Archive: 08/2020
2020-08-01
- Universities prepare to blame students for COVID-19 outbreaks
- US unemployment supplement expires, setting the stage for mass hunger and homelessness
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting to conclude its election campaign
- Reopening of schools in Germany puts the lives of children and educators at stake
- The global pandemic, the class struggle, and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Socialist Equality Party (US) National Congress adopts resolution on the coronavirus pandemic and the fight for socialism
- The coronavirus pandemic and the growing mental health crisis
- UK government forced to enact new restrictions after pandemic let loose
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Lawsuit exposes massive COVID-19 outbreak at privately-run immigrant detention center in Virginia
- Grenfell Tower inquiry reveals more criminality by corporations involved in refurbishment
- New prosecutor refuses to press charges against cop that killed Michael Brown
- Federal judge unseals documents from 2015 case against Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell
- Ford Dearborn Truck Plant workers launch rank-and-file safety committee to save lives amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Department of Homeland Security assembles intelligence reports on US journalists covering Portland protests
- Six months since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global public health emergency
- As COVID-19 ravages Brazil, governments promote homicidal reopening of schools
- Doctors at Michigan’s Beaumont Health submit no-confidence petition on eve of merger
- COVID-19 infections rapidly spread across Bangladesh
- Royal commission into Australia’s bushfires promotes greater use of the military
2020-08-03
- Vietnam struggles to contain rapid resurgence of COVID-19
- This week in history: August 3-9
- White House engineering a takeover of TikTok by Microsoft
- Vote for SEP candidates in the Sri Lankan national elections! Fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government and socialist internationalism!
- Families fight for justice for five workers killed by wall collapse at UK Hawkeswood Metal recycling plant
- Scottish government prepares to reopen schools as new COVID-19 spikes emerge
- Drive to reopen US schools continues despite mounting evidence of deadly consequences
- International Olympic Committee promotes Olympics with Nazi propaganda
- Congress of millionaires robs the unemployed
- The July days of the COVID-19 pandemic wreak havoc on the US
- Major League Baseball season on brink of collapse as COVID-19 continues to spread
- Baltimore’s Mercy Medical Center intensive care unit head physician dies of COVID-19
- At least 20 percent of US meatpackers may have contracted coronavirus
- “This tragedy was avoidable” at UK Hawkeswood Metal recycling plant
- The Invisible Man: A woman struck by an “unseen hand”
- Hong Kong delays legislative elections amid crackdown on democratic rights
- Honda orders office workers at Marysville, Ohio plant to man assembly lines as COVID-19 spreads
- European economy collapses as EU bails out the super-rich
- US credit outlook rated “negative” as concerns mount over dollar’s global role
- COVID-19 “state of disaster” imposed across Australian state of Victoria
- US Border Patrol raids “No More Deaths” humanitarian aid camp in southern Arizona
2020-08-04
- Amid COVID-19 “disaster,” Australian state government announces limited workplace closures
- Who decides the fate of the US Postal Service?
- Anger grows across the US as closed-door talks continue on expired unemployment relief
- Britain’s jobs massacre continues
- Sri Lanka: TNA election manifesto prepares imperialist-backed deal with President Rajapakse
- Trump installs ex-general and anti-Islam bigot in top Pentagon post
- ArcelorMittal lays off hundreds of steelworkers in Indiana, Ohio
- New COVID-19 infections take hold in first week of attempted cruise industry restart
- COVID-19 takes hold in Papua New Guinea
- Stricter lockdown reimposed in Philippines as cases top 100,000
- One month of the coronavirus pandemic: 7.2 million infected, 165,000 dead
- Montreal dockworkers escalate strike action against speed-up, victimization
- The US troop withdrawal and the return of German militarism
- SEP candidates file brief replying to Governor Whitmer in Michigan ballot access appeal
- Well-attended online meeting concludes IYSSE election campaign at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Teachers protest Jordan government’s closure of union and harsh crackdown
- Workers describe unsafe conditions at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant
- Migrant farmworkers in Spain protest amid COVID-19 surge
- Mass unemployment to worsen in Australia following Victorian lockdown
- Pro-police #MeToo campaign targets French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin
- California’s Apple Fire burns 20,000 acres, forces thousands from their homes
- BALPA pilots union enforces sell-out deal at British Airways
2020-08-05
- Zimbabwe: Government repression as social unrest mounts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Victoria’s COVID-19 catastrophe: An indictment of Australian governments and capitalism
- US imposes new sanctions on China over alleged Uyghur abuses
- US teachers defy threats to cut funding for schools that delay in-person learning
- House Speaker Pelosi signals readiness to cut unemployment benefits
- Lancet warns of massive resurgence of coronavirus after UK school reopening
- As COVID-19 surges, infected Turkish workers forced back to work
- UK teachers’ pay award: A shoddy deal for all
- New York educators oppose city and state school reopening plans
- COVID-19 surges in Spain as government pushes reopening of schools
- From Medicare-for-All to “Masks-for-All”: Bernie Sanders and the incredible shrinking “political revolution”
- Pro-US liberal opposition promotes greater power for regional authorities in Russian protests
- For a nationwide general strike to halt the drive to reopen schools!
- Islamic Women’s Council calls for transparency from inquiry into New Zealand terrorist attack
- New York Times calls for de facto racial quotas in classical music
- Fascist networks in German police and military issue new death threats
- Australian meatworks emerge as centres of COVID-19
- Massive explosion in Beirut kills dozens and injures thousands
- Tropical Storm Isaias causes flooding and power outages across the US east coast
- Leaked bodycam footage shows George Floyd’s arrest and murder
- GM Fairfax worker speaks out on spread of COVID-19
- Brazilian teachers oppose back-to-school drive
- Widespread protests in Bolivia oppose postponement of elections
- Indian PM Modi to lay cornerstone for Hindu temple at site of razed Ayodhya mosque
- Fiat Chrysler bribed UAW with tens of millions, new GM court filing alleges
- United Steelworkers shuts down strike by Asarco copper miners
- Amazon violates its own health and safety rules in COVID-19 coverup
2020-08-06
- Australia: Victorian hospital admissions soar amid warnings COVID-19 surge will continue for weeks
- Mounting opposition by teachers against drive to reopen schools
- NTEU enforces deep pay and job cuts at Australian universities
- Florida governor admits state unemployment system purposefully designed to pay out “least number of claims”
- Transport for London coronavirus bailout prepares tube privatisation
- COVID-19 outbreaks at four workplaces in Swindon, UK
- Quebec to appeal acquittal of fascist, but only on lesser charges
- Two incumbent House members defeated in primary voting
- 75 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Germany: Right-wing terror in Erfurt
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold final online election meeting
- Gold price surges to record high
- Two Florida teenagers die from COVID-19 as schools push to reopen
- Altered CDC guidelines provide unscientific basis for reopening schools
- Far-right protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Berlin: A put-up job
- Resuming college football driven by financial interests
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to hear Socialist Equality Party candidates’ appeal in California voting rights case until after ballots are printed
- Beirut port fire: A crime against Lebanese workers
- War crimes in Afghanistan covered up by UK Ministry of Defence
2020-08-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Homeland Security chief defends police-state crackdown, announces federal paramilitaries to remain in Portland
- New US unemployment claims top 1 million for 20th straight week
- Canadian court rules Safe Third Country Agreement with US violates refugee rights
- Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna wins election setting the stage for an eruption of working-class struggles
- US retail bankruptcies and closures pile up amid pandemic
- Dangerous conditions in Melbourne quarantine hotels helped cause Australia’s COVID-19 resurgence
- The United Auto Workers: A criminal conspiracy against the working class
- The Line movingly conveys health care workers’ struggles during the pandemic
- UK government clears the path for “slums of the future”
- Britain’s National Health Service workers demand pay rise amid COVID-19 crisis
- West Palm Beach, Florida seniors face eviction from low income housing
- Fascist death squads preparing to carry out mass murder in Germany
- Angry educators and parents across the US protest the reckless return to classrooms
- Violent, secretive fascistic networks operating inside California police stations
- James P. Cannon on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “An unspeakable atrocity”
- Belarus arrests 33 Russian military contractors ahead of presidential elections
- Health Commissioner forced out as New York City prepares to reopen schools amid national pandemic surge
- Faculty at University of Akron reject sellout contract
2020-08-08
- Australia: Woolworths lifts lockout as union pushes through sell-out deal
- USPS workers speak out against privatization drive
- President Trump signs executive orders banning Chinese social media apps TikTok and WeChat
- White House, Congress combine to cut off supplemental unemployment benefits
- Reject whitewash report into London bus driver coronavirus deaths! For rank-and-file health and safety committees!
- Texas attorney general orders in-person education as state cases top 500,000
- GM Spring Hill workers speak out against unsafe conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic
- German schools reopen despite increase in coronavirus infections
- UK: For a general strike against the reopening of schools
- Former Australian PM: Beware the Guns of August in Asia
- Ex-UAW regional director forced to resign amid harassment investigation
- 999 Police infiltration of protests
- The politics of oligarchy: Federal appeals court blocks SEP challenge to anti-democratic ballot access laws in California
- Lufthansa, backed by unions, expands job cuts
- US moves to delist Chinese companies from stock exchanges
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Georgia highschoolers use social media to expose disastrous conditions as schools reopen
- New York University withholds completed dental degree, student facing deportation
- New York Governor Cuomo sanctions statewide reopening of schools
- US coronavirus death toll predicted to reach 295,000 by December
- Columbia University pressures faculty into teaching in-person classes, triggering backlash
- Over a third of indigenous Canadians struggling to pay for essentials during pandemic
- Union prepares sellout of Renault strike in Brazil
- Massive anger erupts following Beirut port explosion
- Autoworkers denounce bipartisan drive to reopen schools
- Africa’s one million coronavirus cases “the tip of the iceberg”
2020-08-10
- Twenty percent of Australian health workers lack PPE as infections in the sector soar
- Trump executive orders set stage for tens of millions of evictions
- This week in history: August 10-16
- Unions’ big lie to Quebec health care workers battling the pandemic: “The government will protect you”
- US Supreme Court defends deadly jail conditions in California
- Trump’s illegal power grab and the specter of American Bonapartism
- Rising popular anger over Nepali government’s response to COVID-19
- Australian parliamentary staffer initiates legal challenge to “foreign interference” laws
- Local lockdowns in West Yorkshire following UK workplace outbreaks
- Iranian oil workers mount wave of strikes as COVID-19 rages across the country
- German government continues to boost military spending and cover for fascists
- Georgia teachers and students force temporary closure of North Paulding High School over COVID-19 outbreak
- As statewide cases hit half a million, opposition mounts in Florida to school reopening
- US hits five million COVID-19 cases as testing declines and schools reopen
- Caleb Reed, a youth activist in Chicago, falls victim to gun violence
- Biden’s blueprint for a right-wing presidency: Part one
- Fiat Chrysler workers speak out on COVID-19 outbreak at Belvidere Assembly Plant
- Clashes in Beirut as ruling elite exploits anger over blast
- Workers have a right to know about COVID-19 in their plants!
- Australian Kmart warehouse workers in Melbourne strike over COVID-19 safety
- COVID-19: A blessing for Bezos and a nightmare for workers
2020-08-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- USPS centralizes leadership as step towards privatization and possible election fraud
- Top US health official makes provocative trip to Taiwan
- Sri Lankan election exposes historic crisis of capitalist rule
- As US cruise industry delays operations until November, thousands of seafarers remain stranded
- Philippines not to join wargames in the South China Sea
- Peru reopens economy as thousands of miners contract COVID-19
- Why is the US doing less and less COVID-19 testing?
- New York educators and students denounce Governor Cuomo’s push to reopen schools
- US nurses’ poll shows appalling working conditions in the pandemic
- Louisiana Supreme Court denies review of Fair Wayne Bryant’s life sentence for allegedly stealing a pair of hedge clippers
- Lebanese government resigns amid mounting anger over port blast
- King Juan Carlos flees Spain to avoid corruption probe
- Indonesian economy contracts for first time in over two decades
- Health care workers rally across UK against unsafe conditions
- Germany reopens its schools: An experiment in herd immunity
- Producers push reckless resumption of North American film production in face of pandemic
- Indiana Faurecia workers denounce unsafe conditions, forced overtime
- Chicago mayor locks down business district after police shooting sparks looting
- Biden’s blueprint for a right-wing presidency: Part two
- Germany: Did AfD-related public prosecutors cover up right-wing extremist attacks in Berlin?
- US Attorney General Barr gives fascistic tirade against Antifa, Black Lives Matter
- Deadly explosion in northwest Baltimore neighborhood injures dozens
2020-08-12
- Schools make students sign liability waivers acknowledging risk of death
- Hospital fire in southern India kills 10 COVID-19 patients
- After White House, Congress cut aid to unemployed, evictions and food lines spread across the US
- Reject Johnson’s lies that UK schools are safe! For a general strike to block the reopening of schools
- Germany deports Roma family to Moldova despite life-threatening conditions
- Johnson government deploys armed forces against refugees making Channel crossings
- Ford Chicago Assembly workers launch Rank-and-File Safety Committee to save lives
- The ruling-class conspiracy to reopen schools: Profit versus science
- Oklahoma schools reopen amid growing opposition from teachers
- The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
- Over a million jobs lost in Spain amid coronavirus pandemic
- Who is Democratic Senator Kamala Harris?
- Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate
- French government ends social distancing requirements in schools as classes set to resume
- College football season in doubt after Big Ten and Pac-12 postpone fall sports
- Analysis shows 54,000 “excess deaths” in US, pointing to coronavirus death toll of 200,700
- Canada’s military launched operation to “shape” opinion amid pandemic
- Armed forces and fascist gangs mobilized against blockades in Bolivia
- Protests, crackdown follow Belarus elections
- Australia: Rising number of COVID-19 infections in Sydney schools
2020-08-13
- Schools make students sign liability waivers acknowledging risk of death
- Wall Street continues to feed on death and economic devastation
- Russia’s vaccine intensifies global struggle for profits and geopolitical advantage
- Germany: SPD nominates Finance Minister Scholz as its candidate for chancellor
- Growing wave of protests across the US against school openings
- UK in record recession as social catastrophe looms
- The selection of Kamala Harris and the degradation of American politics
- Beirut disaster highlights dangerous ammonium nitrate stockpiles in regional Australian city
- New outbreak of COVID-19 in New Zealand
- Diversions, posturing as school board votes to reopen school in small-town Massachusetts
- South Asian governments ignore millions of monsoon flood victims
- Washington, DC transit system faces massive budget shortfall as it resumes near pre-pandemic service levels
- US Supreme Court rules ballot access petitioning must proceed during coronavirus pandemic
- The debut of Coriky, a new band featuring members of Fugazi and The Evens
- Bernard Bailyn, historian of American colonial and revolutionary periods, 1922–2020
- Report charges US-Saudi arms sale ignored civilian casualties
- Amazon workers speak out against inadequate safety measures
- Canada and the United States resume aluminum tariff war
2020-08-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Two Utah protesters face life in prison
- France holds joint military exercises with Greece, threatening Turkey
- Big tech firms meet with US national security agencies in advance of November elections
- First two weeks of US school reopenings lead to massive spread of COVID-19
- Fascistic candidate wins Republican congressional nomination in Georgia
- Sri Lankan prime minister admits US is behind Colombo Port deal with India
- How the American oligarchy profited on death
- British filmmaker Alan Parker (1944-2020): An establishment rebel
- Oregon residents block unmarked ICE buses carrying detained immigrants
- Wisconsin immigrant meat packing workers fired in retaliation for protesting over unsafe working conditions
- Beached Japanese cargo ship causes ecological disaster for Mauritius
- Former Malaysian prime minister’s conviction deepens political crisis
- German court and state prosecutor ignore evidence of far-right terrorist network in Lübcke trial
- US health insurance companies reap billions as COVID-19 pandemic inflicts death and destitution
- Mounting opposition against school openings in Germany
- “Our lives don't matter to Ford”: Tragic COVID-19 death of young contract worker covered up by management and the UAW
- Indiana Faurecia auto parts workers launch Rank-and-File Safety Committee
- Strikes spread in Belarus as EU, Washington step up pressure
- Congress adjourns for month-long vacation without action on US unemployment crisis
- Australia: Residents left to die as COVID-19 sweeps through Victorian aged care facilities
- Unifor and Detroit Three open Canadian contract negotiations as more layoffs and plant closures loom
- Hundreds of thousands of A-Level results downgraded by UK government
2020-08-15
- Report highlights super-exploited conditions of Australia’s casual university staff
- Government watchdog concludes acting heads of Homeland Security were illegally appointed by Trump
- Form independent rank-and-file safety committees of educators, parents and students!
- Infiltration of US protests against police brutality used to delegitimize demonstrations, undermine democratic rights
- The show trial of Julian Assange: A cruel and pseudolegal farce
- Journalists in Malaysia persecuted for exposing treatment of migrant workers
- Lebanon’s oligarchs and imperialist backers seek to exploit outrage over Beirut port blast
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Modi government intensifies repression one year after its constitutional coup against Kashmir
- Jacobin Magazine on the selection of Kamala Harris: Stick with the Democrats!
- Hawaii schools to reopen August 17 as opposition grows
- For a general strike against the reopening of German schools!
- UAW announces COVID outbreak at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville with 32 new cases
- Workers denounce cover-up and intimidation around COVID-19 infections at Fiat Chrysler Belvidere plant
- Powerful windstorm leaves 4 dead, 1.5 million without power across US Midwest
- The Democrats and Republicans: Two wolves hunting the United States Postal Service
- Fauci warns against herd immunity: “The death toll would be enormous”
- Amid mounting political crisis, Colombia faces world’s highest COVID-19 death rate
- Chicago Mayor Lightfoot announces police crackdown
- Brazilian teachers report 36 COVID-infected schools after one week of classes in Manaus
2020-08-17
- South Dakota governor first to reject unemployment aid from Trump executive order
- This week in history: August 17-23
- US-backed opposition in Solomon Islands opposes ties to Beijing
- Scotland’s schools reopen as COVID-19 infects students
- The Biden/Harris campaign and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics
- Texas A&M faculty decry plans to reopen campuses in midst of pandemic
- India: Motherson’s “inquiry” rubber stamps sacking of strikers
- Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen in The Good Liar: The consequences of light-mindedness
- Indiana Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands reinstatement of whistleblower at Faurecia Gladstone plant
- A risky game with health and lives as schools reopen throughout Germany
- With pandemic raging, Florida governor deepens drive to reopen schools
- Half of UK Early Years learning workers paid less than minimum wage for 25-year-olds
- Canadian provinces and cities confront huge deficits as economic crisis deepens
- US child care in existential crisis as schools and businesses reopen
- Heat wave, rolling blackouts affect thousands across California
- Protests, strikes against Lukashenko regime mount in Belarus
- Judge blocks GM’s bid to reopen racketeering case against Fiat Chrysler
- Prominent lawyers and legal associations demand Assange’s freedom
- Teacher sickout closes Arizona school district as support grows for national strike
2020-08-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York and Los Angeles plan deadly reopening of schools
- “Refuse to Return” Facebook group cofounder describes explosion of opposition to unsafe school openings
- The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.’s speech and the DSA’s promotion of race politics
- Social media video shows Pittsburgh police kidnapping protester during Saturday march
- Peru tops half a million coronavirus cases as political crisis deepens
- “A poor man’s virus:” COVID-19 reveals the class chasm in America
- New Zealand Afghan inquiry declares SAS killings of civilians were “legal”
- Police arrest journalist and counterprotesters at far-right Proud Boys rally in Michigan
- United Arab Emirates-Israel agreement cements US-led alliance against Iran
- Democratic convention opens with appeal to right-wing Republican support
- Responding to US provocations, Chinese officials appeal for “peaceful coexistence”
- After another police riot, Chicago mayor rises to national prominence as law-and-order figure
- Canadian authorities to reopen schools, facilitating COVID-19 spread
- London bus drivers deliver massive strike vote over “COVID pay,” health and safety
- Amid mass strikes in Belarus, Lukashenko regime teeters on brink
- As Bath shipyard workers poised to vote, machinists union, management and White House praise sellout deal
- Australia’s rising COVID-19 death toll: A ruling class crime
- Who is Scott Atlas, Trump’s new adviser on the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Apple: A case study in financial parasitism
- Johnson government forced to retreat on A-level exam results
2020-08-19
- Family suing Verizon over death of worker sent into high-risk locations without protective equipment
- In act of high seas piracy, US hijacks Iranian oil bound for Venezuela
- UNC Chapel Hill, Notre Dame and Michigan State University forced to revert to online learning after COVID-19 outbreaks
- Mass student protests in Thailand continue to grow
- TamilNet stokes ethnic divisions as Sri Lankan regime plans dictatorship
- Stonehaven rail disaster due to UK’s neglected railway earthworks
- Trump’s suggestion of a pardon for Edward Snowden meets US intelligence community backlash
- Support grows for SEP (Sri Lanka) defence campaign
- Disastrous US school openings lead to 2,500 infections across 44 states
- SAG-AFTRA’s Health Plan restructuring faces massive opposition
- Colin Powell at the Democratic National Convention: Democrats prepare administration of militarism and war
- Multi-millionaire Charlie Mullins brands UK workers “lazy” and “selfish”
- Germany’s IG Metall trade union preparing to enforce jobs massacre and deep wage cuts
- US steps up war against Huawei
- UN Tribunal finds only one guilty of Hariri assassination and no evidence of Syrian or Hezbollah involvement
- Greece sees resurgence of coronavirus since end of lockdown
- Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow: Two men in the wilderness face something more dangerous—big business
- Rank-and-file safety committees at Fiat Chrysler and Ford support campaign to defend victimized parts worker
- COVID-19 overtakes accidents as third leading cause of death in the US as testing continues to decline
- Chinese prime minister: 600 million people earn less than $145 a month
- Australia: Sydney bus drivers threaten strike over COVID-19 dangers
- Merkel, Macron call Putin as mass strikes escalate in Belarus
2020-08-20
- Tensions rise as Zimbabwe’s economy implodes
- UK government demands universities slash “low-value” courses in return for financial aid
- The UAW at the Democratic National Convention: Gangsters and warmongers lock arms
- Toronto police culpable in class action lawsuit over their brutal suppression of 2010 G20 protests
- COVID-19 cases surge on college campuses as Yale administrator warns students to prepare for deaths
- Johnson government scraps Public Health England, accelerating break-up of National Health Service
- The nomination of Kamala Harris and the right-wing logic of identity politics
- New Zealand election date postponed as COVID-19 cases rise
- Maryland’s Republican governor overrules county order for private schools to remain closed
- New Senate Intelligence Committee volume on “Russian interference” smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- Detroit teachers vote overwhelmingly to strike against unsafe school openings
- New excess death counts reveal more complete toll of coronavirus pandemic
- The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections
- Chinese academic expelled for denouncing President Xi
- California wildfires: A climate crisis embedded in the COVID-19 pandemic
- MAS, trade unions and coup regime strike deal to quell revolt by Bolivian workers
- EU demands integration of opposition parties into Belarusian regime
- Trotsky’s Last Year
- Amazon workers describe spread of COVID-19 at warehouse in Romulus, Michigan
2020-08-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Sharp increase in COVID-19 among Victorian healthcare workers
- Architect of Sweden’s coronavirus policy advocated keeping schools open to reach “herd immunity” more quickly
- Philippine Stalinists slander academic Joseph Scalice ahead of August 26 lecture
- Australian inquiry says serious errors led to Ruby Princess COVID-19 debacle
- Trump administration brands educators “critical infrastructure workers” to force schools to open
- Democrats nominate Biden in inane display of political reaction
- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny hospitalized as crisis in Belarus deepens
- Australian government prepares expanded emergency and military call-out laws
- Pro-imperialist coup topples Malian President Keïta
- US Attorney General Barr boasts of nearly 1,500 arrests through Operation Legend
- Germany’s Left Party hails the SPD’s chancellor candidate, pledges support for militarism and war
- Israel launches airstrikes against Gaza and threatens war
- Millions of Indian workers strike to protest attacks by Modi government amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Federal judge orders second investigation into Virginia immigrant detention center hit by mass outbreak of COVID-19
- German authorities cover up COVID-19 infections in Hamburg schools
- Flint’s $600 million water settlement—a pittance to whitewash a massive social crime
- Weekly jobless claims again top one million as mass evictions loom
- Desert One: Barbara Kopple returns to the fold with her Iran hostage crisis film
- The CIA Democrats in the 2020 elections
- Sudanese refugee drowns attempting to cross English Channel
- Berlin leads when it comes to child poverty, precarious jobs and mass unemployment
- Steve Bannon arrested on fraud charges involving border wall fundraising scheme
- Trotsky’s Last Year
2020-08-22
- Justice Department accuses Yale of discriminating against Asian American and white students
- Wayne State University administration announces pay freezes and layoffs
- The Truth: Catherine Deneuve as an actress with her feet on the ground
- Seven protest leaders in Thailand arrested by police
- Coronavirus testing remains at reduced levels in the US
- Johnson government extends ban on evictions as UK faces “avalanche” of homelessness
- CUPE union shuts down 12-day strike at Port of Montreal
- The Biden campaign and the attempt to “rescue” American hegemony
- Spanish unions agree to shut down Barcelona Nissan plants
- Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny flown to German hospital after doctors dispute poisoning claims
- 999 Mali
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Nearly 300 workers infected in COVID-19 outbreak at Northampton sandwich factory
- Special prosecutor appointed in the case of Hannah Fizer, unarmed Missouri woman slain by police
- Facebook censors anti-fascist and anarchist groups, falsely linking them with extreme-right violence
- European countries force children back to school amid resurgence of COVID-19
- Cornell residential advisors hold one-day strike over coronavirus safety as school reopens
- Australian union cancels Sydney bus drivers’ strike
- Lukashenko regime, Belarusian opposition seek to stifle mass strike movement
- Fiat Chrysler, UAW conspire to keep workers on the job after exposure to coronavirus
- Australian national cabinet exploits pandemic for economic restructuring
- German Socialist Equality Party campaign against reopening schools finds significant response
2020-08-24
- Australia’s two major airlines axe thousands of jobs
- Australian universities unveil job cuts of up to 30 percent
- Democrats leave 20 million unemployed in the lurch
- This week in history: August 24-30
- The socialist answer to the paltry $600 million Flint settlement
- States and counties across US conceal COVID-19 outbreaks at schools
- Postmaster General testifies before a Senate Committee on mail crisis
- At least 13 Peruvian youth killed in police raid on Lima disco
- Support historian Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders by CPP founder Jose Maria Sison!
- New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms
- Police misconduct database reveals top NYPD brass guilty of abuse of authority
- Private schools in Massachusetts to get rapid COVID-19 testing
- Democratic Party leads nationwide purge of Green Party candidates from November ballots
- Canada’s Liberal government slashes COVID-19 emergency aid
- Florida court set to rule on lawsuit challenging in-person schooling
- Hundreds of thousands displaced, six dead as 600 fires rip across California
- The origins and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
- Online panel examines what would happen if Assange is extradited to the US
- Corpus Christi, Texas pipeline explosion kills two workers
- Corbyn was “lectured” by Johnson government on “herd immunity” and said nothing
- The CumEx fraud in Germany: Organised crime with government support
- Fund appeal for Assange’s legal defence wins significant public support
- British think tank fronts right-wing “academic freedom” campaign—Part 1
2020-08-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trotsky’s Last Year
- Thai protest movement spreads across country’s northeast
- US stages military buildup to enforce deal to steal Syria’s oil
- UK: WSWS survey finds support for a general strike against school reopening
- Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denies SEP challenge to restrictive ballot access laws in Michigan
- Signs of emerging crisis in economy and financial system
- After the Sri Lankan election, president moves towards dictatorial rule
- Seberg: The story of actress Jean Seberg racialized and trivialized
- Coronavirus reproduction rate rises above 1 in UK, as infection cases surge
- Trump, aides embrace fascist Republican candidates
- The Republican convention: Four nights of fascist filth begin
- US health care workers infected with COVID-19 pressured to return to work
- French NPA’s Révolution permanente site hails pro-imperialist coup in Mali
- NTEU appeals for negotiations after Australia’s Macquarie University announces massive job cuts
- Wisconsin Governor deploys National Guard to Kenosha after protests break out in wake of brutal police shooting
- Two weeks after powerful windstorm, Iowa faces humanitarian crisis
- Despite COVID-19, French billionaires have tripled their wealth since 2010
- Court rules against Florida governor but schools to remain open
- Feds propose 10-year oversight of UAW, Detroit News reports
- Victims of herd immunity: further evidence that UK care home residents were denied medical treatment
- Lukashenko threatens military crackdown in Belarus as US initiates discussions with opposition leader
- Bath shipyard workers return to work after 63-day strike
- First week back on campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A US college student’s first-hand account
2020-08-26
- Canadian autoworkers demand Unifor release tentative contracts with Detroit Three in full prior to ratification votes
- Ukrainian government turns against Lukashenko amid ongoing mass protests and strikes in Belarus
- Trump continues assault on democratic norms at Republican convention
- German schools reopening without safety measures as coronavirus cases increase
- The coronavirus pandemic, the crisis of capitalism and the tasks of the SEP
- Who are the Republican spymasters and war criminals who have endorsed Biden?
- Pompeo in Middle East to cement Israel-Gulf alliance against Iran
- Police violence continues unabated three months after the murder of George Floyd
- Fraudulent Associated Press “fact-check” targets WSWS article on student housing segregation project at NYU
- EU denounces Russia over alleged poisoning of oppositionist Alexei Navalny
- Australian Labor Party and unions agree to slash income support and working conditions
- Tokyo considers long-range missiles for use in first strikes
- India emerges as a global epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic
- Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Safety Committee defends immigrant workers at Indiana parts plant, opposes back-to-school drive
- New York City preparing to lay off 400 EMS workers in advance of looming second wave of pandemic
- Police riot in Detroit against peaceful protesters
- New COVID-19 cases skyrocket at University of Alabama and University of North Carolina
- SEP (Australia) holds successful fifth national congress
- Colorado teacher fired for raising concerns about school reopenings speaks to the WSWS
- Teachers across the US join call-in meeting hosted by Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee
- Seven dead and 170,000 displaced as massive wildfires continue to burn in Northern California
- Julian Bream (1933-2020): Pioneer of the classical guitar
- American Airlines announces 19,000 to be laid off starting October 1
- Rising COVID-19 death toll underscores decades-long crisis in Australian aged care
- British think tank fronts right-wing “academic freedom” campaign—Part 2
2020-08-27
- Australia: Official negligence led to mass health worker infections in Victoria
- Workers anger grows as Turkish government downplays COVID-19 crisis
- British government to use treason laws targeting Russia and China to suppress domestic dissent
- Tamil National Alliance in deep crisis after Sri Lankan election collapse
- TikTok files federal lawsuit against the Trump administration
- Under pressure from the White House, CDC issues guidelines for less COVID-19 testing
- Top US official in Taiwan attends military commemoration
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold online lecture on how to fight Rajapakse’s dictatorial moves
- Watch: Lecture exposes role of Communist Party of the Philippines in propping up Duterte regime
- Free Julian Assange! Defend Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden!
- Rattled by crisis, US-aligned Polish government steps up intervention in Belarus
- Australian media stokes fears over Papua New Guinea-China links
- The Republican National Convention: A frightened ruling class incites fascist violence
- New York City’s school reopening plan: Anatomy of a crime
- Players shut down NBA playoffs in protest over Jacob Blake shooting
- Far-right militia member arrested for fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin
- On the passing of musician Justin Townes Earle, 1982-2020
- Markets focus on Fed chair’s Jackson Hole speech
- Low-income Canadians twice as likely to be hospitalized due to self-harm than the wealthiest
- Wildfires continue to rage across California amidst heat wave and pandemic
- Florida educators launch rank-and-file committee to oppose unsafe school openings
- Ghosts of West Virginia: A moving new album by Steve Earle & The Dukes
- UK “hostile environment” sees two more asylum seeker deaths
2020-08-28
- UK government planning troops on the streets for combined pandemic “second wave” and hard Brexit crisis
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Former UAW President Dennis Williams charged with embezzlement
- US and Russian military units clash in Syria
- New Zealand: Christchurch terrorist jailed for life
- Scottish National Party oversaw COVID-19 disaster
- Trump runs for Führer
- In the wake of George Floyd’s murder: Police violence on the rise in Germany
- Trump administration sabotages COVID-19 testing
- Ontario’s teachers unions facilitate right-wing Ford government’s reckless back-to-school drive
- Boycott by professional athletes expands in second day of protests against police violence
- Hurricane Laura, strongest to hit Louisiana in 150 years, brings damaging winds
- New US jobless claims once again exceed one million
- Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
- Fed resets monetary policy framework to meet Wall Street’s demands
- Full transparency on COVID-19! Hands off Florida educators! Close schools now!
- German students establish action committee against school reopenings
- Forced home demolitions fuel discontent in China’s Shandong Province
- Renewed heat and lightning increase fire danger in California
- Julian Assange receives first visitors in six months: “He is in a lot of pain”
2020-08-29
- Volkswagen to slash 35 percent of Brazilian workforce as jobs bloodbath hits auto industry
- Tate UK strikers: “COVID-19 is being used to inflict a jobs massacre”
- China launches missiles into South China Sea in response to US provocations
- Significant support for Joseph Scalice’s lecture on the Communist Party of the Philippines
- COVID-19 outbreaks continue unabated at US schools, putting millions at risk
- Reddit moderators censor WSWS article on Trump’s speech at Republican convention
- Republicans defend Kenosha gunman as nationwide protests continue
- German federal and state governments protect profits instead of lives
- Social crisis, class struggle and the 2020 election
- 100 years since the birth of jazz master Charlie Parker
- Mississippi bus drivers walk out as schools push ahead with unsafe reopenings
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Kill Chain: A new era of world war
- Classes resume at University of Iowa amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Students, teachers, parents and nursery staff in Germany oppose school reopenings
- Bipartisan Australian move to ban agreements with China
- False “glimmers of hope” as California continues to burn
- US government executes only Native American prisoner on federal death row
- Form independent rank-and-file safety committees of teachers, educators, parents and students! For a general strike against the reopening of schools!
- Government agency minutes reveal at least 40 active COVID-19 outbreaks at UK food processing plants
- Canada’s Conservatives choose Erin O’Toole as leader in further shift right
- EU imposes sanctions on Lukashenko as strikes continue in Belarus
- Labor MP denounces Australian government’s refusal to defend Julian Assange
- Trotsky’s Last Year
2020-08-31
- MGM Resorts to lay off 18,000 workers
- University of Florida graduate residents expose plans to quarantine COVID-19 victims in family housing
- This week in history: August 31-September 6
- GM workers in Silao, Mexico, report eighth death from COVID-19, as corporation fires vulnerable workers
- With thousands of new cases in US, opposition mounts against unsafe school and college reopenings
- Statements of support from Sri Lanka for Joseph Scalice
- Mounting evidence of COVID-19 reinfection
- EU refuses to accept hundreds of refugees rescued in the Mediterranean
- Radioactive: The pioneering efforts of physicist and chemist Marie Curie
- Trump incites vigilante violence against peaceful protests in Wisconsin
- New York City teachers union holds strike authorization vote amidst mass opposition to school reopening
- New York transit agency threatens draconian cuts and fare hikes
- US military will not be involved in election crisis, top general claims
- Mounting social and health disaster in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura
- Major Australian corporations report windfalls from JobKeeper scheme
- Japanese Prime Minister Abe suddenly resigns
- Fear and uncertainty dominate Jackson Hole central bankers’ meeting
- Greek government continues evictions of over 11,000 asylum seekers
- Trump administration halts closure of California meatpacking plant despite eight COVID-19 deaths
- Fifty-six-year-old Tennessee resident evicted from her home after contracting COVID-19
- Australian report reveals accelerating social inequality in education
- Central Michigan University faces COVID-19 outbreak as campus opens
- Amid cross-Canada protests against back-to-school drive, Trudeau announces $2 billion to fund school reopenings
- California Governor Newsom continues murderous policies as COVID-19 cases in state reach 700,000
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