Archive: 11/2021
2021-11-01
- American Postal Workers Union prepares new betrayal
- Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases and deaths hit record highs
- This week in history: November 1-7
- Power workers demonstrate against Sri Lankan government’s privatisation deal
- Moscow ends decades-long NATO diplomatic mission, as alliance continues anti-Russian provocations
- Papua New Guinea morgues overflow as COVID-19 cases surge
- Global COVID-19 death toll surpasses 5 million: Government policies promote mass death
- School bus drivers and attendants strike in three Maryland counties in October
- Las Cruces, New Mexico school bus drivers hold limited strike against stalled negotiations
- Defend the daily newspaper junge Welt against attack by Germany’s secret service
- Japan’s ruling party maintains majority in general election
- IG Metall’s “Fair Change Day of Action”: A repulsive masquerade by the German union bureaucracy
- Washington and Baltimore residents hit by near-record tidal flooding
- World Health Organisation warns “pandemic is far from over” as COVID-19 surges through Europe
- SEP electoral members speak out on Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws and the socialist program to eliminate COVID-19
- Big Three automakers release earnings reports for third quarter of 2021
- Strikes at Huntington, West Virginia hospital and metal production facility
- Deere workers issue statement opposing latest tentative agreement: “Reject UAW-Deere blackmail!”
- Latest barrage of anti-vaccine protests in New York City aimed at building a far-right movement
- UAW-Deere contract “highlights” show deal again fails to meet workers’ demands
- Federal officials deliberately ignored January 6 coup plotting, Washington Post reveals
- Rising prices and falling wages deepen UK cost of living crisis
- US and international media demand China end “zero-COVID” strategy
- Civil suit against far-right organizers of 2017 fascist riot begins in Charlottesville, Virginia
- Australia’s reckless pro-business reopening proceeding apace as international travel resumes
2021-11-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Democrats in crisis over Virginia election
- FDA approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5–11
- Virginia Republican candidate for governor targets author Toni Morrison
- Scranton, Pennsylvania teachers set to strike
- Republicans back fascist militias threatening school board members, teachers, students
- Recovery 29 whitewashes New Zealand government’s cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
- The record of the World Socialist Web Site on Trump’s coup attempt of January 6
- Right-wing New Brunswick government locks out 3,000 education workers amid public sector strike
- Military jury calls torture of Majid Khan “a stain on the moral fiber of America”
- UAW and Mack Trucks allowing COVID to spread at Macungie, Pennsylvania plant
- Harvard’s American Repertory Theater designates performance of Macbeth In Stride for “Black-identifying” only
- Jacobin magazine, the Democratic Socialists of America and the collapse of Biden’s social reform bill
- US flies B-1 bomber over Persian Gulf: “All options on the table” against Iran
- Anti-corruption body’s hearings expose manufactured removal of Australian state premier
- With opposition mounting to sellout deal, IATSE officials call for “unity”
- Deere workers reject national contract, in defiance of the UAW: Updates from Tuesday’s vote
- Opposition high among Deere workers on eve of second UAW contract vote
- Colorado considers emergency “crisis standards of care” in hospitals as COVID-19 spreads rapidly
- Worsening economic data coming out of China
- Chilean government slashes health staff, critical beds as Delta becomes dominant strain
- Autoworkers voice support for Deere strikers, warn of UAW treachery: “Hold out as long as you can”
- UK: Unite calls off Arriva North West bus drivers strike, recommends below inflation pay offer
- SEP holds online meeting to fight Australia’s new anti-democratic election laws
2021-11-03
- Anglo-French tensions overshadow opening of COP26
- Hunger strike by New York City taxi drivers against crushing debt nearing the end of its second week
- Deere workers rank-and-file statement: What’s next in our strike
- Over 700 University of Michigan faculty sign open letter protesting administration witch hunt against composer and Professor Bright Sheng
- Trial of fascist shooter Kyle Rittenhouse begins in Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Death row inmate Rodney Reed should not get new trial, Texas judge says, rejecting claims of his innocence
- University of Florida bars professors from testifying in lawsuit against right-wing voting rights bill
- COVID-19 must not be the “new normal”
- Australia: Patrick Terminals seeks termination of dock workers’ enterprise agreement
- Democratic Party suffers debacle in gubernatorial elections
- New studies show mood disorders heighten risk of severe COVID illness and death
- Live updates: Deere management declares rejected contract was its “best and final offer”
- Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar quits science advisory committee over UK government's handling of pandemic
- Striking Deere workers defeat second UAW-company agreement
- Dana fires temps en masse in apparent retaliation for leak that revealed they were making $25 per hour
- The “No” vote by John Deere workers shows Dana workers must overturn the illegitimate UAW-USW-Dana contract!
- Corbyn, Covid and school reopenings: A record of silence and political betrayal
- The climate change disaster and Australia’s new anti-democratic electoral laws
- US-led media campaign to “open up” China—an echo of the Opium Wars
- Six hundred children have been killed by COVID-19 in the US
- Rank-and-file Canadian educators discuss “How to end the pandemic” webinar, vow support for John Deere strike
- Top Democrats, union bureaucrats defeat DSA-backed candidate India Walton, winner of Democratic primary, in Buffalo mayoral election
- Migrant woman drowns in Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego
- Global markets force Australian central bank to scrap major plank of monetary policy
- Five hundred steelworkers strike ArcelorMittal Tubular Products plant in Ohio
2021-11-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Public service union Verdi ends 50-day strike by Berlin health workers
- Sudan’s military seek to crush opposition demanding civilian rule
- Sri Lankan power, port and petroleum workers protest against privatisation
- Striking Scranton, Pennsylvania teachers discuss deplorable school conditions
- Moscow mayor rules out extension of COVID-19 restrictions amidst surge in cases and deaths
- The significance of the Democratic Party debacle on November 2
- Ohio and Pennsylvania educators speak on October 24 webinar, “How to end the pandemic”
- New Zealand COVID-19 cases surge as government plans to lift more restrictions
- Union betrayals open way for more “spill and fill” job cuts at Australia’s Macquarie University
- W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant winner Jane Evelyn Atwood opposes MGM’s Minamata censorship
- Students and young people must take up the fight against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Rampant inflation pushing Canada’s low-income workers even further into poverty
- GMB reinstates strike action by Glasgow refuse and street cleansing workers as anger grows at pay offer promoted by the unions
- Fed tapers asset purchases amid rising inflation and growing economic uncertainty
- UAW conspiring with Deere management to ram through contract that workers voted to reject
- Fourth coronavirus wave leads to massive outbreaks at German schools and universities
2021-11-05
- UK Corbynites’ Zero Covid campaign: “Zero” in name only
- CDC approval of COVID-19 vaccines for children is portrayed as the last threshold to “normalcy”
- Pseudo-left and Labor promote unions, oppose socialist perspective at University of Sydney meeting
- University of Michigan officials defend their right-wing attack on composer Bright Sheng
- Tonga’s first COVID-19 case enters from New Zealand
- Widespread support for Socialist Equality Party’s lawsuit against the German secret service
- Philadelphia transit workers: oppose the TWU’s sellout contract! Form independent rank-and-file committees!
- Latest school strike by parents as COVID deaths of UK children reach 108
- In wake of rejection of Deere sellout contract, Sanders’ “Labor Strikes Back” forum covers for union bureaucracy
- Deere declares “all options on the table” after workers defeat second UAW-backed contract
- The way forward for striking Scranton teachers
- New Brunswick premier meets with top CUPE official in bid to shut down militant public sector strike
- Michigan educators endorse October 24 webinar and the fight to eradicate COVID-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- John Deere workers in Germany support strike action in US
- “JobKeeper” billions boosted Australian corporate profits while casual workers axed
- Four migrants dead, 11 others injured in SUV crash in Texas
- Student protest at Howard University over abysmal living conditions enters fourth week
- Hospital workers strike in Huntington, West Virginia
- Conservative MP Robert Halfon’s herd immunity bill seeks to prevent school closures during pandemic
- Grenfell fire inquiry continues scapegoating of London Fire Brigade
- Old Vic cancels Terry Gilliam and Into the Woods: An attack on free speech and artistic freedom
- WHO warns of 500,000 new COVID-19 deaths in Europe by February
- Three things striking Deere workers need to know about the company’s finances
- Teachers must form rank-and-file committees to fight Australia’s dangerous school reopenings
- Judge acknowledges “intentional discrimination” in jury selection for Ahmaud Arbery case
- US-trained Afghan intelligence agents, elite troops reported joining ISIS
2021-11-06
- Argentine judge indicts Spanish Franco-era minister on murder charges
- Top US general reduces time frame for war with China to two years
- In response to election debacle, New York Times demands Democrats shift further to the right
- New York taxi union declares victory with agreement that leaves drivers deeply in debt
- Spanish Constitutional Court rules country’s second lockdown was illegal
- How Sri Lankan workers can fight privatisation
- Prosecution avoids mention of Rittenhouse’s fascist politics in first week of murder trial
- Peru’s Castillo wins confidence vote after ordering army into the streets
- Science summit warns of escalating pandemic disaster
- Experts oppose “reckless” easing of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand
- Machine repairman killed in tragic accident at Ford Lima Engine Plant
- Tens of thousands of health care workers at Kaiser Permanente set to strike
- Vote “No” on the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees MOA!
- Open letter exposes difficult conditions imposed on final year Australian high school students amid pandemic
- Reject Howard University’s attempts to blame students for cafeteria layoffs!
- Steep rise in coronavirus cases in Germany portends a second deadly winter of the pandemic
- “People are getting killed and the government is indifferent”—SEP (Australia) electoral members support campaign to eliminate COVID-19
- Inflation sets off gyrations in global bond markets
- Deere strike winning support among autoworkers
- Columbia University student workers strike for the second time this year
- Colorado governor issues health orders as COVID-19 cases hit new peak
- Canada’s social democrats in talks on 3-year deal to prop up Trudeau Liberal government
- Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education gathered educators and parents from around Brazil in critical online meeting
- New study in the BMJ provides damning testimony of the impact the pandemic has had on life expectancy
2021-11-07
- Labour Party returns to power in Norway
- National Health Service maternity workers: Underpaid, under-resourced and understandably angry
- Smart Motorways Kill founder Claire Mercer speaks out on why government roll out must be stopped
- CWA, Catholic Health reach tentative agreement in Buffalo nurses strike
- Unite suspends Arriva North West strike in UK for second time
2021-11-08
- Washington D.C. transit system recalls over 60 percent of rail fleet after derailment exposes critical flaws
- Volkswagen factory meeting in Wolfsburg heralds fierce disputes with workforce
- This week in history: November 8-14
- Eight dead, hundreds injured in crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas
- Sri Lankan president’s “One Country, One Law” taskforce will provoke racial tensions
- The vaccine, COVID and other lies of Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers
- With new school program on Quebec Culture and Citizenship, CAQ government intensifies its national-chauvinist offensive
- Snap elections called in Portugal after government falls amid mass strikes
- The winter of death: Governments slash COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge
- Former Los Angeles teacher speaks out on conditions in schools and fight to eliminate COVID-19
- Open Letter to the Red Pens Facebook group administrators: End censorship of articles on the COVID-19 pandemic!
- New Orleans sanitation workers strike over pay and working conditions
- West Virginia strike against Special Metals enters sixth week
- Massive COVID-19 outbreaks in Germany’s elderly care homes
- German Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht denounces COVID-19 protection measures
- Central Indiana teachers conduct sickout for higher pay, lower insurance premiums
- Huntington, West Virginia hospital workers continue strike
- Australian high school students speak out against dangerous reopenings, lack of assistance prior to exams
- The French Dispatch: Filmmaker’s Wes Anderson’s latest confection
- Deere Reman worker in Springfield, Missouri: “Someone is finally taking a stand!”
- Committee for Public Education online meeting: Oppose the dangerous reopening of schools in Australia! Form and join our rank-and-file action safety committees!
- Why the SEP has taken up the fight against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Biden, Democrats retreat on social spending as Congress passes pro-corporate infrastructure bill
- Diplomatic clash between Australia and France highlights implications of militarist AUKUS pact
- Australian governments lifting all safety restrictions as Delta outbreaks hit schools
- USW invites economic chauvinist politician, Sherrod Brown, to ArcelorMittal Tubular Products picket line
- Corporate-backed Democrat Eric Adams wins NYC mayoral election
2021-11-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- University of Florida reverses ban on faculty from testifying in voting rights lawsuit
- Stagecoach faces further strike action across England and Wales
- New York Times hails “labor coverage” of publications aligned with the Democratic Party and trade union apparatus
- Scranton teachers’ strike faces danger of isolation by the AFT
- French anti-lockdown professor investigated for illegal experimentation
- Analysis of EPA data shows millions subjected to high levels of cancer-causing industrial pollution
- Polish government announces massive rearmament programme
- The Astroworld festival disaster and the normalization of death
- New Zealand emergency doctor warns of “preventable catastrophe” from COVID-19
- New Brunswick’s Tory government criminalizes health care workers’ strike
- Unions betray Tollcross McVitie’s workers in Scotland factory closure
- Organise a fightback for higher wages! End sweatshop exploitation!
- Georgia Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike
- Howard University students denounce deplorable living conditions
- Australia: Property bubble bonanza for ruling elite fuels social crisis for the working class
- Brutal police killing of 18-year-old Roma youth sparks protests in Greece
- Mounting problems in global economy and financial system
- Three of Florida’s largest school districts remove mask mandates in school
- Ethiopia’s war on Tigray threatens broader civil war
- Australian Education Union imposes limited school work bans in Victoria
- Denis Villeneuve brings half of sci-fi classic Dune to life
- Letter from a Caterpillar worker to Deere strikers: “Take the reins in your own hands”
- New investigations reveal major police departments across the US riddled with Oath Keeper fascists
- Living with the virus: UK government confirms aim of endemic COVID-19
- COP26 climate summit ends in failure
- Sri Lankan workers support SEP (Australia) campaign against anti-democratic electoral laws
- UK Arriva North West driver reports brutal working conditions, as Unite union tries to push through below inflation pay deal
- The Walk: Little Amal puppet’s 8,000 km march across Europe to highlight refugee crisis
2021-11-10
- Woodward and Costa’s Peril: An inside account of Trump’s coup d’etat
- Student occupation at Howard University fights for the right to safe and clean housing
- US Federal Reserve report points to financial risks
- Daily Mirror boosts Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham’s “crack squad”
- Sri Lankan government to impose drastic austerity measures
- University of Michigan faculty open letter supports witch-hunt, rejects letter signed by hundreds defending victimized professor Bright Sheng
- Warsaw and Brussels intensify attacks on refugees at Polish-Belarusian border
- As strike movement grows, DSA-aligned groups push dead end of UAW “reform”
- Quebec’s #MeToo movement joins government in attacking the presumption of innocence
- Using record number of homicides as pretext, Portland Mayor proposes $5.2 million to expand police force
- John Deere strike at the crossroads
- New Zealand recalibrates Pacific strategy countering China
- Letter from a Brooklyn teacher on the conditions in New York City schools
- Unions delay strikes after massive vote against NHS pay offer
- Immunologist Dr. Anthony Leonardi speaks on Long COVID and the dangers posed by SARS-CoV-2
- Film industry workers speak out against IATSE sell-out contract ahead of November 12 vote
- House Republican Paul Gosar tweets anime video depicting him killing Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- East St. Louis, Illinois, mother charged in the death of her five children in apartment fire
- “This party fights for a real democracy through the political organisation of the working class”
- Australian government funds Pacific telco purchase to head off Chinese influence
- Defend Deere workers against company-UAW strikebreaking! Join the Deere Strike Rank-and-File Solidarity Committee!
- House Select Committee announces sixteen new subpoenas targeting high-level Trump co-conspirators
- COVID-19 infections continue to explode in Germany
- Rise in US child COVID-19 cases foreshadows coming winter surge
- Assange and fiancée challenge British government’s refusal to allow them to marry
2021-11-11
- US heading into latest wave of the pandemic
- Turkish government persists with mass COVID-19 death policy
- NLRB gives go-ahead to unionization vote at Starbucks locations in Buffalo, New York
- Kenosha judge shields right-wing extremist killer Kyle Rittenhouse during his murder trial testimony
- Refuse collection workers strike across UK to demand better pay and conditions
- New Zealand government lifts more restrictions, says COVID-19 will spread nationwide
- The surging cost of living and the class struggle
- John Deere workers in Orléans, France support strike by their American coworkers
- Two former Oklahoma police officers convicted of second-degree manslaughter in 2019 tasing death of Jared Lakey
- Omaha, Nebraska, parent speaks out against dangerous conditions in schools
- Australian prime minister promises big business there will never be another lockdown
- Immunologist Dr. Anthony Leonardi speaks on Long COVID and the dangers posed by SARS-CoV-2
- Columbia University student workers speak out at second strike of 2021
- Lars Klingbeil to lead German Social Democrats
- Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics
- Fire Shut Up in My Bones inaugurates new season at Metropolitan Opera in New York
- Detroit autoworkers back Deere strikers as UAW resumes talks with management to sell out struggle
- Federal judge rejects Trump’s claim of executive privilege in January 6 investigation
- Profits über alles: German ruling class ends “national pandemic situation” despite record infections
- Pandemic outbreaks grow in China but Beijing maintains zero-COVID policy
- Video: The health crisis and Australia’s new anti-democratic electoral laws
- Teachers and parents expose rising COVID infections in Australian schools
- Strikes planned by 100,000 Kaiser health care workers to begin next week
2021-11-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Weetabix workers escalate UK strike to four days a week
- Unite suspends strikes at Stagecoach across UK to roll out unequal pay deals
- London Underground drivers return 99 percent strike vote against bailout plans, as RMT prepares to ballot members
- British train crash highlights safety threat posed by privatisation and destaffing
- Torn from Her Arms: The US government immigration policy that “rises to the level of torture”
- UK teachers oppose attacks on working conditions
- Interview with Hampton Stall, an expert on the far right, on fascist activity in school reopening campaign and January 6 aftermath
- Over 100,000 Sri Lankan workers walk out to demand higher wages and better conditions
- South Korea’s KCTU union confederation to stage rally Saturday amid surge in working class anger
- Campus opposition at University of Michigan mounts to victimization of Bright Sheng
- COVID-19 deaths and child infections continue to surge in Russia, Ukraine
- Maritime Union of Australia rams through sell-out deal at Qube Ports
- The refugee crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border and the danger of war
- Striking New Brunswick public sector workers win broad popular support
- Chilean state spreads terror in indigenous communities
- Tens of thousands of Maharashtra state transport workers continue strike in defiance of court orders
- Macron calls for policies of austerity, mass infection in France
- Right-wing anti-vax forces incite furore over new pandemic powers bill in Australian state
- Strike at Kellogg's in danger as it enters sixth week
- Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers prepare to strike as global struggles by healthcare workers continue
- UK “second jobs” scandal reveals class gulf discrediting Parliament
- Inflation surge to intensify financial turmoil
- SEP electoral members denounce Australian government’s “woeful” response to the pandemic
- Deere strikers and autoworkers voice support for joint fight, while UAW resumes secret talks with company
- Dana auto parts workers report as much as 60 percent of their signing bonus was taken out in taxes and union dues
- French police arrest far-right extremists on charges of preparing a coup d’état
- Public health experts warn of a winter surge in the pandemic
- Ninth victim dies, boy remains in coma, as details emerge showing how Astroworld disaster was prepared
- Amazon once again abandons mask requirements
2021-11-13
- Chinese regime rewrites history as Xi Jinping prepares for third presidential term
- Australia’s voter ID bill: An historic attack on the right to vote
- Scranton teachers union seeks to divert strike with fruitless appeals to the Democrats
- NATO ratchets up anti-Russian offensive in Poland and Ukraine
- The political issues in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial
- Another UAW executive charged with stealing dues money, as union announces “re-vote” on defeated Deere contract
- Travel nursing demand reaches all-time high amidst nursing shortage and Delta surge
- Australian union ends industrial campaign by Victorian mental health workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Kaiser workers must take up the fight to eliminate COVID-19!
- Kellogg’s management ratchets up strikebreaking operation
- Ex-Australian PM denounced for calling for coexistence with China
- Set worker calls on membership to reject IATSE sellout contract
- Howard University cafeteria workers denounce university efforts to scapegoat students for layoffs
- Over 40 killed by floods in South India and Sri Lanka
- Federal judge gives final approval of derisory settlement for Flint, Michigan residents
- German Film Award in Silver for Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs
- UAW announces re-vote on “last, best and final” offer which Deere workers already rejected
- Trump co-conspirator and fascist adviser Steve Bannon indicted for contempt of Congress
- Trials begin of former SS guard and secretary at Stutthof concentration camp
- Canada’s two largest provinces reject vaccine mandates for health workers
- School bus drivers launch wildcat strikes across the United States
- Brutal repression against striking public employees in São Paulo, Brazil
- Murder trial underway in Georgia for three vigilantes who killed Ahmaud Arbery
2021-11-14
2021-11-15
- Massachusetts nurses strike faces collapse due to union’s isolation of their struggle
- COVID cases surge through northern US states before the holiday season begins
- NATO push for dangerous escalation along its European border with Russia
- This week in history: November 15-21
- Survey reveals one in three Texas children have had COVID-19
- Thousands support SGP’s lawsuit against the German secret service
- Dutch caretaker government imposes partial lockdown as COVID-19 surges
- Reno, Nevada bus drivers launch third strike in four months after rejecting Teamsters-backed contract
- Whistleblowers expose US mass murder of women, children in Syria
- Tim Page, veteran Vietnam war photographer, opposes MGM’s Minamata censorship
- New Mexico hospitals enact crisis standards of care amidst jump of COVID-19 cases
- France deploys large security force ahead of New Caledonian independence referendum
- Canadian Union of Public Employees conspires with Higgs government to shut down New Brunswick public sector strike
- Boston authorities clearing homeless encampment despite protests by ACLU, public health experts
- Biden administration ramps up drive to get women “back into the workforce”
- SEP electoral members describe new laws as a “perverse and undemocratic aspect of the Australian electoral system”
- With COVID-19 out of control, German infectious disease agency expects ICUs to be overwhelmed
- “Modest modifications” to Deere-UAW deal mean more speedup, sweatshop conditions
- Covid-19 deaths and illness of UK children justified in the interests of big business
- Stellantis announces mass layoffs at Belvidere Assembly plant
- Injured Amazon worker in Florida denied workers’ compensation and threatened with termination
- COVID-19 and disability residents: Australian health workers discuss worsening conditions
2021-11-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP!
- Video: Capitalism, the climate-change catastrophe and the fight against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Australian big business and anti-lockdown movement unite against state government’s pandemic bill
- The Deere strike is in danger!
- Sri Lankan finance minister’s budget proposals deepen social attacks
- African National Congress suffers electoral collapse, as its rotten record is underscored by the death of de Klerk
- Judge dismisses gun charge against vigilante shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
- Prosecutors shield police who killed eight-year-old Fanta Bility in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
- Autumn strike wave pits workers against the corporatist trade unions
- Russian state prosecutors try to shut down the leading institution for research into the Great Terror
- Biden infrastructure bill targets China
- IATSE declares contract ratified, even though majority voted against it
- Howard University students announce agreement to end campus occupation
- The 1986–1987 Deere strike and lockout: Lessons from an earlier UAW betrayal
- Foodbank organisers in Bournemouth, UK: “We’re having to fill in where the state is failing miserably”
- A comparative analysis of COVID-19 and the flu highlights the immense dangers of the pandemic
- Three reasons why Deere cannot endure a long strike
- Leaked “Operation Rampdown” document insists nothing will be done to stop spread of COVID in UK
- Teachers and parents respond powerfully to Committee for Public Education public meeting in Australia
- Canada heads toward deadly winter surge of COVID-19
- Bond market turmoil as Wall Street speculation reaches new heights
- Trump co-conspirator Bannon surrenders to FBI, threatens another coup
- Media faithfully echoes US justifications for war crime at Baghuz, Syria
- David O’Sullivan campaigns at Battersea depot: drivers report ongoing threat from COVID-19
- New neo-Nazi weapons cache discovered in Austria
- Astroworld festival disaster: 9-year-old dies as logs reveal negligence by police, organizers
- Arriva bus drivers in North Wales strike against pay restraint
- Peronist government hammered in Argentine midterm elections amid record poverty
2021-11-17
- UAW says contract passed in re-vote, 61 to 39 percent, amid union threats: Updates from Wednesday’s vote
- Ukrainian government deploys armed drones against separatists
- What’s in the Kaiser tentative agreement?
- Major staffing shortages at schools throughout the US due to COVID-19 pandemic
- UK choreographer Liam Scarlett’s suicide after #MeToo sexual misconduct allegations
- Police fatally shoot Aboriginal man in Sydney
- Profit instead of science: The German government’s COVID-19 policy
- Biden-Xi summit: An impotent gesture before the danger of war
- Mack Truck workers issue statement: Support the strike at John Deere!
- Imperialist powers hold Libya “peace” conference, 10 years after NATO war
- “This TA is an insult”: Kaiser health care workers respond with outrage to sellout contract announced by unions
- Governments reject pandemic controls amid record COVID-19 surge in Europe
- Deere workers denounce UAW sellout deal and call for continued strike action
- Fourteen consecutive weeks with more than 100,000 cases of COVID among US children
- Mounting pressure on China to abandon its zero-COVID policy
- Canada admits aerosols are major source of COVID-19 transmission after nearly two years of denying it
- How US capitalism established the modern two-party system of bourgeois rule
- First day of jury deliberations in trial of fascist shooter Rittenhouse ends without a verdict
2021-11-18
- Australian establishment legitimises fascist political violence with anti-lockdown protests
- Union calls off University of California lecturers strike at eleventh hour
- Australian union sells out Toll warehouse strike
- Sri Lankan teachers’ unions shut down all protests
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold online meeting on Rajapakse government’s austerity budget
- 3.6 million UK families worse off after budget cuts
- Prosecution rests in murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers
- Washington Post calls for a COVID-19 cover-up
- Michigan nurse speaks on the conditions in hospitals as COVID-19 cases surge
- The growing toll of COVID-19 on children in North Carolina
- 14,000 Houston-area Kroger workers authorize strike
- Kaiser nurses furious at unions’ decision to call off strike
- Biden infrastructure bill nixes all education funding as schools remain epicenter of COVID-19 spread
- House censures Gosar while Republicans defend fascist threats
- German Social Democrats-Left Party coalition in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Social attacks, state armament and viral spread
- “Catastrophic” flooding cuts transportation links, forces thousands to evacuate homes in British Columbia
- Australian Electoral Commission rejects SEP application for pandemic extension of registration deadline
- US drug overdose deaths surged to 100,000 in first year of pandemic
- Students and teachers walk out at Detroit high school over COVID-19 policies
- UAW claims Deere contract ratified in re-vote, following intense intimidation campaign
- Anti-China propaganda gone mad: The bizarre case of the “Corgi killers”
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts workers hold one-day strike
- Capita contractor pays substantial compensation to family of UK benefits cuts victim Philippa Day
- Oil refinery closing in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana threatens loss of nearly 1,000 jobs
2021-11-19
- What conclusions must be drawn from French racist pundit Éric Zemmour’s presidential bid?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pentagon dispatching emergency medical teams to Minnesota as another winter surge of COVID-19 infections takes hold in the US
- Metroline granted postponement in David O’Sullivan unfair dismissal case
- Conference produces no solution for Treasury market shocks
- Unite celebrates £1 over minimum wage rise at Stagecoach South Wales as major victory
- Seattle, Washington parents speak out on their fight for remote learning for their child
- Florida Republican Gaetz offers intern job to fascist shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
- New Zealand’s COVID-19 outbreak grows as schools reopen
- Berlin Administrative Court rules socialist ideas are “anti-constitutional”
- PSOE-Podemos sends police to attack Spanish metalworkers strike in Cádiz
- In speech before the court, Trotskyist leader indicts German state’s revival of Nazi-style anti-socialist laws
- More New York City schools forced to close amid mounting COVID-19 outbreaks
- Johnson government moves to strip people of UK citizenship without notification
- Australian PM touts sweeping character of AUKUS pact aimed at preparing war with China
- Shut down Michigan schools to in-person learning! Stop the winter of death!
- Two men convicted in 1965 Malcolm X assassination exonerated in New York court
- Kaiser unions call out 40,000 workers in one-day sympathy strike with striking Northern California engineers
- The corporate media misses the boat on American Crime Story: Impeachment
- Rail and airport workers strike in France for wage increases
- Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws “are to maintain the duopoly,” SEP electoral members say
- Johnson government lies that main danger of COVID spread comes from Europe
- South Asian leaders join other heads of state to back bogus climate targets at COP26
- Savage exploitation at flagship plant of “green” Canadian capitalism
- In Detroit visit, Biden praises UAW as it sells out Deere strike
- Eastern Europe teeters on war
- Republicans vow retribution following indictment of Trump co-conspirator Steve Bannon
- Head of New York City ambulance union goes on anti-COVID-19 vaccine crusade
- Amazon Labor Union withdraws Staten Island certification petition
2021-11-20
- New study supports natural origins of COVID-19, sources close to WHO team say
- Australian state Labor government accelerates “reopening” amid fascistic anti-lockdown protests
- Pseudo-left-backed candidate wins Teamsters presidency in election marked by historically low turnout
- Southern California region still suffering effects of October oil spill
- The inhuman treatment of refugees and Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Duterte loses elite support as Philippine elections open
- The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: A judicial travesty
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Oklahoma governor grants clemency to death row inmate Julius Jones, but leaves likely innocent man in prison
- COVID patient in California dies after maggots found in mouth and nose
- Harvard Graduate Students Union averts second strike with last-minute tentative agreement
- New video shows Pennsylvania police killing 19 year old who was trying to surrender
- Chemical waste plant fire spews toxic fumes into Australian working-class town
- Defense rests case in murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers, closing arguments set for Monday
- The 2021 Deere strike: Lessons for the working class
- Death of UAW official from COVID underscores danger in John Deere plants
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog seeks to legitimise anti-lockdown, anti-vaccination protests
- Inspector General report whitewashes role of senior Pentagon leadership during January 6 Trump coup
- Columbia student worker union concedes to second round of contract mediation in third week of strike
- 20,000 Northern California nurses and mental health staff conduct second 24-hour sympathy strike for Kaiser Permanente engineers
- House Democrats pass stripped-down social welfare bill with massive tax cut for the rich
- Democratic Socialists of America congressman Jamaal Bowman votes for Israel’s Iron Dome, visits with right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
- Austria re-imposes partial lockdown as COVID-19 surges across Europe
- Biden revives North American Leaders’ summit, presses Trudeau on China, Obrador on refugees
2021-11-22
- Huntington, West Virginia hospital strike enters third week
- US 2021 COVID-19 death toll now tops 2020
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- Workers at Navy shipyards in Virginia and Mississippi reject pro-company contracts
- Johnson’s reforms over Tory sleaze and second jobs leaves MPs untouched
- Oppose the attempt by the teachers union to sell out Scranton strike!
- Donald Trump and fascist right celebrate acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse
- Left Bloc pleads for alliance with Socialist Party in Portuguese elections
- New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine
- For a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Laurence Olivier’s Othello (1965) and racialist reaction
- The way forward for film and television workers in the aftermath of IATSE’s sabotage
- Australia: Overloaded Victorian hospital system narrowly avoids Code Red
- Herd immunity policy leads to four-digit COVID-19 incidence levels in German schools
- After year of protests, Modi says three pro-agribusiness laws will be repealed
- “The electoral laws are to stop and silence opposition to the reopening” – SEP electoral members oppose Australia’s anti-democratic measures
- Deere workers denounce UAW “dirty tricks” operation to pass contract: “They’re criminal scumbags”
- United Workers Union rams through sell-out at Australian clothing warehouse
- Behind Chinese President Xi’s populism, mounting social inequality
- COVID-19 now the leading cause of death in Arizona
- Unite’s “new and improved offer” at Arriva North Wales: another de facto pay cut
2021-11-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Driver plows SUV through Christmas parade in Wisconsin killing five, injuring 48
- Video: The pandemic is a bonanza for Australia’s billionaires
- UPMC hospital workers in Pittsburgh demand better wages and staffing
- Australian university union calls for “consensus” with employers on pandemic reopening
- Enthusiastic support for SEP’s forthcoming public meeting on Sri Lankan government’s austerity budget
- San Francisco schools face $125 million budget deficit and over 400 layoffs this year
- Amid “enormous economic uncertainty,” Biden reappoints Powell as Fed chair
- The deadly impact of COVID-19 in Peru: A health expert’s perspective
- Europe’s fascistic policy of mass infection: People will be “vaccinated, recovered or dead,” German health minister says
- From “Corgi killers” to a “kidnapped” tennis player: Anti-China agitation escalates
- Emails reveal Australian state government rejected health officer’s advice
- An early winter storm of COVID-19 hits Michigan
- British government declares Hamas political wing a terrorist organisation
- UK school ceiling collapses after a decade of austerity cuts and lifting of safety regulations
- CVS announces 900 US store closures over next three years
- Presidential election lays bare sharp class divisions in Chile
- Weeks after sellout of Seattle carpenters strike, union officials ousted over corruption allegations
- Educators and a scientist react to Canadian government’s belated admission COVID-19 is mainly transmitted through aerosols
- Coronavirus pandemic in Austria runs out of control
- Closing arguments presented in murder trial of the three men who killed Ahmaud Arbery
- Growing strike actions among US airline workers against low pay, terrible working conditions
2021-11-24
- Warrior Met miners face new attacks as pro company judge extends injunction against picketing
- PSOE-Podemos government cracks down on Spanish metal strike
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee denounces court ruling upholding designation of Germany's Socialist Equality Party as “left wing extremists”
- Child infections fuel COVID-19 surge across the US
- Australian government in turmoil as MPs orient to fascistic anti-vaccination movement
- Labour leader Keir Starmer grovels to Confederation of British Industry, while Corbyn’s allies beg for party unity
- Sparrow Health workers in Lansing, Michigan, vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- New Zealand media pushes alarmist propaganda over China’s relations with Kiribati
- Groveland Four are exonerated more than 70 years after racist frame-up
- COVID cases and deaths surge to record levels in Greece
- Australian electoral members explain why they support the SEP
- Planned strikes by DHL workers in UK as Unite seek to block national action
- Labor Notes, DSA cover up UAW betrayal of Deere strike
- Deere reports blowout earnings one week after UAW sellout of strike
- Dana Fort Wayne workers voice growing opposition as USW stonewalls on local contract
- Colonia Dignidad: Nazi criminality exported to Chile
- New type of dangerous building cladding uncovered in Britain, as another fire breaks out
- 27 migrants confirmed dead as dinghy capsizes in English Channel
- British government makes out of court settlements to 417 Iraqis in tacit admission of war crimes
- US stokes tensions with Russia over claims of an impending invasion of Ukraine
2021-11-25
- AFT president to Wall Street: Be thankful for the unions
- German government refuses to order lockdowns despite hospitals reaching capacity under crush of COVID-19 infections
- The New York Times’ Jake Silverstein concocts “a new origin story” for the 1619 Project
- The five truths to guide the fight to end the pandemic
- Donald Trump meets with Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse at Mar-A-Lago
- A disgraced liar accuses scientists: Matt Ridley’s Viral
- The global pandemic and World War I: The ruling class decides for death
- New Zealand: Auckland lockdown to end on December 3 even though Delta surge continues
- Kellogg’s threatens to permanently replace striking workers
- The public hospitals crisis and Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- A “parade of storms” threatens more flooding in British Columbia
- Australian defence minister reiterates commitment to join US war over Taiwan
- House Select Committee issues 10 new subpoenas targeting fascist militia group leaders, Trump political operative Roger Stone and InfoWars host Alex Jones
- Germany’s “traffic light” coalition government reaches agreement: Welfare cuts, state armament and militarism
- Brazilian authorities, media hide rise in respiratory illnesses in children to promote end of COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian epidemiologists warn of possible fourth wave as reopening allows Delta to spread
- All three of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers found guilty of murder
2021-11-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Opponent of COVID-19 vaccine mandate arrested for bombing at Stellantis Windsor Assembly Plant
- The Thanksgiving holiday weekend threatens surge of COVID-19 infections across the US
- Justin Trudeau and Liberals inaugurate third term in office—austerity and mass infection at home, militarism and war abroad
- Stagecoach Yorkshire UK bus drivers launch a week of strike action
- Solomon Islands coup attempt triggered by US-backed, anti-China forces
- Sri Lankan union leader joins right-wing campaign against vaccinations
- Union push to sell out Spanish steel strike exposes France’s Révolution permanente
- NHS FightBack photo of elderly patient lying on UK hospital floor sparks outrage on social media
- More protest strikes in Germany’s public sector
- Germany’s incoming government vows to let COVID-19 run rampant
- Significant move by New Zealand central bank to lift interest rate
- Tens of thousands of transport workers enter fourth week of indefinite strike in India
- COVID-19 live updates: Biden proposes no new pandemic restrictions, urges vaccination in response to Omicron variant
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- More revelations about the Kaiser Permanente tentative agreement
- French health minister rejects lockdown measures as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
- Electoral members call on workers and youth to join the SEP and fight Australia’s undemocratic election laws
- Hundreds more lives threatened on “disintegrating” boat in Mediterranean as London and Paris cross swords over Channel migrant deaths
- Eugene Smith award-winning photographer Cristopher Rogel Blanquet discusses Minamata and why it must be released
- UK COVID cases pass 10 million: Health Secretary Javid warns of Omicron variant impact while rejecting containment measures
- Health and Care Bill’s naked onslaught on UK working class
- Spanish unions strangle Cádiz metalworkers’ strike
- UK: B&Q warehouse workers in east Midlands to take strike action against low pay
- Ambulances called nearly 1,000 times to Amazon’s UK warehouses
2021-11-27
- Sri Lanka: Katukelle Estate workers fight management attacks on wages and conditions
- COVID-19 cases surge to record highs in South Korea
- 51 workers die in Siberian mine disaster
- Political turmoil in Australia underscores necessity for fight against anti-democratic new electoral laws
- COVID-19 must be eradicated to stop dangerous new variants
- Peru’s Pedro Castillo’s first 100 days: Shattering the illusions promoted by Jacobin and the pseudo-left
- Omicron variant threatens to unleash new global surge of COVID-19 pandemic
- Nursing staff in Germany on strike during contract negotiations for public sector workers
- Expert Nicolas Smit gives testimony on US masking policies under Trump and Biden
- UK midwives hold vigils protesting acute staff shortages
- Michigan COVID-19 wave escalates as Democrats reject measures to halt the spread
- Australian businesses call for return of overseas workers and students to overcome hospitality “labour shortages”
- Glasgow bin workers reject pay offer as school janitors and care workers prepare to strike
- New York State Assembly releases Cuomo impeachment report
- Charité intensive–Station 43: An unsettling documentary about the reality of the coronavirus
- Jury awards $26 million to victims of 2017 neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, Virginia civil trial
2021-11-28
- Amid record deaths from COVID-19, Ukrainian president accuses Russia of planning a “coup”
- Johnson government declares Britain “nowhere near” needing tough measures to combat Omicron variant
- This week in history: November 29-December 5
- University workers in UK set to strike over pay, terms, conditions and pensions
- As Omicron spreads in Europe, Paris commits to mass COVID-19 infections
2021-11-29
- Vaccines are not enough! Action must be taken to halt winter surge!
- Detroit schools reopen Monday as COVID-19 sweeps Michigan
- Succession Season 3: The American elite lurches towards fascist conspiracy
- Over 50,000 Sri Lankan health workers strike for higher pay and allowances
- Biden administration to America: Prepare to die from COVID-19
- Omicron detected in Australia as governments reject safety measures
- Scientists call for urgent action to save lives as Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads globally
- New Zealand Labour-led government continues attacks on immigrants
- Herd immunity policy creates explosion of COVID-19 infections in German nurseries and schools
- Australian university union holds farcical online “sit-in” over casualisation
- Two men exonerated in wrongful convictions that took place four decades ago
- SEP Electoral Members speak out over exploitation and inequality
- Republican Lauren Boebert incites fascistic violence against Democrat Ilhan Omar during recent campaign event
- Autoworkers speak on COVID-19 dangers as case numbers surge across Michigan and US Midwest
2021-11-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- COVID-19 infects Sri Lankan schools: Stop sacrificing the lives of students and teachers!
- Tennessee governor signs reactionary legislation aimed at forcing the population to “live with the virus”
- GMB union promotes below inflation pay deal ending Sheffield UK refuse workers dispute
- Disrupt Texts’ assault on Shakespeare and other classics: Money, ignorance and social backwardness
- Quebec government left seniors’ homes unprotected at start of COVID-19 pandemic
- Pregnant women endangered by “herd immunity” policy and conflicting official advice on COVID-19
- Fracturing Australian government effectively closes down parliament
- Biden’s message to Wall Street: Mass death will not interfere with corporate profits
- Australia: NSW teachers to hold one-day strike on December 7
- What is the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership?
- The case of Nemi El-Hassan: German television channel sacks critical journalist
- Markets bounce back after Omicron shock as governments decide to let it rip
- G7 health ministers agree to do nothing over Omicron variant threat
- German government rejects lockdown despite spread of Omicron variant
- UK: University and College Union shuts down remaining further education college strikes
- SEP electoral members oppose Australian governments’ dangerous COVID-19 reopening drive
- Partial lockdown in Slovakia and Czech Republic following record COVID-19 infections
- Chinese study warns ending zero-COVID policy would be “a great disaster”
- Michigan COVID-19 hospitalizations hit new pandemic record
- Official documents expose Australian government’s complicity in the torture of Assange
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