Archive: 01/2020
2020-01-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump sets date for signing of “phase one” trade deal with China
- British fascists join Johnson’s Conservative Party
- Sleepy LaBeef, country boogie-woogie musician and singer, dies at 84
- “Robodebt” regime continues to inflict suffering on Australian welfare recipients
- The decade of socialist revolution begins
- New study shows link between auto plant closures and opioid deaths in working class America
- David North’s writings 50 percent off through weekend
- Wider war over Libya looms as France, Egypt denounce Turkish intervention
- US assassinates top Iranian general as 4,000 troops readied for Iraq intervention
- One million march in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day
- Many unanswered questions in Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan
- Florida: James Dailey faces execution based on testimony of a serial jailhouse informant
- As Australia burns, anger turns on climate change-denying Prime Minister Morrison
- Senator Bernie Sanders leads preliminary Democratic fundraising totals for fourth quarter and all of 2019
- Unifor bows to court injunction that greenlights CRC’s scabbing operation
- Bangladeshi jute mill unions call off workers’ protests
- Three African migrants die in US custody during Christmas and New Year holidays
2020-01-04
- Russia, Ukraine reach last minute gas transit deal
- Sri Lankan police arrest two former government ministers
- The murder of Qassem Suleimani and assassination as state policy
- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu seeks immunity from prosecution
- German defence minister supports combat operations in Africa
- In New Year’s address, French President Macron pledges to impose austerity despite mass strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes
- Trump’s anti-asylum “Remain in Mexico” policy to expand to Arizona
- UAW capitulates to Harvard, shuts down grad student strike
- UK refusal to accept Scotland’s supply of haemophilia drugs resulted in thousands of deaths
- Ruling class bereft of answers while catastrophic fires escalate across Australia
- Apple, Microsoft and Google among five companies sued over deaths of Congolese child miners
- Australia: Climate change and the bushfire crisis
- Black Mirror Season 5: The elephants in the room
- Ex-Australian foreign minister calls for release of Julian Assange to halt damage to US alliance
- Mexican president calls for Julian Assange’s freedom
2020-01-06
- This week in history, January 6-12
- Samoa lifts measles state of emergency
- An interview with film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum: “I’m trying to do something aesthetic through criticism”
- Oppose Trump’s criminal war against Iran!
- Conservative Austrian People’s Party to form government with Greens
- Just Mercy: The cruelty of Alabama’s death penalty
- German authorities shut down investigations into far-right and state crimes
- After another weekend of devastation, Australia faces weeks more of unprecedented fires
- Democrats fault Trump on strategy, silent on illegality of Suleimani assassination
- Two workers die in Texas while cleaning chemical tank
- Canadian government tacitly endorses US assassination of Iranian general Soleimani
- New Zealand union shuts down bus drivers’ strike, scapegoats migrants for low wages
- Britain backs US war drive against Iran
- Antiwar posts go viral on social media after US murder of Iranian general
2020-01-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Maduro government ousts Guaidó as speaker of the Venezuelan National Assembly
- US assassination of Suleimani staggers Turkish government
- The US propaganda machine justifies the assassination of Qassem Suleimani
- NHS London crisis deepens due to cuts, understaffing and privatisation
- The growing fascist influence in German politics: The case of Christian Democratic politician Robert Möritz
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting in Colombo demands release of Assange and Manning
- As millions march in Tehran, US steps up military build-up against Iran
- Tens of millions to join all-India one-day strike on Wednesday
- Australia: Surveys reveal majority of former car workers unable to find decent jobs
- Settlement reached in lawsuit against Detroit killer cops in Damon Grimes case
- European governments defend US state terrorism following assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
- CBS’ “60 Minutes” program raises questions on death of Jeffrey Epstein
- Transatlantic digital tax trade war looms
- Iranian-Americans detained at US-Canada border in wake of Suleimani assassination
2020-01-08
- Germany: Greens join Saxony coalition government’s right-wing agenda
- PSOE-Podemos loses investiture vote as Spanish right attacks Catalan government
- Podemos enters Spanish government
- Australian bushfire catastrophe exposes the contempt of the ruling elites for working people
- New Zealand soldier linked to fascist groups arrested
- The Mandalorian and Disney Plus: The media giant targets the small screen
- New Year’s Eve in Leipzig: German media and police spread false reports about left-wing violence
- Iran strikes US bases in Iraq as Pentagon deploys B-52 bombers
- Indian workers need a revolutionary socialist program to fight Modi, capitalist austerity, and communal reaction
- House and Senate deadlocked over Trump impeachment trial
- Earthquake strikes Puerto Rico, killing one and knocking out power to the island
- Corbyn grovels to Privy Council, seeking to block mass anti-war movement
- Fascist group carries out terrorist attack in Brazil
- Boeing, reversing its stance, recommends simulator training for 737 Max 8 pilots
- Lessons of the US autoworkers’ struggle of 2019
- Australian government backs US provocations against Iran
2020-01-09
- Harvey Weinstein criminal trial begins amid media frenzy
- Widespread opposition among South Australian teachers to union-government sell-out agreement
- Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin shielded from fraud, corruption charges
- Trump bides his time, but the preparations for war against Iran will continue
- After Suleimani murder, New Anti-capitalist Party backs US war on Iran
- UN rapporteur Nils Melzer condemns US torture of Chelsea Manning
- After four years of Corbyn, Blairite Sir Keir Starmer frontrunner in UK Labour leadership contest
- Another Kentucky coal company refuses to pay miners
- Massive all-India general strike protests Modi’s pro-investor, communalist policies
- Trump administration begins collecting DNA from detained immigrants
- At the Golden Globes awards ceremony: Comic Ricky Gervais causes a stir
- Inadequate government relief for Australian bushfire victims
- Central banks losing firepower to counter recession
- New York City judge orders 13-year-old held awaiting trial for murder of Barnard College student
- Australian bushfire victims speak-out: “What is our government doing at the moment?”
2020-01-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US, Canada blame plane crash on Iran as causes remain unclear
- Sri Lankan president outlines big business, communalist policy to parliament
- GM workers in Mexico thank Australian workers for support
- UK retailers report “worst year on record” as 140,000 job are shed
- Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans still without electricity, water, days after earthquake
- The New York Times’ 1619 Project promoted in schools across the US
- The Democrats pass Pelosi’s phony antiwar resolution
- New Zealand government backs US provocations against Iran
- Bandera supporters march in major Ukrainian cities after government names Nazi collaborators “national heroes”
- Trump administration initiated program to deport Mexican asylum seekers to Guatemala
- The Kill Team: Are US military atrocities in Afghanistan just the work of a few “bad apples”?
- German government defends US war drive against Iran
- India: Mass outrage over Hindu supremacists’ violent assault on JNU students
- Millions march in France as strikes against Macron pension cut spread
- Florida teachers to rally January 13 against attacks on public education
- Teachers condemn union’s sell-out agreement in New South Wales
- Australia: Victim of East Gippsland bushfire voices anger over government negligence
- Chelsea Clinton’s millions and the American aristocracy
- Corruption investigation targets newly installed UAW president Rory Gamble
- UN rapporteur Nils Melzer condemns Britain’s criminal role in the torture of Julian Assange
- US alcohol-related deaths doubled between 1999 and 2017
2020-01-11
- Germany: Response to satirical children’s video exposes self-censorship of the media
- Trump boasts of “executing” Iranian General Suleimani in Ohio campaign speech
- UK police fire stun guns 2,500 times as deployment of weapon escalates
- General election in Taiwan marked by anti-China atmosphere
- The Australian fire crisis and the necessity for socialism
- US and Australia ready another regime-change operation in Solomon Islands
- Bernie Sanders says “some wars are necessary”
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police advocated use of live fire against indigenous pipeline protesters
- Mass climate change rallies held amid Australian bushfire emergency
- The Indian general strike and the global fight against communalism and war
- Mack Trucks to layoff 305 workers at Allentown, Pennsylvania factory
- World famous pianist Igor Levit victim of anti-Semitic death threats
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US and Israel escalate Middle East tensions in wake of Suleimani assassination
- European powers support war preparations against Iran
- Erdoğan and Putin open TurkStream pipeline after Iran strikes US bases in Iraq
- Surveillance video outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during first “suicide attempt” deleted
- UK: Corbyn offers no fight against war with Iran
- Denied US entry, asylum seeker takes his own life on US-Mexico border bridge
- Bombshell invents a ruling-class hero
- Boston area professor fired after anti-Trump Facebook posting
2020-01-13
- This week in history: January 13-19
- Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011: A significant exhibition at Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary arts center
- Taiwan’s anti-China president wins re-election
- Rank-and-file teachers in San Diego County initiate fight against layoffs and school cuts
- Stop the War rally tries to restore Corbyn’s tattered anti-war credentials
- Spain’s new PSOE-Podemos government commits itself to austerity and war
- Archives Australia suppresses documents detailing Papua New Guinea intervention
- Thousands displaced as Puerto Rico enters third straight week of relentless earthquakes
- French strikers march as Prime Minister Philippe offers cosmetic changes to pension cuts
- The assassination of Qassem Suleimani and the criminalization of US state policy
- Australian PM declares “new normal” of climate disasters
- Strikebreaking operation directed at workers in plant near Pittsburgh
- Iran admits to inadvertently shooting down Ukraine International Airlines jet, killing 176
- UK protesters speak out against war on Iran
- Washington, D.C., political establishment blocks minimum wage increase for city’s tipped workers
- House Democrats to forward Trump impeachment articles, setting stage for Senate trial
- GM layoff of 240 temps exposes UAW’s bogus “pathway” to full-time positions
- Fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg gets $80.7 million on exit from Boeing
- Australia: Gospers Mountain fire survivors denounce government cuts in firefighting and bush management
- Working through injuries, bomb threats and tornadoes: Amazon workers describe conditions at Spartanburg, South Carolina warehouse
2020-01-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Texas becomes the first state to refuse refugee resettlement
- Britain’s royal family torn by factional conflict
- Australia’s Pine Gap spy base likely involved in the assassination of Qassem Suleimani
- The international witch-hunt of Julian Assange
- Neil Peart, renowned drummer for rock band Rush, dead at 67
- Australia: Kinglake residents speak on government inaction 11 years after Black Saturday blaze killed 173
- Assassination of Iran’s General Suleimani planned months in advance
- Iran admits to inadvertently shooting down Ukraine International Airlines jet, killing 176
- Indian workers in general strike call for unity
- Australian Greens bogus posturing on bushfire crisis
- Carlos Ghosn, Julian Assange and the class justice of the New York Times
- Thousands of Florida educators rally to demand increase in pay and school spending
- Catastrophic floods hit Indonesian capital
- Berlin, London and Paris threaten Iran over 2015 nuclear treaty
- Sanders’ rise in polls alarms Democratic political establishment
- Social Democrat Milanović wins presidential election in Croatia
- Julian Assange attends procedural hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court
2020-01-15
- US workers denounce war threats against Iran
- Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung defends murder of Suleimani
- As refugees from earthquakes increase, Puerto Rican authorities prioritize repressive measures
- Trump exploits Iran war crisis to incite violence against political opponents
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog demands anti-immigrant measures against “Australians fleeing climate change”
- Australia: Mount Druitt residents respond to police attacks on OneFour drill rap group
- Plotters behind violent massacre in Philippines convicted after 10 years
- Kremlin maintains muted response to Suleimani assassination, insists on Iran nuclear deal
- Puerto Ricans speak out against government corruption as earthquake disaster unfolds
- UK Flybe airline reaches bailout deal with government
- European powers move toward scrapping nuclear accord with Iran
- Sri Lankan Central Bank chief demands “structural reform”
- Workers at Cleveland Public Library cast near-unanimous vote to authorize strike action
- An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- An Open Letter to fellow Educators: Take a stand with Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Bolsonaro backs Trump in war on Iran, while Workers’ Party appeals to Brazilian military
- All UK Labour leadership candidates sign up to stepped up pro-Zionist witch-hunt
- The prosecution of Julian Assange, the destruction of legality and the rise of the national security state
- The 2020 Academy Award nominations: A generally weak, if unsurprising showing
2020-01-16
- New Zealand fascist group targets Chinese-born MP
- Wozzeck at New York’s Metropolitan Opera: Alban Berg’s opera on the tragic fate of an impoverished soldier
- Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe linked to international drug trafficking through Sinaloa Cartel
- YouTube, Facebook and Twitter remove accounts and content opposing the illegal assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
- Northern Virginia transit union officials announce tentative deal with private bus contractor to end bus drivers’ strike
- Sri Lankan SEP holds public meeting: How to fight the new Rajapakse regime
- Russian government resigns after Putin’s state of the nation address
- The Suleimani assassination, imperialist strategy and the crisis of the Iranian regime
- Germany: Auto manufacturer Opel to wipe out 4,100 jobs
- Mass abstention as union pushes through New York City transit contract
- Malians protest to demand departure of French occupation troops
- German captain of refugee rescue ship “Lifeline” acquitted of criminal charges in Malta
- House forwards impeachment articles, triggering Senate trial of President Trump
- Left-wing British film and television producer Tony Garnett dead at 83
- UK energy costs soar, leaving millions of households in fuel poverty
- Australian bushfire crisis highlights sweeping emergency powers
- Mideast war threat overshadows Democratic debate
- US-China trade deal leaves basic conflict festering
- New migrant caravan departs Honduras defying stepped-up controls
- Assange’s French legal advisor Juan Branco: “We’ve experienced a strong shift that we now need to nurture”
- Australia: NSW bushfire victims condemn inadequate planning and government responses
2020-01-17
- US students and youth speak out against the threat of war with Iran
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Virginia declares state of emergency barring guns at State Capitol ahead of far-right rally
- The impeachment trial begins as Trump escalates fascistic appeals
- Opposition grows to Nepal government’s move to curtail social media
- IYSSE holds first meeting in campaign for student parliament elections at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Italian air traffic controllers go on strike
- Washington continues war buildup against Iran
- Oakland, California: With guns drawn, police evict homeless mothers from house
- Hundreds of thousands protest pension cuts in France
- UK home secretary defends naming Extinction Rebellion as extremist
- Delta workers poisoned by toxic work uniforms file class action lawsuit
- Australian fires leave tens of thousands in financial hardship and stress
- Trump seeks to roll back environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects
- Canada’s media and political establishment endorse illegal assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
- Trump administration to illegally divert an additional $7.2 billion to border wall construction
- Australia: Balmoral firefighters say they were “abandoned” and demand better resources
- Sam Mendes’ 1917: A technological step forward, several ideological and artistic steps back
2020-01-18
- Snowplow operators in northeastern Minnesota begin strike over benefits
- Saskatchewan NDP silent on oil refinery lockout
- The Libya conference and the new scramble for Africa
- Rich in US and UK live nearly ten more healthy years than the poor
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Detroit, Michigan man declared innocent and released after nearly 30 years of wrongful imprisonment
- US and UK clash over Huawei involvement in 5G rollout
- Smoke haze from Australian bushfires pose serious public health threat
- German government to continue military operations in the Middle East
- Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Friend: One form of contemporary misanthropy
- JPMorgan Chase records the biggest profit of any bank in US history
- New UAW Ford director part of union’s narrow inner circle
- Unions promote nationalism as US copper miners strike approaches 100 days
- Australian Labor Party closes ranks with Morrison government in bushfire crisis
2020-01-20
- Police assault “yellow vests” after Macron forced to flee crowd in Paris theater
- #MeToo provocation against Bernie Sanders organized by CNN and Elizabeth Warren
- As neo-Nazis head to Richmond, Trump boosts gun-rights rally
- This week in history: January 20-26
- Tesla under investigation by US government for defect that caused over 100 crashes
- US official delivers Trump’s threatening message to Sri Lankan president
- Russian Duma approves new prime minister
- Drastic cuts to Rochester, New York schools
- Lack of action on climate change leads to warmest decade ever recorded
- Paris transport workers vote to end unlimited strike against Macron
- Ontario teachers to stage regional walkouts, as Ford government escalates threats
- Little Women: The new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s famed work
- Rebecca Long-Bailey Labour leadership campaign marks end of “project Corbyn”
- Bushfire scientist warns that Australia’s disaster is “a wake-up call”
- Climate change “spin” as Davos gathering confronts mounting environmental and economic crisis
- Asarco strike poses need for unity of US and Mexican copper miners
- Chicago police to be deputized as federal immigration agents
- Google suppressing World Socialist Web Site content in its search results for the New York Times’ 1619 Project
- Detroit Three automakers see gains in 2019 UAW contracts, industry think tank gloats
2020-01-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Northam’s Virginia budget: Democrat gives a pittance to workers, lion’s share to wealthy
- Trump backs armed gun-rights rally in Richmond, Virginia
- Venezuela’s Maduro offers Trump a “win-win” bargain
- UK Counter Terrorism Policing document seeks to outlaw political dissent
- Anger mounts in Puerto Rico as workers discover warehouse full of unused aid
- The oligarchs assemble at Davos
- Sports grants pork-barrelling adds to political disaffection in Australia
- Germany: New links found between Lübcke murder, neo-fascist NSU and the secret service
- Berlin conference prepares military occupation of Libya
- Mass protests escalate in Iraq and Lebanon
- UK: Highest-paid CEOs take home 117 times that of an average paid worker
- Trump administration ramps up campaign to abolish strong data encryption in aftermath of Pensacola terror shooting
- Spate of retail closures underscores deepening Australian economic slump
2020-01-22
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: A child’s-eye view of the Nazis’ crimes
- The New York Times gloats over Harvey Weinstein’s misfortune
- Witnesses testify that CIA spied on Assange and his lawyers
- UK: Johnson government plans draconian new anti-terror laws
- Tasmanian premier’s resignation highlights political discontent across Australia
- Scottish National Party clashes with Johnson government over second independence referendum
- Australia: Thousands protest government inaction on bushfires and climate change
- Democratic Party establishment wages war on Sanders
- PFAS contamination found at Detroit-area plating company site leaking cancer causing chemicals
- Brazil’s minister of culture fired after fascist speech plagiarizing Joseph Goebbels
- Kentucky miners blockading coal shipments win backpay
- Senate adopts rules for quick impeachment trial of President Trump
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro government charges journalist Glenn Greenwald with “cybercrimes”
- Shots fired at SPD constituency office in Halle, Germany
- Clearview AI facial recognition tool being used by more than 600 US police agencies
- Growing fears of global debt crisis
- SEP to hold public meeting in Canada to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Europe dispatches naval flotilla to threaten Iran, Syria
2020-01-23
- Weathering With You: Climate change and fatalism
- The New York Times attempts to discredit defense as Harvey Weinstein trial begins
- Corbyn nominates arch Blairite Tom Watson for British House of Lords
- US troops confront Russian convoy near Syrian oil fields
- Bangladesh prepares to send 100,000 Rohingya refugees to isolated island
- Trump puts Europe in his sights for trade war
- The prosecution of Glenn Greenwald and the global war on free speech
- Australia: NSW Ambulance staff forced to do overtime to cover under-staffing
- Canadian judge begins hearing Washington’s geopolitically explosive demand for extradition of top Huawei executive
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for social equality
- Norwood Jewell begins 15-month sentence in minimum-security prison for role in UAW bribery scheme
- Democrats begin Senate trial of Trump with anti-Russia diatribe
- New Zealand Greens support military build-up
- Ford planning temporary layoffs at Chicago Stamping Plant
- Despite #MeToo protest, Berlin audience applauds opera singer Placido Domingo
- Banks to give $10 billion bailout to Boeing, nothing to the families of the dead
2020-01-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Major Chinese city in lockdown as novel coronavirus spreads internationally
- The Politician: The unreality of official American political and social life
- Sri Lankan president announces major tax concessions for foreign investors
- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warns of “civilization-ending nuclear war”
- Record number of homeless deaths in New York City last year
- Australian government releases whitewash report after more than 1,200 people die waiting for disability services
- New pamphlet from Mehring Books on the 1619 Project
- At Davos, Trump announces plans to cut Medicare and other social programs
- Germany: Left Party supports Libya conference and possible military deployment
- Pence, Netanyahu use Holocaust event in Israel to rail against Iran
- Consortium News sues for libel over claims it aided “Russian disinformation” campaign against Canada
- Australian workers to pay as bushfire disaster intensifies slump
- As extradition hearing dates are set, US Department of Justice argues Assange has no First Amendment rights
- India: Mass protests against Modi’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act continue
2020-01-25
- French “yellow vests” protest for Assange outside Belmarsh prison in London
- Volkswagen boss Diess commits management to mass layoffs
- As strike struggles surge, US unions record lowest ever membership rate
- Unifor prepares betrayal in Saskatchewan refinery lockout
- Australian Labor Party demands faster development of attack submarines
- Iranian student deported from Boston by Customs and Border Protection despite court order
- The mass protests in Iraq and the US drive to recolonize the Middle East
- As public support builds for Ontario teachers’ struggle, government denounces walkouts
- Strikers march across France as Macron moves to impose pension cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- The significance of Italy’s Sardines movement
- Trump steps up attacks on immigrants, democratic rights in midst of impeachment trial
- Trump administration to deny visas to pregnant women
- Australians suffer violent hailstorms, flash floods and ongoing fires
- Sri Lankan graphite mine workers strike over pay and conditions
- Fascistic New Zealand soldier charged with disclosing military information
- SEIU reaches tentative agreement at Cleveland Public Library in attempt to avert strike
- Second case of coronavirus confirmed in the US
- Tens of thousands of UK households live in buildings covered in flammable cladding
2020-01-27
- French “Yellow Vests” rally for Julian Assange outside London’s Belmarsh Prison
- This week in history: January 27-February 2
- Murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak reveals close ties between political establishment, corporate elite and criminal underworld
- At Davos, Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government shows the banks its credentials
- Seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz
- Eleven inmates dead in a month of violence at Mississippi state prisons
- Australian prime minister’s role in sports pork-barrelling intensifies political crisis
- Left Party prepares to cooperate with far-right Alternative for Germany in Thuringia
- Trump’s disdain for wounds suffered by troops in Iraq sparks protest
- Trump tweets threats as impeachment defense begins
- Official inquiry cover-up of Grenfell Fire begins “second phase”
- Sri Lanka: Kahatagaha mine workers speak with the WSWS
- Despite thousands of job cuts, General Motors will receive $2.28 billion in Michigan tax credits
- With UAW collusion, Ford implements video surveillance of workers at Dearborn Truck Plant
- The Expanse Season 4: The latest installment in the science fiction series
- Socialist Equality Party to run Joseph Kishore for president, Norissa Santa Cruz for vice president in 2020 US elections
- Death toll rises to 38 after earthquake in Elazığ in eastern Turkey
- Private equity firm to purchase the assets of the .ORG domain registry for $1 billion
- Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in the same party as Joe Biden
- Rising concerns over spread of the Wuhan coronavirus
- An interview with a “yellow vest” protester on the fight to free Julian Assange
- An interview with Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano
- Canada’s complicity in the persecution of Julian Assange
2020-01-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Kremlin appoints new cabinet
- Royal Family deal over Harry and Meghan only exacerbates crisis of rule
- Rallies in Australia and NZ to demand freedom for Assange and Manning. No to US extradition!
- Australian Labor parliamentarian demands nationalist “pledge of allegiance” for school children
- The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and the global threat of infectious diseases
- India's Supreme Court greenlights Modi government’s internet shutdown in Kashmir
- Iraqi government cracks down on anti-US protests
- Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial
- Seventy-five years after World War II: The ideological preparations for fascism and war
- US Supreme Court considers ending ban on public funding for religious schools
- Trump rolls back clean water protections
- Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in the same party as Joe Biden
- German government bans neo-Nazi group “Combat 18 Deutschland”
- Mexican President López Obrador breaks up migrant caravan
- FCA announces temporary shutdown of Belvidere Assembly plant near Chicago
- Auschwitz liberation commemorated in Poland amid state-led campaign for historical revisionism and war
- Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning! No US extradition!
- Union-backed arbitrator imposes pay freezes on Alberta teachers and nurses
2020-01-29
- Residents, families of dead workers left to fend for themselves after chemical explosion at Houston, Texas manufacturing facility
- Opposition builds to pro-company union at GM’s Silao, Mexico complex
- US Supreme Court approves public charge rule directed against legal immigrants
- Oppose French unions’ attempts to strangle the struggle against Macron!
- Australia: Worker presumed dead in Tasmanian mine collapse
- Coronavirus provokes turbulence on global stock markets
- The sudden death of basketball great Kobe Bryant produces shock and tributes worldwide
- SEP presidential candidate Joseph Kishore opens 2020 campaign with address to students and supporters in Michigan
- Italian ruling parties defeat far-right Lega in Emilia-Romagna elections
- Trump unveils farcical Mideast “peace plan” as Netanyahu is indicted
- In impeachment crisis, Trump continues fascistic appeals, Democrats promote warmonger John Bolton
- Trump ramps up tensions with UK after Huawei 5G decision
- #MeToo accusations and identity politics circulate around 2020 Grammy Awards
- US refuses to extradite spy’s wife to UK over death of Harry Dunn
- Sri Lankan president declares wartime missing persons dead
- Wuhan coronavirus accelerates while concerns over limited resources may prove catastrophic
- US airstrikes in Afghanistan hit ten-year high in 2019
2020-01-30
- Swiss newspaper raises important questions about the Harvey Weinstein trial
- Multiple countries curtail travel to mainland China as fears mount over coronavirus
- Amid impeachment, Trump signs North American trade deal passed with Democratic support
- Thousands of companies in Britain flout national minimum wage laws
- Psychologist responsible for devising torture methods testifies at Guantanamo Bay hearing
- The way forward for Dutch teachers
- Edward Snowden warns that Assange and Greenwald prosecutions mark new stage in assault on press freedom
- South Australian counsellor and educators speak on conditions in schools
- Notes from Puerto Rico: Earthquakes and government indifference leave trail of social destruction
- Sri Lankan president’s bogus wage increase for plantation workers
- Crisis election in Peru yields fractured Congress
- John Bolton and the “national security” impeachment
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season Three: Comedy and historical fantasy
- Body of worker killed in New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel collapse exposed
- Protests continue as French unions negotiate pension cuts with Macron
- Ohio foodbanks and charities struggle to prepare for Trump food stamp cuts
- Australian government calls for national emergency powers
- How Canada’s corporate media smeared WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange
- Brazilian President Bolsonaro guest of honor at India’s Republic Day
- ITV documentary reveals conditions in prison holding WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
- Fiat Chrysler seeks to dismiss GM lawsuit charging it “acquired” the UAW
- Amazon employees defy management and publicly protest corporate policies
2020-01-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Alice Springs group condemns silence of “Bring Assange Home” parliamentary group
- Elizabeth Warren issues call for internet censorship
- World Health Organisation officially declares coronavirus a “global health emergency”
- Ukraine government plagued by political infighting
- Tram drivers’ strike and protest in Melbourne, Australia
- More than 7,800 nurses and hospital staff strike for third day at Seattle hospitals
- Germany: Humboldt University students speak on the falsification of history and lessons from Auschwitz
- My Response to Alex Lichtenstein Regarding the 1619 Project
- Britain leaves the European Union: Against nationalism, For the United Socialist States of Europe!
- Paralysed woman faces life-threatening deportation from New Zealand to Tonga
- Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left blames working people for Rajapakse’s election victory
- Amid global war on journalism, Tamil journalists sent death threats in Sri Lanka
- Nominal rise in US life expectancy reported after three years of decline
- UAW isolates striking metal workers near Pittsburgh
- Terry Jones (1942-2020): From Monty Python to Geoffrey Chaucer
- Right wing whips up anti-refugee sentiment in Greek island protests
- War tensions mount between NATO powers over Libya, Mediterranean
- Almost half of cancer patients in the US deplete entire life assets by second year of treatment
- American Airlines contract talks with unions at a standstill
- A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
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