The average time to gain tenure for university full-time academics in Canada has increased by roughly a year over the last 30 years, from 4.6 years in 1990

Last week, trade unionists working in the NHS failed to meet the 50% threshold in a strike action ballot. To build the industrial strength so many NHS staff need, we have to understand why.

Confronted with the coronavirus pandemic that started end of 2019-beginning of 2020, the governments of long-standing imperialist powers (Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia-New Zealand) and private pharmaceutical corporations have widened the gap between the Global North and the Global South.

By putting human well being at the core of its priorities, Cuba’s government has shown what we lose by allowing profit-seeking to dictate health policy

Above all, the British establishment feared Jeremy Corbyn because he advocated forcefully for socialist internationalist foreign policy. This anti-imperialist politics was the first casualty of Keir Starmer

Chileans on Dec. 19 were facing a defining moment as they voted for a president to replace right-wing billionaire Sebastián Piñera, whose second term is ending.

Gabriel Boric, the left wing candidate in Chile’s runoff presidential election, has decisively won the vote and will become the youngest Chilean president and the most radical since Salvador Allende. He defeated fascist-wannabe and Pinochet admiring Jose Antonio Kast by almost twelve percentage points. What many predicted would be a very tight result, with dirty tricks from the right and the West used to undermine Boric, turned into a landslide-win that will allow the social transformation kicked off by the 2019 social uprising to continue.

The COVID-19 pandemic has heaped even more pressure on understaffed hospital wards. In Berlin, medics organized to do something about it, launching a monthlong strike that forced hospital management to guarantee minimum staffing levels.

Questions swirl about whether the West Virginia politician will quit the Democratic Party and join the GOP.

The world’s largest chemical maker, BASF, produces ingredients for America’s most popular products, from soaps to surface cleaners to dishwasher detergent. Emissions from their U.S. plants elevate cancer risks for an estimated 1.5 million people.