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The threats to living standards and democratic rights cannot be confronted at the ballot box on October 30, but only by the mass struggles of the Brazilian and international working class.

The Brazilian political crisis is one of the epicenters of a globally interconnected process of dissolution of democratic forms of rule by the ruling class in all countries.

The fact that the union is responding to the layoffs not by denouncing them, but by covering them up, exposes its collaboration with the company.

The event will be held Saturday, at 3pm (GMT-3), on the eve of elections which mark the highest point of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Brazil in four decades.

The fresh assault on tertiary sector jobs follows 700 staff cuts at the height of the COVID pandemic, none of which were opposed by the Tertiary Education Union.

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After 145 workers at the Kawerau paper mill were locked out for nearly six weeks and starved into accepting a below-inflation pay offer, the union bureaucracy is celebrating this sellout.

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Ken Douglas was a big man, in every sense of the word, and a great man, deeply involved in his community right through his life, from the Drivers' Union to the Porirua City Council.

New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government has embraced the demands of the far-right, anti-vax protesters, removing almost all mask mandates, all vaccine mandates, and promoting the lie that the pandemic is over.