Archive: 11/2020
2020-11-02
- “The WSWS has not only commented on the struggles of the working class it has been an active participant in them”
- This week in history: November 2-8
- The World Socialist Web Site’s exposure of the 1619 Project and the defense of historical truth
- Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse extradited to Wisconsin
- At least 140 drown in refugee boat disaster off Senegal coast
- The pandemic and the political record of the SEP in the 2020 election
- Omaha, Nebraska school worker dies from COVID-19 as cases spike and teacher anger grows
- Missouri hospitals face being overwhelmed in latest surge of COVID-19 infections
- Metroline bus ballot shows massive strike mandate as Unite runs to ACAS
- Johnson government forced into new national lockdown, but schools, universities and factories must stay open
- Pianist Igor Levit joins rally against far-right Alternative for Germany in Potsdam
- Kentucky State Police training documents approvingly cited Adolf Hitler
- Right-wing propagandists in Germany promote “herd immunity”
- The role of the World Socialist Web Site in educating a new generation of revolutionaries
- French students denounce inadequate partial lockdown
- White House attacks Fauci for suggesting Trump does not take pandemic “seriously”
- Trump backs violence against Biden campaign
- Months of unpaid wages spark strikes by delivery drivers across China
- On the eve of the civil war election
- Chinese Communist Party meets amid rising social and geo-political tensions
- Who bears responsibility for the Canadian ruling elite’s catastrophic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Brazilian armed forces conduct unprecedented military exercises amid US threats to Venezuela
- Australia: Queensland Labor holds office by exploiting pandemic concerns
- Union suppresses Albany, New York nurses’ fight for coronavirus protections
2020-11-03
- The approach of the World Socialist Web Site to science
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- As millions vote against him, Trump pushes violence and suppression of votes
- Four killed in terrorist attack in Vienna
- Ukraine, Turkey deepen military alliance in Black Sea region
- Death toll rises to 87 after earthquake in Aegean Sea
- Thirteen-year-old eighth grader in Missouri dies of COVID-19
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government rejects calls for shelter-at-home policy
- A conversation with Rick Poynor, author of David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
- Mass protests against anti-abortion law in Poland develop into a revolt against government
- Duterte administration launches “red-tagging” witchhunt
- Europe’s COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control
- New Zealand Green Party joins right-wing Labour government
- The New School lays off 122 staff, sparking community protest
- National Education Union belatedly begs Johnson government to close UK schools during lockdown
- Australian government uses bushfire report to demand emergency powers
- US mercenary exposes Trump administration links to abortive Venezuela invasion
- Brookline, Massachusetts educators begin sickout strike as state officials push to keep schools open
- The socialist perspective in the 2020 US elections
- Closing remarks from SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore
- Whole Foods worker describes dangers of COVID-19 for US grocery workers
- Teachers strike across France against first day of deadly school reopenings
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as Johnson declares schools and campuses will remain open
- Washington D.C. Public Schools halt reopening plans as teachers mount sickout strike
- Jacobin distorts Morales interview to cover for MAS’s turn to right in Bolivia
- Bangladeshi jute mill workers demand reopening of closed mills
- Amazon workers discuss the issues raised by the US presidential election
2020-11-04
- Protests erupt in Vancouver, Washington after police murder of 21-year-old Kevin Peterson, Jr.
- Typhoon Goni devastates the Philippines
- Turkish government rejects lockdown as pandemic spirals out of control
- Autoworkers demand to know: How extensive is the outbreak at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant?
- Bipartisan assault on US public education intensifies amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian troops accused of Abu Ghraib, My Lai-style war crimes in Afghanistan
- Preliminary observations on the US presidential elections
- Parents’ strike called Thursday in UK against threat from COVID-19
- Teachers at Toronto school walk off the job after COVID-19 outbreak
- New Zealand to legalise euthanasia following referendum
- WSWS publishes Hindi translation of lecture by Dr. Joseph Scalice exposing Philippine Maoism
- Jennifer Jones calls for united action in parents strike: “Are things serious enough for a mass walk out? How serious does it need to get?”
- Trump administration detained over 500,000 immigrant children in three years
- The fraud of IMF-World Bank “debt relief” for poor countries
- Record-setting Hurricane Eta batters Central America
- Collected Ghazals: Poet Jim Harrison regains spontaneity through a fixed verse form
- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald resigns from the Intercept in protest against censorship
- Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site
- French police assault students demanding school shutdowns to stop coronavirus spread
- Highest one-week increase in US child cases since onset of COVID-19 pandemic
- Jewish cemetery in Michigan desecrated with Trump campaign slogans on eve of election
- Fascist protests in Bolivia demand overturning of presidential election
- Australian central bank joins “quantitative easing” as global crash deepens
2020-11-05
- Sri Lankan government rejects total lockdown amid surging COVID-19 infections
- Official academics downplay the risks of school reopenings as pandemic rages across the US
- German teachers, students and parents oppose keeping schools open as pandemic spreads
- Australian billionaires celebrate skyrocketing wealth while pandemic forces workers into poverty
- Three short films–including The Present, about the brutality of Israeli checkpoints
- Trump’s refusal to concede sets the stage for post-election crisis
- COVID-19 cases spike across US as health care workers struggle with understaffing in hospitals
- Regulations in the meat industry weaken as coronavirus pandemic strengthens
- As Boris Johnson’s partial lockdown begins: The working class must intervene to prevent COVID-19 catastrophe
- In closed-door meeting, top CEOs give Quebec Premier his marching orders
- Hospital fire in Brazil exposes criminal neglect of workers’ lives
- Surge in coronavirus pandemic produces deadly situation in hospitals throughout Europe
- German political establishment demands foreign policy “sovereignty” after US elections
- After delayed and inadequate lockdown measures, COVID-19 second wave overwhelms France
- Biden nears narrow Electoral College victory while Republicans lead in Senate
- Cases in El Paso, Texas spike as coronavirus hospitalizations surge nationwide
- College student, 20, found dead in dorm room after testing positive for COVID-19
- Chinese government blocks Jack Ma’s major IPO
- Breonna Taylor’s mother demands an independent investigation into police killing after exposure of grand jury whitewash
2020-11-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Perpetrator of terror attack in Vienna was under state surveillance
- UAW-GM Center for Human Resources, corporatist body at the center of union corruption scandal, sold for $34 million
- US schools intensify student surveillance in the COVID-19 era
- Post-election protests in US cities met with mass arrests
- 2020 election results explode the identity politics narrative
- Michigan K-12 schools see another huge increase in COVID-19 outbreaks
- Indian Magna Cosma workers continue strike against victimisation and for recognition of new union
- Another 751,000 US workers file for unemployment benefits as job growth slows
- Israel demolishes Palestinian village in occupied West Bank
- French teachers’ strikes mount against school openings as pandemic surges
- Australian report reveals widespread food insecurity
- Trump falsely claims “fraud” as vote counting erases his leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania
- UK teachers, students and parents across England support strike action to close schools, welcome French teacher strikes
- Global coronavirus death toll reaches daily record of over 9,000
- Social media platforms implement aggressive censorship during the 2020 US elections
- Alberta’s Conservative government slashes health care amid COVID-19 pandemic
- New documents show Mueller investigation unable to concoct charges against Assange and WikiLeaks
- Alabama teacher speaks out against unsafe conditions and schools reopening
2020-11-07
- Manchester University students tear down 7-foot fence put up around their accommodation blocks
- SUNY Cortland suspends in-person classes for rest of semester after seeing continued rise of COVID-19 cases
- FBI seizes internet domain names it claims are part of Iranian influence campaign
- Educators seeking their legal rights are sandbagged, compelled to return to unsafe buildings
- More statements from Australian workers defending Dr. Scalice against Philippine Stalinist slanders
- New York University moves forward with plans to establish segregated residential communities
- Armed Trump supporters arrested at Philadelphia counting site as Republicans echo Trump’s claims of vote fraud
- Behind the delay in the US election results
- Pennsylvania teacher speaks on the US elections and the crisis in public education
- Protests in Inner Mongolia over Chinese government language policy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kosovo’s President Thaçi charged with war crimes
- US jobless rates falls but long-term unemployment up sharply as millions remain out of work
- Canadian autoworkers’ union announces tentative agreement with General Motors
- In face of rising coronavirus infections, teachers, students, and parents express support for European-wide school strike
- Australia’s first “foreign interference” arrest targets Liberal Party figure accused of links to China
- Robert Fisk—a courageous and truthful reporter on the Middle East who “covered history” (1946–2020)
- Climate change and human evolution
- Democrats’ bid to win control of state legislatures collapses
- World coronavirus cases to soar past 50 million
- More than just James Bond: Sean Connery (1930-2020)
- MAS denounces dynamite attack against Bolivia’s President-elect Luis Arce
- Indian Stalinists use Bihar elections to deepen their alliance with big-business Congress Party
- Biden appeals to Republicans for “unity” as voters repudiate Trump
2020-11-09
- Coronavirus pandemic intensifies humanitarian disaster in Yemen
- Hospitalization crisis across the US as coronavirus infections surge
- German public service union ensures smooth operation of public transport despite resurgence of coronavirus pandemic
- Face-to-face teaching resumed at Australian universities, despite continuing COVID-19 cases
- This week in history: November 9-15
- Rebecca (2020) and Rebecca (1940): A new film version of the popular novel, and the old one
- As COVID-19 surges around the world, governments put profits ahead of lives
- The deliberate sabotage of online learning in the US
- SEP (Sri Lanka) outlines socialist alternative to pandemic and authoritarianism
- Irish teachers vote to strike as infection rates spiral
- Illinois governor admits factories and other workplaces are center of COVID-19 outbreaks
- Armed conflict in Tigray threatens break up of Ethiopia
- Biden, Democrats prepare right-wing administration
- Lincoln, the Dakota 38 and the racialist falsification of history
- Former Mexican military chief pleads not guilty to US drug trafficking charges
- Australian bushfire report aids government whitewash on climate change and lack of resources
- Migrant friend to Julian Assange dies in UK’s Belmarsh prison
2020-11-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Why did some working class regions vote for Trump?
- Australian university workers speak out on the destruction of their jobs and conditions
- Truck drivers at United Natural Foods vote to strike over lack of pandemic safety measures
- US judge blocks shutdown of TikTok scheduled for November 12
- Biden coronavirus transition task force to continue back-to-work drive
- Teachers and support staff in Streetsboro, Ohio file 10-day strike notice
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos regime rejects lock-downs as COVID-19 soars
- BP refinery closure threatens hundreds of jobs in Western Australia
- Puerto Rico holds elections for new governor
- Possible COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough makes measures to stop virus spread now more urgent
- Oregon Governor Kate Brown allows 150,000 students to return to unsafe schools
- The deliberate sabotage of online learning in the US
- Long-COVID post-viral syndrome: Lessons from the Russian Flu of 1889 for the COVID pandemic
- Which direction next? New albums from Khruangbin—Mordechai—and Sault—Untitled (Black Is)
- Coronavirus infections in Germany hit a new record
- Hundreds dead and missing after Eta devastates Central America and southern Mexico
- Auto parts workers demand full disclosure as COVID-19 cases surge at Indiana Faurecia plant
- Coronavirus pandemic spreads in France despite partial lockdown policies
- For a general strike to close schools! Form rank-and-file safety committees of teachers, parents and students!
- Trump escalates defiance of the 2020 election outcome
- EHRC “Investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party” A hatchet job in furtherance of a witch-hunt
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pleads for “unity” as Democrats attack the “socialist left”
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) online meeting: The Blairites’ anti-Semitism witch-hunt and the failure of Corbynism
- Potential superspreader event as 10,000 Notre Dame fans storm field after college football game
- As Brazil’s Bolsonaro remains silent, the Workers Party and pseudo-left hail Biden victory
- As GM moves to expand production at Oshawa, Ontario facility UAW promotes anti-Canada nationalism
- Australian political elite rushes to salute Biden and re-affirm US alliance
- UK National Health Service on the precipice due to COVID-19 surge
2020-11-11
- Police crack down on Thai protesters demanding democratic rights
- Coronavirus spreading out of control at Sterling Stamping Plant: A case study of infections in the US auto industry
- Wisconsin man charged with providing assault rifle to Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse
- Stop Trump’s conspiracy to nullify the 2020 elections!
- UK parents’ strike sabotaged by trade unions and Labour Party
- NYPD runs amok during post-Election Day protests
- COVID-19 cuts through Missouri and Kansas uncontrolled
- Wall Street and global stocks boosted by news of COVID-19 vaccine
- Young people hit hard by UK jobs massacre
- COVID-19 pandemic creating a social disaster in India
- More than 660 parents of separated immigrant children cannot be located by the US government
- GM Canada contract ratification ends 2020 negotiations at Detroit Three’s Canadian operations
- Teachers strike across France against Macron administration’s “herd immunity” policy for schools
- French government escalates cover-up of COVID-19 infections in schools
- US coronavirus hospitalizations hit new peak
- US Supreme Court justices signal support for upholding Affordable Care Act
- Forty-five years since the Canberra Coup
- Arkansas police chief resigns after calling on social media for execution of “Marxist Democrats”
- Cobra Kai: The reboot of The Karate Kid film series
- Australian Senate passes motion acknowledging “alleged” persecution of Julian Assange
- MAS inaugurates right-wing government in Bolivia
2020-11-12
- Australian government slashes JobSeeker to force more workers into low-paid jobs
- Sri Lankan government lifts limited lockdown despite rising infections
- Australia: Growing opposition to planned school closures in northern NSW
- Thousands protest in Peru against impeachment, pandemic and economic implosion
- Workers’ lives are not expendable! Take action to stop the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Trump packs Pentagon with right-wing loyalists
- New Zealand government promises stronger US ties after Biden elected
- North Dakota reaches 100 percent hospital capacity, tells health care workers to continue working if infected with COVID-19
- Metro Detroit hospitalizations rise sharply as second wave of COVID-19 cases surges across Michigan
- Citing Trump’s executive order keeping meatpacking plants open, Stampede Meat files suit against shutdown order by New Mexico government
- Massachusetts governor pushes for in-person learning as COVID-19 cases surge
- Maryland governor re-imposes restrictions as COVID-19 cases reach record levels in the Washington, DC region
- Dr. Michael Osterholm, named to the Biden coronavirus taskforce, calls for a national lockdown
- Far-right demonstration in Leipzig, Germany, supported by judiciary, police and government
- West Virginia Kroger workers reject sellout agreement, vote overwhelmingly to strike
- IYSSE meeting calls for a European-wide school strike against the policy of herd immunity
- As COVID-19 cases explode, Iowa remains “open for business”
- Flint, Michigan nurse dies from COVID-19
- Federal agents arrest New York man for threatening to “exterminate” Democrats, protesters
- Trump, Republicans continue campaign to overturn election
- Russia, Turkey negotiate cease-fire in Armenian-Azeri war over Karabakh
- As COVID-19 cases surge across Canada, governments press forward with “reopening” of the economy
- Trudeau leads Canadian establishment in hailing Biden's election victory
- Three more bus drivers die in Britain as Covid-19 surges
- UK’s Brexit conflict reignited by US election crisis
- Orchestra, opera musicians face severe pay cuts, furloughs, uncertainty in the midst of the pandemic
- Mexican president refuses to recognize Biden victory
2020-11-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Health minister warns: Ukraine on the verge of coronavirus “catastrophe”
- Post-US election rally of US/UK pseudo-left hears praise for dragging neo-liberalism’s corpse “across the finishing line”
- Stop online censorship: Restore the Twitter account of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US)!
- Workers report dangerous outbreak at Fiat Chrysler transmission factory in Indiana
- European governments seize upon terrorist attacks in France and Vienna to build a police state
- Switzerland in the coronavirus pandemic: “We are on the verge of a medical catastrophe”
- State University of New York publishes spring 2021 semester plans
- Immigrant women who accused ICE doctor of forced sterilization deported from the United States
- Scottish National Party government to pardon arrested miners after 36 years
- German schools become coronavirus hotspots: 300,000 students in quarantine
- As San Diego County coronavirus cases surge, schools and non-essential businesses remain open
- Overstretched Russian hospitals turn away COVID cases
- Michigan conspirators planned to storm capitol, conduct livestream executions, lock legislators inside and burn building down
- Over 300,000 coronavirus deaths in Europe: Capitalism’s crime against humanity
- Leading NYPD officer caught posting racist, fascistic messages online
- Nurses in North Dakota pressured to work despite being infected with COVID-19
- The mental health of young adults is being ravaged by the pandemic—the suffering needs to stop
- Socialist Equality Group webinar discusses New Zealand and US elections
- ECB to step up intervention as European banks face rise in non-performing loans
- Trump campaign presses demands to suppress millions of votes
- Growing opposition among educators forces closure of schools as pandemic spreads
- Worker at Canadian senior care home describes COVID-19’s horrific impact in a system where “the profit motive is paramount”
- Workers Party pushes back-to-school campaign amid warnings of second COVID-19 wave in Brazil
- Belly of the Beast: The cruelty of forced sterilization in America
- Australian Royal Commission covers up causes of aged care crisis
2020-11-14
- Another 709,000 file for unemployment in the US as evictions resume, food lines grow and job cuts continue
- Turkish finance minister resigns amid a deepening crisis
- Bowing to right-wing campaign, Canada’s Trudeau apologizes to Macron for being “too soft” on Islamist terrorism
- Tropical Storm Eta causes widespread flooding in southeastern US as record-setting hurricane season continues
- Stalinist Podemos minister pledges to keep US military bases in Spain
- Sri Lankan government and opposition greet US president-elect Joe Biden
- Workers must stop production to contain coronavirus outbreak at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant!
- SEP (UK) Congress resolution The COVID-19 pandemic, the international class struggle, and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Students at Manchester University occupy accommodation block as rent strike continues
- US health care workers demand strike action to address understaffing, low pay as pandemic crisis deepens
- Neo-Nazis march in Germany on anniversary of anti-Jewish November Pogroms
- Tropical storms continue to pound the Philippines
- Close all nonessential workplaces! Full compensation for workers and small businesses!
- Auto parts worker crushed by massive manufacturing mold at plant north of Detroit
- Record breaking surge of the pandemic pushing US health care workers to the edge
- Re-release of Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder (2003): A picture of South Korean society
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Is Trump plotting a war against Iran?
- Overwhelming police presence used to intimidate Northwestern University protest
- Trump signals continuation of election coup at White House appearance
- New York City schools likely to close as pandemic surges
- Herd immunity policy in German schools leads to explosion of coronavirus infections
- Corporate damage control: Detroit News parrots management, UAW lies about COVID safety conditions at US auto plants
2020-11-16
- Auto parts company ordered to pay $1.5 million following death of Alabama worker
- UK Universities step up job cuts with connivance of the University and College Union
- This week in history: November 16-22
- Victimized “Teachers Against Dying” Facebook group founder discusses the struggle facing educators
- Closure of Louisiana’s Shell Convent Refinery will impact 1,100 jobs and create economic hardship
- Sterling Heights Assembly workers demand shutdown as coronavirus spreads in factories throughout US
- Quebec Solidaire embraces the ruling elite’s criminal “herd immunity” policy
- Union opposes worker’s call for a fight against pro-business Australia Post restructure
- Peruvian government falls after two killed in anti-impeachment protests
- The pandemic and Trump’s plots
- Migrant workers demand right to return to their homes in New Zealand
- Michigan governor announces emergency measures as COVID-19 surges throughout the state
- Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters condemns Twitter’s suspension of IYSSE account
- Australia: Obstetricians at Sydney’s Blacktown Hospital threaten to resign amid the deaths of four babies in 18 months
- Grenfell Tower refurbishment company supplied cladding that could burn the “entire height” of a tower block
- A conversation with musician, producer Fabrizio Grossi about the pandemic and its impact: “Short of a global revolution, I don’t see a solution”
- Ethiopia slides towards civil war as Tigray conflict escalates
- Citing illegal appointment of acting Homeland Security secretary, judge invalidates Trump’s restrictions on DACA program
- The Crisis Elections: 1860 & 2020
- Prisoners load bodies into mobile morgues in El Paso, Texas as COVID-19 infections skyrocket
- As US COVID-19 cases top 11 million, Biden aides reject new lockdown to save lives
- After pledging to “defund the police,” Minneapolis City Council votes to increase police funding
- Toledo Coca-Cola workers continue strike over unsafe conditions and rising health care costs
- Coronavirus spreads throughout Germany’s schools and businesses
- Large COVID-19 outbreak in Xinjiang, China
- Sixty-five years of the Bundeswehr: German president appeals for militarism, rearmament and war
2020-11-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian governments impose wage freezes on public sector workers
- Utah teachers stage wildcat sickout to demand COVID-19 testing, online instruction as cases soar
- New China-led trade bloc sets stage for further tensions with the US
- Texas educators demand fully online learning to save lives
- Windstorm leaves hundreds of thousands without power across the northeastern and midwestern US
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government imposes internet censorship
- Student strikers in the Philippines demand government action on COVID-19 and typhoon devastation
- Trump adviser calls for people to “rise up” against coronavirus restrictions
- Morenoites dismiss Trump coup attempt, while sowing illusions in Biden
- With Malabar exercise, Quad emerging as US-led, anti-China military alliance
- German federal government demands faster destruction of Lufthansa jobs
- Johnson government in meltdown after Biden US election victory
- Second major hurricane hits Central America in two weeks
- Michigan university’s ‘Veteran’s Promise’ exploits economic crisis to promote military recruitment
- Macron government opposes full lock-down as coronavirus deaths climb
- US food banks and homeless shelters struggle to meet record demand ahead of Thanksgiving
- What would a Biden administration mean for public education?
- Unifor sells out militant Newfoundland Dominion grocery strike
- German artists, cultural institutions fight for survival in COVID-19 crisis
- Boeing announces 7,000 additional layoffs
- Biden names pro-war think tank and former Pentagon officials to transition team
- As COVID-19 spreads in workplaces, US autoworkers call for emergency action to save lives
- Amazon’s Jeff Bezos congratulates Biden as the president-elect packs his transition teams with servants of the corporate oligarchy
2020-11-18
- Biden recruits unions to keep workplaces open as pandemic surges
- Italian actress Sophia Loren returns to the screen in The Life Ahead
- Sweden initiates massive military buildup in preparation for war with Russia
- Socialist Party’s Moe Manir expels London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee leader from Facebook group
- End the coverup of the outbreak at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant! Stop nonessential production with full pay for workers to contain the pandemic!
- Fighting erupts between Morocco and Polisario in Western Sahara
- French workers in revolt
- Amid electoral coup plot, Trump threatens catastrophic war on Iran
- New Zealand government rejects calls to increase welfare payments
- Second wave of coronavirus pandemic hits New York and New Jersey
- As Mexico records 1 million coronavirus cases, 53 percent of tests are coming out positive
- German unions offer Lufthansa up to 50 percent compensation reduction
- Homicide investigation under way after weeks of police negligence in the death of black Louisiana teen
- Hunger and evictions surge in the US
- Justice Department attorney tells appeals court the government can kill US citizens without judicial review
- Faurecia auto parts workers join calls for national shutdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives
- Situation critical as COVID-19 spreads through US auto plants
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands schools and campuses close to halt the spread of the pandemic
- New York Governor Cuomo keeps schools open despite rising COVID-19 positivity rate
- The anti-Semitism witch-hunt and the failure of Corbynism
- Facebook censors IYSSE online meeting about Trump coup threat
- Canada’s union-backed NDP champions close ties with a Biden administration, opposition to China
- British Medical Journal accuses UK government of the “suppression of science”
- COVID-19 drastically impacts Bangladesh students and youth
- Austria to tighten lockdown, but factories remain open
- South Australian COVID-19 outbreak highlights dangers of “reopening” campaign
2020-11-19
- Zambia defaults amid growing African debt crisis, intensified by pandemic
- Vote breakdown shows class interests, not race, drove Trump’s defeat in Midwest “battleground” states
- Twelve million to lose unemployment benefits in December
- Turkey adopts inadequate restriction policies as COVID-19 surges
- Thai protests for democratic reforms continue despite violent police attack
- Tens of thousands pay homage to youth slain by police as Peru swears in third president in a week
- Growing support among workers for shutdown of nonessential production as US death toll tops 250,000
- New York City educators and parents must take control over online learning! Schools must stay closed until the pandemic is contained!
- Over 800 nurses strike Philadelphia area hospital for improved staffing
- “The wolf is at the door”: Missouri hospital heads plead for state action to stem the pandemic
- Whitmer keeps Michigan K-8 schools and factories open despite record COVID-19 surge
- Macron prepares “global security” law banning the filming of French police
- Louisville Metro Police Department and city officials implicated in cover-up of child sexual abuse ring
- Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle—A remarkable exhibition
- Japan and Australia step up military partnership against China
- Record daily coronavirus death tolls in Italy and Spain since September
- Germany’s schools remain open despite a massive second wave of COVID-19
- A revealing report on the mid-March financial crisis
- Saeb Erekat: Palestinian peace negotiator who epitomised the degeneration of the PLO (1955-2020)
- States certifying Biden victory despite Trump lawsuits, recount demands
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) meeting discussion addresses critical issues on the failure of Corbynism
- Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer bars Jeremy Corbyn from Parliamentary Labour Party as witch-hunt intensifies
- Former Sheriff David Clarke calls for Proud Boys chapter in Wisconsin
- Number of children diagnosed with COVID-19 in the US surpasses one million
- Municipal elections expose rightward turn of Brazilian ruling class
- Assange in lockdown as Belmarsh Prison inmates test positive for COVID-19
- Peaceful antiwar protesters sentenced to federal prison terms during pandemic
2020-11-20
- Youth suicides and mental health disorders on the rise amid pandemic depression
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vote breakdown shows class interests, not race, drove Trump’s defeat in Midwest “battleground” states
- UPS worker dies of injuries at Louisville Worldport facility as holiday package crush begins
- Students criticize University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel over reckless reopening
- Twitter ends suspension of IYSSE account after widespread opposition
- The Endless Trench: Hiding for decades from the Spanish fascists
- Toyota workers in India continue strike, defy state back-to-work order
- EU policy responsible for the massive death toll in the Mediterranean Sea
- Oppose Sri Lankan government’s repressive essential services order against port workers fighting COVID-19
- No justice for families 10 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster
- As Europe’s governments preside over mass death, workers must fight for the shutdown of nonessential production and schools
- As COVID-19 surges, the New York Times demands that schools remain open
- Managers at Tyson pork plant took bets on how many workers would contract COVID-19
- FAA clears Boeing’s deadly 737 Max 8 aircraft to fly again
- Biden, Pence both reject lockdowns to save lives as coronavirus pandemic explodes
- US jobless claims surge
- Palestinian Authority restores “cooperation” with Israel as Pompeo visits West Bank
- Pompeo escalates Iran war threats in trip to Israel
- India’s unprecedented economic contraction deepens mass social misery
- UK city of Hull becomes new COVID-19 epicentre fuelled by unsafe schools
- Increased use of food banks by middle-income families in UK as food poverty surges
- Brevard County sheriff’s deputy kills two Florida teenagers
- Swallowing camels and straining on gnats—Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback group “discovers” top union leader practices “class collaboration”
- Support builds among autoworkers for emergency action as pandemic spreads throughout factories
- War crimes report: Australian special forces murdered 39 Afghans
- Montgomery, Alabama teachers report on hostile and unsafe working conditions
2020-11-21
- US hits record 200,000 new daily COVID-19 cases as hospitals fill to capacity
- Trump administration delays enforcement of TikTok ban
- German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp destroys another 5,000 jobs
- Sri Lankan artists discuss COVID-19 and its impact on their creative work, living conditions
- San Diego schools continue to reopen as California surpasses 1 million COVID-19 cases
- Fascist Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse released after posting $2 million bail
- Stop the rearming of Germany’s air force, army, and navy!
- As winter sets in Portland’s homeless face exposure to the cold, lack of beds and COVID-19
- Pentagon shakeup aimed at paving path to Trump coup
- New York region transportation agency prepares draconian cuts to service and transit jobs
- Chaotic move to online learning designed to facilitate reopening of New York City schools
- UK government announces £21.5 billion increase in military spending
- Mexican General Cienfuegos walks free after US drops drug charges
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Frontline nurse at UK’s Royal Bournemouth Hospital speaks out as COVID-19 cases surge
- Explosion at Faurecia Gladstone auto parts plant in Indiana injures three
- Federal prisoner Orlando Hall executed after US Supreme Court clears the way
- Trump holds White House meeting with Michigan Republicans in bid to overturn Biden victory
- World economy engulfed by “debt tsunami”
- CFPE online meeting: The global fight for educator and student safety in the COVID-19 pandemic
- California ballot propositions: Voters reject identity politics, but app-based delivery giants buy protection
- As Canada’s ruling class lets pandemic run rampant, workers must fight to shut down nonessential production and schools
- Brazilian state of Amapá on brink of social explosion after 18-day blackout
- Binghamton University closes after coronavirus outbreak, University at Buffalo defies guidelines to remain open
- Former UAW VP Joe Ashton gets wrist-slap prison term as workers confront rampant COVID-19 in auto plants
- Pandemic-related surge of mental health issues continues in Australia
- European Commission accuses Amazon of violating antitrust rules
- Montgomery, Alabama educators hold protest at State Capitol to demand school closures
2020-11-23
- With COVID-19 spreading through auto plants, workers report death at FCA Warren Truck Assembly Plant
- Iowa hospitals overwhelmed, Wisconsin health care system on brink of collapse amid exponential rise in COVID-19 cases
- Dozens killed in Uganda as police and military carry out brutal crackdown on protests
- This week in history: November 23-29
- All intensive care beds occupied in Switzerland after COVID-19 infections explode
- Stanford academic senate condemns Scott Atlas
- COVID-19 infections spread rapidly in Spain amid government inaction
- Solomon Islands government to ban Facebook
- As demands for work stoppage grow, UAW officials tell Sterling Heights Assembly workers: “Don’t read the WSWS”
- Thanksgiving in America: Massive food lines and evictions as benefits expire
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise at 100
- Australia: Union shuts down nurses’ strike at Sydney’s Blacktown Hospital
- Nigerian government goes on offensive against youth protesting police brutality
- Backed by the union, Mercedes plans to close its oldest factory in Berlin
- Embattled Australian Labor Party leader appeals for business support
- UK universities expose thousands of international students to raging pandemic
- Tens of thousands made homeless in UK as winter looms and temperatures plummet
- Guatemalan government cracks down on anti-austerity protests
- Trump continues drive to nullify election
- Mass opposition among healthcare workers as estimated deaths exceed 20,000
2020-11-24
- Zoom cancels meetings at several universities on Zoom censorship
- A month after being hired at suburban Detroit Fiat Chrysler plant, worker dies from COVID-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Boris Johnson announces end of national lockdown, prepares surge of COVID-19
- University of Sydney staff hold walk-out, protest sackings of entire departments
- Australian university union blocks opposition as cuts to jobs and conditions intensify
- Federal agency lifts blockade on Biden transition, but Trump pledges to continue electoral coup
- Trial 4: A shameless police frame-up in Boston
- Deep budget cuts face mass transit systems throughout the United States
- Florida Sheriff’s Office intelligence-gathering program labels student youth as future criminals
- US, Israel and Saudi Arabia meet amid mounting war threats against Iran
- Why are millions of Americans traveling for Thanksgiving as the pandemic rages?
- New Zealand government, media downplay Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
- Labor governments presided over most confirmed Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
- Jeff Riedel, photographer and fighter for socialism: 1968-2020
- Chicago nursing home workers launch strike against poverty wages, lack of protection from COVID-19
- 650 bodies stored in freezer trucks for months in New York City disaster morgue
- North Carolina pastor who led peaceful march to polls charged with felony assault
- Strikes and protests across Germany against regular school operations
- Nearly seven million German adults are heavily indebted
- Biden names national security team of right-wing militarists
- Alabama juvenile hall teacher speaks out on hazardous conditions
2020-11-25
- Mass layoffs loom for Silicon Valley service workers
- Southwest Airlines gives ultimatum to workers: wage cuts or furloughs in 2021
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government builds migrant concentration camps on Canary Islands
- What’s behind the UAW’s attack on the World Socialist Web Site
- Further statements from Australia in defence of Dr. Scalice against the slanders of the CPP
- Joe Biden’s cabinet: A rainbow coalition of imperialist reaction
- New York City teachers union pushes for fast return to in-person classes
- Interior Minister in German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania forced to resign over ties to neo-Nazi network
- Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a “progressive” Biden administration
- Refugees season at the Imperial War Museum in London: A century of crises, but the real causes ignored
- UK mother whose children all contracted COVID-19 speaks out to demand school closures: “I agree you must close schools and universities to save lives”
- Surge in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia
- Greek government bans protests, imposes authoritarian measures utilising pretext of pandemic
- French police launch violent crackdown on Paris refugee camp
- As virus surges in North Dakota, Fargo food distribution workers strike over lack of COVID-19 protections
- Pennsylvania, Nevada certify Biden victories as Trump repeats his vows to overturn the election
- US coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths explode during past two weeks
- The “Zero-Covid” campaign by Britain’s pseudo-left: a political cover for Labour and the TUC’s back-to-work drive
- As pandemic rages out of control, Canada’s governments insist on keeping economy “open” to protect corporate profits
- Sri Lankan budget: Tax bonanza for big business and increased burdens on working people
- Assange’s life in danger as major COVID-19 outbreak hits Belmarsh Prison
- Amazon announces the opening of its online pharmacy
- Two Alabama teachers die from COVID-19 as governor vows to keep schools and businesses open
2020-11-26
- Australian war crimes report points to history of military atrocities and coverups
- Thousands of US college students return home for Thanksgiving amid surging pandemic
- Thai protesters defy threat of draconian lèse-majesté law
- UK Chancellor launches austerity offensive: “Our economic emergency has only just begun.”
- Famed Turkish pianist, composer Timur Selçuk dies at 74
- Hailing election security, New York Times drops its “Russian meddling” narrative
- What the rich are thankful for
- President Trump issues full pardon of former national security advisor Michael Flynn
- Pseudo-left Fourth International Bureau announces suspension of NSSP
- Australia: Residents speak out against northern NSW school closures
- US jobless claims and hunger spike as Congress goes on vacation
- Iraq’s economic and political crisis threatens to ignite new upheavals
- Meet the Censored: Andre Damon
- Tens of millions of workers to join all-India general strike
- UK student nurse and her daughter speak out on impact of pandemic
- India’s ruling elite welcomes Biden-Harris victory in US presidential election
- Greece’s hospitals face collapse in the second coronavirus wave
- What UAW President Rory Gamble is really thankful for this Thanksgiving
- French National Assembly adopts “global security” ban on filming of police
- The Democratic Socialists of America pleads with Biden not to appoint Rahm Emanuel
- Biden delivers pablum and pretense as he consolidates a right-wing administration
2020-11-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US CDC plans to reduce quarantine time after potential COVID-19 exposure
- Union official denounces WSWS, seeks to intimidate workers at Australia Post meeting
- The anti-refugee police riot in Paris: A warning to the working class
- Australian PM seeks to protect revenue from China while reasserting US alliance
- Censored Planet: University of Michigan research finds worldwide increase in internet censorship
- Study finds meatpacking plants were responsible for 8 percent of coronavirus cases in opening phase of pandemic in the US
- Layoffs leave New York City-area nursing homes unprepared as the pandemic intensifies
- ‘Popoy’ Lagman: A Stalinist rival of the Communist Party of the Philippines
- UFCW ignores strike vote by West Virginia Kroger workers, pushes through sellout agreement
- Amid COVID-19 disaster on university campuses, students must build campus safety committees!
- Millions of Indian workers join national general strike against Modi government’s social attacks
- Labour-run Croydon council declares bankruptcy due to rampant property speculation
- COVID-19 death of Ontario youth worker—a tragic outcome of the ruling elite’s criminal school reopening policy
- British government’s pandemic response threatens art and culture
- “Any return to ‘normality’ is a long way off”: Musicians and technicians speak to the WSWS
2020-11-28
- FCA ramps up production at Warren Truck despite death of temporary worker from COVID-19
- MAS factory workers in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, discuss concerns over pandemic
- New ultra-right Supreme Court majority invokes religion to block COVID-19 safety measures
- Massive spread of COVID-19 in Kentucky schools and death of 15-year-old girl prompts statewide school closures
- Who is Alejandro Mayorkas?
- New IRS rule will push many US small businesses to the brink
- Papua New Guinea embroiled in ongoing political turmoil
- 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels
- Michigan COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing medical facilities to occupancy limits
- UK government pandemic policies lead to several suicides among students
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Top scientist assassinated as Israel and US stage war provocations against Iran
- Greek general strike against attacks on right to demonstrate and devastating coronavirus policy
- Israel’s siege means death for Gaza’s COVID-19 patients
- French police filmed violently assaulting music producer in Paris
- Ten years since WikiLeaks published the US diplomatic cables
- Company Town: a damning look at the role of Unifor in the GM Oshawa plant closure
- California Highway Patrol evicts homeless families on Thanksgiving eve
- Brazilian government intensifies herd immunity campaign amid new COVID-19 surge
- Australian paramedics under mounting pressure
- Leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center expose worldwide conspiracy to suppress workers’ resistance
2020-11-30
- Utopia and the cartoonishness of “conspiracy theories”
- This week in history: November 30-December 6
- Workers from Turkey defend Dr. Scalice against the attacks by Jose Sison and the CPP
- Sri Lankan government orders schools to reopen, threatening thousands with COVID-19
- Despite strikes and protests over coronavirus, schools and day-care centres remain open in Germany
- Private sector and Conservative Party cronies reap over £17 billion in government contracts during pandemic
- Spain’s Podemos to oversee distribution of EU bailout funds to the super-rich
- New York City schools to reopen amid explosion of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, deaths
- Migrants protest in India demanding right to return to New Zealand
- Microsoft’s new “Productivity Score” helps employers spy on workers
- Argentine football star Diego Maradona mourned worldwide
- ICE detainees in New Jersey stage hunger strike over coronavirus threat
- German Green Party sets course for government based on promoting militarism and war
- Hundreds of thousands protest across France against police violence and Macron’s police immunity law
- Ethiopian military seizes control of regional capital after offensive against Tigray province
- Australia: Coles imposes three-month lockout on 350 warehouse workers
- Cleveland-Heights University Heights School District threatens to halt health care benefits if teachers strike
- French government orders dissolution of leading Muslim rights group
- Barbaric murder by Brazilian security guards sparks protests, repression
- US State Department moves to suppress criticism of Israel
- Trade unions stage scattered protests on Amazon’s Black Friday
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