Archive: 04/2021
2021-04-01
- Striking nurses at St. Vincent Hospital starved of strike pay by MNA
- Obscene global vaccine profiteering by pharmaceutical companies
- 36-year-old Salvadoran mother killed by Mexican police officer
- A US ambassador visits Taiwan for first time since 1979
- The trial of Derek Chauvin and the epidemic of police murder in America
- Columbia University grad workers must form a rank-and-file committee to spread their strike!
- Brutal assault on female Filipino immigrant captured on security camera in New York City
- Australian government announces missile building program as US steps up war drive against China
- Michigan's Democratic governor rules out new restrictions despite COVID-19 surge
- German chancellor Angela Merkel: Economic interests take precedence over lives
- What is behind the media blackout of the Columbia graduate workers strike?
- Macron rejects calls for strict lockdown as COVID-19 surges in France
- Australian Labor Party prepares for war and social unrest
- UK’s “New Plan for Immigration”—a fundamental assault on the right to asylum
- IG Metall union will have a role in job cuts and wage reductions
- Florida House approves draconian HB 1 anti-protest bill
- IMF chief warns of debt crisis for developing countries
- COVID-19 pandemic triggers social, economic devastation among Canada’s cultural workers
- Bolsonaro sacks military command to consolidate authoritarian rule in Brazil
- January 6 fascist thug has been working with FBI since 2018, lawyer claims
- Biden unveils infrastructure plan tied to corporate tax hike
2021-04-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Republican voter suppression bills advance as Democrats promote illusions in Congress
- US weekly combined unemployment claims spike above 950,000
- United Auto Workers executives received massive payout in 2020 as COVID-19 ravaged auto plants
- Record surge in coronavirus cases at Stellantis’ Sterling Stamping Plant
- State government ends Brisbane lockdown as Australia’s vaccine rollout is in a shambles
- UK variant discovered at University of Pittsburgh and Penn State campuses
- New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families oppose government plan to end underground investigation
- Macron’s pandemic speech and the politics of “social murder”
- New studies show COVID-19 leads to significant organ damage and the death of many survivors
- New York and New Jersey governors ease restrictions even as infections increase
- California Governor Newsom faces right-wing recall
- Minari: Filmmaking “interested in life” for a change
- Honduras, Guatemala break up migrant caravan at behest of Biden administration
- Australian Labor Party backs coal, gas and “border protection”
- Dozens of Canadian Indigenous communities under boil-water advisories one year into pandemic
- The antiscientific campaign to promote “living with the virus”
- Evidence grows against former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin on day four of murder trial
- WSWS publishes Chinese translation of “800,000 COVID-19 deaths in Europe: capitalism, social murder and the case for socialism”
- Thousands of migrant children remain detained in overflowing detention camps along southern US border
- Automakers halt production at 18 plants in Brazil
- ATI to bring in scabs against strike of 1,300 steelworkers
- 1,100 miners commence strike action in Alabama
2021-04-03
- Military clashes raise danger of major escalation between Russia and Ukraine
- Turner’s Modern World at the Tate Britain: J.M.W. Turner’s artistic depiction of early capitalism
- Columbia graduate workers: Organize opposition to the UAW strike “pause”!
- Coronavirus pandemic escalates in Poland, with 400 dying every day
- Growth in class struggle in the US pits workers against the pro-capitalist trade unions
- Baseball season opens with thousands in attendance as pandemic surges towards fourth wave
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- March jobs growth dominated by low-wage sectors
- Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale pleads guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act
- Interior Secretary Deb Haaland: The integration of the Native American elite with the Democratic Party
- Workers and scientists in Germany demand “general strike” and “strict lockdown”
- First week of Derek Chauvin murder trial concludes with damning senior officer testimony
- Hundreds of UK elderly and disabled people subjected to blanket “do not attempt resuscitation” without consultation
- Ocasio-Cortez says left-wing opponents of Biden’s immigration policy are doing “a profound disservice to the cause of justice”
- 150 years since the Paris Commune
- UAW isolates Columbia University strike, starves graduate students with poverty strike pay
- UK Labour Party and Guardian back anti-China provocations
- 13-year-old boy killed by Chicago police
- Canada’s governments pave way for mass death as third COVID-19 wave surges
- Capitol police officer, driver killed in vehicle attack near US Capitol
- Baltimore Amazon workers: Amazon must provide all information relating to the death of Poushawn Brown!
- Brazilian political establishment, corporate media promote military as opposition to Bolsonaro
- Archegos meltdown: another warning of a deep-seated crisis
- Australian Labor Party reinforces commitment to health privatisation
2021-04-05
- St. Vincent nurses in Massachusetts in fourth week of strike for safe staffing
- Epidemiologist warns that the fourth COVID-19 surge is under way in United States
- Ukraine announces joint military exercises with NATO amid rising tensions with Russia
- This week in history: April 5–11
- Spain’s CUP to enter pro-“herd immunity” Catalan regional government
- Sri Lankan IYSSE to commemorate 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth
- Australian richest billionaires double their wealth during COVID-19 crisis
- Big Dirty Money: “White-collar crime” and the nature of capitalism
- Local sheriff in Washington State releases report whitewashing Trump government’s targeted assassination of Michael Reinoehl
- Protests throughout UK against the Police Bill
- COVID-19 cases surge in the Philippines
- The historic and contemporary significance of the 1871 Paris Commune
- COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania rise as schools and businesses reopen
- UN condemns French airstrike on wedding in Mali that slaughtered 22
- Australian workers face poverty as wage subsidies and welfare supplements end
- Japan lines up with US against China over Taiwan
- Biden seeks to deploy federal employees to immigrant detention facilities
- Family of Fort Hood soldier demands answers after military refuses to release report on his death
- German Green Party renews state coalition with Christian Democrats in Baden-Württemberg
- More reports highlight undercounting of Florida COVID-19 deaths
- Report highlights the disastrous impact of the pandemic on public education in California
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez funds the CIA Democrats
- Increased incidence of coronavirus outbreaks at German factories and construction sites
- Warrior Met Coal to mobilize scabs against 1,100 striking mine workers in Alabama
- The CDC guidelines for social distancing in schools are based on distorted science: neither three feet nor six feet distancing is safe
- Canada’s governments prioritize profits over lives, keep schools and workplaces open as third COVID-19 wave surges
- Health care worker burnout rising sharply: “Every day we’re expected to do more in less time”
- USW moves to shut down Bradken strike, attempting to isolate striking ATI workers
- Indications of rising COVID-19 cases at Baltimore-area Amazon fulfillment centers
- The art world in 2021: Artists struggle for rent and food, billionaire collectors thrive
2021-04-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Torrential rain and flash floods kill seven people in Nashville and middle Tennessee
- Train derailment kills 48 in Taiwan
- Atmosphere tense as 12-hour/seven-day schedule goes into effect at Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly
- School strikes erupt throughout the UK
- Biden’s school reopening drive fuels fourth surge of pandemic in the US
- Washington state Supreme Court allows right-wing recall campaign to proceed against Kshama Sawant
- The UK race commission report and its racialist opponents: Apologists for capitalist oppression
- Florida phosphate reservoir on the verge of collapse: An exposure of industrial and government negligence
- An emergency program to stop the global new wave of COVID-19!
- As second week of murder trial opens, Minneapolis police chief testifies against former officer Derek Chauvin
- Myanmar: Protests continue despite fierce military repression
- US Special Forces sent into Mozambique amid growing civil war
- Australian unions back war preparations at Labor Party conference
- Jordan prince told to stop “destabilising activities” after more than a dozen arrests
- JBS Greeley meatpacking worker dies after being struck by machinery
- Selling Biden’s infrastructure plan: Identity politics and anti-Chinese nationalism
- Indiana ends mask mandate as state’s COVID-19 cases climb
- Hospitals in Germany reach crisis point
- UK: Workers must adopt new strategy to defeat union’s isolation of Go North West bus strike
- Report highlights modern slave labour in Pacific fishing industry
- Columbia University graduate students: Reject UAW efforts to shut down strike!
- COVID-19 outbreaks skyrocket at US colleges and universities as new variants emerge on campuses
- The CDC guidelines for social distancing in schools are based on distorted science: neither three feet nor six feet distancing is safe
- British Columbia’s NDP government keeps schools and workplaces open as infections surge
- Teamsters union sells out Keurig/Dr Pepper/Seven-Up strike in Detroit
2021-04-07
- Why did a Massachusetts Nurses Association official appear at an event sponsored by the Morning Star in Britain?
- French Senate amends anti-separatism law to ban hijab for youth under 18
- Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal and the blight of social inequality
- Ukrainian President Zelensky calls on NATO to step up its military intervention in the Black Sea as Russian press warns of war
- Boris Johnson lifts UK COVID-19 restrictions, as scientists warn of “surge of infections and death”
- Toronto school caretaker speaks out on dangers posed by authorities’ insistence on “open schools” amid pandemic
- Southern California mass shooting leaves four dead, including nine-year-old boy
- Over 14 million COVID-19 cases in South Asia
- Court documents shed new light on coordination between Trump White House and fascist militias in January 6 coup attempt
- Boston-area hospital to offer “preferential care based on race”
- The case for expropriation: Billionaires’ wealth surged 60 percent in first year of pandemic
- United Mine Workers announces sellout deal, sparking opposition among striking Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama
- Australia: Union promotes big business Labor politicians at McCormick strike
- Australian Labor and unions commit to restructuring working conditions
- German Defence Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer threatens Russia and China in interview
- IMF upgrades growth forecast but “vulnerabilities” remain
- Ex-Unite activists call on London bus drivers to join RMT: From the frying pan, into the frying pan
- Columbia graduate workers rebel against UAW as struggles brew at New York University
- USW shuts down Bradken stoppage in Kansas, continuing isolation of ATI strikers
- GMB union complicit in imposing British Gas fire and rehire contracts
- The campaign over racism at General Motors and the class character of identity politics
2021-04-08
- Taiwan threatens to shoot down Chinese drones amid mounting US-China conflict
- Russia conducts nationwide military exercises as Ukraine, NATO prepare for war
- Washington brings Syria’s Al Qaeda in from the cold
- Spanish premier Sanchez pledges to end social distancing as COVID-19 rises
- Autoworkers speak out against 84-hour workweek for skilled trades at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant: “It seems like torture”
- Winfred Rembert, artist whose work was rooted in the Jim Crow US South, is dead at the age of 75
- The true toll of the coronavirus pandemic
- Ontario's health system increasingly overwhelmed by pandemic’s third wave
- Australia-New Zealand “travel bubble” to begin this month
- MIS-C cases on the rise in children with at least 3,000 reported and 36 dead
- Michigan signals the emergence of a B.1.1.7 pandemic in the United States
- Australia: IYSSE/CFPE meeting adopts resolution to fight university cuts
- Jacobin endorses deadly school reopening plan reached by Los Angeles teachers union
- IYSSE (Australia) meeting: Oppose the US-led war drive against China!
- Four-day strike at UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency demanding Covid-safe working conditions
- Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama denounce UMW president, say they will reject sellout deal
- Election exacerbates political crisis in Bulgaria
- Europe’s billionaires’ wealth surges in a year of the coronavirus pandemic
- 40,000 baseball fans crowd Texas stadium
2021-04-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian government ministers denounce student newspaper for pulling anti-China story
- As US Department of Labor reports 896,000 combined unemployment claims last week, states move to impose new restrictions
- As pandemic surges, New York City mayor makes it harder to close schools with COVID-19 outbreaks
- Asia emerges as a new epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic
- Ontario teacher calls on education workers across Canada: “Join the struggle to make our schools safe!”
- Workers and youth in Germany demand general strike for a “strict lockdown”
- Reopening of schools and economy fuels Michigan’s new pandemic surge
- Israel escalates attacks on Iran, targeting vessel in Red Sea
- Homelessness crisis rises across the US Midwest
- Biden responds to mass shootings in the US: Empty words and political diversions
- Deliveroo workers demand better pay and conditions as company floats on London stock exchange
- Reject UMWA sellout! Spread the Warrior Met strike!
- European panel concludes AstraZeneca vaccine is linked to blood clots in rare cases
- Semiconductor shortage continues to roil global auto industry, fueling geopolitical tensions
- São Paulo’s state government, media promote bogus data to drive school reopenings
- Australia’s shambolic vaccine rollout continues
- Steelworkers nearing end of second week of strike at ATI
2021-04-10
- Frankfurt Airport ground workers’ struggle at the crossroads
- Financial speculation threatens Australia’s Whyalla steelworks
- Why are the unions isolating the most important health care strike in America?
- US sends two warships into the Black Sea as Russia warns of “full-scale hostilities” with NATO-backed Ukraine
- Number of deaths counted from Texas blackout catastrophe approaches 200
- The RWDSU’s debacle at Amazon
- Rioting in Northern Ireland manipulated by Stormont and Westminster
- French government campaigns against the construction of a mosque in Alsace
- Amid war danger in Black Sea, Turkey threatens Montreux Convention
- Judge blocks lawsuit against OSHA over refusal to inspect Pennsylvania Maid-Rite food processing plant during pandemic
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- COVID-19 spreads at Stellantis Jefferson North as safety protocols break down
- Hemingway on PBS: The American writer who sought “the truest sentence that you know”
- UK: Unite online meeting for Go North West strikers promotes cost cutting and alliance with Johnson government
- “Science denial” and a “policy of contagion”: Germany’s leading virologists condemn government’s anti-lockdown policy
- Sri Lankan Navy brutally arrests 30 fishermen in militarily occupied North
- The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History: A significant political and intellectual event
- US teachers denounce Biden’s deadly school reopening drive amid pandemic surge
- Australian government moving on from war crimes in Afghanistan to prepare war against China
- New York University graduate workers vote to strike as UAW steps up efforts to shut down Columbia struggle
- The working class must intervene to halt Canada’s COVID-19 catastrophe
- Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama defeat UMWA sellout, continue strike
- What has been revealed in the trial of Derek Chauvin?
- Sri Lankan plantation company terminates 38 Alton estate workers
- Biden budget calls for record military spending, nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles
- Biden unveils proposed $769 billion domestic budget
- As details of the sellout deal emerge, Oregon nurses union cynically claims “historic” victory in Bend medical technicians strike
- Two years since Assange was seized from the Ecuadorian Embassy
- Chicago Public Schools, teachers union prepare to reopen high schools
2021-04-12
- Defying strike vote, UAW forces Volvo Truck workers to remain on job in Virginia
- Australian government’s vaccine rollout falls apart
- Ukrainian President Zelensky meets Turkey’s Erdogan as US threatens Russia
- This week in history: April 12-18
- Prosecutors and media smear 13-year-old killed by Chicago police
- US provocatively lifts restrictions on contact with Taiwan
- Spanish trade unions sell out El Corte Inglés struggle
- Strike movement in Scotland sparked by end of lockdown measures
- Prince Philip: An embittered defender of hereditary privilege
- As pandemic surges in Michigan, Governor Whitmer refuses to close schools
- New Zealand accused of “backstabbing” allies over China
- Death toll in Myanmar tops 700 after ruthless military crackdown on Bago city
- Staggering 10 to 15 percent of infected children suffer from Long COVID
- Eric London interviewed by Ryan Knight on Amped Up podcast
- Germany’s Armed Forces seeks recruits for domestic deployment through “voluntary military service in homeland security”
- In “third wave,” coronavirus cases surging in France
- A performer with many personal demons: Rapper and entertainer DMX dead at age 50
- Internal Pentagon document confirms military standdown during January 6 coup attempt
- California Governor Newsom halts COVID-19 tiered restriction system, plans full reopening in June as deaths hit 60,000
- Amazon workers react to the defeat of the RWDSU at Alabama warehouse
2021-04-13
- Protests erupt following police killing in Minneapolis suburb
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Democrats look to corporate CEOs in Georgia attack on voting rights
- Natalie Shapero’s poetry: Popular Longing and the “look outward”
- Australia’s most decorated Afghan veteran accused of covering up war crimes
- French mosque defaced with fascist graffiti amid Macron’s anti-Muslim campaign
- Divisive “rape culture” campaign launched against UK schools
- Anti-war podcaster harassed by police after criticizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter
- 160 years since the attack on Fort Sumter: The beginning of the American Civil War
- Australian McCormick Food workers’ strike ended by United Workers Union
- Long COVID sufferer describes her experience: “I do not recognize my body. I feel like a prisoner in it”
- Attack on Iran nuclear facility linked to Israel
- Fraud concerns raised over Gupta group of companies
- US teachers describe the deadly impacts of COVID-19 on children
- Lawsuit reveals deadly conditions for Washington D.C. jail inmates during the pandemic
- Colorado high school lays off all teachers, tells them to reapply for their own jobs
- After rebelling against UMWA, Warrior Met coal miners face need to expand their strike
- School students strike in New Zealand over inaction on climate change
- In Toronto and Calgary, unions isolate and sell out beverage workers’ contract struggles
- 57 years after the 1964 coup, Brazil again confronts specter of dictatorship
- Albanian government deploys military against striking air traffic controllers
- Alabama loses another beloved educator to COVID-19
- Brutal conflict in Tigray threatens breakup of Ethiopia
- Australia: Thousands protest Aboriginal deaths in custody
2021-04-14
- FDA, CDC recommend “pause” in use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine over rare but unusual blood clots
- Ongoing job cuts at Australian universities as restructuring deepens
- US, NATO step up threats against Russia, turning Black Sea region into a powder keg
- Trump denounces McConnell, Pence and declares himself the real winner of the 2020 election
- Taiwan, semiconductor manufacture and the US conflict with China
- One week into 12-hour, seven-day schedule at Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly, workers describe manpower shortages, harassment
- What makes these lives so difficult: A Leave from South Korea and Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché from Britain
- UK government accelerates National Health Service privatisation under the cover of the pandemic
- Podemos supports ending social distancing amid “fourth wave” in Spain
- The murder of Daunte Wright and the class issues in the fight against police violence
- Pakistan: Unions shut down Balochistan government workers’ strike as state threatens crackdown
- 1619 Project lead writer Nikole Hannah-Jones paid $25,000 for virtual lecture
- Whitmer and Biden refuse to fight surging pandemic in Michigan
- Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam on the COVID-19 pandemic and a strategy to eliminate the virus
- Surging global food and fuel prices add further hardships for workers
- Florida legislature advances bills to suppress voting rights, criminalize lawful protest
- Exxon Mobil plans closure of another Australian oil refinery
- At inaugural public meeting, Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls for working class action to stop the third COVID-19 wave
- Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron in Greensill lobbying scandal
- Major evolution of the human brain correlated with tool-making leap
- German and US defence ministers announce increased troop deployment to Germany
- At its conference in Dresden, the AfD positions itself as a fascist party
2021-04-15
- As districts press to fully reopen, American Federation of Teachers endorses three-foot distancing in schools
- Hypocrisy from UMWA President Cecil Roberts after rebuke by Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama
- UAW works overtime to end Columbia graduate strike before NYU graduate struggles begin
- US Supreme Court again exempts religious gatherings from COVID-19 regulations
- Protests erupt in Spanish migrant camps at PSOE-Podemos repression
- Cyclone Seroja wreaks death and destruction in Indonesia, East Timor and Western Australia
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds meeting calling for a network of rank-and-file action committees
- Biden administration admitting record low number of refugees into US
- Australia Post workers oppose union’s collaboration with management over new enterprise agreement
- Maryland state trooper kills 16-year-old student who held a toy gun
- US Capitol Police inspector general report confirms police stand-down during January 6 coup attempt
- Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer charged in killing of Daunte Wright
- “The unions say we need to compromise. No, we don’t!” Nurses support St. Vincent strikers in Worcester, Mass.
- Rank-and-file teacher opposes Randi Weingarten’s fraud and capitulation
- Major powers respond to Israel’s criminal attack on Natanz with a shrug of the shoulders
- German government introduces new Infection Protection Act, continuing its herd immunity policy
- Indian hospitals overwhelmed amid over 100,000 COVID-19 cases daily
- Frontier workers in Tampa, Florida face cuts to health care and retirement
- Chicago Teachers Union holds remote work stunt action as COVID-19 cases continue to rise
- Health care calamity looms as COVID-19 cases surge across Canada
- Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier (1941–2021): In genuine appreciation
- GMB union betrays British Gas strike as deadline passes and hundreds are dismissed
- High COVID-19 infection rates in Barnsley: National disparity mirrors map of social inequality
- More destructive job cuts unveiled at the University of Newcastle, Australia
- Australian Labor Party conference passes mealy-mouthed motion “defending” Assange
- Biden announces US military withdrawal from Afghanistan
2021-04-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: WISAG workers hold rally at Frankfurt Airport
- Cryptocurrency bubble accelerates as Coinbase goes public
- Federal government selects former US banking regulator as UAW monitor
- Chicago releases video of police executing 13-year-old Adam Toledo
- Tennessee bill grants governor the power to unilaterally keep schools open as pandemic surges
- United Steelworkers union continues to isolate, muzzle ATI strikers as health care cutoff looms
- Amid mounting tensions, US imposes sanctions on Russia
- The US war in Afghanistan: A historic crime
- Hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases as Michigan Governor Whitmer resists calls for statewide restrictions
- US announces deal with Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to use military against migrants
- U.S. Capitol Police inspector general testifies police leadership withheld crowd control weapons during January 6 coup
- Injured worker gives damning evidence to inquiry into Australia’s Grosvenor Mine disaster
- UK further and higher education staff suffer attacks on pay and conditions
- WHO reports 1 million coronavirus deaths in Europe as cases surge
- Defense rests case in murder trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as protests continue in Brooklyn Center
- Flooded mine in China traps 29 workers
- Yes, Columbia University has the resources to meet graduate workers’ needs
- Worker in Canada’s oil and gas industry speaks out over Alberta work camp and worksite COVID-19 outbreaks
- Documents expose Brazilian dictatorship’s plot to overthrow Allende in Chile
- German billionaires enrich themselves in the pandemic
- Sri Lankan workers denounce Alton Estate witch hunt
- Workforce at MAN Truck & Bus in Austria votes against plans to sell the factory
- Julian Assange mural unveiled in Berlin
2021-04-17
- In Paris, Ukraine’s Zelensky proposes EU-Russia-Ukraine talks
- Thousands protest police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo
- Spanish historian sued for slander over research on fascist repression
- Data breach exposes financial support from police officers for fascist shooter Rittenhouse
- Coronavirus cases in Oregon, Washington outpace rise in national case counts
- New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families demand continued underground investigation
- Biden denounces Russia for “interfering” in US elections, remains silent on Trump coup revelations
- Oakland Education Association attempts to defuse anger over reckless return to schools
- Australian PM calls in premiers for support as vaccine debacle worsens
- Australian universities further integrated into war drive
- Once more on bus workers and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union: About that frying pan…
- UK lobbying scandal balloons
- German Left Party embraces the far-right AfD
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Demand a four-week shutdown of auto plants to contain the spread of COVID-19!
- WSWS interviews Jorge O’Leary, leader of 1983–86 Phelps Dodge miners strike
- Eight workers killed in late-night shooting massacre at Indianapolis FedEx Ground facility
- Educators demand Biden’s K-12 relief funding go to protect teachers, students and families
- A century since American writer John Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers, a novel of the First World War
- China records 18 percent quarterly economic growth
- With death toll topping 365,000 Brazil faces “humanitarian catastrophe”
- Truckers for Boeing in Washington State vote unanimously to strike, while Boeing executives rake in bonuses
- Germany’s Supreme Court overturns Berlin rent cap
- Behind the Australia Post management conflict: Competing plans for a pro-business restructure
2021-04-19
- Scrapping of the ambulance car in Dorset as NHS services slashed across UK
- 2,900 Volvo Truck workers walk out in Virginia, joining ongoing strikes by coal miners, steelworkers, nurses
- Biden and Suga ramp up confrontation with China over Taiwan
- Australia intensifies military preparations for US-China conflict over Taiwan
- This week in history: April 19-25
- Chicago police crack down on protests over police murder of 13-year-old Adam Toledo
- Michael Somare (1936-2021) and the failure of bourgeois nationalism in Papua New Guinea
- São Paulo reopens schools, eases restrictions amid mass COVID-19 deaths
- Workers and students in Germany organize successful online meeting to oppose government policy of herd immunity
- Two BNSF workers died this month due to COVID-19 and work accident
- Philippine government eases lockdown amid continued COVID surge
- Three million dead from the coronavirus pandemic
- Norfolk, Virginia special education teacher describes in-person teaching conditions
- Trump administration deputized hundreds of federal officers during crackdown on protesters
- India hit by tsunami of COVID-19 infections as daily new cases surpass 250,000
- Biden seeks to appease ultra-right with refugee policy
- Hospitals in Germany on the brink of collapse
- As police riot against protesters and journalists, Democratic governors activate thousands of National Guard soldiers to quell protests
- France joins “Asian Quad” Indian Ocean naval drills, threatening China
- UK capital London centre of new Covid-19 variants, as R value rises above 1
- Workers at Continental in Hesse, Germany carry out 24-hour strike
- Columbia graduate workers: Reject UAW concessions and Columbia’s “final offer”!
- Chicago Public Schools, teachers union reopen high schools in spite of growth of deadly new COVID-19 variant
- The testimony of Chauvin’s “experts” and the pseudo-legal framework of police terror
- Canada’s governments refuse to protect workers’ lives as pandemic’s third wave surges
- Natural Light from Hungary: What war and barbarism do to a human face
- Left Voice on the RWDSU debacle at Amazon: A lawyers’ brief for union executives
2021-04-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bloomberg donates $25 million for fellowship at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
- Biden extends Trump anti-Chinese TikTok policy
- Thousands demonstrate in Berlin against end of “rent cap” and real estate swindlers
- Police violence is directed against working people and youth of all racial and ethnic backgrounds
- One month after schools reopened, Pennsylvania enters fourth surge of pandemic
- Canada’s NDP blusters about social inequality, while propping up Liberal government
- US, EU step up campaign over right-wing Putin critic Navalny
- Mars robot helicopter completes first rotor-powered flight on another world
- Truck drivers joined by dock workers in protests at the Port of Los Angeles
- Macron’s Global Security bill passed into law in France
- “Profits before lives” policy leads to 80,000 coronavirus deaths in Germany
- Fleet Foxes’ Shore: Swimming in the right direction
- Attorneys present closing arguments in trial of Derek Chauvin for murder of George Floyd
- Sri Lankan minister urges President Rajapakse to act like Hitler
- PBS documentary, CBS “60 Minutes” segment add to evidence of far-reaching state complicity in January 6 coup attempt
- Vote “no” on the UAW sellout of Columbia University graduate strike!
- Brazilian workers stage strikes and protests against COVID-19 pandemic and social crisis
- UK sends warships to the Black Sea, targeting Russia
- Australia announces withdrawal from Afghanistan
2021-04-21
- Striking Volvo truck workers in Virginia demand restoration of UAW-backed concessions
- The Washington Post’s phony campaign on Uyghur “genocide”
- Texas withholds federal aid from public schools
- Spanish unions collaborate with corporations to cut tens of thousands of jobs
- “Vaccine diplomacy” fuels rising US-China tensions
- Workers describe UAW-management cover-up of coronavirus outbreak at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- Valley of Souls from Colombia and images of American working class life in Holler, Home and I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking)
- UK: RMT union betrays four-year struggle against Driver Only Operated trains at South Western Railway
- Quebec teacher unions hold phony 90-minute strike to dissipate rank-and-file anger
- SEG (New Zealand) meeting: Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster
- Navalny vs Assange, or the geopolitics of selective outrage
- Australia: Northern Territory Labor government pushing harsher bail laws for children
- Michigan’s spring break plateau shows a lockdown could stop pandemic surge
- 130,000 public transport workers strike in Indian state of Karnataka in defiance of draconian government threats
- Italy to reopen schools, outdoor dining as hundreds die daily of COVID-19
- At corporate India’s behest, Modi government lets pandemic run rampant
- IG Metall agrees to a cut in real wages at Volkswagen
- Facebook intensified political censorship in advance of Chauvin verdict
- Educators expose the teachers unions’ role in facilitating the deadly reopening of US schools
- Young UK worker speaks to WSWS about exploitative conditions for Amazon delivery drivers
- Derek Chauvin found guilty of all charges in police murder of George Floyd
- Chad’s French-backed President Idriss Déby dies fighting opposition militia
- Britain looks to establish digital currency
- Talks break off in strike by 1,300 steelworkers against Allegheny Technologies
2021-04-22
- Watch: Australian students and youth oppose war drive against China
- President Zelensky says Ukraine “ready” for war with Russia as tensions mount
- Columbia graduate students voice opposition to sell-out contract as strike deadline at NYU draws near
- SEIU calls off Sacramento school strike at last minute, allowing all schools to reopen
- Vladimir Putin warns against further anti-Russian provocations
- Sri Lankan opposition mounts anti-China campaign over Colombo Port City bill
- When is a campaign not a campaign? Britain’s pseudo-left conceal refusal of trade unions and Labour Party to oppose Police Bill
- Biden uses “systemic racism” narrative to obscure class character of police violence
- Museum workers worldwide lose jobs, income—many plan to leave field
- Walter Mondale (1928–2021) and the decline and fall of Democratic Party liberalism
- Notes on police violence: Multiple killings the same week Derek Chauvin convicted
- Spain’s Morenoite Izquierda Diario downplays pandemic as PSOE-Podemos government lifts restrictions
- India reports the highest number of COVID-19 cases ever seen during the pandemic
- Greek government reopens economy amid COVID intensive care “nightmare”
- Tokyo plans to dump contaminated water from Fukushima reactors into the ocean
- Whistle-blowing auto parts worker says he was harassed, victimized after exposing safety issues on line producing airbags for Ford
- Australia: Workers report 96 redundancies at Coles’ Smeaton Grange warehouse
- Canada’s vaccine rollout debacle key contributor to COVID-19 third wave
- Brazil’s defense minister issues threat over probe into Bolsonaro’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic
- Pseudo-left apologists for the GMB’s betrayal of the British Gas dispute
- Germany’s Greens select Baerbock as chancellor candidate
2021-04-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Warrior Met Coal miners defiant, three weeks into Alabama strike
- Turkish government rejects lockdown as pandemic spins out of control
- Hospital workers in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania on strike
- Crane operator crushed to death at Stellantis Sterling Stamping Plant in suburban Detroit
- Sisters with Transistors surveys the women of electronic music
- Unions and Labor leader fraudulently posture as opponents of privatisation at Australia Post
- India ravaged by COVID-19 pandemic—a global catastrophe
- Columbus, Ohio officer who killed Ma’Khia Bryant was trained in military marksmanship
- Pandemic produced a “catastrophic year” for Middle East and North Africa
- Turkey summons Greek, French ambassadors over Mediterranean incident
- New German Christian Democratic candidate for chancellor promotes policies of herd immunity, austerity and war
- A conversation with director Lisa Rovner about Sisters with Transistors
- UK teaching unions stifle fight against pandemic and attacks on jobs and conditions
- House Sergeant-at-Arms ordered security barricades moved the day before January 6 attack on the Capitol
- Johnson halts travel to India as “there will be another wave” as UK sports venues and nightclubs reopen
- Biden climate summit offers empty spectacle
- With 30,000 daily COVID-19 cases, Macron reopens French schools
- After death of Walter Mondale, WSWS republishes 1972 article by Bill Brust
- ATI issues contract ultimatum to strikers as USW isolates workers
- UAW works to sell out New York University strike before it starts
- COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations on the rise in Alabama after easing of restrictions
- Australia: Deaths in Perth nursing home underscore aged care crisis
2021-04-24
- Fatal Tesla Model S crash under investigation by authorities, raises safety concerns
- TAFE college sales accelerate attack on public education in Australia
- Billionaires’ European Super League proposal shelved amid mass opposition from football fans
- As workers mourn death of Sterling Stamping worker Terry Garr, few facts made public
- Far-right Vox leader issues fascistic call to end lockdowns in Spain
- Florida Governor DeSantis signs reactionary bill criminalizing demonstrations against police violence
- Podemos, Spanish officials receive death threats signed by security forces
- Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
- US “excess deaths” in 2020 surpassed the toll during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
- As strike deadline approaches, Oregon Tech officials seek state injunction to prevent walkout
- New Zealand facing demands for sharper anti-China line
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Scores of Palestinians injured in Jerusalem as Jewish supremacists march chanting “Death to Arabs”
- Federal judge orders Los Angeles to remove all homeless people from Skid Row
- Indiana auto parts workers join calls for four-week shutdown of the auto industry with pay to stop the spread of the virus
- Families impacted by police violence gather at funeral for Daunte Wright
- Australian government cancels Chinese economic deals
- Canada practicing “Torture by any other name”–Experts denounce continued use of solitary confinement in country’s prisons
- German parliament adopts changes to Infection Protection Act
2021-04-26
- Editorial workers mount one-day strike against publisher Ziff Davis
- This week in history: April 26-May 2
- Law enforcement arm of the US Postal Service tracking social media activity
- Australia: Leaked report slanders Shepparton school teachers for alleged “systemic racism”
- COVID-19 deaths surge in Michigan
- New Zealand: Lockout of Wellington bus drivers lifted after court ruling
- Australia: Teachers discuss educational disaster at Shepparton super-school
- Asylum seekers removed from UK without proper legal representation
- Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Baghdad kills at least 82 people
- Eastern Europe and the Balkans remain coronavirus hotspot
- Streetlight Harmonies—The “doo-wop” era in popular music
- Australian defence minister speaks of war with China
- Irish police attack sacked Debenhams workers
- Job cuts mount in German clinics and nursing homes despite the pandemic
- Chinese truck driver driven to suicide by exploitative conditions
- Autoworkers call for independent investigation into worker death at Stellantis Sterling Stamping Plant
2021-04-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Striking Volvo workers in Virginia dig in for long battle as truck manufacturer announces Q1 profits
- Reinfections of COVID-19 after natural infection or vaccination
- Montreal dockers face looming threat of Trudeau back-to-work law on second day of strike
- Governments spend trillions on weapons, claim there is no money for health care
- Democratic mayor of Portland, Oregon urges residents to report “Antifa” protesters to the police
- US CEO pay soars during pandemic
- Graduate students at New York University go on strike
- More deaths of people waiting for essential disability services in Australia
- Up to 130 asylum seekers drown in the EU’s Mediterranean graveyard
- Another Australian capital city COVID outbreak highlights danger of global pandemic
- UK Prime Minister Johnson demanded “no more f***ing lockdowns, let the bodies pile high in their thousands!”
- Illinois State University graduate students vote “yes” to strike, union delays until fall
- Lacking oxygen, scores in India suffocate to death as COVID-19 infections reach record high
- French retired army generals threaten a coup d’état
- Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (UK) supports call for International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- Schools reopen in France and Italy amid continuing spread of coronavirus
- Democratic representative Val Demings justifies police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant
- UK government’s pandemic contracts: A looting operation behind the smokescreen of “the national interest”
- Pelosi backs bipartisan commission to cover up Republican complicity in January 6 coup attempt
- Beijing reacts to mounting US belligerence with nationalist boycott campaign
- British Columbia hospitalizations set new record as COVID-19 variants spread
- Bangladeshi police gun down six construction workers
- Austrian government approves comprehensive reopening of businesses
- Arizona Republicans begin “recount” of presidential election
- The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony: Racial politics and other problems
2021-04-28
- Massachusetts nurses reject offer from Tenet Healthcare as US strike movement grows
- Australian government demands return to face-to-face university classes
- Oppose the firing of Mitchell High School educators in Colorado!
- Secret US court approved surveillance program despite continuing FBI constitutional violations
- US Supreme Court makes it easier to sentence minors to life in prison
- One week after fatal accident killed crane operator Terry Garr, millwright dies of COVID-19 at Sterling Stamping Plant
- Trade unions, Podemos and CaixaBank collaborate to cut 8,000 jobs
- Skies of Lebanon, Writing with Fire, Captains of Zaatari and more: Desperate conditions, striking images, weak conclusions
- Political upheaval in Samoa produces electoral stalemate
- COVID-19 catastrophe overshadows Peru election
- Capitalism prepares to fight wars, not the pandemic
- Top IG Metall official takes over as human resources chief at Volkswagen subsidiary
- NYU seeks to break graduate student strike as many Columbia graduate students vote “no” on sell-out contract
- Watch: IYSSE (Australia) meeting opposes US war drive against China
- Workers and youth in Britain on why they are attending the International Online May Day Rally
- Florida Republicans pushing through bills denouncing socialism, limiting voting by mail and targeting left-wing professors
- Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas announces “domestic violence review” at Department following January 6 fascist coup attempt
- House of Representatives passes Washington D.C. statehood bill
- As UK governments reopen schools: educators and students speak about life with Long COVID
- Nearly a third of UK children in poverty even before pandemic
- Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands immediate end to all in-person learning
- Hundreds protest against lack of coronavirus protection measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2021-04-29
- Australian government upgrades northern military bases following “drums of war” call
- After two deaths in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant, autoworkers describe dangerous conditions inside Stellantis factories
- Study from Omaha, Nebraska shows vast failure to detect COVID-19 in schools
- Russian foreign minister warns of a new “cold war”
- FBI agents raid home, office of Rudy Giuliani
- North Carolina judge refuses to release body-cam footage of police killing of Andrew Brown Jr.
- Support grows for striking faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology
- Ohio House budget sanctions tax cuts for the wealthy and illusory school funding increases
- Sri Lankan government detains Muslim parliamentarian and bans burqa
- UK: Fire and rehire contract deadline nears for striking Go North West bus drivers
- 3,000 Kroger workers in Arkansas still without a contract after a year
- Coronavirus crisis in India drives global COVID-19 surge
- French officers back far-right generals’ letter threatening military coup
- US Fed a “long way” from withdrawing massive financial support for Wall Street
- ExxonMobil prepares to lock out hundreds of workers at Beaumont, Texas refinery
- US educators and school workers call for the building of the ICFI’s May Day Rally
- Thousands of migrant workers labouring on Canada’s farms in unsafe conditions amid deadly COVID-19 third wave
- Book-burning comes to America
- Steelworkers reject company ultimatum and continue ATI strike
2021-04-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK to send largest Carrier Strike Group since Falklands/Malvinas war to South China Sea
- WSWS Autoworker Newsletter campaigns for online May Day rally at Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- Brazilian pseudo-left leader Guilherme Boulos seeks political accommodation with far right
- Biden’s new dawn: Illusion and reality
- Ocupación S.A.: Documentary exposes Spain’s role in illegal occupation of Western Sahara
- Striking NYU graduate students: “It’s people’s lives that we’re talking about here”
- Bernie Sanders intervenes in NYU graduate student strike as UAW prepares sell-out
- Support the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! Attend the ICFI’s May Day rally!
- Union-backed Trudeau government rams through law to criminalize Montreal port strike
- Pennsylvania school bus driver explains why she is coming to the International May Day online rally
- Human Rights Watch declares Israel has crossed apartheid threshold
- Support from workers and youth in Britain for International Online May Day Rally
- Workers and youth in Germany support call for International Workers Alliance and mobilise for ICFI May Day online rally
- As COVID-19 infections engulf India, Modi government fails to guarantee free vaccines
- Australian union petition over Grosvenor Mine disaster a cynical diversion
- German actors provide fodder for far-right propaganda against lockdown measures
- Lead poisoned Flint, Michigan residents, health care professionals raise concerns about bone scan required for compensation
- Michigan teachers conduct wildcat sickout against in-person learning, cuts to pandemic safety measures
- Federal authorities charge New Jersey police officers in assault of teenager
- Canadian single mother infected by COVID-19: “They said schools are safe. They said kids cannot get it. Liars!”
- Killers of Ahmaud Arbery charged with federal hate crimes
- Exploiting social and economic crisis, Amazon launches massive expansion in New York City
- Alabama Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meeting calls for class unity, supports Warrior Met miners
- Australian unions’ report underlines economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic
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