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As US-Iran ceasefire hangs by a thread, Trump threatens more slaughter
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (503+ words) Destruction after bombardment in war on Iran The ceasefire between the US and Iran is hanging by a thread. The blame lies squarely with Donald Trump, who rejected Iran's new "proposal to end the war as "totally unacceptable. It included…...
Organise to kick the merchants of death off uni campuses
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (571+ words) F35 B Lightning II jet University bosses are slashing jobs and courses. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has told them they are autonomous institutions'so they should not expect a government bailout. But there is one area where the state is happy to…...
War against nature - Marxist theory and the ecological crisis
13+ hour, 28+ min ago (928+ words) Angus uses the latest scientific research in extending Marxist ecological analysis Your new book is centred on the multiple environmental crises caused by capitalism. How bad is it? For nearly 12, 000 years, since the last ice age, conditions on Earth have…...
Artificial Intelligence - A deadly new arms race
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1496+ words) Somewhere" deep in a "laboratory in San Francisco, California, sits an Artificial Intelligence model so "powerful that its locked in a digital vault. They say it can break into any computer system, tear apart a country's defences, shut down its…...
Anti-racist and Palestine protesters outnumber far right in London
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1209+ words) 100, 000 marched to remember the Nakba and oppose the far right (Pic: PSCupdates on X) Palestine solidarity marchers and anti-racists celebrated a decisive victory in London on Saturday as they outnumbered fascist Tommy Robinson and his supporters." Some 100, 000 people marched to mark…...
Meet the people at the sharp end of the housing crisis
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1794+ words) Protesters call for social housing and rent controls (Pic: Guy Smallman) Tea is one of thousands of homeless people that local councils have relocated far away from their families and their social support networks. It's a process that rips up…...
Sharp anti-racist debates shape CWU conference
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (1044+ words) The CWU postal and telecoms workers" union this week was at the heart of sharp debates over how to fight far right party Reform UK and racism. Delegates at the CWU conference voted down a motion calling on the union…...
The many faces of Andy Burnham
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (885+ words) There's a joke doing the rounds in Westminster. It goes like this, "A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into a bar. The barman says, "What are you drinking, Andy?" Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, has…...
Lambeth council workers fight cuts to vital health services
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (669+ words) Green councillors said they would push to save the service in their newly controlled council Lambeth council bosses in south London want to shut the only specialist dementia day centre in the borough. To block these plans, Unison union members…...
Expert says "Government rhetoric feeds Islamophobia and racism
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (502+ words) Dr Syra Shakir, Associate Professor at Leeds Trinity University, researches the impact of Islamophobia and misogyny. She spoke to Socialist Worker about selective "reporting and the hidden rise of Islamophobia. Syra said, "We are living in an "increasingly authoritarian state…...