WSWS (2024-10-24). Sri Lankan delegation tells IMF and World Bank it will continue austerity onslaught. wsws.org The new JVP/NPP government has fully committed to the brutal IMF agenda initiated by the former Wickremesinghe regime to make working people pay for the crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism.

Editor (2024-10-24). 'This Is Workplace Democracy': Strike Continues as Boeing Workers Reject Contract Offer. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2024-10-24). Widespread opposition to UAW sellout to end strike of Eaton aerospace workers in Michigan. wsws.org As at Boeing, where workers rejected a sellout Wednesday, this deal was produced through government mediation, as Washington moves to shut down strikes jeopardizing war production.

WSWS (2024-10-24). 33,000 Boeing machinists vote down latest pro-company contract by 64 percent. wsws.org In rejecting the deal, workers have dealt a powerful blow not just to Boeing management, but to the IAM bureaucracy and, above all, to US imperialism and the pro-corporate political establishment.

aljazeera (2024-10-24). Boeing workers vote to reject wage deal, extend strike. aljazeera.com Nearly two-thirds of workers reject offer that includes a 35 percent pay rise.

ICRC (2024-10-24). ICRC congratulates Nihon Hidankyo on Nobel Peace Prize and work to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again. icrc.org

Richard D. Wolff (2024-10-23). US and China why not a deal? nationofchange.org The very real dangers—ecological as well as geopolitical—that the world now faces encourage finding some kind of negotiated agreement on a multi-polar world.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2024-10-23). Why are young working-class men more 'conservative'? nationofchange.org It's not just about women's increasing power and independence—it's about capitalism failing us all.

CADTM International, Pablo Laixhay (2024-10-23). CADTM International Council | Day 1 | The polycrisis of capitalism. cadtm.org

SKWAWKBOX (2024-10-23). Video: Environment Sec Reed's car-crash interview over private water parent company freebie. skwawkbox.org Stammering minister claims he hasn't been influenced and water wasn't discussed Environment Secretary Steve Reed has suffered a 'car-crash' interview on Sky News, when challenged about accepting a £2,000 football freebie from a massive investment firm that owns Northumbrian Water. The water industry, privatised in the 1980s, is regulated by Ofwat, which takes direction from …

WSWS (2024-10-23). Boeing machinists to vote on sellout contract to end five-week strike. wsws.org One worker told the World Socialist Web Site: "They didn't address the key issues of the members, which is the retirement, and they didn't address correctly the way of how they're going to be taking care of the medical. The contract is a joke."

Jim McMahan (2024-10-23). Boeing strike still strong. workers.org The 33,000 striking workers at Boeing — members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) District Lodge 751 in the Seattle area and District Lodge W24 in Portland, Oregon — arrived at a tentative agreement on Oct, 19. This agreement, reached on the 37th day of the strike, is an . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2024-10-23). Flak flew as Boeing Machinists vote on second tentative contract. peoplesworld.org SEATTLE—Flak flew against Machinists leaders as 32,000 members who work for Boeing in Seattle, Everett, and elsewhere around Puget Sound in Washington and another 1,200 who toil in Portland, Ore., went to the polls on October 23 to vote on a second tentative agreement with the giant, but financially reeling, aircraft maker. There were two …

tn.ai (2024-10-23). Six Merkava Tanks Destroyed by Hezbollah in Retaliatory Strikes. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance group, announced a series of retaliatory strikes against Israeli military forces, targeting tanks, drones, and bases as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border escalate.

John Morlino, Mondoweiss. (2024-10-23). Not Too Late For Uncommitted Movement To Hold Democrats Accountable. popularresistance.org The activists had them right where they wanted them. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had done everything they could think of to suppress the growing public outrage over their administration's complicity in the genocide in Palestine, but hundreds of thousands of potential Democratic voters weren't giving in. Led by the Uncommitted National Movement, they'd refused to pull the lever for Biden in the primaries, and were now threatening to withhold their support for Harris in November unless she and her current boss placed an embargo on America's weapons shipments to Israel before the 2024 US presidential election.

ICRC (2024-10-23). ICRC congratulates Nihon Hidankyo on Nobel Peace Prize and work to ensure nuclear weapons are never used again. icrc.org