Archive: 04/2018
2018-04-02
- Education Fightback forum hears special needs teacher: “A 30 percent increase in class size with the same level of staffing”
- Education Fightback forum:UK lecturer speaks on casualisation of Higher Education sector
- This week in history: April 2-8
- Syria debacle deepens crisis of Trump administration
- Sheriff’s deputy runs down Sacramento protester and flees scene
- Germany’s grand coalition and the return of a police state
- US media’s silent complicity in Israeli massacre in Gaza
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds online meeting for education workers and students
- Oklahoma teachers strike as workers’ upsurge spreads in US
- Trump gives Liberian immigrants a year to leave or face deportation
- Tokyo wary of dialogue with North Korea
- Interview with a teacher from Greece: “Teachers have the same problems worldwide”
- Howard University students occupy campus building in Washington, D.C.
- Babylon Berlin: A lavish television series about 1920s’ Germany
- Journalists, filmmakers, artists demand end to persecution of Julian Assange
2018-04-03
- Second New York City transit worker killed in a week
- Oklahoma teachers call for broadening of strike
- Explosive social conditions in Spain behind moves toward police state
- Northern California teacher placed on leave after encouraging discussion of school shooting protests
- Australia: Victorian police assault disability pensioner
- Teachers’ rebellion spreads as tens of thousands strike in Oklahoma and Kentucky
- Palantir Technologies: A “CIA-backed startup”
- After 15,000 march on capitol, Oklahoma teachers’ strike enters second day
- Public meetings in California: The Socialist Equality Party campaign in the 2018 midterm elections
- Oppose Internet censorship! Defend freedom of speech!
- Immigrant mother seeks sanctuary from deportation in New York City church
- Gaza death toll mounts to 18 as US backs Israel’s massacre of Palestinians
- Major strikes in France challenge Macron’s right-wing reforms
- China imposes tariffs as trade war heats up
- The New York Times takes on the social media “hordes”
- Socialist Equality Party announces California candidates in midterm elections
- Claims by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower used for new electoral investigation into Brexit
- A fresh look at German cinema in the Weimar Republic era (1919-1933)
- Students, faculty and staff at University of Michigan oppose persecution of Julian Assange
- Ex-Australian prime minister embraces Pauline Hanson
2018-04-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Vietnam: Ruling party’s anti-corruption purge continues
- Germany: Public service trade union announces extension of protest strikes
- University of Wisconsin Stevens Point students, faculty stage sit-in to protest cuts to humanities
- Teachers across the UK vote for industrial action
- One dead, three injured in shooting at YouTube HQ in Northern California
- UK’s Porton Down military lab head: Russia not identified as source of Skripal poisoning
- Halt the thuggery of non-academic union bureaucrats against WSWS reporters
- Regional governor Tuleev resigns in wake of Kemerovo fire in Russia
- The controversy surrounding the Roseanne television series
- After election, Costa Rica’s ruling party announces austerity-driven “National Unity Government”
- German state prosecutor calls for extradition of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont
- Trump proposes to deploy troops to US-Mexico border
- Oklahoma teachers converging on capitol for third day of strike
- Sunday Times uses dirty tricks, slander and lies to tar Labour’s pro-Corbyn left as anti-Semitic
- Fifty years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Thousands of Kentucky teachers rally to oppose cuts
- Strikes by railway workers and aircrews paralyze France
- Spanish parties unite to demand repression against Catalan nationalists
- The new traditions of Germany’s armed forces: Hero-worship, militarism and war
- As Trump talks of bringing troops home, Washington escalates aggression from Libya to Afghanistan
2018-04-05
- US-China trade war intensifies
- UK security review exposes militarist agenda behind Russian Novichok allegations
- US Supreme Court grants police wide immunity when using excessive force
- Outrage over protection of killer cops expressed at Sacramento City Council meeting
- The lies of the imperialist powers over the Skripal affair unravel
- Ontario: Pro-austerity Liberals tout pre-election, “caring” budget
- As Oklahoma strike enters fourth day, students speak out in support of teachers
- New Zealand government under pressure to expel Russian diplomats
- Trump administration announces National Guard deployment to US-Mexico border
- Ahead of Mexican elections, social media companies, corporate press launch censorship operation
- Loyola Chicago adjunct faculty hold one-day strike
- Russia-Japan dispute over Kurils reflects mounting tensions in North East Asia
- The New York Times on race and class: What determines social mobility in America?
- Google workers demand end to company’s involvement in drone murder
- Trump administration axes Obama-era clean car standards
- City of Detroit resuming brutal policy of mass water shutoffs
- The right-wing politics of the British “Labour anti-Semitism” smear campaign
- Australian workers and youth condemn police assault on disabled pensioner
- “Berlin burns:” Firefighters oppose austerity policies of state government
2018-04-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- University of Chicago student with mental illness shot by campus police
- Trump steps up trade war with proposal for further tariffs on Chinese goods
- Sri Lankan prime minister narrowly survives no-confidence resolution
- Trump reverses himself on Syria pullout order
- US escalates anti-Russia campaign as contradictions mount in Skripal narrative
- Australian dock workers strike against threatened 60 percent wage cut
- Capitalism and the artificial intelligence revolution
- What determines social mobility in America?
- Hungary on the eve of parliamentary elections
- Haitian army general staff appointed amid tensions with the Dominican Republic
- Teachers’ rebellion continues in Oklahoma and across the US
- Australia proposes visas for white South Africans
- New York City police kill unarmed mentally ill man in Brooklyn
- British government admits MI5 enjoys carte blanche to break the law
- Charities work with UK Home Office to deport rough sleepers
- Brothers (1929) and Comradeship (1931): Two films dealing with the workers movement
- Autoworkers speak in support of teachers struggle
2018-04-07
- US sanctions target Russian officials and businessmen
- China prepares to strike back as US trade war intensifies
- Japanese animation filmmaker Isao Takahata, director of Grave of the Fireflies, dies at 82
- Canada’s trade union-backed Liberal government clamps down on steel and aluminum imports
- London residents draw connection between Grenfell and Kemerovo fires
- Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont released from German prison
- EPA head Scott Pruitt subject of growing demands for removal over open corruption
- Fifty years after May-June 1968, the class struggle erupts in France
- Oklahoma teachers strike to continue next week, after state Senate passes derisory funding bill
- New York City bus drivers support striking Oklahoma teachers
- Mehring Books publishes The CIA Democrats
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US and South Korea hold war games ahead of talks
- International Socialist Organization covers for union treachery in the teachers’ strikes
- Trump orders indefinite detention of immigrants at border as troop deployment looms
- Israel’s shoot-to-kill policy on Gaza border claims more lives
- JPMorgan CEO threatens rate hikes to break wages movement by US workers
- Maldives president ends state of emergency
- Windsor, Ontario casino workers strike after voting down sellout deal
- UK: Metropolitan Police admit role in construction blacklist
2018-04-09
- This week in history: April 9-15
- Trump administration officials try to calm trade war fears
- Britain piles on lies to shore up Skripal poisoning accusations against Russia
- Spain responds to German court decision on Puigdemont with threats of stepped-up repression
- CIA stages gas attack pretext for Syria escalation
- Unions seek to hijack, shut down Oklahoma teachers strike as support for expanded struggle grows
- New York police release video and transcripts from shooting of unarmed man in Brooklyn
- Australian tertiary education union imposes cuts to wages and conditions at Murdoch University
- Nashville parents, teachers and students decry public school cuts
- India: Modi government accelerates anti-worker privatization drive
- Bogus anti-Semitism campaign against Corbyn and Labour reveals its Zionist agenda
- Isle of Wight Council continues to cut services
- Lawsuit accuses Washington, D.C. of destroying personal belongings of the homeless
- Restored version of Fassbinder’s working-class drama Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day showing in US
- Chicago Ford workers speak out against treatment of temporary part-timers
- French rail workers, students resume strike action against Macron
- Facebook intensifies censorship ahead of congressional testimony by Zuckerberg
- Bangladesh garment workers jailed on bogus attempted murder charges
2018-04-10
- Report details massive growth of inequality worldwide
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian universities integrated into military build-up
- UK and French forces on ground in Syria as US prepares wider war
- Turkish, Russian and Iranian presidents meet in Ankara
- Strikes mount as National Assembly opens debate on French rail privatization
- FBI raids home, office of Trump’s personal attorney
- Tuition hikes at Portland State University spark outrage
- The pseudo-left’s silent complicity in the drive to war against Syria and Russia
- Police kill man at Portland homeless shelter for allegedly refusing to drop knife
- On the brink of war: US and NATO prepare military strike on Syria
- UK’s Open University to be decimated, as more jobs are eliminated
- Mass turnout at state capitol as Oklahoma teachers’ strike enters second week
- New Anti-capitalist Party seeks to strangle French rail strikes
- Top Trump aide lays out driving forces of trade war against China
- Germany: The social and political background of the fatal rampage in Münster
- East Kentucky residents hit by rate hikes and shutoffs of undrinkable water
- Brazil’s ex-president Lula turns himself in to police after supreme court ruling
- Japan activates first Marine brigade since World War II
- Right-wing nationalist Orban wins Hungarian election
- French government launches brutal attack on environmental protest camp
- SEP congressional candidates hold initial meetings in San Diego and Berkeley
- Bavaria revives Germany’s notorious “Radicals Decree”
2018-04-11
- Togo doctors strike over disastrous state of public hospitals
- US media demands full-scale assault against Syria
- Swiss whistleblower Falciani arrested in Spain on order from Switzerland
- Yulia Skripal discharged from hospital and taken to secret location
- Australian asylum seekers stripped of minimal welfare payments
- The noose tightens around Trump
- Oklahoma teachers’ strike continues as governor rejects funding demands
- New Zealand barrister defends principle of presumption of innocence
- Malaysian parliament dissolved for snap general election
- UK higher education and university staff oppose union sellout ahead of ballot result
- Proposed Illinois budget continues assault on workers and sets stage for November elections
- Students protest against Macron as strikes against austerity mount in France
- Republicans target food stamp benefits in new farm bill
- Michigan governor ends state water distribution in Flint
- Facebook CEO presents plans for mass censorship at Senate hearing
- France and UK spar to be leading US military partner in Syria
- UK workers protest Special Educational Needs and Disabilities cuts by Bradford’s Labour council
- Two weeks since WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange silenced by Ecuador
- Canada rallies behind US in its incendiary anti-Russia offensive
2018-04-12
- Trump’s crisis deepens following FBI raid on his lawyer
- Trade war issues come into sharper focus
- Opposing forces mobilise for war in Syria
- Strikes in Germany’s public sector as anger mounts over wages and working conditions
- Ex-South Korean President Park sentenced to 24 years jail
- National Union of Students lobs sexual harassment smears at UK lecturers
- Catalan nationalist Ponsatí appears in Scottish court to oppose extradition
- John Pilger and Julian Burnside denounce silencing of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- US, Britain and France prepare onslaught against Syria
- House speaker’s retirement signals further crisis for Republicans
- Oklahoma walkout in danger as Arizona, Kentucky teachers press for strike action
- German-US tensions grow over expansion of Nord Stream pipeline
- Sri Lankan workers’ inquiry presents findings on Meethotamulla garbage disaster
- Geoffrey Rush’s career “irreparably damaged” by media allegations
- Frankenstein: Exciting production marks 200 years since publication of Mary Shelley’s work
- Bloomberg: Ecuador cut Assange’s Internet to win “good graces of international investors”
- German government supports war preparations against Syria
- Oppose California Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s national guard deployment!
- Spain: Mounting anger among Amazon workers exposes “victory” claims following March strike
2018-04-13
- Australian media stokes fears of Chinese military base in Vanuatu
- Momentum builds toward US-led strike on Syria
- Trump signs executive order attacking US social programs
- Québec Solidaire courts and flatters Aussant even as he rejoins Parti Québécois
- War, lies and censorship
- UN agency fails to substantiate claims of Russian use of “military grade nerve agent” in Skripal poisoning
- Union seeks to shut down strike: The way forward for Oklahoma teachers
- German government supports possible attack on Syria
- Macron threatens Syria, pledges to make no concessions to French workers
- Oklahoma teachers denounce Oklahoma Education Association’s move to end strike
- World economy in danger of being “torn apart”
- Germany: Grand coalition starts national armament programme
- German public service strikers fear sell-out
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Escalation of Syria war sends economic and strategic shockwaves across region
- Nor Any Drop to Drink previewed to Flint audience
- New pro-EU party planned to oppose Corbyn and Labour
- British cabinet agrees on “action” against Syria, bypassing Parliament
- The death of rapper-producer Alias and the fate of “avant-garde” hip hop
- Algeria military plane crash kills 257
2018-04-14
- Another Australian prime minister faces serious crisis
- Trump to consider rejoining TPP to step up pressure on China
- Spanish government promotes militarism in schools
- Two police killings in Billings, Montana in two days
- US and imperialist allies launch strikes against Syria
- Anger grows over union effort to sabotage Oklahoma teachers strike
- US and North Korean officials discuss Trump-Kim summit
- Meeting in Brisbane May 20: Organise Resistance to Internet Censorship! Free Julian Assange!
- More US states imposing Medicaid work requirements
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- War fever grips German media
- Israeli troops again target peaceful protests with live ammunition and tear gas
- US Department of Homeland Security compiling database of world’s journalists
- Comey memoir ignites new round in anti-Russia campaign against Trump
- 14,000 AT&T workers authorize strike as contract expirations loom
2018-04-16
- UK: Demands grow for May government to hold debate on Syria attack
- This week in history: April 16-22
- Trump threatens Comey on eve of court hearing
- Australian government pushes ahead with “foreign donations” ban
- Pseudo-left parties promote US-French-British bombing of Syria
- Students oppose Portland State University tuition hikes
- US-British-French missile strikes on Syria heighten danger of a catastrophic war
- Oklahoma struggle continues as calls for teacher strikes spread across US
- Indian Trotskyists hold public meeting in Chennai against Internet censorship
- GM to slash 1,500 jobs at Lordstown, Ohio plant
- Kentucky teachers denounce governor for saying students were “sexually assaulted” due to walkout
- Oppose union’s banning of Fightback from Toronto university strike picketline
- British government admits links to Manchester and London terror attack groups
- UK workers oppose drive to war
- Democratic, Republican governors deploy National Guard to US-Mexico border
- French students protest war, support striking rail workers
- Filmmaker Milos Forman (1932-2018), one of the leading figures of the Czech New Wave
- Demonstration against rent increases in Berlin draws 25,000
- Washington seeks permanent deployment of special forces brigade to Africa
2018-04-17
- US and Britain hit Chinese telecom company ZTE
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US lashes out at Russia, as OPCW inspectors prepare to enter Douma
- Russian government blocks messaging app Telegram
- Seven killed, 17 injured in South Carolina prison riot
- Police kill two men in two days in Detroit suburbs
- No to World War III! For the building of a socialist anti-war movement!
- Unions shut down Oklahoma teachers strike
- New Zealand government supports imperialist assault on Syria
- Health risks found in over 80 percent of NYCHA apartments
- Australia: Discontent as union pushes collaboration with management at Macquarie University
- UK: Labour right lines up with government over Syria bombing
- German government backs illegal attack on Syria
- EU foreign ministers push for regime change in Damascus following Syria attack
- Trump, Comey exchange blows through the media
- Colorado teachers join national wave of protests and walkouts
- Australian government endorses US-led strikes on Syria
- Anti-academy schools protests in UK curtailed by trade unions
2018-04-18
- Trudeau joins Macron in celebrating air strikes on Syria
- Contemporary life, and those who make films about it (in Iran, the US, Russia, Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan …)
- Police kill two men in two days in Detroit suburbs
- Trump and Abe meet amid war and domestic crisis
- UK government rejects Corbyn’s demand for parliament to vote on war
- The betrayal of the Oklahoma strike and lessons for the next stage of the teachers’ revolt
- Union seeks to derail New Zealand nurses’ struggle
- Bombing of Syria exposes pro-war politics of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party
- As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian “cyber war”
- Mexican government to deploy federal troops against immigrants on its southern border
- University and College Union sells out UK lecturers strike
- Protesters in Britain speak out against air strikes in Syria
- Government crisis in the Czech Republic
- Indian Stalinists at loggerheads over what right-wing course to follow
- Barcelona: Hundreds of thousands protest against jailing of Catalan independence leaders
- US CEO pay, bank profits, corporate cash set new records
- “Berlin is Burning”: Berlin firefighters’ campaign of resistance raises political issues
2018-04-19
- After Syria strikes, drumbeat grows for wider US war
- US Supreme Court strikes down part of deportation statute
- One passenger dead after engine explodes during Southwest Airlines flight
- Seven months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico suffers total blackout
- The Pulitzer Prize rewards witch-hunting and state propaganda
- Unite the working class against police killings!
- Trump’s secret diplomacy with North Korea
- As state ends bottled water program in Flint, officials grant new permits to Nestlé Waters
- SEP (Sri Lanka) calls May Day meeting in Colombo
- Maryland lawmakers offer Amazon $8.5 billion to locate headquarters near CIA and Pentagon
- Germany’s pro-war Left Party postures as a “party of peace”
- IMF remains upbeat on global economy but trade conflicts sound a jarring note
- Corporate Canada demands Trudeau quell opposition to Trans Mountain pipeline
- UK government’s racist targeting of Caribbean migrants provokes backlash
- Arizona teachers voting on state-wide walkout
- Australian unions launch campaign to re-elect an anti-working class Labor government
- Murdoch’s Times witch-hunts academics for questioning UK government’s Syria lies
2018-04-20
- German public service union closes ranks with the government
- UAW secretary-treasurer Gary Casteel will not seek re-election
- US military-intelligence apparatus presses for further strikes on Syria
- How are striking miners (Bisbee ’17), a great painter (Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti), Native Americans (The Rider) and others treated by the filmmakers?
- For an International Anti-War Movement!
- The SEP and the Political Independence of the Working Class
- Banks impose massive attack on Puerto Rican workers amid island-wide blackout
- Macron and the democracy of class war
- Chinese military conducts exercises in South China Sea and Taiwan Strait
- Merkel, Macron meet in Berlin as Syrian strike deepens conflicts inside NATO
- Criminal referral filed against former FBI deputy director
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- BJP leaders’ cover-up of rape and murder of Kashmiri Muslim girl provokes outrage across India
- Nearly 30,000 single-parent families made homeless in England in 2017
- UK: Report by building research firm reveals scale of criminality that led to Grenfell fire
- Australian Greens riven by factional conflicts
- Australian meetings to call for Julian Assange’s freedom
- Arizona teachers vote to strike
2018-04-21
- Japanese PM weakened by Trump summit
- UK meetings against war, lies and censorship: Free Julian Assange!
- Turkish government calls snap election for June 24
- White House considers “national emergency” powers against Chinese investment
- Britain’s Stop the War Coalition: Tying the working class to the pro-war Labour Party
- US students hold national walkout against school violence
- Disregard for passenger safety exposed in wake of fatal Southwest Airlines engine explosion
- Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
- Support the International Coalition of Socialist, Antiwar and Progressive Websites Against Internet Censorship
- Social inequality and oligarchy in the US and Europe
- North Korea suspends nuclear tests in latest concession to Trump
- Twenty-seven protesters dead amid Sandinista government crackdown in Nicaragua
- Melenchon keeps silent on Syria strikes at Marseille protest
- Tragic killings of teenagers in London used to urge greater police powers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy continues without a government
- US-led strike on Syria inflames tensions over Korea
- Israeli army kills four more Gaza protesters
- French students, workers march in April 19 protests against Macron
- Democrats escalate anti-Russia witch hunt with lawsuit linking Trump and Assange as Russian agents
- Chappaquiddick examines 1969 tragedy and political cover-up
- Oklahoma teachers warn: Don’t trust the unions
- Alabama executes 83-year-old Walter Leroy Moody
2018-04-23
- Zimbabwe sacks 16,000 striking nurses, as Uganda nurses threaten strike
- Tennessee Waffle House shooting leaves four dead and several injured
- This week in history: April 23-29
- Skripal case developments further discredit British government lies
- Geoffrey Rush defamation case: Australian judge dismisses newspaper’s latest defence
- The CIA Democrats vs. Julian Assange
- US issues ultimatums to IMF on trade
- SEP and IYSSE hold meeting on war, the class struggle and the fight against Internet censorship
- Irish government calls abortion referendum
- Five die after exposure to ammonia gas at Sri Lankan latex factory
- The legacy of the Gershwins and Porgy and Bess
- 2.3 million evictions across the US in 2016
- British Commonwealth summit sees line up against China and Russia
- Anger mounts over police killing of unarmed man in Barstow, California
- Australian banking revelations fuel political crisis
- Australian workers and youth denounce persecution of Julian Assange
- Arizona teachers prepare for statewide strike
2018-04-24
- Saudi airstrike kills 33 at wedding in northern Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Workers, students speak out against war, censorship and inequality at Detroit meeting
- At least 10 killed in deliberate attack on Toronto pedestrians
- Teachers stage protests in lead-up to Arizona, Colorado walkouts this week
- Final Portrait: Geoffrey Rush stars in affectionate film about Giacometti
- Police descend on Georgia city, arrest anti-Nazi protesters under anti-Klan law
- The slaughter in Gaza and the crisis of Israel on its 70th anniversary
- New Zealand: IYSSE and SEG meeting opposes Internet censorship
- Demonstrations grow in Nicaragua after Ortega suspends pension cuts
- Australian and Chinese navy ships reportedly face off in the South China Sea
- Starting Washington visit, Macron pledges endless war in Syria
- After mass layoffs at Ohio plant, UAW gives GM greenlight to hire lower-paid temps
- London residents speak out on Grenfell fire
- India’s BJP government imposes death penalty for child rape
- US federal, state governments wage war on workers and the poor
- Columbia University graduate students set to strike in New York City
- US Justice Department officials may refuse to take action in 2014 murder of Eric Garner
- Australian unions impose sweeping job and pay cuts via “interest-based bargaining”
- Tory-Blairite gangup in witch hunt over alleged UK Labour anti-Semitism
2018-04-25
- Rise in interest rates sparks panic on Wall Street
- Some unionized Alaska Air workers earn less than minimum wage
- Australian government imposes harsh financial burdens on immigrant families
- Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s ban on May Day celebrations
- Thousands of Syrians buried in the rubble six months after US destruction of Raqqa
- Democrats assure confirmation of CIA head as secretary of state
- The teachers’ struggle spreads to Arizona and Colorado
- US Border Patrol agent who shot teenager dead acquitted of murder
- Germany: SPD elects Andrea Nahles as new party leader
- In Washington, Macron calls for renegotiation of nuclear deal with Iran
- Seychelles opposition alliance rejects India’s plans for military base
- German military procure armed drones
- Four years on: Political lessons of the Flint water crisis
- Black Lives Matter, ACLU stay lawsuits, promote Chicago police “reform”
- Facebook codifies its censorship regime
- UK: May government declares against customs union as Brexit crisis intensifies
- Interview with conductor William Barkhymer: “I think the world is just thankful we had Gershwin to compose Porgy and Bess”
- Armenian prime minister resigns after mass protests
2018-04-26
- Seven hundred children separated from their families at US-Mexico border since October
- US and China to hold trade talks as tariff deadline looms
- US Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban
- NY Times, Mark Rudd on anniversary of Columbia U sit-in: Socialist revolution is a “fantasy”
- The growing threat of an Israeli war against Iran
- New Zealand rail union rams through pro-company collective agreement
- Washington announces plans to pressure Nicaragua after largest demonstrations in 40 years
- Addressing US Congress, Macron backs neocolonial carve-up of Middle East
- State takeover looms for Kentucky’s largest school district
- NEA pushes through sellout a month after shutdown of Jersey City teachers’ strike
- UK government’s persecution of Caribbean workers the tip of an iceberg
- Australian health care costs among the worst internationally
- Corbyn urges St. George’s Day national holiday
- Columbia University teaching assistants launch week-long strike
- Alleged corruption scandal in Bremen used to restrict right to asylum in Germany
2018-04-27
- Opposition mounting to Teamsters deal to cut pensions at ABF Freight
- Assailant charged with murder following Toronto van attack
- Poverty, war and right-wing politics—and the lives of two artists
- After Washington briefings, Australian Labor Party reiterates support for “foreign interference” bills
- The Democratic Party and the confirmation of Mike Pompeo
- Germany: IG Metall union sabotages workers’ struggle to defend jobs
- German chancellor travels to Washington amid trade and geopolitical tensions
- Workers and youth denounce Sri Lankan May Day ban
- North and South Korea hold “peace” summit
- Striking Arizona teachers speak out
- US housing secretary proposes tripling rent for poorest households
- Ford announces plans to slash US car production, cut billions in costs
- Four years since beginning of Flint water crisis: Youth denounce government criminality
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- European Central Bank points to slowing economic growth
- Thousands of UK auto jobs to go
- Arizona strike biggest yet in teachers’ revolt in US
2018-04-28
- Ontario Liberals give boost to Unifor union raiding strategy
- Teachers union celebrates alliance with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
- Refinery explosions rock Texas and Wisconsin
- “Old Europe” comes to Washington
- New Zealand prime minister strengthens military ties with France
- UK universities being integrated into military-security apparatus
- How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 1
- German Chancellor Merkel and Donald Trump hold tense meeting in Washington
- Video shows police attacking former NFL player in Atlanta parking lot
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump lauds “declaration for peace” on Korean Peninsula
- Israel again opens fire on Gaza protesters, killing three and wounding hundreds
- Graduate student-workers strike faces continued intransigence from Columbia University
- Australian government prepares budget and possible early election
- UK: Brexit divisions threaten government defeat
- Autoworkers denounce company-UAW scheme to hire low-paid workers in the face of mass layoffs
- Arizona teachers rally for second day, further walkout expected Monday
2018-04-30
- Unifor isolates workers as Windsor casino strike enters fourth week
- Bogus “Labour anti-Semitism” campaign secures expulsion of leading activist Marc Wadsworth
- Appellate court panel narrowly upholds Texas voter ID law
- This week in history: April 30-May 6
- As Arizona teachers strike enters third day, unions seek to shut down walkout
- Fate of London Stadium epitomises toxic “Olympic legacy”
- Documentary about singer M.I.A. (“Use your art to say something!”) and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed (small-town preacher struggles with life and death)
- Australian High Court rubberstamps “fast track” denial of refugee visas
- Australian rail union tries to suppress continuing hostility to NSW train sellout
- US housing secretary proposes tripling of rent for the poor
- SEP and IYSSE demonstrate against Sri Lankan government’s May Day ban
- Anger builds against UAW over layoffs, outsourcing at GM Lordstown, Ohio plant
- Trump to meet North Korean leader in “three or four weeks”
- New York Times columnist promotes “women who aggressively seek money and power”
- Trump administration turns away immigrant caravan requesting asylum at US-Mexico border
- Georgia school bus drivers face discipline after mounting sickout-action over pay and benefits
- Democratic leadership backs right-wing military-intelligence primary candidates
- Indian Stalinist congress opts for alliance with big business Congress Party
- US media escalates #MeToo witch hunt after Cosby verdict
- Arizona Educators United Facebook group censors teachers, WSWS
- Phoenix Amazon workers to teachers: “Keep fighting!”
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