Nearly 200 arrested as Belgian youth defy crackdown on education protests
Defence Minister Theo Francken is accelerating plans for a military-trained police force with a remit to crush social disorder.
Robert Stevens•
French police and state machine overtaken by protests in provincial cities on October 17
The high school student revolt in October has revived the specter of May 68, which the government is trying to suppress with fierce police repression, but which was overwhelmed yesterday by the number of demonstrators.
Anthony Torres, Kumaran Ira•
Mass mobilisation of youth and “Yellow Vests” shakes the French government
Masses of people demonstrated across France yesterday against the crackdown on the high school student movement and the rise in energy prices and the cost of living, with the influx of protesters overwhelming law enforcement in many cities.
WSWS reporting team•
Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution
President Trump announced October 16 that the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, set for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, will not be livestreamed, reversing the plan by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to broadcast the killing.
Kate Randall•
Saman Gunadasa•
Steven Fields, Roger Jordan•
Margot Miller•
Patrick Martin•
Kate Randall•
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May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Nick Beams•
Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
Thomas Scripps•
The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
David Walsh•
The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
Kevin Reed•
Jacob Crosse•
Eric London•
Joseph Scalice•
Niles Niemuth•
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