Archive: 12/2020
2020-12-01
- Dozens feared dead in mine collapse as pandemic-fueled social catastrophe wracks Zimbabwe
- Young people speak out about the unprecedented collapse in their living conditions since the pandemic began
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Steel announces electric arc furnace in Alabama as crisis mounts in global steel industry
- Retired Spanish officers appeal to the king to back a military coup
- Deaths mount as Spain’s PSOE–Podemos government escalates assault on migrants
- COVID-19 and the lessons of 2020: A socialist perspective for the struggles ahead
- Statements of support from Sri Lanka in defence of Dr. Scalice against Stalinist slanders
- Resolution in Germany: “Close schools and day-care centres and organize safe education!”
- Rent debt “bomb” points to depth of social crisis in Australia
- The Queen’s Gambit: The coming of age of a chess prodigy
- Eight protesting inmates demanding COVID-19 protection shot dead in Sri Lankan prison
- The conspiracy to reopen schools
- New York City educators denounce plans to reopen schools
- In Germany, dozens of students, parents and teacher representatives call for school strikes and safe education
- War tensions mount in wake of Israeli assassination of top Iranian scientist
- Fiji and Australia to negotiate new military pact
- GM Fairfax worker speaks out over management-UAW cover-up of COVID-19 spread
- Evictions caused nearly 11,000 excess COVID-19 deaths in six months in the US
- Trudeau government appeals ruling on illegal actions of Canada’s secret police
- UK Conservative government moves to end national lockdown with Labour Party backing
- Biden economic team: Straight from Wall Street
- Kremlin pressures Lukashenko to give up power in Belarus
- COVID-19 cases explode at GM Fort Wayne as UAW abets cover-up
2020-12-02
- Sixteen-year-old Wisconsin high school student dies of COVID-19
- Australian war crimes report: A damning indictment of the barbarity in Afghanistan
- Australian ruling elite responds to Chinese condemnation of Afghan war crimes with nationalist hysteria
- Indian Toyota workers continue month-long strike against speedup
- Biden-Harris tech policy: militarism and censorship
- Strikes by Kia and GM workers continue in South Korea
- Podemos silent on Spanish generals’ coup threats
- The coronavirus pandemic and the case for expropriating the financial oligarchy
- Hundreds of nurses strike in Albany and New Rochelle, New York
- Music and aerosols: What the research reveals about the performing arts during a pandemic
- 14-year-old Michigan youth who was brutally treated by police dies of COVID-19
- Los Angeles school district plans full reopening as COVID-19 outbreaks mount in schools
- Health care workers in the US speak out: “We have PTSD”
- Faurecia parts workers launch Rank-and-File Safety Committee in Saline, Michigan
- Mass farmer protest rattles India’s far-right BJP government
- Germany’s Left Party slanders the legacy of Friedrich Engels
- Trump campaign threatens Republican officials certifying election results
- British government to deport Jamaican “foreign nationals” after fascistic campaign
- Who is Biden’s top economic adviser Brian Deese?
- UK Labour Party backs Johnson government ending lockdown in “national interest”
- Chilean public health workers go on indefinite national strike
- Chicago Public Schools unveils reopening plan
2020-12-03
- The science behind COVID-19 vaccines
- EU-Turkey tensions mount over Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean
- Bipartisan $908 billion “emergency relief framework” receives support from Democratic congressional leadership
- New Zealand inquiry suppresses evidence about fascist terror attack
- 100 years since US socialist journalist John Reed’s death
- Donald Trump’s Mein Kampf
- US coronavirus pandemic deaths heading towards 3,000 per day
- Mobilize the working class to halt school reopenings in New York City!
- Letter from a Bournemouth Hospital frontline nurse sparks broader discussion on conditions facing NHS workers in UK
- Illinois nursing home workers strike in second week as pandemic surges: Build rank-and-file-committees to save lives
- Nurses union in New York state ends strikes as COVID-19 hospitalizations surpass 100,000 for first time
- Massive service cuts to public transit planned in Massachusetts
- Letter to Boycott Return to Unsafe Schools (BRTUS)/Parents United Against Unsafe Schools
- “So that rifles shoot”: Germany’s Green Party leader Baerbock pleads for massive arms spending and new war missions
- UAW keeping workers at Ohio Ventra parts plant on the job without contract during pandemic
- Canadian government’s fiscal update intensifies criminal drive to keep “economy open” as pandemic rages
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as Johnson ends one-month national lockdown
- The DSA pays tribute to David Dinkins
- UK Labour leadership tells Zionist meeting that thousands of party members face expulsion
- Two years since the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, California
- Police department in Mississippi pilots program linked to home security cameras
- Adulkt Life’s Book of Curses: Indie veterans make a new beginning
- Australian court upholds sacking of academic for criticising US and Israeli militarism
2020-12-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spanish generals call for mass murder in fascistic leaked WhatsApp chats
- New US unemployment claims top 712,000 as mass layoffs continue
- Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan agrees to austerity package for Transport for London
- Wife of UK chancellor richer than the Queen: Rishi Sunak and the rule of the oligarchy
- UK schools facing bankruptcy during pandemic
- Australian soldiers drank alcohol from prosthetic leg of dead Afghan
- Kremlin girds itself for a Biden presidency, while still refusing to acknowledge his electoral victory
- Capitalism’s winter of death
- Introduction to The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
- New report condemns Greek government’s “inhuman” treatment of refugees
- New surge of COVID-19 cases at GM Fort Wayne amid reports of expanding outbreaks at other factories
- Cancellations and postponements as disaster in college football continues
- State Supreme Court rejects Trump suit in Wisconsin
- Cleveland Heights Teachers Union calls off strike hours after picket lines are formed
- Trudeau names top military officer to lead Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout
- Hundreds evacuated in the face of fast-moving Southern California wildfire
- And Breathe Normally from Iceland: Two women in conditions “when everything is going wrong”
- Candidate of Brazil’s pseudo-left PSOL loses in São Paulo as party prepares new betrayals
- ILO survey reveals COVID-19 impact on Bangladeshi women garment workers
- Leipzig University resorts to authoritarian methods to push through meeting with far-right Professor Jörg Baberowski
- At Germany’s “Auto Summit,” IG Metall backs major corporations in international trade war
2020-12-05
- Number of infections among UPS airline pilots doubled in one month
- Growing protests in Germany against lethal policy of opening schools
- Adu: A young African boy on a perilous journey
- Podemos denies mounting danger of fascist military coup in Spain
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the global resurgence of class struggle
- FBI gathered US website visitor logs under the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act
- US occupational safety agency fails to report hundreds of health care worker deaths
- UK Tory government manipulated statistics to play down COVID-19 danger to educators
- New Zealand government denounces China’s condemnation of Australian war crimes
- Michigan educators, autoworkers and healthcare workers: Unite to stop COVID-19 and save lives now!
- Medical workers protest across Mexico as President AMLO continues to downplay pandemic
- Sri Lankan government activates lie machine to cover up prison killings
- Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a major battlefield in war with China
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- November jobs report shows collapse of economic growth
- UK healthcare workers: “The ending of lockdown will see a massive increase in infections”
- Beijing intensifies crackdown on Hong Kong political opposition
- French government announces mass closure of mosques in continuing anti-Muslim crackdown
- Trump administration plans five federal executions before January 20, authorizes use of firing squads, electric chair and asphyxiation
- Washington, DC public schools return students to classes amid record-breaking COVID-19 spike
- 1.5 million dead from the coronavirus pandemic worldwide
- Four workers killed in explosion at UK water treatment plant
- Alternative for Germany shifts further to the right
2020-12-07
- UK People's Assembly talk “Zero Covid” while doing nothing
- Sixth worker dies from COVID-19 at FCA’s Warren Truck plant
- Washington D.C. transit system proposes unprecedented cuts in response to severe budget shortfall
- More Australian university workers speak out on the loss of jobs and conditions
- This week in history: December 7-13
- “Red-tagging” accusations at the centre of elite conflict in the Philippines
- Trump incites fascist violence in Georgia
- One-quarter of Macomb County Jail inmates test positive for coronavirus
- Chinese defence minister visits Nepal to boost political and military ties
- Macron greets butcher of Cairo al-Sisi for three-day state visit to Paris
- The unseen plight of undocumented workers in the US during the pandemic
- SEIU Healthcare reaches tentative agreement with management in Illinois nursing home strike
- Australian Greens on Afghan war crimes: Hypocrisy, hand-wringing and support for militarism
- Student government delegates at the University of Michigan speak out against the administration’s COVID-19 policies
- Food prices, waste rise as food insecurity affects tens of millions in the US
- New York City workers condemn mayor’s plan to reopen schools Monday
- COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death in the US
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: The joke’s on who?
- Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank announce new round of job cuts
- Thirteen thousand jobs threatened at UK’s Arcadia Group
- New coronavirus hotspots at German meatpacking plants and Amazon hubs
- Alberta’s UCP government plans field hospitals as it allows COVID-19 infections to soar
- Alabama loses two more educators to COVID-19
2020-12-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK’s “spycops” inquiry continues coverup of Stephen Lawrence murder
- Ukraine, Hungary clash as NATO discusses Ukrainian membership
- Plans by University of Colorado at Boulder to cut 50 tenured jobs evoke opposition
- Karnataka chief minister plots with company to smash strike by Indian Toyota workers
- Australian government’s citizenship cancellation sets anti-democratic precedent
- Strong response to Australian SEP meeting on COVID-19 and the lessons of 2020
- Tens of millions of Americans struggle to pay rent as unemployment benefits and eviction moratorium near expiration
- Poverty in Germany reaches a new record high
- Reopening of New York City schools threatens massive spread of COVID-19
- Sellout union deal in New York City creates only 4 positions to accommodate pregnant transit workers
- Mélenchon calls for military conscription, arms buildup in France
- UK deploys troops to Mali
- Seeking to stave off demands for industry shutdown, UAW to host COVID-19 testing site in Louisville, Kentucky
- US war threats mount against Iran and Venezuela with six weeks remaining in Trump term
- Modi maneuvers as support for Indian farmers’ protest swells
- New Zealand housing crisis worsens under Labour
- Georgia Senate debate: Republican fascist agitation versus Democratic political cowardice
- French President Macron hails Egypt’s dictator General al-Sisi in Paris
- Florida COVID-19 data scientist whistleblower raided by state police at gunpoint
- Trump supporters stage armed protest at home of Michigan secretary of state
- 76 Days: On the front lines of the coronavirus battle in Wuhan
- Over 2,200 students at Columbia University threaten tuition strike amid economic crisis
- California’s new COVID-19 restrictions place burden on workers and small business owners
- Coronavirus outbreak at Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon exceeds 100 infections
2020-12-09
- Zappa: New documentary attempts to demythologize composer, multi-instrumentalist
- New study finds young adults vulnerable to developing debilitating long-term complications from COVID-19
- Airline unions try to impose wage freeze deal with Virgin Australia
- Opposition erupts at San Diego State University following decision to cancel spring break
- One week after wildcat sickout strike, South Carolina teacher dies from COVID-19
- Workplace COVID-19 infections on the rise in Oregon
- Family demands investigation after 23-year-old shot three times by police in Columbus, Ohio
- London bus petition to sack Unite official John Murphy withdrawn in abject capitulation
- The pandemic and the normalization of death
- Optare UK bus manufacturing workers strike for pay increase
- Teacher walkout forces closure of Toronto-area school hit by COVID-19 outbreak
- “Human Nature”: Documentary explores CRISPR, the groundbreaking development in genetics
- Autoworkers in Mexico unmask AMLO’s promise of “union democracy”
- Lufthansa increases job cuts to almost 50,000
- US autoworkers speak in support of strikes in South Korea and India
- US secretary of state hypocritically sanctions Chinese officials over Hong Kong human rights
- European Central Bank set to provide further market boost
- Trump, Republicans continue attempts to overturn election results
- UK COVID-19 vaccination programme will not halt pandemic deaths due to end of lockdown
- Brexit negotiations: Johnson in eleventh-hour discussion with von der Leyen
- Biden selects recently retired general, ex-Mideast war commander to head Pentagon
2020-12-10
- Detroit Free Press breaks silence on Fiat Chrysler COVID-19 deaths in effort at damage control
- How Tyson Foods chairman John Tyson made $600 million by exposing meatpacking workers to coronavirus
- Thai protest leaders charged under draconian lèse majesté law
- UK National Education Union calls off strike over Covid safety at primary school in Merseyside
- Auto parts worker dies of COVID-19-induced heart attack at Faurecia plant in Saline, Michigan
- Royal commission into New Zealand terror attack whitewashes government agencies
- Democratic mayor green lights police assault on protesters opposing family’s eviction in Portland, Oregon
- The Love Song of J. Robinette Biden
- Stop government attack on COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
- In bipartisan vote: US House approves record $741 billion military spending bill
- Coronavirus death toll at record high in Germany: Merkel puts profits ahead of lives
- Mank: Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and the writing of Citizen Kane
- Public sector workers mount national strike across Italy
- Israel faces fourth election within two years
- Senior executive of firm supplying combustible insulation for Grenfell Tower told builders they were mistaking him for “someone who gives a damn”
- Germany’s Christian Democrats close ranks with the far-right Alternative for Germany
- Contract pushed through after GE Appliance workers in Kentucky reject union-backed proposals
- Canadian authorities covering up workplace COVID-19 outbreaks to justify keeping economy and schools open
- Pupils in Germany resist in-person classes and demand “consistent lockdown”
- Anti-Chinese campaign casts doubt over vaccinations as second COVID-19 wave batters Brazil
- Boise, Idaho health district meeting canceled by police after armed protesters threaten board members’ homes
- Australian law rushed through to veto agreements with China
- Montgomery, Alabama teachers demand the right to teach from home, are snubbed by school board
2020-12-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UFCW ends 3-month Winnipeg school bus drivers' strike without a contract, as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
- Tens of millions of Americans require aid as USDA food box program nears expiration
- Ukrainian uranium mines shut down amidst protest wave, threatening radioactive contamination
- Sweden sees ICU occupancy approach 99 percent in Stockholm
- Sri Lankan president calls on companies to exploit pandemic for cost-cutting
- UK government forces schools to stay open as infections continue to surge
- Student rent strikes spread across UK universities
- Europe’s COVID-19 deaths approach half a million
- Fatal explosion at West Virginia chemical plant kills 1, injures 3
- US B-52 bombers threaten Iran for second time in three weeks
- As Indian farmers step up protests against pro-agribusiness “reform,” Modi prepares mass repression
- Private school permitting students to wear Islamic clothing closed in Paris
- US Army punishes 14 senior officers at Fort Hood citing “leadership failures”
- Ventra Sandusky: Vote “No” on 2020 contract! Form rank-and-file committees to oppose UAW sellout!
- US Federal Trade Commission sues Facebook over monopolistic acquisitions and anticompetitive practices
- US jobless claims spike to 853,000 while Congress stalls further aid
- Spain’s ruling PSOE, Podemos use “anti-disinformation” tool for internet spying
- Eighteen state governments urge Supreme Court to overturn Biden victory
- New York Times, Washington Post feminist critics disparage The Queen’s Gambit
- Committee for Public Education (Australia) online meeting discusses global struggles of teachers and educators
- Migrant caravan of workers displaced by hurricanes departs Honduras
- Fraught talks between Britain and European Union agree Sunday deadline for Brexit deal
- Auto companies’ stocks rise as workers die from COVID-19
2020-12-12
- Johnson and Macron governments step up collaboration in persecution of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
- Texas educators demand halt to in-person state standardized testing
- Workers around the world must defend striking Indian Toyota workers from repressive government measures
- Cleveland-Cliffs and US Steel announce major acquisitions
- Frontline nurse at UK’s Poole Hospital Trust speaks out about unsafe working conditions amid surge of COVID-19
- Stop the wave of death! Repudiate the policies of the pandemic profiteers!
- COVID-19 death toll continues climbing in the Pacific
- Met Opera locks out stagehands while New York Philharmonic musicians take major pay cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Workers across the US speak out in defense of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government uses deadly force against wages protests
- Trump administration’s state-sponsored killing spree continues with two more federal executions
- EU Summit: billions for the banks, nothing for workers
- Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn US presidential election
- European Central Bank increases stimulus but markets want more
- Croatian government and EU intensify violence against refugees
- Hospital capacity in the US severely strained as coronavirus infections continue to surge
- Inside the COVID-19 outbreak at the Carriage House nursing home in Bay City, Michigan
- Canada’s military seeks to cover its tracks following damning report on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
- Amazon Web Services offers companies new tools for spying on workers
- Amin: A worker far from home
- US aviation officials push to resume normal air traffic operations while coronavirus spreads
2020-12-14
- This week in history: December 14-20
- New York Times smears COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- South Korean Kia workers strike again as GM and union push vote on rejected contract
- College of Saint Rose in New York slashes programs and tenured faculty positions
- As Trump denies electoral defeat, Democrats preach bipartisanship
- Sweden’s “herd immunity” policy produces disaster
- New York City halts indoor dining but keeps schools open as second coronavirus wave accelerates
- As farmers intensify protests in north India, working-class anger erupts in Karnataka in the south
- Jacobin complains of being frozen out of Biden administration while promoting illusions in the Democrats
- US recognizes Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara
- India moves to strengthen strategic relations with Sri Lanka and the Maldives
- US retail giants shut off pandemic hazard pay to workforce while funneling billions into share buybacks
- NLRB says Google illegally spied on and fired workers in 2019
- Hundreds protest in Columbus, Ohio to demand justice for Casey Goodson, victim of police shooting
- Open schools and businesses in Germany are leading to record infections and mass death
- Macron government authorizes police documentation of political views of French population
- Baltimore Amazon workers form rank-and-file safety committee to defend workers and save lives
- More brinksmanship in Brexit talks as deadline extended again
- School students in Germany protest and enforce online teaching to combat coronavirus infection
- Biden’s choice for US trade representative signals anti-China stance
- UN rapporteur Nils Melzer demands Assange’s immediate release after ten years’ arbitrary detention
2020-12-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Justice Department shuts down UAW corruption investigation, praises union “reforms”
- New data expose catastrophe of Turkey’s “herd immunity” policy
- 15-year-old is assassinated while being treated in hospital in Mexico as homicides reach record levels
- Bipartisan congressional group reveals threadbare stimulus plan
- Statements of support for COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones from across the US
- Labor helps expand Australian spy agency’s secret interrogation powers
- Biden staggers toward the White House
- Editor of New Zealand’s major corporate think tank exposed as a bigot
- Canada’s far north Nunavut Territory faces major COVID-19 outbreak
- Temporary halt to Detroit water cutoffs extended until 2022 due to COVID-19
- Michigan high schooler contracts COVID-19 after being forced to take in-person SAT test
- London becomes epicentre of pandemic in the UK
- Pandemic exacerbates internet access crisis in Midwestern US
- US Treasury and Commerce department email systems reportedly hacked
- Surge in “excess deaths” points to broader impact of COVID-19 pandemic
- IG Metall responds to planned closure of Daimler plant in Berlin: “The main thing is that we’re sitting at the table”
- Chilean health unions suspend indefinite strike, provoking anger among workers
- Australian Trotskyist Barry Jobson dies aged 78
- An appraisal of Indian film singer, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946–2020)
- Spectacular Native American rock art newly discovered in the Colombian Amazon
- “United we stand, divided we fall.” Amazon worker speaks out on workplace conditions, calls for global struggle by the working class
2020-12-16
- US teachers union “lefts” pen love letter to Biden
- American small business owners speak on the devastating impact of the pandemic
- Scottish government and unions refuse to extend holiday break despite teachers' demands
- Johnson government forces London schools to remain open
- Largest US overseas base placed on missile alert amid nuclear war warnings
- Police arrested more than 117 journalists in the US in 2020
- Form rank-and-file committees at Australia Post to fight union-management restructure!
- For emergency action to save lives! Close schools and shut down nonessential production! Full compensation for workers!
- Southern California nurses to strike for health and safety of patients and workers
- Mississippi hospitals overwhelmed by surge in COVID-19 cases
- Biden calls for unity in Atlanta after McConnell acknowledges Democrats’ 2020 presidential victory
- Germany’s “hard lockdown” protects corporations at expense of lives
- Indian government and big business fear farmers’ protest could trigger eruption of working class opposition
- France ends coronavirus lockdown, as thousands of cases reported each day
- Australian union prepares to shut down struggle by locked-out Coles workers
- Chicago mayor Lightfoot sought to block release of video of wrongful police raid
- Bob Dylan sells his songwriting catalog to Universal for a reported $300 Million
- British Columbia’s NDP government presiding over mass COVID-19 infections in schools
- Attorney General Barr resigns as Trump considers appointing special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden
- Australian intelligence review paves way for expanded political surveillance
- The collapse of the Arecibo radio telescope
2020-12-17
- Tennessee high school coach’s death underscores dangers of school reopenings and sports
- US secretary of state incites xenophobic hysteria against Chinese students, denounces “anti-American” universities
- Kia auto workers in South Korea launch week-long strike action
- Rafer Johnson, once the “World’s Greatest Athlete,” dies at age 86
- Almost 1,000 daily COVID-19 deaths in Germany: The criminal outcome of keeping businesses and schools open
- New York City educators, parents and students must organize a strike to close all schools!
- Nurses speak on burnout and PTSD as COVID-19 hospitalizations in US reach new highs
- CNN, Spiegel double down on anti-Russia campaign over Navalny case
- German government increases military spending, cuts education and health care
- UK: Pandemic hits working class hardest due to deep social inequality
- Reinstate London bus driver Judith Katera! For united strike action to fight victimisations!
- Sri Lanka: Lively discussion at Health Workers Action Committee online meeting
- Republican state senators call on Trump to declare martial law to overturn Biden election victory
- Eight million plunged into poverty since US coronavirus aid ended
- The deadly impact of US college reopenings in the fall, a balance sheet
- Report details widespread illegal extraction of smartphone data by US law enforcement
- California officials order 5,000 body bags as state’s intensive care units near full capacity
- Unions voice hypocritical alarm over Australian industrial relations bill
- The contemporary relevance of Ludwig van Beethoven on the 250th anniversary of his birth
- Xavier Becerra: Biden makes phony “left” gesture with Health and Human Services cabinet pick
- Arkansas poultry workers protest lack of protection against COVID-19
2020-12-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The ICC refuses to prosecute UK war crimes in Iraq despite “reasonable” evidence
- UPS Worldport facility begins distribution of vaccine
- Attacks on Australian university jobs deepen but union boasts it is “stronger”
- Unprecedented US job losses continue while Congress dithers over shrinking “relief” bill
- Texas educators call for united struggle in defense of whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- What is the impact of $37,000 of student debt on a worker’s life?
- Stop the UK’s winter of death! For emergency action to save lives!
- American workers denounce police raid on COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- Quebec unions plotting with government to impose concessions on health care workers
- Over 800,000 workers fall off payrolls, as poverty rockets in Britain
- “We want them infected:” Emails show White House sought to promote spread of COVID-19
- Protests erupt in New Caledonia over sale of nickel mine
- Brazil and Mexico report spikes in COVID-19 deaths as pandemic ravages Latin America
- New York City EMS worker receives massive support against right-wing smear by New York Post
- Corporate media, Democrats escalate claims of Russian hacking of US government agencies
- French President Emmanuel Macron tests positive for coronavirus
- Fed commitment to financial stimulus measures becomes open-ended
- Colombo chief medical officer reveals Sri Lankan government’s “herd immunity” policy
- “This is the catalyst”: Autoworkers support call for nationwide shutdown with full compensation
- Young Ahmed: A portrait of a youthful religious zealot—from the Dardenne brothers
2020-12-19
- US Postal Service, starved for funds, approaches gridlock with 14,000 workers quarantined
- UAW lectures workers on “practicing gratitude” and keeping up “healthy habits” this Christmas
- Indiana steelworker Troy Allen, 45, dies while working at US Steel’s Gary Works mill
- Sydney COVID-19 outbreak follows pro-business lifting of Australian safety restrictions
- Congress dithers over token relief bill as 4.8 million more Americans face poverty in January
- The frenzied anti-Russia campaign in anticipation of Biden presidency
- One in five US prisoners has contracted COVID-19, more than 1,700 have died
- The World Socialist Web Site and the crises of 2020
- The global surge in COVID cases and deaths requires an immediate international response
- Massive cuts loom as New York transit agency stakes its budget on federal bailout
- Trump Defense Secretary Christopher Miller cancels meetings with Biden transition team
- Whitewash investigation ends with Tyson Foods firing seven managers
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- GM Korea workers narrowly approve new contract
- Indiana auto parts workers support call for nationwide political general strike
- More than 30,000 daily infections in Germany and war-like conditions in hospitals
- Cyclone Yasa leaves thousands homeless in Fiji
- Australian “National Day of Action” a farce as union prepares to sell out Coles workers
- Defaults raise concerns on financial markets over Chinese debt
- Canada’s pandemic wage subsidy: A slush fund for wealthy shareholders and corporate executives
- Southern California hospital ICUs reach zero percent capacity as COVID-19 rips through state
- Third worker dies of COVID-19 at a Bakkavor food plant in the UK
- Room 2806: The Accusation—Digging up the discredited sexual assault case against French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn
2020-12-21
- Washington educators denounce Democratic Governor Jay Inslee’s plan to reopen schools
- Trade union, works council and CEO impose cost-cutting programme on Volkswagen workforce in Germany
- The COVID vaccine rollout: A demonstration of capitalist incompetence
- This week in history: December 21-27
- Sydney COVID-19 outbreak highlights global threat but Australian governments oppose effective safety restrictions
- Bipartisan US “relief” bill stiffs workers and unemployed, gives billions more to business
- Active-duty Spanish soldiers chant fascist songs in online videos
- Britain’s dangerous new COVID-19 strain: A warning to take urgent action now!
- New Zealand’s border restrictions leave thousands of students stranded
- John le Carré (1931–2020): Spy novelist and “inside-outside” man
- Germany: Coronavirus pandemic exacerbates social inequality
- COVID outbreak and China tensions expose Australian government bid to claim “recovery”
- Trump held White House meeting on martial law plan to overturn election
- Corbyn launches “Peace and Justice” project to block fight against Labour right-wing
- Over 400 metalworkers on strike at Constellium aluminum plant in Alabama
- Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union advance deadly school reopening plans
- Eight deaths as hundreds of Chicago transit workers infected by COVID-19
- At least five autoworkers test positive for COVID-19 at Windsor, Ontario Fiat-Chrysler plant
- Fed gives banks green light to resume share buybacks
- Sri Lankan government detains young Muslim poet on bogus charges
2020-12-22
- Crisis mounts in Chicago as Lightfoot admits lying and an official resigns following brutal police raid
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Newly released wage data documents 40-year wealth redistribution to top 0.1 percent
- Countries impose UK travel restrictions as more infectious COVID-19 strain threatens to spread worldwide
- Australian COVID-19 outbreak spreads beyond Sydney, but governments reject calls for lockdowns and masks
- As pandemic surges, California hospitals move to ration care
- Video of police killing sparks mass outrage in the Philippines
- As the oligarchs make trillions, Congress offers a pittance for the jobless
- Southern California nurses should reject SEIU’s effort to sabotage struggle for safe conditions
- The Indian farmers’ agitation and the socialist strategy of the working class
- Right-wing extremist sentenced to life imprisonment for attack on synagogue in Halle, Germany
- CDC reports a record 81,000 drug overdose deaths in the US in a 12-month period
- Democrats press to open schools across the US as pandemic surges
- COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates Sri Lanka’s high child poverty rate
- Still no deal in Brexit talks as working class faces disaster
- Top union bureaucrat in Australia lashes out at WSWS article
- Berlin teacher dies following COVID-19 infection
- Massive new coronavirus outbreaks at Amazon in Germany
- Musicians and performers speak with WSWS about COVID-19
- Australian arts and entertainment workers devastated by coronavirus pandemic
- India: Karnataka factory inspectors find workers’ abuse at the Wistron iPhone plant
2020-12-23
- Australia: Victoria’s “Big Housing Build” a windfall for developers
- The new UK variant of coronavirus raises urgent questions about pandemic policy
- Death toll rises to 11 at General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico
- Armed fascists storm Oregon state Capitol building
- Australian government hires private debt collectors to hound welfare recipients
- Bogus debate on “decline of French” in Montreal fuels Quebec chauvinism
- Pioneering country music singer Charley Pride (1934-2020) dies of COVID-19
- Unions try to cover up their role at Australia Post
- UK: Poole Hospital and Royal Bournemouth Hospital staff respond to frontline nurse’s exposure of dangerous working conditions
- Spain’s Podemos deliberately downplayed COVID-19 danger starting in January
- Hunger in the Philippines reaches all-time highs
- Congress to America’s workers: “Let them eat cake”
- Mobilize the working class to defend HCA nurses!
- Russia imposes sanctions on German officials as Navalny story assumes farcical character
- Dire warning from CDC on US life expectancy: “A drop of two to three years for 2020 isn’t out of the question”
- As support grows among London bus drivers: Unite sabotages fight for Judith Katera’s reinstatement
- Australian educators call for the defence of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- The Johns Hopkins slavery “scandal”
- Jacobin glorifies Dolores Ibárruri, Stalinist executioner of the Spanish Revolution
- Half a million dead in Europe from COVID-19 pandemic
- Biden picks Education Secretary committed to opening schools as pandemic rages
- At Daimler, German trade union leader calls for job cuts and increased profits
- The UK’s COVID-19 mutation: The deadly result of a “herd immunity” policy
- Cook County public sector workers carry out one-day strike for hazard pay and safer working conditions
- Chilean health unions conclude sellout deal with right-wing government
- Brazilian Morenoites join Bolsonaro in promoting hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19
- Coronavirus outbreak forces closure of Amazon warehouse in New Jersey
2020-12-24
- Washington D.C. teachers union reaches agreement with Democratic mayor to reopen schools
- COVID-19 bill that stiffed workers full of handouts to big business
- Australian COVID-19 outbreak underscores danger of corporate drive to lift safety restrictions
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government defends “herd immunity” policy in the Lancet
- Reject the SEIU sellout: Mobilize the working class to defend HCA nurses in southern California!
- No to forced work amid raging pandemic! All non-essential production must be shutdown with full compensation to workers!
- Build action committees to oppose a return to UK schools and campuses in January!
- Student rent strikers speak out at UK universities
- Shut down the auto industry to save lives until a vaccine is available to all! Full compensation for all workers!
- Trump pardons Blackwater killers for Nisour Square massacre
- ICUs begin filling up in New York City as Cuomo, de Blasio dither on effective pandemic restrictions
- Rubber glove factories become COVID-19 epicentres in Malaysia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jacobin publishes whitewash of union sell-out bid at Australian warehouse
- Leaked 2021 draft budget set to pauperise Iraqi workers and their families
- Jacobin glorifies Dolores Ibárruri, Stalinist executioner of the Spanish Revolution
- As temperatures plummet and pandemic rages, homelessness in Michigan poised to explode
- Second fatal policing shooting in Columbus, Ohio in less than a month sparks outrage
- Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy: Blaming the poor for their problems
- United Workers Union organises return to work at Hanes warehouse in Australia
- Deadliest week in Germany since COVID-19 pandemic began
- COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths worldwide reach record highs
- Britain descends into chaos as coronavirus crisis mounts
- US Federal Reserve backstops rising corporate debt mountain
- Canadian Cargill plant closed after more than 80 employees test positive for coronavirus
- Connecticut educators denounce right-wing record of Biden’s pick for Education Secretary
- Canada’s health care system buckling as governments reject measures to contain COVID-19
- Germany: Coronavirus outbreaks turn Berlin elderly care homes into death traps
- SEP public meeting: A tribute to Barry Jobson—Australian Trotskyist
- Alabama doubles down on school reopenings, as healthcare catastrophe hits the state
2020-12-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “The working conditions are hell”—Ontario allows COVID-19 to run rampant through workplaces
- Millions in US face weeks without income due to delay in paltry “relief” bill
- This week in history: December 28-January 3
- Tribes: A short comedy film mocks identity politics
- Australia: Hundreds of train drivers in Melbourne quit union to protest sell out
- Sweden records deadliest November since 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
- Active-duty Spanish officers hail retired officers’ fascist calls for mass murder
- Unanswered questions in the SolarWinds Orion hack
- Fiat Chrysler forced to abandon plans for 84-hour workweeks for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- One year into the pandemic, 65,000 deaths in the US in one month
- Explosion in Nashville, Tennessee leaves thousands without communication, disrupts emergency services
- House overrides Trump veto of military spending bill
- Workers demand answers over COVID-19 infections at Cricklewood garage
- Ford Kansas City Assembly worker dies after testing positive for COVID-19
- COVID-19 cases skyrocket in South Korea and Japan
- Israel’s fourth election in two years dominated by far-right forces
- Housing crisis fuels poverty and inequality in New Zealand
- A deadly Christmas in Germany
- Coronavirus accelerates as new strain detected across Europe
- Pentagon brass on “red alert” over Trump’s coup plotting
- French unions and IndustriALL offer cover up for strangling of Constellium strike in Alabama
- California educators, healthcare and logistics workers: Unite to stop COVID-19 and save lives now!
- Brexit deal paves way for further conflicts
- Pandemic profiteers: Forbes adds 50 health care moguls to its list of global billionaires
- A young Berlin teacher dies from coronavirus: An indictment of the city’s pandemic policy
2020-12-30
- Australia: Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry finds “failure of governance”
- Excess deaths in Russia spike
- Fascists enter parliament as COVID-19 devastates Romania
- Washington state judge blocks release of public records in the police killing of Michael Reinoehl
- Federal judge blocks strike by Union Pacific railroad workers over lack of pandemic protections
- Quebec government documents expose its disastrous mishandling of initial pandemic response
- The class dynamic of the massive Wall Street speculation
- Coronavirus cluster continues to grow in Sydney, Australia
- Nine months after devastating flooding, Central Michigan residents are left abandoned
- AMLO government falsified COVID-19 data to avoid shutdowns in Mexico City
- Worker opposition grows as US manufacturers ramp up production amid pandemic upsurge
- Hands off COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
- French testing system missed 9 of 10 COVID-19 cases after first lock-down
- Two Detroit children dead in Christmas morning house fire
- Detroit schools chief Vitti gets pay raise, as unions initial unsafe reopenings and poverty pay for staff
- The Crown Season 4: And outside the palace?
- Catastrophe worsens as UK records nearly 100,000 new COVID-19 cases in 48 hours
- North Carolina ICU nurse: “There is a general expectation that though things have been bad so far, the worst is still on the horizon”
- California hospitals overwhelmed as COVID-19 cases hit 2 million
- Boeing’s deadly 737 Max resumes US commercial flights
- Biden predicts surge in deaths, proposes no measures to stop it, and pledges to reopen the schools
- The Bezos Earth Fund and the charity of the oligarchs
- German high school student: “If we don’t close the schools, no one will!”
2020-12-31
- Australian youth speak on their experiences during COVID-19
- Vaccine distribution fiasco continues in the United States
- Spain to cut pensions as billions go to super-rich in EU pandemic bailout
- Spanish officers plot fascist coup to impose “herd immunity” COVID-19 policy
- South Korean Kia workers approve new contract after union isolates auto struggles
- Biden and Democrats rush to reopen schools in new year as COVID-19 death toll climbs
- Sanders’ political stunt over $2,000 stimulus checks fails
- South Africa: COVID-19 cases soar with little prospect of widespread vaccination
- No federal charges in Cleveland police shooting of Tamir Rice
- Why was the 2019 New Zealand terror attack not prevented?
- US-China tensions at center of fight over Philippine vaccine procurement
- The New York Times scapegoats medical workers in the tragic death of Dr. Susan Moore
- As COVID-19 spreads, New York City schools prepare to reopen Monday after holiday break
- Nurses call for help as California hospitals pushed to the brink
- Political crisis deepens after Nepali parliament dissolved
- Favorite music of 2020
- Freedom of Information request reveals surge of COVID-19 infections among London bus, rail and tube workers
- Racialist campaign in Boston culminates in removal of statue of Lincoln and emancipated slave
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- B-52s fly over Persian Gulf as Washington escalates war threat against Iran
- Indian farmers’ agitation enters second month
- Greece’s oldest Auschwitz survivor has died
- Coronavirus deaths reach record high in Germany as hospitals teeter on brink of collapse
- Macron government rejects national lock-down in France
- Germany’s DAX stock index feasts upon mass death
- Tens of thousands face eviction after Chinese rental company collapses
- Chicago officials refuse teacher accommodations in order to force school reopenings
- Daily deaths near 1,000 as UK Parliament spends day ratifying Brexit treaty
- Assange extradition decision due January 4: Mobilise the working class to secure his freedom!
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