Archive: 09/2018
2018-09-01
- Teamsters head to UPS workers: Don’t complain, creating new tiers is “what we’ve always done”
- Elissa Slotkin: A CIA Democrat runs for Congress in Michigan
- Amid NATO threats, Russia launches largest war games since World War II
- Québec Solidaire open to supporting government led by right-wing populist CAQ
- Podemos joins cover-up of Spanish army brass’ hailing of Franco dictatorship
- The canonization of John McCain: Media, political establishment turn warmonger into saint
- Royal College of Nursing union chief resigns amid mounting anger over NHS pay deal
- Trade tensions increase as US-Canada talks miss deadline
- Los Angeles teachers vote 98 percent for strike authorization
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sharp rise in right-wing attacks on Palestinians and Israeli peace and rights activists
- Further evidence of official criminality surfaces as Grenfell fire inquiry resumes
- Trump threatens pay freeze for federal workers
- US citizens along southern border denied passports, accused of fraudulent birth certificates
- Fascist rampage in Germany exposes ties between right-wing extremists and the state
- Cambodia’s autocratic regime desperately tries to legitimise its rule
- Australia: Aurizon coal train crews face union sell-out
- Is the Mueller investigation preparing to indict WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange?
2018-09-03
- As union seeks to wrap up strikes, Washington teachers rally and call for statewide walkout
- Trump administration ends funding for Palestinian refugees
- IMF pushes for more social cuts in Ukraine
- This week in history: September 3-9
- Father of Mollie Tibbetts tells Trump administration: Stop using my daughter’s death in racist attack on immigrants
- Nashville’s shuttering of women’s health clinic leaves only one abortion facility in the city
- US and Japan increase efforts to undercut Chinese influence in Sri Lanka
- Australian government rushes to deport Vietnamese refugees
- Labor Day 2018: The growth of the class struggle and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Seymour Hersh’s Reporter: A life exposing government lies and crimes
- Trump hits out at China over North Korea
- Line-up of reaction and militarism at McCain memorial
- Washington and Tehran trade threats over the Strait of Hormuz
- On the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International
- Media smears family of victims of Chicago house fire
- Memorial service held for six of ten children killed in Chicago Little Village house fire
- Tens of thousands protest across Germany against neo-Nazi violence in Chemnitz
- Young Euro Classic 2018—a display of boundless musical virtuosity and symphonic poetry
- Amazon Nightmare: Grandmother injured on the job goes homeless, suffers pneumonia
2018-09-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US push for sanctions of China over treatment of Uyghur minority
- United Steelworkers union extends contract at ArcelorMittal and US Steel
- Seattle Education Association orders teachers to work without contract vote
- The fight against fascism in Germany requires a socialist perspective
- The US media declares war, once again, on comic Louis C.K.
- UK: Momentum’s Jon Lansman aids witch-hunt against Corbyn, joins Blairites at Jewish Labour Movement event
- Why are French media obsessed with Ecology Minister Hulot’s resignation?
- New York University president receives base pay of $1.3 million
- Ha’aretz joins witch-hunt against UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
- Millionaire Democrats face off in New York gubernatorial debate
- US report on Chinese “United Front Work” seeks to whip-up hostility towards China
- The burning down of Brazil’s national museum: A capitalist crime against the heritage of humanity
- Australian media promotes right-wing Steve Bannon and calls for confrontation with China
2018-09-05
- Walkouts by Washington state educators spread
- Injured Texas Wal-Mart worker describes how and why she switched to socialism
- Washington escalates threats over Syria as Russia bombs Al Qaeda positions
- Putin backs widely hated Russian pension reform
- Seventy thousand attend “Rock against the right wing” in Chemnitz, Germany
- As social opposition mounts, Silicon Valley and Washington step up internet censorship
- New York police union offers $500 bounty to vigilantes for assisting in arrests
- Olen Steinhauer’s The Middleman: An American uprising, darkly imagined
- US whistleblower Chelsea Manning defies ban to speak in Australia
- Democrats posture over Trump Supreme Court nominee
- Turkish lira crisis renews fears of Italian banking system collapse
- “Five Eyes” summit in Australia ramps up internet censorship
- Severe drought hits large regions of Australia
- The Socialist Equality Party and the anti-Corbyn coup plot: A reply to a reader
- Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth on ballot for Michigan’s 12th Congressional District
- Canada: Ex-Conservative leadership candidate to found new right-wing party
- Argentine government announces “emergency” measures to face deepening recession and growing unrest
2018-09-06
- Vote “no” on the UPS-Teamsters sellout contract! Form rank-and-file committees to organize opposition!
- New York Times op-ed by anonymous Trump official gives implicit support for palace coup
- Unanswered questions surround the suicide of Australian paramedic Tony Jenkins
- Tacoma teachers strike as walkouts spread across Washington
- Only three percent of students have received Governor Cuomo’s “free tuition” scholarship
- BMW auto worker describes conditions at Spartanburg, South Carolina manufacturing plant
- Chemnitz and the call for a stronger state
- 090 Rahm Emanuel not seeking reelection/police killing trial
- Ayanna Pressley upsets 10-term Massachusetts congressman in Democratic primary
- Kavanaugh hearings highlight corporate control of US Supreme Court
- Mounting turmoil in emerging markets
- Nick Beams to lecture at Australian universities on the contemporary significance of Karl Marx
- Leave No Trace: An Iraq War veteran looks to leave the world behind
- India: Police charge pro-Dalit activists under anti-terrorism laws
- 070 French government minsters resign
- Report by Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media undermines claims of chemical attack in Douma
- SEP Australia to livestream meeting in Sydney on the political issues behind the coup against Turnbull
- Retreat by Corbynites on anti-Semitism definition emboldens UK right wing
- In Senate hearing, Facebook pledges to replace “bad speech” with “alternative facts”
- Australian unions exploit childcare strike to promote Labor
- Arizona Supreme Court strikes down “Invest in Ed” ballot initiative
- Alcoa workers in Canada and Australia confront the same employer offensive
- China denies establishing military base in Afghanistan
2018-09-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Striking Tacoma, Washington, teachers demand better pay, funding for education
- Leader of breakaway republic in Ukraine assassinated
- May stakes out Britain’s imperialist ambitions in Africa
- CIA Democrat complains of political spying by Republicans
- UK “identifies” Russian agents in attempted Skripal assassination
- Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) forum reviews lessons of nursing union sellout
- Pompeo visits Pakistan to demand “reset” in support for Afghan war
- Waste plastics poison the food chain and contribute to global warming
- New York Times covers up Google’s censorship
- Many Japanese schools fail to meet earthquake-resistant standards
- Home loan stress threatening millions of households in Australia
- French ministers resign as Macron government plunges in polls
- In wake of credit downgrade huge job cuts looming at Ford
- Australia: Factory fire sends toxic smoke over western Melbourne
- Trump administration to abandon court settlement prohibiting indefinite detention of immigrant children
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces he will not seek reelection
- Saxony’s minister president declares solidarity with far-right protests in Chemnitz
- German Left Party leader launches right-wing nationalist movement
- Amazon market capitalization surpasses $1 trillion
2018-09-08
- Reject the sellout in Seattle! For a statewide and national teachers strike!
- What is the Teamsters for a Democratic Union?
- Far-right Sweden Democrats poised to make gains in general election
- Thousands of rank-and-file US Steel workers cast unanimous votes to strike
- Britain: No-confidence motions passed against leading Blairite MPs
- Sri Lankan unions in closed-door discussions with plantation bosses
- A record $31.5 trillion hoarded by corporate oligarchs
- German Interior Minister Seehofer backs the brown mob
- Obama speech escalates factional warfare against Trump
- Fifteen prisoners die in a month in Mississippi
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UAW silent after Fiat Chrysler worker injured at Kokomo casting plant
- Mass social unrest leaves Iraq’s oil capital in flames
- India expands anti-China “strategic partnership” with Washington
- Australian construction worker dies after being struck by tub of concrete
- CIA out of University of Illinois Chicago!
- Mistrial in case of formerly convicted Blackwater mercenary
- British media blacks out self-immolation of woman at Barnet council office
- Facebook’s partnership with the Atlantic Council
- Following strike wave, New Zealand prime minister appeases the corporate elite
2018-09-10
- US officials met with Venezuelan military to discuss coup plot
- This week in history: September 10-16
- US set to escalate trade war against China
- US Marines deploy to Syria for live fire exercise
- Seattle Education Association pushes through sellout deal
- Who are California Governor Jerry Brown’s appointments to the University of California Board of Regents?
- Police suppress protest over schools in debt-ridden Chinese city
- Podemos proposes to “co-govern” with Spain’s Socialist Party government
- A week of crisis and deepening dysfunction in US politics
- Sri Lankan prime minister threatens increased internet and social media censorship
- Civil war clashes erupt in Libya
- Japan and China improve relations in face of US trade war measures
- Striking Chicago hotel workers speak out on fight for wages, health care
- Syriza jails Syrian swimmer Sara Mardini for helping refugees in Greece
- Grand Coalition adopts plan for historic rearmament of German military forces
- Nike unveils ad featuring blacklisted quarterback Colin Kaepernick
- Israel’s Netanyahu extends hand of friendship to fascistic Philippines President Duterte
- Hundreds of Australian Aborigines killed in state custody
- Chicago hotel workers’ strike enters fourth day
- German Secret Service denies neo-Nazi violence in Chemnitz
- Bisbee ’17: The deportation of Arizona copper miners is a “still-polarizing event”
2018-09-11
- Wonga payday loans collapse shows extent of UK poverty
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Massive student protests hit Mexico City universities
- Teachers must link up their fight with educators nationally and internationally!
- Swedish election results in gridlock and growth of the far-right
- Dallas police officer charged with manslaughter 72 hours after shooting neighbor in his own apartment
- Duterte deepens economic ties with China
- Venezuela and the hypocrisy of US imperialism
- Six thousand University of Michigan nurses voting on strike authorization
- Australian university union elections point to seething discontent
- Australian parliament resumes for first time after leadership coup
- Critically injured Kokomo Fiat Chrysler worker faces protracted recovery
- India: Kerala residents face ongoing impact of floods
- Huge rise in deaths of homeless people in the UK
- National Grid’s lockout of Massachusetts gas workers in third month
- German neo-Nazis attack Jewish restaurant during far-right riot in Chemnitz
- Trump administration threatens sanctions against International Criminal Court
2018-09-12
- Trades Union Congress in Britain silent on anti-Corbyn coup plot
- The political roots of the terror attack on New York and Washington
- Russian government cracks down on protesters during regional elections
- UK: Journalists exposing police collusion in Loughinisland massacre arrested
- Chicago hotel strike pits workers against Democrats’ billionaire candidate for governor
- Seventeen years after 9/11: From “war on terror” to “great power conflict”
- Pacific Islands Forum intensifies anti-China push
- Australia: The pseudo-left Victorian Socialists and its pro-capitalist election manifesto
- Hundreds protest fatal shooting of unarmed man in Dallas, Texas
- Growing support for socialism among students across the US
- Striking Chicago hotel workers speak out
- German government plans combat mission against Syria
- Fifteen thousand protest throughout Germany against war, police repression and the fascist right
- Poor and unhealthy: Australia’s artists in social free-fall
- Ontario invokes anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause” to override court ruling
- Washington bullies Central American countries for adopting “One China” policy
- Brazil’s Workers Party drops Lula as candidate for president
2018-09-13
- Bloody siege of Yemeni port resumes as US certifies Saudi concern for civilians
- Australia: Reject NTEU sellout at Macquarie University! For a unified national struggle against cuts!
- Nearly 200 clean-up workers sickened or dead from 2008 Tennessee coal ash spill
- Teachers strike in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
- UK: Rival Socialist Party members vie for position as deputy leader of civil servants union
- Over 1,000 Ryanair cabin crew and pilots strike in Germany
- China and Russia strengthen ties to counter US threats
- Hurricane Florence exposes disastrous state of US infrastructure
- In new cost-cutting move, PSA subcontracts Opel operation in Germany
- Washington and Pyongyang in talks for second summit
- “Why the working class needs socialism” Large turnout to hear SEP candidate Niles Niemuth at University of Michigan
- Ronan Farrow’s #MeToo campaign brings down Leslie Moonves at CBS
- Chelsea Manning speaks in New Zealand
- Five million deaths a year due to poor-quality health care
- Fiat Chrysler Kokomo casting plant cited for safety violations before latest worker injury
- One in every nine human beings goes hungry
- “Monster” Hurricane Florence approaches South Carolina
- British nationalist Nigel Farage addresses co-thinkers in Australia
- Workers and youth oppose Australian government ban on Chelsea Manning
2018-09-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian unions amass wealth as membership plummets
- Washington state strikes continue as Tumwater teachers defy back-to-work order
- Facebook censors ThinkProgress
- Republican war criminals endorse CIA Democrat Slotkin
- Invergordon whisky distillery in Scotland demands workers accept a £10,000 pay cut or lose their jobs
- Political showdown erupts in the Philippines
- 12,800 immigrant children detained in American internment camps
- Twenty-five years after Oslo, a deepening catastrophe for the Palestinians
- SEP congressional candidate Niles Niemuth campaigns at Wayne State University in Detroit
- Australia: Union calls one-day stoppage at University of Newcastle
- Trial starts five years after fascist murder of French student Clément Méric
- Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina
- Grenfell Fire: Fire Brigades Union warned of cladding dangers 19 years ago
- Proposed methane rule repeal continues Trump’s deregulation of polluters
- Scandal erupts over Dutch state’s funding of Islamist terror group in Syria
- Duisburg, Germany: Social democratic mayor agitates against refugees and migrants from Eastern Europe
- Chicago hotel workers’ strike continues for eighth day
- New owner at low-wage Detroit auto parts supplier DMS
2018-09-15
- New Zealand: Unite union applauds ban on migrant workers at Burger King
- UPS unveils $1 billion cost-cutting “transformation plan”
- Russia postpones Syrian offensive in Idlib as NATO threatens escalation
- Teacher strike in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania wins broad support
- United Steelworkers block strike of US steelworkers
- Ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers
- California: Fire exposes conditions at Oakland homeless encampment
- New York Times goads Trump into major new war in Syria
- Canada’s trade unions deepen corporatist alliance with government during NAFTA talks
- Thousands remain evacuated after gas explosions rip through three Massachusetts towns
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian Stalinists seek to divert discontent into an alliance with capitalist parties
- Hurricane Florence kills five in North Carolina, leaves nearly one million without power
- Mehring Books UK publishes The Heritage We Defend 30th anniversary edition
- German Social Democrats feign opposition to fascist AfD
- Ford’s shakedown of Detroit over new tech campus
- Operation Finale depicts the 1960 capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
- Andrew Cuomo defeats Cynthia Nixon in New York Democratic gubernatorial primary election
- Tory faction fight over Brexit escalates as leadership challenge to May threatened
- Australian government and Labor Party back prosecution of whistleblower who revealed Timor bugging
2018-09-17
- Residents of Chicago’s Little Village speak out against increasing poverty and unaffordable housing
- UN special rapporteur to examine extreme poverty in the UK
- Texas special education students face teacher shortage and budget shortfall
- This week in history: September 17-23
- Hundreds arrested as construction workers at Turkish airport clash with security forces
- Israel bombs target near Damascus as Syrian war threatens to escalate
- US schools hiring private companies to spy on students’ social media
- Peru: Pseudo-left promotes anti-corruption protests to cover for anti-worker policies
- Silicon Valley’s corrupt nexus: War, censorship and inequality
- New Zealand primary teachers’ union presents sellout offer
- Manafort guilty plea, cooperation deal rock Trump White House
- In France, Mélenchon advisor hails Wagenknecht’s anti-immigrant Aufstehen group
- Growing anger over injury of autoworker in Kokomo, Indiana
- Japanese prime minister seeks improved relations with Russia
- Chicago hotel workers continue walkout as workers throughout the US vote to strike
- UK Food Foundation: Four million children have poor diets
- Ten years after Lehman: New financial crises in the making
- Portland officials fail to indict two university police for murder of 45-year-old worker
- Australian government calls royal commission into aged care but numerous reports have already exposed major crisis
2018-09-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Typhoon Mangkhut kills dozens in the Philippines, leaves trail of destruction in China and Hong Kong
- Russian aircraft shot down during Israeli missile attack on main Syrian government port
- Twenty years since the death of Marxist historian and sociologist Vadim Rogovin
- Quebec: Right-wing populist CAQ exploits disaffection with traditional parties
- Top Spanish pseudo-lefts hail Italian neo-fascist government
- The implications of US-China trade war
- Support the fight of University of Michigan nurses!
- Socialism: What it is and how to fight for it
- South Korean president in Pyongyang for summit on denuclearization
- Assault allegation puts question mark over Kavanaugh nomination to Supreme Court
- Thirty-one dead as Hurricane Florence continues to ravage the Carolinas
- European Union launches disciplinary procedure against Hungary
- Hal: A documentary about American filmmaker Hal Ashby (The Last Detail, Shampoo, Coming Home)
- London: 8,000 council homes set for demolition
- China’s $60 billion in aid and loans to Africa in context
- Chicago Ford autoworkers support hotel workers on strike
- Economist magazine calls for soldier MPs to lead UK
2018-09-19
- Unions shut down Washington teacher strikes
- Wall Street pay up 13 percent while workers’ wages stagnate
- Moscow blames downing of Russian plane near Syria on Israeli “provocation”
- David North to address meetings in Sri Lanka on the lessons of the history and contemporary struggle for socialism
- New police raids and Europe-wide manhunt against G20 opponents
- Report shows that US police militarization does not reduce crime
- Peru’s supreme court sentences Shining Path leaders to new life prison terms
- Brett Kavanaugh and the role—once again—of sexual misconduct allegations in American politics
- UK: Fresh novichok allegations used to escalate anti-Russia offensive
- French neo-fascists who killed Clément Méric receive short jail terms
- Labour’s John McDonnell embraces Blairite “new economy” plan
- French far-right tough defends fascist murder of Méric: “He asked for it!”
- Tropical Storm Florence inundates toxic manure ponds, coal ash dumps in the Carolinas
- Facebook expands censorship to photos and videos
- Australia’s financial newspaper warns of another global crash
- Western Australia: Indigenous boys drown trying to escape police
- China retaliates against US trade war measures
2018-09-20
- Over 5 million children face starvation as US-backed forces attack Yemeni aid port
- Turkish government frames up airport construction workers
- The militarist component of Trump’s trade war
- The strange case of Julia Salazar, Democratic Socialists of America candidate for New York Senate
- Trump administration announces record low cap on refugees allowed into the US
- Anticapitalistas in Spain’s Podemos debate orienting to far-right Italian regime
- America: The garrison state
- Russia implicates pro-NATO Ukrainian regime in MH17 shoot-down
- UK: Corbyn’s media policies leave corporate domination unchanged, silent on censorship
- Germany’s grand coalition promotes far-right secret service chief to state secretary
- Korean summit yields new agreement, but few tangible results
- Kokomo Chrysler workers press for strike action
- Conflict over FBI investigation puts Kavanaugh hearing in doubt
- Italian officials received prior warnings of catastrophic bridge collapse in Genoa
- Hurricane flooding exposes mass poverty, class oppression in America
- European Union announces draconian internet censorship measures
- Bangladesh garment workers denounce minimum wage offer
- Young girl imprisoned on Nauru at “high risk of suicide” if not evacuated to Australia
- Thousands of ArcelorMittal steelworkers in US cast unanimous strike vote
2018-09-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Another homeless grandmother details nightmarish aftermath of Amazon workplace injury
- New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria
- New Zealand government extends troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan
- Four dead in workplace shooting in Maryland, the third mass shooting in the US in 24 hours
- Australian government planning to reopen strategic Papua New Guinea naval base
- Promotion of German secret service chief evokes the tradition of the Gestapo
- Iran responds to economic crisis and US destabilisation with repression of working class
- Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children
- In Germany’s Hambacher Forest: The state shows its ugly face
- Ontario Appeals Court backs provincial government against Toronto Council
- Fahrenheit 11/9—Filmmaker Michael Moore clings to the Democratic Party
- UK government attempt to gag teachers as cuts deepen
- Questions emerge following shutoff of water to Detroit schools
- The CIA Democrats: A balance sheet of the primaries
- UAW corruption scandal widens as US workers press for wage increases
2018-09-22
- New documents on Yeltsin-Clinton conversations further expose US “meddling” in Russian politics
- Adam Tooze’s Crashed: The limitations of a Left-liberal historian
- New York Times claims Deputy Attorney General discussed removing Trump
- The Kavanaugh hearing: Sexual allegations fuel the Democratic Party’s right-wing politics
- The ouster of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma: The #MeToo movement assaults free speech
- Socialist Equality Party congressional candidate Niles Niemuth speaks to students and youth at Wayne State University
- Rupert Murdoch accused of insisting on Australian prime minister’s removal
- More than 85,000 Massachusetts residents could be without gas service for months
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UNITE HERE isolates striking Chicago hotel workers, rams through deal with Marriott
- Macron impeachment mooted as more French ministers resign
- Sharp rise in far-right attacks in Germany
- EU summit marked by Brexit threats and ultimatums
- Blairites and Tories share platform calling for Corbyn’s removal
- Beijing cancels trade talks with Washington after US sanctions China for weapons purchases
- Striking Chicago Hyatt workers describe fight against hotel giants
- Another tragic family killing in Western Australia
- Rising homelessness among older people in Australia
2018-09-24
- This week in history: September 24-30
- The lessons of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party’s Great Betrayal
- Refugees fleeing crisis in Venezuela confront poverty in Peru
- The CIA Democrats and the US midterm elections
- Michigan governor prepares to deploy National Guard to replace locked-out roadway workers
- Senate Committee to take testimony on sex assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh
- Twenty-nine killed in attack on military parade in southwestern Iran
- India cancels talks with Pakistan, threatens military action
- Trump administration takes aim at immigrants who receive federal benefits
- ICE conducts anti-immigrant raids throughout Wisconsin
- Hundreds of neo-Nazis chant anti-Semitic slogans in Dortmund, Germany
- Russian neo-Stalinist defends Partido Obrero’s “refounding” of Fourth International
- Financial Times expresses concerns over Sri Lanka taking Chinese loans
- Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Socialists of America candidate, covers for CIA Democrats
- Brazil election campaign preparing rise of right-wing government
- Australian university students face unprecedented financial pressures
2018-09-25
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- UN expert advises Sri Lankan government about social impact of austerity measures
- WSWS demands Turkey release Max Zirngast, Hatice Göz and Mithatcan Türetken
- Oppose Michigan National Guard deployment against operating engineers!
- Amid media frenzy, Rosenstein to meet with Trump on Thursday
- Vadim Rogovin and the sociology of Stalinism
- Costa Rican public-sector strike enters third week
- America’s industrial slaughterhouse
- US spy agencies come to Northern Virginia Community College
- Australia: Call for united action blocked at Newcastle university rally
- German grand coalition backs secret service head who defended neo-Nazis
- Corbyn and trade unions block deselection of right-wing MPs
- Democrats push second round of sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh
- Release the framed-up Istanbul airport workers!
- Trump to intensify economic war on Iran
- Massachusetts: Lawrence residents speak out on the Columbia Gas explosions
- There was far more to Leonard Bernstein than mere charisma
- MI5’s anti-Corbyn campaign and the slandering of Michael Foot
- Dopesick by Beth Macy
- The New York Times promotes the Democratic Socialists of America
- Guardian newspaper condemned for publishing “deliberate lies” about Julian Assange
2018-09-26
- Trump delivers fascistic tirade at the United Nations
- US-China trade war intensifies
- From the LSSP’s Great Betrayal to the founding of the RCL
- 210 Rogovin
- Trump administration moves to impose class-based restrictions on immigration
- Eighty Years of the Fourth International (1938-2018): The class struggle, revolution, and socialism in the 21st century
- Snyder administration backs strikebreaking threat by Michigan road construction contractors
- Pro-US candidate wins Maldives presidential election
- UK Labour conference passes Brexit motion with option for “people’s vote”
- Australian royal commission reveals predatory practices of insurance companies
- Japanese space agency lands two rovers on surface of asteroid
- Why is HBO’s Game of Thrones so popular?
- Hurricane Florence unleashes coal ash, hog waste pollution
- UK military step up marches and parades on streets of Britain
2018-09-27
- Eighty-three abducted by ICE across Wisconsin in four days
- The neo-Nazi offensive in Germany and the role of historians
- Kavanaugh’s nomination, Cosby’s sentencing: News media pornography and the enraged middle class
- Campaign meeting with Niles Niemuth brings socialism to Wyandotte, Michigan
- Wave of strikes, protests in Dutch public sector
- The fight to drive out the right-wing from the Labour Party and the struggle for socialism
- Australia: Commemoration rally held for youth killed in racist attack
- Washington amplifies war threats against Iran, bullies the world
- Federal Reserve lifts interest rates and indicates further hikes
- US sells arms to Taiwan, confronts China
- Chilean president praises armed forces amid new convictions of military assassins
- Trial underway in Chicago police murder of Laquan McDonald
- Spanish police harass, spy on Catalan separatist party
- Workers and students support Sri Lankan meetings on the struggle for Trotskyism
- Auto manufacturers in UK cut production, threaten jobs as Brexit crisis deepens
- France refuses to let Aquarius dock as EU seeks to block refugees
- New Amazon facility in Oregon: Tax cuts for corporation, poverty wages for workers
2018-09-28
- US wars claim soaring civilian casualties in Yemen and Afghanistan
- Victors Care brings class-based medical care to University of Michigan hospital
- Turkish president visits Berlin as US-European conflict in Middle East rises
- An intriguing film festival—above all, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo
- United Steelworkers union claims it is preparing to strike ArcelorMittal
- The RCL/SEP’s political struggle against petty-bourgeois radicalism
- German government agrees to arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia, fuelling war in Yemen
- Airline workers launch largest strike in Ryanair’s history
- New York police officers caught running prostitution ring
- After a decade of falling pay, US Federal Reserve acts to stop “wage inflation”
- Australian unions enforce low pay for pathology workers
- Congress readies band-aid measure for opioid crisis
- Operating engineers’ union bows to strikebreaking threats by Michigan governor, contractors
- New Census Bureau report details poor conditions in New York’s Public Housing
- German Chancellor Merkel loses closest ally
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Kavanaugh hearing: A spectacle of political filth and reaction
- An interview with Mike Leigh, director of Peterloo: “You don’t run out of steam if what you do … is to literally hold the mirror up to nature”
- Vote “yes” on resolution to force out Royal College of Nursing leadership! Build rank-and-file committees!
- David North warmly welcomed on his arrival in Sri Lanka
- Argentina’s Macri responds to fourth general strike with yet another IMF package
- BJP government pushes Air India into financial morass to hasten privatization
2018-09-29
- Trump threatens “strategic allies” with auto tariffs
- Joint strike by Ryanair pilots and cabin crew hits six European countries
- Russian Duma rams through pension reform amid mass opposition
- Polls predict Quebec elections likely to end in hung parliament
- Sri Lankan plantation workers demonstrate for higher wages
- The political issues in the Senate hearing on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
- After Parkland: The militarization of high schools in the US
- New Zealand primary teachers reject sellout pay offer
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US announces new barrier to citizenship for low-income immigrants
- Meghan Markle’s Grenfell cookbook: The royal family in damage control mode
- German Left Party mayor orders deportation of refugees
- Impact of Hurricane Florence continues to be felt throughout the Carolinas
- Jeremy Corbyn calls for unity with Labour’s right-wing and the “business world”
- SEP and IYSSE win broad support for Peradeniya university meeting on the struggle for Trotskyism
- Indianapolis Allison Transmission workers face stonewalling by UAW over contract terms, pensions
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