Archive: 05/2020
2020-05-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sixty-eight Amazon workers fall ill with COVID-19 at Winsen, Germany warehouse
- As US unemployment reaches Great Depression levels, millions still unable to obtain assistance
- Tamil Nadu auto workers denounce Indian government responses to COVID-19
- Russian workers protest animal-like conditions at oil field as prime minister hospitalized with COVID-19
- Resistance and The Resistance Banker: Dramas of the struggle against Nazism
- Quebec workers denounce government’s rush to “reopen” the economy amid raging COVID-19 pandemic
- Remdesivir as “miracle drug”: Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
- At least 31 US states easing restrictions despite rising pandemic death toll
- Millions spent by Trump to “salute” health care workers with military flyovers
- New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls for letting COVID-19 run rampant
- Florida governor reopening state while suppressing reporting of COVID-19 deaths
- Detroit mayor pushes back-to-work agenda as COVID-19 cases rise across Michigan
- US appeals court rules literacy is “a fundamental right” in Detroit case
- Johnson pledges to “restart the economy” as pandemic rages in UK
- Dozens of decaying corpses found piled in unrefrigerated trucks at New York City funeral home
- US citizens married to undocumented immigrants denied stimulus checks
- Brazilian nurses fired for striking in Manaus over PPE
- Australian governments rushing to reverse lockdown measures
- Democrats, unions set trap for workers with phony May Day Amazon strike
2020-05-02
- 999 Western Australia teacher victimised for opposing school reopenings
- Trump escalates attacks on China over COVID-19
- 999 South Korea construction fire kills 38
- Biden denies sexual assault allegation, but Democrats’ nervousness about his candidacy grows
- Former top officials in Bernie Sanders campaign form super PAC to back Joe Biden
- Russia: Two ministers, one deputy test positive for COVID as workers’ protests grow
- Canada: Locked-out Saskatchewan refinery workers reject FCL’s concessions contract
- Communication Workers Union folds 48 hours after Royal Mail threatens 20,000 jobs
- US government prepares for hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths
- Navajo Nation COVID-19 cases rise while emergency federal aid remains delayed
- Massive opposition by US meatpacking employees to forced return to work
- Germany’s Lufthansa: Billions in state aid and mass layoffs
- Trump tweets support for armed right-wing protesters in Michigan
- Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures: An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Thirty years of the Hubble Space Telescope
- German government accelerates its deadly back-to-work initiative
- Trump blocks federal funeral aid to families of COVID-19 victims
- Euro zone economy contracts at record pace
- Record 50.8 million people internally displaced in 2019
- UK: Delays to medical treatment during pandemic will cost thousands of lives
- Germany: Daimler trains managers to kick out workers
- 999 Crisis in US over rent payment and rent strike
- Nearly 300 meat-processing workers infected by coronavirus at German slaughterhouse
- US autoworkers oppose early return to factories
- Australian government fast-tracks review of lockdown measures
- Australian government places country on frontline of anti-China witch hunt
- Argentine unions and employers agree to wage cuts pushing millions into poverty
- May 1 “general strike” at Amazon: A failed adventure by the Democratic Party and the unions
2020-05-04
- West Australian principal stood down for warning of coronavirus dangers in schools
- US Steel lays off 2,700 workers, threatens to cut one-third of its production workforce
- This week in history: May 4-10
- Media glorify New Zealand Prime Minister as she ignores scientific advice to continue pandemic lockdown
- Tennessee health commissioner blocks release of data on likely COVID-19 deaths
- US trains Sri Lankan naval elite forces during COVID-19 lockdown
- Devastating fire in South Korea kills at least 38 workers
- Millions of Americans cannot pay their rent
- Australia: Biloela residents continue fight to free Tamil refugee family
- Global audience for WSWS International Online 2020 May Day Rally
- Trump and Pompeo’s “big lie”
- Tourism collapse threatens Pacific islands with deepening poverty
- UK Nightingale field hospitals to be “mothballed” as coronavirus death toll reaches 28,446
- Furloughed workers face hunger in New Jersey, America’s second-wealthiest state
- Scotland: Journalist Craig Murray charged with contempt of court over Alex Salmond trial
- Think tank sees coronavirus crisis as “opportunity” for German militarism
- Inmates at Michigan prisons exposed to COVID-19 in unsanitary conditions
- Fifty years since the massacre of students at Kent State
- Modi government punishes officials for urging increased taxation of rich to fight coronavirus
- Canadian workers speak out against lack of protective equipment in health facilities
- The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history
- Trump White House steps up return to work drive
- Austria lifts most measures to counter coronavirus pandemic
- ASOS warehouse workers: Lives versus corporate profit in the UK
- US Amazon worker describes callous attitude toward safety as management reports $75 billion in 2020 revenue
2020-05-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- With lifting of restrictions, world must brace for a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Washington and its puppet Guaidó implicated in armed attacks on Venezuela
- Human challenge trials are being pushed to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus
- Over 2,000 doctors infected with COVID-19 in Ukraine amid growing protest by medical workers
- Australian governments reopen schools despite studies warning of COVID-19 danger
- Spain bans May Day protests on “public health” grounds while sending millions back to work
- US Senate reconvenes to push return to work and social cuts
- Scientists set up independent committee to challenge UK government’s COVID-19 response: “there is no transparency”
- South Africa: ANC government orders a partial return to work amid mounting economic crisis
- UK Royal Mail workers oppose Communications Workers Union sellout
- The tragedy at Quebec City’s Jeffery Hale Hospital: How Québec Solidaire tried to hide capitalism’s responsibility
- Trump’s Big Lie, accusing China of spreading COVID-19, a prelude to US war against China
- At least 1,245 Philippine health workers test positive for COVID-19
- The American oligarchy decides for death
- Gallup, New Mexico locked down to control spread of coronavirus
- Under US pressure, Mexican government vows to impose return to work and “herd immunity” policy
- UK postal worker: “Royal Mail are getting what they want and the Communication Workers Union is allowing it—the union really is useless”
- Layoffs and corporate bankruptcies spread as US workers face mounting hardship
- Millions of Australian workers blocked from “JobKeeper” scheme
- Denmark buys unreliable antibody tests to enforce back-to-work amid COVID-19 pandemic
- The political economy of capitalist debt
- The coronavirus pandemic and the fight for socialism in Australia
- Global automakers press ahead with reopening in midst of coronavirus pandemic
- Assange extradition hearing rescheduled for September
- The coronavirus crisis and its impact on the conditions for artists and arts workers
- Canadian workers at Cargill meatpacking plant forced back to work despite 935 infections
2020-05-06
- Millions in South Asia react with shock and horror at ruling elite’s incompetence over pandemic
- US ramps up COVID-19 propaganda war against China
- UK: TUC and Labour attempt damage control after Tories push murderous “back to work” strategy
- At “reopen the economy” event, Trump confirms plans to shut down coronavirus task force
- Mired in debt, Sri Lankan government vows to avoid default
- Coronavirus, the NHS and the charity shakedown
- The Trump administration’s war against society
- US nursing home catastrophe: Increasing numbers of the elderly fall victim to COVID-19
- Classical musicians discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pandemic exposes inherent flaws in capitalist food production
- German authorities press charges in Lübcke murder case
- German big business demands end to lockdown
- French unions complicit in Macron’s May 11 return-to-work policy
- US teachers union provides political cover to Trump’s demand for the reopening of schools
- Lawsuit against US Department of Education claims wages being garnished to pay off student loan debt
- UK coronavirus death rate at record high in Europe as fatalities pass 32,000
- Financial oligarchy turns UK into a killing field
- Teachers, parents and students defy order to reopen schools in Chile
- Canada: Form rank-and-file committees to oppose COVID-19 back-to-work drive
- British government bailout for big business: An act of robbery
- UAW gives its blessing to reopen auto plants as pandemic rages on
- Australia’s national cabinet pushes return to work despite ongoing COVID-19 dangers
- Trump administration sends federal strike force to keep meatpacking plants open
2020-05-07
- Trump’s “war against society”
- Quebec’s business elite, unions and opposition parties rally behind Legault’s back to work drive
- Trump’s “Bay of Pigs” in Venezuela
- New Zealand government exploits pandemic to boost police and military powers
- New York University grad students go on three-day sickout
- UPS workers in New York and New Jersey speak out on the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pseudo-left groups block fight by London bus drivers against COVID-19
- Jobs massacre deepens in European aviation as four UK corporations announce 26,000 redundancies
- Italian statistics agency reveals real coronavirus death toll is higher by 12,000
- Over 40 percent of mothers with children ages 12 and under are now food insecure in the US
- German auto companies demand even more state money
- Video shows February murder of Georgia jogger by former police officer and his son
- UK Chancellor Sunak to wind down furlough wage scheme as part of back-to-work offensive
- European media launches propaganda lies blaming China for COVID-19
- Nearly half of Australia’s young hospitality workers lose their jobs
- Coronavirus pandemic ravages rural areas in US and internationally
- The back-to-work campaign in Germany and the resurgence of the far right
- Blaming China, Trump says COVID-19 “attack” worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11
- Immigrant families living in Tennessee mobile home park denied aid, threatened with deportation by property managers
- More than sixty COVID-19 cases linked to Australian abattoir outbreak
- Deaths surge in UK care homes
- A video sermon from war criminal George W. Bush on compassion, empathy and kindness
- Whistleblower complaint details Trump administration’s corruption and obstruction of anti-pandemic efforts
- Garment workers’ protests hit Bangladesh industrial belts
- German government plans purchase of 138 fighter jets and prepares for nuclear war
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the class war in Europe
2020-05-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- What Do We Need to Talk About?: Richard Nelson’s “Zoom theater” in the midst of the pandemic
- Trump's "Bay of Pigs" in Venezuela
- For the United Socialist States of the Middle East and Central Asia
- Freedom for Assange is inseparable from the fight against war and for socialism
- Russian COVID-19 cases rise, as 750,000 join unemployment rolls
- Australian rail union imposes sell out agreement after 51-49 percent split vote
- Seventy-five years since the end of World War II in Europe
- Illinois nursing home workers’ strike blocked by SEIU
- Mass joblessness deepens in US as corporations move to implement permanent layoffs
- New Iraq government faces economy in freefall amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Trump vetoes war powers resolution on Iran
- UK government covers up PPE shortages leading to health care worker deaths
- Modi eases lockdown restrictions even as COVID-19 cases surge across India
- German government ends lockdown, putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk
- Deemed essential, US farmworkers face wage reductions, zero protections from COVID-19
- With minimal federal relief, US states plan huge cuts to public education
- US state and municipal governments plan massive austerity to meet COVID-19 budget shortfalls
- New outbreaks of COVID-19 reported at workplaces across the US
- Indian migrant workers in Chennai speak to WSWS about coronavirus pandemic
- Trump administration suppresses Centers for Disease Control coronavirus guidance document
- Canada: Trudeau gives cash handout to meatpacking giants as COVID-19 cases rise among workers
- Why is Canada’s ruling elite deploying the military amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Australian governments pushing tracing app despite unanswered privacy-functionality questions
2020-05-09
- US state governments of Virginia and Maryland plan to reopen businesses
- India: Toxic gas leak in Visakhapatnam kills 11 people and puts thousands in danger
- Protests erupt over police violence and state cover-up of murder in Indiana and Georgia
- COVID-19 cases skyrocket among the US homeless population
- Brazilian workers reject demands to choose between COVID-19 and starvation
- Why are thermal imaging cameras being deployed in US workplaces?
- Tamil National Alliance backs Sri Lanka’s Rajapakse regime on COVID-19
- Germany reopens schools, endangering thousands of lives
- Children in US and UK dying from syndrome linked to COVID-19
- Macron government ending coronavirus lockdown beginning this Monday
- Peru extends quarantine as COVID-19 deaths continue to climb
- Depression USA
- Infections in Ontario, Canada spike as Ford government rushes to reopen economy
- New Zealand nurses’ union embroiled in factional crisis
- Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
- Australian mine explosion leaves five workers with horrific injuries
- Democratic governor and UAW collude with auto bosses to force return to work in Michigan
- Mental health crisis erupts among health care workers confronting coronavirus
- Strikes and workers’ protests mount against “back to work” campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia
- NHS staff condemn UK health worker deaths and government herd immunity strategy
- Homeless face desperation on London streets amid lockdown
- Greece comes out of lockdown and plans resumption of tourism
- At Trump’s urging: US Justice Department quashes Flynn prosecution
- Number of COVID-19 cases hits 4 million worldwide
- British government forced to partially backtrack on ending lockdown
- The COVID-19 pandemic and global imperialist war
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro demands return to work as health care system collapses
- Australian governments pushing workers back on the job amid pandemic
- British pseudo-left and Stalinists unite in defence of Labour and the unions
- French Senate votes to give officials legal indemnity over coronavirus infections
- Ricky Gervais’ After Life: To be or not to be, that’s one of the questions
2020-05-11
- This week in history: May 11-17
- Ten Canadian airport taxi drivers die from COVID-19
- As US House returns to Washington, Democrats signal readiness to grant companies immunity for worker deaths
- GM workers in Mexico call for an international struggle to keep plants closed during pandemic
- Selma, Alabama garment workers explain why they walked out of American Apparel plant
- Governments globally reopen schools, ignoring scientists’ warnings of coronavirus impact on children
- Right-wing ideologues in Germany demand sacrifice of human lives in coronavirus pandemic
- Podemos pushes “back to work” as Spanish army expects new COVID-19 outbreak
- Capitalist economics and the politics of death
- New Zealand sees increase in racist anti-Chinese attacks
- Verdict published in NSU trial: German court protects neo-Nazi André Eminger
- Australian unions enforce continued mining production throughout pandemic
- Washington Post columnist calls for destruction of child care safety in the pursuit of “reopening America”
- UK: Johnson’s “phased” return to work puts millions of workers at immediate risk
- Japan’s PM exploits pandemic to push pro-war constitutional revisions
- Indianapolis cops fire pepper balls on group protesting police shooting of Dreasjon Reed
- First ICE detainee dies of COVID-19 in San Diego
- Hundreds of COVID-19 infections in German meatpacking plants
- For collective strike action against the end of the COVID-19 lockdown!
- Over 5 million live in families with hungry children since UK lockdown
- The thievery in Bad Education: Capitalism “is the villain more than any one individual”
- China, South Korea and Germany report new COVID-19 outbreaks
- Hardship for UK carers worsens during coronavirus pandemic
- Canada’s callous and calamitous response to COVID-19
- Hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in Bay of Bengal
- Automakers continue production restarts as US death toll tops 80,000
- Australian intelligence sources alarmed by US “Wuhan lab” claim
- Mexican workers, COVID-19 and the fight against the back-to-work campaign
2020-05-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World Health Organization warns premature return to work risks resurgence of pandemic
- Trump crony appointed as new head of US Postal Service
- UK Labour Party and trade unions prop up dysfunctional Tory government
- In criminal pursuit of profits, Tesla CEO Elon Musk restarts production at California facility
- Nurse fired by Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital for refusing to work in unsafe conditions
- 14,000 New York City school bus workers face furlough as city imposes cuts
- Bernie Sanders’ interview with the Washington Post: The thin gruel of Democratic Party politics
- Russian court keeps historian of Stalinist massacres jailed amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Rock ’n’ roll great Little Richard dead at 87
- Polish government forced to call off presidential elections at last minute
- The killing of Ahmaud Arbery
- Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf begins unsafe reopening of 37 counties
- EU supports Orbán’s dictatorial measures in Hungary
- US nursing students discuss impact of the pandemic on medical education
- Nigeria: COVID-19 compounds economic recession provoked by oil price slump
- Australian Labor Party exploits pandemic to scapegoat foreign workers
- Governments worldwide respond to COVID-19 by saving profits, not lives
- 19 Iranian sailors killed in live-fire exercise
- Rising number of COVID-19 deaths in Germany’s retirement and care homes
- While coronavirus spreads, lockdowns lifted across Europe
- UK COVID-19 death rate far higher in working class
- As unemployment soars to Depression-era levels, Canada’s unions endorse reckless back-to-work drive
- Biden attacks Trump for “hampering” the reopening of business
- Detroit autoworkers oppose rush to reopen plants as COVID-19 death toll rises
2020-05-13
- Right-wing Facebook groups threaten to assassinate Michigan Governor Whitmer
- US agencies drum up allegations of Chinese hacking of vaccine research
- Failure to halt COVID-19 spread leads to mass deaths in Swedish elder care homes
- Sri Lankan president “reopens economy” despite pandemic
- Kawasaki-like disease afflicting young children and teens after infection with SARS-CoV-2
- New York state to begin reopening in certain regions this weekend
- Elon Musk and the economics of class war
- New Zealand government removes more COVID-19 restrictions
- New York police brutality continues unabated in midst of pandemic
- California nurses denounce lack of access to PPE
- Australian university union agrees to unprecedented pay and job cuts
- Striking sanitation workers in New Orleans replaced by prison laborers
- New York City education department, backed by teachers union, downplayed virus threat
- US meatpacking workers continue walkouts and protests against forced return to work
- 33 London bus drivers killed by COVID-19: “We are expendable like diesel”
- German politicians and media laud right-wing demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions
- UK: Exercise Cygnus leak confirms Tory government’s criminal inaction over pandemic threat
- White House Coronavirus Task Force member warns of “really serious” consequences of premature reopening
- UK COVID-19 related deaths top 60,000, according to Financial Times
- Jeremy Corbyn discovers the class struggle—and opposes it
- With Brazil on course to become new COVID-19 epicenter, Bolsonaro escalates back-to-work campaign
- Anger simmers over restart of production by Detroit automakers
- Georgia autopsy report shows Ahmaud Arbery shot three times
- Democrats and unions seek to suppress resistance by Amazon workers
- Tony Allen (1940-2020): Pioneering drummer of Afrobeat dies
2020-05-14
- Fruit pickers, garment workers strike as opposition grows to reopening US economy
- Trump attacks Dr. Fauci for cautioning against the premature opening of the country
- UK: Johnson government readies post-lockdown onslaught against working class
- Former Georgian President Saakashvili becomes advisor to the Ukrainian government
- Local county officials in California bow before billionaire’s demand to reopen Tesla factory
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins Biden-Sanders “unity task force” ahead of 2020 elections
- Beethoven’s opera Fidelio for a new online audience of millions
- Mounting worker opposition to Quebec’s reckless back-to-work drive
- Fed chief calls for more money for Wall Street and corporations
- Latin America emerges as new COVID-19 epicenter
- After COVID-19 infection discovered, 300 workers walk out of Mississippi pillow factory
- Family files lawsuit against Louisville, Kentucky police over March killing of Breonna Taylor
- Australian pseudo-left groups try to rescue university union from outrage over sellout deal
- Ohio University lays off 140 workers amid massive statewide cuts to higher education
- Australian Labor Party leader revives bogus “fair go” call
- Iran destabilised by US amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Sixteen migrant workers killed by goods train
- India’s calamitous COVID-19 lockdowns leave more than 120 million jobless
- German armed forces deploy 300 soldiers to EU mission “Irini” in Mediterranean
- German companies plan layoffs, attacks on wages and benefits amid coronavirus pandemic
- Sri Lanka’s pseudo-left FSP and its phony defence of democracy
- COVID-19: Mélenchon offers national unity with France’s banks
- Republicans win two US House special elections
- Democrats release fraudulent “relief” bill
- Stranded by COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of cruise ship workers suffer under horrifying conditions
- Illinois reports record COVID-19 death toll as businesses and politicians prepare to “reopen”
- Over 90,000 health care workers worldwide have been infected with COVID-19
- Biden embraces Trump’s effort to blame China for COVID-19
- UK: COVID-19 confirmed among ASOS warehouse workers
- ASOS worker in UK speaks on unsafe conditions in warehouse
2020-05-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Over 200 strikes and job actions in US during pandemic so far
- The drums of economic nationalism are beating louder
- Three million more US workers apply for unemployment, reaching 36 million in two months
- Sioux tribe faces down South Dakota over sovereignty
- The 2003 SARS epidemic: How Canada’s elite squandered the chance to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic
- Russia ends federal COVID-19 shutdown measures as it surges to second place in infections worldwide
- Rushed relaxation of coronavirus measures in Germany puts thousands of lives at risk
- Amid charges of unsafe conditions, Puerto Rico’s governor issues back-to-work orders
- The Trump administration vs. science
- Malnutrition is leading cause of death and ill-health worldwide
- “Corona demonstrations” in Germany: Neo-Nazis join hands with Free Democrats, Christian Democrats and Left Party
- UK universities prepare all-out assault on staff and students in wake of pandemic
- US grocery stores and retailers move to cut pandemic pay to workers
- US whistleblower warns premature return to work will bring “unprecedented illness and fatalities”
- Supreme Court considers blanket immunity for Trump
- After FCA Sterling Heights Assembly workers contract COVID-19, anger mounts over premature return to work
- US Senator Richard Burr steps down as intelligence chairman amid investigation into pre-pandemic stock dump
- Starving Bolivian workers clash with troops deployed by coup regime
- German auto bosses demand government subsidies and job cuts
- Declassified Mueller investigation transcripts confirm no evidence WikiLeaks colluded with Russia
- Fetch the Bolt Cutters: One small step for Fiona Apple
2020-05-16
- Hundreds of workers walk out at six fruit packing plants in Washington state
- Drive to reopen auto plants in North America threatens thousands of lives
- Trump threatens to cut all ties with China
- Herd immunity policy in Turkey risks thousands of new deaths
- Canadian unions cement anti-worker corporatist alliance with government and big business
- US Senate reauthorizes domestic surveillance, allows access to internet histories
- Worsening conditions at Hirdaramani garment plants in Sri Lanka
- Overwhelming opposition to reopening of UK schools amid worsening COVID-19 pandemic
- Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York: A little more of an edge than usual
- Prices for basic foods soar in the US as pandemic disrupts supply chains
- The murderous pseudoscience of “herd immunity”
- Unemployment soars in New Zealand
- COVID-19: Military steps up repression in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka
- 999 Modi government goes on rampage against working class
- One dead and more than 600 Irish meat processing workers infected with coronavirus
- Coronavirus crisis exposes devastating conditions in the German meat processing industry
- UK government ties Transport for London bailout to “back to work” drive
- 999 Little Rock transit layoffs
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Australian governments exploit mass unemployment to coerce workers into unsafe workplaces
- 999 Indonesia COVID-19 update
- 999 Illinois nurses vote on contract
- 999 German Ministry of Defence plans international drone terror
- US House passes $3 trillion coronavirus “relief” bill
- 999 Cuomo/Gates "reimagine education" in NYC
- Washington places Cuba and Venezuela on “terror” list
- 999 Cruise worker suicides
- With private prison outbreak, Tennessee county leads US in per capita COVID-19 cases
- California State University, the largest public university system in the US, closes campuses for the fall semester
- Chile’s government deploys troops in the streets as coronavirus cases soar
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis in the universities
- 999 Budget cuts to K-12 education in the US
- Budget shortfalls and planned cuts threaten higher education across the US
- Mississippi: Workers at Brentwood Originals pillow factory continue walkouts
- Mounting opposition among autoworkers on eve of industry restart
2020-05-18
- Market and profits impede COVID-19 vaccine effort
- As death toll mounts, White House steps up efforts to scapegoat China for pandemic
- This week in history: May 18-24
- Little Rock, Arkansas transit workers laid off amidst COVID fears
- Australian teachers speak out about unsafe schools and excessive workloads
- Britain’s covert operations to overthrow Syrian government exposed
- On “This Week” news show, Sanders urges supporters to vote for Biden
- UK Royal Mail CEO Rico Back forced to resign: Next stage opens in postal workers’ struggle
- Growing resistance in Germany to returning to schools as coronavirus pandemic continues
- Canada: Ontario government ignored workers’ complaints at poultry plant hit by fatal COVID-19 outbreak
- COVID-19: Podemos, social-democrats prepare to send Spanish police against workers’ protests
- Back-to-work drive places countless thousands at risk
- New York Democratic governor enlists tech billionaires to push distance learning
- SEIU pushes through sellout contract after blocking strike by Illinois nursing home workers
- Nicaraguan government lets COVID-19 spread freely, covers up toll
- Maryland and Virginia begin “phase one” reopenings despite record increase in COVID-19 cases
- Trump fires State Department inspector general
- Spike in Kawasaki-like disease linked to coronavirus in France and Italy, one child dies
- As assembly plants reopen US autoworkers speak on premature rush to restart production
- Even as death toll climbs, Indonesian government urges workers under 45 to resume work
- Modi promotes “herd immunity,” vows “quantum jump” in pro-investor reforms
- The last resort of the EU fighting refugees in Greece—armed force and COVID-19
- Television adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere: Small change, in fact
- US Fed report reveals depth of financial crisis it helped create
- German Defence Ministry plans to wage international drone warfare
- At least 275,000 teachers in the US face permanent job loss as states prepare massive budget cuts
- North American auto industry reopens amid mounting opposition by workers
- Australian government heightens trade conflict with China
- Amazon eliminates pay raises for workers as COVID-19 toll mounts
2020-05-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ukrainian National Police official demands a list of Jews living in Kolomyya
- Petition demanding pandemic hazard pay for UPS workers gains 300,000 signatures
- The policy of “malign neglect”: How the Russian oligarchy sacrifices the health and lives of the people
- Canada: Quebec government advocates hiring children to disinfect daycare centres amid coronavirus pandemic
- World health conference dominated by US-China conflict as coronavirus spreads across the globe
- New Zealand Labour government promises billions for big business
- Hundreds of Mexican maquiladora workers dying after back-to-work orders take effect
- Explosion at downtown Los Angeles warehouse injures 12 firefighters
- Mass sackings as German department store group closes up to 80 stores
- US retailer JCPenney to close nearly one-third of department stores, announces bankruptcy
- Millions of Americans, including front-line workers’ families, face loss of employer-sponsored health insurance in pandemic
- As Modi government eases lockdown, coronavirus cases surge in India
- US health care system devastated by COVID-19 as the markets clamor to reopen the economy
- Turkish government steps up attack on Kurdish HDP amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider: The pioneer of electronica (1947-2020)
- Cruise ship workers take action in defiance of company threats
- US courts revoke emergency protections in coronavirus pandemic
- US steps up witch hunt against Chinese scientists
- Australian Committee for Public Education holds online forum on COVID-19 and the universities crisis
- NHS management said elderly would “have to die” in care homes
- Brazilian police massacre 13 in brutal operation in Rio de Janeiro
- UK police question suspect in spitting incident that led to rail worker’s death
- Growing number of Bangladeshi garment workers infected with COVID-19
- Trump official blames high US coronavirus death toll on the diversity that “unfortunately” exists in the population
- Workers angry, concerned as US auto plants reopen
- Australian secret interrogation powers to extend to “foreign interference”
2020-05-20
- The murderous pseudoscience of "herd immunity"
- Australian universities exploit NTEU deal to slash facilities, jobs and conditions
- Sunday Times Rich Listers receive billions in UK government handouts
- The New York Times exposes journalist, #MeToo crusader Ronan Farrow as a dishonest fraud
- Letter from UK teaching assistant against reopening of schools
- Firing of State Department inspector general tied to Saudi arms deal
- UK: Johnson’s criminal “back-to-work” drive depends on the trade unions
- Canadian authorities failed to notify locked-out Regina oil refinery workers of threatened bomb attack
- Seven Sri Lankan families homeless after plantation fire
- Capitalism vs. science: The lessons of the 36-hour Moderna vaccine frenzy
- Civilian casualties mount as foreign powers continue to fuel Libya’s civil war
- Senate hearing for Fed’s Powell, Treasury’s Mnuchin shows bipartisan support for bailout, back-to-work drive
- COVID-19 spreads among Ford workers in Turkey
- US government uses Pensacola shooter’s alleged ties to Al Qaeda to renew attack on encryption
- New analysis predicts US coronavirus deaths will triple by end of year
- Chicago mayor appoints corporate leaders to Economic Recovery Task Force
- Food delivery workers call for a national strike in Brazil
- Ford Chicago Assembly worker tests positive for COVID-19 after North American auto plants reopen
- New details emerge in Ahmaud Arbery killing
2020-05-21
- The Trump administration makes Taiwan latest front in anti-China campaign
- Pandemic crisis: Tens of thousands of UK job losses announced
- Education unions and Labour councils ready back-door imposition of Johnson government’s “back to school” plan
- Coronavirus infections surging in German refugee shelters
- Sri Lankan president demands legal immunity for the military
- Almost no US prisoners have been released since the beginning of the pandemic
- Build rank-and-file factory and workplace committees to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus and save lives!
- COVID-19 pandemic exposes France’s New Anti-capitalist Party
- US prepares anti-Russian war games amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Dam collapse in central Michigan sparks historic flooding
- Australia: Twelve fast food outlets closed in Melbourne after coronavirus outbreak
- Lost Girls: The everyday cruelty of American life
- US government to file antitrust lawsuit against Google this summer
- The Berries of Wrath: Prince Charles demands “hard graft” from furloughed workers
- Florida stalls jobless pay to force workers back to work
- Deaths and illness among youth raise concerns as schools plan to reopen
- Florida scientist was fired for ‘refusing to manipulate’ COVID-19 data
- Canada’s official opposition attacks Trudeau for “appeasing” China
- Brazil records 1,179 COVID-19 deaths in a single day amid spiraling political crisis
- Missouri executes 64-year-old man convicted on flimsy evidence
- COVID-19 cases at Ford plants in Detroit, Chicago as anger grows over inadequate safety measures
- Australian government falsely claims credit for global COVID-19 inquiry
- Amazon workers react to elimination of pandemic hazard pay
- World Health Organisation warns pandemic could “turn the clock back” on other killer diseases in Africa
2020-05-22
- World on Fire: Dramas of World War II
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The economic impact of the pandemic on young workers in Wayne County, Michigan
- Trump issues new threats as Iranian tankers approach Venezuela
- US unemployment claims approach 40 million since March
- UK teachers speak on government’s back-to-school plan
- US pandemic cover-up responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands
- UK university team predicts doubling or tripling of US death toll over the next two months
- US withdraws from Open Skies Treaty, heightening danger of war with Russia
- New Zealand government stokes tensions with China
- After the New York Times’ critique: Former NBC “Today” show host Matt Lauer takes Ronan Farrow to task
- Washington incites India in tense border dispute with China
- Nearly 1.5 million health care workers laid off in pandemic-fueled jobs massacre
- “Obamagate” claims spark new round in internal US political warfare
- Further details emerge on the extent of the mid-March financial crisis
- Australian unions back pay cuts for fast food workers
- Merkel and Macron’s European bailout: €500 billion for trade war and austerity
- Cyclone Amphan kills over 90 and devastates wide areas of eastern India and Bangladesh
- NY Governor Cuomo shields nursing homes from prosecutions related to 5,600 COVID-19 deaths
- No to the anti-China campaign! For international solidarity against the pandemic and capitalism!
- Chilean government violently represses demonstrations against hunger
- Strikes and protests by Brazilian nurses amid explosion of COVID-19 cases
- Georgetown, Kentucky Toyota plant remains open as autoworker tests positive for COVID-19
- UK Labour council, Community union reject appeal to close ASOS warehouse after confirmed COVID-19 cases
- Third man charged in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery
2020-05-23
- Three UK meat processing workers die of COVID-19
- COVID-19 pandemic spreads to former colonial countries
- Auto companies continue opposition to mass testing as COVID-19 spreads in factories
- Uber lays off 6,700 white-collar workers as it continues restructuring
- Hospitals overwhelmed in California and Alabama as national death toll approaches 100,000
- European Union pushes reopening of beach resorts and hotels for summer holiday season
- Australian governments fully reopen schools despite intense opposition
- Sri Lankan government understates COVID-19 figures to recklessly reopen economy
- Bernie Sanders threatens delegates with removal if they criticize Biden
- Wealth of US billionaires soars as pandemic expands, nearly 40 million unemployed
- The US opioid crisis in the era of COVID-19
- New Zealand unions enforce school returns, mass layoffs and wage cuts
- Detroit, Michigan teacher speaks on public education during the pandemic
- UK local councils face financial collapse due to pandemic
- South America a “new epicenter” of COVID-19 pandemic, WHO warns
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Oppose the Trump administration’s deportation of 1,000 immigrant children!
- Hydroxychloroquine: New scientific study refutes the quack-in-chief
- Representatives from Germany’s parliamentary parties support far-right protests against coronavirus policies
- US Agriculture Department outlines program to aid farmers hit by pandemic
- Central Michigan residents speak on dam failures that sparked historic flooding
- Social problems begin to come to the fore in Billie Eilish’s debut album
- Detroit literacy case enters legal quagmire
- Widespread opposition to unsafe reopening of schools and day-care facilities in Germany
- Air Canada announces layoff of up to 22,800 workers
2020-05-25
- COVID-19 spreads, deaths rise in US following return to work
- White House coronavirus task force labels Washington, D.C. area a hot spot as region begins reopening
- Minnesota nurses oppose retaliation over demands for protective equipment
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- Dozens of Nashville, Tennessee, construction workers test positive for COVID-19
- South Asian countries ease COVID-19 lockdowns despite sharp rise in infections
- Project Restart: English Premier League puts profit first, players’ health a poor second
- Ninety-seven die in Pakistan International Airline crash
- Memorial Day in America: 100,000 COVID-19 deaths surpass combined US combat fatalities in Korea and Vietnam
- Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band—a documentary film
- New Zealand opposition leadership change points to political instability
- Minnesota buys a warehouse to store bodies of expected COVID-19 victims
- Democratic governor extends Michigan stay-at-home order to June 12 while relaxing social distancing restrictions
- Canadian medical experts warn COVID-19 will spike due to back-to-work push
- Maquiladora workers expose deadly COVID-19 outbreak in Matamoros, Mexico
- More US grocery workers die from COVID-19
- US juvenile detention centers record 474 COVID-19 cases
- Australian government’s JobKeeper fraud starts to unravel
- Global rental car giant Hertz added to growing list of US corporations filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Gulf States force India and other South Asian states to repatriate impoverished migrant workers
- Central Michigan flooding exposes criminal neglect of dam safety
- High COVID-19 infection rates among doctors and nurses in Germany
- Boris Johnson defends key adviser over flouting UK lockdown rules
- Chinese leadership drops economic growth target
- Biden’s “gaffe” and the black vote
- Baltimore police officer shoots man dead, injures another after nuisance call
- US aviation workers face massive job cuts amid talk of airline bankruptcies
2020-05-26
- Washington state farmworkers fight unsafe conditions as unions move to shut down strikes
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Executives of vaccine developer Moderna cash in, cut corners
- Thyssenkrupp in Germany to be broken up
- Reopened schools close across France as coronavirus found among students and staff
- Nearly 1,200 workers contract COVID-19 at remote Siberian goldmine
- Romanian harvest workers in Germany strike for promised wages
- Postal workers stop work in Peterborough and High Wycombe, England, over COVID-19 safety fears
- After French bailout, Renault-Nissan announces global jobs massacre
- US threatens to “disconnect” Australia if it strays from conflict with China
- The global pandemic and global war on immigrants and refugees
- Maryland Democratic Party officials cite coronavirus crisis to impose sweeping budget cuts on workers
- Germany’s Left Party spearheading deadly back-to-work drive
- Israel’s new government plans war on Palestinians and working class
- UK: Johnson government opposes pay increase for nurses
- Washington’s criminal deportations to Haiti threaten to ignite pandemic
- Sri Lankan Everbest garment workers protest job and wage cuts
- Trump cheers on mass gatherings as US pandemic death toll hits 100,000
- Automakers, Unifor and Ontario government push plant reopenings as COVID-19 continues to spread
- Brazil surpasses 350,000 cases as politicians promote rapid reopening of economy
- “This is not a game that I want to play with my life”: US autoworkers denounce premature return to work
- Australian governments rush to end lockdowns in line with business demands
- Online meeting reveals union complicity in attacks on Australia Post workers
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans face homelessness during pandemic as states begin lifting restrictions on evictions
2020-05-27
- Unemployment skyrockets among youth
- US exploits Hong Kong protests for anti-China campaign
- British Trotskyists issue call for working class action against pandemic
- Thomson Reuters actively helping Trump administration target immigrants
- Tech giants discuss restructuring amid mass layoffs and pay cuts
- Sweden’s “herd immunity” policy produces one of world’s highest fatality rates
- Police in the US fire tear gas at protest against brutal Memorial Day murder
- Dow Jones hits 25,000 as pandemic death toll reaches 100,000
- Pennsylvania reopens despite gross mishandling of COVID-19 data
- Cultural resources wiped out by COVID-19 crisis: 13 percent of museums worldwide may never reopen
- Australian PM launches union-employer offensive against workers
- Quebec Premier accelerates return to work in Montreal—Canada’s COVID-19 epicenter
- Protests by medical workers grow as hospitals overwhelmed across Mexico
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) to hold online lectures on history of Trotskyism
- JBS meatpacking plant reopens in Brazil as Latin America becomes COVID-19 epicenter
- Indonesia experiences major surge in confirmed COVID-19 cases
- UAW official seeks to defuse worker anger as more infections reported at US auto plants
- With his poll numbers falling, Trump denounces November election as “rigged”
- East Africa: Millions face triple disasters of floods, locusts and COVID-19
- UK: Johnson government crisis worsens after Dominic Cummings press conference
- Reports question undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in US and globally
- Cruise ship workers protest government and cruise line inaction
- US corporations, government cover up workplace infections and deaths
- US state and local budget crisis looms
- FBI investigating Georgia officials who failed to arrest Ahmaud Arbery’s killers
2020-05-28
- Yemen’s health care system collapses under weight of pandemic
- Angling for VP nomination, Warren holds fundraiser for Biden, drops “Medicare for All”
- Trump deports over 1,000 children since March so far
- Australian university union’s national deal collapses in face of widespread opposition
- Trump threatens to close social media platforms after Twitter puts fact-check warnings on his tweets
- COVID-19 destroys almost half a million tourism jobs in Sri Lanka
- UK: students charged rent, threatened with eviction during coronavirus pandemic
- Trump bizarrely accuses television talk show host Joe Scarborough of 2001 murder
- Thousands continue to protest in Minneapolis over the brutal police murder of George Floyd
- The murder of George Floyd and the fight against police violence in the US
- Pessimism and the Unhuman: The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Mumbai health care system overwhelmed as COVID-19 surges across India
- Canadian court rules extradition trial of top Huawei executive can proceed
- British ruling class fears Dominic Cummings crisis undermines “social contract”
- US sets stage for anti-China sanctions over Hong Kong
- Governor Whitmer calls for whitewash investigation into central Michigan dam failures
- With US states facing a $230 billion loss in education funding, Betsy DeVos channels public assets to private schools
- Oppose the rush to reopen Australian schools! Form safety action committees of teachers and staff!
- Over 62,300 US health workers infected and 291 dead from COVID-19
- As Brazil leads world in new COVID-19 deaths, Workers Party and pseudo-lefts rally behind capitalist state
- UK: Johnson government to unveil second multi-billion bailout of big business
2020-05-29
- Police attack on unarmed woman in Ypsilanti, Michigan sparks three days of protests
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Weston General Hospital shuts due to coronavirus outbreak among staff
- Singer Johnny Cash’s first wife: My Darling Vivian shows us the woman who walked the line
- With support from the teacher unions, Trump demands the unsafe reopening of schools “ASAP”
- UK: Johnson government forced to retreat over attacks on migrant NHS workers
- Sri Lankan government responds to rising COVID-19 infections by abandoning expatriate workers
- Russia’s right-wing opposition tries to gain from COVID-19 crisis
- Child poverty and hunger set to spike in Puerto Rico
- American ruling class exploits the pandemic to escalate assault on jobs and wages
- Ontario takes over five nursing homes after military exposes systematic negligence
- Nursing union NYSNA provides cover for Cuomo’s push to reopen the economy
- Cop who killed George Floyd in Minneapolis had record of brutality
- Mass anger erupts throughout the US in protests against police murder of George Floyd
- Financial press hails Australian government’s union-employer offensive against workers
- Letter from an American teacher: “In a pandemic, no one is safe unless we are all safe.”
- Trump intrudes in China-India border standoff
- Howie Hawkins and the Green Party: Capitalist politics in the guise of “ecosocialism”
- Amid worsening economic downturn, European Union moves to set up bailout fund
- Germany: Defend climate activist group “Ende Gelände” against the secret service
- Rise in deaths attributed to pneumonia suggests official US coronavirus death toll is grossly undercounted
- New York governor exempts nursing home operators from criminal liability after taking millions from the industry
- City University of New York to lay off thousands of adjunct faculty amid financial crisis
- White House considers expelling Chinese graduate students and researchers
- California Governor Gavin Newsom ramps up reopening despite serious public health threats
- Automakers expand US production, even as COVID-19 cases increase
- Attorney Lee Merritt speaks on conspiracy to cover-up Ahmaud Arbery’s murder
- Local television stations broadcast fake news stories scripted by Amazon
2020-05-30
- Trump escalates anti-China campaign
- US Justice Department drops insider trading investigation of three senators
- UK: Official figures inflate COVID-19 testing rate by more than a million
- Protests against police killing of frontline worker Breonna Taylor escalate in Louisville, Kentucky
- No to the reopening of schools! Build action committees to safeguard children and teachers!
- Massachusetts school district gets rid of art, music and PE teachers for coming school year
- Trinity Health to terminate psychiatric beds in Massachusetts in midst of pandemic
- Hundreds of thousands stage multiracial demonstrations against police violence in a powerful show of working-class unity
- Pandemic intensifies social crisis in New Zealand
- German and French trade unions back Merkel and Macron’s recovery programme
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- After ignoring migrant workers’ plight, the Indian Supreme Court now acknowledges unfolding social tragedy
- Workers in Germany report on corona virus infection risk in workplaces
- Mass protests voice outrage over police murder of George Floyd
- Coronavirus cases surpass six million globally
- Bangladesh COVID-19 deaths soar past 500
- Detroit autoworkers report unexplained illness at Jefferson North Assembly as COVID cases mount
- Australia’s “national cabinet” declared permanent
- The Accident unambiguously indicts the corporate elite
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