Archive: 08/2018
2018-08-01
- TSA tracks unsuspecting passengers under “Quiet Skies” program
- Trump plans a $100 billion tax bonus for the rich
- Geoffrey Rush’s lawyers argue newspaper’s allegations “motivated to harm” the actor
- Australian governments illegally sailed refugee boats to distant reef
- California’s burning: The social and political background of the deadly infernos
- Dawn Sturgess funeral held in UK as unanswered questions mount in novichok crisis
- Protest in Munich against attacks on refugees, poverty and war
- Ronan Farrow’s latest #MeToo “bombshell,” directed against Leslie Moonves of CBS
- German Ryanair pilots ready to strike
- UK: Memorial event held 25 years after Joy Gardner’s killing
- France sets aside €300 billion for military in 2019-2025 budget plans
- Florida’s “stand your ground” law under heavy scrutiny following shooting
- UK Parliament “fake news” report demands sweeping internet censorship
2018-08-02
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?—A new documentary about Fred Rogers and his television program
- Trump set to hike tariff threat against China
- Teamsters union keeps 240,000 UPS workers on the job as contract expires
- Amid trial of former campaign chairman, Trump urges attorney general to end Russia probe “right now”
- Ryanair’s mass sacking threat raises need for globally coordinated struggle of airline workers
- Julian Assange’s lawyer: Australian government has a “duty” to protect him
- Town hall fails to ease concerns over industrial toxins found in Parchment, Michigan drinking water
- Immigration police launch political attack on Portland mayor for backing anti-ICE protests
- Financial parasitism and the American oligarchy
- New Zealand nurses express frustration, anger in union broadcast
- Australian government promises changes to My Health Records following widespread opposition
- Washington, D.C. metro union seeks to bury members’ strike vote
- Preface to the Russian edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky
- German government launches camp system for refugees
- Facebook censors anti-fascist rally in Washington
- Autoworkers speak out against UAW corruption, voice support for Kokomo Fiat Chrysler workers
- Free Julian Assange!
- British Navy evacuated Manchester bomber Salman Abedi from Libya in 2014
2018-08-03
- Facebook deletes 87 accounts linked to Brazilian right as WhatsApp restricts messaging
- What is life like for a permanent part-time UPS worker?
- Business leaders look to Labor Party after by-elections shake Australian government
- Spain’s conservative Popular Party shifts further to the right
- Facebook censorship targets the left
- Opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter blames #MeToo witch-hunt for her husband’s suicide
- Technology giants use Germany’s Network Enforcement Law to delete tens of thousands of comments
- US Senate backs $708 billion military authorization
- No challenge filed to Socialist Equality Party candidate’s nominating petition in Michigan
- Long Island Rail Road derailment underscores decay of New York’s transportation infrastructure
- Lafarge investigation exposes US-French collusion with ISIS in Syria
- Separated: Children at the Border highlights the horrific human costs of the bipartisan war on immigrants
- Australia: Nine-Fairfax Media merger threatens jobs
- Bottom 40 percent of Americans have a negative net income
- Socialist Equality Party (US) holds Fifth National Congress
- What is behind the talk of a Brexit “national emergency”?
- Bangladesh: Police and government thugs attack protesting students and teachers
- More Amazon workers speak out against atrocious working conditions
2018-08-04
- Sixty dead, over 100 wounded in Saudi air strikes on Yemeni port city
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- China threatens tariffs on $60 billion of US goods
- Opening report to the Fifth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
- Class exploitation and the market: The secret of the $1 trillion corporation
- Appeal to neo-fascists on police scandal exposes reactionary role of Unsubmissive France
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kokomo Fiat Chrysler workers kept in dark by UAW following strike vote
- SEP (Australia) holds public meetings opposing “foreign interference” laws
- US immigration nightmare continues amid media blackout
- Hepatitis A outbreak worsens in West Virginia, Kentucky
- NHS trade unions’ “best deal in eight years” revealed as a fraud
- Hundreds of asylum seekers face imminent eviction in Glasgow
- Head of German secret service advised far-right Alternative for Germany
- Ontario’s Tory government slashes welfare benefits, vows further cuts
- SEP establishes Ann Arbor election campaign committee for Michigan’s 12th congressional district
- Smearing of Corbyn as an anti-Semite prepares right-wing breakaway from Labour
- Chinese president under pressure over trade war with US
- British Prime Minister May meets French President Macron for Brexit talks
- Australia: Youth protest racist “African gangs” campaign
2018-08-06
- Zimbabwe: Violence follows disputed re-election of President Mnangagwa
- Venezuelan President Maduro charges right-wing opposition backed by Colombia with supposed assassination attempt
- This week in history: August 6-12
- New Zealand teachers join growing wages movement
- Why did New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger meet with Trump?
- UK: Fascist Tommy Robinson’s court victory seized on by far-right
- Trump administration cuts in rent subsidies compound US housing crisis
- Italy assists in illegal mass repatriation of refugees to Libya
- Bernie Sanders holds rallies to prop up the Democratic Party in Michigan
- Workers and young people speak to SEP campaigners at Sanders rallies in southeast Michigan
- Washington, D.C. transit authority moves to privatize bus maintenance services
- Stalemate on takeover of Kentucky’s largest school district
- Construction workers building UPS super-hub in Indianapolis walk off job
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story—“Do good anyway. … Think big anyway. … Build anyway”
- Florida judge rules in favor of early voting on campus
- Who is UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada?
- Fascists attack left-wing bookshop in central London
- GM threatens plant shutdowns and layoffs as car sales fall
2018-08-07
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Amid growing outrage from workers, Teamsters release sellout UPS Freight contract agreement
- UK: Victims of state surveillance to take legal action against Undercover Policing Inquiry
- Portland police attack anti-fascist counter-protesters at neo-fascist rally
- Washington allies with ISIS as great power conflict trumps “war on terror”
- Mexican president-elect promises one-time electricity debt forgiveness
- Extensive police spying on activists in Memphis, Tennessee, exposed
- Jazz goes country—the music of Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams
- Death toll continues to climb from Laos dam disaster
- US launches economic war on Iran, roils Mideast and world geopolitics
- Almost 100 confirmed dead after Indonesian earthquake
- Thousands demonstrate in Germany against far-right attacks on refugee rescue ships
- ICE tears apart immigrant families in Wisconsin
- Portugal: Left Bloc leader resigns over property speculation fortune
- Former tennis player James Blake criticizes NYC mayor for handling of false arrest in 2015
- Bankruptcy filings surge among older Americans
- Ecuador’s president issues new threat to Julian Assange
- US aggression on Korea, trade overshadows Southeast Asian meetings
- Mass strike erupts in Buenos Aires after two school workers die from gas explosion
2018-08-08
- UK: Unite suspends strike action on Sheffield Supertram to recommend sellout deal
- The New York Times and the specter of socialism
- The New York Times defends Sarah Jeong after racist tweets come to light
- Australia: Telstra seeks to slash wages after announcing massive job cuts
- Stock buybacks will hit $1 trillion in 2018
- The Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Pittsburgh train derailment points to failing infrastructure
- The Ryanair strike and the resurgence of international class struggle
- New Orleans mayor refers to residents as “bad actors” amid looming water cut-offs
- New Zealand Nurses Organisation rams through sellout pay deal
- The fight to defend jobs and the lessons of the 1972 Lordstown strike
- Trump menaces the world over Iran sanctions
- Trump administration plans to limit citizenship for 20 million legal immigrants
- UK: Haringey Development Vehicle scheme scrapped, but social cleansing threat remains
- Mass protest led by Druze against Israel’s Nation State law
- Faulty vaccines spark public outrage in China
- Berkeley police encourage harassment of anti-fascist protesters
- Arizona teachers return to classrooms with limited gains and broken promises
2018-08-09
- Australian hospital staff have to raise money for patients’ basic needs
- UPS workers: Build rank-and-file committees to organize opposition to the contract!
- US-China trade war escalates
- The demise of another Bernie Sanders fraud
- Ryanair faces largest pilots’ strike in its history
- The Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party: Part Two
- Over 130 immigrant workers arrested in ICE raids in Minnesota and Nebraska
- Primary results show rightward shift of both Republican and Democratic parties
- Podemos backs state cover-up in Barcelona terror attack
- Fight back against internet censorship!
- PayPal closes pro-Palestinian group’s account in collusion with Israeli government
- Latin American elites respond to trade war with desperate “roadmap” for regional trade bloc
- Julian Assange reportedly asked to give secret interview to US Senate Intelligence Committee
- Defend the Student Council! Stop the right-wing conspiracy at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- German government plans reintroduction of military conscription
- UK: Boris Johnson makes anti-Muslim pitch for Tory Party leadership
- Indian government threatens to end citizenship for millions of Assam residents
2018-08-10
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union-linked Facebook page censors Amazon worker’s video calling for a united struggle with UPS workers
- Sixty-three-year-old pipeline worker killed in blast in Texas
- Spanish army hails record of fascist dictator Francisco Franco
- New round of US sanctions against Russia
- The Resurgence of Class Struggle and the Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party: Part Three
- Inquest shows Australian governments directly responsible for refugee’s death
- US complicit in air strike that murdered dozens of children in Yemen
- US threatens to nix IMF bailout of Pakistan
- US-German tensions rise as construction starts on Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
- US media, retired officers tout youth fitness as necessary to boost military recruitment
- Federal judge blocks Trump administration attempt to deport mother and child during court hearing
- Israel carries out new strikes on Gaza
- Heat wave and climate change drive California fires, now largest in state history
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Arrest of Republican congressman on corruption charges heightens political conflict in Washington
- Government-backed thugs attack student protests in Bangladesh
2018-08-11
- Growing opposition among UPS workers as Teamsters conference endorses sellout contracts
- Turkish lira plunges as US trade war measures strangle Turkish economy
- Off-duty Cincinnati police officer uses taser on 11-year old child
- White House and Pentagon advance plan to create a Space Force
- South Korean government begins phony reform of military intelligence agency
- Amazon worker Shannon Allen opposes censorship of her video statement by Teamsters-linked Facebook page
- Mass exodus of South Carolina teachers continues
- Ryanair pilots stage European-wide strike
- Striking Sri Lankan railway workers need a political perspective
- America’s unending reign of police terror
- US-North Korean nuclear deal stalls amid growing recriminations
- Missouri referendum vote kills “right-to-work” law
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- More deaths and maiming of Palestinians amid latest “ceasefire”
- Tennessee carries out first execution in nearly a decade
- Details emerge of plot to oust Corbyn or split UK Labour Party
- Canada and Saudis in raucous diplomatic spat over Ottawa’s posturing over human rights
- German Left Party leaders launch right-wing coalition
- Southern California Amazon worker reports company forcing employees to work despite fire evacuation orders
2018-08-13
- Washington police mobilize to protect handful of neo-Nazis
- This week in history: August 13-19
- Australian prime minister delivers an anxious speech on relations with China
- World markets brace for impact of Turkish lira crisis
- Fifteen workers hospitalized after explosion at US Steel mill south of Detroit
- Sri Lankan unions sell out railway workers and call off strike
- NASA spacecraft launched for close-up study of the Sun
- UPS pays out $700 million to stockholders: An object lesson in the operation of capitalism
- Workers and youth in UK speak out against continued persecution of Julian Assange
- Death toll rises to almost 400 after another Indonesian earthquake
- US: The “public charge” rule’s effects on legal immigrant families
- UK National Health Service pay deal fuels growing rebellion against unions
- Right-wing extremist acquitted in the bombing of a German train station
- Coca-Cola workers in Alabama on strike for better wages, health insurance
- Baltimore police officer resigns after video of vicious assault sparks outrage
- Autoworkers call for united struggle with UPS workers against low-pay and part-time jobs
- International artists’ visa refusals highlight UK government’s “hostile environment” against migrants
- NFL players national anthem protests resume at first preseason games
- Spanish Amazon worker, fired for injury, faces prospect of homelessness
2018-08-14
- What the neo-Nazi debacle in Washington showed
- Break the UPS-Teamsters conspiracy! Mobilize opposition to the sellout contract!
- New York City Council caps Uber
- Erdogan charges US “stab in the back” as Turkey crisis deepens
- 500 Trane Co. workers strike in La Crosse, Wisconsin
- Scotland: Protests force Serco to halt asylum seeker evictions
- An “Exemplary Comrade”: The Socialist Workers Party’s 40-year-long cover-up of Stalinist spy Sylvia Callen
- Australia: Socialist Alternative promotes right-wing Labor leader Bill Shorten
- Puerto Rican teachers’ anger builds against privatization, firings and lack of pay raises
- Peru’s President Vizcarra calls for referendum amid corruption scandals
- A second “summer of hell” for riders of New Jersey Transit
- Unsubmissive France summer school: Mélenchon invites the right wing
- Former Japanese defense minister announces challenge to Abe
- Horizon Air worker dead after stealing airplane, crashing near Tacoma, Washington
- Growing support for socialism in the United States
- UK government warned of dangers of flammable cladding three years before Grenfell fire
- German Social Democrats launch xenophobic campaign about child benefits
- Tragic house fire takes three lives in Lincoln Park, Michigan
- Allentown, Pennsylvania credit union employees strike over wages and health care
2018-08-15
- Australia: Victorian bus drivers to strike over pay and conditions
- Socialist Equality Party candidate campaigns among UPS workers in Michigan
- UAW bribery predated 2009, lawyer for former Fiat Chrysler executive tells court
- The Turkish crisis and the threat of world war
- Knives out in the White House as fired aide releases tapes of Trump, Kelly
- Two new pamphlets from Mehring Books
- At least 35 killed in Italy bridge collapse
- Cables document CIA Director Haspel’s direct role in torture at black site in Thailand
- Nebraska carries out first execution in US using the opioid fentanyl
- UK: Three police officers acquitted of misconduct in restraint death
- Mueller investigation seeks to implicate WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in “Russian interference”
- China set to become largest aid donor to Pacific
- Trade union at Escondida copper mine in Chile seeks to shut down 18-month struggle
- 215 Brownstown campaign meeting announcement
- UK: Police take no action over far-right attack on Bookmarks bookstore
- Acoustic Classics—the new old songs of Rodney Crowell
2018-08-16
- Opposition mounts to UPS-Teamsters conspiracy as union announces contract for airline mechanics
- British government’s educational “reforms” exacerbate inequality, reduce school funding
- Turkish crisis hits working people
- Nine dead, 107 poisoned in Andean village in Peru
- The global implications of the Turkish lira crisis
- Grand jury alleges: Hundreds of Catholic priests abused thousands of children in Pennsylvania
- New Zealand primary teachers hold nationwide strike
- New Zealand government launches sham inquiry into Afghan war crimes
- Audit examines the decline of New York’s Long Island Rail Road
- A year after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, victims still face long recovery
- Australian Daily Telegraph lawyers plead “truth defence” in Geoffrey Rush defamation case
- Firefighter casualties mount from California wildfires
- Anti-Semitism campaign against Corbyn links opposition to Israel’s crimes with support for terrorism
- Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman: The illogic of racialism
- Right-wing senator calls for a “White Australia” immigration policy
2018-08-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Late Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne lied to federal investigators about gift to UAW official
- Australian government facing defeat over energy policy and company tax cuts
- US escalates trade war against Turkey as Ankara moves to attack workers
- Facebook censors Telesur and Venezuela Analysis
- Parti Quebecois makes “left” feint in hopes of averting electoral disaster
- Trump revokes security clearance for former CIA chief Brennan: Ruling class warfare intensifies
- Seoul and Pyongyang prepare for September summit while US intensifies campaign against North Korea
- Vehicle crashes claim lives of 16 migrant workers in Italy
- German government places Socialist Equality Party on subversive watch list
- Political recriminations as death toll rises in Genoa bridge collapse
- New CDC estimates: A record 72,000 US drug overdose deaths in 2017
- Private prison corporation CoreCivic facing multiple lawsuits for endangering Tennessee inmates
- UK artists’ visa refusals highlight tightened legislation against migrants
- Australia: Transport union cancels Victorian bus drivers strike
2018-08-18
- UK: Westminster “terror incident” remains unclear
- Mexican farmers blame Volkswagen for drought near assembly plant
- Australian police killed mentally ill young woman seconds after arriving at scene
- Former CIA Director John Brennan’s brief for dismantling democracy
- Lessons of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s sellout: Build rank-and-file committees! Unite the working class against the Labour government!
- Pentagon chief promotes anti-China agenda in Latin America
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Amidst Turkish crisis Indian rupee falls to all-time low
- Google employees protest plans to build censored search engine in China
- Sixty-one-year-old worker dies in horrific fall into vat of oil near Disney World
- CEO pay up 17 percent while US workers’ wages stagnate
- Presidential slates chosen for Brazil’s general elections: a warning to the working class
- London: Ecuador embassy vigil marks six years since Julian Assange granted asylum
- Mass grave revealed at Arizona Air Force bombing range
- Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)—A tribute to the Queen of Soul
- Alcoa workers strike in Western Australia
- Taliban attack on Afghan city deepens crisis of US puppet regime in Kabul
2018-08-20
- China-US talks but trade war set to escalate
- UPS workers oppose isolation by Teamsters, call for united struggle with Amazon workers
- This week in history: August 20-26
- Political warfare deepens as Democrats, ex-spies circle the wagons around Brennan
- Australian thunderstorm asthma deaths inquest reveals health system breakdown
- As students return to school, US teachers face nationwide struggle to defend education
- Pro- and anti-government rallies, street clashes mark political crisis in Romania
- Inequality and the crisis of American democracy
- UK: Momentum’s Jon Lansman takes his place alongside anti-Corbyn witch-hunters
- Arbitration panel cuts real wages and health care benefits for Washington DC Metro workers
- German Left Party leaders launch right-wing #Standup initiative
- Unprecedented monsoonal floods kill over 370 in southwest India
- Israel steps up harassment of prominent critics of anti-Palestinian and racialist agenda
- Darling in the FranXX: Japanese anime series about fighting for the survival of humanity
- Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) to hold online forum: Lessons of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s sellout
- Teacher hostility grows to Michigan Department of Education’s curriculum changes
- Growing interest in socialism in Downriver Detroit area
- Alabama: Deteriorating rural sewer and septic systems
2018-08-21
- West Virginia lower House impeaches entire state Supreme Court
- Prime minister barely survives leadership challenge in Australia
- Teamsters local meeting erupts in anger as union official calls UPS workers’ poverty wages “subjective”
- Virginia’s Democratic governor seeks to whitewash abuse of immigrant youth at state detention facility
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind: “It’s too late to be sane. Too late.”
- German federal and regional governments extend refugee camp system nationwide
- Leaked tapes confirm collusion of Peruvian justice system with drug cartels and state corruption
- Seventy-eight years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Pentagon report targets China’s “expanding global influence”
- Japan: Tens of thousands on Okinawa denounce US base relocation plan
- Studies: US life expectancy drops as mortality rises among younger adults
- UK: Boris Johnson gathers support for pro-Brexit Tory leadership challenge
- As Greece exits bailout, EU demands further austerity
- Judge orders top Michigan health official to stand trial for Flint deaths
- Texas firefighters denied workers compensation for cancer
2018-08-22
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” on Showtime: Scattershot satire, with hits and misses
- Venezuela’s Maduro government imposes capitalist shock therapy
- Australian government near collapse as Liberal Party lurches to the extreme right
- Greek Prime Minister Tsipras claims social cuts over as Syriza prepares more austerity
- Legal noose tightens around Trump White House
- Anger over sell-out pay deal at Sheffield Supertram
- Fascists stage pogromist march against Nicaraguan migrants in Costa Rica
- Canadian ruling elite whips up anti-refugee hysteria to shift politics sharply right
- Brutal conditions in US prisons drive inmates to strike
- Right-wing populist Imran Khan sworn in as Pakistan prime minister
- The United Auto Workers corruption scandal and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Australian university union leaders quit amid escalating sellouts
- US continues to terrorize immigrants: Over 500 children still not reunited with parents
- Chicago teen dead after police chase, family disputes official report of suicide
- Teamsters blackmails UPS workers: Strike and you will lose your health insurance
- 150 Australia: Anniversary of reopening offshore detention centres
- The “unmaking” of #MeToo’s Asia Argento
- Argentina on the brink of financial meltdown
- 260 Arabic translation of preface to new Heritage
2018-08-23
- Russian Duma presses ahead with pension reform in face of overwhelming popular opposition
- Australian prime minister faces ouster by extreme-right faction
- US political warfare intensifies after Cohen plea, Manafort conviction
- Hundreds of detained immigrants join US national prison strike
- A socialist response to the opioid crisis
- Spanish Socialist Party government’s progressive veneer cracks
- Facebook escalates censorship of left-wing, anti-war organizations
- Trump backs talks with North Korea despite nuclear stalemate
- The Teamsters/UPS conspiracy to slash workers’ health care
- Musicians’ group calls for shutdown of the German secret service
- Death toll rises from Greek forest fires
- Australia: Footage reveals brutal prison murder of young Aboriginal man
- UK Labour leader Corbyn silent on Afghanistan troop deployment
2018-08-24
- Los Angeles teachers vote on strike authorization
- Unions stump for big business PQ in Quebec’s October election
- Sixth Australian prime minister ousted in 11 years
- As Trump attacks attorney general, Democrats seek to channel all opposition behind anti-Russia campaign
- Trump, Republicans exploit murder of Molly Tibbetts to stoke anti-immigrant racism
- Seattle-area crane operators strike following rejection of sellout deal
- Former New York City jail guards union head convicted of bribery
- Russian Duma presses ahead with pension reform in face of overwhelming popular opposition
- Puerto Rico’s teachers hold one-day strike
- The class dynamics of the stock market bull run
- New Zealand Nurses Organisation lashes out at critics on social media
- Two migrants die as Morocco unleashes crackdown on behalf of Spain and the European Union
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- How the secret service and the far-right AfD control German politics
- Mayor demands New Yorkers “respect police officers”
- The centenary of Leonard Bernstein—Part 1
- Autoworkers warn UPS workers: Don’t trust the union
- Amazon Prime Day produces 209 percent increase in UK health and safety complaints
2018-08-25
- New Zealand transport workers’ jobs and conditions under attack
- Teachers across Washington state prepare to strike over wages and conditions
- UPS workers respond to Teamsters campaign of blackmail
- US service workers who rely on tips more susceptible to depression
- Nearly 90,000 retail jobs lost in UK in 12 months
- Manila moves toward major arms purchase from Russia
- US-backed Saudi regime set to behead female activist and four others
- Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth speaks at election meeting in Brownstown, Michigan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump cancels secretary of state’s trip to North Korea one day after its announcement
- UK foreign secretary uses US visit to support Boris Johnson replacing Theresa May as prime minister
- German government and police unite with far-right to clamp down on press freedom in Dresden
- New Trump coal regulations will kill as many as 1,400 Americans annually by 2030
- Google shuts down YouTube channels in expansion of state-directed online censorship
- Verizon throttled emergency data during California wildfires
- The centenary of Leonard Bernstein—Part 2
2018-08-27
- US-backed Saudi air strikes massacre dozens of Yemeni children for second time in two weeks
- NSA leaker Reality Winner sentenced to more than five years in prison
- Teachers across Washington state demand strike action and big pay increases
- China-US trade talks: The divisions deepen
- This week in history: August 27-September 2
- Archbishop calls on Pope to resign over cover-up of sexual abuse
- Why the US ruling class mourns John McCain
- Growing links between German right-wing extremists, police and state government in Saxony
- Historic discovery of Left Opposition manuscripts from the early 1930s
- India: Kerala floods death toll climbs to 445
- Three killed, nine injured in Jacksonville, Florida mass shooting
- Reported Democratic National Committee hack was a security test
- Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette on Netflix: The disorienting, unfunny impact of identity politics on comedy
- Macron’s education cuts deny admission to thousands of French university students
- Eight children killed in house fire on Chicago’s West Side
- New Australian prime minister forms cabinet after endorsement from Washington
- Amazon unleashes army of Twitter trolls to improve its image
2018-08-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- More Washington state teachers strike as unions seek to contain struggle
- Build rank-and-file committees to unify educators, parents and students
- Is Washington on the brink of a major attack on Syria?
- US prison strike enters second week amid media blackout
- Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders praise McCain: An object lesson in the politics of the pseudo-left
- Ex-Australian prime minister to quit, leaving government in minority
- Malaysian PM in China criticises “new colonialism”
- Reports point to growing social inequality in Australia
- The German army’s new policy doctrine: Preparing for World War III
- French government announces plan to undermine pension system
- Australian state Labor government intervenes to prevent industrial action by Esso workers
- Fifty years since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Part one
- UK: Northamptonshire County Council and the obliteration of local authority services provision
- Five and one-half year sentence for ex-Fiat Chrysler executive Alphons Iacobelli
- Chicago house fire claims ninth victim
- Neo-Nazi mob rampages through East German city of Chemnitz
- Anti-Venezuelan pogrom in northern Brazil highlights official promotion of the country’s far-right
- US union heads meet with Trump over NAFTA
2018-08-29
- SEP candidate speaks with incoming students at Wayne State University in Detroit
- UN panel cites massive war crimes in US-backed war on Yemen
- US-Mexico trade pact takes aim at Washington’s rivals and the working class
- Mass support for teachers’ walkouts in Washington state
- How well-deserved is the great success of Crazy Rich Asians?
- Peruvian municipal workers strike in Lima’s most affluent district
- A tragedy born of inequality: Ten children die in Chicago house fire
- US threatens North Korea with resumption of war games
- Whistleblowers expose Australian government crimes at Nauru refugee camp
- New Australian government to intensify pro-US militarism and class war
- Auckland nurse denounces union’s sellout deal in New Zealand
- Disney stands by firing of James Gunn, director of Guardians of the Galaxy
- German Foreign Minister Maas sees Europe setting “red lines” for US conduct
- 075 Foxconn changes plans for Wisconsin plant
- What is FireEye?
- 080 Federal employees lawsuit
- The “spice” drug crisis in Britain
- Fifty years since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Part two
- Accused by Trump of rigging search results, Google denies political bias
- UK Court of Appeal reinstates Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba
2018-08-30
- Arsène Tchakarian (1916–2018): The Manouchian Group’s resistance struggle
- Seattle teachers vote to authorize strike
- Italy’s far-right interior minister charged with kidnapping
- Puerto Rico raises Hurricane Maria death toll from 64 to 2,975
- After Florida primary, Republican candidate makes racist attack
- Who is to blame for the neo-Nazi rampage in Chemnitz, Germany?
- US ambassador praises New Zealand’s Pacific “reset”
- Mélenchon’s Unsubmissive France opens summer school with overtures to right-wing parties
- National Party seeks to prevent Chelsea Manning from entering New Zealand
- Oppose the ban on Chelsea Manning speaking in Australia!
- Canadian troops deploy to Mali to prop up pro-Western puppet government
- Who is Unsubmissive France’s “Comrade Policeman” Alexandre Langlois?
- ICE raids North Texas factory, arrests 160 immigrant workers
- Hostiles: A US soldier accompanies a Native American chief home in 1892 …
- Former Texas police officer found guilty of murdering unarmed teen
- Sri Lankan fishermen demonstrate to demand fuel price reductions
- US education secretary floats plan to use federal funds to arm teachers
- Fifty years since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Part three
- Hundreds gather to commemorate ten children killed in Chicago house fire
- UN condemns Burma’s persecution of Rohingya minority
- Tax cuts boost US bank profits to record highs
2018-08-31
- Steelmakers in US demand historic concessions as contracts for 31,000 workers set to expire
- IMF pushes for more social cuts in Ukraine
- Arsène Tchakarian (1916-2018): the Manouchian Group’s resistance struggle
- Alex Salmond resigns from Scottish National Party
- Reject the anti-Semitism slurs against Jeremy Corbyn! Drive out the Labour Party right wing!
- Conflicts inside Liberal Party shed light on lurch to right in Australian government
- Turbulence hits emerging markets as Argentina’s central bank hikes interest rates to 60 percent
- Widespread opposition to Australian government ban on Chelsea Manning
- Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality and take up the fight for socialism!
- US Steel workers rally in Pittsburgh area
- Immigrant mother sues for $40 million after child dies following ICE detainment
- Foxconn dramatically alters plans for Wisconsin facility
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Growing poverty in cities and growing wealth at the top
- As classes begin, Detroit schools shut off drinking water due to high levels of lead and copper
- Abolish student debt! Public education is a social right!
- Fifty years since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: Part four
- Two construction workers killed in scaffolding collapse near Disney World
- An interview with a relative of Chicago house fire victim
- French, British boats clash over English Channel scallops amid Brexit crisis
- 100 years since the birth of American filmmaker Robert Aldrich
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