Archive: 02/2021
2021-02-01
- This week in history: February 1-7
- Strikes mount in Turkey against austerity and herd immunity policies
- Spanish fascists vote to save Podemos party’s bank and corporate bailouts
- UN human rights commissioner calls for probe into Sri Lanka’s war crimes
- 15,000 students involved in rent strikes in 55 UK universities
- Leading German columnist Heribert Prantl denounces coronavirus lockdown measures
- Capitalism vs. socialism: The pandemic and the global class struggle
- The right to breathe: COVID-19 and the scarcity of medicinal oxygen for the developing world
- Political crisis in Russia deepens as Navalny protests continue
- Opposition mounts to San Francisco school board approval of racialist renaming of schools
- Milwaukee school board approves plan to reopen schools
- Eighty years since John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon
- Far-right protesters temporarily shut down COVID-19 vaccinations at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles
- Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore interviewed on Amped Up podcast
- Emmy Butlin and Maxine Walker of the UK Committee to Defend Julian Assange oppose Facebook censorship of the Socialist Equality Party/IYSSE
- Triple shock of US sanctions, oil price collapse and the pandemic decimates Iranian living standards
- International Marxist Tendency on the storming of the US Capitol: “This was not an organized insurrectionary coup”
- Trump fires team of defense lawyers in run-up to Senate trial
- Nervous opening expected for Wall Street
- Macron dictates “Charter of principles” to the French Islamic Council
- French government rejects a new lockdown to stop coronavirus spread
- Coles Eastern Creek warehouse worker denounces union betrayal of locked-out workers
- Trump’s acting secretary of defense disarmed D.C. National Guard 48 hours before the fascist assault
- Commerzbank cuts 10,000 jobs in Germany, with union support
- Australia Post rank-and-file committee calls on Coles workers to reject union sell-out
- Chicago educators call for a strike as district threatens lockout
- The media falsely claims schools are safe: What the science actually says (Part one)
- Brisbane Coles workers, along with other Coles workers, express bitterness at union agreement with warehouse closure
- Nearly 40,000 Australians still stranded overseas because of government indifference
- Amazon offers to aid US government’s botched vaccination effort
2021-02-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington D.C. public schools begin in-person instruction as Virginia teachers resist return
- Defend Boğaziçi University students against police state repression!
- New York Times weaponizes youth suicides to push for school reopenings
- Biden discusses Republican demands to drastically cut stimulus spending
- Stop reopening of schools in São Paulo and throughout Brazil!
- Rochester, New York police pepper sprayed handcuffed nine-year-old girl
- Citing Jan. 6 storming of US Capitol, Canada’s parliament demands banning of far-right Proud Boys
- Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time from Hungary: Love blurs the line between fantasy and reality
- Chicago teachers take a stand to save lives over profits
- Dr. Michael Osterholm warns of massive spring surge of coronavirus in the US
- US workplace safety agency issues toothless COVID “guidance,” while Biden continues Trump's designation of meatpacking as “critical infrastructure”
- UK: Working-class people in dangerous occupations most likely to die from COVID-19
- Prospective candidates jockey for position in 2021 New York City mayoral election
- Military seizes power in Myanmar
- Australian government sets course to impose pandemic debt crisis on working class
- Indian government presents budget amid economic crisis, swelling social opposition
- Vaccination debacle in Germany exacerbates spread of new variants
- Aide to Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz cheered on fascist mob on January 6
- Britain’s flood defences continue to deteriorate
- Chinese fishing vessels seized in the Pacific
- Union-Coles attack on Smeaton Grange workers in Sydney: A blueprint for closures and mass sackings
- Chicago educators call for strike as district continues threats
- The media falsely claims schools are safe: What the science actually says (Part two)
2021-02-03
- Washington D.C. files restraining order to prevent teachers’ strike and reopen schools
- Nine-year-old schoolboy dies from COVID-19 in Texas
- New Mexico educators: Form rank-and-file safety committees to close schools and save lives!
- Educators and other workers across US express support for Chicago teachers
- What the science really says: Closing schools is vital to containing COVID-19
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital blacklists World Socialist Web Site
- Union shuts down strike at Borgers auto parts plant in Norwalk, Ohio
- Russian court sentences Alexei Navalny to prison
- Fire at Napier barracks exposes UK government’s brutal treatment of asylum seekers
- Luis Daniel Prieto, informal worker in Mexico, arrested for protesting poverty conditions during pandemic
- In apparent cost-cutting move, Stellantis introduces lower-quality face masks at Sterling Stamping Plant
- Germany’s Left Party embraces military rearmament and war
- New Zealand government bans foreign cruise ship workers
- Democrats’ impeachment brief documents Trump’s role in spearheading the January 6 coup attempt
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee members discuss: Are schools safe?
- Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as Democrats push to restart in-person classes in Chicago and other cities
- Ocasio-Cortez reveals harrowing details of fascist assault on January 6: “I thought I was going to die”
- Australia: Smeaton Grange Coles workers reject union sell-out agreement
- “Remember me”: The 70-year career of American actress Cloris Leachman, from Kiss Me Deadly to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mel Brooks and beyond
- Major hospital in Chile goes up in flames amid near collapse of public health system
- Infectious UK coronavirus variant spreads from quarantine hotel in Western Australia
2021-02-04
- Wall Street Journal demands Biden crack down on Chicago teachers
- Students speak out in support of Chicago teachers struggle against in-person learning
- Spanish Morenoite Izquierda Diario denounces social distancing for COVID-19
- Stop reopening of schools in São Paulo and throughout Brazil!
- Bangladesh government begins to forcibly remove Rohingya refugees
- European educators support the struggle of Chicago teachers against the unsafe opening of schools
- Radium Girls: In the 1920s as now, companies choose profits over workers’ lives
- Portugal records worst rate of Covid-19 cases in the world
- Trump and January 6: The evidence of a planned political coup
- Pentagon purges advisory boards packed by Trump
- New York City educators call for unity with Chicago educators in fight to close schools
- Craig Murray case exposes factional warfare in Scottish National Party between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond
- After Smeaton Grange workers reject union sell-out: The way forward for Coles and Woolworths workers
- Workers Struggle (LO) tries to strangle French workers’ opposition to herd immunity policies
- Behind Donald Trump’s grant of clemency for corrupt former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
- Hundreds already deported from the US under Biden despite executive orders
- New York’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths severely undercounted while Cuomo forced out public health officials
- Mario Draghi to head Italy’s new government
- Keeping Chicago schools closed during the pandemic is not negotiable!
- As educators continue to resist, Chicago Teachers Union and district move closer to deal to reopen schools
- Quebec teachers’ union rules “out of order” motion condemning government’s reopening of schools amid pandemic
- UK: Captain Sir Tom Moore’s death used to boost politics of “national unity”
- UK: Government report describes appalling official treatment of seriously disabled Philippa Day who took her own life
- Australian central bank expands quantitative easing program
- COVID tester at Amazon facility in Virginia dies suddenly of unexplained causes
2021-02-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK universities step up jobs cull in collaboration with the trade unions
- European workers issue statements of support for Chicago teachers
- Looking into the sun: American author Charles Baxter’s novel The Sun Collective
- Location of fascist shooter Kyle Rittenhouse concealed from the courts with support of Kenosha Police Department
- For an independent movement of the working class to fight the privatisation of Colombo Port! Oppose anti-Indian campaign! Fight for a socialist program!
- Pentagon orders “stand-down” over fascist threat in US military
- Amid mounting social discontent, Pakistan’s opposition parties to step up campaign for new elections
- Ontario government risking lives of educators and students by reopening schools
- Police arrest twelve activists demanding housing for the homeless in Olympia, Washington
- Columbus, Ohio police officer charged in the December killing of Andre Hill
- Kroger grocery chain closes Southern California stores due to new “hero pay” laws leading to worker protests
- Unite conceals ballot results for reinstatement of London bus driver Judith Katera
- Interview with Charles Baxter, author of The Sun Collective
- Austria: Green Party continues deportation policy of the far-right Freedom Party
- French teachers denounce Macron government’s “herd immunity” policy in schools
- Fascist Republican representative stripped of committee assignments
- Australia: Coles workers speak out against company-union job-cutting drive
- Chicago educators organize independent opposition to teacher union’s plans to reopen schools
- Committee for Public Education in Australia supports the struggle of Chicago teachers
- Amazon workers call for united struggle to oppose the reopening of schools during the pandemic!
- Billionaire Michael Bloomberg vents his spleen at Chicago teachers: “Suck it up and go to work”
- Australian teachers and students speak in solidarity with Chicago educators
- Sylvia Ageloff and the Assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Australian Labor Party and unions pretend to oppose corporate offensive on workers’ jobs, pay and conditions
2021-02-06
- Virginia surpasses 500,000 COVID-19 cases: A product of the “herd immunity” policies of the state’s Democratic Party government
- Unite with Chicago teachers to save lives and prepare a general strike!
- Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Germany: Siemens Energy announces thousands more job cuts
- Support the SGP’s campaign for the German federal election!
- Pennsylvania rank-and-file committee stands with Chicago teachers
- Australian PM calls on New Zealand to “align more” against China
- Nevada’s Clark County School District presses ahead with deadly school reopenings
- Behind Biden’s invocations of “democracy,” US military prepares for nuclear war
- Omaha Public Schools pushes for fully in-person learning despite widespread opposition
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- January jobs report shows ongoing economic disaster as US Senate strips minimum wage increase from the relief bill
- A conversation with Ísold Uggadóttir, director of And Breathe Normally
- Modi regime steps up repression of farmers opposing its pro-agribusiness laws
- Experts warn Hawaii on the brink of major COVID-19 outbreak and hospital overcrowding catastrophe
- Gunmen kill two FMLN campaigners in El Salvador
- Europe nears 750,000 COVID-19 deaths as governments move to end lockdown restrictions
- UK National Education Union bolsters homicidal plans to reopen schools and the economy
- Australian unions suppress news of Coles workers’ vote to reject UWU sell-out
- Chicago teachers poised to strike as mayor threatens another lockout
- Canada’s governments lift COVID-19 restrictions, even as pandemic rages
- Federal indictments allege coordinated planning by Proud Boys in January 6 coup attempt
- The Super Bowl super-spreader
- What was Eduardo Bolsonaro doing in Washington during the January 6 coup?
- British Gas workers continue strike action against fire and rehire threats
- Strikes against face-to-face teaching at Bavarian schools widen
- Union election in Alabama: Which way forward for Amazon workers?
2021-02-08
- Capitalism versus socialism: The pandemic and the global class struggle
- Why has Australia’s United Workers Union refused strike pay to locked-out Coles workers?
- This week in history: February 8-14
- Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Videos tie Trump crony Roger Stone to Proud Boys indicted in Capitol assault
- Framed Shrewsbury pickets seek justice at Court of Appeal after 47 years
- San Francisco district and unions agree on school reopening plan after city lawsuit
- Sri Lanka: Hundreds of thousands of estate workers strike for a wage rise
- Philadelphia educators to defy district, maintain all-virtual schooling Monday
- British Medical Journal calls pandemic response “social murder”
- Nigerian farmers win hollow legal victory against Shell for oil spillages
- Coalition government in New Caledonia collapses
- Young worker and student discusses life during the pandemic in Nashville, Tennessee
- Michigan educators call for unity with Chicago educators in fight to close schools
- Recent developments in Manaus, Brazil raise many issues about the future course of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ford Louisville Assembly Plant UAW building chairman lashes out at workers for being “ungrateful”
- State and local government, mass media mount all-out blitz to reopen Los Angeles schools
- Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer targeted over alleged lack of Indigenous credentials
- IYSSE online meeting calls for European-wide general strike against school openings
- As schools are forced open, Iowa removes all COVID-19 regulations
- Czech Republic clinics collapse as pandemic rages
- Sri Lankan educators' safety committee salutes Chicago teachers
- Vote “No” on the CTU-CPS plan to reopen Chicago schools! Saving lives is non-negotiable!
- Chicago Teachers Union endorses a bargain with death, agrees to in-person classes
2021-02-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- West Coast educators call for united struggle with Chicago educators to save lives
- UK unemployment rises to highest level in four years
- Turkish government prepares to reopen schools as pandemic surges
- Sylvia Ageloff and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Outpouring of international support for Chicago educators’ fight to save lives
- What are the real lessons of the Diliman Commune?
- The Senate trial of Donald Trump: The questions that must be answered
- “In the eye of the hurricane”: The COVID-19 pandemic and the new variants
- Stop the deadly reopening of Nashville schools!
- Calls for a general strike against military junta in Myanmar
- Reopening schools: A medical experiment on children
- Defying riot police, Moroccan autoworkers at Kénitra launch wildcat strike
- Famed for his Mark Twain one-man show, actor Hal Holbrook dies at 95
- Free Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél, jailed on terror charges!
- Faurecia Gladstone parts workers in Indiana support Chicago teachers
- French universities reopen despite spread of coronavirus, new variants
- Defying medical science and workers’ opposition, Dutch state reopens schools
- Australian quarantine leaks underscore pandemic risks
- SEP meeting in Australia discusses political issues facing locked-out Coles workers and the need for independent rank-and-file organisations
- Chicago Teachers Union delegates approve deal to reopen schools, as opposition among educators grows
- UK dismisses UN Maritime Court ruling that it has no claim to Chagos Islands/Diego Garcia
- A letter from a Canadian emergency call worker protesting unsafe working conditions amid COVID-19
- Brazil: São Paulo teachers strike against deadly school reopenings
- Australian parliament condemns “far-right and far-left extremism”
- Alabama teachers to Chicago teachers: We must stand united!
2021-02-10
- World Health Organization confirms natural origins of coronavirus
- Media promotes the unsafe reopening of Ann Arbor schools and the University of Michigan
- Tamil National People’s Front collaborates with allies of Sri Lankan regime
- Summers op-ed sparks controversy over Biden stimulus package
- Australian union trying to force through sell-out at Coles Smeaton Grange after workers vote no
- Right-wing US Supreme Court majority again exempts large religious gatherings from COVID-19 safety measures
- Facebook’s “depoliticization” aimed at censorship of left-wing and socialist organizations
- Four Louisiana State Police officers arrested after multiple incidents of excessive force
- Impeachment video reveals scale and intensity of Trump-incited assault on Capitol
- UK Labour Party wades deeper into the nationalist sewer
- Los Angeles Hospital slated for closure amid pandemic
- New York City to open middle schools for face-to-face instruction
- Dear Comrades: Russian film about the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre
- Philippine Stalinists try to cover their tracks after promoting Navalny
- London bus workers denounce Facebook censorship: “Hands off the WSWS!”
- Mass layoffs in Germany as companies restructure in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
- Peru in COVID-19 lockdown as new Brazilian variant exposes murderous “herd immunity” policy
- International Criminal Court ruling paves way for legal proceedings against Israel for war crimes
- Flood disaster in India: Over 200 construction workers and villagers trapped or dead
- UK: Johnson government orders review of “left wing extremism”, targeting Socialist Workers Party and “far-left entryism”
- Johnson government’s homicidal drive to reopen UK schools justified by feigned concern for children’s welfare
- Educators fight to save lives in Chicago, São Paulo and worldwide
- Democrats push for reopening of Detroit schools as auto companies cite worker shortage
- Los Angeles County courts hold in-person proceedings despite deaths of three employees from COVID-19 in January
- Retired Navy commander charged in Capitol assault worked for FBI, his lawyer claims
- Brazilian teachers and students support Chicago teachers’ struggle against school reopenings
- Biden administration will continue with extradition of Julian Assange
- Sister denounces Amazon after death of Poushawn Brown, COVID tester at Virginia warehouse
2021-02-11
- Biden declares US in “extreme competition” with China
- Australian university workers support locked-out Coles workers
- São Paulo municipal teachers join strike against school reopenings
- Stop the criminal coronavirus policy of the corporations and trade unions! Prepare a European-wide general strike!
- Fed data reveals impact of pandemic on lower-paid US workers
- Polish court convicts leading Holocaust historians
- Thousands of Philadelphia teachers protest, delaying plans to restart in-person schooling
- Historian Joseph Scalice to deliver public lecture on 50th anniversary of Plaza Miranda bombing
- Philippines Airlines (PAL) to destroy 2,700 jobs in March
- Democrats seek to whitewash Republican Party role in January 6 coup
- Doctors predict global mental health crisis to persist post-pandemic
- Plea deal with Trudeau’s would-be assassin continues Canadian state’s cover-up of far-right attack
- Doctors move on as the Heights Hospital in Houston, Texas remains shuttered indefinitely
- Facebook moves forward with “depoliticization” of News Feed
- Europe passes three quarters of a million COVID-19 deaths
- Germany: Commerzbank employees confront phalanx of government, company and unions
- The Columbia University tuition strike and the fight for socialism
- Australia: Coles extends Smeaton Grange lockout, denounces workers and “extremist anti-union socialists”
- Lessons of the betrayal by the Chicago Teachers Union
- PSOE-Podemos facilitates fascist attacks on migrants in Canary Islands
- UK trade hit hard as Brexit crisis deepens
- Black Legion (1937): American fascism, then and now
- Campus police deployed to UC Berkeley dormitories as administration blames COVID-19 outbreak on students
- General Motors reports sharp increase in 2020 profits amid mass deaths from pandemic
2021-02-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- The dominance of the UK variant of the coronavirus threatens a massive surge in cases in the United States
- Why do US health care workers continue to refuse vaccination against COVID-19?
- Air pollution crisis in South Asia causing massive loss of pregnancies
- Australian pseudo-left group Solidarity running cover for union sell-out at Coles Smeaton Grange
- Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist attacks over Diliman Commune article
- Wisconsin judge sides with fascists and denies motion for rearrest and bail increase for killer Rittenhouse
- “Our society is sick:” The Lancet condemns American capitalism
- New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. is latest victim of identity politics frenzy
- UAE and Chinese spacecraft safely enter Martian orbit
- Video game The Last of Us Part II: Violence begets violence
- US sees higher than expected number of new weekly jobless claims
- Netanyahu relies on vaccine to beat pandemic in Israel while offering just 5,000 doses to the Palestinians
- Democrats conclude case in impeachment trial over January 6 Trump coup attempt
- Haiti and the ugly face of Biden’s “human rights” imperialism
- French Communist Party and Unsubmissive France back Macron government’s far-right “anti-separatist” law
- UK government escalates deregulation as corporations cut pay and conditions
- Police murders spark demonstrations, riots in Chile
- As Chicago teachers begin return to classrooms, new arenas of struggle emerge
- Democrats push ahead with school openings in California as state’s death total approaches 50,000
- Canadian educators denounce deadly reopening of schools amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Air New Zealand admits to working for Saudi Arabian navy
2021-02-13
- New Zealand towns’ drinking water contaminated with lead
- Video: SEP (Australia) responds to Coles’ denunciation of “extremist socialists”
- Management presses to impose “discipline” as strike by Indian Toyota workers enters fourth month
- CDC pushes US schools to reopen “at any level of community transmission”
- Who is behind the drive to reopen São Paulo’s schools?
- Guardian refuses to publish former children’s laureate Michael Rosen’s letter denouncing UK government’s “herd immunity” policy
- Amid deadly pandemic, Canada deported record number of refugees in 2020
- Republicans acquit coup plotter Trump after Democrats refuse to call witnesses
- Germany’s “Network for Academic Freedom”: A network for Hitler’s rehabilitation
- Mass protests against the military coup in Myanmar continue to grow
- California study highlights dangers of COVID-19 pandemic to the working class
- German government registers record military budget and gears up for war
- Five public Los Angeles vaccination sites forced to close due to lack of doses
- Australian state government institutes five-day lockdown due to spread of new COVID-19 variant
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- No charges for officers who violently shoved 75-year-old protester in Buffalo, New York
- Jeep’s Super Bowl ad: “Can’t we all just get along?”
- Greek government passes bill allowing police onto campuses for first time since 1982
- German federal and state leaders open the floodgates for a third wave of COVID-19
- French neo-fascist Le Pen, interior minister debate anti-Muslim policies
- Easy: Human interaction is not …
- Australia: Union escalates sell-out campaign after Coles Smeaton Grange lockout extended
- California nursing home workers strike as state surpasses New York for most COVID deaths
- Boston Teachers Union signs sellout “side letter” to force teachers back into unsafe schools
- Australian Labor Party leader proposes new union-employer Accord
2021-02-15
- Australian COVID-19 vaccine roll-out still uncertain
- This week in history: February 15-21
- Pro-democracy demonstrations return to Thailand despite increased repression
- Democratic Senators introduce new bill to remove Section 230 internet speech protections
- CDC’s politically motivated guidelines fuel media campaign to reopen US schools
- Brazilian teachers union and pseudo-left sabotage strike against São Paulo school reopenings
- Despite mass deaths, Poland ends lockdown
- Democrats’ impeachment cover-up leaves coup-plotter Trump emboldened
- Hundreds of artists denounce Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél’s imminent jailing
- Fed policies spark more concerns over market collapse
- Teachers from Maryland’s Eastern Shore speak out against school reopenings
- Australian students call for support for locked-out Coles warehouse workers
- Karen Lewis, former president of the Chicago Teachers Union, dies at 67
- British government jails migrants as “people smugglers,” excludes and mistreats child migrants
- Brazilian unions suppress workers’ opposition to mass layoffs following Ford shutdowns
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 5,333 workers died on the job in 2019, or one every 99 minutes
- GMB union calls off British Gas strike to enter talks
- Austrian government ends lockdown despite spread of coronavirus variant
2021-02-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Severe winter weather leaves millions without electricity during record cold temperatures across the US
- Oregon and other US states prioritize vaccinating educators in order to boost profits
- Over 700 detained after Turkish invasion of Iraq targets PKK
- As infections surge, highly contagious strain of COVID-19 confirmed in Sri Lanka
- South African government puts vaccination programme on hold
- Britain’s queen shields her “embarrassing” wealth from public scrutiny
- Republican state legislators move to ban the New York Times’ 1619 Project from schools
- State Republican parties close ranks behind Trump
- Peru government shaken by vaccine scandal as COVID pandemic spirals
- France’s “anti-separatist” law: A frontal assault on democratic rights
- Johnson government plans UK National Health Service “overhaul” to streamline privatisation
- Italy: An all-party government against the working class
- As farmers expand their agitation, Indian government intensifies repression
- Behind GM’s shift to all-electric vehicles by 2035
- Hundreds of thousands of renters at risk of losing their homes throughout the US Midwest
- New York Governor Cuomo embroiled in political crisis over coverup of nursing home deaths
- White House condemns WHO findings after scientists debunk ‘Wuhan Lab’ conspiracy theory
- Business as usual as the US nears a half million deaths from COVID-19
- Jazz pianist Chick Corea dead at 79
- Behind the warehouse lockout in Australia: Coles and the corporate restructuring offensive
- School Success Model spearheads deeper offensive against Australian public schools
- Canada’s “left” parties promote bogus claims China is committing “genocide” against Uyghurs
- Right-wing German newspaper agitates against Berlin student
2021-02-17
- Millions remain without power in Texas, as freezing temperatures wreak havoc across the US
- Time magazine and Ibram X. Kendi promote a race-obsessed, money-hungry “Black Renaissance”
- Mobilize educators and workers across Tennessee to stop school reopenings in Memphis!
- Australia’s Telstra imposes 1,400 more sackings as restructure resumes
- John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president between 1995 and 2009, dies at 86
- SUNY colleges face rapid spread of COVID-19 just weeks into semester
- Los Angeles officials press to reopen schools, citing bogus “threshold”
- Prosecutors announce new charges against Proud Boys in connection with January 6 assault on US Capitol
- Philadelphia Teachers Union promotes pseudo-science as it prepares deal to open schools
- Washington’s Wuhan laboratory lie
- Protests and work stoppages continue in Myanmar against military coup
- “Anti-Semitism” accusations used in attempt to prevent Ken Loach speaking at Oxford University
- Los Angeles Police Department officers and employees caught circulating Valentine’s Day image of George Floyd captioned “You take my breath away”
- Join the IYSSE and take up the fight for international socialism!
- Rocket attack on US base in Iraq underlines continued Middle East militarism under Biden
- Protests erupt as Spanish Socialist Party-Podemos regime jails rapper Pablo Hasél
- Behind GM’s shift to all-electric vehicles by 2035
- Professional football testing and tracing regimens reveal further dangers for in-person teaching
- Dramatic spread of coronavirus in the Czech Republic
- UK: Boris Johnson’s herd immunity government readies “irreversible” measures to end the “last lockdown”
- Chile: Third police murder in five days and the fraudulent campaign to reform the Carabineros
2021-02-18
- Bitcoin over $50,000 as Wall Street surges
- Adopting “anti-separatist” law, Macron moves to censor French universities
- Australian government overturns university research grants as part of anti-China campaign
- São Paulo’s municipal teachers strike grows despite union sabotage
- President Macron rejects troop draw-down in French military intervention in the Sahel
- Philadelphia postpones public school reopenings to March 1
- Australia: Peters Ice Cream workers reject wage-cutting drive
- Corporate profit, electricity deregulation and the disaster in Texas
- Quebec’s #MeToo movement denounces the presumption of innocence
- Biden falsely downplays dangers of COVID-19 in schools
- Netanyahu lifts Israel’s third lockdown despite warnings of renewed surge in March
- An explosion at an Indian fireworks factory kills 20 workers
- CDC school opening guidelines ignore the critical role of ventilation and infection control in classrooms
- BBC Hospital series explores crisis faced by UK’s National Health Service during COVID-19 pandemic
- Mass protests in Haiti against president’s authoritarian power grab
- Third data release from Gaia spacecraft maps 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way
- UK government to appoint “free speech champion” to spearhead right-wing offensive at universities
- Facebook blocks all news content in Australia
- Amazon sues New York to claim immunity from state COVID-19 safety regulations
- Teachers in US state of Georgia herded back into unsafe classrooms
2021-02-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Prime Minister Johnson backed by Scottish and Welsh governments in deadly school reopenings
- Millions of Texans without water, hospitals closed as power outages continue
- Opposition mounts to unsafe opening of schools in Spain
- UAW and Stellantis set April 5 start date for 12-hour, seven-day schedule for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- CDC report: Biggest drop in US life expectancy since World War II
- NATO summit stresses anti-China strategy as wars in Middle East, Afghanistan continue
- Miss Marx: Eleanor Marx in the filmmaker’s own image
- Perseverance rover begins three-year mission on Mars
- Drive to reopen schools deepens across Los Angeles as pandemic continues to rage
- Another 861,000 US workers file for unemployment as corporations exploit pandemic to restructure operations
- Iran, Russia and China launch joint naval exercises in Indian Ocean
- Congressional Democrats present Biden immigration bill
- Storm and blackouts endanger Texas health system
- School and day-care centre openings in Germany—a murderous herd immunity experiment
- Facebook news ban continues in Australia
- Australian educators support locked out Coles workers
- Teachers and health workers strike amid back-to-school campaign in Brazil
- Risk of COVID-19 outbreak in New Zealand after government ends three-day Auckland lockdown
- Trade unions call off strike at Alcoa aluminium giant in Spain
2021-02-20
- Texans receive exorbitant electricity bills after winter storm
- Half of Texas without clean water as state and federal governments look the other way
- Germany: MV Werften to cut 1,200 shipyard jobs
- Stop the deadly reopening of Philadelphia Schools!
- Six Capitol police suspended, 29 others under investigation for role in January 6 assault
- The Mars rover and the Texas catastrophe: Scientific possibility vs capitalist reality
- Pentagon report reveals growth of fascistic networks within US military
- Ontario reopens all schools, delays March break ignoring warnings of a third COVID-19 wave
- Nomadland: Forced out on the road (mostly) because of economics
- While Biden proclaims “America is back,” imperialist conflicts dominate Munich conference
- Rape allegations throw doubt over future of Australian prime minister
- World governments exploit pandemic depression to recruit youth into their militaries
- Michigan officials confirm 121 cases of COVID-19 variant at state prison in Ionia
- Rush Limbaugh dead at 70: A media blowhard for American capitalism
- The Lancet reveals impact of COVID-19 on health care workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Protests mount against Socialist Party-Podemos persecution of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél
- With thousands facing layoffs, Brazilian unions push temporary work at Ford
- CUNY breaks faculty and staff contract, withholding promised pay raises
- Office staff at UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency ballot for strike after 535 COVID-19 infections and death of worker
- Australian union holds another “indicative” vote pushing sell-out at Coles Smeaton Grange
- UK academics face investigation, prison for China-linked “military” research
- Learn from the CTU’s betrayal in Chicago! Build committees nationwide to stop school reopenings!
2021-02-22
- Devastation from winter storm that wreaked havoc in Texas felt across North America
- UK government’s policies lead to horrific COVID-19 death rates among disabled people
- This week in history: February 22-28
- Sri Lanka health workers discuss need for action committees at public meeting
- Teachers in US resist demand to accept “reasonable risk” of dying
- How the Revolutionary Internationalist Organisation (RIO) is sabotaging the fight against the pandemic in Germany
- The Texas catastrophe and the case for socialism
- Six more Oath Keepers indicted on conspiracy charges for assault on US Capitol
- Myanmar military fires on protesting shipyard workers, killing two
- Demands intensify for resumption of in person learning in Michigan by March 1
- Kroger to close at least two grocery stores in Seattle after hazard pay increase
- Jacobin magazine downplays Democrats’ impeachment debacle
- Jackson, Mississippi’s public water system collapses after winter storm’s deep freeze
- Italian government preparing for confrontation with working class
- Ten highlights from “Sylvia Ageloff and the Assassination of Leon Trotsky”
- The right-wing extremist murders in Hanau, Germany, one year on
- Some new light shed on GameStop frenzy
- Facebook shuts down group with 90,000 cruise ship crew members
- Death on an unprecedented scale: One year since the first death from COVID-19 in the US
- Opposition to relocation of toxic metal recycling plant to Chicago’s working-class South Side raises political questions
- Ten years after New Zealand earthquake, no justice for victims of building collapse
- Charité, Season 3: Berlin’s famed hospital during the Cold War
- California Republicans claim 1.7 million signatures on petition to recall Democratic Governor Newsom
- Bus drivers to strike at RATP Dev London and Go North West: Break Unite’s stranglehold and launch a unified offensive
- Assange’s partner exposes ongoing denial of his legal and democratic rights
2021-02-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ignorance: Tamara Lindeman and the Weather Station sing about “climate grief”
- Ruling elite fears Liberal Party wipeout in Western Australian election
- Texas’ COVID-19 vaccination and testing disrupted by winter storm
- Protests continue as no-confidence vote against Thai prime minister fails
- Texas family files $100 million lawsuit against power companies after death of 11-year-old son
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government showers arms dealers with billions in contracts
- With a 12-hour, seven-day schedule at Sterling Heights Assembly, UAW repudiates long battle for eight-hour day
- Communist Party of the Philippines embraces Catholicism
- Half a million dead in the US from coronavirus pandemic: Catastrophe, crime and historical turning point
- How to fight for democracy in Myanmar
- UK Prime Minister Johnson announces end of lockdown that will see “more infections, more hospitalisations… more deaths”
- Coronavirus raging in Germany’s factories
- Workers and youth speak out against Facebook’s Australian news ban and corporate media cash grab
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee opposes unsafe school reopenings
- The working class must come to the aid of the locked-out Smeaton Grange workers!
- UK: Pandemic death toll among care home residents soars past 50,000
- Canada’s governments lift COVID-19 restrictions despite warnings of deadly third wave
- Eight Sri Lankan plantation workers arrested in company-police attack
- Montgomery, Alabama schools moves forward with plans to convert public schools into privately-operated charter schools
2021-02-24
- Winter storm leaves behind billions of dollars’ worth of damage across Texas
- Massachusetts nurses vote to strike for safe staffing ratios
- Global vaccination at the mercy of competing national interests
- Biden administration reopens Trump-era child migrant detention facility in Texas
- Media censors British Medical Journal description of pandemic deaths as “social murder”
- Socialist Equality Party launches campaign for 2021 German federal election
- Powell delivers reassurances to Wall Street
- Philadelphia teachers union endorses bogus claims of school renovations as cover for reopening schools
- Washington Post’s “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory stands exposed
- Native Son: Restoration of suppressed film starring, co-scripted by author Richard Wright
- Right-wing defection intensifies Australian government instability
- Michigan teachers, students face double threat from school reopenings: contaminated water and COVID-19
- New revelations of FBI and New York police conspiracy in the assassination of Malcolm X
- Macron government doubles down on right-wing attack on French universities
- Australian government intent on scrapping JobKeeper and slashing JobSeeker despite mass unemployment
- Senate hearing on January 6 coup: D.C. police were warned of armed attack on Congress
- Australia: Coles gloats over mid-year profits as Smeaton Grange lockout continues
- Chicago elementary teachers begin returning to classrooms under near-total media blackout
- Los Angeles Unified School District moves to reopen schools for in-person instruction
- Corporate media and both big business parties press to reopen schools in California
- Canada’s parliament condemns China for “genocide” on eve of Trudeau-Biden summit
- Amid second wave of deaths: London bus drivers must form rank-and-file safety committees at all garages!
- Millions of German taxpayers to finance far right propaganda
2021-02-25
- West Virginia Senate outlaws public employee strikes as state demands schools reopen
- Golf star Tiger Woods seriously injured in an automobile accident
- The $15 minimum wage scam
- Unemployment, redundancies and poverty soar as UK lockdown is brought to end
- Australian universities rush to enroll students and disregard COVID dangers
- For a full investigation of those responsible for the disaster in Texas!
- COVID-19 cases in New York colleges rise as state changes guidelines to keep schools open
- “Now Scotland”: Pseudo-left groups form new alliance with nationalist hardliners
- Sri Lankan government proposes tiny wage rise to deflect plantation workers’ unrest
- 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in Europe: capitalism, social murder and the case for socialism
- New York Times racialist vandals descend on Rome and Greece
- Workers across Myanmar stage general strike against military dictatorship
- South American states militarize borders against refugees
- Perseverance rover returns videos from its descent to the Martian surface
- Judas and the Black Messiah: The 1969 state murder of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton
- Republicans use hearing on domestic terrorism to defend Trump and promote far-right forces
- Grand jury declines to charge Rochester, New York officers who killed Daniel Prude
- Ecuador prison massacres claim 79 lives amid election tensions
- Calls mount for investigation of Governor Cuomo in New York nursing homes scandal
- German federal and state governments’ plans for reopening schools threaten thousands of lives
- Australian media in a frenzy over allegations of sexual assault in federal parliament
- The dominant variant of the coronavirus in California has acquired dangerous mutations
- Brazil reaches a quarter of a million COVID-19 deaths
- Stellantis cuts jobs at Illinois auto plant one month after merger
- Facebook reaches deal with Australian government
2021-02-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ukrainian government sanctions pro-Russian oligarch and opposition leader
- No to school reopenings in Turkey before the pandemic is contained!
- Elderly bear the brunt of Texas power outage catastrophe
- Sri Lankan government mobilises army to break health workers’ strike
- Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly workers call for fight to defend the eight-hour day
- San Francisco school board pauses reactionary school renaming campaign to focus on forcing schools open
- San Diego school districts move to resume in-person classes
- Strike by London bus workers at RATP Dev wins widespread support
- Thirty-five years since the “People Power” ouster of Marcos in the Philippines
- Facebook censors WSWS article exposing Wuhan lab conspiracy theory
- Germany: Left Party congress paving way for government participation and war
- The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof demands immediate reopening of schools
- Bus drivers speak on London strikes: “This is just the spark of a broader fight”
- US universities have cut 650,000 jobs, a 13 percent workforce reduction, since the onset of the pandemic
- Amanda Gorman at the Biden inauguration: “O sing, sweet lucre,” or, The poet wore Prada
- Germany: Frankfurt Airport personnel begin hunger strike against dismissals
- Former Australian treasurer warns of market “clean out”
- US Capitol police chief says far-right militias planning to bomb Capitol
- Australia: Vote “no” in ballot on Coles Smeaton Grange sell-out!
- Spain’s fascistic Vox party surges in Catalan regional elections
- Canada’s indigenous population faces elevated infection rate, lack of health care as COVID-19 runs rampant
- Biden choice for CIA director gets bipartisan support
- Anticapitalistas covers for Podemos’ incarceration of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél
2021-02-27
- WISAG airport workers on hunger strike in Frankfurt, Germany: “We will not give up”
- Major school districts press to reopen throughout Washington D.C. metro area
- Biden drops minimum wage hike from COVID-19 relief bill
- Delays to Big Three auto companies’ vaccination program highlight profit motive driving pandemic response
- Restrictions placed on student gatherings after massive COVID-19 outbreak at the University of Virginia
- Australia cancels citizenship of woman labelled ISIS terrorist
- Rapper's arrest triggers mass protests over social conditions in Spain
- San Francisco Bay Area school districts push to reopen schools
- UK government declares testing and wearing masks “not compulsory” in reopened schools
- A wonderful year for the elite: Top 25 hedge fund managers earned record $32 billion in 2020 as millions plunged into misery
- With US missile strike on Syria, Biden escalates US aggression in the Middle East
- Bail denied for retired New York City cop charged with assault in January 6 attempted coup
- Michigan governor pushes for school reopenings as Ann Arbor school board reverses decision to remain virtual
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Tokyo gives coast guard authorization to fire on foreign vessels
- Hearings on Texas disaster expose irrationality of private energy production
- French government rejects lockdown as UK variant becomes dominant strain
- Michigan boy, 10, loses both hands, both legs to COVID-related MIS-C syndrome
- Injured Coles Australia worker speaks out: “They’ve tried to destroy me physically, mentally and financially”
- Bridgerton: Not alternate history, but anti-history
- Cashing in on racialist politics: Black Lives Matter foundation raised $90 million in 2020
- Biden in Houston: Indifference and contempt for victims of Texas catastrophe
- British Columbia school officials order windows screwed shut to stop teachers from ventilating classes amid raging pandemic
- Montgomery, Alabama uses CDC guidelines to unsafely reopen schools
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