Archive: 03/2017
2017-03-01
- Michigan father receives unusual waiver from deportation
- Students in El Paso, Texas speak about life on the US-Mexico border
- Rifts tearing Australian government apart
- Trump’s speech outlines plans for class war at home and war abroad
- South Sudan civil war causing widespread famine
- Leading opposition senator arrested in the Philippines
- Behind the anti-Semitic and racist attacks in the US
- Thousands flee as US artillery and air strikes intensify in Mosul offensive
- The Torch Light protest in Manchester: A cynical cover by Labour for complicity in austerity cuts
- Growing international interest in Russian Revolution Centenary online lecture series
- South Korea demonises North Korea over Malaysian murder
- Did VX kill Kim Jong-nam?
- Students have the right to form political organizations on campus!
- Popular outcry against murder of Indian immigrant in US
- Nine-month lockout of Honeywell workers ends as UAW pushes through company’s demands
- Unions in UK oppose struggle against massive school spending cuts
- German newspaper publishes fraudulent refugee “sex-mob” report
2017-03-02
- Boil advisory issued in Detroit following water system malfunction
- US, South Korea mount massive joint military exercises
- Washington accuses Russia of bombing US-backed forces in Syria
- UK Supreme Court upholds minimum income immigration rule
- A revealing episode: Sanders applauds Trump during speech before Congress
- US private prison industry thrives under Trump
- Peruvian president wanted in Odebrecht corruption scandal
- Wall Street, media celebrate Trump’s address to Congress
- Australian unions and Labor Party launch bogus campaign over penalty rate cuts
- New York University professors speak out to defend IYSSE club status and support free speech
- IMF head to visit Sri Lanka to demand more austerity measures
- India: Million-strong bank workers’ strike opposes Modi’s big business “reforms”
- US immigration authorities expand dragnet raids
- Stop the shift to the right at Humboldt University!
- Immigration under capitalism: Life and death along the US-Mexico border
- UAW orders thousands of Caterpillar workers to stay on the job as contract expires
- The Obamas sign reported $65 million book deal
- Filmmaking in “apocalyptic” times
2017-03-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkey prepares for military escalation in the Middle East
- Student walkouts oppose Trump’s vicious immigration policies
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from investigation as media, Democrats revive anti-Russian campaign
- Québec Solidaire leader Françoise David quits politics
- The Snap IPO: Trump agenda fuels an orgy of speculation
- Germany’s pseudo-left Marx21 hails Martin Schulz as the “revival of Social Democracy”
- New Zealand’s Maori parties sign election pact
- ICE detains immigration activists in New York, Mississippi
- It isn’t a highway and it doesn’t have lanes
- UK: Rising mortality rates and rationing across the National Health Service
- Michigan blames Flint water crisis on racism: Part one
- Fillon to continue his French presidential bid despite indictment
- US Congress members visit Sri Lanka to boost US interests
- Bangladesh government continues repression against garment workers
- US auto workers speak out in defense of immigrants
- Australian growth up but wages fall
- Illinois state workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
2017-03-04
- Discontent and political volatility dominate Western Australian election
- Video: Daughters of Rómulo Avelica-González, detained for deportation in Los Angeles, speak out
- Sweden brings back the draft
- New York University professor Bertell Ollman supports IYSSE fight for club status
- UK: The fight to defend the NHS means building a new socialist party
- GM layoffs of 1,300 workers at Detroit assembly plant
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump administration considers military strike against North Korea
- EU’s post-Brexit plans foresee growing conflict
- Public meeting on “World War and the Russian Revolution” in Chennai, India
- Australian government flags “foreign policy reset” in response to Trump
- Michigan blames Flint water crisis on racism: Part two
- A revealing insight into political criminality and warmongering—Part 1
- Crisis of right-wing Croatian government deepens over coalition
- As attack on jobs escalates, AFL-CIO chief pledges to “partner” with Trump administration
- Corruption probe at City College of New York points to decline of public higher education
- Canadian military preparing for new role in Syria, extension of Ukraine mission
- A film about the legendary guitarist: Django
2017-03-06
- US ramps up bombing campaign in Yemen
- Immigration under capitalism: Life and death along the US-Mexico border
- March 6-12: February Revolution erupts in Petrograd
- Australian government beset by turmoil
- Bitter recriminations within the ruling class over Trump’s claim that Obama spied on his campaign
- Court hears final arguments in South Korean president’s trial
- San Diego Unified School District to cut at least 1,500 jobs
- Trump administration escalates campaign of fear and terror against immigrants
- PSA-GM-Opel deal: IG Metall trade union pledges collaboration with management
- US coal miners face loss of retiree health coverage, black lung benefits
- The Look of Silence: Important documentary on the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesia massacres
- NHS protesters ask: “Why have we got money for war? Where is the money for our NHS and schools?”
- UK: Up to 250,000 protest attacks on National Health Service
- A revealing insight into political criminality and warmongering—Part 2
- China lowers economic growth target
- Federal agents raid Caterpillar headquarters in Illinois
2017-03-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German authorities ban appearances by Turkish politicians
- Trump issues new version of Muslim travel ban
- Trump administration document lays out trade war agenda
- Sanders covers for UAW at Mississippi Nissan rally
- Massive increase in attacks on refugees in Germany
- Los Angeles protest against deportation of Rómulo Avelica-González
- Mexican presidential candidate López Obrador campaigns on both sides of the border
- North Korea tests missiles amid huge US-South Korean war games
- Unionism loses its grip on Northern Ireland in March 2 election
- Doctors strike highlights catastrophic health care crisis in Kenya
- India becomes “frontline” state in US war plans against China
- Immigration under capitalism: Life and death along the US-Mexico border
- Warning of neo-fascist victory in France, Hollande promotes EU militarism
- Australian pseudo-left forum promotes nationalism
- Australia: Three homeless people killed in arson attack
- Eight Arkansas death row inmates to be put to death over ten days
- General Motors announces 1,100 job cuts at Lansing, Michigan plant
- Registrations from throughout the world as interest in Russian Revolution centenary lectures grows
- In northern France, Calais mayor bans distribution of meals to migrants
2017-03-08
- The political issues in the “International Women’s Strike”
- Trump administration maintains silence on claims of wiretapping by Obama
- Video: Protesters oppose deportation of Rómulo Avelica-González
- Urdu translation of “The Political Lessons of Syriza’s Betrayal in Greece”
- Sri Lanka asks UN to delay human rights inquiry
- As US deploys anti-missile system, China warns of nuclear arms race
- Rockford, Illinois public school employees set to strike next week
- WikiLeaks reveals vast CIA spying, cyberwar operation
- A comment on Robert Osborne (1932-2017), host of Turner Classic Movies
- PSA purchases Opel-Vauxhall from General Motors
- Michigan school closures “on hold” while privatization plans move ahead
- Australian maritime union signs 13-year no-strike pledge with energy multinational
- New York University rejects club status for IYSSE for second semester
- One-third of San Diego residents without basic needs
- Obamacare replacement plan targets Medicaid
- Protests shake Egypt after cut to bread subsidies
- India: BJP-backed student union unleashes violence at Delhi University
- UK: Commander in charge of police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes given top job
- Waiting times worsen in Australian public hospitals
2017-03-09
- US drone strike kills two children in Yemen
- Australian school principal removed for allegedly resisting “anti-radicalisation” program
- US steps up military exercises in South Asia
- Imperialist wars and interventions fuel refugee crisis in Africa
- The WikiLeaks revelations and the crimes of US imperialism
- Australia: Young workers speak out against penalty rate cuts
- New York University students denounce decision against IYSSE club status
- US rejects talks over North Korea, declaring “all options on table”
- Likely shift to the right in Dutch elections threatens EU
- Boston mass transit privatization scheme proceeds through bullying and tricks
- UK household incomes to plummet for years to come, new reports find
- Young woman targeted for opposing immigration policy as Trump steps up campaign of intimidation
- WikiLeaks revelations raise new questions about the death of journalist Michael Hastings
- Forty-two-year-old steelworker dies at US Steel mill in Granite City, Illinois
- Stop the German army’s preparations for civil war!
- Five dead in Detroit fire, hundreds of thousands without power after strong winds
- UK Labour leader Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor McDonnell offer unity talks with right-wingers Blair and Mandelson
- The absence for the most part of the big wide world: German films at the Berlinale
- GM spin-off of Opel-Vauxhall poses need for international fight to defend auto jobs
2017-03-10
- Overdose crisis exhausts West Virginia indigent burial fund
- US airstrike kills 23 civilians as Marines deploy to Syria
- The WikiLeaks exposures and the CIA’s threat to democratic rights
- UAW blocks strike by New York University adjuncts despite 94 percent authorization vote
- Detained immigrants living in trash and forced to eat spoiled meat in US detention centers
- Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert shares jokes with former NSA, CIA chief Michael Hayden
- Fillon survives challenge as French right’s presidential candidate
- EU summit reveals sharp divisions within Europe and tensions with US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- EU establishes military headquarters
- European Central Bank maintains a balancing act
- “Slash and burn” CEO takes helm at CSX Railroad
- Registrations from throughout the world for Russian Revolution centenary online lectures
- UK Chancellor Hammond commits to further years of austerity
- French air traffic controllers strike against work restructuring
2017-03-11
- Interview with Alan Diamante, attorney for detained immigrant Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez
- Trump administration invokes “state secrets” in CIA torture case
- Civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart dies at 77
- Constitutional Court removes South Korean President Park from office
- US Attorney General Sessions praises Guantanamo as a “very fine place”
- The Settlers: Israel’s movement toward an apartheid state
- Report highlights growing social distress in Australia
- RadioShack closing 187 more stores
- Australian union’s bogus campaign against penalty rate cut
- A socialist policy for universal health care
- Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department will arrest immigrants on behalf of ICE
- Mexican government to vote on law expanding domestic military operations, authorizing mass spying
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hungary builds internment camps for refugees
- Fire in Guatemalan “safe home” for youth kills dozens of locked-in girls
- EU Summit backs trade war and militarism
- Hundreds of thousands in the dark in Michigan as windstorm cripples aging electrical grid
- Canada’s elite determined to stanch influx of refugees fleeing US
- UK: Unite union imposes isolation of Heathrow cabin crew strike
2017-03-13
- Huge anti-government swing in Western Australian election
- Threat of war increases in the western Balkans
- March 13-19: Tsar Nicholas abdicates
- Teacher describes impact of social crisis in Toledo, Ohio schools
- UK rail conductors strike at three companies to defend jobs and safety conditions
- Thousands still without power in metro Detroit
- Is the US preparing for war against North Korea?
- The Petrograd Soviet’s “Order No. 1”
- Why Study the Russian Revolution?
- Merseyrail conductor scapegoated over passenger safety in UK
- ICFI supporters in India hold public meeting on “World War and the Russian Revolution”
- Trump hails Australia’s draconian immigration regime
- UN officials warn of worst famine crisis since World War II
- Dutch government bans Turkish ministers from speaking in Netherlands
- Large global turnout for online lecture, “Why Study the Russian Revolution?”
- Former Caterpillar worker speaks on 2012 Joliet, Illinois strike betrayal
- Republicans push plan to gut Medicaid and slash taxes for the wealthy
2017-03-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ankara whips up Turkish nationalism over Dutch bans on Turkish officials
- Protesters in Rochester, New York oppose detention of José Coyote Pérez
- UK train conductors strike three rail companies
- Australian media witch-hunts school principal removed for opposing anti-radicalisation program
- US ruling elite moves to repeal the 1960s
- India: 31 victimized Maruti Suzuki workers convicted on frame-up charges
- US bombing kills 11 civilians in Mosul as Washington lifts restraints on Pentagon
- ACLU files lawsuit against Milwaukee over traffic stops, stop-and-frisk policy
- US sends drones, assassination squad to South Korea
- UK striking rail conductors explain: “This is about the public and their safety”
- Workers, youth raise social issues in Dutch election
- Immigrant workers in US brace for more workplace raids
- Trump’s anti-immigrant orders and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Ecuador faces run-off vote with rightist challenging Correa’s chosen successor
- US government agency projects 24 million to lose health coverage under Republican plan
- European powers extend offensive against Russia into Balkans
- Australia: Jobs and in-house production slashed at state broadcaster
2017-03-15
- US Senate passes resolution calling on Trump to escalate regime-change in Venezuela
- Unease in Europe
- US-backed South Sudanese regime organizing genocidal crimes, UN report finds
- The Michigan power outages and the case for the nationalization of the utility industries
- Australian government imposes phonics test on six-year-olds
- On the Communist Party of the Philippines’ support for fascistic President Duterte
- The Dutch elections and the danger of fascism
- Power outages leave six dead in western New York
- Socialist Party advocates nationalist and xenophobic programme in Dutch elections
- Why Study the Russian Revolution? New pamphlet now available
- Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx
- US Republican congressman defends racist diatribe against immigrants
- Japan expands military operations in Asia
- Detroit residents speak on weeklong power outages
- Australia, Indonesia discuss closer economic, security ties
- BJP gains in Indian state elections leave opposition Congress reeling
- Nominee for US Food and Drug Administration commissioner has deep ties to drug industry
- Trump administration secretly resumes CIA drone assassination program
- US Customs and Border Protection searched nearly 25,000 phones in 2016
- UK government to trigger Brexit amid calls for second Scottish independence vote
2017-03-16
- The Revolution in Russia
- Federal judge halts new Trump travel ban
- Nationalist groups in Tamil diaspora seek deal with Trump at UN
- IMF demands “decisive action” on Sri Lankan austerity cuts
- Top British state schools exclude working-class children
- Rockford, Illinois public school employees go on strike
- US health care debate: A bipartisan drive to lower life expectancy
- Alabama police officer cleared in 2014 shooting of man holding wallet
- German Left Party joins right-wing campaign against Turkey
- Inflated prices and a dire shortage of new housing in London
- Australian public hospitals relying on private patients
- US Fed lifts interest rate and reassures markets
- European court rules in favour of headscarf ban at workplaces
- Dutch Prime Minister Rutte wins out against far-right challenger
- Chicago schools and water infrastructure plagued by lead contamination
- Auto bosses, UAW join Trump at Michigan event to push nationalism and militarism
- AFRICOM spearheads escalation of US “scramble for Africa”
2017-03-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Verdi union shuts down Berlin airport workers strike
- Trump taunts judicial branch as judges block second travel ban
- US secretary of state ramps up pressure on China over North Korea
- Pentagon prepares to send a thousand more troops into Syria
- Sanders seeks to cast the Democrats as ally of coal miners at West Virginia town hall
- Revolution: New Art for a New World—A careless, unserious treatment of Russian Revolutionary art
- Australian media directs anti-Muslim witch-hunt at primary school children
- The UAW’s corporatist alliance with Trump
- Over 3,000 yearly deaths in Pennsylvania expected from repeal of Obamacare
- Indian court to hear sentencing arguments against framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Not guilty verdict for Merseyrail guard Martin Zee deals blow to state witch-hunt
- Under the Banner of the Commune
- New Zealand union complicit in Cadbury factory closure
- Trump budget to fund wider wars by slashing domestic spending
- Foreign minister warns US to guarantee Australian interests
2017-03-18
- Assault on boat off coast of Yemen kills over 40 Somali refugees
- A new wave of job cuts at Australian universities
- Trade talks in Chile on continuing TPP without the US
- Israel air raid targets government positions as Syrian conflict intensifies
- International Socialist Organization, Socialist Alternative promote Democrats and courts as defenders of immigrants
- US threats against North Korea and the danger of war in Asia
- US immigration bars Canadian nurses employed at Michigan hospitals
- Netherlands: Following elections, establishment parties shift to the right
- Merkel and Trump hold crisis talks in Washington
- India: Framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers sentenced to life imprisonment
- Saudi king postpones visit to Maldives
- UK: Labour-led Lewisham council attempt land-grab involving football ground
- Letter from a Syrian reader: “There is a new sentiment of solidarity in the ranks of the poor people”
- Second online lecture on centenary of the Russian Revolution to be held this Saturday
- Los Angeles school district sends layoff notices to 1,600 administrators
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bitter Harvest: Ukrainian nationalist fantasy as film
- Garbage dump landslide kills over 110 in Ethiopia
- The Growing Conflict
- Two Faces (Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution)
- Coal miner killed at mine owned by West Virginia governor
- Caterpillar-UAW deal: An anti-worker conspiracy
- Canadian media denounces exposure of foreign minister’s grandfather as Nazi collaborator
- Amid economic disaster, Brazilian unions promote Lula da Silva 2018 presidential bid
- Free speech under attack at NYU: IYSSE appeals second rejection of club status
2017-03-20
- FBI director to testify on wiretapping, Russia hacking charges
- March 20-26: Dual Power in Russia
- US blocks statement opposing protectionism in G20 communiqué
- Trump, Tillerson press China for action against North Korea
- Europe-wide demonstrations in defence of migrants and refugees
- Pseudo-left groups champion Scottish National Party’s independence referendum demand
- Growing criticism of the EU in Poland after the re-election of Tusk
- Death toll rises from Peru’s El Niño flooding
- Free the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers!
- French police fire tear gas at protesters amid clampdown over Orly airport shooting
- Key House Republicans and Trump agree to Medicaid block grants, work requirements
- Despite Trump’s anti-immigrant hysteria, US polls show broad support for immigrants
- Australian Labor Party and unions assist closure of Hazelwood power plant
- Poverty in Germany reaches new record high
- Detroit refugee aid facility may close due to federal cuts
- War or Peace? (Internal Forces of the Revolution)
- Former Australian ambassador calls for foreign policy turn toward China
2017-03-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump’s voucher plan and the right-wing campaign to destroy public education
- From Whom and How to Defend the Revolution
- Revisiting John Steinbeck’s A Russian Journal from 1948
- New York mayor’s shelter plan will not reduce the city’s growing homeless population
- Australian Labor’s “self-managing schools,” seven years on
- Australia: Education Department head calls for police in schools amid anti-Muslim witch-hunt
- Democrats’ anti-Russia hysteria prepares the ground for war
- Trump met by protesters in Nashville, Tennessee
- Support grows for framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers in India
- Presidential front-runner Macron pledges to bring back the draft in France
- IYSSE leads opposition against anti-democratic policies at Los Angeles City College
- Union sells out striking Kenyan doctors
- The strange political afterlife of Andrew Jackson
- Florida prosecutors cover up murder of Darren Rainey, inmate boiled alive
- Australia’s energy crisis exposes market failure
- UK budget steps up attacks on education
- Caterpillar-UAW deal: Workers denounce information blackout
2017-03-22
- Trump’s voucher plan and the right-wing campaign to destroy public education
- Fighting flares in Damascus as US escalates air war in Syria
- Vote “no” to the ASLEF sell-out deal at UK’s Southern GTR rail!
- The return of the US-German conflict
- The New York Times demands a Trump special prosecutor
- US threatens more sanctions, military build-up against North Korea
- New Australian union head feigns concern for workers’ rights
- Germany: Great interest in upcoming screening of Tsar to Lenin at Leipzig Book Fair
- Rising food and fuel prices driving millions more Britons into poverty
- Trump budget proposes to end heating assistance, slash housing program
- Germany’s new president to accelerate militarist foreign policy agenda
- Wealth of world’s billionaires soars amid stock market surge
- Proposed Florida budget cuts to hit Holocaust survivors
- The key facts of the Maruti Suzuki workers’ case
- IYSSE defends immigrant rights at Eastern Michigan University
- French presidential debate: Political establishment shifts far to the right
- As Caterpillar-UAW contract vote nears, Deere workers warn of union betrayal
- UK: Bournemouth Intermediate Care Services axes staff
- New Zealand Labour Party installs new deputy leader
2017-03-23
- Political warfare flares over surveillance of Trump transition team
- Tillerson pledges long-term US military role in Iraq and Syria
- Frenetic greeting by delegates for the new SPD leader
- Democratic Party floats proposal for a palace coup
- Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin museums in Philadelphia closed by Trump administration hiring freeze
- Sham character of Maruti Suzuki workers’ trial further exposed
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatens Turkey
- Campaign for release of Maruti Suzuki workers wins support in India and Sri Lanka
- Five confirmed dead, 40 injured in terror attack in London
- US and UK ban carry-on electronics on flights from Muslim-majority countries
- Trump aides sought military vehicles for inaugural parade
- Concerns over Trump crisis roil financial markets
- Reports expose widespread use of child labor in the Congo
- With contract battle looming, Canadian autoworkers at GM CAMI plant speak out
- UK judges overturn murder conviction of war criminal Alexander Blackman
- Rock ’n’ roll great Chuck Berry dead at 90
- Report documents extent of US-Australia economic ties
2017-03-24
- G20 conflict over protectionism: From post-war to pre-war capitalism
- Pittsburgh Town Hall: Democrats cover for attack on health care
- The foul attempt to censor and suppress Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till
- Brazilian Congress prepares to pass Temer’s pension reform
- Immigrant workers at Queens, New York bakery face firing and deportation threat
- Rising death rate for middle-aged US workers driven by “deaths of despair”
- US general calls for nuclear build-up against Russia
- The real legacy of Martin McGuiness: Sectarianism and austerity
- Maruti Suzuki workers lead protest demanding freedom for 13 workers jailed for life
- Westminster attacker was known to British intelligence
- Lessons of the Great Year: 9 January 1905–9 January 1917
- Online lecture today: “The Legacy of 1905 and the Strategy of the Russian Revolution”
- Japanese imperialism rearms
- German justice minister proposes internet censorship legislation
- Who is Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch?
- Fujitsu UK workers strike to protest job losses, attacks on pay and pensions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UAW-Caterpillar contract “highlights” reveal new attacks on jobs and wages
- Thousands of Brazilian workers and youth protest against Temer’s pension reform
- Telecom union calls bogus “strike” at AT&T in California and Nevada
- ANZAC Heroes: Promoting war to children
- Trump, Republicans postpone vote on Obamacare replacement bill
2017-03-25
- Who Are the Traitors?
- Join the fight to free the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers!
- San Diego teachers union facilitates the layoff of 1,500 educators
- Saarland state election serves as test run for the next German government
- Trump administration grants permit for Keystone XL pipeline
- The freeing of Hosni Mubarak and the lessons of the Egyptian Revolution
- Casualties soar in Iraqi city of Mosul
- Filmmaker Michael Moore calls on Democrats to declare national emergency over Trump’s “espionage”
- US, Canadian autoworkers speak in defense of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- China warns US strategic bomber in East China Sea
- Arrest of family in Geneseo, New York by US Border Patrol draws protest
- Fujitsu strikers at UK sites speak about their dispute
- Flint, Michigan begins water shutoffs
- Spanish dockworkers’ unions accept wage cuts and job losses
- Vote “No” on the UAW-Caterpillar sellout agreement
- Canadian Armed Forces’ document calls for “heavier weapons” to confront child soldiers in Africa
- A socialist response to Brexit
- Beryl Hood: 29 November 1938–21 March 2017
- Facing defeat in Republican-controlled House, Trump scuttles Obamacare replacement bill
2017-03-27
- Lawsuit over Michigan worker's death highlights conditions in auto parts industry
- March 27-April 2: Trotsky departs for Petrograd
- Democrats, McCain back independent commission on alleged Trump-Russia ties
- Strike continues at Peru’s largest copper mine in defiance of government
- The massacre in Mosul
- New York University Student Activities Board rejects IYSSE appeal on club status: An act of political censorship
- Senate votes to repeal FCC internet privacy regulations
- Social Media Video: Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!
- War and the Revolution
- New York City: Army veteran kills 66-year-old black man in racist attack
- Scandal exposes Japanese government’s ultra-right ties
- London protesters speak out about Brexit
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement feuds with California police over sanctuary cities
- General strike declared in French Guyana
- South Asian filmmakers Rahul Roy and Prasanna Vithanage back campaign to free Maruti Suzuki workers
- Growing divisions, war threats loom over EU summit in Rome
- Sri Lankan government moves to privatise major state corporations
- Blairites and Liberal Democrats stage pro-EU demo in London
- UK: Labour leader Corbyn kowtows yet again to the party’s right wing
- Caterpillar workers in Peoria, Illinois denounce UAW sellout deal
- UAW delays release of vote tally after Caterpillar workers oppose sellout deal
- After unexplained delay, UAW claims ratification of Caterpillar deal
- Australia: Worker killed at Sydney harbour building site
- New discovery sheds light on the deep roots of the Agricultural Revolution
2017-03-28
- As Yemen war enters third year, Pentagon moves to escalate slaughter
- Class struggle heats up in Latin America
- Federal judge rules against three detained, politically active immigrants in bond hearing
- Australian government withdraws “omnibus” bill but cuts childcare
- Saudi Arabia pivots to China
- German state election: Setback for a red-red-green coalition
- Rare conviction, resignation of officers for police killings in Louisiana and New York City
- Photo Essay: Outrage in upstate new York over detention of immigrant family
- After defeat of Obamacare repeal, Democrats offer a helping hand to Trump administration
- New York University students denounce decision to deny IYSSE club status
- New York transit agency raises fares again
- London attack perpetrator was monitored by British intelligence six years ago
- Sri Lankan workers support campaign to free framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Australian private health insurance premiums soaring
- Get Out: The horror of racism, and racialist politics
- No to war! For social equality! Public education is a social right!
- Growing debate in Beijing over North Korea
2017-03-29
- New York University’s ties to Trump, Wall Street banks and Gulf monarchies
- As Trump postures as friend of miners, retirees and widows face April 30 health care cutoff
- Trump launches pollution deregulation offensive
- Thousands protest throughout Russia
- Washington protests proposal for nuclear disarmament
- US accused of war crimes in air strikes on Iraqi city of Mosul
- International support grows for petition to free framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Nicholas Ray’s They Live by Night (1948): “They’re thieves, just like us”
- French police murder Chinese immigrant Liu Shaoyo in Paris
- Jörg Baberowski: A right-wing extremist professor
- UK: Strikers at Fujitsu support release of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Protests underway in UK against school education funding cuts
- Widespread damage after Cyclone Debbie batters north-east Australia
- China makes overtures amid strategic uncertainty in Australia
- Caterpillar workers react with anger, suspicion to UAW contract ratification
- Shift to right following election in Bulgaria
- German daily reacts to Baberowski ruling with campaign of lies against the IYSSE
2017-03-30
- Conflict over Trump-Russia probe reaches stalemate in Washington
- Bloodletting in Polish army leadership
- Tensions erupt between the Philippines and China over disputed island
- UK officially begins process of exiting the European Union
- The New York Times’ hypocrisy over protests in Russia
- Indian auto workers demand release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Four hundred attend screening of Tsar to Lenin in Leipzig
- Top US general calls for military action against Iran
- Trump administration steps up anti-immigrant campaign
- Ford warns of layoffs to cut inventories as Trump boasts of “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!”
- Market turbulence fuels warnings on health of global economy
- UK teaching assistants march in Durham to oppose pay cuts and attacks on conditions
- Chicago teachers to vote on one-day strike
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to picket and hold public meeting for release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Australian Education Union agrees to sell-out deal with Victorian state Labor government
2017-03-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Venezuelan Supreme Court strips legislature of lawmaking powers
- Once again on Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till: The New York Times intervenes to preserve identity politics
- What is behind the hysterical defence of Baberowski by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung?
- Senate hearing sets stage to escalate bipartisan campaign against Russia
- Thousands of Australian asylum seekers face deportation
- IYSSE at Geneseo protests attacks on immigrants
- Philippine administration steps up police-state measures
- Pentagon exercises free rein in global military escalation
- Canada: NDP leadership candidates try to cover up its right-wing record
- One in eight community college students in the United States are homeless
- German foreign minister outlines European strategy
- $87 million Flint water line settlement announced
- Arkansas pushes forward with plans to execute eight inmates in eleven days
- The UAW betrayal at Caterpillar and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Triggering of Brexit intensifies national tensions in Europe
- Australian workers and youth speak out against Maruti Suzuki frame-up
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