Archive: 07/2021
2021-07-01
- South Africa’s top court sentences former ANC President Jacob Zuma to 15 months
- New Zealand government “complacent” over deepening COVID-19 danger
- Striking Volvo workers appeal to Mack Trucks workers for united action
- A timeline of the COVID-19 meatpacking disaster: How the ruling class conspired to keep plants open
- Who are the San Antonio, Texas, school board members who unanimously fired four teachers?
- Florida condo collapse highlights concerns over stability of coastal buildings impacted by effects of climate change
- Composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski is dead at 83
- Retired New York City municipal workers speak out against unions’ deal to degrade health insurance
- Hundreds die in Pacific Northwest heat crisis
- 100 years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party
- Australian unions oppose installation of chancellor at Newcastle University but support pro-business restructure
- At least 127 Delta variant cases in Ontario linked to massive COVID-19 outbreak at Nunavut mine
- DTE worker electrocuted, major freeways still closed in aftermath of Detroit flooding
- Petrochemical workers in Iran strike over pay and conditions
- France ends Covid-19 restrictions on businesses as Delta variant spreads
- Divisions emerge over central bank policies
- Republican governors deploy police and troops against immigrants along US-Mexico border
- UK Batley and Spen by-election is a carnival of reaction
- University of Sheffield plans to close world-leading Archaeology Department
2021-07-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Young Americans are dying at rates not seen since 1953
- With support growing for Volvo Trucks strikers, UAW brings back another concessionary contract
- Why is the United Steelworkers providing Vale strikers only poverty-level strike pay?
- Trump Organization chief financial officer indicted on felony charges in tax fraud and conspiracy scheme
- Biden goes to Surfside to promote bipartisan cover-up of Florida condo collapse
- French unions call token public strikes in railway and airports
- Putin reveals US involvement in provocations by British warship in Black Sea
- War criminal Rumsfeld dies, but his militarist legacy lives on
- World Health Organization warns of new pandemic wave as cases surge in Europe and US
- Workers forced to stay on the job as heat wave continues to sweep Pacific Northwest
- An interview with Professor Umberto Albarella on the closure of the University of Sheffield’s Archaeology department
- Hong Kong police close largest opposition newspaper
- In the Heights: Film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about life in New York City neighborhood
- Record-breaking heat wave results in over 486 deaths in British Columbia
- 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones granted tenure after weeks of media furor
- Detroit autoworkers support striking Volvo workers in Virginia
- Chancellor candidates Laschet, Baerbock and Scholz advocate massive military build-up
- Australian governments respond to Delta outbreak by blocking repatriation of citizens
- End of Alternative Delivery Model hailed by union as Australia Post prepares fresh assault for workers
2021-07-03
- US Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting rules
- Latest UAW-Volvo agreement contains attacks on pay, health care
- Corporate media blacks out admission that witness against Assange lied for US indictment
- Defying anti-strike laws, 30,000 Sri Lankan nurses hold two-day sicknote protest
- Global automakers report huge sales increases in spite of pandemic and chip shortage, due to ramped-up exploitation of workforce
- Moscow out of beds to treat COVID-19 patients as cases spike across the country
- New laws legalize police state operations in Germany
- The Fourth of July in the United States, six months after the January 6 fascistic insurrection
- The Wellington bus drivers dispute and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Defend lives and protect the National Health Service: Build rank-and-file committees of health workers!
- Michigan county sheriff coordinated with Trump advisers to try and seize voting machines
- The State of Texas vs. Melissa: “The State of Texas wants to kill me”
- Las Vegas single mother charged with murder, child abuse, after five-year-old daughter found dead in hot bedroom
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Indonesian government allows COVID cases to skyrocket
- Indian workers discuss need to build rank-and-file committees to fight auto bosses
- Hundreds dead throughout US Pacific Northwest, British Columbia in “once-in-a-millennium” heat wave
- Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant
- German militarism and the war in Afghanistan
- UK government intervenes against DVLA strike over COVID-19 safety as union isolates dispute
- The democratic issues in Bill Cosby’s release
- UK: Labour scrapes a win in Batley and Spen by-election as support collapse continues
- Assange turns 50 in Belmarsh prison, his life still under threat
2021-07-04
2021-07-05
- Chinese president’s speech to mark CCP centenary: A litany of lies
- Striking Volvo workers in Virginia call for rejection of new tentative agreement
- This week in history: July 5–11
- Surge in homelessness underway with ending of the evictions ban for renters
- Prosecutors submit evidence that Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Rittenhouse has ties to fascist Proud Boys
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government raises electricity prices
- Julian Assange’s freedom depends on the mobilisation of the working class
- Family of white youth killed by police seeks out attorneys in George Floyd case
- New laws legalize police state operations in Germany—Part 2
- Anti-Bolsonaro protests sweep Brazil as opposition draws up 23 charges of impeachment
- Interview with Dr. Jose-Luis Jimenez, aerosol scientist, on the airborne nature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
- Frankfurt Labour Court rules against sacked WISAG bus drivers
- Trial of far-right German soldier gets under way
- Residents protest backed-up sewers and uncollected trash in wake of metro Detroit flooding
- Ethiopia wracked by internal war and inter-state conflict as famine rages in Tigray
- US coronavirus cases rise as Biden, media declare pandemic over
- Cook County SEIU workers remain on strike after other unions conclude sellout agreements
- Australia: Details of McCormick Foods industrial agreement reveal union sell-out
- Support grows for student petition to fight maths lecturer’s sacking at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- United Steelworkers announces deal with ATI in effort to shut down three-month strike
- Alabama educators join the growing international support for striking Volvo workers
2021-07-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fascist group stages midnight march in Philadelphia as police look on
- Wall Street rise continues amid warnings of instability
- Washington’s Afghanistan debacle deepens after troop withdrawal
- Great jazz vocalist dishonored by The United States vs. Billie Holiday—Can’t we do better?
- UK: Johnson commissions post-Brexit “bonfire of regulations” report
- UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid warns of 100,000 daily COVID cases after government ends restrictions
- Volvo Trucks workers demand full contract and additional week before vote on UAW sellout deal
- Sri Lankan president tries to cover up crisis in lengthy national address
- Japanese defense official questions the “One China” policy
- Podemos launches baseless #MeToo attack on Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo
- WSWS campaigns among Canadian Volvo workers to break UAW’s isolation of Dublin, Virginia Volvo Trucks strike
- Biden hails abandonment of social distancing, covers up Trump’s coup attempt in Fourth of July speech
- Israel faces new coronavirus outbreak due to the Delta variant
- University of Sheffield Archaeology student denounces planned closure
- Growing opposition to sacking of arts educator at Australia’s Monash University
- Official COVID-19 death toll worldwide reaches four million
- Far-right thugs attack prominent Ukrainian journalist Ruslan Kotsaba
- Remaining portion of collapsed Surfside, Florida condo demolished as search for victims continues
- Australian governments push for end to COVID restrictions as Sydney Delta outbreak grows
- Democratic Party establishment lines up against Nina Turner in Ohio congressional election
- Amid political and COVID crises, social inequality rises sharply in Peru
- Allentown Mack Volvo workers issue statement of solidarity with New River Volvo strikers
- 600 Topeka, Kansas Frito-Lay workers strike after rejecting union-negotiated deal
2021-07-07
- Tennessee zinc mine collapse kills one, injures two
- Workers speak out at NHS protests
- With UAW moving to impose sellout, autoworkers must come to the defense of the Volvo Trucks strike!
- Volvo workers to UAW: Show us the contract!
- Volvo workers in Ghent, Belgium, support the strike in Virginia, US
- US imperialism’s criminal debacle in Afghanistan
- Food delivery workers in Berlin continue wave of strikes
- Nine-hour police standoff with “Moorish” sovereign citizen group closes interstate in Massachusetts
- Unions betray Sri Lankan health workers’ strike
- Coronavirus infections surge among detained immigrants in US
- New Zealand government preparing to seal Pike River mine
- NHS “Day of Action”: How the UK unions and pseudo-left demobilise health workers
- Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer to take position at Howard University, backed by millions in foundation funding
- Los Angeles teachers union reaches agreement to fully reopen schools
- In a provocative move, India deploys 50,000 more troops to its disputed border with China
- US newspapers hail the rise in teen labor and poverty wages as a “rite of passage”
- Video: Volvo workers in Ghent, Belgium speak in support of the strike in Virginia
- Kansas Frito-Lay workers join growing strike wave of US workers against rising prices and intolerable work conditions
- Former Topeka Frito-Lay worker speaks out on issues behind strike: “Some employees went months without a day off”
- Christian Democratic candidate for German chancellor demands people learn to “live with the virus”
- Teviston, California without running water for several weeks, with no end in sight
- Bay Area former autoworkers support striking Volvo workers in Virginia
- Housing and accommodation crisis in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state
- USW proposed agreement with ATI would cut hundreds of jobs
- The billionaire Bezos and Amazon Studios promote race and gender quotas
- Africa faces a third more deadly COVID-19 surge as vaccination drive stalls
- UK will see millions of COVID-19 infections this summer
2021-07-08
- Pandemic surges in South Korea as government pushes to end social distancing
- Eric Adams wins New York City mayoral primary
- On eve of contract vote, veteran Volvo Trucks worker warns about UAW ballot-stuffing, calls for united fight against sellout deal
- US Fed minutes reveal divisions but money flow set to continue
- Australian state government blames workers and the poor for Sydney’s escalating COVID crisis
- The Billionaire Space Race
- Indonesia engulfed in “India-type” second wave
- Online public meeting in Australia: Oppose the job cuts at Macquarie University! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education!
- Israel’s “government of change” shows its right-wing credentials
- UK High Court grants US government right to appeal on Assange extradition
- Striking Kansas Frito-Lay workers to receive $105 a week, union bureaucrats to receive thousands
- What the growing class struggle in the US reveals about the pseudo-left
- Auto parts maker Faurecia kept workers on the job during fire at its Saline, Michigan plant
- Sri Lankan workers speak out in support of Volvo strikers
- With unions’ consent, Indian automakers ramp up production amid raging pandemic
- Volvo workers in Belgium down tools over expanded workweek
- All Covid safety measures being lifted in UK schools as Delta variant explodes
- Haiti under state of siege after president’s assassination
- Protests grow against the Tokyo Summer Olympics as COVID-19 cases surge
- 71st Berlinale: Festival’s Summer Special ends with homage to international solidarity
- Sharpton, George Floyd attorneys address memorial service for Hunter Brittain
- Another 43 refugees drowned off the coast of Tunisia as a result of the EU’s fortress Europe policy
- Third US-trained Honduran officer found guilty in killing of environmentalist Berta Cáceres
2021-07-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Biden administration capitulates to Republican attacks on voting rights
- Striking Virginia workers defiant as Volvo issues threats, Volvo Cars workers walk out in Belgium
- A response to a Vale Sudbury striker: USW doubles down on contract vote recommendation lie
- US sees a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations as the Delta variant becomes the dominant strain
- UK universities cut arts, languages, humanities and social science degrees
- Ukraine, UK to carry out “Cossack Mace” military exercises
- Australian school support workers condemn worsening conditions and union’s role
- Death toll from Surfside, Florida condo collapse climbs 64 as search for survivors winds down
- Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move: Many intriguing sights and sounds, except the important ones
- Online meeting: Release young Sri Lankan poet, Ahnaf Jazeem, detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act!
- Biden administration rolls out red carpet for Saudi prince implicated in Khashoggi murder
- Striking Topeka Frito-Lay workers: Form a rank-and-file strike committee to expand the fight for higher wages!
- Australian postal workers support striking Volvo workers in the US
- Families picket road to prevent the sealing of New Zealand’s Pike River mine
- Scientists demolish “Wuhan lab” conspiracy theory of coronavirus origins
- Australian university union celebrates “voluntary” job losses as “resounding success”
- NEA teachers union convention ignores a year of COVID-19 deaths and teachers’ resistance, salutes Biden
- Volvo workers vote down third UAW-backed agreement: Live updates
- Pentagon cancels JEDI contract and plans more advanced cloud-based warfare platform
- Volvo workers strike continues for second day in Ghent, Belgium
- European states scrap social distancing as COVID-19 pandemic surges
- SEIU-affiliated trade union imposes 3-year sellout contract on 460 Amcor workers who voted “no” twice
2021-07-10
- Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama reaches 100th day amid increased company violence
- Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia reject third consecutive sellout deal, in massive rebuke of UAW
- CDC says vaccinated teachers and students don’t need masks
- University of Sydney meeting supports students’ campaign in defence of Macquarie University academic
- Combined US federal and state unemployment claims rose to 470,000 last week
- Thousands of Turkish electricity workers launch wildcat strike wave
- Delta outbreak spiralling out of control in Sydney
- Scotland leads Europe in coronavirus transmission
- Sri Lankan government uses coronavirus laws to ban protests
- Savas Michael-Matsas lauds nationalist forces in Donbass region of eastern Ukraine
- Aftermath of Chemtool fire puts Rockton, Illinois residents at risk
- RMT defends collaboration with UK government’s Rail Industry Recovery Group as opposition grows
- As European governments demand population “live with” COVID-19 surge, workers must take up a socialist strategy
- Notre Dame lead contamination lawsuit highlights criminality of Paris authorities, complicity of CGT union
- Democrats cover up links between fascist “trainers,” US Capitol Police and other police departments
- Far-right National Rally backs Le Pen as 2022 French presidential candidate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Online IYSSE meeting (Sri Lanka): How to fight against the militarisation and privatisation of education
- Hyundai and GM Korea autoworkers vote to strike
- Report finds extreme heatwaves would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming
- Union to Kansas Frito-Lay workers: Don’t ask for wage increases
- England’s Euro 2020: “National unity” in furtherance of “herd immunity”
- Remaining public health measures abolished as ruling class intensifies Canada-wide reopening drive
- Bond market points to lower US growth
- At least 52 young workers perish in Bangladesh factory fire
- Vote No to USW's sellout deal at ATI! Form rank-and-file committees to end the isolation of the strike!
2021-07-12
- Statement of Volvo workers: Vote NO to corporate threats on Wednesday!
- Texas man faces 40 years in prison for voting while on parole
- Workers call for joint action to fight Volvo Trucks strikebreaking and UAW surrender
- US imposes new sanctions on China over Uyghurs
- Utah woman charged with “hate crime” for allegedly stomping on, throwing away pro-police sign
- This week in history: July 12-18
- UK: Labour-run Slough council declares bankruptcy after failed commercial deals
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei admitted to Germany’s federal elections
- CDC’s lifting of mask recommendations in US schools threatens massive surge of infections
- Class war at Volvo and the fight for rank-and-file committees
- New York City teachers, health care workers boycott Mayor de Blasio’s phony “Hometown Heroes” parade as COVID-19 cases grow again
- UK health secretary Javid says NHS waiting lists could double within months to 13 million
- Alice Neel: People Come First—A major retrospective of the American painter
- Online meeting: The Wellington bus drivers dispute and the case for rank-and-file committees
- McLaren Macomb Hospital nurses vote overwhelmingly for strike action
- South Korean shipbuilders at Hyundai Heavy Industries strike after two years without a new contract
- Haitian government calls for international military intervention after President’s assassination
- G20 pushes ahead on global tax deal
- Fiji faces unprecedented COVID-19 disaster
- Auto parts maker Faurecia defied instructions from firefighters to evacuate its Saline, Michigan plant during fire
- Australian state government pushing for school reopening despite Sydney COVID-19 crisis
- The Delta variant has been detected in 104 countries in new surge of the pandemic
- Democrats plan increased policing and incarceration in response to lethal violence in Chicago
- Military threatens Congress over COVID inquiry as Bolsonaro says Brazil “may not have” elections
- British court ruling heightens danger of Assange extradition to the US
2021-07-13
- Washington and Oregon plan to fully reopen schools this fall as Delta variant spreads
- Who is Volvo Group Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg?
- Volvo Trucks workers denounce UAW officials, call for decisive rejection in contract revote
- Tennessee workers at military research facility continue strike for health and safety
- Educators angered over scrapping of COVID-19 mitigation measures in schools
- Australian epidemiologists call for tougher restrictions as NSW government admits Sydney COVID-19 crisis is “out of control”
- Death toll in Surfside, Florida condo tower collapse rises to 94
- Sri Lankan government to remove pandemic restrictions despite continuing Delta variant infections
- UK government refuses to reveal details of its support for the Saudi war machine
- Volvo workers campaign for decisive rejection in contract revote: Live updates
- The CPAC conference and the fascist transformation of Trump’s Republican Party
- New York City flooding exposes failing infrastructure
- Australia: Meeting at Newcastle University lays bare union’s refusal to fight job cuts
- UK’s right-wing media launch McCarthyite witch-hunt of scientists
- The Volvo strike and the silence of the pseudo-left lambs
- Autoworkers voice support for Volvo strikers, oppose company-UAW strikebreaking: “All autoworkers should be on strike to support them”
- Washington has not ruled out sending troops to Haiti
- UK Jaguar Land Rover workers support striking US Volvo workers in Virginia
- Jacobin whitewashes union sell-out at Australian General Mills factory
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee holds online forum as Johnson government lifts all safety restrictions
- Cuba sees largest protests in decades as economy deteriorates and COVID-19 pandemic worsens
- Amid warnings of 4,800 daily hospitalisations: UK prime minister Johnson green lights July 19 lifting of all COVID-19 restrictions
- Strike by Cook County and Chicago workers in danger of another SEIU sellout
- Beijing mounts a diplomatic counteroffensive against Washington’s aggressive stance
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Auschwitz survivor and fighter against fascism Esther Bejarano has died
2021-07-14
- The nationalist diatribe of a Left Party leader— a review of the new book by Sahra Wagenknecht
- Video: Volvo workers call for rejection of third TA
- Volvo Trucks workers revoting today on rejected contract as opposition mounts to UAW collusion with corporations
- Sydney workers and youth speak out against NSW government’s criminally-negligent response to COVID-19 outbreak
- Wave of revulsion at racist abuse of England football players
- In speech on voting rights, Biden acknowledges American democracy is at death’s door
- New York City’s arts organizations have lost nearly $1 billion in income due to pandemic
- New Zealand nurses prepare more strikes as healthcare crisis worsens
- Volvo Trucks workers confront UAW officials during re-vote on rejected contract: Live updates
- Scores die in Iraq COVID hospital fire for second time in three months
- UK: Thousands visit mural of footballer Marcus Rashford to protest its defacing by racists
- Record inflation in US leads to double digit increases in basic consumer goods
- Build rank-and-file committees! Support the strike of the American Volvo workers!
- Belgian Volvo Cars workers support striking Volvo workers in Virginia
- War in Afghanistan spills over into Tajikistan, heightening Kremlin’s fears
- United Steelworkers moves to shut down three-month-long strike, while steelworkers express outrage over sellout contract at ATI
- 120 million people pushed to extreme poverty by COVID-19 pandemic
2021-07-15
- UAW claims revote of Volvo Trucks contract passes by 17 ballots, while workers raise accusations of fraud
- Tennessee summarily fires its principal vaccine official, Dr. Michelle Fiscus
- Students launch petition at University of Western Australia against cuts to courses
- Richard Branson’s flight and the privatization of space travel
- SafeEdForAll group speak out about the campaign for safe schools in the UK
- ANC government roiled by angry protests as South Africans protest worsening social conditions
- Quebec public sector workers’ struggle at the crossroads
- Despite inflation, Fed will not pull back on present monetary policies
- Over 1,200 doctors and scientists condemn UK COVID-19 policy as “dangerous and unethical”
- UK: Johnson government’s ending mandatory face masks on public transport faces major opposition
- Right-wing Kroger manager in southwest Ohio bullied employee to suicide for wearing mask during coronavirus pandemic, lawsuit alleges
- New Zealand bus driver explains why union-backed sellout was rejected
- Indiana Pepsi drivers strike as Kansas Frito-Lay workers continue walkout
- Wave of COVID-19 Delta variant in Europe spirals out of control
- ExxonMobil worker speaks about Beaumont, Texas refinery lockout
- FBI report: DC Metropolitan and US Capitol Police monitored fascist militias’ radio communications during the January 6 attack
- Sanders, Schumer reach deal on Biden budget
- The mass demonstrations against Bolsonaro and the fight for socialism in Brazil
2021-07-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- United Auto Workers moves to rapidly shut down Volvo Trucks strike after dubious passage of new contract
- US banks post record second-quarter profits as millions face social disaster
- US educators angered over CDC’s repudiation of safety measures amid spread of Delta variant
- Sydney’s working-class suburbs hardest hit as pandemic spreads across Australia
- General Milley and America’s “Reichstag moment”
- Pension at 68: Workers in Germany to pay for the pandemic with poverty in old-age
- Two-day strike by 1,400 Los Angeles nurses over patient safety
- Online public meeting in Australia: Oppose all the job cuts at Macquarie University and nationally! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education!
- French neofascist candidate Le Pen denounces Franco-German alliance
- Leader of Germany’s Left Party declares support for Sahra Wagenknecht
- A conversation with Sabrina Van Tassel, director of The State of Texas vs. Melissa: “Justice depends on whether you are rich or poor”
- German military readies itself for war in space
- Flooding in Germany and Belgium leaves over 100 dead
- Wildfires fueled by heat wave and drought surge across California and western US
- UK: The murder of Sarah Everard and police impunity
- One pandemic fuels another: US overdose deaths hit all time high in 2020 with 93,000 dead
- SEP (US) demands the release of Frank García Hernández from house arrest by the Cuban government
- SEIU ends Cook County workers’ strike, admits to concessions
- New details about the horrific working conditions that created Bangladesh fire tragedy
- Sydney tops 1,000 COVID cases in 30 days as Australian outbreak forces “snap” lockdown in Victoria
- Wife of Amcor worker in Terre Haute, Indiana expresses solidarity with Volvo workers, details betrayal by SEIU
- New poll shows growing majority of youths in the United States now hold a negative view of capitalism
2021-07-17
- Texas Democrats meet with Senator Manchin, backtrack on voting rights bills
- Anger persists among Volvo workers following UAW claims of narrow contract ratification
- Australian union agrees to enforce ten-year strike ban at Melbourne port
- Custom Hoists threatens to hire replacements for striking workers at Ashland, Ohio plant
- Number of dead in Surfside, Florida condo collapse increases to 97 as judge authorizes sale of beachfront property
- Why have Ben Crump and Al Sharpton taken up the case of Hunter Brittain?
- Australia’s coronavirus outbreak and the failure of the capitalist system
- Bloomberg says Sri Lanka is the highest risk of foreign debt default in Asia
- Biden administration doubles down on fully opening schools amid surge of Delta variant
- Eighty-five years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
- Stop the lifting of pandemic restrictions and the promotion of vaccine nationalism!
- Merkel’s farewell visit to Washington
- Louisiana schools set to reopen in the coming weeks as pandemic surges in the state
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Israel: Histadrut union federation kicks hospital workers’ strike into the long grass as support grows
- Indonesia becomes new COVID epicentre as infections and deaths skyrocket
- Official story of assassination in Haiti begins to unravel
- Autoworker dies at Ford’s Rouge complex outside Detroit
- Flood of the century in Western Europe: Over 100 dead, thousands missing
- Major floods hit metro Detroit again
- Canada’s new indigenous governor general and the crisis of bourgeois rule
- Delta variant escalates catastrophic spread of COVID-19 in Brazil
- Australian senator calls for end to One China policy
- University of Sheffield forces through closure of world-renowned archaeology department
- New York Times hails Eric Adams’ election victory as a “watershed” for black political power
2021-07-19
- The nationalist diatribe of a Left Party leader—a review of the new book by Sahra Wagenknecht
- Volvo Trucks workers remain defiant after UAW sellout of five-week strike
- Many health workers across Australia remain unvaccinated as coronavirus outbreak spirals out of control
- This week in history: July 19–25
- Lawsuit filed against Texas’ latest anti-abortion law
- Take Me Somewhere Nice: Young and reckless energy
- Fascist militia members indicted in plot to blow up Sacramento, California Democratic Party headquarters
- Tentative contract agreement with Providence Medical Center in Everett, Washington leaves nurses facing chronic understaffing
- Urgent action is necessary to stop the US Delta variant surge!
- Data breach reveals extensive government spying on journalists and political activists
- Opposition to Olympics escalates as Japan declares its fourth state of emergency
- Thirty-seven deaths among New York City transit workers so far this year as city’s infrastructure continues to crumble
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon supports anti-vaccine protest called by French neofascists
- Australia: CFPE/IYSSE meeting calls for rank-and-file committees to fight education cuts
- Demonstrator killed in Iran’s water crisis protests
- Veteran building trades worker speaks on the Volvo Trucks strike
- The floods in Europe and the bankruptcy of capitalism
- Company and police harassment continues against Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka
- As Delta variant spreads in German schools, government intensifies herd immunity policy
- COVID-19 cases across the US have more than doubled in the last two weeks
- UK government proceeds with criminal “Freedom Day” and junks COVID safety measures
- US district court ruling allows electric shock “therapy” of intellectually disabled students
- Australian ruling elite demands an end to all lockdowns as COVID crisis escalates
2021-07-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The US media discovers the “Yellow Peril”
- Volvo workers issue statement: “Where we are, what we’ve gone through and what’s next in our struggle”
- Virtual standoff at Volvo Trucks as workers oppose speedup on first full workday after five-week strike
- Volvo Group announces $1.1 billion second-quarter profits, after telling Virginia workers it could not afford wage and benefit improvements
- Chinese translation of WSWS perspective on Chinese Communist Party centenary
- Tennessee educators oppose attacks on teachers’ free speech rights
- Spain’s Morenoite Izquierda Diario calls for “safe nightlife” as COVID-19 surges
- Censorship of Southend UK art installation points to rising suppression of art and critical thought
- Berlin: Defend all jobs at Siemens Energy! Build independent action committees!
- Spiralling COVID infections in UK schools: A warning to the world
- Biden administration dismisses China’s claim to South China Sea
- Zuma’s trial sparks fears of renewed violence in South Africa
- Six months of the Biden administration—A balance sheet
- New details show how Pegasus was used to spy on political opponents
- New Zealand nurses’ union cancels strike after pay offer
- Judge rules against Maryland’s threat to end extended pandemic benefits
- Murdoch newspaper promotes Australian Labor leader
- Kroger closes stores, while United Food and Commercial Workers kept workers on the job during pandemic
- Japanese Defense White Paper stokes tensions with Beijing over Taiwan
- Judge temporarily blocks New York City’s transfer of homeless people from hotels to group shelters
- Gorillas’ delivery riders protest in Berlin for better working conditions
- Five-year-old dies of COVID-19 in Georgia as Biden administration pushes to fully open schools
- Kansas Frito-Lay workers complete 15th day of strike as union and company resume negotiations
- Workers at Ford’s Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan denounce “horrible” conditions in the aftermath of the death of co-worker Khaled Nasser
- Federal judge rules DACA unconstitutional, blocks new applications
- Reject Unite’s sellout deal with Jacobs Douwe Egberts!
- Fascist Trump foot soldier receives slap on the wrist in sentencing for January 6 coup
- Railway workers strike in São Paulo amidst wave of transportation struggles
- Australian unions demand Sydney COVID-19 lockdown reversal
2021-07-21
- French anti-vaccine protests expose right-wing politics of Jean-Luc Mélenchon
- Australia: University of Newcastle Student Association guidelines attack democratic rights
- Suicide attempts among Canadian children have doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Push to have Powell reappointed as Fed chair
- Family demands release of full video of Milwaukee, Wisconsin police killing
- A crime against humanity: COVID-19 has killed an estimated four million people in India
- French President Macron among those targeted by international Pegasus smartphone spyware operation
- Socialist Equality Group holds online meeting on New Zealand bus drivers’ dispute
- UK: Johnson’s ditching of workplace COVID mitigation measures relies on Labour Party and trade unions
- University of Liverpool presses ahead with job cuts plan in collaboration with University and College Union
- Dominic Cummings revelations of UK herd immunity policy: “Just let the thing wash through the country and not destroy the economy and move on,” Johnson declared
- Stellantis refused to evacuate Jeep plant in Toledo in spite of bomb threat
- US cables show reliance on trade unions to suppress working-class unrest in Australia
- Washington forces reshuffling of Haitian regime
- German federal and state governments did nothing despite warnings of flood catastrophe
- Covid-19 infections soar 500 percent: a social crime of the Dutch ruling class
- Republicans name Trump defenders to House committee on January 6 coup
2021-07-22
- Cliff Walkers: Zhang Yimou’s ongoing accommodation to China’s ruling elite
- Extreme wildfires along the US West Coast generating their own weather
- Delta variant spreads in Sri Lanka, as government lifts health restrictions
- Valley Labor Report radio program falsifies record of Volvo strike, denounces rank-and-file committees
- Pandemic slashed US life expectancy by 1.5 years in 2020
- Podemos, Spanish unions collaborate with big business to slash pensions
- Republicans double down on defending January 6 coup attempt
- Detroit-area nurses give 10-day strike notice at McLaren Macomb Hospital
- Study finds close to 185,000 unrecognized COVID-related deaths in the United States
- UK Labour Party’s latest purge and the myth of its “socialist transformation”
- Trade unions and Syriza collude in Greek herd immunity policy
- Topeka Frito-Lay workers: Vote NO on the latest company-BCTGM backroom deal! Form a rank-and-file committee to expand and win the strike!
- UAW president hails “labor-management” partnership following sellout of Volvo strike
- Continental workers in Bebra and Mühlhausen, Germany vote for strike
- Chinese city hit by “once in a millennium” torrential rains
- The criminal responsibility of the Chilean state for the COVID-related crisis
- Mass abstention in Bulgarian elections
- Republicans block “bipartisan” infrastructure bill
- After space flight, “Moneybags” Bezos acknowledges workers “paid for all this”
- Australian COVID crisis expanding with more than half the population under lockdown
- Union announces in-principle enterprise agreement with Australia Post
- Canadian government summits on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: a political fraud
2021-07-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Tensions high in Volvo Trucks plant at end of first week back after strike
- Ukrainian interior minister with close ties to the far right resigns
- An urgent warning: NZ Labour government moves to seal Pike River mine
- Global school reopenings pose massive threat to children
- Significant response to Sri Lankan meeting demanding release of jailed poet Ahnaf Jazeem
- Federal judge rules against autoworkers seeking compensation for Fiat Chrysler/Stellantis bribery of UAW
- US auto plant shutdowns spur unexpected rise in jobless claims
- Reject Unite’s sellout deal at JDE: Form a rank-and-file committee to defeat fire and rehire!
- Labour Minister calls on striking delivery riders at Gorillas in Berlin to form corporatist works council
- British Gas engineers denounce GMB union for claiming “victory” after 500 lose their jobs
- More details emerge of latest BCTGM sellout agreement with Frito-Lay
- The struggle against the flood catastrophe in Germany requires a socialist programme
- The gyrations of Wall Street
- Rise in COVID-19 cases among children surge in major US hotspots
- COVID-19 cases rise by 165 percent in California since lifting of restrictions in June
- Family of woman killed by Arlington, Texas police in 2019 sue city, officer for wrongful death
- Baltimore Amazon worker describes “week of hell” during Prime Week 2021
2021-07-24
- Democrats drop defense of voting rights after Biden’s Philadelphia speech
- Australian state government declares “national emergency” in Sydney but rejects calls for sharp lockdown
- US, Germany strike deal over controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
- UK media declares contact-tracing “pingdemic” to distract from raging pandemic
- UK mines rescue expert: Sealing Pike River mine “morally and professionally indefensible”
- The Olympics open in the shadow of mass death
- Protests against the Tokyo Olympics erupt across Japan as COVID-19 cases continue to surge
- Nigeria’s President Buhari clampdown on reporting of “security issues” amid mounting turmoil
- David Moore to run as the Socialist Equality Party candidate in the California gubernatorial recall election
- Mississippi asks US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
- Foster Farms meatpacking workers vote to strike at California facility
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Modi government angrily dismisses study showing COVID-19 has killed millions in India
- UK “Borders Bill” criminalises asylum-seekers
- Toronto police clear homeless camps in series of paramilitary-style raids
- Bakery union says sellout contract ratified after Kansas Frito-Lay workers defeated four previous deals
- French Holocaust survivor condemns far-right anti-vaccine protests
- Flint, Michigan pediatrician files opposition to including bone scan lead tests in water crisis settlement
- Scientists uncover ancient coronavirus epidemic in East Asia
- ECB set to open the financial spigots wider
- Exponential rise in Germany of new coronavirus infections
- Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) screened in New York City: A drama about auto workers
- Hunger strike of hundreds of undocumented migrants in Belgium
- Australia Post workers to CEPU: Show us the agreement!
- 2008 American Axle strike contains important lessons for Volvo workers
- Alabama schools set to fully reopen as child COVID-19 hospitalizations nearly triple in a week
- US launches airstrikes against Taliban as Afghan forces crumble
- Senate Democrats endorse Republican proposal for increased military budget
2021-07-26
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- “Red tide” bacteria toxin devastates marine life along Florida’s Gulf Coast
- Far-right anti-lockdown protests held amid Australian COVID crisis
- UK: Sheffield bus drivers support campaign against victimisation of David O’Sullivan
- COVID-19 surge explodes Biden’s claim of “independence” from pandemic
- New Zealand PM aligns with Washington over Indo-Pacific
- Germany’s grand coalition presses ahead with military rearmament
- Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady
- IYSSE (Australia) online meeting: The crisis of capitalism and the resurgence of the working class
- Over 100 dead in landslides, flooding in the Indian state of Maharashtra
- Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale remains steadfast as federal prosecutors demand nine-year sentence
- Flood victims in Ahrweiler: “We are the Baghdad of Germany. Totally bombed, totally destroyed”
- Indiana PepsiCo workers strike continues as union shuts down Frito-Lay workers strike in Kansas
- Dearborn, Michigan residents languish without government assistance in flooding aftermath
- UK-led Carrier Strike Group heads for South China Sea
- Biz Markie, pioneering hip hop entertainer, dies at 57
- Campaign in Banbury reveals solid support for JDE workers
- After sellout of ATI strike, what way forward for steelworkers?
- Trump steps up fascistic appeals at Arizona rally
- At least 157 New York City summer school classrooms closed due to COVID-19 outbreaks
2021-07-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- This Is My Desire (Eyimofe): What everyone in Nigeria “goes through on a daily basis”
- Modi government’s “terrorism” frame-up vendetta leads to death of 84-year-old tribal-rights activist
- A program of struggle for the teachers’ wage strike in Sri Lanka
- 900 workers at Rio Tinto’s British Columbia smelter strike over contract labour and pension rights
- Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci and the witch-hunt against science
- New Zealand: Vote no to sellout of Wellington bus drivers! Form rank-and-file committees!
- Nurses union calls off strike at McLaren Macomb Hospital
- Death of Menards worker in Minnesota draws protests
- Long COVID cases among children and pediatric death toll rise globally
- Memorial for Kroger worker harassed into suicide by manager for wearing face mask
- Brooklyn’s Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center shuts 200 inpatient hospital beds despite protests
- Indonesian government moves to loosen restrictions amid mass deaths
- UK NHS workers cannot rely on unions to fight for pay rise
- Gorillas delivery riders in Berlin criticise visit by German Labour Minister
- COVID-19 daily case numbers exceed 1,000 in Fiji
- As pandemic resurges, auto parts maker Faurecia drops mask mandates
- Ten facts JDE workers need to know about the company and Unite
- Debtors’ prisons on the rise as COVID-19 ravages the southern United States
- Fall in UK daily COVID cases used to reinforce government propaganda that everyone can “live with the virus”
- Death toll rises following torrential rains and floods in China
- Potential teachers’ strike in Champion Township, Ohio
- Mass anti-Bolsonaro protests as Brazil faces 550,000 COVID deaths
- East Asian countries hit by global surge of Delta variant
- The Volvo strike in Virginia, what are the lessons for Amazon workers?
- Letter from a New York City teacher opposing the union-backed reopening of schools
2021-07-28
- Victorian Labor government ends lockdown as Australia’s COVID crisis deepens
- Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship revoked
- Tunisian president launches coup amid protests against mass COVID-19 deaths
- Communication Workers Union trashes British Telecom strike ballot and agrees mass redundancies and closures
- Lawsuit against Pilgrim’s Pride for COVID-19 work-related deaths may be thrown out with new Texas law
- As January 6 hearing details fascist violence of Trump mob, Republicans rally in defense of jailed insurrectionists
- New Zealand nurses vote on third sellout offer
- University of Miami workers demand higher wages, better working conditions
- La Trobe University in Australia announces hundreds more job cuts
- Drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison
- Washington Post demands “boots on the ground” in Haiti
- London floods highlight failure to address climate change and its consequences
- Wildfires continue to grow across western North America as another heat wave builds
- Eleven million US families face eviction as CDC moratorium expires
- Detroit Federation of Teachers agrees to reopen schools as vaccination rates stall
- UK: Unite tries to shut down opposition at JDE as voting begins
- Tunisian hospitals overwhelmed as COVID-19 surges across Africa
2021-07-29
- USW keeping Sudbury strikers in the dark as it resumes bargaining with Vale
- Florida officials stonewall forensic engineers as final victim is named in Surfside condo collapse
- Millions of lives in danger as COVID-19 spreads across South Asia
- COVID outbreak in Australia intensifies financial stress and class divide
- Sri Lankan government rejects teachers’ wage demand
- Oppose the right-wing campaign against vaccination!
- New York City must provide fully remote learning to protect children and the broader population!
- Bob Moses, veteran of Southern civil rights movement, is dead at 86
- Glenn Greenwald downplays fascist plot to kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
- Biden promotes economic nationalism and union-management collaboration at Mack-Volvo plant in Pennsylvania
- NHS Queen Elizabeth Hospital held up by props as national maintenance bill reaches £9 billion
- What Though the Field Be Lost: Poet Christopher Kempf’s historical view of contemporary America
- Over 100 children died from COVID-19 in Indonesia each week in July
- Flood disaster in Germany: massive damage and growing anger
- Fed maintains money flow to Wall Street
- Trump-backed candidate loses in Texas special election
- Republicans dismiss accounts of fascist violence, Democrats continue appeals for “unity”
2021-07-30
- First-hand account of the devastating flooding in Zhengzhou, China
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK teachers’ pay freeze meets no opposition from unions
- Sydney records highest daily number of COVID infections since pandemic began
- Allyn Kilsheimer, expert forensic engineer, on the exceptional circumstances surrounding his investigation of the Surfside, Florida condo collapse
- On far-right Vox party’s appeal, Spanish court rules lockdowns unconstitutional
- Two Aurora, Colorado police officers charged after brutally beating 29-year-old Kyle Vinson
- Democratic Socialists of America convention meets to promote Democratic Party
- Australian maritime union moving to impose a sell-out deal at Patrick Terminals
- New US coronavirus surge is growing faster than the spring and summer waves of 2020
- GMB and Unite launch bogus bid to “save” McVitie's Glasgow biscuit factory
- Mack Truck workers announce formation of rank and file committee in Macungie, Pennsylvania
- Flint, Michigan water poisoning settlement may include liens against Medicaid and Medicare benefits
- Fatal explosion at Chempark Leverkusen in Germany
- US gymnast Simone Biles, the Olympic games and “the weight of the world”
- Taliban advance in Afghanistan, refugee crisis stagger Turkish ruling elite
- As Warrior Met strike nears end of fourth month, United Mine Workers appeals to Wall Street hedge fund
2021-07-31
- Black Widow: The surrounding controversies are more interesting and revealing than the film
- House holds hearing on threat to voting rights in Texas as Democrats abandon fight against it
- UAW continues to withhold the full contract agreement for Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia
- Australia: 7,000 Toll transport workers threaten industrial action
- New Mexico state police note “significant increase” in police shootings
- Democrats let US eviction moratorium expire, pushing millions of families to the brink
- Modi government calls exposure of its use of Pegasus to spy on political opponents “fake news”
- UK public debt: Pandemic profiteering costs workers’ lives and incomes
- Japan records highest COVID-19 daily case number, a foreseeable disaster
- SEIU calls off strike by 1,500 Pennsylvania nursing home workers at last minute
- Journalist Craig Murray jailed for eight months in a major assault on democratic rights
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Continental/Vitesco workers: Vote against IG Metall and management’s plan to close the plant! Build rank-and-file committees to defend all jobs!
- Florida sees explosive growth of Delta variant infections, hospitalizations
- Leaked CDC document exposes Biden administration’s COVID-19 cover-up
- Union sells out New Zealand bus drivers
- Brazil’s schools set to reopen amid record COVID-19 child deaths
- Belarusian opposition leader Tikhanovskaya appeals to Washington for support
- UK: Unite’s “left” candidates Turner and Graham silent on attempted sell-out of JDE strike
- Amid pandemic, Alberta demands 5 percent pay cut from province’s nurses
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