Archive: 01/2021
2021-01-04
- COVID-19: Global vaccination stymied by nationalism and profit gouging
- This week in history: January 4-10
- Strikes spread across Spain as anger mounts at COVID-19 herd immunity policy
- Hospitals overwhelmed and bodies loaded into semi-trailers as California reaches breaking point with COVID-19
- Three-quarters of infected Memphis workers remained on the job after testing positive for coronavirus
- Reject the racialist renaming of San Francisco public schools!
- Opposition mounts in US over deadly rush to restart in-person schooling
- Democratic mayor prepares police crackdown on “violent antifa and anarchists” in Portland, Oregon
- Popular music and the social crisis in 2020
- The political lessons of the pandemic and the fight for socialism in 2021
- Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education lays off educators, closes schools
- A tale of two pandemics: Ontario’s finance minister holidays in the sun while workers get infected and die
- Minneapolis police terrorize family after murdering their son
- Sri Lanka webinar: Education safety committee to discuss the fight against unsafe school reopenings
- Sri Lanka online lecture: “Two hundred years since the birth of Friedrich Engels”
- Illinois high school student dies of COVID-19
- Over 2,900 US health care workers have died from COVID-19
- Australian Grosvenor Mine disaster inquiry further exposed as an official cover-up
- Autoworker crushed to death at Marion Stamping Plant in Indiana
- Opening of schools in Germany based on deliberate lies and deception
- Macron government refuses calls to cancel school reopenings as pandemic surges
- Tape reveals Trump gangster methods in pursuing election coup
- UK teaching unions call for no work in “unsafe schools” as opposition among educators mounts
- Curator of Earth Felt the Wound, site tracking US educators’ deaths, speaks to the WSWS
- German cultural institutions oppose government’s anti–BDS resolution aimed at quashing criticism of Israel
- EU-China investment agreement raises tensions with US
- Australian government negligence threatens large-scale COVID-19 outbreak
2021-01-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- John Fletcher (Ecstasy), member of pioneering rap group Whodini, dies at 56
- The COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the US are proving to be a massive debacle
- Tennessee confronted with surge in coronavirus cases
- My Little Sister: Two siblings clinging together
- “We have fewer rights than animals”: The unbearable life in the Greek refugee camp Kara Tepe
- Sri Lanka prison massacre autopsy confirms victims were shot
- UK judge rules against US extradition: Release Julian Assange now!
- Ocasio-Cortez and fellow “progressives” supply votes to reelect Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House
- Protest over appalling conditions in New Zealand prison
- Two GM Silao workers in Mexico die on Christmas Eve
- Mounting mental health crisis among US health care workers
- EU–US tensions mount after EU signs trade deal with China
- In Georgia speech, Trump pledges to overturn election result
- “Every journalist should be concerned about what was said today in court. Because the political arguments provided by the United States were upheld by the British judicial system”
- UK in third national lockdown as coronavirus surges out of control
- Bitcoin hits new record as Wall Street mania continues
- COVID-19 cases rise sharply in China
- Chicago schools press ahead with reopening despite wide opposition among teachers and parents
- Brazilian state governments push to reopen schools as COVID-19 deaths approach 200,000
- Australian government slashes minimal pandemic subsidies for workers and unemployed
- Hundreds of Arizona teachers stage sickouts to prevent in-person learning as cases skyrocket
- COVID-19 spreads at Allison Transmission auto parts plant in Indiana
2021-01-06
- Turkish government sets minimum wage at hunger level
- No charges filed against officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Once Upon a River: A Native American girl wanders the waterways
- Quebec nurses need independent organizations of rank-and-file workers’ power, not another pro-capitalist trade union
- Trump intensifies coup plot as Congress meets to certify election results
- Beloved El Paso, Texas teacher dies from COVID-19 as Governor presses schools to reopen
- New York Metropolitan Opera replaces orchestra members with non-Met performers
- New Zealand protest demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Australia: Chinese immigrant meatworkers locked out after protesting alleged assault
- Los Angeles limits ambulance services as COVID-19 infections skyrocket in California and nationwide
- UAW-FCA cover-up of outbreaks continues at Toledo Jeep complex
- Growing threat that Trump will provoke war with Iran to further coup plot
- Seattle, Washington area homeless face police, coronavirus and lack of shelter
- How Royal Bournemouth Hospital management put patient and staff safety in jeopardy: A frontline nurse explains
- Germany’s federal and state governments keep workplaces open despite surging COVID deaths
- Macron government advisor meets with neofascist Marion Marechal Le Pen
- Washington state fines Gebbers Farms months after COVID-19 deaths of workers
- Medical doctors respond to Assange extradition ruling: “He must be released without delay”
- COVID-19 deaths surge amid record new cases as Britain enters lockdown
- Brazilian workers exposed to infections and death as meat-processing industry reaps record profits
- After British extradition verdict, Australian government still refuses to defend Assange
2021-01-07
- UK government refuses to publish list of airstrikes in Yemen involving civilian casualties
- Sri Lankan president orders all state employees to commit to his election manifesto
- Landslide in Papua New Guinea kills 15 gold miners, children
- The fascist coup of January 6
- Republican state senators in Pennsylvania refuse to seat reelected Democrat
- New year brings increased coronavirus deaths to New Jersey
- California governor pressures schools to reopen as health care system nears collapse
- Nebraska governor says undocumented meatpacking workers will not receive vaccine
- Hundreds of thousands in UK spend Christmas and New Year homeless as pandemic worsens
- German teachers’ union backs in-person learning as COVID-19 deaths soar
- Democrats claim victory in Georgia Senate races
- New year begins with record COVID-19 deaths in Germany
- Unorthodox rapper and beatmaker MF Doom dead at age 49
- Chicago Teachers Union leader partied in Puerto Rico as teachers were herded back into schools
- Remove coup plotter Trump immediately!
- As the pandemic death toll mounts, governments delay administration of second vaccine dose
- Five Canadian health care workers die within a week as COVID-19 infections rise sharply nationwide
- World Bank report warns of extended downturn in global growth
- Assange denied bail after extradition blocked, will appeal to UK High Court
2021-01-08
- Janet Yellen, Biden’s treasury nominee, received millions from Wall Street
- Workers denounce Trump’s coup
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vaccine distribution mired in delays across Europe
- Student protests continue in Turkey in defiance of police-state measures
- Indian Toyota workers continue strike in defiance of company-government repression
- Shippensburg faculty member demands action to save jobs and university education for working-class students
- School districts across the US push to reopen as COVID-19 infections and death soar
- For a full, public investigation of Trump’s January 6 coup!
- Ontario care worker denounces political establishment over disastrous conditions in care homes
- Obit: Poet Victoria Chang’s meditation on loss
- COVID-19 infections out of control at Cricklewood Bus Garage! For a walkout to save lives!
- New weekly jobless claims at 787,000 amid signs of US economic slowdown
- Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara on Trump’s January 6 coup: “Nothing to see here!”
- Israel strikes Syria as Trump coup attempt stokes war threat in Middle East
- Modi boasts about “Indian” vaccines as COVID-19 virus rages through the country
- Hong Kong police carry out largest arrests since imposition of national security law
- Nineteen-year-old Chicago, Illinois auto mechanic dies of COVID-19
- Working group of US intelligence agencies asserts Russia is “likely” behind SolarWinds hack
- European politicians and media downplay coup in the United States
- Egyptian hospitals run out of oxygen, killing COVID-19 patients in ICU wards
- Growing questions about police stand-down in January 6 coup attempt
- 5,000 deaths and 400,000 COVID infections in UK in first week of 2021
- Australia: Locked-out Coles workers in Sydney confront a choice
- Record numbers of COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations across the US as pandemic surge continues
- As Brazil reaches 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, Bolsonaro sabotages vaccination campaign
- Australian report documents “Blue Harvest” wage theft of international backpackers
- Arts, humanities are first on the chopping block as US state governments face deficits
2021-01-09
- Texas educators oppose Trump’s fascist coup and the drive to reopen schools
- Tennessee Education Association estimates more than 16,000 Tennessee educators have had COVID-19
- Amid fascist coup in Washington, Spanish officers intensify far-right plotting
- Detainees protest inhuman conditions on Australia’s Christmas Island
- Chicago police crushed woman’s leg with SUV in 2019
- Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt
- Biden defends Republican Party coup conspirators
- The Minions of Midas: The making of a certain social type
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US lost 140,000 jobs in December
- International protests support Indian farmers’ agitation against Modi’s pro-agribusiness laws
- Indonesia: Soaring COVID-19 cases as government scrambles to roll out vaccine
- Germany leads Europe in daily coronavirus deaths
- As UK death toll mounts, Corbyn and teaching unions suppress opposition to Johnson government’s murderous policies
- The United States sees more than 4,000 deaths in a single day from COVID-19
- Carpenters in Detroit denounce draconian pension cuts proposed under 2014 federal law
- Canada’s political leaders nervously downplay Trump’s coup attempt, claim US democracy strong
- Biden names conservative appeals court judge Merrick Garland as attorney general
- EU responsible for refugee disaster in Bosnia: People without food, in sandals in the snow
- British Gas workers begin five-day strike
- Australian political and media establishment responds nervously to Trump coup attempt
- Ohio Amazon worker speaks out against unsafe workplace conditions in pandemic
2021-01-11
- West Virginia schools slated to return to in-person instruction next week
- Hundreds of workplace outbreaks of COVID-19 along US West Coast
- This week in history: January 11-17
- Spain passes two million coronavirus cases as infection rates surge
- New Zealand inquiry covers up police dismissal of anti-Muslim threats prior to 2019 terror attack
- Communist Party of the Philippines resurrects urban hit squads
- New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party denies Trump’s fascist coup in Washington
- Elon Musk becomes world’s richest person as pandemic death toll breaks records
- The Mandalorian (Season Two): Indulging nostalgia and setting up even bigger paydays
- Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant shut down due to part global semiconductor shortage
- Japanese prime minister declares state of emergency amid rapid spread of COVID-19
- Netanyahu government denies vaccine to Palestinians as it lauds mass rollout to Israelis
- UK government figures hide £800 billion hoarded by super-rich
- Canada’s health care system overwhelmed by COVID-19 surge
- Google engineers form Communications Workers of America-affiliated union
- German schools and day-care centres to reopen despite record death rates and new infections
- Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee in US holds first national meeting of 2021
- Nearly 30,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 in the past 10 days
- As students return to Chicago schools, educators face battle against Democrats and the CTU
- Bolsonaro endorses Trump coup, threatens to do same in Brazil’s 2022 election
- Boeing 737-500 crashes after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia
- Australia hit by more infectious coronavirus strains, B117
2021-01-12
- US brands Yemen’s Houthi rebels “terrorists,” paving way for mass starvation
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian pseudo-left dismisses Trump’s fascist coup attempt as a “pathetic farce”
- Mobilize the working class against Trump’s conspiracy! Prepare for a political general strike!
- Argentine Morenoites shrug off Trump’s coup
- Anxiety in South Asia over US president’s attempted coup
- Ford “Finish Strong” ad campaign invokes nationalist mythology as cover for company’s “herd immunity” policies
- Report documents education inequality in Australia
- New COVID-19 variant fuels surge in UK and Ireland
- COVID-19 cases increasing rapidly in China
- Biden taps William Burns to head Central Intelligence Agency
- Massive protest in Berlin against plans to reopen schools
- UK government accelerates “hostile environment” against immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers
- Nurses speak on conditions in Arizona hospitals where COVID-cases reach national highs
- Death of British filmmaker Michael Apted at 79, director of Up documentary series, Coal Miner’s Daughter
2021-01-13
- Global COVID-19 death toll nears 2 million
- Before it begins, COVID-19 vaccination in Turkey already a fiasco
- Staggering growth of super-rich in China
- Growing threats of fascist violence as Democrats appeal for “unity” and “healing”
- Pakistan: Eleven miners killed in sectarian attack buried following week of protests
- Video shows Modesto, California police officer gunned down unarmed man with hands up
- George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky: Not doing a good job of looking after the planet
- London Mayor declares “major incident” as UK capital devastated by COVID-19
- German hospital group terminates nurse after criticism of situation in ICUs
- Global food prices rise could spark social unrest, UN warns
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee warns of packed schools amid an escalating pandemic and third lockdown
- Spain’s Morenoite CRT denies Trump’s fascist coup in Washington
- Chicago teachers docked pay and locked out of virtual classrooms for not teaching in-person
- California hospitals ration oxygen as COVID-19 death toll surpasses 30,000
- Berlin, Germany transport worker dies of COVID-19
- Bangladesh pandemic cases surpass half a million, with over 7,810 deaths
- Australian government again refuses to condemn Trump coup
- Stop the cover-up of Trudeau’s attempted assassination!
2021-01-14
- Australia: Victimised Chinese meatworker speaks with the WSWS
- Warning that Wall Street bubble may burst
- Trump administration fuels tensions with China over Taiwan
- August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Netflix: The blues is “life’s way of talking”
- Australia: Highly infectious strain of COVID spreads in Queensland hotel quarantine
- Democrats plead for bipartisanship as the Republicans call for blood
- Poorest UK schoolchildren sent meagre pandemic food parcels, as contractors reap massive profits
- New data shows that nearly 1400 kids in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have caught COVID-19
- Australia: Regional high school teachers walk out over understaffing and unbearable workloads
- After Trump’s coup attempt: German politicians call for massive military build-up
- Irish health system on brink of collapse as COVID-19 figures surge
- India’s Supreme Court feigns concern for farmers, while laying groundwork for illegalizing seven-week mass protest
- California health care worker explains how COVID-19 catastrophe has been fueled by the drive for profit
- Over 600,000 dead from coronavirus in Europe
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party and Counterfire apply political chloroform over Trump’s coup
- Canada deepens support for US-led anti-China offensive
- Details emerge exposing high-level coordination between fascists, police and Republican politicians in lead-up January 6 coup attempt
2021-01-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Fascist coup in Washington accelerates Spanish army’s coup plotting
- Fascist Wisconsin shooter Rittenhouse posed with Proud Boys and waved “white power” sign
- DSA-aligned teachers unions’ “Day of Resistance”: a pathetic appeal to Biden and the Democrats
- FBI reveals “dozens” of neo-Nazis and white supremacists on Terror Watch List traveled to D.C. for January 6 coup
- The pandemic and Trump’s coup attempt
- How Germany’s Left Party promotes herd immunity
- As COVID cases surge: Sharp rise in new US unemployment claims
- Renzi’s resignation threatens to bring down the Italian government
- Are Trump and Netanyahu plotting war against Iran?
- Indian external affairs minister visits Sri Lanka to counteract growing Chinese influence
- 499 and Summertime at the 10th annual GuadaLAjara Film Festival
- Germany records highest daily coronavirus death toll as fatalities double in just one month
- Ford shuts down operations in Brazil, destroying tens of thousands of jobs
- Former governor Rick Snyder charged over role in Flint, Michigan water poisoning
- Mentally ill woman executed as Trump continues federal killing spree
- Biden’s top economic advisor demands that “schools open” so parents “can get back to work”
- UK passes 100,000 COVID-19 deaths
- Detainees on Australia’s Christmas Island continue protests against appalling conditions
- Chicago Teachers Union accepts further reopenings as virus outbreaks erupt in schools
2021-01-16
- British government rejected visa-free EU touring for musicians to bolster hostile immigration policy
- UFCW complicity exposed in outbreak at Tyson pork plant where managers bet on infections
- Network Meeting of the Action Committees for Safe Education: Pupils, workers and students discuss perspectives for a European-wide general strike
- What would have happened if Trump’s fascist mob had seized hostages?
- Fed chief pledges massive support for Wall Street will not cease
- Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt
- Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service workers fall ill with COVID-19
- New Zealand PM silent on Trump’s culpability for Washington coup
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Killeen, Texas police officer shot and killed unarmed man during mental health call
- Teachers and parents speak out on deadly reopening of Chicago Public Schools
- French government rejects lockdown as COVID-19 deaths sweep Europe
- Trump administration executes two more death row prisoners in pre-Inauguration Day killing spree
- Sri Lankan education safety committee holds well-attended online meeting
- US State Department designates Cuba state sponsor of terrorism
- Inside the COVID-19 outbreak at Lakepointe nursing home in Clinton Township, Michigan
- United Steelworkers betrays Constellium strike in Alabama after weeks of isolating workers
- Lightfoot administration blocked release of video showing Chicago police crushing woman’s leg with SUV
- CAMI autoworkers should reject Unifor’s attempt to reopen contract with GM Canada!
- Three million in Los Angeles County have been infected with COVID-19 as workplace outbreaks reach all-time high
- Patients die of asphyxiation as hospitals in Manaus run out of oxygen
- Biden “recovery” plan will fail to relieve social misery or stop pandemic death
- Australian government invokes “national security” to ban Chinese infrastructure investments
- Magia Record, Kakushigoto, Fruits Basket and Sword Art Online: A general review of anime in 2020
- The unionization vote at Alabama Amazon facility
2021-01-18
- This week in history: January 18-24
- After COVID-19 kills tram driver in Berlin, transit workers in Germany demand more security
- Spanish hospitals on brink of collapse as COVID-19 cases explode
- Massive rise in unemployment in Germany during the pandemic
- City of Detroit files lawsuit attacking protesters’ basic democratic rights
- Democrats intensify calls for “unity” in aftermath of fascistic insurrection in Washington D.C.
- Podemos obeys Spanish fascist Vox party’s demand for no shelter-at-home
- Philippines records first case of new COVID-19 strain
- Free COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
- US deaths from COVID-19 lead to a more than one-year decline in life expectancy
- Ontario teacher denounces unions’ “feckless response” to government’s ruinous handling of the pandemic
- United Kingdom COVID-19 variant reaches New Zealand
- State of emergency imposed in Malaysia, granting government sweeping powers
- School nurses return to campuses as United Teachers Los Angeles covers for Democrats
- Israeli human rights organization declares Israel an apartheid state
- Indiana lawmakers propose new law shielding businesses from COVID-19 liabilities
- Where is America going? Trump’s coup and the rise of fascism
- Mute on Washington coup, UK ruling elite turns fire against China
- Canadian educators must mount a political struggle to oppose school reopenings and save lives
- Louis van Beethoven: A German film biography of the great composer
- Australian Tennis Open proceeds despite growing COVID-19 infections
- Australian workers and youth demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Silent on coup attempt, Mexico’s AMLO defends Trump against “censorship”
2021-01-19
- Workers Struggle: The Americas
- The global COVID vaccination distribution debacle is mirrored in the US
- Ukraine begs Europe for coronavirus vaccine
- Tunisian regime deploys army as protests spread 10 years after Arab Spring
- Paid aides to Trump campaign played key roles in organizing fascist assault on US Capitol
- Local reports of COVID-19 deaths in UK schools confirm concealed impact of pandemic
- What workers need to know about the Fiat Chrysler-PSA merger
- US prompts new “human rights” resolution to push Sri Lanka to line up against China
- Andre Damon speaks to Rolling Stone on internet censorship and Trump’s coup attempt
- Educators and workers across the US denounce arrest of whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- Biden pledges to continue Trump’s campaign to open schools and businesses
- Navalny arrested in Russia as Biden nominates Victoria Nuland for top State Department position
- Conductor Riccardo Muti expresses solidarity with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians
- Wage theft exposed at Fiat Chrysler/Stellantis Detroit Assembly Complex
- Workers at New York City produce market launch first strike since 1986
- Hawaii nurses demand safe working conditions and PPE
- The Trump coup and the rise of fascism: Where is America going?
- Surge in COVID-19 on UK’s Isle of Wight overwhelms health care infrastructure
- Migrant caravan attacked by Guatemalan troops as Biden team accommodates anti-immigrant right
- Morgues overflow, air quality restrictions on crematoriums suspended as Los Angeles County surpasses 1 million COVID-19 cases
- Trump coup attempt highlights official promotion of far-right in Australia
2021-01-20
- Neo-Nazi arms networks spreading across Europe
- Watch: Meeting commemorates decades-long Australian Trotskyist Barry Jobson
- Ugandan President Museveni arrests opposition rival Bobbi Wine
- Disney’s Soul in Denmark: New York Times disapproves of a white actor dubbing a black actor’s voice
- The science of the pandemic supports teachers’ concerns over the dangers of school reopening—Part one
- Democrats promote “white privilege” fiction to block united working class response to fascist coup plot
- Coronavirus cases surge again at Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey
- Inauguration 2021: On the edge of an abyss
- Dutch government falls as deaths mount in COVID-19 pandemic
- DHS nominee Mayorkas testifies before Congress as Biden unveils immigration plan
- Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi's posthumous appeal rejected by Scottish judges
- New York City police attack striking Hunts Point warehouse workers
- School worker deaths mount in Florida as virus spreads without restraint
- Court documents detail fascist groups’ advanced planning for seizure of US Capitol
- Record UK COVID-19 deaths as government plots ending “the last” lockdown
- Corbyn seeks readmittance to Labour Party as antisemitism witch-hunt escalates
- Australia: Locked-out Coles workers reject company “offer” as union declares its “neutrality”
- 22 workers trapped by blast in Chinese gold mine
- Chicago Teachers Union postures with “strike” vote as schools continue in-person learning
- China’s growth rate increase fuels geo-political tensions
- Germany’s Christian Democrats choose new leader
- SEP meeting honours the life and political legacy of Australian Trotskyist Barry Jobson
- Alabama educators launch rank-and-file safety committee to close schools and save lives!
2021-01-21
- Yellen takes aggressive stance on China in treasury secretary confirmation hearing
- I’m Your Woman: The problem of films not genuinely drawn from life
- Tennessee educators and parents call for fully funded remote learning to contain the pandemic
- UK: Investment banker adviser to Tory government appointed BBC chair
- The science of the pandemic supports teachers’ concerns over the dangers of school reopening, Part two
- Philippine military breaks longstanding agreement, returns forces to campuses
- Biden’s inaugural address: Banality and empty abstractions to cover over reality
- Trump pardons Bannon, grants clemency to reactionaries and criminals
- Oregon faces legal challenges after establishing blacks-only COVID-19 relief fund
- Despite outbreaks at 373 New York City schools, Democrats and unions conspire to keep the district open
- Weakened Italian government clings to power
- Landmark victory for Smart Motorways Kill campaign as coroner rules Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu were unlawfully killed
- New York City workers demand action to defend Hunts Point strikers
- Doctors locked out of hospital in Houston, Texas over rent dispute, forced to treat patients in parking lot
- A politically motivated smear: Canada’s Globe and Mail blames “Marxists” for discredited racialist 1619 Project
- German federal and state governments reject consistent lockdown measures
- Senate hearings for Biden’s security cabinet expose bipartisan unity on war and reaction
- As COVID-19 resurges, Chinese workers hit by pay and job cuts
- Chicago educators form independent rank-and-file committee to fight school reopenings
- Canadian autoworkers’ union rams through concessions-laden deal at CAMI plant after secret talks with GM
- Boston Teachers Union agrees to return to in-person classes for thousands of students
- World Bank exposes economic and social impact of coronavirus in South Asia
2021-01-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Another 900,000 file for unemployment, record jobless claims continue amid mass death from pandemic
- UK strikes challenge company cost-cutting and trade union collusion
- Stellantis revives 12-hour shifts for Sterling Heights Assembly skilled trades
- Ferdinand von Schirach’s Enemies: German public television puts police torture up for consideration
- The Biden administration: Illusion and reality
- Chaotic vaccination rollout leaves New Yorkers vulnerable to COVID-19 surge
- New York City educators call for unified struggle with striking Hunts Point market workers!
- Metalworkers carry out wildcat strike in Matamoros, Mexico, for higher wages
- Australian Labor leader hails US alliance as Biden is inaugurated
- Corporatization of Canada’s virtual health services part of broader privatization drive
- Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness exposes stark global inequalities in COVID-19 response
- US Army covered up role of Flynn’s brother, a general, in January 6 coup response
- UK records over 21,000 deaths and a million new COVID infections in first three weeks of 2021
- Suicide attempt by food delivery worker in China exposes exploitative working conditions
- Chicago Public Schools brands collective action to stop in-person learning “illegal”
- Amazon workers call for a full public congressional investigation of the January 6 fascist coup attempt
- Teamsters rush to end strike as support grows for Hunts Point warehouse workers in New York City
- More workers and youth speak on the life and political legacy of Australian Trotskyist Barry Jobson
- Baltimore City Schools announces wide reopening of schools in mid-February
2021-01-23
- #ZeroCovid petition: The campaign for a European lockdown requires a socialist perspective
- Biden’s secretary of state nominee endorses lies about Chinese “genocide” of Uyghurs
- Texas educators call for full investigation of fascistic coup plotters!
- Spain’s rich and powerful secretly monopolised COVID-19 vaccines
- Government statistics reveal vast scale of UK school teacher and staff COVID-19 infections
- For a full, immediate investigation into death threats against Kshama Sawant!
- Southern California school districts plan reopenings despite dire spread of COVID-19
- Russia ends COVID-19 restrictions in major cities
- Sri Lanka: Hundreds of plantation workers strike to defend jobs and social rights
- Facebook purges left-wing pages and individuals
- Biden claims “there is nothing we can do” to halt mass death from coronavirus
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Massive loss of jobs and hours continues in Australia, showing real face of “recovery”
- International filmmakers demand end to Israeli ban on Mohammad Bakri’s Jenin, Jenin
- Vote “no” on the sellout agreement at Hunts Point! Form rank-and-file committees to expand the strike!
- Teamsters union shuts down Hunts Point strike in New York City
- Democratic D.C. mayor slashes funding for homeless services in midst of surging pandemic
- Greater numbers dying as COVID-19 infections spread in UK workplaces
- Australia: Reject union sell-out of Smeaton Grange Coles workers!
- Chicago schools chief threatens to lock out teachers who don’t return to school buildings Monday
- Who is responsible for Canada’s second, deadlier, wave of COVID-19?
- Threat of fascistic coup grows in Brazil amid COVID vaccination failure
- For second time in four years, Senate confirms ex-general as US defense secretary
- Alabama teachers speak out as four more teachers die of COVID-19 this week
2021-01-25
- Growing warnings of a Wall Street bubble
- This week in history: January 25-31
- Turkish Trotskyists hold international online meeting on student protests
- Trudeau and Biden to strengthen Canada-US military alliance and trade-war bloc
- Australia: Inquiry reveals chronic under funding and lengthy wait times for South-West Sydney health services
- Spain’s defence chief resigns amid mounting anger over COVID-19 vaccine theft
- 12 dead and over 750 workers infected at Southern California ports
- Facebook escalates attack on socialist left
- No Man's Land: A strictly delimited movie about borders
- Russian police crackdown on pro-Navalny protests
- Missouri residents confront growing joblessness, hunger, evictions
- Houston, Texas hospital remains locked over financial dispute, putting hundreds of patients at risk
- Democratic Party pursues the deadly policy of herd immunity
- Greece loosens coronavirus lockdown, massively rearms military
- Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Committee calls for congressional investigation into Trump's coup attempt
- Coronavirus death toll in Germany reaches 50,000
- Ford Motors to cut another 800 jobs in Germany
- Sri Lankan IYSSE holds well-attended online lecture on 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels’ birth
- Ten years since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution
- Trump sought Justice Department intervention to hijack election
- Johnson government warns UK COVID-19 strain more deadly as hospitals buckle under pressure
- Australia: Coles warehouse workers in Melbourne denounce lock-out of Smeaton Grange workers and the union
- Club For Growth billionaires finance fascist Republican politicians
- Overwhelming opposition among Chicago educators to deadly school reopenings
- MIT faculty defend professor against trumped-up charges related to China ties
- World Bank details economic and social impact of coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021-01-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Human rights study exposes brutal conditions in Sri Lankan prisons
- Fascist vote surges as conservatives win Portuguese presidential election
- Facebook restores service to socialist pages, claiming the purge was an “automation error”
- The rise of financial parasitism and the emergence of fascism
- Oxfam: Global billionaires’ wealth up $3.9 trillion during the pandemic
- Nevada sees record number of COVID-19 deaths
- Strikes in Matamoros, Mexico spread in face of threats by union, police and National Guard
- Biden administration enlists unions in anti-China drive, reopening policy
- Oppose the unsafe reopening of colleges and universities!
- Increased flooding in Indonesia linked to deforestation
- Indian farmers’ agitation against Modi government’s pro-agribusiness laws enters third month
- The political and social lessons of the Hunts Point strike in New York City
- Union pushes through contract to avert strike of Hawaii nurses
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee discusses school reopenings and lessons of Trump’s attempted coup
- US educators confront Democrats and the unions in battle to close schools and save lives
- Huge COVID-19 outbreak at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency exposes fraudulent UK lockdown
- Seattle Police Department plans to increase arrests and penalties for left-wing protesters
- Australia: Union trying to ram through sell-out of Coles Smeaton Grange workers
- Two weeks after Chinese gold mine explosion: 11 rescued, 10 dead and 1 missing
- Millions of Brazilian students refuse to take exam amid rising opposition to back to school campaign
- Biden administration warns China over Taiwan, as US carrier enters South China Sea
- Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101
- Montgomery, Alabama schools announce a switch to full-virtual learning following teacher sickout
- US baseball great Henry Aaron dies at age 86
2021-01-27
- Forty-three refugees drown off Libya’s coast: victims of the European Union’s refugee policy
- The Chicago teachers’ rebellion and the fight to contain the pandemic
- New COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 identified at the University of Michigan
- After government intervention to keep it open, hundreds of infections went unreported at Illinois meatpacking plant
- St. Paul oil refinery workers’ strike enters sixth day
- Global and domestic tensions fuel moves to oust Australian Labor Party leader
- Report whitewashes Ireland’s unmarried mother and baby homes scandal: 9,000 dead babies, mass graves, illegal medical experiments, trafficking
- Farmers protesting Modi’s pro-agribusiness laws clash with security forces on streets of India’s capital
- As Biden pleads for unity, Senate Republicans overwhelmingly back Trump in impeachment trial
- French government determined to keep schools open as virus spreads
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson admits to mass murder as UK official COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000
- The Biden climate plan, Part One: A drop in the ocean
- The American state, the fascists and the Soviet Union’s ex-revolutionaries
- Chicago educators to remain teaching remotely on Wednesday
- WSWS’s fight against Facebook censorship draws international support
- An interview with Dr. Arthur Caplan, professor of bioethics at New York University, on the COVID-19 pandemic
- Despite horrific numbers, California governor ends stay-at-home order, mirroring President Biden’s pandemic policies
- Spanish television series The Barrier: The once and future dictatorship
- Massive coronavirus outbreak at Airbus plant in Hamburg, Germany
- Chicago teacher opposing return to school maligned for citing anti-Nazi poem
2021-01-28
- Wall Street falls amid GameStop frenzy
- Victimized Chicago teacher speaks out against deadly school reopening
- UK: Corbyn and Owen Jones line-up with anti-China campaign
- Fascistic Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio revealed to be “prolific” FBI informant
- Opposition mounts to Spanish government’s refusal to implement coronavirus measures
- Bernie Sanders backs Biden’s national security cabinet
- For a European-wide strike against school openings!
- Republicans unite behind Trump
- New Zealand protest calls for action on climate change
- Network meeting of action committees for safe education discusses Europe-wide school strike
- Mayor: The dilemmas, contradictions and sheer impossibility of “running a city” under Israeli occupation
- Jacobin pleads with Biden and Democrats to make a “psychological shift” left
- Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, to plead guilty to bribing UAW officials
- Detroit City Council approves funding for counter-lawsuit against police violence protesters
- Australian governments lift safety restrictions despite COVID-19 dangers and vaccine doubts
- Reject union sell-out at Coles Smeaton Grange warehouse in Sydney! Form rank-and-file committees to defend jobs and stop the closure!
- The Biden climate plan, Part 2: Preparation for war
- As pandemic continues in China, lack of resources provokes social media protests
- Chicago teachers lead resistance to Biden’s school reopening plan as pandemic enters deadlier phase
- Canada’s major airlines lay off thousands more workers
- Auto parts workers strike at Borgers USA plant in Norwalk, Ohio
- Biden administration renews agreement with Mexico and Guatemala to crack down on migrant workers
2021-01-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian university cuts to jobs and courses to intensify in 2021
- Fiji wins presidency of UN Human Rights Council
- Johnson plans end of UK lockdown, with terrible loss of life
- Staff at Toronto school walk off the job due to COVID-19 safety concerns
- Clinic closures in Germany continue despite pandemic
- Nine arrested in San Jose, California anti-eviction protest
- The Democratic Party and the fascist “enemy within”
- Argentine filmmaker Fernando “Pino” Solanas dies from coronavirus at 84
- COVID-19 infections among UK nursery workers deepens funding crisis
- Dutch neo-fascists incite riots against anti-pandemic curfew
- Sri Lanka online public meeting: Build workers’ action committees to win health workers’ rights!
- Nitrogen leak kills six at Gainesville, Georgia poultry plant
- Macron government denounces scientists for “intervening” in pandemic response
- German court sentences far-right Lübcke murderer: The fairytale of the lone wolf
- Report finds $158 million in payments to Jeffrey Epstein by billionaire Apollo CEO Leon Black
- Another grim US jobs report amid stock market frenzy
- Biden administration continues “maximum pressure” assault on Iran
- Six additional Houston, Texas police officers charged in connection with killing of husband and wife during no-knock raid
- In Hamburg, five homeless people die in the first week of 2021
- Behind the GameStop stock frenzy
- YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy
- Federal indictment alleges extensive planning for fascist January 6 Capitol coup attempt
- Sri Lankan stock market hits record high amidst rising COVID-19 infections
- Chicago teachers struggle at a crossroads
- Reopening of Boston colleges threatens escalation of COVID-19 crisis
- Montgomery, Alabama school district reneges on pledge to switch to remote learning
2021-01-30
- London’s Wigmore Hall leads the way in live-streaming music during the pandemic
- Trade war erupts over vaccine supplies between Europe and UK
- Striking Indian Toyota worker speaks on slave labour conditions at Toyota Kirloskar Motor factory outside Bangalore
- Two dead after 26-year-old mother jumps off Tennessee overpass holding infant
- Court rules Spanish fascist regime did not commit crimes against humanity
- Osceola County, Florida sheriff’s deputy brutally assaults high school student
- Philippine Stalinists line up behind right-wing Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny
- Shut down schools and businesses to stop the spread of new COVID-19 strains!
- New Zealand: COVID-19 cases highlight risk of new outbreak
- NPA calls to reopen French universities as COVID-19 deaths mount
- Neo-Nazis gather on Australia Day weekend for cross-burning
- “Independent” union betrays strike in Matamoros, México as it joins ruling party
- IG Metall agrees to 3,500 job cuts at MAN Truck & Bus in Germany and Austria
- Lethal crackdown on protests as Lebanon’s economy collapses amid pandemic surge
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Modi launches mass repression against two-month-long farmer agitation
- Illinois house fire kills mother and her four children
- Facebook CEO Zuckerberg says company will “depoliticize” its News Feed
- How Jacobin and the Democratic Socialists of America aided the Teamsters’ betrayal of the Hunts Point market strike
- Pennsylvania educators oppose statewide reopening of K-8 schools
- Negotiations stall in Chicago amid nationwide campaign to open schools
- New revelations on role of Republican lawmakers in fascist assault on US Capitol
- Brazilian Workers Party, pseudo-lefts use COVID-19 vaccination disputes to cover up herd immunity policy
- A letter from a frontline nurse at Royal Bournemouth Hospital “We are in a perilous situation”
- Shadow ministry reshuffle underscores Australian Labor Party crisis
- The Trump Administration’s 1776 Report: The far-right attempts to seize opening from the 1619 Project
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