(2022-05-28). The US baby formula crisis and capitalism's indifference to the lives of children. wsws.org In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
(2022-05-28). In wake of Texas school shooting, Trump glorifies police and vigilante violence at NRA convention. wsws.org Trump seized on the horrific massacre to portray the Democrats' feckless calls for mild gun control measures as a "war on the police," part of a socialist-communist conspiracy against "law-abiding American patriots."
(2022-05-28). Australia's crisis election: The way forward for the working class. wsws.org The meeting will outline the socialist and internationalist perspective the working class requires as it enters into struggle against the new Labor government's program of war and austerity.
(2022-05-28). Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP holds talks with right-wing parties. wsws.org The Frontline Socialist Party has abandoned its previous phrase-mongering, now insisting that socialism is a task for the distant future, and offering the false hope of solutions within capitalism by ending corruption and making token reforms.
(2022-05-28). Australian Education Union rams through deal to slash Victorian teachers' pay and conditions. wsws.org The sell-out is a sharp expression of the role being played by all the unions in enforcing government and business demands that workers pay for the deepening global crisis of capitalism.
(2022-05-27). To End Mass Shootings, We Need to Change the Deeper Structure of Life in the US. truthout.org Violence is the oxygen of authoritarianism. It is the symbolic and visceral breeding ground of fear, ignorance, greed and cruelty. It flourishes in societies marked by despair, ignorance, lies, hate and cynicism. | Violence — and especially the killing of children such as the mass killing that occurred this week at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, leaving at least 19 students dead — can't be understood in the immediacy of shock and despair, however deplorable and understandable. The ideological and structural conditions that nourish and legitimate it have to be revealed both in their connectio…