Archive: 05/2019
2019-05-01
- Chauvinist “We Tamil” party seeks to divide working class in Indian elections
- Guaidó launches abortive military coup in Venezuela
- UPS national contract imposed after supplemental fights
- Liberal and Labor compete in stoking anti-refugee scare-mongering
- Tea plantation workers need a global strategy
- May Day 2019: The resurgence of the class struggle and the fight for socialism
- New York pre-K teachers demand pay parity, as union seeks to sabotage strike
- Protester at Assange jail sentencing: “That was a declaration of an outlaw state”
- US threatens UK over Huawei involvement in 5G network
- San Diego mayor pushes for crackdown on vehicular homelessness
- General Motors reports $2.1 billion first-quarter profits as job cuts take their toll
- UK advice worker Terry Craven speaks on the terrible death of Stephen Smith
- Indian Stalinists stump for right-wing bourgeois government
- The teachers’ revolt and the fight for social equality
- Michigan State University performs stirring rendition of Babi Yar, Dmitri Shostakovich’s anti-fascist symphony
- Trump orders new attacks on rights of refugees, asylum seekers
- Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for bail violation in vindictive political ruling
- Mass protests intensify against Algerian regime
2019-05-02
- Victorian Socialists’ fake-left election campaign
- US escalates threat of military intervention in Venezuela
- Newly elected Ukrainian President Zelensky backs anti-Russia campaign
- Kabul, City in the Wind, Midnight Traveler and What We Left Unfinished: The catastrophe of US intervention in Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan SEP denounces political parties’ support for President Sirisena’s police state measures
- Up to 400,000 jobs threatened as US sanctions deepen crisis of Russian auto industry
- Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering Justine Damond
- The sentencing of Julian Assange: A legal travesty
- May Day: Police rampage in Paris as hundreds of thousands march in France
- Trump’s labor department moves to designate gig economy workers as “independent contractors”
- May Day 2019 in Germany: Trade unions call for support for the European Union
- Honduras cracks down on teachers, doctors and students protesting privatization drive
- To halt climate change, capitalism must be abolished
- De Blasio’s solution to New York’s public housing crisis: Tear it down
- 30,000 march for public education in North and South Carolina
- US attorney general refuses to testify before House Judiciary Committee
2019-05-03
- Another school shooting claims two lives at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- The manufactured case of Long Beach “terrorist” Marc Steven Domingo
- Call to free Julian Assange raised in Taiwan on Labor Day
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds successful May Day meeting in Colombo, despite government efforts to bar celebrations
- SEP (Sri Lanka) May Day meeting demands freedom for Assange and Manning
- The Labor Party tries to “save capitalism”
- UK rail union calls off strikes against driver-only-operated trains
- After Spanish elections, Podemos pushes for pro-austerity PSOE government
- Media lies in service of war for regime change in Venezuela
- German government backs attempted right-wing coup in Venezuela
- French Yellow Vests join Assange extradition protest in London
- Guatemalan boy detained by US Border Patrol dies after succumbing to illness
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Brazilian unions defend reactionary pension “reform” at May Day rally
- Austrian government ties welfare payments to German language skills
- Protesters oppose US extradition proceedings against Julian Assange
2019-05-04
- UK: Defence minister’s sacking escalates Tory crisis amid rising UK/US tensions
- San Diego Sweetwater Teachers Union begins bargaining as false financial situation reported by district
- Bernie Sanders attacks Biden from the right on China trade
- Fuel tanker drivers threaten new strike in Portugal
- Politicians celebrate “World Press Freedom Day” as Julian Assange languishes in prison
- Macron government fabrication of “yellow vest” hospital attack in Paris collapses
- Neo-Nazi networks exposed across US military
- Polls show growing sentiment for teachers strike in Mississippi
- One hundred years since the May 4 movement in China
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s emperor abdicates throne
- Berlin: Meeting held at Humboldt University to defend Julian Assange
- The 43: A state massacre and cover-up in Mexico
- US-China trade talks enter final phase
- Washington political warfare intensifies with lawsuits, looming contempt charges
- French Yellow vest protesters travel to London to defend Julian Assange
2019-05-06
- Horrific plant explosion kills at least three workers in northern Chicago suburb
- This week in history: May 6-12
- Red Joan: A British spy story skirts some issues
- The nationalist “socialism” of Bernie Sanders
- The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism
- Sickout by teachers and school support staff in Nashville, Tennessee
- Initial Grenfell fire inquiry report to make “withering criticism” of London Fire Brigade
- The German ruling class fears the spectre of socialism
- Israel pounds Gaza, stoking fears of invasion
- Faurecia auto parts workers in Michigan speak out on sweatshop conditions
- Australian youth speak out against climate change
- Trump threatens new tariffs against China
- Teachers at three Chicago charter schools strike as union blocks common fight with public school educators
- Facebook escalates social media censorship with shutdown of far-right accounts
- Assange’s father tells demonstrators Australian government must secure son’s release
2019-05-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- In wake of Venezuela coup fiasco, US military threats mount
- In wake of Venezuela coup fiasco, US military threats mount
- White House to push ahead on new tariff threats against China
- New Orleans Times-Picayune lays off its entire staff
- Greetings to Chinese workers and youth on the centenary of the May 4 movement
- Vote Socialist Equality Party! No to War and Austerity! For Socialism and Internationalism!
- US threatens Iran with war
- After Matamoros strikes, Mexican government enacts bill for “democratic unions”
- Labor leader makes phony populist pitch at Australian election launch
- Democrats line up behind Trump’s war on immigrants
- The persecution of Assange and Manning is an attack on the working class
- Britain: National Union of Journalists World Press Freedom Day event ignores Julian Assange
- Fiat Chrysler uses robocall to announce more layoffs at Belvidere, Illinois, plant
- Germany: FDP Congress tacks to the right
- After nearly two months in jail, Chelsea Manning submits powerful appeal for release
- UK: Renewed Brexit talks deepen splits in both Conservatives and Labour
- UK: Renewed Brexit talks deepen splits in both Conservatives and Labour
- Thousands of jobs threatened at Bombardier plants in Belfast and Casablanca
- Conflicts flare between Trump and House Democrats
- Video: At Sydney rally Assange’s father demands Australian government secure son’s release
2019-05-08
- Arizona students demand release of classmate detained by immigration agents
- Canada’s Liberal government abets US-sponsored coup attempt in Venezuela
- Uber drivers to participate in global strike
- Two thousand nurses and support staff strike at Toledo, Ohio hospital
- Anti-Muslim witch-hunt after terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka
- South African elections held amid rising social discontent and alienation from ANC
- Workers and youth defend Assange and democratic rights at SEP (Australia) meetings
- UK government seeks to deny legal aid to Shamima Begum
- SEP candidates address election meetings in Australia to defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- One dead, seven injured in Denver, Colorado suburb school shooting
- The extreme right in the European elections
- The Christchurch terror attack and the promotion of fascism by the ruling elite
- Trump floats proposal to cancel 2020 elections
- Panama election a distorted expression of growing opposition to austerity
- Teachers walking out statewide today in Oregon
- Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly joins board of migrant detention firm
- Former Australian PM denounces anti-China witch-hunt of intelligence agencies
- India’s election and the revolutionary program to oppose austerity, war and communal reaction
- A socialist perspective against the return of fascism in Europe
- Clergy: An uncompromising film about the hypocrisy and corruption of the Catholic Church in Poland
- Australian fascist group tried to recruit Christchurch terrorist
- Boeing continues to whitewash 737 crashes
- Pamela Anderson and WikiLeaks editor-in-chief visit Julian Assange in prison
- Georgia governor signs “heartbeat” anti-abortion legislation
2019-05-09
- The New York Times and its Uyghur “activist”
- China to hit back if new US tariff threat goes ahead
- Uber and Lyft drivers conduct international strike
- Local authority funding cuts worsen poverty and social inequality in Scotland
- Pompeo lays down the law during UK visit
- The social crisis and the global eruption of US imperialism
- Video: Workers at SEP rally in Parramatta denounce persecution of Julian Assange
- Trump issues full pardon to former lieutenant who executed prisoner in Iraq
- Financial parasitism and the stock market surge
- More than 20,000 participate in Oregon walkouts for public education
- Ontario government slashes post-secondary education funding and student aid
- French pseudo-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for alliance with Socialist Party
- Papua New Guinea government faces no-confidence vote
- Insys Therapeutics executives, makers of oral fentanyl spray, convicted of racketeering
- Greens offer bogus climate pledges while pleading for another partnership with Labor
- France’s “yellow vest” protests and the global resurgence of the class struggle
- The defence of Assange and Manning is the spearhead of the struggle against imperialism
- Removal of white educator from African American history class in Michigan sparks widespread outrage
- House committee votes contempt charge against Trump’s attorney general William Barr
- ICFI supporters in India to hold picket to free Assange
2019-05-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Wild Nights with Emily: American poet Emily Dickinson undone by gender politics
- Venezuela tensions mount after arrest of coup leader
- Uber and Lyft drivers in Chicago, New York and California speak out against exploitation of gig economy workers
- US tariff hike against China goes ahead
- Corporate murder: Trial opens of France Télécom executives over worker suicides
- Changing poverty formula, Trump administration to make millions ineligible for social programs
- IYSSE in US holds successful meetings on postmodernism and identity politics
- Chelsea Manning released, faces new imprisonment for refusing to testify against Assange
- The Australian election and the fraud of the NDIS
- Imperialist war, the working-class upsurge in the Mideast and North Africa, and the strategy of Permanent Revolution
- The defense of Venezuela and the struggle for socialism in Latin America
- GM workers denounce deals to “save” token jobs in Lordstown and Oshawa
- US seizes North Korean ship
- Turkish election authorities order re-vote in Istanbul
- Netanyahu agrees a ceasefire with Hamas—for now
- Trump rally roars approval for call to “shoot” immigrants
- “Unequal Germany”—new study examines regional differences
- Fiji authorities suppress May Day protests, arrest locked-out workers
- Cell phone video from Sandra Bland’s 2015 traffic stop made public
- Germany’s far-right AfD exploits famous artwork to promote Islamophobia
2019-05-11
- The ICFI’s program intersects with a new wave of working-class struggle
- No agreement at US-China trade talks as positions harden
- With B-52s, carrier battle group in place, US war against Iran on a hair trigger
- Spain: No “red lines” in talks for a Socialist Party-Podemos coalition government
- Washington uses terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka to strengthen ties with Colombo
- Low-paid South Carolina teachers recruited for factory work
- French public sector workers strike against Macron government attacks
- The Uber IPO: Billions for investors, increased exploitation for workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German Young Socialist leader unleashes storm of debate about socialism
- Iran conflict intensifies transatlantic tensions
- Two former Australian prime ministers tout Labor’s pro-business record
- US indicts whistleblower who exposed Obama’s drone assassination program
- New York City public housing fire kills six
- Eugenics advocate Noah Carl dismissed from Cambridge University fellowship
- Free Assange NZ denounces hypocrisy at World Press Freedom Day event
- As protests grow, Algerian army arrests Workers Party leader
2019-05-13
- “Act now” on trade or it will get worse, Trump threatens China
- This week in history: May 13–19
- Toledo, Ohio workers complete first week of strike vs. Mercy Health St. Vincent
- Strikes by US workers outpacing rate in 2018
- Ramaphosa elected to full term as president amid record low ANC vote
- The working class and the threat of dictatorship in the US
- New Zealand Labour government rules out capital gains tax
- San Francisco Board of Education to decide on the fate of historic murals said to be “offensive”
- The class struggle in the United States and the fight against war
- The future lies in socialism
- Chelsea Manning restates her refusal to testify against Julian Assange as new grand jury subpoena looms
- Lebanon: Workers take to the streets to denounce government austerity measures
- Trump administration to evict 55,000 children of immigrants from public housing
- Australia: GetUp’s silence over the persecution of Julian Assange
- Faculty at Chicago’s DePaul University condemn professor’s anti-democratic, militarist comments on Middle East
- Australian Labor Party’s fraudulent cancer care pledge
- London public meeting demands the freedom of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Illinois passes bill criminalizing infrastructure-related protests
2019-05-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A socialist program needed to halt assault on university students and staff
- Trump says he reported $1.17 billion in losses over 10 years to evade paying taxes
- Republicans launch “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against Representative Rashida Tlaib
- IG Metall and Thyssenkrupp collaborate in handing over company to finance sharks
- German president calls for clampdown on freedom of speech, internet censorship at Berlin conference
- Sri Lankan government imposes island-wide curfew amid anti-Muslim violence
- A million species threatened with extinction, UN-backed report warns
- Australia: Rally to defend Julian Assange held in Broadmeadows, Melbourne
- Questcor Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt: Financial parasitism and the US pharmaceutical industry
- A new stage in the US-China trade war
- Trump welcomes Hungarian far-right prime minister Orbán to the White House
- Washington pushes to brink of war against Iran
- More than one million Americans lost health insurance in 2018
- Five years since the poisoning of Flint’s water supply: Part one
- The teachers’ revolt and the fight for social equality
- “The Socialist Equality Party views the defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning as the spearhead of an emerging global struggle against imperialism.”
- Factory fire symptomatic of social devastation in Calwell electorate
- Former Boeing engineers say safety compromised by cost-cutting drive
- Students in Berlin support this Saturday’s rally to defend Julian Assange
- Sweden reopens “preliminary investigation” and seeks extradition of Julian Assange
2019-05-15
- UK Tory government maintains benefit sanctions as misery and deaths continue
- Strong support for Toledo hospital workers as UAW isolates strike
- After shouting “I’m pregnant,” woman fatally shot by Texas police officer
- Sri Lankan austerity measures to deepen after terrorist attack
- Germany: Siemens hives off energy and power plant division
- How Québec Solidaire abetted the rise of anti-Muslim chauvinism
- Duterte consolidates hold on Philippine politics in midterm election
- No to war against Iran!
- Attendees at London meeting to free Assange and Manning speak out
- Trump planning nationwide military round-up of 10,000 immigrants
- Hunter “Meet the Candidates” Forum exposes major parties
- Five years since the poisoning of Flint’s water supply: Part two
- Australia’s central bank slashes growth forecasts
- Doris Day, prominent postwar American actress and singer, dies at 97
- “The IYSSE will redouble its efforts to build a mass movement of young people in Assange’s defence”
2019-05-16
- Protesters occupying Venezuela embassy in Washington DC speak out
- Pentagon threatens Europe over EU army plans
- Trump issues executive order directed at Huawei
- Torture report reveals German authorities’ brutal methods during deportations
- Sudanese military kills protesters demanding return to full civilian rule
- Right-wing outcry over student protest against anti-Muslim “headscarf conference” at German university
- Alabama abortion ban: Back to barbarism
- Labor and the unions responsible for social crisis in western Sydney
- New Zealand government’s promises to combat child poverty exposed
- Washington orders US personnel out of Iraq amid war buildup against Iran
- ICE conducts armed raid on student pastor’s home in Chicago, abducts three
- Co-founder Chris Hughes calls for government break-up of Facebook
- Australia’s housing crisis to worsen whichever party wins election
- Audience members at London meeting discuss way forward in fight for Assange and Manning’s freedom
- Detroit teachers demand action on pay, class sizes and testing
- Indian elections: Congress combines populist rhetoric with jingoism and communalism
- France hosts “Christchurch call” summit to intensify internet censorship
- ICFI supporters hold rally in India to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
2019-05-17
- Saudi bombs kill Yemeni civilians, raising war tensions in Persian Gulf
- The Eyes of Orson Welles: A markedly political approach to the American filmmaker …
- Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party! Take up the fight for socialist internationalism!
- US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C.
- University of California unions wear down workers with fifth one-day strike
- Spain’s ruling elite mourns former Socialist Party leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo on Sri Lankan emergency declaration
- Students for Justice in Palestine at New York University smeared as anti-Semitic
- Strong response to SEP’s socialist program at final election meetings
- The US war drive against Iran and the conflict with Europe
- Mass unemployment, climate change and a toxic dump in Oxley
- Millions in Australia “view Assange as a hero who is being attacked for revealing the truth.”
- Muslim victims of violence in Sri Lanka speak to the WSWS
- Workers and youth discuss Julian Assange, social conditions and war at SEP election meetings
- More migrant deaths as Trump unveils class-based immigration quota
- Rising US health insurance costs take toll on workers
- George Galloway tried to become Brexit Party candidate—and failed
- With contract deadline approaching, Michigan auto parts workers vote by 97 percent to strike global parts maker
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Socialist Equality Party in Germany to hold central meeting of European election campaign in Berlin
- Labor’s promise on childcare wages—another cynical deception
- Chelsea Manning jailed again after refusing to testify against WikiLeaks
- Canada’s government uses bogus “foreign interference” claims to expand censorship ahead of federal election
- “We must act now in mobilising to free him. He is one of us.”
2019-05-18
- Russia: 98 arrested in opposition-led protests in Yekaterinburg
- Democrats back trade war with China
- Conservative Party implodes over Brexit crisis as May agrees to stand down next month
- Amid declining real wages, strikes in US escalate
- New York Times promotes a woman’s right to annihilate millions
- Attendees from Scotland speak out: “Workers have to make their voices heard”
- Only socialist policies can resolve the Australian public education crisis
- The assault on the Venezuelan embassy
- As New York City transit contract expires, governor launches vindictive attack on workers
- “What is it that Manning and Assange are being persecuted for? Revealing the truth”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New Jersey education budget reallocation threatens hundreds of jobs
- India’s multi-phase election concludes
- Bob Hawke, former Australian Labor prime minister, 1929-2019
- Massive flooding in New Orleans as five pumps go offline
- Video: Mass layoffs hit Illinois Fiat Chrysler plant
- New Zealand PM leads global Internet censorship campaign
- One million take to the streets against education cuts, austerity in Brazil
- German government prepares troops for domestic missions
2019-05-20
- Police escort workers out of closed plant in Central Pennsylvania
- Trump manoeuvres in economic war against China
- “Defending Julian Assange requires the mobilisation of the working class in a struggle against capitalism”
- This week in history: May 20-26
- Toledo hospital strikers call for broader mobilization
- Socialist Equality Party holds rally in Berlin to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
- The Australian Labor Party’s election debacle and the fight against the far-right
- Teachers rally in Nashville, Tennessee to demand pay raises
- Far-right Alternative for Germany sets the tone for German Grand Coalition government
- Death of a Los Angeles dockworker
- Supreme Court justices battle over execution delays
- Ethiopian Airlines tells Boeing, FAA to stop blaming dead pilots for 737 crashes
- Biden makes right-wing plea for “unity” with Republicans
- Avengers: Endgame: A waste of time, money and talent
- SEP campaign teams in UK win support for Assange and Manning
- Missouri becomes the latest state to pass punitive anti-abortion legislation
2019-05-21
- 27th weekly “yellow vest” rally in France: Protesters defend Assange, denounce war
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- A socialist perspective against fascism and war: Successful SGP election meeting in Berlin
- US warships provocatively challenge China’s claims in South China Sea
- Protests erupt across US over barbaric anti-abortion ban in Alabama
- White House and Google launch technology war against China
- US media silent on re-jailing of Chelsea Manning
- Le Pen’s neo-fascist National Rally leads European election polls in France
- Persian Gulf tensions rise as Trump threatens “end” of Iran
- Trump administration shipping immigrants to sanctuary cities as fifth child dies in ICE custody
- Ford slashing 7,000 white collar jobs
- Former Ecuadorian consul Fidel Narváez denounces search and confiscation of Assange’s possessions
- Right-wing Australian government re-elected as voters turn against Labor
- Brazilian youth speak out during São Paulo demonstration against Bolsonaro’s attacks on education
- Austrian government falls over video exposing corruption of far-right politician Christian Strache
- Mass support for Assange as workers and youth oppose militarism and war
- On the spot report: Ecuador’s government colludes with Washington to seize Julian Assange’s possessions
- Mobilize the working class in defense of abortion rights
2019-05-22
- Stalinist CPM faces debacle in its West Bengal “bastion”
- Ten years after civil war ends, Sri Lankan ruling elites prepare for class war
- Video: Christoph Vandreier’s full lecture at Wayne State
- Socialist Equality Group to hold public meeting in Turkey to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
- Former White House counsel refuses to testify before House committee
- Over 240,000 people back Chinese tech worker protest
- Collapse of British Steel threatens 25,000 jobs
- Banks and multinationals announce mass layoffs in Spain
- Canada’s Conservative leader lays out right-wing economic and foreign policy agenda
- The global socialist strategy to fight auto layoffs
- Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against nationalism
- The author asks: Is America unredeemable? Rachel Kushner’s novel The Mars Room
- Australian Labor Party in crisis after election debacle
- Washington threatens new attack on Syria amid US war buildup in Persian Gulf
- Ford workers in Michigan respond to job cuts
- Teachers strike in New Haven School District, Northern California
- Swedish hearing to extradite Julian Assange delayed until June 3
- Australia: Tasmanian paramedic protests ambulance ramping
- Thousands rally across the US to defend abortion rights
2019-05-23
- British Steel collapse threatens 25,000 jobs
- Workers and young people warn about the mounting social crisis
- Washington revives Syria chemical weapons propaganda as pretext for war
- New Haven teachers strike enters fourth day
- The Indian elections and the fight to free the Maruti Suzuki class war prisoners
- German government steps up military intervention in Mali
- Flu outbreak leads to quarantine at Texas immigrant detention center
- The Huawei shock
- Trump, Democrats clash over investigations
- New Zealand media to censor coverage of Christchurch terrorist’s trial
- Macron’s Labor Law in France: Unions organize 3,000 layoffs at Carrefour supermarket chain
- The rise of the Brexit Party and how to fight it
- Amnesty International declares Julian Assange “not a prisoner of conscience”
2019-05-24
- Incoming Ukrainian president moves to dissolves parliament
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Tamil nationalists support anti-Muslim witch-hunt in Sri Lanka
- Workers and youth condemn major parliamentary parties
- New charges against Julian Assange under the Espionage Act criminalize journalism
- Oxford University student calls for defence of Julian Assange
- Indian big business propels Modi and his Hindu supremacist BJP to a second term
- The millennial generation in the US: Life on the brink
- Markets fall on trade war and global growth fears
- Lyft cuts drivers’ rates in weeks following global rideshare strike
- Fearmongering accompanies release of John Walker Lindh after 17 years in prison
- Leading Mélenchon supporter backs Le Pen’s neo-fascist National Rally
- Six immigrant children dead in US custody since September
- Amid worsening trade war, Chinese president calls for new “Long March”
- Chicago teachers speak on inequality, attacks on public education at downtown rally
- Austria’s “Ibiza Affair” and the rightward shift of the political establishment
- Defend the right to tell the truth! Defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!
- Israeli writer Amos Oz (1939-2018): A critical appreciation
2019-05-25
- Financial Times hails four years of Syriza rule in Greece
- Mercy Health workers continue strike as management digs in
- Socialist Equality Party wins important support in Australian federal election
- Actor Geoffrey Rush awarded record payout in defamation damages
- UK Prime Minister May to quit as Conservative leader June 7
- Germany continues deportations to Afghanistan
- The class issues in the fight to free Julian Assange
- Trump deploys 1,500 troops to Middle East, sells weapons to Gulf allies
- Police and military crack down on spontaneous taxi strike in Matamoros, Mexico
- The bankruptcy of Lutte ouvrière’s European election campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Knock Down the House and the Democratic Party politics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- UK climate change protests: Students speak out against treatment of Assange and Manning
- Grenfell fire inquiry delayed for another six months
- German Social Democrats and “The Left” strengthen domestic security agency
- Nationalism, militarism dominate final European election debate in France
- Chicago Teachers Union prepares to back new Democratic mayor’s austerity demands
- SGP European election candidate Andreas Niklaus speaks to Berlin bus drivers
- “Truth ultimately is all we have:” Julian Assange appeals for public support
- United Steelworkers forcing 6,100 Alcoa and Arconic workers to work without a contract
2019-05-27
- This week in history: May 27-June 2
- Former Trump adviser lays out plan for all-out economic war against China
- Stalinist CPM and CPI suffer meltdown in India’s national election
- As Assange faces 170-year sentence, Trump proposes pardoning US war criminals
- “Yellow vest” protesters pay tribute at the Communards’ Wall in Paris
- Australia’s right-wing, US-backed prime minister
- US millennials describe life on the brink
- Rumored deal between Fiat-Chrysler and Renault foreshadows mass layoffs
- Aftermath of terrorist attack: Sri Lankan SEP public meeting warns about threat of dictatorship
- The end of Game of Thrones: Spectacle versus art
- Ford workers in Germany discuss impending job cuts with SGP candidate
- Ruling conservatives, social democrats collapse in EU elections
- Dressbarn to close all its stores as US “retail apocalypse” exceeds 2018 closures
- US federal prisoner dies after more than 35 years in solitary confinement
- German Fridays for Future protesters discuss overthrowing capitalism
- UK workers, youth and students demand the freedom of Assange and Manning
- Australian youth speak out at climate change rallies
- Attend UK public meetings to demand freedom of Assange and Manning!
- Memorial Day 2019: US Army tweet prompts outpouring of antiwar sentiment
2019-05-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “Yellow Vest” Facebook group with 350,000 members frozen on European election day
- Longshore union sabotages strike by 2,000 dockworkers in Vancouver, British Columbia
- European election debacle for Conservatives and Labour
- New Zealand teachers’ strike: Break from Labour and the unions! Unite the working class against austerity!
- San Diego Sweetwater High School District to lay off 82 educators and staff amid investigation of budgetary fraud
- Podemos collapses in European, regional and municipal elections in Spain
- US blood plasma industry targets poor and working class
- US Army tweet provokes outpouring of antiwar sentiment
- New Haven, California teacher strike enters second week
- Fiat-Chrysler announces merger, threatens jobs bloodbath
- Netanyahu—unable to form a government—threatens new Israeli elections
- Leaked OPCW engineering report concludes alleged 2018 chemical attack in Syria was staged
- Chicago police kill bipolar man inside his home
- Brazilian media, Workers Party and pseudo-lefts attempt to derail opposition to Bolsonaro
- Australian government, Labor opposition silent on espionage charges against Assange
- Australian Labor Party’s new leader signals further pro-business shift
2019-05-29
- Film director John Singleton dead at age 51
- Why is the Democratic Socialists of America silent on the persecution of Julian Assange?
- Why ISIS launched a terror attack on Sri Lanka
- Honduran government cracks down on strike by teachers, doctors and nurses
- University of Chicago graduate student union authorizes strike action
- European elections: German voters register strong opposition to grand coalition
- Le Pen’s far-right National Rally wins European election vote in France
- Police intimidation and violence used against UK fracking protestors
- Widespread damage in Dayton, Ohio area after series of tornadoes
- Venezuelan refugees face desperate conditions in Colombia
- Tens of thousands join climate strike in New Zealand
- Despite Assange’s ill health, Swedish court rejects delay to hearing
- UK ambulance staff quitting in record numbers
2019-05-30
- 52,000 teachers strike in New Zealand
- New prime minister installed in Papua New Guinea
- Mueller encourages drive to remove Trump
- Letter to Guardian demands retraction of false claim that Julian Assange faces “rape charge”
- Amid grave concerns for his health, Assange transferred to Belmarsh Prison medical wing
- Tensions with China to escalate following Trump’s visit to Japan
- Istanbul public meeting calls for the defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Ford layoffs provoke widespread anger
- The European elections and the resurgence of the class struggle
- The hangman of the Middle East: US-backed regime in Egypt hands down nearly 2,500 death sentences
- Class action lawsuit brought in US against generic-drug makers for colluding to fix prices
- French government threatens “national security” charges against journalists who revealed Yemen war arms sales
- China considering “rare earths” retaliation in conflict with the US
- Successful book presentation of Why Are They Back? at the Heinrich Böll Library in Berlin
- Austrian Chancellor Kurz toppled following vote of no confidence
- Julian Assange and the degraded spectacle of Britain’s Guardian
2019-05-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Children detained in adult watch houses in Queensland
- Trump to impose tariff on Mexico in attack on immigrants as Democrats denounce Russia
- The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Terry Gilliam’s latest tribute to non-conformism
- Pakistan government prepares savage austerity following IMF “bailout”
- “Today it’s Julian Assange, tomorrow it could be you”
- Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara makes a fool of himself
- New Haven, California teachers strike at a crossroads
- On the spot report: Protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court demands freedom for gravely ill Julian Assange
- Fresh Israeli elections after Netanyahu fails to form a government
- US escalates threat of force against Iran
- Protesters speak out in defence of Assange
- Russian health care workers protest over wages and staffing
- The German government prepares military intervention in Syria
- Faurecia auto parts workers await contract expiration in Saline, Michigan
- WikiLeaks ambassador Joseph Farrell: “Going into prison is a big, ominous, oppressive feeling”
- Following European elections: EU summit haggles over top jobs
- Democratic governor signs Louisiana fetal “heartbeat” abortion ban
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