Archive: 05/2018
2018-05-01
- Comedian Michelle Wolf exposes a cynical and hypocritical media
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fate of London Stadium epitomises toxic “Olympic Legacy”
- Trade unions in talks with French prime minister to strangle rail strike
- Capitalist restoration in Russia: A balance sheet
- UK: Rudd resigns as home secretary after lying to Parliament over migrant deportation targets
- US Secretary of State Pompeo endorses Israeli murder of Gaza protesters
- May Day 2018
- How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 2
- New report exposes unsafe working conditions at Long Island Rail Road
- Israel denounces Iran nuclear deal after new missile strikes on Syria
- Migrants seeking asylum are turned away for the second day at US-Mexico border
- French immigration bill attacks right to asylum
- Unions, Democrats promote deal to suppress struggle by Colorado teachers
- Global giant spearheads drive for further healthcare privatisation in Australia
- Income inequality worsening in Bangladesh
- Right-wing extremist Professor Jörg Baberowski attacks critics at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Arizona strike enters second week as teacher union president opposes calls for nationwide strike
- Report: Amazon and Tesla among most dangerous workplaces in the US
2018-05-02
- New media salvos in Washington’s political civil war
- Trudeau defends Canada’s $15 billion arms deal with despotic Saudi regime
- Trump postpones steel tariffs but trade tensions increase
- International Monetary Fund demands Sri Lankan government cut fuel subsidies
- UK media told to conceal connections between Sergei Skripal and MI6
- The generally—and genuinely—inadequate character of global filmmaking
- Washington and Tel Aviv lurching toward a war with Iran
- T-Mobile and Sprint agree to $146 billion mega-merger
- May Day 2018: Millions march on International Workers Day
- Whistleblower and former political prisoner Chelsea Manning speaks to WSWS
- German army rehearses for civil war
- Democrats maintain silence over persecution of Central American immigrants at US-Mexico border
- Leaked documents expose plans for internal surveillance by Australia’s electronic spy agency
- Armenian parliament rejects pro-Western opposition leader’s bid to be prime minister
- Outrage grows over union effort to shut down Arizona teachers strike
- Anzac Day 2018: Australia stages a “gender-inclusive” glorification of war
2018-05-03
- Trade talks in Beijing: China says it won’t back down to US
- Germany’s Marx 21 group backs imperialist offensive against Syria
- Far-right attack on Roma camp in Kiev
- Puerto Rican police attack thousands of protesters marching against austerity on May Day
- US denies right to asylum
- New Zealand nurses begin voting on nationwide strikes
- New York University students protesting Gaza killings arrested at Israeli Independence rave
- Australia: Unions, state governments, try to rescue standardised testing as student performance declines
- Mexican presidential candidates call for increased police and military activity
- Despite government ban, Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE hold successful May Day meeting
- Autoworkers denounce GM Lordstown layoffs, UAW collaboration
- Artists on the Tate Modern’s David King exhibition, Red Star over Russia: “In essence the exhibition was anti-Trotsky”
- Germany: Grand coalition government discusses war budget
- Food factories closing across Britain
- Caravan immigrants speak out
- Arizona teachers oppose union efforts to end strike
- Apple hands out $102 billion to shareholders
- Boston: Amazon HQ2 bid targets working class suburbs
- Amazon workers urge Arizona teachers to continue strike
2018-05-04
- Workers Struggles: Middle East, Europe & Africa
- FBI monitored phone calls of Trump’s personal lawyer
- ExxonMobil gas project a disaster for Papua New Guinea’s people
- Military cargo plane crashes near Savannah, killing nine Puerto Rican crew members
- Global military spending at record $1.7 trillion
- Leaked audio tapes reveal NFL owners feared both Trump and player protests
- Workers from around the world registering for 2018 International May Day Online Rally
- French president calls for new Indo-Pacific “axis” against China
- Belgian prime minister smears filmmaker Ken Loach as “anti-Semitic”
- Why is Germany’s far-right AfD championing Israel?
- Inhuman conditions in Germany’s largest refugee detention centre
- Michelle Wolf’s Flint comment touches a nerve in Michigan’s capital
- Mass May Day protests in Costa Rica ahead of inauguration of right-wing government
- CIA expands its Signature School program to University of Illinois Chicago
- Decision not to prosecute over New Zealand building collapse ignored crucial evidence
- Union betrays Arizona teachers strike, backs Republican state budget
- Amazon halts construction in Seattle to protest tax hike
2018-05-05
- Who is Democratic Congressman Juan Vargas?
- Judge says Special Counsel Mueller seeks to oust Trump
- Arizona teachers oppose union sellout and call for nationwide strike
- El País warns Spanish unions of their loss of control over the working class
- Teachers in Pueblo, Colorado to strike Monday
- US special forces operations in Yemen presage wider regional war
- Florida, Ohio police officers seen kicking handcuffed men
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump ends temporary protected status for 86,000 Hondurans
- French rail workers, teachers protest Macron’s social cuts
- Citing clashes at May Day rally, French government calls for end to strikes
- Local elections confirm growing class polarisation in UK
- Unequivocally, FOR Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and AGAINST Avengers: Infinity War
- May Day 2018 and the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx
- Socialist Equality Party holds meetings in Australia on Internet censorship
- Australian workers and youth speak after public meetings
- Unifor shuts down strike by Lear auto parts workers in Ajax, Ontario using threat of plant closure
- Official report whitewashes financial crimes by Australia’s biggest bank
2018-05-07
- The Maruti Suzuki workers and the re-emergence of class struggle across South Asia
- Australia: Melbourne university staff strike to defend academic freedom
- This week in history: May 7-13
- US issues trade ultimatum to China
- Tully, A Quiet Place, You Were Never Really Here: Every poor film is poor in its own way
- Report shows NSA tripled its domestic surveillance operations in 2017
- Sunday Times Insight team: Propagandists for Internet censorship and war
- US seizes on missile allegations to ramp up threats against China
- The hypocritical, cowardly expulsion of Roman Polanski from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Trotskyism is the Marxism of the 21st Century
- UK: Labour-controlled Leeds City Council censors conference questioning official Syria narrative
- With complicity of UAW, Honeywell announces plans to eliminate healthcare coverage for 4,700 US retirees
- US relaunches Second Fleet in war preparations against Russia
- Ford Flat Rock workers halt production after worker mangled in machinery
- After union betrayal in Arizona, teacher militancy continues to build across US
- Facebook censors Arizona educators’ rank-and-file committee group
- 53,000 workers begin three-day strike at California universities and hospitals
- São Paulo’s high-rise fire collapse tied to city’s homeless crisis
- Mexican ruling class working out response to López Obrador’s lead in election polls
2018-05-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Striking University of California workers speak out
- Report underscores Australian rental affordability crisis
- Unions isolate striking Pueblo, Colorado teachers
- The struggle against militarism and the far right in Europe
- Educators’ struggle in US continues in aftermath of union betrayal in Arizona
- Cafeteria workers at the New School threatened with layoffs
- Against imperialism, counterrevolution and war! For a socialist Middle East!
- Oppose Sri Lanka’s National Defence University Act! No privatisation of education!
- No solution to Italian government crisis
- Israeli Knesset debates legal framework for apartheid-style state
- Tensions rise with Trump set to announce decision on Iran nuclear deal
- Three Chicago Transit Authority workers injured in subway electrical explosion
- US to separate all families charged with illegal border crossing
- Defying the trade unions, Air France workers vote to reject contract
- UAW and Ford silent as anger simmers in wake of injury at Flat Rock Assembly
- Dozens of classes without teachers at Flint, Michigan, high school
- Danish unions sell-out strike in face of lockout
- Is The Changeover just Twilight set in New Zealand?
- Argentina: Government responds to peso crisis with panic selling of dollar reserves and interest rate increase
- Injured Amazon worker describes high-tech dystopia inside Texas warehouse
2018-05-09
- Ontario Liberals attempt to legislate end to York University strike
- For a political movement of the entire working class against inequality and capitalism!
- Sympathy strike expands University of California picket lines
- Sri Lankan president makes anxious calls for political unity
- Christian Petzold’s Transit: The condition of refugees as hell on earth
- Oppose the brutal police crackdown on refugees in Germany
- Putin begins his fourth term as Russia’s president
- Trump torpedoes Iran nuclear accord
- NYC New School worker-students strike against poverty wages
- The global significance of the resurgence of class struggle in the United States
- Iowa governor signs unconstitutional “heartbeat” bill that bans most abortions
- ICE officials break into home in San Diego to detain immigrant worker in front of his five children
- Strike breaks out at Goodyear factory in central Mexico
- White House and ex-intelligence chiefs push torture veteran as CIA director
- German defence minister calls for faster increase in military spending
- Injured Flat Rock Ford worker was shifted to dangerous job with almost no training
- Two injured in massive fire, explosion at Michigan auto parts plant
- Detroit exits bankruptcy, but conditions remain bleak
- A desperate and vicious pre-election budget in Australia
- Billionaire Bloomberg and union chief Weingarten join forces to undermine teachers’ struggle
- Jeremy Corbyn silent on persecution of Julian Assange
- Socialism and the struggle against Internet censorship
2018-05-10
- University of California three-day strike ends without any resolution for workers
- India: Tamil Nadu government arrests hundreds of protesting teachers and public sector workers
- Google, Amazon assist in blocking encrypted communications
- First teachers’ strike in Colorado since 1994 now in third day
- Republican reactionaries, CIA Democrats win primary nominations
- US Senate pays homage to CIA torturer
- The way forward for New Zealand nurses: Break from the unions! Unite the working class against the Labour government!
- North Korea releases American prisoners ahead of summit with Trump
- The laws of capitalism and the breakdown of the global economy
- The role of the youth in the fight for socialism
- Labour’s John McDonnell mounts Stalinist platform to misrepresent Marx
- Argentine financial crisis could signal broader turbulence
- Middle East teeters on brink of region-wide war after US withdrawal from Iran deal
- Ford Flat Rock plant injury highlights deadly conditions for US workers
- European powers condemn Trump’s cancellation of Iran nuclear treaty
- US drug executives testify before Congress on opioid crisis
- Australian High Court citizenship ruling disqualifies five more MPs
- House of Lords Brexit revolt hits Conservatives and Labour
- 14,000 AT&T Midwest workers still without a contract
- Argentina to make new IMF agreement amid growing social discontent
2018-05-11
- Australian Labor leader replies to budget with empty populism
- US trade war claims China’s ZTE as first victim
- The resurgence of class struggle: More strikes in the US so far in 2018 than all of last year
- For a socialist movement against war throughout the Asia-Pacific region
- Podemos calls for alliance with right-wing Citizens Party in Spain
- For a working-class strategy against the imperialist repartition of the Middle East!
- Malaysian election: A political shock in South East Asia
- Louisiana: 20,000 nursing home residents face eviction as state legislature slashes Medicaid
- Stop the terror directed against refugees in Germany!
- Autoworkers want answers about injury of veteran worker at Ford Flat Rock Assembly in Michigan
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The death of reformism: Corbyn and the “broad left”
- Trump administration preparing green light to child labor
- Japan, China and South Korea hold talks on North Korea and trade
- US aerospace workers strike at United Launch Alliance
- Australian unions promote Labor Party at “Change the Rules” rally in Melbourne
- 1945: The horrors of the Holocaust in Hungary
2018-05-12
- Kanye West on slavery and Trump: Ignorance and the self-deluding influence of wealth
- Eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues into second week
- The referendum at SNCF: The unions seek to strangle French rail strike
- The downfall of New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman
- US steps up pressure on Iran with new round of sanctions
- Costa Rican president threatens workers with renewed social attacks during inaugural address
- Quebec’s “Nurses on the Move” Facebook page bans WSWS reporters for criticizing unions
- Open letter to the moderators of the Facebook page “Nurses on the Move”
- North Carolina police officer assaults man at Waffle House
- Amid political warfare in Washington, Trump steps up his fascistic appeal
- Israeli army kills one, wounds hundreds during latest round of Gaza protests
- New Zealand government boosts foreign aid for “Pacific Reset”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Claire Kober: From Labour leader of London’s Haringey Council to property developer
- Anti-migrant measures and the assault on workers’ jobs and living standards: Two sides of the same class policy
- How Jacobin and the ISO assisted in the betrayal of the Arizona teachers’ strike
- Lega and Five Star Movement prepare a joint government in Italy
- Plymouth, New Hampshire electrical workers strike to defend pensions
- Colorado Democrats slash teacher and public employee pensions
- The Ford Flat Rock accident and the fraud of UAW-management safety oversight
- Ecuador hints it may hand over Julian Assange to Britain and the US
- Lessons of the May–June 1968 general strike in France
2018-05-14
- This week in history: May 14-20
- US withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal drives Ankara into a corner
- Profits, stock buybacks soar, but “no money” for wages or school books
- Israel marks 70th anniversary amid war crimes and deepening social crisis
- One dead, four injured Saturday night in Islamist terror attack in Paris
- New Zealand Labour government makes “left” feint on education
- Overtures continue ahead of Trump-North Korea summit
- The JVP’s empty posturing over Sri Lanka’s executive presidency
- The Jazz Ambassadors: An episode in the history of the American musical form
- Over 100 attend IYSSE meeting at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany
- Chicago Ford workers denounce unsafe working conditions and UAW complicity
- Spain: Facebook to install its “Ministry of Truth” in Barcelona
- Trump speech on prescription drug prices cheers pharmaceutical giants
- Hillary Clinton demands Australia and New Zealand act against “Chinese interference”
- A balance sheet of the betrayals of left nationalism in Latin America
- Study finds alarming decline in biodiversity worldwide
- A letter from an Arizona teacher
- Alabama teacher salaries unchanged for ten years
- Seven killed in South Africa gold mine collapse
2018-05-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Two voices of concern over Trump’s “New World Order”
- Nashville, Tennessee construction workers experience deadliest two-year period in decades
- Military coup against a Corbyn Labour government discussed by Daily Telegraph
- Deals by unions to end US teacher strikes funded by regressive taxes, more budget cuts
- Australian pseudo-left backs union campaign to elect a big business Labor government
- Rome: Buses explode due to lack of maintenance
- Unarmed youth shot down in Detroit suburb as US police killings continue
- Mass murder in Gaza
- New Zealand nurses mount nationwide protests
- Munich: 40,000 demonstrate against new police law
- The fraud of Mélenchon’s call for a Franco-Russian alliance against war
- Machines: An unflinching look at an Indian textile mill
- Israel marks 70th anniversary amid war crimes and deepening social crisis
- Election result in Iraq portends further political and social conflict
- German militarization and Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
- Stop the raids on immigrants! For a socialist policy of open borders!
- Two Senate Democrats assure Haspel’s confirmation as CIA director
- French students blockade universities in struggle against selective admissions
- Flint high school teachers criticize deteriorating working conditions
2018-05-16
- US State Department accuses China of “economic blackmail”
- United States Border Patrol neglects counting migrant deaths
- The ISO and the imperialist politics of the pseudo-left
- Union sellout facilitates South Korean General Motors restructuring plans
- The massacre in Gaza and imperialist war policy
- More Palestinian deaths as Israel attacks protests in Gaza and West Bank
- North Carolina and the next stage of the teachers’ revolt
- North Korea denounces US “provocation” and threatens to cancel talks with Trump
- Germany’s Left Party demands independent German-European imperialist policy
- India’s BJP government creates new category of workers who can be fired at will
- Trade unions in lock step with the German government
- Striking workers and students in France denounce war, Gaza massacre
- Wave of US educator walkouts hits North Carolina today
- London demonstration underscores decline of Trades Union Congress
- Michigan auto parts plant explosion highlights brutal conditions in supplier industry
- Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands
2018-05-17
- Twenty thousand teachers rally in North Carolina
- US primary elections show deepening political polarization
- Senate Intelligence Committee approves “black site” torturer to head CIA
- An aging liar peddles his wares
- Japan maneuvering to prevent being left out on North Korean negotiations
- Oppose the slaughter of Palestinians! Oppose imperialist war!
- European Union tries to salvage Iran nuclear accord from US unilateralism
- Protests across UK against Israel’s massacre of Palestinians
- German Chancellor Merkel announces major rearmament program
- Thousands of Sri Lankan fishermen protest over fuel price rises
- Sri Lankan government imposes IMF-dictated increases on essential items
- Little room for manoeuvre in US-China trade talks
- How the American establishment censored Hollywood during its “Golden Age”
- Caterpillar worker dies after being crushed at South Milwaukee plant
- The terrible effects on children of Labour’s austerity measures in Bristol
- WikiLeaks and whistleblowers condemn new allegations against Julian Assange
- New Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan takes belligerent stand on Nagorno-Karabakh
2018-05-18
- Trump axes NASA climate research program
- Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard: The cruelty of the motion picture business
- Australian government “review” prepares deeper public sector cuts
- Oppose the repression of Polish socialists!
- The US political police and the 2016 elections
- US blames China for renewed tensions with North Korea
- North Carolina teachers oppose unions’ shutting down of walkout
- New Statesman’s Paul Mason advocates for regime change in Russia
- Nine years since Sri Lankan civil war ended in massacre of Tamils
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US plans to detain minors on military bases as Trump calls immigrants “animals”
- UK: Tories seek to defuse anger over Grenfell fire ahead of official public inquiry
- Academics protest Google’s role in drone murder
- India: Varanasi flyover bridge collapse kills 18
- Australia: Why is the New South Wales Teachers Federation promoting a new NAPLAN?
- Friends condemn police killing of Cody Reynolds in Royal Oak, Michigan
- Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung fuels the campaign against Julian Assange
2018-05-19
- Britain’s royal wedding: Recasting the monarchy in the age of identity politics
- Democrats defend FBI following reports it spied on Trump's election campaign
- Statement of the Turkish supporters of the ICFI on the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
- EU summit: Anger over Trump hides European tensions
- Music streaming service Spotify initiates censorship against R. Kelly and XXXTentacion
- French unions negotiate with government to impose railway privatization
- Seattle City Council and Kshama Sawant capitulate to Amazon, pass watered-down head tax
- Greek Syriza government steps up brutal repression of refugees and asylum seekers
- Google, drone murder and the military-intelligence-censorship complex
- Ontario Liberals face electoral oblivion in June 7 provincial vote
- Ten killed in mass shooting at Texas high school
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Five Star Movement and Lega unveil coalition agreement to form right-wing Italian government
- Australian government rules out referendum as dual citizenship crisis escalates
- South Carolina teachers to rally for better pay and funding for schools
- Bangladesh students demonstrate over job quota system
- Trump administration to ban abortions at facilities receiving federal family planning funds
2018-05-21
- Report exposes UK role in Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen
- This week in history: May 21-27
- Over 100,000 teachers march in Mexico, warn of “indefinite strike”
- Sergei Skripal discharged from hospital
- Police engaged in 25-minute shootout with Texas high school gunman
- Long-time CIA asset named as FBI’s spy on Trump campaign
- Wealth-X report shows billionaires gained $1.8 trillion in 2017
- Persecution of refugees mounts after passage of French asylum law
- US education secretary attacks separation of church and state
- Australian apartment owners to join legal action over flammable cladding
- Inconclusive outcome of US-China trade talks
- Funeral held for S. Milwaukee Caterpillar welder Steven Wade
- Teachers and public workers protest in South Carolina
- #MeToo at the Cannes Film Festival: All about money and power
- Australian workers and youth defend Julian Assange
2018-05-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Venezuela’s Maduro re-elected with record low turnout
- Limited truce in US-China trade conflict
- Bernie Sanders defends American imperialism at town hall on Iran
- White House meeting on probe of Trump campaign informant
- Sunday Times Rich List: Wealth of Britain’s richest grew 10 percent
- France: PSA uses labor law to sack workers, boost working times in Vesoul plant
- Militarism and fascist demagogy in the German parliament
- New Zealand: Labour government’s first budget starves essential services
- Destruction of Nashville, Tennessee public housing advances
- New from Mehring Books: Flint: A Crime of Capitalism
- François Hollande rallies to the cause of Brazil’s Lula
- Sri Lanka: Kilinochchi garment workers denounce harsh working conditions
- US Secretary of State Pompeo presents war ultimatum to Iran
- Border Patrol agent detains two US citizens in Montana for speaking Spanish
- Two Britains: The Grenfell inquiry and the royal wedding
- Corporate: Offensive, pointed satire for a change
- Tensions mount over South China Sea
- Germany: Bavarian police law passed—a step toward a police state
- In wake of recent workplace accidents US autoworkers speak out on safety conditions
- AT&T Midwest workers press for strike action as CWA seeks to block struggle
2018-05-23
- Members of Windrush generation speak out against UK government persecution
- Toyota plans massive cost cutting
- US Supreme Court eliminates workers’ right to collectively sue corporations
- Ken Livingstone forced out of British Labour Party
- The fraud of the Ontario NDP’s “left” election platform
- Trump offers North Korea “incremental” denuclearisation ahead of planned summit
- Climate scientists warn about “methane time bomb”
- Needed upgrades to Boston transit system threatened by capitalist financing schemes
- Italy: Most right-wing government since Mussolini
- White House press release on MS-13 backs Trump’s labeling immigrants as “violent animals”
- Report highlights growing child hunger in Australia
- French public sector workers strike against austerity and attacks on conditions
- Sri Lankan filmmaker Lester James Peries dies at 99
- US education secretary pledges to escalate war on teachers
- Scientists reveal global warming’s impact on Great Barrier Reef
- Regulators, Congress move to end all restraints on Wall Street speculation
2018-05-24
- German Green Party leader Joschka Fischer promotes militarism and war
- Indian police kill 12 protesting industrial pollution in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu
- Trump trade deal comes under anti-China fire
- Philip Roth and the narrow framework of postwar cultural life
- War, propaganda and smears: An interview with Professor Piers Robinson
- A reply to the communications director of the South Carolina Education Association
- Amazon providing facial recognition technology to police agencies for mass surveillance
- Puerto Rican students at New York University ask to stay another semester
- US primaries: Military-intelligence candidates win four Democratic congressional nominations
- CIA terrorist Posada Carriles dead at 90
- Video of tasing, arrest of Milwaukee Bucks basketball star sparks national outrage
- Build rank-and-file committees to oppose Macron’s austerity measures!
- Grenfell Tower fire: BBC Panorama reveals corporate criminality
- The second Mexican presidential debate and the crisis of bourgeois rule
- Joint email signals union-management partnership at Australia’s Macquarie University
- Testimony to Grenfell Fire inquiry paints devastating picture of social murder
- Food and hospitality workers at Las Vegas casinos vote to strike
- Argentina: Buenos Aires police attack striking transit workers
2018-05-25
- University of South Florida one of the most militarized in United States
- Indian authorities shut down polluting copper plant in Tuticorin
- Luxury jewelry retailer Tiffany & Company’s profits surge
- Oppose Google’s collaboration in US war crimes!
- War, propaganda and smears: An interview with Professor Piers Robinson
- The nightmare inside America’s child immigrant jails
- A curious incident involving the Oxford Union’s Whistleblowing Panel
- Northwestern University roundtable discusses regime change in Russia
- Trump calls off summit with North Korea
- The social upheaval in Nicaragua and the struggle against imperialism and the national bourgeoisie
- NFL issues new policy forbidding anthem protests by players
- Abandoned landfill threatens health of rural Tennessee residents
- Conflicts intensify between Europe and US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Congressional leaders receive briefing on Trump campaign informant
- Billionaires’ wealth grows faster in France than in any other country
- Mark Zuckerberg testifies in Brussels as European Union and Facebook intensify internet censorship
- Windsor casino workers continue strike following contract rejection
- Trump orders “national security” probe into auto industry
- US-China tensions expose rifts in Australian ruling circles
- Julian Assange “in jeopardy” of being forced into UK and US detention
2018-05-26
- UK: Nearly half a million young people not in receipt of minimal state support
- Producer Harvey Weinstein surrenders to police, charged in New York City
- Australian government delays by-elections for nine weeks
- Turkey’s petty-bourgeois left lines up behind bourgeois pro-NATO opposition
- Ruling confirms US government withheld evidence to malign J20 defendants
- Trump awards Medal of Honor to Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Afghanistan
- War, propaganda and smears: An interview with Professor Piers Robinson
- Sri Lankan president showers praises on the military
- The Tuticorin massacre and Modi’s India
- Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s on view in New York City
- Support the National City teachers! Defend public education!
- Australian feminists deny mental health crisis behind Margaret River murder-suicide
- Anger grows as layoff approaches for 1,500 auto workers at Lordstown GM plant
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dekalb County Georgia school bus drivers continue fight for reinstatement of fired colleagues
- Fifty-one million US households cannot afford “survival budget”
- UK plans deployment of hundreds more troops as part of US-led Afghan build-up
2018-05-28
- Bipartisan hostility to Trump deal on Chinese telecom firm ZTE
- This week in history: May 28-June 3
- French rail workers demonstrate after voting against Macron’s privatization
- For international action to defend Julian Assange!
- Workers’ unrest in the Netherlands
- War danger remains despite North and South Korean leaders holding second summit
- Multiple police officers cleared of charges in several recent killings
- “Human Wave” rallies protest austerity in France
- Louisiana teachers support strike for wage increase
- Rapper Kendrick Lamar wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music
- Ireland votes to repeal anti-abortion amendment
- US government admits to losing track of nearly 1,500 immigrant children in sponsor homes
- The fight against the far-right Alternative for Germany requires a socialist perspective
- President Trump signs executive orders attacking federal employees
- Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against far-right AfD
- Plea deal reveals Fiat Chrysler used “sham employment” scheme to pay off UAW negotiators
- Truckers strike brings Brazil to brink of collapse
- US Border Patrol agent executes Guatemalan woman
- Australia’s spy chief demands passage of “foreign interference” bills
2018-05-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UAW President Dennis Williams backs Trump’s policies of militarism and trade war
- Support for strike action at UPS as Teamsters union prepares sell-out contract
- John Pilger endorses June 17 Sydney demonstration in defence of Julian Assange
- The abortion vote in Ireland: A blow against reaction
- Documents reveal the vast influence of Koch brothers in US universities and public schools
- Italy: IMF economist to form technocratic government
- Australia: Residents denounce government response to PFAS health disaster
- Leading Democratic activists accidentally share photos of immigrants detained under Obama administration
- ICE carries out mass immigration raids across US Midwest
- Relatives’ tributes at Grenfell Tower Inquiry blame government for deaths
- Ex-Sri Lankan defence secretary calls for brutal big business regime
- Gonski 2.0: A new business blueprint for Australian school education
- #MeToo witch-hunt targets veteran actor Morgan Freeman
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Australian government reports whitewash responsibility for toxic foam crisis
- Canadian rail workers, Las Vegas casino workers set to strike as class conflict widens across North America
- Demand freedom for Julian Assange! Join the demonstration in Sydney on June 17!
2018-05-30
- Corruption crisis prompts demand for snap elections in Spain
- Germany: Twenty-five years since the arson attack in Solingen
- Rich list shows more Australian billionaires than ever
- New estimates put real death toll from Hurricane María in Puerto Rico near 5,000
- The working class must mobilize to free Julian Assange!
- Oxford Union panel speaker Heather Marsh confirms debate was censored to protect CIA
- New Zealand nurses vote for nationwide strike
- New Malaysian government formed amid internal and global tensions
- Amazon, Microsoft and Google compete for Pentagon Cloud warfighter project
- Naming of technocratic government plunges Italy into crisis of class rule
- Join the June 19 London vigil demanding freedom for Julian Assange!
- New effort to cover up impact of lead poisoning in Flint
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Construction worker killed at drill site in Phoenix, Arizona
- Three thousand Canadian railway workers strike against long hours and speed-up
- Brazilian truck drivers reject union-government attempt to shut down strike
2018-05-31
- Break the silence on the danger facing Julian Assange
- Journalists and academics expose UK’s criminal actions in the Middle East
- Trump sets out timetable for anti-China tariffs
- Rohingya refugees face catastrophe in Bangladesh
- Jersey Shore beachgoer beaten after refusing to give last name
- Five thousand deaths in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria
- Growing tensions over New Zealand’s ties to China
- Italian president considers installing neo-fascist government
- US and Europe line up behind Israel over Gaza rocket attacks
- General strike in Greece against Syriza’s latest austerity package
- Actor Morgan Freeman’s attorney demands retraction of CNN’s sexual harassment allegations
- French rail workers protest privatization plans
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Strike by 50,000 Las Vegas workers looms as casino owners resist pay demands
- Over 10,000 jobs at risk at Deutsche Bank
- Teamsters scuttle Canadian Pacific Rail strike, laud Trudeau
- The cancellation of Roseanne Barr’s television series
- Detroit autoworkers call for Julian Assange’s freedom
- Two workers killed at Australian paper mill
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