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The recent Ukraine Recovery Conference again saw governments and financial institutions discuss the country’s postwar reconstruction. Organized labor was absent, even as Kyiv introduces a new labor code undermining workers’ protections.
The far right spent a century claiming the Vikings. Norway’s World Cup team — horned helmets, runes, a viral row-chant and all — just took them back.
Given the structural constraints they face, the path to liberation for Palestinians does not run through armed struggle. Liberation will require the kind of sustained international solidarity that isolated apartheid South Africa.
Since 2021, the Communist Party’s Elke Kahr has been mayor of Austria’s second-largest city, Graz. In local elections June 28, voters passed a positive verdict on her five years in power, giving the Communists an even stronger majority.
From Europe to the Gulf states, Indian migrant workers are being recruited for the most insecure, low-paid, and dangerous jobs. The story begins at home, where India’s caste system produces a labor force vulnerable to the most extreme exploitation.
The scam compounds proliferating across Cambodia and Laos represent one of global capitalism’s newest industries: a convergence of financial speculation, digital technology, artificial intelligence, human trafficking, and extreme labor exploitation.
Bosses have desired ways to cut labor costs since time immemorial. Artificial-intelligence hype provides a powerful new excuse to replace stable employment with gig work.
Since the war on terror, the US Army has been increasingly lax in allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join. It’s allowing them to gain combat experience and lay the basis for a militarized far right.
Rahm Emanuel’s speech on Israel reflects an understanding that major changes in the optics of US policy toward Israel are needed if the status quo is to be maintained. This is an opportunity that Israel’s critics should not let go to waste.
The Trump administration claims that Europe is being invaded by migrants. In reality, the real flow of invaders comes from across the Atlantic as the US far right tries to spread its poisonous agenda with boatloads of cash.
