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German government plans massive cuts to health, pensions and social benefits
18+ min ago (592+ words) The bill for this massive rearmament programme is being presented to the working class in the form of falling social spending, poorer healthcare, lower pensions, lower wages and mass unemployment. Not a day goes by without business associations and leading…...
Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative denounces workers who voted for One Nation
33+ min ago (1056+ words) Socialist Alternative's annual Marxism conference, held over the Easter long weekend, marked a further lurch to the right by this pseudo-left organisation." That was shown by the suppression of any discussion of the US war against Iran, which was not…...
Canada's Liberal government secures parliamentary majority after seven years of minority rule
55+ min ago (462+ words) Canada's Liberal government has pasted together a parliamentary majority following a series of "floor crossings" by members of other parties and victories in three by-elections held earlier this month. For the first time since October 2019, a Liberal majority government now…...
School budget proposal threatens 200 job cuts in Paterson, New Jersey
8+ hour, 47+ min ago (734+ words) On May 4, the school board of Paterson, New Jersey, will vote on a proposed budget for the coming school year that would cut jobs. The board's professed goal is to preserve classroom instruction while managing rising costs. The board is…...
US Agriculture Department reports food price increases from Iran war, tariffs and drought
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (1120+ words) A report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on April 24 shows a significant rise in food prices driven by multiple factors including tight supplies, weather shocks and upstream cost increases. Among the major causes are higher fuel and…...
Charles III in Washington: Monarchy, oligarchy and the repudiation of 1776
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (632+ words) On the eve of the 250th anniversary of American independence, the British monarch, Charles III, addressed a joint session of the United States Congress on Tuesday. Charles, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of King George III, against whom the American Revolution was fought, was…...
Justice Department revives firing squad, electrocution and gas asphyxiation for federal executions
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (245+ words) Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases," the…...
The gutting of the NIH and the capitalist assault on public health
6+ hour, 35+ min ago (378+ words) The study had already cleared internal scientific review and was scheduled for publication in the agency's flagship journal, The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Because the research employed the exact same methodology as an influenza report published without objection just…...
Italy's Meloni government in crisis as rift with Israel and Trump opens
12+ hour, 28+ min ago (1046+ words) On April 14, the government of Giorgia Meloni announced the suspension of Italy's military cooperation agreement with Israel, the 2003 memorandum codified as Law 94/2005. "In view of the current situation, the government has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense…...
1, 100 artists call for boycott of Eurovision over Israel's Gaza genocide
12+ hour, 27+ min ago (980+ words) More than 1, 100 artists have signed an open letter calling for a boycott of next month's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, over the inclusion of Israel "despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza." The letter was produced by No Music For…...