(2024-08-28). Meeting: Oppose Australian Labor government's cuts to international students and tertiary education jobs. wsws.org Labor's offensive against international students is already eliminating jobs in universities, as well as private colleges.
(2024-08-28). Colleges reopen amid nation-wide escalation of attack on free speech. defenddemocracy.press Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on August 23, 2024 by Josh Andrews (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS)) (Posted Aug 26, 2024) University and college students are returning to campus amidst a fall offensive launched against free speech. The ruling class is determined to put students "in their place" after they have …
(2024-08-28). The Care Crisis: How Child and Elderly Care Costs Shape Presidential Agendas. devdiscourse.com The cost of caring for children and the elderly is pushing women out of the workforce, straining family finances, and slowing economic growth. As the economy becomes a key theme in the presidential election, Democratic and Republican candidates offer differing solutions to these challenges.
(2024-08-28). One fifth of world's youth not in employment, education or training. wsws.org These conditions testify to the powder keg that is Africa and indeed vast parts of the world. Youth-led protests have broken out in several countries over recent months calling for political change.
(2024-08-28). Workers, Unchecked: The Case For Card Check This Labor Day. popularresistance.org The process of union certification is a critical area of labor rights, acting as a precursor to collective bargaining. One method, card check, simplifies this process by allowing workers to express their desire for union representation through majority sign-up. Because it reduces opportunities for employer interference and expedites union certification, card check has come under significant fire from those who oppose unions. | Card check is a quick and efficient way for workers to indicate whether they want to be represented by a union. Workers who desire a union simply sign authorization cards indicating their s…
(2024-08-28). Cuba prepares quality school year despite economic situation. plenglish.com Havana, Aug 28 (Prensa Latina) Despite Cuba's complex economic scenario, the country is not giving up on guaranteeing the quality of the 2024-2025 school year, which will begin on September 2.
(2024-08-28). Victory for immigrant rights organization in Houston. workers.org 
Activists with a longtime immigrant rights organization in Houston celebrated a victory on Aug. 23 after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that tried to revoke the group's nonprofit status and shut it down. Cesar Espinosa speaks at Houston immigrant rights protest. (WW PHOTO: Gloria Rubac) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . . . |
(2024-08-28). Victory for immigrant rights organization in Houston. workers.org 
Activists with a longtime immigrant rights organization in Houston celebrated a victory on Aug. 23 after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that tried to revoke the group's nonprofit status and shut it down. Cesar Espinosa speaks at Houston immigrant rights protest. (WW PHOTO: Gloria Rubac) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . . . |
(2024-08-27). Australia caps international student numbers amid discontent over housing. aljazeera.com Education minister says enrolments to be limited to 270,000 in 2025 in bid to create 'a better and a fairer system'.
(2024-08-27). Malaysia Joining BRICS Offers Golden Opportunity for Universities and Research. infobrics.org Southeast Asia is witnessing a potential power shift with Malaysia's application to join the BRICS+alliance confirmed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. With Thailand's application under way as well, the grouping now lengthens its reach and could signal a significant shift in the region's economic and geo-political alignment in the Southeast Asia region…
(2024-08-27). AFRICOM Sponsors Terrorism in Africa? globalresearch.ca Since Niger and Mali exposed that Ukraine, a nation heavily reliant on the United States for military and economic support, is supporting terrorism in the Sahel, this has starkly exposed the contradictions inherent in AFRICOM's mission on the African continent. …
(2024-08-27). Video: A Nuclear Bunker Buster Bomb against Iran Would Initiate World War III, On the Drawing Board of the Pentagon. globalresearch.ca Introduction: | The video below produced in 2006 by the Union of Concerned Scientists in collaboration with the Pentagon reveals the consequence of the use of a Nuclear Earth Penetration Bomb in an attack on Iran. | This is an important …
(2024-08-27). Money or Your Life. counterpunch.org 
Money or Your Life. Alphonse Daumier's caricature of the Europeans ready to kill Greece unable to pay back the money it borrowed primarily from England, February 15, 1850. Public Domain In 2009, Greece had a deficit of 6 percent of GDP. But concocted statistics made the deficit 12.5 percent of GDP. This higher deficit became
(2024-08-27). The city has finally released its Sixers arena impact studies. Here's what they say. whyy.org For more than two years, residents and business owners in Chinatown have called the Sixers' arena proposal an " Consultants hired to independently evaluate the impact of the $1.55 billion project have reached a similar but less certain conclusion, saying in a new study that the controversial development "could potentially result in the loss of Chinatown's core identity and regional significance." | Released late Monday, the analysis raises concerns about increased traffic c…