JVP/NPP leader elected as new president of Sri Lanka
WEB5 days ago · Saman Gunadasa, Deepal Jayasekera. 4 minutes ago. The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s new executive president, announced yesterday, is ...
Stop the intimidation of opponents of war! Defend bus driver …
WEB5 days ago · Andy Niklaus (right) with colleagues on strike in April 2019. In the spring of this year a series of demonstrations took place against the Israeli bombing of Gaza.
Thousands laid off in August and September in the technology …
WEB5 days ago · The latest round of global mass layoffs at Intel, Cisco, IBM and Apple in the last month is yet another episode in the deepening global crisis confronting workers in the tech industry and beyond
Seattle Public Schools set to close up to 21 schools next year
WEB4 days ago · The Seattle Public Schools (SPS) declared at a September 18 public school board meeting its intent to close between 17 and 21 elementary schools next year. The closures would impact hundreds of ...
Biden hosts Quad meeting directed against China
WEB4 days ago · It is in that context that the Quad leaders announced that “the US Coast Guard, Japan Coast Guard, Australian Border Force, and Indian Coast Guard, plan to launch a first-ever Quad-at-Sea Ship ...
Former Australian union boss pushes for renewed business-union ...
WEB4 days ago · Former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Bill Kelty [Photo: Linfox Group]. Kelty long ago departed the trade union bureaucracy, which he headed from 1983 to 2000, and was appointed to ...
5,000 Textron machinists walk out in Wichita, Kansas, while Boeing ...
WEB5 days ago · Striking Boeing workers in Everett, Washington. On Sunday, 5,000 machinists at Textron Aviation in Wichita, Kansas voted by 81 percent to strike after massively rejecting a contract endorsed by ...
Demonstrators in Liverpool speak with WSWS: “Keir Starmer is a …
WEB5 days ago · Shajhait “It really upsets me how the Gaza protests have been portrayed as anti-Semitic. Jewish people have been protesting as well. If I had been alive when Hitler was around, I would have ...
This week in history - World Socialist Web Site
WEB4 days ago · The Soviet Union had on August 29 detonated a 4.6 ton nuclear bomb, dubbed RDS-1 or “fast lightning.”. The device, similar in design to the US “fat man” bomb, had been exploded at a ...
South Carolina executes first prisoner in 13 years, rejecting new ...
WEB5 days ago · Freddie Owens [Photo: South Carolina Department of Corrections]. Owens was put to death days after a key witness for the prosecution issued a sworn statement saying he had lied at trial when he ...