Archive: 06/2021
2021-06-01
- Author of Wall Street Journal “Wuhan lab” story wrote lies about Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New COVID-19 variant in Vietnam highlights global danger
- US financial system awash with Fed money
- Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad: “Freed” from important realities of history
- Data analysis estimates 700 deaths in Texas from Winter Storm Uri
- Strikes and protests hit UK schools
- Macron in Rwanda: French imperialism covers past crimes to prepare new ones
- Putin and Lukashenko meet as Belarus intensifies crackdown on opposition
- Mass grave with 215 bodies found at Canadian “Indian” residential school
- On US Memorial Day: American ruling class declares pandemic “over,” as 500 die every day
- Sri Lankan SEP holds important meeting on COVID-19 catastrophe in India
- Tire workers die of COVID in Argentina after pseudo-left-led union enforces return to work
- Australian educators demand immediate reinstatement of David O’Sullivan
- Two Cubans dead, 10 missing after raft capsizes off Key West
- Britain already in third wave of pandemic as Indian variant surges ahead of June 21 reopening
- PSOE-Podemos debates pardon for Catalan-nationalist political prisoners
- “Badass Teachers” Facebook group administrators uphold ban on WSWS writer Evan Blake
- Autoworkers at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant speak out against relaxation of CDC guidelines, end to COVID restrictions
- Australian COVID outbreak in Victoria hits aged-care homes
- US steelworkers union negotiating sellout deal to end strike at Allegheny Technologies
- Australian government belatedly moves to vaccinate aged home residents, workers
- Abellio threatens London bus drivers over resort to charity food
2021-06-02
- Volvo Truck workers in Virginia campaign to defeat UAW’s second sellout deal
- After rebelling against USW-backed deal, 2,400 Canadian miners launch strike against multinational Vale Inco
- US continues diplomatic provocations towards Beijing over Taiwan
- RMT joins Conservative government’s Rail Recovery Group: A conspiracy against rail workers
- Media blackout of growing support for full investigation of Pike River disaster
- Police fatally shoot California teenager after car chase
- On eve of crisis election, Peru more than doubles its COVID-19 death count
- The centenary of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre
- Australian Labor Party shifts further to the right following by-election drubbing
- Class action lawsuit filed against company pushing unsafe ionizers to reopen classrooms across the US
- For a socialist movement against fascism and war! Vote for the IYSSE for the student parliament on June 29!
- Danish public broadcaster reveals ongoing NSA spying on top EU officials
- UK teachers suffer increased workload as government plans to lengthen working day
- Germany’s premature easing of lockdown measures threatens workers’ lives and livelihoods
- Australian educators stand with London bus driver David O’Sullivan and demand his reinstatement
- Andy Niklaus, bus driver in Berlin, condemns dismissal of David O'Sullivan
- Indian autoworkers strike against unsafe working conditions in pandemic
- State of Arizona planning to execute death row inmates with Zyklon B gas
2021-06-03
- Scientists take a stand against “Wuhan lab” witch-hunt
- Open letter to co-leader of Germany’s Left Party Janine Wissler
- UAW-backed contract includes new attacks on Volvo Truck retirees
- UK: Unite negotiates away bus drivers’ terms and conditions as First Group shareholders celebrate financial windfall
- San Antonio, Texas educator victimized for advocating safety speaks out on her firing
- Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad: A Soviet masterpiece about World War II appears in English for the first time
- How the establishment parties in Germany strengthen the far-right AfD
- Wuhan lab conspiracy theory parallels Washington’s “yellow rain” lie of the 1980s
- Electric arc furnace explosion at Pueblo, Colorado steel mill leaves eight workers seriously injured
- British Medical Journal says UK government’s COVID-19 response created “maelstrom of avoidable harm”
- New Zealand nurses vote on derisory “revised” pay offer
- French MBF metal workers on hunger strike against threatened plant closure
- Melbourne lockdown extended as Australia’s COVID-19 outbreak spreads
- World’s largest meat processor JBS hit by ransomware attack, shutting down US operations
- American workers are the natural allies of workers throughout the world
- Indian workers need a socialist strategy to combat the Modi government’s herd immunity policy
- Sri Lankan health workers support International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- Iranian ship, petrochemical plant hit by fires amid threats from Israel
- Inflation on the agenda at Fed and European Central Bank
- General Flynn voices support for pro-Trump military coup
- Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones granted whistleblower status
- Chicago school officials announce mandatory in-person attendance in the fall
- Bus drivers in London, Leeds and Sheffield support campaign for David O’Sullivan’s reinstatement
2021-06-04
- Two dead in separate accidents in West Virginia coal mines
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Statement of Volvo workers: We need a strategy to win!
- “We need unity”: Volvo Truck workers in Virginia prepare to defeat UAW sellout contract
- New COVID-19 wave in Taiwan exposes government’s lack of preparation
- Australia: Melbourne schools to reopen amid COVID-19 lockdown, threatening teacher, student safety
- Migrants continue to drown off San Diego, California coast
- Tensions between Washington and Moscow mount in lead-up to summit
- New Zealand government rejects experts’ plan to fully investigate Pike River mine disaster
- The global wave of miners strikes and the case for the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
- Macron demands Malian junta endorse French occupation of Mali
- What capitalism has wrought—India’s tsunami of infections and death, and pandemic of hunger and joblessness
- Naftali Bennett to head Israeli “government of change” to oust Netanyahu
- Indian autoworkers denounce governments, companies and unions for making them work amid deadly pandemic
- World food prices rose 40 percent over past year amid expanding global hunger triggered by pandemic
- Disappearance of influenza in 2020 proves eradication of SARS-CoV-2 and more is possible
- UK: One million threatened with homelessness as government ends eviction ban
- The pandemic has starkly revealed that the unions are organically bound to the capitalist class and its state
- Trade unions work to “de-escalate” protests in Colombia
- As Colombia’s right-wing government mounts savage repression, Canada criticizes “violence” of impoverished protesters
- More Australian educators demand reinstatement of victimised London bus driver David O’Sullivan
- Belgian neo-Nazi fugitive officer Jurgen Conings monitored for years by intelligence agencies
2021-06-05
- Volvo announces multi-billion dollar payout to shareholders, while UAW parrots company line that there’s no money to meet workers’ demands
- East Timor’s coronavirus pandemic worsens
- We Tamil Party tries to divide Indian auto workers along ethnic lines
- Sri Lankan workers call for full investigation into New Zealand’s Pike River disaster
- Los Angeles Times promotes right-wing parents’ group that advocates lifting of mask mandates for students
- Australia’s billionaires boost wealth at workers’ expense during pandemic
- French scientist tries to silence whistle-blower over discredited COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine claims
- The “Wuhan lab” lie and the political witch hunt against science
- Crowd Justice campaign for David O’Sullivan meets initial £10,000 target
- Nexteer workers challenge legitimacy of UAW contract
- Dutch caretaker government accelerates lifting of social-distancing measures
- 500 jobs threatened by closure of McVitie’s factory in Glasgow, Scotland
- Lockout at Beaumont ExxonMobil plant in Texas enters second month
- Los Angeles-area parents denounce union-backed drive to fully reopen schools
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- IYSSE spokesperson files formal complaint against Humboldt University president Sabine Kunst
- Biden drops corporate tax increase and cuts infrastructure plan by over $1 trillion in negotiations with Republicans
- Unify the working class across the Indian subcontinent to fight the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Rally at Germany’s Opel/Stellantis shows need for workers to break with IG Metall union
- The 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s album What’s Going On
- Manufacturer of device used in Flint, Michigan bone lead tests declares it unfit for use on humans
- US COVID-19 vaccination campaign drastically slowing
- Delta variant of COVID-19 dominant in UK, spreading rapidly with millions still unvaccinated
- Two high-rise workers in China killed in strong winds
- Pandemic provokes wave of bus workers strikes across Brazil
- Australia records cases of highly-infectious Delta variant as government demands end to lockdowns
- A call to all workers to support the New River Valley Volvo workers’ struggle!
2021-06-07
- Working-class resistance is developing across the Indian sub-continent and internationally against the ruling elites
- “Wuhan lab” theory proponent Nicholas Wade pushed racist pseudo-science in 2014 book
- Volvo Truck workers in Virginia overwhelmingly reject second UAW-backed contract
- As Vale Inco nickel miners’ walkout in Ontario prepares to enter second week, critical lessons posed by 2009-10 strike
- UK universities and colleges continue attacks on staff jobs and conditions
- UAW seeks to deflect role in stoking anti-Asian hate with phony pledge to fight “xenophobia and racism”
- This week in history: June 7-13
- Trump seizes on “Wuhan lab” lies in North Carolina speech
- The Dry: Murders in a small Australian town
- Smithfield meatpackers in South Dakota reject local contract by 99 percent, press for strike action
- Justice Department under Trump and Biden tried to seize email data of New York Times reporters
- Families fight to continue underground investigation of New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster
- Amid surging pandemic, Sri Lankan government criminalizes strikes by public sector workers
- Bus drivers at Cricklewood and Kings Cross garages support call for reinstatement of David O’Sullivan
- New York state permits children and adults to be unmasked in K-12 schools
- Spain’s Anticapitalistas back anti-migrant press campaign targeting Morocco
- Australian Labor Party attempts to protect China-based mining profits
- Reject the union’s new plan to close Continental’s Karben plant in Germany! Vote No again!
- Joseph Kishore, Eric London discuss DSA’s celebration of Trotsky assassination on “Eclectic Radical with Chris Richards”
- Tragic death of young Sri Lankan woman exposes horrific conditions in Japanese detention centres
- Union attacks socialists as it isolates strike at Australian General Mills plant
- Australia: Hundreds protest Sydney bus route cuts
- 160 killed in massacre at Solhan in northern Burkina Faso
2021-06-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia renew strike after defeating second UAW sellout deal
- Over 10,000 University of California researchers petition for United Auto Workers union membership
- US further escalates tensions over Taiwan as Biden prosecutes anti-China campaign
- Autoworkers, logistics workers, teachers voice support for striking Volvo workers
- Over 20,000 Sri Lankan health workers strike, defying government laws
- Election in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany reveals bankruptcy of Left Party and Social Democrats
- Twitter censors account of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- Second worker death at Mar-Jac Poultry in Mississippi since December
- Volvo Truck workers in Virginia return to the picket lines: A turning point in the US and global class struggle
- New York educators oppose Governor Cuomo’s efforts to lift mask mandates in K-12 schools
- Mexico’s ruling Morena party suffers losses in midterm elections
- Met Opera soloists oppose cuts as 2021–2022 season approaches
- German trade unions support destruction of jobs and worksite closures at Lufthansa Technik
- Australian health workers demand strike action to address pay cuts, understaffing and unsafe conditions
- Exaggerated claims for G7 tax deal
- Oppose the United Workers Union’s threats and intimidation against the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)!
- Leading DSA member Rebecca Garelli lies about WSWS coverage of 2018 Arizona teachers strike
- Residents angered over terms of Flint, Michigan water crisis settlement as concerns over bone scans mount
- Nine facts striking Volvo workers need to know about the company and the UAW
- JDE coffee workers at Banbury issued dismissal notices in “fire-and-rehire” dispute
- Scientists and doctors issue warnings as UK infections continue to rise
- International Energy Agency report underscores inadequacy of US government response to climate change
- Chilean miners go out on indefinite strike
- Biden administration endorses dropping of supplemental unemployment benefits
- Austria’s Black-Green government agitates against Muslims
- Australia, New Zealand prime ministers “in lockstep” over China
2021-06-09
- WISAG Action Committee demands reinstatement of London bus driver David O'Sullivan
- Protests continue in Minneapolis after US Marshals task force fatally shoots man
- Volvo Trucks workers prepare for battle as company cuts off health insurance and brings in strikebreakers
- Statement of Volvo workers: What’s next in our two-front war
- US Supreme Court blocks green cards for refugees with temporary status
- “This was a crime”—Readers support families’ fight to fully investigate Pike River mine disaster
- Kamala Harris’s anti-immigrant tour: Identity politics in service of imperialism
- Australian pseudo-left groups try to shore up university unions’ enterprise bargaining straitjacket
- When Smoke Rises: Canadian singer, poet Mustafa’s elegies offer hope of renewal
- Australia: Dire conditions to continue in Victorian mental health system
- Australian governments condemn workers and young people to destitution during Melbourne lockdown
- Australia’s Murdoch media and the Wuhan COVID-19 lab conspiracy theory
- UK: Manchester bus drivers dispute Unite union’s “victory” claim at Go North West
- Four members of a Muslim family killed in London, Ontario terrorist atrocity
- Stop the censorship of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
- Indian Maruti Suzuki, Toyota, Renault-Nissan workers support Volvo strike
- Detroit auto parts workers inspired by Volvo strike, shocked to learn UAW starves workers on $275 a week in strike pay
- Senate report on January 6 is silent on role of Trump and Republicans in coup attempt
- Chicago charter school teachers begin strike after unanimous authorization vote
2021-06-10
- UK: Former MI6 chief behind faked “evidence” for Iraq war leading anti-China Wuhan lab conspiracy
- Warrior Met miners hit by strikebreakers’ vehicles on Alabama picket lines
- Anger grows among Volvo Trucks workers over UAW attempts to sabotage strike
- Victorian Labor government ends Melbourne lockdown despite ongoing COVID-19 transmission
- Australian authorities deny medical treatment to detained three-year-old Tamil refugee
- Mexican GM worker and autoworkers and educators in Michigan express solidarity with striking Volvo Trucks workers
- Madrid embraces “Wuhan lab” conspiracy, ends mask mandate
- Crane operators in South Korea strike following string of industrial accidents
- IRS data shows: US billionaires’ true tax rate far lower than that of workers
- Tensions rise in Peru with winner yet to be announced in polarized election
- The American working class must come to Assange’s defence!
- Container ship fire produces ecological catastrophe in Sri Lanka
- Nurses strike against New Zealand Labour government’s pay freeze
- Comparing AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, federal judge overturns California’s assault weapons ban
- Australian General Mills strike part of global restructuring offensive
- Pandemic widens divisions in global economy
- German workers back striking US Volvo workers: “Your struggle has international significance”
- Law firm vows to continue using bone scan device not fit for use on humans on Flint, Michigan residents
- US military declares China “number one” challenge as Biden rallies Europe for “cold war”
- Chicago Teachers Union rushes to end charter school strike as new struggles develop
- Unions end four-month strike of Brazilian teachers against São Paulo school reopenings
- ABC’s American Royal Baby: The US elite’s fascination with royalty
2021-06-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UAW to striking Volvo workers: Your poverty strike pay will not be available for at least two weeks
- Morenoites promote vaccine nationalism in Argentina
- Turkish mobster Peker extends accusations to NATO’s Syria, Libya wars
- Biden advances anti-China agenda at G7 summit, takes Johnson to task over Brexit
- Jimmy Allen Ruth, 1961 Freedom Rides bus driver, dead at 83
- Doctors discuss mass resignations as Australian rural health inquiry reveals systemic breakdown
- Berlin workers face further rent hikes after Senate supports real estate merger
- 600,000 dead in the US from COVID-19: American capitalism “normalizes” mass death
- NYU graduate workers vote to ratify new contract
- Right-wing extremist network exposed in Frankfurt, Germany police special operations unit
- Craig Murray contempt of court appeal refused by Scottish High Court
- Ex-UAW president Gary Jones gets wrist-slap sentence for perpetuating “culture of corruption” in union
- Australian PM uses police “sting” operation to demand expanded surveillance powers
- Joseph Kishore and Eric London explain political significance of DSA’s praise for Trotsky assassination on Progressive News Network with Brook Hines
- Seven days of the General Mills strike in Sydney: Workers must break union-imposed isolation
- Four Good Days: A drama of the opioid epidemic
- Fiji losing control of escalating COVID-19 outbreak
- Audit report highlights public school building crisis in Australia’s largest state
- Australia: Three industrial workplace deaths in three days
- Connecticut nursing and group home workers straitjacketed by SEIU
- US cost of living surges while wages stagnate
- Canada’s military spied on mass protests against police murder of George Floyd
2021-06-12
- German workers’ action committees: Support striking Volvo workers in Virginia!
- One week in: Where does the Volvo strike stand?
- United Steelworkers isolating strike of 2,400 Vale miners in Sudbury, Ontario
- Schools reopen in Turkey amid COVID-19 deaths
- Tennessee educators stand with striking Volvo workers!
- Sri Lankan unions maintain deathly silence over criminalisation of industrial action
- Shepparton: A city that typifies Australia’s rural social crisis
- Trump’s Justice Department seized phone records of Democratic lawmakers during Russia probe
- CEO pay surges amid mass death, stagnant wages and soaring inflation
- French neo-fascists issue death threats to Mélenchon voters
- Democratic leaders support charges of “anti-Semitism” in response to Ilhan Omar’s criticisms of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
- Proposed New York state legislation would subjugate rideshare and delivery app workers to corporatist unions
- Workers voice anger at UAW over two-year contract extension at truck maker Navistar
- Australian government steps up key role in US aggression against China
- Monster on Netflix: A “good kid” accused of murder
- Amid French war, Malian military junta installs new interim government
- Monarchist linked to France’s far-right Action française slaps Macron
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Modi promises “free” vaccines for all adults in bid to dampen mass anger over criminal mishandling of pandemic
- As inflation rises, eyes turn to Fed meeting
- Head of UK’s failed track and trace operation Baroness Harding considers running NHS England
- Ten facts about General Mills and Australia’s United Workers Union
- Making the case for exploiting Russia’s internal crisis
- Interior Department inspector general releases whitewash of Trump’s June 1, 2020 attempted coup
- More transmissible and deadly Delta variant surges in UK, threatens Europe and America
- Near-unanimous strike authorization vote by 5,000 University of California lecturers
- Copa América football tournament to be held in Brazil amid COVID-19 surge
2021-06-14
- Yale University hosted speaker who shared fantasies about murdering white people
- Anger builds among St. Vincent nurses as union continues to isolate their four month-long strike
- Ai Weiwei’s artwork in support of Julian Assange rejected by Firstsite UK exhibition
- A profile of Volvo Group: What the striking New River Valley workers are up against
- Republican-led states begin cutting off federal unemployment benefits
- UK: Jacobs Douwe Egberts workers struggle in peril
- This week in history: June 14-20
- ATI steelworkers defiant as USW continues isolation of 10-week strike
- Biden targets China in executive order for review of foreign-based apps
- UFCW Local 340A announces deal to avert strike at Smithfield meatpacking plant in South Dakota
- Washington puts pressure on Sri Lankan government over Beijing-funded Colombo Port City
- John and Gabriel Shipton speak at event in defense of Assange in New York City
- Australian nurses, midwives strike against unsafe staffing levels and wage cuts
- Nexteer workers in Saginaw, Michigan voice support for Volvo strikers
- US Midwest artists see collapse in income and careers during the pandemic
- Continental workers in Karben accept contract, but with many dissenting votes
- Scandal escalates over secret Justice Department demands for phone records of Democrats, reporters
- JDE coffee workers condemn fire and rehire: “It’s like a virus going through the whole of the workforce”
- Tokyo exploits COVID-19 disaster to push militarist and repressive constitutional revision
- G7 summit issues threats against China and Russia
- Australian union attacks socialists, promotes Labor at General Mills strike
- German labour legislation strengthens hand of trade unions
- Reopening continues in France while danger of resurgence of coronavirus remains high
- Democratic Socialists of America must issue public apology for celebrating assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Oppose dropping of mask requirement at Amazon! Demand it show all COVID-19 cases at its warehouses!
2021-06-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sacked Frankfurt Airport workers express solidarity with the striking Volvo workers in Virginia
- Why is the World Socialist Web Site still blacklisted on the Reddit r/coronavirus and r/politics forums?
- Workers in Britain support striking US Volvo workers
- Volvo workers’ open letter to the UAW: “What is your strategy for victory?”
- Australian educators urge support for US Volvo workers strike
- “Chronically underfunded” Virginia unemployment system leaves tens of thousands without payments for months
- Alabama AFL-CIO leader opposes Warrior Met miners’ demands for higher strike pay, calls workers “clueless”
- Spanish courts escalate campaign to legitimise fascist Francoite dictatorship
- COVID cases rise in Russia as government fails to contain pandemic
- No charges in Colorado deputy’s killing of college student Samuel Yeager
- The American ruling class “experiments” with eliminating unemployment benefits for millions of workers
- NATO summit threatens China, at US instigation
- Australian PM claims credit for spearheading Biden’s anti-China line-up at G7 summit
- Morenoites aid Washington’s “democratic union” operation in Mexico
- New revelations of abusive conditions confronting immigrant workers in Australian meatworks industry
- Maruti Suzuki worker jailed for life on frame-up charges dies due to authorities’ negligence—a victim of ruling class justice
- Deadly building collapse in South Korea highlights unsafe conditions in construction industry
- The fraud of Israel’s new “government of change”
- Board of Inquiry hands down report into Australia’s Grosvenor mine disaster
- Germany: Green-Christian Democrat government in Baden-Württemberg presses ahead with reopening
- More than 1,500 food processing workers strike two Quebec plants
- One dead, three injured after driver rams police violence protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Crisis: The big pharmaceuticals’ “Holy Grail”
- Politicians and big business in Germany ignore danger of new Delta coronavirus variant
- Johnson government announces token delay in UK’s reopening plans
- Massive explosion at Rockton, Illinois Chemtool plant causes evacuations and environmental risk
2021-06-16
- Growing calls for united struggle with striking Volvo workers as UAW moves to resume backroom talks
- Turkish President Erdoğan meets Biden at NATO summit
- Decatur, Georgia grocery store worker killed by shopper who argued about wearing a face mask
- A working class martyr: Framed-up Maruti Suzuki worker Jiyalal dead at age 35
- New York Times marks 50 years since Pentagon Papers, ignoring persecution of Julian Assange
- Pennsylvania educators support unified struggle with striking Volvo workers and Amazon workers!
- Campaign for reinstatement of victimised London bus driver David O’Sullivan gathers momentum in UK and internationally
- Australia: Murwillumbah schools merger accelerates attack on public education
- Four asylum seekers accused of starting Moria refugee camp fire handed 10-year prison sentences
- Stalinist “May 1 Movement” defends union thuggery at Sydney’s General Mills strike
- Four years after Grenfell, millions live and work in unsafe buildings as the criminals remain at large
- Delta variant spreads to 74 countries as data suggests it will become dominant coronavirus mutation worldwide
- House hearing exposes complicity of FBI and Pentagon officials in January 6 coup attempt
- Beaumont, Texas transit workers reject contract and vote to authorize strike as refinery lockout continues through second month
- Australian government refuses to allow Tamil refugee family to return to Biloela
- Stellantis Belvidere Assembly workers face extended downtime while UAW signs off on second shift layoff
- Australia Post restructuring will continue despite end of Alternative Delivery Model
- UK High Court rules six asylum seekers were detained illegally in Napier barracks
- US nonprofit arts, culture organizations have lost estimated $17.3 billion in pandemic
2021-06-17
- Worker shortage at GM truck plants highlights abysmal conditions imposed by UAW
- Detroit autoworkers declare support for striking Volvo Truck workers in Virginia
- Striking miners and their supporters condemn insulting contract offer from Vale at its Sudbury, Ontario operations
- States to end unemployment benefits for more than 400,000 workers
- Johnson’s “bailout” of Transport for London: a windfall for asset-strippers
- At G7 summit, Tokyo escalates tensions with China over Taiwan
- Detroit City Council approves ordinance that authorizes high tech surveillance of the public, including facial recognition
- Jon Stewart promotes the “Wuhan Lab” lie: An enraged petty bourgeois loses his mind
- Why Sioux Falls Smithfield workers should vote “No” on the second sellout contract
- US seeks to ease tensions at Biden-Putin summit, as anti-China drive escalates
- What is the New Zealand government trying to bury in Pike River mine?
- Global debt binge continues as Fed keeps printing money
- Nepal plunges deeper into political crisis as pandemic rages across the country
- UK: Johnson’s mendacious defence of media “freedom”, while Assange remains imprisoned
- Three dead, including gunman, in Alabama fire hydrant factory shooting
- German Green Party election conference endorses the use of armed combat drones
- Who are the Labor MPs the United Workers Union is promoting at Sydney's General Mills strike?
- Israel’s new government sends planes to bomb Gaza
- Unprecedented drought conditions across Western US fuel wildfires and water disputes
- Amazon, Microsoft and other companies promise to “diversify corporate boards” and embrace black capitalism
- California lifts all coronavirus restrictions amid warnings of a surge in infections among the unvaccinated
2021-06-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- What does the UAW spend its money on?
- Turkish workers and youth support striking Volvo workers: “The case of Volvo workers is now the spearhead of workers’ struggle internationally”
- South Carolina Supreme Court delays executions as state forms a firing squad
- Sri Lankan government lifts fuel price, deepening social assault on workers and the poor
- South Korean union reaches sellout agreement to force striking delivery workers back on the job
- Peru ending second week since presidential election with no declared winner
- Break the isolation of the strike of the Volvo Trucks workers in Dublin, Virginia!
- New York mayoral candidates hold final debate before June 22 Democratic primary
- Australia: Despite opposition, restructure continues at University of Newcastle
- Military show trial of Suu Kyi begins in Myanmar
- UK Delta variant surges with cases rising fastest among schoolchildren
- Indian chemical factory explosion and fire kill 18
- US states press reopening amid mounting dangers from COVID variants
- A letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education on the World Socialist Web Site, Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project
- Canadian capitalism’s reopening drive: Inadequate vaccination rates, fast-spreading variants and the dangers of a fourth wave
- 71st Berlinale opens public festival with Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian
- Australian union chief at General Mills strike: Platitudes, evasions, no perspective for workers
2021-06-19
- UAW and Volvo Trucks announce negotiations to resume June 23, as UAW works to isolate strike in Dublin, Virginia
- Kurdish HDP member brutally murdered in far-right attack on party offices in Turkey
- Sri Lankan health unions shut down protests following rotten deal with government
- Democrats, media suppress new revelations of military and police complicity in January 6 coup attempt
- Australian university union documents the damage of Labor’s “education revolution”
- US Capitol Police hired fascistic military contractor to train emergency response unit
- Responding to WSWS, AFL-CIO official tells Mexican workers that UAW embodies “union democracy”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Global Wealth Report: Fortunes of Germany’s super-rich soared during pandemic
- Hydraulic manufacturing workers strike at Custom Hoists in Ohio
- Child malnutrition and hunger skyrocket in Haiti as COVID-19 infections spike
- Christoph Waltz’s Georgetown: One small, murderous liar in a sea of much bigger, murderous liars
- Fiji regime resists lockdown despite escalating COVID-19 crisis
- Nurses in Everett, Washington authorize strike for better pay, benefits and more staff
- As COVID-19 variant continues to spread, World Health Organization warns “we expect things to only get worse”
- COVID-19 cases surge in Britain as government considers ending restrictions weeks earlier than announced
- Canadian workers defend victimised UK bus driver David O’Sullivan
2021-06-21
- Defend the Saint Vincent nurses in Worcester, Massachusetts!
- Volvo Trucks workers start third week of strike in Virginia
- As unemployment claims surge and mass evictions loom, Louisiana becomes first Democratic-run state to impose early end to federal jobless aid
- This week in history: June 21-27
- Switzerland adopts draconian police law
- Stellantis relaxes workplace safety protocols as COVID-19 Delta variant spreads
- Sri Lankan workers support Volvo strikers in the US
- How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
- Juneteenth and the Second American Revolution
- NLRB approves unionization effort at Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee
- UK inquiry into murder of Daniel Morgan sheds light on police criminality
- Australian union tries to ban socialists, critical workers from General Mills strike
- McVitie's issues 472 redundancy notices in Glasgow plant
- Manchester Arena bombing inquiry report focuses on secondary issues to conceal security service involvement
- Ebrahim Raisi wins Iran’s rigged election presaging repression to secure regime’s survival
- US hotel chains plan to lay off hundreds of thousands of housekeepers in post-pandemic restructuring
- Homeless crisis continues in Seattle, across Pacific Northwest
- Italian artist auctions off invisible sculpture
- Australian High Court declares “foreign interference” laws to be constitutional
- New Zealand PM announces fraudulent apology for 1970s immigration raids
- Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, ruling opponents have no standing to sue
- Despite threat of Delta variant, German government continues reopening policy
- Spain quietly drops probe into “Russian meddling” in Catalan referendum
- Mass demonstrations erupt across Brazil as COVID deaths pass 500,000 mark
- Protests across Australia demand freedom for persecuted Tamil refugee family
- Spanish trade unions agree to 3,000 layoffs at BBVA bank
- Co-founder of Amazonians United NYC, DSA member runs for New York City Council
2021-06-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Educators in California, Oregon and Washington stand with victimized London bus driver David O’Sullivan
- Nervous tremor on Wall Street
- Tropical Storm Claudette claims 13 lives in Alabama
- COVID outbreak in Sydney as Australia hit by vaccine supply shortage
- UK educators expose spread of Delta virus, denounce unions for lack of opposition
- Why did the USW’s total assets increase as tens of thousands of steelworkers lost their jobs?
- How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
- Portland, Oregon, cops resign from rapid response squad after fellow officer charged with assaulting journalist
- Gilbert Poole Jr. exonerated after 32 years in Michigan prison
- Eighty years since the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union
- No-No Boy’s 1975: Julian Saporiti’s ambitious effort
- Strike of 2,900 Virginia workers leads to shift reductions at Maryland Mack-Volvo plant
- Ousting of National Party leader highlights political instability in Australia
- Jacobin magazine promotes fraudulent “democratic unionism”
- OSHA will not investigate death of independent contractor in Iowa farm tank dive
- Berlin: Food delivery workers strike to defend sacked colleague
- Republican-led states enact fascistic laws that ban the teaching of “divisive concepts”
- WHO warns that Delta variant of coronavirus will “pick off” the unvaccinated
- Canadian government promotes Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory as anti-China campaign gathers pace
- Australian Volvo workers back US strikers and call for unified stand
- Bus drivers in Berlin support striking Volvo workers
2021-06-23
- Educators across the US West Coast call for unified struggle with striking Volvo workers
- Senate Republicans block watered-down Democratic voting rights bill
- Autoworkers: Form rank-and-file solidarity committees to break the isolation of the strike at Volvo Trucks!
- Fitch upgrades Volvo’s credit rating, citing “cost discipline” and “resilient profitability”
- Texas governor signs series of reactionary laws, announces plan to build border wall
- Anti-China legislation on Taiwan introduced in US House of Representatives
- Sri Lankan police move to establish permanent base at Alton Estate
- How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus
- First round of French regional elections marked by record abstention
- COVID deaths rise among Brazil’s Petrobras oil workers
- With support of Biden, federal court backs Trump’s police-state assault on peaceful protests in Lafayette Square
- Educators in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio support the struggle of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Minnesota nurses picket Children’s Hospital to protest job cuts, unsafe staffing
- Lebanon’s social crisis deepens amid internal political turmoil and imperialist scheming
- Credit Suisse report reveals vast increase in global wealth inequality amid pandemic in 2020
- Heat wave brings record highs across southwestern US, stressing Texas’ fragile power grid
- Holler: What deindustrialization has left behind
- Australian mine disaster inquiry finds Anglo American exposed workers to “unacceptable risk”
- Quebec establishment demands end to strike by food processing workers, invoking plight of chickens-for-slaughter
- Surging Delta variant already dominant in several European states
- Brazil’s Workers Party seeks right-wing electoral alliances as generals warn of “breaking point”
- “Witness K” convicted for exposing Australia’s illegal bugging in East Timor
- Spanish unions, Morenoite CRT sabotage Puerto Real Airbus workers’ struggle
2021-06-24
- UAW and Volvo resume talks as striking Volvo Trucks workers kept in the dark
- Instead of Verdi’s fruitless strike calls, workers at Amazon in Germany need independent action committees!
- Australian government’s vaccine guidelines change again
- Russian forces fire warning shots at UK destroyer HMS Defender over territorial encroachment in Black Sea
- COVID-19 outbreak worsens in Taiwan amid vaccine row
- Governments abandon COVID-19 restrictions as Delta variant surges worldwide
- New Zealand: Wellington bus drivers reject union-backed sellout
- Australian state government rejects calls for lockdown as Sydney Delta outbreak grows
- Adams leads NYC mayoral race, two upstate New York incumbents ousted
- Migrant children speak of horrifying conditions in detention centers set up by the Biden administration
- US film studios attempt to attract audiences back to theaters
- Who is Ray Curry?: A profile of the UAW secretary-treasurer and chief conspirator against the Volvo Trucks strikers
- US seizes PressTV.com and 32 other Iranian media website domains
- Biden funnels pandemic relief funds into strengthening the police
2021-06-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Unite union sabotages strike by engineers at Weetabix against fire and rehire
- Support builds among workers across the US for call to establish solidarity committees to aid Volvo Trucks strike
- Washington rebuffs Maduro’s bid for US-Venezuela rapprochement
- Australian union holds farcical “national day of action” for General Mills strike
- Industrial waste, unplanned urbanization blight Turkey’s Sea of Marmara
- David O'Sullivan campaigns among striking teachers in East London
- Striking ATI workers denied unemployment benefits in Ohio
- Advocacy group sues Smithfield Foods, claiming it stoked fears of meat shortages and sacrificed worker safety
- Sri Lankan government deploys police to crack down on social media
- Teachers picket Labour-run council over COVID-19 safety victimisations
- The UK-Russian confrontation in the Black Sea: An ominous warning
- Australia’s official jobless statistics mask wage-cutting push
- Indonesian COVID infections surge past two million
- ACLU report highlights ICE brutality against hunger striking migrants under Obama and Trump
- Humboldt University student parliament commemorates victims of the Nazi war of annihilation
- Fed officials mobilize to reassure Wall Street
- A Crime on the Bayou: Taking a principled stand during the civil rights era
- Florida condominium collapse leaves a dozen injured, four confirmed dead and 159 missing
- Corporate Canada used government’s pandemic emergency wage subsidy as slush fund
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government pardons Catalan-nationalist political prisoners
- UK imaging study reveals loss of brain’s grey matter in patients infected with COVID-19
- World’s largest asset management firm was “front and center” of Fed’s Wall Street bailout
- Biden endorses bipartisan infrastructure plan which guts initial proposal
- Deutsche Bahn: GDL union announces industrial action
- UK: Police officer guilty of manslaughter after the brutal killing of ex-professional footballer Dalian Atkinson
2021-06-26
- UAW President Rory Gamble to step down, setting stage for elevation of Secretary-Treasurer Ray Curry
- UK pseudo-left groups line-up behind rival fake “left” challengers in Unite leadership contest
- Turkish TPI workers sacked after rebelling against union-backed contract
- UK: Nurses at breaking point while unions work to smother fight-back
- Top Vale executive threatens 2,450 striking miners in northern Ontario
- Migrants killed and wounded by far-right attacks in Spain
- South Africa’s pandemic resurgence fuels opposition to the ANC government
- Record abstention in French regional elections exposes political establishment
- The Florida condo disaster
- Educators from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio pledge to work to end isolation of Volvo strikers
- “Saginaw unions no holds bar” Facebook group bans SEP National Secretary Joseph Kishore, suppresses articles on Volvo strike
- Washington, DC police admit use of brute force against peaceful protests in days following death of George Floyd
- Louisiana schools set to fully reopen this fall as vaccinations stagnate and businesses reopen
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- After a year, Indian court grants bail to three student activists arrested on bogus “terrorism” charges
- Growing homelessness in New Zealand
- Significant developments in class struggle among US health care workers last week
- Kamala Harris stages photo op at Mexican border to defend mass incarceration of immigrant children
- Bille August’s A Fortunate Man: A Danish tragedy
- Florida governor signs anti-socialist education bills, requiring students and professors to register political views
- Divisions over Russia policy erupt inside EU at Brussels summit
- Trudeau appoints Canadian Labour Congress President Yussuff to Senate sinecure upon his retirement
- Chinese government imposes a “three-child” policy
- Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years for the murder of George Floyd
2021-06-28
- Entering fourth week, Volvo Trucks strike faces urgent need to break out of isolation
- This week in history: June 28-July 4
- No confidence motion tabled by far-right topples Sweden’s Social Democrat-led government
- All of France’s regional presidents re-elected amid mass abstention
- Protests and coup threats as Peru enters fourth week without certification of presidential vote
- The Surfside condo disaster: Critical structural dangers were ignored
- Stop the New Zealand government’s plan to seal Pike River mine!
- Nurses across the country voice their support for striking Saint Vincent nurses in Worcester, MA
- Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines linked to rare cases of heart inflammation
- Missouri records highest rate of new COVID-19 infections in US
- Leaked documents confirm UK discussed possible military response by Russia to Black Sea/Crimea provocation
- Ignoring warnings of a third COVID-19 wave, Indian government eases restrictions
- Resignation of UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock seized on to engineer further lurch to the right
- Australian General Mills strike shut down by United Workers Union
- Governor Whitmer declares state of emergency in Wayne County as floods devastate metro Detroit
- 2021 fire season in California: a new disaster
- World Health Organization calls for vaccinated people to wear masks as global COVID-19 cases rise
- German construction industry union colludes with employers to drag out bargaining
- Germany’s defence ministry protects fascist networks in the armed forces
- DSA-backed mayoral candidate wins Buffalo, New York Democratic Party primary
- Seventeen-year-old gunned down by police in Lonoke County, Arkansas
- Deaths of three Detroit-area autoworkers reflect deepening social crisis
- Delay in Sydney lockdown allows COVID Delta outbreak to spread across Australia
- Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity
- New York Times report reveals Amazon’s abuse of its workers during the pandemic
2021-06-29
- Brief recollections of World War II–by the son of a Soviet military leader and Left Oppositionist murdered by Stalin: Part 1
- Academics under surveillance as anti-China witch hunt escalates in Australia
- NEA and AFL-CIO face staff revolt as staff denounces “anti-union tactics”
- From censor to conspiracy theorist: Zeynep Tufekci promotes the Wuhan Lab lie
- Support grows for US Volvo Trucks strike among Indian workers
- Indian navy chief threatens China and Sri Lanka over port development
- NATO begins massive anti-Russian Sea Breeze military exercises
- 751 unmarked graves discovered at Canadian residential school site in Saskatchewan
- Roma man dies during brutal arrest by police in Czech Republic
- Support striking teachers at Oaks Park High: For a united fight against victimisations and the unsafe reopening of schools!
- Biden’s bombing of Iraq and Syria: the normalization of war
- Palestinians demand end of Abbas presidency after death of activist
- Ohio House passes bill criminalizing disobeying cops
- New Zealand maritime security strategy targets China
- US offers talks to North Korea as it ramps up pressure on China
- Health care workers face mental health crisis as the result of pandemic disaster
- Student-led petition fights lecturer’s sacking at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- New York City to move 8,000 homeless people from hotels to crowded shelters, ending COVID-19 prevention program
- Blackalicious lyricist Gift of Gab dead at 50
- The "racial wealth gap" narrative obscures reality of class divide in the US
- As condo collapse death toll rises to 11, questions surface about the role of Surfside, Florida, building inspector
- Heat wave driven by climate change bakes the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada
- Beaumont and Spectrum Health announce merger, establishing largest hospital system in Michigan
- Mack and Ford workers call for joint action to back Volvo Trucks strikers
- St. Louis, Missouri, Amazon worker fired after not being informed of a schedule change
2021-06-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UAW releases evasive “update” to striking Volvo workers, while continuing to black out struggle nationally
- Support striking Volvo workers in the United States!
- Who is Ray Curry?: A profile of the new UAW president and chief conspirator against the Volvo Trucks strikers
- Trump kicks off Republican campaign for 2022 midterm elections with fascistic rant in Ohio
- Supreme Court again shields corporations that violate human rights abroad
- As Delta variant spreads, Southern California schools plan full reopening of schools this fall
- Brief recollections of World War II–by the son of a Soviet military leader and Left Oppositionist murdered by Stalin: Part 2
- UK rail workers strike against pay restraint and inferior terms and conditions
- Delta variant surge explodes claims that the pandemic is over in the US
- Singer Jim Morrison’s Collected Works published prior to the 50th anniversary of his death
- UK teachers with Long COVID face victimisation
- UK teacher with Long COVID : “The government decided to go for herd immunity, they knew they were putting us at risk. They’re quite happy to reduce the population.”
- Britain’s pseudo-left promotes corporatism in Jacobs Douwe Egberts “fire and rehire” dispute
- Fiji overwhelmed by spiralling COVID-19 outbreak
- Delta variant of coronavirus fuels rise in cases in Europe
- More warnings of significant water damage prior to collapse of Surfside, Florida condo come to light
- Biden promotes pro-corporate, bipartisan infrastructure plan in Wisconsin speech
- United Auto Workers union announces end to mask requirements in auto plants
- Almost half of Australia’s population under lockdown measures as Delta outbreak grows
- Alabama mother charged with felony fraud for seeking painkillers while pregnant
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