Archive: 02/2018
2018-02-01
- UK: Conservative government backs efforts to overturn parole of rapist John Worboys
- CIA director brands China “as big a threat to the US” as Russia
- Tens of thousands of German industrial workers on strike
- Australian Labor leader sounds alarm about popular hostility to political establishment
- Australian government unveils sweeping anti-democratic “foreign interference” bills
- Trump’s State of Delusion
- Funerals begin for five Oklahoma workers killed in gas well explosion
- US media glorifies small protests by right-wing Putin opponent Alexei Navalny
- Marshall and #MeToo: A 77-year-old civil rights fight exposes the reactionary character of the sexual misconduct witch-hunt
- Growing opposition to Israeli government’s plans to deport African refugees
- America is unprepared for the next deadly influenza outbreak
- US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg endorses #MeToo
- Unifor disaffiliates from Canadian Labour Congress in spat over “raiding”
- Bolivia’s Evo Morales marks 12 years in power amid mounting social struggles
- Anger mounts as UAW VP for Fiat Chrysler is implicated in corruption scandal
2018-02-02
- Turkish employers grant pay raises in hopes of appeasing metalworkers
- Russian-backed Syrian peace talks reach deal on constitution as US discusses escalating conflict
- “Big Sugar” and metabolic syndrome, killers of millions annually worldwide
- Australian government unveils sweeping anti-democratic “foreign interference” bills
- Trump in open clash with FBI over Russia probe
- French retirement home workers strike to defend elderly, working conditions
- Australia: Government-union “negotiations” stall in NSW rail dispute
- Why are a million Puerto Ricans still in the dark?
- From Facebook to Policebook
- Chicago Public Schools appoints new CEO
- Demands for US intervention against “Russian meddling” in Mexico’s presidential election
- Seattle schoolbus drivers walk out in indefinite strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Border Patrol vilify DACA recipients, linking them to human smuggling
- German industrial workers shut down auto sector as strikes spread
- Social cleansing in Haringey: Labour right reject Corbyn’s pleas for “unity”
- Jeff Daniels’ Flint: A drama about the former industrial city
- Signs of turbulence in stock markets
- Australian cabinet files affair used to ramp-up “security” and US intelligence ties
- European Union skeptic wins Czech presidential election
- As May faces leadership challenge, Corbyn and Labour make Brexit pitch to employers’ groups
- Workers discuss UAW corruption scandal at WSWS Autoworker Newsletter call-in meeting
- Washington prepares new escalation as Afghanistan unravels
2018-02-03
- 080 Warnings of "breaking point" in Congo conflict
- 020 Toledo autoworkers meetings
- To reduce costs Texas officials slash special education enrollment
- West Virginia teachers hold one-day strikes and statewide protests
- Half a million metalworkers participate in strikes in Germany
- National Guard, federal agents and police mobilize for Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis
- Seventy years after Sri Lankan independence: The record of capitalist decay and the necessity for socialism
- Australian government defies criticism of sweeping “foreign interference” bills
- Deliberate neglect leads to inmate death at New York’s Rikers Island
- 203 Puerto Rico video
- Fear of working class upsurge triggers plunge in financial markets
- Australian mining union isolates locked out Oaky North workers
- Release of Nunes memo throws anti-Russia campaign into disarray
- Trump administration presses for more options for war on North Korea
- 070 Lagarde backs #MeToo
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The human cost of the destruction of the National Health Service
- UK: Justice4Grenfell meeting endorses May government’s inquiry
- French workers support growing mass strikes in Germany
- Amazon reports record profit in final quarter of 2017
2018-02-05
- Political in-fighting escalates as Cape Town, South Africa approaches “Day Zero” water shutoff
- This week in history:
- Downing of Russian fighter in Syria threatens wider war
- Australia: Labor and unions responsible for banning of NSW rail strike
- ICE conducts 77 workplace raids in Northern California
- Pope preaches dogma of reaction in Latin America
- The working class and the capitalist economy
- Veteran investigative reporter Robert Parry dies at 68
- Evidence that Norwood Jewell was bribed to sign 2015 UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal
- Democrats defend FBI as Republican memo shows anti-Russia campaign built on illegal spying
- French president Macron to end lifetime job guarantee for public sector workers
- IMF chief Christine Lagarde gives #MeToo the banks’ seal of approval
- London protesters speak out in defence of the National Health Service
- UK unions and Labour suppress struggle to defend National Health Service
- German grand coalition parties negotiate over rearmament and war
- Colors: Beck’s foray into mainstream pop
- Australian Labor Party parliamentarian resigns over dual citizenship furore
- India strengthens ties with ASEAN countries
- Two crew members killed in South Carolina train crash
2018-02-06
- After one-day strike, West Virginia teachers face battle over wages and medical benefits
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Before budget deadline Thursday, Senate Democrats and Republicans prepare reactionary “border security” bill
- Global markets plunge as Dow records biggest ever one-day point fall
- Six Baltimore police officers plead guilty to racketeering
- Trump considers “bloody nose” strike on North Korea
- Chelsea Manning to run as a Democrat in Maryland Senate race
- Brazil’s political crisis deepens after court upholds conviction of Lula
- Socialism or Barbarism: Reflections on Global Disorder
- US flu epidemic rages on, with more deaths and record hospitalizations
- Hamburg police searching for G20 protesters Europe-wide
- Nothing learned from Auschwitz
- Ford workers in Chicago speak out on UAW corruption
- Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing “local news”
- Families’ spokesman on New Zealand earthquake building collapse: “Are there people who are above the law?”
- Surging violence and political crisis in Congo
- Chomsky’s pro-imperialist Afrin petition
- May’s China visit highlights UK’s post-Brexit dilemma
- Germany’s Grand Coalition for austerity and war
- Post-Grenfell Tower fire report confirms systemic corporate flouting of health and safety standards
- Australian electricity unions suspend industrial action
2018-02-07
- US Secretary of State Tillerson threatens oil sanctions against Venezuela
- US threat to escalate Syria war over alleged gas attacks
- CNN suppressed leaked DHS report on Super Bowl LII security operation
- Australia: Why the RTBU is muzzling railworkers
- Polish president signs bill censoring free speech about the Holocaust
- UAW contracts must be declared null and void
- Political crisis erupts in the Maldives
- Trump’s chief of staff mocks young immigrants as “afraid” and “lazy” as DACA deadline approaches
- ICE agents arrest Kansas chemistry professor who was taking his daughter to school
- IG Metall union shuts down strike by hundreds of thousands in Germany
- UK: Convicted fascist Finsbury Park attacker planned to kill Jeremy Corbyn
- Police step up harassment of Los Angeles homeless
- Julian Assange loses initial bid to overturn British arrest warrant
2018-02-08
- Earthquake hits Taiwan, killing eight people and injuring hundreds
- Spain to double its military spending
- Australia: Union pushes sell-out deal in NSW rail dispute
- Thousands of workers in Puerto Rico continue to live without running water
- Trump’s parade and the threat of military dictatorship
- US vice president foreshadows “toughest” sanctions on North Korea
- Why does Mélenchon want to expel Syriza from the European Left Party?
- UK High Court rejects Lauri Love’s extradition to US
- New York City limousine driver kills himself in protest over poverty wages
- Haringey Council leader Claire Kober: The social cleansing agenda of a Blairite “martyr”
- A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez: How the #MeToo campaign echoes the McCarthyite witch hunt of the 1940s and 1950s
- German parties reach agreement on grand coalition for war and austerity
- Canada’s defence minister touts new offensive cyberwar powers
- US Senate Democrats agree to massive boost in military spending
- Berlin Senate plans increase in police powers
- Former TPT workers at Jeep seek to reopen lawsuit against UAW, Fiat Chrysler
- APTIV autoworkers in northern Mexico are close to a strike
- Belgium: terror trial begins of Saleh Abdeslam, “Europe’s most wanted man”
2018-02-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Tennessee police deliberately murder fleeing unarmed suspect, as sheriff boasts, “I love this sh*t”
- US massacre of Syrian troops threatens to unleash wider war
- Sri Lankan local elections: SEP holds public meetings in island’s north
- Seattle, Washington school bus drivers enter second week of strike
- Falling US life expectancy: The product of a deliberate ruling class policy
- Wall Street plunges amid fear and panic
- Will India invade the Maldives?
- French President Macron proposes 35 percent increase in military spending
- London Labour councils in league with property developers
- Racist rampage in the Italian election campaign
- Students and workers denounce bipartisan attacks on immigrants
- Democratic mayor holds sham community forum on Flint water crisis
- Falcon Heavy launch marks new stage in the privatization—and perversion—of space exploration
- Corbyn prostrates himself before council leaders in the name of “Municipal Socialism”
- Columbia University refuses to recognize graduate student union
- Partial federal shutdown ends with passage of budget deal between Trump and Democrats
2018-02-10
- YouTube censors video opposing far-right Alternative for Germany
- Russians reported killed in US strikes in Syria
- US regulators conclude sleep apnea, lack of signals caused two recent train disasters
- Russian teacher fired after criticizing low salaries
- Plundering of Puerto Rico continues as governor attacks public education
- Three thousand Pittsburgh schoolworkers vote on strike
- Democrats and Republicans pass budget to prepare US for war
- UK: Northamptonshire County Council on verge of bankruptcy
- The suicide of Jill Messick: #MeToo campaign claims a victim
- Wild swings on Wall Street at end of turbulent week
- Sleeping rough in the UK: “I never expected to be on the streets”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK: Pro-Corbyn councillors vote with Blairites against scrapping Haringey Council’s social cleansing project
- Reject German coalition pact! Make public all secret agreements!
- Moody’s downgrades Ford’s credit forecast as investors demand deep cuts
- US: Food insecurity may be twice as common as previously estimated
- Anti-China dossier highlights target of Australian “foreign interference” bills
- Quebec: Steelworkers union maneuvering to impose concessions on locked-out aluminum workers
2018-02-12
- West Virginia teachers authorize statewide strike
- This week in history: February 12-18
- Israeli attack on Syria heightens danger of wider Mideast war
- St. Paul, Minnesota teachers face Tuesday strike deadline
- Australian government used ASIO to stop refugees obtaining visas
- Australia: Union confirms sell-out agreement in NSW rail dispute includes job cuts
- White House aides forced out over domestic abuse allegations
- US to expand military deployments as war danger builds in Asia
- Censorship, witch hunts and dirty money at the New York Times
- New NATO headquarters planned in Germany
- Studies connect Medicaid work requirements to poor health
- New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof promotes #MeToo witch-hunt of Woody Allen
- West Virginia teacher speaks on social conditions, issues in strike vote
- The nightmare reality for immigrants across US in 2018
- Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy: The tragic fate of a significant American film
- UK National Health Service “haemorrhaging nurses” as 33,000 leave in one year
- Germany: The resignation of Martin Schulz
- French media endorse plan for anti-worker Grand Coalition government in Germany
- Testimony reveals depth of recklessness in decision to use outmoded Flint water plant
- Opposition party wins Sri Lankan local council elections
- Chicago public school teachers vote to approve merger with charter teachers union
- UK: Corbyn tries to conceal Labour’s record of social cleansing
- The parents of Jacoby Hennings demand to know why their son died
2018-02-13
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Russia’s presidential elections: What is behind Ksenia Sobchak’s candidacy?
- French president Macron prepares to privatize railways
- Puerto Rico blackout exposes the precarious state of the island’s electrical grid
- 2018 Winter Olympics held in Korea under shadow of war
- Australian Labor Party president warns of collapsing membership
- Kimberly-Clark to lay off over 600 workers and close two plants in Wisconsin
- Kentucky residents face water shutoffs as UK study exposes health dangers from leaking pipes
- Texas woman, 38, falls victim to US flu epidemic and exorbitant drug costs
- US Congress begins debate on milestone anti-immigrant legislation
- ICE arrests immigrant at asylum interview in San Francisco
- Public outcry forces Manchester Art Gallery to restore censored painting
- German government plans massive military expansion in Iraq
- Trump war budget calls for sweeping cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps
- Britain warned Sweden not to drop Assange extradition proceedings
- Australian pseudo-left promotes Labor Party, Greens at “African gangs” rally
2018-02-14
- West Virginia teachers press for statewide strike
- Corporate giant Unilever demands crackdown on oppositional Internet content
- Cyclone Gita leaves thousands homeless in Tonga
- Minnesota school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn from the curriculum
- Multiple reports confirm US killed Russians in Syrian oilfield airstrikes
- South Africa’s ANC votes to remove President Jacob Zuma
- Twenty years of the World Socialist Web Site: 1998–2018
- Top US intelligence official declares “decision time” on North Korea coming closer
- What is the connection between Britain First and Conservative leadership contender Jacob Rees-Mogg?
- Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship
- The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
- Amid jockeying over Maldives, Washington presses for closer ties with India
- Japan’s ruling party pushing to end constraints on military
- One dead as fires strike homeless encampments in Oakland, California
- Trump nominates anti-China hawk as US ambassador to Australia
- German grand coalition planning major military build-up
- British judge refuses to overturn Julian Assange’s arrest warrant
2018-02-15
- Oppose the right-wing campaign against Grenfell fire documentary Failed by the State
- UK Prime Minister May calls for fight to “defeat socialism”
- PBS’s The Gilded Age: Removing the working class from the stage of history
- Neo-McCarthyite hysteria at US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
- Seventeen killed in mass shooting at Florida high school
- #MeToo campaign turns on French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot
- The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran—Part 2
- French President Macron calls for the draft and threatens strikes on Syria
- Greece’s far-right and military lead protests over Republic of Macedonia name
- Thousands to be sacked at GM factory in South Korea
- Twenty thousand demonstrate against fascist rampage in Macerata, Italy
- Failed by the State co-director Daniel Renwick: “Every day I meet people who have been politicised and have a deeper consciousness”
- Democrats back punitive immigration plan as Senate vote looms
- Scientists warn of health costs of Australian heatwaves
- Germany: The coalition agreement and the return of militarism
- As profits soar, US construction workers see increase in death and injury on the job
- China boosts censorship of social media
- Cross-Canada protests after acquittal of Saskatchewan rancher in fatal shooting of Indigenous youth
2018-02-16
- The political issues facing West Virginia teachers
- Venezuela warns against US military intervention as domestic crisis deepens
- Brutal police assault on UC Berkeley worker evokes anger
- Deportation of New York City immigrant rights activist delayed as ICE crackdown continues
- Ramaphosa installed as South African president
- Squalor, violence and death: The deterioration of UK prisons
- The Parkland massacre and the dysfunction of American society
- Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu faces possible corruption charges
- War clouds gather over Munich Security Conference
- Ex-general delivers first speech in parliament: Australia must “consider the next war”
- The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran—Part 3
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Public brawl erupts between Australian prime minister and his deputy
- Netanyahu confirms US discussions on West Bank settlement annexations
- Failed by the State co-writer and presenter Ish: “I wasn’t trying to push agendas, I was just trying to tell the truth about Grenfell.”
- Danger of mass deportations grows as US Senate refuses to protect immigrant youth
- Honduras turns to online censorship and spyware to clamp down on protests
- Autoworkers want truth about young Ford worker’s death
- Australia: NSW government privatises Sydney’s inner-west bus services
- Two Baltimore police officers convicted of racketeering, robbery and fraud
2018-02-17
- County-wide walkouts spread, as West Virginia teachers demand statewide strike
- US and India intervene to avert Sri Lankan government collapse
- General strike in French Polynesia against undermining of pensions
- Tillerson declares US-Turkey relations in “crisis”
- Indictment of Russian nationals used to campaign for censorship and war
- Report details psychological and health impact of deportation on children
- The inauguration of Ramaphosa and the degeneration of the ANC
- New York City cop acquitted of the murder of Deborah Danner
- Marx’s analysis of the laws of capital and the share market crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WSWS interviews Fulbright scholar Chris Fradkin on impact of mass deportations
- US judges issue temporary stays of deportations for Christian Indonesians
- Indian autoworker speaks about life in the “Detroit of South Asia”
- Trump budget proposes massive cuts in food stamps and other social programs
- Funerals begin in Florida as details emerge of prior warnings about school shooter
- Ecuador referendum signals government’s further turn to right
- UK “gig economy” worker’s death tied to no sick pay, no sick leave
- Carillion Canada bankruptcy threatens 6,000 jobs
- Scientists produce new treatment to block the development of breast cancer
- Ten years on: The fraud of Australian parliament’s “stolen generations” apology
2018-02-19
- Another US step toward trade war
- This week in history: February 19-25
- Thousands rally to defend teachers in Charleston, West Virginia
- Puerto Rican Investment Summit discusses how to profit from human tragedy
- SEP holds online meeting on the New South Wales rail dispute
- The media and the Mueller indictment: A conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories
- Munich Security Conference threatens war on all fronts
- A tool of imperialism: Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Unsubmissive France calls for military buildup
- New Zealand government makes false promises to address Maori poverty
- German defence minister delivers war-mongering speech at Munich Security Conference
- West Virginia teachers denounce education cuts, social crisis
- ICE arrests 212 immigrants, raids 122 businesses in Los Angeles area
- Grenfell Fire Forum: Failed by the State co-director discusses smear campaign against his documentary
- France to sign basing deal with India, drawing Europe into drive to war in Asia
- Questions University College London must answer on eugenics conference
- Records show neglect of Florida school gunman’s mental health
- The story behind the water crisis in Martin County, Kentucky
- The US signals tougher stance against Burma on Rohingya crisis
2018-02-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New round of attacks across Spain’s auto industry
- Macron launches campaign to privatise French railways
- Australia: The 2014 union sell-out of NSW rail workers
- The Russian meddling fraud: Weapons of mass destruction revisited
- Labor Notes defends UAW amidst corruption scandal
- Germany: Youth leader Kühnert seeks to save the SPD—and the state
- Washington delivers new ultimatum on Iran
- Iowa state government preparing mid-year budget cuts
- US admiral advocates war footing against China
- Australia: Union enforces another massive pay cut at Griffin Coal
- Alabama sheriffs pocket money meant to feed county jail inmates
- Israel mounts fresh military assault on Gaza
- Canadian big business presses Trudeau to push through Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
- Film director Michael Haneke criticizes #MeToo movement on eve of Berlinale film festival
- Amazon set to open new depot in Sheffield—“low pay capital of the UK”
2018-02-21
- Two-day statewide teacher walkout planned in West Virginia
- Tonga faces deepening crisis after Cyclone Gita
- Mounting protests, walkouts by US students against school shootings
- Deal to restore power sharing in Northern Ireland collapses
- New York Times exploits Parkland tragedy to escalate anti-Russian campaign
- New Zealand: Breakdowns and lack of safety in Wellington’s rail network
- Rubbish dump collapse kills 17 in Mozambique
- Part One: Corrupt major parties struggle for legitimacy in 2018 Mexican election
- Australia’s “Barnaby Joyce crisis”: What is not being discussed
- The Munich Security Conference and Germany’s return to world power politics
- Trump administration pursues inhumane policy of separating migrant children from parents
- Tory-media witch-hunt claims Labour’s Corbyn was a spy
- New York Times columnist Charles Blow blames Russia for the fall in black voter turnout
- WSWS call to fight Internet censorship published in Urdu, Bengali, and Telugu
2018-02-22
- West Virginia legislature issues ultimatum to teachers as statewide walkout begins
- UK university lecturers and college staff strike against pension cuts and wage cap
- Syrian conflict further escalates as pro-Syrian forces enter Afrin
- Syrian government offensive prompts calls for intensified US military intervention
- Student protests spread over US school shootings
- Australian government to deport Tamil refugee despite torture warnings
- The New York Times and the strange case of Quinn Norton
- The 2018 Munich Security Conference and the emerging conflict between the US and Europe
- Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: A hollow “defining moment” cloaked in identity politics
- Growing opposition to public education cuts in Oklahoma
- UNICEF: Social inequality costs the lives of 7,000 newborns daily
- The fraud of the “left turn” in Canada’s NDP
- Indian authorities intensify vendetta against framed-up Maruti-Suzuki workers
- 370 miners to lose their jobs at Pennsylvania coal mine
- Part Two: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s bankrupt third run for Mexican president
- Still no serious investigation into death of Jacoby Hennings
- German Greens criticize lack of military “readiness”
- BBC gender pay row: Selective outrage of wealthy women
- Brazilian army general tapped to take over law enforcement in Rio de Janeiro
- Bangladesh opposition leader jailed for five years on corruption charges
2018-02-23
- West Virginia teachers demand quality pay, health care
- West Virginia teachers carry out state-wide strike
- Report by German armed forces commissioner prompts calls for rearmament
- IYSSE meeting draws together Flint, Puerto Rico, Kentucky workers to discuss water crisis
- A law unto themselves: US Border Patrol expands use of warrantless searches
- Australia: Widespread discontent overshadows Tasmanian state election
- Germany: SPD leadership seeks to fool party members in vote on grand coalition
- The Parkland shooting: Why are mass killings so common in the United States?
- Nova Scotia teachers vote massively in favour of “illegal” strike
- Maldives political crisis deepens
- Striking UK lecturers speak on struggle against assault on pensions
- Study finds regular use of common cleaning chemicals decreases lung capacity
- Los Angeles report on homelessness reveals widening funding gap
- Students and workers call for the unity of the working class following meeting on Flint water crisis
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A conversation with Emma Franz, director of Bill Frisell: A Portrait
- Egyptian elections held under massive repression
- Job cuts continue in New Zealand under Labour government
- Bill Frisell: A Portrait—an intimate documentary about a unique guitarist
- Air France workers strike to demand pay increase
2018-02-24
- Walkout by West Virginia teachers to continue through Monday
- Wave of home foreclosures expected to hit Puerto Rico
- UK lecturers stage second day of national strikes
- The growing threat of global trade war
- Spain: Podemos support plummets after rightward lurch
- West Virginia teachers take a stand
- After Parkland shooting, Trump calls for teachers to be armed
- Trump uses Australian PM’s visit to threaten North Korea
- US Federal Communications Commission sets end date for net neutrality
- German Chancellor promotes rearmament and war in speech to parliament
- Boston: MBTA infrastructure and working conditions worsen
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian deputy prime minister ousted via untested sexual harassment allegation
- Opposition grows among students and youth to Internet censorship
- Lecturers and students stage united protests in Sheffield and Southampton
- West Virginia teachers call for expansion of their struggle
- Plea deal by former Trump aide brings Russia probe closer to White House
- Tuition fees review will escalate marketisation of higher education in UK
- Florida inmate denounces governor, screams “Murderers!” before lethal injection
- Informal EU summit steps up Middle East war threats, attacks on migrants
2018-02-26
- UK: Hunger strikers at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre
- West Virginia teachers strike at the crossroads
- US immigration service quietly removes “nation of immigrants” from its mission statement
- This week in history: February 26-March 4
- Fighting continues in Syria after another UN ceasefire
- Pseudo-left Québec Solidaire shifts further right
- US military, Trump administration claim unlimited powers to wage war in Syria
- Australia: Locked-out Glencore coal mine workers face new provocations
- South Korean president holds talks with top North Korean officials
- 2013 Berlin Film Festival prize winner dies in poverty
- Democratic memo defends FBI’s illegal spying on Trump campaign
- German Left Party voices support for military rearmament and war
- Interview with Arang Keshavarzian, NYU professor barred from the UAE
- Australian prime minister expands war commitments during Washington trip
- Teachers speak out on the struggle in West Virginia
- In wake of Parkland school shooting, Republicans and Democrats call for boosting police powers
- London tower block leaseholders oppose having to pay cladding repair bill
- Brazilian army general tapped to take over law enforcement in Rio de Janeiro
- Canadian auto parts workers set to strike Windsor plants
- The class issues behind the racist “African gang” campaign
2018-02-27
- West Virginia teachers defiant as unions, governor scramble to end walkouts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- All-out support for the West Virginia teachers!
- Tennessee death row inmates challenge plan to fast-track executions
- Amid continuing crisis, Sri Lankan government leaders continue fragile coalition
- The advent of “pop-up” schools in Australia: Yet another assault on public education
- Trump’s reign of terror on California immigrants
- US Senate report details funding of patient advocacy groups by opioid manufacturers
- Australian government instability intensifies after deputy prime minister’s removal
- Parti de l'égalité socialiste holds meeting in Paris against militarism and austerity
- US Supreme Court hears arguments in union agency fees case
- University of Illinois graduate student workers go on strike
- UK local authorities escalate anti-homelessness policies
- Grenfell Tower combustible cladding was never tested
- British Columbia NDP retreats on election promises in first budget
- Unprecedented shutdown of Baltimore Metro system due to hazardous track conditions
2018-02-28
- Anger mounts over sellout of West Virginia teachers’ strike
- Tensions over Syria further undermine Turkish-NATO relations
- What the Russian Revolution meant for modern art and culture
- US airstrike kills dozens amid mounting Western war propaganda over Syria
- Reject the sellout of West Virginia teachers’ strike!
- Daniel Golden’s Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and foreign intelligence secretly exploit America’s universities
- French President Macron turns his labor decrees against rail workers
- India’s highest court upholds life sentences for framed-up Pricol workers
- Union lawyer tells US Supreme Court: “Union security is the tradeoff for no strikes”
- Australian and New Zealand transport workers must unite their struggles
- German Left Party leader backs new attack on immigrants
- Australia’s corporate media promote Labor’s “new Keating”
- The Italian elections: A perspective for the working class
- UK lecturers and students speak out during second week of strikes over pensions
- Workers, students speak out in support of West Virginia teachers
- Media, Democrats silent as US Supreme Court rules immigrants can be indefinitely detained
- Greek rent subsidy scandal forces resignation of two Syriza ministers
- Johns Hopkins researchers find toxic levels of heavy metals in e-cigarette vapors
- Right-wing media launch witch-hunt against Grenfell activist Joe Delaney
- Ex-CIA head John Brennan hired as news analyst by NBC
- Alabama death row inmate’s lawyer: “This was clearly a botched execution that can only be accurately described as torture”
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