Archive: 12/2019
2019-12-02
- This week in history: December 2-8
- Obama spearheads campaign against Sanders’ nomination as Democratic presidential candidate
- Australian government defeat on “integrity” bill points to underlying political crisis
- Many unanswered questions as Tories exploit London terror attack
- Warm reception for SEP candidate Chris Marsden at Sheffield student meeting
- Central Australian residents speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- Pro-Beijing parties suffer heavy defeat in Hong Kong district elections
- Right-wing German Army officer Franco A. to be charged for terrorism
- Ten trillion dollars of US corporate debt set off alarm bells
- Anger mounts among FCA workers as UAW prepares to ram through sellout deal
- Germany’s budget for 2020: Billions for rearmament and war
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro founds new fascistic party
- Coup regime in Bolivia announces “final phase of pacification”
- US Attorney General William Barr’s brief for presidential dictatorship
- IYSSE, student unions defend students in Germany against right-wing attacks
- Greater Manchester Unite community branch hears report on fight to free Julian Assange
- Spanish judge to question Assange over illegal CIA spying in Ecuadorian embassy
- SEP meeting in Alice Springs demands freedom for Assange and Manning
- Perspectives for the coming revolution in America: Race, class and the fight for socialism
2019-12-03
- Samoa: Death toll mounts in devastating measles epidemic
- Retiring Chicago Police Chief Superintendent fired after video shows police body-slamming a mentally ill man
- CIA spying on Assange’s lawyers exposes criminal operation against WikiLeaks founder
- Canada: Labour board greenlights closure of Nemak’s Windsor auto casting plant
- NATO bitterly divided as London summit begins
- Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman: A gangster’s life and claims
- Iranian government kills hundreds in bid to suppress the worst protests in decades
- House Democrats begin next phase of impeachment drive
- WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson: “If Julian is taken to that Devil’s Island across the Atlantic, his life is lost”
- Harvard University grad students set to strike over pay, grievance procedures, healthcare
- New leadership in German SPD: Fresh faces—same right-wing policies
- Police massacre nine youth in repression of dance in Sao Paulo favela
- Australia: Ongoing health fallout from 2018 toxic chemical blaze
- The DSA on impeachment or: How the DSA learned to stop worrying and love Bolton
- On eve of FCA contract votes, US Attorney says federal takeover of UAW still possible
- Opposing NATO and Trump means fighting to free Julian Assange!
- US carries out fresh massacre in Afghanistan, killing entire family with drone strike
2019-12-04
- A Warning: A manifesto of the pro-war “Resistance” in the American state
- Trump escalates global trade war
- Australia: Vote ‘no’ to the NSWTF salaries agreement! Form rank-and-file committees to defend public education
- UK: South West Rail workers begin month-long strike to defend jobs and conditions.
- Protesters against London NATO summit speak in defence of Julian Assange
- Fiat Chrysler workers face off against the UAW, an “FCA-controlled enterprise”
- Ontario high school teachers stage one-day walkout Wednesday
- Trump denounces Macron’s criticisms of NATO at London summit
- Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables: French youth in revolt
- Democrats’ report confirms anti-Russia axis of impeachment inquiry
- WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson addresses the Australian press club
- Harvard University graduate student union begins strike over pay, conditions
- Harry Dunn’s parents take legal action against UK Foreign Office
- Australian coronial inquiry clears prison officers in death of young Aboriginal man
- Catalan nationalists negotiate over support for PSOE-led Spanish government
- Australian government launches “foreign interference” taskforce
- Germany: Far-right AfD’s party conference strengthens völkisch-nationalist “wing”
2019-12-05
- Australian media’s “Chinese spy defection” story unravels
- Australian teenagers call for support for Julian Assange
- SEP candidate Thomas Scripps addresses UK Somali community hustings
- Pompeo vows intervention against “riots” in Washington’s “own backyard”
- Thousands of Sri Lankan estate workers strike over workloads and wages
- NATO summit dominated by growing inter-state conflicts
- Maoist union leaders isolate striking Motherson autoworkers in India
- The ignominious fall of Kamala Harris
- Impeachment hearing opens with Democratic Party blast against Russia
- French public sector strike: Build independent committees of action for political struggle against Macron
- Nearly 700,000 to lose food stamp benefits under new Trump Administration rule
- Opera singer Plácido Domingo defends himself against sexual harassment allegations
- Doctors condemn failure of British government to answer letter demanding medical care for Julian Assange
- Thousands of teachers strike in Croatia
- PG&E failed to do inspections and maintenance on power lines for years, report finds
- Honduran court sentences seven men for killing of Berta Cáceres
- Mueller probe accessed the Google account of Assange supporter Somerset Bean
- UAW sanctions “perma-temps” in Fiat-Chrysler tentative agreement
2019-12-06
- On the centenary of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
- Ontario teachers strike against government assault on public education
- Sri Lankan president prorogues parliament to try to consolidate his rule
- Seton Hall Law School report exposes new details of CIA torture program
- Over 2 million Americans don’t have access to indoor plumbing or water, report finds
- Trump administration food stamp cuts spell hunger and destitution for millions
- Bolsheviks Against Stalinism 1928-1933: Leon Trotsky and the Left Opposition—Translator’s Foreword
- US prepares to deploy thousands more troops against Iran
- Pelosi announces Democrats to begin drafting impeachment charges against Trump
- Labour’s election pledges no answer to UK’s housing crisis
- SPD youth leader defends Germany’s grand coalition government
- French public sector strikers call to free Julian Assange
- 1.5 million march amid mass strike in France against austerity and inequality
- Meeting of Australian teachers passes resolutions in defence of Julian Assange
- Seattle schools propose race-centric “ethnomathematics” curriculum
- Colombian trade unions working with President Duque to shut down national strike movement
- Papua New Guinea: Voting under way in Bougainville independence referendum
- Attend Socialist Equality Party election rally in London!
2019-12-07
- Australian governments reject calls for removal of armed police from Aboriginal settlements
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson speaks at Melbourne forum in defence of Assange
- Ukraine: Three-year-old boy killed in attempted political assassination by the far right
- Northern Virginia transit worker strike spreads as 600 Fairfax Connector workers join 130 Metrobus workers on strike against Transdev
- Saudi airman kills four at US Naval Base in Florida
- Union sellouts endorse the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign
- South Florida UPS driver, motorist killed in reckless police shootout in rush hour traffic
- The way forward for the mass strike in France
- Canadian parliament reconvenes following formation of Liberal minority government
- Former head of German Secret Service publishes fascist manifesto
- Workers must adopt a socialist internationalist program to oppose Sri Lanka’s authoritarian, communalist Rajapakse regime
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- SEP (UK) candidate Chris Marsden speaks on Kashmir and Palestine at Sheffield mosque hustings
- Video exposes US Custom and Border Protection’s lies in death of teenage immigrant
- Harvard University retaliates against striking graduate students
- Vote “no” on the FCA contract! Form rank and file committees to oppose UAW sellout!
- US farmer suicides on the rise as Trump’s trade war, extreme weather hit hard
- Uranium contaminated site collapsed into the Detroit River during the Thanksgiving holiday
- Australian cities bathed in smoke from hundreds of bushfires
- GM sends termination notices to 48 TPT workers in Indiana less than two months after UAW signs concessions contract
2019-12-09
- This week in history: December 9-15
- Australian PM defends secret “national security” trials
- Worker injured in New Orleans hotel collapse deported by ICE
- New Sri Lankan president visits India amid growing geo-political tensions
- Exiled NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden condemns persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Skin Deep, Journey in the Divisive Science of Race, by Gavin Evans
- Samoa: Anger grows over escalating measles toll
- America’s torturers and their co-conspirators must be prosecuted
- New York transit union offers massive concessions to block strike
- UN Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer: “With censorship inevitably comes tyranny”
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds final general election rally in London
- India: Congress Party brings fascistic Shiv Sena to power in Maharashtra
- Hundreds of journalists around the world sign open letter demanding freedom for Assange
- Democrats, White House position themselves for impeachment vote
- Right-wing hate campaign in Germany against Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke
- Protest marches called this week as French public sector strike continues
- Wisconsin Democrats double down on Foxconn con job
- Over 40 workers killed in Indian factory fire
- Dark Waters: American capitalism poisons its population
- Youth demonstrating in Australia speak out against climate change and war
- Fiat Chrysler autoworkers denounce UAW sellout at informational meetings
2019-12-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Multiple deaths from New Zealand volcanic eruption
- Paris summit on Ukraine overshadowed by inter-imperialist conflicts
- Turkish government blocks care of Kurdish HDP’s jailed ex-leader Demirtaş
- Unions demand jailed Catalan leader support Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government
- The “Afghanistan papers”: The criminality and disaster of a war based upon lies
- The Reiss Center at NYU’s Law School: A think tank for the national security establishment and the Democratic Party
- SEP holds final UK election meeting in London
- Thousands of children in New Jersey found to have elevated blood lead levels
- November US jobs report in perspective: Most jobs “added” to US economy are low wage
- Harvard grad student strike in second week
- “They are jamming this down our throats:” Fiat Chrysler workers denounce UAW for rushing vote on sellout contract
- Report unmasks FBI intervention in 2016 elections
- Australian economy remains in slump as trade tensions mount
- The Dirty War on the National Health Service: John Pilger documentary “goes to the heart of the struggle for democracy today”
- Germany: IG Metall union announces further attacks on Daimler workers
- Worker killed in horrendous incident on Sydney construction site
- Mariss Jansons, famed conductor, dead at 76
- Australian doctor condemns Britain’s denial of adequate medical care to Julian Assange
- Appreciative audience at Australian launch of Why Are They Back?
2019-12-11
- California graduate students on wildcat strike
- Germany: SPD congress backs grand coalition government as class struggle intensifies
- PG&E reaches minimal $13.5 billion settlement with victims of Californian fires
- The true legacy of US central banker Paul Volcker (1927–2019)
- Growing poverty and inequality in New Zealand
- The Reiss Center at NYU’s Law School: A think tank for the national security establishment and the Democratic Party
- Sri Lankan president appoints former military officers to head state institutions
- Union moves to end Washington DC-area transit strike, agrees to cost-cutting deal
- Corporate media silent on journalists’ letter demanding freedom for Julian Assange
- London: Attendees at Socialist Equality Party’s general election rally speak
- Democrats release articles of impeachment against Trump on “national security” grounds
- SEP (UK) candidate Dennis Leech speaks at hustings in Manchester
- Labour’s pose as defender of the National Health Service exposed
- Mass marches and strikes against Macron’s pension cuts continue across France
- New York University charges food-insecure students for "free" meals
- Australia: Workers stop work in response to hazardous air conditions
- Strikes continue in Finland after Social Democrat prime minister resigns
- Fired Mexican GM workers issue open letter to American workers
- Brazilian Workers Party backs Bolsonaro’s draconian “anti-crime” bill
2019-12-12
- George Zimmerman, killer of Trayvon Martin in 2012, sues his victim’s family for $100 million
- Holiday shipping season begins with deaths of two UPS workers at California airport
- Twin Flower, about the refugee crisis, from Italy—and Midnight Family, about poverty and health care, from Mexico
- New York City transit workers denounce union-backed tentative agreement
- The impeachment crisis and its political consequences
- US renews insults and threats against North Korea
- US House approves bill for record military spending
- Australia: Governments, unions responsible for spate of deaths in Queensland mining industry
- AFL-CIO, Mexican government seek to chain renewed struggles across Matamoros to “independent” trade unions
- Mass shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey being investigated as anti-Semitic hate-crime
- Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens to send troops into Libya
- The Sun forced to delete article promoting fascist propaganda against UK left
- French prime minister vows to impose pension cuts despite growing strikes
- Mass abstention as UAW forces through Fiat Chrysler contract
- Fed to keep interest rates lower for longer
- Britain’s general election and the coming struggle of the working class for socialism
- World Bank economist warns of worsening crisis in Sri Lanka
- New doping provocation against Russia prior to 2020 Olympics
- Canada: Saskatchewan oil refinery locks out 800 workers, deploys scabs
- Trump signs executive order aimed at suppressing criticism of Israel
2019-12-13
- The sordid deal between former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and his accusers
- New Zealand: Warnings about danger of White Island eruption were ignored
- US announces ”in principle” agreement on “phase one” US-China trade deal
- Pentagon chiefs say US troops to stay in Syria for years
- The anti-Semitism accusations against Corbyn: A witch-hunt in the service of imperialism
- Boeing executives must be tried for murder
- US to impose sanctions on companies involved in European Nord Stream 2 pipeline
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- BBC reporter accused of breaking law by revealing postal vote and commenting negatively on Labour
- India adopts Hindu supremacist citizenship law
- House Judiciary Committee votes to approve articles of impeachment against Trump
- Blind man dies by electric chair in Tennessee, Texas inmate executed amid claims of false testimony
- Johnson wins majority in UK election after collapse of Labour vote
- Catastrophic conditions for refugees on Croatian border as authorities close camp
- Australia: Thousands attend climate change rally in Sydney
- US trucking firm Celadon goes bankrupt leaving thousands of drivers stranded
- Wave of teachers strikes confront attacks on pensions and working conditions in Brazil
- Warrant targeting Assange supporter reveals scope of US government campaign against WikiLeaks
- ACLU intervenes in police lawsuit against Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson
2019-12-14
- New York Times uses racial politics to promote charter schools
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold public meeting on how to fight the new Rajapakse regime
- Recording reveals pseudo-left La France Insoumise collusion with Macron in 2016
- Queen & Slim: An African-American couple on the run
- Australian voters’ trust in political system falls to historic low
- French strikers protest prime minister’s pledge to impose pension cuts
- The election of Boris Johnson and the failure of Corbynism
- US tests INF-banned missile after Democrats rubber-stamp Trump’s nuclear build-up
- NDP props up Trudeau, joins Conservatives in demanding tougher anti-China stance
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Southern Poverty Law Center report highlights abusive conditions in US immigration detention centers
- Homeland Security memo exposes appalling medical mistreatment of immigrants in US custody
- Feds subpoena security camera footage and visitor logs in investigation of July fire at Detroit UAW headquarters
- Julian Assange denied access to lawyers and vital evidence in US extradition case
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!
- Report highlights social crisis confronting Australian youth on welfare
2019-12-16
- US-China deal a new phase in global trade war
- This week in history: December 16-22
- Detroit autoworkers voice support for victimized Mexican GM workers
- Sri Lankan authorities delay on whether to prosecute award-winning writer Shakthika Sathkumara
- California governor rejects PG&E’s bankruptcy settlement, demands token reforms
- Democrats combine impeachment and collaboration with Trump
- Malta: Masses take to the streets demanding resignation of Prime Minister Muscat
- Protests across India against new Hindu chauvinist Citizenship Act
- Mass strikes intensify ahead of national protest against French pension cuts
- Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Assange’s threatened extradition, but declares he is “not a journalist”
- New WikiLeaks documents expose phony claims of 2018 Syria chemical weapons attack
- Socialist Equality Party used UK general election to put forward a socialist perspective
- Aung San Suu Kyi defends Myanmar military’s crimes
2019-12-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US military academies investigating use of “white power” hand gesture during annual Army-Navy football game
- Volvo Trucks to lay off 700 at New River Valley plant
- Build independent committees of action to bring down the Macron government in France!
- Doctors issue open letter to the Australian government: Julian Assange at risk of death in prison
- Australian budget report points to impact of globally-driven slump
- Powerful response to call for stepped-up fight to free Assange and Manning at SEP (Australia) meeting
- Germany’s Left Party hails new SPD leadership and grand coalition
- The death of Anna Karina at 79—the actress featured in Jean-Luc Godard’s films in the 1960s
- 999 Britain’s billionaires and Labour’s election debacle
- CIA Democrats back CIA-led impeachment
- Mass protests erupt against Modi-led Indian government’s Hindu supremacist agenda
- São Paulo Ford plant closure exposes Brazilian union as agent of capitalist “restructuring”
- Over 100 doctors demand Australian government act to save the life of Julian Assange “before it is too late”
- John Deere to lay off 57 workers at Davenport, Iowa, assembly plant
- Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea
- Bolivian trade union confederation enters far-right coup regime
- Workers respond to New York Times’ 1619 Project’s claim of an unbridgeable racial divide in US
2019-12-18
- Form rank-and-file committees to defend New York City transit workers!
- Will tourism companies be held accountable over New Zealand volcano disaster?
- UC Santa Cruz graduate students wildcat strike enters critical phase
- Trump makes fascistic appeal in impeachment letter
- Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shell Oil and mass killings in Africa
- Chelsea Manning must not be forgotten!
- GM Oshawa auto assembly ends production, eliminating 5,000 jobs
- North Korean-US tensions rise as end-of-year deadline approaches
- California: Kaiser Permanente health care workers speak from the picket line
- Jetstar Australia pilots and airline workers strike over wages and conditions
- US rural county jails see a rapid rise in incarceration rates
- Report finds US corporations paid “zero to negative” income tax rate in 2018
- India’s highest court greenlights repression of protests against discriminatory citizenship law
- Millions march against French pension cuts amid public sector strike
- Brisbane forum calls for broad support for Assange and Manning
- US Army XVIII Airborne Corp posts sympathetic portrayal of Nazi war criminal on Facebook
- Severe heatwave set to worsen Australia’s bushfire emergency
2019-12-19
- Russia, Ukraine to resume talks on energy following Paris summit
- Australia: Melbourne train and tram workers isolated by trade unions
- Sri Lankan president expands Rajapakse family political power
- UK general election result confirms protracted death of the Labour Party
- Magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits southern Philippines
- With support from Governor Newsom, California utility PG&E finalizes settlement with fire victims
- A plague on both political parties
- Nurses and health workers strike in Northern Ireland
- French unions meet prime minister to sell out mass strike to defend pensions
- Mississippi death row inmate released on bail after being tried six times for the same crime
- Australia: New South Wales residents speak out on bushfire crisis
- Democratic Party candidates posture at union-sponsored education forum
- Amid impeachment vote, Congress passes record military budget and funds Trump’s border wall
- Fiat Chrysler merger with PSA signals new attacks on autoworkers’ jobs and conditions
- Growing demands for Australian government to intervene in defence of Assange
- Pentagon chief says US troops in Afghanistan to be redeployed against China
2019-12-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Right-wing campaigns in Georgia and Wisconsin purge half a million registered voters
- Asarco copper miner strike in Arizona and Texas in danger
- Amalgamated Transit Union forces 130 striking Northern Virginia Transit Workers back to work without an agreement
- One day after impeachment: Democrats back Trump trade, budget bills
- Federal judge rules US government is entitled to seize proceeds from Edward Snowden’s book sales and speaking fees
- Why did Canada’s Conservatives rush to dump leader Andrew Scheer?
- 999 rosenbaum
- An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Queen’s Speech features Johnson government’s anti-strike legislation
- From Cavaignac to Villiers: The class struggle in France and the lessons of history
- Workplace violence a major problem for US nurses
- Pakistan court sentences to death former US-backed military strongman Musharraf
- Tens of thousands defy Indian government threats and demonstrate against Hindu-supremacist laws
- Bush fires claim lives and property as Australia endures hottest days in recorded history
- Medical observers blocked from attending Assange hearing
- Judge says Assange extradition hearing will take “three to four weeks” as political opposition mounts
2019-12-21
- Over 1,500 steelworkers to lose their jobs as US Steel announces idling of Great Lakes Works outside of Detroit
- Assange gives evidence in Spanish case against security contractor
- Australia: Lauded military veteran subject of second police investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan
- A magnificent account of Stalin’s opponents in the USSR
- Facing scrutiny in the US, Purdue Pharma markets OxyContin overseas
- The fight against communal reaction in India is the fight for socialism
- Trump signs Pentagon budget imposing new sanctions on Syria
- Marriage Story: Noah Baumbach, self-involvement and the divorce racket
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- UK Labour Party leadership contest begins after general election meltdown
- Inequality and falling living standards fuel political “fragility” in Australia
- Hungary’s government continues its assault on democratic rights
- French unions work to end strike as government maintains pension cuts
- Democratic debate: Candidates denounce Trump, ignore party votes for Trump’s program
- World Bank concerned about “global debt wave”
- A historian’s critique of the 1619 Project
- UK to leave European Union at end of January after Johnson passes Withdrawal Agreement
- Amazon Logistics set to surpass delivery volume of FedEx, UPS by 2022
2019-12-23
- The Revolution and the Land: Peruvian documentary about agrarian reform in the 1960s and ’70s attracts great interest
- Las Vegas apartment fire kills 6, injures 13 and displaces over 50 residents
- This week in history: December 23-29
- BBC accused of pro-Tory propaganda during UK general election
- In midst of impeachment, Pelosi honors Trump with State of the Union invitation
- German government condemns US sanctions on Nord Stream 2 pipeline
- Boston transit: “Safety is not the priority” at the MBTA, panel finds
- Five-day strike of Kaiser Permanente mental health workers ends
- Israel’s political impasse ahead of third election in a year
- An interview with historian Dolores Janiewski on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Australia: Toxic air from bushfires rated a “public health emergency”
- As Australian Labor Party embraces big business, Greens plead for new partnership
- Australian fires bring growing global climate crisis into stark relief
- Explosion at Illinois silicone manufacturing facility entirely preventable
- EU court rules jailed Catalan nationalist Junqueras had immunity
- Boeing suspends production of deadly 737 Max 8 aircraft
- Canada: Alberta Conservatives’ austerity drive to exacerbate social crisis
- Indian state intensifies repression of mass protests against anti-Muslim citizenship law
2019-12-24
- Far-right Spanish general demands ouster of Socialist Party government
- Trump slashes Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico
- New Zealand Police fatally shoot man in rural town
- BALPA trade union sells out British Airways pilots struggle
- Christmas 2019: More than half a million homeless in America
- Historian Gordon Wood responds to the New York Times’ defense of the 1619 Project
- Germany: Former secret service boss agitates against refugees and plays down right-wing terrorism
- Saudi Arabia sentences hit men to death, shields organizers of Jamal Khashoggi murder
- Trump boasts of Democrats’ backing for his assault on immigrants
- Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: An Austrian farmer’s lonely defiance of the Nazis
- Journalist Peter Hartcher and the anti-China campaign in Australia
- Workers in Germany support French workers’ strike against Macron
- French strikers oppose “Christmas truce” called by Macron and trade unions
- Australian police begin “foreign interference” raids
- Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg forced to resign
2019-12-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Erdogan vows to send Turkish troops into Libya
- Cancer-causing chemical spills onto Detroit-area freeway over Christmas holiday
- Telangana Road Transport workers face harassment, contract-rollbacks after union surrender
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—All the gimmicks to rake in the revenue
- GM workers in Mexico thank US workers for donating to their defense fund
- Homeless in San Diego, “America’s Finest City”
- UK Whirlpool recall highlights threat to millions from defective domestic appliances
- Desperate to stem protests, dozens of governments shut down internet access in 2019
- Industrial carnage in US: 5,250 workers killed on the job in 2018
- Police shut down “drill rap” group’s Australian tour
- DC Transit Authority and union approve public workers’ contract, isolating striking private transit workers
- Research explains how the measles virus destroys immune “memory”
- Killing of two Indonesian journalists points to criminality in palm oil industry
- Strikers call to step up class struggle against French President Macron
- Christmas Day fire in Minneapolis, Minnesota displaces more than 200
- Bloomberg, Steyer spend $200 million on Democratic nomination fight
- Germany: Daimler workers support the strike wave in France
- Brazilian Workers Party joins Bolsonaro in imposing austerity, repressing strikes
2019-12-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK Johnson government launches anti-Gypsy/Traveller/Roma measures
- Mass protests continue in Tamil Nadu against Indian government’s communalist citizenship laws
- Trump issues hypocritical threat over Syrian offensive
- San Diego teachers notified of looming pink slips and layoffs
- Billionaires’ wealth surged in 2019
- New WikiLeaks documents expose doctoring of chemical weapons report to justify 2018 US attack on Syria
- The 1619 Project and the falsification of history: An analysis of the New York Times’ reply to five historians
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accepts Nobel Peace Prize
- Australian mental health report highlights a systemic crisis
- The election of Boris Johnson and the failure of Corbynism
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles: Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics
- Croatia: Right-wing Social Democrat wins first round of presidential elections
- Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
- Amiens railworkers vote to continue strike against French President Macron
2019-12-30
- This Week in History: December 30 - January 5
- Trudeau reaffirms Canada’s support for Israeli aggression
- New York City transit workers speak out about workplace dangers and attacks on health care
- Washington state legislator investigated for ties with violent far-right groups
- Poverty in Germany remains high, 2019 report finds
- Edward Gallagher, Donald Trump and America’s criminal wars
- Hasidic Jews injured in machete attack in Rockland County, New York
- Share market boom masks another financial crisis in the making
- Japan to deploy military forces to aid US operations against Iran
- UK Muslims demand investigation of Conservative Party’s Islamophobia
- Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval drills in Indian Ocean amid US war threats
- Indian army chief denounces mass protests against BJP government’s anti-Muslim citizenship law
- Video shows Greek authorities performing illegal “push backs” at refugee crossing
- Worsening Australian fires pose the need for urgent action on climate change
- Australia: Julian Assange support group formed in Alice Springs
- Striking Arizona copper miners determined to continue fight
- Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement by Eric London – How Leon Trotsky’s Assassination was prepared
2019-12-31
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- 2018 lecture by Eric London: The origins and findings of Security and the Fourth International
- Quebec’s CAQ government launches fresh assault on public sector workers
- The impeachment crisis and US war plans against Russia
- The US sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and the danger of World War III
- Favorite music of 2019
- Australia: Legal report documents “unlawful” police response to Melbourne climate protest
- India: Protests against anti-Muslim citizenship law in Kolkata
- Texas church shooting caps record year for mass killings in America
- Washington escalates Mideast war threat with strikes on Iraq, Syria
- Collapse of UK National Health Service threatened as Johnson government readies further onslaught
- Fires create hellish conditions across Australia
- Australian Labor and Liberal ministers agree on further regressive education measures
- Australian teachers’ defence of Julian Assange welcomed by WikiLeaks supporters
- Hexavalent chromium contamination likely leaking onto Detroit-area freeway since 2016
- Operation Relentless Pursuit: Federal agents occupying a city near you
- Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Homeless woman gives birth to twins outside the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College
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