Archive: 11/2019
2019-11-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Merger between PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler presages new assault on autoworkers
- Twitter’s ban on political advertisement: A new move to censor the internet
- US: Murray Energy files for bankruptcy, miners’ pensions in peril
- Hamburg, Germany: SPD-Green state executive uses police violence to guard lecture by AfD founder
- Australian Labor Party leader puts big business “first and foremost”
- Pentagon awards $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft
- US House of Representatives votes to back impeachment inquiry
- Ford workers must reject deal patterned on UAW-GM sellout
- More fires ignite as wildfire season deepens in California
- Australia: Further cuts to jobs and working conditions loom in NSW power industry
- Trump blames mass uprising in Chile on “foreign efforts”
- CTU moves to shut down strike without giving teachers right to vote on sellout contract
- England-Bulgaria match highlights growing fascist activity around European soccer
- UK art exhibition for Julian Assange: “If courage was not contagious, I wouldn’t be here today”
- Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
2019-11-02
- Roger Waters on RT: “The US and UK are trying to kill Julian Assange”
- Corruption scandal moves in on UAW President Gary Jones
- Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention
- India: Growing support for 48,000 Telangana workers fired for striking
- Comparing two impeachments
- Hamburg senate deploys police against student anti-Nazi protest
- Prime Minister Hariri’s resignation intensifies Lebanon’s political crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Breaking: UAW President Gary Jones takes paid leave as feds move closer to indictment
- Australia: Official unemployment figures downplay growing jobs crisis
- Exhumation of Franco: Spain’s ruling class pays homage to a fascist dictator
- UAW sanctions plant closing, expansion of temps in deal with Ford
- Germany’s grand coalition extends military operations in Syria and Iraq
- Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s budget: Increased policing and austerity on behalf of the financial aristocracy
- New Zealand: Anti-China propagandist Anne-Marie Brady speaks at Victoria University of Wellington
- 100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus art school and movement: “A New Era”
- Bangladesh: Sixteen sentenced to death over brutal murder of student
- CIA death squads responsible for spike in Afghan civilian casualties
2019-11-04
- UK: Tens of thousands of university and college staff vote to strike
- This week in history: November 4-10
- Wildcat strike by sanitation workers against CHP administration in Maltepe, Turkey
- Right-wing campaign unfolds in Spain for November 10 elections
- Why the Sri Lankan Tamil parties appeal to the UNP and SLPP presidential candidates
- Unifor’s attempt to impose concessions contracts on Saskatchewan workers meeting widespread opposition
- Protests erupt after Peruvian government approves controversial Tía María mining project
- UN rapporteur Nils Melzer warns: Julian Assange may die in a British prison
- Hundreds protest police violence in Brooklyn, New York subway
- Britain: 180 years since the Newport Rising—Part 1
- Little Rock teachers set to strike against privatization and segregation threats
- Judy: Singer-actress Judy Garland’s sad fate brought to the screen
- Democrats, media silent over identification of CIA “whistleblower”
- Ford autoworkers denounce tentative deal as corruption scandal engulfs UAW leadership
- UC Berkeley professors discuss the California wildfires and air quality
- Australia: Bullied teachers reveal union complicity in victimisations—Part 1
- Former neo-fascist candidate attacks mosque in French city of Bayonne
2019-11-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- India’s Telangana state government gives fresh ultimatum to 48,000 fired strikers
- Bipartisan drive to outlaw protest in Australia
- Washington Post and New York Times incite racist campaign against Chinese-Americans
- Britain: 180 years since the Newport Rising—Part 2
- Elizabeth Warren unveils her “Medicare for All” electoral gimmick
- Forty-nine Malian soldiers dead in Islamic State attack, as protests grow against French-led war
- Modi’s assault on Kashmir and the Indian working class
- Japanese and South Korean parliamentarians broach talks over trade dispute
- Feds may have secretly recorded UAW President Gary Jones ordering cover-up of embezzlement of union funds
- Death toll mounts as Iraqi protests defy repression
- US impeachment inquiry releases first transcripts
- Halle, Germany: Government moves to establish a police state after fascist attack
- Chicago teachers denounce union’s sellout agreement as Bernie Sanders, Democrats claim “victory”
- Australia: Bullied teachers reveal union complicity in victimisations—Part 2
- Julian Assange calls for workers to organise in his defence
- US Attorney General William Barr and the establishment of religion
- United Steelworkers, Asarco announce negotiations to resume, as union prepares sell-out contract
2019-11-06
- Socialist Equality Party stands in UK general election: No to austerity, militarism and war! Free Julian Assange! For class struggle and socialist internationalism!
- Pain and Glory from Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar
- New York City bus and subway workers speak out against concession demands
- Trump calls for US troops to wage “war” on drug cartels in Mexico
- UAW pushes through concessions for 3,600 workers at Mack-Volvo Truck
- High lead levels found in many Detroit metropolitan cities
- Sri Lankan SEP holds presidential election meeting in Hatton
- IYSSE meetings in Germany: Stop the shift to the right at the universities!
- Former Australian PM asked to register under “foreign agent” laws
- How Ford and the UAW plan to cut autoworkers’ health care
- Democrats make gains in off-year elections
- Uncertainty hangs over US-China trade deal
- Neo-Nazi would-be synagogue bomber arrested in Colorado
- Concert for Assange outside UK Home Office demands “No extradition!”
- UK: 1,000 Asda supermarket workers threatened with sack for rejecting new contract
2019-11-07
- India: 48,000 striking Telangana transport workers defy back to work order
- Geoffrey Rush defamation victory contested in Sydney’s Federal Court
- German imperialism’s new drive for world power
- New Zealand Labour-led government extends draconian anti-terror laws
- Australia: One third of Mascot Tower owners face bankruptcy over $20 million repair bill
- Australia: Mobilise students, staff and academics against the closure of Macquarie University’s human sciences faculty
- Flight attendants to take further strike action at Lufthansa
- Australian Greens member demands party leader defend Julian Assange
- Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks for British ruling elite in his attack on Grenfell fire victims
- Democrats’ gains in Tuesday’s elections reflect shifts within the upper-middle class
- Wall Street at record highs as global growth slows
- Vote “no” on the tentative teachers' contract! Form rank-and-file committees to defend public education in Chicago!
- Chicago Ford workers reject UAW agreement
- Largest Brazilian media group implicates Bolsonaro in death squad execution of Marielle Franco
- Former UAW-GM VP Joe Ashton charged in corruption scheme
- Five candidates contest December 12 Algerian election amid mass opposition
2019-11-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Woolworths admits to massively underpaying staff
- US seizure of oil fields escalates tensions in Syria
- Spanish election candidates denounce socialism, back repression in TV debate
- Bernie Sanders unveils immigration plan
- The expanding UAW corruption scandal and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Defend the striking transport workers in Telengana, India
- New Zealand military to expand Pacific presence
- A tale of two UK Labour MPs—Chris Williamson and Tom Watson
- Jojo Rabbit: A misguided comedy about Nazis
- White House appears increasingly isolated in impeachment crisis
- Beijing looks to end Hong Kong protest movement
- UAW officials try to bully workers for opposing Ford deal at Michigan meeting
- Growing inequality risks social revolution, hedge fund chief warns
- Pabloites prepare new betrayal of the Chilean working class
2019-11-09
- Massive vote in favour of strike by Ontario elementary school teachers
- Spain’s November 10 elections and the fight against authoritarian rule
- UK’s Royal Mail seeks legal action to prevent postal strike
- The Democrats’ campaign for internet censorship: Who is to determine what are “lies”?
- The New York Times’ obsession with race expands to its food commentary
- Defying their unions, Dutch teachers stage countrywide one-day strike
- Measles epidemic spreads from New Zealand to Pacific Islands
- Macron warns Economist magazine of world war, collapse of NATO alliance
- The “Irrepressible Conflict:” Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German Christian Democrats call for collaboration with the far-right AfD
- UAW-Ford contract gives green light for video monitoring of workers
- Leaked video reveals ABC News suppressed Jeffrey Epstein story since 2015
- Democratic Socialists of America “International Committee” denounces “reckless” withdrawal of US troops from Syria
- Massachusetts: Buffalo Wild Wings worker dies after inhaling toxic fumes
- Australia: All Sydney bus services to be privatised within two years
- Billionaire ex-NYC Mayor Bloomberg takes steps to run for Democratic nomination
- Thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Build a mass movement to free class-war prisoners Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
2019-11-11
- UK workers see 2 pence an hour average wage increase, while pay of richest skyrockets
- This week in history: November 11-17
- Northern Virginia transit workers vote to strike as walkout by Metrobus contract workers enters third week
- Trump rules out rollback of China tariffs
- Over 5,000 arrests, police violence against transport strikers in India’s Telangana state
- Steel layoffs in US mount due to falling production and trade war
- Fascistic Vox party surges in Spanish election as hung parliament emerges
- Australian Labor Party review covers up causes of federal election debacle
- China-led trade bloc inches forward at Asian summit
- In Berlin Wall speech, Pompeo advances crusade against Russia and China
- Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left NSSP promotes UNP presidential candidate
- German defence minister calls for expansion of foreign military interventions
- Ultra-right Lieberman holds balance of power in Israeli coalition talks
- Impeachment crisis: Democrats, Trump maneuver ahead of televised hearings
- Chicago Ford workers denounce UAW contract: “They want to monitor you every minute, every second”
- Facebook and YouTube remove posts naming CIA impeachment whistleblower
- California police arrest woman for delivering stillborn baby with drugs in its system
- David North introduces Turkish-language edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky at Istanbul Book Fair
- Filmmaker Errol Morris provides the extreme-right’s Stephen Bannon a platform in American Dharma
- US-backed Colombian military kills eight children in bombing, attempts cover-up
- Eleven thousand scientists warn of climate emergency
- One year since the Northern California Camp Fire
- India’s Supreme Court validates Hindu supremacist violence
2019-11-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Corbyn refuses to fight ramped-up bogus “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt
- Socialist Equality Party (Germany) holds meeting on anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
- What is the UAW?
- Far-right Vox declares itself main opposition party as Spanish government talks begin
- Vote for Pani Wijesiriwardena in the Sri Lankan presidential election! Rally to fight for international socialism!
- Amazon-led corporate purge of Seattle City Council fails
- Tens of thousands in Russia face medicine shortages as a result of Western sanctions
- As contract vote approaches, DSA defends sellout by Chicago Teachers Union
- The Spanish elections and the rise of the fascistic Vox party
- Sri Lankan daily interviews SEP presidential candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena
- Bolivia’s Evo Morales forced out by coup
- Another leading House Republican decides to retire
- Ford Kentucky Truck workers speak out against contract: “The people on the floor don’t trust the UAW”
- “Give me a call”: NDP MP offers to join Canada’s pro-austerity, pro-war Liberal government
- Australian bushfire emergency worsens but government denounces climate change warnings
- Social inequality in Early Bronze Age Europe
2019-11-13
- University of California union attempts to wear down workers with a sixth 24-hour strike
- Trump threatens “substantial” increase in anti-China tariffs
- Podemos agrees to back Spanish social-democratic government
- The US-backed coup in Bolivia
- Arizona: Second trial begins of pro-immigrant “No More Deaths” volunteer
- Missouri officials tracked women’s menstrual periods in effort to shut down state’s last abortion provider
- Former Israeli soldiers tour US to speak out against occupation of Palestinian territories
- Public impeachment hearings to escalate political warfare in Washington
- Blairite MP Margaret Hodge refuses to back Corbyn as prime minister
- Hong Kong protests defy police violence and mass arrests
- New manuscript discovered of The Tale of Genji, the 11th century Japanese novel
- Sri Lanka: SEP presidential candidate exposes pseudo-lefts’ pro-capitalist program at university debate
- Germany: Berlin rent cap—a deceptive manoeuvre
- Australian workers and youth speak-out in support of Julian Assange
- Australian aged care report: “A shocking tale of neglect”
2019-11-14
- US court rules routine border search and seizure of electronic devices unconstitutional
- Bloomberg and his fellow oligarchs lay down the law: Not a penny more in taxes
- Veteran photojournalist Tim Page discusses his “21” exhibition
- An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- New Zealand cabinet minister echoes fascist gunman’s manifesto
- Democrats begin impeachment hearings with denunciations of Russia
- Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Trump’s decision to end DACA
- UK High Court bans strike by 110,000 Royal Mail postal workers
- Why Canada’s elite finally turned on notorious right-wing hockey commentator Don Cherry
- Union-backed Chicago Sun-Times attacks Chicago teachers
- Australia: Bushfires continue to ravage New South Wales and Queensland
- Ford workers describe UAW’s intimidation tactics to pass Ford contract
2019-11-15
- Mass protests after police shoot and kill Aboriginal teenager in remote Australian town
- Record low numbers participate in 24-hour stunt strike at University of California schools and health system
- Little Rock, Arkansas teachers stage one-day strike
- Sri Lankan SEP holds final presidential election meeting
- Two killed, three injured in Santa Clarita, California school shooting
- Petition calling for Julian Assange’s freedom tabled in Australian parliament
- The Spanish election crisis and the treachery of Podemos
- Leaked emails reveal Trump aide Stephen Miller’s fascist politics
- Las Vegas, Nevada city council passes punitive anti-homeless ordinance
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro threatens use of dictatorship-era law against Lula for “inciting violence”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Corbyn and main union backer McCluskey oppose Labour conference free movement pledge on immigration
- Harbor (Jeter l’ancre un seul jour): A young refugee in need finds allies
- The German government’s “basic pension” bluff
- Acting UAW chief unveils bogus “anti-corruption” reforms
- Michigan Ford engine plant workers denounce UAW sellout, plant closure
- Protests mount vs. planned execution of Texas inmate Rodney Reed
- Erdoğan-Trump meeting resolves none of US-Turkish conflicts
- Growth continues to slow in major economies
- Ford workers complain of extreme temperatures in Chicago plants amid record-setting freeze
- School closures threatened as Chicago teachers vote on widely-hated tentative agreement
- Canada abets US-sponsored coup in Bolivia
- Popular resistance mounts against Bolivian coup
2019-11-16
- Roger Stone conviction affirms he lied about having connections with WikiLeaks
- Sri Lankan presidential election: Workers must prepare to fight moves towards police-state rule
- New Zealand police introduce new armed units
- The Trump impeachment and US policy in Ukraine
- Seeking to cultivate fascistic base, Trump pardons two war criminals and promotes a third
- Parasite: An unusual director with his antenna attuned to social class
- 999 Meghan McCain denounces Pamela Anderson, MIA as agents of Putin over support for Assange
- Germany: Left Party parliamentary group elects new leadership
- Political and economic turmoil escalates in Lebanon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Former US Secretary of State Kissinger points to danger of “catastrophic” conflict between US and China
- No charges against US Park Police in 2017 shooting death of Bijan Ghaisar
- Glasgow helicopter crash inquiry scapegoats pilot
- Morales’ MAS in talks with Bolivia coup regime on how to quell unrest
- United Auto Workers declares sellout Ford contract ratified amidst widespread opposition
- Strike against Asarco copper enters second month
2019-11-18
- This week in history: November 18-24
- Former top military official wins Sri Lankan presidential election
- Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist
- Obama joins effort to push Democratic primary campaign to the right
- An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Google’s Project Nightingale: The largest transfer to date of private medical data to the tech giant
- Louisiana governor wins re-election in blow to Trump
- Protesters at London’s Trafalgar Square speak out to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Chinese soldiers appear on Hong Kong streets for first time since protests began
- Michael Winterbottom’s Greed: A searing indictment of the super-rich
- Fire devastates student accommodation block covered in combustible cladding in Bolton, England
- Young FedEx worker killed in latest industrial death at Memphis World Hub
- Chicago Teachers Unions pushes through austerity contract, paving way for school closures
- Socialist Equality Party announces candidates in UK general election
- Australian bushfire crisis continues as political fallout intensifies
- German army recruits swear war oath in front of Reichstag building
- Fiat Chrysler workers face battle as FCA and UAW seek to maintain lowest labor costs
- UN special rapporteur exposes Swedish sexual misconduct frame-up of Assange
- Federal court strips citizenship from US-born woman held in Syrian detention camp
2019-11-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Volkswagen pays works council members millions
- US Steel job cuts continue as it lays off workers in Indiana
- Unifor imposes concessions contracts on Saskatchewan Crown Corporation workers
- France to host “peace summit” with Germany, Ukraine and Russia
- India: The indefinite strike by 48,000 Telangana transport workers at crossroads
- The bloodbath in Baghdad
- Protests as Trump labor board moves to restrict grad student unions
- Trial begins over 2015 anti-government protest on Nauru
- Labour Party candidates pledge to ignore Corbyn’s Brexit policy and campaign for Remain
- J’accuse (An Officer and a Spy): Roman Polanski’s masterpiece on the Dreyfus Affair
- Venice sees second worst flooding in recorded history
- US declares Israeli settlements no longer illegal
- Iranian regime shuts down internet following protests over gas price hikes
- Pelosi doubles down on anti-Russia politics of impeachment inquiry
- Hong Kong police lay siege to university occupied by demonstrators
- Australian establishment up-in-arms after Beijing bans visit by two MPs
- Michigan judge throws out state charges against Flint water consultants
- United States has the highest child detention rate in the world
- Mass protests in Prague against Czech government
- With national strike set for November 21, political crisis intensifies in Colombia
- Protests in Chile continue in opposition to promises of new Constitution
- On the death of Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky (1942–2019)
- Julian Assange appears in court via video link: Legal rights denied by judge
- Sweden drops investigation into bogus sexual misconduct allegations against Julian Assange
2019-11-20
- Elizabeth Warren backpedals on “Medicare for All”
- Washington, DC area transit workers call for expansion of fight as strike enters fourth week
- US puts new Sri Lankan president on notice
- Collapse of Swedish “sexual misconduct” frame-up exposes political conspiracy against Assange
- Dutch health care strike: The defense of health care requires a socialist perspective
- Australian Labor Party leader dodges state party conference
- More than 15,000 Indiana teachers walk off job against low wages and attacks on public education
- Impeachment hearing highlights conflict over US policy in Ukraine
- Germany’s Green Party conference—power at any price
- Two New York prison guards charged in connection with Epstein death
- Corbyn tells British industry executives: “It’s sometimes claimed that I’m anti-business. That is complete nonsense”
- Over 3,000 Canadian National Railway workers strike across Canada
- UAW continues blackout on Fiat Chrysler negotiations as media talks of possible strike
- Epstein scandal engulfs Britain’s Royal family after BBC interview with Prince Andrew
2019-11-21
- Trump repeats threat to escalate tariffs if no China trade deal is reached
- Israeli airstrikes on Syria threaten wider Mideast war
- Australian Strategic Forum tries to downplay danger of US-China conflict
- California utility PG&E plans regular blackouts for another ten years as more residents have power cut this week
- The impeachment crisis and American imperialism
- Naval command challenges President Trump’s war crimes pardon
- Socialist Equality Party campaign team attends University College London strike of outsourced workers
- The Unwanted: 80 years since the tragic odyssey of the MS St. Louis
- IYSSE holds meeting on “Race, Class, and the fight for Socialism” at New York University
- Striking university workers speak out: “Assange won’t be defended by the rich, it must be the working people!”
- Russia’s Gazprom offers Ukraine short-term gas deal
- Patriot Act extension concealed in funding bill passed by House Democrats
- Corbyn’s “left” pretensions exposed in UK general election debate
- Conference at European Parliament defends Julian Assange
- Protests continue across Bolivia as the MAS submits to coup
- UAW President Gary Jones resigns as GM lawsuit charges that UAW is a “controlled enterprise” of Fiat Chrysler
2019-11-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK covered up war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
- US, EU gave over $20 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since 2014
- US activist who sheltered migrants found not guilty in second trial
- Trump overrides Navy’s bid to evict war criminal from SEALS
- Bernie Sanders dispenses with his “political revolution” at fifth Democratic presidential debate
- GM lawsuit: UAW engaged in criminal conspiracy with FCA to cut labor costs
- NATO riven by tensions between major powers
- Attend “Free Assange and Manning” meetings this weekend in Australia and New Zealand
- UK Labour Party manifesto: A blueprint to save capitalism
- Hamburg: Social Democrats and Greens plan new police law
- National strike shakes Colombia’s right-wing government
- CN Rail workers continue fight against onerous working conditions
- Australian bushfire crisis spreads as PM denies climate change link
- Fiat Chrysler workers react as further corruption allegations rock UAW in midst of contract talks
- Atlantics: The cruel fate of African youth
- Sydney Morning Herald columnist defends Swedish frame-up of Assange
- Former Australian spy chief steps up anti-China campaign
- German big business continues its new scramble for Africa
- New Zealand military’s unexploded bombs killed Afghan civilians
2019-11-23
- West Midland Trains workers escalate fight against strike-breaking operation
- Historically low number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits due to increasing restrictions
- Allegations of racist incidents lead to virtual shutdown of campus at Syracuse University
- Spanish pseudo-lefts try to block opposition to Podemos-PSOE regime
- Scottish court authorises eviction of Glasgow asylum seekers by Serco
- Who decided the US should fight a “hot war” with Russia?
- OECD cuts global growth forecast
- #MeToo launches fascistic attack on Polanski’s film J’accuse
- Rising seas threaten US Pacific nuclear dump
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the South Pacific
- Netanyahu, indicted on corruption charges, refuses to resign
- Trump administration begins deporting asylum seekers to Guatemala
- Striking Dutch healthcare workers speak about first ever nationwide strike
- Leaked audio of top Colombian officials exposes failure of US coup operation in Venezuela
- GM bribery lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler fueling growing outrage among autoworkers over UAW corruption
- Interviews with Alice Springs workers and youth about public meeting to defend Assange and Manning
2019-11-25
- Eight-day strike by 40,000 UK university workers begins
- This week in history: November 25–December 1
- South Korea extends military intelligence sharing agreement with Japan
- Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson addresses public meetings in Australia
- Canada’s New Democrats and the Coup in Bolivia—A reply to a reader
- Strike wave in Peru stokes ruling class fears of Chilean “contagion”
- Leaked email on alleged chemical attack shows 2018 strikes against Syria based on lies
- An open letter from doctors: Julian Assange “could die in prison”
- Madrid steps up repression in Catalonia after PSOE-Podemos government accord
- Doctors demand “urgent” medical intervention to save Julian Assange’s life
- Australian Labor Party leader steps up pitch to big business
- Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson on Julian Assange: “A maximum security prison is no place to treat a torture victim”
- Indian government uses police, paramilitaries to repress protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University
- German student organisation bombarded with far-right hate mail
- Modern-day philistinism and reaction: the New York Times considers “canceling” French painter Paul Gauguin
- Bus drivers in Hesse, Germany, discuss their strike
- German bus drivers in state of Hesse on strike
- Billionaire Bloomberg enters race for Democratic presidential nomination
- UAW Region 5 Director Vance Pearson resigns after embezzlement charges
2019-11-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Thousands of UK university staff begin eight-day strike with support of students
- Union reaches deal with University of Chicago, creating two-tier system for nurses
- Democratic Party calls on Washington Metro Transit Authority to intervene against striking transit workers
- Three homeless men die in abandoned house fire in New York City
- Resolution: Stop the US extradition of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange! Free Assange and Manning!
- The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
- US navy secretary fired in case of pardoned SEAL war criminal
- Meetings in Australia and New Zealand pass resolutions demanding freedom of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Judge denies “absolute immunity” of White House aides
- French courts sabotage probe of official financing of Islamic State terrorism
- Lecturers and students speak out in UK university strike
- Attendees at meetings in Australia and NZ support campaign for release of Assange and Manning
- The lessons of the Hong Kong protests for the working class
- Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs oil lobby-backed bill criminalising free speech
- Australian media and intelligence agencies reveal “Chinese spy” defection
- UK defies UN deadline to hand over Chagos Islands/Diego Garcia to Mauritius
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro launches chauvinistic “green and yellow” youth employment program to foster “competitiveness”
- US Attorney General Barr adds to coverup in death of Jeffrey Epstein
- Workers and youth protest French president’s visit to Amiens
- Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
2019-11-27
- A secret trial in Canberra points to extent of Australia’s police-state powers
- Students walk out in support of Nashville teacher victimized for assigning homework on the “N-word”
- Trump’s war crime pardons: Cultivating a fascistic base in the military
- Job actions by New York City transit workers
- Australian PM rejects Pamela Anderson’s appeal that his government defend Assange
- Christoph Vandreier and David North to speak at Sydney Gleebooks launch of Why Are They Back?
- Co-workers say Detroit Fiat Chrysler worker died after being told to pay $800 for ambulance ride to hospital
- Audio recording refutes Hannah-Jones’ claim that she was falsely quoted by the World Socialist Web Site
- Canadian government-sponsored Security Forum rails against “strategic adversaries” China and Russia
- Google fires four workers in apparent retaliation for their workplace activism
- Growing concerns over stability of the international monetary system
- Ford v Ferrari: Life at high speed
- Baltimore, Maryland: Three men exonerated after 36 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction
- SEP election teams in Britain win warm response
- Teamsters shut down CN Rail strike, praise Canada’s big business Liberal government
- UN report calls for “radical transformations” to avert global climate catastrophe
- Chile paralyzed by third national strike amid mounting threats of dictatorship
- Billionaire Michael Bloomberg begins campaign for Democratic nomination
- Automaker Audi slashes 9,500 jobs in Germany
- Doctors’ open letter defending Julian Assange wins global support
2019-11-28
- An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- US media ramps up anti-China campaign over Uyghur “human rights”
- After union surrenders, Telangana mobilizes police to bar “fired” TSRTC workers’ return
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union endorses ex-Hoffa lieutenant for union president
- Social counterrevolution and the decline in US life expectancy
- Five dead in Minneapolis, Minnesota high-rise fire
- Trump threatens to designate Mexican cartels as “terrorists”
- Renewed surge in US mergers
- UAW keeps FCA workers in the dark on contract talks, painting corruption exposures as “outside distractions”
- UK’s chief rabbi aids right-wing campaign against Corbyn
- In defiance of repression, Colombian workers mount second national strike in the past week
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns at Chalcot Estate in North London
- German autoworkers protest as unions sanction wave of jobs cuts
- Australian establishment’s anti-China campaign goes into overdrive
2019-11-29
- Sri Lankan president appoints minority government and puts security forces on alert
- Delay in publication of UK security report used to feed anti-Russian campaign
- Scott Z. Burns’ The Report exposes CIA torture, then absolves the Democrats
- Low wage rises in Australia “become the new normal”
- Podemos party backs Spanish internet censorship law
- A socialist response to the global jobs massacre in the auto industry
- Some production resumes as US copper miners’ strike drags on
- Brookings Institution study finds a staggering 44 percent of US workers earn low wages
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- German government plans new military interventions, massive rearmament
- Over 250 students arrested in Michigan by ICE in fake university scam
- Trump signs Hong Kong “democracy” bill
- Calls grow for mass December 5 protest strike against French pension cuts
- Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
- Australia: Queensland parliament forum reflects growing support for Assange
- Australian Labor Party shuts down parliamentary discussion on Assange
2019-11-30
- The Triumph of Injustice, by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: How tax cuts for the rich fuel inequality
- Explosions at Texas petrochemical plant force over 40,000 to evacuate their homes
- John Pilger visits Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison: “Look how you frighten them!”
- Groundswell of support for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
- Hundreds attend London meeting to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Iraqi prime minister offers resignation after army unleashes bloodbath
- Imperialist powers intensify pressure on Iranian regime in wake of protests
- Canada’s Human Rights Tribunal condemns government’s treatment of indigenous children
- Hillsborough families denied justice for 96 deaths after 30 years, as ex-police chief walks free
- Berlin Tax Office withdraws charitable status from Nazi victims’ organisation
- Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost-cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 2
- John Deere demands further job cuts through “voluntary separation program”
- Mercedes-Benz to cut more than 10,000 jobs
- Australian bank chief resigns over money laundering charges
- After student sets himself on fire, French youth protest: “Precariousness kills”
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