Archive: 07/2017
2017-07-01
- The importance of the VW Strike in Slovakia
- Australian Education Union pushes through pro-market workplace agreement in Victoria
- Manchester Metropolitan University staff oppose site closure, redundancies
- Trinity College suspends professor over Facebook posts
- Australian government ministers make last-minute apology in terrorism contempt case
- US provocatively approves major arms sale to Taiwan
- Season Three of Better Call Saul: Objection! Relevance!
- The Supreme Court and Trump’s anti-Muslim executive orders
- Two US coal miners killed in June
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italian local elections see defeat of Renzi’s Democratic Party
- US House passes anti-immigrant measures with Democratic Party green light
- Democrats appeal for bipartisan compromise to slash health care costs
- Report: UK low-income families cannot afford basic requirements to live
- Australian unions help impose cuts to federal pay and conditions
- Hundreds of New York Times workers stage walkout to protest job cuts
- 150 years of Canadian Confederation: Myth and reality
- Anger and frustration over Trumpcare at Louisiana town hall meeting
- Perjury charges dismissed against Texas police officer who arrested Sandra Bland
- New York City doctor opens fire on former coworkers, killing one
- Barclays PLC charged with fraud by UK Serious Fraud Office
- Canadian Amazon workers face low wages and constant speed-up
2017-07-03
- Majority of states rebuff Trump voter fraud commission’s request for data
- US warship intrudes into Chinese-claimed waters in South China Sea
- July 3-9: Lenin warns against premature insurrection
- Two workers killed in molten slag spill at Tampa, Florida power plant
- US state budget crises lead to shutdowns of offices, parks, schools
- Cyberattack on UK parliament stokes anti-Russia campaign
- The media blackout of Seymour Hersh’s exposé on US missile strike against Syria
- Outpouring of anger over Grenfell Tower fire at London anti-austerity rally
- Ohio councilman proposes “three strike policy” to let opioid overdosers die
- New York City transit workers, commuters describe breakdown of subway system
- Western Massachusetts nurses still face fight over staffing and health benefits
- South Korean president aligns with US war plans against North Korea
- Anti-austerity protestors speak on the Grenfell Tower fire
- Germany: Marriage equality bill used to promote Red-Red-Green pro-war policy
- Fall River, Mass., Amazon worker says company forces workers to grab heavy pallets 50 feet in air
- Detroit Federation of Teachers accepts merit pay, other concessions
- Governor declares “state of emergency” for New York City transit system
- Wages continue to plummet in the UK, as inflation rises
- Photo Essay—Sri Lanka: The housing crisis and Colombo’s poor
- Trump administration, Democrats announce local-federal partnership to expand Chicago police force
- Canada’s Liberal government extends participation in Mideast war to 2019
- Australian workers and youth speak out on Grenfell Tower tragedy
2017-07-04
- US-backed war in Yemen sparks deadly cholera outbreak
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Nearly $50 million in cuts planned for northern Virginia school district
- Venezuelan government moves against dissenting chavistas
- US Studies Centre touts significance of US-Australian investment ties
- Trump’s frosty phone call with Chinese President Xi
- Defence Minister says Britain will back any US action in Syria
- The way forward for West Coast port truck drivers
- Concerns grow over Fed interest rate policy
- G20 summit in Hamburg: A city in a state of siege
- Trump’s attack on the press
- New Zealand Labour Party deepens anti-immigrant campaign
- Macron speaks to assembled houses of French parliament in Versailles
- Anger grows over Grenfell Tower inferno
- India and China trade war threats amid border stand-off
- Hepatitis A on the rise in California
- German foreign minister goes on the offensive in the Middle East
2017-07-05
- After Grenfell Tower fire: High-rise evacuated in Wuppertal, Germany
- Socialist Equality Party holds public meeting on Sri Lankan floods disaster
- The Grenfell Tower disaster: A crime against the working class
- Gulf crisis poised to escalate as Saudi-led Qatar ultimatum expires
- Chicago police fatally shoot 37-year-old man
- Three weeks after the Grenfell inferno: Official cover-up and callous indifference
- German parliament passes Internet censorship law
- The policy of “social murder” behind the US health care debate
- Mexican government uses malware to spy on journalists and political opponents
- The Maruti Suzuki frame-up and the history of international labor defense campaigns
- New book describes the role of black mayors and police officials in mass incarceration
- North Korean missile launch intensifies war danger
- Japanese PM plans to submit constitutional revisions this year
- Pseudo-left silent on Seymour Hersh’s exposé of US strike against Syria
- London residents on Grenfell fire: “Heads have got to roll!”
- UN endorses International Court of Justice hearing on Chagos Islands/Diego Garcia
- The case of Jörg Baberowski: Oppose right-wing and militarist ideology at Germany’s universities
- US auto sales fall for sixth straight month
2017-07-06
- US exploits North Korean missile test to threaten war and isolate China
- Germany’s foreign policy shift 2.0: A call for German imperialism to “get going”
- London residents on the Grenfell fire: “All they want to do is maximise their profits”
- Studies reveal stark health divide in Australia
- German Christian Democrats’ election programme calls for increased state powers
- US police out in force for Fourth of July holiday
- Banks, bondholders driving the legal conflict over Flint’s water supply
- Many questions in Detroit GM plant explosion
- UK Labour leader Corbyn appoints opponents to cabinet as Blairite right wing continue to plot
- China and Russia forge closer ties against US
- New York Times backs calls for Catalan independence referendum
- Disputes sharpen in Canadian ruling elite over its China policy
- Xi’s visit to Berlin highlights growing US-EU conflicts before G20 summit
- Australian government lines up behind US threats to North Korea and China
- Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren joins push for US escalation in Afghanistan
2017-07-07
- Zambian President Edgar Lungu seizes emergency powers
- Trump speech in Poland fans conflict with Germany, Russia
- Trade conflicts hang over G20 summit
- Republican Senator Pat Toomey defends health care cuts in phony Town Hall event
- Japan’s ruling party trounced in Tokyo regional election
- Australian Labor and union leaders seek to head off workers’ discontent
- Bitter conflicts dominate G20 summit in Germany
- British Airways crew members defy strikebreaking operation
- London resident on Grenfell fire: “I’m looking at a graveyard with people’s relatives inside”
- Democratic pundits demand harsh immigration crackdown
- Police rampage against G20 protestors in Hamburg
- Coworkers denounce false report of suicide after Detroit electrician falls to his death
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Life after deportation: an interview with a Mexican immigrant raised in the US
- Tensions mount in India-China Himalayan border standoff
- Bombardier Hennigsdorf workers express anger at the IG Metall union
- Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled: Historical drama with hardly any history
2017-07-08
- US B-1 bombers challenge Chinese claims in South China Sea
- Trump-Putin meeting deepens divisions in US establishment on Russia policy
- Court rejects Trump’s delay of methane rules
- Missouri rolls back minimum wage increase in St. Louis
- Trump escalates US drone war in Somalia
- Sears announces the closing of 43 more stores in the US and Canada
- The oligarchs assemble in Hamburg
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan using North Korea as pretext to acquire offensive weapons
- California: Immigrants go on hunger strike at Adelanto Detention Facility
- Haringey social cleansing exposes Labour’s hypocrisy over Grenfell Tower fire
- Hamburg under police lockdown
- Rifts widen in the Australian Greens
- Police kill Iraq veteran who held up bank to demand VA disability payment
- Virginia Democratic governor defies international protests to oversee execution of mentally ill prisoner
- New study shows Clinton lost election because of growing working class opposition to war
- London’s Grenfell fire: Salford housing associations discontinue cladding removal
- Backed by Greens, NDP to form British Columbia’s government
- Fed stress test results unleash “party time” for US banks
- Virginia and Maryland Amazon workers denounce speed-ups as company profits from millions in government giveaways
2017-07-10
- July 10–July 16: The beginning of the “July Days” in Petrograd
- Democrats, media revive anti-Russia campaign after Trump-Putin meeting
- More rural Tennessee hospitals face closure under Republican health care plans
- Illinois Democrat’s health care roundtable event marked by frustration, anger
- “Chaos” surrounds Papua New Guinea election outcome
- The police murder of Iraq War veteran Brian Easley
- Global financial parasitism and the political strategy of the working class
- US strategic bombers conduct provocative drill near North Korea
- Professor Sean McMeekin and the construction of a historical lie (Part II)
- Australia: Lacrosse apartment residents speak out over Grenfell Tower disaster
- Iraqi prime minister claims “liberation” of devastated Mosul
- High Court challenge imperils Australian government
- G20 protest participants speak out against police crackdown
- Transatlantic tensions dominate G20 summit
- Resignations at UK Shelter housing charity, after Grenfell exposes role of “Third Sector”
- Camden residents: “You cannot trust them now because of Grenfell. It’s never going to be the same again”
- Legislators pass devastating austerity budget in Illinois
2017-07-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fire guts London’s Camden Lock Market
- Sri Lankan government appeases Buddhist hierarchy
- Australian government summarily deports more Sri Lankan refugees
- After Hamburg protests, German government plans crackdown on left-wing views
- Delays in transit service continue as repairs begin on New York’s Penn Station
- New York Times voices moral outrage over profiteering military contractors ... in Russia
- Latest Chicago police killing shrouded in secrecy
- UK National Health Service destruction continues with mass land sell-off
- Number of New York City street homeless grew by nearly 40 percent in one year
- Senate Republicans maneuver in effort to pass draconian health care bill
- American Epic: A three-part documentary about early “roots music”
- More Australian workers killed in preventable workplace incidents
- AT&T West workers reject deal pushed by Communications Workers of America
2017-07-12
- Trump’s voter fraud commission forced to pause data collection
- Trump Jr. emails on meeting with Russian lawyer bring political warfare in Washington to fever pitch
- New York City commuters voice anger at decay of mass transit system
- Hollywood averts a third major strike with SAG-AFTRA deal
- The “liberation” of Mosul: Washington’s latest war crime in the Middle East
- The impact of US opioid epidemic on foster care and social services
- EU and Japan sign largest-ever Free Trade Agreement
- New Irish prime minister uses identity politics to cover-up right-wing agenda
- Australia: Unanswered questions over police killing of Melbourne teenager
- London police drag out Grenfell Tower fire investigation
- Australian building experts discuss the Grenfell Tower fire
- Scientists warn of “biological annihilation” as Earth’s mass extinction accelerates
- Number of European working poor doubles in a decade
- Chicago Transit Authority train operators vote to strike
- Canada to wage offensive cyberwar
- Beatriz at Dinner: Not the sort of resistance that amounts to much
2017-07-13
- Nurses strike Tufts Medical Center in Boston
- Violence surges in central Congo’s Kasai province
- Officer who fatally shot Philando Castile to receive $48,500 in severance pay
- Revelation of meeting with Russian lawyer intensifies political crisis in Washington
- Pseudo-lefts promote Corbyn as model for New Zealand Labour Party
- US threatens China over North Korean sanctions
- US commander predicts weeks more of fighting in “liberated” Mosul
- Four months since the frame-up and sentencing of Maruti Suzuki workers in India
- All-party pro-European Union group formed by UK Labour’s Chuka Umunna
- Right-wing furor over Canadian government’s “apology” to child Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr
- Most Grenfell survivors remain homeless a month after inferno
- Deported Sierra Leone immigrant raised in the US speaks out
- Modi visit consolidates Indo-Israeli military-strategic partnership
- After Hamburg protests: German Left Party backs law-and-order campaign
- Michigan attacks assistance for state’s unemployed and vulnerable residents
- The Crown: Sentenced to be queen
- German trade union, works council and Bombardier management unite to impose plant shutdown in stages
- Part One: Amazon cashes in on war crimes and mass surveillance
- SEIU cuts short three-day strike of New York airport workers
- Leaked reports expose Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
2017-07-14
- Tenfold increase in cholera cases in Yemen since April
- Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post delivers a hypocritical sermon on American values
- Trump administration signs law stripping job protections from Department of Veterans Affairs employees
- Australian prime minister’s London speech highlights political turmoil
- Tufts Medical Center in Boston locks out 1,200 nurses after one-day strike
- German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp slashes 2,500 jobs as it prepares to sell off steel division
- GM Korea autoworkers vote to strike
- Climate change and the struggle against capitalism
- Police kill young worker in northern Sri Lanka
- Macron invites Trump for Bastille Day parade in Paris
- Ex-Workers Party President Lula sentenced to jail amid Brazil’s spiraling political crisis
- Mounting tensions between India and its nuclear-armed neighbors, China and Pakistan
- Privatisation contributed to Grenfell Tower inferno
- British Columbia wildfires force 14,000 to evacuate their homes
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Senate Republicans’ revised health bill maintains draconian Medicaid cuts
- Part Two: Amazon, war propaganda, and the suppression of free speech
2017-07-15
- Fiat workers in Serbia launch strike
- New strikes in the UK against Driver Only Operated trains
- San Diego police unleash K-9 dog on handcuffed man
- Wages and Wall Street
- The persistent Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986): An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Anger grows over failure to prosecute those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno
- Australian unions isolate miners facing attacks on pay and conditions
- Trump administration to end legal protection for over one million immigrants in US
- Australian cricket pay dispute escalates
- Study shows US has poorest health, widest health care gap between rich and poor
2017-07-17
- July 17–23: The “July Days,” Insurrection and counterrevolution in Petrograd
- Tufts Medical Center lockout to end with no gains for nurses
- Australia: Hundreds evacuated after toxic blaze at Melbourne recycling plant
- New York Democrat Sheldon Silver’s corruption conviction is overturned
- Australian government shuts off power to refugees imprisoned on Manus Island
- Three die in Honolulu high-rise without sprinkler system
- US Justice Department arrests over 400 in health care fraud crackdown
- Low birth weights, high stress levels among immigrant population in the US
- Lady Macbeth—a bored, unhappy young wife “ready to go through fire”—and Mali Blues
- One week after Mosul’s “liberation,” horror of US siege continues to unfold
- Trump administration prepares mass deportations
- New information reveals extent of attack on democratic rights during G20 protest in Hamburg
- After Hamburg G20 protests: SPD, Left Party and Greens prepare law-and-order election campaign
- Local residents speak out over toxic recycling plant
- The Grenfell fire: Class politics versus identity politics
- China establishes military base in Djibouti
- UK contaminated blood scandal has global dimensions
2017-07-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Leader of group of deported US veterans in Mexico speaks out
- Syriza offers big business mega-profits in Greece
- South Korea proposes military talks with North Korea
- Australian woman fatally shot by Minneapolis police officer
- Deepening political crisis around Papua New Guinea elections
- The opioid epidemic in the US: A national health emergency
- French National Assembly approves enabling act to rewrite labor law
- Mali war spilling into Burkina Faso, Niger
- Indian-US-Japanese naval exercises in Indian Ocean target China
- Democrats press anti-Russia campaign, now targeting Trump son-in-law
- Germany and France to jointly develop new fighter jet
- Michigan researchers investigate connection between Flint water crisis and high infant mortality rate
- Study finds financial parasitism contributes to the high cost of drugs
- New Zealand bus workers threatened with pay and job cuts
- AmazonFresh worker reveals: Amazon illegally keeps workers in a freezer for over two hours at a time
2017-07-19
- German military historian Sönke Neitzel evokes the traditions of Hitler’s Wehrmacht
- Trump threatens redoubled economic sanctions against Venezuela
- A portrait of an opportunist coalition in Los Angeles, California
- Poll shows 76 percent of Americans fear a major war
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) members threatened and excluded from Grenfell Tower fundraiser
- Australian government seeks new military call-out powers
- Labour shadow chancellor says Grenfell Tower fire is “social murder”: What is he going to do about it?
- Louisiana woman charged with attempted murder after sheriff’s deputy kills her boyfriend
- India’s assertive moves in South China Sea fuel growing tensions with China
- Residents denounce inequality at fundraising event for Grenfell Tower victims
- Two Greens senators in Australia resign over dual citizenship
- The SPD’s “Germany Plan”—social democracy shifts further to the right
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee residents protest city officials’ gag on wildfire discussion
- Three months after the Meethotamulla disaster in Sri Lanka
- White House and Republicans fail on “repeal and replace” of Obamacare
2017-07-20
- Trump gives employers more temporary visas to exploit immigrant workers
- High Court approves UK government’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- Woman killed by Minneapolis police had called to report a rape
- Six months of the Trump administration: The working-class strategy against capitalism and war
- New study shows half of all opiate prescriptions given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety
- US House proposes over $5 trillion in cuts
- Australian government to establish a “security” super-ministry
- Democrats push for bipartisan plan to slash health care
- Angry Grenfell survivors and residents berate London police and council officials
- German police stand by as neo-Nazis give Hitler salute at “rock against foreigners” concert
- Albert Einstein’s life, or parts of it, in the first season of National Geographic’s Genius
- French armed forces chief of staff resigns in protest over military budget cuts
- A reply to a Socialist Party USA member
- Top leadership contender in China abruptly ousted
- Australian governments continue to cover-up unsafe buildings
- Argentina’s Left and Workers’ Front (FIT): “Podemos in diapers”
2017-07-21
- Grenfell Fire—Social Murder: A crime against the working class
- Turkish-Russian missile deal escalates Turkey-NATO conflict
- Trump attacks his own Justice Department in Times interview
- American horror film director George Romero (1940–2017)
- Council condemned for “disgusting” treatment of Grenfell fire survivors
- The murder of Justine Damond and police violence in America
- Study reveals gutting of health care and pensions for US workers
- New York and New Jersey transit woes mount
- Trump administration to pursue protectionist agenda in NAFTA renegotiation
- Iraqi sources place real death toll in US-led siege of Mosul at 40,000
- Five years since company-provoked incident used to frame up Maruti Suzuki workers
- At “Socialism 2017” conference, International Socialist Organization shows its pro-war colors
- Protesters at Kensington and Chelsea council meeting: “This has been a massive crime and they all seem to be getting away with it”
- Fifty years since the Detroit rebellion
- Fire risk in most New Zealand high-rise buildings
- Opposition grows to writing French state of emergency into law
- Killing continues in Colombia as FARC disarms
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- ECB offers reassurance to anxious financial markets
- Baltimore police officer caught on body-cam planting drugs
- Amazon investing billions in India to extract super profits
2017-07-22
- US-China trade talks conclude in acrimony
- White House in turmoil as special counsel expands Russia probe
- Tennessee judge offers reduced sentences to inmates who agree to sterilization
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions issues directive to revitalize civil forfeiture laws
- Union shuts down Serb auto strike
- Disqualification threats hang over Australian MPs
- Australia: Anger grows over fire at Melbourne recycling plant
- Trump pulls plug on CIA’s Syrian “revolution”
- NSSP leader denounces Sri Lankan doctors’ strikes as “medical terrorism”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Three Palestinians dead after clashes between Israeli police and protesters
- Germany: Extent of “left-wing violence” at G20 summit was wildly exaggerated
- German elections: Polls show growing hostility to the Social Democrats and other capitalist parties
- China-India border impasse enters sixth week
- Mixed fleet cabin crew continue strike against British Airways
- Brexit crisis tearing apart UK’s Conservative Party
- Residents in Bradford, England: “We are all affected by what has happened at Grenfell”
- Alberta NDP to work with Trudeau to ram through Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
- Fifty years since the Detroit rebellion
2017-07-24
- July 24—July 30: Counterrevolution rears its head
- German government escalates confrontation with Turkey
- Trying Days
- Former US intelligence chiefs urge Congress, executive to defy Trump
- Teachers’ unions attract few at “March for Public Education” in Washington, D.C.
- South Korea extends deadline for talks with the North
- Fifty years since the Detroit rebellion
- Minneapolis police chief resigns over police murder of Justine Damond
- After Trump visit to Poland: PiS government adopts new authoritarian measures
- American nightmare: Nine immigrants suffocate to death in trailer left in Texas parking lot
- US: Growing danger of children overdosing from opioids
- Mélenchon hails French army as he launches movement against Macron’s cuts
- Grenfell fire: social cleansing by London councils widespread
- Jay-Z’s 4:44: A further display of hubris and self-absorption
- Trump threatens Iran, plots to scuttle nuclear accord
- Hundreds of thousands of Australian dwellings unoccupied as housing crisis deepens
- Harley Davidson to cut 180 jobs at Milwaukee and Kansas City plants
- Connecticut Democrats, unions impose $1.5 billion in givebacks on state workers
- Divisions mount in Spain’s Podemos as Catalan independence referendum looms
2017-07-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Grenfell Fire: Vigil held for five-year-old victim
- UK: Kensington and Chelsea Council struck deals to avoid building affordable housing
- May government conceals UK-Saudi terror connections
- US sanctions bill against Russia set for passage with bipartisan support
- Tenth immigrant dies in Texas trailer atrocity
- Evidence of early rice domestication found in southern China
- In landslide vote, Philippine legislature extends martial law
- US squanders billions on new aircraft carrier
- Court rules against Michigan workers falsely accused of unemployment fraud
- Macron announces stepped-up attacks on immigrants in France
- Wave of immigration raids target youth falsely branded as “criminals”
- IMF global outlook downgrades US growth prospects
- Rampant dengue epidemic in Sri Lanka
- Congressional Democrats unveil phony “Better Deal” ahead of 2018 midterms
- India: Stalinist-backed “common opposition” candidate crashes out in presidential election
- Workers denounce layoffs at Indianapolis Carrier plant
- Brazilian president threatened with ouster over corruption charges
- Government gives Amazon millions in free money for Romulus, Michigan warehouse
2017-07-26
- Clash between Venezuelan government and opposition raises threat of civil war
- US accuses China of unsafe mid-air encounter
- As Wall Street demands new auto job cuts, UAW rants against Mexico and China
- New York governor and mayor trade charges as transit chaos deepens
- The roots of the social catastrophe in South Sudan
- Protest in London against police killing of Rashan Charles
- US Congress overwhelmingly passes sanctions bill targeting Russia
- Independent Inquiry Committee holds meeting on Sri Lankan garbage dump collapse
- Government moves survivors of San Antonio truck trailer disaster to for-profit jail
- US Senate votes to open debate on Republican health care legislation
- Green Party adopts fake “left” posture in New Zealand elections
- German Social Democrats embrace policies of right-wing nationalist AfD
- SEP public meetings: “Flint and the Grenfell fire: Social crimes against the working class”
- Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk: The outbreak of World War II without history or politics
- Immigrant fighting deportation sues Chicago police for falsely labeling him a “gang member”
- The Australian Education Union’s 2017 campaign of misinformation and censorship
2017-07-27
- Trump, targeting special counsel, bashes his own Justice Department
- Trump announces ban on transgender people in the US military
- Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes government’s judicial reform
- Dropping the mask: A war of plunder in Afghanistan
- Bipartisan push in Australia for four-year parliaments
- Ohio carries out first execution in more than three years
- Jacobin defends bourgeois rule and US imperialism in Latin America
- Judge blocks deportation of 1,400 Iraqis in temporary reprieve
- Federal indictment charges Fiat Chrysler paid top UAW negotiator $1.2 million in bribes
- Grenfell fire witness Johnny Regasa: “You saw so many people at their windows burning alive”
- New Google algorithm restricts access to left-wing, progressive web sites
- European Union threatens retaliation over US sanctions bill against Russia
- Sri Lankan government deploys army to break oil workers’ strike
- Citizen Jane: Battle for the City—Documentary on the life and times of urban activist Jane Jacobs
- Canadian warships join “freedom of navigation” exercises in South China Sea
- Australian inquiry into dangerous building products: An exercise in political damage control
- Residents confront head of government inquiry into Grenfell Fire
2017-07-28
- Study on food stamp distribution and theft underscores hunger crisis in Illinois
- London schools with flammable cladding deemed “safe”
- Amazon CEO Bezos makes $1.4 billion Thursday morning, briefly becoming world’s richest person
- Google rigs searches to block access to World Socialist Web Site
- US military declares “time is running out” before war with North Korea
- Trump Justice Department: Corporations can fire employees based on sexual orientation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- FBI arrests US Army Sergeant in ISIS sting operation
- US-trained Iraqi troops ordered to “kill anything that moves” in western Mosul
- Grenfell Tower fire survivors reject local authority, police cover-up
- Conflicts in Australian Greens driven by decline in support
- Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit: Mind-numbing violence and racial politics
- Brain damage found in 99 percent of deceased NFL players
- Murdoch media widens citizenship witch-hunt in Australian parliament
- Amazon to seize the land of freed slaves’ descendants to lay power lines
- New Zealand: Job cuts planned for Auckland rail services
- Aisin Automotive workers in India’s Haryana state face a new company-government witchhunt
2017-07-29
- Trump shifts retired Marine general from Homeland Security to replace fired White House chief of staff
- Russia expels US diplomats in retaliation for sanctions bill
- Australian police kill mentally-ill man at Sydney’s main train station
- After the Papua New Guinea election: The way forward for the working class and rural poor
- Embattled Trump plays homophobia card to strengthen his fascistic base
- US generals discuss “military options” after North Korean missile test
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s defense minister resigns in wake of scandal
- European Union and Italy step up pressure on organisations assisting refugees
- Indian Stalinists support Modi government in military standoff with China
- ICE arrests over 100 immigrants in New York in 11 days
- US autoworkers speak on bribing of UAW official
- US Senate fails to pass Obamacare repeal legislation
- Does the WSWS write about Leon Trotsky? Not according to Google
- After sellout of Fiat-Chrysler Serbia walkout unions agree to three-year strike ban
- Texas executes man who received grossly ineffective counsel
- Police announce possible manslaughter charges in connection with Grenfell Fire
- Government inaction exacerbates BC wildfire disaster
- Barcelona train crash injures 56 during nationwide rail strike
2017-07-31
- Election of constituent assembly in Venezuela takes place amid intensified violence and US threats
- July 31—August 6: The nightmare in Flanders
- Terrorist plot allegedly prevented in Australia
- Manhattan couple commit suicide due to “financial spiral”
- France nationalizes STX shipyards in Saint-Nazaire
- Putin confirms expulsion of US diplomats from Russia
- White House shakeup: A further step toward authoritarian rule
- Pakistan plunges deeper into crisis as prime minister ousted on corruption charges
- UK: More nurses and midwives quit as onslaught against NHS intensifies
- Trump slams China over North Korean missile
- South Haven, Mississippi police accused of executing auto mechanic in address mix-up
- Mélenchon denies France’s responsibility for the Nazi-era deportation of the Jews
- Maldives president mobilises military and police against opposition MPs
- Letter to the Provisional Government
- Residents in London district of Ladbroke Grove speak out on Grenfell fire
- New US provocation in Persian Gulf as Washington expands Iran sanctions
- Indiana Fiat Chrysler workers react to UAW bribery indictment
- Google’s chief search engineer legitimizes new censorship algorithm
- German politicians call for quicker deportations after attacks in Hamburg and Konstanz
- Foxconn gets $3 billion in tax subsidies to build plant in Wisconsin
- Australian government implements far-reaching restructure of intelligence agencies
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