Archive: 10/2020
2020-10-01
- Explosive outbreak of COVID-19 at British universities
- Ukrainian miners strike for better pay and conditions in defiance of the unions
- A wave of teacher protests spark staffing shortages and school closures across the US
- Trump administration prepares anti-immigrant raids in Democratic Party-led “sanctuary cities” ahead of November election
- The ultra-right background of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
- United Steelworkers isolate steelworker strike near Pittsburgh
- Four US school employees and two college students killed by COVID-19 this week
- Protest strikes in German public sector and local transport
- Australia Post workers speak out against union-enforced COVID-19 dangers and cuts to conditions
- Trump’s Operation Dictatorship: What the debate exposed
- Massive fire at Ohio auto parts plant threatens jobs and livelihoods of workers
- Stop the spread of COVID-19! Build rank-and-file safety committees to save lives! Prepare a nationwide strike to close unsafe schools!
- For a London-wide strike to oppose the threat to life from COVID-19!
- Letters from the Philippines and Australia defend Dr. Joseph Scalice’s “meticulous and painstaking research”
- JPMorgan pays $920 million settlement over illegal trades
- Bailed-out US airlines escalate attack on jobs
- A muse of postwar France: Singer and actress Juliette Gréco (1927-2020)
- French Medical Association denounces official inaction on pandemic
- Detroit City Council defies public opposition and renews facial recognition contract
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee hears report on Greek school occupations
- Evasions, anti-Russian demagogy at Comey hearing before US Senate
- Russia, France denounce Turkey as Armenian-Azeri war escalates
- Major wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate in Northern California
- Bridgestone, Total shut plants as COVID-19 layoffs sweep Europe
- Evidence of war crimes, torture, surveillance and assassination plots: Assange hearing nears final day
- Australian unions plead for continued secretive talks with government and employers
2020-10-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Former UAW President Dennis Williams pleads guilty to embezzlement, facing slap-on-the-wrist sentence
- Evacuees describe devastation as California fires rage
- Turkish government lied on COVID-19 infection and death statistics
- Istanbul municipal workers speak out against trade unions, herd immunity policy
- SEP and IYSSE meetings in Australia resolve to defend Dr. Scalice from Philippine Stalinist attacks
- Coronavirus in the UK: A poor schools’ pandemic
- Australia Post workers denounce union-enforced restructure, call for independent rank-and-file committees
- Welcome the relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site!
- Watch: Stella Moris, partner of Julian Assange, delivers a statement outside the Old Bailey
- After teacher dies of COVID-19 in rural Michigan, Detroit educators call for unified fight against unsafe school openings
- Report exposes huge scale of COVID-19 infections in UK food processing industry
- Trump presses threats of violence, voter suppression
- The pandemic Depression: Bailed-out US airlines slash tens of thousands of jobs
- Cleveland-Cliffs announces takeover of ArcelorMittal’s US operations
- Sudden forced eviction of Tennessee encampment leaves 50 homeless inhabitants struggling to find shelter
- Challenger: The Final Flight: A four-part docuseries on the 1986 disaster
- Nineteen-year-old North Carolina university student in “tremendous shape” dies from COVID-19
- As pandemic resurges, Canada’s governments press forward with reckless back-to-work drive
- In another judicial travesty, Indian court exonerates BJP leaders in razing of Babri Masjid
- Assange’s extradition hearing concludes at London’s Old Bailey, with decision due January 4
- UK schools told “anti-capitalist” teaching prohibited
- Australian waterfront union shuts down industrial action at Patrick Terminals
- Australian Labor Party leader demands budget “discipline” and “back to work”
2020-10-03
- Two charged in Massachusetts nursing home catastrophe that left 76 veterans dead from COVID-19
- US deploys missile destroyer off coast of Venezuela
- UK students denounce dangerous conditions in universities and halls of residence
- Breonna Taylor police murder grand jury proceedings released by Kentucky court
- Tennessee governor Bill Lee hails “strong safety measures” in schools amid growing anger from teachers
- Malign neglect in New York schools: The politics of the SUNY Board of Trustees
- New York Times echoes Trump’s attacks on “violent anarchists”
- Chinese students support historian Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders
- Russia prepares health care cuts as COVID cases rise
- Ratched on Netflix: Rehabilitating a petty tyrant
- PSOE, Podemos propose herd immunity as COVID-19 rips through Madrid
- Trump falls victim to his own “herd immunity” policy
- COVID-19 rampaging across the US Midwest
- Ninth COVID-19 death reported at California poultry processor Foster Farms
- Health care workers stage strikes, protests in Chile and Argentina
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Drop in September job growth shows slowdown in US recovery
- Modi government rams half-dozen anti-worker, anti-farmer laws through India’s parliament
- Cost cutting and council’s austerity measures led to Grenfell tragedy
- 30 years of German unity
- Wildfires continue to rage across western United States
- EU summit backs herd immunity policy and sanctions against Belarus
- Border Wall threatens extinction of numerous endangered species
- Detroit bus drivers stop work again over ongoing safety issues
- COVID-19 in Germany: No protection for high-risk groups despite dramatic increase in infections
- Former coal boss Robert Murray, who fought coal-dust standards, files for black lung benefits
- Wolfgang Clement: The unvarnished face of Germany’s SPD
- Australian teachers confront fast-tracked return to classrooms in Victoria
- Biden-Harris campaign demands increased censorship by Facebook before 2020 election
- Canadian autoworkers’ union, Unifor, hid major concessions in “pattern” contract with Ford
- Australian budget to slash taxes for the rich while hitting workers
- Johnson’s UK government forwards legislation flouting the rule of law
- Arizona teacher speaks on the death of her colleague from COVID-19 and contracting the virus herself
- Nearly 20,000 US Amazon and Whole Foods workers have been infected with COVID-19
2020-10-05
- Australian university trade union concedes up to 90,000 job losses
- This week in history: October 5-11
- Almost half of UK coronavirus infections in schools, colleges and universities
- Partial closures in New York City as infections spread throughout US schools
- Statements in defence of Dr. Joseph Scalice against Stalinist lies
- Trump’s illness and the Democrats’ call for unity
- Ontario Labour Relations Board refuses to hear case brought by unions on unsafe school reopenings
- Israel: 130,000 protesters demand resignation of Netanyahu government
- IMF issues debt warning
- Free State of Jones available again on Netflix
- US FBI officials trained Australian Federal Police “foreign interference” squad
- An interview from 2016 with Victoria Bynum, historian and author of The Free State of Jones
- Foreword to 30 Years of War, the German edition of David North’s A Quarter Century of War
- Leaked FBI report warns of far-right “Boogaloo” violence in advance of election
- Armenia, Azerbaijan bomb each other’s cities
2020-10-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tens of thousands of UK COVID-19 cases and contacts went unreported
- Trump stages White House return to boost back-to-work policy and election coup plans
- Révolution Permanente (NPA) silent on Greek youth protests against COVID-19
- Despite COVID outbreaks, NFL season continues in front of tens of thousands of spectators
- Ranks of long-term jobless soar as US unemployment aid dries up
- Grayzone questions US intelligence claim of “Russian influence campaign” run by PeaceData
- Third wave of COVID-19 expected to sweep across the United States
- The way forward for NYU graduate students
- India to reopen schools, despite COVID-19 death toll surging past 100,000
- The return of the Hohenzollern imperial dynasty to Germany
- Blatant censorship: Retrospective of American painter Philip Guston delayed four years
- School occupations continue in Greece as students resist government blackmail and violence
- Transit union shuts down job action by Detroit bus drivers
- COVID-19 infections on the rise in Germany
- Protests erupt in Chile after police throw 16-year-old off bridge
- Armenian-Azerbaijan war turns Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia into a powder keg
- Spanish court bars Catalan regional premier from holding public office
- Bangladesh’s Awami League government intensifies anti-democratic attacks on its critics
- Pandemic exposes Australian employers’ exploitation of young backpackers
- UK plans to detain refugees on prison ships
- Australian government silent on calls to intervene in defence of Julian Assange
- Trump mobilized Republican-state army to suppress DC protests in June coup attempt
- Allina health care workers begin limited two-day strike over safety conditions amidst pandemic
2020-10-07
- Faculty strike looms at Youngstown State University after trustees reject fact-finding report
- Republican operatives indicted in voter suppression scheme in Michigan
- Trump copies Hitler
- Trump breaks off talks on pandemic stimulus bill
- More statements from Australian workers giving support to Dr. Joseph Scalice
- Texas police officer charged with murder after shooting and killing unarmed black man
- Trump escalates political conspiracy despite White House pandemic
- The University and College Union’s incredible disappearing pensions dispute
- US-Mexico border wall cutting through Native American tribal lands
- US safety agency undermines federal oversight of COVID-19 workplace spread
- Service workers at University of Illinois hospital vote on contract after nurses union pushes through sellout
- New Caledonia rejects independence from France for second time
- Youth who led Montreal high school strike against unsafe school reopening speaks out
- Socialist Equality Group holds webinar on the New Zealand election
- With COVID-19 rates rising, Massachusetts officials push to reopen schools and businesses
- Teachers unions stifle opposition to Louisiana school reopenings
- Academic promoted by Jacobin to campaign for reopening schools meets with Trump officials
- Nurses and health care workers at three California hospitals begin 5-day strike
- Germany’s parliamentary parties elect far-right AfD candidate to Gera city council
- Tens of thousands laid off as major exhibitor Cineworld closes movie theaters in US and UK
- Honduran migrant caravan broken up by Guatemalan troops, as devastation grows across Central America
- Australian budget: A bonanza for business at workers’ expense
- Inquiry hears that Manchester Arena bomber was on radar of UK intelligence for seven years
2020-10-08
- Australian inquiry hears Victorian quarantine hotel program plagued by “disorganisation, lack of appropriate staffing”
- Tennessee educator speaks out on unsafe conditions in schools
- Contemporary politics, but semi-hysterical politics: New Order, Shorta and others
- SUNY students face budget gap in Excelsior Scholarship program
- Quebec educator urges teachers to build rank-and-file safety committees to oppose reckless school reopening
- US secretary of state lashes out against China at Quad meeting
- Police shut down protests, fine students at University of Sydney
- German state and political parties promote anti-Semitism
- New York governor closes some schools and businesses while COVID-19 infections spike
- With more than 1 million dead, who have been the victims of the coronavirus pandemic?
- German court frees right-wing extremist accused of complicity in assassination of Walter Lübcke
- Opposition parties seize power in Kyrgyzstan amid growing geopolitical rivalry in the region
- The objective roots of social inequality
- “We need to take away the children”: Top Justice Department officials drove Trump’s anti-immigrant family separation policy
- CPP founder Sison recycles anti-Trotskyist lies of Ho Chi Minh
- Macron’s anti-Islamic separatism law: The death throes of French democracy
- Appalachian State University faculty and students demand action after death of healthy student from COVID-19
- Harris refuses to oppose Trump’s planned 2020 election coup
- COVID-19 cuts a swath through official Washington
- UK COVID-19 cases triple in a fortnight
- Former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder of George Floyd released on bail
- As Brazil’s inequality soars, ruling elite sets racialist trap for the working class
- Global billionaire wealth tops $10 trillion as COVID-19 deaths mount
- Turkey backs Azeri offensive on Armenia as Russia, Iran warn of escalation
2020-10-09
- Zimbabwean teachers refuse to work as government reopens schools without COVID-19 protection
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- SUNY Cortland pauses in-person instruction after outbreak of COVID-19
- Fed officials warn of “recessionary dynamic” setting in
- One-day nationwide strike against South African ANC government
- Research into black holes awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
- The Michigan conspiracy, Trump, and the 2020 election
- As COVID-19 infection rates skyrocket, hundreds of Missouri schoolchildren quarantined
- Thirteen arrested in far-advanced pro-Trump conspiracy to murder Michigan’s governor and overthrow the state government
- Los Angeles school district uses COVID-19 testing to accelerate back-to-school drive
- No relief for unemployed in sight as 840,000 in US file new jobless claims
- Indonesian workers strike against new, pro-business legislation
- The impact of “herd immunity” on youth and students in the US
- As Canada’s COVID-19 cases surge, unions and NDP expand their support for Trudeau’s reckless back-to-work campaign
- New study throws light on Nazi past of Berlin film festival’s founder
- After the Assange hearing—the fight against imperialism
- Australian Labor’s budget reply: Bipartisan backing for tax cuts to the rich, austerity for workers
2020-10-10
- Wisconsin police conduct mass arrest of protesters, journalists after announcement of no charges against killer cop
- Keyboard virtuoso Rick Wakeman returns to outer space, progressive rock with The Red Planet
- University and College Union moves to prevent strikes as COVID-19 cases surge on UK campuses
- Trudeau admits US heading for post-election “disturbances,” but won’t condemn Trump
- Trump intensifies conflict with big tech over Section 230 protections following censorship moves by Facebook and Twitter
- Anger as UAW rams through 12-hour, 7-day schedule for FCA Sterling Heights Assembly skilled trades workers
- Oppose the $900 million cuts in retroactive pay to New York City educators!
- Democrats and corporate media cover-up Trump’s role in Michigan coup plot
- Pennsylvania educators, bus drivers and school workers launch rank-and-file safety committee to put an end to in-person instruction
- New Zealand debates reveal bipartisan support for austerity and US alliance
- Dutch government’s malign neglect accelerates resurgence of COVID-19
- Germany, France to sanction Russia over Navalny’s alleged poisoning
- With more than 1 million dead, who have been the victims of the coronavirus pandemic?
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US imposes draconian new sanctions against Iran amid spiraling COVID-19 pandemic
- Richest 50 Americans now have as much wealth as bottom 165 million
- Thirty years of German unity: Berlin increases military spending, incites nationalism and war
- Reopening of German schools leads to explosion of COVID-19 infections
- The California wildfires: A disaster of capitalism and climate change
- State of emergency declared in Madrid as COVID-19 resurgence sweeps Europe
- Deaths of Sydney delivery drivers expose dangerous conditions in the “gig economy”
- North and South Dakota record fastest growing COVID-19 outbreak in US
- Sri Lankan government presses ahead with plans for a presidential dictatorship
- Stephen F. Cohen, biographer of Nikolai Bukharin, dead at 81
- Canadian autoworkers union “rowing in the same direction” as Ford and political establishment
- Australian budget based on shaky foundations
- Brazil’s Workers Party promotes military police in mayoral elections
2020-10-12
- This week in history: October 12-18
- COVID-19 devastates Native American reservations in California and across the US
- Protest strikes in German public transit: Workers’ anger grows over unsafe working conditions
- A timeline of the fascist conspiracy to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
- The sickness in the White House
- Restore the eight-hour day! Stop the move to twelve-hour shifts for skilled trades workers at Michigan FCA plant!
- State and federal governments conceal COVID-19 outbreaks in US schools
- Dr. Joseph Scalice discusses the significance of the fight against Stalinism with the members of Sri Lankan SEP
- A profile of the conspirators in the Michigan plot
- Trump continues far-right appeals as details of Michigan plot emerge
- Podemos minister Irene Montero poses for Vanity Fair
- As mental health crisis deepens, New York City hospitals leave psych units shuttered
- Jobs bloodbath in Australia continues as companies restructure to slash costs
- Australia: Victoria University IYSSE holds successful AGM
- Hurricane Delta rips through battered southwestern Louisiana
- Grenfell Tower landlord rejected safety checks to save £30,000
- French universities enforce de facto herd immunity policy on COVID-19
- 350,000 US education jobs slashed in September
- Trump supporter killed by Pinkerton agent during dueling Denver, Colorado protests
- As pandemic surges worldwide, governments resist new lockdowns, step up back-to-work drive
- The Chinese Communist Party is “an organisation with a deep, deep level of bureaucratisation”
- The Green Party of Canada chooses a new leader—multiple political frauds for the price of one
- Poverty to soar after Labor backs Australian budget
- Accelerated job cuts in German auto industry
- The Artist’s Wife: A portrait of the artist as an aging semi-entrepreneur
- Alameda County hospital strike in California ends without contract
2020-10-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tennessee educators form rank-and-file safety committee to close schools and save lives
- Democratic Party House antitrust report calls for breakup of big tech monopolies
- Taipei and Washington continue to challenge Beijing’s redline over Taiwan
- COVID-19 outbreak exposes Sri Lankan government claims that pandemic is under control
- Outrage builds among autoworkers over 84-hour workweek for skilled trades workers at FCA Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- Statements of support for Dr. Scalice from Australia and Sri Lanka
- Poverty in Germany: Power cuts for 289,000 households
- Questions mount about Trump’s ties to Michigan fascist plotters
- The betrayals of the UAW and the rise of right-wing militias in Michigan
- A reply to the OKDE-Spartakos party’s letter on Greek school occupations
- Over 300 faculty at Youngstown State University in Ohio strike for the first time in 15 years
- New Jersey projected to face disproportionate growth in food insecurity
- UK jobs cull continues as thousands more redundancies are announced
- Irish government rejects medical experts as coronavirus infections spiral out of control
- Percentage of young adults living with parents higher than during the Great Depression
- Cuts to healthcare system responsible for Victoria’s coronavirus resurgence
- South Carolina Democratic candidate Jaime Harrison raises record $57 million in third quarter
- Coronavirus infections threaten Germany’s hospitals with overload
- Faurecia Gladstone workers oppose 12-hour shifts at FCA Sterling Heights Assembly
- Colombia’s ex-president Uribe freed from house arrest to lead right-wing repression
- Russian-brokered ceasefire in Azeri-Armenian war collapses
- As COVID-19 claims the life of London bus driver Kofi Opoku, Unite mounts fake “safety campaign” to stem drivers’ anger
- Democrats silent on Trump’s election coup plans as confirmation hearings begin on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
- Australian citizens stranded by COVID-19 measures denounce Morrison government
2020-10-14
- US Postal Service workers, privatization, and the defense of democratic rights
- Teacher death toll mounts as districts across the US push forward with school reopenings
- Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley defends historian Joseph Scalice
- The Great Barrington Declaration: Capitalism’s global policy of herd immunity
- Polish high school students strike to demand end to in-person classes
- Trump’s “herd immunity” policy and right-wing terror
- New Zealand Green Party postures over tax, poverty
- Australia: New South Wales wage freeze approved by Industrial Relations Commission
- Michigan Supreme Court overturns governor’s executive orders on COVID-19 pandemic
- Indonesian workers continue to protest pro-big business “omnibus law”
- Right-wing extremist networks in German state apparatus continue to grow
- IMF report points to ongoing plunge in world economy
- COVID-19 outbreaks erupt in Florida public schools as state demands further reopenings
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as COVID-19 sweeps through student campuses
- Johnson UK government rejected scientific advisers’ call for temporary national lockdown in September
- Live music industry in the US faces “massive collapse” due to pandemic
- Growing opposition among Canadian autoworkers to Unifor’s concessions-laden Detroit Three “pattern” contract
- Britain: The world’s second largest arms exporter and friend to warmongers and despots
- Civil war elections in Bolivia
- Merger between Beaumont Health and Advocate-Aurora Health collapses amid expanding staff opposition
- Day two of hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett: Democrats maintain silence on White House plot to overturn election
- Hefty profits for top US banks as millions face social disaster
2020-10-15
- Tesla: The cognizable, knowable scientist and visionary
- Factional warfare erupts in New York Times over the 1619 Project
- US Secretary of State Pompeo to visit Sri Lanka amid rising anti-China provocations
- US press reports confirm killing of Portland anti-fascist was targeted police assassination
- Sheriff defends Michigan conspirators as details emerge of plot’s scope, links to police and Trump campaign
- Amid record long-term unemployment, US government denies aid to workers
- The fight for social equality, against the pandemic and against war, is the fight for world socialism
- North and East of Sri Lanka paralysed by mass anti-government protest
- UK at “perilous moment” with NHS unable to cope
- Macron hails herd immunity, rejects lockdown as COVID-19 surges in Europe
- Whistleblowers: Colorado meatpacking plant used threats and lies to keep potentially infected workers on the job
- Australian health union leader pleads guilty to corruption
- Pseudo-left promotes dangerous illusions following criminal conviction of Greek fascists
- French, Spanish hospital workers protest as COVID-19 spreads across Europe
- After rejecting UAW-backed contract, Ventra workers in Ohio press for strike
- Video recordings reveal Republican strategy to suppress the vote in US election
- Tripling of new coronavirus infections in Germany in only one month
- Former Chilean Health Minister charged with falsifying COVID-19 figures
- Amazon Prime Day: Fabulous wealth for Jeff Bezos, rampant injuries for workers
- Pandemic fuels class struggle across Africa
- US military chief disputes Trump’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal pledge
2020-10-16
- Faculty union abruptly ends strike at Youngstown State University
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump administration tipped off wealthy investors about coronavirus while it downplayed threat in public
- San Diego educators launch rank-and-file safety committee to halt school reopenings and save lives
- Trump calls Whitmer “dictator” as evidence emerges of involvement of Wisconsin militia in Michigan coup plot
- The Great Barrington Declaration: A manifesto of death
- Ahead of New Zealand election, PM Jacinda Ardern lies about reducing poverty
- New York University defies state COVID-19 guidelines and continues in-person classes
- Protests against police brutality in Nigeria amid economic catastrophe
- Labor Party helps impose Australian military call-out laws for “emergencies”
- University of Michigan cafeteria workers oppose reopening of dining halls as coronavirus continues to spread on campus
- Stalinist apologetics and intellectual charlatanry: A response to Teo Marasigan
- Large-scale police deployment evicts alternative housing project in Berlin, Germany
- Rick Poynor’s David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian: An important new work on the revolutionary socialist, artist and defender of historical truth
- Nearly 900,000 new jobless claims in US as benefit cutoffs lead to spike in poverty
- IMF reports on global economy: Political conclusions
- Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
- New cluster of COVID-19 hits Faurecia Gladstone factory in Columbus, Indiana
- Global surge in COVID-19 cases as governments abandon efforts to contain the pandemic
- Unifor deal gives FCA Canada green light to cut jobs
- Amnesty International condemns Johnson government for thousands of UK care home deaths
2020-10-17
- US border police attack Native American protest against Arizona border wall
- Thai students continue protests in face of government repression
- Statements of support for Dr. Scalice continue to come in from Australia and Sri Lanka
- San Diego educators force delay in school reopenings as COVID-19 spreads in the region
- Role of Virginia fascists in conspiracy to kill Northam and Whitmer comes into focus
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts support Labour and Greens in election
- Alarming spike of COVID-19 infections in Michigan amid ruling class push for “herd immunity”
- Student council at Leipzig University opposes invitation to German right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski
- Who is Barry County, Michigan Sheriff Dar Leaf?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 7,000 new infections in 24 hours: Germany’s highest COVID numbers since beginning of pandemic
- Trump administration reverses decision to not send $350 million in federal aid to fight California fires
- Johnson calls off Brexit negotiations following EU summit deadlock
- Mobilize the working class against the European Union’s “herd immunity” policies!
- Democratic Socialists of America goes all in for Biden
- UK’s local lockdown system in disarray as COVID-19 cases surge out of control
- Sri Lankan free trade zone employees told to keep working as infections rise
- Twitter and Facebook censor New York Post report on Hunter Biden
- Brazil’s COVID-19 deaths pass 150,000 mark amid back-to-school campaign
- Democrats let Amy Coney Barrett sail through Supreme Court confirmation hearings
2020-10-19
- Guitarist Eddie Van Halen dead at age 65
- This week in history: October 19–25
- COVID-19 pandemic surges in Turkey as government continues to hide data
- Australian pseudo-left denies fascist danger in US presidential election crisis
- Communist Party of the Philippines targets Chinese firms blacklisted by Washington
- Trump escalates threats of violence and dictatorship
- German parents’ associations protest against dangerous school openings
- Labour Party strengthens its hold on power in New Zealand election
- Who are the New York Watchmen?
- Tennessee educator dies of COVID-19 after governor touts “strong safety measures” in schools
- Cost-cutting and “visual appearance” main concerns for Grenfell Tower refurbishment
- Political scandal engulfs premier in Australia’s most populous state
- Melting glaciers threaten catastrophic consequences for humanity
- Two US Park Police officers charged in 2017 killing of Virginia motorist Bijan Ghaisar
- Macron promotes anti-Muslim “free speech” hypocrisy after terrorist killing
- Florida school bus driver dies from COVID-19 weeks before her planned retirement
- The Detroit triple murder: What the media doesn’t say
- COVID-19 infections soar in US
- Chilean government mobilizes police and military on anniversary of social revolt
- Danger of Russian-Turkish conflict grows as Armenian-Azeri ceasefire fails
- Brazilian nurse speaks out against closure of COVID hospital and firing of 300 employees
- UK’s Johnson government looking to appoint cronies to BBC and press regulator
- British Columbia Teachers’ Federation facilitates reckless reopening of schools that puts teachers and students’ lives at risk
- As safety protocols vanish, Fiat Chrysler advises workers “protect your pets from COVID”
2020-10-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Anti-mask zealot arrested after threat to kidnap and kill Democratic mayor of Wichita
- IG Metall union demands state involvement at German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp
- COVID-19 resurgence devastates Spanish working class
- World Bank: South Asian economies hit hard by COVID-19
- As outbreaks spread in US, major Democrat-led cities push to reopen schools
- Queensland state election underscores political instability in Australia
- Michigan sheriffs and police refuse to enforce state government ban on guns at polling places
- Democrats call for “patience” as Trump moves forward with coup plot
- Roof deflection warnings ignored before young Australian construction worker killed
- New York state teachers describe disaster of school reopening
- Nigerian anti-police protests continue and garner international support
- Macron launches anti-Muslim police-state crackdown after terror attack in France
- Labor Notes covers up role of AFT, Democratic Party in betrayal of U of M grad instructors strike
- UK COVID-19 “alert” system overseen by UK spy chiefs
- US health insurance companies see profits soar while mounting medical bills bankrupt Americans
- State-orchestrated anti-Semitism witch-hunt extended to UK university campuses
- Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands two-week shutdown to stop coronavirus spread
- The Social Dilemma: The “curse” of social media
- Coup regime in Bolivia concedes electoral victory to MAS
2020-10-21
- School nurse dies from COVID-19 as officials in Baltimore–Washington region reopen schools
- Washtenaw County issues stay-at-home order at University of Michigan campus in the wake of campus COVID outbreak
- Workers’ struggles grow as Turkish government pursues “herd immunity” policy
- Demonstrations in Thailand continue as government rejects protesters’ demands
- Breonna Taylor grand jury was never given option to indict killer cops
- Statements from China and Sri Lanka in defence of Dr. Scalice against the attacks by the Stalinist CPP
- As teachers fight deadly return to school, the DSA runs to the defense of the unions and Democrats
- Unions trying to suppress workers’ opposition to pro-business restructure at Australia Post
- Nigerian government unleashes massacre against police brutality protesters
- International media hails New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s re-election
- Nursing home workers take strike action in Detroit suburb
- Northern Virginia Community College faculty and staff speak out about loss of work due to budget crisis
- Missouri coronavirus infection rates spike, creating havoc in schools, economy
- Trump steps up fascist agitation, targeting Fauci
- Europe on course for double-dip recession
- Support Socialist Equality Party candidates Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz on Colorado ballot
- Canadian autoworkers’ union rams through job-cutting agreement with Fiat-Chrysler despite strong worker opposition
- UK Labour and Tory politicians support herd immunity in Greater Manchester feud
- Fair Wayne Bryant, jailed for life for stealing hedge clippers, granted parole by Louisiana Pardon Board
- David North presents Thirty Years of War at Frankfurt Book Fair
- UK government steps up attacks on asylum seekers and refugees
- Further signs of the “devastating impact” of the pandemic on arts and artists: What are the implications?
- Australian unions offer to protect employers from “wage theft” penalties
2020-10-22
- Ten percent of US households face eviction by year’s end
- Marcus Rashford’s fight against child poverty exposes Labour and trade unions’ partnership with Johnson government
- Woman died from COVID-19 on Spirit Airline flight in July
- SUNY Cortland continues pause on in-person instruction following continued outbreak
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting on a socialist program to fight COVID-19
- GM victimizes Mexican worker for quarantining after catching COVID-19
- Sri Lankan workers must rally the rural poor against Rajapakse’s “herd immunity” policies
- Statements from Canada, India and Sri Lanka in support of Dr. Scalice
- Australia joins “Quad” military exercises directed against China
- The pianist Igor Levit and the defense of culture against fascism
- Service employees union shuts down nursing home strike in Detroit suburb
- Why does Jacobin Magazine downplay the danger of fascist violence?
- Houston schools reopen as COVID-19 surges in Texas
- US Justice Department and eleven states file antitrust lawsuit against Google
- No to police-state rule after the terrorist killing of French teacher Samuel Paty!
- COVID-19 pandemic surges despite limited curfew measures across Europe
- Corporate America puts its money on Biden and the Democrats
- Federal Reserve data shows over 100 million in US out of labor force
- On the brink: A photographic examination of social cleansing in London
- Excess US deaths during COVID-19 pandemic top 300,000
- Record-breaking Colorado wildfires prompt mass evacuations
- Hundreds of migrant children torn from their families under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy yet to be reunited with parents
- Australian corporate elite demands lifting of all coronavirus safety restrictions
2020-10-23
- 50 years since Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Electoral defeat in Vienna for Austria’s far-right Freedom Party
- Australian universities pseudo-left “network” postpones forum at NTEU’s behest
- Catastrophic job losses continue in the US as nearly 800,000 new unemployment claims reported
- Over 100 teachers launch wildcat sickout strike in Houston
- Support for socialism jumps by nearly 10 percent among US youth amid pandemic depression
- Trump storms out of interview when asked about ties to Michigan conspiracy
- Ten years since WikiLeaks and Julian Assange published the Iraq War Logs
- OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touches an asteroid, attempts sample collection
- New Zealand markets, business welcome Labour’s election victory
- Nigerian government clamps down on protests
- Germany’s Left Party embraces “herd immunity” policy
- Fiat Chrysler covered up dozens of infections and two deaths at Jefferson North Assembly Plant
- Israel’s growing anti-Netanyahu protests face increasing right-wing and police attacks
- UK parent speaks out about catastrophic “herd immunity” policy of Johnson government
- Goldman Sachs fined $2.9 billion over role in 1MDB corruption case
- GM announces new investments in electric vehicles as job cuts loom
- Anti-Muslim hysteria dominates French political establishment after terrorist killing of Samuel Paty
- Corporate America puts its money on Biden and the Democrats
- Final presidential debate: Candidates silent on Trump threat of political coup
- Record wildfires continue to expand across Colorado
- It is all just a metaphor: The New York Times attempts yet another desperate defense of its discredited 1619 Project
2020-10-24
- Protests erupt in Waukegan, Illinois after fatal police shooting of teenager
- With nearly a half-million COVID cases daily, WHO warns world is at a critical juncture
- Thai protesters demand the resignation of the prime minister
- Spain’s “left populist” Podemos separates migrant children from their parents
- Chicago officials plan to reopen schools for 20,000 students
- As US election approaches, New York Times intensifies its anti-Russia disinformation campaign
- Activist with ties to Ohio Republican legislators plotted to kidnap and kill Governor Mike DeWine
- Right-wing groups sue Michigan over ban on weapons at polling stations
- Public webinar: For a socialist program against the New Zealand Labour government's right-wing agenda
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Modern Monetary Theory and the crisis of capitalism: Part one
- Australia: University of Melbourne IYSSE holds successful AGM despite anti-democratic measures
- Worker in UK speaks out on the unsafe reopening of schools
- “Entire healthcare system at risk of another capacity crisis,” warn leading Michigan doctors in open letter
- Russian court extends prison sentence for historian of Stalinist terror to 13 years
- Detroit City government insists demolitions go forward, ignoring health dangers and unmet housing needs
- UK COVID-19 deaths surge to more than 1,100 over last week
- Catastrophic increase of coronavirus infections in Germany
- Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7: An important historical episode
- Canada’s trade unions and NDP rush to the rescue of the big-business Liberal government
- Boogaloo adherent charged by FBI with shooting Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protests
- Thousands of furloughed US aviation workers see no relief from US Congress
- Mounting evidence of systemic Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
2020-10-26
- White House makes clear, “We’re not going to control the pandemic”
- Australia: New COVID-19 infections follow reopening of Melbourne schools
- This week in history: October 26-November 1
- Study of New York City transit workers spotlights pandemic’s ongoing physical and emotional toll
- ICE uses torture to pressure African asylum seekers to agree to deportation
- Sri Lankan parliament boosts president’s autocratic powers
- Welcoming the Relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site
- The relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site and the future of socialism
- Mercenary group sued for hiring armed poll watchers for election day in Minnesota
- COVID-19 “long-hauler” phenomenon presents in children and teens as schools reopen against expert advice
- Right-wing press in Germany steps up attacks on pianist Igor Levit
- Modern Monetary Theory and the crisis of capitalism: Part two
- Jacobin hails New Zealand Labour government’s re-election
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained: Netflix series examines voting rights in America
- Houston teachers speak out on their wildcat sickout strike
- Metropolitan Police arrest first person in relation to Grenfell inferno after 40 months
- France recalls ambassador to Turkey over Turkish criticisms of law on Islam
- COVID’s deadly toll on people with Alzheimer’s and dementia
- Ontario’s reckless reopening of workplaces and schools producing disastrous conditions in child care facilities
- Continuing wage dispute at the Berlin’s Charité hospital
2020-10-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The relaunched website facilitates the development of the world party of socialist revolution
- A week before the US Presidential election, USPS management pushes forward unprecedented attacks on mail-in balloting
- COVID rips through Michigan K-12 schools: record 29 new outbreaks reported last week
- Right-wing recall campaign seeks to remove Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant from Seattle City Council
- Trump escalates coup plotting with swearing-in of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
- UK Nightingale hospitals readied as pandemic threatens to overwhelm NHS
- Automation drive accelerates in meatpacking industry in response to coronavirus pandemic
- Malaysian king rejects PM’s “request” for emergency rule
- Clashes erupt in Guinea-Conakry as Condé declared president for third term
- French government whitewashes COVID-19 clusters in schools, universities
- The policy of “herd immunity” pushes Europe’s health care system toward the abyss
- Australian environmental scientists face mounting censorship
- Prospect of right-wing violence and police repression hangs over US election
- Health care systems face collapse across Eastern Europe amid resurgent COVID-19 pandemic
- The constitutional referendum and class struggle in Chile
- The pandemic has only accelerated the underlying contradictions of capitalism
- Facebook deploying teams with advanced censorship tools in advance of the US election
- An audio adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here: Fascism comes to America
- Brazilian Morenoites support pro-military parties in mayoral elections
- Australian spy agency raises new alarm about foreign “plot”
2020-10-28
- Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots sets stage for stolen election
- Vietnam suffers through a “new normal” of extreme weather events
- UK teacher describes disastrous lack of safety at reopened schools: “Teachers are at high risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19”
- The New York Times attacks the First Amendment and embraces censorship of “disinformation”
- Gig workers hired to evict people from their homes as millions struggle to pay rent
- Questions remain as to ties between police, border militias and Trump campaign in southwest US
- What is Left of American Democracy on the Eve of the 2020 Elections?
- Far right attacks scientists as coronavirus infections explode in Germany
- Australia Post workers speak out: “We don’t have any faith in the unions”
- National Guard sent to suppress protests over police murder in Philadelphia
- Peru’s political crisis deepens with second motion to impeach President Vizcarra
- As election approaches, Trump conspires to repudiate popular vote
- New York City workers and students reject school reopenings through mass absenteeism
- The WSWS and the fight to free political prisoners
- As COVID-19 floods hospitals, Macron debates second lockdown in France
- Elite factions struggle for control of Philippine legislature
- Hunger and social misery soar in Washington D.C. during the pandemic
- Eighteen-year-old University of Dayton freshman, Michael Lang, dies of COVID-19
- 100,000 under evacuation order as wildfire threatens Irvine, California
- The MAS victory in Bolivia and bourgeois nationalism’s betrayals in Latin America
- Belarus opposition declares general strike against Lukashenko government
- British Columbia New Democrats win majority government buoyed by business, union support
- Second worker at Nashville’s AT&T office building dies from COVID-19
- The World Socialist Web Site strives to raise the cultural level of the working class
- Alberta health care workers stage wildcat strike in opposition to job cuts and privatizations
2020-10-29
- Google providing US Department of Homeland Security with tech platform for virtual border wall
- Germany’s Verdi union stabs public sector workers in the back
- University of Michigan students denounce administration’s reckless COVID-19 policies
- The World Socialist Web Site, the fight against imperialism and for socialism in the Middle East
- Tennessee educator speaks out against unsafe conditions and lack of resources
- The World Socialist Web Site and the defense of historical truth
- Russian government issues mask mandate, opposes shutdown as COVID cases spike
- Johnson government’s war on migrants turns English Channel into a “graveyard for children”
- Tens of thousands protest new restrictions on abortion in Poland
- Trump defends killer cops and police attacks on protesters in Philadelphia
- As COVID-19 surges in Europe, governments protect profits over lives
- Priceless artefacts vandalised in Berlin museums
- Wealthy areas switched support to Labour Party in New Zealand election
- Australian university union runs limited “wage theft” campaign
- Macron administration wages far-right campaign against “Islamo-leftism”
- Significant fall on Wall Street amid rising COVID-19 infections
- US threatens military strikes against Iran and Venezuela
- Amid tense India-China border stand-off, US and India boost military-security partnership
- Half of India’s population could be infected with COVID-19 by next February
- Health systems in the United States are facing growing strains with the surge in COVID-19 cases
- Faceboook moderators forced to return to offices as COVID-19 continues to spread
- Nearly 10,000 eviction actions filed across the US since September despite CDC moratorium
- As US vote total surges, Trump, Republicans seek to block counting
- Canadian court outlaws picketing of Loblaws distribution center in Newfoundland Dominion grocery strike
- UK government calculates second wave of pandemic is “going to be worse this time, more deaths”
- WSWS coverage of political economy is scientific and therefore partisan
- Speedup, infections and near-death in freezers at Amazon Fresh warehouse
2020-10-30
- The World Socialist Web Site, Corbynism and the struggle against opportunism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: Public service workers up in arms against Verdi contract
- David North and Adolph Reed discuss US political crisis at online forum
- Teaching unions deepen collaboration with Johnson government’s “herd immunity” school policy
- Statements from Australia in opposition to the Stalinist slanders of Dr. Scalice
- Introductory remarks to “What is Left of American Democracy on the Eve of the 2020 Election?”
- The fight of the WSWS against the falsification of Marxism
- Demonstrations against police violence continue in Washington D.C., federal agents target Philadelphia teacher for protesting
- Police officer threatened to kill Democratic mayor of Phoenix, Arizona
- FBI raids neo-Nazi camp in Michigan as national connections of Whitmer plotters emerge
- Jeremy Corbyn suspended by Labour leadership in latest outrage during Blairite anti-Semitism witch-hunt
- Philadelphia educators speak out against the deadly reopening of schools
- What is behind the crisis in New Zealand’s National Party?
- The Nightingale: Australia’s brutal colonial past exposed
- Nigeria: Live ammunition fired at anti-police brutality protesters
- Three killed in terrorist attack on church in Nice, France
- As US smashes records for new coronavirus infections, Ford and Fiat Chrysler report blowout profits
- New report outlines accelerating inequality in Australia, amid rising social distress
- Labor’s health cut plan a warning on eve of Australian state election
- The relaunch of the WSWS and the fight against fascism
- US Senate hearing on Section 230 law devolves into demands for social media censorship
- Trump holds closed-door meeting with Special Forces troops
- The explosion of new cases of COVID in the Northern Hemisphere will fuel massive social unrest
- Casualties mount in Armenian-Azeri war as US-brokered ceasefire collapses
2020-10-31
- Hurricane Zeta leaves 2.6 million without power, kills six as record breaking US storm season continues
- The WSWS and the exposure of US imperialism’s crimes
- United States rockets past 100,000 daily cases
- San Diego educators and students demand access to COVID-19 outbreak data
- As social anger mounts, Quebec unions issue craven appeal to Premier Legault to forego austerity
- More than Cartier watches involved in executive spending scandal at Australia Post
- US Secretary of State insists Sri Lanka lines up against China
- The political impact and growing readership of the World Socialist Web Site
- National Guard deployed in Philadelphia following protests against police murder
- Pseudo-left apologists for Biden and the bankruptcy of “lesser-evil” politics
- A reply to the Morenoites on support for militarization of Brazilian elections
- Spanish police make ludicrous claim Russia plotted to invade Catalonia
- The WSWS and the fight for revolutionary leadership in Latin America
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mass layoffs in the US as states face unprecedented budget crisis
- For a European-wide school strike against the pandemic
- The Hummingbird Project: Speed is of the essence
- Trump and Democratic governors, mayors ready National Guard and police for election night protests
- European Central Bank set to expand bond-buying program
- Australian ruling elite again demands premature lifting of pandemic restrictions
- Starmer begins purge of Corbyn supporters from UK Labour Party
- Clare Moseley on the horrific plight of English Channel migrants: “They are asking for help, but being treated like criminals”
- Large bonuses awarded to executives of bailed-out US companies
- AT&T slashes jobs, leaves areas without broadband internet while funneling dividends to Wall Street
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