to maintain a delicate balance between the US and China.
•Wimal Perera
An emergency meeting of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee discusses death of Jimari Williams and fight against school layoffs
The May 20 meeting was called in the aftermath of the tragic death of the six-year-old Detroit student and the outbreak of a cluster of "flu-like illnesses" at his elementary school.
•Gwen Lee
Family of worker killed in Marathon refinery explosion files lawsuit
The family charges that the company stonewalled them and is seeking documents in connection to the accident.
•Chase Lawrence
Australia: Workers and students express anger over Labor government’s budget
“It is a slash and burn austerity budget. It is anti-poor and anti-working class.”—Melbourne food production worker.
•Our reporters
Poorly attended “mass” meeting of Oakland, California teachers precedes vote on sellout agreement
Roughly 60 teachers showed up at the union’s “mass membership” meeting, which pushed the sellout contract to shut down a seven-day strike.
•David Brown
In attack on rights of immigrants and Native Americans, Arizona education chief targets dual language instruction
Arizona would become the only state banning the use of Spanish or Native American languages as the primary means of instruction in schools.
•Alex Findijs
Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to meet with Assange’s wife
If Albanese will not even meet Assange’s wife, a basic act of courtesy and respect, why would anyone think he is fighting for the WikiLeaks publisher’s freedom behind closed doors?
•Oscar Grenfell
Spate of breakdowns in New Zealand’s railways and ferries
Repeated failures and disruptions are resulting from decades of underinvestment in transport infrastructure by successive Labour and National Party governments.
•Our correspondent
COVID-19 continues to run rampant in South Korea
Thousands continue to be infected each day while the government promotes the lie that the pandemic is over.
•Ben McGrath
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Teachers in Buenos Aires carried out a 48-hour strike last week to repudiate a sellout agreement by their union while workers at San Diego Metropolitan Transit System walked out for four days last week over contract issues.
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Czech Republic: Unions announce strikes against government’s austerity package
When the unions now announce strikes, they do so in order to maintain control over the workers in this highly tense situation.
•Markus Salzmann
Surge of COVID across Canada as hospitals drop mask mandates
The resurgence of COVID is above all due to the “Forever Covid” mass infection policy of governments at the provincial and federal levels, mirroring their counterparts internationally. The Trudeau Liberal government has spearheaded this policy.
•Dylan Lubao
NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China
The non-profit international research organization has been the target of right-wing conspiracy theories claiming that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab.
•Benjamin Mateus
Striking Clarios workers overwhelmingly reject second UAW-backed deal
Although the United Auto Workers has not released official results, workers are receiving reports that the concessions-laden contract was defeated by 75-80 percent of the membership Monday morning.
•Jerry White
Royal Mail workers speak against revisions and sell-out deal: “Massive failure from CWU!!”
A postal worker from Newcastle writes, “The CWU have been given a bigger room at our workplace with a flat screen TV, fridge freezer and sofa. All mod cons, they are being bought!”
•our reporters
An open letter to Royal Mail workers from the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
At no point has any opposition been mounted by the reps to demand the removal of Ward, Furey and the postal executive over their co-authorship of the biggest attack on postal workers in history.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
University of Michigan submits new wage-cutting contract to striking graduate workers
The GEO leadership has sought to conceal the direct role of the Democratic Party in U-M’s attack on the grad student instructors—the Democrats dominate the U-M Board of Regents and control the Michigan statehouse.
•Luke Galvin
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