Archive: 09/2017
2017-09-01
- Venezuela nears default after US imposes sanctions on economy
- Australian government urges universities to tear up staff conditions
- Trump begins campaign for huge tax cut for business and the wealthy
- Channel Four News anchor Jon Snow: From mea culpas over Grenfell Tower to demands for censorship
- Social Democratic chancellor candidate Schulz calls for well-equipped German army
- UN says 27 dying each day in US-led siege of Raqqa
- Pakistan boycotts talks with US, rejects role for India in Afghanistan
- French President Macron unveils decrees to destroy Labour Code
- Earthquake on Italian island of Ischia: Grief is mixed with anger
- Former Shell Oil civil engineer and Berkeley Professor Emeritus Robert Bea speaks on Hurricane Harvey
- More than 80 percent of homeowners impacted by Harvey lack flood insurance
- Anti-immigrant Texas bill SB4 implemented despite suspension of some key provisions
- Death toll expected to rise as chemical explosions add to devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey
- Over three thousand sign WSWS petition against Google censorship
- Government indifference leads to vast death toll in South Asian floods
- After five months on strike, Spectrum workers in New York-New Jersey must break union-imposed isolation
- Single mother in Pittsburgh fired by Amazon for not working forced overtime
2017-09-02
- University of Sydney union branch stages protest strike over wages and conditions
- On Slogans
- Who will pay for the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey?
- Salt Lake City nurse arrested after refusing demand to draw blood from unconscious patient
- Washington is preparing for nuclear war in Europe
- Boston area transit privatization plan goes forward amid allegations of corruption/mismanagement
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel visit by Jared Kushner confirms demise of Middle East peace process
- The incalculable human health consequences of Hurricane Harvey
- Antimonopoly researchers say Google CEO pressured leading think tank to fire them
- Inherited genetic disorder corrected in human embryos
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The rise of “edu-business” in Australian public schools
- A Hurricane Harvey diary
- Canada toes Trump administration’s provocative line on North Korea
- Bannon realigns Breitbart political strategy after removal from Trump administration
2017-09-04
- Australia: National Tertiary Education Union attempts to suppress struggle against job cuts at Western Sydney University
- September 4 – 10: The Kornilov affair
- Toronto airport strikers speak out
- Australian government strips asylum seekers of all housing and welfare payments
- Trump, North Korea and the danger of world war
- German SGP election candidate speaks at student protest against deportations
- Kenyan Supreme Court voids presidential election, ordering new poll
- A Hurricane Harvey diary: Part 2
- Hurricane Harvey to be costliest US natural disaster
- German federal police illegally collect data to blacklist journalists and activists
- Britain’s pseudo-left promote Labour councils enforcing savage cuts
2017-09-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- As school year starts teachers, parents and students face political struggle to defend public education
- Australia: Socialist Alternative conference seeks new political trap for rising discontent
- Macron’s labor decrees in France: A new stage in the international social counter-revolution
- The US faces off against China and Russia over North Korea
- IAM isolates striking Chicago car mechanics, seeks separate agreements
- San Diego declares public health emergency after death toll from Hepatitis A outbreak rises to 14
- Media and political establishment begin to move on as Houston residents return to devastated city
- Sri Lankan students oppose Google’s censorship of the World Socialist Web Site
- Candidates denounce refugees, demand state build-up at German election debate
- Israeli electricity shutoff deepens social crisis in Gaza
- Los Angeles County wildfires prompt California governor to declare state of emergency
- Sri Lankan university workers defeat union attempts to victimise SEP member
- Immigrant community braces for Trump’s decision on DACA
- Cynthia Brust Moore (1944-2017): A steadfast supporter of the Trotskyist movement
- Oppose the militarist high school graduation policy of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel!
- No progress in UK- European Union talks over Brexit
- Brazil’s ruling circles fear international “isolation”
2017-09-06
- Australian parliament overshadowed by Korean war crisis and disqualification of MPs
- Trump and DeVos deepen the assault on public higher education
- Rank-and-file committees needed to take forward UK rail workers' safety fight
- Protesters denounce Trump’s repeal of DACA program
- Will US threats against North Korea yield a global catastrophe?
- Study highlights health epidemic: More than one in four US adults is obese
- Trump administration halts study on health impact of surface mining
- London residents speak on Grenfell Tower fire
- German Left Party and Greens demand expansion of police powers
- Australian governments knew about the dangers of airforce fire-fighting foam for decades
- Danger of global war over Korea shakes Europe
- Documenta 14 exhibition in Kassel, Germany: The censorship and defaming of art
- Trump rescinds DACA, putting 800,000 youth at risk of deportation
- The dual citizenship furore in the Australian parliament: What is at stake for the working class?
- Deaths of children in government care skyrocket in Canada
- What is behind the 57-hour San Diego/Tijuana border closure and renovation?
- Civil engineers’ reports on US flood preparedness: Lessons of Katrina and Sandy ignored
2017-09-07
- Yemen’s cholera outbreak surpasses 600,000
- US Fed confronts dilemmas over monetary policy
- Unite all workers against the attack on immigrants! For a socialist policy of open borders!
- Australian state government and health union shut down pathology strike
- UN head warns Korean crisis could spiral into world war
- Mélenchon sets nationalist trap for opposition to austerity in France
- Macron announces cuts to French social programs
- The National Football League’s blacklisting of quarterback Colin Kaepernick
- Hurricane Irma slams into Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands
- Child deaths at Gorakhpur hospital highlight grim reality behind “rising India” hype
- Long-term threats to public health follow in Hurricane Harvey’s wake
- Germany: 60,000 people evacuated as WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt
- US Fed confronts dilemmas over monetary policy
- San Diego protests against Trump’s repeal of DACA program
- Burmese military steps up ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
- Labour will seek to block Brexit bill
- A Hurricane Harvey diary: Part 3
- British soldiers arrested for membership in banned fascist group
2017-09-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mass demonstrations in Togo threaten to topple ruling government
- US completes anti-missile deployment in South Korea amid heightened war danger
- Quebec Liberals expand chauvinist bill targeting Muslims
- UN chief warns against the march to world war
- Royal College of Nursing union holds rally in London
- Australian High Court permits bogus postal vote on marriage equality
- Hurricane Irma heads towards Florida after tearing through the Caribbean
- US and India use Indian Ocean Conference to reinforce their strategic interests
- Forbes writer says Google censored report on manipulation of search traffic
- German conservative parties embrace the language of dictatorship
- Worker killed at Kansas oil refinery as OSHA conceals data on workplace deaths
- Trump, Democrats reach deal on debt ceiling, budget
- UK: Refuse workers resume strike after Birmingham Council imposes redundancies
- Suicide attempt by Renault Nissan worker reveals brutal conditions in India’s free trade zones
- Price gouging at Amazon and the case for public ownership
2017-09-09
- United Airlines dodges government discipline for brutalizing passenger
- Toronto Airport Authority imposes injunctions on striking ground crew
- UK: May government finalises Grenfell Tower Inquiry cover-up
- India, Bangladesh support Burmese military repression of Rohingya
- Hurricanes Irma and Harvey: Natural disaster and political breakdown
- New Zealand: The right-wing politics of the Opportunities Party
- Strong earthquake shakes Mexico and Central America, killing at least 61
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As US threatens war against North Korea, China appeals to European powers
- Why aren’t trains evacuating people from the path of Hurricane Irma?
- Journalist who exposed Hindu right assassinated in Bangalore
- Autoworkers in Detroit support campaign against Google Internet censorship
- Germany’s federal election campaign and the danger of global nuclear war
- ECB makes first move to wind back quantitative easing
- Detroit Police stonewall investigation into Taser death of 15-year-old
2017-09-11
- September 11-17: After the Kornilov Affair—Kerensky attempts to form dictatorial regime, Trotsky released from prison
- Thai Supreme Court protects key figures in 2010 military crackdown
- UK: Labour Mayor in Salford rubber stamps closure of disabled children’s school
- Australian High Court sanctions deportations of Sri Lankan refugees
- Why was American capitalism unable to prepare for Hurricane Irma?
- Poet Ben Okri on London’s Grenfell Tower fire: “It has revealed the undercurrents of our age”
- As US threatens North Korea, NATO chief warns of “more dangerous world”
- Sri Lankan SEP Jaffna meeting discusses political bankruptcy of Tamil parties
- IAM pushes sellout deal on striking Chicago car mechanics
- Caribbean islands devastated by storm surge, winds, rain
- Millions face devastation from Hurricane Irma in southwest Florida, Tampa metro area
- Personal data of 143 million US consumers compromised in massive Equifax server hack
- Protests throughout the US held against attack on immigrant rights
- British Columbia NDP government abandons $15 minimum wage pledge
2017-09-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Worker exposes deadly conditions at Detroit area US Steel mill
- Sri Lankan president desperately tries to rally support
- Sixteen years after 9/11: lies, hypocrisy and militarism
- UN Security Council imposes severe sanctions on North Korea
- Macron goes to Greece: “Radical left” Tsipras welcomes ex-banker turned French president
- Thirteen million without power, seven dead after Hurricane Irma wreaks havoc in Florida
- India, China attempt to reset relations after border crisis
- Plans for major military build-up after Germany’s federal election
- New York Times stokes anti-Russia campaign to promote Facebook, Twitter censorship
- Petrochemical giants dumped deadly carcinogens during Hurricane Harvey
- Hundreds of thousands march in Catalonia as Madrid aims to block independence referendum
- Australia: Turnbull government expands “cashless welfare card”
- A remembrance of my sister, Cynthia Brust Moore
- UK: Tony Blair calls for anti-immigration policies to stop Brexit
- More Australian troops to be sent to the Philippines
2017-09-13
- Western Australian budget slashes thousands of public sector jobs
- Virginia gubernatorial race offers “choice” of right-wing candidates
- South Asian floods: Death toll climbs to 1,300
- From hurricanes to tax cuts: The ruling class gets down to business
- NATO launches war games in advance of Russian exercise
- Chicago area auto mechanics reject dealers’ “last, best and final offer”
- Boston area transit riders and workers imperiled by inadequate maintenance funding
- Hundreds of thousands march against Macron’s austerity measures in France
- Germany: Left Party leader ready to cooperate with far-right AfD
- The Last Tycoon: Hollywood in the 1930s
- Israel bombs Syrian government positions as anti-Assad opposition forces lose ground
- Officials estimate one quarter of homes in Florida Keys destroyed by Hurricane Irma
- Large wildfires continue to spread in US Northwest
- UK parliament approves sweeping executive powers under Brexit bill
- Socialist Equality Party holds election meeting in Berlin
- In “60 Minutes” interview, Bannon elaborates plans for American fascist movement
- New York Times surveys the results of 35 years of affirmative action
2017-09-14
- Sanders health care bill: A cover for Democratic Party deals with Trump
- After Irma, Wall Street pushes for austerity and privatization in Puerto Rico
- Corruption crisis engulfs all major parties in Peru
- Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi and the fraud of human rights imperialism
- UK: Pay cap for majority of public sector workers to continue, despite government defeat
- Germany’s Left Party: A party of militarism and war
- Juncker’s State of the EU speech: Europe readies for war with the world
- A social crime: Eight elderly dead in Florida nursing home after days without air conditioning
- Trump administration threatens further clampdown on refugees
- More warnings of Australian property market crash
- Evacuees, volunteers describe inadequate services, police harassment at Houston convention center
- Department of Justice clears officers in death of Freddie Gray
- As official Grenfell Tower inquiry opens, UK fire safety provisions under attack
- Australian television program highlights flammable cladding crisis
2017-09-15
- Anti-Chinese witch-hunt against New Zealand MP
- Australia: Socialist Alternative supports nationalist witch-hunt over dual citizenship
- Democrats seek to prop up Trump’s crisis-ridden government
- New details highlight criminal neglect in death of Florida nursing home residents
- North Korea tests missile in response to sanctions
- Jacksonville area staggered by flooding, power outages from Hurricane Irma
- Trump administration preparing to escalate provocations against Iran
- The Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the case for socialism
- Ohio’s second execution of the year: Condemned man writhed in pain as he was killed
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- What is Equifax and why does it have personal information on half the American population?
- After the New Zealand election: The way forward in the fight against war
- Growing warnings of a stock market bubble
- Why is Amazon deleting negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book?
- US Census report shows increasing social inequality
- Spain suspends Catalan independence law, escalating conflict with separatists
- Canadian auto union moves to ram through concessions deal on GM CAMI workers
- Teachers strike in Burlington, Vermont over health care cuts, working conditions
- Charges dropped against Amtrak engineer in Philadelphia derailment
2017-09-16
- Water contamination widespread across regional Australia
- India: Unions suspend Tamil Nadu government workers’ strike
- Police crackdown on hundreds protesting acquittal of killer cop in St. Louis
- German conservative newspaper threatens Poland with territorial demands
- CIA vetoes Chelsea Manning’s Harvard fellowship
- Trump threatens North Korea with “effective and overwhelming” military force
- Why is Canada’s pseudo-left rallying behind NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton?
- Germany: Trial of neo-Nazi terror group whitewashes role of intelligence services
- Bomb attack on London Underground sets stage for further state repression
- Lakanal House: Prelude to the Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Two million in Florida still without power nearly a week after Hurricane Irma
- Truckers announce strike against attack on Labour Code in France
- The “People’s Convergence”: The pseudo-left entreats Bernie Sanders to lead “People’s Party”
- The legacy of the Cassini spacecraft
- New York governor postures at bridge dedication while transportation infrastructure crumbles
- Pittsburgh Boilermakers Union official admits theft of funds
2017-09-18
- September 18 – 24: Bolsheviks obtain majorities in Moscow and Petrograd soviets
- Greece: Syriza touts for investors and fêtes Macron
- Spain threatens potential military takeover of Catalonia as referendum looms
- Over forty arrested in St. Louis as demonstrations continue against acquittal of killer cop
- The 150th anniversary of the publication of Capital
- Australia launches three-month naval tour, directed against China
- Mexico earthquake death toll climbs to 98
- New pamphlet: Fifty Years since the Detroit Rebellion
- IAM ends Chicago area mechanics strike
- Inhabitants of Irma-ravaged Saint Martin gain nothing from French President Macron’s visit
- UK government officials back Trump demands for Internet censorship following London bombing
- Lakanal House: Prelude to the Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 2
- South Korea assassination squad to target Pyongyang leadership
- India and Japan strengthen their anti-China “strategic partnership”
- World hunger increasing for first time since turn of the century
- Watch: Hurricane Harvey victims applying for federal aid encounter government indifference
- World Socialist Web Site readers in Britain oppose Google’s censorship campaign
- Australia: New “learning precinct” ties public schools to business
- NSA documents expose secret US spying program in Ethiopia
- GM CAMI workers strike in Canada
- Burlington, Vermont teachers strike continues as officials refuse to budge on concession demands
- Pentagon to fortify Kabul for unending Afghanistan war
2017-09-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Millions of the UK’s poorest families driven into deeper poverty
- Protests continue in St. Louis as police kill eight more in US
- California: SEIU sabotages San Diego County workers’ strike
- UN General Assembly convenes under shadow of war
- Undocumented protesters drive Nancy Pelosi out of her own press conference
- Alleged Nashville shooting brings social relations into relief
- CNN claims FBI wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman
- Survivors and local residents speak out on Grenfell Tower Inquiry opening
- German Greens’ pro-war policy on display at think tank forum
- Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites
- French unions try to strangle workers’ opposition to Macron
- Facebook turns over information on Russia-linked accounts to Special Counsel Mueller
- 2017 Emmy Awards: Sean Spicer, self-congratulations and identity politics
- No to war and social inequality! For world socialism!
- Sri Lankan power workers on strike
- For an international strategy to win the CAMI workers strike
- Bank for International Settlements voices concern over finance markets
2017-09-20
- Oppose the NTEU sellout at University of Sydney! For a unified struggle of all university workers across Australia!
- David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return—Living inside a dream?
- Rural New York schools grapple with declining population, increasing poverty
- St. Louis Police declare “We’re in control” as crackdown on protests enters fifth day
- Trump’s “Mein Kampf” tirade at the United Nations
- Senate overwhelmingly approves record $700 billion military budget
- Change that he can believe in: Obama cashes in on Wall Street
- Portuguese nurses strike against an 11-year pay freeze
- Documentary exposes the fraud of New Zealand “peacekeeping” in Afghanistan
- More than 140 dead and counting as a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Mexico City
- Australian government’s “media reform” boosts conglomerates
- Grenfell Tower fire eyewitnesses: “It’s because of our class—we are the lowest socioeconomic class on the food chain”
- Catastrophic Hurricane María heads for Puerto Rico
- Senate Republicans push for another Obamacare “repair and repeal” bill
- Bus crash in New York City kills three and leaves others injured
- Hillary Clinton’s What Happened: A conspiracy theory of the 2016 election
- CAMI autoworkers locked in fight against GM Canada over jobs and wages
- Top Canadian general stokes fears over North Korea to justify joining US ballistic-missile defence
- Japanese PM backs US “military option” against North Korea
2017-09-21
- Fears of nuclear war grow after Trump’s threat to annihilate North Korea
- University of Sydney union conceals political issues in one-day strike
- Sidemen: Long Road to Glory—A heartfelt tribute to three bluesmen
- Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico
- Hundreds of riot police descend on peaceful protesters in St. Louis
- Internet censorship and government war plans
- Death toll rises in Mexico City earthquake
- US media response to Trump’s fascistic UN tirade ranges from complacency to concurrence
- US initiates plan to blow-up Iran nuclear deal
- Australia: Two Ipswich meatworks to close, destroying hundreds of jobs
- UAW officials laundered Fiat Chrysler bribes through fake charities
- Sri Lankan free trade zone and harbour workers denounce Google censorship
- The war danger and the significance of the election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
- Markets hail “gradual” moves by Federal Reserve
- New Zealand election: The fraud of Labour’s “free education” policy
- Spanish police raid Catalan government buildings, arrest officials
- CAMI strikers determined to resist GM Canada job and wage cuts
- Burma’s “democracy icon” Aung San Suu Kyi defends ethnic cleansing of Rohingya
- Interviews from the San Diego/Tijuana San Ysidro border crossing as closure looms
- Australian establishment endorses Trump’s fascistic UN speech
- Dangerous developments in Germany: AfD leader praises the Nazi Wehrmacht
2017-09-22
- Trouble in paradise: A comment on the economics and politics of the Toronto International Film Festival
- Sri Lankan government passes IMF-backed tax bill
- How Germany is supporting Burma’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya
- Puerto Rico devastated by Hurricane Maria
- Trump’s UN tirade and the logic of imperialism
- Oklahoma City police shoot and kill deaf man
- Anti-Chinese witch-hunt launched days before New Zealand election
- Trump announces aggressive sanctions against trade with North Korea
- Special counsel seeks White House documents on Flynn, Comey, Manafort
- Stop Internet Censorship! Stop Google’s political blacklisting of the World Socialist Web Site
- Workers and youth mobilize in second protest against French labor reform
- Pseudo-left groups push identity politics on seventh day of St. Louis protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why is Unifor trying to gag CAMI strikers?
- Cambodian government arrests opposition leader on treason charges
- UK wields military and security cooperation as a weapon in Brexit negotiations
- Barcelona dockworkers boycott Spanish police ships sent against Catalan referendum
- Trump outlines Washington’s “scramble for Africa” during UN luncheon with African heads of state
2017-09-23
- Watch: St. Louis workers denounce acquittal of killer cop, crackdown on protests
- Australian media targets universities in new anti-China campaign
- Spanish government dispatches police reinforcements to Catalonia
- Dam collapse threatens to kill thousands in Puerto Rico
- Sri Lankan plantation workers protest job cuts and new productivity demands
- The St. Louis police riot
- Trump provokes North Korean counter-threats and heightens war danger
- New Zealand election: Bipartisan agreement on war and austerity
- Legal appeals of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers expose travesty of justice
- Death toll in Mexico City earthquake reaches 286
- French President Macron signs labor decrees, trampling on social opposition
- FDA recommends approval of new leukemia treatment
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sigmar Gabriel’s UN address: German great power ambitions in pacifist garb
- Study: Flint’s poisoned water caused drop in number of healthy pregnancies and births
- “Committee to Investigate Russia:” Rob Reiner and Morgan Freeman’s warmongering video
- Canadian union seeks to shut down CAMI strike by offering concessions to GM
- May’s overtures to European Union on Brexit terms falls flat
- General Motors and Ford announce thousands of US layoffs
2017-09-25
- September 25 – October 1: Lenin urges Bolshevik leaders to prepare for the seizure of power
- Turkey threatens war over Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum
- When Will the Wretched Slaughter End?
- No clear winner in New Zealand election
- The Fed’s quantitative easing: A class assessment
- Puerto Rico confronts the devastation wrought by hurricanes and Wall Street
- The rise of the AfD and the rightward lurch of official politics in Germany
- As Trump threatens North Korea, most Americans oppose war
- Social anger grows after Mexico earthquakes
- In Paris, Mélenchon calls on trade unions to control opposition to austerity
- The Russian Revolution Centenary: The event that changed world history
- Iraqi Kurdish referendum stokes Mideast war tensions
- Sri Lanka: JVP leader assures business that it defends capitalism
- Authorities withheld DNA evidence in St. Louis police killing
- Immigrants arrested by plain-clothes ICE agents outside Brooklyn courthouse
- Brutal video depicts Huntington Beach, California officer killing Navy veteran
- San Diego death toll from hepatitis A outbreak rises to 16
- In defiance of Trump threats, US athletes protest police repression
- New York Times, Democrats lead push for Facebook censorship
- Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale quits
- The “disease” of social inequality sends thousands to a premature death
- US autoworkers express support for CAMI strikers in Canada
2017-09-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump implements new indefinite travel ban
- Directions, Disappearance, A Drowning Man: Realistic about harsh conditions
- US-Russian tensions flare in Syria
- Spectrum strike approaches half year mark
- Poverty, inequality on the rise in Spain as independence vote looms
- South Korea backs Trump’s threats to “totally destroy” North Korea
- Sanders declares his allegiance to US imperialism
- Millions of European workers in precarious employment
- Behind Trump’s attack on the NFL football players
- Nova Scotia Liberals slash public sector workers’ wages
- North Korea warns that Trump’s threats are a declaration of war
- Stephen Bannon’s Southern strategy and the Alabama Republican primary
- New Zealand: Workers and youth speak on election, social crisis and war
- An interview with Stephan Komandarev, director of Directions: “The first step is to have a clear picture of what’s happening. I don’t see any other way.”
- Former football star Aaron Hernandez had advanced brain damage
- German parties move further to the right after AfD’s electoral success
- Australian government plans anti-democratic laws on pretext of Chinese “sub-espionage”
- ICE rounds up farmworkers applying for work in Michigan
- Trudeau government bans Chelsea Manning from entering Canada
- CAMI autoworkers strike against GM Canada at the crossroads
2017-09-27
- One week in the media’s McCarthyite witch-hunt against Russia
- Trump to devastated Puerto Rico: Wall Street must be paid!
- New Zealand military mobilised during Auckland Airport fuel outage
- Trump makes another reckless threat against North Korea
- Darren Aronofsky’s mother!: Entirely misconceived
- Bannon-backed Senate candidate Roy Moore wins Alabama Republican primary
- Turkey threatens Iraqi Kurdish government with war
- Japanese prime minister calls snap election
- SGP election meeting: “War and inequality mutually reinforce one another”
- As Republican Obamacare repeal collapses, Democrats push pro-corporate “compromise”
- SGP election rally: International meeting in Berlin calls for stepped-up struggle against capitalism and war
- French truckers take strike action against Macron’s labor decrees
- As Unifor plots to end CAMI strike, corporate press hails union head
- UK government moves to prop up super-rich tax haven operations in British Virgin Islands
- Row over Brexit punctures myth of unity behind Corbyn at Labour Party conference
2017-09-28
- The Current War—about Edison, electricity and the 1880s—and Alexander Payne’s Downsizing—about “downsizing”
- Puerto Rican people still without aid a week after Hurricane Maria
- IYSSE speaks at health care rally at University of Illinois Chicago
- More disturbances in UK prisons as conditions worsen
- More than 52 million Americans live in economically distressed communities
- Trump’s tax plan provides massive windfall to the rich
- Why is the far-right benefiting from the crisis of capitalism?
- After German elections, France’s Macron proposes European deal to Berlin
- Binational workers speak out during the San Diego-Tijuana border closure
- Intensifying his attack on NFL players, Trump continues to incite the ultra-right
- Behind the electoral success of the AfD in the German election
- Two New York construction workers die at separate job sites
- Sri Lankan unions betray power workers’ strike
- Trump’s Commerce Department imposes huge tariff on Canada’s Bombardier
- Australian Labor leaders endorse Trump’s war drive against North Korea
- Australia: Senate committee calls for flammable cladding ban
2017-09-29
- Taliban attack greets US Defense Secretary Mattis in Afghanistan
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A tax plan by and for the US oligarchy
- SAG-AFTRA ends 11-month video game industry strike, making major concessions
- A reply to the RMTU on the anti-working class record of the New Zealand rail unions
- Few refugees leave Australian detention camps under US “swap” deal
- As popular anger builds, US sends military to Puerto Rico
- Sri Lankan president presents rosy picture at UN General Assembly
- Spain’s crackdown on the Catalan secessionist referendum: Podemos looks for its “Syriza moment”
- Peru cabinet shakeup exposes crisis of rule
- The new McCarthyism and the suppression of political dissent
- David North delivers address on Russian Revolution to large audience at Northern Virginia Community College
- Corbyn prepares for government: At what price?
- Fiat Chrysler workers react to UAW corruption investigation
- Attend the Grenfell Fire Forum hosted by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
- After German elections establishment parties call for further military build-up
- US Department of Homeland Security to track all immigrants’ social media accounts
- Catalan secession crisis: Alongside Rajoy, Trump calls for a united Spain
- Unifor leaders plot with GM to beat back resistance of CAMI strikers
- Dozens of cleanup workers dying of cancer after 2008 Tennessee coal ash spill
- German election: Where the far-right AfD won—and why
2017-09-30
- NTEU betrays staff at University of Sydney
- The Death of Stalin, The Other Side of Everything, Insyriated—The filmmakers’ inability to deal with complex questions, or worse
- ICE arrests nearly 500 immigrants in raids on “sanctuary cities” across US
- Modi government blocks Rohingya refugees entering India
- Trump to Puerto Rico: Your lives don’t matter
- Parsons Green bomb seized on to call for greater internet censorship
- Australian university union pushes sellout deals across the country
- Democratic New Jersey senator on trial for official corruption
- German army build-up follows federal election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s main opposition party dissolves itself ahead of general election
- US Justice Department demands Facebook turn over information on anti-administration activists
- Trump adds Chad to renewed travel ban
- Oppose the state crackdown on the Catalan independence referendum!
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