📰 GPs reject government-imposed contract changes, BMA diverts opposition into a “Plan B” for privatisation

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GPs reject government-imposed contract changes, BMA diverts opposition into a “Plan B” for privatisation

NHS Fightback calls on GPs in England to vote NO in the referendum and reject the BMA’s privatisation blueprint for General Practices; government attacks must be answered by the demand for full funding.

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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Doctors in Spain walk out in further national strike over government cuts to health spending; protests in Basra, Iraq over power outages while farmers in the south and east demand restoration of wheat prices; security guards and cleaners in Germiston Municipality, South Africa continue ten-month strike to demand permanent jobs

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US central bank on course to tighten interest rates

In what was characterised as a “hawkish” move, the Fed’s monetary policy statement was one of the shortest on record and removed a “bias” towards lower rates.

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📰 Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman nominated for UAW president

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Mack Trucks worker and socialist Will Lehman nominated for UAW president

In a statement following the nomination, Lehman said his campaign was about “building a genuine rank-and-file movement, a movement that turns every factory into a citadel of resistance.”

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📰 One Nation leader delivers racist, pro-business rant at Australian press club

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One Nation leader delivers racist, pro-business rant at Australian press club

The event underscored the bogus character of One Nation’s populist pitch, with its leader Pauline Hanson denouncing workers as “lazy” and declaring there were too many obstacles to sacking them.

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📰 Washington’s Pax Silica and the return of extraterritoriality in the Philippines

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Washington’s Pax Silica and the return of extraterritoriality in the Philippines

The US plan for extraterritorial immunity over an industrial hub at its former Clark Air Base in the Philippines exposes Pax Silica as an attempt to reimpose colonial forms of rule in preparation for war.

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📰 Australia: BHP hires strikebreakers as mining workers vote for industrial action

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Australia: BHP hires strikebreakers as mining workers vote for industrial action

The unions responded to BHP’s scab labour initiative by pleading for more backroom talks.

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📰 Railroad workers at CPKC reject nine-year contract by 2-to-1 margin across 11 states

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Railroad workers at CPKC reject nine-year contract by 2-to-1 margin across 11 states

CPKC locomotive engineers voted down a nine-year concessionary contract by a 2-to-1 margin, the latest in a wave of rank-and-file revolts against the union .bureaucracy across the US railroads.

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📰 Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters face federal felony charges in Trump administration frame-up

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Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters face federal felony charges in Trump administration frame-up

The indictment, brought under the framework of NSPM-7, is part of a broader campaign to criminalize anti-fascist and pro-immigrant protests as “terrorism.”

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Workers Struggles: The Americas

The union representing Chilean dockworkers announced a June 18 strike date while nearly 3,000 Boston nurses voted June 16 by 99.6 percent to authorize a one-day strike.

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