Archive: 09/2021
2021-09-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP California gubernatorial candidate David Moore addresses Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee meeting on fight against school reopenings
- Build the Tennessee Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee! Shut down now to stop the spread of the Delta variant!
- 499: A conquistador’s strange journey in contemporary Mexico
- WHO warns of 236,000 COVID-19 deaths in Europe in next three months
- Biden’s speech on Afghanistan: An admission of a shattering defeat
- COVID-19 infections and deaths spiral out of control in Oregon
- 1.2 million residents in New Jersey food insecure as gubernatorial election nears
- New Zealand early childhood teacher denounces lack of COVID-19 protections
- The Wuhan Lab lie: Who is to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Dublin Bus workers in Ireland overwhelmingly reject union-backed deal
- Delta variant surges in Hawaii while schools remain open
- Hurricane Ida devastates central Gulf Coast, continues to bring heavy rain across mid-Atlantic
- As Covid cases soar, UK parent tells WSWS why she is deregistering her child from school
- Amid catastrophic spread of COVID-19: Florida colleges and universities open with in-person learning
- Governor DeSantis withholds funding from Florida schools with mask mandates
- Takeover of the automotive supplier Hella by Faurecia: Billions for owners, a declaration of war on workers
- Voting continues at auto parts maker Dana as worker anger builds over UAW-USW sellout contract
- Rising hospitalisations in New Zealand’s Delta outbreak
- China calls on WHO to inspect US Army biological facility
- The far-right candidates in the 2021 California recall election
- After two decades of imperialist occupation, Afghanistan faces a “humanitarian catastrophe”
2021-09-02
- Sri Lankan SEP celebrates Wije Dias’s 80th birthday
- Texas passes bill restricting voting rights after collapse of Democratic walkout
- Marcia Walters, widow of Danny Walters, sends message of support to auto parts workers
- Australia: Victorian Labor government declares it necessary to “live with the virus”
- Oppose the unsafe reopening of University of Michigan!
- Two Texas teachers die of COVID-19 in the same school district
- Near-total abortion ban goes into effect in Texas
- Union attempts to betray striking Massachusetts nurses six months into their struggle
- IYSSE (Sri Lanka) to hold online meeting on US debacle in Afghanistan
- The tragic shooting and suicide in South Haven, Michigan
- Aurora, Colorado police officers and paramedics charged in 2019 death of Elijah McClain
- Defeat bipartisan drive in Australia to de-register political parties!
- North Korea restarts its nuclear facilities
- Japanese writer and illustrator Kentaro Miura, author of influential Berserk series, dies at 54
- Mélenchon, French unions defend their support for anti-vaccine protests
- Australia: Mental health workers continue stopwork action
- SEP California gubernatorial candidate David Moore interviewed on KPFK
- At least 1 million still without power in New Orleans and surrounding area three days after Hurricane Ida’s landfall
- Leading contenders in Germany’s federal election promote militarism, police, social cuts and the wider spread of COVID-19
- Two Florida teachers die within one week of each other as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations grow
- California’s Caldor wildfire forces 22,000 to flee South Lake Tahoe
- EU plans detention camps for Afghan refugees across Central Asia
- Concerns grow over where speculative bubble will end
- DHL UK lorry drivers determined to mount fightback against pay restraint and unpaid wages
- Dana workers reject sweatshop contract pushed by UAW and USW
- Two recent albums from country music singer Charley Crockett: Welcome to Hard Times and 10 for Slim: Charley Crockett Sings James Hand
- Hitler admirer and congressman Madison Cawthorn threatens “bloodshed” at pro-Trump rally in North Carolina
- Pseudo-left presidential candidate Gabriel Boric intervenes to close down 83-day strike in Chile
- Democrats open Chicago Public Schools as coronavirus cases surge
- Demagogy, half-truths and lies dominate Canada’s pandemic election
- US autoworkers voice support for Dana workers
2021-09-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pandemic-related unemployment programs expire for over 7.5 million jobless workers in the US
- As Texas COVID-19 cases surge, opposition to unsafe schooling grows
- Students and faculty at Syracuse University threaten strike against unsafe reopening
- Australia: New South Wales premier declares the population must accept COVID deaths
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government plans to deport almost 800 child migrants
- The Texas abortion ban: A massive assault on democratic rights
- Faculty strike at Oakland University in suburban Detroit
- Louisiana nurses describe the conditions they face in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida
- UK’s BBC disparages scientific concerns over the unsafe reopening of schools
- At least 43 dead as massive storm ravages US northeast
- Worsening US health care crisis during pandemic prompts strikes and protests by nurses over staffing
- GKN automotive workers in Birmingham, Britain vote to strike to oppose plant closure
- Socialist Equality Party gubernatorial candidate David Moore appears on “Bad Faith” podcast
- How the Australian Labor Party spearheaded the ramming of anti-democratic electoral laws through parliament
- Hundreds of vaccinated students test positive for COVID-19 at Duke University
- Dana workers issue statement: After defeating this contract, we have to prepare for the next stage to win our fight
- Chaotic CUNY reopening sparks opposition from faculty, students and staff
- Biden endorses anti-Russian “Crimean Platform” amid Ukrainian government fears of US foreign policy shift
- Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee demands adoption of eradication strategy to stop the pandemic and save lives
- Germany: Support the struggle of train drivers and conductors! Build independent action committees!
- Australian national accounts data used to push for economic “reopening”
- Dana workers say management sprayed them with toxic chemicals after COVID outbreak
- Australian COVID-19 outbreak in Aboriginal communities exposes severe healthcare crisis
2021-09-04
- Remembering musicians Charlie Watts (1941–2021) and Don Everly (1937–2021)
- WHO reports fifth “variant of interest” as COVID pandemic worsens
- Six people stabbed in New Zealand terror attack
- Tennessee schools open only to close again after surge of COVID-19 cases
- Sri Lankan teacher unions prepare to accept paltry wage rise
- South Korean health care workers strike despite union attempts to enforce sellout
- Growing opposition among US students, parents and educators as infections and deaths soar
- French railway workers support German rail strike
- New York’s Ida disaster: A social crime in the center of world capitalism
- The 1619 Project and the attack on the American Revolution
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- With more than 20,000 daily infections, Kerala emerges as India’s COVID-19 epicenter
- After disastrous jobs report, Biden doubles down on reopening schools, ending pandemic relief
- Fight for the eradication of the pandemic! Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
- Biden visits storm-struck Louisiana as Hurricane Ida death toll continues to rise
- Dana worker slips and slams head on concrete working in unsafe conditions at Fort Wayne, Indiana plant
- Fighting the California fires requires an international and socialist strategy
- Australian government promotes bogus modelling for “living with COVID virus” plan
- UAW and USW leave Dana workers in the dark after massive repudiation of pro-management contract
- US auto corporations announce more layoffs in North America as global semiconductor chip shortage continues
- New rail strike in São Paulo exposes conflict between workers and unions
- Germany: Train drivers launch third consecutive strike for better wages and working conditions
- Video: Defeat anti-democratic electoral laws—become an electoral member of the SEP!
- After the Afghanistan debacle, Berlin and Brussels pursue independent European war policy
2021-09-05
- Schools in Virginia reopen for in-person learning as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rise steeply in the state
- Greens join the Scottish National Party-led government to give pro-independence majority
- Grenfell-like fire at tower block in Milan, Italy endangers hundreds of lives
- Prescriptions for ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 skyrocket despite dangers and lack of efficacy
2021-09-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- This week in history: September 6-12
- Stanford University resident assistants strike over COVID-19, wages
- Sri Lankan president proclaims state of emergency
- Australian educators oppose anti-democratic electoral laws, support SEP campaign
- Millions return to school in the UK as doctors and scientists issue warnings
- Race, class and social conflict in the United States
- Fascist militias threaten officials, force shutdown of schools in Washington state
- Labor Day 2021 takes place amidst surging pandemic and growth of the class struggle
- Australia: New South Wales faces imminent collapse of hospital system amid Delta surge
- BCTGM seeks to betray strike of Nabisco workers across the US
- Concessions workers for San Francisco Giants baseball team vote overwhelmingly to strike over COVID-19 safety
- Japanese Prime Minister Suga announces resignation
- Hurricane Ida’s devastation continues to unfold across Louisiana a week after landfall, US death toll rises to 71
- Michigan government complicit in use of unsafe X-ray bone scanners on Flint residents
- The Economist: “Excess deaths” during pandemic exceed 15 million
- Former Dana auto parts worker describes filthy and unsafe conditions, management harassment and union collusion at Kentucky plant
- Republicans step up efforts to disrupt January 6 investigation
- Australian educators endorse fight for educator rank-and-file safety committees
- Australian government moves to block access to “National Cabinet” pandemic documents
- Canadian imperialism shaken by US debacle in Afghanistan
- Bluey: A cartoon for kids and parents about kids … and parents
- Germany: Train drivers determined to continue their strike for better wages and working conditions
- Appalachian State faculty call for shift to online classes as COVID-19 cases surge
- In wake of Afghan defeat, UK pseudo-lefts help Tory government prepare its contingency plans
- Japan’s COVID-19 crisis in the wake of the Olympics
2021-09-07
- Video: Fight to eradicate COVID-19! Why you should become an electoral member of the SEP
- US football stadiums packed to the brim while COVID continues to surge
- Afghanistan debacle sends shockwaves through Australian ruling circles
- Mounting anti-regime protests in Thailand as COVID-19 surges
- Indian officials shed crocodile tears over Sri Lankan Tamil refugees
- Australian ICU nurses warn Sydney hospitals overwhelmed by COVID surge
- Summer ends with 4,000 COVID-19 deaths in Spain as schools reopen
- Australia’s “Lockdown to Zero” campaign: A pseudo-left trap to boost Labor and the unions
- US ruling class cuts off pandemic jobless aid, pushing millions over financial cliff
- Democrats, teachers unions push school reopenings as pandemic expands across Pennsylvania
- Teachers and students return to overcrowded classrooms in Oregon as COVID cases surge
- New Zealand government axes emergency benefit payments to migrants
- UK: Johnson government escalates attacks on working class with tax increase and end to pension triple lock
- Teachers, nurses voice support for California gubernational candidate, David Moore
- Town Hall meeting: SEP candidate David Moore calls for eradication strategy in response to pandemic
- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning criticizes Glenn Greenwald’s right-wing politics
- Iran’s President Raisi faces fifth wave of pandemic as economic pressures and opposition from workers grow
- Illegal Woman: The plight of immigrants in Spain
- Food delivery app workers forced to work under horrendous conditions when Ida flooding struck New York City
- German union boss attacks striking railway workers
- Military coup topples President Alpha Condé in Guinea
- Reopening of French schools threatens students and workers with a resurgence of the pandemic
- Former US Marine sharpshooter murders four in Florida, including mother, baby and grandmother
- Oppose the full reopening of New York University!
- After the Afghanistan debacle: When will the other shoe drop?
- Open letter from Dana workers to the UAW and USW: We demand a strategy for victory!
- Former Dana auto parts worker fired after missing time due to COVID infection
- Rebellion by Chilean miners comes into conflict with unions
- Close schools across Brazil to save lives!
- Alberta nurses protest forced overtime, government’s mishandling of pandemic
2021-09-08
- Strike at Vivantes clinic in Berlin: gulf widens between employees and Berlin Senate parties
- Virginia’s health board moves to loosen pandemic safety rules as the state cuts unemployment benefits for thousands
- Striking Massachusetts nurses face corporate attacks and union treachery
- Stephen: Hinting at real issues in murder of Stephen Lawrence without getting at them
- Federal bankruptcy judge grants Sackler family sweeping immunity in $4.3 billion opioid settlement
- All US schools must be closed as part of a strategy to eradicate COVID-19!
- Australia: NSW teachers speak out against dangerous school reopening plan
- New Zealand pseudo-left Daily Blog promotes Wuhan lab lie
- San Francisco Giants concessions workers deserve safety from COVID-19 infection, not inadequate hazard pay!
- Fifteen educators and staff from Florida’s Miami-Dade School district die within ten days as COVID-19 deaths skyrocket across state
- Corporate media silent on Australia’s party de-registration laws
- Chicago-area mechanics enter sixth week of strike, while IAM continues to isolate walkout
- UK: GKN Birmingham workers must not allow Unite to divide them from co-workers in Europe in fight to oppose plant closure
- SEP (Australia) public meeting: Defeat anti-democratic electoral laws. Become an electoral member of the SEP!
- Mounting COVID-19 cases as a result of reopenings drive walkouts at Alabama schools, hospital
- New Zealand bus drivers underpaid and unvaccinated
- Bolsonaro rehearses fascistic coup on Brazil's Independence Day
- Biden tours flood-ravaged New York and New Jersey
- German train drivers ready to take indefinite strike action
- Management and union ram through sell-out deal at Australia Post
- AAUP at Oakland University in Michigan calls off faculty strike after two days
2021-09-09
- Biden promotes unions as bulwark against growing rank-and-file rebellion
- UK: Planned cut to Universal Credit heralds savage assault on workers’ living standards
- Far-right protests target Trudeau’s Canadian election rallies
- Texas governor defends anti-abortion law after signing restrictive voting legislation
- Bolsonaro’s coup plots in Brazil, under the shadow of January 6
- New Zealand: COVID-19 lockdown lifted outside Auckland
- Michigan colleges recklessly reopen as Delta variant surges
- From PATCO to Volvo: The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Ford Flat Rock Assembly Plant closes down after gas from facility leaks into sewer system
- SEP electoral members denounce Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws and urge people to join the campaign
- UAW schedules ratification vote on Deere contract without announcing any deal
- UAW declares indefinite contract extension after Dana workers vote down tentative agreement by huge margins
- Disease and death from COVID-19 accelerate throughout US as schools continue to reopen
- Chinese president presses corporate giants to be philanthropic
- SEP (Canada) to hold online meeting on Canada’s pandemic election and the fight for socialism
- Democrats flood California with campaign surrogates and cash to back Governor Gavin Newsom
- University of California, Berkeley reopens with hundreds of new cases, ending quarantine measures
- Australian governments planning to end lockdowns amid the country’s worst COVID outbreak
- Pandemic and disrupted supply chains bring major problems for Australian economy
- Former Georgia prosecutor indicted for shielding killers of Ahmaud Arbery
2021-09-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ukrainian government looks to intensify exploitation of IT workers
- Maskless Tennessee governor hands out free shoes as children face growing COVID-19 infections
- Question of what caused Surfside, Florida, condo to collapse remains unresolved
- Workers in Shepparton, Australian regional town beset by COVID, speak out
- Respect: A film biography of singer Aretha Franklin
- Johnson government announces “pushback” policy in stepping up of anti-immigration agenda
- The role of the trade unions: Biden’s fairy tale vs. reality at Dana
- Close New York City schools! Fight to eradicate COVID-19!
- UAW calls bogus “strike” at ZF Marysville Axle, while forcing Dana workers to remain at work after rejecting contract
- Why was the New Zealand stabbing attack not prevented?
- UK parents threatened with fines, jail for refusing to send children into unsafe classrooms
- Germany’s Left party intensifies campaign for government coalition with Social Democrats and Greens
- Cases continue to rise in Los Angeles school district one month after start of school year
- Stop the inundation of California hospitals! Stop community spread and close schools!
- Grenfell: The Untold Story on Channel 4—“You’ve put profit before people’s well-being”
- Major Chinese property developer on the brink of default
- Australian Labor Party helps push through “extraordinary” surveillance laws
- Former UAW presidents Jones and Williams report to prison for embezzling millions in workers’ dues money
- Canadian workers speak out against reckless reopening of schools amid fourth wave of pandemic
- 100 years since the Battle of Blair Mountain
- Biden, Democrats prepare to gut their own social welfare bill
- Biden doubles down on reopening schools as child COVID-19 cases surge
- Support the strike at Berlin’s hospitals! Build action committees!
- Video: Attend SEP public meeting opposing Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
2021-09-11
- As Texas ICU beds fill to capacity, parents’ anger mounts
- The UAW and USW are not “negotiating” with Dana, they are conspiring against us! Build rank-and-file strike committees! No more forced overtime!
- Defeat Australia’s new anti-democratic electoral laws. Hands off the name “socialist”!
- Oppose Sri Lankan president’s repressive state of emergency
- Schools forced to close across Russia as COVID-19 spreads
- Republicans plan fascist rally on September 18 in Washington D.C. to back jailed January 6 insurrectionists
- 20 years since 9/11 and the “war on terror”
- Nabisco workers strike enters second month, as company and BCTGM union plot attacks on pay and health care
- New York Democrats reopen schools, order 280,000 city employees back to in-person work
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Amazon safety team member in Washington state loses his life to COVID-19
- Greek government appoints right-wing extremist Athanasios Plevris as health minister
- In a hail of gunfire, Washington D.C. police kill man in moving vehicle
- California pediatric hospitalizations surge as Newsom boasts about handling of pandemic
- Canada Conservatives rebrand themselves the better to pursue austerity and imperialist aggression
- Australia: Widespread opposition to NSW government’s homicidal “roadmap to freedom”
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blames men and not fascist Republicans for the Texas abortion ban, covering for Democrats’ inaction
2021-09-12
2021-09-13
- Actor Michael K. Williams, known for his role in The Wire, dies at 54
- Widow of Vernon Hough, manager who committed suicide due to impact of COVID-19 deaths at their Welsh care home, demands inquiry
- The lessons of the 2021 Volvo strike
- This week in history: September 13-19
- Trump praises Christian-fascist Unification Church leader at “Rally of Hope” conference
- Australia: Western Sydney bus drivers walk out over COVID-19
- Sri Lankan Tamil parties discuss backing the US-sponsored UNHRC resolution
- Four year old dies from COVID-19 in Texas as cases in children skyrocket across the US
- Study revealing vast undercount in Canada’s pandemic death toll buried by corporate media, political establishment
- 20,000 protest against unaffordable rents in Berlin
- Australian Labor Party proposes pro-business restructuring of universities
- September 11, the “war on terror” and the criminalization of American politics
- Former Dana worker describes deadly work conditions at Tennessee plant
- Hard-hit New Jersey struggles to recover from Ida’s devastation
- Proposed UK NHS and Social Care funding increase: Less than a drop in the ocean
- Town Hall meeting: SEP candidate David Moore urges workers to mobilize to eradicate COVID-19 and save lives
- SGP members campaign among Gorillas delivery and Amazon workers in Leipzig
- Israel responds to jail break with dragnet across the occupied West Bank and Israel
- Australian High Court sets dangerous precedent on social media and defamation
- Eviction filings in US spike in week following end of moratorium
- “A blatant attempt to keep power concentrated in their own hands”—Workers denounce Australian electoral laws
- Kabul drone strike was CIA-military murder
- Treasury Secretary Yellen warns US government could run out of money unless debt ceiling is lifted
- COVID-19 spreads at Dana plants as company, unions force workers to stockpile parts
- Vote for SEP candidate David Moore in California recall
- Phone call between US and Chinese presidents underscores dangerous tensions
2021-09-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Reopening amid Delta variant surge deepens contradictions in global economy
- Hundreds of COVID-19 cases reported in first week of school in Washington state
- Video: The Committee for Public Education opposes anti-democratic electoral laws
- 25 years since the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
- Sterling, Illinois Dana workers unanimously rejected sellout deal by United Auto Workers
- The COVID-19 outbreak at Dana plants endangers our lives! Close the plants now! Full pay for time off!
- New York City reopens schools for in-person learning: The American ruling class “experiments” with children’s lives
- Georgia school bus drivers protest inadequate COVID-19 protection and low pay
- Outbreaks at factories and workplaces fuel COVID-19 surge in the US
- Reopening of New Zealand schools outside Auckland risks spread of COVID-19
- Australian epidemiologists warn reopening will lead to mass deaths
- Coworkers remember Amazon safety team member who died of COVID-19
- Alabama cardiac arrest patient dies after being denied admission to 43 hospitals at capacity due to COVID-19 surge
- The expropriation of the rental sharks requires a socialist program
- Faculty at more than a dozen Georgia colleges protest over absence of mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates
- Interview with Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz: “We have to aim for global eradication!”
- FBI declassified document confirms links between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terrorists
- UK schools reopening puts lives and health of future generations at risk
- John Deere workers ready for contract fight with near-unanimous strike authorization vote
- COVID-19 hospitalizes Dana workers as internal document reveals company policy ordering COVID-positive workers to return to work
- UK Johnson government’s autumn/winter COVID-19 plan declares virus is endemic
- Labor prime minister covered up Australia’s role in 1973 CIA coup in Chile
- Alternative for Germany leader supports Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s plans for dictatorship
2021-09-15
- Kentucky distillery workers launch strike after rejecting concessions contract by 96 percent
- ICUs across the United States stretched to capacity by COVID-19 Delta variant surge
- US expands military presence in Micronesia targeting China
- Australian education minister demands militarist school curriculum
- Classes at NYU are not safe! For a full transition to remote learning! Link up with students and educators across the city!
- National Guard deployed in Massachusetts as pandemic worsens school bus driver shortage in US
- UK businesses call for prisoners to be used to plug labour shortage
- Mass protests against untenable conditions in the Polish health care system
- New book details Trump’s efforts to instigate war with China as part of January 6 coup attempt
- Pentagon ends program that gave six percent of the Internet to a small private company
- Britain’s Socialist Party rolls out the red carpet for Unite’s Sharon Graham
- Never Gonna Snow Again: Polish film combines the social and the supernatural
- The Met Gala: America’s elite celebrates death and destitution
- NYU student speaks out on the dangers of in-person classes amidst COVID-19 resurgence
- Greece reopens schools amid new wave of COVID-19
- Australia’s electoral laws a “naked power grab by the major parties,” say SEP electoral members
- Dana Fort Wayne workers demand an end to divisive two-tier wage system
- Right-wing recall campaign defeated in California
- Bloc Québécois campaigns for Canada’s Sept. 20 election by boasting of its “convergence” with right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec
- Workers report deadly Covid outbreak at Arkansas Lennox plant
- Alabama teacher calls for teachers to organize independently of unions to demand eradication of COVID-19
2021-09-16
- Cutoff of federal jobless aid in the US leaves millions of workers scrambling to make ends meet
- Texas A&M student dies of COVID-19 as new cases explode at Texas colleges
- US parents and educators denounce school openings as COVID infections spiral out of control
- Woodward revelations expose Democrats’ calls for “unity” with Republican coup plotters
- Ocasio-Cortez at the Met Gala: The farce, the spectacle, and the politics
- IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses US debacle in Afghanistan
- Indian court exhorts Modi to “protect Hindu rights” with further communalist “cow protection” legislation
- TV election debate in Germany: All candidates stand for herd immunity, mass layoffs and welfare cuts
- Interview with Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz: “We have to aim for global eradication!”
- Australia: Why you should become an electoral member of the SEP
- University of Delaware administrators refuse to inform students of COVID-19 cases on campus
- Washington D.C. law enforcement warns of armed violence ahead of Saturday’s fascist “Justice for J6” rally
- Fraud vs reality—Canada’s New Democrats and the 2021 federal election
- Brazil’s PT and PSOL ally with right in face of Bolsonaro’s coup threats
- US, Britain, Australia announce major military pact against China
- Concerns over financial stability behind Beijing’s moves against Alibaba
- Interview with Dr. Jeremy Fischer, philosophy professor at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, who resigned over COVID-19 safety and morality concerns
- Video: Death of a Dana worker
2021-09-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Massachusetts Nurses Association carries water for Pelosi as striking nurses face mass firings
- Video: Students and youth support SEP campaign against Australia’s electoral laws
- Germany: The three-week strike at Teigwaren Riesa and the dead end of the union perspective
- Defend Sri Lankan workers against Rajapakse’s state of emergency!
- Three Dana plants in Michigan were cited by state regulators for COVID-19 safety violations
- English Touring Opera’s non-renewal of 13 musicians’ contracts: Racism and sexism dressed as “diversity”
- BCTGM union announces tentative agreement with Nabisco, seeking to end strike across five states and impose concessions
- Opposing the closure of McVitie’s Tollcross, Scotland: The lessons of the destruction of the steel industry
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Inflation in Germany rises as wages fall
- Historian Woody Holton launches 1619 Project-inspired attack on the American Revolution
- Two workers at Fayetteville, North Carolina Valley Proteins plant found dead, investigation underway
- New Zealand expert highlights dangers of reopening early childhood centres during COVID-19 outbreak
- Big Three autoworkers: Support the struggle of Dana parts workers! For a united movement against sweatshop conditions in the auto industry!
- More than 1 in 500 people in the US have died from COVID-19
- Canada’s pandemic election, the resurgence of working class struggle and the fight for socialism
- After rejecting fourth union-backed contract, thousands of Washington state carpenters strike
- As Democrats shield wealth of billionaires, Biden pleads with super-rich to pay their “fair share”
- Australian governments pressing ahead in homicidal reopening drive with hospitals in crisis
- Oppose Local Working Groups at Australia Post!
- Judge sets hearing to consider blocking Texas abortion ban
2021-09-18
- US hospitals running out of beds amid COVID-19 surge
- US military basing to expand in Australia, directed against China
- As COVID-19 infections and deaths mount in Texas schools, districts scramble to fill staff shortages
- Oppose the police witch hunt of striking teachers in Sri Lanka!
- Mandatory seven-day week until Christmas at Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly plant
- New Zealand government installing final seal at Pike River mine
- US, UK, Australia military pact threatens war against China
- Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio educators call for eradication strategy to fight the pandemic
- Israel reports that 11.2 percent of all children infected with SARS-CoV-2 suffer from long COVID
- Biden administration detains more than 200,000 immigrants along US-Mexico border last month
- Entertainment industry workers continue to work without a contract
- Despite great willingness of workers to strike, German train drivers’ union ends industrial action
- Paris recalls ambassadors to US, Australia over anti-Chinese AUKUS alliance
- China’s Evergrande problems deepen
- Australian postal workers support SEP campaign to defeat anti-democratic electoral laws
- COVID-19 continues to spread in Dana auto parts plants and surrounding communities
- Five children orphaned after parents die of COVID-19 in California’s Inland Empire
- After wildfires and drought ravage western Canada, parties offer nothing but platitudes on climate change in federal election campaign
- As child cases soar, Brazilian scientist warns of “creating a generation” with long-term COVID effects
- Big Three autoworkers support Dana parts workers
- Beaumont Health announces that all of its Detroit-area emergency rooms are nearly full
- Britain commits to anti-China axis led by US in AUKUS military pact
2021-09-20
- Video: SEP meeting to oppose anti-democratic electoral laws—preview
- Australia: Victorian Labor government announces homicidal plan to lift lockdown
- This week in history: September 20-26
- “Biden gets it!”: Britain’s trade unions make their corporatist pitch to government and business
- As fall begins in Northern Hemisphere, school reopenings fuel global spread of COVID-19
- Pacific governments plan border reopenings amid Delta surge
- London bus workers demand reinstatement of David O’Sullivan, sacked over COVID-19 safety
- Another wave of COVID-19 infections looms in Nepal
- BCTGM union rushes through sellout deal, ending nationwide strike by Nabisco workers
- Michigan’s largest colleges end COVID-19 tracker notifications
- Biden administration begins mass deportation flights from Texas to Haiti
- COVID-19 vaccine inequality: 75 percent of doses administered in just 10 countries
- Fifty years since the founding of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter as the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International
- French officials warn AUKUS alliance undermines US-Europe relations
- Ford to shut down manufacturing operations in India, slash over 4,000 jobs
- Tens of thousands face eviction, social misery in Missouri with lifting of moratorium
- Hero journeys: Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
- Australian election laws an “attack on the entire working class,” say SEP electoral members
- Beijing condemns military pact between the US, Britain and Australia
- Washington state carpenters enter third day of strike, defying union in fight for higher wages
- Baltimore Amazon workers forced to remain on the job amid bomb threats on 9/11 anniversary
- FDA advisory panel deals a blow to Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine booster plans
- GKN auto workers to strike against closure of Birmingham UK factory
- Allentown, Pennsylvania teachers defy union and reject mediator’s contract proposal
- Pentagon admits Kabul drone strike targeted innocent civilians
- German Network of Action Committees for Safe Education: “The situation in primary schools is alarming”
2021-09-21
- Treasury Secretary Yellen issues another warning on debt ceiling
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Rising gas prices threaten a “winter of discontent” in Britain
- UK Weetabix engineers begin strike against fire and rehire
- The Freedom to Vote Act: Another capitulation to the Republican assault on democratic rights
- “Socialism is more popular today than ever”: SGP candidate Christoph Vandreier appears on German public television and in an online interview
- Mass infections threatened as students return to UK campuses
- Sabadell bank and Spanish trade unions prepare to sack 1,900 workers
- Hospitals throughout US South remain inundated with COVID-19 patients as Delta variant surge continues
- Sri Lankan workers and youth speak out against new emergency law
- Enthusiastic response to fight against Australia’s anti-democratic election laws at SEP public meeting
- Russian elections overshadowed by COVID-19 surge
- Educators and parents must unite in Washington state to close the schools, end the pandemic, and save lives!
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government calls for “normalization” of COVID-19
- The UN General Assembly and the threat of imperialist aggression against China
- New York City mayor reduces quarantine protocols in schools
- New York Times revels in remote-control assassination of Iranian scientist
- US Border Patrol agents whip and corral Haitian migrants
- Australia: Enngonia indigenous community faces desperate situation as COVID-19 spreads to western New South Wales
- Deere workers support joint struggle with Dana auto parts workers
- Dana workers in powerful position to shut down auto industry and win their demands
- “Dimensions of a Crime”: How the Wehrmacht murdered millions of Soviet prisoners of war
- Socialist Equality Party (Canada) holds meeting to discuss pandemic election and struggle for socialism
- Trudeau and his Liberals scrape back into office with another minority in Canada’s federal election
- Thousands more Australian truck drivers to strike as COVID-19 pandemic accelerates health and safety crisis
- 1232 KMS: Seven Indian migrant workers head home during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021-09-22
- Volvo worker describes conditions at Volvo New River Valley Plant after UAW betrayed five-week strike
- Biden proclaims “new era” of human rights imperialism at UN
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2021-09-23
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2021-09-24
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2021-09-25
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- Australia: Victorian outbreak the worst in the state since pandemic began
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- Thousands cleared from Texas border camp as detentions and deportations of Haitian refugees continue
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- Acclaimed photographer Stephen Dupont denounces MGM’s “burying” of Minamata in North America
- Select Committee issues first round of subpoenas targeting high-level Trump conspirators in January 6 coup attempt
- Chelsea Manning challenges attempt to permanently bar her from Canada under Ottawa’s state secrecy laws
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro attacks socialism and COVID-19 lockdowns at UN
2021-09-27
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- Russian Wagner Group mercenaries to deploy to Mali as France withdraws
- UK parents and educators support call for October 1 school strike
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- Former Arkansas county sheriff’s deputy charged with manslaughter in death of Hunter Brittain, released on bond
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- Join the fight for London bus driver David O’Sullivan’s reinstatement! Defend the rights of key workers during the COVID-19 pandemic!
- All of Germany’s parliamentary parties support the further spread of COVID-19
- Climate strike: “Under capitalism, we can’t save the climate”
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2021-09-28
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- Operation ongoing to rescue 39 miners trapped in Vale mine in Sudbury, Canada
- Stop the War Coalition marks two decades policing anti-war sentiment
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- IAM declares contract ratified, orders Chicago area mechanics back to work after eight-week strike
- UK parent Lisa Diaz discusses October 1 school strike and the fight to eradicate COVID-19
- Failure to fight COVID-19 pandemic has caused record fall in life expectancy
- Wide support for farmers’ all-India mobilization against Modi’s pro-agribusiness laws
- Homicides in the US surged by almost 30 percent in 2020
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- Mass COVID-19 infections of children follow Macron’s reopening of French schools
- COVID-19 cases explode among Chicago students as schools remain open
- Seattle carpenters strike at the crossroads, as union works to suppress rank-and-file rebellion
- Bangladeshi school reopenings threaten wave of COVID-19 infections among children
- Mexicans protest on seventh anniversary of disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students
- SEP national committee member interviewed on radio about Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
2021-09-29
- The significance of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei’s campaign in the German elections
- UK government crisis deepens as lorry driver shortage leaves fuel stations empty
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee passes resolution supporting October 1 school strike
- UK bus driver speaks up in support of school strike:“I do not want my child taking part in the Johnson government’s herd immunity experiment”
- Worker crushed in forklift accident at Dana Toledo plant amid COVID outbreak
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- COVID-19 outbreaks and staff resignations deepen crisis in Southwest US schools
- Tennessee teachers support UK school strike and the fight against “herd immunity” policies
- Victimised London bus driver David O’Sullivan supports call for October 1 school strike
- Ordeal of 39 miners trapped underground for two days at Vale facility in northern Ontario appears near end
- Ordeal of 39 miners trapped underground for two days at Vale facility in northern Ontario appears near end
- Germany: Parents, students and teachers support October 1 school strike in UK
- Thousands of health workers strike in Sri Lanka
- COVID surge in Singapore despite 80 percent vaccination
- San Diego State University students speak out against inadequate COVID-19 safety measures on campus
- New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reneges on pledge to vote against bill funding Israeli war crimes
- Deadly train derailment in Montana exposes decrepit state of US infrastructure
- London bus safety campaigner Kevin Mustafa calls on colleagues to defend David O’Sullivan: “Let’s get behind our brother and show solidarity”
- Health care workers and nurses around the US call for safe staffing ratios
- Wave of school occupations in Greece demanding safe classrooms and opposing attacks on education
- SEP (Australia) electoral members condemn anti-democratic legislation as “both cynical and sinister in intent”
- Kentucky Dana worker demands paid time off for COVID-19 and fair lunch breaks
- COVID-19 cases surge at US colleges and universities, administrations seek to hide the disaster
- More than 200,000 children have been infected with COVID-19 in the US for five consecutive weeks
- Canadian educators and students endorse October 1 international school strike to stop spread of COVID-19
- Balkans school reopenings and low vaccination rate drive latest wave of coronavirus infections
- Australian government withdrawing COVID payments to workers to enforce “reopening” drive
- Asylum seekers being held in conditions akin to detention centres in UK
- Samoa’s Supreme Court ends bitter parliamentary standoff
- Anti-China moves behind attacks on IMF chief
2021-09-30
- West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Committees meeting supports October 1 strike of UK parents
- Former Australian PM denounced for criticising AUKUS alliance
- 20-year-old North Carolina college student dies from COVID-19
- COVID-19 cases surge among school children in Spain
- Sri Lankan educators support UK parents’ school strike
- Reggae innovator Lee “Scratch” Perry dead at 85
- “I’ve been waiting for parents to strike since the summer of 2020”: Growing support in Germany for October 1 school strike
- Congressional Armed Services committee hearings skirt January 6 coup attempt
- Quebec bans far-right anti-vaccine protests at hospitals to cover up its own criminal mishandling of the pandemic
- The “Peter J. McGuire” Facebook group bans WSWS writers
- Public anger over cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
- AFT President Randi Weingarten’s town hall of death
- The collapse of Germany’s Left Party
- Colorado police assaulted and illegally jailed a deaf man for four months over alleged minor traffic violation, according to lawsuit
- US Congress faced with deadline to prevent federal shutdown
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