Train drivers will now receive a pay rise backdated to 2022-23 after a total of 18 days of strike action over the last two years in Britain - the longest train drivers' strike in history according to the Union boss.
Read more: https://us.politsturm.com/train-drivers-uk-pay-offer

After the 2nd round, Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka's presidential elections. Some celebrate this "Marxist-Leninist" leader but Dissanayake has worked hard to moderate his party's image; advocating maintaining private property and pledging reforms demanded by the IMF.

51 miners have died, 20 injured & an estimated 24 missing after a gas leak led to an explosion in a coal mine in Iran's South Khorasan province. Unions in Iran are non-existent & workers are at the mercy of the bourgeoisie; in this respect, Iran's a typical capitalist state.

Tata Steel workers in Wales have called off an indefinite strike on the 8th of July in response to the company's plan which could lead to 2,800 job losses.
Read more: https://us.politsturm.com/uk-steelworkers-strike-tata

Three migrant delivery drivers in Paris took part in a hunger strike during the strike action of the union Force Ouvriere, supported by Uber driver's union INV

The company Just Eat is switching back to 'self-employment', firing 100 'redudant' workers, threatening visa status

Apple bought startups and has invested in research and development in the field of AI, spending as much as $22.61 billion from 2016 to 2021. Monopoly firms will spend billions in research if they know it will net them even greater profits in the long term.

Bolivian President Arce has sworn in new military high command staff.

Internal police forces of the Bolivian state have announced the arrest of General Juan José Zúñiga, the military officer who seized the presidential palace.

The Presidential Palace has been seized by the army, and police have been forcefully removed.

The status of President Arce, who has been in bitter rivalry with Morales over the country's leadership, is unknown at this time.

Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass asked "the most fortunate" to fund housing for the homeless.

While saying the homelessness crisis "has affected everyone in the city", the solution somehow remains solely in the power of the richest 3% of Americans.

Emphasizing her supposed helplessness in the face of immense social issues, she has said that "we do not have a way of preventing homelessness". Oh, really?

In the UK, it was determined that it would cost $12.5 billion to accommodate the nations' homeless. In the United States, this number is as low as $20 billion, a tiny fraction for a national budget that exceeds 4.4 trillion. The capitalist state commands vast resources to fund social policy, it just doesn't do so.

To them, social expenses are just that — expenses. Homelessness is a fundamental problem for, as Bass says "safety issues" and the normal functioning of the city, but safely neglected for years until it began "driving away businesses and customers, costing taxpayers city resources".