Archive: 02/2020
2020-02-01
- US bans foreign nationals from entry over coronavirus
- South Korea deploys naval unit to Strait of Hormuz
- Unifor negotiating pension cuts in Saskatchewan refinery lockout
- Sanders surges in polls amidst attacks from media, Democratic Party establishment
- Maryland police officer faces murder charges after shooting handcuffed man seven times inside patrol car
- US deploys “usable” nuclear weapon amid continuing war threats against Iran
- India: Maoist union betrays 140-day Motherson auto parts workers’ strike
- Trump administration announces major attack on Medicaid, capping benefits
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- SEP presidential candidate Joseph Kishore addresses IYSSE election campaign meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- BJP to table Indian budget amid mounting economic crisis, popular anger
- Senate rejects witnesses in Trump impeachment trial, setting the stage for acquittal
- President Trump expands anti-Muslim travel ban to thirteen countries
- Jaguar Land Rover announces 500 job cuts at Halewood in northwest England
- Firms responsible for covering Grenfell in flammable cladding demand immunity from prosecution
- Australia’s fire crisis continues while flash floods hammer northern Queensland
- Sharp fall on Wall Street as coronavirus hits global markets
- Canada’s New Democrats plead for cooperation with Liberals, as Trudeau government lurches further right
- Montreal meeting this Sunday to demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Steven Soderbergh’s High Flying Bird: Sports and racial politics
- Latest UN plan to address catastrophic decline in biodiversity—more empty platitudes
- As GM Detroit-Hamtramck shutdown looms, media touts promise of investments
- Assange would be held in “darkest corner of the prison system” if extradited to the US
- Peronists vote unanimously to invite US troops into Argentina
2020-02-03
- Nervousness grows over global impact of coronavirus outbreak in China
- This week in history: February 3-9
- Unifor offers sweeping concessions to FCL management in failed bid to end Regina oil refinery lockout
- Corporate media and Democratic establishment target Sanders
- Australian PM compels minister to resign over sports grants pork-barrelling
- Amy Klobuchar, endorsed by New York Times, denounced for railroading black teenager to prison for life
- Volkswagen works council agrees to destruction of 20,000 jobs in Germany
- Renowned Harvard chemistry professor charged with lying about ties to China
- An examination of the anti-immigrant campaign in early 20th century America
- Ford planning further layoffs at Chicago Stamping Plant
- Johnson’s real Brexit agenda is trade war, militarism and class war
- Australia: Bushfire survivors point to lack of funding for firefighters and recovery effort
- FCA offers buyouts to 3,900 workers at Belvidere Assembly, raising danger of plant’s closure
- General strike for jobs and pensions erupts in Spain’s Basque Country
- Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly calls for Assange’s release, condemns threatened extradition
- Six children die from hunger and tainted water in Argentina’s Salta Province
- The right-wing record of Jacinda Ardern’s government in New Zealand
- Michael Apted’s 63 Up: The ninth film in the remarkable series
2020-02-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington DC transit authority proposes cuts in services in wake of 84-day bus drivers’ strike
- White supremacist Coast Guard officer sentenced to thirteen years in federal prison after plotting massacre of Democrats and “leftists in general”
- Students and young people speak out against war
- Rising “under-employment” fuels discontent in Australia
- Dozens killed in growing border clashes between Turkey and Syria
- Advocate (2019): “An angry, optimistic woman” in pursuit of justice for the Palestinians
- Sri Lankan Tamil party leaders ready to work with President Rajapakse
- Australian political establishment once again in turmoil
- Amidst growth of class struggle, union membership in US falls to historic lows
- Ontario government escalates its assault on the poor
- Australia: New South Wales public school teachers continue to express outrage over union betrayal
- NATO exercise Defender 2020: Germany serves as military base for build-up against Russia
- More than half of the world’s millennials fear a nuclear attack will happen in the next decade
- Boris Johnson’s government uses London terror attack to call for indefinite detention
- With Sanders headed to victory, Iowa Democratic Party blocks release of caucus results
- Democrats double down on anti-Russia war-mongering in impeachment arguments
- Oil prices plummet as coronavirus epidemic drastically curtails Chinese demand
- Pennsylvania cancer patient sentenced to 10 months in prison for shoplifting $109.63 in groceries
- Brazilian oil workers strike against mass layoffs, privatization threat
2020-02-05
- Australian government intensifies punitive drive against welfare recipients
- Trump delivers right-wing tirade against socialism in State of the Union address
- American pianist Peter Serkin is dead at 72
- The Iowa caucuses debacle
- Sri Lanka: Presidential commission orders halt to trial of naval officers over abductions
- UN rapporteur Nils Melzer exposes British government attempts to obstruct his defence of Assange
- Lavrov tours Latin America as Pentagon brands Russia, China as “malign actors”
- Germany: IYSSE again represented in the Student Parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- New Jersey teenager fired from Five Guys for allegedly insulting police officers
- UK: Errol Graham starved to death after withdrawal of benefit payments
- Wall Street rises as coronavirus weighs heavily on global economy
- Former leader of Germany’s Social Democrats Sigmar Gabriel cashes in at Deutsche Bank
- Coronavirus outbreak disrupts global auto industry as carmakers shut down production in China
- Cabin crew trade union agrees to job cuts as Polish airline LOT to take over Germany’s Condor
- Brazil’s Workers Party advances austerity policies in unity with Bolsonaro
- Right-wing extremist Professor Jörg Baberowski physically assaults socialist student
- Take up the fight for international socialism! Join the IYSSE!
2020-02-06
- Staff, students and freedom of expression at Nashville art school threatened in takeover by religious university
- As number of cases soars, researchers announce potential coronavirus vaccine
- Sri Lanka: The ruling elite’s hollow national independence celebrations
- Emergency legislation for terror law offenders in UK sets anti-democratic precedent
- Trump threatens to block aid as Puerto Rico is hit by new earthquake
- Trump emerges strengthened after Democrats’ impeachment debacle
- Montana state representative calls for socialists to be shot
- Labor Party props up Australian government in political crisis
- Social inequality main issue in the Irish general election
- Germany’s IG Metall union offers to collaborate in restructuring the steel and electronics industries
- Over 1.5 million homeless students in the US
- Democrats cover up extent of hexavalent chromium poisoning at public meeting in Detroit suburb
- Farmers protest Socialist Party-Podemos government in Madrid
- Don’t Extradite Assange meeting in London: The political issues
- Unifor praises Saskatchewan premier as he demands police action against locked out refinery workers
- New Zealand’s coronavirus travel ban stokes tensions with China
- India: One million public sector bank workers strike for higher pay and against privatisation
2020-02-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Democratic governor gives right-wing response to Trump State of the Union address
- Accuser Jessica Mann’s testimony in the Weinstein trial: A Journey to the End of the Night
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- Far-right AfD plays role of kingmaker in German state election
- Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara on the Iowa caucuses: Don’t lose faith in the Democrats
- Human Rights Watch report finds 138 Salvadorans killed after being deported from the US
- Trump gloats over impeachment, but popular opposition mounts to his administration
- Warnings issued over share market surge
- Democrats seek to suppress Sanders victory in Iowa
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shoots unarmed man in the face in New York City
- New Australian Greens leader makes a “left” pitch to young people
- Kahatagaha miners in Sri Lanka must fight for socialist policies
- GM workers denounce forced overtime imposed with UAW collusion
- BorgWarner buys Delphi as mergers in global auto industry slash thousands of jobs
- Official response to coronavirus heightens popular anger at Chinese government
- More killed as poll shows half of Chile has joined protests
- Interview with international model Andreja Pejic: “I think standing behind Assange and Manning is where we should all be”
- UK: Tory health secretary signals ditching Accident and Emergency targets as crisis in NHS worsens
2020-02-08
- New York Times’ Wesley Morris complains that eight of the films nominated for Best Picture “are about white people”
- Australian coronavirus travel ban blocks thousands of Chinese students
- Thuringia, Germany: Minister president elected with votes of far-right AfD announces resignation
- Sri Lankan union leader Saman Ratnapriya paid off with a parliamentary position
- German ruling class commemorates liberation of Auschwitz by planning new wars and new crimes
- South Dakota House passes reactionary anti-transgender bill
- UK: Johnson uses Trump’s playbook in attack on media
- Coronavirus to have deep impact on global economy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduces bill that threatens end-to-end encryption
- Australia: Federal Court grants DP World ban on further industrial action by maritime workers
- Hillary Clinton launches new attack on Sanders
- Former UAW Region 5 Director Vance Pearson signs plea deal
- Australia: Balmoral fire captain labels government response a “national disgrace”
- Montreal SEP Canada meeting demands freedom for Assange and Manning
2020-02-10
- Chinese authorities try to contain discontent over handling of coronavirus outbreak
- UK: Vigil remembers Errol Graham, pays tribute to family’s fight for justice
- This week in history: February 10-16
- Dozens of San Diego teachers receive “excess” notices as mass layoffs loom
- Police crackdown on sacked workers after Sri Lankan president’s “Independence Day” speech
- Australian pseudo-left seeks to cover up its abandonment of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- At urging of provincial Moe government, police attack locked-out Saskatchewan refinery workers
- Further slush fund revelations intensify political crisis in Australia
- The Trump administration’s surveillance dragnet
- US retail giant Macy’s announces closure of 125 stores and 2,000 job cuts
- IYSSE spokesperson submits disciplinary complaint against right-wing extremist professor at Humboldt University in Berlin
- Sinn Féin general election win reflects leftward shift in Ireland
- Interview with film historian Joseph McBride: For Kirk Douglas, life was “like a war—you have to fight all the time”
- Germany: Trial in Hamburg for former SS security guard at Stutthof concentration camp
- Growing attacks on socialism in Democratic presidential race
- American film actor Kirk Douglas (1916–2020)
- Trump outlines massive cuts in Medicaid and Medicare in 2021 budget plan
2020-02-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: former northern chief minister seeks to divert campaign over “disappeared persons” to appeals to major powers
- Salvadoran soldiers invade Congress as president warns of imminent “social explosion”
- The coronavirus pandemic: A global disaster
- Mother and six children killed in Mississippi house fire, only father survives
- Dr. Lissa Johnson calls for workers and young people to rally in defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Protesters speak out at demonstration against Tory government deportation plans
- Ford shakes up management, prepares for more cuts after 99 percent profit decline
- Woman who killed UK teenager Harry Dunn was a CIA spy
- UK government carries out deportation of around 20 Jamaican nationals
- John Deere announces layoffs at Iowa plant
- Thousands of students affected by New Zealand’s anti-Chinese travel ban
- Quebec court rejects petition to stay anti-democratic provisions of CAQ’s “secularism” law
- Trump budget gives top priority to new generation of nuclear weapons
- As Brazilian oil workers’ strike grows, Labor Court rules it “abusive”
- Russian-Belarusian energy talks fail as Minsk moves closer to the US, NATO
- 2020 Academy Awards: Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite from South Korea wins major awards
2020-02-12
- World Health Organization warns of global risk from coronavirus outbreak
- New York state sues Trump administration over suspension of Trusted Traveler programs
- The legacy of Tonga’s late “pro-democracy” PM ‘Akilisi Pohiva
- Cleveland-area officials announce plan to provide $14 million to industrial paint giant Sherwin-Williams
- Hundreds of thousands denied pensions in Russia
- Trump’s budget proposal: A new offensive in the social counterrevolution
- Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning
- Sanders wins three-way contest in New Hampshire primary
- Trump removes restrictions on land mine use by US military
- Financial board demands new cuts, privatizations in Boston transit system
- Ten million workers in Britain toil in “low-quality” jobs
- Indian budget inflicts more austerity amid job crisis, deepening economic slowdown
- Canada’s military top brass joins CSIS in demanding Huawei ban
- Recession warnings fuel political instability in Australia
- Coronavirus could deliver major hit to world economy
- US jobs report: 11,000 US auto jobs lost in January
- Folk singers charged for violating Bangladesh’s draconian Digital Security Act
- New York state bail reform prompts backlash from Democrats and Republicans
- A comment on American Factory, the award-winning documentary
2020-02-13
- New Zealand’s Waitangi Day promotes nationalism and militarism
- Trump continues post-impeachment power grab with Roger Stone intervention
- Anticapitalistas prepare to leave Spain’s Podemos-Socialist Party government
- Justice Department sues New Jersey and Washington state county over “sanctuary” policies
- Documentary on Alberta train derailment uncovers evidence of criminal negligence by CP Rail
- UK postal union calls national strike ballot after collapse of phoney talks
- Growing class conflict in the US and the resurgence of socialism
- Petition for Assange’s freedom tabled again in Australian parliament
- New York City police in open revolt against Mayor de Blasio
- Market surge continues ahead of confirmation hearings for New York Fed Governor nominee
- US spied on governments for decades through secret ownership of Swiss encryption firm
- “Shoot them down”—India’s government incites violence against opponents of its anti-Muslim citizenship law
- UK steel unions smooth way for job losses and givebacks ahead of British Steel buyout
- New York City transit system accumulates billions more in bond debt
- Changes in the car industry threaten Slovakian workers
- Austrian Green Party in power adopts policies of the far right Freedom Party
- After 10 months’ silence, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warns against extradition of Julian Assange
2020-02-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump pledges to veto war powers resolution, uses Pentagon funds to build border wall
- Sri Lankan prime minister’s India visit underscores deepening geostrategic rivalry
- Workers at GM’s Silao, Mexico plant charge union with stuffing ballots during recognition vote
- Saskatchewan: FCL refinery escalates its concession demands from 750 locked-out workers
- Sanders tells New York Times he would consider a preemptive strike against Iran or North Korea
- SEP builds support for Free Assange and Manning rallies in Australia
- Corporate Canada clamours for Trudeau to launch a violent crackdown on anti-pipeline protests
- Sound the alarm! Political conspiracy and the resurgence of fascism in Germany
- BBC Panorama exposes rising death toll on UK’s “smart motorways”
- Letter to members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA)
- The King: A film drama (insufficiently) inspired by Shakespeare’s work
- US brings new charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei
- Growth of fascistic attacks on refugees in Greece
- Seven workers burned to death in Indian factory fire
- UK government spearheads anti-migrant crackdown with deportation of Jamaican nationals
- Concordia University in Portland, Oregon set to close by end of the semester
- Black Democrats endorse Bloomberg after release of racist boasts on “stop-and-frisk”
2020-02-15
- Coronavirus cases continue to increase and spread internationally
- Trump nominee in doubt for Federal Reserve position
- Alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Joshua Schulte on trial in New York
- Sajid Javid removed as UK chancellor as Johnson readies offensive against working class
- Major Australian bushfires finally extinguished by torrential rain
- John Pilger’s The Dirty War on the National Health Service screening on Australia’s SBS this Sunday
- #MeToo collaborates with fascistic forces to block showing of Polanski’s film J’Accuse
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US assassinated Suleimani to quash Iran’s talks with Gulf monarchies
- President of Berlin’s Humboldt University defends Professor Jörg Baberowski’s physical assault on left-wing student
- Sanders surge in poll sparks backlash in Democratic establishment
- India: BJP loses Delhi election as voters reject communalism
- Trump administration’s national counterintelligence strategy focuses on “hacktivists, leaktivists and public disclosure organizations”
- Chicago high school students hold sit-in in defense of students who refused to stand for national anthem
- White House orders militarized border patrol unit to carry out raids in “sanctuary cities”
- Trump’s “Blue Collar Boom”: Myth vs Reality
2020-02-17
- YIVO Institute for Jewish research in New York fires all its librarians
- HBO’s Watchmen: Alternative history that ignores the meaning of the 1921 Tulsa massacre
- Geo-political conflicts overshadow Vanuatu election
- This week in history: February 17-23
- German President Steinmeier calls for German-European great power politics at Munich conference
- Renault announces “no taboos” cuts as planned layoffs in auto industry exceed 100,000
- Germany’s Left Party appeals for cooperation with Christian Democrats and Free Democratic Party in Thuringia
- Peruvian students protest threatened shutdown of private universities
- Bloomberg’s billions and the politics of oligarchy
- US threatens Europe over Huawei at Munich Security Conference
- Las Vegas anti-homeless ordinance enforcement begins
- New York Times falsifies history to claim Sanders is “transforming” the Democratic Party
- Stop all anti-immigrant raids! Abolish ICE and CBP! For a socialist policy of open borders!
- Sri Lankan government prepares to privatise Kahatagaha graphite mines
- Eurozone growth slows to lowest level in seven years
- Student climate change protests across the UK
- Canada: Native protests continue to cripple rail network
- Australian media maintains an unconscionable blackout on the case of Julian Assange
- Judge rules in favor of Amazon, halts work on JEDI contract by Microsoft
2020-02-18
- US-backed Saudi bombing kills at least 32 civilians in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Courage Foundation holds public meeting in New York City in defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- US: Wayfair, Tripadvisor and other tech companies announce layoffs
- Chinese government defends its response to coronavirus
- Australian universities slash jobs in response to coronavirus travel ban impact
- Striking University of California-Santa Cruz grad students defy UAW, arrests and threats of termination
- Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on six counts of disorderly conduct in Chicago
- Washington Post war hawk Jackson Diehl lauds Sanders’ foreign policy
- Australian court backs police raids on journalists
- US-Europe conflict erupts at Munich
- Ontario teachers, locked out Regina refinery workers must wage a working-class political struggle
- Tom Mackaman interviewed on 1619 Project by history podcast
- The Lancet publishes letter from doctors: “End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange”
- Labour Party leadership candidates profess Zionism at Jewish Labour Movement hustings
- German Defence Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer delivers pro-war speech at Munich Security Conference
- Erfurt, Germany: 20,000 demonstrate against fascism
- Quebec: Students protest against CAQ’s chauvinist “secularism” law
- Two thousand former US Justice Department officials call for resignation of William Barr
- GM announces exit from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand
- Support grows for New Zealand rallies to free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Socialism and the 2020 elections: the international class struggle and the strategy of world socialist revolution
2020-02-19
- US evacuates Americans from quarantined cruise ship in Japan
- UC Santa Cruz graduate students call for expansion of wildcat strike
- Washington backs Turkey as border clashes mount with Syria and Russia
- Behind promises of dialogue, Canadian government prepares state assault on native protests
- US imposes travel ban on Sri Lankan army chief
- Russian state frame-up results in draconian prison sentences for left-wing youth
- At least 2.5 million children in Germany live in poverty
- Markets soar as companies announce mass layoffs
- McClatchy newspaper chain files for bankruptcy
- Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill dead at 64
- German politicians and cultural professionals demand release of Julian Assange
- Sanders’ surge in the polls triggers new provocations by media, Democratic establishment
- Claire Mercer speaks on the campaign to abolish UK smart motorways—Part 1
- China denounces US “lies” at the Munich Security Conference
- Sanders fails to get endorsement from Chicago Teachers Union
- Australian MPs visit Julian Assange at Belmarsh Prison
- Assange defence team: “The empire calls it espionage. We call it journalism”
- Peronism leans on the pseudo-left FIT-U to implement IMF austerity in Argentina
2020-02-20
- US slaps sanctions on Russian oil company trading with Venezuela
- Tens of thousands of UK university staff begin 14 days of strikes
- Mobilize the working class to defend the grad students at University of California-Santa Cruz
- East Timor’s coalition government collapses
- Germany: Left Party proposes a Christian Democrat as state premier in Thuringia
- 14,000 Safeway workers in Northern California prepare for possible strike
- Growing support for Julian Assange on eve of extradition hearings
- Trump pardons ruling class criminals
- Eminent Monsters: A Manual for Modern Torture, directed by Stephen Bennett
- Wall Street celebrates Milken pardon
- Lawyers file new motion demanding release of Chelsea Manning
- Quebec Premier’s Facebook page flooded with anti-Muslim messages
- 20,000 flee Kazakhstan after inter-ethnic violence claims 11 lives
- GM workers in Lansing oppose forced overtime, UAW treachery
- FBI and Department of Justice reject Freedom of Information Act document request by SEP National Chairman David North
- Canada’s NDP rushes to Trudeau’s rescue amid “national crisis” over pipeline protests
- Claire Mercer speaks on the campaign to abolish UK smart motorways—Part 2
- Labor Party leads Australian attack on British government over Huawei
- German Education Minister Karliczek supports right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski
- Australia: Students and workers demand release of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams covers for the billionaire Bloomberg
2020-02-21
- Young Democratic Socialists of America’s winter conference props up the Democratic Party
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ukrainian President Zelensky reshuffles staff amid political crisis
- Support for UC Santa Cruz strike spreads to other campuses, faculty
- Michael Grimes, former top UAW administrative assistant, sentenced to 28 months for role in kickback scheme
- Fighting mounts as Washington backs Turkish attack on Syria, Russia
- Sri Lankan school teachers join rising opposition to Rajapakse government
- Qantas threatens to replace pilots with outside crews
- Stop the right-wing terror in Germany!
- Ontario teachers require a socialist program to defeat austerity, defend public education
- UK Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell visits Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison
- EU agrees to new military mission against Libya
- UK Johnson government rolls out restrictive “points-based” immigration system
- Las Vegas debate reveals deepening Democratic Party crisis
- Brazilian Army general takes over as Bolsonaro’s chief of staff
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launches $10 billion climate change fund
- “One must not forget”: A musical tribute in Berlin to Jewish members of the Deutsche Oper orchestra persecuted by the Nazis
- Veteran “Four Corners” journalist Andrew Fowler denounces Australian government’s refusal to defend Assange
2020-02-22
- Video: “To stop right terror, you need to know where it comes from”
- Demonstrations throughout California in support of wildcat strike by UC-Santa Cruz graduate teaching assistants
- UC Santa Cruz graduate students defy administration ultimatum, vote to continue strike
- UAW quashes effort to force direct election of union officers
- Canadian PM proclaims indigenous “barricades must now come down”
- US intelligence agencies meddle in Nevada primary to sabotage Sanders
- Sabisky eugenics scandal exposes fascist core of UK Tories
- “Robodebt” assault on Australian welfare recipients deliberately targeted the vulnerable
- A “ceasefire” in Washington’s Afghanistan debacle
- Two hundred thousand Canadian teachers strike, as global worker counter-offensive continues
- Sanders wins sweeping victory in Nevada
- Demonstration to free Julian Assange this Monday in Montreal
- David North and Joseph Kishore to address live stream campaign town hall meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- General Motors receives 75 percent local tax abatement for Lordstown battery plant
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- New conflict of interest evidence against UK judge in charge of Assange extradition process
- UK: Grenfell fire inquiry finalises moves to grant corporations immunity from prosecution
- Tens of thousands protest all over Germany against right-wing terror
- Why did Princeton University provide funding for the German right-wing extremist Jörg Baberowski?
- European legal team will seek asylum for Julian Assange in France
- Las Vegas Culinary Workers Union stumps for “anybody but Bernie”
- Coronavirus cases outside China are alarming, global health officials say
2020-02-24
- This week in history: February 24-March 1
- Australian government expands northern air base for US military use against China
- Hundreds of San Diego teachers slated to receive layoff notices due to $30 million budget deficit
- Australian and New Zealand demonstrations demand freedom for WikiLeaks founder and US whistleblower
- Control of offshore gas and oil provokes conflicts in eastern Mediterranean
- Philippine President Duterte ends US Visiting Forces Agreement
- Democratic Party deploys Russian meddling smear against Sanders
- Striking Ontario teachers speak out against Ford’s savage cuts
- OECD sounds corporate debt warning
- Oberlin College in Ohio plans to lay off 108 dining and custodial workers
- US defense secretary launches simulated nuclear attack against Russia in Pentagon war game
- Washington, D.C., transit police engaged in competitions for highest number of arrests in the metro system
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds London rally in defence of Assange and Manning
- Iran elections show growing alienation from bourgeois-clerical regime
- Trump to promote anti-China strategic alliance in visit to India
- Hesse, Germany: Right-wing extremist propaganda at state expense
- German government strengthens intelligence agencies and right-wing networks in state apparatus
- Third round of layoffs in two months at Chicago Stamping Plant
- Echo in the Canyon: The “California sound” of the mid-1960s
- Don’t Extradite Assange campaign calls on Boris Johnson to intervene
- Cities quarantined in Italy, Iran, South Korea as coronavirus spreads globally
- Real estate broker fees remain in place in New York City after judge issues restraining order
2020-02-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- #MeToo-style attack on star of West Side Story revival fizzles on Broadway
- Fears grow of pandemic as coronavirus takes hold internationally
- David North and Joseph Kishore address international online audience in Socialist Equality Party town hall election meeting
- As Trump embraces Modi, communal violence convulses India’s capital
- “Victories are not won through political cowardice, but in struggle”
- Sri Lanka: IMF presses new government to implement austerity
- Sanders on “60 Minutes” spells out willingness to use US military power
- EU police departments preparing massive international facial recognition database
- Two train drivers killed in derailment on Australia’s main interstate line
- Hundreds protest outside Woolwich Crown Court to demand Assange’s freedom
- Two impoverished teenagers die working in an illegal Peruvian mine
- The show trial of Julian Assange begins
- Rally and march in Melbourne, Australia demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Germany: Tens of thousands take to the streets against right-wing terror
- German right-wing and far-right parties suffer defeat in Hamburg state election
- Four months before 2020 contract fight: Detroit schools superintendent tells teachers “no increases”
- Brazilian oil workers’ unions shut down strike to “negotiate” with Labor Court
- Russia seeks to ease tensions with Belarus over energy dispute
- Assange extradition trial opens in London
- Waiting times for aged care in Australia quadruple over past decade
2020-02-26
- The New York Times gloats over the destruction of “the Monster” Weinstein
- New York Times posts anti-Semitic caricature of Harvey Weinstein
- Many unanswered questions following attack on carnival procession in Germany
- Canada: Metro Vancouver housing crisis deepens as rents rise
- UC-Santa Cruz grad students continue wildcat strikes
- After acquittal in Gezi Park trial, Turkish state re-launches prosecution
- Germany: Left Party embraces Christian Democrats in Thuringia
- Irish pseudo-left groups back Sinn Féin-led coalition
- SEG (New Zealand) rally in Wellington demands freedom for Assange and Manning
- Trump hails Modi as his supporters engulf Delhi in communal violence
- Hosni Mubarak, US-backed dictator of Egypt for 30 years, dead at 91
- SEP US presidential candidate Joseph Kishore: “Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!”
- Third election in a year deepens Israel’s political crisis
- US Supreme Court grants border police a license to kill
- California governor to collaborate with Trump against the homeless
- Michael Winterbottom’s Greed: A searing indictment of the super-rich
- Wall Street falls as coronavirus spreads
- 2020 began with the hottest January in recorded history
- China expels three Wall Street Journal journalists
- The fix is in: Kenneth Feinberg to oversee payouts to Boeing crash victims
- China auto sales plummet as coronavirus threatens to trigger global downturn
- Persecuted journalist Assange handcuffed, stripped naked on first day of extradition trial
- Nashville art school students, alumni oppose takeover by Christian college
2020-02-27
- Unions work to defeat UC-Santa Cruz grad student strike
- Sri Lanka: New Tamil alliance declares pro-US agenda
- Tennessee carries out fifth electric chair execution since 2018
- Free Assange and Manning! SEP and IYSSE to hold demonstration in Colombo
- Water shutoffs continue in Detroit in the face of growing opposition
- Video shows Florida school police officer boasting after arresting six-year-old
- The coronavirus pandemic and the need for global socialized medicine
- “The fight for Assange’s freedom requires the political mobilisation of the working class”
- Ontario’s education unions “suspend” most job actions
- New Zealand: Pseudo-left ISO promotes illusions in right-wing Labour-led government
- National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood—How the US military and CIA go about their propaganda operations
- Germany: Nazi terrorist group planned mass murder of Muslims
- Montreal: Demonstration outside US consulate demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Mass workplace shooting at Milwaukee, Wisconsin brewery leaves six dead including gunman
- Federal appeals court backs Trump’s attack on sanctuary cities
- New study reveals growing health crisis in Greece
- British Tory government’s general practitioner contracts intensify assault on healthcare
- Attacks against Sanders intensify ahead of South Carolina primary
- Australian bushfire inquiry: Damage-control, cover-up and a push for military powers
- In alliance with Workers’ Party, Bolsonaro sends Brazilian army to contain police strike
- Former UAW President Owen Bieber dead at 90
- Julian Assange condemns court for preventing him from speaking to lawyers
2020-02-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Lawsuit reveals that nearly 44,000 US Postal Service workers have been fired after being injured on the job
- US Coast Guard “doubles down” on Pacific operations targeting China
- Strikers at UK universities speak on their working conditions, pay and pensions
- Turkey bombs Syria after losing dozens of troops to Syrian-Russian airstrike
- San Diego educators and students protest devastating layoffs, program closures
- Julian Assange’s father demands immediate bail for imprisoned son
- Australia: Workers and youth call for intensification of Assange and Manning defence campaign
- For a globally coordinated emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic!
- ABC News suspends veteran reporter who called himself a socialist, criticized network in secret recording
- Coronavirus spread sparks “bloodbath” on Wall Street
- Alberta to criminalize protests that threaten “critical infrastructure”
- “The working class needs to demand that Assange is released, not that the ruling class do it on their behalf”
- Spartanburg SC Amazon workers speak on brutal conditions
- India: Death toll in BJP-instigated violence in Delhi rises to 38
- Grad student strike spreads to two more University of California campuses
- The leadership debate in Germany’s Christian Democrats and the steady political march to the right
- Some tantalising glimpses of social reality
- Judge rules Assange cannot sit with lawyers during extradition hearing
- Australian spy chief reveals fascistic networks, but minister attacks “left-wing lunatics”
2020-02-29
- Slovenian journalist Blaž Zgaga: If Assange is extradited “the same can happen to any of us”
- Stop the firings of University of California grad students!
- War tensions mount in wake of strike on Turkish troops in Syria
- Over 200,000 teachers strike in Sri Lanka
- St. Paul, Minnesota teachers prepare to strike as Twin Cities janitors hold 24-hour walkout
- Working class in South Korea bears brunt of Covid-19 outbreak
- Canada: FCL demands locked-out Saskatchewan oil refinery workers bow to its concession demands
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