Archive: 08/2021
2021-08-02
- This week in history: August 2-8
- Timeline of the Hillsborough disaster and cover-up as it unfolded (1989-2021)
- Australia: Widening teacher-student opposition to Sydney school reopening plan amid COVID crisis
- Severe smoke continues to blanket North American west
- Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visits the US as a lackey of the banks
- Oppose Texas’ ban on ground transport for undocumented immigrants!
- New Zealand nurses reject third union-backed pay deal
- Backups at US West Coast ports cause disruptions to trade network, speedups for workers
- Insider account of Corbyn’s suspension confirms his prostration before Labour’s right-wing
- Workers in Banbury condemn “fire and rehire” sell-out deal at Jacobs Douwe Egberts: “It is a domino effect”
- IYSSE election campaign at Humboldt University finds support among students
- “This is a virus that we need to eliminate”—Dr. Deepti Gurdasani condemns “herd immunity” policies
- Reopening of German economy provokes deadly fourth wave of pandemic
- US officials reject further lockdowns despite 100,000 reported new infections
- Trump wanted Justice Department to declare 2020 election “corrupt”
- Lollapalooza 2021: A superspreader event, thanks to Illinois Democrats
- Russia conducts military drills in Central Asia and China as US completes troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Missouri Aviary Cafe workers strike, charge they are “overworked like slaves”
- Australian “National Cabinet” pushes reopening “roadmap” as Delta crisis worsens
- Andrew Devine, the 97th Hillsborough disaster victim dies 32 years after suffering lifelong injuries
2021-08-03
- Engineers cite possible design flaws as investigation stalls into fatal Florida condo collapse
- On Roma Holocaust Memorial Day deportations of Roma from Germany continue
- “The families deserve much better”—Readers demand continued investigation of Pike River mine disaster
- Forty years since the PATCO strike: Part one
- Chinese paleontologists discover fossilized remains of largest land mammal to ever inhabit the Earth
- Student representatives at Humboldt University in Germany support disciplinary complaint against president, demand action against Professor Baberowski
- US cables point to intense Washington involvement in the lead up to the 1975 Canberra Coup
- Dr. Deepti Gurdasani speaks on the Delta variant and against the policy of “living with the virus”
- Biden washes his hands of responsibility for mass evictions
- Delta cloud over world economic growth
- Food delivery workers in New York City struggle against super-exploitation
- Cannon Busters on Netflix: Two robots and an immortal embark on a road trip
- Alberta government declares COVID-19 pandemic over
2021-08-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Biden administration promotes fully opening schools amid surge of Delta variant
- RMT attempts to stifle growing strike movement across UK rail network
- Quebec nurses should reject sellout agreement, spearhead fight to mobilize working class against austerity
- Former deputy PM says New Zealand government is covering up mine disaster
- Craig Murray joins Julian Assange behind bars
- French Morenoites call on trade unions to join anti-vaccine protests
- More political fallout from the Pegasus spyware revelations
- Forty years since the PATCO strike: Part two
- National Labor Relations Board calls for union revote at Alabama Amazon facility
- New UK Covid hospitalisation data used to back “herd immunity” agenda
- University of Newcastle annual report highlights pro-business restructuring of Australian campuses
- Minamata: How a Japanese corporation poisoned a community and an American photographer fought to expose it
- United Auto Workers and auto companies reverse course, reimpose mask mandate in factories
- One year since the Beirut blast: Lebanon’s social, economic, and political crisis deepens
- Morenoite Izquierda Diario silent on Spanish ruling against COVID-19 lockdowns
- US, UK and Israel threaten Iran after lethal drone attack on Israeli-operated ship
- Record hospitalizations in Florida as coronavirus Delta variant continues to surge
- China fights to contain outbreak of COVID-19 delta variant
- Unite imposes “fire and rehire” deal at Jacobs Douwe Egberts: “the workers have lost faith in the Unite union”
- Australian governments rush to accelerate reopening “roadmap” despite Delta outbreaks spreading
2021-08-05
- Nashville, Tennessee warehouse worker shoots three where he worked
- Sri Lankan state employees ordered back to work amid rising COVID-19 infections
- Cliff Slaughter: A Political Biography (1928–1963)
- The sordid effort to oust New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
- Massachusetts Nurses Association and federal mediator seek end to Saint Vincent nurses’ strike
- Flood victims in Germany criticise authorities for failure to provide warnings
- Biden administration orders short-term delay in evictions
- Egypt’s el-Sisi steps up repression as opposition mounts to mass poverty and inequality
- The enduring significance of the Hubble Deep Field
- World marks 200 million cases of coronavirus pandemic
- Belarusian athlete flees to Poland, as opposition activist is found hanged in Kiev
- Australian Labor Party backs tax bonanza for the wealthy
2021-08-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- USW pushes through deal to end 64-day strike of Vale miners in Sudbury, Ontario
- Student opposition continues as cuts deepen at Australian universities
- Richard Trumka 1949–2021
- Teacher-Student-Parent Safety Committee in Sri Lanka holds successful online meeting
- Cliff Slaughter: A Political Biography (1928–1963)
- Australian Court rules Qantas outsourcing of ground staff unlawful
- Papua New Guinea registers first case of COVID-19 Delta variant
- US faces resurgent COVID-19 catastrophe
- Germany: Opel (Stellantis) raises pressure on employees
- IAM working to isolate walkout by 800 Chicago-area mechanics after overwhelming strike vote
- Health crisis is a class question UK studies confirm
- Deadly crash in southern Texas kills ten migrants
- General Motors announces massive profits in second quarter as new COVID-19 surge builds strength
- Wildfires rage in Turkey and across the Mediterranean region
- UK: 15 Further Education colleges vote to strike over pay and job losses
- Democratic Party establishment prevails over Sanders-backed candidate in Cleveland primary election
- Cognitive impact of COVID-19 often worse than a stroke or lead poisoning
- Still no justice for UK victims of infected blood scandal after decades
- Delta outbreak spreading across Australia as infections and deaths rise
2021-08-07
- COVID-19 cases in United States hit new six-month record
- Amid Sydney crisis, workers and youth speak on social hardship, oppose police/military deployment
- Forty-four arrested after protest by striking Sri Lankan teachers in Colombo
- Cliff Slaughter: A Political Biography (1928–1963)
- Australian state government Shepparton Education Plan details social crisis
- Australia: Shepparton teacher speaks of lack of health and psychological resources in schools
- Germany’s show of force in the Indo-Pacific
- Pennsylvania slashes over 1,500 higher education jobs with union support
- Forty years since the PATCO strike: Part three
- New Zealand government’s proposed “hate speech” law attacks free speech
- Missouri’s low vaccination rate fuels outbreak as state officials fight mask mandates
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei gains ballot status in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin for Germany’s general election
- Trump Justice official sought to assist election coup
- Fire damages Cinemateca Brasileira, largest South American audiovisual collection: The outcome of Bolsonaro government policy
2021-08-08
- This week in history: August 9-15
- Tennessee schools face state threats over mask mandates
- Trudeau appoints loyal servant of ruling elite to Canada’s Supreme Court
- Pedro Castillo’s rise to the presidency intensifies Peru’s crisis
- Homelessness more than doubles as Irish housing crisis worsens
- Carnival Cruise Line crew member suicide marks forced reopening of cruise ship industry
2021-08-09
- “Younger, sicker, quicker”: Doctors plead for vaccinations as US hospitals fill with young patients
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK university workers must oppose UCU’s betrayal of the USS pensions dispute
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government to ban Castilian nationalist party
- Cliff Slaughter: A Political Biography (1928–1963)
- Russian flight attendants carry out sickout against dangerous working conditions at Rossiya Airlines
- Children’s lives matter! Stop school reopenings!
- Forty years since the PATCO strike: Part four
- After calling off strike at eleventh hour, OPEIU Local 40 passes new contract at McLaren Macomb Hospital
- Germany’s Left Party candidate for chancellor supports NATO and European army
- Israel launches aerial strikes on Lebanon escalating covert war against Iran
- Kroger installs anti-worker reactionary Elaine Chao on company board of directors
- US Senate nears passage of infrastructure spending bill
- IMF offers crumbs to poorer countries
- Australia: Major hospitals cancel surgeries as they strain under Delta outbreak
- US cables highlight role of Hawke, Labor and unions in suppressing workers’ opposition after 1975 “Canberra Coup”
- Wildfires rage across Greece as austerity hobbles firefighting effort
- French health unions file strike notices against mandatory vaccination
- Growing Dixie Fire incinerates entire town of Greenville, California
- Former Justice Department chief testifies on Trump attempted coup
- COVID catastrophe fuels unrest in Southeast Asia
2021-08-10
- US daily hospital admissions for children reach all-time pandemic high
- Ontario government calls for “normalizing” COVID-19 as it releases school reopening plan
- Afghan regime’s rout exposes crisis of US imperialism
- Pennsylvania Mack Trucks worker responds to President Joseph Biden’s visit to truck plant
- UK: Johnson government wages dirty war on migrants and asylum seekers
- Bay Area, California teacher raises critical concerns over school reopenings
- Former Spanish Amazon worker, fired for injury, abandoned by unions
- Tokyo Olympics Games come to a close, while Japanese COVID-19 victims told to die at home
- Neo-fascist Meloni under discussion as Italian head of government
- Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs, documents in age discrimination lawsuit reveal
- Propaganda offensive proclaiming end of UK pandemic wave unravels as COVID case decline ends
- In authoritarian rant, Washington, DC chief of police denounces policies that “coddle violent criminals”
- Studies confirm safety of AstraZeneca and other COVID vaccines against threat of blood-clotting disorders
- UN agency report documents worldwide impact of climate change
- Jackson Browne still asking questions on Downhill from Everywhere
- Australia: Warehouse job cuts ahead as supermarkets increase automation
- Sydney’s outbreak spreads across NSW as Australia’s COVID crisis continues
2021-08-11
- US facing a deluge of COVID-19 hospitalizations as Delta variant spreads rapidly
- US admiral warns China “we have the world’s greatest military”
- Australia: Student opposition develops against return to face-to-face classes
- Ten years after the London riots: More cuts and state repression
- Don’t send children into unsafe schools!
- Australian university union suppresses debate to promote enterprise bargaining sham
- Grosse Pointe, Michigan, parents protest against district’s lifting of mask mandate in schools
- New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo resigns in sex scandal
- U.S. Appeals Court releases January 6 attacker involved in killing of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick
- Canada’s Liberal government clears decks for pandemic election
- US Senate passes infrastructure bill, moves on to budget
- Biden speaks to Pacific Islands Forum to counter China
- UK: Pseudo-left groups complicit in sell-out of JDE workers by Unite
- UK High Court sides with US against Assange
2021-08-12
- Texas House speaker issues arrest warrants for missing Democrats in bid to pass anti-voting rights bill
- Schools across Southern US reopen as COVID patients flood hospitals
- United Mine Workers holds rally in Alabama as Warrior Met Coal strike enters its fifth month
- Sri Lankan president opposes lockdowns, as Delta variant spreads
- Form workers’ rank-and-file committees to fight homicidal pandemic policy of the Australian ruling class!
- Eleven COVID-19 patients die in Russian hospital after oxygen pipe bursts
- New Zealand government lies about Pike River mine re-entry promises
- Socialist Equality Party summer school prepares membership for growth of class struggle
- Forty years since the PATCO strike: Part five
- Ordinary People (2016) on Netflix: Street children in Manila—“Only rich people get to buy other people”
- Workers at Motherson plant in southern India mount indefinite strike for decent food, better conditions
- Minneapolis Public Schools and teachers union pursue agreement to prioritize race in hiring and firing
- Train drivers begin nationwide strike in Germany
- “They could have warned us: Then we wouldn’t have any dead people here!”
- Residents of third condo forced to flee as more structural problems exposed after Surfside, Florida, collapse
- Record number of wildfires burn large swaths of Siberia
- Australian money markets soar as pandemic suffering intensifies
- Democrats begin budget “reconciliation” process with Senate vote
- Apple to work with law enforcement to scan personal photo libraries for child abuse content
- US intelligence warns Kabul could fall within one month
2021-08-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Federal corruption probe of UAW officials continues
- Outbreaks hit workers and the vulnerable as Australia’s COVID crisis intensifies
- Sri Lankan unions embrace government’s cabinet committee in preparation to end teachers’ wage fight
- Coronavirus outbreak at Dallas facilities of e-commerce logistics firm ShipBob as COVID-19 spirals out of control in Texas
- RMT offers fake “opposition” to UK rail industry redundancy scheme
- American educators speak out against school reopenings
- Reopening schools poses major risks to children's lives
- As pandemic toll rises, New Mexico does partial about-face on vaccinations and masks, but not on school and work reopenings
- Migrants sue Biden administration over substandard conditions in border camps
- As strike by Chicago-area auto mechanics enters second week, International Association of Machinists undermines struggle
- Military on standby ahead of UK lorry drivers’ strike
- On the 150th birthday of Karl Liebknecht
- National Review spearheads ultra-right smear campaign against COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
- Australia’s highest court gives green light to casualisation
- Consumer prices continue to rise, with inflation rate at 13-year high
- Police draw weapons and detain African American realtor and family
- Google to cut the pay of employees who continue to work remotely
- The German debacle in Afghanistan: Politicians and media drum up support for renewed military deployment
- Far-right “Cyber Symposium” attended by Republican politicians promotes “stolen election” lies
- Striking railway workers in Germany: “The company wants to destroy our achievements”
- Jeremy Corbyn and the political dead-end of the official Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign
- Sixty nine dead in Algeria as forest fires devastate the Mediterranean region
- US sending 3,000 troops to Afghanistan as major cities fall to Taliban
2021-08-14
- 50 years since the end of the Bretton Woods monetary system
- Amid xenophobic campaign, far-right mob attacks Syrian refugees in Turkey
- Halt the reopening of schools in California!
- Historic power outages and more flooding in Michigan after severe thunderstorms
- US troops return to Afghanistan as regime disintegrates
- North Korean floods compound precarious situation in impoverished country
- UK lorry driver speaks ahead of strike: “The Labour Party and the unions have done nothing”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Three Florida educators die from COVID-19 within days of each other
- Hollywood production reaches “pre-pandemic levels”: What does that mean for film and television workers?
- Fiji opposition MPs arrested over criticism of land Bill
- Canada enters fourth COVID-19 wave, as governments gut remaining public health measures
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro orders tanks to roll past Congress as it rejects his new electoral law
- COVID-19 exposures at multiple Australia Post facilities in Sydney
2021-08-15
2021-08-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- NHS waiting list crisis offers bonanza for private companies
- This week in history: August 16-22
- Richard Trumka (1949-2021): A dedicated servant of Corporate America
- French pseudo-left party Lutte Ouvrière aligns with right-wing anti-vaccine protests
- Paula Rego at the Tate: “I always want to turn things on their heads, to upset the established order”
- Striking train drivers in Germany: “The system has been cut to the bone”
- Power outages continue into fifth day after severe storms hit Southeast Michigan
- The fall of the Afghan puppet regime: A historic debacle for US imperialism
- Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio educators call for struggle to shut down in-person learning
- New Zealand midwives strike over low pay and understaffing
- Tenet intensifies effort to replace striking Saint Vincent nurses
- Defeated management “offer” at Western Sydney University reveals intensifying attack on educators
- UK: Why the nervousness over Johnson’s praise for Thatcher’s destruction of the coal industry?
- McVitie’s Glasgow action group proposal to avoid closure is rejected, Pladis wants “more”
- Thousands feared dead as devastating earthquake hits Haiti
- Scale of forest fire devastation in Greece threatens to ignite social and political unrest
- German federal and state governments escalate policy of mass infection by reopening schools and dismantling public health measures
- At least 70 dead, 47 missing as floods hit northern Turkey
- US epidemiologist Michael Osterholm warns of impending catastrophe as children are sent into unsafe schools
- US Supreme Court blocks part of New York eviction moratorium
- US Department of Homeland Security warns of terrorist violence linked to Trump election conspiracies
- CFPE (Australia) online meeting: Form rank-and-file safety committees to oppose school reopening amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Sudden lockdown in Australia’s most populous state as Sydney outbreak widens
- Amazon rank-and-file responds to company decision to bring back masks as COVID-19 surges: Too little, too late
2021-08-17
- Faculty members and supporters at Youngstown State University protest to demand CDC protocols be implemented
- Texas Supreme Court blocks mask mandates
- Build action committees to fight the Sri Lankan ruling elite’s homicidal response to the coronavirus pandemic!
- Biden’s Afghanistan speech: America’s criminal war ends in debacle
- COVID-19 catastrophe unfolds in French Overseas Territories
- Nabisco workers at three US production plants go on strike
- 13-year-old in Mississippi dies of COVID-19 days after school reopens
- Coronavirus health disaster in Los Angeles looms with reopening of country’s second largest school district
- Australia: Delta variant spreads through aged care facilities in Sydney
- Faurecia Gladstone Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls for fight against mass layoffs
- Trudeau triggers Canadian election in midst of pandemic’s fourth wave
- UK teachers fight against attacks on pay, conditions and pensions
- The Delta variant of coronavirus is a Frankenstein produced by capitalism
- Resistance spreads among German delivery service workers
- Chinese regime reins in billionaire tech tycoons
- Delta variant infections explode in Brazil
2021-08-18
- Afghan debacle prompts bitter recriminations from UK military, Tories and Labour
- US Senator’s tweet over Taiwan provokes Chinese threats of war
- Australian COVID outbreak set to become the country’s worst of the pandemic
- Delta variant fuels rapid surge of COVID-19 cases across southern US
- Sri Lankan SEP calls public meeting to discuss socialist program to fight the pandemic
- What way forward in the rail strike?
- January 6, 2021: Donald Trump’s plot against America
- Media propaganda and the Afghan debacle
- UK Parliament mourns imperialism’s Afghan debacle
- New Zealand locked down after Delta cases identified
- A study in contrasts: Wall Street and the underlying economy
- Ken Loach expelled from the British Labour Party: The political lessons
- COVID-19 pandemic worsens in South Korea
- An interview with poet Christopher Kempf, author of What Though the Field Be Lost
- US workers respond to American imperialism’s debacle in Afghanistan
- Death toll in Haiti skyrockets following devastating earthquake
- Oregon deploys National Guard to assist hospitals as schools set to reopen
- As pandemic intensifies public discontent, Australian government unveils anti-democratic electoral laws
- UAW keeps autoworkers in the dark about possible strike at Dana, Inc. parts plant in Warren, Michigan
2021-08-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Werner Siepmann (1931-2021): War opponent, anti-fascist, Trotskyist
- The Bundeswehr advertising campaign: “A warning call to all young people”
- US Federal Reserve moves towards cuts in asset purchases
- SGP election spot: “Life instead of profits!”
- Nurse’s letter exposes catastrophic COVID conditions in Sri Lankan hospitals
- Unifor refuses to provide Kitimat, BC strikers any details of its talks with Rio Tinto
- Casualties of reopening schools: Children dying from COVID-19
- A paramedic details harsh and dangerous working conditions in the Australian state of New South Wales
- Quebec nurses union imposes sellout deal in face of widespread rank-and-file anger
- UCU Left aids union sabotage of fight at the University of Liverpool
- Mass COVID-19 deaths continue in Indonesia
- Thousands of students in Tampa, Florida placed on quarantine days after schools reopen
- Dixie Fire continues to rage out of control in California as new Caldor Fire sparks further evacuations
- Billions in US federal rent assistance money withheld from millions facing eviction
- UAW and John Deere meet to negotiate on how to ram through a sellout contract
- From the US presidential election to Trump’s coup
- Oxford University study shows herd immunity a fiction as UK infections rise
- Opposition grows to unsafe reopenings at South Carolina universities
- 2020 US census: Americans calling themselves multiracial surged by 276 percent
- Australia’s High Court denies four-year-old asylum seeker the right to appeal visa refusal
- Oppose union’s sell-out deal at Australia Post
- Behind the Biden administration’s insistence on bringing the unions into Amazon
- US military steps up Taliban-approved evacuation from Kabul
2021-08-20
- UK Yodel delivery drivers threaten strike action
- On first day back to school, five Fayette County, West Virginia students test positive for COVID-19
- Corporate blueprint predicts “death” of higher education in Australia
- NSW state government proclaims “light at the end of the tunnel” amid Australia’s worst COVID outbreak
- “Life Instead of Profits”: Initial election meeting of the SEP in Germany
- UK: How was the Plymouth mass shooting made possible?
- And so it begins again: The media recycles Afghanistan war lies
- White House doubles down on reopening schools as COVID-19 cases surge
- New Zealand ruling elite whitewashes its “contribution” to Afghan war
- New York City EMS workers must reject the new DC37 sellout contract!
- Federal prosecutors recommend nine-year prison term for militia member who pleaded guilty in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
- Man surrenders to police after stand-off over bomb threat near US Capitol
- COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Los Angeles schools, exposing pretense of “safe reopening”
- IYSSE (Australia) holds meeting on coronavirus crisis and resurgence of working-class struggle
- Deere workers speak out as they gear up for contract battle
- Dana auto parts workers issue statement: “Release the full contract! Workers have the right to know what is in the tentative agreement!”
- Chicago Public Schools prepares deadly reopening of schools with sanction of Chicago Teachers Union
- Bonnaroo music festival proceeds in the midst of surging COVID-19 infections in Tennessee
- German militarism and the debacle in Afghanistan
2021-08-21
- Australia: More job cuts as Telstra divides business
- Oppose the school reopening drive in Australia amid COVID-Delta pandemic! Form rank-and-file safety committees and prepare strike action!
- Pregnant women succumbing to Delta variant in the US, leaving behind scores of broken families
- The way forward against the Labour government’s sealing of Pike River mine
- The eradication of COVID-19 is the only way to stop the pandemic
- As New Mexico continues to push for in-person instruction 109 schools report COVID-19 cases
- Two workers killed and one suspect arrested in shooting at NHK Seating plant in Indiana
- As cases of COVID-19 among children rise, Nebraska goes ahead with in-person learning
- Chicago Nabisco workers join strike in four US states
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Australian data journalist: “Growth of COVID-19 outbreak will continue”
- Reopening of French schools threatens children’s lives
- The California fires and the case for socialism
- John Deere announces $1.6 billion in third-quarter profits, enough to pay every UAW-Deere worker $160,000
- Scientific health policies contain delta variant outbreak in China
- Letter from a California parent on the dangers of schools reopening
- Biden expands military operations in Afghanistan amid withdrawal crisis
2021-08-22
- For a global strategy to stop the pandemic and save lives!
- Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul”: A record of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
- Letter from Ontario parent opposes school reopenings
- UK’s North-South divide and Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” fraud
- Scientists identify new hominid species Homo longi, or “Dragon man”
2021-08-23
- This week in history: August 23-29
- UK lorry drivers join stay-at-home protest: “We’re in the 21st century: this is not acceptable!”
- Australian governments proclaim need to “live with the virus” amid record infections
- Sri Lankan president reshuffles cabinet amid sharpening political crisis
- Riverside County, California sheriff’s department allegedly misused $4.6 million of pandemic aid
- Extreme weather, climate change and the case for socialism
- Nabisco strike across four states continues with wide support
- Photo of sick Florida woman lying on the floor of treatment center goes viral as demand for COVID-19 antiviral treatment surges
- Malaysian government implodes with COVID-19 epidemic out of control
- Judge dismisses charges against Honolulu officers who fatally shot teen
- FDA warns that Ivermectin should not be used to treat COVID-19
- Surge in COVID deaths adds to pressure on Iran’s clerical regime
- Georgia Republicans seek control over Atlanta-area elections as Democrats abandon defense of democratic rights
- Student researchers in University of California system vote to join United Auto Workers union
- The DSA Convention 2021: The banality of pseudo-left Democratic Party politics
- Dana contract details reveal pay cuts, no change to 70 to 84-hour workweek
- Reuters launders FBI claims that “scant” evidence exists of coordinated January 6 plot to overthrow the government
- Chilean Morenoites promote illusions in Constitutional Convention
- Captain Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho: The suppressor of the 1974 Portuguese Revolution dies—Part 1
- Australian public hospital medical specialist speaks about worsening COVID-19 crisis
- Hochul replaces Cuomo as New York governor
2021-08-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Catastrophic flooding in Tennessee leaves at least 22 dead and 50 missing
- Sri Lankan president reluctantly imposes pandemic lockdown
- Police stood by as Proud Boys carried out attacks on anti-fascist protesters in Portland, Oregon
- Unsafe school reopenings in US fuel surge of COVID-19 among children
- London bus drivers condemn dismissal of David O’Sullivan
- Delta cases mount in New Zealand
- Three-day nurses strike at Charité and Vivantes hospitals in Berlin
- New York Democrats and unions prepare to herd unvaccinated children into school buildings
- Nabisco bakery and distribution center strikes spread nationwide in US
- Chicago area mechanics speak out about isolation of their struggle
- Australian establishment gives succour to anti-lockdown protests while exploiting them for police mobilisation
- Southern California teachers return to school to find rat-infested classrooms
- Israel escalates attack on the Palestinians in Gaza
- A conversation with Chuko Esiri, writer and co-director of This Is My Desire (Eyimofe), a remarkable Nigerian film
- Tropical Storm Henri brings extensive flooding to the Northeastern US
- What’s behind the calls by the German Left Party and the Greens to support local Afghan forces?
- Delta variant starts to hit global economy
- More details of Dana contract show continuation of long hours, mandated overtime
- Online event with leading scientists makes case for “eradication” strategy against COVID-19
- Swirl of sexual assault and misconduct allegations trigger unprecedented clash between Canadian military top brass and government
- Biden, European powers in crisis talks over Afghan evacuation policy
- US military veteran speaks on Afghan debacle
2021-08-25
- UK: Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery in ongoing censorship battle over criticism of Israel
- UK parent Lisa Diaz condemns Boris Johnson’s deadly school reopening drive
- Mass outbreak in Texas schools as hospitals are overwhelmed
- South Korea moves to end social distancing restrictions despite COVID-19 surge
- AFL-CIO names career bureaucrat Liz Shuler to head US labor federation
- Australia: New South Wales rural and regional healthcare facing collapse as Delta variant hits
- Michigan Governor Whitmer proposes to use federal pandemic relief money to fund the police
- The international working class must fight for the eradication of COVID-19
- The historical background and initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Afghanistan recriminations, cover up and calls for anti-China offensive in Australia
- Nervous financial markets await Fed chief’s speech
- Experts warn India rapidly heading to COVID-19 “third wave”
- Afghan refugees face steel border walls and barbed wire from Europe’s powers
- Interview with David North on the debacle in Afghanistan and the fight against militarism
- What Dana workers are fighting against: A profile of the Fortune 500 auto parts maker
- “Dana-UAW-USW’s sweat shop contract is a non-starter. Vote no! Dana workers need a strategy for victory!”
- Captain Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho: The suppressor of the 1974 Portuguese Revolution dies—Part 2
- US House vote to move forward on budget framework heralds major cuts in $3.5 trillion price tag
- G-7 holds emergency summit as US withdrawal from Afghanistan accelerates
2021-08-26
- Texas House makes quorum as Democrats return, allowing Republicans to move toward passage of anti-voting rights bill
- Ukraine holds “Crimean Platform” summit
- Australia: 7,000 Toll truck drivers to strike over pay and conditions
- Sydney hospitals in crisis as Australian governments push for an end to lockdowns
- Spain proceeds with school reopenings despite high infection rates
- US fails to provide evidence for COVID-19 “lab leak” claims
- Olymel threatens to axe 500 jobs at Quebec plant after striking meatpackers reject sellout contract
- India: Motherson autoworkers outraged by Maoist-led union’s shutting down of 11-day strike
- No more child infections! We must eradicate COVID-19!
- Mack Truck Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues statement of solidarity with Dana auto parts workers
- University of Iowa will not require masks or vaccinations as students begin fall semester amid a surge of Delta variant
- IYSSE again wins seats in the student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Full FDA authorization of the Pfizer COVID vaccine: No panacea for the COVID catastrophe
- Socialist and antifascist books mutilated in a Berlin library
- Australian Labor Party backs bills to de-register most political parties
- UK: Unite suspends GXO driver’s strike to recommend derisory pay offer
- UAW keeps workers in the dark as contract negotiations with Deere enter second week
- As contract battle heats up, Dana workers describe working through the COVID pandemic
- Florida teacher with leukemia dies from COVID-19 after being forced to return to class
- As classrooms reopen in Britain: Covid cases pass 6.5 million mark, with deaths over 100 a day
- Australian economy hit by rapid fall in iron ore price and Delta spread
- US State Department admits few Americans remain to be evacuated from Afghanistan
2021-08-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Floods which devastated Waverly, Tennessee driven by same processes as other extreme weather events fueled by man-made climate change
- Supreme Court orders Biden administration to revive Trump’s Remain in Mexico immigration policy
- South Korean court issues arrest warrant for KCTU union leader
- Man brings civil lawsuit against Louisiana State Police after brutal assault by officers
- US teachers unions campaign for opening COVID-infected schools
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts cover their tracks over Afghan war
- Australian tertiary education union bars post-grad members from Newcastle University meeting
- Nabisco workers strike in five states faces turning point
- Australian tertiary education union facilitates “spill and fill” offensive at Macquarie University
- Mack Trucks workers demand safety precautions as COVID-19 surges
- University of Michigan lecturers prepare for possible strike as campus reopens
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- UK parent demands safe schools and end of victimisations
- 150 years since the birth of Theodore Dreiser, the great American novelist
- The Democrats, the pseudo-left and the cover-up of the January 6 coup
- Death at Dana: Widow of Dry Ridge, Kentucky worker speaks out
- Select Committee on January 6 insurrection requests government communications records of Trump and his co-conspirators
- Australia: Committee for Public Education online meeting opposes school re-openings and calls for rank-and file committees
- Canada’s governments press ahead with school reopenings as fourth COVID-19 wave accelerates
- California school reopenings have already caused thousands of COVID-19 infections
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeks ouster of chief election official amid coup threats
- After the Afghanistan debacle: German media and parliamentary parties on course for war
- Terror bombs, gunfire kill at least 72 in Afghanistan capital
2021-08-28
- UMWA promotes NLRB diversion as Warrior Met continues strikebreaking
- As Texas COVID-19 cases and deaths climb, governor forbids vaccine mandates
- The pandemic exposes the bankruptcy of European capitalism
- Russia reports a daily record of 820 COVID deaths as schools are set to reopen
- UK government: 50,000 annual COVID-19 deaths are “acceptable”
- Lockdown continues amid New Zealand’s Delta outbreak
- Northern Indiana nurse on lifting of mask mandates: “Children are like petri dishes—we can’t take risks with children’s lives”
- DSA backs Newsom and Democratic Party in California recall election
- COVID-19 spreads rapidly among children in India
- Glenn Greenwald calls for COVID-19 policies that “will kill people”
- Man sentenced to six years in prison for role in Michigan governor kidnap plot
- Oxygen runs low and morgues overflow as Florida’s death toll from COVID-19 continues to mount unabated
- Minnesota wildfire burns through Superior National Forest
- Millions face loss of their homes in wake of US Supreme Court ruling overturning eviction moratorium
- Oppose voter intimidation and ballot stuffing by the unions! Rank and file must have oversight over balloting at Dana!
- Unifor bows to court order backing De Havilland Aircraft scabbing operation at strike-bound Toronto plant
- Dana workers furious over union’s drive to ram through sellout contract
- Death toll in Kabul airport terrorist attack rises to 170, as US military continues evacuations
- Germany’s Left Party approves military mission in Afghanistan
- Orchestra musicians accept concessions, as Met Opera plans reopening in September
2021-08-29
- UK pseudo-left’s political myth-making over Sharon Graham’s election as Unite union general secretary
- Oppose the return to schools: Children and educators' lives matter!
- Detroit public schools-DFT contract offers educators poverty, sickness and death!
- COVID-19 infections rising as children return to school in Germany
2021-08-30
- On the 80th birthday of Sri Lankan Trotskyist leader Wije Dias
- University of Michigan lecturers threaten strike as opposition grows to full resumption of in-person classes
- This week in history: August 30-September 5
- Oppose school reopenings in unsafe conditions in Turkey!
- What’s behind the Teamsters’ unionization campaign at Amazon
- Twenty years after Australia turned away the Tampa refugees
- Australia: NSW government plans full school reopening as state’s hospitals on the verge of breakdown
- COVID-19 cases soar in Scotland as schools reopen
- US school reopenings set to infect tens of millions of children with COVID-19
- Sri Lankan big business reaps huge profits during pandemic
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell treads a fine line in Jackson Hole speech
- US auto parts workers rebel against Dana Inc. and the unions
- COVID-19 outbreak at Amazon warehouse in Oregon infects 345 workers
- Massachusetts education board strips COVID safety guidelines as K-12 students return to school
- Teachers, parents angered over reopening of Michigan schools
- Richard C. Lewontin, a pioneer in molecular genetics, dies at 92
- UK parent calls for children to be taken out of unsafe schools
- Japanese and Taiwanese ruling parties hold talks aimed at Beijing
- US health insurers begin charging co-pays and deductibles for COVID-19 patients
- Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana, bringing widespread flooding and wind damage
- France: Macron’s “health pass” conceals policy of “herd immunity”
- Florida housing advocate describes devastating impact of end of eviction moratorium
- Dana workers, prepare for the fight ahead! Set up strike committees at all Dana plants!
- The ideological foundations of Critical Race Theory
- UK parent describes being victimized for keeping child away from unsafe school
- Oklahoma middle school student dies from COVID-19 as Delta variant surges through US schools
- Pig: An outsider searches for his four-legged companion
- Teachers denounce homicidal school reopenings across Brazil
- Arizona’s bogus “forensic audit” report on 2020 presidential election delayed after Cyber Ninjas CEO contracts COVID-19
- US evacuation from Afghanistan nears its end
2021-08-31
- Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Viewing Booth: Changing hearts and minds?
- Video interview: Jean Brust speaks on the history of the Trotskyist movement
- COVID-19 hospitalizations top 100,000 daily average in US
- Australia: Health workers and residents fight Southern Cross Care in Tasmania
- South Korean health care workers set to strike on Thursday
- Reminiscences of Jean Brust 100 years since her birth
- Sixteen years after Katrina: Hurricane Ida devastates southern Louisiana
- Delta variant behind sharp spike in Pacific COVID-19 cases
- Ontario nurse describes horrendous working conditions during pandemic
- New York Times cites US torturer Michael Chertoff on Chinese “repression”
- New York City Democrats and teachers union push deadly school reopening plan
- Mississippi governor offers religious pipedreams for COVID-19
- Online public meetings: The socialist perspective in the California gubernatorial elections
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting discusses socialist program to fight the pandemic
- Dana workers in Germany declare solidarity with their American colleagues
- Faurecia parts workers denounce forced overtime and brutal conditions in scorching hot factories
- UK teacher and parent denounce education unions as schools reopen
- Defiance grows among Dana auto parts workers as union-backed sellout deal appears headed for massive defeat
- Covid cases and deaths surge in UK, fuelled by reopening of schools
- Ocasio-Cortez lures students into schools with “backpacks for all” amid skyrocketing COVID-19 hospitalizations
- 100 years since the birth of Jean Brust, Trotskyist and fighter for the working class
- Alabama educators demand emergency action to eradicate COVID
- US pulls last of its troops from Afghanistan after chaotic evacuation
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