Archive: 10/2018
2018-10-01
- This week in history: October 1-7
- Capernaum, Screwdriver, Rosie, The Public and Black 47: Socially critical films from the Middle East, Ireland and the US
- Hundreds of thousands demand strike action in the US
- Democrats, media press Kavanaugh sexual assault campaign
- More than eight hundred dead after earthquakes and tsunami strike Indonesia
- Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp
- World Bank warns Gaza faces economic collapse
- Beijing university threatens Marxist student society
- Dozens injured as Catalan separatists and regional police clash in Barcelona
- Brazil’s Workers Party leader covers up far-right threats to next government
- López Obrador promises Truth Commission in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students
- Macron whitewashes French state murder of Maurice Audin
- Julian Assange appoints new WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief
- Senior management implodes after exposure of government interference at Australia’s state-funded media
2018-10-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: “Terror case” against university employee falls apart
- Los Angeles harbor drivers hold three-day strike
- Niles Niemuth brings Socialist Equality Party congressional campaign to US Steel workers in suburban Detroit
- Campaign grows inside Podemos for alliance with Spanish right
- Child concentration camps in America
- New Zealand education riven by class inequality
- Mobilize the working class to defend nurses and secure the right to health care!
- The fight against public sector cutbacks requires a socialist perspective
- Nashville, Tennessee, police officer charged in shooting death
- Trump touts tariffs and trade war following NAFTA renegotiation
- Armed police used in illegal evictions in Dublin, Ireland
- Iran fires missiles at Islamist “rebels” as US vows to remain in Syria
- Indonesian tsunami relief grossly inadequate as death toll tops 1,200
- Pakistani premier Imran Khan imposes austerity mini-budget
- IMF chief warns of rising risks facing global economy
- House fire at vacant property kills two in Hamtramck, Michigan
- Text of David North's remarks to Sri Lankan press conference on Trotskyism
- German neo-Nazi group arrested after far-right riot in Chemnitz
- Sri Lankan students discuss upcoming anniversary meetings on the history of the Trotskyist movement
2018-10-03
- Widespread opposition to sellout UPS contract in run-up to Friday vote deadline
- Australian academics union tries to impose another sellout agreement at University of Melbourne
- After North America trade deal, Trump to escalate trade war against China
- United Steelworkers union pushes concessions at US iron ore producer Cleveland Cliffs
- Washington threatens preemptive strike against Russian missiles
- The Kavanaugh nomination, #MeToo and the politics of petty-bourgeois rage
- Quebec: Right-wing populist CAQ exploits mass disaffection to win office
- David North outlines contemporary relevance of Trotskyism at Colombo media briefing
- Ten years since the 2008 bank bailout
- UK nurses vote to remove Royal College of Nursing leadership after pay deal sellout
- New York City affordable housing crisis continues to worsen
- US and Chinese warships narrowly avoid collision in South China Sea
- CIA Democrats call for aggression against Russia, run pro-war campaigns in 2018 congressional races
- German neo-Nazi group arrested after far-right riot in Chemnitz
- What’s behind Amazon’s plan to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour?
2018-10-04
- UPS workers denounce Teamsters effort to impose sellout contract, despite “no” vote
- Brexit and growing social divide dominate crisis-ridden Tory conference
- Icebox and Twin Flower: The US government locks up children—and, in Italy, an African refugee finds a kindred spirit
- The International Socialist Organization mobilizes behind Democrats’ right-wing diversion on Kavanaugh
- The fraud of Amazon’s $15 wage
- Anger grows as Indonesian tsunami disaster worsens
- New Zealand: Wellington bus drivers vote for indefinite strike
- SEP (Australia) meeting outlines political issues behind coup against Malcolm Turnbull
- UPS aircraft mechanics reject Teamsters contract proposal
- Demolition of Bedouin village highlights Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” plan
- An interview with director Daniel Sawka and actors from Icebox: “As inequality grows, there’s always scapegoating of immigrants”
- International Court of Justice strikes down US sanctions against Iran
- 1,500 Boston hotel workers walk out as UNITE HERE seeks to end Chicago strike
- German government celebrates “unity day” under the shadow of renewed neo-fascist movement
- Wealth of 400 richest Americans hits record $2.9 trillion
- Mass graves in Mannar point to further war crimes in Sri Lanka
- Horrors at ICE prison in California: nooses found hanging in majority of cells
2018-10-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- FEMA and Trump send out mass “Presidential Alert”
- Teamsters head threatens to impose UPS contract even if workers reject it
- German parliament president Schäuble advocates militarism and stepped-up state repression in “Unity Day” speech
- US, UK and NATO allies ramp up anti-Russia offensive over “cyber spying” and Skripals
- Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth speaks in Ann Arbor on the right to universal health care
- The US military’s vision for state censorship
- US vice president issues bellicose diatribe against China
- 3,000 Dutch public service workers protest in The Hague
- David North’s lecture at Peradeniya University in Kandy attracts significant support from students and workers
- Workers strike at Marriott hotels in Boston and San Francisco
- Fiat Chrysler Kokomo workers angered by UAW obstruction to fight over health and safety
- US Senate sets first vote on Kavanaugh nomination
- The #MeToo campaign versus the presumption of innocence
- 50 million user accounts hacked in Facebook data breach
- Risk of no-deal Brexit staggers European companies and economy
- Australian banks downgraded as concerns mount over falling property prices
2018-10-06
- Los Angeles teachers union continues to delay strike action as negotiations proceed
- Teamsters union defies “no” vote, declares UPS contract ratified
- Mexico: Fifty years since the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre
- NY Times exposé on Trump fortune: An empire built on tax evasion and fraud
- The destruction of Germany’s Thyssenkrupp and the role of the IG Metall union
- Organize independent rank-and-file committees to prepare strike action!
- Bernie Sanders covers for Jeff Bezos as fraud of $15 pay raise at Amazon is exposed
- Kremlin suffers defeats in regional elections
- Federal judge issues injunction against Trump administration refugee order
- UK: No to Driver Only Trains in any form, mobilise against rail union sellout
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh clears crucial hurdle to confirmation
- Indonesia’s earthquake catastrophe
- Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
- Australian government hands private schools another $4.6 billion
- Socialist Equality Party candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth speaks at televised forum
- Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder in 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald
- “I am a poet who has the ability to sing his poems” – Charles Aznavour (1924-2018)
- 40,000 people protest in Munich, Germany against racism and police state laws
2018-10-08
- This week in history: October 8-14
- Eighteen-year-old found hanged in northern Wisconsin jail
- Damien Chazelle’s First Man: Reduced in space—and opera singer Maria Callas, the Afghanistan war, small-town America
- Socialist Alternative on New York primaries: Burrowing further into the Democratic Party
- US envoy to Australia reveals joint bid to block Huawei in Papua New Guinea
- After “no” vote by UPS workers, Teamsters bureaucracy declares contract ratified
- Obama endorses DSA’s Ocasio-Cortez, along with CIA Democrats
- Limo crash in upstate New York kills 20
- US Senate elevates right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
- Israeli mass murder of Gazans targets children
- Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
- French government staggered by Interior Minister Collomb’s resignation
- Detroit Westin Book Cadillac workers join hotel walkouts
- Sharp rise in child protection interventions in Australia
- Fascistic candidate Jair Bolsonaro places first in Brazilian presidential election
- Labour Party-run councils escalate austerity in UK
2018-10-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UPS workers’ opposition grows to Teamsters’ defiance of contract vote
- Relations deteriorate between Hungary and Ukraine
- Key provision of USMCA trade deal aimed at China
- Journalist reported tortured and slain in Saudi consulate in Istanbul
- Brutal conditions at Greek refugee camps condemned
- The Kavanaugh confirmation and the US midterm elections
- Marriott hotel workers strike spreads to Hawaii
- Build rank-and-file committees to unify struggles against austerity in France!
- Detroit Medical Center doctors fired after speaking out for patient safety
- French government on verge of collapse after interior minister resigns
- Ford announces plans for more layoffs amid new restructuring efforts
- Debbie Dingell: A candidate of wealth and privilege
- German government organises mass deportations of refugees to Kabul
- Large Colombo audience hears David North’s lecture on the history of the Fourth International
- Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
- Chemnitz: German Neo-Nazi terrorist group relied on extremist network
- Canada: Workers need a socialist program to fight the right-wing populist danger
- New Zealand prime minister’s false facade of “hope” and “kindness”
- Australian union prepares sellout after ending Alcoa strike
2018-10-10
- Turkish government steps up attack on jailed airport construction workers
- UPS workers speak out against Teamsters’ defiance of their vote
- TDU, Teamsters United capitulate to Hoffa’s override of UPS workers’ “no” vote
- Trial of “Stansted 15” anti-deportation protesters begins in UK
- #MeToo-style allegations used to oust popular University of Michigan professor
- Pompeo visit heightens US-China rift
- The far-right threat in Brazil and the role of the Workers Party
- Limo in crash that killed 20 owned by FBI terror “sting” operative
- The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the hypocrisy of the New York Times
- Italy: Arrest of Riace mayor sparks protests
- The unions’ suppression of the 1995-97 anti-Harris movement: Part 3—The 1997 Ontario teachers’ strike
- Workers and retirees rally against French government’s austerity policies
- Watch: David North interviewed on Sri Lanka’s English-language Channel Eye TV
- Striking workers rally at Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit
- Australian encryption bill becomes a global test case for surveillance
- UN report warns of catastrophic consequences of climate change within 20 years
- Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born: It’s true, the artist must have “something to say”
- Injured US Amazon workers face “workers compensation” regime rigged in favor of employers
2018-10-11
- Ongoing opposition to Teamsters ramming through UPS contract despite workers’ vote
- Pentagon report points to US preparations for total war
- Tamil Nadu police arrest hundreds of striking Indian autoworkers
- How the NY Times shielded Trump and the Manhattan real estate mafia
- TDU, Teamsters United capitulate to Hoffa’s override of UPS workers’ “no”
- Murder in Istanbul
- New Zealand government bans “foreigners” from buying houses
- NYU’s Washington DC campus: Academia aligns with the Department of Defense
- Britain’s pseudo-left oppose worker rebellion against Royal College of Nurses leadership
- Mack the Knife—Brecht’s Threepenny Film: The famed “play with music,” and the controversies surrounding it, brought to life
- Students denounce CIA partnership with University of Illinois Chicago
- US government may put separated immigrant children up for adoption
- IMF revises down global growth projection
- Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida as category four storm
- The New York Times laments the exit of Nikki Haley
- British royals spend millions on palace improvements
- Major fall on Wall Street as interest rates rise
- Musicians at Chicago’s Lyric Opera strike for the first time in 50 years
- Leaked Google document: Tech firms have shifted away from “free speech and towards censorship”
- Calls grow in Madrid to ban Catalan nationalist parties
2018-10-12
- US Postal Service workers protest Trump’s privatization plans
- US places alleged “Chinese spy” on public trial
- Another train derailment in New York strands thousands
- Errol Morris provides Steven Bannon a platform (American Dharma), Werner Herzog celebrates Mikhail Gorbachev (Meeting Gorbachev) and other appalling developments
- The struggle for socialism and the importance of history: David North interviewed on Radio Sri Lanka
- Hitler’s resurrection in Germany
- US ambassador to New Zealand continues public attacks on China
- Wall Street fall continues in day of swings
- Lead at some Detroit schools 50 times the allowable federal level
- Open letter by students condemns right-wing offensive at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- US student critical of Israel detained at Tel Aviv airport for more than a week
- Hurricane Michael leaves trail of death and destruction in southeastern US
- Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995-97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
- The New York Times’ Alexis Grenell denounces white women for upholding the “patriarchy”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Facebook carries out massive purge of oppositional pages
- Carl Cooley: 1927-2018
- Tubing company locks out steelworkers in Trenton, Georgia
- Billionaire Bloomberg rejoins Democratic Party
- Polls in German state elections forecast massive rejection of Grand Coalition
- Argentine teachers facing massive pay cuts strike for 48 hours
2018-10-13
- Russia: Putin ally Kudrin pushes for rapprochement with the imperialist powers
- Sri Lankan tea estate workers step up demands for higher pay
- The “Grievance Studies” hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans
- France’s Mélenchon tacitly backs Wagenknecht’s xenophobic Aufstehen group
- Macron fails to name new French government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump rejects calls for US to end arms sales to Saudi monarchy
- Australian government flags forcing new immigrants to live in designated zones
- Hurricane Michael brings death, devastation to US Southeast
- US hotel workers continue strikes in eight cities
- Survivors and bereaved give evidence—“We will not be silenced anymore”
- Liberal newsweekly Die Zeit defends far-right publishers at Frankfurt Book Fair
- Australian “edu-business” set to profit under Gonski 2.0
- Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine: A prescient warning of the danger of nuclear war
- Pages purged by Facebook were on blacklist promoted by Washington Post
- Bonus removal cancels out Amazon’s UK pay rise
2018-10-15
- New York judge dismisses a sexual assault charge against producer Harvey Weinstein
- Unions to “work with” Quebec’s new right-wing populist government
- This week in history: October 15-21
- Widespread opposition to Teamsters’ override of UPS workers’ contract rejection
- Scottish National Party proposes pact with Labour for second Brexit referendum
- In Rome, Salvini and Le Pen launch campaign for a neo-fascist Europe
- Chicago cop cleared in the 2012 killing of 15-year-old Dakota Bright
- Facebook’s purge of left-wing media: A frontal assault on freedom of speech
- New Zealand to fine travellers who refuse to unlock electronic devices at border
- Massachusetts: National Grid joins roster of companies risking customers’ lives
- US, European powers threaten Saudi crown prince after Khashoggi murder
- Trump considers reinstating family separations at the border
- Death toll from Hurricane Michael continues to climb
- Autoworkers welcome SEP candidate Niles Niemuth
- Another financial earthquake in the making
- Washington presses Central America to militarize and turn away from China
- Brexit crisis leaves fate of May government in balance
- A quarter-million protest in Berlin against the grand coalition and the return of fascism
- Bavaria state election delivers major blow to Germany’s grand coalition
- Ecuador to partially restore Julian Assange’s access to communications and visitors
2018-10-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Slashing of welfare spending forces millions into poverty in UK
- Washington state Supreme Court strikes down death penalty as “arbitrary and racially biased”
- “National crisis” facing UK National Health Service as deficits grow
- The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz—An early Stalinist frame-up on film and the Nuremberg tribunal against the Nazis
- United Steelworkers announces tentative deal with US Steel
- Australian Labor Party leader vows to cut taxes for the rich
- As Pakistan seeks IMF bailout, US intensifies pressure on Islamabad
- The multi-billion-dollar business of American trade unions
- Former first lady Michelle Obama declares George W. Bush “my partner in crime”
- Indiana Lear auto parts workers overwhelmingly reject UAW-backed contract proposal
- Trump backs Saudi Arabia, suggesting “rogue killers” murdered Khashoggi
- Australia: Hutchison pushes cuts to waterfront workers’ wages and conditions
- Dozens missing in Hurricane Michael as death toll rises
- Amazon whistleblower Shannon Allen: Celebrated $15 base pay represents pay cut for some workers
2018-10-17
- Amid furor over Khashoggi murder, UN warns millions more face starvation in Yemen
- Amnesty International: Immigrants separated from family members for alleged “fraud”
- Sears files for bankruptcy, set to close 200 stores
- The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the internet
- Bay area hotel workers determined to fight as union, Democrats try to derail strike
- Police raid on Mélenchon: The state attacks the Unsubmissive France party
- Is the WSWS exaggerating the threat of war?
- Australian housing market slumps toward potential crash
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Survivor’s statement reveals disdain for residents by the political and corporate elites
- British PM addresses EU summit as “no deal” Brexit threatened
- Fascistic candidate Bolsonaro widens lead in Brazilian polls
- Striking Tamil Nadu auto workers face dismissal
- Australia backs Trump as US ramps up anti-China drive
2018-10-18
- DSA covers for unions and Democrats in new book on walkout by West Virginia teachers
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union to UPS workers: “Whatever you do, don’t fight!”
- Seventh New York taxi industry driver commits suicide
- San Diego State University and the military-university complex
- UCU recall conference seeks to silence opposition to sell-out of UK lecturers’ strike
- Peru: Fujimori and other right-wing politicians detained for links to Odebrecht scandal
- The way forward in the struggle against the far-right danger in Germany
- Australia: Horse-racing lobby forces Sydney Opera House to advertise $13 million horse race
- Socialist Equality Party Congressional candidate Niles Niemuth visits Detroit hotel workers’ picket line
- Paul Greengrass’s 22 July: Neo-fascist mass murder in Norway
- After police raids on LFI, French courts and media denounce Mélenchon
- Macron organises French cabinet reshuffle to pursue austerity and militarism
- UAW faces growing opposition from Indiana Lear workers following contract rejection
- A discussion with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of “Grievance Studies” hoax article
- Refugee who fled Chile’s dictatorship denounces police raids against Unsubmissive France
- US, Mexican and Guatemalan governments harass caravan of Honduran refugees
- Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime
- Florida gubernatorial election: Suddenly “socialism” becomes the issue
- Record flood of cash to buy US midterm elections
- Leading US House Democrat demands that Ecuador’s president “hand over” Julian Assange
2018-10-19
- One year of the #MeToo movement
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Genuine socialism vs. the Democratic Party politics of Bernie Sanders
- New Zealand rail union promotes sellout at Wellington meeting
- Italian Interior Minister Salvini orders removal of migrants from Riace
- The Harvard case on racial preferences and the antidemocratic character of affirmative action
- New York City teachers union attempts to rush through sellout contract
- Australian government backs far-right “OK to be white” motion in Senate
- The raid on Unsubmissive France and the global rise of state repression
- CIA Democrat Max Rose faces off against Trump Republican in Staten Island
- Wall Street volatile as global economy becomes “fragile”
- Layoffs at Fiat Chrysler's Kokomo transmission operations heighten concerns over outsourcing
- Anti-Kissinger protest at New York University
- Trump scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts
- Trump threatens to deploy military to close US-Mexico border
- Trump administration accelerates war drive against China
- Brexit impasse at European Union summit
- New title from Mehring Books explains resurgence of fascism in Germany
- Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
2018-10-20
- Police attack striking workers in India and Bangladesh
- US charges new Russian conspiracy to interfere in midterm elections
- Nauru expels another doctor amid growing protests over Australia’s refugee detention centres
- Who is responsible for the rise of the fascistic Bolsonaro in Brazil?
- New Zealand opposition in crisis over links to Chinese businessman
- “McStrike”: UK unions police anger of young workers
- Saudi regime admits Khashoggi was killed in its Istanbul consulate
- European Union and Rome fight over Italian budget
- Historian seeks release of Israel’s secret papers on Kfar Qasem massacre
- Pompeo meets with Mexican government as its police attack Honduran migrants
- India seizes “shadow bank” to avert potential “catastrophic” impact on financial system
- Death toll from Hurricane Michael reaches 36 as residents struggle to recover
- Record high income in 2017 for top one percent of wage earners in US
- Trump demands five percent budget cut from each Cabinet department
- One year since the death of Jacoby Hennings
- UC healthcare and service workers to begin three-day strike
- Divisions erupt within Sri Lankan government
- Quebec: Nine-month lockout continues, as talks at Alcoa’s ABI smelter collapse
2018-10-22
- Australian government suffers major defeat in Wentworth by-election
- Vote “no” on the USW-US Steel concessions contract!
- UPS prepares to impose contract after Teamsters defy workers ‘no’ vote
- This week in history: October 22-28
- Bernie Sanders tours Michigan to prop up the Democratic Party
- A color revolution in the making: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Keith Gessen at Columbia University
- War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”
- Trump says US will withdraw from Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty
- Detroit's reality: Infant corpses found piled up in funeral home
- China growth slows to lowest level since financial crisis
- Socialist Alternative and Democratic Socialists of America hold election rally for Democrats in Chicago
- Central American caravan reaches Mexico chanting “We are international workers!”
- People’s Vote campaign ups ante against hard Brexit with large London protest
- New York’s Metropolitan Republican Club hosts leader of fascistic street gang
- Nineteen sentenced to death over 2004 grenade attack in Bangladesh
- Julian Assange takes legal action against Ecuadorian government
- The political issues posed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ “Change the Rules” campaign
2018-10-23
- US State Department “socialists” discover the war in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Waldheim Waltz: A timely film about the World War II role of the former right-wing Austrian president
- Another US provocation against China: Two warships sail through Taiwan Strait
- Europe makes delayed criticism of Saudis over Khashoggi murder
- Trump’s threat to tear up nuclear pact with Russia met with alarm in Europe, silence from Democrats
- The migrant caravan and the fight to unite the international working class
- New Zealand military covered up killing of Afghan children
- Gavin Newsom: A California governor groomed by the financial aristocracy
- Indian court dismisses Maruti Suzuki workers’ bail application
- Chicago Lyric Opera musicians’ strike ends with concessions deal
- Lear auto parts workers speak out against UAW-backed sellout contract proposal
- Thousands mourn victims of school shooting in Crimea
- Sharp decline in numbers in latest China Rich List
- Thousands of workers in Glasgow plan strike for equal pay
- Republicans and Democrats prepare bipartisan agenda of social cuts and war
- Canada: Postal union launches rotating walkout campaign
2018-10-24
- Woodhaven Stamping worker describes brutal atmosphere under UAW-Ford regime
- Australia: Victorian Labor government makes election pitch to big business
- In racist, anti-immigrant diatribe, Trump declares, “I am a nationalist”
- Swiss building workers strike in Ticino and Geneva
- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Season in France: The human cost of the refugee crisis
- PSOE and Podemos jointly present Spanish budget to the European Union
- US missile treaty withdrawal: “Prepare for nuclear war”
- Turkish president brands Khashoggi killing a premeditated murder
- European Commission rejects Italy’s 2019 budget
- Australian workers at mass rallies speak on growing inequality, denounce Labor
- Trump administration prepares draconian new anti-immigrant measures
- Nearly 150,000 New York City public school students are homeless
- Frankfurt, Germany: Thousands protest against housing shortage and high rents
- UK: Report reveals widespread soil contamination after Grenfell Tower fire
- Brazil’s pseudo-left pushes for social media censorship ahead of presidential run-off
- Australia: Over 150,000 workers protest against assault on wages and conditions
2018-10-25
- Fall in hi-tech shares wipes out Wall Street’s 2018 gains
- After Teamsters overrule “no” vote on contract, UPS earnings up 20 percent
- “Trident Juncture” manoeuvres begin: NATO rehearses for war against Russia
- Polish regional elections point to growing political instability
- Comptroller’s report details crisis of New York’s decaying transit system
- New York Times celebrates downfall of 201 “powerful men:” The ugly face of the #MeToo campaign
- In the face of mounting threats, the working class must defend Julian Assange
- Tensions continues to wrack Australian government after by-election defeat
- David North begins US speaking tour in Michigan to mark 80 years of the Fourth International
- Indian police detain thousands of striking Tamil Nadu auto workers
- Lottery fever: A symptom of social desperation
- Oppose Trump’s attacks on immigrants! Defend the migrant caravan!
- For a nationwide hotel walkout!
- Thousands strike in Glasgow for equal pay
- French flooding deaths expose legacy of austerity
- Bombs mailed to prominent Democrats and Trump critics
2018-10-26
- Former Fed chair warns of new financial crisis
- Growing opposition among autoworkers to brutal treatment of temporary workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Union, Democrats use “fact-finding” ploy to block Los Angeles teachers’ strike
- Teamsters union isolates 8,500 Chicago UPS workers
- Australia: Tasmanian public sector workers strike over wages and conditions
- Interview with photographer Tom Kiefer: “This work is part of the historical documentation of our country’s response to migration”
- Canadian postal workers criticize ineffectual rotating walkouts
- What the mail bomb uproar says about American politics
- New Zealand opposition tries to shut down scandal over alleged links to Chinese businessman
- Trump to deploy hundreds of troops to the border against Central American migrants
- CIA director briefs Trump on Khashoggi torture tape
- European Union steps up Internet censorship in the name of opposing “disinformation”
- Obama stumps for Democrats in Michigan: A legacy of social devastation
- Ford worker dies of apparent workplace injury at Chicago Heights stamping plant
- UK: May fends off challenge by hard-Brexiteers
2018-10-27
- Saudi airstrike kills 21 civilians in Yemen
- Voter suppression looms large in 2018 US elections
- Union shuts down three-day strike by California health care and service workers
- Sri Lankan President Sirisena sacks prime minister
- Geoffrey Rush defamation trial against Murdoch media begins in Sydney
- Thousands of youth demonstrate in Sri Lanka to support plantation workers’ wage struggle
- Eleven killed in deadliest attack on Jewish community in US history
- Defend immigrant workers against Trump’s military crackdown
- Pakistan caught up in intensifying US-China rivalry
- Strikes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan
- Hundreds of bodies and other remains hidden in Detroit funeral homes
- Tamil family fight UK plans to deport their seriously ill father
- Arrest of bomb scare suspect heightens political warfare in Washington
- Argentine workers and students march against “hunger budget”
- Funeral to be held today for UPS worker Andy Schanding, killed on the job in Lexington, Kentucky
2018-10-29
- This week in history: October 29-November 4
- Tens of thousands of teachers demonstrate in Glasgow for better pay
- Sri Lankan president’s cynical justifications for his political coup
- Thousands attend memorial for victims of mass shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue
- Anti-Semitic violence erupts in America
- Under US pressure, Maldives president accepts election defeat
- Lear Portage autoworker denounces UAW collusion with management
- UAW building luxury “cottage” for ex-president Dennis Williams
- Canada upholds $15 billion Saudi arms deal after Khashoggi murder
- Indian state government arrests at least 14 union leaders
- Spy and police chiefs demand passage of Australian encryption access law
- Two short films: The Overcoat, based on the Nikolai Gogol story, and Detainment, about the Jamie Bulger murder case
- Far-right candidate Bolsonaro elected as Brazil’s president
- US armed forces deployed to Mexico border in preparation for expected closure
2018-10-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Unexplained Wealth Order legislation and London’s financial aristocracy
- Participants in vigils for Pittsburgh shooting victims speak to the WSWS
- Australia: Victorian Labor government promotes bogus community contest
- Pittsburgh-area workers speak out on USW sellout deal with US Steel
- Teamsters forces UPS Freight workers to vote again on rejected sellout contract
- Vigils for victims of Pittsburgh shooting express anger over Trump’s racist incitements
- After Pittsburgh massacre: New York Times covers up Trump’s role in instigating fascist violence
- Infighting deepens between rival factions of Sri Lankan elite
- Trump deploys military to confront “immigrant invasion”
- Wall Street falls as US-China trade tensions rise
- Killings at Kentucky store were hate crime, police say
- State elections in Hesse mark further defeat for Germany’s grand coalition
- Chinese president tells military to prepare for war
- Mexican police shoot and kill 26-year-old immigrant as repression intensifies along Mexico-Guatemala border
- Julian Assange warns that Ecuador is moving to end his political asylum
2018-10-31
- UK: NHS subsidiary companies—tools for tax exemption and privatisation
- Fight for a socialist solution to the political crisis in Sri Lanka
- Thousands protest Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh synagogue following mass shooting
- Bolsonaro’s victory and the debacle of Brazil’s Workers Party
- Ontario slashes minimum wage, guts labour standards
- A wolf in wolf’s clothing: West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda
- New Zealand teachers’ union moves to call off strikes
- Nearly 40 percent of New Jersey households struggle to make ends meet
- Underground worker killed in collapse at Nevada gold mine
- With Merkel’s withdrawal, German grand coalition accelerates lurch to the right
- Watch: Two Hundred Years Since the Birth of Karl Marx
- Nick Beams delivers successful lectures on the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx at Australian universities
- Trump threatens to abolish birthright citizenship
- Chilean police attack pensioners’ protest in Santiago
- Amazon workers in Downriver Michigan speak to SEP candidate Niles Niemuth
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