Archive: 09/2019
2019-09-02
- Saudi airstrikes on Yemen prison kill more than 100
- Trump imposes new tariffs on China
- This week in history: September 2-8
- Preface to the Turkish edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Texas gunman kills seven people before being shot to death by police
- Australian government moves to deport Tamil refugees despite mass opposition
- UK: Nationwide protests oppose Johnson’s planned suspension of parliament
- Twenty years of the Young Euro Classic festival: Beethoven caught between rebellion and EU propaganda
- Take forward the fight to free Julian Assange!
- An interview with nurse scientist Judy Davidson on rising nurse suicides
- Twenty-five-year-old miner crushed to death in Pennsylvania coal mine
- Trump administration to reverse methane rules for energy industry
- Star quarterback Andrew Luck stuns National Football League by retiring at 29
- UK: Protesters condemn Johnson’s proroguing of parliament “We’ll wake up one day and all our rights will be gone if we don’t stand up and fight.”
- India: Motherson autoworkers strike indefinitely in Tamil Nadu
- Hurricane Dorian devastates northern Bahamas, reaches Category 5
- Two-day strike begins in Hong Kong following weekend of protests
- Germany: Xenophobic and anti-Semitic offences are rising sharply
2019-09-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The New York Times’ 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
- The World Socialist Web Site reaches 75,000 English articles
- Roger Waters and John Pilger make powerful defence of Julian Assange in London
- Hurricane Dorian kills five in the Bahamas as it moves slowly on to Florida
- Tens of thousands join first day of Hong Kong protest strike
- Far-right Alternative for Germany makes gains in state elections
- Courts back Trump administration as ICE continues to force-feed immigrants
- Australian worker killed in fall on Sydney construction site
- Eight dead, 26 missing in deadly boat fire off Southern California coast
- “It’s our time”: US autoworkers denounce UAW corruption, vow to fight as contract deadline approaches
- Australia: Whistleblower trials proceed despite outcry
- New York cook arrested by ICE after filing lawsuit for $200,000 in stolen wages
2019-09-04
- Unifor tries to keep Canadian autoworkers in the dark about US contract battle
- Strike wave paralyses transport system in Spain
- Stop the deportation of the Biloela refugee family from Australia!
- German president silent on the Holocaust at WWII memorial
- New York transit agency seeks casualization of its workforce
- Sri Lankan university unions threaten indefinite national strike over wages and benefits
- Russia and Turkey intensify military cooperation over US objections
- Israel: Netanyahu courts far right in election bid to avoid jail
- Vast destruction revealed as Hurricane Dorian leaves the Bahamas
- Imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond called to testify before US grand jury, most likely against Julian Assange
- Chicago Cambria Hotel workers continue strike
- British lawmakers win vote to debate bill authorising Brexit delay
- After 96 percent strike vote, UAW picks GM workers to try to push through first concessions contract
- Alone: The Arctic (Season 6)—Surviving reality television
- Massive blast hits Kabul as US envoy announces draft deal with Taliban
- The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history—Part Two
2019-09-05
- Media blacks out Roger Waters’ performance in defence of Assange
- Pentagon begins second phase of diverting funds to Trump’s border wall
- East Timor’s mass poverty, unemployment belie promises of “national liberation”
- Costa Rican government imposes ban on political strikes
- In Brexit crisis, Corbyn lines up with Tories and Blairites
- Crisis erupts in New Zealand Nurses Organisation
- Mexican president used spy agency to monitor immigrant caravans
- Sri Lanka: JVP presidential candidate vows to strengthen capitalist state
- Five Star-Democrat coalition government announced in Italy
- India labels 1.9 million Assam residents “foreigners” as prelude to their mass expulsion
- Hong Kong administration seeks to split protest movement
- Ten days before contract expiration, top aide to UAW GM negotiators pleads guilty to taking $2 million in kickbacks
- Schools begin in Denver amid sweltering heat and ongoing protests
- Trade war accelerates trend towards global recession
- Quebec: New attack on crane operators provokes strong opposition
2019-09-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Court orders end to “unlawful” Windsor, Ontario auto parts strike
- WikiLeaks exposes crimes of German imperialism
- Seattle union pushes through deal that includes hiring and firing of teachers based on race
- Washington escalates “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran
- UK pensioners suffer massive increase in poverty
- Rising class tensions across Indonesia trigger West Papua protests
- Official report exposes dire conditions in New Zealand prisons
- Hundreds attend viewing for young miner fatally crushed in Pennsylvania coal mine
- Germany’s Left Party reacts to electoral debacle in the East with sharp shift to the right
- Death toll mounts in Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian lingers off Carolina coast
- Northern Ireland: Harland and Wolff shipyard workers continue occupation
- Leslie Gelb dies at 82: The revolving door between the New York Times and the State Department
- One year since the Chicago house fire that killed ten children
- Vote “No” on the CWA’s sellout contract with AT&T!
- US Defense Department prepares for mass internet censorship
- Fearing rebellion of autoworkers against UAW, Trump holds White House meeting with General Motors CEO
- Autoworkers must form rank-and-file committees to counter UAW conspiracy
- Allentown, Pennsylvania Advance Auto Parts distribution workers on strike
- The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
2019-09-07
- Report shows advanced decay of New York City subway stations
- Jury finds one defendant not guilty, deadlocked on second in 2016 Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire case
- Another police-state raid in Australia to protect spy agencies
- UK: Johnson hails police as “bedrock of society” as Brexit crisis intensifies
- The epidemic of nurse suicides and the US healthcare crisis
- French unions meet with Macron administration to organize attack on pensions
- Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s longtime president, dies at 95
- Obituary: African-American novelist Toni Morrison dead at 88
- Central Maine Power embroiled in billing scandal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Peter Greste’s panel discussion in Sydney: Support for censorship and throwing Assange to the wolves
- New York court hears argument from “John Doe” that documents related to Jeffrey Epstein should remain sealed
- “Unimaginable” death toll predicted in Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian
- “Unimaginable” death toll predicted in Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian
- Colombian government renews civil war amid growing social unrest
- Chicago teachers union sets September 26 date for strike authorization vote
- Australian teachers and educators back US autoworkers’ fight
- UAW to autoworkers: We won’t tell you anything, but don’t read the World Socialist Web Site
- Workers furious as UAW stonewalls contract discussion with GM, Ford, and Chrysler
- Argentine teachers strike to protest assault by union thugs
2019-09-09
- US agency warns of lung illness epidemic among young people, attributed to e-cigarettes
- This week in history: September 9-15
- Federal court says secret US terrorism watchlist is unconstitutional
- Hong Kong protesters: Turn to the Chinese working class, not US imperialism
- “Horrendous” increase in New Zealand suicide rates
- Alexei Navalny, with backing of Russian Pabloites, shifts toward support for Stalinist KPRF
- Book review: Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South by Keri Leigh Merritt
- FBI targets groups opposing Trump’s concentration camps as “Extremists”
- Hurricane Dorian: Tens of thousands homeless in the Bahamas as damage assessed on Canadian coast
- The issues raised by climate change in the wake of Hurricane Dorian
- Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution: How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
- Florida teen hangs himself in Broward County maximum-security jail
- Countdown to contract fight: In final week before contract expires, autoworkers gear up for struggle against companies and UAW
- Pamela Anderson defends Assange, challenges McCain’s daughter on US TV
- Trump breaks off talks on end to US war in Afghanistan
2019-09-10
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- GM fires and harasses Mexican workers to speed up production
- Federal court says secret US terrorism watchlist is unconstitutional
- A socialist perspective for the Sri Lankan university employees’ struggle
- Scandal erupts over Público exposure of state complicity in Barcelona attack
- Washington Post pushes xenophobic campaign against Chinese Americans
- Trump blocks refugees from Bahamas as humanitarian catastrophe unfolds
- Representatives of the German establishment parties vote for fascist candidate
- China: Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
- As contract deadline looms in US, 8,000 GM autoworkers strike in South Korea
- Greek riot police attack child asylum seekers and refugees at Moria camp
- Fires consume more than 4.2 million acres of Bolivia’s forests
- UK government to target “far left” in revised Counter Extremism Strategy
- Household incomes dropping in Australia as economy slides toward recession
- UAW apologists try to cover up corruption scandal
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson prorogues Parliament
- Fires consume more than 4.2 million acres of Bolivia’s forests
- Strike by thousands of pilots shuts down British Airways
- Washington Post pushes xenophobic campaign against Chinese-Americans
2019-09-11
- Virgin Australia axes 750 jobs
- New York Times: Main source for anti-Russia campaign may have been a “double agent”
- Paris Stalingrad: The plight of refugees in the French capital, once “one of the best cities”
- Ontario education unions disarm teachers, support staff facing attack on jobs and conditions
- The legacy of Syriza: Four years of austerity, privatizations, militarism and attacks on refugees—Part 1
- Government Internet shutdowns on the rise internationally
- Scandal erupts over Público exposure of state complicity in Barcelona attack
- The struggle of autoworkers against GM, Ford, and Chrysler requires a global strategy
- Russia: Stalinist and far-right candidates win with backing from Navalny
- On the eve of the contract battle at GM, Ford, and Chrysler: A fighting strategy for autoworkers
- France and Germany escalate occupation of Mali and the Sahel
- An interview with Hind Meddeb, director of Paris Stalingrad: “It’s not a film about refugees, it’s a film about human beings”
- GM Detroit-Hamtramck workers determined to fight as auto contract deadline approaches
- The Financial Times lays down the law to Labour’s Corbyn
- How Detroit Democrats handed Fiat-Chrysler $400 million for a new assembly plant
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank demands commercial banks provide cheaper credit
- Trump fires Bolton as national security advisor
- Local reports claim thousands dead in the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian
- India: Kolkata students and workers demand freedom for Assange and Manning
2019-09-12
- Corbyn addresses Trades Union Congress in a display of cynicism and hypocrisy
- The legacy of Syriza: Four years of austerity, privatizations, militarism and attacks on refugees—Part 2
- German Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Greens negotiating right-wing coalition agreement in Saxony
- Democratic Socialists of America launches nationwide campaign for Bernie Sanders
- Scandal erupts over Público exposure of state complicity in Barcelona attack
- Australian incarceration rate rising despite drop in crime
- US study shows: Poverty and social inequality are killers
- BREAKING: Vance Pearson, top lieutenant to UAW president Gary Jones, arrested for embezzlement
- Sri Lankan university workers continue indefinite strike
- Unsubmissive France summer school promotes Islamophobia
- Italy: Conte wins vote of confidence
- Netanyahu pledges to annex Jordan Valley if re-elected
- UK government intensifies attack on freedom of movement
- Greek police detain 143 migrants in Athens raid
- With union support, Trudeau’s big business Liberals vie for re-election in fall vote
- Scottish court rules Johnson’s suspension of parliament unlawful
- UAW threatens workers with starvation strike pay as contract deadline at GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler looms
- Australian establishment demands removal of alleged “pro-China” member of parliament
- Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood visits Assange: “He’s a freedom fighter!”
- Two-day strike by 4,000 British Airways pilots concludes
2019-09-13
- UK: “Operation Yellowhammer” details savage austerity and confirms plans for state repression post-Brexit
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump administration announces plan to ban flavored e-cigarettes
- BREAKING: UAW President Gary Jones, former President Williams are unnamed co-conspirators in latest corruption charges, Detroit News reports
- The Legacy of Syriza: Four years of austerity, privatizations, militarism and attacks on refugees—Part 3
- Canada’s Liberals spending tens of billions on battleships, warplanes
- New Zealand police destroyed Pike River mine disaster evidence
- The bipartisan attack on the right to asylum
- On eve of contract expiration: Vance Pearson, top lieutenant to UAW president Gary Jones, arrested for embezzlement
- Official Secrets: A whistleblower attempts to prevent the Iraq War
- Unifor President Jerry Dias addresses Nemak workers in Windsor
- The Dissolution of the USSR and the Unipolar Moment of US Imperialism
- Former US intelligence officials say Israel spied on the White House
- Trump administration and California Democrats conspire to place the homeless in internment camps
- Fascism and militarism characterise debate in the German Bundestag
- Fire destroys another residential tower block in London
- Hubble Space Telescope detects water vapor on habitable-zone exoplanet
- Fascism and militarism characterise debate in the German Bundestag
- Hundreds of autoworkers discuss contract fight with GM, Ford and Chrysler in online meeting
- Pamela Anderson defends Julian Assange: “Journalism is not a crime!”
- Australian election survey refutes myths surrounding Labor Party debacle
- Wave of anti-immigrant violence strikes South Africa amid deepening economic crisis
2019-09-14
- Labour Party revokes Electronic Intifada journalist’s press pass in bid to suppress left-wing criticism
- Russia, Ukraine carry out high-profile prisoner exchange
- Ford, Fiat-Chrysler workers call for all-out strike alongside GM workers
- Sri Lanka: Tamil People’s Council calls rally to stir up Tamil nationalism
- Two workers crushed to death at Michigan granite supplier
- IG Metall plays treacherous role in the Riva steelworkers strike
- The Democratic presidential debate: A million miles from American social reality
- French transit workers strike against attack on pensions
- Ohio jury acquits young woman on murder charges in baby’s death
- New Zealand opposition National Party attacked over relations with China
- Boston transit system limps along as MBTA carries out disruptive repairs
- Billionaire Duke of Westminster carrying out social cleansing of working class residents in London
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Autoworkers react to UAW betrayal of GM, Ford, Chrysler contract fight
- US autoworkers want all out strike as contract deadline approaches at GM, Ford and Chrysler
- No letup in Trump’s war on immigrants as 37-year-old Mexican man dies in ICE custody
- Defending pensions against Macron requires an international political strategy
- Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback group covers for Steelworkers’ betrayal of ABI workers
- Fascistic elements in Republican Party threaten Democrats O’Rourke and Ocasio-Cortez
- US autoworkers shut down production at GM in nationwide strike
- Faced with massive opposition among workers, UAW calls national strike at GM
- UAW President Jones, former President Williams identified as co-conspirators in corruption scandal one day before contracts expire
- British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence
2019-09-16
- Australian government pushes drug testing for welfare recipients
- Video: GM workers speak out on strike
- This week in history: September 16-22
- Canada’s media join Conservatives in pushing for RCMP to play key role in election outcome
- Trump exploits drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities to threaten war against Iran
- Scottish father of two beaten to death in a prison in 2015
- US autoworkers shut down General Motors
- New York City mayor declares end of measles public health emergency
- Ford, Fiat-Chrysler workers call for all-out strike alongside GM workers
- Germany: IG Metall union concludes pact with corporate bosses and government against workers
- Two years on, Foxconn’s Wisconsin boondoggle continues under Democrats
- New EU Commission to intensify militarism and attacks on refugees
- Abrupt closures of two hospitals in West Virginia and Ohio leave region reeling
- The Brexit crisis and the struggle for the unity and political independence of the working class
- Election in Austria: Freedom Party demonstrates its close links to the Identitarian movement
- Abortion bill in NSW used to push Australian politics further to the right
2019-09-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- GM hiring scabs to replace strikers at Missouri and Texas assembly plants
- US Attorney General Barr invokes “state secrets” to cover up Saudi involvement in 9/11
- Washington’s rush to indict Iran over Saudi attacks
- Student union at Australian university attempts to bar Chinese students from elections
- Striking GM workers speak from the pickets
- Widodo plans to move Indonesian capital to Borneo
- Inspector general report details Trump’s abuse of immigrant children
- German workers support GM strikers in US
- Trump administration intervenes in bid to shut down GM strike
- The International Committee’s response to the “End of History”: The March 1992 Plenum of the ICFI
- Bupa’s aged care homes failing official standards across Australia
- Brazilian GM workers speak out on US autoworkers’ strike
- Boris Johnson gets short shrift from European Union leaders in Brexit talks
- Blair congratulates Corbyn for “sensible and skillful” opposition to no-deal Brexit
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians reject contract proposals, launch strike
- GM workers determined to fight as Ford and Chrysler workers press to join strike
- The story of Auschwitz
- Teachers set to strike in southern Alaska
2019-09-18
- Video: Striking GM workers in Flint, Michigan discuss key issues in their fight
- Uruguayan defense minister warns of “military conflict in Venezuela”
- UK lecturers and academic staff ballot to strike against huge pension and pay cuts
- Love Child, Hearts and Bones, Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story—Some of the social traumas of our time
- What is at stake in the British Supreme Court’s ruling on the proroguing of Parliament?
- Hundreds of thousands of Indian auto workers face sackings and wage cuts
- GM workers in Mexico hold assembly to discuss strike in the United States
- Striking GM workers arrested in Spring Hill, Tennessee for blocking scab truck
- Purdue Pharma, accused of deliberately fueling deadly US opioid crisis, files for bankruptcy
- Purdue Pharma, accused of deliberately fueling deadly US opioid crisis, files for bankruptcy
- The strike at General Motors: Class struggle vs. the reactionary politics of racial division
- Accidental drug overdose deaths continue to rise in Australia
- UK public meetings—The Socialist answer to Brexit: For the United Socialist States of Europe
- Washington steps up threats against Iran over strikes on Saudi oil facilities
- Hundreds of thousands of Indian auto workers face sackings and wage cuts
- As Indian economy sinks, Modi government scrambles to respond
- Video: Fiat Chrysler workers support GM strike, demand joint fight
- An interview with director Eva Mulvad: “You can…come a bit closer to having a more rounded understanding of the world”
- Claims of Chinese “hacking” add to US pressure on Australian government
- Trump administration intervenes in bid to shut down GM strike
2019-09-19
- Australian workers and youth back striking US autoworkers
- Video: Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie explains the significance of the discovery
- Election set for November 10 as attempts to form Spanish government collapse
- US seeks to intimidate Beijing in the South China Sea
- UK “justice” system tortures Julian Assange, treats fascist Tommy Robinson with kid gloves
- Thousands of Sri Lankan university workers demonstrate in Colombo
- The UAW’s $760 million strike fund: A bonanza for Solidarity House executives but only $250 per week for striking GM workers
- Unifor shuts down Nemak auto parts strike in Windsor, Canada
- Strike date of October 14 set for 80,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across US
- Inconclusive second elections intensify Israel’s political crisis
- Trump reviewing target lists as Iran war threat mounts
- Striking GM autoworkers call for expansion of strike to Ford and Fiat Chrysler, denounce UAW sabotage
- Stunning discovery of pre-human fossil skull in Ethiopia
- As GM tries to cut health benefits for workers on strike, Federal Reserve prepares more handouts to Wall Street
- The only solution to climate change is world socialism
- GM shuts off healthcare for striking autoworkers, begins to use scabs in attempt to break strike
- Mass protests erupt against Algerian army’s call for December elections
2019-09-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trudeau’s “blackface” photos: How to oppose Canada’s Liberal government, and how not to
- The personal and social tragedy of “dark periods”: Ibrahim: A Fate to Define, South Terminal, My English Cousin, 1982
- British postal workers to hold strike ballot to defend jobs and conditions
- US healthcare workers face rise in workplace violence
- Confrontation with China focus of Australian prime minister’s state visit to Washington
- One year since Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley gas explosions
- UK government, police prevent coroner’s inquest into Manchester Arena bombing
- Macron, Steinmeier visit Rome to prepare new EU repression of refugees
- Trump meets with security council on Iran war plans
- Autoworkers at GM, Fiat Chrysler and Ford react to UAW’s starvation strike pay
- An interview with Lina Al Abed, director of Ibrahim: A Fate to Define: “We Palestinians need to look at our recent history with a more critical and objective eye”
- Germany: How the secret service and far-right AfD organised the ban on the “linksunten.indymedia” website
- India: Motherson auto parts company in Chennai victimises strikers
- Immigrant shot by ICE agents two weeks ago detained in lawyer’s parking lot in Nashville, Tennessee
- Attend September 28 demonstration at London’s Belmarsh prison to demand freedom for Julian Assange!
- Autoworkers call for industrywide action to back strike by GM workers
- Julian Assange: The great unmentionable as Australian leader wines and dines with Trump
- The World Capitalist Crisis and the Tasks of the Fourth International: An analysis of the ICFI Perspectives resolution of 1988
2019-09-21
- Older people keep working due to economic necessity in Australia
- Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren mixes anti-corruption demagogy with identity politics at New York City rally
- Wall Street to General Motors: End strike and ram through cuts
- “Take control of the struggle!” Logistics workers at UPS and FedEx support GM strike, warn of union treachery
- Chelsea Manning imprisoned without charge for six months for refusing to testify against Julian Assange
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- India’s top court greenlights New Delhi prolonging Kashmir state-of-siege indefinitely
- Jordanian teachers continue strike into second week
- US sending more troops to Saudi Arabia amid rising war tensions
- Climate strike protesters speak out: “There’s willful blindness on this issue, because fixing it conflicts with capitalism”
- Detroit rapper GmacCash supports striking autoworkers
- Bushfires in Australia: Another symptom of climate change
- Corbyn tries to unite Labour Party to solve Brexit crisis for ruling class
- Millions march against climate change, capitalism and war
- University of Chicago nurses locked out for conducting a one-day strike
- Hundreds of autoworkers discuss GM strike and global strategy in online meeting
- US drone massacre in Afghanistan
2019-09-23
- Elizabeth Warren promotes economic nationalism at Detroit GM workers’ picket line
- Lectures in Australia and New Zealand on the 1949 Chinese Revolution
- US political warfare explodes over Trump and Ukraine
- This week in history: September 23–29
- Trump-Modi lovefest in Houston underscores Indo-US alliance of war and reaction
- Police surveillance used to report disabled protesters to UK government for alleged benefit fraud
- US Justice Department sues Edward Snowden to block proceeds of memoir
- GM fires Mexican workers for aiding US strikers and calling for cross-border fight against automaker
- Labor Notes, DSA line up with UAW bureaucrats against GM strikers
- Jeff Pietrzyk, former aide to UAW vice president Joe Ashton, charged with criminal conspiracy
- The GM strike is in danger
- Australian prime minister endorses US trade war and militarism
- Factional warfare over Brexit dominates Labour Party conference
- National Football League continues blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick
- Leon Trotsky’s four fateful years in Prinkipo: 1929-1933
- US deal with El Salvador puts new roadblock to asylum seekers
- Protests in Egypt shake al-Sisi’s bloody military dictatorship
- Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism strategy targets left-wing politics as “violent extremism”
- Australian students and youth speak out at climate strikes
- Australian government “balances” budget at expense of disabled
- Joe Biden: A familiar face, a deeply reactionary record
- Daimler-Benz workers in Germany support GM strikers
2019-09-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Thomas Cook collapse leaves hundreds of thousands stranded and 22,000 workers facing the axe
- The Report exposes CIA torture, then absolves the Democrats
- Orlando, Florida police officer fired after arresting two six-year-old school children
- Podemos backs Madrid’s plans for repression against Catalonia
- UN debate begins under shadow of war and dictatorship
- Sri Lankan university workers indefinite strike at a critical juncture
- Echoing Trump administration, Australian leader advocates end to China’s “developing country” status
- Australia: Northern Territory worker killed in preventable open-cut mine disaster
- Matamoros worker denounces killing of relative and fellow participant in historic strike
- London Fire Brigade interviewed under caution by police over Grenfell Tower fire
- “We all face the same thing:” GM strikers in Flint defend Mexican workers fired for making international appeal
- New York Times magazine blames pilots for Boeing crashes
- Counting on UAW to sabotage strike, GM not budging on concession demands
- Government minister, journalists challenged on Australian TV over persecution of Assange
2019-09-25
- More layoffs at parts plants as GM, UAW strategize how to defeat strike
- How to win the teachers’ fight in Sri Lanka
- UK Supreme Court rules Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament illegal
- One hundred years since the Great Steel Strike
- Trump delivers fascist tirade at United Nations
- FBI arrests US soldier with far-right ties
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE public meeting: The political issues at stake in the Indian government’s savage Kashmir lockdown
- Walter Reuther and the rise and fall of the UAW
- Autoworkers need a socialist and internationalist strategy to fight GM and the auto companies
- The fascist network behind the murder of Walter Lübcke
- House Democrats launch formal impeachment inquiry against Trump
- German government extends war mission in Middle East
- European powers endorse US war provocations against Iran
- Australian government seeks arbitrary powers to revoke citizenship
- The ICFI and the Crisis of Stalinism
- Alberta’s MacKinnon report provides blueprint for austerity and repression
- Australian troops accused of war crimes in Afghanistan
2019-09-26
- “We’re all fighting for the same thing!” Striking US GM workers defend fired Mexican workers
- South Korean autoworkers join global fight against GM
- GM fires another Mexican worker for aiding strike in the US
- Siemens workers resist planned job cuts in Germany
- In photo op at GM picket line, Sanders promotes nationalism, covers for Democrats and UAW
- New Met production of Porgy and Bess prompts racialist criticisms of America’s greatest opera
- Singer Placido Domingo’s forced departure from New York’s Metropolitan Opera
- Impeachment drive against Trump deepens US political crisis
- British MPs return to Parliament after Supreme Court rules prorogation illegal
- Germany: Opel workers support GM strike in the US
- Victimized Maruti Suzuki workers support striking GM workers
- Madrid launches “anti-terror” crackdown in Catalonia
- Israel’s President Rivlin calls on Netanyahu to form a new government
- Washington uses UN session to unveil new sanctions against Iran and Venezuela
- Hong Kong’s chief executive launches phony dialogue platform
- French police launch protests outside Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s headquarters
- Bangladesh warns UN officials over Rohingya refugees
- UAW keeping workers in the dark as it works to shut down strike against GM
- New York Times publisher warns of a “worldwide assault on journalists” but is silent on Julian Assange
2019-09-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Underpayment and wage theft rampant in Australia
- South Korean autoworkers join global fight against GM
- The socialist answer to Brexit: For the United Socialist States of Europe
- Michigan auto parts worker speaks in support of GM strike
- Officials cover up lead in water crisis in Newark, New Jersey
- Mandarin announcement of Australian lecture series on 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution
- Malta agreement: The dying in the Mediterranean continues
- Ontario government’s legal aid cuts trigger widespread protests
- Release of CIA whistleblower complaint intensifies political civil war in Washington
- US: Strike of 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers called off by unions
- Protests in Indonesia against new criminal code met with “mass police violence”
- GM restores health care to strikers in maneuver to smooth path for UAW sellout
- Ad Astra: Traveling long distances but not getting very far
- UK pilots’ union BALPA shuts down strikes at two airlines
2019-09-28
- Majority of West Virginia counties rank worst in US for water quality
- Striking University of Chicago nurses return to work after five-day lock-out
- Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat—on the Panama Papers—and The Goldfinch—the aftermath of a terror attack
- Growing strike wave challenges Sri Lankan government
- Anti-Sisi protesters return to Egypt’s streets in teeth of fierce repression
- Trump lowers cap on refugees to record low of 18,000
- CIA sets terms for Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump’s crimes
- 170,000 join climate change protests in New Zealand
- India: Police arrest hundreds of striking Motherson autoworkers at protest
- Why are trade unions hostile to socialism?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Solomon Islands and Kiribati cut ties with Taiwan, shift to China
- US Census report: Inequality grew rapidly in 2018 to record levels
- The mounting human cost of the Thomas Cook collapse
- Sacramento, California killer cops return to work 18 months after murdering 22-year-old Stephon Clark
- Chicago teachers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- US and Mexican autoworkers call for united struggle against GM and auto companies
- Spanish security firm spied on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy for US intelligence
2019-09-30
- Layoffs mount in Canadian auto industry
- This week in history: September 30- October 6
- Tesla autoworkers in California support striking GM workers, denounce working conditions
- Drawing the lessons of the ICFI split—International Strategy and National Tactics: The change in the ICFI’s approach to national liberation movements
- The Peterloo massacre and Shelley
- Democrats praise CIA whistleblower on Ukraine, persecute Manning, Assange and Snowden
- Half a million people join Montreal climate change protest
- Protesters speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- Striking GM workers on picket line discuss what is at stake in their battle
- Democrats frame impeachment drive as defense of “national security”
- French ex-President Jacques Chirac dead at 86
- New Zealand PM promotes internet censorship at UN
- London: Hundreds rally for Assange outside Belmarsh Prison
- Striking Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians return to work, ending three-month work stoppage
- Wall Street gives GM and UAW time to wear down strikers and impose concessions
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