Archive: 01/2019
2019-01-02
2019-01-03
- Yellow vest protesters rally across France on New Year’s Eve
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US shutdown, payless paydays could continue for “weeks”
- Scotland: 300 laid off at Kaiam plant on Christmas Eve
- Sri Lankan plantation union discussing sellout deal with companies
- The Strategy of International Class Struggle and the Political Fight Against Capitalist Reaction in 2019
- Australia: Structural faults in 36-storey building cause mass evacuation
- Clint Eastwood’s The Mule: The world’s oldest drug courier
- López Obrador proposes austerity budget, creates free economic zone at the border
- Trump administration opens 2019 with tear gas attack on migrants at US-Mexico border
- Hundreds die on UK streets as homelessness reaches record levels
- Cuba deepens austerity in response to continued economic stagnation
- In deleted tweet, US nuclear command declares itself “ready” to “drop something”
- Slowdown in China’s manufacturing growth sets tone for New Year
- German army plans recruitment of EU foreigners
- Bolsonaro inaugurated as head of Brazil’s most right-wing government since dictatorship
- Amazon worker describes brutal conditions at Tracy, California warehouse during Camp Fire
2019-01-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Democrat Elizabeth Warren enters US presidential race
- New Horizons completes flyby of Ultima Thule
- “Life is forbidden to us … do you want to comply with that?”: The rediscovery of Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s The Traveler in Germany
- US-China tensions to rise over Taiwan
- Trump says there is no set date for Syria troop withdrawal
- The global slowdown: US trade war comes home
- US House Democrats reaffirm right-wing program of austerity, bipartisanship
- Federal government threatens takeover of NYC Housing Authority
- Los Angeles school officials hire strikebreakers as teachers prepare for walkout
- Sri Lankan JVP postures as a saviour of “democracy”
- Trump to deploy more troops to US-Mexico border on semi-permanent basis
- Fare evasion increases on New York City subways and buses
- French police arrest “yellow vest” spokesman Eric Drouet
- British government dispatches Royal Navy to stop cross-Channel refugee boats
- Silence follows Trump attorney’s statement that Julian Assange did nothing “wrong”
- Alcoa intensifies attack on Quebec ABI workers
2019-01-05
- Trump threatens to declare national emergency to build border wall
- The New York Times’ #MeToo smear against Bernie Sanders
- Wall Street rules
- Mumia Abu-Jamal wins right to reargue appeal of his 1982 conviction
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Protests against poverty, housing evictions and repossessions spread across Ireland
- Netflix’s The Innocent Man: The American injustice system
- India’s unions to hold two-day “general strike” next week
- Fifteen Indian coal miners trapped, likely killed, in mine disaster
- Growing signs of Australian economic fragility
- Australian stripped of citizenship despite being made stateless
- Report: 452 child workers died in the US from 2003 to 2016
- UAW lawsuit against GM pits temporary part-time workers against laid-off Lordstown workers over jobs
- Ecuador unveils “special examination” of Julian Assange’s asylum
- NBC journalist resigns, blasting media as “defender of Washington and the system”
- Scuffles in German city of Amberg exploited to incite right-wing campaign
2019-01-07
- Growing “yellow vest” protests defy French police repression
- This week in history: January 7-13
- Los Angeles teachers prepare for strike
- For fifth year in a row, US police kill more than one thousand
- Mobilize the working class against the US government shutdown
- Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko: A novel of 20th century Korea and Japan—“History has failed us, but no matter”
- Opal Tower structural flaws expose rot in Australian construction industry
- China’s moon landing to exacerbate tensions with US
- Indian Trotskyists in Kolkata to celebrate 80 years of the Fourth International
- UK Integrity Initiative heavily involved in Skripal affair
- German media demand accelerated rearmament
- US shutdown could leave millions without food stamps
- Australian senator participates in neo-Nazi rally
- Sri Lankan Central Bank governor calls for extended IMF program
- Trump deploys troops to central Africa following disputed Congo election
- Longest-serving Chicago alderman charged with attempted extortion
- Austin Beutner—Wall Street’s Superintendent of Education in Los Angeles
2019-01-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Senate confirms top-level political “fixer” as ambassador to Australia
- On eve of strike, union drops LA teachers’ demands against school privatization
- Trump escalates confrontation over federal shutdown
- Sri Lankan plantation workers oppose company-union attempts to impose sell-out
- French Prime Minister proposes government registry of demonstrators
- Bolton walks back Trump’s Syria troop withdrawal
- Evacuated Opal Tower residents in Australia express anger and dismay
- Indian workers need revolutionary socialist program to combat social devastation and political reaction
- Twenty-two deaths reported in immigrant detention centers since Trump took office
- Foxconn workers stage protest in Zhengzhou, China
- Military prepare for post-Brexit civil war in Britain and Northern Ireland
- Bolivian doctors strike ends amid turmoil over Morales’ bid for fourth term
2019-01-09
- US-China trade talks extended, amid continuing obstacles
- Trump delivers fascistic White House rant to demand border wall
- Actor Kevin Spacey arraigned on indecent assault charge in Massachusetts
- Sears liquidation temporarily averted, thousands more jobs to be slashed
- Scientific breakthrough promises to increase agricultural productivity by 40 percent
- Los Angeles teachers prepare to strike
- South Park episodes dramatize plight of Amazon workers, ridicule Jeff Bezos
- New Zealand’s public healthcare crisis worsens
- Election campaign confirms further shift to the right by Israeli political establishment
- Millions of Indian workers hold two-day general strike against Modi government
- Further protests against Orbán government in Hungary
- Guatemalan establishment indifferent to deaths of US incarcerated migrant children
- Insurgent Gabon soldiers shot dead in foiled coup attempt
- Los Angeles and the billionaires’ plan to destroy public education
- US Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, murder, pleads not guilty
- US and Canadian elites demand Trudeau government toughen its anti-China stance
- Debate begins in British parliament over May’s Brexit deal with EU
- US-Turkish tensions rise over Syria withdrawal plan
2019-01-10
- Socialist Equality Party takes legal action against surveillance by German secret service
- Six killed in “preemptive” security operation in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province
- Trump’s “national emergency” threat and the danger of presidential dictatorship
- GM Oshawa workers down tools after automaker confirms plant closure
- Los Angeles teachers angered as union delays strike again
- India’s “rise” and the savage exploitation of the working class
- California, Michigan educators call for joint action with LA teachers
- Mounting social anger seen in two-day strike against Indian government
- Socialist Equality Party takes legal action against surveillance by German secret service
- Faurecia auto parts workers in Saline, Michigan speak on conditions
- Fascists surround rail workers’ picket line in Manchester, England
- No deal reached in US-China trade talks
- Report: Police gave neo-Nazi rioters free rein in Chemnitz, Germany
- British prime minister suffers second defeat at hands of pro-European Union MPs
- Portland State University threatens to fire Peter Boghossian for authoring “Grievance Studies” hoax
- If Beale Street Could Talk: A film version of the James Baldwin novel
- Worker killed as Bangladesh police attack striking garment workers
2019-01-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Venezuela’s Maduro sworn in for second term amid rising social unrest and threats of intervention
- Chicago UPS workers speak out against sellout contract
- As payless payday looms, federal unions stage protests in US cities
- Sri Lankan president issues bogus promise to fulfil election pledges
- Trump at the Rubicon
- Build rank-and-file committees to fight GM’s plant shutdowns in Oshawa and the US
- Macron launches fraudulent “national debate” on “yellow vest” protests
- Widespread support for Los Angeles teacher strike as unions seek to block statewide struggle
- Landlords reap profits from dilapidated US military housing tainted with lead, mold, brown tapwater
- Nearly 600 homeless died on UK streets in 2017
- Syriza government enforces new budget cuts in Greece
- After attempted coup in Gabon, government imposes internet and media broadcast blackout
- Ford to lay off thousands, close plants across Europe
- French government witch-hunts ex-boxer who punched riot police in “yellow vest” protest
- Corporate media smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- Amazon hires public relations firm to counter popular hostility to headquarters project in New York City
- Germany deports more refugees to Afghanistan
- Actors and stage managers strike against developmental work with Broadway League
2019-01-12
- US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson targeted by #MeToo campaign
- For a united struggle to defend public education in California and beyond!
- Steins;Gate 0: A sequel to the popular time-travel anime series
- US government workers call in sick, demand strike action against lockout and payless paydays
- Pompeo in Cairo: The ugly face of US imperialism
- The political significance of India’s two-day general strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jaguar Land Rover announces nearly 5,000 UK job losses in global restructuring
- Security personnel at German airports continue protest strikes
- Autoworkers call for demonstration February 9 to fight GM plant closings
- Was the hack of German politicians data supported by the state?
- The struggle against austerity and the fight for the United Socialist States of Europe
- Following Oshawa GM sitdown protest, autoworkers fed poison of Canadian nationalism at Windsor rally
- Financial warnings point to Australia’s economic and political instability
2019-01-14
- France’s mass “yellow vest” protests continue to grow in 2019
- Australia: Casual coal miners begin week long strike in Wollongong
- We The Workers: A limited documentary about labour rights groups in China
- This week in history: January 14-20
- UK People’s Assembly protest shows Corbyn’s role in demobilising the working class
- Sickouts spread, impact widens as US shutdown enters fourth week
- New year sees continuing strike wave in Portugal
- The FBI’s police state operation against Trump
- Thousands of French teachers join “Red Pens” protest on Facebook
- People’s Assembly protesters back yellow vest movement, unity of European workers
- New Zealand doctors prepare nationwide strike
- Macy’s marks worst day ever on Wall Street, will shut eight stores in 2019
- Hypocritical outrage from media, politicians after latest racist outburst by Iowa Congressman Steve King
- Massive campaign to defend Israeli religious students accused of killing Palestinian mother of nine
- New York City public housing residents in the South Bronx without heat for a decade
- Los Angeles teachers strike in second largest school district in US
- Felix Tshisekedi declared victor in disputed presidential election in Congo
- Mine collapse in northern China leaves 21 dead
- Spain’s far-right Vox party backs right-wing coalition government in Andalusia
- German political parties and media express solidarity with far-right AfD
2019-01-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US, Turkey clash over Turkish plan to buy Russian S-400 missiles
- US shutdown: Sickouts by screeners throw airports into crisis
- Sri Lankan government proposes pay “formula” to end plantation workers’ struggle
- One hundred years since the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
- Engineers disagree on whether Australian high rise is safe to reoccupy
- 70,000 workers strike at US-Mexico border sweatshops
- The American media revives the methods of McCarthyism
- 50,000 march on first day of Los Angeles teachers strike
- Los Angeles teachers, students and parents speak out on first day of strike
- The Largesse of the Sea Maiden—Short stories by American author Denis Johnson
- US ratchets up threats against Iran, Turkey amid Syria withdrawal plans
- India: Daikin air conditioning workers target of police assault, frame-up charges
- How the French state and big business finance the unions
- Fight the Ford layoffs! Build rank-and-file committees to unite autoworkers across Europe!
- Top UK executives earn average worker pay within three days
- World Bank warns of “storm clouds” over global economy
- Denver, Colorado teachers move closer to strike action
- UK parliament to vote on Brexit deal today
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro increases drive for “pensions’ reform,” more state powers in second week of government
2019-01-16
- Video: Christoph Vandreier on “One hundred years since the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht”
- Los Angeles teachers speak out on political issues in strike
- Sri Lankan workers must oppose the witch-hunt of militant plantation workers
- The global class struggle in 2019
- Mexican, US workers exchange statements of support as Matamoros strike grows
- Oakland, California teachers plan a one-day walkout Friday
- Amid stalled US-North Korean talks, second Trump-Kim summit mooted
- Indian transit workers in Mumbai defy authorities, continue strike
- As support grows to extend Los Angeles teacher strike, unions colluding with Democrats to end walkout
- New study finds up to 15,000 Jews killed each day at peak of Holocaust
- Grenfell Tower: Class action lawsuit in US against flammable cladding manufacturer
- Successful start for IYSSE election campaign at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- French worker sentenced to six months’ jail over Facebook call for demonstrations
- Fire kills 18 at rehab center in Ecuador
- Australia: Widespread opposition to violent arrest of elderly Sydney protester
- UK parliament votes down Prime Minister May’s Brexit deal
- Bolivia’s Morales and Brazil’s Bolsonaro collaborate in rendition of Cesare Battisti to Italy
- PG&E’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing: Corporate executives again to get away with murder
- Bangladesh government oversees police attacks on protesting garment workers
- Quebec: Locked-out ABI workers begin second year on picket line
2019-01-17
- A fighting strategy for California teachers
- Killing of US troops in Syria feeds furor over withdrawal
- The US boosts military ties with Sri Lanka
- Ironworker killed at Amazon construction site in California
- Gdańsk mayor and opposition politician Paweł Adamowicz brutally assassinated
- Mexican strikers show working class answer to capitalist reaction at US-Mexico border
- House Speaker Pelosi asks Trump to postpone State of the Union address
- Theresa May’s Conservative government survives no-confidence vote
- Thousands gather at mass meeting as maquiladora strike grows
- Yellow vest protests expose right-wing politics of Germany’s Left Party
- Los Angeles teachers discuss need to expand strike as UTLA resumes talks to end walkout
- Australia: Hutchison Ports workers begin work bans in Sydney and Brisbane
- Widespread student support for beleaguered professor Peter Boghossian
- UK: Trial begins of police commander in 1989 Hillsborough football disaster
- Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion at the Toledo Museum of Art
- US federal judge upholds compulsory unpaid labor during government shutdown
- Analysis of Congo election data points to “huge fraud” in vote tally
- Pentagon extends troop deployment at Mexican border until September
- Right-wing Humboldt University Professor Jorg Baberowski threatens students
2019-01-18
- Zimbabwe’s government cracks down on protest over fuel price increase
- Report to Davos meeting points to deepening contradictions of global capitalism
- Canadian and US autoworkers voice support for striking maquiladora workers in Mexico
- General strike of 700,000 public sector workers shakes Tunisia
- German SPD politician justifies murder of Rosa Luxemburg
- Growing signs of worker resistance to US government shutdown
- Native American organizations denounce government shutdown as an abrogation of treaties
- Scottish lecturers expand strike for pay claim
- The US political crisis reaches fever pitch
- Matamoros, Mexico strike of over 70,000 workers enters sixth day
- France’s Lutte ouvrière group defends unions against “yellow vest” protests
- Los Angeles teachers battle privatization as union vies to be partner in LAUSD restructuring
- Indian government foreshadows harsher internet surveillance and censorship
- Extreme heatwave hits Australia
- US-born anchor for Iranian TV jailed without charges
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The working class must come to the defence of the Canada Post workers
- The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards “great power” conflict: Part One
- UK: Blairites spearhead campaign to commit Labour to remaining in the European Union
- Signs of slump in Australia overshadow looming election
2019-01-19
- Wright State University faculty in Dayton, Ohio to strike Tuesday
- Mass demonstration as Los Angeles strike reaches fifth day
- US shutdown pits unpaid workers vs. political establishment and unions
- Australian fake left promote Greens, trade unions and Labor at anti-fascist protest
- Science and social crisis in 2019
- Australian prime minister’s Pacific visit reinforces militarist line up against China
- Oakland teachers hold second wildcat “sickout,” call for statewide strike with Los Angeles teachers
- Australia: State government report indicates Opal Tower should not have been reoccupied
- Auto companies scared, parts run low across North America as strike grows in Matamoros, Mexico
- “Made in China 2025” at centre of US-China economic war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Canada ramps up anti-China campaign as US threatens action against Huawei
- Factional warfare hots up after collapse of May’s European Union Brexit deal
- Bird Box and Hold the Dark: Looking at things in the face or not
- Tesla, Nissan announce mass layoffs, Fiat Chrysler jobs threatened
- Trump, announcing new missile defense program, ramps up nuclear arms race
- Injured Amazon worker forced to work to avoid being fired
2019-01-21
- Rockford, Illinois UPS workers outraged by sellout Teamsters contract
- This week in history: January 21-27
- Democrats reject Trump proposal to fund border wall and end US government shutdown
- Latest US airstrike kills scores in Somalia
- School: BBC documentary reveals impact of education cuts
- Duterte allies dominate Philippine midterm election campaign
- Matamoros strike threatens to shut down North American auto industry
- Seven-month National Grid lockout ends with USW-backed concessions
- Maldives president launches “anti-corruption” campaign to undermine Chinese influence
- Macron offers “great national debate” as trap for French yellow vest protesters
- Los Angeles teachers angered over secret talks between union, school district and mayor
- US federal judge allows lawsuit over illegal experimentation on Guatemalan subjects
- Ford workers at Bridgend in Wales facing 1,000 job losses
- Chicago police officer sentenced to less than seven years for murder of Laquan McDonald; three officers acquitted in cover-up
- The Congressional Budget Office points US spending priorities towards “great power” conflicts: Part Two
- British PM May to reveal “Plan B” as Brexit infighting continues
- Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement
- The Australian newspaper targets Chinese university students
2019-01-22
- French “yellow vests” step up protests as Macron’s “national debate” begins
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Migrants in Australia hit by longer welfare wait
- Four “No More Deaths” volunteers convicted for providing humanitarian aid to migrants crossing US border
- Amid mounting coup threats in Venezuela, Maduro begs Trump for dialog
- German lawyer receives additional threatening fax from the far right
- Oxfam: 26 billionaires control as much wealth as poorest half of humanity
- Another 170 immigrants drown in the Mediterranean
- Thousands of striking Matamoros, Mexico workers march to border to appeal to US workers
- Los Angeles teachers have the right to know the details of the negotiations
- Leeds’ Opera North commemorates end of World War I—Part 1
- Vote “No” on UTLA-LAUSD deal! Extend the strike to Oakland and across California to defend public education!
- Who is Democratic Senator Kamala Harris?
- Students and the fight to defend public education
- US drug company payments to doctors linked to opioid overdose deaths
- New York City mayor de Blasio tries to burnish his “progressive” credentials
- China records lowest growth rate since 1990
- Spain: Socialist Party government arrests Catalan activists
- UK: Corbyn endorses second referendum after May stonewalls on her Brexit plan
- Following strike, Bangladesh employers sack hundreds of garment workers
- DSA and pseudo-left provide cover for the UAW, Democrats
- Tempe, Arizona police officer fatally shoots fleeing 14-year-old boy in the back
2019-01-23
- Two years of the Trump administration
- Los Angeles teachers denounce UTLA betrayal of strike
- US government shutdown enters second month
- Scottish teachers balloted for strike action in pay dispute
- Sri Lankan president praises Philippine-style “war on drugs”
- The way forward for US government workers in the fight against the shutdown
- An Oklahoma teacher speaks on the Los Angeles educators strike
- New Zealand Labour government entrenches anti-worker measures
- New York governor announces L train will not shut down while repairs go ahead
- The 2019 Academy Award nominations: Filmmaking, money and identity politics
- Minister’s resignation highlights unravelling of Australia’s ruling Coalition
- Companies, union appeal for federal intervention against strike in Matamoros
- Union rams through deal to end Los Angeles teachers strike
- Leeds’ Opera North commemorates end of World War I—Part 2
- 040 German Ford workers interviews
- New Jersey state agency hands $11 billion in tax breaks to businesses and developers
- The Brexit crisis and the struggle for socialism
- Ninety three dead and dozens in critical condition from Mexico pipeline explosion
- Germany, France step up military, police alliance with Aachen treaty
2019-01-24
- Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto archive on the screen
- UPS workers in Rockford continue to speak out against sellout contract
- Virginia and Denver teachers set to strike as educators struggles continue to spread
- Trump accepts delay in State of the Union speech
- Shopko retail chain files for bankruptcy, 105 stores across US to close
- UK: More troubling questions emerge in the Skripal case
- Federal workers and contractors demand action to end shutdown as second missed payday approaches
- How the UTLA orchestrated the betrayal of Los Angeles teachers
- Lawsuits against Australian government reveal horror in refugee camp
- Washington engineers right-wing coup in Venezuela
- Ontario guts financial aid for low-income students
- Matamoros strike set to expand as ruling class boosts unions
- Matamoros, Mexico maquiladora worker speaks out
- Final IYSSE election meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin
- China-US rifts widen on eve of trade talks
- The Matamoros auto strike and internet censorship
- Australia: BlueScope steelworkers vote to strike at Port Kembla
- Julian Assange issues “urgent” legal challenge against US extradition plans
2019-01-25
- Washington escalates coup provocations in Venezuela
- Chicago UPS drivers angered by Teamsters sellout contract
- Supreme Court reinstates Trump’s ban on transgender troops
- Indian teachers, government workers launch indefinite strike in Tamil Nadu
- Striking Tamil Nadu teachers denounce state and central governments
- An interview with British “Stansted 15” defendant Melanie Strickland
- White House readies national emergency declaration
- Australia: Port Kembla Coal Terminal locks out workers
- Canada’s "diversity" imperialism
- Matamoros, Mexico strike becomes “legal” as ruling class fears contagion
- Los Angeles teachers livid over union’s betrayal of strike
- Reports indicate Haitian government involvement in La Saline massacre
- German Ford workers: “The yellow vests are going about it the right way”
- Fish kills highlight mismanagement of Australian waterways
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Rally to demand the Australian government acts to free Julian Assange!
- Davos overshadowed by crisis and social upheaval
- UK: Remain and Leave factions line up for battle prior to next Brexit vote
- Brazilian Workers Party uses crime wave to back fascistic Bolsonaro on repression and austerity
- 100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus
2019-01-26
- Oppose French unions’ attempts to strangle the “yellow vest” protests!
- US coup bid pushes Venezuela closer to invasion or civil war
- Unifor launches anti-Mexican boycott as diversion from fight over Oshawa closure
- Long-time Trump adviser Roger Stone arrested in Mueller probe
- Trump retreats on federal shutdown
- Former leader Alex Salmond’s arrest threatens to tear Scottish National Party apart
- Spain: Podemos co-founder Íñigo Errejón splits from party
- Fascist deputies disrupt Holocaust memorial in Germany
- The political questions facing US oil workers in the 2019 contract negotiations
- Imposition of right-wing candidate intensifies turmoil in Australia’s ruling party
- Thousands seeking asylum in US to be pushed back into Mexico
- Mexican auto parts workers explain how they formed strike committees
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian Trotskyists campaign for Kolkata meeting to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
- Successful election result for IYSSE at Humboldt University in Berlin
- Australia: Hundreds of immigration detainees launch hunger strikes
- Air traffic grinds to a halt in the Eastern US
2019-01-28
- Virginia teachers and the fight against social inequality
- AP report exposes US role in right-wing coup in Venezuela
- Hundreds missing, 58 dead in Brazil mine disaster
- Presidential campaign officially begins in Ukraine
- This week in history: January 28-February 3
- Students protest in Toronto against cuts to financial aid
- India: Striking Tamil Nadu teachers and government employees defy state repression
- Trump aide threatens “national emergency” decree on border wall
- Why does the New York Times keep pushing pernicious racialism?
- The International Socialist Organization, Jacobin hail betrayal of Los Angeles teachers’ strike
- The global struggle of autoworkers
- New Zealand doctors to hold second nationwide strike
- Matamoros strike at a crossroads as Mexican government orders crackdown
- Autoworkers strike in Hungary
- Wave of xenophobic violence against Venezuelans living in Ecuador
- Colorado Labor Department blocks Denver teachers’ strike
- Autoworkers strike in Hungary
- An appeal from a UK rail worker for a joint fight of rail, bus and tram workers across Europe
2019-01-29
- French “yellow vests” applaud workers’ struggles against social inequality
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- Virginia teachers protest education cuts
- Trump administration imposes sanctions on Venezuelan oil industry
- Indiana school superintendent arrested, charged with fraud for using insurance to help sick student
- US and China still miles apart as trade talks are set to begin
- Barcelona taxi strike called off after six days, Madrid strike continues
- Defend the Matamoros workers! For a united fight by US, Canadian and Mexican workers to defend jobs and decent living standards!
- Oppose the Sri Lankan plantation unions’ sellout agreement!
- Sri Lankan plantation workers protest unions’ sellout wage deal
- Afghanistan peace talks and the debacle of the war on terror
- British Columbia’s opioid crisis hits construction workers hard
- Leaks expose UK and EU government plans for military deployment in Brexit crisis
- New punitive “accountability” measures being imposed on Michigan teachers
- Mexican government prepares “legal” pretext for end of Matamoros strike
- In broadside against China, White House levels criminal charges against Huawei
- New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Another right-wing Democrat enters the 2020 race
- NBC’s Tom Brokaw provokes backlash over “assimilation” comment
2019-01-30
- Stone indictment presents no evidence of links between WikiLeaks and Trump campaign
- Germany and EU support US-engineered coup in Venezuela
- Indian state government fires hundreds of teachers as Tamil Nadu strike faces a crossroads
- Russian Duma plans internet crackdown as 12,000 truckers strike
- French President Macron visits the hangman of Cairo
- Australia: Opal Tower builder stops paying hotel fees for some evacuated residents
- Oklahoma legislators seek to strip teachers of democratic rights
- Second nationwide strike by New Zealand doctors
- 40,000 Irish nurses to participate in series of one day strikes
- More ministers quit Australia’s disintegrating government
- US: Measles outbreak in Washington state prompts state of emergency
- Greek parliament votes in support of Macedonia name change
- After sellout of Los Angeles teachers strike, new attacks on public schools coming
- ICE arrests of immigrants at New York courthouses up by 1,700 percent since 2016
- Defense Intelligence Agency warns Chinese military is reaching “critical point of confidence”
- UK’s May fends off demands to delay Brexit or rule out “no deal”
- Beautiful Boy: Part of the truth about drug addiction
- Autoworkers call for support for February 9 march against GM plant closings
2019-01-31
- Venezuela’s oil and the geopolitics of the US-backed coup
- Sudan’s anti-government protests enter sixth week
- Students and youth must join the fight to oppose GM job cuts!
- Sacramento school district threatens bankruptcy to extort concessions from teachers
- Lima sewage disaster exposes infrastructure neglect in Peru
- Fascists march in Auschwitz
- As Friday contract deadline approaches, USW keeps 30,000 oil workers in the dark
- Pentagon officials provide few answers at House committee hearing on troops at the border
- Matamoros, Mexico maquiladora workers threatened with mass plant closures
- UK: Corbyn allows vicious Tory Immigration Bill to pass
- IMF to resume Sri Lankan loan program discussions
- US Fed does about-turn on interest rates
- The political role of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Six dead as record-breaking Arctic air mass hits US Midwest
- Oppose political censorship and fascist threats against the ISO and DSA in Portland!
- City Colleges of Chicago averts staff and faculty strike
- Berlin teachers and social workers strike for better working conditions
- Australian political and media establishment intensifies anti-China campaign
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