Archive: 03/2018
2018-03-01
- West Virginia strike continues as teachers reject unions’ back-to-work order
- Skoda workers in the Czech Republic prepare to strike
- Fed’s concern over prospect of a wages movement jolts markets
- Peru’s president proposes minimum wage hike in bid to divert impeachment drive
- Xi Jinping’s power grab: Bonapartism with Chinese characteristics
- A conversation with Raoul Peck, director of The Young Karl Marx
- Baja California and San Diego lose sole classical music station
- The New York Times procures salacious details of “gray-zone sex”
- Security firm Palantir secretly providing New Orleans police with predictive policing software
- German defence minister confirms grand coalition’s rearmament plans
- The UK lecturer’s dispute and the marketisation of higher education
- ICE carries out mass immigration roundups in Northern California
- Washington infighting intensifies with resignation of White House communications director
- Trump proposes cuts to heating aid while US house fire deaths spike
- UK university lecturers, college staff and students hold joint protest in London
- UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn slithers toward sellout
- New Zealand government intensifies campaign against Chinese “interference”
2018-03-02
- Industrial tannery dump contaminates drinking water in west Michigan community
- All West Virginia schools closed today as teachers’ rebellion continues
- Defiant West Virginia teachers denounce union efforts to sell out strike
- Trump launches trade war
- After Parkland shooting, dozens of US students arrested for social media posts
- Mobilize the entire working class behind West Virginia teachers! Form rank-and-file committees to expand the struggle!
- French unions negotiate rail privatization with Macron government
- Australian rail union prepares sellout in NSW train dispute
- Responding to US threats, Russian President Putin proclaims nuclear arms race
- Jacobin, Socialist Alternative and the ISO hailed union deal rejected by West Virginia teachers
- The Italian election alliance Potere al Popolo: A repackaging of pseudo-left politics
- The revolt of the West Virginia teachers
- New Zealand governments lied about “non-combat” role in Iraq
- Death on the Picket Line, the story of John McCoy
- A new “left” appeal for imperialist intervention in Syria
- Draft EU Brexit agreement deepens divisions over Northern Ireland
- University of Illinois strike exposes plight of graduate students, adjuncts
- “A world without nations”—On the death of German jazz guitarist Coco Schumann
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Presidential frontrunner López Obrador backs off threat to undo Mexican oil privatization
2018-03-03
- Young Democratic Socialists of America conference: Propping up the Democratic Party
- West Virginia telecommunications workers begin strike as teachers’ walkout enters second week
- Support grows for West Virginia teachers as unions, Democrats scramble to end strike
- EU threatens retaliation to Trump’s trade war measures
- Germany: The membership vote and the war policy of the SPD
- West Virginia student demonstration supports call to expand teachers strike
- US government cuts aid to Puerto Rico by half
- Emergency declared after earthquake devastates Papua New Guinea
- Ruling class conflicts in the US target inner circle of Trump White House
- Ferguson, Missouri nursing home workers in fourth month of strike
- Nova Scotia Teachers Union abandons strike mandate, capitulates to Liberal attack on education
- US media airs pretexts for preemptive attack on North Korea
- EU threats add to pressure on Maldives government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Elections in Italy deepen European Union crisis
- State workers, auto workers, teachers throughout the world back West Virginia strike
- Special needs New York student imprisoned over Facebook posting
- French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen indicted for tweeting pictures of IS killings
- Four Detroit area police officers await trial for murder, use of excessive force
- Theresa May’s Brexit speech gets short shrift from European Union
- Obituary: Jim Anderton, a pivotal defender of New Zealand capitalism
- The Oscar speech we’d like to hear Sunday night: “Members of the Academy, what hypocrites and conformists so many of you are!”
2018-03-05
- Canadian auto parts workers strike in Windsor
- UK lecturers dispute: Lessons from the West Virginia teachers strike
- Davino Watson, US citizen wrongfully detained by ICE, calls for the defense of immigrants facing deportation
- This week in history: March 5-11
- Australia: Liberals cling to office in Tasmanian election
- UK education workers send messages of solidarity to striking West Virginia teachers
- The way forward for West Virginia teachers
- American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs—A fatally flawed documentary
- The historic significance of Trump’s trade war measures
- Australian rail union pushes through sellout agreement at Pacific National
- The political agenda behind the UK ruling elite’s attack on Oxfam
- Oklahoma teachers demand strike action, funding for education
- Why Richard Ojeda is not a fighter for the working class
- South Korea delegation heads to Pyongyang for talks
- Support grows for striking West Virginia teachers as decisive week starts
- Fifty years since the Kerner Commission report
- Kenya lecturers’ strike paralyzes public universities
- Hung parliament emerges in Italy as social-democratic vote collapses
- German Social Democratic Party votes to form grand coalition
- West Virginia telecommunications workers continue strike, support teachers
- European Union demands Google, Facebook step up Internet censorship
2018-03-06
- West Virginia teachers have the right to vote on any return to work!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Unifor scuttles Windsor auto parts strikes
- Thousands converge on state capitol to show support for West Virginia teachers strike
- Foreign “meddling” in elections—Yankee imperialist style
- Sri Lanka university workers maintain indefinite strike as union backtracks
- German Green Party-aligned newspaper defends far-right Professor Baberowski
- Parasitism and “tax reform”: Trump’s corporate tax cuts fuel stock buybacks, not investment
- Deep social crisis ignored in South Australian election campaign
- Putin’s state of the nation speech highlights crisis of Russian oligarchy
- The West Virginia teachers strike and the rebellion against the trade unions
- Mexico: The most dangerous country for journalists outside of war zones
- Impoverished California parents arrested, charged with raising children in substandard conditions
- Historic defeat for social democrats in Italian election
- West Virginia teachers demand the right to affordable healthcare
- UK government lies exposed over civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria
- Chicago Ford workers speak out in support of West Virginia teachers
- China’s National People’s Congress to install Xi as political strongman
- Belgian military plans to quintuple spending on weapons systems
- 90th Academy Awards: Banal, conformist and 10,000 miles from reality
2018-03-07
- Canada: 3,000 contract teachers and graduate assistants strike York University
- West Virginia teachers unions ram through sell-out deal to end strike
- Canadian ruling elite reacts to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs
- Sri Lankan president declares emergency rule amid violence against Muslims
- Racialist attacks mar landmark performance of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
- Why the far-right won in Italy
- Oklahoma teachers to discuss strike strategy
- New Zealand opposition leadership change reflects tensions over social unrest and drive to war
- North Korea offers to enter talks to denuclearise
- Income losses of British millennials second only to those in Greece
- UK general calls for hike in military budget and cuts in social spending
- The lawless frontier of the #MeToo campaign
- UK lecturers speak in support of West Virginia teachers
- US Border Patrol uses pretext of “human trafficking” to separate immigrant children from parents
- The CIA Democrats: Part one
- Trump economic advisor Gary Cohn resigns over tariff decision
- Australian teachers salute courageous stand of striking teachers in West Virginia
- Argentine teachers begin school year with a national strike
- Netanyahu, Trump discuss war preparations against Iran
2018-03-08
- An interview with a striking York University contract faculty member
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Prominent science fiction and fantasy writer (1929-2018)
- Indian Stalinists routed in Tripura bastion
- Trade conflict heats up
- For a unified socialist movement of lecturers and students!
- Anti-Russia campaign follows alleged poisoning of former UK/Russian double agent and daughter
- Lessons of the West Virginia teachers strike
- After Burkina Faso bombing, France pledges to step up war in Sahel
- US emergency departments report significant increase in opioid overdoses among all age groups, including infants
- Australia: Anger erupts over privatised bus services in Newcastle
- Germany: Grand coalition expands foreign operations in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Justice department files suit against California “sanctuary” laws
- Australia: “Silent invasion” book advocates war against China
- Google admits collaboration with illegal US drone murder program
- Striking West Virginia Frontier telecom workers speak out
- The CIA Democrats: Part two
- Social media giants work with Indian government to censor Internet
2018-03-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Striking Illinois grad students speak out against attacks on higher education
- Turkish government escalates crackdown on opposition as toll of Afrin invasion mounts
- Trump, risking trade war, signs off on steel and aluminium tariffs
- As teacher struggles spread, unions redouble effort to suppress class struggle
- Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: A fatally ill-conceived “black comedy”
- Mental health crisis descends on Puerto Rico’s working class
- Jacobin, International Socialist Organization claim “victory” in West Virginia teachers sellout
- Anger mounts over video of police beating unarmed man in North Carolina
- The condition of working-class women on International Women’s Day
- Trump accepts North Korean offer of talks, on US terms
- Money paid to college basketball players reveals the profit greed of the NCAA
- Democrats embrace major cut in corporate taxes
- French ruling class promotes memoirs of neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Corbyn opposes Momentum leader Jon Lansman’s bid for Labour’s general secretary post
- Jersey City teachers poised to strike
- Israel imprisons Eritrean asylum seekers who refuse deportation orders
- The CIA Democrats: Part three
- Dozens of fatalities during European cold snap
2018-03-10
- YouTube threatens to shut down right-wing Infowars channel
- Windsor auto parts workers defy Unifor and strike
- Aircraft carrier visit cements Vietnam’s alignment with Washington
- US “allies” scramble for tariff exemptions
- Spreading wave of working class unrest in the US follows West Virginia teachers strike
- Oppose Sinhala racist violence against Muslim community in Sri Lanka
- Still no facts in UK/Russia double agent poisoning case
- Nearly 30,000 Los Angeles School District support staff to vote for strike authorization
- Russian economy stagnates as presidential election approaches
- Google’s alliance with the military: The ruling class responds to social unrest in America
- US-North Korean talks still a tentative prospect
- Transnational beer corporation creates water crisis in northern Mexico
- Video of Border Patrol agents dragging mother away from children sparks outrage
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: 15,000 jobs in retail and leisure under threat, as jobs go throughout economy
- Hospital workers protest layoffs in Michigan
- Germany: The new Social Democratic ministers
- Four dead following hostage situation at Northern California veterans home
- Berlin film festival: SPD cabinet minister promotes #MeToo campaign
- Australian government obtains “national security” exemption from Trump’s trade war measures
2018-03-12
- Connecticut jury acquits Yale student in campus sexual assault case
- Unifor shuts down ZF-TRW auto parts strike in Windsor, Canada
- UK motorists sue Volkswagen over diesel emissions fraud
- This week in history: March 12-18
- Trade disputes further erode Turkish-US-relations
- Confusion over US tariff exemptions
- Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya: Confessions of a media pariah
- Demands for teacher strike action expand across the US
- An Open letter from the International Youth and Students for Social Equality to the editors of German daily Tageszeitung
- Australia: Rail authorities, unions push sellout deal in NSW train dispute
- Rising anger over aid delays in Papua New Guinea’s catastrophic quake disaster
- West Virginia, the class struggle and the fight against Internet censorship
- Trump, Democrats race to the right
- New Zealand’s “Pacific reset” aims to reassert imperialist dominance
- Nissan layoffs impact 550 workers at Cuernavaca, Mexico assembly plant
- Cluster of 125 people infected with HIV and syphilis discovered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Kenyan universities petition court to declare lecturers strike illegal
- California: 18,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses authorize strike
- France’s fascist National Front congress sets out “to take power”
- Trump calls for execution of drug dealers at Pennsylvania rally
- Increase in social deprivation hits tens of thousands of children in UK
- Trump administration approves punitive work requirements for Arkansas Medicaid program
2018-03-13
- Sweet Country: Bitter truths about Aboriginal dispossession in Australia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Conviction overturned after Texas judge ordered multiple electric shocks on defendant in court
- Gas profits and China fears drive Australia-Timor boundary treaty
- Australian pseudo-lefts feature at pro-imperialist #SaveGhouta rallies
- UK: More than a million welfare benefit sanctions imposed against disabled people
- UK prime minister delivers ultimatum to Russia, heightening war danger
- The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party
- Sri Lanka: Muslims explain how the organised violence occurred
- Mexico’s leading presidential candidates genuflect before bankers
- Corbyn's Shadow Chancellor says Labour MPs will boycott RT
- Anger mounts after Paris tries to crush general strike in Mayotte
- New York Times celebrates Metropolitan Opera dismissal of James Levine
- Germany’s incoming interior minister announces police state measures, mass deportations
- Testimony in Flint water hearings details social crime against city residents
- Teachers’ struggle spreads to Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona
- The resurgence of class struggle and the fight against Internet censorship
- Details emerge about Northern California veterans home shooting suspect
2018-03-14
- Yale witch hunters and the decline of democratic consciousness
- “If only there were more female billionaires!”— New York Times
- UK seeks international support for anti-Russia measures
- Trump’s firing of Tillerson signals further shift toward global war
- Canada touts military-strategic alliance with Washington to win exemption from Trump’s tariffs
- Russia threatens counter-strikes on US forces in Syria
- Nationwide protests, high school walkouts to oppose school shootings in the US
- Odebrecht-related bribe revelations threaten to wipe out Peruvian political establishment
- The Skripal poisoning: What lies behind UK-US ultimatums against Russia?
- The social and political roots of mass shootings in America
- UK university lecturers revolt against union sell-out agreement
- Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality! Take up the fight for socialism!
- Students and lecturers at the University of Aberdeen speak about the issues in the strike
- Striking UK lecturers speak out to denounce attempted UCU sell-out: “I’d like to see the membership taking control more as it has done today”
- Trump taps torturer to head CIA
- Union betrays graduate workers’ strike at University of Illinois
- Great power politics, militarism, increased deportations: The right-wing programme of Germany’s grand coalition
- Falling wages point to economic and social reality in Australia
- Grenfell fire: Joe Delaney answers right-wing media witch-hunt
- China’s NPC formally approves Xi’s indefinite rule
- Trump visits border wall prototypes in California to “pick the right one”
- The 2018 Berlinale and the #MeToo campaign
2018-03-15
- West Virginia teachers angry deal to end strike ignored soaring medical costs
- One million students walk out of class to protest gun violence and mass shootings in the US
- Pseudo-left groups form new “Victorian Socialists” electoral front in Australia
- Striking non-academic workers picket Sri Lankan universities
- As tensions escalate, UK expels 23 Russian diplomats
- Australia: Biloela residents protest at pre-dawn removal of Tamil refugee family
- Australia: Unions preside over anti-democratic ballot to sell out NSW rail workers
- Trump vetoes takeover of Qualcomm
- Seven days in March: The Trump administration and the breakdown of American democracy
- Democrat, a Marine veteran, wins House special election in Pennsylvania
- UK lecturers resume strike following rebellion against UCU sellout agreement
- Striking UK lecturers speak out after rejecting union sell-out deal
- Cosmologist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
- CWA isolates Frontier Communications strikers
- French ruling elite brays for war in Syria amid US-UK threats against Russia
- Another UAW official indicted in federal corruption probe
- Germany: Merkel’s re-election and the fight against militarism, welfare cuts and dictatorship
- In defence of poet Robert Burns: “Ye know, and dare maintain, the Royalty of Man”
- Arizona teachers escalate their fight for education funding
2018-03-16
- Former student sues university for cost of her education
- South Australian election campaign points to deepening political alienation
- Washington imposes sanctions against Russia
- New Zealand: Reject the union sellout of Wellington rail workers!
- The significance of the mass student protests against gun violence in America
- Three package bombs explode in Austin, Texas, killing two
- Oklahoma Senate rejects pay raise as teachers ready for strike
- Bridge collapse in Miami kills at least four
- Trump to fire National Security Adviser McMaster as personalist circle tightens
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- German grand coalition takes office as most right-wing government since 1945
- Ontario Conservatives select right-wing populist Doug Ford as leader
- Senate Democrats join Republicans to gut Dodd-Frank banking regulations
- Farm worker parents of six children die in car crash while fleeing ICE agents
- The shattering of what’s left of the American Dream: Generation Wealth, Game Girls, Lemonade
- Australia: By-election education “debate” reveals bogus Greens-Labor contest
2018-03-17
- Wonder Wheel: Woody Allen’s latest film—and the campaign to drive him out of the film industry
- Former Tongan PM charged in passport inquiry
- Teachers in Jersey City begin strike as demands for walkouts expand across the US
- Sri Lankan government continues to use draconian terror laws
- The campaign over the Skripal poisoning: An international war provocation
- New York Times chides Trump for insufficient aggression against Russia
- One year since India’s courts condemned framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers to jail for life
- Death toll rises to six in Miami bridge collapse as new information emerges about contractors
- New German foreign minister threatens Russia and intensifies militarism
- The role of the UCU Left in the effort to shut down the UK lecturers strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan workers’ inquiry meeting to announce findings on garbage disaster
- UK: Lecturers and students speak on struggle to fight savage pension cuts
- Australian government to push through anti-democratic “foreign interference” bills
- Australia: SEP meeting discusses government-media campaign over “African gangs”
- Frontier hires Pinkerton agents, obtains restraining order
- Alabama and Georgia carry out executions, Oklahoma to begin using nitrogen gas
- In name of fighting sex trafficking, US Congress set to pass internet censorship law
- Pentagon concealed role of US special forces in deadly Niger offensive
2018-03-19
- Australia’s industrial tribunal allows “super-union” merger
- This week in history: March 19-25
- Toys R Us announces liquidation amidst “Retail Apocalypse”
- Trump signs Taiwan Travel Act in new provocation against China
- Putin wins Russian presidential elections amid growing international and domestic instability
- Liberals take office in South Australia with a minority vote
- Political warfare in Washington enters new stage following firing of former FBI deputy director
- New York University: A center of militarism, mass surveillance and censorship: Part 1
- Questions mount about UK allegations over "novichok" poison in Skripal case
- London, NATO step up war threats against Russia over Skripal poisoning
- Lenin, Trotsky and the Marxism of the October Revolution
- Northern Ireland: Loyalist killer was a police agent
- Homeless family of four found dead in van in Orange County, California
- Strike at Ferguson, Missouri nursing home ends after 104 days
- Union cuts deal to end Jersey City strike as teacher protests spread
- Eastern Michigan University staff, students protest staffing cuts
- Witch-hunt of Corbyn aims to silence popular opposition to anti-Russia offensive
- Call Me by Your Name: Academy Award-winning film from Luca Guadagnino
- Australia-ASEAN summit held amid US-China tensions
- Spain’s Amazon workers call first ever strike at Madrid hub
- Native American author Sherman Alexie taken down in #MeToo hysteria
2018-03-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- European Union seeks tariff exemptions as US sets out demands
- Threat of US attack on Syria grows amid fall of “rebel” stronghold
- European Union joins UK in ratcheting up anti-Russia campaign
- Teachers unions intensify efforts to suppress growing class struggle in the US
- New York University: A center of militarism, mass surveillance and censorship: Part 2
- Tenants sue New York City Housing Authority over horrific conditions
- French President Macron signs basing deals in India
- Union prepares another sellout deal at Australia’s Macquarie University
- Striking Kenyan lecturers defy labor court injunction, Nigeria lecturers strike
- Numerous Kentucky schools to close Wednesday, as teachers’ protests mount
- Australian women join legal actions over pelvic implants
- Facebook and Sri Lankan government collaborate on social media censorship
- Trump demands death penalty for drug dealers as answer to opioid overdose crisis
- Democrats drop DACA recipients from budget talks
- Fourth bomb blast in three weeks sends panic through Austin, Texas
- The Waldheim Waltz: A timely film about the World War II role of former Austrian president
- Australian by-election in Melbourne heightens Greens’ crisis
- Interviews with voters at the Batman by-election
2018-03-21
- Turkey’s seizure of Afrin and the growing threat of a regional war in the Middle East
- Maruti Suzuki workers hold protest demanding release of 13 framed-up colleagues
- Sanders town hall in DC promotes illusions in the Democrats and trade unions
- Fifteen years since the launching of the Iraq War
- New York University: A center of militarism, mass surveillance and censorship
- Former Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine files suit against “McCarthyite” sexual harassment charges and firing
- German grand coalition shifts sharply to the right
- Global struggles by teachers mounting against austerity and attacks on public education
- Grenfell fire: An interview with North Kensington resident Joe Delaney
- Canada deploys “peacekeepers” to wage war in Mali
- New Zealand: No end in sight for Christchurch earthquake rebuild
- Cambridge Analytica used harvested data from 50 million Facebook profiles
- Seventy thousand Rohingya have fled Burma since “repatriation” agreement signed
- South Butler, Pennsylvania teachers strike
- UK-EU draft deal pleases neither side of ruling elite’s Brexit divide
- Mass protests in Brazil against death squad assassination of Marielle Franco
2018-03-22
- US to launch trade measures against China
- For a political struggle against austerity and militarism in Europe!
- UK-led anti-Russia campaign used to hit out at Trump, pressure EU
- Trump boasts of arms deals, backs Saudi slaughter in Yemen
- Google sets up “news initiative” to censor political opposition and promote mainstream media
- Geoffrey Rush lawsuit strikes blow against anti-democratic #MeToo campaign
- The Russians are tweeting! The Russians are tweeting!
- Officials call for more police in schools after shooting in suburban Maryland
- Two billionaires to face off in race for governor of Illinois
- GM and Unifor collude to cut labour costs in Canada
- New York City MTA track worker killed in fall
- Former top aide to UAW VP Norwood Jewell indicted in corruption investigation
- Chinese president expounds on his nationalist “dream”
- Some early modern populations in Britain may have had dark skin
- Styx and Eldorado: Once again on the plight of refugees
- Kentucky and Arizona teachers rally to defend public education
- Barely any “affordable” housing being built in the UK
- Quebec: Aluminum giants demand steeper concessions from locked-out ABI workers
2018-03-23
- US threatens trade war against China
- Confessed Austin, Texas bomber dead in apparent suicide blast
- Five years since New York City school bus strike
- Sacramento police shoot and kill unarmed man in his backyard
- Peru’s president and former Wall Street financier resigns amid corruption scandal
- Behind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet
- NHS FightBack: Reject health trade unions’ sellout NHS pay deal!
- Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Damond charged with murder
- German chancellor’s government speech: Anti-refugee propaganda, rearmament and war
- Evolve by Imagine Dragons: Noisy emotion without artistic depth
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- School bus drivers discuss aftermath of the 2013 New York City strike
- US House of Representatives approves record military budget
- Detroit autoworkers denounce effort to censor the Internet
- “Financial toxicity” affects poorer cancer patients in Australia
- Trial begins for Border Patrol agent who murdered Mexican teenager
- Trump appoints John Bolton as National Security Advisor, replacing McMaster
- Washington Post fulminates against Black Panther’s white supremacist supporters
- May Your Kindness Remain from Courtney Marie Andrews
2018-03-24
- Ontario Liberal government preparing intervention to end York University strike
- Markets fall on trade war fears
- Record pace of drone strikes mark sharp escalation of US war in Somalia
- Russia after the elections: Calls for “reforms” and negotiations with imperialist powers grow louder within the oligarchy
- UK: Eight million hit by welfare cuts
- Police murder in Sacramento, California sparks two days of protests
- The protests against school shootings and the growth of the class struggle
- New pamphlet: The social and political roots of mass shootings in America
- Teacher unions seek rotten deal as momentum grows for April 2 statewide walkout in Oklahoma
- Mehring Books publishes The Struggle against Imperialism and For Workers’ Power in Iran
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An interview with filmmaker Niclas Gillis and Tanisha Lambright of Hold Me Down
- Hold Me Down: A day in the life of a single mother in the Bronx
- German parliament follows in the tracks of the far-right Alternative for Germany
- Major protests against French President Macron’s austerity measures
- European Union backs UK in accusing Russia of nerve agent attack
- Australian court rejects bid to obtain letters on 1975 “constitutional coup”
- Bolton’s appointment: Another warning of new US wars
- The way forward for UK lecturers after the revolt against the University and College Union
- Mississippi governor signs the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion measure
2018-03-26
- This week in history: March 26-April 1
- Another New York City taxi driver commits suicide due to financial ruin
- Spain jails Catalan secessionist leaders, issues international arrest warrants
- Unions impose sellout deal on Australian rail workers
- German Socialist Equality Party demands immediate release of Carles Puigdemont
- Black Lives Matter promotes illusions in African-American police chief after Sacramento police murder
- The international significance of the March for Our Lives demonstrations
- Britain pressures New Zealand government to join anti-Russian sanctions
- Montreal meeting today to discuss Canada-US strategic alliance and the threat of world war
- Students, youth speak about war, inequality at DC March for Our Lives rally
- Scandal surrounding Japanese prime minister deepens
- African immigrants report grave abuses at West Texas detention center
- Egyptian presidential elections mark new stage in counterrevolution
- Over 80,000 youth and students in Chicago protest against mass violence
- Deposed Catalan regional premier Carles Puigdemont arrested in Germany
- The truth about Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US deep state actors
- Brazil: São Paulo teachers strike against pension reform
- Central Airport THF: In Berlin, the end of the road for many refugees
2018-03-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Why is the taz newspaper defending the far-right ideologue Baberowski?
- Russia: At least 64 dead, including many children, in horrific shopping mall fire
- Pulse nightclub shooter’s father was an FBI informant
- The arrest of Catalan President Carles Puigdemont: Another step toward a police state in Europe
- Left Alliance forms government in Nepal amidst growing geopolitical tensions
- Tens of thousands protest mass shootings in New York, Michigan, Boston and the southern United States
- California: Protesters denounce war and social inequality
- Russian diplomats expelled over allegations of poisoning of ex-spy in UK
- Opposition to Australian “foreign interference” bills
- CWA tries to ram through sellout deal to end Frontier strike
- Germany and UK collude with Spanish extradition warrants against Catalan leaders Puigdemont and Ponsatí
- The Stormy Daniels scandal: Political warfare in Washington hits a new low
- The UK Further Education strike: Lessons of the lecturers’ revolt against the University and College Union
- Arizona teachers prepare for mass statewide demonstrations
2018-03-28
- Stop the prosecution of left-wing anti-war students in Turkey
- Teachers’ rebellion spreads on four continents
- The struggle of teachers cannot be isolated! For a united movement of the entire working class!
- Russia: Protests against officials erupt in wake of Kemerovo fire
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread: Art for the artist’s sake
- The poisoning of Skripal and the campaign against Russia
- North Korean leader holds unannounced talks in China
- UK: Grenfell fire inquiry withholds vital evidence from the bereaved and survivors
- US Congress passes FOSTA law attacking internet freedom
- Sri Lanka records lowest economic growth in 16 years
- US carries out first drone strike in southern Libya
- Anti-Semitism accusations against Corbyn aimed at criminalising the left
- Amid censorship drive, Facebook CEO to testify before Congress
- Police will not face charges for the 2016 murder of Alton Sterling
2018-03-29
- German politicians question US-led campaign against Russia
- Australian train workers denounce NSW rail sellout
- Quebec nurses rebel against forced overtime, budget cuts
- US sells Poland Patriot anti-missile system amid continued campaign against Russia
- The murder of Stephon Clark and the fight against police violence
- PayPal blocks sale of WSWS pamphlet
- The looming threat of global trade war
- Vote “No” to University and College Union sellout of UK lecturers pension strike
- ICE uses Facebook data to locate and track suspects
- 045 Houston police killing
- Trump administration to add citizenship question to US census
- Perpetrator of Carcassonne and Trèbes terrorist attacks known to French intelligence agencies
- Labour Party right lead demands for second Brexit referendum
- The Silent Revolution and In the Aisles: Life in eastern Germany, before and after…
- Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange’s access to the outside world
- Arizona teachers protest as Oklahoma educators battle union sabotage
2018-03-30
- York University conspires with Ontario government to break contract-faculty and assistants’ strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Veterans Administration head ousted amid push for privatization
- Vertigo: Sixty years since the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s disturbing classic
- Australian government forced to delay company tax cut bill
- Russia expels US diplomats, closes consulate in St. Petersburg
- Spanish judiciary accuses former Catalan President Puigdemont of “mobilising the masses”
- Unarmed man with pants down fatally shot by deputy in Houston, Texas
- Sisi’s sham election and the fate of the Egyptian Revolution
- New Zealand: Nurses reject sellout pay deal
- Italy: Five Star Movement makes a deal with the far-right League
- Oklahoma teachers reject funding bill, prepare to strike
- Democrats seek to use Stephon Clark’s funeral to divert anger over police killings
- Spanish police attack protests demanding release of Catalonian leaders
- US Appeals Court acknowledges UAW lied to Toledo Jeep workers
- Protesters denounce silencing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
2018-03-31
- Yulia Skripal “improving rapidly”: The unravelling of the Russian Novichok narrative
- Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison for voting while on probation
- Fourth suicide since June at Hudson County, New Jersey jail
- Protests continue in Sacramento as autopsy shows police shot Stephon Clark multiple times in the back
- Why has Ecuador silenced Julian Assange?
- Mobilize the working class behind striking Oklahoma educators!
- New Zealand: Labour government hit by sexual assault allegations
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wildcat sickouts hit Kentucky as teachers' struggle spreads
- Democrats green-light Trump’s escalating war on immigrants
- Homeless cleared from Anaheim, California encampment remain in limbo
- Protests erupt in Ghana over US military agreement
- Israel kills 17 border demonstrators in Gaza
- ICE arrests wrongly convicted Chicago man released after 20 years in prison
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