Archive: 08/2019
2019-08-01
- Mass protests erupt after Sudan’s military junta guns down school children
- Trump administration continuing family separations at US-Mexico border despite court order
- Julian Assange’s lawyer briefs Australian parliamentarians on his persecution
- Video shows Dallas, Texas police joking as a 32-year-old man dies in their custody
- Federal Reserve cuts rates, but Wall Street demands more
- “Paid for by Fiat Chrysler:” Prosecutors outline UAW corruption for Norwood Jewell sentencing hearing
- A conversation with actor Malcolm McDowell: “Once you erode freedoms like this, and artistic thought, where are we as a civilized society?”
- Australian Labor Party leader: We will keep voting for government’s legislation
- German politicians and media urge military action in the Persian Gulf
- Body of Steve Caniço, killed in police raid, found in France’s Loire River
- The Democrats and Detroit
- The Democratic debate: A right-wing party unmasked
- Blair’s number two, Alastair Campbell, reveals how Corbyn tried to keep him in the Labour Party
- A reply to Die Zeit editor Jochen Bittner
- US federal court exposes Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks
2019-08-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Autoworkers speak out as GM Warren Transmission plant closes after 78 years of operation
- UK: Over 1,300 homeless people penalised last year under the 1824 Vagrancy Act
- Trump escalates trade war against China
- Media silent on dismissal of DNC suit against Julian Assange
- AMLO’s police gun down immigrant near US border
- More than 150,000 healthcare and grocery workers could strike in California and other states
- US doctors’ group urges probe into child migrant deaths from influenza
- ExxonMobil fire in Harris County, Texas injures 37 workers
- The Democratic Party politics of the “Democratic Socialists of America”
- Senate Democrats approve Trump war budget
- Berlin’s Jewish Museum director Peter Schäfer forced to resign
- Slump deepens in Australian residential construction industry
- French populist Mélenchon gives advice to AMLO in Mexico amid growing social unrest
2019-08-03
- Unions step up sabotage of airline workers’ struggles in Europe
- Trump’s trade war measures hit the financial markets
- Rashida Tlaib defends Democratic Party collaboration with Trump on immigration
- Puerto Rican governor steps down as political crisis escalates
- Big business parties preside over a social catastrophe in 21st century America
- French government bans protests against police killing of Steve Caniço
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Alitalia workers to bear the costs of selloff of Italy’s national airline
- US scrapping of INF treaty heightens threat of nuclear war
- The Political Origins and Consequences of the 1982–86 Split in the International Committee of the Fourth International
- German auto supplier Eisenmann files for bankruptcy
- Australian households’ cost of living soars above consumer price index
- UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement
- Kentucky miners block train tracks for sixth day demanding back pay
- Despite briefing by Julian Assange’s lawyer, Australian politicians still refuse to defend him
- 16 Shots: Documenting the Chicago Democratic Party’s cover-up of the police murder of Laquan McDonald
2019-08-05
- This week in history: August 5-11
- UK: By-election defeat for Conservatives but Labour almost wiped out
- Teamsters union boss with close ties to Chicago Democrats pleads guilty to extortion
- Assange’s father speaks to the WSWS: “Julian’s resolve is fierce”
- Russian authorities continue crackdown on opposition protests
- Trump: The political enabler of fascist violence
- US to ring China with missiles in nuclear arms race
- Trump orders review of Pentagon’s JEDI cloud computing contract
- General strike by Hong Kong workers against extradition law
- UK: Vigil mourns homeless man who “lived” in a Hackney bus shelter
- Forty years since first German broadcast of the “Holocaust” series
- Study calls for closure of over half all health clinics in Germany
- Deadlock over Iranian cargo ships exposes deep crisis of Brazilian ruling class
- FAA concealed flaws in Boeing aircraft after Lion Air crash in Indonesia
- Bangladesh primary school teachers demand government nationalise schools
- Argentina’s Partido Obrero splits with longtime leader Jorge Altamira
- Quebec: A political balance sheet of the United Steelworkers’ betrayal of the ABI workers
2019-08-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US-China trade conflict escalates to currency war
- Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council refused to host Palestinian charity event, citing “anti-Semitism” fears
- Jailed Sri Lankan writer Shakthika Sathkumara defends Julian Assange
- Puerto Rican authorities scramble to provide democratic cover for installation of Wall Street’s governor
- US House retirements signal deepening crisis for Republican Party
- Spanish petty-bourgeois groups call on Podemos to install social-democratic government
- Fascist violence and the politics of race and racism
- As Mexican economy stagnates, ruling Morena party imposes state law to suppress social protests
- India’s Hindu supremacist government abrogates Kashmir’s autonomy
- Judge lets bribe-taking UAW bureaucrat Norwood Jewell off with a slap on the wrist
- Tens of thousands of workers strike throughout Hong Kong
- What is the German secret service concealing about the Lübcke murder?
- Beto O’Rourke: The incredible shrinking empty suit
- US Secretary of State demands greater Australian involvement in war drive against China
- Sri Lanka: Colombo University students call for release of Julian Assange
- Leading Pabloite Gilbert Achcar provided counter-insurgency advice to British Army
2019-08-07
- Washington orders international embargo on Venezuela, threatens invasion
- Sri Lankan parliamentary parties back extension of emergency rule
- Australia: Melbourne rail workers vote for strike action
- General strike signals entry of working class into Hong Kong protests
- Canadian auto parts workers stage wildcat strike as Oshawa GM plant closure looms
- French-backed Libyan militia airstrike kills 42 civilians
- Large turnout to view George Washington murals slated for destruction by San Francisco school board
- In wake of El Paso slaughter, Mexican government continues to do Trump’s bidding
- Layoffs in global auto industry hit Mexico, India, China and the US
- Britain to join US naval blockade of Iran
- South African jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim returns with The Balance
- Grenfell fire campaigner Amanda Beckles died by suicide
- Bowing to House Democratic leadership, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez purges staff
- Kentucky coal miners continue protest as Blackjewel assets auction proceeds
- Protests in Australia continue to break official silence on Julian Assange
2019-08-08
- Amid Turkish war threats, Ankara and Washington to build “safe zone” in Syria
- US military testing domestic wide-area surveillance with high-altitude balloons
- Michigan road workers strike major regional contractor
- Another governor ousted in Puerto Rico as protests continue
- The DSA’s dishonest and self-serving account of the US teachers’ strikes
- Australian spy and police chiefs say raids on journalists must continue
- Trump in El Paso: The culprit returns to the scene of the crime
- French police assault Nantes protest against police drowning of Steve Caniço
- Lowe’s lays off thousands of workers as “retail apocalypse” continues
- India dramatically intensifies repression in Kashmir
- ICE rounds up nearly 700 immigrants in sweep through Mississippi poultry plants
- New Zealand: Maori nationalist parties exploit protest against property development
- Bond markets point to global recession
- What lies behind the fatal attack at Frankfurt Central Rail Station?
- Currency war: A new stage in capitalist breakdown
2019-08-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Major flooding narrowly averted after Toddbrook dam collapse
- Oshawa autoworker speaks on wildcat strikes, Unifor treachery
- Jacksonville, Florida officials move forward with electrical utility privatization plan
- John Pilger warns: “Do not forget Assange. Or you will lose him”
- The Mississippi raid: Trump’s attack on immigrants and his Democratic enablers
- New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority approves plan to cut 2,700 jobs
- Midsommar: Illuminating nothing
- Chelsea Manning faces $441,000 in fines and another year in jail for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks
- Indo-Pakistani conflict sharpens with New Delhi’s assault on Kashmir
- Jennifer Robinson, a leading member of Assange’s legal team, speaks with the WSWS
- Brexit threatens to destabilise Ireland on both sides of the border
- Peak District residents speak on Toddbrook dam collapse in UK
- Australian High Court scraps free speech for workers
- Hundreds of Detroit workers line up to apply for new Fiat Chrysler jobs
- Capital One hack compromises personal data of 106 million credit card applicants
- UN: Global food and water crisis threatens 3 billion people
2019-08-10
- The Democratic Socialists of America shows its hostility to socialism
- Police have killed 5,000 Americans since Ferguson protests
- New Delhi’s assault on Kashmir and the fight against communal reaction, imperialism, and war
- Ground-breaking documentarian D.A. Pennebaker dies
- US defence secretary, NATO chief visit New Zealand to strengthen military ties
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy: Salvini seeks coalition with fascist Fratelli d’Italia
- Following AUSMIN talks, Australian politician compares China to Nazi Germany
- German government and Greens promote military mission in Persian Gulf
- New York judge orders Fordham University to recognize Students for Justice in Palestine club
- Study finds workplace injuries increase risk of death by suicide, drug overdose
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Wall Street financial vultures: Please be nice to Puerto Rico
- Canada’s ruling elite whipping up anti-China hysteria to pave way for repression, rearmament and war
- UK growth contraction caps week of economic turbulence
- Australian investigative journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange
- Detroit man dies after ICE deports him to Iraq
- More strikes called off by UK airline unions
2019-08-12
- This week in history: August 12-18
- Australia: Mentally-ill man shot dead by police at his home
- Elderly husband kills wife, then himself, in desperation over skyrocketing healthcare costs
- FBI presses for social media surveillance “early alerting tool” in aftermath of mass shootings
- Over 50,000 join opposition protests in Moscow
- Climate change reports warn of a world on the brink
- Paris’s Notre Dame fire: Two children test positive for lead poisoning
- Eight-hour power blackout hits Indonesian capital
- Hong Kong protests continue into a tenth week
- Hottest July on record signals accelerated climate change
- Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: #MeToo, McCarthyism and machine politics
- Fire at Erie, Pennsylvania day care center leaves five children dead
- Who wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead?
- UK: Johnson government considers post-Brexit snap election, while Labour’s Blairites plot “national unity” government
- The ABC documentary “Hero or Villain”: Undermining the defence of Julian Assange
2019-08-13
- Southern separatists overrun Aden, exposing fraud of US, Saudi puppet regime in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- An interview with historian Brenda Wineapple, author of books on Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Persecuted Sri Lankan writer released on bail
- Explosions at Russian military facilities leave eight dead
- Residents compare trauma of Mississippi ICE Raid to Hurricane Katrina
- Why is the media dismissing questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death as “conspiracy theories”?
- “We can come together as a force:” Nashville resident who saw neighbors stop ICE speaks out
- Stop the suppression of the San Francisco murals! Defend the right to history, art and culture!
- Australian actor John Jarratt sues Daily Telegraph after jury throws out rape charge
- Trump imposes new class-based immigration restrictions
- Protest sit-in shuts Hong Kong international airport
- Concerns grow over global financial stability
- Scores arrested in protests against ICE in New York City
- Immigrant tent camps in Paris: Victims of France’s war on refugees
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro threatens Glenn Greenwald, ratchets up fascist rants
- Establishment figures welcome renewed anti-China hysteria in Australia
- The German media and Julian Assange: Silence and slander
2019-08-14
- Australia: Mentally-ill man carries out stabbing attacks in Sydney
- UK supermarket workers oppose new wage-cutting contract at Walmart subsidiary Asda
- Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition by Vadim Z. Rogovin
- Portugal’s social-democratic government calls out army against truckers’ strike
- “Voyage of the Damned:” Hundreds of refugees stranded in the Mediterranean
- Bottled water distributions begin as lead water poisoning crisis erupts in Newark, New Jersey
- Over a third of UK’s top earners live in London while workers struggle to get by
- Autoworkers react to slap-on-the wrist sentencing of former UAW VP
- Italy: Democrats, Five-Star Movement call for technocratic government
- Hong Kong protests met with denunciations and threats
- From Couch to Curb film launch highlights youth homelessness in Australia
- Far-right government elected in Guatemala
- Three-star general stands for far-right Alternative for Germany in mayoral election
- US media continues to downplay suspicions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death
- Chicago school district and union officials prepare to sell austerity contract to teachers
- Argentina’s stock market crashes after Macri loses pre-election poll
2019-08-15
- Hospital workers strike spreads throughout France
- Trump again “jokes” about extending his presidency
- Canada: New federal law expands national security agencies’ repressive powers
- Wall Street plunges on fears of global recession
- US autoworkers on collision course with the companies
- San Francisco school board proposes “compromise” in move to suppress historic Depression-era murals
- DSA candidate concedes Queens District Attorney race
- India’s unprecedented lockdown of Kashmir in eleventh day
- Australia: Pro-US ideologue brands student groups as China’s “useful idiots”
- Still no explanation for death of Epstein in prison
- Trump administration sabotages Endangered Species Act
- Scotland records highest drug fatality rate in the UK
- Supporters of the “Life of Washington” mural in San Francisco speak their minds
- UK: Bradford NHS workers vote to strike against privatisation
- Trade war, falling sales take center stage at Michigan auto industry conference
- Conservatives and Social Democrats court the far-right Austrian Freedom Party
- Taliban claim breakthrough in Afghanistan talks, US commander says operations continue
2019-08-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Asda supermarket workers protest inferior contract
- Australian government boosts Special Forces despite war crimes charges
- Protesters pepper-sprayed outside Rhode Island ICE facility after officer drives truck into crowd
- 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre
- A dictatorial move: Trump blocks travel to Israel by two congresswomen
- Oslo mosque targeted in attempted far-right terrorist attack
- New studies reveal growing epidemic of nurse suicides in the US
- Newark, New Jersey suspends distribution of bottled water over expiration concerns
- Financial turbulence continues as major economies move towards recession
- US Kaiser Permanente workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of strike
- Iran tanker released in Gibraltar despite US bid to seize it
- UK supermarket worker: “The ‘choice’ from Asda is no choice—you sign or you’re out of a job”
- As China masses troops on border, Trump calls for end to Hong Kong “problem”
- UAW official indicted for taking millions in bribes as scandal spreads to GM
- Autopsy indicates death of Jeffrey Epstein likely due to strangulation
- Corbyn makes his pitch to head a “caretaker government” to stop no-deal Brexit
- Blackjewel miners in Kentucky vow to continue fight against coal operator
2019-08-17
- Venezuelan military court jails union official as working-class opposition grows
- Blackwater mercenary Nicholas Slatten sentenced to life in prison for initiating 2007 Nisour Square Massacre
- Nearly five million people in the UK live in “deep poverty”
- The newest #MeToo atrocity: Opera singer Plácido Domingo comes under attack
- State of siege in Kashmir: A warning to the international working class
- Questions continue over Russian nuclear accident
- UK: Record £9.2 billion of NHS budget handed to private firms
- New Zealand: Outrage over babies taken by the state
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan-South Korea conflict intensifies
- Australian health workers protest assaults on staff
- US: Homelessness, housing insecurity top list of college student stressors as new year begins
- German Greens prepare for participation in government
- Facial recognition technology and identity politics
- Lawyers raise questions after medical examiner declares Epstein committed suicide
- Tlaib agrees to Israeli terms, then reverses herself on West Bank visit
- Outrage as Colorado police returned to duty after shooting 19-year-old in the back
- Report reveals damning evidence of Canadian government bid to block criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin
- “That was our money!” Autoworkers livid over UAW corruption scandal
2019-08-19
- This week in history: August 19-25
- Germany: Plans to break up ThyssenKrupp take shape
- Trump administration calls for permanent restoration of bulk phone communications surveillance
- Sri Lankan opposition party picks Gotabhaya Rajapakse as presidential candidate
- Mass layoffs for workers; millions for GM, Ford and Chrysler CEOs
- Newark, New Jersey residents denounce Democrats over lead-poisoned water
- Germany: Ex-intelligence chief campaigns for Christian Democrats and far-right AfD
- Amy Klobuchar: The favorite Democrat of Senate Republicans
- India, Pakistan exchange artillery-fire, threats over Kashmir
- Guardian columnist Owen Jones attacked by fascist thugs in London
- Hundreds of thousands again take to Hong Kong’s streets
- German film prize goes to Margarethe von Trotta, director of Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Rosenstrasse (2003)
- American media shuts down the Epstein story
- US farm equipment manufacturer John Deere calls for “organizational efficiency,” threatening jobs
- ArcelorMittal and state officials hid news of Indiana chemical spill
- German daily defends right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski
- As Australian government threatens to jail journalists, media chiefs denounce Julian Assange
- Ashok Leyland autoworkers in India strike to demand higher bonuses
2019-08-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Blairites and Zionists escalate witch-hunt of Labour MP Chris Williamson
- Trump calls for naval blockade of Venezuela
- Turkey removes HDP mayors amid impending military attack on Syria
- Julian Assange’s father warns WikiLeaks’ publisher’s health is “declining rapidly” in Belmarsh Prison
- Australian prime minister elevates pro-US militarists to top cabinet, intelligence positions
- The fascist attack on Guardian journalist Owen Jones
- Tensions over climate change dominate Pacific Islands summit
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon hails Mexican government as embodiment of “citizens’ revolution”
- Over 450 refugees stranded in the Mediterranean for weeks as EU bars entry
- Police violence the sixth leading cause of death for young men in the US
- Quebec’s new CAQ-authored chauvinist laws incite spike in hate crimes
- New York Police Department fires cop who killed Eric Garner
- “You can’t trust the government”: Flint, Michigan residents speak out on Newark water crisis
- Behind Fiat Chrysler’s $4.5 billion investment in the Motor City
- Bolivia’s biggest mine and public health sector go on strike
- UAW corruption scandal: Former union VP Joe Ashton reportedly took $550,000 in illegal kickbacks
2019-08-21
- UK government prepares for social unrest following no-deal Brexit
- One year after Washington state strikes, layoffs and cuts propel educators into new fight
- Twitter purges 200,000 accounts “originating from China”
- Sudan opposition leaders form government with the army
- Salvadoran woman exonerated after being sentenced to 30 years in prison over stillbirth
- On the 79th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Indian assault on Kashmir in third week, thousands arrested
- The political crisis in Italy
- Trump administration refuses to vaccinate migrants in detention centers
- New human species discovered in the Philippines
- Glasgow: Lock-change evictions of asylum seekers restarted by Serco
- Anger among couriers is growing after Deliveroo quits Germany
- Brian Banks: A false rape accusation and its consequences
- Autoworkers determined to fight as UAW contract deadline approaches
- Joe Ashton, UAW VP named in corruption scandal, had long history of selling out auto workers
- Sri Lankan SEP holds “Free Assange” rally and public meeting in Hatton
2019-08-22
- Australia’s US Studies Centre advocates war-footing against China
- New Zealand government exploits Christchurch shooter’s letter to push for censorship of prisoners
- US Steel announces up to 200 layoffs at Great Lakes Works in Ecorse, Michigan
- Ryanair faces industrial unrest across Europe
- Socialist Equality Party wins support for Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning at Manchester Peterloo Massacre commemoration
- Regional strike against mining project fuels divisions within Peru’s crisis-ridden government
- How to fight for democratic rights in Hong Kong
- The work of Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha in the Flint water crisis
- Trump denounces Jews for “disloyalty” if they do not vote for him
- Markets await key speech by US Fed chair
- Resignation of Italian Prime Minister Conte triggers government crisis
- Trump orders indefinite jailing of detained immigrant families, attacks birthright citizenship
- Greece’s New Democracy government intensifies Syriza's anti-refugee policy
- Voices from Ferguson, Missouri five years after the police murder of Michael Brown
- Record global dividend payouts fuel rising social inequality
- Auto and railway workers in Tamil Nadu, India defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Germany’s Merkel tells UK government no Brexit concessions—Labour’s Corbyn steps up calls for caretaker government
- GM autoworker speaks out on UAW corruption, upcoming contract fight
- Ann Arbor forum discusses who was responsible for the Flint water crisis
2019-08-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Workers at GM, Ford, and Chrysler ready to strike in contract fight
- UK High Court rules in favour of spy agencies
- Australia: Train workers’ union calls off Melbourne strike
- In memory of Vadim Z. Rogovin
- Ontario teachers face threat of state repression, wage and job cuts in upcoming contract fight
- US escalates preparations for nuclear war with Russia and China
- German defence minister visits troops in Jordan and Iraq
- Democrats enforce crackdown on vehicular homelessness in Los Angeles
- Trump’s bid for Greenland and the imperialist redivision of the world
- Macron-Putin meeting before G7 summit highlights global geopolitical conflicts
- Wildfires rage throughout the Amazon rainforest
- Why is the New York Times still trying to sweep the Epstein case under the rug?
- Harlan County, Kentucky workers support coal miners’ blockade
- Brandenburg, Germany: Far-right AfD leads polls in state election
- Bill Frisell speaks with WSWS: “Music is like a teacher who opens your eyes to many things”
- Bangladesh: Thousands of families homeless after fire destroys Dhaka shanty homes
- Australia joins US naval operation against Iran, foreshadows involvement in South China Sea
2019-08-24
- US commander says navy ready for Venezuela intervention
- Unifor convention gives centre-stage to Trudeau, Freeland and the Liberal re-election campaign
- Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko faces charges over corruption and “high treason”
- Wall Street falls as US-China trade conflict intensifies
- Hundreds of workers laid off, have healthcare eliminated as Philadelphia refinery closes
- Australian state Labor government’s lies about “protest violence” exposed
- Trump escalates economic confrontation with China
- Rift widens between Australia and Pacific Island states
- Machinists on strike at Berkshire Hathaway-owned Special Metals in New Hartford, New York
- Merkel and Orbán: A sordid deal at the expense of refugees and democracy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- “We are all equal!” Captain who saved refugees refuses award from Paris mayor
- Michigan: Two million gallons of untreated sewage spill into Flint River
- UK: Fire breaks out in tower block near Grenfell Tower
- Texas prisoner executed despite debunked forensic evidence pointing to his innocence
- Dear White People Volume 3 and the weaponization of identity politics
- UK Prime Minister Johnson fails to secure Brexit concessions from Germany and France
- Massive police mobilization in Biarritz, France as G7 summit opens
- Strike votes continue as autoworkers gear up for contract fight against GM, Ford, and Chrysler
2019-08-26
- Whitney Biennial 2019: What this year’s “snapshot” of contemporary art reveals
- GM Wentzville workers speak out against UAW corruption
- Two utility workers electrocuted on the job in upstate New York
- Germany: New higher education law in North Rhine-Westphalia allows military research
- Anti-China witch-hunt targets Australian universities
- This week in history: August 26-September 1
- 20,000 AT&T workers strike as GM, Ford and Chrysler contract deadline looms
- German automaker Opel to cut workers’ hours and pay
- Del Monte Foods to close plants in Illinois and Minnesota
- Immigrants hold four days of protest outside Mexican detention center
- Hong Kong protests continue into twelfth week
- Divisions between major powers widen at G7 summit
- Tens of thousands demonstrate in Dresden, Germany, against the rise of the far-right
- Democrats join Trump in fundraising from the moneyed elite
- Britain sold more than £6 billion in arms for Saudi-led coalition’s deadly war in Yemen
- Germany: A politically motivated verdict in Chemnitz refugee trial
2019-08-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Steel to lay off 150 workers in Indiana as Trump administration escalates trade war
- Tongan government threatens to block access to Facebook
- The US announces provocative arms sale to Taiwan
- Newark water crisis: The latest chapter in the capitalist poisoning of America
- Australian PM calls for new internet censorship measures at G7
- Oklahoma judge finds Johnson & Johnson guilty in opioid epidemic
- Bank of England governor tells Jackson Hole conference: Existing financial system will not hold
- The future is socialism, but it must be fought for
- Israel launches airstrikes against Iraq, Syria and Lebanon
- French government fires bus and rail workers accused of “radicalization”
- Tensions rise as unions and district attempt to head off strike by Las Vegas teachers
- UK: Johnson considers suspending parliament to enforce no-deal Brexit
- Autoworkers vote to strike, denounce UAW treachery ahead of contract deadline with GM, Ford and Chrysler
- Breaking: CWA planning to shut down AT&T strike Wednesday, without any gains for workers
- AT&T strikers show their power, but face union-company gang-up
- Russia launches floating nuclear power plant amid new “scramble for the Arctic”
2019-08-28
- German Socialist Equality Party answers legal document from Verfassungsschutz Secret Service
- New US public charge rule may deter immigrants from vaccinating children
- FBI raids UAW President Gary Jones’ home, as workers vote to strike at GM, Ford and Chrysler
- Seattle teachers must fight for the defense of public education
- Veteran New Democrat to chair Canada’s new intelligence “watchdog” agency
- Washington invokes "domestic terrorism" to justify police state rule
- The Photographer of Mauthausen: Documenting Nazi crimes in a wartime concentration camp
- Clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson: They are trying to break Assange “physically and psychologically”
- Australian Labor Party accuses government of “losing control” of borders
- Sri Lankan PM backs Indian repression in Kashmir
- Iowa college professor resigns under pressure after publicly supporting Antifa
- Transnational Honda shuts down production in Argentina
- Prison camera footage outside Epstein’s cell is reported to be “unusable”
- The political battle facing teachers
- Unison calls off Bradford hospital workers’ strike
- Autoworkers vote overwhelmingly for strike at Ford, GM, and Chrysler plants
- CWA shuts down strike of 22,000 AT&T workers across US South
- Amazon wildfires expose fallacy of “green” capitalist politics
2019-08-29
- German President Steinmeier and the Nazi massacre at Fivizzano
- Sri Lankan president “lifts” emergency but armed forces mobilised to “maintain security”
- Puerto Rico weathers threat from Hurricane Dorian
- FBI raid of UAW president exposes union as criminal syndicate
- New Zealand economic forecast: “Things could turn ugly”
- While Neo-Nazis kill, German authorities stonewall
- Johnson & Johnson v. State of Oklahoma: How the courts are covering for Big Pharma
- Italy’s Five Star populists and social democrats try to form shaky coalition government
- Department of Homeland Security using $155 million in FEMA disaster relief to fund Trump’s immigrant crackdown
- FBI examining two cameras that malfunctioned outside Jeffery Epstein’s prison cell
- Johnson to suspend UK parliament to push through Brexit in a major assault on democratic rule
- Australia acts to retain sway over former colony Papua New Guinea
2019-08-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK Home Office set up fake social media network to target young British Muslims
- Trump promises pardons for crimes committed to build border wall
- US escalates regime-change machinations against Venezuela
- US alarmed over end to South Korea-Japan intelligence sharing
- US operation aggravates tensions over South China Sea disputes
- Australian government seeks to deport Tamil refugee family to Sri Lanka
- Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament: The British ruling class declares war on democratic rights
- New Jersey Democrats authorize bonds to cover up Newark water crisis
- India crows over US support for its assault on Kashmir
- Five Star Movement and social democrats to continue attacks on Italian working class in new government coalition
- Harvard student deported over friends’ social media posts
- Author’s introduction to Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition
- Hong Kong mass rally banned as Chinese troops deployed in show of force
- The Democratic Socialists of America Convention: A marketing gimmick for the Democratic Party
- Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette: A creative “genius” suppresses herself
- Day after FBI raids of UAW, autoworkers cast near unanimous vote to strike
- CWA union prepares sellout contract after ending strike by AT&T workers
- Australia: NSW Greens pass motion “defending” Assange, but MPs remain silent
2019-08-31
- Home video security systems increasingly linked to US police departments in violation of democratic rights
- Eighty years since the outbreak of World War II
- New York Police Department collecting DNA from unsuspecting workers and youth
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- IYSSE holds meetings in defence of Assange at Australian universities
- Up to 600,000 children in England either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
- Panorama documentary exposes human cost of gambling industry profits
- Former Fed official calls on central bank to end accommodation to Trump
- Only one-third of Americans believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide—so why does the New York Times?
- Chicago-area college advertises for strikebreakers as faculty walkout looms
- The Causes and Consequences of World War II
- Canada to go to polls amid geopolitical crisis, mounting working-class resistance
- Autoworkers conclude near-unanimous strike votes as corruption scandal targets charity run by UAW president
- Roger Waters to perform in London Monday in defense of Julian Assange
- Standard & Poor’s claims Argentina has “defaulted” on its debt
- Factional wars and scandals wrack Australian Labor Party following election debacle
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