The higher education sector is, by all accounts, a sinking ship. Lack of government support and a decrease in the number of international students have created a serious funding crisis. Some 80% of institutions could soon be at risk of deficit. Many have already announced redundancies, course closures, are scaling down catering provisions, changing work patterns or trying to outsource services.

It has been over a month since the workers of Canada Post began their strike in defence against the crown corporations plans to attack wages; a paltry 11% increase after years of inflation! This is in addition to schemes to Uber-ize weekend work to further drive down wages in the long term and to increase precarity.

(On Saturday 9 November, the CWO held a public meeting in London on the topic of anti-fascism. We publish here the presentation followed by notes from the discussion.) · The Presentation · We are now in early November and today is the 106th anniversary of the start of the German Revolution.(1) Class struggle, started by the German sailors, put an end to the first imperialist world war.

(Leaflet distributed by the PCInt, in Italian and English, during the recent protests and strikes about the situation in Palestine.) · The slaughter underway in the Middle East is another episode in the new phase of armed confrontation between opposing imperialisms which began with the war in Ukraine. On the one hand stands NATO-USA-Europe, on the other Russia-China-Iran.