Archive: 04/2019
2019-04-01
- This week in history: April 1-7
- Ruling AKP retains majority, loses large cities in Turkish local elections
- Thai military junta holds rigged election
- Preparing for “tomorrow’s wars,” India shoots down satellite
- Class struggle and socialism are the only answer to the Brexit crisis
- Ontario education minister touts class-size increases as means to teach “resiliency”
- Australia: NSW voters reject Labor Party’s phoney pitch
- David North to address public meetings with Christoph Vandreier: “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It”
- Lyft IPO: Wall Street rakes in billions from the growth of casualized labor
- Germany: Links found between right-wing network inside army and police officer murdered by far-right terrorists
- “The working class needs to be organised against global capitalism”
- At UK demonstration over factory closing, unions plea to Tory government and Honda
- Israeli military kills four Palestinians in Gaza protest
- Ford confirms its target of 5,000 layoffs in Germany
- Dearborn, Michigan residents protest on four-year anniversary of US-backed Saudi war on Yemen
- Teachers at school in Sheffield, England, strike against job losses and threat to eliminate sixth form
- Trump threatens to shut US-Mexico border, cuts aid to Central America
2019-04-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Comedian Volodomyr Zelensky leads first round of Ukraine Presidential Elections
- US Supreme Court ruling guts ban on “cruel and unusual punishment”
- Podemos could lose half its seats in Spain’s general election
- Community College of Philadelphia faculty vote for strike action
- Corruption probe engulfs top UAW executives
- After fascist attack, New Zealand teacher unions cancel nationwide strike
- Christchurch terrorist’s fascist manifesto promotes trade unions
- David North to address public meetings with Christoph Vandreier: “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It”
- Companies and police violently attack remaining strikes in Matamoros
- Infighting in Canada’s government deepens with release of surreptitious SNC-Lavalin recording
- Factional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization
- Australia: Al Jazeera investigation targets right-wing One Nation party
- Thousands protest against German government’s brutal deportation policy
- One worker killed, another critically injured after scaffolding collapse in Sydney
- Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against climate change
- British MPs again fail to reach agreement on alternative Brexit motions
- Bouteflika’s resignation as Algerian president to take place by April 28
- Beloit College students protest speech by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, prompting cancellation
- Amazon Air cargo flight crashes after vicious cost-cutting
2019-04-03
- Yellow Vest protesters oppose Macron’s mobilization of the army against demonstrations
- UNHRC ignores Sri Lanka’s failure to investigate war crimes
- Confrontation between Chinese and Taiwanese fighter jets
- Sears abruptly slashes life insurance coverage for 90,000 retirees
- Eight miners die from toxic gases in Peru’s northern highlands
- The threat to close the US-Mexico border
- Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part three
- Chelsea Manning files motion for immediate release pending appeal
- UK “knife crime” hysteria used to push repressive police measures
- Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
- Democrat election meeting in Georgia bars “non-black” press
- Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: The truth hurts
- Christchurch terrorist donated to right-wing Austrian Identitarian movement
- Australian government delivers a callous, anti-working class budget
- May offers Corbyn “national unity” Brexit agreement talks
- Ecuadorian president threatens to evict Julian Assange from London embassy
2019-04-04
- DSA Democrat Rashida Tlaib opposes fight against GM plant shutdowns
- Australian government sets global precedent with online censorship bill
- Germany assumes UN Security Council chair while accelerating rearmament
- Why aren’t Boeing executives being prosecuted for the 737 Max 8 crashes?
- Amid rising tensions, NATO chief pitches confrontation with Russia to US Congress
- One worker killed, two injured in chemical plant explosion in Houston, Texas
- Wisconsin Harley-Davidson workers reject USW-company deal
- University of Illinois-Chicago faculty to vote on strike action as grad student walkout enters third week
- IMF chief points to global growth deceleration
- “We the People” forum: Platitudes and demagogy from Democratic presidential candidates
- UK elite Parachute Regiment use Corbyn poster for target practice
- Neo-Nazi planned assassination of second UK Labour MP
- After death on Australian construction site, evidence emerges of widespread safety violations
- Lori Lightfoot defeats Toni Preckwinkle in low-turnout Chicago election
- Quebec introduces a chauvinist bill with Muslim women as its principal target
- One-day transport strike paralyses Berlin
2019-04-05
- US escalates threats against Turkey, leverages election controversy
- Massive ICE workplace raid jails 280 immigrant workers in Texas
- Australian Labor Party leader offers false hope of “fair go” in budget reply
- US Senate fails to restore sweeping cuts to food assistance for Puerto Rico
- Federal report exposes horrific levels of abuse in Alabama prisons
- Mike Leigh’s Peterloo: A drama of the British working class
- The political implications of the Corbyn/May Brexit talks
- New York Times laments stalled Venezuelan coup
- Prioritizing of profit at root of fire that killed seven Syrian refugee children in Nova Scotia
- More layoffs point to worsening jobs crisis in Australia
- An interview with Mike Leigh, director of Peterloo: “You don’t run out of steam if what you do…is to literally hold the mirror up to nature”
- Youth and students speak in support of upcoming meetings series: “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK local councils sell off billions of pounds in public assets due to austerity
- Investigation shows that a malfunctioning Boeing sensor caused Ethiopian Airlines crash
- WikiLeaks warns that Julian Assange faces imminent eviction from Ecuador’s London embassy
2019-04-06
- UN Special Rapporteur: US extradition of Assange would be violation of international law
- Trump visits border to step up attack on immigrants
- Surrounding land left highly toxic after Grenfell Tower inferno
- Australia: Tasmanian teachers take strike action
- Thousands of Ontario students walk out to protest school cuts
- Fascists mount pogrom against Roma population in Italy
- America the Barbaric
- Jordan Peele’s horror film, Us: “Us” and them
- Ontario workers need an international socialist program to defend public education and fight austerity
- Mexico’s López Obrador attacks teachers through right-wing education reform
- Supporters oppose eviction of Julian Assange outside London’s Ecuadorian embassy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Netanyahu embraces Brazil’s Bolsonaro during Israel visit
- Chicago symphony musicians host packed concerts as strike reaches turning point
- US-China trade deal pushed back
- Boeing CEO praised “streamlined” oversight of 737 plane that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia
- Office workers killed in building fires in Bangladesh
- Defend Julian Assange!
- Another steelworker killed at ArcelorMittal in Indiana
- Replying to Woody Allen suit, Amazon acknowledges McCarthyite character of #MeToo campaign
- Mass protests in Algeria follow Bouteflika’s resignation
2019-04-08
- Weekend vigils in London demand freedom for Assange
- Rising number of Michigan and US households unable to afford basic necessities
- Trump calls for more cheap money for financial markets
- This week in history: April 8-14
- Netflix’s Trigger Warning with Killer Mike: Provocation and pessimism from the Atlanta rap artist
- Purdue Pharma, maker of highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, settles with state of Oklahoma for $270 million
- Baltimore, Maryland Mayor Catherine Pugh caught in widespread corruption scandal
- Socialism haunts the American ruling class
- New Zealand fascist killer appears in court
- Mississippi teachers threaten first strike since 1985
- Netanyahu pledges to annex West Bank if re-elected
- US Homeland Security chief forced out as anti-immigrant crackdown looms
- University of Illinois at Chicago grad student union pushes sellout contract
- “Independent” union in Russia facilitates closure of Ford factory
- Obama, Pelosi push Democrats further to the right
- Assange faces ongoing threats at Ecuador’s London embassy
- University of Arizona students arrested for protesting Border Patrol agents
2019-04-09
- Teamsters working with YRC trucking companies to impose concessions contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: SEP (Australia) Assistant National Secretary Cheryl Crisp calls for defence of Assange
- Over 10,000 rally in Toronto against Tories’ education cuts
- Bernie Sanders joins Trump’s attack on “open borders”
- “Tarrafal Never Again!” exhibition in Lisbon exposes horrors of Portugal’s fascist concentration camp
- Polish teachers launch nationwide strike
- Philadelphia Community College teachers face union sellout
- The dictatorial impulse behind Trump’s political purge
- Tennessee teachers organize protests over educational funding and vouchers
- Libya on the brink of all-out civil war
- Israel holds most right-wing elections in its history
- US labels Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group
- Workers and youth in Australia support Julian Assange
- Indian Court allows violent Hindu supremacists to go scot-free
- UK: Jury fails to reach verdict against top police officer over Hillsborough football disaster
- Germany: State prosecutor persecutes artists group for criticising far-right AfD
- Right-wing Italian authorities threaten migrant rescuer with 20 years in prison
- Sri Lankan government prepares new anti-terrorism laws
- Guatemala and El Salvador discuss amnesty for war criminals
- In leaked court testimony, Assange denounces his illegal detention
- Algerian army purges intelligence agencies as anti-regime protests grow
2019-04-10
- Hollywood writers in a battle against powerful talent agencies
- In meeting with Egyptian dictator, Trump rails against immigrants
- Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate in Berlin against high rents
- Polish teachers strike confronts social disaster wrought by capitalist restoration
- Libya’s descent into civil war: The bitter fruit of the pseudo-left's pro-imperialism
- New Zealand inquiry set to whitewash fascist murders in Christchurch
- German parliament celebrates 70 years of NATO and demands escalation of military rearmament
- Norwood Jewell, the UAW and the Flint water crisis
- No clear winner in Israeli elections
- “Four Corners” broadcasts further claims of “Chinese interference” in Australia
- Flint, a play at the University of Michigan: Stuck, unfortunately, in the quagmire of racial politics
- Australia: Another toxic factory fire endangers working-class suburbs
- Christoph Vandreier kicks off US speaking tour with well-attended meeting at UC Berkeley
- Greece: Syriza government mobilises riot police against refugees
- Chicago symphony musicians defy management offer, continue strike
- UK cancer patients’ lives imperilled, suffering deepened by treatment delays
- University of California service and patient care technicians on one-day strike
- EU summit considers extension of Brexit deadline
- Princeton University provides $300,000 in funding for right-wing historian and propagandist Jörg Baberowski
2019-04-11
- A letter from a young US Postal Service worker
- SEP (Australia) condemns the arrest of Julian Assange
- One-day strike by Sacramento, California teachers
- The resurgence of the class struggle in Poland
- New York City declares public health emergency over measles outbreak
- Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part four
- Netanyahu prepares to form fourth consecutive government
- White House to intensify anti-immigrant rampage
- As trade tensions increase, IMF lowers forecasts for global growth
- First imagery of black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope
- Massive gas explosion in Durham, North Carolina leaves 1 dead, 17 injured
- Australian prime minister calls crisis election for May 18
- Lower turnout for second one-day strike at California universities and health systems
- Two giant German banks plan merger
- WikiLeaks exposes spying operation against Assange in Ecuador’s London embassy
- British police arrest Julian Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
- Polls indicate right-wing populist United Conservatives will win Alberta election
- Australian trade unions hold pro-Labor “Change the Rules” rallies
2019-04-12
- Worldwide outrage over arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
- West Virginia college axes liberal arts; Pennsylvania Historical Society slashes workforce
- Defying US threats, Turkey vows to deploy Russian air-defence system
- Australian police dismissed death threat by Christchurch terrorist
- Pre-emptive military coup ousts Bashir to protect Sudan’s elite
- Sacramento, California teachers conduct one day strike
- Australian actor Geoffrey Rush wins defamation lawsuit against Murdoch media
- Emilio Estevez’s The Public: The homeless refuse to freeze to death
- National strike by Polish teachers enters fifth day
- Arbitrary wage cuts imposed on Sri Lankan estate workers
- Free Julian Assange!
- Former UK ambassador Craig Murray denounces arrest and conviction of Julian Assange
- Arrest made in connection with church burnings in Louisiana
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Amid corruption scandals and deals with IMF and Washington, Ecuador’s government betrays Assange
- College admissions scandal in the US: An inevitable product of malignant levels of social inequality
- Six-month Brexit extension resolves nothing for UK
- Two giant German banks plan merger
- Which way forward for the struggle against Algeria’s military dictatorship?
- Quebec premier backs ABI in extorting massive concessions from locked-out workers
2019-04-13
- Sri Lankan writer imprisoned at instigation of Buddhist extremists
- SGP Chairman Ulrich Rippert addresses free Assange rally in Berlin
- 070 UIC faculty vote to strike
- 040 SGP candidate interview on German TV
- George Mason University law school receives largest donation in school’s history from estate of far-right judge
- WSWS rejects invitation to conference of political bankrupts in Buenos Aires
- Ash is the Purest White: Finding one’s way in “the new ‘capitalist’ China”
- The Assange arrest is a warning from history
- Julian Assange’s life is in danger
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Prominent Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis speaks out for Assange
- Supporters to rally in defence of Assange outside Belmarsh Prison, London
- Trump officials discussed using troops to run migrant detention camps
- German interior minister tables Intelligence Services “Enabling Act”
- Ontario Tories’ budget: Cuts to public services, tax handouts for big business
- Chicago symphony musicians strike defies aristocratic principle
- New video emerges of Chicago police officers tasing and beating high school student
- In 3 A.M. ruling, Supreme Court allows Alabama execution to proceed
- Spain seeks rebellion charges against Catalans for complaining of police violence
- Australian PM and Labor Party leader both reject any defence of Julian Assange
- SEP (Australia) rallies demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Australian intelligence chief says no need for “reset” after New Zealand fascist attack
2019-04-15
- “He based his life on the ideals of justice, equality and human solidarity”
- Twenty years since the death of Australian Trotskyist and Aboriginal worker, Comrade Yabu Bilyana
- UK Labour leads “rape” smears against Julian Assange demanding Swedish extradition
- This week in history: April 15-21
- 31,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers strike at over 240 supermarkets in New England
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) member Robert Stevens speaks at rally to demand release of Assange from Belmarsh prison
- Bernie Sanders silent on Assange, vocal in promoting nationalism at Michigan rally
- Stop the extraordinary rendition of Julian Assange!
- Trump, ultra-right media target Representative Ilhan Omar
- New Zealand rally demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Supporters protesting outside Belmarsh prison speak out in defense of Julian Assange
- Australia: Kimberly-Clark to shut Ingleburn plant and axe over 200 jobs.
- German media denounce Assange
- Who funded the ISO? An analysis of the financial basis of pseudo-left politics
- Falsifying history and repudiating democratic rights: Floyd Abrams’ attack on WikiLeaks
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra clarinetist John Bruce Yeh speaks on musicians strike
- Yabu Bilyana addresses ICFI World Conference: “Genocide of indigenous peoples is still practiced throughout Australia”
- Protest outside London’s Belmarsh prison demands release of Julian Assange
- Palestinian leader of campaign to boycott Israel denied entry to US
- Workers and youth speak out at SEP (Australia) rallies in defence of Assange
- Mexican musician, writer Armando Vega Gil commits suicide after #MeToo allegation
2019-04-16
- US Tax Day 2019: Sixty giant corporations pay zero income tax
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2019 Australian Federal Election
- SEP (Sri Lanka) calls urgent picket to defend Assange and Manning
- An assembly of political bankrupts: Historical Materialism and Jacobin host “Socialism in Our Time” conference
- Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris devastated by fire
- Youth at climate rally in Leeds, England speak out to defend Julian Assange
- Widodo predicted to be re-elected as Indonesian president
- India’s election descends into the mire
- The political lessons of the University of Illinois graduate student strike
- Powerful start to German Socialist Equality Party campaign in European elections
- Ecuador arrests Swedish associate of Assange amid threat of crackdown
- Largest UK department store chain, Debenhams, goes into administration
- The Socialist Equality Party candidates in the 2019 Australian election
- Prominent WikiLeaks supporter Somerset Bean speaks out in defence of Assange
- Australian political establishment rejects calls for defence of Julian Assange
- US workers demand the release of Julian Assange
2019-04-17
- Pentagon ordered to draft military plans to counter Russia and China in Venezuela
- Over 140 attend lecture by Christoph Vandreier in Michigan on “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It”
- Trump, the Fed and the New York Times
- Strike of 31,000 New England Stop & Shop workers in sixth day
- SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka rally to defend Assange and Manning
- Polish government vows to fight wage rises as teachers’ strike enters second week
- The burning of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris
- New Zealand bus worker dies of stroke after corporate restructure
- The media’s role in persecuting Julian Assange
- Lessons of the Matamoros workers’ rebellion: Part five
- Thin layer of the UK population earn more than £150,000 per year
- Glimpses of social life: The Feeling of Being Watched, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool and Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, among others
- Over half of councils in England lose all government funding
- Unsealed affidavit demonstrates US seeking to prosecute Assange for his journalism
2019-04-18
- Vetoing congressional resolution, Trump reaffirms US support for Saudi slaughter in Yemen
- Canada’s Liberal government attacks refugee rights
- Voters go to polls in Tamil Nadu in second phase of India’s national election
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party renews “rape allegations” witch-hunt of Julian Assange
- Human rights advocate Professor Stuart Rees denounces attacks on WikiLeaks publisher
- Behind Trump’s clash with the Fed: Looming economic crisis and class conflict
- Socialist Equality Party candidate in European elections appears on German TV
- US attorney general orders denial of bond, indefinite detention of asylum seekers
- Frankfurt students protest presence of far-right Alternative for Germany on university campus
- Ecuadorian police repress mass march demanding Julian Assange’s freedom
- Deadly week for construction workers in New York City
- Chinese authorities arrest editors involved with workers’ protests
- Hundreds of peaceful climate change protesters arrested in UK
- Why the defense of Julian Assange is necessary for all workers
- Julian Assange’s extraordinary record of investigative journalism
- Algerian regime escalates police violence against growing protests
2019-04-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- USW forces rotten deal on Harley-Davidson workers in Wisconsin
- Opposition leader named Istanbul mayor, but election dispute continues amid multiple crises
- New round of US-China trade talks
- Teachers demand freedom for Assange and Manning
- Australian filmmaker James Ricketson demands release of Julian Assange
- German government adopts new law to expand immigrant deportations
- Twenty years since the Columbine High School massacre
- Socialist Equality Party intervenes at Paris rally in defence of Assange
- Mueller report re-ignites political warfare in Washington
- US preparing more charges against Julian Assange
- UK life expectancy continues to fall
- Netanyahu prepares to form far-right government in Israel
- Germany: SPD and Greens act as stooges for the far-right in Hamburg
- Midnight Family from Mexico, The Last Truck and American Factory—about a former GM plant, murderous Detroit police and I Am Richard Pryor: A mixed lot
- Australian election dominated by false promises and diversions
- Egypt stages referendum to institutionalize General Sisi’s dictatorship
- Growing popular support for Julian Assange in Australia
2019-04-20
- Western Australia Labor government dismisses water contamination risks in indigenous communities
- Detroit Fiat Chrysler autoworkers defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- David North speaks on the threat of fascism
- North and Vandreier conclude US tour at New York University
- US education secretary to gut regulations, seek a “major shift” in higher education—Part 1
- Conflict continues over Peruvian copper mine as peasant blockade is lifted
- The Mueller report and the campaign against Russia
- No to calls for “national unity” after the burning of Notre Dame in Paris
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Rising death toll in San Diego jails
- Australia: University of Melbourne IYSSE holds successful meeting in defence of Julian Assange
- CIA director called out for complicity in torture
- US Gulf Coast still devastated six months after Hurricane Michael
- Formerly-jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste fronts corporate media attack on Julian Assange
- European election: SGP holds its second campaign meeting in Frankfurt-Main
- Trump administration escalates threats against Cuba
- UK home secretary demands climate change protesters face “full force of the law”
- As negotiations hit impasse, Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians continue strike and free concerts
- Armed militia detaining asylum seekers at gunpoint along US-Mexico border
- Protests force American Museum of Natural History to cancel event with Brazil’s Bolsonaro
- Aviation reporter Rytis Beresnevičius speaks to WSWS on Boeing 737 crashes
- The stagnation of American poetry: The Best American Poetry 2018
- Right-wing populist United Conservatives win Alberta election as NDP vote plummets
2019-04-22
- Singer-songwriter Scott Walker (1943-2019): A gifted and intriguing artist
- Video: IYSSE (Australia) members at University of Melbourne demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Landslide victory for Zelensky over Poroshenko in Ukrainian presidential election
- This week in history: April 22-28
- At least 290 killed in terrorist bomb attacks in Sri Lanka
- SEP (Australia) to hold election rally and meetings in defence of Assange
- US education secretary to gut regulations, seek a “major shift” in higher education
- Florida deputy’s assault on high school student caught on video
- Spain: Podemos manifesto defends constitution, urges coalition with Socialist Party
- Socialism and the defense of culture
- Young journalist Lyra McKee shot dead in Northern Ireland
- Sri Lankan bomb survivors and local residents denounce terror attacks
- Germany’s IT Security Act 2.0: Another step towards a police state
- Empty buildings, empty promises: Foxconn con job continues in Wisconsin
- UK education system breaking apart after decade of cuts
- Democrats release first fundraising figures of presidential campaign
- Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: A compendium of pseudo-left and anti-Marxist politics
- Legal experts: Assange likely faces espionage charges if extradited to US
2019-04-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UFCW orders New England Stop & Shop strikers back to work without seeing contract
- SEP (Australia) election candidates win strong support for the immediate release of Assange and Manning
- After terrorist bombings, Sri Lankan government imposes draconian national emergency
- OECD report: Growth of social inequality fuels global political and economic crisis
- Privatisation of UK’s National Health Service escalates
- In wake of Mueller report: Democrats, media push anti-Russian hysteria
- US court orders Chelsea Manning to remain in prison
- Major Indian airline grounded, threatening 23,000 jobs
- Washington tightens sanctions to cut Iran oil exports to “zero”
- Prosecution of German artists’ group dropped following mass protests
- New police crackdown in France as Macron to announce further austerity cuts
- Judge rules former Michigan Governor Snyder, EPA can be sued by Flint residents
- Police arrest over 1,000 climate change protesters in London
- Responding to public outrage, FBI arrests leader of border militia which detained hundreds of migrants
- Bayer cuts 4,500 jobs in Germany
2019-04-24
- Turkey’s political crisis escalates after mob attack on CHP leader
- Severe police-state measures come into force in Sri Lanka
- Scotland: Union suppresses teachers strike as lecturers fight on
- Unions scramble to contain Polish teachers’ strike as 40,000 social workers prepare to stop work
- US imperialism resurrects the Monroe Doctrine
- CIA Democrats enter the race: Seth Moulton announces bid for presidential nomination
- Mali government falls amid protests against Franco-German occupation
- How Did Lubitsch Do It?: Joseph McBride’s engaging study of filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch
- India: BJP makes indicted Hindu supremacist terrorist a “star” election candidate
- An interview with film historian and biographer Joseph McBride, author of How Did Lubitsch Do It?
- George Galloway declares for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party
- The Enlightenment, the American Revolution and the ban on cruel and unusual punishment
- Industry publication floats idea of UAW calling a “targeted” strike
- Julian Assange was denied access to lawyers, visitors in Britain’s Belmarsh prison
2019-04-25
- Conflict mounts between White House and Congress over subpoenas
- Sri Lankan president calls “all-party conference” to rubberstamp emergency powers
- US-backed Saudi regime beheads 37 political prisoners
- Rutgers University faculty union blocks strike by professors and teaching assistants
- Polish teachers speak out on why they are striking
- The election of Zelensky in Ukraine and the way forward for the working class
- Pennsylvania woman killed in factory meat grinder
- The Australian government must act to free Julian Assange
- Grenfell fire survivors forced onto general housing waiting list
- Australian rugby player Israel Folau challenges sacking over social media posts
- Protest in London’s Parliament Square demands release of Julian Assange
2019-04-26
- Germany: SGP European election campaign wins support for Julian Assange in Stuttgart
- International finance backs Socialist Party in Spain’s April 28 elections
- Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka to hold May Day meeting in Colombo
- Paper Flags, Tehran: City of Love and Belmonte—Alienation, loneliness and other problems
- New study documents over 1,600 killed in US siege of Raqqa, Syria
- Hillary Clinton’s McCarthyite rant
- Australian mining magnate renews his fraudulent populist pitch
- Mexican police detain hundreds of Central American migrants during mass raid
- Fed “pivot” promotes stock market surge
- Macron moves to prosecute journalists who revealed French arms sales in Yemen war
- University of Illinois at Chicago faculty announces deal on eve of strike
- GM continues tax avoidance schemes while it slashes thousands of jobs
- Leaked documents implicate French government in war crimes in Yemen
- Ontario Tory government intensifies assault on workers’ rights
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Federal prosecutors indict Rochester Drug Co-Operative on drug trafficking charges
- After contract rejection, Dow Chemical locks out 230 workers in Texas
- Mayor Emanuel intervenes to shut down Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
- Forty hospitalized after toxic chemical leak in Chicago suburb
- The fraud of “progressive capitalism”
- UK: May unable to stem Tory crisis over Brexit, but still propped up by Corbyn
- Former Vice President Biden officially enters Democratic presidential race
- UN official visits Julian Assange, investigating Ecuador’s illegal surveillance
- Australian construction workers facing massive fines for striking
2019-04-27
- Christoph Vandreier speaks at Berlin rally to defend Julian Assange
- War by other means: US/EU sanctions aimed at crippling Syria
- Trump administration argues in Supreme Court for including citizenship question on 2020 census
- Sri Lankan president steps up military crackdown
- The Spanish elections and the struggle against authoritarian rule
- US Navy SEAL officers attempted to cover up evidence of war crimes
- In naked sellout, union announces end to strike by 300,000 Polish teachers
- Former President Garcia’s suicide exposes desperate crisis of Peruvian bourgeoisie
- Amid mass beheadings, Wall Street scrambles for Saudi profits
- Los Angeles universities quarantine 280 as US measles cases reach record levels
- Massachusetts judge and court officer charged with helping immigrant evade ICE officer
- Half of all land in England owned by less than one percent of the population
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Musicians Emma Gerstein and Max Raimi speak on Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike
- US military set to loosen rules for troops operating along southern border
- Economic reversal exposes Australian election myths
- Unexpectedly restrained: Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone’s Dogman
- Anzac Day 2019: Conditioning the Australian population for war
- Amazon posts record $3.6 billion profit in first three months of 2019
2019-04-29
- Protests continue at Yale University over police shooting
- White House correspondents’ tribute to press freedom silent on Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- This week in history: April 29-May 5
- Sudan: Protest leaders agree to collaborate with Transitional Military Council
- Socialist Equality Party (SGP) publishes campaign video for European Elections
- Fascistic Vox party enters parliament in Spain elections, as social democrats gain
- Strike by 1,400 pilots grounds hundreds of flights at Scandinavian Airlines
- Federal agents raid Baltimore, Maryland mayor’s home and offices as calls for her resignation grow
- Trump orders officials to refuse congressional subpoenas
- Fascist gunman attacks California synagogue
- The European elections and the revival of class struggle
- Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel intervenes to end CSO musicians strike with concessions
- US teachers in the Carolinas to hold mass protests on May Day
- UK’s Julian Assange Defence Committee holds public meeting
- On Australian TV, Julian Assange’s father calls for son’s freedom
- SEP (Australia) candidates demand freedom for Assange and Manning at Sydney rally
2019-04-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK: Liverpool man dies after being declared fit for work and denied benefits
- Crane collapse in Seattle claims four lives
- “Socialism Event” in Germany: Pro-capitalist politics in a pseudo-left garb
- Global military spending tops $1.8 trillion, highest on record
- South Korean auto manufacturers stepping up assault on wages, working conditions
- Student Parliament at Humboldt University condemns Jörg Baberowski’s right-wing think tank
- Participants in SEP (Australia) rally demand freedom for Assange and Manning
- US government tries to distance itself from border militia
- Pentagon fires Guantanamo prison commander for calling attention to US crimes
- Syriza government authorises mass evictions of refugees and asylum seekers
- Year after Arizona strike, teacher walkouts and protests spread in US
- New York Times column falsifies legacy of Eugene Debs
- China hosts second Belt and Road Initiative forum
- Boeing CEO seeks to shift blame for deadly crashes onto pilots
- Biden holds first campaign rally in Pittsburgh-area union hall
- Free Julian Assange, Free Chelsea Manning!
- Workers should reject Australian unions’ “Change the rules” campaign
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