16+ hour, 20+ 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, 15+ hour ago   (1428+ words) On Thursday, Sydney businessman Alexander Csergo was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for supposedly reckless foreign interference involving two Chinese people. The judge declared that such a severe punishment was needed to send a wider message. Csergo’s jailing underscores…...

3+ day, 2+ 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…...

4+ day, 18+ 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…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (352+ words) The offence the company admitted is a narrow one. Section 17 of Ontario's confined spaces regulation requires an employer to secure a confined space against unauthorized entry, or to post adequate warning signs about unauthorized entry, or both. Algoma acknowledged that…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (123+ words) Mack Trucks worker and UAW rank-and-file presidential candidate Will Lehman demanded the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk and called on autoworkers to bring resolutions for his freedom before their locals. Will Lehman, a worker at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (723+ words) The New York Times published a report on its front page Friday, under the headline “Dangerous Pattern of Russian Sabotage in Europe Risks Clash With NATO,” asserting, without substantiation, a “spate” of “plots” by Russia to carry out attacks on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (571+ words) The World Socialist Web Site has received the following letter in defense of Bogdan Syrotiuk from Mark D. Steinberg, a leading scholar of Soviet and Russian history, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who previously taught at Harvard University…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1060+ words) On Sunday, 6 September, at 3 p.m., the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) will hold a rally at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin demanding the immediate release of 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and antiwar campaigner Bogdan Syrotiuk. On 10 August 2026, he was convicted for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (523+ words) The origins of the provision invoked by the court are thoroughly reactionary. The Law on Ensuring the Functioning of Ukrainian as the State Language, adopted on April 25, 2019, was a blatant act of discrimination against a large portion of Ukraine’s population…...