Archive: 03/2021
2021-03-01
- 10 years since the mass protests in Wisconsin
- Germany: Support the WISAG workers’ struggle at Rhein-Main Airport against dismissals and wage theft!
- Australian university workers and students face new wave of job cuts and “commercialisation”
- This week in history: March 1-7
- Trump rails against “socialism” and doubles down on stolen election lie at Conservative Political Action Conference
- Release jailed Sri Lankan estate workers! Defend all workers from company-police conspiracies!
- Resistance builds to school reopenings in Seattle-Tacoma metro region
- Democrats torpedo $15 minimum wage hike
- COVID-19 outbreak kills three workers at Red Deer, Alberta Olymel meatprocessing plant
- New Zealand government policies worsen housing crisis
- New York City Schools chancellor resigns as middle schools resume in-person learning
- Solidarity Greetings to sacked WISAG hunger strikers at Frankfurt Rhein-Main Airport
- Violent crackdown on Myanmar protests leaves 18 dead
- One-third of US museums might close in 12 months, American Alliance of Museums warns
- Los Angeles educators must learn the lessons of the sellout by the Chicago Teachers Union!
- After nearly two weeks much of Jackson, Mississippi still without running water
- Chicago and Cook County allocate the bulk of CARES Act funding to police and jail spending
- Go North West bus drivers in Manchester, UK begin indefinite strike against “fire and rehire”
- As schools reopen, UK educators among top groups at risk of catching COVID-19
- Australian union rams through sell-out at Coles Smeaton Grange
- Thousands of students return for in-person schooling in Chicago
- With a halt in the decline of COVID-19 cases in the US, CDC director warns “the virus is not done with us”
- Memoirs of ex-army commander expose drive toward dictatorship in Brazil
2021-03-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- WISAG workers continue hunger strike at Frankfurt Airport
- Australia: Walgett teachers walk off the job over staffing shortages
- US-backed “human rights” resolution to pressure Sri Lanka to break ties with China
- UK study challenges use of mental health impact to justify ending COVID-19 lockdown
- 100,000 Spanish dead in pandemic: PSOE-Podemos regime ends restrictions
- Major US school districts reopen despite spread of more contagious and lethal COVID-19 variants
- Biden administration cynically invokes Khashoggi murder to “recalibrate” Saudi ties
- São Paulo teachers continue strike against deadly school reopenings despite union sabotage
- Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant joins the DSA: The Democratic Party politics of the pseudo-left
- Poverty in Germany: Two-million people too poor to heat their homes
- Stalinist CPP attacks Dr. Scalice’s upcoming lecture on the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing in the Philippines
- Trump intensifies fascistic agitation at CPAC conference
- Amnesty International strips Alexei Navalny of “prisoner of conscience” status due to hate speech
- Teacher in Nashville speaks out against the unsafe reopening of schools
- Argentina: The death of ex-president Carlos Saúl Menem
- Solidarity from London bus drivers to WISAG airport workers in Germany
- Amazon worker at Las Vegas warehouse dies in possible suicide
- Fiji regime summarily deports Pacific university head
- Concerns rise over impact of Texas power failure on spread of COVID-19
- British Gas workers' strike against “fire and rehire” in danger
- German bus drivers send solidarity greetings to sacked WISAG hunger strikers
- Australian Labor leader criticises Assange’s imprisonment, privately
- Alberta Health Services disciplines hundreds of workers who joined wildcat strike
2021-03-03
- FBI Director Wray confirms coordinated planning by pro-Trump far-right terrorists in January 6 attack
- German court imposes lengthy sentence on Islamist preacher accused of supporting ISIS terrorist group
- Texas, Mississippi abandon coronavirus restrictions as CDC warns of variant-induced surge
- Strikes in Istanbul expose CHP, Turkish unions and pseudo-left parties
- UK teachers denounce National Education Union’s refusal to oppose schools reopening
- Spanish media promote Morenoite CRT amid mass youth protests
- Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy sentenced to one year in prison
- Sanders provides cover to the Democrats as they refuse to raise the minimum wage
- Union-sponsored deal announced in Philadelphia to reopen elementary schools on Monday
- Why Biden supports the unionization of the Amazon workforce
- Australian government under siege as sexual assault allegations escalate
- Worcester, Mass. nurses set March 8 strike date
- Australian central bank action and Wall Street gyrations indicate a coming storm
- Hundreds of thousands still suffering two weeks after winter storm hit southern US
- High Court ruling exposes Tory contracts with pandemic profiteers
- Co-organizer of walkout in suburban Philly school district explains opposition of parents and teachers to school reopenings
- New York Times stokes sex scandal targeting New York Governor Cuomo
- Chinese regime further suppresses internet freedom of speech
- United Teachers of Los Angeles colludes with state Democrats in school reopening drive
- International Youth and Students for Social Equality (US) establishes new club at Appalachian State University
- In first meeting with Biden, Mexico’s AMLO reaffirms allegiance to Washington
- HBO’s docuseries Allen v. Farrow: A shameful, vindictive, McCarthyite attack on filmmaker Woody Allen
- Dr. Mateus answers teachers’ questions about ventilation and COVID-19 at Alabama rank-and-file meeting
2021-03-04
- D.C. National Guard commander says Pentagon delayed deployment of troops to protect US Capitol on January 6
- Postal worker in Chicago dies in apparent suicide in mail truck
- The end of the UK lockdown and the way forward for the working class
- Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists seek alliance with India’s Hindu-chauvinist BJP
- Sri Lankan police arrest more Alton estate workers
- A Dominant Character: New biography of British scientist J.B.S. Haldane
- Australia: Media-led hysteria in overdrive after attorney-general denies rape allegation
- US ruling class moves to remove remaining restrictions as pandemic continues to spread
- New York City educators call for action to stop in-person schooling and save lives
- Kunduz massacre goes unpunished
- Vernon Jordan, African American pillar of the establishment, dead at 85
- Rocket attack on base in Iraq raises threat of US escalation
- Minneapolis, Minnesota prepares for murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin
- Amanda Gorman’s Dutch translator forced to quit because of race—a call for cultural segregation
- China suppresses workers’ attempts to demand wages
- UK Chancellor Sunak announces class war budget
- Biden and Trudeau revamp Canada-US alliance for trade war and military conflict
- US Supreme Court poised to finish off Voting Rights Act
- Amazon workers speak on the Alabama union vote
- 13 killed in deadly SUV crash near US-Mexico border in southern California
2021-03-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Dozens of COVID-19 infections shut down Detroit Whole Foods
- Fed chair Powell’s remarks spark Wall Street sell-off
- Biden renews US “state of emergency” against Venezuela
- Another 745,000 jobless claims filed as Senate takes up Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill
- State University of New York system surpasses 3,000 COVID-19 cases one month into semester
- 150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
- US federal safety inspections plummeted 50 percent in 2020 as pandemic raged
- Canadian authorities risk lives of staff and students by reopening Newfoundland schools despite spread of UK variant
- Plummeting currency fuels poverty and protests in Lebanon
- UK Labour Party outlines its agenda for nuclear warfare targeting Russia
- Unionists aim to break Northern Ireland protocol of Brexit agreement
- Robert Bea, co-founder of Center for Catastrophic Risk Management: "International collaboration is critical in disaster prevention"
- UK: Go North West launches strike busting operation to enforce fire and rehire contracts against bus drivers
- German metalworkers strike against wage cuts and unsafe working conditions
- US House of Representatives adjourns under threat of fascist violence
- The Coles Smeaton Grange struggle: The next stage for the working class
- Biden doubles down on “great power” conflict with China
- California counties move to reopen schools and businesses despite pandemic risks
- Brazil worsening pandemic: a threat to humanity
- Australian national accounts data to provide rationale for deepening cuts
- New Zealand government negligence led to Auckland’s COVID-19 cluster
- New reports show extent of pandemic’s devastation of the arts in New York City, California and nationwide
- Amazon workers speak about stressful working conditions after suicide at Las Vegas warehouse
- Airbus works council and IG-Metall demand German leadership in European rearmament
2021-03-06
- “Wuhan Lab” theory promoted by New York Times, Wall Street Journal
- More virulent strains of COVID-19 threaten spring surge
- Colleges and universities in the US once again emerge as COVID-19 hotspots
- As public health organizations call for lockdown, Turkish government removes COVID-19 restrictions
- Spanish department store El Corte Inglés to slash 3,500 jobs
- Australian state Labor government’s disastrous Shepparton super-school plan
- House Democrats pass token police reform bill
- One hundred and ninety-nine minutes in January
- Build rank-and-file committees in all Philadelphia schools to oppose unsafe conditions!
- Political turmoil in Nepal intensifies as Supreme Court orders reinstatement of parliament
- Australia: McCormick Foods workers strike after five-year wage freeze
- Germany’s Left Party drums up support for coalitions with the Social Democrats and Greens
- Los Angeles school district, teachers union press forward with school reopenings
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Watch lecture video “Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”—another devastating exposure of Stalinism
- Biden, Democrats agree to cut weekly jobless benefit by $100
- Grandmother denounces Shepparton school amalgamation
- British government intensifies assault on asylum seekers and migrants
- Trump-appointed State Department official arrested for attacking police in siege of US Capitol
- American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021
- No to school reopenings! Build rank-and-file committees to save lives!
- Fourth officer charged in assault at New Jersey women’s prison
- Twenty-two million fall into poverty in Latin America during 2020, UN finds
- China’s National People’s Congress starts amid rising geo-political tensions
- Chicago Public Schools prepares for next round of students to return
- “They see us as disposable”: New York Amazon delivery driver speaks out
2021-03-08
- UK National Health Service workers offered insulting 1 percent pay rise
- UFCW refuses to defend meatpackers as Alberta government approves reopening of COVID-stricken Olymel plant
- This week in history: March 8-15
- CEO of ERCOT fired, profiteering by Texas energy generators comes into focus
- Number of super-rich individuals grew worldwide during the pandemic
- Australian government releases refugees on limited bridging visas
- FBI reveals contact between Proud Boys and “Trump associate” days before assault on US Capitol
- As US states reopen businesses and schools, experts warn of “hurricane” surge of COVID-19
- Pacific Islands Forum in crisis following regional split
- Clark County School District reopens with aim of returning 325,000 students to classrooms
- Myanmar military unleashes bloodiest crackdown since coup
- 150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
- Chicago mayor targets monuments to Civil War, American Revolution
- Unequal Britain: An academic defence of social inequality
- German secret service officially characterises the Alternative for Germany as a “suspected right-wing extremist case”
- Executive Order probes the humor and deadly seriousness of racial politics
- Southern California dockworkers hit by COVID-19, work speedup as cargo backlog grows
- Two railway accidents in Southern California kill worker and spill chemical waste
- US Senate passes pared-back COVID relief bill
- Over 1,000 Allegheny Technologies steelworkers vote to authorize strike
2021-03-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- First trial for the police murder of George Floyd opens amid atmosphere of nervousness
- Mobilize educators and workers to stop in-person learning in Tennessee!
- Sri Lanka’s National Security Council to discuss “violence” in estates
- Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant skilled tradesmen continue protests over 12-hour, 7-day schedule
- An interview with Mohamedou Ould Salahi, detained and tortured by the US military, CIA
- Harry and Meghan fire their latest broadside against the House of Windsor
- Nine activists murdered by police in Bloody Sunday raids in the Philippines
- Fuel price hikes in Brazil provoke protests by truckers and oil workers
- One year since the emergence of working-class opposition to the ruling class pandemic policy
- Oregon Governor issues executive order to force teachers and students back into schools
- UK: NHS protest organiser fined £10,000 under pandemic legislation
- Widespread work stoppages in Myanmar against February 1 military coup
- K-12 schools now number one source of COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan
- The Mauritanian: 14 years in Guantánamo detention camp—the horrifying reality of America’s “war on terror”
- Greek state charges pregnant refugee on Lesbos who attempted suicide with arson
- January 6 task force whitewashes Pentagon complicity in coup attempt
- The demise of Greensill: Another expression of financial rot and decay
- Germany’s reopening plan opens floodgates for resurgence of pandemic
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meets as governments pursue reckless reopening of schools
- Canada’s schools are not “safe!” Build rank-and-file committees to shut down all in-person classes and save lives!
- Top New York Democrats call for resignation of Governor Cuomo in #MeToo witch-hunt
- Opposition grows in Chile to school reopenings amid COVID-19 surge
- Arts education on the “endangered” list in Australia
- Amazon reports record profits in last quarter of 2020
2021-03-10
- UK cuts aid to Yemen as UN warns of country’s “death sentence”
- WISAG ground workers at Frankfurt Airport call for expanded struggle
- CDC issues relaxed guidelines for gatherings of fully vaccinated people
- St. Vincent Hospital nurses strike in Worcester, Mass. over unsafe staffing ratios
- UK universities and colleges escalate attacks on jobs and pay as Johnson government reopens unsafe campuses
- Statement by the WISAG hunger strikers at Frankfurt airport
- Australian pseudo-left Solidarity group covers up union sell-out at Coles Smeaton Grange
- RATP Dev and Go North West bus drivers in Britain oppose renewed race to the bottom
- Democratic Socialists of America campaigns for union-backed “PRO Act”
- Teachers expose unsafe conditions as schools reopen in Philadelphia
- On the 10th anniversary of Libyan war, the New York Times covers up crimes of imperialism
- Mass protests erupt in Paraguay over disastrous handling of pandemic
- Federal prosecutors reveal Oath Keeper founder directed members during Jan. 6 fascist assault
- New Zealand Reserve Bank reports $69 billion of assets in Māori economy
- Judith Katera reinstated at London's Battersea bus depot
- Beijing set to impose a new, anti-democratic election law on Hong Kong
- Florida Governor DeSantis prioritizes vaccine rollout for wealthier communities
- Australia Post restructure driven by gig-economy overhaul of logistics and delivery
- Pentagon asks to double Pacific budget as top admiral says US must prepare to “fight” China
- Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War: Official US propaganda and historical falsification, the game
- Biden administration detaining thousands of migrant youth in appalling Border Patrol cells
- Congressional Democrats visit Alabama to promote union drive at Amazon
2021-03-11
- Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education in Britain and Turkey support fight of WISAG workers at Frankfurt Airport
- Los Angeles teachers union endorses reckless tentative agreement to reopen schools
- India: Union betrays more than 3-month-long strike by Toyota workers in Bangalore
- Spanish media, politicians denounce youth protesting rapper Hasél’s jailing
- Letters of solidarity from British teachers and workers for Frankfurt WISAG workers at Frankfurt Airport
- One year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A disaster caused by capitalism
- Myanmar’s military junta targets striking railway workers
- Australian government and big business demand cheap labour and end to COVID restrictions
- Amidst ongoing threats of fascist violence, National Guard soldiers to remain deployed around Capitol
- Memphis teacher speaks out about the unsafe return to in-person instruction
- Tens of thousands of cancer sufferers denied treatment in UK during pandemic
- “Love is my religion—I could die for that”: the bicentenary of the death of English poet John Keats (1795–1821)
- Journalist acquitted of charges related to arrest during 2020 George Floyd protest in Iowa
- Hawaii declares state of emergency after heavy floods overwhelm roads and bridges
- Despite vaccination and testing debacle in Germany, federal states are reopening schools and retail
- US House passes Biden economic recovery bill
- Disastrous impact of COVID-19 on Bangladeshi migrant workers
- Arkansas governor signs near-total ban on abortion
2021-03-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK government advocates for murderous “learning to live with the virus”
- Switzerland votes to ban the burqa
- The Binghamton University COVID-19 crisis and the way forward for students, faculty and staff
- Sri Lankan court imposes harsh bail conditions on Alton estate workers
- Trial of fascist Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse delayed until November
- Biden administration detains over 3,000 immigrant children daily
- Stellantis’ Big Lie: After six COVID-19 deaths at Warren Truck, plant management claims zero workplace deaths took place in 2020
- Mounting job cuts in New Zealand
- Five Oklahoma City police officers charged in fatal November 2020 shooting of 15-year-old
- Florida teacher dies while battling COVID-19
- One year on: Lessons of the March financial crisis
- European COVID-19 vaccination program produces a debacle
- Canada’s New Democrats pledge to keep propping up Trudeau’s big business minority Liberal government
- New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board exposed as accomplice of NYPD
- Inland Empire schools reopen as infection rates remain high in Southern California
- For an independent political response of the working class to the COVID-19 catastrophe in Brazil!
- Biden peddles national self-delusion on pandemic anniversary
- The Best American Short Stories 2020: The state of mind of a certain social layer
- Health care workers strike Bend, Oregon, hospital
- Arizona governor fully reopens schools and businesses with union backing
- How Labor and the unions imposed Australia’s anti-strike laws
2021-03-13
- Industrial action at WISAG: How the European Union deregulated ground services
- Crisis of monarchy over Harry and Meghan dominates UK media
- Millions at risk in expected Istanbul earthquake
- Texas attorney general sues local officials for refusing to lift mask mandates
- Businessman launches Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party in Sri Lanka
- Clashes break out in Senegal after arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko
- Washington state governor set to declare state of emergency to force reopening of schools
- US convenes the “Quad”—a quasi-military alliance against China
- EU lifts ex-Catalan regional premier Carles Puigdemont’s parliamentary immunity
- Texas gas companies implicated in massive blackouts
- Biden’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the coronavirus pandemic
- German financial markets, big companies coin money out of the pandemic
- Australian government promises “cheap flights” to deflect social unrest over mass unemployment and vaccine debacles
- The phony “socialist” takeover of the Nevada State Democratic Party
- Court ruling in Brazil promotes political rehabilitation of Lula
- Opposition mounts among Los Angeles teachers to union’s school reopening agreement
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Nearly 10 million US jobs lost one year after start of the pandemic
- Warning strikes in Germany’s metal and electric industries: Workers must take control of the struggle out of the hands of IG Metall!
- US prosecutors declare Honduras a “narco-state”
- UK: Go North West bus workers strike enters third week
- ECB to accelerate supply of ultra-cheap money
- Detroit Mayor Duggan’s State of the City 2021: Open for business
- Chicago teachers and parents: Stop the school reopenings! Oppose the policy of social murder!
- Canada’s universities and colleges announce reopenings despite threat of COVID-19 third wave
- Australia: Biloela residents maintain three-year fight for Tamil refugee family’s freedom
- British Gas workers strike continues against “fire and rehire” threat
- President Macron admits French assassination of Ali Boumendjel in the Algerian war
2021-03-15
- Build rank-and-file committees to stop the drive to reopen schools across the West Coast!
- COVID-19 concerns trigger Liberal Party wipeout in Western Australian election
- Columbia University graduate workers begin strike for better working and living conditions
- This week in history: March 15-21
- Tamil Nadu assembly elections held amid worsening social crisis in India
- The devastating impact of the 10-year US-orchestrated war on Syria
- Further evidence of the perils of US college reopenings
- UK: London police attack protesters following murder of Sarah Everard with police officer main suspect
- Coronavirus pandemic resurges throughout the world
- Germany: Open schools, day-care centres and businesses increase risk of new coronavirus variants
- Canadian health officials shut Amazon warehouse after mass COVID-19 outbreak
- One Night in Miami: Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown in February 1964
- New York City moves to reopen high schools as dangerous COVID-19 variants spread
- Australian government announces poverty-level welfare boost
- Maryland’s Republican governor issues order dropping majority of state’s COVID-19 restrictions
- B.1.1.7 variants detected in Florida are approaching dangerous threshold
- K-12 schools identified as largest source of COVID-19 infections in Illinois
- Sri Lankan workers denounce state repression of Alton Estate workers
- Protests continue one year after Louisville, Kentucky police brutally murdered Breonna Taylor
- Wages and benefits for low-wage workers have fallen in Alabama during coronavirus pandemic
2021-03-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Teamsters union files lawsuit against UPS Worldport in Kentucky over unsafe conditions
- Two business owners arrested for assaulting Capitol Police officer who died following January 6 attack
- WISAG imposes new sackings at Frankfurt Airport
- Quad summit consolidates US-led military bloc to prepare for war against China
- Paraguay’s health care system collapses as government tries to quell protests
- Pakistan government admits “dangerous” third wave of COVID-19 infections
- Norfolk, Virginia teacher exposes unsafe conditions as schools reopen
- Prime Minister Mark Rutte set to carry Dutch general elections by default
- Bloodiest crackdown yet on Myanmar protests
- Minneapolis agrees to $27 million settlement for family of George Floyd
- Report documents last year’s Los Angeles police crackdown
- Kroger closes more Los Angeles grocery stores in response to “Hero Pay”
- Kenyon College student workers in Ohio authorize strike over COVID-19 safety
- Residents of Jackson, Mississippi still without water a month after outage
- Biden launches barbaric attack on immigrants
- Ten years after the Fukushima disaster in Japan
- Indian farmers’ agitation against Modi’s pro-agribusiness laws continues for fourth month
- Growing anger against Biden administration’s mandate for standardized tests during pandemic
- Shorter holidays and longer work day under UK government’s school catch-up plan
- Duke undergraduates ordered to shelter in place amid rapid spike in COVID-19 cases
- What’s behind the New York Times-led campaign to bring down Andrew Cuomo?
- Former Australian finance minister to head OECD
- Watch SEP meeting video: “The Coles Smeaton Grange struggle: The next stage for the working class”
- Chilean transit workers protest layoffs, lack of COVID protection in Santiago
- Biden launches campaign to “sell” $1.9 trillion stimulus bill
- Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: Biting satire against obscene conditions in capitalist society
- Several European countries suspend COVID vaccinations
- Support the struggle of WISAG workers at Frankfurt Airport to defend their jobs!
- The unionization campaign at Amazon: A top-down operation, with no program for workers
2021-03-17
- St. Vincent Hospital nurses in Worcester, Mass. in second week of strike for safe staffing ratios
- Tesla’s 2020 reopening led to hundreds of COVID-19 infections among workers, county health data show
- Stop Stellantis and UAW’s conspiracy to abolish the 8-hour day!
- Federal agents, local police crack down on left-wing protests in Portland, Oregon
- Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias steps down as Spanish deputy prime minister
- Coronavirus crisis spirals out of control in Papua New Guinea
- US imperialism puts China in its sights
- Oregon educators: Unite to halt the reopening of schools and save lives!
- COVID-19 cases in Ohio schools nearly double in wake of forced reopenings
- New Zealand: Two years since the Christchurch far-right terrorist attack
- Mexican government joins Biden administration in renewed crackdown on refugees and migrants
- Right-wing feminist marches in Australia promoted to bury the class issues
- Ex-Maoist Socialist Party backs “herd immunity,” austerity in Dutch elections
- Los Angeles and Oakland educators to vote this week on unions’ deadly school reopening plans
- Kentucky Senate passes bill making it a crime to insult the police
- End of UK lockdown releases suppressed wave of class struggle
- One million Indian bank employees join two-day national strike against privatisation
- Columbia University graduate workers speak out on strike
- Manchester Go North West strike: “Solidarity” meeting provides cover for union and Labour bureaucracy
- German state elections show growing dissatisfaction with the ruling elite’s “profits before lives” pandemic response
- Dinosaur fossil found sitting on eggs in a nest reveals well-developed parental care
- Three Aboriginal deaths in custody in one week in Australia
- Army command opposed D.C. request for National Guard presence days before January 6 coup attempt
- Capitol Police suspend officer after anti-Semitic book discovered at Capitol Hill security checkpoint
- Biden begins tour to promote his stimulus package
- European Medicines Agency continues to endorse the safety of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
- Amazon brings back in-person staff meetings as COVID-19 pandemic surges
- 2021 Academy Awards nominations: Sticking their heads in the sand
2021-03-18
- WISAG rally in Wiesbaden: “We do not place our hopes in the parties, in the state assembly or in the Bundestag.”
- Biden threatens unspecified retaliation against Russia
- Top US officials in South Korea again denounce China
- UK’s new military policy: More nuclear missiles, more wars, targeting China and Russia
- Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education meets to oppose school reopenings in Turkey
- Eight migrants killed in head-on crash during police chase in Texas
- US SOUTHCOM chief calls Latin America “front line” in clash with China
- Educators in Oakland and across US determined to close schools and contain the pandemic
- Petition for 15 percent NHS pay rise gains more than 638,000 signatures
- 150 years since the Paris Commune
- Martial law imposed in Myanmar cities as death toll rises
- As Mediterranean drownings continue, European Human Rights Commissioner condemns EU refugee policy
- His House: The ghosts of an African civil war
- Gerald Horne’s counter-revolution against 1776
- Eight dead in Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings, including six women of Asian-American descent
- Fed pledges to continue flow of ultra-cheap money to Wall Street
- Sri Lankan government policies fuel job destruction and inflation
- Hospitals and intensive care units again overflowing in Brazil
- Workers respond to WSWS article demanding NHS pay increase: “We should be fighting for you to ensure you get what you deserve.”
- Expand the Columbia graduate student strike!
- Striking graduate workers at Columbia University speak out on their struggle
- Chicago Teachers Union, school district announce plan to reopen high schools on April 19
- Canada’s ruling elite paving way for third, even deadlier wave of COVID-19
- Jeanine Áñez arrested over coup in Bolivia
- Biden administration continues to jail record number of immigrant children
- Republican Senator Marco Rubio endorses unionization drive at Alabama Amazon warehouse
2021-03-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Atlanta shootings expose growth of anti-Asian violence in the US
- US House of Representatives holds hearing on Texas winter storm disaster
- Australian university union appeals for closer partnerships with managements as job cuts deepen
- Another 770,000 new U.S. unemployment claims filed as unprecedented job losses continue one year into pandemic
- Demonstrations against draconian Police Bill and police brutality held in UK cities
- Sri Lankan police arrest Muslim leader using draconian anti-terror laws
- Sanders promotes union campaign at Amazon in Senate hearing on inequality
- Unite calls off bus drivers’ strike action at London Sovereign and Quality Line
- Biden administration distorts science to reopen US schools
- Opioid-related deaths skyrocket in Canada as pandemic worsens already dire health care and social crisis
- New York educators call for support to striking Columbia grad workers
- Münster University Hospital: Nurse dismissed for criticizing workload
- Conductor James Levine is dead at the age of 77
- Unions employ scare tactics in attempt to blackmail Los Angeles and Oakland teachers into adopting return to school agreement
- The Philippines: Political descendants of Popoy Lagman recycle Stalinist lies
- Illinois State University grad student workers to take strike vote
- Australian government passes IR laws attacking casual workers, but business demands much more
- With rising levels of infection in Germany, resistance to school openings grows
- France announces inadequate lockdown measures as coronavirus spreads
- UAW ramps up anti-Mexican campaign as Ford reneges on investment deal for Ohio Assembly
- Oppose efforts to censor Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee!
- Union ends health care strike in Bend, Oregon
- The European Medicines Agency calls the AstraZeneca vaccine a “safe and effective vaccine”
2021-03-20
- What next in the airport workers struggle against the WISAG Group in Germany?
- West Bank hospitals overwhelmed as Israel withholds vaccines
- AFT President Randi Weingarten tells Texas teacher Michael Hull: “We’re not going to fight to keep the schools closed”
- LA and Oakland teachers: Vote “No” on the deadly deals to reopen schools!
- US beats the anti-China war drums in Alaska
- Ukraine approves strategy to “recover” Crimea, threatening all-out war with Russia
- Turkish government moves to ban Kurdish-nationalist HDP
- Millions of Australian workers forced to deplete their retirement funds amid pandemic
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government unveils €11 billion corporate bailout
- São Paulo teachers denounce health care collapse, defend “strike for life” against school reopenings
- US government charges four Proud Boys with conspiracy in January 6 assault on Capitol
- Opposing UK Police Bill must be based on class, not gender or race
- Philadelphia school closed for COVID outbreak 10 days after reopening
- No to anti-Asian racism and xenophobia!
- Dozens of Ontario schools forced to close, as government’s “open school” policy endangers lives
- Ontario government covered up massive coronavirus outbreak at Amazon’s Brampton warehouse
- Over 14,000 migrant children detained by Biden administration
- Pandemic threatens to explode in Massachusetts as Baker administration forces schools open
- Four years since the life imprisonment of 13 Maruti Suzuki workers
- Thousands of Liberty Steel jobs at risk as British unions and Labour put forward nationalist alliance with company
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Detroit area, Keurig Dr Pepper/Seven-Up distribution workers strike over pay inequity
- Australian government uses misleading jobless figures to ramp up attack on working conditions
- California Ethnic Studies Curriculum imposes “critical race theory,” excludes Martin Luther King Jr.
- Off-duty Chicago police officer charged with shooting at two people sitting in their car
- Amid health care collapse, Brazil cannot bury its COVID-19 dead
- Black Lives Matter activists denounced by mothers of victims for exploiting deaths of Tamir Rice and others killed by police
- Je Suis Karl and Herr Bachmann and His Class: The “New Right” and a powerful antidote
2021-03-22
- This week in history: March 22-28
- Christopher Nolan’s Tenet: The postmodern would-be blockbuster
- Sturgeon’s future in jeopardy as Scottish National Party civil war intensifies
- Protests across the US against anti-Asian violence
- After a century of plunder, US imperialism turns away Central American refugees
- Australian paramedic details staffing crisis in New South Wales
- Data shows schools are fueling third surge of COVID-19 in Michigan
- Australia: Oppose the job and course cuts at Macquarie University!
- Left Party’s coronavirus policy fuels massive increase in infections in German states
- Detroit strikers denounce two tiers and forced 12-hour days at Keurig/Dr Pepper/Seven-Up
- Homelessness in the US exploded before the pandemic
- Germany: The WISAG business model—spinoffs, layoffs and wage cuts
- Questions raised over planning and mitigation as Australia’s east coast hit by floods
- Eviction ban in England extended to end of May, as tens of thousands of renters remain in crisis
- New surge in COVID-19 pandemic accelerates internationally
- Columbia University Board of Trustees: Wall Street billionaires and Democratic Party operatives
- Pseudo-left uses constitutional election to conceal danger of dictatorship in Chile
- Chicago school attendance figures show less than a quarter of students actually going to schools in person
- Company-police witch hunt continues against Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Australia’s spy agency drums up wartime atmosphere
- Educators, students and parents discuss opposition against the reopening of schools in Germany
2021-03-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Europe sides with the US in imposing punitive sanctions against China
- An Open Letter to Columbia Graduate Students from the IYSSE at University of Michigan
- European vaccine crisis worsens with EU set to vote on export ban
- Former federal prosecutor says facts support sedition charges against leaders of January 6 assault on US Congress
- Russian ambassador to US returns to Moscow as diplomatic crisis continues
- Stalinists, far right support new bourgeois coalition in the Philippines
- Facing COVID-19 outbreaks and privatization, oil workers shut down refineries in Brazil
- The police crackdown in Miami Beach: Who is responsible for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic?
- UAW seeks to isolate Columbia and New York University graduate student struggles
- New York City charter school threatens to fire educators who refuse to teach in-person
- Moroccan government, police violently assault protesting teachers
- Met Opera musicians in New York City accept deal for partial paychecks
- Why the Democratic Party can never be reformed
- Leaked photographs expose dismal conditions in US child immigration detention center
- Long COVID symptoms impact significant numbers half a year after the acute phase
- School reopening deals approved in Los Angeles and Oakland as unions stifle opposition
- Pandemic exacerbates social inequality in Germany
- Occupation of French theatres highlights devastation of the cultural sector during the pandemic
- Two years after Christchurch terror attack: Australian establishment covers up fascist danger
- 110 school bus drivers have died from COVID-19 in the US
- UK Tories and Labour denounce Bristol anti-Police Bill protest
- Bond market nervousness continues
- Australian government hails US confrontation with China amid rising war danger
- UK pseudo-left push corporatist agenda to derail essential worker strikes
2021-03-24
- US Supreme Court to consider reinstating death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- Tamil parties in Sri Lanka support US-backed “human rights” resolution
- Massive deadly fires in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camp
- Québec Solidaire covers up unions’ role in gutting of pension plans
- Drive for in-person classes intensifies in the Philippines
- From global pandemic to global class struggle
- NYU strike authorization vote begins as graduate workers continue strike at Columbia University
- Hurricanes, unchecked pandemic produce humanitarian disaster in Nicaragua
- New Zealand documentary Six Angry Women defends 1984 vigilante attack
- Right-wing Rutte government wins re-election in Netherlands
- Left Voice’s campaign for unionization at Amazon: A pseudo-left cover for a Democratic Party operation
- Tests used in UK schools “not fit for purpose”
- Workers call for independent rank-and-file committees during forum on Amazon unionization vote in Alabama
- Despite rising COVID infection rates, German state education ministers refuse to implement lockdown
- Police in Germany clear streets to protect illegal demo by far-right coronavirus deniers
- France: Protests continue against police violence and the “global security” law
- Food delivery worker in China detained for exposing working conditions
- Ten killed in mass shooting at Boulder, Colorado grocery store
- Biden administration prepares to escalate deportations of families detained at the border
- UK: Johnson government and Labour opposition mark lockdown anniversary with sickening pledge of “unity”
2021-03-25
- The White Tiger: A portrait of India’s masters and servants
- Republicans introduce 253 bills to restrict voting rights in states across the US
- UFCW Local 1445 announces deal to avert a strike, isolating striking nurses in Worcester, Massachusetts
- New Delhi and Washington vow to strengthen anti-China military-strategic partnership
- Tamil Nadu election rallies disregard social distancing as COVID-19 ravages India
- Lessons of the teachers unions’ betrayals in Los Angeles and Oakland
- San Diego Convention Center to be used by Biden administration to detain 1,400 migrant children
- The Bangladesh refugee camp inferno and capitalism’s global war on migrants
- Prosecutors release online chats detailing ‘alliance’ between fascist groups ahead of January 6 assault on US Capitol
- What a US nuclear war with China would look like
- As COVID-19 surges in Europe, NATO steps up threats against Russia and China
- Montreal authorities forced to backtrack on excluding teachers from vaccination pilot project
- United Workers Union isolating McCormick Foods Australia strike
- Israel’s election: Political gridlock as fascistic party gains seats
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson praises capitalism and “greed” for “vaccine success”
- Increasing police violence in Greece as coronavirus crisis escalates
- Germany’s Green Party presents election programme calling for police state buildup, militarism and war
- Two deaths in Australia’s floods as poor government planning exposed
- Fiji government withdraws police powers bill, amid widespread opposition
- India demands more autonomy for Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority north
- UK “competitive age” defence review to create “an army that will be genuinely lethal”
- Facebook threatens teachers’ groups opposing unsafe school reopenings
- Colorado massacre suspect faces arraignment today
2021-03-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More students sent back to Las Vegas schools, as health expert claims Nevada is reaching “herd immunity”
- European Union summit retreats from vaccine export ban
- US jobless claims top 684,000, just below pre-pandemic record high, as millions remain out of work and at risk of eviction
- Infections surge after Turkey’s “gradual normalization” in pandemic
- Suez Canal blocked by grounded ship
- UK: Shrewsbury pickets convictions quashed after nearly 50 years
- Unions, districts force the reopening of schools in Portland and Seattle
- Biden demands resumption of in-person learning in “school reopening summit”
- Leading the Amazon unionization drive: RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, a state operative
- Canada’s Liberal government preparing to criminalize looming Port of Montreal dockers’ strike
- Inadequate isolation measures in Papua New Guinea as COVID-19 surges
- 300,000 deaths in Brazil: A capitalist crime against humanity
- US officials visit Mexico to organize intensified assault on asylum seekers
- Michigan sees a dramatic rise in hospitalizations with COVID-19 for those aged 30 to 50
- Profits before lives: German government abandons “Easter pause”
- Manitoba Hydro workers stage two-day strike after rejecting contract offer
- “A mirage:” EV startup Lordstown Motors faked preorders and is years away from production launch, according to short seller’s report
- COVID-19 cases surge across India
- Columbia graduate students resist efforts to shut down their strike
- Oppose the UAW sellout of the Columbia graduate student strike!
- Democrats and Republicans use House hearing on social media “disinformation and extremism” to advance internet censorship
- Biden silent on rise in COVID-19 cases, justifies attacks on immigrants
- Documentary films from Israel—The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation—and the US—Dirty Feathers
- Right-wing Australian “medical network” opposes pandemic lockdowns and advocates herd immunity
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party
- Amazon workers strike in Italy
- Australian Royal Commission report whitewashes responsibility for aged care crisis
2021-03-27
- German train drivers union head calls for massive staff cuts
- Virginia’s state government abolishes capital punishment
- Top US admiral warns war with China over Taiwan “much closer than most think”
- US-backed UNHRC resolution puts Sri Lanka on notice
- Trump reiterates support for January 6 Capitol siege
- Texas implements new CDC guidelines in public schools
- Texas reports 111 dead from February winter storm that knocked out power and water for millions
- Morenoite CRT offers political alliance with Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government
- Sound of Metal: Searching for relief in “a damn cruel place”
- Determined opposition to 12-hour day at Sterling Heights Assembly as April 5 start date approaches
- COVID-19 infections shoot up in reopened UK schools
- Evanston, Illinois city council votes to enact racial reparations program
- Quebec court throws out union lawsuit calling for greater protection from COVID-19 in schools
- After the January 6 coup attempt, Republicans escalate attack on voting rights
- Advance notice: Socialist publisher Mehring Books launches new Australian website
- Teachers in Los Angeles speak out as catastrophic school reopenings loom
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Australian Treasury flags 150,000 job losses as JobKeeper ends
- Columbia graduate workers hold the line, set to continue strike into third week
- EU summit: Trade war instead of protection from coronavirus
- Demonstrators protest brutal removal of Los Angeles homeless encampment
- UK councils funding crisis threatens essential services
- The class issues behind the unionization drive at Amazon
- Form a Network of Rank-and-File Action Committees for Safe Workplaces!
- Australian government and media seek to bury Afghanistan war crimes
- Behind Amazon’s expansion in Detroit
2021-03-29
- West Coast educators call for unity with striking Columbia University graduate students
- House Speaker Pelosi names D.C. National Guard Commander William Walker new Sergeant-at-Arms
- This week in history: March 29-April 4
- The Suez Canal blockage and the globalization of production
- Dr. Seuss publishers unleash controversy over legacy of famed children’s author
- UK police and government step up repression against Police Bill protests
- Ontario parent speaks out after COVID-19 outbreak at her child’s school
- Oppose deportations and all anti-immigrant measures in Australia and New Zealand!
- Myanmar military guns down 114 people in deadliest daily toll
- British journalist Craig Murray found guilty of contempt of court
- Michigan Republican Party leader “jokes” about killing Democrats, anti-Trump Republicans
- Socialist publisher Mehring Books Australia website now online
- Beloved Maryland math teacher dies of COVID-19 after school reopened
- With hospitals overflowing, Macron defends his “herd immunity” against the virus
- The working class in Germany pays the cost of the pandemic
- Australian flood victims speak out: “The only assistance is locals helping each other out.”
- Support grows among workers for striking Columbia University graduate students
- COVID-19 cases in Chicago and throughout Illinois increase following reopening of schools and businesses
- Amid surging COVID-19 cases, New York Mayor de Blasio orders 80,000 city workers back to offices
- Australian population declines for first time since World War I
- Workers at Bradken steel mill in Atchison, Kansas enter second week of strike while USW imposes isolation
- Bernie Sanders promotes unionization at Alabama Amazon facility
2021-03-30
- CDC director admits sense of “impending doom” over COVID-19 pandemic
- Multi-billion-pound UK track and trace system failed to reduce COVID-19 spread
- Tennessee teachers cannot trust Governor Lee with the $4 billion in COVID-19 relief funds!
- Murder trial begins for former officer charged in the death of George Floyd
- Unite calls off strikes at London Sovereign and Quality Line, paving way for sell out
- Promising Young Woman: Law-and-order campaign against the rights of the accused
- Alcoa threatens smelter closure to extract more Australian government subsidies
- CNN’s pandemic “postmortem”: The anatomy of a “social murder”
- Oakland schools set to reopen amid surge in pandemic
- New Zealand’s public hospitals face worsening crisis
- IAM attempts union certification among 87 workers at Nissan auto plant in Tennessee
- Crisis-wracked Australian PM unveils cabinet reshuffle
- Mexico reports 417,002 excess deaths during the pandemic
- India suspends export of COVID-19 vaccines
- Doctors in Germany warn of imminent overloading of hospitals
- The surge of COVID-19 in Florida and the disastrous reality of school reopenings in the US
- At last minute, US government renews inadequate eviction moratorium for three months
- The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Columbia graduate worker strike at a crossroads
- Bucking US threats, China and Iran sign 25-year treaty
- Management suspends 38 Alton estate workers in Sri Lanka
- Australia: Queensland capital city enters lockdown
- Dozens subpoenaed under Brazil’s “national security” law for calling Bolsonaro “genocidal”
- Amazon workers, residents speak out as union vote by Amazon workers concludes
- How nationalist politics disrupts mass vaccination: the case of AstraZeneca
2021-03-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Airport ground workers stage protest at Verdi trade union headquarters
- MAN Steyr plant facing closure, threatening 2,300 jobs
- Johnson eases lockdown, paving way for new coronavirus upsurge in Britain
- 24 world leaders issue bogus call for pandemic treaty
- The Father: Anthony Hopkins as a Londoner dealing with dementia
- Columbia University to striking graduate workers: Starve or take our deal
- Second day of Derek Chauvin trial: Witnesses to the police murder of George Floyd describe emotional experiences
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “bad faith actors”
- Pakistan government allows new wave of COVID-19 pandemic to run rampant
- Science vs propaganda: World Health Organization report exposes “Wuhan laboratory” lie
- Pennsylvania educators demand an end to Facebook censorship and dangerous in-person learning
- Indian premier visits Bangladesh to counter China
- Texas teacher Michael Hull discusses the teachers unions and the need for rank-and-file committees
- Eric London interviewed by comedian Lee Camp
- Far-right army reservist who tried to assassinate Canada’s prime minister sentenced to six years behind bars
- Google shuts down a hacking operation being conducted by ally of the US government
- Australian inquiry reveals disastrous working conditions of public school teachers
- As coronavirus cases explode, French teachers demand closure of schools
- Australian flood victims condemn lack of government assistance, exorbitant insurance premiums
- COVID-19 contagion accelerates across Europe amid chaotic vaccine rollout
- British Gas sends out dismissal notices to strikers effective April 1
- Big banks hit by investment fund collapse
- Coronavirus pandemic exposes Alabama’s decrepit public health system
- 1,300 steelworkers in five states strike at Allegheny Technologies
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