Archive: 10/2021
2021-10-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Victoria’s COVID surge a warning of what is to come as Australian governments “reopen” the economy
- Texas educators call for eradication of COVID-19 and support for October 1 school strike!
- The defense of abortion rights requires a struggle against capitalism
- Stillwater—A film about American stereotypes
- Australia: 2,000 StarTrack truck drivers strike over pay and job security
- SEP (Australia) Health Workers Forum: Eradicate COVID 19, health and lives before profit!
- Support for October 1 school strike from workers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and New York
- Parents and teachers denounce Parents United group for opposing October 1 school strike
- The October 1 parents’ strike: An important step forward in the international working-class struggle against the pandemic
- Educators in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio fully support the October 1 school strike!
- Parents United group attacks October 1 school strike
- More support from teachers and educators in Germany for October 1 school strike
- New York City legislation provides no effective protection for food delivery app workers
- As schools reopen in Massachusetts, 2,500 COVID cases reported among students and staff in one week
- The science behind why ending the pandemic requires school and workplace closures
- Join the global online picket line against COVID-19!
- More COVID-19 deaths reported at Lennox Industries plant in Stuttgart, Arkansas
- Labour Party Conference: Blairites on a rampage thanks to Corbyn
- Right-wing Japanese ruling party elects new leader
- French parents support October 1 school strike call in the UK
- China’s Evergrande crisis has far-reaching implications
- SEP electoral members denounce Australia’s anti-democratic laws: “We need a political voice for the working class”
- As John Deere-UAW contract expires, Deere workers resolved to fight
- House Committee issues subpoenas for organizers of rallies leading up to January 6 attack
- Australian teachers, Committee for Public Education support October 1 school strike
- Congress averts federal shutdown, but Biden budget plan faces collapse
- Biden administration preparing to detain tens of thousands of migrants after pandemic border restrictions are lifted
- Jeff Bezos announces $1 billion biodiversity pledge
- BBC Radio 4 investigates the London bus drivers who died from COVID: “I won’t stop until I get answers”
- Mobilize the working class to stop Alberta’s COVID-19 catastrophe! For an immediate shutdown of all schools and nonessential businesses!
2021-10-02
- US police have killed more than 30,000 people since 1980
- Sri Lankan workers and poor hit by escalating costs of essential items
- Justice for Evan Seyfried! Oppose workplace harassment and the lifting of COVID-19 safety measures!
- Unions betray militant, 4-month strike at Quebec Olymel pork processing plant
- October 1 school strike wins global support
- Australia: Thousands of NSW railway workers strike over enterprise agreement
- Leading Brazilian neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis denounces school reopenings, advocating global strategy to eradicate COVID-19
- Australian government accelerates border reopening despite soaring COVID-19 cases
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting on how to fight President Rajapakse’s state of emergency
- Wall Street records biggest monthly decline since start of pandemic
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Video: IYSSE Australia members oppose AUKUS alliance and anti-democratic electoral laws
- Ford announces $11.4 billion electric vehicle investments in Tennessee and Kentucky
- Florida parents and teachers denounce “herd immunity” policies of new Surgeon General
- UAW announces tentative agreement with Deere, setting stage for contract showdown
- Liberal Democrats and Greens begin exploratory talks to form right-wing German government
- Washington state carpenters continue strike as union prepares fifth sellout contract
- Canada’s meatpacking workers face dangerous conditions and ruthless exploitation
- More than 2,000 nurses and other health care workers strike at Buffalo, NY hospital
- Premier of Australia’s largest state forced to resign amid pandemic surge, reopening drive
- Vamos Juntos: An appreciation of Mexican singer Amparo Ochoa, 1946-1994
- AFT partners with the far-right as workers demonstrate against global school reopenings
2021-10-03
2021-10-04
- Fifteen years since Assange established WikiLeaks
- Thailand cuts COVID quarantine measures ahead of borders re-opening
- SEP assistant national secretary speaks out against Australian electoral laws on Sydney radio
- Australian maritime union continues to isolate locked-out Qube workers
- Documentary photographer Jack Picone calls on MGM to release Minamata in North America
- The New York Times and the January 6 cover-up
- Far-right protests against New Zealand lockdown
- 15-year-old British schoolgirl Jorja Halliday dies of Covid-19 on day she was to be vaccinated
- Britain’s GP provision in crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic and years of cuts
- Broad support in Germany for October 1st school strike to protect children from COVID-19
- Dr. Gasperowicz on the scientific measures needed to eradicate COVID-19
- Equal Opportunity Employment Commission sues Ford for pregnancy discrimination
- Attorney Steven Donziger sentenced to six months for contempt of court in vindictive case brought by Chevron
- John Deere workers speak on battle with management and the UAW
- Four children die from COVID-19 in one week in Southern US after schools fully reopen
- Right-wing Democrats dictate cuts in Biden social policy
- Parent speaks out over situation at Portsmouth Academy, school of COVID-19 victim Jorja Halliday
2021-10-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Committee for Public Education releases video opposing reckless reopening of schools
- Transport workers pushed past the limit amid export surge
- Northern California Sutter health care workers join Kaiser Permanente engineers on strike
- US Supreme Court opens new term: A court of right-wing “partisan hacks” prepares to do its masters’ bidding
- The COVID pandemic and the supply chain crisis
- Protests expand in Polish health care system
- Merck announces promising new pill to treat COVID infections
- Australia and New Zealand ruling elite demands population “live with” COVID-19
- Tens of thousands of New Brunswick public sector workers vote for strike
- IATSE movie and television workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
- ‘Pandora Papers’ points to major tax evasion by global financial oligarchy
- Go North West bus drivers refute “victory” claim of Unite’s Sharon Graham
- More than 7 million people in Germany in precarious employment
- BJP provocation against Indian farmer protest leaves nine dead
- Facebook platforms shut down by worldwide outage
- “We need leaders for the working population”—SEP electoral members support campaign against new election laws
- Local union memo reveals United Steelworkers plan to expand mandatory overtime at Dana Fort Wayne
- Death of 31-year-old construction worker in Seattle highlights health and safety issues amid carpenters' strike
- White House pledges to defend US “interests” against China “to the hilt”
- At-risk UK parent describes pressure to send child into school
- A new Candyman: Farewell to reality
- Sri Lankan plantation workers oppose Rajapakse government’s emergency laws
- 126,000 gallons of oil spill off Southern California coast, fouling beaches and wetlands
- Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, NY: Communications Workers union works to isolate striking health care workers
- After teacher’s COVID death, parent denounces murderous school reopenings in Brazil’s Federal District
- California Democrats pass toothless law against work quotas at Amazon warehouses
- Women’s March events demonstrate mass support for abortion rights
2021-10-06
- “Washington for a Safe Return to Campus” Facebook group censors WSWS writers
- Ahed’s Knee from Israel, made “with a sense of urgency,” The Gravedigger’s Wife and other films from the Middle East, Africa
- Australian poll warns of plunging support for major parties
- UK’s petrol crisis highlights collapse of European road freight industry
- How to end the pandemic: The case for eradication
- Right-wing “herd immunity” advocate becomes premier of Australia’s largest state
- 1,400 Kellogg’s workers launch strike in the US, joining growing upsurge of workers’ struggles
- State governors mobilize National Guard amidst growing health care crisis in the US
- After the German elections: Mass layoffs and plant closures begin
- Missouri executes Ernest Johnson, intellectually disabled death row prisoner
- New Zealand government abandons elimination policy for COVID-19
- Study finds that developing countries have paid a catastrophic price during the COVID pandemic
- John Deere workers demand: “Show us the full contract! Workers have the right to know what is in the tentative agreement!”
- Eleven reasons why Dana auto parts workers occupy a powerful position in the world economy
- UK: National Education Union leader opposes school strikes in Twitter exchange with parents and teachers
- Columbia University graduate workers vote to authorize strike action second year in a row
- China contains infections but virus outbreaks continue from global pandemic
- Over 173,000 children infected and 22 killed by COVID-19 in the US last week
- Oppose the dangerous reopening of schools in Australia! Form rank-and-file action safety committees!
- Canadian educators discuss significance of October 1 school strike against COVID-19
- Strike by German health care workers continues in Berlin
- The political issues in the UAW election referendum
- Stellantis workers report widespread COVID-19 infections, breakdown of safety protocols
- What price an Afghan life? Report lists hundreds of civilians killed by UK in Afghanistan
2021-10-07
- Walkouts at two critical metal production facilities in West Virginia
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Victorian Labor government pressing ahead with reopening despite record surge
- US military analyst warns of danger of nuclear war with China
- UK Conservative Party conference: Letting the virus rip and waging class war
- A comment on the viral TikTok “Devious Licks” trend
- Spanish authorities declare COVID-19 will become “endemic”
- South Africa: COSATU holds one-day protest strike as steel strike continues
- Massive strike by steelworkers in South Africa
- Six refugees die at the Polish-Belarusian border as illegal deportations in the EU rise
- Preface to the Turkish-language edition of Leon Trotsky and the Development of Marxism
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for pioneering research in climate change and chaos theory
- The growing strike movement in the United States and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Nursing staff at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Oregon begin strike authorization vote
- Southern California deals with fallout from massive oil spill as new details emerge
- Close New York City schools to protect children and stop the spread of COVID-19!
- Iraq elections held as Washington’s puppet state nears collapse
- Trial of the November 2015 French terrorist attacks opens in Paris
- Four injured in Arlington, Texas high school shooting
- Video: Electoral Members of the Socialist Equality Party support campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic laws
- Opposition mounts among Deere workers to UAW information blackout in run-up to Sunday contract vote
- Deepening problems for Chinese economy
- Carpenters union attempt to shut down Washington state strike, push through sellout deal
- State of California removes COVID-19 benefits for workers, allows companies to keep outbreak details secret
- Canada’s military sends nurses to Alberta hospitals as COVID-19 crisis worsens
- Biden in Michigan: Infrastructure, social spending bills vital for waging economic warfare vs. China
- Biden administration defends CIA against torture victim
- Soviet writer Vasily Grossman’s final work, An Armenian Sketchbook
2021-10-08
- Sri Lankan teachers take nationwide action, defying government bans
- No retreat from elimination! The New Zealand and international working class must fight to stamp out COVID-19!
- Over 140,000 US children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19
- Maritime Union of Australia calls off strikes at Patrick Terminals
- Paris demands aggressive EU policy after AUKUS treaty signed against China
- Support builds for victimised London bus driver David O’Sullivan’s reinstatement
- School mask requirements overturned in last German states despite high infection levels
- UN catalogues Libya war crimes, ignoring their source
- Liberal Democrats launch legal challenge to Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Kellogg’s mobilizes scabs to break strike of 1,400 workers
- Northern Ireland military amnesty more wide-ranging than in Pinochet's Chile
- India to provide pittance in “compensation” to families of COVID-19 dead
- ISU graduate students vote on union-backed contract enforcing poverty wages
- SPD, Greens and FDP discuss social cuts, herd immunity and war in German coalition talks
- Macron lifts mandatory masking in French primary schools
- Leaked details of UAW-Deere contract reveal attacks on pay, benefits
- Interim Senate Judiciary Report confirms Trump’s repeated attempts to enlist Department of Justice into January 6 coup attempt
- Lawyer denounces Brazilian company’s barbaric experiments with elderly during pandemic
- Britain’s Ambulance Services: “Totally broken and beyond fixable”
- 10,000 Alberta Superstore workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike action
2021-10-09
- Ticket-sellers’ dispute with concert venue forces Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to relocate performances
- Philippines overwhelmed by COVID-19 onslaught
- “At least half the battle is at home”: The domestic considerations behind the US provocations against China
- Pandora Papers reveal finance minister profited from offshore account as misery ravages Brazil
- Newly-installed premier of NSW accelerates Australia’s dangerous “reopening”
- University of Michigan maintains in-person classes despite shooting threat
- 375 Michigan children infected with COVID-19 every day
- Kevin Eugene Smith, son of famed photojournalist, discusses MGM’s burying of Minamata
- Deere workers issue statement: “Vote NO to the UAW-Deere garbage contract! Rank-and-file workers must have oversight over balloting!”
- Biden downplays disastrous September jobs report, touts pandemic “success”
- Video: SEP Electoral Members call on supporters to fight Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Wall Street cracks the whip and Senate passes short-term extension of debt ceiling
- US unions ignore workers’ demands during negotiations with auto parts maker Dana
- Striking Buffalo Mercy Hospital workers speak out
- Financial parasitism and the decline of US industry
- Jacobin boosts Teamsters bureaucracy’s campaign to “organize” Amazon workers
- Flash flooding claims four lives in Alabama
- Ex-Australian PM conducts provocative visit to Taiwan
2021-10-10
- UK: Teachers strike and parents protest at Co-op Academy in Salford amid rising COVID cases
- UK: Stockwell garage bus driver dies from COVID-19: “There is no protection at work”
- Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to the discovery of the cellular mechanism behind the sense of touch
- Fire official warned of cladding facade danger weeks before Grenfell fire
2021-10-11
- This week in history: October 11-17
- Turkish government normalizes mass deaths as COVID-19 pandemic rages
- Trump, flanked by Republican officials, delivers fascist screed at Iowa State Fairgrounds
- Taiwanese president rejects China’s calls for reunification
- South African steel striker killed, union prepares to betray struggle
- UK Labour councils relocating residents hundreds of miles away in social cleansing blitz
- Oppose the right-wing, racialist attack on composer Bright Sheng at University of Michigan
- Podemos covers up neo-fascist circles in Spanish army
- Philippine presidential elections open, dominated by fascistic and far-right forces
- A coronavirus pandemic reality check
- Opel-Stellantis: Short-time working heralds closure of auto plant in eastern Germany
- New details emerge of attempted cover-up in investigation of Southern California oil spill
- New York City Council meeting reveals massive cover-up of COVID-19 in schools
- Federal prosecutors refuse to file charges against Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer who paralyzed Jacob Blake
- IATSE leadership prepares betrayal of entertainment industry workers
- Ibram X. Kendi, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor awarded MacArthur Foundation “genius grants”
- Works council ready to hand over huge concessions to “save” Ford plant in Saarlouis, Germany
- Australia’s new electoral laws are “blocking workers from having a voice” – SEP electoral members speak out
- Michigan educators and parents speak out about rising COVID-19 cases in schools
- Deere workers reject UAW-backed concessions contract by 90 percent
- Deere workers: Form rank-and-file strike committees to prepare for company-wide walkout Wednesday night!
- COVID-19 “spreads like wildfire” through Dana plants as UAW and USW conspire with auto parts maker against workers
- University of Texas at Dallas manipulating active COVID-19 case graph
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog attacks WSWS as “sectarian”
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) health workers’ forum discusses fight for eradication of COVID-19
- Australian Education Union endorses reckless reopening of schools, suppresses teacher opposition
- The fate of IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva hangs in the balance
2021-10-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Redditor who exposed manipulation of COVID-19 case graph by the University of Texas at Dallas speaks out
- Trump declares January 6 insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt a martyr of his fascist attempt to seize power
- UK parents, educators and health workers declare support for October 15 school strike
- Florida Governor DeSantis awards medal to Che Guevara’s CIA assassin
- The 90 percent “no” vote at Deere and the growing rebellion against the corporatist unions
- The UK and the Pandora papers: A cesspit of the super-rich
- New Zealand COVID-19 outbreak grows after restrictions eased
- Australia’s largest state holds “freedom day” amid Delta outbreak
- UK: Unite blocks Manchester Metrolink tram workers strike
- Mack Trucks subsidiary announces plans to build new military truck for Pentagon
- Support the October 15 global school strike to protest unsafe schools!
- UK parent Lisa Diaz speaks about her call for a second school strike
- Northern California hospital engineers’ walkout enters fourth week
- 24,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California authorize strike action by 96 percent
- CPS Sickout leader and mother of three speaks on efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Chicago Public Schools
- Indian foreign secretary visits Sri Lanka amid rising tensions with China
- Harvard University student workers overwhelmingly authorize strike
- Riders at German delivery firm Gorillas protest illegal mass sackings
- Mounting problems for US and global economy
- Whistleblower testimony launches bipartisan campaign for Facebook censorship
- Anti-democratic election laws in Australia were passed to “make sure that the working class can’t voice its opposition”
- Behind the right-wing, anti-immigrant marches in Chile
- Canadian parent speaks out against devastating impact of COVID-19 open schools policy
- Behind the far-right, anti-vaccine demonstrations in New York City
2021-10-13
- Opposition builds as Washington state school reopenings fuel surge of COVID-19
- Washington state carpenters union forces through sellout contract
- Workers in Vietnam forced to work to maintain profits of US companies
- UK parliament’s pandemic report: The first draft of a political whitewash
- Mitsuba auto parts workers occupy factory in Turkey to oppose sackings
- Germany ends free coronavirus tests and reopens universities
- Tennessee educators give full support to October 15 global school strike
- Sri Lankan health workers join national stoppage
- UK: Parents, educators and WSWS readers pledge support for Friday’s global school strike
- 164 children killed by COVID in the US over the past two months
- Russian COVID-19 deaths reach record highs while government does nothing
- The Wuhan lab libel: The Washington Post teaches America to hate
- COVID-19 outbreaks at NYU and Columbia trigger opposition to unsafe campus reopening
- Unite’s fake campaign against London buses Remote Sign On
- Fascist allies of Trump rally at Lansing, Michigan Capitol to demand “forensic audit” of 2020 election
- Why Deere workers are getting ready to strike Wednesday night
- IMF concerned over inflation and push for higher wages
- Accepting televised debate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon puts forward neo-fascist Eric Zemmour
- Over 10,000 Deere workers launch first strike in 35 years
- Pandemic accelerates Australia’s class divide
- Deere workers wary of stall tactics by UAW, press for strike action
- Austria gets a new chancellor but policies remain unchanged
- Ascension: Social division and social ambition in China
2021-10-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: Defeat anti-democratic electoral laws! Join the SEP today!
- US-EU rift over relations with China widens after AUKUS pact
- UK parents, educators and WSWS readers support global school strike
- Turkish educators and students support October 15 global school strike to stop spread of COVID-19
- Nazi barbarism, World War I and the traumas of the 20th century: Three Minutes—A Lengthening, Where is Anne Frank, Benediction and Mothering Sunday
- Memphis, Tennessee murder-suicide leaves three postal workers dead
- The lessons of Sri Lanka’s ongoing three-month teachers’ strike
- Educators and workers across the US give support to October 15 global school strike
- Biden announces 24/7 operation at Port of Los Angeles
- The strike wave in the United States heralds a new stage in the global class struggle
- Australian and New Zealand educators and parents support October 15 school strike
- New Zealand early childhood teachers concerned about reopening during COVID-19 outbreak
- University of Bristol sacks Professor David Miller for criticising US militarism and Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians
- Malian president accuses Paris of secretly arming terrorist groups to provoke war
- Australian Labor Party’s decay further revealed at anti-corruption hearing
- Kellogg’s workers in Battle Creek, Michigan denounce two-tier wages and call for the broadening of their strike
- Global energy price surge hits workers
- IATSE sets Sunday strike deadline for 60,000 movie and television production workers
- Connecticut group home workers launch strike against low wages and benefits
- Greek teachers and students strike against attacks on education and lack of protection from the coronavirus
- In the footsteps of the Wehrmacht: German ruling elite organises “Zapfenstreich” march to commemorate Afghanistan debacle
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species extinct
- 102 Florida educators and 24 students died of COVID since schools reopened in August
- Dana workers call for joint action with John Deere workers
- Verdi trade union calls off strike at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- COVID outbreak at Baltimore school kills father of student, leaves 12-year-old in ICU
- Australian government, Labor silent over revelations CIA planned to kill or kidnap Assange
- French President Emmanuel Macron insults Algeria, provoking diplomatic crisis
2021-10-15
- Pandemic continues to kill in America, while the ruling elite squabbles over mandates
- UNC Chapel Hill campus mourns suicide and attempted suicide of two students over the weekend
- Knoxville, Tennessee, schools ordered to enforce mask mandate
- Sri Lankan educators and students support today’s global school strike
- Why has Squid Game resonated with a global audience?
- South African metalworkers strike expands
- Soaring food prices drive hunger around the world
- Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania educators support October 15 school strike and the fight to eradicate COVID-19!
- Australian parents and educators declare support for October 15 school strike
- Northwest Territories grappling with Canada’s highest COVID-19 infection rate
- Global Online Picket Line: Oct 15 school strike
- Australia: Victorian Health Department report attempts to deny government responsibility for COVID-19 hospital infections
- Deere workers issue statement calling for strategy to win strike
- Deere announces plans to maintain operations with strikebreakers, as Dana auto parts workers press to join walkout
- Connecticut educator endorses October 15 school strike, shares her experiences during the pandemic
- São Paulo teachers and public employees strike against attack on pensions
- House Select Committee on January 6 seeks criminal contempt charges against Steve Bannon
- The fight to free Julian Assange and to defeat Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws are linked
- Washington strangles Afghanistan’s economy as millions face starvation
- Trump putsch was outcome of two-decade attack on constitutional rule and legality
- Australian reports reveal deepening impoverishment in COVID disaster
2021-10-16
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- As Australia hits record COVID infections, Victorian Labor government spearheads homicidal policies against children
- Regional authorities around Paris, France, demand police intervene to break Transdev bus drivers strike
- Australian union pushes sell-out deal for Toll truck drivers
- Why Taiwan is an explosive flashpoint for a US-China war
- UK: Unite and the RMT unions combine to prevent a fightback over pay at Stagecoach
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government approves anti-worker 2022 budget
- Polish Constitutional Court ruling deepens EU crisis
- Podemos acquiesces to Spanish police persecution of second lawmaker
- The John Deere strike and the UAW’s lies
- Ontario teacher protest for better PPE fiercely opposed by education unions
- Online meeting: No retreat from elimination! Mobilise the New Zealand and international working class to defeat COVID-19
- International Youth and Students for Social Equality demands the immediate reinstatement of Bright Sheng
- Widespread global participation in second school strike against COVID threat to children
- Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of the pseudo-left
- Deadly fire in Taiwan leaves nearly 50 people dead
- UK-European Union conflict over Northern Ireland Protocol amid spiralling national tensions
- SEP (Australia) public meeting: A socialist program to eliminate COVID-19. Become an electoral member of the SEP today
- Dana workers: We should be on strike!
- GM workers in Brazil reject contract, continue strike in defiance of union and courts
- After three years, Michigan state officials acknowledge lead poisoning of Benton Harbor residents
- Autoworkers voice support for Deere strike as walkout enters third day
- US appeals court keeps Texas anti-abortion law in effect
2021-10-17
2021-10-18
- Humanitarian disaster in Yemen as fighting for Marib intensifies
- Volkswagen: 30,000 jobs under imminent threat
- Republican campaign rally in Virginia draws Trump, Bannon and fascist supporters
- UK: Corporate-backed groups promote mass infection of children with Covid-19
- Britain’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health calls for school COVID testing to be abandoned
- This week in history: October 18-24
- Evidence of money laundering at the collapsed Surfside, Florida condo complex
- California SEIU executive director resigns following arrest for grand theft and tax fraud
- Escalating COVID crisis overwhelms Papua New Guinea hospitals
- The class struggle and the fight to eradicate COVID-19
- Sixty years since the massacre of Algerians in Paris on October 17, 1961
- Maurice Papon and the October 1961 massacre of Paris
- The destruction of Opel in Germany: A new stage in the attack on autoworkers
- New Zealand government ignores scientists’ calls to increase COVID-19 restrictions
- Lucy spacecraft begins 12-year mission to study asteroids and the origins of the Solar System
- Huge opposition from television and movie workers as union calls off strike and pushes sellout deal
- German Social Democrats, Greens, Free Democrats’ coalition paper: A declaration of war on the working class
- SEP electoral members denounce removal of COVID-19 safety measures as “profit-driven”
- Strike by Deere workers challenges decades of union-backed concessions, sparking fears on Wall Street
- Australia: Bipartisan push to wind down COVID-19 contact tracing
- Comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer: A racist tirade disguised as stand-up comedy
- Quarterly earnings put major banks on path for record yearly profits
- Nobel Prize committee hails US-aligned journalists, silent on Assange
- Murder of Conservative MP David Amess will be used to strengthen state and clampdown on democratic rights
- Alberta’s hard-right UCP government stokes regionalist divisions with anti-“equalization” referendum
2021-10-19
- Texas boy dies after COVID-19 infection turned into severe gangrene
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Another anti-China provocation: US, Canadian warships transit Taiwan Strait
- Stellantis slashes 1,800 auto jobs at Windsor Assembly in Canada
- Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s massive price hikes!
- Two decades since Australia’s SIEV X tragedy
- US kidnaps Venezuelan diplomat for defying sanctions regime
- Colin Powell: The US ruling class mourns a faithful servant
- Coronavirus continues to surge in Northwestern US
- The removal of Jefferson’s statue is a gift to the political right
- Oklahoma woman convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to four years in prison for miscarriage
- Questions remain in aftermath of disastrous Southern California oil spill
- New York City child dies from COVID-19 amid cover-up of infections in schools
- Germany: Right-wing extremism in North Rhine-Westphalia police force
- NATO Secretary Stoltenberg calls for stepped-up targeting of China
- UK government continues plunder of miners’ pension scheme
- Minnesota nurses strike at Allina Health facility over pay and benefits
- The anti-democratic origins of Australia’s party registration laws
- Financial press reflects growing nervousness in ruling circles
- Hitler’s “Divinely Gifted” artists and documenta: Politics and Art: Two important exhibitions in Berlin
- Details of second UAW-USW contract with Dana Inc. reveal massive sellout
- Biden hails police as dozens revealed to have joined fascist Oath Keeper militia group
- Australian workers support John Deere strike in the US
2021-10-20
- Australian state Labor government accelerates schools’ reopening in Melbourne, pandemic epicentre.
- UK: RMT union suspends Devon bus strike at Stagecoach Southwest
- Romanian health care system collapsing under COVID-19 surge
- There’s a Riot Goin’ On: Sly and the Family Stone’s album turns 50
- Maritime Union of Australia rushes to end industrial action at Qube Ports before government intervention
- Podemos escalates its promotion of Spanish militarism
- Scientific truth and the global fight to end the pandemic
- Victimised driver David O’Sullivan wins support at Tottenham and Stockwell bus garages: “We are right behind you!”
- Malaysia, Singapore adopt deadly “living with COVID” strategy
- Tens of thousands protest in Rome against fascist anti-vaccine riot
- Australia: Declining number of ICU beds during pandemic highlights crisis in public hospital system
- Australia: Declining number of ICU beds during pandemic highlights crisis in public hospital system
- Hollywood film and television workers enraged over IATSE sellout deal
- Howard University students protest abysmal housing conditions, lack of student representation
- Sri Lankan workers and students call for eradication of COVID-19
- “Workers are now being forced to die for the economy”—SEP (Australia) electoral members oppose homicidal reopening agenda
- Released Fort Wayne Dana-USW “highlights” reveal another sellout to workers
- Marked slowdown in China’s growth rate
- Australian Cadbury chocolate workers strike over wages, casualisation
- School reopenings in Manaus, Brazil gave rise to COVID’s Gamma variant, study shows
- US billionaire wealth increased 70 percent since the start of the pandemic
- Canadian educator makes powerful call to mobilize working class to eradicate COVID
- House Select Committee on January 6 coup attempt votes to hold Stephen Bannon in criminal contempt
2021-10-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Republicans block vote on Democrats’ voting reform bill
- Tenet Healthcare seeks to impose sellout contract on Massachusetts nurses after declaring legal impasse to strike
- Tram and subway workers strike in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city
- Build action committees to fight for better wages and the defence of free education!
- Australia: 2,000 StarTrack workers hold second 24-hour strike
- University of Michigan drops investigation of composer Bright Sheng for screening Laurence Olivier’s Othello
- Trump and Miller attempted to deploy 250,000 troops to US-Mexico border in Spring 2020
- New Zealand government sending thousands back to school during worsening COVID-19 outbreak
- Mobilize the working class to eliminate COVID-19! Attend the October 24 meeting on “How to end the pandemic!”
- AFSCME report indicts museums for taking federal money and laying off workers, claims unions offer “protection”
- Biden administration reinstating Trump’s anti-immigrant “Remain in Mexico” policy
- John Deere workers in Mannheim, Germany, support striking workers in US
- Jefferson and Shakespeare: Miseducation and class struggle in America
- UFCW union refuses to expand strike as Heaven Hill distillery moves to bring in scabs
- Why “living with the virus” is a bankrupt strategy for fighting COVID-19
- Australian Greens keep their mouths shut on the new anti-democratic electoral laws
- German health minister demands ending of protective measures against coronavirus
- Brazil’s Força Sindical issues phony support for John Deere workers’ strike in the US
- Locked out ExxonMobil workers reject contract ultimatum
- UK parents trying to protect children face fines, imprisonment and safeguarding referrals as school COVID cases soar
- Biden administration backs state of siege in Ecuador
- Biden administration sends agriculture secretary to feign support at Deere picket line, while company secures court injunction against strike
- Opposition to USW and UAW tentative agreement at Dana grows as details leak of new alternative work schedule
- UK government refuses appeals for mitigations as COVID surge threatens to swamp hospitals
- Australian Labor governments push homicidal “live with the virus” program
- New details emerge of Canadian military’s plans to suppress popular opposition amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Biden accepts shredding of his social welfare/climate bill
- A decade of pandemic planning was ignored despite knowing millions could die in UK
- Pandemic spirals out of control in Russia, as officials announce inadequate public health measures
2021-10-22
- Video: A socialist program to eliminate COVID-19. Become an electoral member of the SEP today
- Workers and youth in Britain say why they are attending Sunday’s webinar: “How to end the pandemic”
- Trump supporter denounces socialism at Junge Union’s Germany Conference
- Australia: School Strike 4 Climate promotes bankrupt appeals to government
- Spain’s fascistic Vox party, Latin American right launch anti-communist “Madrid Forum”
- Statements of support for composer Bright Sheng
- State water official fired over Flint, Michigan water crisis awarded full back pay
- South Africa union calls off metalworkers’ strike
- Bolsonaro charged with mass murder for COVID-19 herd immunity policy in Brazil
- Australia: Sydney rail workers strike for 24 hours
- Global Online Picket Line: Oct 22 school strike
- Kaiser workers left in dark after overwhelming strike vote at largest US “non-profit” health care provider
- UK Health Secretary “wilfully negligent” for ignoring warnings that pandemic is overwhelming National Health Service
- Indian workers and students denounce school reopenings and support World Socialist Web Site’s global webinar
- Film and television workers denounce IATSE sellout during union town hall meeting
- Texas official tells “terrified” educators that they must teach “opposing views” on the Holocaust
- Fifty educators have died in Georgia since mid-August
- “Fifth wave” of COVID-19 underway in France
- China’s Evergrande crisis at a turning point
- California public schools face massive budget cuts due to COVID-19 pandemic
- More photographers oppose MGM’s refusal to release Minamata in North America
- Strike wave in US continues to grow, sparking fear and repression from ruling class
- Modi government seeking to tighten India's repressive film censorship regime
- Union sabotages GM workers strike vote in Brazil
- Blair Alexander Braden, father of two, dies of COVID-19 at Stellantis Sterling Stamping Plant
- Jury selection under way in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers
- Modi government sells off state-owned Air India for a song to kick-start new privatisation drive
2021-10-23
- Educators across the US West Coast support October 24 webinar: “How to End the Pandemic”
- Biden says US will go to war with China to defend Taiwan
- Educators across the US South call for a mass working-class movement to end the pandemic
- Indian and Sri Lankan workers and students support WSWS webinar on COVID-19 pandemic
- Tragic fatal shooting of cinematographer on New Mexico film set
- Police across US refuse COVID-19 vaccines
- A global tragedy: Up to 180,000 health care workers have died from COVID-19
- Tennessee mother dies of COVID-19 one month after childbirth
- Maid on Netflix: A single mother struggles to extricate herself from poverty and abuse
- Long COVID survivor urges people to attend October 24 webinar
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Third global school strike against dangerous reopenings draws support from thousands worldwide
- Five things every autoworker needs to know about the fight against COVID-19
- Alabama executes Willie B. Smith III, an intellectually disabled prisoner, after US Supreme Court fails to intervene
- COVID-19 surge spreads across Europe
- SEP electoral members in Australia denounce premature ending of COVID-19 lockdowns
- Mobilize Dana workers to vote “no” on second sweatshop contract! Build rank-and-file committees to prepare for a strike!
- Workers oppose Deere’s strikebreaking efforts, voice determination to fight
- Canadian educators and workers explain why they are attending the October 24 webinar on eliminating COVID-19
- Parent denounces full reopening of schools across Brazil
- British government prepares fascistic “push back” of migrants and asylum seekers in English Channel
- Biden threatens to deploy National Guard to move cargo containers at Southern California ports
- US House of Representatives votes to hold Trump co-conspirator Stephen Bannon in contempt
- Baltimore Amazon workers call for the elimination of COVID-19!
- Australian Labor state government leads “reopening” stampede amid record COVID infections
- Press freedom groups call for charges against Assange to be dropped ahead of US appeal
- An interview with Australian historian Mark Cryle on the origins of Anzac Day
- Supreme Court refuses to block Texas abortion ban for second time
- Science professor’s MIT lecture cancelled over views on affirmative action
- After five weeks on strike, UFCW calls snap contract vote for Heaven Hill distillery workers
2021-10-24
- Germany: Dismissed airport worker reports on his lawsuit against WISAG
- Strike vote begins at UK universities in disputes over pay, conditions and pensions
- This week in history: October 25-31
- Remembering singer-songwriter Gene Clark, co-founder of the Byrds: 30 years later
- Austerity policies in England linked to 57,550 extra deaths in five years
- David North concludes the webinar “How to end the pandemic”
- Dr. Howard Ehrman examines the spread of COVID-19 in schools
- Tennessee teacher Donna speaks on COVID-19 in schools
- Dr. Gasperowicz reviews the public health measures needed to end the pandemic
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding condemns profit-motivated pandemic policies
- Dr. Zayar reviews the impact of the pandemic in South Asia
- Dr. Deepti Gurdasani explains “Long Covid” and its impact
- Parent Lisa Diaz describes the “scorched earth” policy at UK schools
- Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez explains how COVID-19 is transmitted
- London bus driver David O’Sullivan describes the “war” on the working class
- Dr. Michael Baker explains the case for elimination
- David North introduces “How to end the pandemic” webinar
- Workers speak on the need to end the pandemic
2021-10-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The danger of US-China war and Australia’s anti-democratic election laws
- Turkey threatens to expel US, NATO ambassadors
- Supreme Court doubles down to shield abusive police officers from misconduct lawsuits
- Philadelphia transit workers vote to strike by the end of the month
- How to end the pandemic
- What striking Deere workers are fighting: A profile of the global corporation
- Striking Kellogg workers describe the issues in their fight
- Film and television workers expose oppressive conditions in entertainment industry
- Australia: 3,000 FedEx drivers hold 24-hour national strike
- Workers furious as voting at Dana auto parts proceeds under threats from unions
- Political crisis in Czech Republic following parliamentary elections
- Operation Curveball: A German political satire about the run-up to the Iraq War
- German billionaires’ wealth hits new heights in the pandemic
- Michigan state officials continue cover-up and whitewashing of three-year lead water contamination crisis in Benton Harbor
2021-10-26
- Who was who in Trump’s Willard Hotel “war room”?
- Workers and youth in Britain speak on “How to end the pandemic” webinar
- Texas governor appoints former Trump lawyer as chief election officer
- Tennessee health officials and teachers union ignore rising COVID-19 death rate among educators
- Sudan’s military oust transitional civilian-military government
- Stagecoach South Wales bus drivers strike as Unite and RMT block national action
- Enthusiastic response from workers in the UK, US and Canada to WSWS webinar on the pandemic
- Socialist Equality Group meeting discusses New Zealand government’s abandonment of COVID elimination policy
- Scientists make powerful case for global COVID-19 elimination
- “Bomb cyclone” and “atmospheric river” extreme weather event pummels West Coast with record rainfall and landslides
- Far-right and Stalinists maneuver in Philippine presidential election
- Anger grows among Deere workers over UAW’s plans for poverty strike pay
- Imprisonment of Oklahoma woman for miscarriage is tied to broader attack on abortion rights
- Irish musician, composer Paddy Moloney (1938-2021): “Once a Chieftain, always a Chieftain!”
- Leaked documents expose UK Labour’s fraudulent “concern” for COVID safety in schools
- Australia: Victorian Labor government plowing ahead with reckless pro-business “reopening”
- Israel outlaws six Palestinian human rights groups, branding them “terrorist organisations”
- The dangers of a California megaflood
- Despite interest payment, Evergrande is the “living dead”
- Chilean exile supports SEP campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Dana auto parts workers speak out against sellout agreement by UAW and USW unions
- Trump aides, House members helped plan January 6 attack on Congress
- Canada’s Liberal government eliminates all pandemic support for workers, amid country’s fourth wave
- White House lifts ban on international travel amid rising global COVID-19 cases
- Assange in jeopardy: US extradition appeal hearing begins in London
- The class issues in the Amazon unionization drive in New York City
2021-10-27
- US provocatively calls for “robust” Taiwanese participation in UN
- COVID-19 cases, deaths surge in Russia as thousands of children show “acute” symptoms
- Death and horror in New York City’s Rikers Island jail
- Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Brazil organizes meeting on “The need for school closures and the means to end the pandemic”
- What’s behind the record-breaking surge of gun violence in Portland, Oregon?
- Stop the witch-hunt against scientist Peter Daszak!
- Australian government announces sham net zero carbon emissions climate target
- Australian Coalition’s secret “net zero” deal points to intensifying political crisis
- Right-wing LDP expected to maintain majority in upcoming Japanese election
- Biden administration steps up war threats against Iran
- Harvard graduate student workers to begin three-day strike October 27
- SEP electoral members oppose the reopening of schools in Australia, warning that it will cause mass infection
- As strike enters third week, John Deere workers dig in for a fight against company and UAW
- Striking Deere worker killed at Illinois parts distribution center
- After blocking Dana strike, UAW and USW pushing through second sellout deal
- Workers in Australia and an educator in Sri Lanka respond to WSWS webinar on “how to end the pandemic”
- Major media black out Rolling Stone report on role of Trump aides, Republican lawmakers in January 6 coup
- A record 26 children died from COVID-19 in the US last week
- Terrorist networks in the German army: Federal prosecutor general orders the arrest of two ex-officers
- Mercy Hospital workers in Buffalo continue strike, now in fourth week
- Schools in Sydney, Australia’s largest city, reopen to mass in-person learning
- Minnesota nurses union ends strike without settlement
2021-10-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- What’s behind Tesla’s $1 trillion market valuation?
- Thousands of teachers protest across Sri Lanka despite unions’ betrayal
- Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton speaks to the WSWS: “The CIA plan to kidnap Julian is continuing under a veil of legality”
- Rittenhouse murder trial judge rules prosecutors cannot use the word “victim” to describe the shooter’s victims
- The horrific persecution of Julian Assange continues
- New York City government cracks down on parents withholding children from unsafe schools
- “Public health experts have insisted that preventative measures are necessary to avoid the National Health Service being overwhelmed”, UK nurse tells WSWS
- Artist Sam Kerson will continue to fight Vermont Law School effort to cover up murals commemorating abolition of slavery
- Moody’s rating agency warns of “systemic risk” in private credit
- Malaysia enters “endemic stage” of COVID-19 amid thousands of infections
- South Korean KCTU union confederation holds phony general strike
- Defend all auto jobs in Germany and around the world! Break with the IG Metall union and form independent rank-and-file committees! Unite workers internationally!
- Floods in Greece expose the fatal consequences of climate change and austerity policies
- Fort Wayne auto parts workers reject sellout USW contract as voting at Dana draws to a close
- No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP against the German secret service!
- UK government and media mount disinformation campaign claiming pandemic is nearly over
- Germany’s reopening policy leads to surge in COVID-19 infection rates
- UK budget: austerity for workers and billions for bankers
- Democrats abandon plans to tax corporations and the wealthy
- Opposition grows against increasing schools reopening in Brazil
- Why is the pseudo-left silent on Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws?
- Amazon Canada workers need organizations of struggle, not pro-corporate Teamsters
- COVID-19 infections force the closure of schools in Michigan
- Woody Holton retreats from Dunmore Proclamation claims in “historians’ debate” with Gordon Wood
2021-10-29
- American workers speak on the significance of the WSWS webinar, “How to end the pandemic”
- Court grants Warrior Met Coal restraining order against striking miners
- Video: The social crisis facing young people and the fight against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- German public sector workers hold initial “warning” strike in contract negotiations
- Australia: University of Newcastle Student Association promotes management, defends anti-democratic guidelines
- Corporate restructuring and job destruction deepen at Australian universities
- Tuskegee University marching band members in Alabama protest lack of support for renowned music program
- Dana Inc. paying temps $25 per hour and requiring they sign non-disclosure agreements
- Assange’s fiancée Stella Moris speaks outside court: This political persecution must end!
- Peasant protests demanding fertiliser erupt across Sri Lanka
- COVID rips through UK schools as councils and headteachers reintroduce mitigations against government policy
- New Mexico film set tragedy highlights deadly consequences of IATSE collusion with producers
- UK rail unions give de facto backing to “Voluntary Severance Scheme”
- Strikes erupt across Portugal as government fails to adopt budget
- Biden’s incredible shrinking social “reform” bill
- COVID-19 cases detected in Christchurch as New Zealand outbreak grows
- US congressional report documents criminal indifference to health and safety by meatpackers during pandemic
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- German Defence Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer threatens Russia with nuclear weapons
- US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh feigns support for Kellogg’s strike in visit to picket line
- No Future: People who have been severely damaged
- Mass deaths hit Eastern Europe as COVID-19 surges across the continent
- France, Britain threaten trade war over Brexit fishing dispute
- Deere workers speak out following tragic death of striker: “His death will not be in vain”
- Scientist Peter Daszak refutes false media allegations about Wuhan research
- Auto parts workers talk next steps as unions announce ratification of contract at Dana
- COP26 Conference in Glasgow takes place amid escalating class conflict
- Hysterical smear campaign against refugees arriving from Belarus
- British Columbia health authorities concealed COVID-19 hospital outbreaks that killed dozens
- US plotted Assange’s “assassination, kidnap, rendering, poisoning”
2021-10-30
- European audience members speak on the significance of October 24 webinar, “How to end the pandemic”
- US records lowest growth rate in pandemic “recovery”
- Them: Another entry in the lucrative racialist genre
- Biden again lashes out against China over Taiwan
- Sri Lankan government abandons limited COVID-19 pandemic restrictions
- Philadelphia transit union calls off strike, announces deal with cuts to real wages
- Australian state government bars COVID-related school closures despite escalating infections
- San Antonio Symphony on strike for over a month in response to attacks by management
- The Glasgow summit, climate change, and the case for socialism
- Oklahoma death row prisoner John Grant vomits, convulses in death chamber as state resumes executions
- Thousands of New Brunswick public sector workers strike against poverty wages
- Modi makes spectacle of India’s 1 billionth COVID vaccine shot to cover up his government’s culpability for mass death
- Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan describes years of torture at CIA black sites
- Caravan challenges Mexico’s complicity in US assault on immigrants
- As infections skyrocket, German government declares pandemic over
- Campaign for censorship of Facebook content intensifies following January 6 disclosures
- Australian government deepens assault on democratic rights with voter ID bill
- Attorney Steven Donziger reports to federal prison
- As UAW and Deere maintain information blackout, workers voice determination to fight: “We have a unique opportunity to win”
- UAW announces “new” tentative agreement with Deere, seeking to ram through vote on Tuesday
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