Archive: 07/2018
2018-07-02
- Prince William visit seeks to reinforce Britain’s ties with Israel
- An interview with Mexican documentarian Juan Francisco Urrusti, director of In Exile: A Family Film
- This week in history: July 2-8
- European Union warns of global trade war if US auto tariffs go ahead
- US financial board spars with Puerto Rican authorities over how best to pillage island
- Australia: Biloela residents continue protests against deportation of Tamil refugee family
- Hundreds of thousands march against Trump’s persecution of immigrants
- European Union intensifies campaign of terror against refugees
- Vice-President Pence threatens immigrants, Assange, and Venezuela during Latin America tour
- Trump under pressure from US intelligence agencies over North Korea
- British workers speak out in defence of public healthcare
- The NHS 70th anniversary rally in London: A vote of no confidence in Labour and the trade unions
- Massive victory for Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexican elections
- Protesting workers and youth defend immigrants
- Ocasio-Cortez on “Meet the Press”: Double-talk, evasion and a disavowal of socialism
- SEP, IYSSE campaign for congressional candidate Niles Niemuth at pro-immigrant protest in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Attacker stabs nine people at apartment complex housing refugees in Boise, Idaho
- Australian farmers testify to royal commission on predatory activities of banks
- Air pollution leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa
2018-07-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German government settles dispute at refugees’ expense
- Tensions deepen between Beijing and Taipei
- Killing of 45-year-old postal worker by Portland State University police draws protests
- Democrats fast-track Trump’s Supreme Court pick
- Outrage over union’s cancellation of New Zealand nurses’ strike
- Union tries to contain staff anger at Australia’s University of Newcastle
- After a protracted delay, full Malaysian ministry sworn in
- In wake of Lordstown layoffs, UAW stokes anti-Mexican nationalism
- Left Party supports anti-refugee policies of German government
- Bazaar merchants protest against government in Iran
- Voices of the June 30 protests: Stop Trump’s persecution of immigrants!
- London’s Grenfell Tower disaster: The cost of cuts and privatisation in firefighting
- GE dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- SEP to hold Brisbane meeting on new “foreign interference” laws: A move towards dictatorship and war
- European defence ministers sign on to European Intervention Initiative
- Escalating trade war starts to make economic impact
- UK: Inquest rules Rashan Charles died “accidentally” following attack by Metropolitan Police
- Less than 100 days before elections, half of Brazilians support no candidate
- Mexico’s election deals devastating blow to old ruling parties
2018-07-04
- Two XPO Logistics workers killed near Buffalo, New York
- UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hails Alexis Tsipras of Syriza
- Trudeau beats nationalist drum as Canada imposes retaliatory tariffs against US
- Australian teenager sentenced to 12 years in prison on trumped-up terror charges
- Homeless man jailed for picking up London Marathon number and crossing finishing line
- More than 200 people drown in the Mediterranean at the weekend
- Trump’s attack on the Department of Education
- Private prison companies thrive as thousands of immigrants detained
- America on the Fourth of July: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump
- SEP candidate Niles Niemuth speaks on Michigan Radio
- Social Democrats back conservative parties’ plan for concentration camps in Germany
- Right-wing German army officer Franco A: No charges for terrorist plans
- The second season of Netflix’s Dear White People: More of the same selfish, racial politics
- Large Hadron Collider resumes operations
- Australia: Prosecutors drop blackmail charges against construction union officials
- More support from Sri Lanka for WikiLeaks editor
- US ruling class takes measure of AMLO’s victory in Mexico
2018-07-05
- Trump pressed aides, Latin American leaders on US invasion of Venezuela
- India: Victims of police attack on Tuticorin protests speak out
- East Timorese government sworn in, instability escalates
- Britain’s role in US rendition and torture revealed
- Ten years after the Wall Street crash, record stock buybacks and mergers
- Riots erupt in Nantes in western France after police murder
- Family of Jacoby Hennings to celebrate young autoworker’s life
- Mary Shelley: Prometheus trivialized
- Former Malaysian prime minister arrested and charged
- Report: Lower-income New Yorkers suffer the greatest mass transit hardships
- The ISO’s Socialism 2018 Conference: Socialist phraseology in the service of American imperialism
- Trump administration rescinds right of detained immigrants to in-person court appearances in New York City
- Trump using separated children to force “voluntary” deportations
- Sponsors of migrant children battle financial costs and bureaucratic red tape
- British government imposes collective punishment by evicting families from public housing
- Germany: Largest ever mass deportation of refugees to Afghanistan
- Austria: 100,000 demonstrate in Vienna against labour “reforms”
- Persecution of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange continues
- Trump withdraws Obama guidances backing racial preferences in school admissions
2018-07-06
- Boston subway rider victimized by aged train and the high cost of medical services
- Trump fires opening shot in trade war against China
- The Case of Sobchak: A film by, about and for the Russian oligarchy
- EPA chief resigns amid ethics scandals
- Portugal’s Left Bloc fears backlash for its role propping up Socialist Party
- Australian investigation underscores global health dangers of toxic foam exposure
- Three years since Syriza’s referendum on EU austerity in Greece
- A global economic “recovery” without wage increases
- New Zealand nurses denounce union promotion of sellout deal
- UK mounts fresh offensive against Russia following second alleged novichok poisoning
- Billions for war and police-state repression in Germany’s grand coalition budget
- Pentagon and Iran trade threats over renewed oil sanctions
- Australian business heads warned not to criticise “foreign interference” laws
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mexican president-elect López Obrador embraced by Mexico’s business titans
2018-07-07
- Detroit water shutoffs to resume in midst of punishing heat wave
- Study shows 144,000 US inmates denied care for hepatitis C
- Conflict between Polish government and opposition escalates over Supreme Court
- Trade war and the political independence of the working class
- French auto giant PSA announces new cuts at Opel
- New Zealand nurses speak to WSWS opposing sellout deal
- US defense secretary demands UK hike military spending
- Macedonia name change agreement paves way for NATO expansion
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Killing Eve: A television series about a soulless psychopath and her pursuer
- Wall Street rebounds after federal jobs report shows continued wage stagnation
- Australia pushes Pacific Pact to combat China
- Hundreds more immigrant children detained than previously reported
- German Social Democratic Party backs brutal offensive against refugees
- Trauma continues for immigrant children in US detention
2018-07-09
- Assault on port of Hodeidah resumes as US escalates Yemen intervention
- This week in history: July 9-16
- Four Thai boys trapped in flooded cave brought to safety
- The “anti-fascism” of Podemos: A cover for Spain’s anti-worker Socialist Party government
- Refugees ensnared in European dragnet
- Paramedic’s suicide points to crisis in Australian ambulance services
- After nuclear talks, North Korea denounces Washington’s “gangster-like” demands
- Use of heavy sedative by Minneapolis police under investigation
- Federal judge denies Trump administration request for extension to reunite migrant families
- State of California reeling from record high temperatures, early wildfire season
- Another Indonesian ferry disaster, 34 confirmed dead
- US prosecutors dismiss charges for all remaining J20 defendants
- Outpouring of support to honor Jacoby Hennings, young autoworker who died in October
- Resignation of Brexit secretary David Davis prompts talk of leadership contest, British general election
- Australia’s foreign interference laws threaten whistleblowers and media freedom
2018-07-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The way forward for UPS workers
- US provocatively sends two warships through Taiwan Strait
- Trump chooses second ultra-right Supreme Court justice
- “Nerve agent” death of Dawn Sturgess raises fresh questions over UK Skripal affair
- Punk bassist Steve Soto dead at 54
- Trump administration misses deadline to reunite immigrant children with parents
- Allies no more: Trump escalates threats against Europe
- New Zealand nurses reject union-backed sellout, prepare nationwide strike
- Australian unions’ bogus campaign over sacking of Longford maintenance workers
- Floods and landslides in Japan leave more than 100 dead
- The Guardian’s Marina Hyde accuses actress Susan Sarandon of being Trump’s “asset”
- Violent Haitian protests triggered by IMF austerity measures
- National Grid cuts off healthcare for locked-out workers in Massachusetts
- Ontario’s new Tory government slashes social spending, scapegoats refugees
- Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against inhumane anti-refugee policies
- Workers honor young Ford worker who died at Detroit-area plant
- The Thailand cave rescue and the humanitarian hypocrisy of imperialism
- SEP candidate Niles Niemuth extends support to family and friends of Jacoby Hennings
- UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigns to prepare possible Conservative leadership challenge
- Famed geneticist Francisco Ayala resigns following unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment
- Amnesty International denounces Australia’s “foreign interference” laws
2018-07-11
- Emmanuelle Seigner, Roman Polanski’s wife, calls invitation to join movie Academy “insufferable hypocrisy”
- Soviet-Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky dead at 87
- Mutiny on their knees: The Democratic Party’s phony opposition to the Kavanaugh nomination
- New Zealand defence policy targets China, Russia
- Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) to hold online forum: The way forward for nurses and health workers
- More inconsistencies in account of second UK novichok poisoning
- Nicaragua sees bloodiest clashes yet after months of protest
- Nauru government bans ABC journalists ahead of Pacific summit
- US-Europe conflicts erupt in run-up to NATO summit in Brussels
- US judge rules literacy is “not a right”
- Trump administration defends missing court deadline to reunite immigrant families
- Trump administration freezes “risk adjustment” payments to health insurers
- The impact of the US-backed war in Yemen on Michigan’s 12th district
- Concerted efforts to save May’s government and the chance of a “soft Brexit”
- Ultra-nationalist US demagogue Stephen Bannon hails Australia’s new foreign interference laws
2018-07-12
- Natural gas explosion kills firefighter in Wisconsin
- The July 3 Whitstable fire and the Grenfell inferno
- Prominent whistleblowers and journalists defend Julian Assange at online vigil
- Trump escalates trade war against China
- Iraq war contractor ran US detention centre for immigrant children
- The class war over wages
- Open letter to NZ nurses’ Facebook group: Reverse the ban on WSWS articles and criticisms of the union
- Trump denounces Germany and Europe at NATO summit
- Youth mental health problems and suicides rising sharply in UK
- German interior minister’s “Master Plan” for refugees: Internment camps and mass deportations
- Australia’s new “foreign interference” laws: A threat to anti-war dissent
- Ecuador’s government negotiating Julian Assange’s fate with the UK
- Twenty thousand demonstrate in Düsseldorf, Germany against police state attacks on democratic rights
- One worker killed, one injured hours apart at Florida’s Walt Disney World
2018-07-13
- UAE and US guilty of war crimes in Yemen torture centers, Amnesty charges
- Teamsters union extends UPS contract deadline to impose sell-out deal
- What does it really mean to “Stop Trump?” The working class must be mobilised against capitalism and for socialism
- HBO’s Succession: Why are these dreadful people allowed to decide what we see and hear?
- Hearing on FBI role in 2016 election erupts in vicious conflict between right-wing politicians
- Millions of refugees face harsh conditions across South Asia
- Trump uses UK visit to heighten political turmoil over Brexit
- NATO, at war with itself, rearms for war with the world
- New Zealand nurses stage first nationwide strike in 30 years
- Over a thousand signatures from workers attending Wyandotte, Michigan art fair
- French President Macron lays out road map for military escalation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Brett Kavanaugh: A reliably reactionary jurist
- Australia: Inquest into Dreamworld tragedy reveals health and safety violations
- Australia: Victorian bus drivers strike over wages and conditions
- Australian lawyers association warns foreign interference laws violate rights to free speech
2018-07-14
- Inflation cutting real wages of US workers
- UPS workers oppose sellout contract, warn of union fraud to pass agreement
- “The Labour Party here and Democratic Party in the US have left a void and the right-wing are trying to fill it”
- UK: The rotten politics of the SWP’s Stand Up to Racism
- Mass protests against Trump’s UK visit
- Trump pardons far-right Oregon ranchers
- Growing strike movement in New Zealand
- In run-up to Trump-Putin summit, Mueller charges 12 Russian officers with DNC email hack
- Widow of UAW vice president Holiefield, guilty of corruption, gets token sentence
- Mexican president-elect assembles right-wing cabinet
- Literacy and education for all is a social right!
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh backed US militarism in his appeals court rulings
- A quarter century since the Thai toy factory fire
- Australia’s new secrecy laws block exposure of government crimes
- Only 57 of 3,000 immigrant children have been reunited with parents
- Grenfell Tower Fire inquiry testimony reveals tragic consequences of fire service cuts
- Human right groups reveal French complicity in torture in Egypt
2018-07-16
- We all see “the union being paid out and working with the company”
- This week in history: July 16-22
- After 63 years, US reopens Emmett Till murder case
- German court authorises extradition of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to Spain on embezzlement charges
- Participants in the anti-Trump rallies in the UK speak out
- Trump vs. the Democrats: Two reactionary factions fight over foreign policy
- Mass protests in Iraq’s southern provinces
- US rejects EU carve-out from sanctions against Iran
- Season two of The Handmaid’s Tale: Out of steam and it shows
- Israel carries out biggest air strikes on Gaza since 2014 war
- Ford contests token fines for death of electrician Ivan Bridgewater
- France wins football World Cup
- Woman dies after New Jersey utility cuts off her electricity
- Democrats vow to vote against their own bill to abolish ICE
- Report documents plundering of US wealth through tax cuts for the rich
- Australian royal commission reveals predatory bank lending to small businesses
- Protesters clash with Chicago police after police murder of Harith Augustus
- British and Ecuadorian authorities in talks to evict Julian Assange from London embassy
2018-07-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Families forced to rely on charity after Wisconsin explosion
- Vermont Medical Center nurses fight low pay and understaffing
- Wall Street celebrates Teamsters deal with UPS
- After Helsinki, Democrats incite “deep state” action against Trump
- Former Pakistan PM Sharif arrested in run-up to election
- Pharmaceutical distributors flooded Missouri with opioids
- New Zealand foreign minister: “Great Power competition is back”
- Anti-Russia campaign revived in UK with alleged discovery of “novichok” in perfume bottle
- SEP (Australia) holds Sydney meeting against new “foreign interference” laws
- US-backed Iraqi government guns down protesting workers
- Australian government prepares “foreign interference” prosecutions
- Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) holds online health workers’ meeting
- As protests continue, Chicago police release footage of Harith Augustus’ murder
- SEP campaign volunteers reflect on talking to thousands of workers in Michigan’s 12th District
- European powers fear loss of influence in Balkans after London summit failure
- Unions strangle strike efforts by European Amazon workers on Prime Day
2018-07-18
- UPS workers respond to surge in company stock following Teamsters’ sellout contract
- Tensions over Syria deepen following Helsinki summit
- $3,000 per second for Bezos, poverty wages for Amazon workers
- Germany: Angry protests against verdicts in trial of neo-Nazi NSU
- Washington, D.C., metro workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike action
- Under massive pressure, Trump backpedals on Russia “meddling”
- Actress Scarlett Johansson attacked for representing a “group to which she doesn’t belong”
- Intelligence inquiry whitewashes New Zealand’s spying in the Pacific
- Australia: Another fire at Melbourne recycling plant
- California Democratic Party leadership snubs Feinstein in reelection bid
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio agrees to contract with city’s largest union
- SEP volunteers in Michigan speak on powerful support from workers for a socialist perspective
- UK: May government in meltdown over Brexit
- Auto parts workers strike in Germany
- Police beat up Amazon strikers in Spain
2018-07-19
- UPS workers’ opposition grows to Teamsters sellout
- American Federation of Teachers convention devoted to boosting Democratic Party candidates
- Spain’s Socialist Party prepares new austerity budget, boosts military spending
- Claiming that the war on poverty has been won, Trump administration works to gut social programs
- The “treason” charge against Donald Trump
- General strike and ongoing protests in Panama against electricity rate hike
- Obama boasts: “I’m surprised how much money I got”
- Australia’s new espionage laws target whistleblowers and political opponents
- Fascist assault on UK union leader Steve Hedley
- Australian PM promotes racist campaign over “African gangs”
- EU and Japan sign trade deal
- Sri Lankan SEP member Mohamdiramlage Chandrasiri (1955–2018)
- Socialist candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth submits thousands of signatures for ballot access in Michigan
- Trump moves to restrict asylum
2018-07-20
- The Yellow Birds: Damaged or destroyed by the Iraq War
- UK: Sheffield Supertram workers set to continue strike
- Spain abandons attempt to extradite Puigdemont from Germany
- What is “our democracy”?
- UK poisonings: New allegations expose more contradictions
- Indian elite alarmed as Maldives gravitates toward China
- Israeli parliament passes apartheid-style “Nation-State” law
- Australia’s “foreign influence” register will attack basic democratic rights
- Democrats abstain on House resolution praising ICE thugs
- Executions in Texas and Ohio
- Far-right Identitarian movement attempts to disrupt IYSSE meeting in Dresden
- Construction accident claims the life of another New York worker
- Germany: Anti-Semitism victim beaten by police in Bonn
- New Zealand Labour-aligned Daily Blog posts pro-war, anti-China tirade
- Trump repeats threat to impose auto tariffs
- Report exposes rise in alcohol-related deaths among Millennials in US
2018-07-21
- Whistleblowers Australia denounces new “foreign interference” laws
- Strike movement develops in Venezuela as social conditions deteriorate
- Democrats, Teamsters and UAW promote deal to continue robbing pensions
- Israel’s Nation-State Law and the dead end of Zionism
- Trump on defensive over North Korean summit
- Washington D.C. transit union calls for “cooling off period” after Metro workers overwhelmingly vote to strike
- Top French presidential aide held for illegally assaulting peaceful protesters
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UAW holds strike authorization vote at Fiat Chrysler’s Kokomo, Indiana transmission operations
- Media, #MeToo silent on widespread sexual assault of detained immigrants
- Global warming will increase the severity of hurricanes
- A promotion of the “life-style” politics of the pseudo-left
- Mexico: Goodyear fires workers for forming independent union
- Seventeen dead in Missouri after duck boat sinks during thunderstorm
- The Democratic Socialists of America: Providing a “left” cover for a right-wing Democratic Party
- Washington Post columnist calls for intervention of the “deep state”
- UK continues to separate immigrant children from their families
- Brexit crisis prompts calls for national unity government
- Protests being organised against imminent eviction of Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy
- Australia’s peak union body lays out campaign to elect yet another big business Labor government
2018-07-23
- This week in history: July 23-29
- Teamsters union blackmails UPS workers: Approve contract or your wages will be cut
- Israel intervenes to extract US-UK-backed White Helmets from Syria
- Sheffield Supertram workers hold 72-hour strike, as strike ballot in Manchester begins
- Trade tensions intensify at G20 meeting
- Steam pipe explosion in Manhattan spreads asbestos
- Leaked report reveals plans for martial law in South Korea
- Australia: Tamil refugee deported, separated from his wife and baby daughter
- Bernie Sanders embraces the anti-Russia campaign
- After three months of demonstrations end, Nicaraguan workers face further repression and imperialist threats
- Protest marks six years since frame-up of Maruti Suzuki workers began
- Sheffield residents voice strong support for Supertram workers’ strike
- Boston rally supports locked-out National Grid workers
- A new film version of Fahrenheit 451: A frightening future world where firefighters set fires
- Egyptian junta extends state of emergency and censors social media
- Croatia’s performance at World Cup used to promote far-right
- Canada boosts support for US-led NATO missions in the Baltic and Iraq
- Rates of black lung highest in 25 years among Appalachian coal miners
- Imminent threat to Julian Assange underscores need for global defence movement
2018-07-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Defend Julian Assange!—Mobilise against threat to WikiLeaks founder!
- UK minister lies to parliament as debt rises and welfare claimants go unpaid
- 017 Trump and Medicare payments
- Toronto shooting kills three, injures thirteen
- Ryanair workers set to strike across Europe
- A reply to a comment on the obituary of Sri Lankan filmmaker Lester James Peries
- 055 Parti Quebecois' "left" feint
- Cynthia Nixon discovers “democratic socialism” in challenge to NY Governor Cuomo
- New Zealand bus drivers take action over work rosters
- Australian Defence Department seeks expanded powers over research
- Washington, D.C. transit union conspires with Metro officials while keeping members in the dark
- French presidential scandal: Mélenchon defends the riot police
- IYSSE blocked from leafleting at Australia’s Macquarie University
- German Left Party leaders prepare to form new right-wing movement
- Near unanimous vote to strike by Fiat Chrysler workers in Kokomo, Indiana
- Trump threatens Iran with a catastrophic war
- Mounting outrage in US over conditions facing detained immigrants
- American justice: New York City cop who killed Eric Garner may lose vacation days
- New Cuban constitution strikes references to “communism,” recognizes private property
- Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks editor: “I’ve not been able to speak to my son for four months”
2018-07-25
- Verizon and CWA cut a deal to shift healthcare costs to workers
- Australian government boosts pro-US institutes on eve of ministerial talks in California
- Top aide to former UAW vice president makes plea deal
- Israel shoots down Syrian jet over occupied Golan Heights
- Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You: A “ladder-climber” in the corporate world
- After nationwide strike: The way forward for New Zealand health workers
- Democrats’ anti-Russia campaign leaves most Americans unmoved
- Protest in London against Ecuadorian President Moreno’s persecution of Julian Assange
- Extreme weather in Japan has deadly impact on the elderly
- Trump administration deported up to 463 immigrant parents without their children
- Hospital workers go on strike in Rhode Island
- UK: Thirteen months after Grenfell fire, police conduct just three interviews
- Greece: 76 dead in wildfires near Athens
- Wealthiest 500 French people own 30 percent of the country’s GDP
- UK signs off on US death penalty for “ISIS Beatles”: What are the implications?
2018-07-26
- The Trump-Juncker agreement: A manoeuvre in the global trade war
- Corporate tax collection rate at historic low
- UK: South Western Railway conductors to strike over Driver Only Operation
- European Union reduces maritime rescue operations in the Mediterranean
- Pursuit of rapper Valtònyc reveals widespread censorship in Spain
- Trader Joe’s manager killed by Los Angeles police in shootout
- Military-style immigration raids: Coming to a workplace near you
- New Zealand Nurses Organisation presents fifth sell-out pay offer
- Evidence of liquid water lakes under polar ice caps on Mars
- More than 20 killed and hundreds missing from dam disaster in Laos
- Josep Valtònyc: “What’s happening to me could happen to anyone.”
- Indian government backs mob lynchings targeting Muslims and minorities
- Corbyn outlines nationalist, anti-migrant pitch for Labour government
- US and Australian ministers agree to intensify military integration against China
2018-07-27
- Ontario government passes draconian law to end five-month York University strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Political warfare in Washington escalates with subpoena of Trump organization CFO
- Qualcomm deal scuttled: China hits back at US in trade war
- Right-wing Islamic populist Imran Khan claims victory in Pakistan elections
- UAW corruption scandal reaches the top
- Japan passes phony “work-style reform” bills
- India truck protest enters its eighth day
- Hundreds of immigrant children remain separated from parents as court deadline passes
- The anniversary of Grenfell Tower: Some musical reappraisals
- Worker sets himself on fire in Gaza amid strike against mass layoffs
- Democrats visit Flint: Hypocrisy, lies and cover-up
- Australian by-elections threaten to deepen political instability
- David Byrne’s American Utopia: Fighting difficulties with false cheerfulness
- Ecuador refuses to give assurance of Julian Assange’s political asylum rights
2018-07-28
- Swedish student protest halts deportation of Afghan man
- The killing of Joy Gardner: A Workers Inquiry is needed
- Russian Stalinists, pseudo-left close ranks against opposition to pension cuts
- High levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water of west Michigan community
- Julian Assange and the betrayal of Latin America’s “left”
- UK: Ian Paisley suspension exposes efforts to assist cover-up of Sri Lankan bloodbath
- Australian Labor Party plans another pro-business, higher education restructure
- Ocasio-Cortez, DSA seek to give “left” cover to right-wing Democratic Party
- House Democrats vote for record US military spending
- Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, global cost-cutter, dies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Haitian National Police conspire with the Senate to plan repression
- The social and political background to the forest fire disaster in Greece
- Twenty-five years since the death of Joy Gardner
- Ontario government repudiates resettlement agreement, scapegoats refugees
- Esso Australia steps up offensive against offshore workers
- Trump administration proposes more cuts to drug discount program for safety net hospitals
- Bogus anti-Semitism campaign against Corbyn and the “left” escalates
2018-07-30
- Workers in US face growing class battles
- This week in history: July 30-August 5
- Teamsters union blames opposition to sellout contract on “internet trolls”
- US promotes Taiwanese submarine program, stoking further tensions with China
- Egypt’s military junta condemns 75 coup protesters to death
- Mississippi: No charges for police officers who fatally shot worker in address mix-up
- Kokomo Fiat Chrysler workers: Form a rank-and-file strike committee to fight for jobs and safety!
- US preparing for regime change and war against Iran
- US hospitals fail to prevent unnecessary maternal deaths and injuries
- Extended-stay motel fire kills mother and five children in Michigan
- Seven killed, hundreds of homes destroyed as Carr wildfire spreads across Northern California
- Australia: Report reveals “Harvest Trail” exploitation of overseas workers
- US midterm election campaign enters final 100 days
- Unexpectedly restrained: Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
- Local councils in England selling off over 4,000 public spaces and buildings per year
- Australian by-elections underscore deepening alienation from political establishment
2018-07-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government pursues prosecution of East Timor espionage whistleblower and lawyer
- Rifts emerge in US-EU trade deal
- Tesla assembles cars in a tent amid investigations of workplace safety
- Annie Swynnerton—a Victorian artist rediscovered but misinterpreted
- German right demands nuclear “weapons of mass extermination”
- New Zealand Defence Force nurses deployed during strike
- French police scandal exposes Mélenchon’s ties to the police state
- Hundreds of residential tower blocks still covered in Grenfell-type flammable cladding
- Acquittal for right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austrian court
- Five months after strike, West Virginia teachers say “nothing has changed”
- Politics in bad faith: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns in Michigan
- British police and intelligence using children as spies
- Oracle CEO pockets $250 million after Trump tax cut
- Benalla affair destabilises Macron government in France
- Ecuador’s president ready to allow Julian Assange to be extradited to US
- ABI management demands more concessions, job cuts
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