Archive: 06/2018
2018-06-01
- Trump administration takes major step toward global trade war
- Australian “terrorist weapon” was a modified fly swatter
- Impoverishment pushes another New York City taxi driver to suicide
- Remembrance Day in Sri Lanka exposes dead end of Tamil nationalism
- French rail workers strike at a crossroads
- Australian students support June 17 Sydney rally demanding freedom for Julian Assange
- Japanese and Russian leaders meet to discuss economic and security concerns
- The New York Times and the murder that wasn’t
- Migrant children, increasingly separated from their parents, fill US detention centers
- Ellicott City, Maryland hit by major flood, one reported dead
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Naomi Klein promotes pro-war, pro-austerity NDP as antidote to populist far-right
- The anti-worker program of Italy’s new populist and neo-fascist government
- Israel deepens crackdown on human rights advocates, opponents of government’s policies
- Puerto Rican resident speaks on death toll cover up, crisis on the island
- One million Indian bank employees and thousands of Sri Lankan railway workers strike
- Harley-Davidson workers’ anger grows over impending Kansas City plant closure
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Facebook blocks ads in midst of US primary elections
- YouTube removes “drill” music videos at request of London’s Metropolitan Police
- Donald Glover’s hit music video “This is America”
- Argentina’s Socialist Workers Party (PTS) denounces Brazilian truckers strike
- Fed eases “Volcker Rule” limits on bank speculation
2018-06-02
- Union blocks strike by 50,000 Las Vegas casino workers
- Backlash against US over tariffs
- Government report shows sharp rise in US teen deaths
- Spain’s Popular Party government falls after no-confidence vote
- The campaign against comedian Samantha Bee over her comments on Ivanka Trump
- Far right promotes UK fascist Tommy Robinson as free-speech “martyr”
- Extreme right takes power in Italy
- Germany: IG Metall union and works councils agree to job and wage cuts at Opel
- At least eight dead after shooters fire on mass Mother’s Day demonstration in Nicaragua
- Google says it will not renew Project Maven—but collaboration with Pentagon will continue
- Rank-and-file Lake Orion workers organize opposition to GM-UAW deal to hire low wage subcontract labor
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Australian government vows to pass “foreign interference” bills
- Over 100 killed in Bangladesh “anti-drug” crackdown
2018-06-04
- Singer-songwriter Roger Waters calls for defence of Assange
- Vote for David Moore and Kevin Mitchell, Socialist Equality Party candidates, in the June 5 California midterm elections!
- US ramps up threats to China and North Korea
- This Week in History June 4-10
- Trump lawyers claim unlimited presidential authority
- Deep divisions over US trade policies at G7 finance ministers meeting
- Solo: A Star Wars Story—Adventure without much substance
- US media turns blind eye to the death of 5,000 Puerto Ricans
- Papua New Guinea government plans to block access to Facebook
- Lift the ban on communications! Free Julian Assange!
- Libyan militias shoot 15 dead after mass escape from migrant torture camp
- Union announces deals to prevent strike by Las Vegas casino workers
- Dozens drown in Mediterranean as Europe cracks down on immigrants
- UK: Grenfell victims’ relatives unable to commemorate loved-ones due to government anti-immigration policies
- French riot police launch mass expulsions of refugees from Paris
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Florida jury awards $4 to family of man killed by police
- Facebook expands censorship of news organizations with restrictions on political ads
- Lawyer Julian Burnside endorses June 17 Sydney demonstration for Assange’s freedom
- Petrobras chief resigns as Brazilian truckers end strike
- US Border Patrol execution of undocumented Guatemalan woman sparks anger and nationwide protests
- Lies and contradictions pile up on Ukraine’s faked murder of Babchenko
- CWA continues token strikes at AT&T Midwest—workers demand decisive struggle
2018-06-05
- Washington considers direct intervention in siege of Yemeni port city
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian unions shut down state Labor conference to suppress discussion of anti-refugee policy
- John Pilger and Courage Foundation announce “urgent campaign” to free Assange
- SEP holds Paris meeting on 50 years since May 1968 general strike
- A day of reaction at the US Supreme Court
- Toronto Star endorses NDP-led government in Ontario
- Nashville, Tennessee charter school teachers victimized as school’s finances investigated
- Jordan’s prime minister resigns amid massive protests against IMF-dictated austerity
- Trump administration holds mass trials of immigrants under “Zero Tolerance” policy
- Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo Bay prisoner David Hicks, supports Julian Assange
- Australia: Private health giant Healthscope axes 400 jobs
- Death toll rises as volcanic eruption buries entire towns in Guatemala
- UK: Final tributes to victims of Grenfell fire denounce corporate and political elite
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Ecuadorian foreign minister asserts treatment of Assange is “not censorship”
- Facebook security officer: Not all speech is “created equal”
2018-06-06
- US activist Kevin Zeese calls for demonstrations against the persecution of Julian Assange
- Fear of working-class unrest triggers Australian minimum pay increase
- UPS workers vote to authorize strike as anger grows over company concession demands
- Trump expands claims of autocratic power
- Amnesty International report finds US guilty of war crimes in Syria
- Trump rescinds Philadelphia Eagles’ White House invitation in latest provocation against NFL players
- The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the end of American liberalism
- Merkel calls for EU militarism, financial austerity in reply to Macron
- UK: Students protest cuts to mental health services and increase in youth suicide rate
- Canadian authorities prepare mass repression of anti-G7 protests
- Journalist Antony Loewenstein: “Heavy pressure” needed to win freedom and justice for Assange
- Extreme-right Italian government takes shape
- Military-style raids sweep up 114 immigrant workers in Ohio
- Germany: AfD leader Gauland and the hypocritical response to Nazi rehabilitation
- 1968: The general strike and the student revolt in France
- Ten weeks incommunicado: Conspiracy builds to force Assange out of Ecuadorian embassy
- Video of Chelsea Manning “wellness check” highlights threat posed by police to mentally ill in US
- Sri Lanka SEP files fundamental rights case against Colombo Municipal Council
- Free Julian Assange! Support the June 19 vigil in London
2018-06-07
- Sri Lankan workers and students defend Julian Assange
- G7 conflict set to deepen at leaders’ summit
- Sri Lanka: Filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage and author Aruna Premarathne endorse Julian Assange campaign
- Free Julian Assange rallies called in Sri Lanka and India
- The Demise of Savas Michael’s “New Era”
- Judge in Stanford sexual assault case recalled from office following law-and-order campaign
- US primary elections in eight states confirm rightward shift by Democratic Party
- Cop who punched woman on New Jersey beach will not face charges
- US war crimes in Syria exposed
- Oxford Union debating society threatened with legal action over censoring criticism of CIA
- Vote no to sellout of New Zealand nurses! Build rank-and-file committees!
- Australia’s disability scheme prepares to restrict access for people with autism
- Israel’s Netanyahu tours Europe to advocate action against Iran
- Mass immigration raids shatter Ohio communities
- Horwath seeks to disingenuously disassociate Canada’s NDP from its right-wing record
- Socialist Equality Party wins significant vote in California primary elections
- Workers Party in Argentina seeks to “refound” Fourth International in alliance with Stalinism
- The #MeToo movement and the case against Charlie Chaplin: How and why the American establishment constructs sex scandals
2018-06-08
- Workers at Wisconsin Wendy’s restaurant walk out, demand living wage
- UPS loaders describe working conditions and union-management collusion
- UK: Bureaucrats walk out of University and College Union congress
- Turkish sympathizing group of the ICFI adopts new name
- New York City transit workers demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Gestapo-style immigration raids in Ohio: An urgent warning to the working class
- New Zealand Labour government’s budget fails to address health crisis
- Guatemalan government ignored calls for evacuation ahead of deadly Fuego volcano eruption
- Grenfell Tower inferno: Experts’ reports highlight “culture of non-compliance” on fire safety
- Anti-“fake news” bill gives French state unchecked Internet censorship powers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Twenty-year-old construction worker killed in Baltimore trench collapse
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges endorses June 17 Sydney demonstration in defense of Julian Assange
- US demands swift passage of Australian “foreign interference” bills
- Mexican presidential candidate López Obrador reaches understanding with business magnates
- Study notes “devastating ramifications” of Trump’s anti-abortion “global gag rule”
2018-06-09
- As UAW Constitutional Convention opens: The class issues facing autoworkers
- US suicides increased by 25 percent from 1999 to 2016
- Police to investigate London Fire Brigade over Grenfell fire: The real criminals remain at large
- Brexit constitutional stand-off reaches UK Supreme Court
- Professor Stuart Rees, former director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, calls for Assange’s liberty
- US-European tensions erupt at the G7 summit
- Cincinnati, Ohio area fentanyl overdoses increase by one thousand percent over the last five years
- Oakland Education Association announces contract negotiation impasse
- Nashville teachers, school workers denounce pay freeze
- Mexico responds to Trump’s trade war measures with tariffs on US goods
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s ruling party calls for a doubling of military expenditure
- Italy: Immigrant harvest worker shot dead
- Trump administration to send 1,600 ICE detainees to federal prisons
- Illinois Governor calls for reinstatement of the death penalty
- Right-wing populist Doug Ford wins Ontario’s election
- Trump EPA to shred rules on toxic pollution
- Australian officials visit Julian Assange as campaign to free him expands
- Australian “foreign interference” bills seek to protect “US secrets”
2018-06-11
- This week in history: June 11-17
- Trump: An American Dream—Documentary traces rise of New York real estate billionaire
- Trump and Kim prepare for Tuesday’s unpredictable summit
- Allegheny Technologies steelworker speaks out on teachers’ strikes
- US special operations soldier killed, four others wounded in Somalia
- New evidence of more Australian special forces’ war crimes in Afghanistan
- Spanish Socialist Party Prime Minister Sánchez appoints right-wing cabinet
- Quebec City anti-G7 protest forced to “run police gauntlet” its entire route
- Press conference to be held in Sydney ahead of rallies in defence of Assange
- Videos show recent beatings committed by Mesa, Arizona, police officers
- The G7 summit collapses
- Australian government has obligation to protect Julian Assange
- More than half of Australian workers in part-time insecure employment
- Two refugee suicides follow Trump’s “zero-tolerance” order
- Undocumented worker in ICE custody after delivering food to Army base in New York City
- Sheila Coombes, Professor Tim Hayward and journalist Vanessa Beeley demand freedom for Julian Assange
- The pseudo-left stabs Assange in the back
2018-06-12
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- As constitution convention opens, UAW promotes Trump’s trade war and downplays corruption scandal
- Recriminations, threats between US and allies continue after collapse of G7 summit
- The Guardian mounts defence of British government lies over Skripals
- Australian public high school teachers support campaign to free Julian Assange
- The end of net neutrality: The US ruling elite escalates campaign of internet censorship
- Supreme Court upholds Ohio purge of registered voters
- Trump administration rescinds right to asylum for victims of gangs and domestic violence
- US and North Korea strike a deal in Singapore
- The dissolution of ETA: A political balance sheet of Basque nationalism—Part one
- Mass layoffs announced at French retail giant Carrefour
- Parents of 43 disappeared Mexican students demand reopening of investigation
- Australian workers and youth back June 17 Sydney rally in defence of Julian Assange
- Demands grow that Australian government act to free Julian Assange
- Italian government turns away ship with 629 refugees aboard
- US Justice Department seizes New York Times reporter’s records in leak investigation
- Lockout at Quebec aluminum smelter enters sixth month
2018-06-13
- Canadian establishment rallies behind Trudeau in trade war with US
- Thousands of jobs to go as UK retail chains rationalise operations
- The Singapore summit and the growing war threat
- Court sanction of AT&T-Time Warner merger strengthens corporate grip on news and entertainment
- Memphis, Tennessee: A portrait of inequality and social crisis in the southern US
- “Workers all over the world need to unite together”
- Germany’s Left Party embraces policies of far-right AfD
- Las Vegas casino workers to vote on sellout deals
- After G7 summit, Merkel calls for European rearmament
- The dissolution of ETA: A political balance sheet of Basque nationalism—Part two
- New report reveals Assange under 24/7 surveillance in Ecuadoran embassy
- University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility provides cover for Internet censorship campaign
- Committee For Public Education urges participation in June 17 Assange rally
- Artists Tony Garnett, Davide Dormino and Costantino Ciervo demand freedom for Julian Assange
- The oligarchy rules: Amazon and corporations veto Seattle homelessness tax
- Fifty years since the release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
2018-06-14
- Deadly siege of Yemeni port of Hodeidah begins with Washington’s aid and approval
- US Citizenship and Immigration Services unveils new initiative targeting naturalized citizens
- Support the Socialist Equality group in Turkey!
- Actor Geoffrey Rush to return to stage with Melbourne Theatre Company
- Professor Piers Robinson demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Russian President Putin’s “direct line” discussion dominated by war danger and social crisis
- Democrats choose former CIA agent for congressional nomination
- One year since the Grenfell inferno
- Road barricades bring Nicaragua to a halt as Washington sends special envoy
- Film director Ken Loach: “The persecution of Julian Assange must end”
- Australian filmmaker Curtis Levy endorses June 17 Sydney rally to defend Assange
- Geo-strategic conflicts set to intensify following US-North Korea summit
- The dissolution of ETA: A political balance sheet of Basque nationalism—Part three
- SEP Australia national secretary demands Australian government act to free Julian Assange
- Australian government demands fast-track passage of anti-democratic “foreign interference” bills
- UAW named “co-conspirator” in illegal funds-siphoning scheme
- Austria closes mosques and deports imams
- Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) to hold lectures to mark its 50th anniversary
- Unions call four-day strike at Air France
2018-06-15
- By their friends you will know them: The International Socialist Organization and American imperialism
- The Rachel Divide: A Netflix documentary on the identity politics uproar over “transracial” Rachel Dolezal
- US prosecutors drop charges against additional eight J20 defendants
- The siege of Hodeidah, Washington’s war crime in Yemen
- London Review of Books publishes scurrilous account of Grenfell Tower fire
- New Zealand Labour government to extend bans on strikes
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Indian workers and students demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Outcry mounts against Trump policy of forced separation of refugee children and parents
- Pentagon Papers lawyer James Goodale on DNC lawsuit: “The Democrats are establishing possibly a precedent that diminishes First Amendment freedoms”
- Inspector general’s report fuels Trump-FBI conflict
- The Democratic National Committee lawsuit against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: A major attack on press freedom
- Trump administration supports lawsuit challenging Obamacare’s pre-existing conditions protections
- Brexit crisis intensifies as “Remain” Tories reject bogus compromise on parliament having “meaningful vote”
- Growing outrage from autoworkers over UAW bribery scandal
- Ecuador in talks to remove Julian Assange from London embassy
- The far right determine Europe’s refugee policy
2018-06-16
- Jailing of ex-Trump campaign manager signals new stage in Washington's political wars
- Washington launches trade war measures against China
- British government extends censorship of online activity
- Sri Lankan artists speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- Join the June 17 demonstration in Sydney and June 19 rallies to defend WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange
- Political cartoonist fired by right-wing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors over anti-Trump cartoons
- Abolish Washington’s immigration Gestapo! Stop the persecution of immigrants!
- Omaha Public Schools board cuts $29 million from budget
- Film critic, cinema professor and journalist Joseph McBride: Julian Assange “should be freed”
- Despite rising social anger, Macron pledges to step up austerity attacks in France
- In wake of UAW convention, Lordstown GM workers speak out on layoffs
- Fifty years of the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “I have woken up to the fact that class war still exists, it’s alive and kicking”
- Thousands across US rally against Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant families
- Thousands gather to mark first anniversary of Grenfell Tower inferno
- German government rent by deepening crisis
- Writer Steven Brust on Assange: “I salute his personal courage and integrity”
- UK workers demand release of Julian Assange, support international vigils
- Report documents abuse of Chinese workers at Foxconn supplier plant for Amazon
2018-06-18
- Rural school closings devastate Wisconsin communities
- Conflict escalates over FBI role in 2016 elections
- Worldwide vigils and rallies tomorrow to defend Julian Assange
- This week in history, June 18-24
- Russian authorities ordered destruction of documents on Stalin’s terror
- Phoenix police shootings on track to double in 2018
- The late American novelist Philip Roth attacked as a “misogynist”
- The Sydney rally to defend Julian Assange: An important step forward
- Union-management partnership at Australia’s Macquarie University will create “two-tier” workforce
- Workers and young people speak out after Sydney rally to defend Julian Assange
- Five die fleeing US immigration police as children spend Father’s Day in jail
- SEP (UK) meetings on war and censorship: “War preparations are powered by lies”
- Grenfell Fire Forum endorses vigils to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Clashing with Rome, Paris persecutes refugees at Italian border
- NATO, Germany build up for war against Russia
- Video shows Border Patrol vehicle fleeing after striking Native American man
- Watch: Rally to Free Julian Assange held in Sydney
2018-06-19
- Battle rages for Hodeidah as Yemen faces threat of mass starvation
- Washington Post staff sign open letter to Jeff Bezos asking for fair pay
- Washington Post staff sign open letter to Jeff Bezos asking for fair pay and an end to attacks on benefits and conditions
- Trump announces plans for “Space Force” as new military branch
- Australian government denies palliative care to dying refugee
- The death of Ed Sadlowski and the demise of trade union reformism
- Two hundred nurses at California hospital authorize strike
- Rent by crisis, German government adopts far-right refugee policy
- Bringing Julian Assange Home
- The Turnbull government must act to repatriate Australian citizen Julian Assange to Australia
- Thousands protest against Italian government’s closure of ports for refugee ships
- Students and workers in Iowa demand freedom for Julian Assange
- More voices from the Sydney rally to free Julian Assange
- Nine million truck drivers across India strike over increasing fuel prices
- Trump administration planning massive expansion of jails for immigrant children
- Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building destroyed by fire fuelled by profit
- Child psychology expert warns of life-changing damage from child-parent separation of immigrants
- Argentina’s Partido Obrero suppresses questions on alliance with Russian Stalinist with ties to neo-fascism
- Belhaj case lifts the veil on Britain’s dirty wars for regime change: Part one
- Support global rallies today to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- UK residents demand release of Julian Assange, support international vigils
2018-06-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Assets of world’s “high net wealth” millionaires surged to $70 trillion in 2017
- US becomes first nation to quit UN human rights body
- On the eve of Turkish elections: Erdogan prepares new intrigues and a major crackdown
- Trump escalates trade war with new tariff threat against China
- Pickets in Sri Lanka and India demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Protesters demand release of Julian Assange at US vigils
- The United States of America: Land of internment camps
- Ocean’s 8: A “gender-swapped” caper
- New Zealand rally demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Merkel, Macron call for more EU militarism at Meseberg conference
- Staff at Australia’s Macquarie University vote for unified fight against government cuts
- Left Forum gathering’s “strategy for the left”: Support the Democratic Party
- UK: Protesters speak at demonstration to mark first anniversary of Grenfell fire
- Mexican immigrants seek asylum amidst growing social inequality and crime
- Labour and unions seek to corral social anger over Grenfell fire behind official inquiry
- Socialist Equality Party leader Julie Hyland speaks at London vigil to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Trump administration restricts visas for Chinese students
- Belhaj case lifts the veil on Britain’s dirty wars for regime change: Part two
- Australian vigils held in defence of Julian Assange
2018-06-21
- White House report lays out economic war against China
- Another New York City taxi driver commits suicide
- Workers at SEP rally in Sydney demand freedom for Julian Assange
- “Unfortunately, none of this happened”: Kirill Serebrennikov’s Summer (Leto), a take on the pre-perestroika period in the USSR
- Educators internationally must stand up for Julian Assange
- Rolls-Royce to shed nearly 5,000 jobs in the UK
- Outrage in Russia over pension reform
- ICE agents raid Ohio meatpacking plants, arrest 146 immigrants
- East Pittsburgh police fatally shoot unarmed 17-year-old
- The working class and the global war on immigrants
- US cancels military drills, but maintains sanctions on North Korea
- Microsoft workers demand end to contracts with US border agencies
- Fox accepts Disney takeover bid
- Assange is being punished for exposing state secrecy and the reality of war
- Protesters at Ecuador embassy vigil in London demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Trump executive order: Indefinite detention of immigrant families, 2,300 children to remain separated from parents
- Preface to the thirtieth anniversary edition of The Heritage We Defend
- Greece’s Syriza government rushes fourth austerity program through parliament
- The persecution of Assange is an attempt to silence mass anti-war sentiment
- Britain’s Tory government offers concession to pro-EU MPs to advance Brexit bill
- After six years confinement: WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange in great danger
2018-06-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian Senate votes for huge tax cuts for wealthy
- Trump administration plans sweeping government restructure to cut social programs
- UK Conservative government proposes tax increases on workers to fund National Health Service
- Watch: Workers at SEP rally in Sydney demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Hundreds rally in Pittsburgh to demand justice for unarmed teen killed by police
- Right-wing smears against refugee aid workers in the Mediterranean
- Survivors Guide to Prison: The American nightmare
- Podemos: Midwife of Spain’s new PSOE government
- Peruvian teachers strike in defiance of government ban
- Trade war and the eruption of economic nationalism
- New Zealand nurses reject third sellout deal, prepare to strike
- Immigrant children tied down, hooded, beaten, stripped and drugged
- Ecuadorian foreign minister warns that Julian Assange’s political asylum is “not forever”
- Argentine unions and pseudo-left scrambling to prevent social explosion
- 25 years since the Mack Avenue Fire Inquiry
2018-06-23
- Australia: Telstra announces another 9,500 job cuts
- Teamsters reach sellout agreement “in principle” with UPS
- Trump threatens to escalate trade war with Europe
- The foul role of Spiked in the demonization of Julian Assange
- Italy’s interior minister announces plan to register Roma and Sinti
- Postal workers defy Sri Lankan government and continue national strike
- State of emergency declared following unrest in Papua New Guinea
- Democrats back massive Pentagon budget for war and repression
- Ontario’s Ford-led government initiates class-war assault
- How the DSA bolsters the Democratic Party establishment: The case of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- UK: Lush workers oppose attempt to gag campaign against police undercover operations
- With UAW complicity, layoffs take effect at GM Lordstown Complex in Ohio
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Oppose right-wing censorship at Frankfurt University
- US Navy planning to build military camps to jail 120,000 immigrants
- Over 193 feared dead in another Indonesian ferry disaster
- In Exile: A Family Film—Refugees from the Spanish Civil War
- UK: Education unions sabotage struggle against academisation and low pay
- Grenfell fire: Local resident Joe Delaney speaks out against attack by Andrew O’Hagan on those seeking justice
2018-06-25
- UPS workers denounce sellout deal “in principle” between company, Teamsters
- This week in history, June 25-July 1
- Erdogan wins Turkish elections with reduced majority
- Sri Lankan artists, translators and workers endorse international campaign to defend Julian Assange
- Thousands participate in San Diego protest against treatment of immigrants
- Millions of Americans face poverty in retirement
- Residents of Salem, Ohio, remain in shock after immigration raid
- Report finds majority of Australian youth favour socialism
- Protests continue in Pittsburgh over police killing of unarmed teen
- Growing concern in Canberra over PNG links with China
- Peru’s new president Vizcarra joins with Fujimorista opposition to impose austerity
- Concentration camps in America
- Cross party campaign holds pro-EU march in London
- Martian dust storm covers the entire planet
- Italy strands rescue ship Lifeline as EU refugee summit collapses
- US House approves massive reductions in food stamp benefits
- Egyptian dictator el-Sisi intensifies state repression
- Bangladesh government intensifies “anti-drug” crackdown
- Open letter by Amazon workers opposes contracts with immigration and police agencies
2018-06-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The British UCU Congress and the impossibility of reforming the trade unions
- Trade war fears hit global markets
- Australia: Toys ‘R’ Us closure to destroy 700 jobs
- Teachers and the political struggle
- Trump proposes to privatize the US Postal Service
- Sri Lanka: Striking postal workers criticise the trade unions
- Hundreds protest after Minneapolis police fatally shoot 31-year-old man
- In defense of the Red Hen
- Three months on: Oxford Union refuses to tell truth about why whistleblowing panel debate is censored
- After years of neglect, New York City public housing headed for privatization
- Social services in Monroe County, Michigan threatened by massive DTE Energy tax cut
- Social studies teachers denounce anti-democratic changes to Michigan education curriculum
- Bipartisan bid to push through Australian “foreign interference” bills
- Leaked manual reveals ICE informants posing as attorneys, clergy
- German government crisis: The working class needs its own strategy against anti-refugee agitation, militarism and war
- Dominican-American author Junot Díaz: the latest artist victimized by the #MeToo campaign
- Supreme Court narrowly protects privacy of cellphone location data
- Thousands of refugees forced onto death march into Sahara desert
- Argentine workers stage massive general strike against Macri’s austerity policies
2018-06-27
- Sex and the New York Times: When “Her Too” isn’t “Me Too”
- SEP in Sri Lanka holds powerful 50th anniversary meeting
- SEP anniversary meeting in Sri Lanka denounces anti-immigrant attacks
- Another suicide in Australian immigration prison camp
- Podemos meets with Catalan nationalists on behalf of Madrid
- The new Dred Scott: Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
- New Zealand’s “First Baby” fuels media frenzy
- Everything is Love? Beyoncé and Jay-Z flaunt their wealth
- Citing tariffs, Harley-Davidson to move US production to Europe
- UK: Corporations seek to evade responsibility for role in Grenfell Tower fire
- EU citizens must register, carry ID cards, in post-Brexit Britain
- Socialist Equality Party to run Niles Niemuth for Michigan’s 12th Congressional district
- Greetings from David North to the 50th anniversary meeting of the Sri Lankan SEP
- DSA member Ocasio-Cortez beats incumbent Congressman in New York Democratic Party primary
- Far-right candidate elected as Colombia becomes NATO “global partner”
- Mexican teachers union ends “indefinite strike” of 80,000 teachers on the eve of national elections
- Technology giants hold censorship meeting with US intelligence agencies
- Lopez Obrador maintains large lead in Mexican presidential election polls
- US Supreme Court sides with anti-abortion fanatics who operate fake health centers
2018-06-28
- US assault on immigrants continues as Democrats denounce protests against Trump officials
- Trump goes with Mnuchin plan on Chinese investment
- US primaries choose Democratic, Republican nominees in seven states
- Sri Lankan unions betray national postal strike
- Murder charges filed against East Pittsburgh police officer in shooting death of teenager
- What the New York primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez means
- SEP candidate Niles Niemuth wins support from workers and youth in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- New laws tabled in Australia to deploy troops to suppress domestic unrest
- Tensions continue as US defence secretary visits China
- Justice Anthony Kennedy announces retirement from Supreme Court
- Supreme Court rules against unions in Janus case
- Syriza and EU plan decades of austerity measures and privatizations
- Ahead of Brussels summit, EU steps up attacks on refugees
- Eritrean teenagers commit suicide in UK while awaiting permission to stay
- US Democratic senators demand eviction of Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy
2018-06-29
- New York Times restates Washington’s anti-China agenda in Sri Lanka
- Five killed and others injured in Annapolis, Maryland Capital Gazette shooting
- Physics, poetry and the search for quantum gravity: Carlo Rovelli’s Reality Is Not What It Seems
- Supreme Court vacancy exposes bankruptcy of the Democratic Party
- AT&T colludes with the NSA to carry out massive illegal surveillance
- Teamsters resort to lies and intimidation to push sellout deal at UPS
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pennsylvania judge breaks teachers’ strike
- EU backs anti-immigrant deal after Italy threatens to torpedo Brussels summit
- UK: Residents lobby Haringey Labour council to oppose plans to demolish residential homes
- Anti-China “foreign interference” bills rammed through Australian parliament
- Mobilize the working class against the bipartisan attack on immigrants!
- Australian government pushes cuts to student loan scheme
- Unaccompanied immigrant children sent to New York are “disappeared” by ICE
- Leadership of Argentina’s Partido Obrero maintains silence on ties to right-wing Russian nationalism
- UK: Haringey Council tower block residents lived in danger for 30 years
2018-06-30
- Europe’s unions pledge unity with big business as trade war escalates
- Ex-spy and lawyer face jail for exposing Australian bugging operation in East Timor
- The Seagull: Is there a “Chekhovian mood” at present?
- The elections in Mexico and the political tasks of the working class
- Who are Trump’s 25 candidates for the Supreme Court?
- SEP candidate Niles Niemuth says “the attacks on immigrants are aimed at the entire working class”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US sanctions against Iran aimed at regime change
- Opposition mounts to Trump administration’s persecution of immigrants
- Expert witness on Grenfell Fire: Cladding on Grenfell Tower was “a major hazard”
- European Union adopts far-right refugee policy
- Quebec construction unions shut down week-long wildcat strike by crane operators
- New Zealand: Staff cuts and library closures at the University of Auckland
- Stop the NHS sell-off: Build rank-and-file committees
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