Archive: 07/2020
2020-07-01
- New York Times’ Charles Blow demands the removal of monuments to Washington and other “amoral monsters”
- Australian state government locks down Melbourne working class suburbs
- Season 4 of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why: Biting off more than it can chew
- Pandemic rages across South Asia as total cases near 1 million
- Quebec’s hard-right premier reshuffles cabinet for stepped-up class-war assault
- Pandemic profiteering: Gilead Sciences cashes in on COVID-19
- As COVID-19 infections explode in the US, Fauci warns of 100,000 new cases a day
- COVID-19 cases increase across Pacific Island states
- New York City transit worker suffers miscarriage on the job
- Migrants challenge visa processing delays by New Zealand authorities
- Australian government unveils military boost aimed against China
- COVID-19 increase at UK’s 2 Sisters, Rowan and Kober meat processing factories
- Lockdown in Leicester amid surge in infections throughout UK
- Record 47.2 percent of working-age Americans without jobs
- Ireland’s Greens agree to join austerity coalition government
- Food processing plants in Ohio and New York hit with outbreaks
- Coronavirus crisis triggers mass layoffs, wage cuts across Europe
- US House passes Washington D.C. statehood bill
- Chile: COVID-19 outbreak in mining regions
- Australian cancer testing declines during coronavirus pandemic
- Anti-Russia war fever spreads on Capitol Hill
- Hands off Fiat Chrysler workers fighting the COVID-19 disease!
2020-07-02
- Wall Street celebrates biggest quarterly surge in more than 20 years
- UAW president meets with prosecutor to avoid government takeover
- Autoworkers at FCA Trenton Engine call for rank-and-file safety committees to fight COVID-19
- Workers, young people denounce undemocratic efforts to keep Socialist Equality Party off the ballot in Michigan
- Seattle police forcibly end Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
- Riverside, California Nurses strike continues as ICU beds reach capacity
- American comic writer and performer Carl Reiner, 1922-2020
- Australian state Labor government’s police arrest refugee protesters
- Reddit bans 2,000 communities in major censorship action
- Australia’s largest airline Qantas axes 6,000 jobs to slash costs
- Teen shot in back by Louisiana police, charged with resisting arrest
- The inequality pandemic: How American capitalism puts profits over lives
- As COVID-19 cases surge, Texas GM workers demand closure of factory
- Germany: Verdi trade union sells out Galeria Kaufhof Karstadt workers
- Johnson pledges “New Deal” for UK as he prepares savage attack on workers
- Senate votes unanimously to extend CARES Act loan program despite businesses' plans to lay off thousands more
- Beijing passes anti-democratic security law for Hong Kong
- Workers in Germany express their solidarity with striking Fiat Chrysler workers
- “The patients in March didn’t have to die like this, if we would have had more staff and better equipment to work with”
- Tens of thousands of Chinese citizens stranded overseas
- City of Chicago announces plan for mass arrest and detention of youth over holiday weekend
- Caterpillar slashes jobs in Illinois, rewards corporate shareholders
- SEP presidential candidates Kishore and Santa Cruz file federal lawsuit challenging ballot access restrictions in California
- Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: A lifetime of war
- Arizona Department of Health Services activates plan to ration healthcare for COVID-19 patients
- As flights increase, airline workers face more COVID-19 dangers
- Unite offers support for 10 percent job losses at British Airways, EasyJet, Ryanair
2020-07-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Fed official warns of potential for a financial crisis
- Floods inundate Western Ukraine amid renewed spike in COVID-19 cases
- Letter from a New York City transit worker on miscarriages and pregnancy on the job
- Strike against Tower Hamlets Labour council’s “fire and rehire” of 4,000 employees
- FCA Toledo Jeep workers support call for rank-and-file safety committees
- COVID-19 danger persists in South Korea
- UK government’s guidance on school reopening: Back to “normal” from September
- Kremlin pushes to massively strengthen power of the president
- Primaries show deepening political polarization in US
- The New York Times fabricates Russian murder plot
- As pandemic accelerates in US, young people made the scapegoat of ruling elite’s malicious return to work policy
- More migrants speak out against New Zealand’s visa-processing delays
- Meat processing plants spread the coronavirus in North Carolina
- Hands off Lincoln and the Emancipation Memorial! Defend the legacy of the Civil War!
- The Last Dance: Basketball star Michael Jordan and professional sports in the 1990s
- US unemployment rate dips, but millions remain jobless or face wage cuts
- Inhuman Resources: In French Netflix series, an unemployed man takes extreme measures
- British government ramps up campaign against China
- Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell arrested in New Hampshire
- Tens of thousands of jobs at risk as works council at German automaker Daimler announces layoffs
- US Supreme Court rules in favor of religious schools
- Hundreds of thousands of Indian coal miners launch three-day strike against privatisation
- US anti-China campaign intensifies factional conflicts within Canada’s ruling elite
- Australian journalist threatened with prosecution for exposing war crimes in Afghanistan
- Hundreds of jobs axed as Australian Broadcasting Corporation imposes government cuts
2020-07-04
- Zimbabwe nurses strike as economic crisis brings threat of second coup and military dictatorship
- Millions in the US face catastrophe as federal unemployment relief set to expire amid surging pandemic
- Trump gives fascistic rant at Mount Rushmore event held in defiance of health experts
- UK pubs reopen in “Super Saturday”: A criminal act
- Spain participated in failed 2019 US coup in Venezuela
- Southeastern US continues to mark substantial rise in coronavirus cases
- Residents of Sheboygan, Wisconsin protest police murder of man with mental illness history
- The two American Revolutions in world history
- HPAE union betrays New Jersey nurses’ fight for PPE and better pay
- Neil Young’s Homegrown: Time capsule from the 1970s
- Australian government seeks to place country on war footing
- Naming new French prime minister, Macron coordinates austerity with unions
- A new period of socialist revolution and the tasks of the Fourth International
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Back-to-work policy accelerates spread of COVID-19 in Israel
- Riverside, California: HCA nurses strike continues as coronavirus takes its toll
- German defence minister plans more effective organization of army’s far-right elite force
- Germany’s motto for the EU Council presidency: For militarism and war
- Sri Lankan president orders Central Bank to give more credit to big business
- City University of New York lays off 2,800 adjuncts in wave of austerity
- Pandemic spirals out of control in South Africa, India, Brazil
- “Deep cleaning” in Australian schools: Image and reality
- Tories resurrect cynical “Clap for Carers” on 72nd anniversary of the NHS
- Thousands of delivery workers strike across Brazil and other Latin American countries
- Why Canada’s media is fawning over the war criminal John Bolton
- Bath Iron shipyard workers face stepped-up attacks as strike continues
- UAW and General Motors downplay outbreaks of COVID-19 at US auto plants
- Australia: Melbourne’s coronavirus outbreak continues to spread despite localised lockdown
- French unions collaborate with employers to impose mass layoffs as COVID-19 crisis deepens
- Trump administration gives private equity firms access to 401(k) retirement funds
2020-07-06
- Trump rails against Marxism and “international socialism”
- The US COVID-19 toll to hit 3 million cases as Texas health system nears collapse
- Two US aircraft carriers in war games in South China Sea
- This week in history: July 6-July 12
- Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) to hold second online election rally
- US labor secretary says “reopening” will proceed in face of surging pandemic
- British government reimposes welfare benefits sanctions as pandemic continues and unemployment rockets
- Seattle protester killed after being struck by car driving wrong way on closed interstate
- The significance of the July 4 online discussion, “The Place of the Two American Revolutions: Past, Present and Future”
- Vigils in New Zealand demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Australian Labor Party vote falls further in by-election
- Over 300 children catch COVID-19 in Texas daycares
- Over 700 Joliet, Illinois nurses go on strike for better wages and safe working conditions
- More than 170 killed in accident at Myanmar jade mine
- How corporations and government finance the German trade unions
- Australian police confine Melbourne public housing residents indoors after COVID-19 outbreak
- The future of the global cruising industry: Layoffs, pay cuts and prolonged misery for crews
- Brazil’s coronavirus cases top 1.5 million amid record unemployment
- New Jersey growers refuse to test migrant farm workers for COVID-19
2020-07-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Growing opposition to Australian police lockdown of Melbourne public housing residents
- Worker at German meat processing plant dismissed for sharing critical video
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold first online election rally
- Organise teachers, parents and school staff committees to oppose reckless school reopening in Melbourne!
- Australian court rejects Murdoch appeal against Geoffrey Rush defamation verdict
- Democrats’ denunciation of America’s revolutionary heritage provides an opening for Trump
- Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases surge as oil price slump deepens social crisis
- Canada’s migrant workers protest lack of COVID-19 protections
- COVID-19 outbreak surges among Michigan farm workers in rural counties
- Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer pushes unsafe reopening of Michigan schools
- As cutoff of $600 weekly benefit and wave of evictions loom, Congress takes a holiday
- Dozens of immigrants drown in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van
- An appreciation of British painter Leon Kossoff (1926-2019)
- Nearly 200,000 jobs lost in the UK amid pandemic
- Joliet, Illinois nurses remain determined as union moves to end strike
- Thousands more jobs destroyed in Australia
- Scientist warns Istanbul earthquake could kill hundreds of thousands
- ICE threatens international students with deportation unless their college resumes in-person classes
- Macron administration announces new French cabinet
- Supreme Court rules Electoral College members must follow state vote in presidential elections
- Germany’s Commerzbank plans to cut 11,000 jobs
- Illinois and Chicago offer paltry COVID-19 assistance program to residents
- Modi government prosecutes anti-CAA protest leaders on bogus terrorism charges
- Detroit FCA workers call on workers at GM, Ford and other companies to set up rank-and-file safety committees
- Coronavirus pandemic threatens lives of at least one million people at risk from AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria
2020-07-08
- Limited lockdown imposed in Melbourne as COVID-19 surges in Australia
- The COVID-19 vaccine and the drive for profit
- US coronavirus case count soars past 3 million
- Canadian establishment downplays failed attempt to assassinate Trudeau
- Immigrant worker with COVID-19 dies after being sent home by Tennessee hospital
- South Africa sees surge in COVID-19 as restrictions lifted
- US Border Patrol deployed against anti-police violence protestors
- Duterte signs draconian anti-terrorism law in the Philippines
- Peru lifts quarantine restrictions as coronavirus infections pass 300,000 mark
- US war drive against China accelerates
- New York City Democrats ensure budget protects NYPD and guts social services
- Spanish unions isolate Nissan workers’ struggle
- Ennio Morricone, among the greatest composers for the cinema, is dead at 91
- UK meat processing factories involved in COVID-19 outbreak back up and running
- Jeffrey Epstein’s confidante Ghislaine Maxwell relocated to federal jail in New York City
- US billionaires, politicians cash in on “small business” loan program
- 100 years since formation of Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Liquidation of Illiteracy
- Bombing of Turkey’s Watiya base escalates Franco-Italian proxy war in Libya
- UK: Coronavirus exposes Leicester’s sweatshops and government hypocrisy
- Striking nurses in Joliet, Illinois denounce unsafe conditions at AMITA hospital
- India takes economic reprisals against China as border frictions continue
- Hands off international students! Oppose ICE deportation of foreign college students!
- UK set to ban Huawei from 5G network
- French bus driver left brain-dead after asking passengers to wear masks
- Florida orders schools to reopen as COVID-19 cases surge
- New York City EMS worker commits suicide
- Chicago mayor uses rise in social distress, violent crime to advance “law and order” policing
- Brazil’s fascistic President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
2020-07-09
- Australia: Woolworths to slash more than 1,300 warehousing jobs
- Melbourne public housing residents condemn Australian police lockdown
- United Airlines threatens to axe 36,000 jobs
- Students oppose Trump’s threat to deport international students
- Letters demand Sri Lankan defence secretary stop military harassment of SEP candidates
- Rutgers University announces hundreds of layoffs, intends to charge students full tuition in the fall
- Phoenix, Arizona, police shoot man dead in his car, sparking protests
- Trump’s back-to-work diktat threatens teachers’ lives
- Germany: Automaker Opel cuts company pensions
- OECD pushes for cuts in assistance for jobless
- What is behind the New Zealand health minister’s resignation?
- Oppose the Melbourne public housing towers lock-in! For a health and welfare response, not a police mobilisation!
- Surge in infections gives India third highest COVID-19 cases worldwide
- More evidence of ill-treatment of asylum seekers in Glasgow hotels
- Riots in Ethiopia over assassination of Oromi singer/activist Hachalu Hundessa
- Delta Airlines workers expose unsafe working conditions
- US Supreme Court decisions attack separation of church and state and workers’ rights
- Global COVID-19 pandemic takes a new upward leap
- Wall Street, Republicans and militarists back Biden campaign
- Federal judge backs Democrats, rules against SEP challenge to Michigan ballot access requirements during pandemic
- Toledo Jeep workers demand action after dozens test positive for COVID-19
- British government’s token arts rescue package: A “back-to-work” agenda amid an ongoing catastrophe
- Mexican president kowtows to his “friend” Donald Trump
2020-07-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Victoria records highest number of cases since pandemic began, as Australian coronavirus surge intensifies
- NTEU steps up collaboration with Australian university managements amid job cuts “tsunami”
- Supreme Court rules against Trump on releasing tax returns, but allows delay
- Chancellor Sunak announces end of UK jobs furlough and rolls out cheap labour scheme
- Spain imposes regional lockdowns amid resurgence of COVID-19
- The School That Tried to End Racism: A cruel experiment in furtherance of identity politics
- Mexican labor lawyer released under punitive deal after arbitrary imprisonment
- Michigan court rules that SEP must gather signatures despite pandemic
- Joblessness soars as COVID-19 pandemic accelerates across US
- Neyveli Thermal plant explosion in southern India kills 13 workers
- An interview with Ed Achorn, author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
- Melbourne public housing resident denounces Australian police lockdown
- An Illinois nurse speaks out against corporate control of health care systems
- Fiat Chrysler ends third shift at Windsor, Ontario plant eliminating 1,375 jobs
- Massive neo-Nazi penetration of German military and police
- Arrested Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell being monitored by federal officials over suicide concerns
- CUNY students and faculty call for resistance to layoffs and cuts
- The campaign to smear novelist Charles Dickens as a racist
- French-backed security forces in the Sahel guilty of mass extrajudicial executions
- The collapse of the New York Times’ “Russian bounties” campaign
- Bath Iron Works expands strikebreaking operation as Maine shipyard walkout continues
2020-07-11
- Australia’s national cabinet steps up “reopening” despite COVID-19 surge
- North American autoworkers expand fight against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 nightmare
- Toledo Fiat Chrysler workers launch rank-and-file safety committee to save lives amid COVID-19 rampage
- COVID-19 disrupts reopening of US professional sports
- Penalty pay rates slashed for Australian retail workers
- Protests erupt after Detroit, Michigan police shoot and kill 21-year-old man
- Sanders-Biden task forces and the debacle of Sanders’ “political revolution”
- Pandemic surges in the Americas as the global death toll nears 560,000
- New Zealand boosts preparations to join US war against China
- Lenox Hill: Portrait of New York City hospital obscures more than it shows
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei condemns right-wing terror against Left Party parliamentarian
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Striking Joliet, Illinois nurses should reject sellout deal
- Netanyahu acquires dictatorial powers citing Israel’s upsurge in COVID-19 cases
- US takes punitive measures against China over Hong Kong
- Restricted access to Grenfell inquiry for survivors and bereaved
- Epstein assistant Ghislaine Maxwell requests $5 million bail
- Online book launch of The Most Dangerous Man in the World defends Assange
- Teachers speak out against Trump’s push to reopen schools
- Massive worker participation in three-day India Coal strike
- Biden promotes economic nationalism and anti-China militarism
- German multinational BMW to slash 16,000 jobs
2020-07-13
- Special Forces commander admits Australian troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan
- Far-right Vox party to launch fascist trade union in Spain
- Demands mount for racial quotas at elite US universities
- This week in history: July 13-19
- Trump commutes prison term for political crony Roger Stone
- Puerto Rico declares emergency as drought leaves nearly 150,000 residents without water
- US ruling class demands deadly reopening of schools
- French trade unions agree to attacks on healthcare system amid coronavirus pandemic
- Paltry federal relief announced for central Michigan flood victims
- #MeToo to “Me Who?”: US media has turned off the sexual witch-hunt for the moment
- Merkel in Brussels: Profits before lives and European great power politics
- Joliet, Illinois nurses reject sellout contract, continue strike
- Thousands protest Israeli government’s lack of COVID-19 economic aid
- Humboldt University student parliament condemns radical right-wing Professor Baberowski
- Melbourne public housing residents still outraged by Australian police lockdown
- Haymarket Books “Abolitionist Teaching” forum: A call to promote racial division among teachers
- Greek government passes draconian anti-protest legislation
- Georgia Tech faculty, students and parents express opposition to school reopening
- Florida sees one-day high of 15,300 COVID-19 cases as pandemic inundates health care infrastructure
- US Catholic Church received at least $1.4 billion through “small business” loan program
- Public forum: COVID-19 and the escalating assault on educators and students
- Canada’s government accelerating drive to cut off support for workers made jobless by pandemic
- Bereaved family members march on Downing Street to demand UK COVID-19 inquiry
- Ford workers in Louisville denounce unsafe conditions as opposition grows to COVID-19 spread in auto plants
- Limited lockdowns fail to halt Australia’s COVID-19 surge
2020-07-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Anger grows as Australian state Labor government sends teachers and senior students back to school in Melbourne
- COVID-19 outbreaks escalate across England
- Pandemic and Tory government measures having brutal impact on London’s disadvantaged young people
- Seventeen states and tens of universities file lawsuits against ICE attack on international students
- RTJ4: Run the Jewels melds “rebellion” with reaction
- Duda wins Polish presidential election after campaign attacking Jews, LGBTQ rights and Germans
- Bipartisan back-to-work campaign produces catastrophe
- Coronavirus cases, deaths soar in Mexico and across Latin America
- New York City releases dangerous school reopening plans
- Washington renews covert campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure
- Indonesia records over 1,000 COVID-19 cases every day for three weeks
- Houston hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients as Texas continues to reopen
- Federal prosecutors argue against bail and home confinement for Epstein assistant Ghislaine Maxwell
- Hundreds of workers infected and four dead from COVID-19 at Los Angeles sweatshop
- Trump wages war against science and Dr. Fauci, not coronavirus
- Teacher unions support drive to reopen US schools as pandemic explodes
- The politics of the capitalist debt economy
- Democratic California Governor Newsom argues that allowing SEP candidates on the ballot would cause “frustration of the democratic process”
- Meatpacking, auto and health care workers take action to protect lives as pandemic surges in US
- Australia’s COVID-19 spike spreads to New South Wales
2020-07-15
- Yemen fragmenting under pressure of war, collapsing economy and COVID-19
- USDA food box program fails to deliver significant share of much needed aid
- UNICEF report: COVID-19 exacerbating hunger and other maladies facing South Asia’s children
- Erdoğan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and the danger of war
- New Zealand aluminium smelter to close, axing 1,000 jobs
- Australian teachers and school staff condemn return to classrooms in Victoria
- Southeastern US experiencing harrowing rise in coronavirus infections
- Protests erupt in Serbia over official handling of COVID-19 pandemic
- Academy of Medical Sciences warns 251,000 more people could die of COVID-19 in Britain
- Tens of thousands protest in Russia’s far east after Kremlin removes governor
- Haphazard plans to reopen US schools spur growing opposition among educators
- US secretary of state denounces China over South China Sea
- US-led “back to work” drive spreads death across Latin America
- Judge denies bail for Ghislaine Maxwell, charged with aiding Epstein’s abuse of underage girls
- German state intelligence agency deletes data of right-wing extremists
- Further details emerge on far-right views of Canadian army reservist who tried to kill Trudeau
- German Green Party programme: Police-state repression and militarism
- Germany halts preliminary proceedings on 1980 Oktoberfest attack
- French nurses denounce sellout as thousands protest on Bastille Day
- Large coronavirus outbreak at Rook Row Farm in Britain
- US government carries out first execution of federal prisoner in 17 years
- COVID-19 outbreak at Battle Creek, Michigan auto parts plant
- Record single-day COVID-19 deaths in Florida, Alabama and Utah
- The blinding of Gustavo Gatica and the return to unrestrained police state violence in Chile
- Death of Arizona teacher exposes lies about safely reopening schools
- Jennifer Jones speaks on UK Boycott Return To Unsafe Schools campaign
- Online documentary exposes the psychological torture of Julian Assange
- Australian authorities sought to cover-up asbestos removal at Newcastle school
- Workers on unemployment stunned as Arizona abruptly cuts off payments
2020-07-16
- Lawsuit claims Washington, DC police participated in June raid on Lafayette Square protest
- Verfassungsschutz Report 2019: German secret service downplays threat of Nazi terrorism and attacks socialist politics
- Amid Sri Lankan elections, YouTube censors Tamil-language WSWS posts
- Sri Lanka army commander says allegations of military harassment of northern election candidates are “false”
- Federal agents in Portland, Oregon shoot and critically injure protester
- Canada refuses to repatriate illegally jailed citizens accused of ISIS ties
- Nearly 70,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in US prisons
- Trump and Democratic Party establishment retain grip in primary contests
- Markets soar as the corpses pile up
- White House in disarray as coronavirus numbers explode
- Sinclair Lewis’s novel Main Street at 100
- Transport for London downplayed COVID-19 dangers to bus, rail and tube workers in critical early months
- Teachers, educators and parents speak out against UK September school reopening
- UK excluding Huawei from 5G network
- Harley-Davidson slashes 700 jobs worldwide as stock price continues to rise
- Germany: Racist “family tree research” and police state measures in Stuttgart
- Quarter of a million threatened with homelessness by UK government’s lifting of evictions ban
- Charter schools cash in on “small business” Paycheck Protection Program
- Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves anti-encryption EARN IT Act
- Real economy plunges but financial profits surge
- COVID-19 out of control at Toledo Jeep plant
- Australian governments reject lockdowns, as Victoria hits highest daily infection toll
2020-07-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US drug overdose deaths soared to record highs in 2019
- US posts a one-day high in COVID-19 cases with health systems on the verge of collapse
- First-time jobless claims in US top 1 million for 17th straight week
- Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts hacked in “coordinated social engineering attack”
- Tamil National Alliance offers to support Sri Lankan president’s autocratic rule
- Outbreak of COVID-19 at Pretty Little Thing distribution centre in Sheffield, UK
- White House declares that “science should not stand in the way” of reopening schools
- UK Royal household workers threatened with job losses
- US retail bankruptcies and closures accelerate during COVID-19 pandemic
- Facing mounting crisis, US lashes out against China
- More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19
- Trump replaces campaign manager as poll numbers plunge
- “NTEU Fightback” aims to block revolt against Australian university trade union
- SEP (Australia) holds lecture series on the history of Trotskyism
- Canada’s largest lingerie and swimwear retailer scraps worker bonuses
- “Palace letters” point to the plotting behind the 1975 constitutional coup in Australia
- Two-week strike by Joliet, Illinois nurses in danger
- Oklahoma cops tased Jared Lakey over 50 times before he died, video shows
- US automakers continue cover-up of COVID-19 outbreaks as workers call for action
- Millions of Americans are losing health insurance as joblessness skyrockets
- As India approaches 1 million COVID-19 cases, Modi government continues to deny community transmission
- Police body camera footage of George Floyd murder released
- Second federal execution in a week goes forward with Supreme Court sanction
- New French prime minister Jean Castex calls for stepped-up police repression
- SEP candidates Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
- Thousands of sackings at Australian universities
- Health care workers take action to preserve lives as COVID-19 spreads throughout Africa
2020-07-18
- US hits record 74,987 new daily COVID-19 cases
- Australia: Hundreds of health workers in Victoria contract COVID-19
- 999 USPS restructuring
- US escalates economic warfare against Russia and China
- US moving to ban China-based TikTok social media app
- Neo-Nazi network in police covered up at highest levels of German state and politics
- Build rank-and-file safety committees at every workplace to save lives!
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- US pushes fabricated claims of Russian hacking of virus research
- New Zealand’s opposition National Party in turmoil after another leadership change
- Michigan teen sent to juvenile detention for failing to do her homework
- Unsubmissive France leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for massive French military build-up
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Nearly 650,000 jobs lost in UK during pandemic, with much worse to come
- Johnson’s return-to-work speech: UK ruling class opts for mass murder
- Destruction of full-time jobs intensifies in Australia
- 999 JBS Greeley meatpackers update
- Hawaii officials push unsafe reopening of schools despite outcry by educators and parents
- #Anne Frank Parallel Stories: The young victim of the Nazis
- A grim week on federal death row: Three men sent to their deaths in Terre Haute, Indiana
- COVID-19 spread accelerates across Europe as EU summit opens
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- New delivery workers demonstration in Brazil exposes unions and their allies
- German automaker Daimler plans fresh assault on jobs and conditions
- Armenia-Azerbaijan border clashes threaten broader war in Caucasus
- Brazil surpasses two million coronavirus cases as reopening drive continues
- Australian medical experts call for workplace and school shutdowns as Victoria’s COVID-19 surge escalates
- UK MPs submit early day motion on Assange
- American Airlines announces 25,000 job cuts
2020-07-20
- Trump administration expands assault on coronavirus testing
- Millions in the US face disaster as $600 federal unemployment aid set to end this week
- This week in history: July 20-26
- Tönnies meat-processing plant in Germany restarted despite ongoing danger from COVID-19
- Toledo Jeep workers demand immediate shutdown as COVID-19 continues to spread in auto industry
- Trump’s police-state attack in Portland, Oregon
- Campaign continues against New Zealand visa processing delays
- Fire damages historic Nantes cathedral in France
- Trudeau government failed to enforce COVID-19 protections for migrant farm workers
- COVID-19 outbreak hits central Michigan flood recovery migrant workers
- John Lewis, civil rights militant turned big-business politician, dies at 80
- Australian coronavirus surge hits workplaces, factories
- Israeli police deploy tear gas and water cannon against anti-Netanyahu demonstrators
- Deaths in ICE custody rise as pandemic rages across the United States
- Australian bushfire victims still suffering six months on
- Dutch unions sell out three-week strike against steel layoffs
- Eighty-five infants infected with COVID-19 in Corpus Christi, Texas
- Workers disproportionately affected by coronavirus pandemic in Germany
- Driver plunges bus into a Chinese reservoir, killing 21
- Barcelona residents told to stay at home as COVID-19 resurges across Europe
- More than 3,300 Arkansas meatpacking workers infected with coronavirus
2020-07-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Missouri governor says children infected with COVID-19 will “get over it”
- Samoan government amends constitution to elevate traditional “custom”
- President Trump sending federal police agents into major American cities
- Democrats, Republicans prepare to slash workers’ unemployment supplement
- Health and safety of medical workers jeopardized by world leaders’ negligent response to the pandemic
- Australian coronavirus surge hits Sydney
- Mauritian seafarers, workers and youth oppose Jugnauth government corruption and austerity
- Italian composer Francesco Lotoro rescues music composed in the concentration camps
- Ireland heading for second COVID-19 wave
- Executives reap millions in bonuses as US retail apocalypse escalates
- Growing signs of deep and prolonged global recession
- Bangladeshi government cracks down on opposition to jute mill privatisation
- Coronavirus cases rise sharply in Austria
- Cover-up continues of Manchester Arena suicide bombing
- University of Akron announces plan to eliminate 178 professors, staff and contract professionals
2020-07-22
- US Postal Service takes major step toward privatization
- The “Strike for Black Lives” protest stunt
- Trump’s plan to send paramilitary police throughout the US: The ruling class prepares for civil war
- Australian government slashes pandemic payments to workers after suspending parliament
- Sri Lankan SEP election meeting discusses working-class response to COVID-19 pandemic
- Letter from a student in China on the COVID-19 pandemic
- Doctors warn National Health Service will be “overwhelmed” as Johnson scraps UK lockdown measures
- COVID-19 cases surging again in Japan
- Despite withdrawal of ICE ruling, international students in the US remain at risk
- Germany: The “riots” in Frankfurt and the right-wing network in the police
- EU Summit agrees to €750 billion fund for the banks and corporations
- COVID-19 cases reach 15 million worldwide with 4 million in the US alone
- Report exposes crisis in American university health care systems as coronavirus cases skyrocket
- US indicts Chinese nationals on trumped-up hacking charges
- California judge rules that SEP candidates must collect physical signatures during pandemic or be excluded from ballot
- ASOS: Fast fashion makes a killing in the UK during the pandemic
- Alberta’s right-wing government adopts draconian anti-protest law
2020-07-23
- NASSCO shipyard worker dies from COVID-19 in San Diego
- Senate committee gives nod to Trump Fed nominee
- California: 700 health care workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital on five-day strike
- Britain’s Russia Report: Propaganda for authoritarianism and war
- Trump orders hundreds of federal agents into Chicago
- US orders closure of China’s Houston consulate, raising the danger of war
- Ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases across Pacific Island states
- German defence minister propagates rearmament, militarism and war
- Widespread opposition as union sells out Joliet, Illinois nurses strike
- Bodies of two workers still entombed at collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans nearly one year later
- Grenfell Tower contractor Rydon admits profiteering by using flammable cladding
- New coronavirus cases globally rocket past a quarter million
- Death of 14-year-old on the job highlights growth of child labor in Canada
- COVID-19 spreading widely in auto plants as Detroit automakers push for more production
- Record daily coronavirus infections in Australia
- Safety expert removed from Australia’s Grosvenor Mine explosion inquiry
2020-07-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The nationalist hijacking of the race for a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus
- Reports on Twitter hack confirm existence of admin tool used for social media censorship
- Trump orders federal police to more cities
- Parents oppose dangerous UK nursery and pre-school reopening
- Growing wave of educators’ protests forces Trump to throw a financial sop to schools
- South Asian floods kill hundreds and displace millions
- Sosyalist Eşitlik condemns threats against Şiar Rişvanoğlu
- International media and politicians silent on anti-Semitism in Polish elections
- Trump, Congress condemn unemployed to starve
- Couples and families separated by New Zealand’s border restrictions
- UK manufacturers warn of “jobs bloodbath”
- Hamilton: An American Musical finally available for broader viewing
- Trial of Halle synagogue shooter begins in Germany
- US coronavirus hospitalizations surge back to April highs
- German chicken processing plant remains open despite coronavirus outbreak
- Catalan politicians’ phones hacked by government-grade spyware
- Huge Australian budget deficits mean intensified assault on workers
- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos adds record $13 billion to net worth in a single day
- Fourth steelworker in three years dies at ArcelorMittal in East Chicago, Indiana
- Greek, Turkish warships nearly clash in Aegean over Mediterranean gas fields
2020-07-25
- Zimbabwe: Social unrest grows amid economic collapse
- US demands even greater support from Australia in confrontation with China
- British universities plan tens of thousands of job cuts
- Trump signs executive order on 2020 Census declaring undocumented immigrants are not persons
- SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka: Workers denounce establishment parties
- Workers voice opposition to privatization of US Postal Service
- Phoenix, Arizona police release incomplete footage of July 4 shooting
- 150,000 dead in the US and no end in sight
- New York City transit officials prepare to slash jobs and wages
- Remains of one of Mexico’s missing Ayotzinapa 43 students identified
- Canadian medical experts provide ideological justification for homicidal back-to-work drive
- US secretary of state sets out case for conflict with China
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Iowa Department of Health underreported confirmed cases at meatpacking plant by more than half
- As the spread of COVID accelerates, Ford workers in Michigan and Kentucky denounce flouting of safety measures
- London bus drivers launch crowdfund appeal for family of murdered French bus driver: “Help the family of Philippe Monguillot!”
- John Deere announces layoffs, salary buyouts for US workers
- Germany: Daimler doubles job cuts from 15,000 to 30,000—shareholders rejoice as stock price rises
- Judge orders former Trump enforcer Michael Cohen to be released from prison
- Australia’s COVID-19 death toll rising rapidly
- Illinois Democrats embrace Trump’s law enforcement “surge”
- SEP files appeal to Federal Sixth Circuit Court in Michigan ballot access case
- Brazilian autoworkers strike after Renault fires 747 workers
2020-07-27
- Wirecard and the criminality of capitalism
- Dozens of Australian schools shut down after coronavirus outbreaks
- Mounting US pressure on Europe to line up against China
- $600-per-week jobless benefit expires for 20 million US workers
- This week in history: July 27-August 2
- Australian Tamil refugee mother denied urgent medical treatment for weeks
- White House brands teachers “essential workers” to force reopening of schools
- South Africa has the world’s fifth highest COVID-19 cases
- Australian state government bans protest against police violence
- Stop Trump’s coup d’état! Mobilize the working class against authoritarianism and dictatorship!
- Ohio House Speaker arrested for running a $60 million bribery scheme
- What is the New York Times up to at the Detroit Institute of Arts?
- Over 7,500 children in Tennessee have been diagnosed with COVID-19
- Hurricane Hanna hits regions of Texas and Mexico devastated by COVID-19
- Facing manpower shortages over COVID-19, UAW president tells workers ‘don’t retire’
- WHO warns that COVID-19 pandemic is resurgent across Europe
- Protester shot and killed in Austin, Texas
- With over 16 million COVID-19 cases, the pandemic is devastating developing nations
- Antarctic ice sheet melting could accelerate rapidly, leading to catastrophic rise in sea level
- What is BORTAC and why is it patrolling the streets of Portland?
- Vote “NO” to British Airways pilots’ contract! Form rank and file committees to oppose BALPA sell-out!
- Mounting COVID-19 deaths expose deep crisis in Australian aged care homes
2020-07-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- WISAG ground services slashes hundreds of jobs at Berlin Tegel Airport
- Germany’s “voluntary military service”: Government recruits for army deployments at home and abroad
- Trump, Republicans demand $400-a-week cut for the unemployed
- Growing demands that Sri Lankan defence secretary end the military harassment of SEP candidates
- Johnson demands two-week UK quarantine for 600,000 Britons holidaying in Spain
- Trump deploys more federal agents in Portland crackdown
- Spain’s Podemos hails €750 billion EU bank bailout for COVID-19 crisis
- Teachers face battle as Trump pushes school reopenings
- Ghislaine Maxwell attorneys submit motion to block release of documents from 2015 defamation case
- Concerns mount over financial stability as US dollar falls and gold price soars
- Mass protests continue in Russian Far East
- Retail workers strike in France as wage cuts and layoffs spread
- Toronto tenants protest against looming evictions amid COVID-19 crisis
- Egypt’s el-Sisi approves troop deployment to Libya against Turkish-backed forces
- DENSO workers describe conditions that led to COVID-19 outbreak at Michigan auto parts plant
- Texas revises its coronavirus death tally upward by 12 percent
- Bath shipyard strike in danger as walkout enters sixth week
- Working-class opposition emerging amid Australia’s COVID-19 surge
- Australian government echoes aggressive US shift on South China Sea
- Assange appears in court, as lawyers warn case may be delayed by new US indictment
2020-07-29
- Woolworths locks out workers at Australian warehouse
- Congress prepares to scrap $600 weekly unemployment payment
- Trump uses quack science to promote back-to school, back-to-work drive
- Shirley: A fictionalized account of writer Shirley Jackson’s life
- Johnson government scientific adviser claims UK schools should never have closed
- Six arrested at banned Australian protest against police violence
- US adopts policy of regime-change in Beijing
- New Zealand’s largest retail chain axes 1,080 jobs
- Elon Musk discovers Das Kapital
- Major League Baseball confronted with major COVID-19 outbreak
- Michigan Medicine laying off hundreds of workers despite ongoing pandemic
- British grandmother dies weighing just 42 pounds after her benefits are withdrawn
- US Park Police chief defends unconstitutional June 1 assault on protesters outside the White House
- GM keeps third shift at Missouri plant as anger mounts over unsafe conditions
- Australian treasurer hails Reagan and Thatcher as “inspiration” for government’s economic agenda
- What led Argentina’s Left Workers Front (FIT) to vote for banning criticism of Israel under the guise of combatting anti-Semitism?
- Russian pseudo-left provides neo-Stalinist justification for vendetta against historian Yuri Dmitriev
- McCarthyite witch-hunt over alleged anti-Semitism explodes in British Labour Party
- Canada’s Liberal government shaken by WE Charity scandal
- French state sues mayor for linking police repression to pro-Nazi Vichy regime
- Attorney General Barr aggressively defends violent attacks on protesters in Portland
2020-07-30
- Record Australian COVID-19 deaths and infections
- Fed chair Powell says backstop to markets to remain for a “very long time”
- Australian government signs up to US offensive against China
- Corporate press promotes Susan Rice as Biden running mate
- Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine racket
- COVID-19 deaths mount at GM plant and maquiladoras across Mexico
- Plainclothes NYC police grab protester and throw her into unmarked car
- “The Secret Service is the cockpit of right-wing terrorism”
- Report warns theft of international student wages in Australia set to worsen amid COVID-19
- Israeli bus drivers’ strike over COVID-19 safety concerns
- Australia: International students voice anger over wage theft, poor working conditions
- Indonesia passes 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases
- India set to surpass two million COVID-19 cases within days
- Germany: “Voluntary military service in Homeland Security”—an invitation to neo-Nazis
- Auto parts worker dies at Michigan Faurecia plant of unexplained causes
- Louisiana voters: Put the Socialist Equality Party on the ballot!
- Dow Chemical announces plan to cut six percent of its global workforce
- UK coronavirus infections and death rates increase as Johnson blames Europe
- Australia: Committee for Public Education holds online forum on COVID-19 threat
- A Canadian firefighter speaks out on the opioid crisis
- As opposition mounts to reopening of schools, US teacher union opposes national strike
- Australian SAS planted weapons on murdered civilians in Afghanistan
2020-07-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Louisiana restaurant worker dies of COVID-19 after collapsing on the job
- US COVID-19 death toll soars past 155,000, with one death every minute
- Trump floats delaying election, both parties appeal to military as umpire
- Record heatwave in Siberia and the burning danger of climate change
- Hundreds of thousands mobilize on social media to oppose US school reopenings
- Talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union will end in job losses
- Quebec Solidaire joins with the hard-right in promoting economic nationalism
- At least 735 COVID-19 deaths confirmed in US prison system
- Millions face economic and social disaster as Wall Street celebrates
- Olivia de Havilland, star of Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” dead at 104
- New Zealand suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong
- Consol cuts 233 jobs as US coal production falls to 1973 levels
- Three missions to Mars are now under way
- Report backing Johnson’s ending UK lockdown concludes: More “deaths and misery” are inevitable
- Toledo Jeep Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls for emergency measures as COVID-19 surges in the plant
- Japan raising tensions with Beijing in the East China Sea
- Open Letter from WSWS Chairman David North to Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai
- Brook Park, Ohio autoworker describes conditions leading to rising COVID-19 infections at Ford Engine plant
- Trump administration suspends DACA applications and renewals
- Corporate profits before lives: Europe’s reopening policies endanger millions of lives
- The school transportation crisis in the age of coronavirus
- Australian COVID-19 surge continues as epidemiologists urge stricter lockdown
- Ten years since WikiLeaks published the Afghan war logs
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