Archive: 05/2021
2021-05-01
- Reject UAW sellout at Volvo NRV! No contract, no work! Elect rank-and-file strike committee to expand strike and restore all UAW-backed concessions!
- Ukrainian President Zelensky deepens alliance with far right
- “The Danton, Robespierre, and Marat of America, all rolled into one”: A new biography of antislavery leader Thaddeus Stevens
- Serious films about serious things—This Is My Desire (Nigeria), Radiograph of a Family (Iran), Poppy Field (Romania)
- Students occupy four universities in Britain as rent strikes continue
- The French army’s coup plots and the global onslaught on democratic rights
- New “domestic terrorism” charges brought against fascists who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer
- Wall Street margin debt surges to record high
- Madrid elections marked by mounting fascist death threats
- UAW tries to shut down Volvo Truck strike in Virginia as Columbia University grad students vote down union-backed sellout deal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dozens killed in crush at Israeli religious festival
- Ten years since WikiLeaks and Assange published the Guantánamo Files
- Amid protests over police murder of Andrew Brown, Jr., Elizabeth City, North Carolina bans public assembly without permit
- Downing Street flat scandal used to cover up Johnson’s “bodies pile high” outburst
- Columbia graduate workers defy UAW, vote down sellout contract
- Clayton County, Georgia sheriff indicted on federal criminal charges for brutalizing detainees
- More reports surface of child deaths from COVID-19 in the US as students remain in classrooms
- Australian treasurer reveals economic and political uncertainty
- Workers Party pursues herd immunity policy as Brazil tops 400,000 COVID deaths
- Stop front boarding on Berlin buses—prepare strike action!
- Airbus collaborates with Spanish trade unions to demobilise fight against plant closure
2021-05-03
- Volvo Truck workers in Virginia livid over UAW strikebreaking
- This week in history: May 3-9
- Australia: Liberals survive Tasmanian election due to near-record low Labor vote
- “Open letter” demands end to UK pandemic restrictions as official figures confirm COVID-19 is a “poor man's disease”
- Tyron: Another side of British rapper Slowthai
- Germany’s official COVID-19 contagion policy puts hundreds of thousands of students and educators at risk
- May Day 2021 and the global class struggle
- COVID-19 death of 13-year-old Brampton girl underscores criminality of Canada’s open economy/open schools policy
- France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon appeals to President Macron against the fascistic coup-plotting military generals
- May Day Online Rally calls for formation of International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- UK: Unite union claims victory is imminent after Go North West buses withdraws fire and rehire threat
- German airline Lufthansa announces a further 10,000 job cuts
- Mounting popular anger in India over Modi government’s criminal mishandling of pandemic
- German election campaign: Green Party on the war path
- ExxonMobil begins lockout of hundreds of Texas oil workers
- Crew death, contract cancellations mark cruise industry restart
- Facebook reverses censorship of WSWS article debunking “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory
- Sri Lanka: Alton workers’ action committee defends victimised colleagues
- Pressure from Berlin bus drivers halts re-introduction of front boarding
- Amazon steps up violations of workers privacy with new surveillance methods
- Australian Education Union announces phony “week of action” over Victorian teachers’ workplace agreement
2021-05-04
- Drug overdose deaths hit record high in West Virginia in 2020
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Volvo Truck workers oppose concessions deal pushed by UAW
- More than 550 autoworkers out due to COVID-19 at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- Four dead, two dozen injured after migrant boat capsizes off California coast
- Historian Joseph Scalice exposes the role of Stalinism in the rise of Duterte
- The meaning of the May Day 2021 Online Rally
- NYU graduate student strike enters second week as GSOC-UAW makes concessions
- Biden steers toward confrontation with North Korea
- Dutch caretaker government scraps partial lockdown as infections mount
- How Wall Street feeds on death
- The rejection of fascism and war is deeply rooted in the German working class
- Indian state elections deliver blow to Modi, amid COVID-19 catastrophe
- Climate change impact on Gulf Stream will have severe consequences for weather in Europe and North America
- New pandemic advice from the New York Times: Practicing good hygiene may be worse than COVID-19
- Florida legislatures pass draconian bill restricting voting rights
- UK Labour Party/Unite corporatist campaign against “fire and rehire”
- Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Germany, France spend billions on new fighter jets
- UK teachers oppose attacks on pay, conditions, pensions and government’s push for Academisation of schools
- Global consumer price surge hits workers
- Writers, biographers protest W.W. Norton’s decision to “permanently” remove Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth from print
- Australian government declares it “illegal” for citizens to return from India
2021-05-05
- Young Delhi resident describes India’s COVID-19 catastrophe
- Treasury Secretary Yellen warns interest rates may need to rise
- May Day in Frankfurt, Germany: WISAG worker warns of tens of thousands of job cuts
- Criminal response of UK ruling elite to COVID-19 produces huge waiting list for elective procedures
- Federal prosecutors recommend two-year sentence for former UAW President Dennis Williams for fraud and corruption
- Australian reports show deepening social toll as pandemic continues
- Thousands flock to community pantries in the Philippines as COVID-19 rapidly spreads
- Pfizer announces windfall profits as low-income countries denied vaccines
- Papua New Guinea parliament adjourned amid escalating COVID-19 crisis
- Union sends Oregon Tech faculty back to work with sellout agreement
- American carnage: Fired Wisconsin casino restaurant manager kills two co-workers, injures another before being killed by police
- Mexico City transit bridge collapse leaves 24 dead, scores injured
- Defend Julian Assange, jailed for exposing the crimes of American and world imperialism
- Boris Johnson, social murder and the struggle against the Labour and trade union bureaucracy
- Australian McCormick Foods dispute part of global restructuring drive
- UK Johnson government sends unelected commissioners to take over services in Liverpool City Council
- German factories and low-income neighbourhoods left exposed to massive COVID-19 outbreaks
- Quebec’s anti-curfew protests: A political blind alley and entry point for the far right
- Mass protests in Colombia continue into second week amid deadly repression
- Thousands of Istanbul electricity workers launch wildcat strike
2021-05-06
- Arrest of Wisconsin National Guardsmen marks fourth currently enlisted soldier charged in January 6 attack on Capitol
- Support grows among Volvo, Mack Truck workers for joint fight against UAW-backed concessions
- The new works council leader at Volkswagen: What does she stand for?
- Australian university casuals group tries to divide workers and promote trade unions
- May Day 2021 and the struggle for international socialism in Turkey
- Sri Lankan government exonerates alleged war criminals and political cronies
- Cliff Slaughter: 1928–2021
- The sentencing of former UAW President Dennis Williams and the case for rank-and-file committees
- US construction companies cited for serious federal workplace safety violations
- Australian defence minister launches “frank discussion” on war against China
- Families paint defiant Covid-19 memorial wall opposite UK Parliament
- Right-wing parties carry Madrid region as Podemos suffers election debacle
- Right-wing extremist Hans-Georg Maassen runs for the Christian Democrats in German general election
- Lockout of hundreds of oil workers continues in Beaumont, Texas
- DNA evidence exonerates Ledell Lee, four years after his execution by lethal injection in Arkansas
- Indian government grants more powers to the military as popular anger over COVID-19 catastrophe mounts
- Howard University students and educators protest elimination of classical studies department
- In response to the Bailey–Roth controversy: New York Times columnist condemns biography’s “Man Problem”
- G7 foreign minister discuss anti-Russia and China agenda amid global pandemic
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issues executive order removing county-level COVID-19 restrictions
- UK: Second round of strikes at DVLA over safety at Covid-19 hotspot
- Half of Canada’s population less than $200 away from insolvency as billionaires’ wealth surges
- US birth rate declines to lowest point in more than a century
- Amazonians United: A new trap for workers
- The working class and the struggle against “herd immunity” policies in Europe
2021-05-07
- Tenet Healthcare refuses to shift on staffing ratios at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Alabama miners brace for long battle against Warrior Met Coal
- As pandemic continues and nearly 500,000 file for unemployment, US states seek to blackmail workers back on the job
- Britain ratchets up NATO’s war drive against Russia
- San Diego educators interview atmospheric chemist Dr. Delphine Farmer on air quality in schools
- Violence against Asians spikes in San Francisco, California
- Former Obama administration official arrested on charges of charter school embezzlement
- President Bukele grabs dictatorial powers in El Salvador
- Rise in tuberculosis in Peru: A byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Rampant Wall Street speculation: The fever chart of a terminally diseased system
- With backing of unions, Pennsylvania public universities to slash over 1,500 jobs
- The Brazilian ruling class is unwilling and incapable of mounting any struggle against the deadly pandemic
- The struggle for Permanent Revolution in South Asia
- Executives at Canada’s Loblaws food retail giant gorge on bonuses, while condemning grocery workers to poverty wages
- Ceasefire reached in deadly border conflict between Central Asian republics
- Gunboats dispatched to Jersey in UK/French fishing rights conflict
- Australian students and workers oppose government ban on citizens returning from India
- India reports almost 4,000 daily COVID-19 deaths as the country faces severe vaccine shortages
- New estimates claim COVID-19 death toll is twice as high as reported
- German government playing with fire by lifting restrictions and extending special rights to vaccinated citizens
- Stranded Australian citizens petition the United Nations
- Chinese defense minister visits Sri Lanka amid rising geopolitical tension
- Congressional Republicans move to purge Liz Cheney from leadership
- Widespread opposition to Australian government ban on citizens returning from India
2021-05-08
- Australian union chief warns of workers’ pent-up discontent
- US Republicans push ahead with attacks on voting rights
- Opposition remains high among Volvo Truck workers to the latest UAW concessions deal
- Fed report warns of “vulnerabilities” in US financial system
- US Secretary of State Blinken visits Kiev amidst ongoing tensions with Russia
- Istanbul electricity workers’ struggle at the crossroads
- Facebook’s suspension of Donald Trump is not a free speech issue
- Sri Lanka: Stop the criminal mishandling of the pandemic! Lockdown the country with full compensation to those affected!
- Australian Education Union’s anti-democratic “town hall” meeting underscores danger of new sell-out industrial agreement
- New study doubles global COVID-19 death toll
- NYU graduate student strike set to enter its third week as union seeks to officially end strike at Columbia
- New York tri-state area to lift most COVID-19 restrictions May 19
- Attack on Bristol University Professor David Miller spearheads national anti-Semitism witch-hunt
- The SEP leads the fight against company, police and union witch-hunt of Sri Lankan plantation workers
- The Indian ruling elite’s criminal response to the pandemic—a global catastrophe
- The far-right election victory in Madrid: A warning to the working class
- Los Angeles teacher describes unsafe and intolerable working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Weak US jobs reports sparks calls for elimination of pandemic aid
- Indian medical staff indict Modi government, authorities for catastrophic mishandling of pandemic
- Pittsburgh protester who lost eye from police projectile harassed by officer at court hearing
- Tory victory in Hartlepool by-election signals death throes of UK Labour Party
- Declaring that France must “live with the virus,” Macron ends limited lockdown
- Fiji government scrambles to contain COVID-19 outbreak
- Colombia’s mass protests continue amid reported “disappearance” of 379 demonstrators
- Chile’s president charged with “crimes against humanity”
- Federal grand jury brings indictments against former Minneapolis police officers who murdered George Floyd
- Factional warfare engulfs Canada’s Green Party
- German establishment parties block opponents of their right-wing policies from the ballot
- The Bike Thief: The desperate acts people are driven to
- UK: Jacobs Douwe Egbert workers strike against fire and rehire contract
2021-05-10
- Wisconsin militia member in Whitmer plot extradited to Michigan, released on bond
- UK: Jacobs Douwe Egberts workers strike against “fire and rehire”
- This week in history: May 10-16
- Colorado teachers denied reemployment by panel of private consultants and administrators
- Scottish National Party’s fourth election win threatens UK breakup
- US drive against China sharpens political tensions in the Philippines
- US ruling class moves to slash jobless aid
- German government opposes lifting of patents on coronavirus vaccines
- Alabama police officer convicted of murder in shooting of suicidal man
- New Zealand’s Labour-Greens government is imposing historic attacks on the working class
- Part one of a conversation with film historian, scholar James Naremore: The films of American director Charles Burnett
- Autoworkers, educators and Amazon workers in US speak on International May Day rally
- Netanyahu’s provocations in East Jerusalem threaten war with Palestinians
- JDE strikers in UK: “It’s a bit like the pandemic, I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
- Experts estimate COVID-19 death toll in India at over one million
- Australia: Seven-year-old girl dies after waiting hours in Perth emergency department
- German law enforcement and judiciary maintain “sole perpetrator” narrative in far-right terrorist threats
- Election losses for Labour prompts further rightward shift by Starmer
- Sana Clinics in Germany announce mass redundancies despite pandemic
- COVID-19 intensifies the class struggle in Australia
- Amazon worker dies at Alabama warehouse, one month after retail union’s failed organizing drive
- Steelworkers union offers more concessions as Allegheny Technologies management threatens to bring in strikebreakers
2021-05-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UAW-Volvo contract “highlights” reveal attacks on wages, health care, work schedules
- Molycop threatens steel jobs in Australia as it demands increased tariffs
- World Socialist Web Site replies to DVLA spokesman over alleged “inaccuracies”
- Global pandemic heightens danger of another world war
- Modi pledges to “save India from lockdown”—not infection and death
- Pennsylvania educators support call to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- New York City municipal unions promote massive cuts to health care for retirees
- Workers at Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan demand details of tentative agreement negotiated by UAW
- Part two of a conversation with film historian, scholar James Naremore: Max Ophuls’s classic Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Under-employment soars to record high in Australia
- Israel kills 24 in Gaza as Netanyahu steps up provocations on Jerusalem Day
- High school students in France protest against holding of final-year exams amid pandemic
- French active-duty soldiers publish letter threatening a military coup
- Doctors raise concerns about bone scans required for claims in the Flint water settlement
- Locked out ExxonMobil workers fight for jobs and safety at Texas refinery
- 750 bodies of New Yorkers who died from COVID-19 last year still held in refrigerated trucks
- Strike deadline nears for 3,400 Connecticut nursing home workers
- Seven dead in Colorado Springs birthday party mass shooting
- Epidemiologist warns of “inevitable” COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia
- Inspector General confirms Capitol Police ignored fascist Proud Boy mob on January 6
- Bangladesh power project workers face witch-hunt after police killings
- COVID-19 infections soar in Alberta as third wave continues to rampage across Canada
2021-05-12
- Circumstances still unclear more than a month after college student Samuel Yeager fatally shot by Colorado deputy
- Australian transport union hails trucking corporations ahead of enterprise agreement negotiations
- Johnson announces next stage in reopening economy as Covid variants spread in UK
- Ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline disrupts fuel supplies across Southeast US
- US retail and food service industry complains of lack of workers
- Queen’s Speech outlines offensive against workers’ democratic and social rights
- Online meeting on the 2010 Pike River mine disaster in New Zealand exposes cover-up by successive governments
- End the US war on Afghanistan
- Journalist Craig Murray sentenced to eight months imprisonment
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold online meeting on COVID-19 catastrophe in India
- UK: Claim of strike “victory” at Go North West unravels as Unite refuses to disclose its rotten deal
- Israel’s military continues airstrikes on Gaza as it prepares for an “indefinite” operation
- World Health Organization declares B.1.617, first identified in India, the fourth variant of concern
- Workers speak on premature death of autoworker at Faurecia parts plant in Saline, Michigan
- Nine dead, twenty-one injured in Russian school shooting
- US media seize on Pfizer vaccine authorization for children to fully reopen schools
- Australian budget pours billions more into corporate coffers while driving down wages
- “Enjoy Enjaami”—A song about the aspirations of a tea plantation worker
2021-05-13
- Federal judge hands UAW ex-President Dennis Williams wrist-slap sentence of 21 months for corruption charges
- Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Turkey supports call for IWA-RFC
- School districts across Texas implement massive austerity and cuts to staff
- Unite’s sell-out pay deal at London United fuels anger among bus drivers
- Soaring prices push US households to the edge
- Stop Israel’s war on Gaza, ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem
- Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness condemns world governments’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian university trade union backs “education business”
- Amnesty International restores Alexei Navalny’s “prisoner of conscience” status
- NATO begins massive Defender 2021 military exercises aimed at Russia
- Former Pentagon chief: Trump approved National Guard troops on January 6 to protect fascist “demonstrators”
- Media makes mayoral endorsements as Wall Street seeks best candidate to manage New York’s crisis
- Workers and youth in Germany respond to the ICFI’s May Day rally: “It’s the same problems all over the world”
- Germany’s Left Party sets its course for government and NATO
- Workers and youth condemn Australian government ban on citizens returning from India
- Greek workers protest draconian employment legislation
- Connecticut Democratic governor deploys National Guard on eve of nursing home workers’ strike
- Colombia enters third week of protests as Bogotá and Washington prepare to escalate repression
- Netflix documentary Coded Bias promotes race and gender identity politics
- Republicans oust Liz Cheney from House leadership
- Top general warns Beijing could “overmatch” Western alliance as Canada steps up provocations against China
- Amazon, state officials and unions impose information blackout after Bessemer, Alabama worker’s death
2021-05-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- AFT President Randi Weingarten demands fully in-person learning at all US schools
- Volvo Truck workers voice opposition to UAW sellout deal in lead-up to contract vote
- Tenet Healthcare hires nurses to “permanently replace” strikers at Massachusetts hospital
- Israel’s war crimes and the hypocrisy of “human rights” imperialism
- UAW moves to end NYU strike with deal that ignores most of grad students’ demands
- New video shows officers “ambushed” Andrew Brown Jr.
- Nexteer Automotive workers in Saginaw, Michigan speak out in advance of UAW contract vote
- Hundreds of Australian broadband technicians stop work
- Mounting death toll as Israel’s war on Gaza escalates
- Dozens of corpses found floating in Ganges as India’s humanitarian crisis deepens
- Thousands protest against New Zealand government’s anti-immigrant policies
- I Never Cry: Developing a thick skin in the new Europe
- Two funerals in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant: Part 1
- Continental: Massive cutbacks with the help of the trade unions
- SEIU calls off strike by Connecticut nursing home workers, accepts governor’s inadequate last-minute deal
- Nationwide demonstrations in Brazil after police slaughter 27 in Rio favela raid
- Biden pleads with Republicans for bipartisan infrastructure bill
- Berlin bus drivers demand no front boarding without drivers’ consent!
- Australia Post workers condemn secret union-management negotiations for new enterprise agreement
- Fascist Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
2021-05-15
- Australian budget underscores preparations for war
- Vote “no” on the UAW-Volvo sellout agreement! Join the Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee and expand the struggle throughout the truck manufacturing and auto industries!
- Ukrainian government accuses pro-Russian oligarch and opposition leader of “high treason”
- Anger mounts in Turkey at Israel’s onslaught against Gaza
- COVID-19 infections in Sweden surpass 1 million
- Sri Lankan estate workers protest against higher workloads and wage cuts
- New Zealand: International mining experts release plan for full investigation of Pike River disaster
- End of CDC masking guidelines aimed at “normalizing” death
- Oregon middle school teacher dies from COVID-19 within days of school reopening
- Report documents Ontario government’s ruinous role in pandemic’s ravaging of long-term care homes
- New Zealand Labour-led government imposes public sector wage freeze
- UAW-GSOC ends NYU graduate student strike, fraudulently presenting it as a “historic victory”
- Black Lives Matter goes to war with Napoleon and the French Revolution
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel wages war on Gaza and its own cities
- Previously deleted video shows fascist Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional office in 2019
- German state governments reopen as COVID-19 infections remain high
- Two funerals in one week at Sterling Stamping Plant: Part 2
- Macron government shifts further right after far-right generals’ coup threats
- One in three college students is food insecure in the United States
- EU powers back Israeli war on Gaza, banning anti-war protests
- Johnson authorises neutered Covid-19 inquiry as Indian mutation surge takes first lives in Britain
- Jeremy Corbyn and the collapse of Britain’s Labour Party
- House Homeland Security Committee announces agreement on bipartisan commission to investigate January 6 coup attempt
- Bicentenary of Napoleon’s death: Macron praises Bonapartist police-state rule
- British Army found to have massacred unarmed civilians in Ballymurphy, Northern Ireland, in August 1971
- Australian government abandons citizens infected with COVID-19 in India
- US air traffic controllers union pushes through contract extension
2021-05-17
- Australian educators speak about appalling working conditions and the union’s complicity
- Volvo Truck workers in Virginia overwhelmingly defeat UAW-backed contract
- This week in history: May 17-23
- UAW silent as Stellantis moves to slash nearly half of workforce at its Belvidere, Illinois Assembly Plant
- Sri Lankan government opposes national lockdown despite surging COVID-19 infections
- Report shows CEOs in US cashed in during the pandemic as workers lost jobs, wages and lives
- Survey of epidemiologists exposes lies that children do not spread COVID-19
- Reinstate London bus driver David O’Sullivan: For a safe workplace against COVID-19! No to victimisations!
- Vote “no” on the UAW-Nexteer Saginaw sellout agreement! Form a Nexteer Rank-and-File Committee and broaden the struggle throughout the auto industry!
- Washington and AFL-CIO file labor complaints in Matamoros and Silao, Mexico
- Australian Labor Party leader delivers pro-business budget reply
- Israel escalates assaults on Palestinians with US backing
- A conversation with Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iranian director of Radiograph of a Family
- UK: Calls for “gendered perspective” on COVID-19 conceal class issues
- Thousands protest Israel’s bombings in Gaza throughout Australia
- Yet another COVID-19 death at Faurecia Saline, Michigan plant exposes continued pandemic danger
- Protests across Europe against Israeli war on Gaza
- New Zealand and France host “Christchurch Call” summit to expand internet censorship
- Lockout at ExxonMobil Beaumont, Texas refinery continues as USW negotiators reject management’s contract offer
2021-05-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Woman in the Window: Unable to leave her house, she sees a crime
- Virginia Volvo workers repudiate UAW-backed contract: “Now that we’ve rejected this, we should be back on strike”
- To divide workers, Tamil nationalists sow pro-imperialist lies on Sri Lankan war
- Norwegian Air worldwide layoffs hit Spanish workforce
- Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Crowdfund campaign wins support for sacked London bus driver David O’Sullivan
- Space Force missile commander removed after fascist ranting on right-wing podcast
- Washington D.C. metro dispatchers launch one-day strike over meager pay during COVID-19
- Lively discussion among students, parents, and workers about an international counter-offensive against capitalism
- The significance of the Volvo Truck workers’ rebellion in Virginia
- Israel continues “full force” attacks on Gaza, backed by US and several Arab states
- US educators and autoworkers denounce changes to CDC mask guidelines
- Inflation sparks concerns in financial markets
- Protests and strikes by hospital workers in Germany
- Green Party renews coalition with conservative CDU in Baden-Württemberg: A declaration of war on the working class
- Indifferent to the spread of the virus, Macron proceeds with reopening in France
- Australian High Court rubber stamps sweeping “foreign interference” laws
- Report highlights shocking growth of poverty among US infants during the pandemic
- COVID-19 workplace outbreaks continue to surge across Canada
- Australian budget entrenches inequities in aged care
2021-05-19
- Virgin Australia unions plan merger to impose Bain Capital’s cost-cutting demands
- The Washington Post and the lie of Uyghur genocide
- Spain deploys army against refugees fleeing across border with Morocco
- German protests against Gaza bombing and the bogus accusation of “Anti-Semitism”
- LA Costco worker filmed standing up to anti-mask provocateur Ricky Schroder wins wide support
- “Saginaw unions no holds bar” Facebook group censors WSWS articles on Nexteer and Volvo workers
- The war crimes in Gaza and Israel’s crisis
- Unite pushes through betrayal of Go North West strike
- Opposition mounts among US workers to repeal of mask mandate
- Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You: New and recycled songs
- WSWS exposure of Unite’s betrayal of Go North West strike in UK provokes hysterical denunciations by pseudo-left
- Bus drivers defend David O’Sullivan: “There has never been any test-and-tracing at the garage”
- DHS leadership failed to issue threat assessments ahead of January 6 despite receiving intelligence warnings
- Israel cracks down on Palestinian general strike, continues bombing Gaza
- Indian variant surges in Britain as Tory government continues reopening drive
- North Carolina DA exonerates police officers who killed Andrew Brown Jr.
- Biden, Harris both millionaires, in top one percent of incomes
- Australian corporate elite calls for resumption of international travel even if “people may die”
2021-05-20
- New layoffs at Frankfurt airport
- More than £100 billion in UK National Health Service contracts handed to private sector over last decade
- American imperialism is responsible for Israeli war crimes in Gaza
- Protests continue in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, following decision not to charge officers who killed Andrew Brown Jr.
- Leader of 1983-86 Phelps Dodge miners’ strike Jorge O’Leary denounces DSA’s celebration of Trotsky’s assassination
- Protests in New Zealand oppose Israel’s attack on Gaza
- Nexteer Saginaw workers determined to vote down sellout UAW contract
- After CDC changes guidelines, states across the US ban or lift mask mandates
- Opposition erupts in Japan against the Tokyo Olympics
- Netanyahu war on Gaza continues as imperialist powers and Arab states feign ceasefire efforts
- As India’s daily COVID-19 deaths reach new high, Modi opposes free vaccinations
- Health care workers on the move throughout the world in a fight for patient safety and a living wage
- Divisions mount over US monetary policy
- As Indian variant spreads in Europe, governments reopen across the continent
- Global excess deaths during the pandemic range from 7 to 13 million lives lost according to new estimate
- COVID-19 mutations trigger new outbreaks across Southeast Asia
- US House passes January 6 commission bill with minimal Republican support
- The struggle against climate change, the pandemic and war requires a revolutionary socialist perspective!
- “Humans of CIA” recruitment campaign sells youth “identity politics imperialism”
- Chicago city administration rocked by crisis following school reopenings, ongoing police violence
- Warrior Met Coal miners strike in Alabama nears two months in historic region of class struggle
- Who is the new Washington Post editor Sally Buzbee?
- Berlin bus drivers call for the reinstatement of David O'Sullivan!
- Berlin Alexanderplatz: A new film version of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel
- Anger mounts at UK government proposal to halve arts education subsidy
2021-05-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- An Open Letter to UAW International President Rory Gamble, UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry, and UAW Local 2069 President Matt Blondino
- Volvo workers to UAW: “We won’t accept another contract proposal cooked up behind our backs”
- US states begin eliminating unemployment aid even as nearly half a million jobless claims were filed last week
- UK educators support the campaign to defend David O’Sullivan
- Texas bans abortions under “heartbeat” bill, executes man on same day
- Young worker’s death in rural Australian hospital highlights public healthcare crisis
- The Pike River mine disaster in New Zealand: Political lessons from the fight for truth and justice for the deaths of 29 men
- Republicans block investigation into January 6 attack
- New Zealand Labour government targets rich investors in immigration “reset”
- Nexteer workers defy UAW intimidation on eve of vote on sellout deal
- China successfully lands rover Zhurong on Mars
- IG Metall cements wage differentials between east and west German workers
- Lifting of restrictions by German authorities sabotages vaccine progress
- Israel announces ceasefire as UN says 90,000 Palestinians displaced by bombardment
- Former Colorado police officers charged for arrest and injury of woman with dementia
- Two immigrants rescued from deportation in Glasgow by community intervention, as government escalates “hostile environment”
- Third oil worker dies from COVID-19 outbreak at Canadian Natural Resources’ Alberta worksite
- Russia, China, Iran criticize Israeli onslaught against Gaza
- Baltimore Amazon workers endorse International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- The role of the Academic Workers for a Democratic Union at Columbia and New York University
- Australian government ban on citizens returning from India claims lives
- Talks continue in Allegheny Technologies strike as USW seeks to isolate and wear down workers
- Montgomery educator denounces firings and COVID-19 case suppression as Alabama abandons pandemic health and relief measures
2021-05-22
- US workers condemn Israeli government’s assault on Gaza: “All the workers need to stand together”
- Volvo Truck workers in Virginia demand full contract as UAW pushes another sellout deal
- Vinidex pipe workers walk out over poor pay and conditions in Brisbane, Australia
- Australia: Victorian state Labor government delivers pro-business budget
- Media outrage erupts over decision not to grant 1619 Project architect Nikole Hannah-Jones tenured professorship
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos regime intensifies expulsions of refugees to Morocco
- House narrowly passes $1.9 billion Democratic bill to expand funding for Capitol Police
- Justice for the 29 miners killed at New Zealand’s Pike River!
- Nexteer Saginaw workers express opposition as UAW attempts to push through concessions contract
- As cases of coronavirus variants rise, Nebraska goes ahead with ceasing mask mandates and continuing in-person learning
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Defend Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem!
- COVID-19 potentially killing tens of thousands in India every day
- I Care A Lot: Social predators of the elderly
- Manchester Trades Council’s Ian Allinson reveals British pseudo-left’s role in betrayal of Go North West bus strike
- Teachers’ union supports return to regular operations at schools and nurseries in Germany
- Israeli security forces storm al-Aqsa after Gaza ceasefire
- French ruling class supports police rally at the National Assembly
- An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America
- Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding calls CDC’s mask reversal a “mess”
- Ocasio-Cortez describes fascist assault on January 6: “It was an all-out attempted coup”
- UK COVID cases rise due to ending containment and spread of Indian variant
- US military running a massive undercover army and conducting warrantless surveillance of Americans
- Thousands of Australian high school students protest climate change inaction
- Chile’s ruling right wing suffers crushing defeat in election of Constitutional Convention
- Canadian big business advocates policy of social murder as provinces move to dismantle remaining COVID-19 restrictions
- Bus drivers at London’s Cricklewood depot defend David O’Sullivan: “They want to make us into robotic slaves”
- Amid warnings of “catastrophic” COVID-19 third wave, Brazil’s state governors reopen economy
- WSWS writer Evan Blake banned from “Badass Teachers Association” Facebook group
- Amazon announces end to mask policy in its warehouses
2021-05-24
- Reject the CDC’s change to masking guidelines!
- Australia: Transport Workers Union calls for food delivery minimum wage
- This week in history: May 24-30
- Behind Tesla’s rise, part 1: Tesla’s market value and Wall Street speculation
- Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University’s “Innovation Campus”
- COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100
- 2,500 workers at steel giant ArcelorMittal go on strike on Quebec’s North Shore
- Statements of support from New Zealand, Australia and the US for a full investigation of the Pike River mine disaster
- Protests through Europe against Israel’s war on Gaza
- Abandonment of health measures threatens US COVID-19 resurgence
- New Zealand: Sister of Pike River mine disaster victim makes powerful statement demanding continued investigation
- UAW announces narrow ratification of sellout contract at Nexteer, fueling rank-and-file suspicions of ballot-rigging
- UK government relaxes mask wearing in schools as it lifts safety restrictions amid spread of new Covid variant
- Israeli provocations continue as scale of Gaza damage emerges
- Guards on duty the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death accept plea deal
- As National Guard troops withdraw from US Capitol, police reports detail ongoing threats of fascistic violence
- The lessons of the 1994 Moura mine disaster in Australia
- Thousands demonstrate in Chicago to oppose Israeli slaughter in Gaza
- German Chancellor candidates Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz threaten Russia and promote war and militarism
- Manhunt continues for Belgian neo-Nazi officer who planned to kill virologists
2021-05-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Rank-and-file Volvo workers demand release of full contract as terms of UAW’s secret deal leak out
- Australia: Student association promotes management cuts at Newcastle University
- Far-right mobster Sedat Peker’s accusations shake Turkish government
- Behind Tesla’s rise, part 2: Former Tesla worker speaks out on grueling, unsafe working conditions
- WSWS readers demand investigation of Pike River mine disaster
- One year since the police murder of George Floyd
- UK: Intensive care nurse who treated Prime Minister Johnson quits, citing “cesspool of COVID” conditions
- Educators and workers must take control of the response to the global pandemic!
- Australian public mental health workers take stopwork action
- AP journalist fired after right-wing campaign over Palestinian activism
- New study expects at least 215,000 jobs to be wiped out in the German auto industry by 2030
- Israel to carry out more mass arrests of Palestinians in pursuit of ethnic cleansing
- “We’re cannon fodder, that’s all”—Indian health care workers cry out for basic PPE as official deaths skyrocket past 300,000
- Former advisor reveals Johnson government’s herd immunity plan envisaged 800,000 deaths in UK
- Godzilla vs. Kong: Impressive visuals and sound design can’t hide the absence of artistic value
- New Zealand: Wellington bus drivers reject second pay offer, vote for strikes
- European powers ban flights to Belarus after president forces down plane carrying opposition journalist
2021-05-26
- Australian Labor Party aligns behind Biden’s offensive against China
- United Mine Workers executives assault left-wing podcasters in Alabama
- UK’s Undercover Policing Inquiry downplays state surveillance of Workers Revolutionary Party
- Report exposes attempted cover-up of Ronald Greene’s murder by Louisiana State Police troopers
- Sri Lankan government imposes censorship as experts warn of coronavirus surge
- British ex-miners support call for full investigation of New Zealand’s Pike River disaster
- Amid raging pandemic, Peruvian police evict thousands of working class families
- US planned nuclear attack on Chinese cities in 1958 Taiwan crisis
- Campaign for sacked London bus driver David O’Sullivan wins international support
- North Rhine-Westphalian state government plans to clamp down on the right to protest
- Fascist Proud Boys threaten incumbents in bid to take over Nevada Republican Party
- Malian army detains president in French-backed coup aiming to strangle strikes
- Ontario’s Laurentian University declares insolvency, slashes hundreds of jobs, dozens of programs
- “Sacrifices” demanded for Tokyo Olympics, as Osaka hospitals reach breaking point
- Blinken pledges Washington’s full support to Israel and pittance for Palestinians
- India’s COVID-19 pandemic: Anatomy of a social crime
- State by-election result deepens Australian Labor Party crisis
- The rise of a rare COVID-19 complication known as “black fungus” adds to India’s misery in the pandemic
- Australia Post workers support campaign to reinstate London bus driver David O’Sullivan
- UK: Management and union talks fail to reach agreement ahead of strike at Jacobs Douwe Egberts
2021-05-27
- Southwest Airlines flight attendant attacked amid growing number of assaults by those opposed to coronavirus restrictions
- Australia: Victorian state government announces lockdown amid outbreak of Indian COVID variant
- South Korean president backs US war plans in summit with Biden
- Following assault on left-wing podcasters, UMWA president arrested in publicity stunt at Warrior Met
- New York grand jury convened to hear evidence of Trump business crimes
- Spanish trade unions betray workers at Puerto Real Airbus plant
- Twelve years since the end of Sri Lanka’s communal war
- Teachers union and pseudo-left embrace São Paulo government’s herd immunity policy
- Threat of back-to-work legislation looms over Quebec construction workers
- White House embraces “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy theory
- Oppose the cancellation of remote learning in New York City and worldwide!
- Tenet Healthcare begins replacing striking nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts
- Michigan Nexteer workers denounce sellout contract, demand recount after suspicious ratification vote
- Bernie Monk, father of Pike River victim: “Ten years on, we still haven’t got justice”
- As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU’s Mediterranean migrant policy
- Fascist Georgia lawmaker doubles down on Holocaust comments while continuing to issue death threats to Democrats
- Madlib’s Sound Ancestors: A moving musical testimony in the midst of a social crisis
- Jacobin magazine: Promoting the unions while ignoring the class struggle
- Australian workers and youth condemn Israeli assault on Gaza
- Hyundai and Renault-Nissan forced to shut Indian plants due to worker unrest over lack of COVID-19 protections
- Trades Union Congress investigation into underreporting of UK workplace Covid-19 deaths confirms its own role in endangering workers
- Fed policies spark concerns over dollar’s global role
- Testimony by former Johnson advisor exposes UK "herd immunity" policy
- Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka confront harsh and worsening social conditions
- Bolsonaro prepares electoral coup amid Brazilian Congress probe of COVID-19 response
- Educators denounce banning of WSWS writer Evan Blake from “Badass Teachers” Facebook group
- Amazon to acquire MGM Studios for $8.45 billion
2021-05-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Students back on UK campuses amid explosive growth of Indian covid variant
- Expand funding for remote learning, support staff and ventilation upgrades in Tennessee schools!
- UK billionaire wealth explodes amid devastation of the working class
- Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo sends police against striking waste workers
- Ten killed in mass shooting in San Jose, California, at public transit maintenance yard
- Constitutional crisis grips Samoa
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden to meet in mid-June
- Writer Fiona Kidman supports demand for continued investigation of Pike River mine disaster
- COVID pandemic spawns vaccine billionaires amid global mass death
- Australian government prepares to slash disability services
- Alabama miners and supporters denounce assault by UMWA officials and isolation of Warrior Met strike
- Indian and Sri Lankan workers and students explain why they are attending the May 30 meeting on India’s COVID-19 catastrophe
- Fourteen killed in cable car crash in Italy
- Future of Australian steelworks in doubt as UK fraud office investigates Gupta
- Trial of army officer Franco A. sheds light on fascist network in German state apparatus
- WSWS publishes Chinese translation of call for International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Committee hears report on pandemic from Dr. Benjamin Mateus
- For the immediate reinstatement of London bus driver David O’Sullivan!
- Senate clears passage of economic warfare legislation directed at China
- Once more on the issue of anti-Semitism in Germany
- Construction worker suffers life-threatening injuries after 30-foot fall at Amazon site in Massachusetts
2021-05-29
- Volvo workers: Vote “no” to the “new” agreement!
- Australia’s second-largest state on a knife-edge amid outbreak of Indian COVID variant
- German Green Party leader Habeck wants to arm Ukraine against Russia
- Three Tacoma, Washington officers charged in 2020 killing of Manuel Ellis
- San Antonio, Texas, teacher victimized after advocating for safety measures at her school
- New Tamil Nadu state government keeps India’s disastrous pandemic policy
- Stellantis moves to cut half of hourly workforce at Belvidere, Illinois, Jeep plant beginning June 1
- Sri Lankan president imposes strikes ban on state-sector workers
- Australia: Shepparton residents speak with the Committee for Public Education about “super-school” opposition
- Australia: Qantas to axe hundreds of international cabin crew jobs and freeze wages
- The Wuhan lab conspiracy theory: American capitalism’s “big lie”
- Opel/Stellantis: Job cuts and intensified pressure on the workforce
- Construction unions complicit in Ontario’s devastating COVID-19 third wave
- School bus drivers in Greenville, Mississippi face disciplinary measures after striking in April
- “Stop the cover-up!” Readers demand full investigation and justice for New Zealand mine disaster victims
- Unite betrays Metroline London bus drivers’ fight against Remote Sign On and calls it a victory
- Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk: A writer crosses the Atlantic with company
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- South Korea records hundreds of new COVID-19 cases a day
- Excavation completed at mass shooting site from Stalin’s Great Terror
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold online meeting this Sunday on COVID-19 catastrophe in India
- UK: Hillsborough stadium disaster prosecution collapse ends 32 year fight for justice
- Alabama coal miners are not to blame for UMWA leaders’ racist assault
- Senate Republicans block bill to establish bipartisan January 6 commission
- Corbynites rewrite history of their refusal to fight UK Tories’ “herd immunity” policy
- Biden budget plan calls for record military spending directed against China
2021-05-31
- How the US media declared the “Wuhan lab” lie “credible”
- Texas Republicans set to pass voting restriction bill
- Crowds return to US stadiums, airports, in a series of super-spreader events
- This week in history: May 31-June 6
- Hundreds of coronavirus outbreaks in schools as new variant spreads across UK
- Alabama man who had hand amputated after being cuffed too tightly sues Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy for excessive force
- “Kill a worker, go to jail!”—More readers demand full investigation of Pike River mine disaster
- Mobilize the working class behind striking Alabama miners!
- Tokyo pushes ahead with Olympics despite growing demands to cancel
- New Zealand nurses voice anger over union’s limited strike plan
- Despite intense opposition, NAPLAN tests restart in Australian schools
- Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in Germany adopts resolution in defence of David O’Sullivan
- Biden Justice Department defends Trump-ordered police sweep through Lafayette Park
- State Department socialists: The sinister operations of Jacobin and the DSA in Brazil
- Iran’s presidential election rigged amid fraught political situation
- Chicago Ford workers face hardship after eight weeks on layoff due to chip shortage
- Inflation rises to 13-year high in US
- Torture sites and mass graves reported in Colombia as repression intensifies against mass protests
- Mass demonstrations in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s homicidal response to COVID pandemic
- The Panorama Princess Diana interview scandal: BBC savaged as monarchy tries to put its house in order
- Death of young student on hospital floor lays bare Argentina’s COVID-19 crisis
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