Archive: 09/2020
2020-09-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump endorses right-wing violence in Kenosha, Portland
- New Jersey teen billed $2,500 for organizing a protest
- Sri Lankan SEP thanks those who supported its defence campaign
- SEP submits emergency application to the US Supreme Court in Michigan ballot access case
- Stop the UAW-management cover-up of COVID-19 in the auto plants!
- Amid mounting domestic crisis, US imperialism lashes out at Russia and China
- #Trotsky2020: A Morenoite slander against the legacy of Leon Trotsky
- First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Marcos, Duterte and the Communist Parties of the Philippines
- Immigration Nation reveals the suffering of migrants at the hands of the US detention and deportation machine
- Hong Kong authorities arrest opposition legislators in further crackdown
- GM using office personnel to man assembly lines at Wentzville, Missouri plant as pandemic spreads
- The far right’s storming of the German parliament
- Coronavirus cases top 25 million worldwide
- The pseudoscience behind the right-wing drive to force schools to open
- Human rights lawsuits used by Chilean “left” to mask preparations for authoritarian rule
- Profiteering leaves UK care homes vulnerable
- Mass protests in Belarus continue as conflict between Russia and NATO intensifies
- Opposition grows to British Columbia NDP government’s reckless school reopening
- Australian treasurer demands a dangerous “reopening” in Victoria
- New Zealand government ends Auckland lockdown
2020-09-02
- With over 26,000 COVID-19 cases at more than 750 US colleges, campus opposition erupts
- Waiting for the Barbarians: “You are an obscene torturer. You deserve to be hanged!”
- Trump visits Kenosha to defend killer police and vigilantes
- New York City transit workers and the COVID-19 pandemic: A timeline of criminal inaction and union betrayal
- US-China conflict over TikTok intensifies as Trump’s forced divestiture deadline approaches
- Student paper defends plan for segregated living spaces at New York University
- Qantas eliminates over 2,000 ground crew jobs
- The profits of August
- Australian “assembly” of university workers seeks to head off rebellion against NTEU
- Teachers union and Democrats agree to resume in-person learning in New York City schools
- Riots spread across working class districts in the Netherlands
- Greek-Turkish standoff escalates war danger in eastern Mediterranean
- Hundreds at University of Iowa stage sickout as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
- Government reopening campaign leads to COVID-19 surge in Indonesia
- COVID-19 pandemic leads to huge spike in global hunger
- Johnson government’s “hostile environment” for immigrants and asylum seekers wins fascist allies
- Trump administration considered using “heat ray” microwave weapon on migrants crossing the US-Mexico border
- The lessons of the 1953 mass uprising (hartal) in Sri Lanka
- European governments end furlough schemes amid jobs massacre
- Elementary school students forced to use Taco Bell parking lot for internet in Salinas, California
- Second call-in meeting of the Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee attracts large audience across the US
- The pseudoscience behind the right-wing drive to force schools to open
- Canadian Detroit Big Three autoworkers give strong strike mandate for upcoming contract fight
- Trotsky’s Last Year
2020-09-03
- Socialist Equality Group in Turkey condemns attack against TİP deputy after threats from interior minister
- Germany’s IG Metall union organizes job cuts at Thyssenkrupp-Stahl
- Australian establishment treats sentencing of Christchurch terrorist as a non-event
- New York deploys COVID-19 “SWAT Team” to SUNY Oneonta after six percent of students test positive for virus
- COVID-19 cases spike in South Korea
- Teacher protests spread as COVID-19 rips through schools and universities
- Statements of support for historian Joseph Scalice from Australia and New Zealand
- The New York Times slanders left-wing opposition to Biden as “Russian propaganda”
- The case of Alexei Navalny and the imperialist intervention in Russian politics
- Oppose NUJ censorship of journalist Craig Murray!
- Markey wins Massachusetts Democratic primary with “progressive” masquerade
- French President Macron lays down the law in Lebanon
- Youth and students: Oppose the deadly reopening of schools! Take a stand on the side of the teachers and the working class!
- Workers’ opposition grows to Netanyahu government over pandemic and social crisis in Israel
- GE Appliances workers in Louisville, Kentucky vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Australian government launches anti-China inquiry in universities
- Ford to slash 1,400 jobs as auto industry cuts widen
- Protests continue in Los Angeles after police kill unarmed 29-year-old man
- Coup 53 recounts the role of British intelligence in overthrowing Mosaddegh government in Iran
- In face of overwhelming popular opposition, Brazilian governments push criminal reopening of schools
- Biden launches massive “law and order” ad campaign
- Alberta government’s reopening policies lead to spike in COVID-19 cases
2020-09-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Threat of a US-led military intervention in Venezuela grows as Guaidó’s coalition splits
- US joblessness crisis worsens as nearly 900,000 file new unemployment claims
- German court sentences members of leftist Turkish party to prison
- Drive to play college football continues as evidence mounts that games could be “superspreader” events
- Michigan’s “Poisoner-in-Chief” endorses Biden for president
- CPP founder Jose Maria Sison slanders historian Joseph Scalice for “red-tagging”
- Quebec teachers denounce unions for their complicity in reckless school reopening
- The global campaign to reopen schools and the international strategy of the working class
- UK Morrisons distribution worker speaks on Bridgwater COVID-19 outbreak
- India: Death toll from Kerala landslide rises to 65
- Biden in Kenosha: Ignoring fascist killings, doubling down on identity politics
- School and college outbreaks make Iowa the US COVID-19 hotspot
- India sets world record for daily coronavirus infections
- Oppose Trump’s mass arrest of 2,000 immigrants!
- Coronavirus assistance for university students in Germany—a calculated fraud
- For a general strike against the reopening of schools!
- Australia: International students and foreign visa holders face major social crisis
- CDC issues emergency order pushing mass evictions off until January
- The promotion of Black capitalism in Pharrell Williams & Jay-Z’s “Entrepreneur”
- Memorial on Detroit’s Belle Isle provides sobering tribute to the city’s victims of coronavirus
- Former Australian PM Tony Abbott: Let the elderly die for corporate profits
2020-09-05
- Washington DC’s mayor and Trump trade authoritarian demands in crackdown on peaceful protesters
- Unions enforce takeover of Virgin Australia by private equity firm
- Management seeks to impose gag order on US postal workers
- Trump campaign enlists army of poll-watchers to intimidate Democratic voters
- SUNY Oneonta orders thousands of students to return home after more than 500 test positive for COVID-19
- NSA surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal by US Ninth Circuit
- New Zealand Greens in crisis over private school funding
- Germany is reopening all schools despite rising coronavirus infections
- Federal task force kills suspect in slaying of right-wing Trump supporter in Portland
- Rochester, New York police tortured and murdered a man in March, video shows
- German imperialism and the strange case of Alexei Navalny
- New pandemic projections place US death toll at over 400,000 by end of the year
- Florida parent denounces Osceola County public school system’s unsafe reopening
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India-China border tensions flare anew, posing threat of catastrophic military conflict
- Washington slaps sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor
- Germany’s trade unions and municipalities prepare to slash wages of public service workers
- Opposition to school reopenings mounts across Florida as spread of COVID-19 deepens
- Profits soar as global crash intensifies social crisis in Australia
- Millions reject UK government’s return to work call as COVID-19 cases escalate
- End the blacklist of the World Socialist Web Site on Reddit!
- Brazilian governor suspended for COVID-19 emergency contracts fraud
- Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020): A talented actor, now hailed as a “king”
- The catastrophic fate of Belgium’s elderly in the coronavirus pandemic
- Teen in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania linked to 40 new COVID-19 cases
2020-09-07
- Virginia’s Democratic governor calls for drastic budget cuts amid growing social crisis caused by COVID-19
- Trump administration overpays, underdelivers on USDA food box program for the hungry
- This week in history: September 7-13
- Teen in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania linked to 40 new COVID-19 cases
- DSA member in Spokane, Washington detained by unidentified officers before police violence protest
- The Silence of Others: The victims of Spanish fascism then and now
- San Diego, California school districts plan reopenings based on dangerous new state guidelines
- The killing of Michael Reinoehl: A state murder
- Protests against police violence continue across the US
- US enters new phase of coronavirus pandemic: Report estimates more than 400,000 deaths by January
- The Movement for a People’s Party: No program, no principles, no future
- Political furor erupts over Trump slurs against dead and wounded US soldiers
- Alarm bells as London bus driver tests positive for COVID-19
- German automotive supplier Continental doubles job cuts
- Facebook announces political censorship plan in advance of US presidential election
- In Europe, COVID-19 cases surge and deaths mount following end of lockdowns
- Massive speculation fuelled by the Fed has driven Wall Street surge
- Oppose unsafe school openings! Follow the science, not greed, say Detroit educators
- Australian teachers back US educators’ fight for independent rank and file safety committees
- The unanswered questions in the latest Russian “meddling” allegations
- Toppling of Sir John A. Macdonald statue triggers furor within Canada’s ruling elite
- Australian governments demand full economic “reopening” by December
- Brazilian postal workers wage bitter strike against wage cuts, privatization
- As British show-trial resumes: The working class must defend Julian Assange!
2020-09-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- West Virginia schools return to in-person instruction
- Global coronavirus death projections point to policy of herd immunity being pursued with impunity
- Australian big business, federal government demand accelerated lifting of Melbourne lockdown
- University of Michigan graduate students strike over pandemic danger
- Unions help impose new wave of job cuts in Australian universities
- Trump Labor Day press conference: Empty boasts and fascistic threats
- Texas educators launch safety committee to save lives
- Largest Texas school districts slated to open without testing anyone
- Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Safety Committee warns against use of convict labor
- Health disaster and class conflict on horizon as millions of students return to US schools
- Imperialist powers step up anti-Russia campaign over Navalny case and Belarus
- Watch John Pilger’s speech outside the London show-trial of Julian Assange
- The working class must demand an end to the show trial of Julian Assange
- Florida sheriff’s department creates intelligence-led police program to monitor and harass residents
- Ontario teachers union leader emphatically opposes job action to stop reckless school reopening
- Oppose the unsafe reopening of New York University!
- Anger erupting as union paves way to open New York City schools
- Mexican medical workers, facing highest death toll in the world, protest layoffs and lack of protective gear
- Once more: What has happened to the #MeToo witch-hunt?
- Unsubmissive France leader Jean-luc Mélenchon boasts of discussion with big business
- Protesters condemn show trial of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey
- General Motors, Honda announce joint venture to cut billions in production costs
- Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer slashes 2,500 jobs
- Open letter in Le Soir: Belgian ruling class calls to spread COVID-19
- Trotsky’s Last Year
2020-09-09
- University of Illinois Hospital nurses poised to strike over unsafe staffing conditions
- The University of Michigan graduate student strike: A significant step forward for workers and students
- Two novellas on the #MeToo issue: Mary Gaitskill’s This is Pleasure and James Lasdun’s Afternoon of a Faun
- US makes “significant adjustments” to its Taiwan policy
- Jan Kuciak murder case: Slovakian court acquits alleged masterminds
- COVID-19 outbreaks spread within a week of England and Wales schools reopening
- Australian Education Union endorses re-opening of schools in Melbourne
- Saudi regime declares Khashoggi assassination case “closed forever” after sham verdict
- South African health care workers strike as opposition to ANC government mounts
- Rochester police chief resigns following violent police repression against protesters
- The Civil War Election
- Supreme Court refuses to hear SEP challenge to Michigan ballot access denial
- India now second only to US in number of COVID-19 cases, yet continues to expand “reopening”
- Heathrow airport ground staff given ultimatum: Accept pay cuts or face redundancy
- “Pandemic be damned”: Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans list reveals billionaire bonanza
- Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer greenlights the resumption of high school sports during pandemic
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Committee holds initial meeting
- Two decades of US “war on terror” responsible for displacing at least 37 million people and killing up to 12 million
- Republicans, Democrats block restoration of jobless aid
- Western US ravaged by catastrophic fires, record heat
- Assange extradition hearing: WikiLeaks exposed US drone killings, torture and rendition, says Guantanamo Bay lawyer
- Wealth of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos surpasses $200 billion
- Thousands of Australians stranded overseas by profiteering airlines
2020-09-10
- (HELD) 999 Students and staff respond to University of Iowa one-day sickout
- Human disturbances of wild areas increase the likelihood of future pandemics
- Unifor selects Ford Canada as target company to establish “pattern contract”
- World Socialist Web Site interviews historian Dr. Joseph Scalice
- Salt Lake City police engage in a cover-up after shooting autistic 13-year-old boy multiple times
- Democrats and media silent on execution of Michael Reinoehl by US Marshals
- The plot against America and the world: How the US government and the media suppressed the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic
- New York City educators launch safety committee to halt the reopening of schools
- Lies in the Navalny case
- Scottish Crown Office blocks release of documents vital for Craig Murray’s defence
- Lesbos refugee-camp blaze leaves 13,000 without shelter
- University of Michigan grad students reject administration offer, continue strike against unsafe conditions
- Australian study reveals rise in mental health problems during COVID-19 pandemic
- Collapse in oil prices threatens social and political unrest in Middle East and North Africa
- Oregon governor declares state of emergency calling wildfires a “once-in-a-generation event”
- UK government blames young people as COVID-19 surges
- Speaking before auto union bureaucrats in Michigan, Biden makes nationalist appeal
- Austria: No protection for population despite rising coronavirus infections
- Australian intelligence agencies raided Chinese journalists in June
- Assange targeted for political views in “terrifying threat to First Amendment,” expert witnesses tell hearing
2020-09-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US universities emerge as battlegrounds as students and faculty fight back against reckless reopening plans
- Turkish government prepares to reopen schools as pandemic escalates
- State University of New York scapegoats students for COVID outbreaks, prepares repressive measures
- Spanish government demands schools reopen as COVID-19 deaths surge
- Solomon Islands’ renegade province threatens separatist split over China diplomatic recognition
- The human cost of school reopenings: Six teachers dead in the US in the past month
- Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination
- Unions enforce pro-business restructure at Australia Post
- The coronavirus conspiracy: What did they know, and when did they know it?
- University of Michigan graduate student strike wins wide support
- Federal prosecutors request halt to “Jane Doe” civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein estate
- University of Michigan graduate students take a stand for life against profit
- Iraqi health care workers threaten nationwide strike to demand resources to fight pandemic
- University of Iowa students and staff respond to one-day sickout
- India’s Supreme Court punishes prominent lawyer for criticizing its role in assault on democratic rights
- Hong Kong police carry out mass arrest of protesters
- Over 10,500 Florida children test positive for COVID-19 after schools reopen
- Ten percent of Oregon’s population ordered to evacuate as wildfires continue to ravage the US west coast
- Film version of Jack London’s Martin Eden: An artist who loses touch with everyday life
- Colombian security forces massacre 10 youth protesting police murder
- Attorney General William Barr boosts Trump campaign for police repression
- University of California, San Diego students, staff and faculty issue open letter opposing reckless reopening plan
- Assange hearing adjourned as prosecution lawyer is tested for COVID-19
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plan for racial and gender criteria: A right-wing attack on artistic freedom
2020-09-12
- Wildfires devastate US West Coast
- Trade unions confer with big business Liberals on how to revive Canadian capitalism
- University of Michigan strikers speak out: “We need to resist going back to normal. Normal no longer exists”
- State University of New York scapegoats students for COVID outbreaks, prepares repressive measures
- University of Michigan grad students set to extend strike as opposition grows to the US back-to-school drive
- Smoking in the age of COVID: Some immunological considerations
- CPP founder Sison regurgitates Stalinist lies about Trotskyism
- Infected students denounce administration guidelines, amidst rising COVID-19 cases at Southern California universities
- Russia holds regional elections amidst growing political crisis
- As pandemic death toll approaches 200,000, American oligarchs celebrate their wealth
- Hundreds of new COVID-19 cases raise fears of uncontrolled outbreaks across the Pacific
- NYU’s Center for Social Media & Politics: A think tank for a frightened ruling class
- Australia’s brutal immigration policy in Stateless: “What is my crime?”
- Thousands sleeping rough after the burning down of Moria refugee camp on Lesbos
- UK government’s “Operation Moonshot”—a trojan horse for herd immunity policy
- Mexico runs out of death certificates with 122,765 “excess deaths” reported during pandemic
- University of Michigan graduate students take a stand for life against profit
- Latin America, epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, on the brink of social explosion
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US jobless claims top 884,000 for second week in a row
- Jacksonville, Florida teacher speaks out against deadly school reopenings
- India-China border conflict remains on knife’s edge
- Why did so many poor New Yorkers die of COVID-19?
- UK Conservative government votes down Grenfell Tower safety recommendations as inquiry resumes
- UK Tories use Extinction Rebellion protests to argue for savage political repression
- Revelation of US government conspiracy on COVID-19 exposes EU herd immunity policy
- No to a Greek-Turkish war in the eastern Mediterranean!
- Mauritian cruise ship crews strike to demand repatriation
- Full classes, full buses—German schools are becoming a coronavirus trap
- Constitutional amendment aims to provide Sri Lankan president with authoritarian powers
- Australian raids on Chinese journalists mark escalation of US-led witch hunt
- Brexit crisis intensifies after Johnson government tears up agreement with Brussels
- Biden pledges to keep troops in the Middle East and maintain record military spending
- US attempting to block Spanish investigation into CIA spying on Assange
- Amazon uses former government agents to spy on workers
2020-09-14
- Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks mailing out of absentee ballots pending ruling on Green Party ballot access
- University of Michigan graduate students vote to extend strike as opposition erupts at campuses throughout the US
- University of Illinois Hospital nurses strike over staff shortages, unsafe conditions
- This week in history: September 14-20
- More than 15,000 attend University of Texas football game amidst coronavirus pandemic
- Tennessee law seeks to criminalize protests on public property
- Floods inundate Sudan amid escalating economic crisis
- Dr. Joseph Scalice responds to Jose Maria Sison’s Stalinist lies and slanders
- Three postal workers test positive at UK Royal Mail’s Medway Mail Centre
- UK firms announce hundreds of thousands of redundancies
- Australian government exploits family funeral to push for end to coronavirus border restrictions
- The California wildfires, climate change and capitalism
- Australia: Unions silent as dozens of New South Wales schools are affected by COVID-19
- Autoworkers support University of Michigan strikers
- German Left Party preparing to enter government and support war
- Wildcat strike over COVID-19 at Lear auto parts plant in Indiana
- Tens of thousands in southwest Louisiana remain without power two weeks after Hurricane Laura
- Beyoncé’s Black is King: A self-absorbed ode to “blackness”
- Greece buys billions in French arms amid war tensions with Turkey
- Stop the dangerous “routine operation” of schools in Germany! Prepare a nationwide general strike!
- Congressional investigation opened into deaths of 27 soldiers this year at Fort Hood, Texas
- Millions in the US choke on hazardous air as West Coast fires continue to rage
- COVID-19 outbreak at Virginia migrant detention center caused by repression of anti-police brutality protesters
- Trump, Roger Stone call for violence and repression after Election Day
- University of Illinois at Chicago workers go on strike against low wages and unsafe conditions
- In fascistic Independence Day speech, Brazil’s Bolsonaro condemns “strikes, social disorder”
- Australian government, Labor opposition silent on sadistic British show-trial of Julian Assange
2020-09-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- University of Michigan president seeks court injunction to force graduate student instructors back to work
- White House announces Oracle Corporation as “trusted tech partner” of TikTok
- Indian workers speak out against Modi, trade unions on COVID-19 pandemic
- Attend SEP (Australia) online forum: The COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis of capitalism and the way forward for health workers
- More statements defending Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist attacks
- Bernie Sanders offers left gloss to Biden’s right-wing campaign
- Exposure of Trump’s lies on COVID-19 implicates Spain’s Podemos party
- Dramatic spike in Philippines’ coronavirus death toll
- Working-class resistance mounts to back-to-work campaign
- Mounting opposition to school reopenings as 55 New York City teachers test positive for COVID-19
- More statements defending Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist attacks
- Los Angeles Sheriff threatens violence, reporter arrested after shooting of deputies
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania police assault protesters after killing mentally ill man
- Israel becomes first country to impose second national COVID-19 lockdown
- The University of Iowa and Iowa State University students and staff unite to oppose in-person learning
- The precedents for disease eradication through international cooperation
- As Bloomberg pledges $100 million, Wall Street boosts Biden campaign
- Dangers mount as Detroit implements a “hybrid” return to school
- Washington, DC mayor calls for reopening of public schools amid pandemic
- New cases of COVID-19 reach a one-day high of nearly 308,000 worldwide
- WSWS publishes Chinese translation of Dr. Joseph Scalice’s lecture exposing the betrayals of the Communist Party of the Philippines
- Four thousand University of Illinois at Chicago staff join striking nurses
- US farmworkers labor under unsafe conditions as West Coast fires continue to rage
- Protests continue against Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
- Hospital merger between Beaumont and Advocate-Aurora Health faces internal opposition
- Management and NTEU prepare to cut jobs and conditions at Australia’s Newcastle University
- Assange would not have fair US trial, witness tells Old Bailey
2020-09-16
- Acting US Homeland Security secretary refuses to appear before congressional committee
- Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks Green Party presidential campaign from 2020 ballot
- Who is on the University of Michigan Board of Regents?
- Suppression of wages in US at centre of widening social inequality
- Defying injunction threats, striking University of Michigan grad students call for “larger mobilization of working people”
- Strike by University of Illinois at Chicago nurses and workers continues, as Illinois Democratic governor threatens to decimate state budget
- Trump stages sham Mideast “peace” ceremony on White House lawn
- US defence secretary phones Sri Lankan president about increased military cooperation
- Stalinist leader Joma Sison doubles down on Big Lie that the CPP never supported Philippine President Duterte
- San Diego State University seeks to shift blame to students for coronavirus outbreaks following reopening
- COVID-19 cases escalate with school re-openings: Build educators rank-and-file safety committees!
- London bus drivers launch rank-and-file safety committee to fight renewed threat from COVID-19
- London bus drivers resolve to fight for Assange’s freedom
- Trump incites fascistic violence as US election approaches
- NYU faculty and students denounce unsafe reopening of campus
- University of Michigan graduate student workers’ strike at critical turning point
- The Moria catastrophe and the European Union’s war on refugees
- Reactionary Massachusetts ruling paves way for Andover public schools to open in-person
- One-third of schools in Knox County, Tennessee have at least one positive COVID-19 case
- Yoshihide Suga replaces Abe as Japanese prime minister
- Nurse alleges forced sterilizations, medical malpractice at Georgia immigrant detention center
- France imposes return to school without protections against COVID-19
- An interview with Michael Fitzgerald, producer of Waiting for the Barbarians
- West Coast fires and evacuations expected to fuel the spread of COVID-19
- The precedents for disease eradication through international cooperation
- The political significance of the London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee: “Change is coming in the working class”
- Indian police and BJP government extend witch-hunt against anti-CAA protesters to filmmaker Rahul Roy
- Schools at epicentre of UK’s coronavirus explosion
- Australian CEO pay hits record high, boosted by JobKeeper subsidies
- Woodward revelations: Canada’s political elite implicated in Trump’s suppression of COVID-19 threat
- Assange faces life imprisonment in politically motivated trial, witnesses argue
2020-09-17
- Trump’s China tariffs ruled illegal by World Trade Organisation
- University of Wisconsin-Madison and La Crosse quarantine students after infections
- Wilmington’s Lie: The 1898 white supremacist coup in North Carolina
- American Federation of Teachers shuts down University of Michigan graduate student strike
- Opposition mounts as thousands of University of Illinois at Chicago nurses and workers continue strike
- Students return to UK universities: Build campus safety committees!
- Australian ruling elite moves to junk coronavirus safety measures—the working class must intervene to answer the pandemic threat!
- Strikes mount as COVID-19 breaks out in hundreds of Spanish schools
- Letters from Australia, the US and New Zealand defending Philippine historian Dr. Joseph Scalice
- No charges in Missouri police murder of 25-year-old Hannah Fizer
- British actress Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
- As US death toll hits 200,000, Trump calls for herd immunity
- COVID-19 outbreaks force switch to online learning at New Jersey schools
- New York City ruling elite warns Mayor de Blasio of “widespread anxiety”
- Surge in COVID-19 infections as in-person classes resume at many Illinois college campuses
- Slow-moving Hurricane Sally makes landfall along Alabama-Florida border
- Manchester Go North West bus drivers vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Reject the AFT’s rush to vote on sellout contract at University of Michigan!
- Journalist Andrew Fowler: If Assange is extradited, the same can happen to any of us
- Fed toes the line on Wall Street’s demands
- Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls for plantwide shutdown to guarantee safety during pandemic
- Assange exposed “a very serious pattern of actual war crimes,” Daniel Ellsberg tells extradition hearing
- Trump repeats threats of post-election military repression as Barr calls for charging protesters with “sedition”
- House report on Boeing 737 Max crashes: Corporate criminality, FAA complicity, but no accountability
- Big Ten universities announce football will resume
- Australian police raids seized copies of Chinese diplomatic communications
- Former Der Spiegel journalist exposes US government lies that Assange “failed to redact” and “put lives at risk”
2020-09-18
- Announcing the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site on October 2, 2020
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Mentally-ill man in coma after brutal Victorian police assault
- British government and universities pursue reckless return to higher education under pandemic conditions
- A call to action to Canadian Detroit Three autoworkers: Oppose Unifor’s nationalist pro-company strategy!
- Historic US job losses continue with another 860,000 unemployment claims
- Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things: A neglected man neglected again
- Trump’s Middle East deal and the dead end of bourgeois nationalism
- Democrats engineer removal of Green Party presidential candidates from Pennsylvania ballot
- OSHA fines meatpacking industry $30,000 after 203 COVID-19 deaths and 18,000 infections
- New York City Democratic mayor delays school opening a second time
- Germany: Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia express growing opposition to official politics
- Stop the dangerous “routine operation” of schools in Germany! Prepare a nationwide general strike!
- Myanmar sees major coronavirus outbreak after a month of zero cases
- Missouri among top five US states with COVID-19 infections
- Washington D.C. transit system announces budget cuts and layoffs due to ridership drop off amid pandemic
- Boston-area colleges and universities report COVID cases and outbreaks despite testing programs
- COVID-19 “long-haulers” publish patient-led research paper drawing attention to chronic illness
- Military research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Iraq Body Count co-founder: WikiLeaks exposed mass civilian casualties to a global audience
- World Health Organization warns of “alarming” resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe
- Oppose the unsafe reopening of UK schools and universities! Attend Online Educators Rank-and-File Committee meeting
- SEP (Sri Lanka) condemns Philippines Maoist party’s slanders against historian Joseph Scalice
- Record wildfires continue to rage across US West Coast
- US Democrats warn UK Tories no trade deal if Good Friday Agreement threatened by hard Brexit
- Brazilian teachers call strikes against back-to-school drive
- Over one million UK children kept off school in face of government threats and propaganda
- New Zealand: Auckland University backs away from resuming classes after mass student opposition
- Former CIA director Leon Panetta: We are prosecuting Assange to intimidate others
- New details of union corruption emerge as GM files lawsuit against former UAW VP Joe Ashton
- New York yellow cab drivers block bridges to demand debt relief
2020-09-19
- Wildfires threaten drinking water and further desertification of US West Coast
- Wall Street demands still more Fed money
- Video exposing Philippine Stalinist leader Sison’s Big Lie that the CPP never supported Duterte
- US, Colombia stage war games as Pompeo threatens Venezuela
- Peace negotiations stall as ceasefire begins to fall apart in Ukraine
- Toots Hibbert, ska and reggae giant: “Right now, someone else has that number”
- Union suppresses criticism of job cuts at German steel producer ThyssenKrupp
- New York yellow cab drivers block bridges to demand debt relief
- SUNY-Oswego forced into temporary shutdown of in-person instruction after spike in COVID-19 cases
- Russia’s opposition parties fail to win broad support in regional elections
- Germany: Right-wing extremist network in police pays homage to Hitler and the Nazis
- Political crisis in the Philippines intensifies
- White House bans TikTok and WeChat: A major intensification of internet censorship
- Australia: Ovato printing company demands more cuts to jobs and conditions
- Campuses across Michigan see dramatic spike in cases
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ford Kansas City Assembly workers launch Rank-and-File Safety Committee to save lives
- Australian jobs figures show acceleration of “gig economy”
- Neo-Nazis in German police issue new threats
- Teacher in Vancouver, Washington speaks out on school reopenings amid wildfires
- Trump administration continues assault on endangered species
- Dominion grocery workers in Newfoundland in fourth week of strike for higher pay
- Johnson government opposes national lockdown despite exponential rise in UK coronavirus cases
- Union shuts down nurses strike at University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago
- Casualties of “herd immunity”: Three new teacher deaths in one week as US schools reopen
- Biden in Minnesota: A phony “pro-worker” spin on a right-wing campaign
- Witnesses recall Collateral Murder attack: “Look at those dead bastards,” shooters said
- Colorado police conduct militarized arrests of Party for Socialism and Liberation members
2020-09-21
- Australian university staff and students confront job cuts avalanche
- Strike by 4,000 University of Illinois at Chicago workers reaching critical juncture
- Who runs the University of Illinois?
- This week in history: September 21-27
- President Trump gives preliminary approval to takeover of TikTok by Oracle and Walmart
- Tens of thousands of Thai protesters call for a new constitution
- The Stranger on Netflix: A world of secrets, unraveled
- San Diego County seeks to exclude university outbreaks to undercount coronavirus cases
- Australian and Sri Lankan academics defend Dr Joseph Scalice from Philippine Stalinist attacks
- The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
- UK firms awarded billions in NHS/government contracts amid failure of COVID-19 testing system
- Los Angeles sheriff terrorizes residents and attacks critics following shooting of two deputies
- WHO condemns governments’ failure to prepare for pandemic
- New York City school bus drivers and educators face common struggle against unsafe openings
- SEIU calls off health care strike in Minnesota after Allina hospital system threatens legal action
- Lufthansa prepares to double job cuts to nearly 40,000
- Los Angeles educators form rank-and-file safety committee to oppose unsafe school reopening
- Jacobin magazine embraces Trump administration’s murderous “herd immunity” policy
- University of Melbourne student union enforces club affiliation requirement amid pandemic
- Combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower was sold at a heavy discount to building company
- Supreme Court fight deepens political crisis surrounding US elections
- Dry weather continues to fuel historic wildfires in California, rains bring new dangers to Pacific Northwest
- UK unions use “consultative” strike ballots to suppress class struggle
- Catastrophic wildfires, corporate air pollution, and COVID-19: A collision of crises
- With Canadian Detroit Three auto contracts set to expire, Unifor rushes to reach concessionary “pattern” settlement
- Corporate publications hostile to revelations that CIA spied on Julian Assange and their own journalists
2020-09-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Whistle-blowers speak out as German authorities cover up coronavirus cases at schools and day-care centres
- Devastation left in the wake of Hurricanes Sally and Laura along the US Gulf Coast
- Thirteen former national presidents demand an end to the British show-trial of Julian Assange
- Louisville police chief declares “state of emergency” in advance of state’s decision on charges against policemen who killed Breonna Taylor
- US escalates military intervention in Syria
- Trump to nominate new Supreme Court justice as early as Friday
- Philippine Maoist leader Sison seeks alliance with military against Duterte
- COVID-19: French NPA’s Révolution Permanente web site lines up with Macron’s school re-opening
- The global campaign to reopen schools drives COVID-19 deaths past one million
- “NTEU Fightback” aims to replace the discredited Australian university union leadership
- EU parliament calls for international investigation into alleged poisoning of Navalny
- Opposition mounts at the University of Michigan as COVID-19 outbreaks emerge on campus
- Madrid hospitals collapsing amid Covid-19 resurgence in Europe
- King’s Disease: Beware the nostrums of Nas
- Fiat Chrysler worker describes rapid abandonment of safety measures after return work
- Youth in the US most likely to be low-paid ‘essential’ workers
- Johnson government says UK COVID-19 infections could hit 50,000 per day as pandemic spins “out of control”
- Spike in Canada’s COVID-19 infections exposes criminality of back-to-work, back-to-school drive
- Report documents criminality and corruption at heart of global banking system
- Assange dragged from embassy “on the orders of the president”
- The New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones abandon key claims of the 1619 Project
2020-09-23
- Trump delivers anti-China tirade to United Nations
- Strike by 4,000 service workers at University of Illinois at Chicago enters its second week
- Form independent rank-and-file safety committees to oppose the deadly reopening of schools!
- 76 Days: The drama of the Wuhan lockdown
- National Education Union letter to Boris Johnson: A total surrender to herd immunity
- Sri Lankan SEP holds online lecture on how to fight Rajapakse’s dictatorial moves
- Video footage exposes police shooting of 13-year-old autistic boy in Salt Lake City
- Trump on coronavirus pandemic: “Virtually nobody” affected
- UNICEF condemns New Zealand’s child poverty as inequality grows
- Controversy over Mulan film used to further Washington’s anti-China agenda
- Massachusetts education commissioner demands “low-risk” districts resume in-person learning
- Forty-eight years since Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines
- Hundreds of Kenosha, Wisconsin teachers call in sick to force schools to close
- Johnson’s bogus agenda for combating the escalating pandemic will cost tens of thousands of lives in UK
- Students occupy schools across Greece to protest unsafe return to classrooms
- Two workers killed in fire at North Carolina paper mill
- Facebook plans political censorship in anticipation of “chaos” and “violence” in the 2020 US elections
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Committee holds second meeting
- Democrats capitulate as Republicans secure votes to install far-right justice on Supreme Court
- The CDC retracts its guidance that stipulated the airborne danger of the coronavirus
- After ordering Ford Canada workers to ignore strike deadline, Unifor announces job-cutting agreement
- Brazil’s mayoral elections expose major parties’ rightward lurch
- Global banking system a network of criminality
- Assange faces “very high risk of suicide,” medical expert tells court
2020-09-24
- Senate confirmation hearing for Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf reveals bipartisan support
- Las Vegas health reports detail spread of COVID-19 in casinos
- Protests erupt over whitewash of police murder of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky
- Huge tax cuts for the wealthy trigger nervousness in Australian ruling elite
- Further revelations about sterilizations and medical malpractice at ICE detention facility in Georgia
- UK: Labour schools spokesperson confirms bi-partisan “malign neglect” policy on COVID-19
- Teachers across the US engage in sickout strikes to close schools
- Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist Sison’s lies that he is a “CIA agent”
- Trump’s coup d’état election
- A twenty-year-old student dies from COVID-19 at California University of Pennsylvania
- Assange’s partner Stella Moris calls for Australian government to intervene in his defence
- Philippine students and academics defend Dr. Joseph Scalice against Communist Party founder Sison’s “lies and obfuscation”
- “Lear is hell”: Workers speak out as COVID-19 outbreak at Indiana auto parts plant worsens
- Japan’s Democrats merge to launch new, right-wing opposition party
- Iran: Reopening of schools fuels resurgence of coronavirus
- India’s health minister downplays raging pandemic to conceal ruling elite’s criminal “herd immunity” policy
- Germany’s school openings throw fuel onto the pandemic’s fire
- As Creek Fire become the largest in California history, farmworkers continue to labor without protection from smoke
- Homelessness to soar as UK eviction ban ends
- Detroit students organize protest over school reopening plans
- The Senate holds a COVID-19 hearing as US tops 200,000 COVID-19 deaths
- Police repression continues during national strike in Colombia
- Canada’s military forced to admit growing number of far-right extremists in armed forces
- Medical evidence shows devastating impact of decade-long state vendetta against Assange
2020-09-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why is Unifor hiding details of the Ford Canada “pattern” contract?
- SEIU and Illinois Nurses Association announce tentative agreements with University of Illinois at Chicago
- Frances McDormand in Nomadland—the danger of making a virtue out of necessity—and David Byrne’s American Utopia (directed by Spike Lee)
- Four Texas universities report over 1,000 COVID-19 cases each
- Protests across the US against whitewash of Breonna Taylor murder met with police repression
- Report demolishes government claims that reopening UK schools reflects concern for disadvantaged children
- Sri Lankan plantation workers strike against wage cuts
- Australian government seeks to ban phones in immigration detention
- Why won’t the Democrats fight Trump?
- Tory legislation legalising war crimes by UK troops goes forward thanks to Labour Party
- More letters from the US, Philippines, Australia, India supporting Dr. Joseph Scalice
- Social distress mounts in the US as new weekly jobless claims rise to 870,000
- IYSSE at UC Berkeley condemns Philippine Stalinist “slanders and falsehoods” against Dr. Joseph Scalice
- Italian regional elections: Political elite shifts further right
- Lessons from history: The 2000 elections and the new “irrepressible conflict”
- Study finds 90 percent of Americans would make 67 percent more without last four decades of increasing income inequality
- Germany’s IG Metall trade union establishes fund to eliminate “overcapacity” in auto parts industry
- Hollywood unions ratify return to work agreement dictated by giant corporations
- Australian health workers still being denied adequate PPE
- Student protests against herd immunity policy spread across Greece
- For a general strike to halt the resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe!
- Fed officials push for new corporate stimulus package
- Spanish pseudo-left covers for union complicity in back-to-school drive
- Brown University study used to downplay spread of coronavirus in US schools
- California wildfires expose the wealth divide
- Assange lawyers expose politically biased medical evidence
2020-09-26
- Lessons of the University of Michigan graduate student strike
- Thousands at UK universities infected with coronavirus as new term opens
- Renewed mass arrests target Kurdish-nationalist HDP in Turkey
- Canadian PM Trudeau provides political cover for criminal back-to-work drive
- Tennessee parents and educators speak out against unsafe school openings
- Washington continues to ramp up tensions with Beijing over Taiwan
- New bailout for UK corporations as COVID-19 infections rocket
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government assaults protests vs. herd immunity policy
- A murderous pact: The European Union to deport refugees
- “State of Emergency” declared in three states as protests continue over cover-up of Breonna Taylor slaying
- US Congress threatens to cut funding for Philippines police and military
- After the exoneration of Breonna Taylor’s killers: The way forward in the fight against police violence
- Pennsylvania nursing students demand refunds, financial support due to COVID policies
- US college football season set to begin early November
- Metropolitan Opera announces cancellation of entire 2020–2021 season
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Former Australian PM Paul Keating lashes central bank
- White House nears antitrust lawsuit against Google while advancing new censorship rules for social media
- Biden downplays danger of election coup
- Educators must defend historian Joseph Scalice from Stalinist attacks
- Detroit students stage sickout in opposition to the district’s back-to-school plan
- Record growth of COVID-19 infections in Eastern Europe
- Killing by Colombian military escalates protests against state violence
- Western US wildfires point to worsening trends of global warming
- Brazilian educators call strikes against homicidal reopening of schools
- Australian government boosts bank profits as social misery deepens
- Decision on Assange’s extradition set for next year
2020-09-28
- Johnson government rolls out Kickstart youth cheap labour scheme
- US governors told in February that pandemic would get “much worse,” but did not alert public
- Warning strikes in German public sector: Growing anger over low wages and insecure working conditions
- Seventy-five years since the Stalinist murder of Vietnamese Trotskyist leader Ta Thu Thau
- US hits leading Chinese chip maker
- This week in history: September 28-October 4
- US political warfare escalates with New York Times release of Trump tax returns
- Police respond to demonstrations across the US with vicious assaults on protesters and journalists
- Is Trump preparing an “October Surprise”?
- Trump’s Operation Legend prepares local police forces to suppress opposition
- Public meeting: New Zealand’s COVID election, the breakdown of capitalism and the fight for socialism
- Michigan State University pushes forward with football amid a mass spike in COVID-19 cases
- Youth protests over COVID-19 mount in working-class districts of Madrid
- Statements from the Philippines, Australia, Japan and South Korea defend Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders
- Australia’s Queensland Labor government suspends public hearings of Grosvenor Mine disaster inquiry
- Cheaper flammable cladding was ordered for Grenfell tower to save time
- PG&E shuts off power to tens of thousands as West Coast wildfires continue to rage
- Vote “No” on the Detroit Federation of Teachers contract!
- Washington D.C. proposes to remove the names of Jefferson, Franklin and others from public places
- The world has reached the grim milestone of one million COVID-19 deaths
- Free Julian Assange! The political issues confronting educators in the fight for freedom of information
- Armenian-Azeri conflict erupts in Caucasus, threatening wider war
- Australia: Victorian government accelerates lifting of COVID-19 restrictions to satisfy big business
- More evidence of management spying on Amazon workers’ political activities
- Nearly 40,000 US airline workers could lose jobs on October 1
2020-09-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- With phoney promises of “job security,” Unifor rams through Ford Canada contract
- More than 2,000 schools in UK hit by COVID-19 outbreaks as thousands of children and staff sent home
- Federal district judge blocks President Trump’s TikTok download ban
- Sri Lankan government lies exposed as new COVID-19 infections emerge
- Tenor Placido Domingo, defending his character and reputation, retracts “apologies” for alleged sexual harassment
- Trump’s tax returns and the parasitism of the financial oligarchy
- New York City resumes in-person schools as COVID-19 infections continue to rise
- US military suicides spike 20 percent in 2020
- More letters from the Philippines defending Dr. Joseph Scalice against libellous allegations by Communist Party founder Sison
- Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis: Assange is a “highly principled individual with enormous courage”
- Jacobin magazine pleads with Biden and the Democrats to fight Trump
- Hyundai union enforces wage freeze in latest South Korean sellout
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds online health workers’ forum
- The Asgaard security firm: Neo-Nazi networks in German army and police
- New wildfires cause mass evacuations in California’s Napa Valley
- Wave of anti-government protests across Egypt
- London bus drivers challenge Metroline over new COVID-19 infections at Cricklewood garage
- Armenian-Azeri fighting escalates as war danger surges across Middle East
- Teacher protests surge in Southern California as schools reopen
- Germany railway workers’ union agrees to wage cuts at Deutsche Bahn
- Assange faces a fate “worse than death” in US prisons, witnesses tell court
2020-09-30
- Zambia seeks suspension of debt service payments in Africa’s first pandemic-related default
- Desperation swells among millions of unemployed in the US as layoffs mount and aid dries up
- Limbo, Gaza mon amour, The Disciple: Art is both richer and duller than life
- Australian police not charged over death of Aboriginal woman
- Judge orders release of recordings in Breonna Taylor grand jury proceedings
- Duterte extends Philippines “state of calamity” as pandemic worsens
- With one million dead, governments abandon efforts to contain COVID-19 pandemic
- Historian Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist Sison’s foul imagery
- US strikes Iraqi targets from aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf
- Indian and Chinese militaries dig in for prolonged border standoff, as “de-escalation” efforts flounder
- “They view soldiers as expendable”: Mother speaks out on son’s suicide at Fort Hood Army base
- 700 Greek schools occupied by students protesting unsafe return to classes
- Trump uses debate to incite fascist violence
- Coronavirus surges across US Midwest
- Armenian-Azeri war threatens to trigger Russia-Turkey clash
- Union shuts down Brazilian postal workers’ strike after court paves way for privatization
- Former US prison warden testifies Assange will be treated like a “terrorist”: The “war on terror” comes home
- NYT hailed for publishing Trump’s tax returns, Assange pilloried for exposing DNC-Clinton corruption in 2016
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