Archive: 02/2019
2019-02-01
- West Virginia teachers angered over renewed attack on public education
- US escalates threats against Venezuela
- Vanity Fair: A new television adaptation of the great 19th century novel
- US “Worldwide Threat Assessment” takes aim at China
- The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century published in Tamil
- Housekeeper trapped in billionaire’s New York townhouse elevator for days
- India: Unions betray Tamil Nadu teachers’ and government workers’ strike
- The program and strategy to defend jobs
- Worker in Mexico fired, beaten, censored, and falsely charged for protesting corporate abuses
- Class, not Brexit, is Britain’s great divide
- Immigrants in US subjected to nasal force-feeding at ICE detention center
- Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018)
- Foxconn drastically scales back Wisconsin investment
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Footage shows police pointing assault rifles at child detainees in Australia
- Extreme cold spell wreaks havoc across United States
- Australia’s financial press promotes Labor’s shadow treasurer
2019-02-02
- Democrats offer increased spending for border policing
- No deal reached at US-China trade meeting
- Portugal’s strike wave intensifies
- The US scraps the INF treaty: Another step toward nuclear war
- United Steelworkers announces concessions contract agreement with Shell Oil
- Matamoros strike grows as Mexican ruling class warns of national strike wave
- How global auto parts corporations profit by exploiting Mexican workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- John Pilger to speak at March 3 Sydney rally to defend Julian Assange
- German defence report sparks hysterical campaign for increased military spending
- Florida education commissioner advocates widespread privatization
- FedEx, UPS workers outraged after Illinois truck driver dies on the job in extreme cold weather
- The Fed’s interest rate U-turn: Some economic and political conclusions
- European Parliament backs US-led coup in Venezuela
- Facebook’s censor Nick Clegg outlines plans for European elections
- Leyla McCalla’s Capitalist Blues: Keeping one’s eyes open
- Australian rural town continues to fight deportation of Tamil refugee family
- GM to lay off 4,250 salaried workers in North America starting Monday
- Lawsuit alleges Amazon caused worker’s death
2019-02-04
- Twelfth “yellow vest” protest marches against police repression in France
- US issues new threats of war for oil against Venezuela
- This week in history: February 4-10
- Australia: Telstra workers vote on industrial action amid mass sackings
- Spanish Socialist Party government backs US-led coup in Venezuela
- Florida schools to allow real-time video monitoring by the police
- The Governor Ralph Northam affair
- The US pseudo-left’s conspiracy of silence on the Matamoros workers’ rebellion
- Britain’s secret propaganda “Integrity Initiative” targets Russia
- Over a thousand federal inmates in New York City jail held for more than a week in dark, frigid conditions
- Brexit, Free Ports and the super-exploitation of the working class
- Sri Lanka: 16 families homeless after fire at Bogawantalawa tea plantation
- More US drug price hikes in 2019
- Private contract workers left without pay following federal government shutdown
- Broad support for February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings
- Union shuts down Audi strike in Hungary
2019-02-05
- West Virginia teachers battle legislative “education reform”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Unite US, Canadian and Mexican workers against GM plant closings!
- UK’s largest supermarket Tesco to shed 9,000 jobs
- Hands off Venezuela!
- Integrity Initiative: UK interference in Norway
- Lack of teachers, work overload undermine Dutch education system
- India and the Maldives strengthen military ties
- The Land of Steady Habits: Postcrash American disillusionment
- Australia: 2,000 homes submerged in Townsville as floodgates open
- Newport, Rhode Island: Enbridge natural gas pipeline failure put thousands at risk
- Boston jury hears testimony of how Insys Therapeutics pushed opioid painkiller and killed hundreds
- The pseudo-left parties seek to intervene in France’s “yellow vest” movement
- US “border security”: Troops, torture, barbaric prisons
- FBI conducted surveillance of BAMN in the name of combating “domestic terrorism”
- Ford announces 1,000 job cuts as GM begins mass layoffs
- Australian workers and youth support March rallies in defence of Julian Assange
2019-02-06
- 48-year-old teacher perishes in house fire on Chicago’s southwest side
- State of Fear: Trump unleashes tirade against socialism
- Oakland, California teachers overwhelmingly vote to strike
- New Zealand health unions suppress struggles against Labour government
- One hundred years since the death of Franz Mehring
- Mexican auto parts workers support February 9 demonstration in Detroit
- Strike wave hits Kosovo
- UK: Employment growth at the expense of pay and job security
- Paris steps up calls for coup in Venezuela
- Fire in my mouth: New York Philharmonic premieres oratorio on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- Press conference in front of GM world headquarters promotes March to Fight Plant Closures
- FDA advisor criticizes agency’s response to opioid epidemic
- Canadian union leader postures as supporter of Matamoros strikers
- Another flammable cladding fire in Australia highlights government failure
- Teachers at four Chicago charter school campuses walk out
- Australia: Bank shares soar after release of report into financial “misconduct”
2019-02-07
- Chinese billionaire stripped of Australian residency as “foreign interference” campaign ramps up
- Washington issues ultimatum to Venezuela over “humanitarian aid” ploy
- US-backed campaign for UN inquiry into China’s treatment of Uyghurs
- Stansted 15 anti-deportation protesters go free
- French National Assembly passes police state “anti-riot” law targeting protests
- Protests erupt in Birmingham, Alabama after Thanksgiving Day police shooting of innocent man declared “justified”
- NHS 10-year plan: Recipe for further attacks on services and privatisation in UK
- The reality of capitalism: GM makes $11.8 billion in profits while closing plants, eliminating 14,000 jobs
- Wave of walkouts in Matamoros, Mexico builds toward general strike
- Lordstown GM plant closing: Another blow to northeastern Ohio
- US military conducting urban warfare training exercises in Los Angeles
- Australian Labor Party outbids Coalition in big business tax handouts
- Stanley Hill, who presided over wholesale corruption in NYC unions, dead at 82
- Berlin-based airline files for bankruptcy
- Dearborn, Michigan mayor suppresses historical article on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism
- Australian actor Craig McLachlan’s defamation case postponed following police charges
- Election of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador signals further shift to US imperialism
- Sri Lankan SEP public meetings to launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- AfD deputy denounces a Holocaust commemoration in German parliament
- Sri Lankan tea plantation workers committee supports call for February 9 demonstration in Detroit
2019-02-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US commander says Pentagon prepared to intervene to defend Venezuela embassy
- US-China trade talks to resume as deadline nears
- Australia: Tigerair pilots locked in dispute over wages and conditions
- New York City school-bus workers’ union ignores strike vote, accepts sellout deal
- Murdoch newspaper approves chief Nazi lawyer’s legal defence of dictatorship
- France conducts dry-run simulation of nuclear weapon strike
- France recalls its ambassador to Italy
- Behind Kia’s patronizing Super Bowl ad, auto company makes billions off low wage labor in US South
- Germany is preparing for economic war
- Opposition mounts to GM plant closings
- Corporate tax cuts in UK save big business billions of pounds
- Cold War: Many unstated assumptions about politics and history
- Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela
- Over 7,000 Bangladesh garment workers sacked after wage protests
2019-02-09
- Wright State University administration issues call for scabs in bid to intimidate striking faculty
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Strike action in the US hits a 32-year high
- German workers support rally against mass layoffs in Detroit
- Sri Lankan president’s Independence Day speech exposes deep crisis of rule
- Australian police used multiple lawyers as informants
- The working class and socialism
- New York Times admission of Afghanistan fiasco provokes “human rights imperialist” backlash
- Corbyn leadership bows before Blairite’s anti-Semitism witch-hunt
- Cascade of plant closings in New York state
- IYSSE calls on students in Australia to join the demonstrations in defence of Julian Assange
- UK rail worker sends solidarity to Detroit auto workers protest
- The CGT’s “national strike”: French unions seek to strangle the “yellow vest” protests
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Muslim inmate without imam in death chamber
- As global jobs massacre continues, workers around the world voice support for fight against plant closures
- Committee for Public Education (Australia): Support the fight against GM layoffs!
- Brazil’s Workers Party praises imperialist officials and Brazilian military involved in Venezuela regime change operation
- Woody Allen sues Amazon for failing to distribute his latest film and other breaches of contract
2019-02-11
- West Virginia teachers, school staff vote “overwhelmingly” to authorize work action
- This week in history: February 11-17
- Australia: Northern Queensland flood causes widespread destruction
- Bankruptcy judge approves sale of Sears to former CEO Edward Lampert for $5.2 billion
- Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage detained by ICE agents in “targeted operation”
- Acclaimed musician Roger Waters calls on people to demonstrate in Australia to defend Julian Assange
- UK rail workers demand reinstatement of conductor sacked for opposing Driver Only Operated trains
- Oppose the Democrats’ #MeToo witch-hunt against Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax
- Study links abuse-deterrent OxyContin with rise in hepatitis C infections
- Oakland students walk out as school board prepares major cuts
- Thousands attend right-wing, anti-Catalan protest in Madrid
- One hundred years since the Seattle General Strike
- French “yellow vests” hold 13th protest against social inequality, police brutality
- Eighty-two years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike
- Workers at ExxonMobil in Billings, Montana reject USW-company sellout contract
- In their first strike in 25 years, Denver, Colorado teachers walk out
- Chinese authorities extract forced confessions from student activists
- Autoworkers, supporters demonstrate in Detroit to oppose GM closures and layoffs
2019-02-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Democrats capitulate to Trump, agree to wall funding
- Velvet Buzzsaw: The horror of the art world
- Global economic war intensifies
- Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka calls plantation workers’ conference
- Steve McDowell, campaigner for Australian paramedic rights, speaks with WSWS
- 100 years since the Seattle General Strike—Part 2
- US navy challenges China in the South China Sea
- The Political Report by David North to the International Committee of the Fourth International—February 11, 1984
- The international upsurge of working class struggle in 2019
- Bogus charges of anti-Semitism fuel right-wing campaign against Ilhan Omar
- Mexican union apparatus, government scramble to suppress growing strike across Mexico
- Maruti Suzuki workers in India send greetings to February 9 protest
- Attend March 17 London Book Launch of Why Are They Back?
- UK: Anti-Semitism witch-hunt provokes backlash in Labour Party
- Workers at February 9 protest discuss fight against GM closings
- Denver teachers strike backed by student walkouts
- The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part one
- Chicago charter teachers strike enters second week
- German army initiates military cooperation with Deutsche Bahn railway company
- Australian government claims credit for release of detained Bahraini footballer, but refuses to assist Julian Assange
- Michigan steelworker dies after falling into vat of sulfuric acid
2019-02-13
- UK defence minister demands greater military “reach and lethality” post-Brexit
- British troops given free hand to shoot civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Trump pushes for more anti-immigrant concessions from the Democrats
- Germany: Social Democrats modernise austerity
- 100 years since the Seattle General Strike—Part 2
- Five killed, 22 feared trapped in South African mine explosion
- Sri Lankan plantation companies rule out further wage increases after union sellout
- The Iranian Revolution—Forty Years On
- Australia: Expert warns of poor construction after Opal Tower evacuation and Melbourne cladding fire
- New Zealand doctors, midwives strike
- Trump to hold second summit with North Korean leader
- Chicago Fire Department cites open flame as cause of Little Village fire that killed 10 children
- Week-long military exercises in Los Angeles raise serious questions
- The Jungle: A makeshift society within the global refugee crisis
- Worsening slump and inequality fuel social tensions in Australia
- Denver teachers battle merit-pay system that is backed by unions, Democratic Party
- The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part two
- Daniel Freeman, a founding member of the Workers League, dies at the age of 84
- Striking Denver teachers speak out
- British government’s “Project After” plan for post-Brexit economic crisis
- National 24-hour strike goes forward in Belgium
2019-02-14
- Washington escalates military threats as Venezuela regime change falters
- “Turning Point UK:” A far-right offensive on British campuses
- Union federation stages national strike in South Africa
- Heavy snow storm exposes depth of social crisis in US Pacific Northwest
- Australian government loses vote on refugee medical evacuation legislation
- Sri Lanka: SEP and Abbotsleigh workers’ committee organise picket to oppose witch hunt in plantations
- The show trial of the Catalan nationalists and the far-right danger in Spain
- One year since the Parkland high school massacre: A political balance sheet
- New Zealand government expands police training in schools
- Autoworkers must prepare fight as UAW plans new givebacks in 2019 contracts
- Italy: Mass demonstration in Rome against right-wing government
- Mexican President López Obrador cracks down on Central American migrants
- Mass protests shut down Haiti
- New study reveals more details on deadly flammable cladding used on Grenfell Tower
- The 2019 Grammy Awards: The music industry’s love affair with itself
- Union rushing to end Denver teachers strike
- The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part three
- Uncertainty hangs over US border deal as shutdown deadline nears
- Tens of thousands strike in Berlin against poor working conditions
- One-day national strike paralyzes Belgium
- Australian students endorse rallies to free Julian Assange
2019-02-15
- Wealth concentration increases in US and globally
- OSHA fines XPO $10,347 for the deaths of two workers
- Wright State University reaches tentative agreement with faculty enshrining health and pay cuts
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- SEP (Australia) national secretary James Cogan to speak tomorrow on Unity4J online vigil
- Sydney meeting opposes persecution of Julian Assange
- Munich Security Conference overshadowed by rising great power conflicts
- Human rights advocate Professor Stuart Rees supports rallies for the freedom of Julian Assange
- Sri Lankan president denounces opponents of the death penalty
- War summit in Warsaw
- New Zealand housing crisis intensifies under Labour government
- Opportunity rover completes 15 years of Martian exploration
- The Last Survivors: A testament to the Holocaust
- Union shuts down Denver teachers strike
- ISO and DSA bar Socialist Equality Party panel on the fight against fascism from upcoming Historical Materialism conference
- Climate change and the fight for socialism
- GM and union use shutdown threat to slash wages of Brazilian autoworkers
- Trump to declare national emergency to build wall
- Between identity politics and opposition against the far right
2019-02-16
- SEP national secretary James Cogan participates in Unity4J discussion on the defence of Julian Assange
- No agreement on US-China trade with talks to continue
- Spanish government falls amid Catalan crisis
- Nationwide public sector strike hits Portugal
- A step towards presidential dictatorship
- No More Deaths volunteers prosecuted for providing humanitarian aid to migrants
- German defence minister advocates German-European war policy
- Union thugs assault striking Matamoros workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian government seizes on Kashmir attack to ratchet up tensions with Pakistan
- Award-winning journalist Chris Hedges endorses Free Assange demonstrations in Australia
- 999 Feb 9 video
- The State, Business and Education: How rapacious corporations are dismantling public education globally
- Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump
- A reply to Britain’s Community Security Trust
- Brexit divisions lead to intensified discussions on Conservative and Labour Party splits
- Germany: Public transport strike paralyzes Berlin
- Laid-off worker opens fire and kills at least five in Aurora, Illinois manufacturing plant
- Australian university sacks academic critical of Israeli and US wars
- 999 Amazon pulls out of NYC
2019-02-18
- Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa government clamps down on popular opposition
- This week in history: February 18-24
- Two hundred thousand protest in Barcelona against show trial of Catalan separatists
- Veteran Trotskyist Barbara Slaughter addresses Leeds climate change demo
- New York Times places songwriter Ryan Adams in the crosshairs of its #MeToo witch hunt
- ICE raids terrorize immigrants across the US Southwest
- Prazdnik (Holiday): Film about social inequality in Russia attracts mass audience
- Connections exposed between far-right group and police in Portland, Oregon
- New attacks on pensions imposed by UK Tory government
- Oakland, California teachers set to strike this week
- Imperialist conflicts dominate Munich Security Conference
- Karl Marx’s grave desecrated by fascists
- John Pilger calls for participation in demonstrations to demand the freedom of Julian Assange
- White House pushes for rapid border wall construction
- Nigeria election commission abruptly postpones presidential poll
- Anger grows among Denver teachers, as union gloats about closed-door negotiations
- UK school pupils and students protest climate change
- Signs of rising levels of workers’ struggles in China
- Trump adviser John Bolton to conduct pre-election visit to Australia
- After months of courtship, Amazon calls off New York HQ2 deal
2019-02-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- West Virginia teachers walk out to oppose charter schools
- Trump declares global war on socialism
- Seven Blairite MPs resign from UK Labour Party
- Russia: University building collapses in St. Petersburg
- German government to tighten up deportations
- The International Socialist Organization covers up for the unions, AMLO in Matamoros, Mexico maquiladora strike
- "Precision Scheduled Railroading” brings layoffs and cuts to US railroads
- Eleven-year-old Florida student arrested after refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance
- Sri Lankan tea plantation workers protest victimisations
- The desecration of Marx’s grave: A warning
- Father and four young daughters perish in Watertown, New York, house fire
- CIA out of Northern Virginia Community College!
- GM worker in Mexico speaks in support of fight against plant closures in the US and Canada
- Updated: Letters oppose barring of SEP panel on the fight against fascism from Historical Materialism conference
- Indian government intensifies retaliatory threats against Pakistan
- NFL settles Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid’s collusion grievance
- French media slanders “yellow vests” and Muslims as anti-Semites
- A fighting program for Oakland teachers
- Trump threatens Alec Baldwin, calls for “retribution” against NBC
- Chinese community in Australia voices concern over xenophobic “foreign interference” campaign
- Support for Assange and SEP Australia demonstrations evokes strong international response
2019-02-20
- West Virginia teachers denounce attack on public education
- West Virginia educators remain defiant in second day of statewide strike
- 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund makes deep cuts to benefits
- Modern Indian art at the Asia Society Museum in New York
- Bernie Sanders announces 2020 presidential campaign
- Irish nurses’ union seeks to impose settlement after calling off strike
- Striking midwives rally outside New Zealand parliament
- US media passes over in silence Trump’s fascistic diatribe in Miami
- Mexican migrant details harrowing journey across the Sonoran desert following deportation
- US anti-Huawei campaign suffers a blow
- Honda announces 3,500 job losses at Swindon, England
- Alleged hacking of Australian parliament feeds anti-China frenzy
- Forty-five-year-old migrant dies in US Border Patrol custody
- Chicago Teachers Union shuts down strike at CICS charter schools
- Alleging “Russian influence,” Facebook bans left-wing pages
- Australian youth defend WikiLeaks and support demonstrations to free Julian Assange
2019-02-21
- Flooding of mines in Zimbabwe leaves 24 dead, dozens more missing
- Teamsters locals use anti-democratic loopholes and deceit to impose sellout agreements
- Oakland, California teachers walk out as unions sabotage West Virginia strike
- Trump receives “national security” report on auto imports
- Sixteen Democratic-led states file lawsuit against Trump’s national emergency
- US missile treaty withdrawal sparks global nuclear arms race
- NSW universities increasingly integrated into Australian military build-up
- Thousands of teachers attacked by riot police in Morocco
- Trump regime targets “loser teachers” in red-baiting tirade
- German Left Party backs European Union
- Florida state senator calls for National Guard to be deployed on the streets of Jacksonville in response to recent spate of violence
- Feds arrest fascist Coast Guard officer who plotted to kill socialists and Democrats
- Frontline Socialist Party prepares political trap for Sri Lankan plantation workers
- French ruling elite attacks “yellow vests” while claiming to fight anti-Semitism
- Callous government policies lead to freezing death of homeless man in Edmonton, Alberta
- Anti-Semitic and far-right violence on the rise in Germany
2019-02-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Jussie Smollett controversy: Must all accusations be believed?
- MIT refuses to cut ties to Saudi regime
- Renewal: Life after the First World War in Photographs
- State murder backed by imperialism
- Authorities confirm Assange’s Australian passport was renewed last October
- Support Oakland teachers! For a general strike to defend education!
- Powerful support for Oakland teachers’ strike
- China retaliates over New Zealand government’s Huawei ban
- State and corporate attacks escalate against workers in Matamoros, Mexico
- Australia: Royal commission finds that Murray-Darling Basin Authority acted unlawfully
- Marathon workers in Galveston Bay, Texas reject USW-company sellout contract
- Macron threatens to criminalize opposition to Zionism in France
- New revelations of right-wing terrorist network in German army
- UK parliament committee demands sweeping social media censorship
- House Education and Labor Committee: US schools are in shambles
- Midnight Traveler—“Sometimes life takes you through hell”
- Another devastating fire kills at least 80 in Bangladesh capital
- Mercenaries flown back to US after their arrest in Haitian capital
2019-02-23
- Charleston, West Virginia residents support teachers fighting to defend public education
- Elizabeth Vos, editor-in-chief of Disobedient Media, urges support for Free Assange demonstrations in Australia
- Washington’s “aid” provocation reportedly claims first victims in Venezuela
- Canada’s Liberal government rocked by high-profile resignations
- More lawyers could be police informants in Australia
- The working class and the fight to free Julian Assange
- Oakland, California teachers press for expansion of strike as union seeks to contain struggle
- New York University students angry over police “cleanup” of homeless on campus
- Labour right and Tories unite in new parliamentary group
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- For a unified struggle of Oakland students and teachers to defend public education!
- 050 Illinois/NJ minimum wage
- Further blows to US anti-Huawei campaign
- North Carolina election board orders new vote
- As voting takes place, Denver teachers angry over tentative agreement
- Students speak out against closure of Oregon College of Art and Craft
2019-02-25
- Illinois and New Jersey governors sign $15 minimum wage into law
- Attend March 10 Solidarity Vigil in London for Julian Assange
- German aviation security workers reject union contract
- This week in history: February 25-March 3
- Sao Paulo teachers, public workers strike against attack on pensions in Brazil
- Jussie Smollett, #MeToo and the presumption of innocence
- Shoplifters: The family you choose, and the ones you don’t
- Resolution: Oppose the promotion of eugenics and pseudo-science at Cambridge University!
- US imperialism stages provocation on Venezuela’s borders
- Growing calls for nation-wide struggle as unions work to shut down Oakland teachers strike
- Miner warns of safety danger at United States’ largest underground coal mine
- SEP national secretary James Cogan calls for maximum participation in rallies to free Julian Assange
- Australia: Victorian Labor government’s bogus healthcare promises
- GM to keep Detroit-Hamtramck plant open until January 2020
- Report documents rise of ultra-right hate groups since Trump’s election
- Trump announces delay in China tariff deadline
- Chicago municipal primary elections to take place Tuesday
- IYSSE meeting opposes eugenics promotion at Cambridge University
- Brazilian media promotes generals against Bolsonaro
- Why is there no strike pay for Oakland teachers?
2019-02-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pence threatens war in Venezuela at Colombia summit: “There is no turning back”
- Deep divisions remain between US and China
- Sanders throws his support behind US propaganda campaign over Venezuela
- Poverty in the UK: 100 “baby banks” spring up to assist parents with basic supplies
- The global struggle of teachers
- Unions, Democrats rush to end strike as Oakland teachers resist attack on public education
- Dozens killed in Nigeria amid election chaos
- Trump administration bars US-born woman from re-entering the country
- Union rejects strike action as locomotive maker Wabtec imposes two-tier contract
- French-Italian proxy war in Libya
- In wake of January teachers strike, further attacks on public schools planned in Los Angeles
- Oakland teachers and students speak on third day of strike
- Immigrants endure inhuman conditions at ICE prison in New Jersey
- Terry Hicks, father of former Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks, speaks on the defence of Julian Assange
- Behind the racist backlash against Green Book
- Australian port workers threaten strikes against DP World’s cuts to wages and conditions
- Australian teachers pass workplace motion endorsing Free Assange rallies
- Reports disclose super-exploitation of Chinese technology workers
- Widespread popular disgust with Chicago council elections
- Noah Carl and the promotion of eugenics at Cambridge University
2019-02-27
- Rise in drug abuse among women and heterosexual men diagnosed with syphilis
- Join Oakland Rank-and-File Strike Committee to broaden the fight to defend public education!
- Sri Lankan plantation companies reap huge profits while attacking workers’ wages and conditions
- Socialism and the case for expropriation
- Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee as union keeps educators in the dark
- Oppose the attacks by company thugs against Mexican worker Luis Daniel Prieto!
- Australian media union complicit in the persecution of Julian Assange
- Ford production crippled by Mexican workers’ strike
- Police announce “investigation closed” into desecration of Marx’s grave
- Flint water crisis claims its youngest Legionnaires’ victim to date
- India bombs Pakistan, Islamabad vows military retaliation
- Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out
- Three children dead, four others injured in Imlay City, Michigan mobile home fire
- Fiat Chrysler announces elimination of shift at Illinois plant, axing nearly 1,400 jobs
- US House rejects Trump’s national emergency
- New Cuban constitution recognizes private property
- UK Labour leader Corbyn endorses Blairite call for second Brexit referendum
2019-02-28
- Zimbabwe-South Africa summit: The Butcher of Marikana meets the Crocodile
- Cohen assertions are not evidence of WikiLeaks “collusion” with Trump or Russia
- Locomotive builders strike Wabtec in Erie, Pennsylvania
- Measles outbreak in Ukraine claims eight lives
- Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout
- US naval chief denounces China and calls for stronger military partnership with Sri Lanka
- Heavy rains and avalanches kill dozens in Peru
- Reports document sexual abuse of immigrant children detained in US
- Oakland teachers and students speak as strike reaches critical juncture
- Mexico: Metalworkers, universities join strike wave as 90,000 Walmart workers threaten to walk out
- Australian workers and youth support March 3 and March 10 rallies demanding freedom for Assange
- Nuclear-armed India, Pakistan on brink of all-out war
- France’s ruling parties launch anti-Muslim campaign against sports veil
- Australian filmmaker Curtis Levy demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Michael Cohen hearing: A criminal administration, a reactionary opposition
- Israeli films, Mr. Jones and Marighella
- UK home secretary revokes Shamima Begum’s citizenship, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment
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