6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (756+ words) The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) “Four Corners” program reported last month on the brutal conditions faced by migrant workers in the country’s agricultural sector. They described working 10- to 12-hour days for poverty wages, overcrowded and dilapidated accommodation and near-total control…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (990+ words) Divisions erupted in the Solomon Islands government when a motion of no confidence was lodged against Prime Minister Matthew Wale on August 29. The motion was then withdrawn on September 6, the day before it was due to be debated in parliament....

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (260+ words) A drone struck the Mykolaiv pre-trial detention center where Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk is being held during the night of 9–10 September. The World Socialist Web Site is relieved to report that Bogdan is unharmed. According to the…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago   (580+ words) This leaflet was distributed on September 12 at the “Sterndemonstration” in Berlin—organised by an alliance of 80 organisations under the slogan “It’s time things changed.” The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) is also holding an online meeting on Tuesday, September…...

8+ hour, 37+ min ago   (978+ words) Lawyers for Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk filed two separate appeals on September 9 against the 15-year prison sentence imposed on him on August 10 by the Pervomaisk City District Court in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region. A 24-page submission prepared by…...

11+ hour, 19+ min ago   (917+ words) On Thursday, September 10, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Peru’s far-right President Keiko Fujimori, concluding a three-day tour to further integrate Colombia, Ecuador and Peru into Washington’s so-called “Shield of the Americas.” It amounts to the implementation of…...

16+ hour, 56+ min ago   (975+ words) At the Royal Mail depot in central Manchester around 30 workers took a leaflet, with a postie telling WSWS reporters, “I’m against war and so are lots of comrades in there [Royal Mail]. I can’t see how we can stop it....

2+ day, 6+ 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, 6+ hour ago   (251+ words) While minimum wage and public-sector pay increases in Türkiye remain tied to artificially low inflation targets, interest payments and military spending are soaring. This repeated “failure” cannot be explained by miscalculation or changing conditions. The artificially low targets are a…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (486+ words) On September 12, 2001, the World Socialist Web Site issued a statement declaring: The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally condemns the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Those responsible for the hijacking of four commercial passenger aircraft and…...