Sri Lankan police attack striking university workers in Colombo
Protesters involved in an indefinite strike were violently assaulted by riot police, including with a water cannon spraying polluted water at them at high pressure.
Dehin Wasantha•
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UAW bureaucracy limits “stand up” strike against police crackdown to one campus, UC Santa Cruz
That the UAW is calling out only a single campus confirms the warnings made by the WSWS that the bureaucracy is doing everything it can to limit this struggle.
Bryan Dyne•
Leipzig University management uses police and right-wing groups to suppress pro-Palestinian protests
The "Palestine Campus" group explained that the impulse for the protest was the start of the Israeli army's murderous ground offensive against Rafah.
Martin Nowak•
Call for industrial action to halt Gaza genocide stifled at Australian university union meeting
The motion called for a black ban and cessation of work on all university research, education or other projects linked to the Israeli military or otherwise assisting the genocide in Gaza.
Our correspondents•
Tom Hall•
Eric Ludlow•
Bryan Dyne•
Our correspondents•
Nancy Hanover•
Is Deutsche Bahn Cargo covering up a potentially fatal on-the-job injury in Mannheim?
At Deutsche Bahn (DB) Cargo, the logistics branch of the German railway company, the threat of massive job cuts has led to a systematic increase in work pressure. This has considerable consequences for the health of railroad workers and results in life-threatening situations.
German Railworkers’ Action Committee•
UPS workers say: The working class must oppose the attack on students’ right to protest!
Students have taken a courageous stand. But we, the working class, have to be the base of the fight against war.
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
The way to commemorate our colleagues’ deaths is to end the subordination of workers’ lives to corporate profits at National Steel Car and beyond!
The Day of Mourning and the stated purposes behind it has been in effect for 34 years. Yet at our workplace alone, four people, brothers Andrew Kenmuir, Fraser Cowan, Colin Grayley, Quoc Le, have been gruesomely killed in 20 years—three of them in less than two.
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Open letter to Teamsters General President O’Brien: We demand answers on layoffs!
We workers have every right to take all action deemed necessary to protect our jobs, regardless of whether you choose to sanction them or not. If you will not fight the layoffs, then get out of the way so that UPS workers can do it ourselves.
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Health Workers Action Committee (Sri Lanka)•
National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee•
Roger Jordan•
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