3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (714+ words) The anti-democratic character of Thailand’s new “Peaceful Society Promotion Act” has been exposed within days of taking effect on August 24. On August 28, the Criminal Court terminated proceedings against 15 defendants charged principally with sedition over the September 2020 protests demanding the resignation…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (936+ words) As teachers and students return to classrooms for the 2026–27 school year, a frontal assault on the democratic right to education is unfolding across the United States. This attack, spearheaded by the Trump administration, is a key part of the ruling…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (876+ words) On September 6, Uthayan, a major Tamil-language newspaper based in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, published a two-page feature article supporting the international campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk. On August 10, a court in Pervomaisk sentenced Bogdan, a 27-year-old socialist…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (827+ words) The Sri Lankan government is celebrating its compliance with International Monetary Fund (IMF) targets for austerity cuts, while workers and oppressed people are falling deeper into poverty. In an August 26 speech to diplomats in Colombo, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (277+ words) Just three days before the election, IG Metall demonstrated once again that the trade unions have completely transformed themselves into the lackeys of big business. In a cloak-and-dagger operation, it approved the elimination of a further 50,000 jobs at Volkswagen. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (763+ words) Thousands of development officers across Sri Lanka took part in a lunch-hour protest on August 31 over long-delayed salary increases and other grievances. They demanded the immediate release of a Cabinet paper the government has repeatedly said was prepared to address…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1104+ words) It is a clear political fact of life that the Trump administration has been working to shatter all the post-war organisations and mechanisms set up, largely on the initiative of the United States, to maintain the economic and financial stability…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (886+ words) About 100 New Zealand troops are likely to remain in Britain, where they were deployed in 2022 by the then Labour-Greens government to assist in training Ukrainian conscripts for the US-NATO proxy war against Russia. More than 68,000 Ukrainians have completed military training…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (614+ words) Stressing that large sections of the French capitalist oligarchy aim to install a far-right dictatorship, Mélenchon compared the situation to the 1930s. He pointed to the pro-Nazi hysteria that seized the ruling class after the 1936 French general strike, leading to the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (689+ words) On August 26, Sri Lanka Railways General Manager Ravindra Pathmapriya issued a circular prohibiting all railway workers from commenting on social media during “duty hours.” This is the latest move in the government’s escalating crackdown on working-class opposition to austerity and…...