11+ hour, 10+ min ago   (225+ words) World Socialist Web Site Of course there is no doubt that Gelb, pursuing a crusade against the Russian soprano ever since the war in Ukraine started more than four and a half years ago, attacked Netrebko with the aim of…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (874+ words) Teachers at Overnewton Anglican Community College, an independent P-12 school in Melbourne’s western suburbs, have voted to take industrial action for the first time in the school’s history. This is a further indication, following strikes in government schools across Australia, that…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (576+ words) The outcome of Sunday’s parliamentary election in Sweden will do nothing to change the Nordic country’s increasingly aggressive role as a frontline state in NATO’s war on Russia, and rapidly growing social inequality at home. All of the main parties…...

6+ day, 11+ 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (484+ words) A further 11,844 cases have not been laboratory-confirmed or remain under investigation, bringing the total to roughly 29,000 illnesses. Travel-associated infections, 1,805 of them, are counted separately. Among confirmed patients, the median age is 46, while the age range runs from 1 to 99, and the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (996+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham has unveiled plans for Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain, to use 10,000 young people as unpaid labour under the guise of “work experience”. The “Modern Work Experience Programme” will be launched in October, with Burnham calling…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (928+ words) Hearings at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) into allegations against leading members of the New South Wales (NSW) state branch of the Liberal Party have underscored the rot and decay of that key pillar of capitalist rule and the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1044+ words) Six weeks into his premiership, Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham used Monday’s “Direction of Government” statement to Parliament to bury whatever populist pledges he made on taking office in July. At the insistence of the militarist lobby and financial oligarchy…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (973+ words) Over 1,000 doctors from Melbourne’s major inner-city public hospitals struck for four hours on Thursday, August 20, rallying outside the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Parkville. It was the first strike since 2002 by Victorian doctors, who voted 97 percent in favour of industrial…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1249+ words) Public school educators in the Australian state of Queensland are voicing their anger at the misleading claim by the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) that they had a “significant win” last week when the state’s industrial relations tribunal granted a supposed…...