Archive: 12/2018
2018-12-01
- Strikes and demonstrations shake France
- Ukraine: Poroshenko declares martial law to crack down on political and social opposition
- Casualties of the social counterrevolution in America
- New Zealand teachers’ struggle at a crossroads
- Special counsel, Democrats step up pressure on Trump over Russia, Assange
- Central American migrants facing horror on US border
- Merkel backs Ukrainian provocations against Russia
- Video: Attend the December 9 meeting in Detroit to oppose the GM plant closures!
- Indiana Lear auto parts workers vote down UAW sellout contract second time
- Australian Labor Party helps disintegrating government impose repressive laws
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Last light for the Kepler space telescope
- CNN fires contributor accused of “anti-Semitism” for defending Palestinian rights
- As G20 summit opens, US political establishment brays for trade war and military escalation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- I object—Ian Hislop’s search for dissent: An exhibition that eradicates socialist ideas and revolutionary action
- Thousands of Australian high school students join climate change strike
- Catalonia rocked by a week of strikes against austerity
- Three killed, eight injured in high speed US Border Patrol chase in southern California
- Attentive audience at David North’s Sydney launch of The Heritage We Defend
- Police repression in Buenos Aires for G20: a dress-rehearsal for dictatorship
- Canadian and US autoworkers call for a united struggle against GM’s assault on jobs
- Mexico’s Lopez Obrador embraces military on eve of presidential inauguration
- At ABI workers’ protest, USW officials accost and threaten WSWS supporters
- Locked-out ABI aluminum workers demonstrate in downtown Montreal
2018-12-03
- This week in history: December 3-9
- Sri Lanka: Factional deadlock remains in lead up to Supreme Court ruling
- Cases like Hedda Martin’s heart transplant denial “will continue to happen”
- Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren glorify the late President Bush
- John Pilger discusses his “The Power of the Documentary” film festival
- The mass protests in France: A new stage in the international class struggle
- Indiana Lear auto parts workers vote down UAW sellout contract second time
- Electrical problems likely cause of Indiana house fire that killed six
- German trade union federation defends Hartz IV
- G20 papers over differences as economic conflicts intensify
- Third “yellow vest” protest in France defies government crackdown
- Former Dallas cop indicted for murder of neighbor
- The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK): Part One
- Australia: Newcastle participants in high school climate strike speak out
- Media, political establishment laud George H. W. Bush
- Bank of England warns “no-deal” Brexit would be worse than 2008 crash
- German prosecutor’s office raids Deutsche Bank
- Autoworkers say fight necessary to stop GM plant closings, UAW betrayal
- United Steelworkers push through sellout contract at ArcelorMittal
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated as new president of Mexico
2018-12-04
- US and China put divergent spin on outcome of trade talks
- Submission: A college professor undone by sexual harassment allegations
- Sri Lankan court blocks functioning of Rajapakse cabinet
- López Obrador’s rise in Mexico sets stage for explosive class struggles
- In wake of GM closure announcement, UAW and Democrats stoke nationalism
- A serious response at Sydney meeting to mark 80 years of the Fourth International
- Australia’s governing Liberal Party wracked by factional conflicts
- Four jobless youths commit suicide
- San Diego workers and youth speak out in defense of refugees at US-Mexico border
- Chicago charter teachers strike for increased pay, lower class sizes
- High school students and ambulance drivers join ‘Yellow Vest’ protests in France
- Eighth New York City taxi driver suicide of 2018
- Oakland, California public schools face $60 million in cuts, state takeover
- Police and courts enforce Trudeau’s law criminalizing Canada Post strike
- The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK): Part Two
- Ford workers denounce GM plant closings and layoffs
- Fascist Vox party makes substantial gains in Andalusia elections
2018-12-05
- Australian government censors university research funding
- Peru’s president prepares to attack workers’ living standards
- Mobilize the working class against Macron!
- The Maldives: Pro-US President Solih sworn in
- Moody’s warns investors about Detroit’s mounting debt
- More people with mental illnesses seeking treatment from US emergency rooms
- Trade and recession fears hit Wall Street
- Global investors demand escalation of class war on workers’ jobs and wages
- The Holocaust and the Bush family fortune
- Republican senators say “zero question” Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi assassination
- The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK): Part Three
- French protests spark media demands for Facebook censorship
- Britain’s highest paid CEO built fortune on online gambling
2018-12-06
- US autoworkers express class solidarity with French workers
- The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
- Sully at George H.W. Bush’s funeral: Washington goes to the dogs
- Hackers reveal British government’s interference in Spanish politics
- Socialist Equality Party opposes RMT rail union sellout at Liverpool meeting
- Sri Lankan plantation workers launch indefinite strike for 100 percent pay rise
- The state funeral for George H. W. Bush and the ritual of oligarchy
- 1937: When Canadian and US autoworkers fought together
- France's “yellow vest” protests expose Jean-Luc Mélenchon's pro-capitalist populism
- Jaffna (Sri Lanka) meeting celebrates 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
- Washington’s ultimatum on INF treaty heightens threat of nuclear war
- The Front Runner: An American political scandal
- Special Counsel sentencing memo on Flynn increases pressure on Trump
- Australian government to impose encryption-cracking bill with Labor’s support
- Democrats, union tops seek to isolate Chicago charter teachers’ strike
- Parliamentary debate on Brexit deal begins after three defeats for May government
- German chemical giant Bayer slashes 12,000 jobs
- Ohio autoworkers back fight against plant closures
- The Guardian attack on Assange exposed as politically-motivated fabrication
- Mexico’s new president to grant amnesty to those who profited from corruption
2018-12-07
- Japanese police detain Zengakuren activists for nearly three weeks
- German Left Party denounces “Yellow Vest” protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Labour Students leadership and Zionists extend witch-hunt of Chris Williamson MP
- Chicago charter teacher strike continues, as unions announce backing for Democratic machine politician
- Sri Lankan president uses executive powers to run government
- More warnings of an Australian property market crash
- The demonstrations in France and the global class struggle
- Former US State and Defense Department officials discuss prospects for nuclear war
- Huawei executive Meng’s arrest sparks market turbulence
- The achievement of Schindler’s List
- Canada arrests top Chinese executive for “sanctions busting”
- Hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers excluded from mayor’s affordable housing plan
- National Health Service workers among increasing users of food banks in Britain
- Three months after Chicago house fire that killed ten children
- The German Christian Democrats elect a new leader
- Lordstown, Ohio workers condemn GM’s planned factory closures
- Ecuadorian president hints again at moves to renege on Julian Assange’s asylum
2018-12-08
- UK: University and College Union seeks to demobilise pay dispute
- Teachers strike in South Australia and Tasmania
- Wall Street Journal warns of stock “stampede”
- Sri Lankan plantation strike: Abbotsleigh workers march to demand action committees and socialist policies
- The kidnapping of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou
- GM Oshawa workers speak out against plant closure
- New York University faculty defends academic freedom against NYU’s ties to UAE
- Mueller lauds former Trump lawyer Cohen for providing “useful and relevant” information
- Maria by Callas: A documentary on the life of the famed opera singer
- 80th anniversary of the Fourth International celebrated in Melbourne with public lecture
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jacobin urges readers to “log off” social media
- Students across the US declare their support for autoworkers
- Still no justice as phase one of Grenfell Tower fire inquiry closes
- French government threatens bloody crackdown on “yellow vest” protest
- Sudden closure of for-profit Education Corporation of America leaves 20,000 students without an education
- Debra Ann Washington Miller–A fighter for the working class
2018-12-10
- Protest at Whitney Museum in New York calls for ouster of trustee who owns tear gas firm
- The “yellow vests”: A movement of workers against social inequality
- This week in history: December 10-16
- White House turmoil deepens after Kelly firing
- In name of fighting fascism, ISO promotes class collaboration and Democratic Party
- Huffington Post renews smear campaign against UK Professor Piers Robinson
- Which way forward for France’s “yellow vest” protests?
- Oakland, California teachers hold wildcat “sickout”
- Another house fire erupts in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood
- Indian workers face slave-like conditions in Sri Lanka
- Canada-China relations sour after Ottawa kidnaps Huawei executive
- German workers express solidarity with “yellow vest” protests in France
- German Christian Democrats select Merkel’s favoured candidate as party leader
- Jeffrey Epstein case exposes how US justice works for the rich
- Australia: Thousands protest climate change and new Adani coal mine
- No to the persecution of Eric Drouet
- China summons American ambassador over detention of Huawei executive
- Neo-Nazi convicted for murdering antiracist protester in Charlottesville, Virginia
- Detroit public meeting resolves to organize fight against General Motors plant closures
- Spain: Rightist parties mull government role for fascist Vox in Andalusia
2018-12-11
- Egypt bans yellow vest sales as French protesters reject Macron’s concessions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- David North addresses New Zealand meeting celebrating 80 years of the Fourth International
- Outrage spreads over video showing police ripping child from mother’s arms at Brooklyn food stamp office
- Democrats begin open discussion of impeachment
- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko tours Washington to garner support for presidential bid
- Sri Lankan plantation companies reject workers’ wage demand
- Another day, another horror in America: Five children killed in Youngstown, Ohio, house fire
- Teachers in Oakland, California speak out at wildcat demonstrations
- Oklahoma Republicans demand the abolition of public schools
- Turmoil on Wall Street continues
- UK workers, young people defend Yellow Vest protests in France: “I only wish that we could do it here as well!”
- Japanese government rams through new immigration law
- Icebox: The US government locks up children
- Brazilian auto workers denounce union blackout of GM’s planned factory closures
- UK government’s role in anti-Corbyn campaign exposed
- Chicago teacher union shuts down charter school strike, holds rally for Democratic candidates
- May delays Brexit vote while Corbyn refuses to move no confidence motion
- Demonstrations in Bolivia hit court decision allowing Evo Morales to run for fourth term
- Autoworkers at Detroit public meeting: “Rank-and-file committees of the working class are the answer”
- Australian university moves to sack academic critical of Israeli and US wars
2018-12-12
- Witch hunt in Australia against Chinese-born parliamentarian
- US-Russia tensions mount over warplanes in Venezuela
- Hyundai, Kia workers strike in South Korea in opposition to attacks on wages
- No to GM plant closings! Mobilize the working class to stop layoffs and concessions!
- Political warfare in Washington escalates to crisis of capitalist rule
- High school students protest in Paris against French government’s education reforms
- Canada subjects Huawei executive to onerous bail terms pending outcome of US extradition case
- Mass layoffs threatened at European GM and Ford plants
- Four years after Eric Garner’s death, killer cop faces NYPD disciplinary hearing
- World leaders converge on Poland for climate summit
- UK unions call off strikes against redundancies at Cammell Laird shipyard
- UK: May faces possible leadership contest after seeking concessions from EU on Brexit
- Trump threatens to use military to fund border wall
- General Motors could shut more plants in US, threatening more than 6,000 jobs
2018-12-13
- Wildlife: American dreams and discouragement
- Report to Detroit meeting to fight GM plant closings
- German daily accuses Macron of surrender to “yellow mob”
- Time magazine honors journalists facing repression—but snubs Julian Assange
- German army to acquire new tank battalion
- Mass shooting in Strasbourg kills 3, wounds 12 before “yellow vest” protest
- Sri Lankan plantation workers defy union and continue to strike
- Russian workers strike against social misery and austerity
- Peruvian voters approve referendum proposals touted as answer to corruption
- A significant step forward: Detroit meeting of autoworkers resolves to form rank-and-file committees
- Limited movement in US-China trade talks
- Ford executives in Argentina convicted on 1970s torture charges
- Hundreds of residential tower blocks around UK still clad in flammable material
- Huawei executive’s arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
- Democrats downplay Google censorship at congressional hearing
- Caterpillar to close plant in Joliet, Illinois
- UK: May staggers on as more than a third of Tory MPs oppose her
- The Australian Labor Party and the persecution of Julian Assange
- Australian Amazon worker alleges unfair dismissal
2018-12-14
- Legal noose tightens around Trump
- Los Angeles teachers and the fight for social equality
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court rules against President Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament
- After 89 days, trade unions sell out historic strike in Costa Rica
- Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe’s neo-fascists
- North Carolina state election board alleges fraud by Republican campaign aide
- Britain's NHS denies life-saving treatment to migrants
- Greenland ice sheet melting at an accelerating rate due to global warming
- Australian Labor Party prepares for government amid political and economic turmoil
- Over 4,000 Kaiser Permanente mental health workers on limited strike in California
- Indian state elections show mounting social anger against ruling Hindu-supremacist BJP
- Nearly 15,000 children held in detention camps across the US
- “Five Eyes” intelligence agencies behind drive against Chinese telecom giant Huawei
- Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 1
- Second phase of Grenfell inquiry delayed for a year
- Germany: Ford announces massive job cuts at its Saarlouis plant
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ex-1968 student leader Cohn-Bendit denounces French “yellow vest” protests
- A Chrysler worker’s 15-year fight to win her job back
- Unions call off general strike in Catalonia
- The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
- Julian Assange denounces his illegal detention in Ecuadorian embassy
2018-12-15
- Fighting reported in Yemeni port, despite cease-fire
- Sri Lankan plantation workers end strike action under protest
- US Navistar workers to vote again on contract after 98 percent “no” vote
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky presented at Moscow Book Fair
- “Lefts” ensure stage-managed Australian Labor Party conference
- Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
- UAW attempts third sellout contract at northwest Indiana Lear auto parts plants
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian workers and youth speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- The death of Jackeline Caal: A seven-year-old victim of Trump’s war on immigrants
- Union isolates Cambria hotel workers in Chicago as British Columbia and Los Angeles hotel employees protest
- Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 2
- French state prepares crackdown for fifth Saturday of “yellow vest” protests
- Number of UK households in energy debt increases by 300,000, owing nearly £400 million
- China’s economic slowdown: The political issues confronting the working class
- Bodyguard: A political thriller in six episodes from the UK
2018-12-17
- Hundreds attend vigil for victims of Youngstown, Ohio house fire
- This week in history: December 17-23
- Mass demonstration by Los Angeles teachers
- UK: “Stansted 15” anti-deportation protesters found guilty of terrorism charges
- Sri Lankan president reinstates sacked prime minister
- Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma: Art and struggle
- MSF reveals “mental health suffering” in Australia’s Nauru refugee detention camp
- The international significance of the Sri Lankan plantation workers’ strike
- The global crisis of capitalist rule and the strategy of socialist revolution
- West Virginia: Task force concludes without a “fix” for public workers’ insurance
- Federal judge in Texas rules Affordable Care Act unconstitutional
- New York City school therapists protest for changes to union-backed contract
- Trump appoints budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting White House chief of staff
- Coal mine rescue brings to light desperate social conditions in West Virginia
- Australian Labor Party leaders warn of rising popular discontent
- Grenfell fire: Local resident and Grenfell Action Group member, Joe Delaney, gives harrowing account to inquiry of night of fire
- Student parliament condemns right-wing attack on IYSSE meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin
- Democrats, media silent on child’s death at US border
- Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 3
- Fifth French “yellow vest” protest opposes Macron government
- Corbyn, Brexit and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Europe
2018-12-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court refuses to hear SEP’s legal action against May Day meeting ban
- Bombings kill 62 in Somalia amid escalating US scramble for Africa
- Sri Lanka: Action committee of Abbotsleigh Estate workers holds inaugural meeting
- Australian Labor Party to boost police-military operations to block refugees
- The disinformation campaign behind the allegations of Russian “disinformation”
- Parti de l’égalité socialiste holds Paris meeting on “yellow vest” protests
- Indiana Lear worker denounces UAW effort to push through sellout deal on third vote
- Los Angeles teachers and supporters speak out at mass rally
- SEP meeting attendees speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- Protests against new labour law in Hungary
- Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 4
- Financial market fall accelerates on global growth fears
- Massive collapse of UK housing built for “social rent” in last decade
- SEP (Australia) meeting announces rallies in defence of Julian Assange
- Amazon worker wrongfully fired for theft reveals company’s dead-end appeal system
2018-12-19
- Nancy Wilson (1937-2018), an extraordinary singer who will be missed
- UPS workers describe company reign of terror in wake of Teamsters sellout
- Fascist cell uncovered in German police force
- Russian television’s Trotsky serial: A degraded spectacle of historical falsification and anti-Semitism
- Woman convicted for climbing Statue of Liberty to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant policies
- Actor Geoffrey Rush denies new #MeToo-inspired claims of “inappropriate” behaviour
- Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees on remote island
- General practitioners abandoning Britain’s National Health Service
- The working class and the environmental crisis
- UAW announces contract ratification at northwest Indiana Lear auto parts plants
- Canada’s media foments anti-China campaign after Meng arrest
- Rising homelessness: The reality of life for workers in a “booming” US economy
- Australian Labor Party steps up commitment to US alliance in “disrupted world”
- Central American asylum seekers forced to wait for months at US-Mexico border
- Brazilian GM workers discuss call for rank-and-file committees
- Troops to be deployed in case of no-deal Brexit
- Police break up Amazon workers’ protest over oppressive conditions
2018-12-20
- Australian union leader warns of eruption of working class struggle
- UK workers’ wages slashed by as much as a third in last decade
- Sharp fall on Wall Street in response to Fed interest rate decision
- Turkey threatens to invade Syria amid tensions with Washington
- At meeting on GM plant closings, DSA covers for UAW and Democrats
- Trump’s Syrian withdrawal order sparks political firestorm in Washington
- Steelworker killed at plant in Granite City, Illinois
- The US hails Wickremesinghe’s reinstatement as Sri Lankan prime minister
- Neo-Nazi network in the German police force
- A closer look at American “democracy”
- Ontario Conservatives ban impending power workers’ strike
- Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
- US Senate passes bipartisan criminal justice bill
- Brutal crackdown on West Bank as Netanyahu pledges stepped-up land grab
- Trump intervenes on behalf of confessed war criminal Mathew Golsteyn
- The bicentenary of Frederick Douglass
- French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
- Columbia College faculty union convenes secret tribunal to discipline members
- The New York Times targets McKinsey for doing business with China and Russia
- New York Times: Back to the good days before Edward Snowden!
2018-12-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump administration to immediately deport new Central American asylum seekers to Mexico
- Sri Lanka: Abbotsleigh tea plantation workers speak out against harsh living and working conditions
- Spain: Socialist Party government mounts a provocation in Catalonia
- Defense Secretary Mattis resigns amid Washington backlash over Syria troop withdrawal
- US and Mexican governments agree on new Central American “Marshall Plan”
- Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
- ICAC raids Labor Party office in major escalation of anti-China campaign in Australia
- Anti-government protests continue in Hungary
- Australia: Understaffing and equipment shortages at new Sydney public-private hospital
- Faurecia auto parts worker in Saline, Michigan describes appalling work regime
- UAW official sentenced in bribery scheme as noose tightens on top union leaders
- US steps up offensive against China with more “hacking charges”
- UK government announces draconian Brexit immigration policy and deployment of troops
- Workers in South Australian city devastated by GM plant closure support US autoworkers’ struggle
- Trump administration to immediately deport new Central American asylum seekers to Mexico
2018-12-22
- Frente Amplio and Piñera government in Chile suppress 36-day dockworkers’ strike
- UPS worker dies of heart attack; UPS Freight lays off part-timers over holidays
- Echoing Trump, Unifor pleads for GM to cut Mexican auto jobs
- Factional acrimony continues as Sri Lankan president appoints new cabinet
- Trump administration tightens work requirements for food stamps
- 800,000 US federal workers hit by partial government shutdown
- UK: Half of Royal College of Nursing leadership re-elected after being forced out
- Protests in Portugal and Catalonia met with police repression amid rising wave of strikes
- The resignation of General Mattis and America’s crisis of class rule
- Australian Labor Party rejects demands to increase unemployment benefits
- Wall Street plunge continues
- Malaysia files charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB scandal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
- Holiday schedule announcement
- Demands surge for Britain to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- Her photos shed light on history: The outstanding work of photographer Maria Austria (1915-75)
- Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker
2018-12-24
- French “yellow vest” protesters mount pre-Christmas protest against Macron
- Virginia teachers plan statewide protest to demand school funding
- RMT union cancels three strikes on London Underground
- This week in history: December 24-30
- At least 280 dead as tsunami hits Indonesian settlements
- European powers condemn Trump’s withdrawal from Syria
- US government shutdown may extend into January
- Trump administration in question as political warfare in Washington intensifies
- Yet another murder that wasn’t: The Perepilichny case and the anti-Russia campaign
- A tale of two cities: Grenfell Tower and the “ultra-luxury” lives of the super-rich
- Meeting on Oakland school closure expresses hostility to attacks on public education
- New Zealand government calls for greater US military presence in the Pacific
- Nissan to lay off 1,000 Mexican autoworkers
- Mary Queen of Scots and The Favourite: The unimpressive recent results of “women in film”
- January 10 strike date set for 33,000 Los Angeles teachers
- Autoworkers at JLR and Vauxhalls UK face thousands of job losses
- Commercy “yellow vest” protesters hold second Popular Assembly
- Union shuts down manufacturing workers strike in Wisconsin
- Blackwater mercenary convicted of first-degree murder in Iraq massacre
- As Australian government unravels, Labor prepares to take office
2018-12-27
- New postings in Urdu on capitalist breakdown and war, France’s Yellow Vest protests
- Death toll rises from Indonesian tsunami
- Trump stages visit to Iraq amid mounting crisis over Syria troop withdrawal
- Federal workers thrown into crisis by US government shutdown
- The death of Felipe Alonzo-Gómez: A crime of US imperialism
- Wild swings on Wall Street
- UK: Denial of access to justice following Legal Aid cuts
- Israeli premier demands German government stop funding Jewish Museum Berlin
- Israel’s Netanyahu calls early election amid corruption charges
- Federal worker: “Democrats are just as eager as Republicans to victimize immigrants”
- Residents defend immigrant workers after ICE raids Indiana restaurants, arrests five
- Moon targeted for further exploration, orbiting space stations and militarization
- Germany’s Der Spiegel spreads fake news
- Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan plans to demolish 8,000 council homes
- The RCL/SEP’s political struggle against the LSSP’s betrayal
- NSW Ambulance makes stunning reversal of allegation against Australian paramedic Tony Jenkins
- College loan debt and the life of an adjunct professor
2018-12-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Teamsters union releases new sellout contracts for 15,000 Midwest UPS workers
- Protests erupt in Tunisia after self-immolation of journalist Abderrazak Zorgui
- The RCL/SEP’s struggle against the anti-Tamil civil war
- Actor Kevin Spacey releases defiant video: “It’s never that simple, not in politics and not in life”
- Trump’s visit to Iraq and Washington’s never-ending war in the Middle East
- Social crisis worsens under New Zealand Labour Party-led government
- Right-wing rampage in Michigan, Wisconsin lame duck sessions
- Remembering the Kindertransport: 80 years since 10,000 mainly Jewish children were allowed in to Britain
- Federal agents release more than 1,000 immigrants in El Paso, Texas
- Australian Greens riven by factional conflicts as MP resigns
- UAW, Democrats seek to block struggle by workers against GM plant shutdowns
2018-12-29
- Vice: A portrait of an American corporate-military gangster
- Syrian government troops deployed to flashpoint city of Manbij
- Dozens killed in protests against austerity and repression in Sudan
- Impact on workers, services spreads as US shutdown enters second week
- Facebook: The global censor
- France’s “yellow vest” protests and the fraud of Mélenchon’s “citizens revolution”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan plans for massive military build-up aimed at China
- Thousands face loss of mental health coverage in the US
- UK: Investigation into Grenfell fire will “take years, not months,” police say
- A wild week on Wall Street
- Government-named arbitrator to dictate Canada Post workers’ contract
- University authorities suppress student protest in China
- Chicago ZF chassis plant to close, lay off 261 workers
- Academics and students oppose Cambridge University appointment of eugenicist Noah Carl—Part 1
- Victory of the Trotskyists in the 1985–1986 split in the ICFI
2018-12-31
- South Australian university partners with US defense contractor Lockheed Martin
- This week in history: December 31-January 6
- Teacher unions in Washington state back Democrats’ regressive school taxes
- Der Spiegel’s counterfeit journalism and the campaign against “fake news”
- Trump orders freeze in federal salaries as shutdown reaches ten days
- Facing possible liquidation, Sears to close 80 more stores in March
- One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countries
- 5,147 workers died at work in the United States in 2017
- Opioid overdose deaths triple among US teens and young children
- One year since Trump’s tax cuts: a balance sheet
- Musical highlights of 2018
- US intelligence think tank conducted “false flag” operation impersonating Russian election interference
- India: Stalinist unions suppress Tamil Nadu auto strikes, promise “industrial peace”
- German AfD parliamentarian joins weapons drill of far-right group in South Africa
- French “yellow vest” protests expose anti-worker role of New Anticapitalist Party
- Faurecia workers respond to exposure of conditions at US auto parts plant
- Academics and students oppose Cambridge University appointment of eugenicist Noah Carl—Part 2
- Strike looms in Los Angeles as struggles by educators set to continue in 2019
- Ten years since Canada’s constitutional coup
- FCC to launch investigation of CenturyLink following US-wide 911 outage
- UK: Cross-party moves escalate to prevent Brexit and secure second referendum
- Best film and television of 2018
- Amid widespread violence, Bangladesh’s ruling party re-elected
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