Archive: 03/2020
2020-03-02
- Rally in defence of Julian Assange held in Zurich
- University of California strikers defy firings and expand strike
- This week in history: March 2–8
- Idlib war escalates as Turkey announces military operations against Syria
- Salt Lake City teachers stage one-day walkout
- Video of brutal police shooting of unarmed man in Chicago train station sparks outrage
- Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias joins state commission running Spanish intelligence
- Sri Lankan government, companies and unions conspire to impose harsh wage deal on estate workers
- Race vs. class in the South Carolina primary
- Coronavirus accelerates job cutting in New Zealand
- Museum of Chinese in America’s unique collection devastated by fire
- Malaysia’s political crisis deepens as King declares new prime minister
- Federal court rulings challenge Trump immigration policies
- Workers’ bodies remain in rubble of New Orleans Hard Rock hotel four months after collapse
- Workers left to scramble as GM closes Detroit Hamtramck plant for 18-month retooling
- Grenfell Inquiry witnesses granted immunity from prosecution resulting from oral evidence
- US federal appeals court rules that private technology conglomerates are not bound by First Amendment
- Two US deaths reported amid signs coronavirus has been spreading unchecked for several weeks
- Jeremy Corbyn’s criminal silence during Julian Assange’s extradition hearing
- Record fall in key China production index
- Brisbane rally calls for freedom for Assange and Manning
- Afghanistan peace deal begins to unravel as Kabul rejects prisoner swap
2020-03-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK university workers face a political struggle against Johnson government
- Striking University of California graduate students defy firings, expand strike
- Australia: Tram drivers’ union attempts to impose sellout agreement
- Governments skimp on funds to fight the coronavirus, open cash spigots for the banks
- Five members of neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division arrested for targeting US journalists
- Japanese government facing growing criticism over Covid-19 outbreak
- Lack of preparedness puts US health care workers at greatest risk from coronavirus
- The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-up—Part 1
- Tulsi Gabbard denounces election interference by US intelligence agencies
- Fiat Chrysler to lay off 1,500 Windsor Assembly workers in June
- The controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt
- Democratic Party goes to war against Sanders
- Coronavirus hits Russia as further news emerges of healthcare system in crisis
- Stop the war on refugees at the Greek-Turkish border!
- Trump ordered Assange’s seizure by British police and wanted him dead
2020-03-04
- High cost of health care, lack of paid time off, leave US workers vulnerable to coronavirus outbreak
- Ex-United Auto Workers official pleads guilty to corruption charges
- Amid Syrian war, Turkey opens borders for Syrian refugees to travel to Europe
- Tornado outbreak kills 25 across Tennessee
- Struggles break out in Inverness, Bristol ahead of UK Royal Mail national strike ballot
- Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell: An important and largely unrecognized film
- Capitalism’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic
- Late New Zealand PM Mike Moore lauded as a “working-class hero”
- Federal appeals court rules Congress cannot enforce White House subpoena
- Victory for Netanyahu leaves him short of a majority
- European Union intensifies war against refugees at Turkish-Greek border
- The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-up—Part 2
- Fed cuts interest rate, but market plunge resumes
- Detroit State of the City 2020: Pro-capitalist promises, lies and omissions
- Democratic Party leaders engineer Biden victory in most Super Tuesday states
- Defender 2020: Largest mobilisation of NATO troops against Russia in 25 years
- Australia’s health system could be overwhelmed by large-scale coronavirus outbreak
- Australian government revives plan for internal electronic surveillance
2020-03-05
- President of Wayne State University calls cops on lecturers protesting layoffs
- UK coronavirus plan underscores gutting of health and social care
- Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate speaks with University of California strikers
- Toronto: CUPE seeks to impose sellout contract on 5,000 city outside workers
- Sri Lanka: Prominent journalist and cartoonist call for Julian Assange’s freedom
- Sri Lankan SEP hold rally in defence of Assange and Manning
- Quebec’s phony education “reform” will facilitate further cuts and privatization
- The political lessons of Sanders’ Super Tuesday defeat
- Coronavirus outbreak takes hold in New York
- Democratic billionaire governor of Illinois proposes austerity budget
- The Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Anatomy of a cover-up—Part 3
- UK television presenter Caroline Flack’s suicide and the “bread and circuses” culture
- Workers to pay the price as Australia joins global slide into recession
- Coronavirus kills at more than 20 times the rate of seasonal flu
- Australian parliamentary parties endorse British show trial of Julian Assange
- First Amazon worker at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters tests positive for coronavirus
- Within days of Afghan “peace” deal, US bombs Taliban
2020-03-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The number of ultrawealthy individuals is growing dramatically on a world scale
- Students rally in defense of University of California strike
- Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament, calls national election
- The working class and the rich: Class distinctions exposed by response to Covid-19 pandemic
- What must be done to fight the coronavirus pandemic
- Another downward swing on Wall Street
- Right-wing extremist accused of murdering German politician Walter Lübcke suspected in another attempted murder
- Former UAW President Gary Jones indicted as federal prosecutors raise prospect of government takeover
- Putin and Erdogan agree to new Idlib ceasefire at Moscow summit on Syria
- The all-party conspiracy behind the return of the Left Party to government in Thuringia
- Macron to ram through French pension cuts without vote in parliament
- Europe’s largest regional airline, Flybe, collapses citing coronavirus impact as final straw
- UK university strike confronts wholesale marketisation of higher education
- After Super Tuesday primaries, Warren drops out, Sanders tacks to the right
- Computer modeling can assist in efforts against the Covid-19 pandemic
- As anger mounts over Assange’s persecution, former foreign minister Carr calls for moral appeals to Australian government
- Clash between Bolsonaro and Congress deepens crisis of capitalist rule in Brazil
- Local transmission of coronavirus increasing in Australia
- US Midwest retail chain Art Van Furniture to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- International court approves probe of US war crimes in Afghanistan
2020-03-07
- Sri Lankan government withdraws from UN resolutions in order to boost the military
- Ukraine government reshuffle brings in officials tied to US and ruling oligarchy
- California graduate students expand wildcat strike to fourth campus, with two more slated to join
- New report finds Tesla withheld workplace injury data from government
- San Ysidro, California high school students walk out to oppose attacks on public education
- Another corporate media smear against Bernie Sanders
- Push: An exposure of financial parasitism and the global housing crisis
- Coronavirus spreads to Poland, threatening to upend presidential elections
- University of California graduate student strike: A struggle against the United Auto Workers and the Democratic Party
- Ontario parliament to ban criticism of Israel under guise of combating anti-Semitism
- Following Milwaukee brewery shooting, Molson Coors starts a GoFundMe for victims’ families
- Voters set to punish Macron’s party in French municipal elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump administration moves forward with unconstitutional DNA testing of immigrants
- Years of austerity and welfare cuts lead to record number of foodbanks in the UK
- Nathaniel Woods, 44, who never killed anyone, executed in Alabama
- European states dither on emergency response as coronavirus spreads globally
- World Health Organization warns of need for urgent response as coronavirus cases surpass 100,000
- Australia: “Teachers for Assange and Manning” campaign in Melbourne
- Brazil: Amid brutal police repression, São Paulo government passes state pension reform
- Australian Labor MP feigns concern over US extradition of Julian Assange
- New Zealand PM Ardern boosts relations on Fiji visit
2020-03-09
- California graduate student wildcat strike enters fifth week
- This week in history: March 9-15
- A fighting strategy to defend public education in San Diego’s Sweetwater Union High School district
- St. Paul, Minnesota teachers set to strike Tuesday
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government sends police to Greece to attack migrants
- Sanders rally attendees in Michigan discuss socialism and the Democratic Party
- The Democratic Party rallies behind Biden
- Canada “at war” with Russia, high-level Ottawa conference told
- New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
- Modi government leaves millions of Indians vulnerable to coronavirus
- Teachers in Mexico block major railway as government deploys National Guard
- Italy quarantines multiple provinces as coronavirus death toll rises to 366
- India restricts drug exports due to coronavirus impacts, threatening global drug supply
- German government incites racism with commemoration of right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau, refugee policy
- #MeToo campaign shows its ultra-right colors: Hachette Book Group suppresses Woody Allen’s memoir
- Greek police shoot at refugees using live ammunition
- Australian government moves to boost data-swapping with US spy network
- Opioid-related deaths in Columbus, Ohio area up 45 percent from last year
- Oil price war set to trigger new financial storms
- Councils to increase tax across UK as services are slashed
- As US coronavirus cases top 500, Italy initiates mass quarantine
- Murdoch’s News Corp shuts down Australian Associated Press
2020-03-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- WHO warns again of Covid-19 pandemic as Italy imposes nationwide lockdown
- Washington increases pressure on Beijing over Chinese media
- In blow to US campaign against WikiLeaks, proceedings against alleged CIA whistleblower end in mistrial
- Coronavirus destabilises Saudi Arabia
- With 17 confirmed cases of coronavirus, Polish hospitals teeter on the brink of collapse
- The coronavirus pandemic and the failure of capitalism
- Greece: New Democracy government deepens attacks on pensions
- St. Paul, Minnesota teachers strike
- New York cops caught on video assaulting unarmed man
- Australian PM makes a desperate pitch to avert economic disaster
- Trump picks ultra-right congressman Mark Meadows as new chief of staff
- Markets plunge in worst fall since 2008 crisis
- Macron government, #MeToo witch-hunters step up campaign against Roman Polanski after César award for J’accuse
- Prison riots erupt as Rome extends coronavirus lockdown to all of Italy
- Germany sees rapid increase in coronavirus infections and first deaths
- Mexico: AMLO’s embrace of the corrupt CTM and the threat of dictatorship
- Afghanistan “peace” deal stalls as Kabul rivals are both sworn in as president
2020-03-11
- University and College Union prepares sellout of UK universities national strike
- Berkeley grad students vote to join wildcat strike as UAW scrambles to shut down struggle
- Germany’s Left Party joins hands with far-right Alternative for Germany
- Spain puts Madrid, Basque country on lockdown as coronavirus cases multiply
- The response of the working class to the coronavirus pandemic
- Sweetwater teachers and students protest impending mass firing of teachers
- US nurses decry lack of planning and communication, equipment shortages in midst of COVID-19 spread
- National Guard deployed to New York City suburb as coronavirus outbreak intensifies
- Market turbulence continues in day of swings
- US sanctions on Iran turn coronavirus into a catastrophe
- Coronavirus pandemic surges across Europe
- Supreme Court allows Eritrean refugees to sue Canadian mining company over use of slave labour
- Educators speak out on threat of coronavirus in US schools
- Italy emerging as the new epicenter for the Covid-19 pandemic
- Medical supplies running out in parts of Canada as first coronavirus death reported
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro signs military pact with Trump
- Biden racks up decisive victories over Sanders in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi primaries
- Speer Goes to Hollywood: A wake-up call about the danger of trivialising Nazi crimes
- An interview with Vanessa Lapa, director of Speer Goes to Hollywood: “We have to take the danger of rewriting history very seriously.”
- Negligent Australian government response threatens widespread Covid-19 infection
- Julian Assange’s mother, doctors warn he is at heightened risk due to coronavirus
2020-03-12
- No to right-wing “anti-Semitism” lawsuit against New York University!
- Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison: “Obscene” culmination to a travesty of a trial
- Lecturers and students rally during last week of UK national strike
- Sanders begins campaign to drag his supporters behind Biden
- As oil prices plunge and coronavirus spreads, Russian oligarchy seeks to keep Putin in power indefinitely
- How profit-gouging and government deregulation created New Zealand’s home-building catastrophe
- Trump’s coronavirus address: Ignorance, xenophobia and helplessness
- On coronavirus, Merkel tells Europe: “Drop dead”
- Wall Street sell-off resumes as Dow enters bear market territory
- Life expectancy growth stagnates in England for first time in 120 years
- Amid protests and crises, Lebanon defaults on Eurobond
- Italy’s coronavirus epidemic surges as mass layoffs announced
- Autoworkers condemn lack of response by union and management to coronavirus emergency
- International Bar Association condemns British attacks on Assange’s legal rights
- House Democrats work overtime to renew US government surveillance law
- Michigan governor declares state of emergency after state’s first two coronavirus cases confirmed
- Modi government shields instigators of Delhi anti-Muslim violence
- Riot police fire “pepper balls” at University of Dayton students ordered to evacuate campus housing within 24 hours
- Concerns spread over inevitable outbreak of coronavirus in US immigrant detention centers
- Congressional doctor expects up to 150 million Americans to contract the coronavirus
- Chelsea Manning hospitalized after attempting suicide in federal detention
- Canada: Absence of sick pay and job security preventing at-risk and ill workers from staying home amid Coronavirus crisis
- After ending oil workers strike in Brazil, union approves plant closure and layoffs
- Australian health professionals speak on lack of preparation for coronavirus pandemic
2020-03-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington governor bans gatherings of more than 250 as coronavirus spreads
- US authorities in disarray and paralysis in face of Covid-19 emergency
- Coronavirus threatens to overwhelm UK National Health Service
- University of California wildcat strike continues despite quarantine measures
- Major US professional sport leagues shut down seasons
- Right-wing attack on performance of African-American spirituals at Western Michigan University
- Faurecia workers in Spring Hill, Tennessee reject UAW
- Growing opposition to company-union attacks at Qantas Australia
- Capitalism is at war with society
- Ontario’s “Roadmap to Wellness” continues austerity for youth mental health services even as demand spikes
- New York City declares state of emergency amid coronavirus pandemic
- Sri Lankan president militarises administration to stop strikes and civil unrest
- Massachusetts health care professionals warn of Covid-19 testing shortage and lack of worker protections
- Stock markets plunge in biggest fall since October 1987 crash
- Chelsea Manning released from jail after grand jury is dismissed by US federal court
- Patients denied care as Macron announces coronavirus lockdown in France
- French female lawyers publish open letter defending filmmaker Roman Polanski and the presumption of innocence
- Coronavirus overwhelms mitigation measures across Latin America
- US launches airstrikes in retaliation for Iraq missile attack
- Fiat Chrysler keeps Indiana plant running after worker tests positive for coronavirus
- Australian government hands billions to business as coronavirus worsens economic slump
- Biden, Sanders appeal for joint action with Republicans over coronavirus pandemic
- Crypto AG leaks: German and American spy agencies snooped on 120 countries
- A comment by writer and director Andrew Birkin on Speer Goes to Hollywood
2020-03-14
- Russia’s coronavirus cases double in two days, as Ukraine reports first death
- Trudeau exploits coronavirus crisis to strengthen Canada-US imperialist alliance
- Toronto threatens to lock out public health workers amid expanding coronavirus pandemic
- Universities and colleges close across the US as COVID-19 disrupts the lives of millions of students
- Spain declares state of emergency as unions agree to mass layoffs
- Coronavirus will deepen social and health problems in Sri Lanka
- Workers halt production at Fiat Chrysler Windsor Assembly over coronavirus danger
- Delayed and unplanned school closures in the US have increased coronavirus transmission
- Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire: What sort of “gaze” does this film reveal?
- Poland, Czech Republic close borders, shut down public life due to coronavirus
- The response of the ruling elite to the coronavirus pandemic: Malign neglect
- One year after the New Zealand fascist terrorist attack
- New York Times hypocritically accuses Russia of “weaponizing race” in 2020 elections
- Mexican National Guard deployed against Matamoros auto parts workers
- Turbulent week on Wall Street ends with market surge
- London postal workers take strike action over coronavirus concerns
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wildcat strikes erupt across Italy to demand idling of plants during coronavirus pandemic
- More than 250 deaths in Italy in one day as coronavirus continues to spread
- Iraq condemns US-UK strikes that killed soldiers, police and civilian
- Coronavirus pandemic threatens to overwhelm India’s dilapidated health system
- Collapse of quarantine building in China exposes public anger over Beijing’s COVID-19 measures
- Grenfell fire inquiry reveals more criminality by firms involved in refurbishment
- Coronavirus hits Israel, threatens catastrophe for West Bank and Gaza
- Striking university lecturers and students in Bournemouth, UK speak out
- Global auto industry in downward spiral as coronavirus spreads worldwide
- World Health Organization pleads for $675 million to fight coronavirus
- Australia: Melbourne teachers vote to defend Assange and Manning
- Shut down the auto industry to halt the spread of coronavirus!
- Australian medical official warns coronavirus could infect 1.5 million in NSW
- Anger erupts as Art Van Furniture liquidation sales begin
2020-03-16
- Australian universities exploit COVID-19 crisis to cut jobs and courses
- US automakers, UAW deploy threats and lies to keep workers on the job during pandemic
- An appreciation of jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, 1938-2020
- This week in history: March 16-22
- Coronavirus spreads to Turkey, risking a rapid outbreak
- Student organized investigation finds that Pomona College in California has denied 70 percent of housing requests
- US capitalism’s response to the pandemic: Nothing for health care, unlimited cash for Wall Street
- “Horror start” for New Zealand workplace deaths in 2020
- New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
- New York City finally closes public schools during coronavirus pandemic
- Media investigations into leaked forum messages reveal neo-Nazi Atomwaffen recruiter is an active duty Navy sailor
- St. Paul teachers union uses coronavirus outbreak to justify sell-out of three-day strike
- UK government uses coronavirus pandemic to ready military in “public order” role
- Fund drive to pay Chelsea Manning’s court fines raises $267,000 in two days
- German student newspaper “Unauf” defends far-right violence against students
- UK Johnson government denounced for COVID-19 “herd immunity” policy
- Coronavirus could lead to collapse of German healthcare system as early as May
- Cruise ship industry announces worldwide shutdown in response to coronavirus pandemic, leaving ship workers in the lurch
- US Fed slashes rates to zero and returns to “quantitative easing”
- Trump administration official admits coronavirus could kill millions in US
- Coronavirus outbreak: The German government was warned of the dangers of a looming pandemic and did nothing
- Bangladesh government downplays COVID-19 threat as job losses mount
- Autoworkers denounce official coronavirus response, call for plant shutdowns
2020-03-17
- After handful of tests, West Virginia officials claim zero coronavirus cases
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK: NHS anticipates year-long coronavirus crisis and 8 million hospitalised
- US autoworkers demand industry shutdown to fight coronavirus
- Spain deploys army to impose coronavirus lockdown
- Scandinavian Airlines lays off 10,000 airline workers as coronavirus triggers global jobs massacre
- How to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: A program of action for the working class
- Leading orchestras and musicians move to free online performances in response to the coronavirus pandemic
- Despite massive Fed intervention, market plunge continues
- New Zealand cabinet minister Shane Jones continues to stoke racism
- The impact of the coronavirus crisis in Florence
- US threatens military escalation as Iraq confronts COVID-19 and oil price shock
- ICE officials running unchecked facial recognition searches on Maryland drivers
- Army enters Paris as Macron announces coronavirus lockdown in France
- Australian governments invoke emergency powers amid COVID-19 disaster
- Bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee introduces bill that censors online content and attacks encryption
- Australia: Queensland coroner finds Ardent Leisure culpable for Dreamworld theme park deaths
- UK doctors speak out on coronavirus pandemic
- Democratic Party debate dominated by coronavirus pandemic
- As lockdowns mount over COVID-19 worldwide, WHO pleads for more testing
- Coronavirus crisis in Germany: Workers must demand factories and large enterprises be closed
- Canadian workers launch work-safety job actions amid rapid spread of coronavirus
- Amid coronavirus pandemic Nevada gaming commission announces “no plans” to close casinos
- As coronavirus cases surge in Canada, Trudeau prioritizes tougher border controls
- Temporary work stoppage at Fiat Chrysler’s Warren Truck plant as wildcat strikes spread in global auto industry
- Health official warns that 150,000 Australians could die in coronavirus pandemic
2020-03-18
- Canada: Coronavirus threatens to ravage Toronto’s swelling homeless population
- As UAW keeps plants open, Indiana Fiat Chrysler and Lear workers take action over deadly coronavirus
- Sri Lankan government responds to COVID-19 by mobilising the military and helping the financial elite
- Sri Lankan SEP to launch election campaign with live streamed online public meeting
- Workers shut production in auto plants throughout Michigan and Ohio, in defiance of UAW and management
- US service industry workers face unemployment as businesses close due to coronavirus
- Modi feigns concern for regional cooperation to fight coronavirus, as pandemic spreads across South Asia
- University of Michigan terminates provost amid unspecified sexual misconduct allegations
- Mounting anger as workers demand protection from unsafe conditions
- New Zealand government predicts COVID-19 recession, gives billions to business
- Merkel’s response to coronavirus: Draconian measures for German population, unlimited loans for corporations
- Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing: Fresh appeal launched to clear Megrahi
- Workers hit by job losses and pay cuts
- Israeli government uses emergency powers to authorize cellphone tracking of coronavirus patients
- Pregnant migrant teenager dies after falling from US border wall in southern Texas
- Australian government to use “foreign interference” laws against China-linked targets
- Going into lockdown, Europe overtakes China as coronavirus epicenter
- Biden sweeps three primaries amid coronavirus crisis
- London’s Imperial College predicts millions to die from coronavirus pandemic in UK and US
- Close Australian schools to stave off coronavirus! Form action committees of teachers and school staff!
- Bolsonaro tells workers to work or starve as COVID-19 spreads in Brazil
- Curveball—Germany’s role in the Iraq war—and the horrors of the concentration camp in Persian Lessons
- UK: Johnson grants £350 billion COVID-19 handout to business and nothing for the working class
- Australian workers face mass job cuts amid coronavirus crisis
2020-03-19
- IMF denies loan to Venezuela as it braces for COVID-19
- Ukrainian government uses coronavirus crisis to pass IMF-backed reforms
- Max von Sydow (1929-2020): The long shadow of a great actor
- BREAKING NEWS: Workers shut production in auto plants throughout Detroit, in defiance of UAW and management
- Bernie Sanders draws his campaign to an end: The political lessons
- Front-line nurses and doctors face dire shortages of personal protective equipment
- Union calls off UK Royal Mail strike citing national interest during coronavirus pandemic
- Reject capitalist xenophobia! For international socialist solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic!
- Pacific Islands nations threatened with disaster by coronavirus
- New York University gives students 36 hours’ notice to leave dormitories, leaving many students facing homelessness
- Markets plunge again in rush to cash
- Washington imposes new sanctions as Iran’s COVID-19 death toll tops 1,000
- ICE raids continue, asylum seekers turned away, and detention facilities remain potential hotbeds for coronavirus
- Hungarian government uses coronavirus epidemic to promote racism
- Australian teachers call for “immediate, tangible action” over coronavirus
- Australian doctors condemn government response to COVID-19 “disaster”
- As world toll from COVID-19 pandemic passes 200,000, American hospitals at risk of being overrun
- As coronavirus pandemic grows, anger rises against German companies
- Working class in China bears brunt of Beijing’s COVID-19 response
- Canadian government’s Coronavirus response: Tens of billions for business, a pittance for healthcare and workers
- Auto plants shut down throughout North America in response to wave of wildcats over coronavirus
- Doctors condemn Australian government’s refusal to defend Julian Assange
- “Amazon puts us at risk:” Warehouse workers discuss company’s inaction in the face of the coronavirus pandemic
2020-03-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Facing mask shortage, US doctors told to use bandanas
- National interests stand in the way of a coronavirus vaccine
- California governor orders statewide lockdown as US coronavirus deaths top 200
- Ontario Toyota worker describes company inaction in the face of coronavirus pandemic
- Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue: Documentary about war crimes and historical revisionism in Japan
- Australian government continues to imprison Tamil refugee family
- US imperialism exploits coronavirus as a weapon of war
- New York City now the epicenter of coronavirus pandemic in the US
- German Chancellor Merkel’s address to the nation: A declaration of criminal irresponsibility
- Media blackout of wildcat strikes in US auto industry
- Stock markets hold steady but global dollar shortage looms
- Massive social disaster looms as worldwide job losses from coronavirus pandemic expected to reach 25 million
- Coronavirus crisis cripples Italy’s health care system
- Italian army drafted to transport corpses as coronavirus deaths surge in Europe
- Syriza leader Tsipras offers collaboration with New Democracy against refugees and Turkey
- Emma. and Jane Austen’s realism
- UK: Johnson government uses coronavirus crisis to seize dictatorial powers
- Retired UK welfare advice worker Terry Craven: “If they are going to build a herd immunity, they already know it’s going to kill thousands of people”
- Immigrants in US detention facilities plead for help as coronavirus pandemic spreads
- Drivers shut down Detroit bus system with sick-out over health and safety concerns during coronavirus outbreak
- Growing anger among Brazilian workers to response of government and unions to coronavirus crisis
- CIA veterans endorse Biden for president—and so does Tulsi Gabbard
- Some US auto companies announce plant closures, others remain open in wake of worker job actions over coronavirus
- Qantas spearheads mass layoffs in Australia as pandemic worsens
2020-03-21
- Rideshare drivers speak out on working conditions during coronavirus pandemic
- Turkey’s coronavirus measures: billions for business, crumbs for workers
- Nearly two dozen New York City transit workers test positive for COVID-19
- While dumping their stock, US senators misled the public on coronavirus crisis
- South Carolina Amazon worker speaks on loss of his health, benefits and job
- Utah’s Salt Lake Valley shaken by 5.7 magnitude earthquake, compounding coronavirus crisis
- Vote Socialist Equality Party in the Sri Lankan general election
- UK government closes schools under sustained public pressure
- South Africa: State of national disaster declared as coronavirus hits and social tensions mount
- Coronavirus transforms Greek refugee camps into death camps
- UK Royal Mail workers oppose union citing coronavirus to justify strike vote sellout
- The spread of the pandemic and the lessons of the past week
- As coronavirus cases surge in Pakistan, its prime minister preaches “no need to worry”
- Mexican autoworkers appeal to US, Canadian workers for support in closing plants over COVID-19
- Metropolitan Opera in New York ends season, laying off musicians and other staff
- Kentucky auto parts worker denounces continued plant operation as coronavirus spreads
- Market slide resumes in worst week for Wall Street since 2008
- Louisiana COVID-19 cases rise, with New Orleans hardest hit
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italian health care workers speak out on coronavirus pandemic
- Turkish IYSSE’s intervention at Istanbul student conference wins warm response
- Netanyahu exploits coronavirus pandemic to build up dictatorial regime in Israel
- An interview with an Australian school teacher fearing coronavirus exposure
- Medical expert warns India could be next coronavirus hotspot
- Illinois governor belatedly places entire state under “stay-at-home” order in response to coronavirus pandemic
- President Trump and Florida Governor DeSantis declare south Florida a COVID-19 epicenter
- Over 620 deaths in Italy on Friday as coronavirus fatalities surge in Europe
- Amid coronavirus pandemic, thousands in Detroit remain without running water
- Citing “national security,” John Deere keeps US plants open amid pandemic
- New York, California order locked down in response to COVID-19
- Canada: Quebec establishment hails inadequate response of Legault government
- Australian governments refuse to close schools over COVID-19
- Further signs of life: The Best American Short Stories 2019
- Fiat Chrysler skilled trade contractors in Detroit walk out as workers demand total auto shutdown
- Trump administration exploits coronavirus to block all asylum seekers from entering US
- Growing demands for Assange’s release as first coronavirus case confirmed in British prisons
- Amazon workers in New York City shut down warehouse after worker tests positive for coronavirus
2020-03-23
- United Parcel Service forcing employees to work without protection amid COVID-19 pandemic
- This week in history: March 23-29
- Two Sri Lankan prisoners killed and six injured amid national coronavirus lockdown
- UK: Sheffield health care students demand placements suspended to limit COVID-19 spread
- Australian state of Victoria shuts down school system, other states remain open
- South Africa’s ANC government suppressed report showing thousands could die from COVID-19
- Russian cases of coronavirus surge as economic crisis hits
- Retail and service industry workers demand safety measures, store closures and full compensation during coronavirus pandemic
- No corporate bailouts! Direct financial resources to the working people, not the capitalist elite!
- Coronavirus crisis in New York: As doctors warn of “our Chernobyl,” state government plans Medicaid cuts
- Catastrophic worldwide medical ventilator shortfall despite years of warning
- COVID-19 outbreak in New York prisons threatens lives of thousands
- Australian teachers and school workers speak out on dangerous working conditions amid pandemic
- Immigrants at New Jersey ICE detention center launch hunger strike over COVID-19 threat
- Columbia University graduate workers overwhelmingly authorize strike
- German government prepares for internet censorship and deployment of the armed forces
- Coronavirus kills more than 2,600 across Europe in one weekend
- Entertainment industry in North America devastated by layoffs
- Global economic slump accelerating
- Coronavirus total in US skyrockets as testing expands
- Chinese worker writes on the coronavirus pandemic: “Disaffection is growing among the masses”
- Canada registers 500,000 Employment Insurance claims in one week, as Coronavirus triggers jobs massacre
- John Eliot Gardiner leads all nine Beethoven symphonies at Carnegie Hall, and speaks about their significance
- COVID-19 health disaster and political crisis intensify in Australia
- Africa threatened by sudden surge in coronavirus cases
- “Four Corners” program exposes Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
2020-03-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US soon to pass Italy and China in coronavirus cases
- UK: NHS frontline staff and patients at risk through government negligence over pandemic
- Risk of wider outbreak of COVID-19 remains high in South Korea
- Exploiting Coronavirus pandemic, Canada’s Trudeau closes border to asylum seekers
- Message from big business on coronavirus pandemic: Save profits, not lives
- Palestinians face humanitarian catastrophe from coronavirus
- New Zealand government warns tens of thousands could die, imposes lockdown
- Michigan issues statewide lockdown, exempting auto industry as “critical infrastructure”
- COVID-19 hits Nevada: Catastrophic job losses coupled with woefully inadequate health care infrastructure
- Military, Trump administration ready plans for domestic crackdown as virus spreads across US
- New Zealand health workers speak out on lack of preparation for COVID-19 pandemic
- Germany: Appalling lack of protective equipment in COVID-19 outbreak
- Under pressure from online protests over coronavirus concerns, GameStop shutters California stores
- US officials use economic fallout from pandemic to slash school funding
- Florida residents on COVID-19 pandemic: “There is no way we can go longer than a month at this rate.”
- Europe’s coronavirus death toll passes 10,000
- US Fed unveils further massive financial intervention
- The quiet before the surge: US physicians speak on the COVID-19 pandemic
- Twenty-three die in Colombia prison revolt over coronavirus conditions
- Trump continues to spend billions on border wall construction amid coronavirus pandemic
- Boeing closes Seattle-area plants after worker’s coronavirus death
- US Congress moves toward massive bailout of big business
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ message to warehouse workers: Keep working despite coronavirus threat
- My Little Sister, Kids Run, Running on Empty and Sleep speak to growing social tensions and persisting historical nightmares
- Great Depression-like mass jobless queues across Australia
- Australia: Coronavirus cancellations decimate live performance industry
- Julian Assange to apply for bail amid coronavirus dangers in British prisons
2020-03-25
- Canada’s trade unions back Liberal “coronavirus plan” to bail out big business, place workers on rations
- East Timor records first confirmed coronavirus case amid floods
- Despite White House claims, Roche CEO says US COVID-19 testing capacity continues to be limited
- Federated Cooperatives uses virus to demand concessions from locked-out Saskatchewan refinery workers
- Socialist Alternative town hall injects racial politics into COVID-19 pandemic
- Adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America on HBO: If the US had gone fascist
- A tale of two surges: Wall Street soars amid New York City’s coronavirus toll
- Police called to disperse Georgia meat processing workers who walked off the job Monday over concerns about the spread of COVID-19
- Norwegian parties grant government emergency powers as coronavirus leads to record rise in unemployment
- Nepal declares one-week coronavirus lockdown
- Wall Street surges on prospect of government corporate bailouts
- Coronavirus spreading at faster rate in Louisiana than anywhere in the world
- Boris Johnson’s coronavirus measures: Political criminality that will cost tens of thousands of lives
- Modi places India’s 1.3 billion people under lockdown
- COVID-19 begins to rip through homeless population as 30 test positive in New York City shelters
- Death toll over 12,000 in Europe as coronavirus infections escalate
- NHS staff contract COVID-19 as UK government refuses to provide testing and protective equipment
- German government’s coronavirus bailout: Billions for the rich, rations for the poor
- Chilean government seizes on COVID-19 pandemic to declare state of catastrophe
- Coronavirus spreads across the Balkans
- Trump calls for lifting COVID-19 restrictions by Easter
- Latest Australian COVID-19 measures driven by concern about profits, not health
- Two Fiat Chrysler workers die from COVID-19 in US
- As more workers test positive for COVID-19, Amazon ignores demands to close warehouses
- Aviation industry laying off thousands during pandemic while seeking bailouts
2020-03-26
- Strikes, protests spread as US workers demand protection from COVID-19
- Nashville, Tennessee mayor issues business-friendly “safer at home” order in face of coronavirus pandemic
- Sri Lankan workers and young people endorse SEP’s election program
- The wealth of Australia’s richest 250 soars to $377 billion
- PG&E to plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for Camp Fire deaths
- Peru deploys army in the streets to enforce COVID-19 curfew
- How many must die for Wall Street?
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists begin election campaign with online meeting
- After downplaying COVID-19 pandemic, Japan forced to postpone Olympics
- Israel’s Knesset speaker resigns in order to defend Netanyahu
- Warnings that hundreds of thousands of Indonesians may already have COVID-19
- Indian prime minister’s coronavirus lockdown threatens social disaster for millions
- Germany: IG Metall union agrees an industrial truce with the corporations
- Strikes mount across Europe against official response to coronavirus pandemic
- Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy and the London Conference on Intelligence whitewash: Britain’s ruling class and eugenics
- German investor Dibelius: Big business must take priority over health care
- Detroit-area hospitals reach capacity as coronavirus infections in Michigan surge past 2,000
- Governor Cuomo pleads for assistance as New York state plunges into an unprecedented health crisis
- Leaked government report warns of tens of thousands of deaths in one Canadian province
- Pop star Britney Spears social media posts go viral after telling public to “re-distribute wealth” and “strike”
- “We are not going to die in our cubicles!” – Wildcat strikes erupt at call centers across Brazil
- US Senate passes massive economic “rescue” bill
- First immigrant in ICE custody tests positive for coronavirus in New Jersey
- Australia unprepared for surge as coronavirus infections, fatalities mount
- Julian Assange’s bail request denied despite coronavirus risk
- Africa records over 2,400 cases of COVID-19
2020-03-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Reported COVID-19 cases exceed 1,200 in Washington, D.C. region as public health disaster looms
- Canada: Vancouver homeless left to fend for themselves amid coronavirus pandemic
- Total coronavirus cases in United States surge past Italy, China
- New US unemployment claims hit 3.28 million as pandemic produces economic catastrophe
- Pittsburgh sanitation workers strike to demand safe working conditions
- Trump’s “Get back to work” demagogy aids the spread of the pandemic
- “There’s such a cruelty about the situation”: New York City hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus surge
- Wall Street rise continues as coronavirus infections accelerate
- Horn of Africa and East Africa face coronavirus and locust swarm
- Knives Out: The decent and honest should inherit the earth
- Profits before lives: German parliament passes emergency package for large corporations and the rich
- COVID-19 pandemic: Doctors sue French government for criminal negligence
- Europe’s COVID-19 death toll reaches over 16,000
- Detroit hospitals warn many “extremely sick” patients will be denied lifesaving treatment
- What the coronavirus calamity means for intellectual and cultural life
- UK: Corbyn’s pathetic exit as Labour leader amid coronavirus crisis
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro threatens dictatorship over COVID-19 crisis
- Bipartisan corporate bailout gives $17 billion to Boeing
- Fiat Chrysler and Ford set April 14 target to re-open US plants
- Australian teachers use social media to speak out on coronavirus danger, unions collaboration with government
- Australian school system in chaos after coronavirus semi-closures
- Australian unions and employers demand workers stay on building sites despite pandemic
- Australia’s imprisoned refugees plead for release as coronavirus risk increases
2020-03-28
- COVID-19 pandemic spells no truce in US imperialism’s global aggression
- UK health care assistant: “There’s a fear that if we are tested for COVID-19, most of us will come back positive and the NHS will collapse”
- University of California graduate students need a socialist political strategy
- Coronavirus death toll extends to New York transit workers
- US teachers speak out on the coronavirus epidemic
- Sri Lankan doctors speak out over coronavirus dangers facing health workers
- Big business in South Korea exploits pandemic to carry out massive assault on jobs
- Coronavirus crisis in Sri Lanka: A program for the working class
- Congressional commission recommends expanding US draft registration to women
- As General Motors demands profits, ventilator shortage in US threatens tens of thousands of lives
- Workers remain at risk during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown
- Strong response to Nick Beams’ IYSSE (Australia) online lecture on coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus crisis “devastates” US museums, arts organizations, many of them for good
- Mexico’s government seeks to place burden of virus crisis on the backs of the working class
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kroger warehouse workers walk out in Memphis over coronavirus concerns
- Israel: Gantz paves way for national unity government with Netanyahu
- Democratic Socialists of America, Haymarket Books hold online event to boost Democratic Party amid coronavirus crisis
- European Union summit on coronavirus ends in acrimony
- Albany, Georgia walloped by coronavirus outbreak as governor refuses to implement state-wide stay at home order
- Pandemic death toll in Europe rises to 19,000 as savaged health care systems are overwhelmed
- Coronavirus in Europe: Overworked hospitals become death traps
- Detroit mayor confirms denial of treatment to “extremely sick” patients: “What they put out is honest”
- UK government buried 2016 report exposing catastrophic NHS failings during flu pandemic
- Coronavirus cases in United States surpass 100,000
- New York Democratic governor finally suspends construction projects after criminal delay
- Fears grow that coronavirus is taking hold among immigrants in US custody as three children test positive
- Canada’s parliament approves coronavirus bailout for corporations and austerity for workers
- Democrats unite with Trump to enact massive corporate bailout
- Australian governments reject calls for lockdown despite rising COVID-19 danger
- Australian medical workers speak on the growing crisis in the health system
- Ohio, Texas and Mississippi ban abortion under guise of fighting coronavirus
2020-03-30
- UN warns that COVID-19 pandemic could trigger global food shortage
- This week in history: March 30-April 5
- Coronavirus cases surge in Turkey as anger grows among workers at government response
- Spanish police assault steelworkers striking against COVID-19 “back-to-work” order
- Sri Lankan president grants clemency to war criminal
- Duterte reacts to COVID-19 with military repression
- The coronavirus pandemic and the perspective of socialism
- New York City nurses protest over PPE, staff shortages as number of cases, deaths continue to climb
- Trump administration and Mexican government collaborate to deny life-saving care to refugees with HIV
- Leading epidemiologist says Detroit is facing a coronavirus “tsunami”
- Japanese government planning attacks on democratic rights on pretext of pandemic
- Preface to the Turkish edition of The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
- Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish-language edition of The struggle against imperialism and for workers’ power in Iran
- Instacart workers in US begin nationwide walkout as Whole Foods workers plan sickout Tuesday
- India’s calamitous lockdown punishes poor while undermining efforts to halt spread of coronavirus
- Germany: IG Metall union exploiting COVID-19 crisis to cut more jobs at Thyssenkrupp
- Hungary’s Orbán government seizes on coronavirus pandemic to establish dictatorship
- Four deaths over the weekend raise COVID-19 death toll among US autoworkers to nine
- EU divisions erupt as anger mounts among workers over COVID-19 response
- UK government source speaks of “blood on our hands” over coronavirus due to NHS cuts
- Top US health adviser predicts millions will contract COVID-19 and 100,000–200,000 will die
- China: COVID-19 hospital construction worker’s protest blog goes viral before being deleted
- Chicago’s largest convention center to become 3,050-bed field hospital
- Canada’s doctors issue dire warnings over lack of preparedness for surge of COVID-19 patients
- Strike or Die and several shorts: Filipiñana, Union County, Huntsville Station: A renewed interest in workers’ lives
- Australian governments pour billions more into big business as pandemic spreads
- Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 approaching 5,000
2020-03-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Canadian workers speak out on impact of coronavirus crisis
- Trump boasts holding US pandemic deaths to 200,000 would be “a good job”
- Nurse suicides rise in Europe amid stress of COVID-19 pandemic
- Tennessee state officials recommend health care workers use swim goggles, diapers and garbage bags as protection from COVID-19
- New Zealand: Christchurch terrorist pleads guilty
- The profit system is sabotaging the struggle against the coronavirus
- US prisons begin release of inmates after COVID-19 pandemic engulfs system
- Support the striking Instacart, Amazon and Whole Foods workers!
- New York City paramedic speaks out about dire conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Papua New Guinea: 4,000 nurses to strike over COVID-19 readiness
- US military veterans who fought as mercenaries for Ukrainian fascists indicted on double murder charges
- IYSSE (Australia) online lecture tonight 7pm on the contemporary significance of the Russian Revolution
- Growing protests in US immigrant detention centers over coronavirus pandemic
- Hunger increased by quarantines leads to protests across Latin America
- As 150,000 hotel rooms remain empty, Las Vegas government forces 500 homeless residents to sleep outside on asphalt parking lot
- Germany: The coronavirus pandemic and the destruction of the public health system
- Millions of Europe’s health care workers endangered by government neglect
- Teachers across the US discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- “This is a worldwide medical emergency and we shouldn’t put our frontline NHS staff at risk” UK doctor in forensic pathology speaks to WSWS
- Coronavirus death toll rising rapidly in Detroit
- Unemployment surges in UK, with millions forced onto punitive welfare system
- Australian warehouse workers strike over COVID-19 safety demands
- Cleveland, Ohio residents wait hours in food bank drive-thru line as unemployment skyrockets
- German government preparing major domestic military deployment
- Andrew Bird’s My Finest Work Yet and Ian Noe’s Between the Country
- Australian government resorts to “pandemic capitalism” as depression looms
- Amazon warehouse workers describe unsafe conditions and discuss forming workplace committees
- Amazon fires New York worker for leading strike demanding safe working conditions
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