Archive: 03/2019
2019-03-01
- Hundreds laid off at Activision Blizzard and other video game companies
- Teacher anger exploding across the United States
- Single mother and healthcare worker jailed for three days in Indiana over unpaid ambulance bill
- The Trump presidency: From the Manhattan underworld to the White House
- As Oakland strike enters seventh day, union keeps teachers in dark on negotiations
- Second summit between Trump and Kim collapses with no agreement
- Netanyahu to face charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust
- Latest collision on Long Island Rail Road shows fatal consequences of system-wide neglect
- Enforcement and technology key issues in China trade deal, Lighthizer tells US Congress
- India and Pakistan issue fresh war threats
- UK: Scapegoating of firefighters for Grenfell deaths exposes fraud of official inquiry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Report: British Columbia mental health problems on the rise
- Australian government refuses to defend Julian Assange
2019-03-02
- US Senate hearings on drug prices provide “friendly warning” to pharmaceuticals
- Greetings from the Sri Lankan Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee to the Assange defence rallies in Australia
- Bernie Sanders at CNN Town Hall: My purpose is to promote the Democratic Party
- British retail sector continues shedding thousands of jobs
- Deportations from Germany to Maghreb states rise sharply
- Video: SEP national secretary James Cogan urges maximum participation in Free Julian Assange rallies
- Union pushes contract in effort to shut down Oakland teachers’ strike
- Australia: Sydney residents protest downgrading of Mona Vale Hospital
- Boston: Unanimous opposition to MBTA fare hike at public hearing
- US, Canadian and Mexican workers denounce mass firings of Matamoros strikers
- US Federal Court subpoenas whistleblower Chelsea Manning
- Strike wave shakes North Africa
- Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, endorses Free Assange demonstrations
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India and Pakistan tobogganing toward a catastrophic war
- Canada gives go-ahead for Huawei executive’s extradition to US
- On the Basis of Sex and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The manufacturing of a “living legend”
- Trump White House leads fascistic attack on socialism at Conservative Political Action Conference
- Oppose the Blairites’ bogus claims of “left anti-Semitism”!
- Near-record low turnout in first round of Chicago municipal election
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party sabotages fight against Ford Blanquefort plant closure
- Mass protests erupt in Algeria against Bouteflika’s bid for fifth term
2019-03-04
- Sixteenth week of protests: French “yellow vests” support strikes in North Africa
- This week in history: March 4-10
- Southwest Airlines sues airline mechanics over alleged slowdown
- Sydney rally issues strong demand for the freedom of Julian Assange
- “Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother”
- Sanders launches his campaign with a blast of demagogy
- Oakland teachers denounce agreement to end strike
- Workers, youth denounce police decision to close investigation of desecration of Marx’s grave
- Amid widespread opposition, union declares end to Oakland teachers strike
- Freedom for Julian Assange depends upon the intervention of the working class
- India-Pakistan war tensions escalate
- UK: The human cost of the right-to-buy housing crisis
- New York City transit agency raises fare, threatens budget cuts
- No charges for Sacramento police officers who murdered Stephon Clark
- Spain holds political show trial of Catalan nationalist defendants
- Mass demonstration by public-sector workers in Berlin
- Warnings of further housing plunge and job losses in Australia
- Secret Service barred from making probe of far-right Alternative for Germany public
2019-03-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Guaidó returns to Venezuela for next stage of US regime-change operation
- Severe winter weather delays plague train travel in America and Canada
- Tornado outbreak kills 23 in Alabama, wreaks havoc across southeastern US
- One year since the Skripal poisoning
- Bernie Sanders adapts to racial politics at Chicago campaign rally
- Canada’s Liberal government on ropes after third high-profile resignation
- Oppose Eastern Michigan University’s privatization schemes!
- The political lessons of the March 3 Free Assange rally
- Oakland, California school board passes devastating budget cut following union sellout
- Hundreds defy slanders, lies and media censorship to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- The shutdown of the GM Lordstown plant: A corporate crime
- German Left Party congress backs imperialist campaign against Venezuela
- Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed
- Workers and youth speak out at Free Assange rally in Sydney
- Sanders rally attendees speak on socialism, Democratic Party
- UK councils and Tory government play down homeless numbers
- Denver schools ax jobs in wake of contract pushed through by union
- House Democrats issue wide-ranging subpoenas in Trump investigation
- The fallacies and evasions of the Green New Deal
- Christoph Vandreier, German Trotskyist and prominent opponent of fascism, to speak in US
- US-China trade deal reported to be in the making
- Brecht: A new film about the famed left-wing German dramatist
- Algerian protests continue after Bouteflika launches presidential bid
2019-03-06
- 1,700 workers battle two-tier wages at Erie, Pennsylvania locomotive plant
- Families struggle in aftermath of deadly Alabama tornado
- SEP meetings launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Address by Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees to the Sydney Free Assange rally
- Germany: Socialist Equality Party submits candidates for the European elections
- The assault on Jeremy Corbyn is a warning that must be heeded
- Democratic leaders step up witchhunt against Congresswoman Omar on phony anti-Semitism charges
- IYSSE (Australia) convenor Oscar Grenfell’s speech to the Sydney Free Assange rally
- New Zealand foreign minister visits Fiji to strengthen military ties
- Moldova election heralds political instability
- Why is there so little media skepticism about Leaving Neverland and its allegations against Michael Jackson?
- Mexican ruling class responds to Matamoros: Militarization and alignment with Trump’s attacks on immigrants
- US court upholds subpoena of whistleblower Chelsea Manning
- Macron publishes platform for European elections calling for EU police state
- More voices from the Sydney Free Assange rally and Brisbane Livestream meeting
- India and Pakistan stoke chauvinism, exchange threats
- US detains 77,000 immigrants at border in February, a 10-year high
- Alarming levels of toxins leaking into US groundwater from coal ash ponds
- More than 80 arrested in Sacramento protesting decision not to charge police in murder of Stephon Clark
- Britain rejects International Court of Justice order to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius
- Algerian workers in France speak out against Bouteflika regime
2019-03-07
- UK Labour Party members rebel against suspension of Chris Williamson MP for bogus claims of anti-Semitism
- Report reveals that armed troops were mobilized to force through US aid provocation on Venezuelan border
- Record US deficit in traded goods
- Teachers strike wave spreads across five continents
- Demand the unconditional reinstatement of Sri Lankan plantation worker S. Balasubramaniyam!
- The shutdown of GM’s Lordstown plant
- The betrayal of the Oakland teacher strike and the way forward for students
- De Blasio accepts federal monitor to oversee New York City Housing Authority
- Trump Homeland Security chief defends family separation and caging children
- From Lordstown to Vietnam and Back
- Kentucky teachers’ sickout closes state’s largest district
- Oakland students oppose sellout of teachers strike, plan to continue fight to defend public education
- André Previn, versatile composer, conductor and pianist, dies at 89
2019-03-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: Opposition growing among teachers, public sector workers to Verdi’s sell-out agreement
- Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky leading in Ukrainian presidential polls
- Florida police officer found guilty in 2015 shooting of motorist
- Netflix’s Trotsky: A toxic combination of historical fabrication and blatant anti-Semitism
- Democrats push through resolution branding Rep. Omar’s criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitic”
- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange
- More ministers quit as factional war wracks Australia’s ruling coalition
- Labour Party investigated for anti-Semitism by UK government human rights commission
- Students and workers discuss India-Pakistan military tensions and the necessity for socialist internationalism
- Jefferson County, Kentucky teachers continue sickouts in defiance of unions
- Democratic Socialists of America and Jacobin cover for union sellout of Oakland teachers strike
- Grenoble, France: Thousands march for teenagers killed in police chase
- The attacks on Green Book and the racialist infection of the affluent middle class
- Nothing resolved as Flint water crisis nears fifth anniversary
- UE orders return to work at Erie, Pennsylvania locomotive plant
- European Central Bank announces major policy reversal
- US deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide at all-time high
- Atlanta School Board prepares a fresh assault on public education
- Support builds for Melbourne March 10 rally to demand freedom for Assange
- Cuts to hours for Whole Foods workers exposes fraud of Amazon pay increase
- Mass protests to hit Algeria today against Bouteflika regime
2019-03-09
- Six million UK workers on low pay
- Uganda’s social media tax leads to sharp drop in internet users
- Trump makes perfunctory trip to survey Alabama tornado recovery efforts
- Trump administration kept secret database targeting journalists and immigration activists at US-Mexico border
- Pentagon escalating buildup on Russia’s borders
- US “retail apocalypse” expected to exceed annual high with more than 1,100 store closures announced in one day
- The ten-year stock market bull run
- Chelsea Manning jailed for refusal to testify against WikiLeaks
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- London Metropolitan Police cite Grenfell Inquiry to justify not pressing criminal charges
- Trump signs executive order cementing secrecy over US airstrikes and shadow wars
- Chinese premier warns of grave risks and challenges ahead
- Australia: Chemist Warehouse workers vote to take industrial action
- SEP in Sri Lanka wins strong support for plantation workers’ conference
- Actor Bruno Ganz, prominent on stage and screen for more than 40 years: an obituary
- The marriage of militarism, big business and academia in Northern Virginia
- Hundreds of thousands march in Algeria to demand fall of Bouteflika regime
2019-03-11
- Claims that Venezuelan military burned aid truck exposed as imperialist propaganda
- US jobs numbers highlight global growth concerns
- This week in history: March 11-17
- Lawyer charged for exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
- Free Chelsea Manning!
- Joint US-South Korean war games amid rising tensions with North Korea
- Melbourne rally calls on workers and youth to defend Assange and Manning
- Vigil outside London Ecuadorian embassy demands freedom for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Kentucky teachers speak against attacks on public education
- Milan, Italy: 200,000 march against racism
- Teachers speak out at Indianapolis rally to defend public education
- How to fight for public education in Indiana
- Indiana teachers rally against low pay, attacks on public education
- Slave labour and new forms of capitalist exploitation in the 21st century
- Nationwide strike shakes Algerian regime
2019-03-12
- Mark Zuckerberg’s “Privacy Manifesto”: A brief for intensifying Internet and social media censorship
- Canada: Why is the corporate media in a frenzy over the SNC-Lavalin affair?
- Socialist Equality Party files lawsuit against German secret service
- Naming of Australian lawyer police informant highlights top-level involvement
- A US budget for worldwide war
- New York Times lines up with anti-China hawks
- The “Museum of Communist Terror”: Institute of historical falsification planned for London
- Defend the Matamoros workers!
- “Britain now plays the key role in the conspiracy to silence Julian Assange once and for all”
- The Socialist Equality Party’s lawsuit against Germany’s secret service
- Workers and young people speak out at Melbourne rally to free Assange and Manning
- Boeing jetliner crashes in Ethiopia, killing all 157 passengers and crew
- “We need international solidarity to bring about a positive outcome in this struggle for freedom for Julian Assange”
- Amid rising protests, Moreno government lays off thousands in Ecuador
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians strike to defend pensions
- What lies behind the campaign against famed conductor Daniel Barenboim?
- Algerian regime pledges fraudulent political “transition” as strikes spread
- Algerians in France protest in solidarity with strike wave in Algeria
- Aiming to quash strikes, US teacher union launches campaign to prop up Democrats
2019-03-13
- New poll shows American youth are increasingly supportive of socialism
- US withdraws embassy personnel, calling presence a “constraint” on US actions in Venezuela
- Massive cuts and layoffs loom in San Diego’s Sweetwater school district
- Thousands of US Stop & Shop workers in New England vote for strike action
- New York University student paper joins in “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt against critics of Israel
- Students and youth across the US demand freedom for Chelsea Manning
- Crucial evidence from New Zealand mine disaster missing
- The working class enters into struggle in Algeria
- Indian Trotskyists hold Kolkata public meeting to celebrate 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
- “We owe so much to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks”
- India: Modi government suppresses disastrous unemployment report
- Cambridge University’s planned involvement with military propaganda programme exposed
- UK: May’s Brexit deal rejected by parliament again
- US refuses to ground Boeing jet despite second crash in five months
- Australian unions try to push through another sellout deal at BlueScope steel
- God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya: A satire from Macedonia “between anger and melancholy”
- UAW bargaining convention sets course for new round of give-backs
2019-03-14
- West Virginia coal miner killed in fall
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Volkswagen announces thousands of layoffs
- A tirade against China at US Senate committee hearing
- Teacher sickouts in Kentucky, protests in Maryland and Texas
- The Youth Climate Strike and the fight against global warming
- Pelosi dismisses efforts to impeach President Trump
- Rise in UK opioid prescriptions contributes to surge in overdose fatalities
- Free dental clinic draws hundreds in Nashville, Tennessee
- IYSSE holds rally at University of Michigan to defend Chelsea Manning
- Closure of Brazil Ford plant to destroy up to 27,000 jobs
- Trump proposes slashing public education by $7 billion
- IMF endorses Sri Lankan government budget
- More demagogy and bluster as UAW bargaining convention adjourns
- Extinction Rebellion: “Green” capitalism versus world socialism
- Canada ever more deeply implicated in US-engineered coup attempt in Venezuela
- US grounds Boeing 737s involved in Indonesian, Ethiopian crashes
- The struggle to stem climate change is the political fight to end capitalism!
2019-03-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- James Cogan to participate in Unity4J online forum to defend Assange and Manning
- São Paulo teachers’ union shuts down one-month strike
- The political issues raised by the media ban on UK far-right leader Tommy Robinson
- Pompeo enlists US energy conglomerates for global oil war
- Jobs bloodbath in the global auto industry
- Rifts in Australia’s ruling coalition engulf rural-based National Party
- The US reinforces political and military relations with the Maldives
- Workers and residents denounce GM Lordstown closure
- Lady J (Mademoiselle de Joncquières): A scorned woman takes revenge, or attempts to
- Kohler Company to shut Wisconsin generator plant and eliminate 325 jobs
- US Senate votes to overturn Trump emergency decree
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike nears end of first week
- The college admissions scandal and the rigged system of admissions at elite universities
- Federal Aviation Administration accused of colluding with Boeing in wake of 737 crashes
- Auto workers in China face job losses and closures
- Argentine teachers go back to work after three-day strike
- Report details suicide crisis inside Amazon facilities
2019-03-16
- Canada: Train derailment kills three, exposes terrible working conditions
- Socialist Workers Party seeks to derail movement against Algerian regime
- Anti-Semitic propaganda distributed at Polish parliament as government witch-hunts Holocaust historians
- In vetoing bill to overturn national emergency, Trump makes fascist appeal
- Support continues to pour in for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Youth at global climate protests speak out on capitalism, socialism and scientific planning
- Strike looms for University of Illinois at Chicago graduate students
- Dreams for Change: A San Diego shelter for the vehicular homeless
- Israel mounts savage air bombardment on Gaza
- Mehring Books exhibits at London Book Fair
- Support grows for Sri Lankan plantation workers’ conference
- Australian students speak out at climate strike
- Millions of students and youth march against climate change
- Fascist terrorists murder 49 in Christchurch, New Zealand
- California governor announces moratorium on death penalty
- Corbyn props up May government after more Brexit vote defeats
- The Beto O’Rourke campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination: “Nothing will come of nothing”
- German films: Economic and social tensions on the rise
- Over one million protest extension of Bouteflika’s term in Algeria
- Tens of thousands of Australian students join climate strike protest
2019-03-18
- The Widow: Kate Beckinsale’s journey into African danger
- This week in history: March 18-24
- Australian royal commission into aged care begins second hearing
- Protesters speak out at UN Anti-Racist Day rally in London
- Millions of American youth attend schools with police but no support staff
- The New Zealand terrorist attack and the international danger of fascism
- Obesity-related cancers rise among US millennials
- Thousands of New Zealand students join climate change protests
- Two years since Indian court condemned autoworkers to life-in-prison in monstrous frame-up
- The guilty silence over the jailing of Chelsea Manning
- Macron denounces growing wave of protests in France
- Voices from UK climate change protests
- German government wants its own aircraft carrier
- Nationwide strike by primary school educators in the Netherlands
- Right-wing campaign targets student critics of Chelsea Clinton
- Median CEO pay in US tops $1 million a month
- Boeing, FAA, pilots unions complicit in rushing doomed jets into service
- English-language edition of Why are they Back? launched in London
- More voices from the Australian climate strike
2019-03-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US defence secretary takes aim at China
- Trump presses UAW to impose immediate concessions in bid to reopen Lordstown GM plant
- UAW corruption scandal expands to Vice President Norwood Jewell, who rammed through 2015 sellout
- Three killed, five injured in Netherlands shooting
- Mehring Books launches English-language edition of Why Are They Back? in London
- Jailing the Maruti Suzuki workers for life “is meant to encourage the capitalists to further enslave the working class”
- Hungary hit by strikes in public sector and auto industry
- “Yellow vest” protesters support revolutionary movement in Algeria
- Australian government targets China in new “foreign influence” register
- Trump administration expands leasing for oil, gas, coal extraction
- Socialist Equality Party of Germany certified to stand in European elections
- Grocery workers in Colorado vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike action
- Ocean degradation accelerated by global warming
- Governments and media seek to cover up culpability for fascist attack in New Zealand
- Legendary “Wrecking Crew” drummer Hal Blaine dead at 90
- Germany: 3,000 Bosch workers protest in Stuttgart against job cuts
- Autoworkers react to new UAW corruption charges
2019-03-20
- Reports underscore how close India and Pakistan came to all-out war in late February
- Sacramento, California teachers authorize strike
- Russian Pabloites push for a “broad left” amid growing social discontent, advanced US preparations for regime change
- Trump, Bolsonaro and the danger of fascism
- Ontario government savages public education
- Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi face a humanitarian catastrophe in the wake of Cyclone Idai
- Captain Marvel: Money, feminism, militarism and previously “independent” filmmakers
- London’s Foyles Bookshop: Attendees discuss UK launch of Why Are They Back?
- Warnings of New Zealand neo-Nazi attack were ignored
- US Supreme Court rules government can indefinitely detain immigrants years after release from criminal custody
- Sri Lanka: Abbotsleigh Estate Workers Action Committee and SEP hold powerful conference
- One hundred years since the formation of the Communist International
- Massive Houston chemical fire burns indefinitely, spreading smoke across Texas
- California university workers in one-day strike across the state
- May asks Brussels for Brexit extension amid worsening political crisis
2019-03-21
- Ukrainian far right mobilized in inter-oligarchic infighting
- Thousands hold one-day strike at University of California schools and health systems
- Massive police presence for trial of cop in murder of Antwon Rose
- Amid deepening economic and political crisis, Turkey holds local elections
- The Boeing disasters: 346 more victims of capitalism
- Amid scandal and federal investigations, Nashville, Tennessee charter school closes in the middle of the school year
- Australian state election dominated by alienation and discontent
- Macron to deploy French army against “yellow vest” protests
- University of Illinois at Chicago graduate student workers go on strike
- Unanswered questions on French police role in Saturday “yellow vest” clashes
- Historic flooding across US Midwest leaves thousands homeless, four dead
- Australia: DP World stevedoring workers set to take industrial action
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians strike in its second week
- Plantation workers demand freedom for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning and for jailed Maruti Suzuki workers
- Officials, media call for school militarization, censorship after mass shooting in Brazilian school
- Increasing pressures on Chinese filmmakers
- Far right attacks on UK Muslims following New Zealand massacre
- After far-right terror attack, New York Times glorifies New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
2019-03-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Unifor announces bogus ‘job saving’ plan as GM moves to close Oshawa plant
- Houston chemical fire: Residents ordered to “shelter-in-place” due to benzene danger
- Australian property prices fall faster than during global financial crisis
- Macron sends the French army against anti-austerity protests
- How Norwood Jewell and the UAW pushed through the 2015 contract
- Historic humanitarian disaster unfolds in southeast Africa in the wake of Cyclone Idai
- Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning
- Warner Bros. CEO’s resignation sheds revealing light on Hollywood and #MeToo campaign
- Fiction and reality: The Italian Five-Star Movement’s citizen income scheme
- Putin signs Russian internet censorship bills into law
- US studies: More misery brought to you by Big Pharma
- US judge dismisses charges against J20 defendants “with prejudice,” closing case
- European Union leaders grant May extra time to pass Brexit deal in UK parliament
- Season 5 of animated series BoJack Horseman addresses #MeToo campaign, with mixed results
- UK police colluded in blacklisting of workers
2019-03-23
- Canada extends military missions in Ukraine and Mideast, allies with Trump in refugee crackdown
- Democratic Socialists of America endorses Bernie Sanders presidential bid
- Twenty years since the US bombing of Yugoslavia
- Australian PM seeks to cover up political roots of fascist attack in New Zealand
- Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivers Russia probe inquiry report
- Veteran photographer calls on young people to chronicle today’s “social wars”
- Mexican government intervenes to end Coca-Cola strike in Matamoros
- Workers in Leipzig speak against the growth of the far-right
- Leipzig Book Fair: Mehring Verlag presents new German edition of The Heritage We Defend
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indiana teachers shot ‘execution style’ with plastic pellets during school shooting drill
- French army receives authorization to shoot “yellow vest” protesters
- Ford announces 5,000 job cuts in Germany
- Fall River, Massachusetts: Jewish cemetery vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti
- Answer Brexit with the struggle for socialism throughout Europe!
2019-03-25
- This week in history: March 25-31
- After fascist terror attack, New Zealand and Australia stoke tensions with Turkey
- Spain’s fascist Vox party enlists former generals, calls for banning Marxist parties
- Rutgers University faculty in New Jersey votes to strike
- Mueller report is a political debacle for the Democratic Party
- Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part one
- Chelsea Manning held in solitary confinement for more than two weeks
- Trump recognises Israeli sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights
- “Brexit is a shambles—it will affect so many people in many ways”
- Massive Hudson Yards real estate project opens in Manhattan
- Anger builds over GM plant closures and layoffs
- French “yellow vest” protests defy threat of army repression
- Record flooding continues to inundate US Midwest
- Australia: NSW state election reveals mass hostility and alienation
- Anti-Brexit “Put it to the People” march mobilises hundreds of thousands
- Three Turkish films (A Tale of Three Sisters, Daughters of Two Worlds, Oray)—Hoping for a better life
- Australia: Striking Chemist Warehouse workers demand higher pay and job permanency
2019-03-26
- Turkish economy falls into recession, amid fears of further US economic reprisals
- School funding crisis in England threatens children’s basic education
- US stages another provocation in the Taiwan Strait
- Pittsburgh high school students protest acquittal of killer cop
- Trump recognizes Israeli annexation of Golan Heights: Green light for global war
- Washington’s political warfare intensifies following Mueller report
- Thousands of young Moroccan teachers assaulted by anti-riot police
- Mississippi “fetal heartbeat” law bans abortion after six weeks
- New Zealand government bans fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto
- Two hundred attend meeting on the struggle against fascism at Leipzig Book Fair
- Students and workers speak on the threat of fascism at Leipzig meeting
- Sri Lankan think tank warns about growing levels of social inequality
- This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy: Why the lack of seriousness?
- Neo-Nazi memorial service in Chemnitz, Germany
- Ronan Farrow promotes #MeToo witch hunt in University of Michigan talk
- Only one UK soldier to be prosecuted for Bloody Sunday 47 years on
- Strikes spread in Algeria as anti-government protests grow
2019-03-27
- Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers strike in Los Angeles
- UPS workers confront wall of union-company collusion in local supplement fights
- The media and the Mueller report
- Ontario government axes provincial funding for autism therapy
- Indian elite nervously prepares for national elections
- Teacher: One Woman’s Struggle to Keep the Heart in Teaching
- Goodyear-Dunlop plans 1,100 job cuts in Germany
- Why was the New Zealand terrorist attack not prevented?
- Corbyn assailant jailed, but significance of his attack still minimised
- European Union intensifies internet censorship
- British parliament to make “indicative votes” in an attempt to overcome Brexit impasse
- Australian government exploits fascist atrocity in New Zealand to push online censorship
- As strikes and protests escalate, Algeria’s army chief demands Bouteflika’s ouster
2019-03-28
- Saudi attack on hospital kills eight as war in Yemen enters fifth year
- Tensions rise between US, Russia and China over Venezuelan coup
- US threatens Turkey over Russian S-400 air defence purchase
- New Zealand fascist killer had known Australian far-right links
- Three suicides in two weeks linked to US mass shootings
- Left-wing students barred from King’s College London during royal visit
- Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!
- After betrayal of Oakland teacher strike, district lays off hundreds, prepares school closures
- Arsonist attacks mosque in Southern California
- In defense of To Kill a Mockingbird: The 1962 film about racism in theaters this week
- Trump backs court action to end health coverage for 25 million people
- German Left Party passes anti-democratic police law in Brandenburg
- Strike by University of Illinois at Chicago grad students in danger
- Democrats abstain from voting on their own “Green New Deal”
- Sri Lankans driven to suicide by exorbitant debt repayments
- Parliament rejects all alternatives as May’s offer to resign fails to stem Brexit crisis
- Pentagon announces transfer of $1 billion for border wall construction
2019-03-29
- Xi signs strategic EU-China deals amid growing EU-US tensions
- San Diego teachers and parents left in the dark as school district threatens massive budget cuts
- UK Conservatives’ rampant Islamophobia and racism covered up by party tops, downplayed by media
- Xi Jinping tours Europe amid growing divisions between America and EU
- Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part two
- IYSSE at San Diego State University holds rally to defend Chelsea Manning
- “Progressive” Philadelphia District Attorney exposed by appeal of Mumia Abu-Jamal ruling
- US detaining immigrants under highway overpass in Texas amid renewed crackdown
- After fascist attack, New Zealand government enacts gun control measures
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mounting warnings of a global recession
- Musicians, youth and workers speak in support of Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
- Chicago mayoral run-off: The cost-cutter or the cop?
- Striking Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians hold successful free concerts
- Emboldened by Trump, Brazil’s Bolsonaro orders military to celebrate 1964 coup
- Outrage grows over leaked government database targeting journalists, activists at US-Mexico border
- Detroit autoworkers discuss upcoming meetings on “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight it”
- US journalist exposes Julian Assange’s prison-like conditions
- Congressional hearing highlights close ties between Boeing and FAA
- Bone marrow transplant removes HIV from a second patient
2019-03-30
- “Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again”: The artist who wasn’t there
- US-China trade deal still in the balance
- Protests against Sudan’s al-Bashir regime enter fourth month
- Leadership of the Southern Poverty Law Center pushed out in #MeToo-style operation
- Trump rants against socialism, but his administration’s crisis deepens
- Remembrance service held for New Zealand terror attack victims
- Extreme social crisis ravages Mozambique in wake of Cyclone Idai
- Special unit of the Maltese army storms refugee ship
- Ogossagou massacre exposes rising bloodshed in European-occupied Mali
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev resigns amid mounting political crisis
- As Washington hails victory over ISIS, media ignores massive human toll
- Trump administration ordered jails to hold thousands of US citizens for deportation
- Far-right party wins most votes in Dutch provincial elections
- “No deal” Brexit threatened after May’s EU withdrawal agreement rejected for third time
- Build rank-and-file factory committees to fight Honda job losses!
- FCA Canada to cut third shift at Windsor Assembly
- Sixth Friday mass protest in Algeria demands fall of the regime
- Quebec: USW proposes further rollbacks, after locked-out ABI workers reject derisory company offer
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