Archive: 10/2017
2017-10-02
- The contradictions of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War
- October 2 - 8: Trotsky elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet
- CDC report finds large increase in sexually transmitted disease across the US
- Puerto Rico faces health catastrophe as Trump tweets “We have done a great job”
- UK public sector employment at record low
- Tom Price resignation highlights corruption in Trump’s cabinet
- Protests over police violence enter third week in St. Louis
- Trump’s tax plan: The wish list of the American oligarchy
- New York City workers collecting aid express anger at Trump’s response to Puerto Rico disaster
- Trump rules out negotiations with North Korea
- Australian job figures cloak reality
- Puerto Rican survivors describe dire conditions after hurricane
- The New York Times reports World Socialist Web Site charge of Google censorship and blacklisting
- Trudeau rushes to declare Edmonton attack a “terrorist” act
- Trump’s secretary of education rolls back Obama-era regulations on campus sexual misconduct
- Chicago launches new fig leaf police oversight agency
- Millions defy brutal crackdown by Spanish police to vote in Catalan referendum
- Unifor president at CAMI picket line: A declaration of bankruptcy
- Workers denounce Amazon for speed-ups after two die on the job
- Bailed out in 2008 crash, AIG now out of government oversight
- The AfD enters the Bundestag: a far right party of the ruling establishment in Germany
2017-10-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US pushes for closer Sri Lankan involvement into war drive against China
- Race, class and the protests against police violence in St. Louis, Missouri
- Trump visits Puerto Rico as anger grows over government response
- The social pathology of the Las Vegas Massacre
- People’s Assembly stage tame protest outside Conservative Party conference
- Access to obstetric services in rural US communities continues to decline
- New Zealand First to dictate make-up of next government
- International Youth and Students for Social Equality wins club status at New York University
- Monarch Airlines collapse causes air travel chaos
- Washington condemns Kurdish referendum as Iraq mobilizes its army
- Manchester demonstrators: “People are dying under these austerity measures.”
- Grenfell Fire Forum: Wide-ranging discussion and resolution passed opposing Google censorship
- Indian workers and students in Chennai support campaign against Google censorship
- Germany’s Social Democrats prepare to suppress popular opposition
- US Congress fails to reauthorize insurance program covering 9 million children
- EU hands Spain blank check for stepped-up police repression in Catalonia
- CAMI workers challenge further de-industrialization of southwestern Ontario
- UC Berkeley mobilizes police for “Free Speech Week”
2017-10-04
- African American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, a revolution betrayed in Portugal and other matters
- “Chemical coast” residents to be tested for toxic exposures in Houston, Texas
- Spanish king demands new crackdown in Catalonia
- Trump’s photo-op in Puerto Rico
- Defenders of imperialist “human rights” hail Spanish government’s crackdown in Catalonia
- Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for discoveries on the circadian rhythm
- Tamil refugee dies in Australian detention on Manus Island
- The Las Vegas massacre the day after
- German Left Party’s Lafontaine launches AfD-style tirade against refugees
- New presidential election in Kenya overshadowed by political crisis
- Australia: Ipswich workers denounce elimination of hundreds of jobs
- German Green Party opts for coalition with conservative and neo-liberal parties
- US confronts critical teacher shortage
- Hundreds of thousands protest Madrid’s repression in Catalonia
- Unifor, the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter and the politics of the CAMI strike
- Director of British rights group Cage convicted for refusing to reveal mobile phone and laptop pass codes
- Is $12 an hour a fair wage for Amazon workers?
2017-10-05
- As CAMI strike continues, Unifor sheds crocodile tears for Mexican workers
- Toyota ends car production in Australia
- On the loss of Tom Petty
- Leon Trotsky on Yakov Sverdlov (March 1925)
- Germany’s Social Democratic president calls for tougher refugee policy and adaptation to AfD
- SEP Australia verifies “registered party” status once again
- Socialist Equality Group holds public meeting following New Zealand election
- New Zealand workers and youth discuss the growing danger of global war
- Wall Street demands Puerto Rico pay up
- An independent class strategy for the Spanish and Catalan working class!
- Trump administration crisis worsens amid war drive against North Korea
- UK: Corbyn ally John McDonnell declares Labour’s mission is to “stabilise capitalism”
- Australian Greens demand disqualification of all “foreign” MPs
- Germany’s Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
- Spanish government sends troops to Catalonia
2017-10-06
- As Detroit mayoral election approaches, water shutoffs continue amidst pervasive poverty
- Australian governments unveil sweeping new police powers
- Spain prepares military crackdown in Catalonia
- The social and economic roots of the attack on democratic rights
- Siemens and Alstom rail train units merge as corporations prepare for trade war
- Amid Catalan crisis, Madrid prepares military rule across Spain
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Japan’s Democrats found new party to posture as opponents of remilitarization
- The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges
- For one in four US women: Nearest abortion facility over 30 miles away
- Observation of gravitational waves wins Nobel Prize in physics
- Huge increase in UK firefighters with mental health problems
- Senate witch-hunters expand on their anti-Russia horror story
- Burma’s anti-Rohingya pogrom fuels regional tensions
2017-10-07
- Thailand’s junta leader welcomed at the White House
- US Supreme Court begins new term
- “Love and courage”—Canada’s NDP elects Obama-style pitchman as leader
- Identity politics and the growth of inequality within racial minorities
- Surrounded by generals, Trump remarks on “the calm before the storm”
- Tory party on verge of leadership contest after disastrous conference performance by May
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- What would a “Jamaica” coalition in Germany represent?
- Puerto Rico continues to languish as tropical storm Nate threatens US Gulf Coast
- Sri Lankan academics oppose Google censorship
- A lethal injection in Florida, stay of execution in Alabama
- Australian economy “going into a hole”
- Democrats push for deal with Trump on DACA as ICE threatens mass raids
- Madrid prepares to deploy troops in Catalonia
- As CAMI strike ends third week, Unifor peddles Canadian nationalism at rally
- German government backs Spain’s violent crackdown on Catalonia
- Trump administration limits access to birth control under ACA
- Killings of four elite soldiers in Niger highlight vast scale of American military operations in Africa
2017-10-09
- October 9 - 15: Lenin steps up campaign for insurrection
- As crackdown looms in Catalonia, Spain’s Popular Party calls protest in Barcelona
- WSWS reader describes ongoing human catastrophe in Puerto Rico
- US railroad union coalition agrees to contract with health givebacks
- Australia: Questions emerge over another Aboriginal death in custody
- Trump’s threats against North Korea signify real danger of war
- UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson reveals predatory agenda of NATO’s war on Libya
- Japan’s new Party of Hope releases right-wing populist election platform
- Trump administration threatens widespread ICE raids in California
- London’s Garden Bridge project abandoned at massive cost
- New Zealand First pushes anti-China witch-hunt in coalition negotiations
- Court testimony exposes governor’s lies about Flint water crisis
- Washington, DC holds worker in jail for months after charges dropped
- Trump administration expels two-thirds of Cuban embassy staff from US
- Rapper Cardi B (“Bodak Yellow”) celebrated as a feminist icon
- Unifor operative assaults WSWS reporter at CAMI strike rally
- Disinformation campaign scandal shakes Austrian Social Democrats
2017-10-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Killing of fleeing man by Salt Lake City police officers ruled “justified”
- US, Turkey suspend visa services in diplomatic row
- As Spanish crackdown looms, France’s New Anti-capitalist Party promotes Catalan nationalism
- Outgoing German finance minister warns of financial bubbles
- British government prepares further draconian legislation to censor Internet
- Trump, local officials lie about real extent of Puerto Rico disaster
- Amazon workers force company to rehire unjustly fired worker after IAWV exposure
- New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families make Supreme Court appeal
- Trump White House declares war on immigrants
- Trump and Pence orchestrate national anthem provocation at NFL game
- US defence secretary calls on military to be ready for war against North Korea
- Ten dead, thousands displaced as wildfires rip through northern California
- Canadian autoworkers warn CAMI strikers on role of Unifor, condemn attack on WSWS
- Canada integrating universities into its militarist foreign policy
- UK draws up plans to back US military attack on North Korea
- Spain's Popular Party threatens repression if Catalan authorities declare independence
2017-10-11
- A Season in France, Catch the Wind, Arrhythmia, Sweet Country: The refugee crisis, social disintegration in Russia…
- The New York Times and the criminalization of dissent
- US army chief urges greater “combat readiness” for war with North Korea
- Students oppose Indian government’s new university entrance exam
- Attack in 2016 on Munich shopping centre was an act of right-wing terrorism
- Trump to light fuse under Iran nuclear deal, as part of more aggressive anti-Iran strategy
- Indian economy in a downward spiral
- White House prepares executive order undercutting Obamacare
- Northern California wildfires leave at least 15 dead, 200 missing
- Trump administration axes Obama-era climate regulations
- British Clinical Commissioning Group to slash health services in Dorset
- Democratic Party donors funnel millions to protest groups
- Germany’s conservative parties shift further to the right
- Catalan premier affirms right to independence from Spain, but delays formal declaration
- Australia deploys for war with North Korea and confrontation with China
2017-10-12
- Populist senator to resign from Australian parliament and contest state election
- The politics of the Harvey Weinstein scandal
- Mounting political crisis in Washington amidst talk of removal of Trump
- Spain moves toward military rule in Catalonia
- Schäuble calls for the continuation of austerity policies in Germany and Europe
- Saudi Arabia pivots to Russia
- Podemos’ call for dialogue on Catalonia: A political trap with deadly consequences
- The US on the brink of war with North Korea
- NFL commissioner announces plans against anthem protests
- Mass demonstrations rock Kenya as Odinga withdraws from election re-run
- Growth to rise but wages continue to fall, says IMF
- African American man attacked by white supremacists in Charlottesville charged with felony
- Talks resume in CAMI strike as Unifor continues to isolate embattled workers
- At least 23 dead as reports point to electrical infrastructure as possible cause of California fires
- Burma: Pogroms continue against Rohingya Muslims
2017-10-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New Zealand rail union blocks struggle against attacks on conditions
- Australian government snubs Indonesian lawsuit over teenagers jailed as “people smugglers”
- President Trump threatens to pull the plug on Puerto Rico
- Washington seethes with rumors of an anti-Trump “palace coup”
- Germany: Public prosecutor drops investigation into NSA spying
- Trump threatens to jettison NAFTA, as trade disputes intensify
- UK government refuses funds for unsafe tower blocks post-Grenfell
- Evacuees speak about devastating California fires
- Robert Pruett, first imprisoned at age 16, executed in Texas despite questions about evidence
- Threatening crackdown in Catalonia, Madrid whips up nationalism at military parade
- GM threatens CAMI plant, demands Unifor end month-long strike
- Temporary shutdown of GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant signals new threat to auto jobs
2017-10-14
- Denouncing Iran as a terrorist state, Trump refuses to recertify nuclear accord
- Youth suicides at a record high in the UK
- Sri Lankan government enforces UN sanctions against North Korea
- UK school funding crisis worsens
- Germany: The significance of the election in Lower Saxony
- Following Trump executive orders, Democrats offer Obamacare “fix”
- New Zealand First delays decision on forming a new government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- IMF report points to financial dangers lurking beneath global growth
- 50 years since the murder of Che Guevara
- Trump’s threats against Iran aggravate German-American tensions
- How the Internet keeps us safe from people like Thomas Friedman
- Thousands of undocumented immigrants among those affected by Northern California wild fires
- Rap artist Eminem and his popular tirade against Donald Trump
- New York City mayor de Blasio virtually unopposed for reelection
- Reject Unifor-GM blackmail! No vote until CAMI workers have full contract and time to study it!
- French president Macron and ex-left Cohn-Bendit advocate a militarily strong Europe at Frankfurt Book Fair
- Why is the US at war in West Africa?
2017-10-16
- October 16-22: Trotsky leads Bolsheviks out of Pre-Parliament
- Trump, Iran and the US drive for world hegemony
- “Extreme emergency” declared for New Orleans’ drainage system
- US open to diplomacy with North Korea “until the first bomb drops”
- Deaths caused by Leptospirosis reported in Puerto Rico
- Kaepernick seeks arbitration over NFL blacklisting
- Transatlantic antagonisms deepen after Trump threatens withdrawal from Iran deal
- Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
- Hamas reaches agreement with Fatah
- Why weren't residents warned about the Northern California fires?
- Behind the opioid crisis: Republicans and Obama cleared the way for corporate murder
- China’s billionaires rapidly expand their fortunes
- Deadline looms for Catalonia to confirm or deny independence declaration
- Before any ratification vote, CAMI workers must see the full contract and have time to study it
- Online lecture: “Lenin’s The State and Revolution”
- Far-right poised to enter government following Austrian election
- Right-wing Zionist campaign against new director of Center for Jewish History in New York City
2017-10-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump appeals to fundamentalists and fascists
- Bombings kill hundreds in Somali capital
- New club procedures at UC Berkeley give police effective veto power over campus events
- In latest victory for the far right, neo-fascists gain in Austrian election
- Madrid rejects Puigdemont’s call for talks in Catalan referendum crisis
- From the July Days to the Kornilov coup: Lenin’s The State and Revolution
- Iraqi seizure of oil-rich Kirkuk from Kurds risks broader war
- Australia: Ipswich workers condemn hundreds of job losses
- Hurricane Ophelia’s tail hits Ireland and UK
- Floridians line up for food assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma
- New York employers, insurers seek to gut workers’ compensation system
- Chinese Communist Party congress meets amid gathering crises
- CAMI strike in Canada ends
- Afghanistan prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion
- Australian bank hearing reveals growing danger of interest-only housing loans
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s parable play about the rise of Hitler
2017-10-18
- Far-right Trump ally Thomas Barrack negotiating to buy Weinstein Company
- Washington threatens to escalate sanctions in wake of Venezuelan regional elections
- US ambassador intervenes in New Zealand’s political crisis
- Australian university unions divide opposition to sell-out deals
- Star Trek: Discovery—The latest incarnation of the popular science fiction series
- The conspiracy to censor the Internet
- Ontario-wide community college teachers on strike
- Neutron star merger observed through gravitational waves and light
- Thousands continue to suffer in the wake of Mexico’s earthquakes
- US admiral must “imagine the unimagined:” All-out war with North Korea
- Kenyan government bans demonstrations ahead of October 26 election re-run
- Iraqi forces seize back more Kurdish-held territory
- Florida Governor declares state of emergency ahead of speech by white supremacist
- Trump’s pick for drug czar forced to step down after expose
- Jailing of separatist leaders sparks protest demonstrations in Catalonia
2017-10-19
- Court orders striking staff at suburban Chicago school district back to work
- Australian military covered up dangers of toxic fire-fighting foam
- Greek Prime Minister Tsipras embraces Trump
- Merchants of Death: The pharmaceuticals, Congress and the US opioid epidemic
- NFL commissioner says football players should stand for national anthem
- Public meeting: What the Russian Revolution meant for modern art and culture
- The Australian marriage equality survey: An exercise in political division and diversion
- German Social Democrats take first place in Lower Saxony election but lose their Green coalition partner
- The genuine achievement of Loving Vincent, and its limitations
- Power struggle in leadership of Germany’s Left Party
- India: Students and workers in Kolkata oppose Google censorship
- An interview with a Loving Vincent painter-animator
- California declares state of emergency over Hepatitis A outbreak as death toll rises to 19
- Attend meeting of Grenfell Fire Forum in London on Saturday October 21
- Military industry stocks soar amid growing threat of war
- Trump rejects bipartisan health care plan a day after endorsing it
- 200,000 protest jailing of Catalonian nationalist leaders in Barcelona
- Rift deepens between Britain and European Union as talks reach no agreement
- Thirty years since Wall Street’s “Black Monday”
2017-10-20
- Trump, John Kelly and the media firestorm over “disrespecting” the troops
- Estimated death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria rises to 450
- Spanish government vows to impose military-backed regime in Catalonia
- Right-wing nationalists hand power to New Zealand Labour
- “1917—How One Year Changed the World”
- Post-Grenfell: More than £400 million needed to make London residential buildings safe
- Google escalates blacklisting of left-wing web sites and journalists
- Australia: Glencore steps up provocations against locked-out miners
- Talks on forming German coalition government begin
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Canadian split from the UAW—Lessons for today
- Political lessons of the Australian car industry closure
- US and European military operations in West Africa set the stage for broader war
2017-10-21
- Western Sydney University workers denounce cuts to jobs and conditions
- Detroit area Ford worker dies in apparent suicide at stamping factory
- Australian university union blocks debate at WSU stopwork rally
- White supremacist met by mass protest at University of Florida
- Spanish Socialist Party demands new elections in Catalonia
- Pompeo vows that the CIA will become a “much more vicious agency”
- Chinese leader calls for “strong nation” and “strong military”
- Right-wing, four-party government formed in the Netherlands
- US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to Congress: Pass tax cuts or markets will tank
- David North delivers address on Russian Revolution at University of St Andrews, Scotland
- German Air Force involved in war crimes in Syria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Gen. Kelly’s tirade and the threat of dictatorship
- Japan’s Stalinists seek to head off anti-war movement ahead of election
- Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia murdered in Malta
- EU summit endorses Spain’s threat of police-military occupation of Catalonia
- Senate passes resolution setting stage for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich
- Trudeau exploits Edmonton attack to lay groundwork for anti-refugee measures
- Alabama man raises arms, grimaces as state puts him to death by lethal injection
2017-10-23
- Hundreds line up for free medical care in West Virginia
- October 23-29: Bolshevik Central Committee votes for armed insurrection
- Spain annuls Catalan self-government, prepares military rule from Madrid
- “This anti-Russian campaign is horrible”: An interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
- US threatens Iran after fall of ISIS “capital” of Raqqa
- The US lurches toward military dictatorship
- New Zealand: Official silence over Taylor Preston meatworks death
- Referendums on autonomy take place in northern Italy
- Far-right nationalist groups march in Kiev
- UK: BAE Systems and Vauxhall to impose mass job losses
- Trump’s Department of Justice attempts to block 17-year-old immigrant from getting abortion
- Ruling LDP maintains two-thirds majority in Japanese election
- Over 5,000 sign WSWS petition against Google blacklisting
- Democrats signal shift to the right for 2018 campaign
- Northern California fire survivors: “It’s shameful they didn’t warn us”
- Australian Senate formally denounces commemorations of the Russian Revolution
- Bannon attacks Bush and McCain, highlighting crisis within Republican Party
- Right-wing opponent of European Union wins Czech parliamentary election
- Discovery of dead youth’s body raises specter of forced disappearances in Argentina
2017-10-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Mississippi school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird from curriculum
- Tillerson calls for “dramatic deepening” of Indo-US alliance
- Airbnb and eBay paying virtually no tax in the UK
- Sri Lanka: Phony moves toward democratic constitutional change
- US public meeting series: Why Study the Russian Revolution?
- Australian government tries to force refugees from one prison camp to another
- Puerto Rico power blackout the biggest in US history
- Move to Spanish military rule in Catalonia exposes bankruptcy of Podemos
- New reports document declining life expectancy and worsening health of US workers
- Behind the New York Times’ concern about Washington’s “forever wars”: Plans for new war authorization and conscription
- US prepares to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert
- Trump, Pentagon shaken by mounting crisis over Niger deaths
- The six-day rise and fall of “democratic socialist” Ramirez-Rosa for Illinois lieutenant governor
- Weeks after hurricanes in Texas and Florida: Government aid scarce, tens of thousands still displaced
- Google: The new face of Internet censorship
- China faces growing debt problems, says central bank governor
- Catalan government in turmoil over Spain’s suppression of autonomy
- Immigration and socialist strategy in America, past and present
- Thousands demonstrate in Berlin against ultra-right Alternative for Germany
- Australian spy agency promotes anti-China witch-hunt
2017-10-25
- Tsar to Lenin screens to sold out audiences in London and Manchester
- Autoworkers speak on suicide of young Ford worker at Detroit area plant
- Montana company with ties to Trump cashes in from Puerto Rico disaster
- The American oligarchy prepares a new tax windfall for the rich
- Labour Party details coalition agreement with New Zealand First
- Slain US special forces troops on apparent assassination mission in Niger
- Los Angeles Police Department set to deploy drones
- Documents show US participation in 1965-66 massacres in Indonesia
- Australian flu epidemic inundates public health services
- US Republican senator calls Trump “dangerous to a democracy”
- Road death of UK pensioner the result of tragic circumstances
- Xi Jinping consolidates grip over Chinese Communist Party apparatus
- Season 4 of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman: Social and individual psychology
- Review of Tennessee’s bail bond system exposes inequalities in US justice system
- After electoral victory, Argentine president promises “most austere policies”
- Trade war in the aerospace industry: Airbus takes over shares in Bombardier
2017-10-26
- Australia: Social devastation looms over Latrobe Valley
- Quebec “clarifies” application of anti-Muslim law
- Australian government orders police raids on union offices
- The crisis in the Republican Party and the fracturing of the American two-party system
- Trump: US “totally prepared” for war with North Korea
- Kenyan election re-run exposed as a farce
- Latrobe Valley residents: “The government is failing very badly”
- Worker killed in Indiana auto parts plant
- Grenfell Fire Forum launches Facebook page
- New York Times and Wall Street Journal demand censorship of YouTube
- US Senate votes to protect financial giants from consumer lawsuits
- Catalonia announces plan for independence as Madrid threatens military rule
- Did an undercover agent incite the Berlin Christmas Market attack?
- The far-right Alternative for Germany enters parliament
2017-10-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Australian troops sent to the Philippines despite end of Marawi siege
- Washington exploiting Green Beret deaths to escalate Africa intervention
- Trump declares opioid epidemic “will get worse before it gets better”
- Madrid's talks with Catalan premier collapse as Spain threatens military rule
- Flint: How much of the social crime does the film present?
- On the eve of revolution: The Bolshevik Party, factory committees, and the mass movement of the working class
- “I have no choice”: Trump bows to CIA pressure to withhold documents related to Kennedy assassination
- US immigration officials arrest 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after surgery
- Some Detroit-area residents left homeless after eviction from condemned low-income motel
- London: Public-private housing partnership to enforce social cleansing in Haringey Borough
- Germany’s “Jamaica” coalition parties agree on debt brake, tax cuts and privatisation
- Trump administration silences government environmental scientists
- European Central Bank to continue bond-buying program
- Free, high quality public education is a social right! Join the Committee For Public Education!
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE calls public meetings to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution
- Australian statistics show collapse in manufacturing, mounting jobs crisis
- As US moves to abolish estate tax, world’s billionaires pile up another $1 trillion
- Trudeau courts Amazon CEO to locate its second headquarters in Canada
- AFL-CIO leaders offer demagogy, nationalism at convention in St. Louis
2017-10-28
- Twitter bans RT and Sputnik from advertising
- Tillerson delivers stern warning to Pakistan
- Spain imposes military rule in Catalonia to preempt independence bid
- America’s oligarchy: No money for opioid crisis, endless funds for corporate tax cuts
- Survey of UK nurses exposes staff crisis in National Health Service
- Trump administration’s CMS head leads assault on Medicaid
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Newly released documents point to state cover-up and complicity in assassination of John F. Kennedy
- High Court disqualifies five MPs, demanding “single-minded loyalty” to Australia
- The Sri Lankan garbage disaster: A crime of capitalism
- Memorial in Detroit for young autoworker who died in Ford plant
- As protests mount against Madrid, Catalan parliament declares independence
- Lessons of the CAMI autoworkers’ strike in Canada
- 100 years on: The significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution for today
- UN Ambassador Haley visits Africa amid US military escalation, social catastrophe
2017-10-30
- October 30-November 5: Bolsheviks marshal forces for the revolution
- Denim mill in Greensboro, North Carolina closes after 112 years
- US, India push anti-China campaign at Sri Lankan maritime conference
- Seven-month Spectrum strike in New York and New Jersey highlights assault on pensions
- Whitefish Energy profits in Puerto Rico from Trump administration connection
- US masses ships and aircraft outside North Korea
- Palatine, Illinois school district support staff return to picket lines
- First indictment reported in Mueller probe of alleged Russian interference in 2016 election
- Catalan Premier Puigdemont flees to Belgium as Spain asserts direct rule over Catalonia
- The US media and the Kennedy assassination documents: “Move along, nothing to see here”
- US Appeals Court denies second hearing for US citizen falsely imprisoned by ICE officials
- Art auction for Grenfell fire survivors raises £2 million
- Memories… Do Not Open by The Chainsmokers
- Cambodian government expels opposition party from parliament
- German military builds training ground for civil war
- With Amazon stock surge, Jeff Bezos becomes richest person in the world overnight
- Hundreds mourn death of young Ford worker in Detroit
2017-10-31
- Australia: Possible Woolworths strikes spark warnings of a broader wages movement
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Burmese government continues persecution of Rohingya minority
- Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago—an introductory comment
- Early Queensland election points to political instability in Australia
- US congressional hearings on “extremist content” prepare assault on free speech
- Nepali Stalinist parties form a new alliance
- Three former Trump aides indicted as Washington political warfare intensifies
- CVS and Aetna reportedly in talks for $60 billion merger
- Kenyan president declared winner in election re-run amid low turnout
- California: Car plows through immigration protesters outside US congressman’s office
- Haitian government in crisis as protests spread
- Autoworkers take to social media to defend young Ford worker killed in apparent suicide
- EU backs Madrid’s imposition of authoritarian regime in Catalonia
- US auto profits beat expectations despite softening sales
- Bipartisan push for new US force resolution to rubber-stamp expanded war
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