Danish nurses continue wildcat stoppages in defiance of unions over pay and lack of staff; teachers across France walk out for 24 hours to demand more staff, better pay and conditions; Sunday pay strikes at ScotRail continue; Nigerian resident doctors on strike for nearly two months over pay arrears
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/23/wkrs-s23.htmlTurning Point: 9/11 And The War On Terror—An account of the terror attacks and their aftermath
Joanne Laurier
15 hours ago
The events of September 11, 2001, were deeply traumatic. Nearly 3,000 people died in the terror attacks, involving four airplanes, including two that brought down the World Trade Center in New York, the deadliest in US history.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/turn-s24.htmlTwenty years of the “war on terrorism” in Australia: War crimes and police-state measures
Mike Head@MikeHeadWSWS
15 hours ago
This month’s commemorations in Australia of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack in the United States have sought to deny the reality of the “war on terrorism:” two decades of unbridled militarism and domestic police-state measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/terr-s24.htmlVideo: Why students and young people support the Socialist Equality Party
Our reporters
13 hours ago
In this video, students and young people explain why they support the Socialist Equality Party and have joined it as electoral members as part of the campaign to defeat the anti-democratic electoral laws rushed through the Australian parliament last month.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/auvi-s24.htmlAustralian police exploit extreme right-wing, anti-vax rallies to deploy new repressive weaponry
Patrick O’Connor
12 hours ago
Utilising reactionary anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine rallies in Melbourne organised this week, police forces have unveiled an array of new weapons and equipment. This includes “pepper ball” firearms that shoot hard pellets the size of marbles, ‘‘stinger’’ grenades, and paramilitary-style vehicles and body armour.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/melb-s24.htmlThe climate crisis requires a socialist response
Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) and IYSSE
19 hours ago
On Friday, hundreds of thousands around the world are once again participating in the Global Climate Strike protest. In Germany alone, Fridays for Future has called for demonstrations in more than 400 cities. The largest will take place in front of the Bundestag (federal parliament) in Berlin.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/23/clim-s23.htmlEngland’s Chief Medical Officer admits to deliberate mass infection of millions of children
Robert Stevens, Thomas Scripps
19 hours ago
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government sent 10 million children back to school this term in the certain knowledge they would be infected with COVID-19. This monumental crime was openly admitted by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England Chris Whitty and his deputy Jonathan Van-Tam on Wednesday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/23/couk-s23.htmlBarbaric experiments with “COVID-19 drug kit” killed hundreds in Brazil
Eduardo Parati
14 hours ago
Last Saturday, a G1 report was published showing that the private health insurance provider, Prevent Senior, was involved in a sinister experiment in March-April 2020, secretly medicating hundreds of COVID-19 elderly patients with hydroxychloroquine and erythromycin without their knowledge, resulting in the deaths of at least nine people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/braz-s24.htmlAmerican capitalism normalizes mass death
Andre Damon@Andre__Damon
14 hours ago
Twenty-two months since the emergence of COVID-19, there is no end in sight to the pandemic, which continues to kill on a massive scale.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/24/pers-s24.htmlAmerican Power After Afghanistan
How to Rightsize the Country’s Global Role
By Jessica T. Mathews
September 17, 2021
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-09-17/american-power-after-afghanistanThe Last Chance to Stop North Korea?
U.S. Aid Could Help Revive Nuclear Diplomacy
By Victor Cha
September 22, 2021
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-korea/2021-09-22/last-chance-stop-north-koreaHow America Should Deal With the Taliban
Avoiding the Diplomatic Errors That Doomed the U.S. Withdrawal
By Lisa Curtis
September 20, 2021
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2021-09-20/how-america-should-deal-talibanSave the Environment, Save American Democracy
How a Pro-Climate Vision Can Strengthen America’s Social Fabric
By Robert O. Keohane and Jeff D. Colgan
September 20, 2021
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-09-20/save-environment-save-american-democracyPrivate Eyes in the Sky
How Commercial Satellites Are Transforming Intelligence
By Erik Lin-Greenberg and Theo Milonopoulos
September 23, 2021
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2021-09-23/private-eyes-sky