Archive: 12/2015
2015-12-01
- IMF lifts Chinese currency to reserve status
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Government attempts to avoid court hearing into UK complicity in rendition
- Quebec public sector unions cancel three-day strike
- Tens of thousands attend climate change rallies in Australia
- Trial begins for police officer in Freddie Gray murder
- Constitutional coup in Poland
- Sri Lankan plantation workers sacked for demanding wage rise
- Corbyn opens door to Labour backing for British bombing of Syria
- NATO and Turkey defend shoot-down of Russian jet
- Germany to send 1,200 troops to Syria
- US: More than 3,000 laid off in closure of Fresh & Easy grocery stores
- Ford execs, Wall Street investors gloat over new UAW contract
- COP21 ecological summit opens amid war tensions, with Paris in lockdown
- Top Workers Party senator arrested in Brazil’s corruption scandal
2015-12-02
- The 33: A drama of the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
- US announces expeditionary force for combat in Syria
- A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Top Democrat in New York legislature convicted of corruption on all counts
- After Paris attacks, neo-fascists surge in polls for French regional elections
- Polish government cracks down on culture
- Parasitism and the slump in US manufacturing
- UAW reaches sellout deal with Nexteer Automotive
- New York Times covers up US responsibility for ISIS surge in Libya
- EU-Turkey conference reaches deal at refugees’ expense
- Entergy to shutter two nuclear plants in US, laying off 1,200
- Australia: Reserve Bank leaves rates on hold despite plunge in investment
- British Medical Association calls off UK junior doctors strikes
- UK prepares military action against Syria after Corbyn clears the path
- Chicago police chief fired as anger mounts over cover-up of police killings
- US: 2,200 locked-out steelworkers lose health care
2015-12-03
- UK parliament sanctions Syria bombing as Labour right blocks with government
- After four months, no contract for Verizon telecom workers
- Spotlight: A telling exposé of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
- Chicago police brutality and the Democratic Party
- Seventy years since the Nuremberg Trials
- Israel’s covert involvement in Syria conflict to escalate
- Upgrades transforming US military bases on Guam
- Jury seated in first Freddie Gray police murder trial
- German government agrees to participate in Syrian war
- Trudeau pledges Canada’s support for French military interventions
- Brazil’s President Rousseff faces impeachment
- Behind the UAW-IG Metall transnational partnership
- Australian workers and youth voice concerns over downing of Russian jet
2015-12-04
- Woodrow Wilson and Black Lives Matter
- UK stages bombing raid on Syria hours after parliamentary vote
- Video shows murder by San Francisco police firing squad
- Mass job losses loom in Scotland
- Berlin: Hundreds demonstrate against ill treatment of refugees
- Open University staff in Britain protest regional centre closures
- One Belt, One Road: China’s response to the US “pivot”
- Resistance grows as UAW seeks to ram through Nexteer sellout
- Behind the struggle for affordable housing in New York City
- NATO incorporates Montenegro, escalating anti-Russian front in Balkans
- Second one-day protest strike hits pro-austerity Syriza government in Greece
- Germany on a war footing
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- California State University faculty union votes to authorize strike
- Australian government pushes through bill to revoke citizenships
- Former Massey CEO escapes most serious charges for role in mine disaster
- The mass killing in San Bernardino, California
- Fed chair signals rate hike as ECB expands stimulus
2015-12-05
- Support for ruling Chavistas evaporates as living standards collapse in Venezuela
- EU Council president wants to seal off Europe from refugees
- Report makes case for prosecuting US war criminals
- Interview with Denny Tedesco, director of The Wrecking Crew
- Sri Lankan housemaid faces execution in Saudi Arabia
- FBI calls San Bernardino mass shooting a terrorist attack
- Postal strike ends in Finland
- Portugal’s Left Bloc backs pro-austerity Socialist Party government
- Poland: New government moves quickly to disempower constitutional court
- The significance of the elevation of the Chinese renminbi
- Labour’s Oldham by-election victory and Corbyn’s refusal to fight the right wing
- Vote “no” on UAW-Nexteer sellout
- China bails out embattled Malaysian prime minister
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Janis: Little Girl Blue–Amy Berg’s valuable documentary about singer Janis Joplin
- US jobs report shows continued stagnation in manufacturing, rise in low-paid jobs
- India: Hundreds die in Tamil Nadu floods
- US Congress passes corporate-backed highway construction bill
- German parliament votes for military intervention in Syria
- Number of US investable wealth millionaires grew by 8.6 percent in 2014
- The European refugee crisis and international law
- Paris climate talks accomplish nothing to curb global warming
2015-12-07
- Australian state government sells power generator for next to nothing
- This week in history: December 7-13
- US: Lockout of 2,200 steelworkers nears end of fourth month
- Ex-minister’s defection highlights fragility of Australian government
- Neo-fascist National Front leads first round of French regional elections
- Polish government signals interest in hosting US nuclear weapons
- The new imperialist carve-up of the Middle East
- Obama’s crisis speech on San Bernardino attack
- Massive “no” vote by Nexteer workers rejects UAW sellout
- Deadly fire destroys three apartments in Lynn, Massachusetts
- US Senate report details high prices of Hepatitis C drugs
- Interview with Indian filmmaker Rahul Roy, director of The Factory
- 100 years of General Relativity—Part One
- After Syria vote, British pseudo-left pledge loyalty to Corbyn and Labour
- Pacific Island nations “bearing the brunt” of climate change
- Chinese president seeks to shore up relations with Africa
- UK private care homes facing closure
- Canada: Liberals mask right-wing program with “real change” rhetoric
- US border agents cleared of charges in murder of immigrant Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas
- Nexteer workers denounce UAW-company alliance following overwhelming “no” vote
2015-12-08
- Mark Zuckerberg, philanthrocapitalism and parasitism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Maduro government suffers steep electoral losses to Venezuelan right
- Syria claims US airstrikes targeted government forces
- Obama’s San Bernardino speech and the rightward lurch of US politics
- Over 3,300 auto parts workers strike in Saginaw, Michigan
- The Heritage We Defend is now available in e-pub format
- Notes on London’s housing crisis
- South Korean workers and farmers denounce Park government
- Greek parliament approves austerity budget for 2016
- After the “no” vote at Nexteer: A message from a Ford worker
- 100 years of General Relativity—Part Two
- Australian union officials arrested on blackmail charges for imposing bans
- Global warming compounds Atlantic cod fishing industry problems
- Chilean military exercises fuel tensions with Bolivia and Peru
- Calls grow for deployment of German ground troops in Syria
- BIS warns of sudden end to “uneasy” financial calm
- US pressures Australian government to toe the line on China
- Five years since the arrest of Julian Assange
- The end of chattel slavery in American history
2015-12-09
- The forced resignation of Erika Christakis at Yale University
- Tamil party complicit in detention of Sri Lankan political prisoners
- US air strike kills 36 Syrian civilians, including 20 children
- US to base spy planes in Singapore
- Illinois state attorney not pressing charges in Ronald Johnson killing
- Imperialism, the “war on terror” and anti-Muslim hysteria
- OECD finds UK pensions amongst lowest in world
- Expansion of Russian-German Nord Stream pipeline exacerbates tensions within the European Union
- After less than 24 hours, UAW shuts down Nexteer strike
- The roots and political implications of the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino
- Nexteer autoworkers on strike denounce UAW-Nexteer contract
- Haitian government reinstates the army
- 100 years of General Relativity—Part Three
- Mining giant Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs
- Amid terror scare, US House passes new restrictions on visa-free visits
- Scores of Australian workers killed in workplace incidents
- An interview with Ted Dawe, author of Into the River
- UK Labour right wing tries to silence opposition to war
- The way forward in the fight against police violence
- Child poverty increases across Canada
2015-12-10
- The Scottish National Party’s tactical opposition to bombing Syria
- Dozens of refugees drowned last week in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas
- The 2012 and 2015 Quebec student strikes and the bankruptcy of anarchism: Part 1
- Trump: The ugly reality of American politics
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) demands the Undercover Police Inquiry release the names of all police agents and spies
- Video: Nexteer workers speak on the picket line
- Nexteer workers’ anger grows as UAW prepares to ram through new sellout deal
- Germany’s Left Party and the war in Syria
- Court case begins in Japan over Okinawa base relocation
- US defense secretary outlines general military escalation in Middle East
- Ford workers call for joint struggle with Nexteer workers
- US: Georgia carries out fifth execution of 2015
- A new tipping point in the global economic crisis
- New video released in 2012 Chicago police killing of Philip Coleman
- Suu Kyi holds transition talks with Burmese military
- Brooklyn: Irish immigration through rose-colored glasses
- Brazilian students occupy Sao Paulo schools against “restructuring” plan
2015-12-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The New York Times, fascism and Donald Trump
- Celebrating the sellout: UAW sends negotiators on paid vacation at exclusive Miami resort
- Efforts collapse to form “Republican front” to block neo-fascists in French regional elections
- Indonesian government discusses offering Australia an island to detain refugees
- The 2012 and 2015 Quebec student strikes and the bankruptcy of anarchism: Part 2
- The Venezuelan elections and the dead end of Latin America’s “turn to the left”
- Pentagon announces worldwide expansion of US military bases
- After Paris attacks, New Anti-capitalist Party backs police state rule and war
- Network of former Nazis in German Interior Ministry
- German academics Münkler and Baberowski promote imperialist foreign policy
- Latvian government resigns under pressure from pro-austerity right
- Kohler strike in fourth week
- The hourglass society: Middle-income households no longer the majority in the US
- Nexteer victimizes dozens of workers as UAW prepares new sellout
- Report highlights gap between executive and workers’ pay in UK
- Chemical giants DuPont and Dow in “advanced talks” about merger
- US Senate holds hearing on rising generic drug prices
- Event commemorating one year anniversary of Detroit bankruptcy breaks up in debacle
- Australia: Productivity Commission proposes further major cutbacks to pensions
2015-12-12
- UN report says Sri Lankan government terrorising families of the disappeared
- Australian PM unveils plan for indefinite detention of “terrorists”
- Republican Party crisis deepens over Trump anti-Muslim statements
- Saudi-orchestrated gathering of Syrian “rebels” ends in disarray
- US Supreme Court justice argues black students should attend inferior schools
- Violent attacks on refugees increase in Germany
- Quebec: Wave of walkouts against Liberals’ austerity agenda
- Two police officers indicted for murder of six-year-old
- Social inequality and the disintegration of the American middle class
- Opel Bochum: Few new jobs a year after plant closure
- Spain: Podemos seeks to demobilise popular opposition to war
- Workers oppose UAW-Nexteer divide-and-conquer tactics
- Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts takes aim at guards’ jobs and working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Defense rests in trial of first police officer charged in killing of Freddie Gray
- UK and Ireland devastated by floods
- Stocks plunge amid fears of global slump and credit meltdown
- As court bans racist rally, Australian media promotes far-right
- A balance sheet of Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party
2015-12-14
- A reply to discussion on the Venezuelan elections
- This week in history: December 14-20
- Shots fired amid Russian-Turkish naval standoff in Aegean
- Sri Lanka: A socialist program to fight budget cuts
- Sri Lankan corporate giant sues environmental activist
- Small turnout at Stop the War Coalition rally in London, England
- Election polls point to breakdown of two-party system in Spain
- Russian truckers protest massive fee hike
- New defeat for ruling Socialist Party in French regional elections
- The fate of Zuckerberg’s “gift” to Newark schools
- Notes on police violence: Los Angeles police fatally shoot man 33 times
- Junk bond panic signals new stage in crisis of world capitalism
- Testimony of German neo-Nazi covers up state involvement
- Ten facts autoworkers need to know about the Nexteer tentative agreement
- Now in eBook format: The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
- Letter from Indiana autoworker to Nexteer workers: Contract is a bad deal for skilled trades
- London anti-war demonstration participants speak out against war
- California mosque firebombed amid record spike in anti-Muslim violence
- US: As winter approaches increasing numbers killed in home fires
- Paris agreement papers over failure to act on climate change
- Chi-Raq: A satire of social life in Chicago
- Weakening currency and economic slowdown in China
2015-12-15
- UAW official pushing Nexteer sellout lashes out at Autoworker Newsletter
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UN report documents death of over 9,000 Ukrainians
- Obama vows expanded war in Syria
- US Supreme Court considering end to “one person, one vote” principle
- Government conspiracy against 1972 UK builders’ strike exposed
- Chicago police officer accused of jamming gun down throat of suspect acquitted
- “Left” propagandists for escalation of imperialist war
- Pennsylvania budget impasse nears possible resolution
- Nexteer workers express anger and opposition to new contract deal
- Boston “ghost train” incident exposes decay of public infrastructure
- Killing Them Safely: The big business of police tasers
- IYSSE meeting in Berlin discusses the Syrian war and the aims of German imperialism in the Middle East
- India: Government negligence responsible for flood disaster
- UK spy agency admits hacking phones and computers without warrants
- Chicago teachers vote to authorize strike action
- Trudeau’s refugee “welcome” and the real agenda of Canada’s new government
- US Army charges Bowe Bergdahl with desertion
- Junk bond crisis brings “stress” warning
2015-12-16
- Volvo truck plant lays off 734 workers ahead of contract deadline
- After the contract at Fiat Chrysler: UAW and company cheat workers of pay
- Tennessee woman arrested after attempting self-induced abortion
- What is the BBC doing in the South China Sea?
- Scotland: Sturgeon and Corbyn share platform against Trade Union Bill
- Tens of thousands march in Warsaw against constitutional coup
- The climate crisis and imperialism
- Obamacare enrollment deadline: Fines mount for failure to buy costly, barebones insurance
- Nexteer workers challenge UAW officials at contract information meetings
- Australian budget position worsens as cuts deepen
- Los Angeles shuts down entire school district after email terror threat
- Syriza government sends Greek riot police to attack refugee camp
- State of emergency declared in Flint, Michigan over poisoned water supply
- A two-hour commercial for militarism and fear-mongering
- The International Socialist Organization, police violence and the Democratic Party
- Who would celebrate Hitler today?: The German satirical film Look Who’s Back
2015-12-17
- Sri Lankan trade unions call off one-day stoppage
- US administration approves $1.8 billion arms sale to Taiwan
- The French regional elections and the threat of dictatorship
- Vote “No” on UAW-Nexteer sellout deal!
- Angela Merkel’s party congress speech: Anti-immigrant chauvinism and right-wing nationalism
- Cases of malnutrition surge in UK
- Legend and Room: Once again, celebrating the underworld—and a peculiar film about captives
- UAW shuts down Kohler strike, rams through contract in snap vote
- Pennsylvania school bans teaching of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
- Hung jury in first trial for police killing of Freddie Gray
- EU plans further crackdown on refugees
- Thousands forced to live without water in Detroit
- Metro Detroit residents sell plasma to support families
- Senior UK Labourites Darling and Brown join the gravy train
- Warning of unrest in New Caledonia over Australian nickel smelter closure
- Brazil hit with new credit downgrade as impeachment crisis deepens
- Federal Reserve begins “dovish tightening” with first rate hike in nine years
- Low-wage America: Detroit auto parts worker endures homelessness, surrenders custody of children
2015-12-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Corporate elite demands deeper budget cuts from Australian government
- Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud
- Family of San Diego man killed by police disputes official story of his death
- Conflicts over refugee policy dominate EU summit
- Saudi Arabia and the “war on terror”
- Widespread opposition as voting begins on second UAW-Nexteer deal
- Job losses mount throughout Australian mining sector
- Hyena Road: Neither pro- nor anti-war? Not so fast, Mr. Gross…!
- No further prosecutions in UK phone hacking scandal
- Weapon used in November 13 Paris attacks came from CIA-linked arms dealer
- Alberta NDP government’s climate change plan hailed by Big Oil
- Detroit auto parts worker endures homelessness, surrenders custody of children
2015-12-19
- Turkey escalates war drive against Kurds at home and across the region
- UN resolution papers over deep divisions on Syria
- Steelworkers union prepares to push through concessions contract at US Steel
- Steelworkers union prepares to push through concessions contract at US Steel
- Inhumane conditions in privately run New Zealand prison
- After Fed rate hike, global economic fault lines deepen
- Obama responds to terror scare over San Bernardino attack
- UAW claims ratification of Nexteer sellout as lies exposed
- A new film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese premier forges ties with India to counter China
- German army begins military intervention in Syria
- Spanish political establishment shifts to right in run-up to general election
- Montreal suspends 2,400 workers for participating in an “illegal” meeting
- European Union summit seeks to avert British exit from the EU
- US Congress passes $1.8 trillion spending and tax package
- American Nazi web site acclaims Humboldt Professor Jörg Baberowski
- Australia, Japan “strongly support” US, amid rising tensions with China
- Report reveals torture and murder of Afghan civilians by Navy SEALs
2015-12-21
- This week in history: December 21-27
- United Steelworkers announces deal with US Steel
- Hung parliament emerges from Spanish elections as traditional parties collapse
- Slavery “pervasive” in global seafood supply
- Putin news conference highlights Russian crisis
- The US terror scare
- Report reveals Australian disability scheme’s cost-cutting agenda
- Pamphlet on Syriza’s betrayal in Greece now available from Mehring Books
- US, European powers prepare new air and ground operations against Libya
- Split looms in South Korea’s opposition party
- Israel: No prosecutions for firebombing of Palestinian family
- Four recent police shootings spark outrage
- Auto companies cheat retirees while posting record sales
- Fear-mongering and war dominate third Democratic presidential debate
- Canadian Special Forces battle ISIS militants as calls grow for expanded war
- German parliament approves expansion of military mission in Afghanistan
2015-12-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens: No real awakening
- Chinese industrial zone engulfed by waste landslide
- US cops killed more people this year than in 2014
- Poland: Anti-government rallies continue as Lech Wałęsa warns of civil war
- WTO buries Doha Round: Another rupture in the post-war order
- Australian report calls for cutting penalty wage rates
- Nexteer workers denounce UAW after ratification of sellout deal
- Kellingley Colliery—last remaining deep coal mine in Britain—closes
- Haiti’s political crisis deepens in wake of fraudulent elections
- Chicago area Coca-Cola workers enter fourth week of strike, face isolation by Teamsters
- Six US soldiers killed as Taliban overruns Helmand district in Afghanistan
2015-12-23
- Scotland: Victims demand removal of former police spy from St. Andrew’s University
- Spanish political system in turmoil over hung parliament
- Amid French state of emergency, Sodexo sacks 19 workers for striking
- Walter Reuther and the rise and fall of the UAW
- One million people fled to Europe in 2015
- Political issues in the Spanish election crisis
- NZ Labour leader calls for “troops on the ground” to fight ISIS
- Co-defendant Ralf Wohlleben testifies in German neo-Nazi trial
- Illinois coal miner killed on the job
- Public meetings in Australia mark 75th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s murder
- US air strike kills 12 Iraqi civilians
- Workers and youth speak on Trotsky’s life and death
- Herfried Münkler: An academic in the service of German imperialism
- Mass police raids in French state of emergency find no terror networks
- An interview with performer, educator and archivist of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein
- Ethiopian government kills students in protests over latest land grab
- Germany doubles number of deportations
2015-12-24
- Western Australia suffers “greatest revenue shock since Great Depression”
- Socialist Alternative forms group to support Sanders campaign
- Quebec: Common Front unions promote sell-out agreement
- No “peace on Earth” in 2015
- Texas grand jury refuses to indict police officers involved in the death of Sandra Bland
- US-backed Nigerian military massacres hundreds in Shia minority
- Notes on a visit to Łódź, Poland
- German government creates new “Anti-Terror Unit”
- Idaho food service worker fired for giving hungry student free food worth $1.70
- Sri Lankan farmers protest against budget cuts
- UK: Employment practises of Sports Direct retail giant exposed
- UK Labour leader urges party not to defy Conservative spending cuts
- French government proposes constitutional amendment on state of emergency, deprivation of citizenship
2015-12-28
- German weekly Die Zeit calls for a “strong state”
- This week in history: December 28-January 3
- Locked out ATI workers in US left isolated by United Steelworkers union
- Sri Lankan government lifts suspension on China-funded Port City project
- Puerto Rico faces default on its debts
- Police operations against protest groups extended into Scotland
- The fracturing of the European Union
- FDA capitulates to pharmaceutical company on drug claims
- Prince Charles and William granted access to top secret UK documents
- Police suppress protest at Mall of America over recent police killing in Minneapolis
- Australia: One year after the Sydney siege, the cover-up continues
- Obama administration prepares raids on Central American immigrants
- John Heartfield: Laughter Is A Devastating Weapon
- Refugees confront misery in Berlin
- Three shot, two killed by Chicago police in one day
2015-12-29
- Ruthless cuts in West Virginia public employee health care
- Criminal investigation launched into police killing of unarmed man in London
- Tamil People's Forum sets a new nationalist trap for Sri Lankan workers
- Winter storms kill dozens across US South and Midwest
- Cleveland cop who killed twelve-year-old exonerated
- US-backed Iraqi forces recapture Ramadi from ISIS
- Portugal’s new Socialist Party government bails out another bank
- US military to expand global operations in 2016
- George Washington University apologizes for censorship of Palestinian flag
- India’s Modi makes surprise visit to Pakistan
- German trade union chief agrees to €1 an hour jobs for refugees
- In Jackson Heights: Documentarian Frederick Wiseman on life in a New York City neighborhood
- Autoworker crushed to death in conveyer belt catastrophe
- Widespread abstention in New Zealand flag referendum
- Dozens of Chinese miners killed in three accidents
- Canada’s central bank expresses trepidation over economic downturn
2015-12-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Federal agency prepares new crackdown on US travelers
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds public meeting on 75th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s assassination
- The New York Times celebrates “retaking Ramadi”
- Seven confirmed dead in industrial landslide in Shenzhen, China
- More police murders across the US
- A New Year’s sense of foreboding over the global economy
- The year in popular music
- As fighting in Turkey mounts, Kurdish nationalists escalate independence drive
- Japan and South Korea reach agreement over comfort women
- Wedding video shows Israeli far-right gathering celebrating arson attack on Palestinians
- New York City intensifies assault on the homeless
- With UAW complicity, Ford fires workers for voicing opposition
- UK floods bring further destruction to thousands
- Drug company boss is new head of Croatian government
- After Paris attacks, anti-Muslim riot erupts in Corsica
- Obama, Trump and the working class
2015-12-31
- Massive police buildup planned in cities throughout the US for New Year’s Eve
- Lifetime council tenancies in UK to be scrapped
- Post-elections negotiations fail to produce new Spanish government
- The Big Short: The criminality of Wall Street and the crash of 2008
- EU renegotiation talks open up “civil war” in UK Tory government
- Private operator to run New Zealand capital’s rail service
- President Humala declares state of emergency in Peru’s port of Callao
- On the threshold of the New Year
- Indonesian foreign policy tilts towards the US and its allies
- US: Mississippi River flooding threatens millions
- Top Michigan environmental safety officials resign amidst ongoing Flint water crisis
- IMF head warns of slow growth and economic “shocks” in 2016
- Police officer escapes indictment for shooting unarmed man in Colorado
- Best films of 2015
- NATO to station AWACS radar aircraft in Turkey
- Analyst says US auto contracts will not increase labor costs
- US commander prepared to seek more troops for Afghanistan
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