Archive: 12/2021
2021-12-01
- As COVID-19 cases surge throughout Ohio, Republican-controlled state senate holds a hearing on antivaccine bill
- Moses Kur, 37-year-old auto parts worker, dies in industrial accident at Ventra’s Grand Rapids plant
- Referendum in Switzerland: A vote for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic
- African National Congress rejects new measures to counter South Africa’s Omicron variant surge
- Opposition candidate Robredo endorses anti-communist task force in Philippine election
- 7.5 magnitude earthquake leaves Peru’s impoverished Amazonas in ruins
- Omicron variant exposes “vaccine only” strategy to combat COVID-19
- Four students killed and seven others injured in Oxford, Michigan school shooting
- Australian governments respond to Omicron with homicidal “herd immunity” policies
- US corporate profits hit new record
- End censorship of WSWS articles on Kaiser union social media!
- Harvard graduate student union pushes through contract with cut in real wages
- Army general to lead Germany’s coronavirus crisis response team
- Wall Street falls as Fed chair points to accelerated taper of asset purchases
- FedEx locks out Australian workers fighting for improved wages and conditions
- The Man Who Paints Water Drops: Korean painter Kim Tschang-Yeul and the crisis of postwar art
- Rise in coronavirus outbreaks in German workplaces
- Channel drowning survivor reveals UK, French police left them to die
- Growing outrage among Australian teachers and parents over school COVID infections
- As winter wave of COVID-19 infections looms, Canada’s political elite plans to let Omicron variant rip through population
- Indigenous people in Australia twice as likely to be infected with COVID-19
2021-12-02
- US admiral calls for “six, seven or eight” aircraft carriers in the Pacific
- Australia: Sydney light rail suspended for 18 months after serious cracks discovered
- Titian: Women, Myth & Power at the Gardner Museum in Boston: The great Renaissance painter comes in for “moral scrutiny” from the New York Times
- SEP meeting discusses the socialist policies needed to fight Sri Lankan government’s budget
- US-backed forces in Solomon Islands continue campaign to remove government after anti-Chinese riots
- Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz and Germany’s federal states reject necessary pandemic restrictions
- Philippine government ramps up campaign for “living with the virus”
- Supreme Court launches frontal assault on right to abortion
- Ilhan Omar receives death threats after conflict with Lauren Boebert
- New Zealand opposition picks new right-wing leader
- National Labor Relations Board orders new union election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama
- Witness testimony continues in trial of Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell
- Anger among Mississippi Ingalls shipbuilders on eve of contract extension vote
- Omicron COVID-19 variant detected in the United States
- “It’s a no vote from me and many others!” Opposition continues to grow at Kaiser Permanente to sellout contract
- Washington hails victory of Honduran opposition candidate
- “The laws are ultimately censorship”—SEP electoral members support campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic legislation
- Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows begins “engaging” with House committee investigating January 6 coup
- As class battle looms at major Canadian meatpacking plant, UFCW announces deal with food giant Cargill
- US seeks to block Spanish investigation into CIA operation against Assange as British ruling on extradition appeal is “imminent”
2021-12-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK university staff strike to defend pay, terms and pensions
- “It’s been three years of hell”: An air flight attendant’s fight to expose Southwest Airlines’ poisoning of its workforce
- Canadian Armed Forces providing military training to Ukrainian neo-Nazis
- Go-Ahead drivers in London win support for petition against Unite collusion over Remote Sign On
- Sri Lankan public sector workers hold nationwide protests to demand higher wages
- US and NATO ramp up anti-Russia war drive
- Referendum on direct election of UAW officers passes
- The Oxford High School shooting: What lessons are to be drawn?
- Biden offers platitudes while Omicron coronavirus variant spreads in US
- New Zealand rail union enters talks ahead of national strike
- New York City educators must defend striking Columbia University student-workers
- Tentative agreement announced in Kellogg’s strike
- SEIU pushes through contract to end month-long strike by hospital workers in Huntington, West Virginia
- SEP electoral members say new Australian electoral laws are “highly autocratic”
- ECDC warns Omicron variant to become dominant in Europe in a “few months”
- UK mother Lisa Diaz faces malicious prosecution for her stand over unsafe, COVID-infested schools
- Australian government proceeds with pro-business climate change policies after Glasgow summit debacle
- Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party to continue right-wing agenda in German state of Berlin
2021-12-04
- UK: Striking workers at B&Q distribution centre in Worksop determined to fight pay restraint
- Video: Workers must oppose Australian ruling elite’s homicidal response to Omicron variant
- Global vaccine inequality: “A policy decision by the rich countries”
- At online town hall, Kaiser union officials praise “joint” approach to cost-cutting in tentative agreement
- Trump hid positive coronavirus test prior to presidential debate with Joe Biden last year
- Australian government in “chaos” as pandemic intensifies political disarray
- Omicron outbreak in Sydney school as Australian governments reject safety measures
- Australia’s under-funded healthcare system confronts major nursing shortages
- Indian courts continue to sanction open-ended imprisonment without trial
- Lives before profits! Stop the pandemic!
- Major League Baseball owners lock out players
- Two more Minnesota teachers die of COVID-19 as cases approach record highs
- Parents of Michigan high school shooter charged with manslaughter
- Workers defend Lisa Diaz as UK government steps up crackdown on parents
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- The lessons of the International Committee’s 1995 global struggle to defend jobs at Kellogg’s
- “We should all do this together. We could close Kaiser down!” Operating engineers speak out on two-month strike at Kaiser Permanente
- Biden administration resumes Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy
- Florida governor proposes state military force under his direct control
- Chile’s election: Boric and pseudo-left offer no defense against threat of fascism
- More details emerge on how Canadian governments covered up aerosol transmission of COVID-19
- Berlin primary school teacher describes new contract as “simply ridiculous!”
- Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), giant of American musical theater
2021-12-05
2021-12-06
- This week in history: December 6-12
- Collective bargaining agreement in Germany’s public sector: a slap in the face for all workers
- Sri Lankan government eases COVID-19 restrictions ignoring scientists’ warnings about Omicron
- After one year of the right-wing campaign, recall election concluding against Seattle Councilwoman Kshama Sawant
- Romanian Social Democrats join Grand Coalition government amid raging pandemic
- US District Court issues wrist slap fine for serious environmental pollution at BP refinery in northwest Indiana
- Amid pandemic, Washington escalates war threats against Russia
- Pennsylvania Educators support call for a Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- With robust police escort, fascist paramilitary group stages Saturday night march on Lincoln Memorial
- WHO says that Omicron could become the dominant variant globally
- New Zealand troops join imperialist intervention in the Solomon Islands
- Trial of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright to begin Wednesday
- Japan’s main opposition party elects new right-wing leader
- Union bureaucrats sell out Mississippi shipyard workers, force through contract extension
- Germany: Federal and state governments give the pandemic free rein
- French health care workers denounce government’s deadly pandemic policy
- Deere workers describe problems in working conditions, pay following end of strike
- Striking NSW teachers must fight for school shutdown to stop the spread of Omicron in Australia!
- Australia: Sydney bus drivers strike over pay and conditions
- DSA National Political Committee rejects calls to expel Jamaal Bowman for supporting Israeli war crimes
- Government crisis in Austria
- Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan prepares to enforce historic Tory assault on London transport
2021-12-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Rolling strikes on London Underground against ditching of dedicated Night Tube drivers
- Solomon Islands’ government defeats parliamentary no confidence motion
- French troops fire on growing protests against French presence in Africa
- Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines supports right-wing Robredo campaign
- The Omicron COVID-19 variant and the reckless endangerment of children
- Why we oppose prosecuting the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley
- US announces boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
- Delta spreads as New Zealand government ends Auckland lockdown
- Australian Labor Party leader makes pro-business election pitch
- Medical authorities warn of disaster as Omicron variant found in India
- Honduran “leftist” president-elect bows to Washington over Taiwan
- SEP electoral members speak on Workers’ Inquest into COVID-19 and Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Be My Voice, United States vs. Reality Winner, F@ck This Job and End of the Line: Four documentaries and portions of the truth
- The trade unions become the fourth partner in Germany’s new coalition government
- Ex-D.C. Guard officer accuses Army generals of lying to Congress about Pentagon actions during January 6 coup
- Columbia student workers: Expand the strike and oppose UAW sabotage!
- Europe passes 75 million COVID cases, as Omicron variant found in at least 17 countries across the continent
- Canadian educators declare support for Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Labor Party enforcing Australian ruling elite’s criminal response to Omicron variant
- New York attorney general belatedly calls for stricter coronavirus protections at Amazon warehouse
- 14,000 Airbus workers take part in “warning” strikes in Germany
- In a criminal disregard for human life, New York transit agency seeks increased ridership
2021-12-08
- Fascistic provocateur Eric Zemmour announces his presidential campaign bid in France
- Author Peter Ross Range discusses his new book, The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler came to Power, with David North
- Texas mask mandate ban reinstated by federal appeals court
- PSOE-Podemos government, Spanish trade unions agree to savage austerity
- Spring by the Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quintet: A remarkable “lost” 1968 debut jazz album is now available to a global audience
- Fast food delivery drivers in Sheffield, UK strike against Stuart deliveries, Just Eat
- Biden threatens economic sanctions and a repositioning of NATO troops in meeting with Putin
- The COVID-19 pandemic, the return of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in Germany
- The US boycott of the Beijing Olympics: A murderous state speaks of “human rights”
- Australian prime minister hectors port workers over limited strikes
- COVID-19 spreads through New Zealand schools and childcare centres
- Australia: NSW teachers hold first strike in ten years
- Trump co-conspirator and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows announces he will no longer cooperate with January 6 House Select Committee
- Eighteen coal miners and villagers massacred by Indian army in Nagaland
- Detroit teachers organize sickouts to demand school safety and Covid protections
- As Massachusetts COVID-19 cases rise sharply, public school infections at record high
- Support grows for UK safe schools campaigner Lisa Diaz amid widespread child infections
- Kellogg’s strikers overwhelmingly reject sellout contract, company moves to hire permanent replacements
- Opposition remains high to sellout contract as voting begins for 52,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers
- Promoters of “Wuhan lab” conspiracy theory fume as their claims fall apart
- A new turn in China’s Evergrande crisis
- Sri Lankan educators defend Lisa Diaz
- Australian government defies the law to block access to “National Cabinet” documents
- Germany’s New Green Foreign Minister Baerbock threatens Russia and China with nuclear weapons
2021-12-09
- New York Times sponsors a debate on the racial authenticity of West Side Story
- Justice Department launches lawsuit against Texas gerrymandering for violation of Voting Rights Act
- Turkish currency, living standards in free fall as pandemic rages
- Witnesses support accounts given by Epstein abuse victims in trial of his assistant Ghislaine Maxwell
- Unite betrays UK Tesco workers strike, USDAW plans company talks
- Three months after devastation of Hurricane Ida, thousands In Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana remain without permanent housing
- New Omicron alarm: Significant drop in protection for doubly vaccinated individuals
- Betrayal of Cádiz metal strike exposes Spanish Morenoite Izquierda Diario
- Billionaires increased wealth by $3.6 trillion in 2020, as millions died from global pandemic
- Social Democrat Chancellor Scholz takes power in Germany at head of “traffic light” coalition
- Omicron cases exacerbate COVID-19 crisis in Australian schools
- Philippine Justice Department files charges for just one murder in the Bloody Sunday massacre
- Mobilize the working class against the strikebreaking drive at Kellogg’s!
- Australia: Sydney rail workers hold 24-hour strike
- US: No money for COVID tests, blank check for the military
- Contract passes at Kaiser Permanente over significant opposition from health care workers
- UK: Johnson moves to Plan B measures over Omicron variant amid escalating government crisis
- In bid to blow up nuclear talks, US imposes sanctions, steals Iranian oil
- As Omicron begins to spread in India, school reopenings put tens of millions of children at risk of infection
- UK teacher with Long COVID welcomes Global Workers Inquest into the pandemic
- Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA’s long record of military support for Israel
- CFPE online meeting this Saturday: COVID-19 spreads through Australian schools—Lives before profit! Stop the pandemic!
- Bank for International Settlements raises concerns over financial system
- Benton Harbor, Michigan water crisis: More of the same toxic politics
- New York City reinforces vaccine-only approach to the pandemic
2021-12-10
- Washington, DC transit system announces it will keep defective train cars out of service for the rest of 2021
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- AFT President Randi Weingarten sabotages “safe schools” town hall
- Australian Labor Party helps government ram through another anti-democratic electoral law
- The “Summit for Democracy”: Biden gathers anti-democratic forces against Russia and China
- The Kathleen Stock affair: Identity politics versus socialist politics and democratic rights
- Striking Quebec child care workers should oppose union efforts to sabotage their struggle
- Bob Dole, 1923-2021: Democrats mourn death of right-wing Republican
- Mobilize the working class to stop the pandemic and the Omicron surge!
- People’s Covid Inquiry in the UK merely calls on Johnson government to make amends
- “How can they accept an extradition to the country that plotted to kill Julian, that plotted to kill a publisher because of what he published?”
- Minamata, suppressed by MGM, to be released in North America on December 15
- A balance sheet of Angela Merkel’s 16 years of rule in Berlin
- Kellogg’s workers win wide support for defying union sellout and strikebreaking threats
- Irish coalition government forced to introduce new restrictions as COVID cases surge
- Staff at Springfield, Oregon medical center launch five-day strike
- David Gulpilil (1953–2021): Talented dancer and actor who changed the way Australian film portrayed indigenous people
- Three northeast states deploy National Guard amid nationwide pandemic surge
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Oklahoma death row prisoner Bigler Stouffer
- Anger erupts over COVID-19 death of Chicago Public Schools educator as cases spike
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog glorifies fascist killer Kyle Rittenhouse
- Growth of the class struggle in Australia highlights need for rank-and-file committees
- Britain’s High Court rules on United States extradition appeal: Assange must be handed to his assassins
2021-12-11
- Youth mental health issues in the US have skyrocketed during pandemic
- UK: Unite leader Sharon Graham wins chorus of approval from the corporate media
- Biden backs Ukrainian president’s militarist policies in phone conversation
- Numerous warnings were issued in advance of tornadoes that killed dozens of candle factory and Amazon workers
- “They are killing us”: More flight attendants speak out about poisoned job uniforms
- US State Department holds talks with Sri Lankan Tamil leaders
- Schools emerge as new hotbed for COVID-19 infection in South Korea
- Unions ram through extension at Ingalls shipyard, stall for time at Newport News
- Socialist Equality Party to continue campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- UK: Mother “invited” to attend school meeting under police caution for protecting her son from unsafe schools
- UK High Court orders Assange extradited: A pseudo-legal travesty
- Delta coronavirus variant overwhelms US hospitals as Omicron variant looms large
- Meeting of the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in Germany: “We are at the beginning of great mass struggles of the working class”
- Fifty-five immigrants killed, over 100 injured in Mexico truck crash
- Final Epstein accuser testifies in Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Threat to fire striking Kellogg’s workers prompts nervous statement from Biden administration
- Health care workers skeptical about margin of contract ratification at Kaiser Permanente
- Family and coworkers cope with tragic suicide death of Stellantis autoworker in Toledo
- US consumer prices rise 6.8 percent, near 40-year high
- Dopesick: A compelling drama of the opioid crisis
- January 6 committee releases documents detailing Trump’s plot to overthrow election by declaring bogus “National Emergency”
- Winter pandemic surges in Canada amid warnings Omicron variant could increase infections eight-fold
- “A lot of things come down to money”: Race-based affirmative action and the furor over Canadian academic Carrie Bourassa’s native identity claims
- Australian governments create conditions for a huge surge of COVID infections
- Unite union sells out Arriva Wales dispute
- Power outage in Amazon’s cloud service disrupts technology throughout the United States
- ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages workers go on strike in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2021-12-12
2021-12-13
- West Coast educators and parents support Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- This week in history: December 13-19
- “Amazon should absolutely be held liable”: Growing outrage over deaths of workers kept on the job during massive tornado outbreak in US
- Unionization vote passes at Starbucks in Buffalo, New York
- Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant declares “apparent victory” in recall election
- Papua New Guinea: Ongoing catastrophe amid third wave of Delta virus
- Massachusetts hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 surge
- G7 foreign ministers summit in Liverpool threatens Russia, China
- Germany’s new health minister continues “profits before lives” policies
- Kellogg’s strikers denounce mass firing threat, two-tier wages from the picket lines in Battle Creek, Michigan
- Guernica, Lidice, My Lai … and now Talon Anvil
- Julian Assange suffered stroke during High Court appeal for extradition
- Indonesian government scraps planned COVID-19 restrictions despite risk of Omicron spread
- University of Florida investigation finds researchers felt pressured to suppress COVID-19 data, criticisms of Governor Ron DeSantis
- Dr. Anthony Leonardi discusses the Omicron variant and the COVID-19 pandemic
- The Velvet Underground: Self-imposed constraints weaken filmmaker Todd Haynes’s documentary
- UK’s Omicron variant cases could reach 8 million within weeks
- The misunderstood—and misrepresented—Zero COVID policy in China
- Australia joins the few countries backing the US-led Olympic boycott
- Germany’s new chancellor and foreign minister visit Paris and Warsaw: Promoting European Great Power policy
- Australian government, Labor opposition greenlight US rendition of Julian Assange
2021-12-14
- Over 100 feared dead as recovery efforts continue following massive tornado outbreak across the US Midwest and South
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fuel leak at Pearl Harbor military base contaminates drinking water on the Hawaiian island of Oahu
- One year of vaccines, but COVID pandemic rages on
- The New York Times’ crude attempt to pit Detroit parents against educators as pandemic rages
- Support the Turkish health care workers’ strike movement!
- Government crisis in Sweden strengthens far-right
- As COVID-19 surges, France’s Révolution Permanente attacks public health measures
- Quebec authorities left long-term care residents to die in pandemic’s first wave
- Philippine Supreme Court upholds anti-democratic Anti-Terrorism Law
- Soaring social inequality under New Zealand Labour government
- Billionaire executive Charlie Munger proposes windowless dormitory for 4,500 students at UC Santa Barbara
- Fourth Minnesota teenager dead from COVID-19
- José Antonio Kast: Chile’s left paves the way for a fascist
- China’s Zero COVID policy proves that the elimination of COVID-19 is possible
- South Dakota teachers scramble at “Dash for Cash” in desperate attempt to fund their classrooms
- Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows referred for criminal contempt of Congress in January 6 probe
- UK government announces first confirmed Omicron variant death in the world
- German federal and state governments continue “profits before life” policy despite high death toll and spread of Omicron variant
- Columbia student workers begin seventh week on strike, defying university’s strikebreaking threats
- Australia: Evan Blake speaks at Committee for Public Education online meeting
- An interview with veteran Australian actor, director John Bell: Eliminating Shakespeare is “like having a part of your brain removed”
- Barbados declares a republic: British imperialism’s legacy of slavery and colonialism
- Austria ends partial lockdown
- COVID catastrophe looms as Australian governments lift restrictions
2021-12-15
- The new West Side Story: A remaking of the Leonard Bernstein classic at war with itself
- Stagecoach Yorkshire bus drivers in UK reject revised pay deal and launch second week-long strike
- Omicron identified throughout the Southern US amid continuing child, educator deaths
- Sri Lankan port and free trade zone workers back global inquest into pandemic
- South Korea, Australia forge closer military ties
- Russia anticipates new COVID surge, even as deaths remain at record highs
- UK government adds more draconian measures to Police Bill, aimed at suppression of working class opposition
- 17-year-old Philadelphia high school student dies from COVID-19
- “There is no reason people should have been scrambling last minute to get to shelter”: Sister of worker killed in Amazon warehouse crushed by tornado speaks out on lack of safety
- New York nurses’ union stages impotent protests against understaffing
- Australian university union holds back industrial action
- Widespread boycott marks New Caledonia independence referendum
- Lisa Diaz, Sarah Saul condemn right-wing campaign to keep schools open amid surging pandemic
- What workers are striking against: A global profile of the Kellogg Company
- Kaiser workers: To prepare for our fight for safe staffing during Omicron, we must learn the lessons of the AHCU contract betrayal!
- Jittery markets await central bank decisions
- “Amazon won’t let us leave”: Latest US tornado disaster exposes ruling elite’s indifference to life
- UK government issues apology for Grenfell Tower fire, then blames construction industry
- Two years of Germany’s “profits before life” pandemic policy: nurses and doctors take stock
- “These laws aim to keep us in the dark”—Australian SEP electoral members denounce new anti-democratic laws
- World Health Organization warns of Omicron “tsunami”
- Johnson government hit by massive backbench rebellion opposing minimal COVID measures
- “The emergency is over,” declares Colorado Governor, as hospital system nears total collapse
- SEP (Australia) Emergency Public Meeting: British court decision puts Assange’s life in danger. Demand his immediate release!
- Workers denounce UK High Court verdict against Julian Assange: “A crime against humanity”
2021-12-16
- West Coast hospitals severely stressed as winter surge begins
- Wall Street rises on Fed monetary policy decision
- The issues in the Turkish health care workers national strike
- Governments refuse to take action as Omicron variant surges throughout the world
- New Zealand rail union cancels strike, presents sellout deal
- Time’s person of the year Elon Musk: Worshipping the pandemic profiteer
- Minneapolis-St. Paul airport maintenance workers authorize strike action
- US Congress approves massive $770 billion war budget
- Marighella, film on Brazil’s urban guerrilla leader, screened after two-year delay
- “His freedom is a political question”—Australian SEP supporters demand Assange’s release
- Tokyo considers boycott of Beijing Olympics
- At least 77 dead and dozens injured after gas tanker explodes in Haiti’s second largest city
- Indiana University grad student workers seek union certification
- Australian transport union working to push through sell-out deal at FedEx
- Video game workers spread strike against Activision Blizzard
- Biden presses forward with February 2022 resumption of student loan repayments
- Omicron explodes in Australia as governments scrap nearly all safety measures
- US postal workers’ union proposes tentative agreement with cuts to real wages, keeps two-tier system
2021-12-17
- B&Q distribution centre workers in Worksop, UK stage second week of strike action
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Volkswagen to cut around 900 temporary jobs in Germany
- Both major parties in Australia plan accelerated pro-business university restructuring
- After working to the bone … German orchestra leader sacked following musicians’ protest
- German Chancellor Scholz’s first speech: Praising Merkel, threatening Russia and committing to mass infection
- Mother threatened with jail and hefty fines for protecting her son from rampant COVID-19 infections in UK schools
- The Mark Meadows documents: The smoking gun of the January 6 coup plot
- “I lost both my wife and my mother this year”: Former UK National Health Service worker Charles Persinger speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Pennsylvania educators call for immediate closure of schools to stop the spread of COVID-19
- Scientists warn of looming catastrophe as Omicron spreads globally
- Omicron case identified in New Zealand
- Six-week-long Maharashtra public transport workers strike endangered by unions’ sabotage
- Extreme low-pressure storm carves path of devastation across central US
- Jon Donaire bakery workers in California continue strike against speed up, mandatory overtime and low wages
- Workers Struggles: Asia and the Pacific
- Less than 24 hours before it announces sellout agreement, BCTGM tosses insulting $200 holiday “gift” to Kellogg’s strikers
- Vote NO on the tentative agreement at Kellogg’s! Build rank-and-file committees to expand the strike!
- Greece announces a record 130 COVID-19 deaths in a single day
- Fred Meyer and QFC grocery workers in Portland set to strike Friday
- COVID-19 infections in France explode to over 60,000 per day
- Union-dominated works councils pit Ford workers in Germany and Spain against each other for jobs
- UK announces 88,000 COVID cases in 24 hours as daily record broken twice
- Cornell University shuts down in the face of a massive surge of Omicron infections
- Derek Chauvin admits to killing George Floyd in plea deal on federal civil rights charges
- The Battle at Lake Changjin: A film that does nothing to shine light on the Korean War
- Only a COVID-19 elimination strategy can protect educators, students, and their families from the Omicron tsunami!
- Reports point to the rapid spread of cases in US auto plants amid an explosion of Omicron
- Hypocritical expressions of concern over Assange from Australian politicians
- Young people in Scotland speak up for Julian Assange: “We cannot just watch as remote legal proceedings develop and liberal articles are exchanged”
2021-12-18
- “The raises are insulting in this economy”: Postal workers oppose union-brokered tentative agreement
- Donald Trump invokes antisemitic tropes in interview with Israeli journalist
- EU summit threatens Russia
- PSOE-Podemos government arrests Cádiz workers as strikes spread in Spain
- US maintains support for Solomon Islands’ opposition forces after failed coup attempt
- Castillo government unleashes police against mining protest in Peru
- Close schools and nonessential businesses! Workers must act to stop Omicron!
- Teamsters union shuts down Southern California sanitation workers strike
- As COVID-19 cases skyrocket in New York City, schools, offices remain open
- Michigan educators call for immediate end to in-person schooling as COVID-19 infections surge
- “Workers around the world suffer the same conditions”: A former Kellogg’s worker in Australia sends a message of solidarity to US strikers
- Leaked email exposes union-management conspiracy to defeat Kellogg’s strike as Sanders attempts to deflect anger towards Mexico
- Democrats allow child tax credit to lapse as Omicron surges
- Retail chain pharmacy staff to stage walkout over unsafe working conditions, low pay
- Committee for Public Education (Australia) holds successful online meeting on the COVID crisis
- Scientists warn Canada’s health care system could collapse within weeks as Omicron infections explode in Ontario and Quebec
- Australian budget update flies in face of pandemic disaster
- Attacks on Brazilian scientists grow amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian governments ramp up “reopening drive” amid record COVID-19 infections
- “Julian Assange is an international hero to millions”—SEP supporters denounce British court ruling
2021-12-20
- US Fed chief worried about “wages push” in coming year
- VIDEO: Assange’s life is in danger. Attend emergency online meeting to demand his immediate release
- UN report documents massive attacks on democratic rights in Ukraine
- This week in history: December 20-26
- Truck drivers protest 110-year sentence for young driver whose brakes failed in 2019 Colorado crash that killed four
- Thailand eases restrictions despite Omicron warnings
- Omicron surge wreaks havoc on professional and college sports
- Support the #pizzaisnotworking walkouts by pharmacy workers! Trillions for public health, not pandemic profiteering!
- The Biden administration is lying: Scientists warned about Omicron threat
- Philadelphia high school switches to virtual learning after teachers threaten sickout strike
- Deadly fire in Osaka, Japan leaves at least 24 people dead
- Outgoing NIH director warns that Omicron variant means “a million cases a day” by February
- New Zealand Defence Assessment calls for more aggressive anti-China stance
- UK trade unions betray National Health Service workers pay struggle
- Trial of police officer Kimberly Potter for killing of Daunte Wright nears end
- A conversation with film historian and critic Joseph McBride, author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge—Wilder helped “lead America out of its puritanical isolation and xenophobia”
- Sex trafficking trial of Epstein assistant Ghislaine Maxwell moves to closing arguments
- West Virginia Senator Manchin kills Biden’s already stripped-down “Build Back Better” legislation
- Kevin Kühnert: From “party rebel” to SPD secretary-general
- Striking Kellogg’s workers oppose tentative agreement, call for broadening the strike
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds health workers’ forum on the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 pandemic
- Death toll rises in Germany even before Omicron variant takes hold
- UK reaches “hundreds of thousands” of daily COVID cases as education unions demand schools reopen in January
- Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge—An invaluable critical study of the popular filmmaker
- Six children killed in jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania, Australia
- Canada joins US-led Olympic boycott as Trudeau government pursues ever more belligerent anti-China policy
2021-12-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tentative agreement to end Massachusetts nurses strike after intervention of Biden administration
- UK Tesco workers—reject USDAW-Unite pay sellout!
- COVID-19 explodes in Spain as PSOE-Podemos government refuses action
- New Zealand: More bodies photographed after sealing of Pike River mine
- Retail pharmacy workers speaking out after nationwide walkout action to oppose unsafe working conditions
- Biden administration doubles down on “vaccine-only” strategy as Omicron emerges as dominant strain in US
- Omicron surge threatens to overwhelm health systems across the United States
- USW keeps Newport News shipbuilders on the job as union prepares another sellout deal
- Classified documents reveal Israeli government cover-up of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948
- Michigan legislature passes bill that would keep kids in schools without teachers
- Mack Trucks and UAW continue to push for profits at Macungie, Pennsylvania plant after worker dies of COVID-19
- Voting closes on concessions contract at Kellogg’s, while union uses divide-and-conquer tactics to break strike
- BCTGM union declares passage of contract at Kellogg's, ending nearly three-month strike
- French government rejects scientists’ calls to limit spread of Omicron variant
- Scientists warn European governments’ inaction on Omicron variant threatens social collapse
- Australian immunologist warns of Omicron “disaster”
- Retired US generals warn of 2024 election coup
- As UK Omicron cases and deaths surge, Johnson government does nothing to protect population
- German elderly care workers report dramatic pandemic experiences
- Flight attendants say US airlines forced them to wear toxic uniforms even after symptoms emerged
- Chile’s pseudo-left president-elect Gabriel Boric promises to work with far right
- Over 1,000 children have died from COVID-19 in the United States
- Price increases for food and other basic necessities to squeeze Canadian workers’ already hard-pressed incomes
- Brazil flying blind in Omicron surge as Bolsonaro attacks child vaccinations
- Top White House scientist warned opening schools and businesses would kill hundreds of thousands
- Australian governments double down on “reopening” as COVID-19 cases surge
- SEP supporters denounce UK court decision on Assange as “an evisceration of all legal norms”
- Sri Lankan court bails out Muslim poet Ahnaf Jazeem, after 18 months detention
- Australia’s two ruling parties rush to use new electoral laws to deregister rivals
2021-12-22
- Trump announces event to celebrate one-year anniversary of the violent January 6 attack on Capitol Hill
- Truck driver boycott forces Colorado state to begin process to lower the 110-year sentence for young driver in 2019 crash
- Quebec’s discriminatory Bill 21 causes hijab-clad teacher to be permanently removed from the classroom
- The Omicron surge: Scientific facts vs. Biden’s fictions
- Six more Philadelphia schools switch to virtual learning as Omicron spreads
- Two Olympic boycotts: Human rights in the service of imperialist gangsterism
- Finance capital and the COVID-19 pandemic
- New German Defense Minister visits German combat troops in Lithuania
- Britain’s National Health Service faces disaster as Omicron surges
- Peter Jackson’s Get Back: A Beatles fan creates a devoted tribute
- German government refuses to take action to avert Omicron disaster
- Striking Jon Donaire bakery workers overwhelmingly reject contract backed by BCTGM union
- Germany sees massive job cuts in all sectors
- Inflation soars to record level as UK wages stagnate
- COVID rapidly spreading through Detroit auto plants with reports of at least three deaths
- Australian medical experts speak out against the scrapping of pandemic safety measures
- VIDEO: Join emergency online meeting today to demand Julian Assange’s immediate release
- Airline industry pushes for return to full capacity as Omicron explosion begins
2021-12-23
- Minimal restrictions introduced in Scotland as Omicron wave takes hold
- German banks and big business profit from death in the pandemic
- “Civilian Casualty Files” documents the barbarism of US imperialism in Iraq and Syria
- New Zealand government will not immediately lock down if Omicron appears in community
- Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley: The rise and fall of an American huckster
- Life expectancy in the US dropped by an astounding 1.8 years during the first year of the pandemic
- Anti-China witch-hunt: Harvard chemistry professor convicted for lying to federal authorities
- COVID-19 infections in South Korea hit record high following implemenation of “with COVID” policy
- Indian army deployed to break Jammu and Kashmir power workers’ strike
- Google executives dismiss employee demands for pay increases to meet inflation
- As Omicron spreads, German intensive care workers warn of already intolerable working conditions
- Australia’s housing crisis and the new anti-democratic electoral laws
- “They’re literally making us sick”: Pharmacy workers describe conditions that sparked US walkouts
- UK Tory government weaponises Christmas against COVID restrictions
- Alarm bells ring across South Asia as Omicron variant spreads unchecked
- Canada’s top doctor: Reduce contacts immediately or Omicron will overwhelm hospitals
- Australia’s “National Cabinet” sets course for mass Omicron infections
- IHME projects 3 billion COVID-19 infections worldwide by March 2022
- B&Q warehouse workers in Worksop, UK to strike indefinitely over pay
2021-12-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Currency market turmoil impoverishes millions of Turkish workers
- What the resumption of student loan repayments will mean for millions of young people
- UK: Stuart delivery drivers in Sheffield strike into third week, spark action in other cities
- After Sterling Heights Assembly worker and husband die of suspected COVID-19, Stellantis management announces plant will run through Christmas Eve
- To oppose government austerity, Sri Lankan workers need to build action committees and fight for socialist policies
- “We have no way further to retreat,” says Putin, as NATO escalates military build-up on Russia’s borders
- Australian court refuses to reinstate sacked Qantas ground staff
- California nurse Elizabeth gives testimony for the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Former Minnesota police Officer Kim Potter found guilty in shooting death of Daunte Wright
- Podemos leader Yolanda Diaz admits she covered up danger from COVID-19
- Urgent action is necessary to stop viral transmission, save lives and end the pandemic
- “My campaign is spearheading a fightback”: Victimised London bus driver David O’Sullivan’s hearing set for January
- Latest excess deaths estimate places worldwide toll of pandemic above 18 million
- Anger mounts as New York Democrats fail to protect population from Omicron surge
- Markets continue to rise as Omicron spreads
- A reply to President Biden from California health care workers: “No, the country is not better prepared for COVID than last year!”
- First Omicron cases detected in Indonesia
- An intensive care physician’s report to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Foxconn forced to close key Indian facility after worker protest over mass food poisoning
- Explosion and fire at ExxonMobil refinery east of Houston
- As Omicron surges in Europe, governments prepare holiday catastrophe
- Doctors call for Julian Assange’s immediate release
- SEP holds emergency online meeting to demand immediate freedom for Julian Assange
2021-12-25
2021-12-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Omicron surge intensifies crisis in Washington state public schools
- New York state judge issues prior restraint order against New York Times
- This week in history: December 27-January 2
- CDC surrenders US population to the spread of Omicron
- More workers died of COVID-19 at one Michigan auto plant than all of China in 2021
- Solomon Islands’ government invites Chinese riot police deployment
- French parent calls for rank-and-file committee to fight state COVID-19 policy
- Making a killing: Pfizer’s domination of the market for COVID jabs
- An Anniversary of Stalinist Counterrevolution: 30 years since the end of the USSR
- Actor Chris Noth fired from The Equalizer television series amid sexual assault claims
- “Opposition to the herd immunity policy is overwhelming”: European Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education meeting outlines strategy to end pandemic
- For a “Zero COVID” policy in Canada’s schools!—an appeal from a special-needs educator
- Anger among Kellogg’s workers as work restarts following union betrayal of two-month strike
- James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches
- COVID-19 danger persists in Japan as Omicron variant takes hold
- French government rejects lockdown as COVID-19 cases skyrocket past 100,000
- Florida sees alarming growth of COVID-19 infections fueled by Omicron variant
- UK Johnson government takes no new measures against pandemic
- Ferry fire in Bangladesh claims 41 lives
- Thousands of flights canceled worldwide due to rising infections among airline workers
- Australian governments let loose soaring COVID-19 infections
2021-12-29
- Volkswagen workers kept in the dark following new union-management consultations on restructuring
- What is behind the American Postal Workers Union and the Postmaster General’s 10-year plan?
- German district calls for elderly homes to block access to hospital for residents with COVID-19
- UK: Stagecoach Yorkshire bus workers to take indefinite strike from New Year
- Nearly 300 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean in the week before Christmas
- CDC backs corporate demands to force the sick back to work
- Child COVID-19 hospitalizations quadruple in New York City as Omicron spreads
- Migrant workers face discriminatory policies in New Zealand
- National Labor Relations Board agreement expands union access to Amazon workers
- Los Angeles police officer fires assault rifle in crowded store, killing 14-year-old girl
- Sri Lankan health workers endorse the Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 pandemic
- Adam Hilton’s True Blues, the Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party: A DSA fairy tale about the Democratic Party
- UK HGV drivers’ health and lives endangered by “epidemic” levels of fatigue
- San Diego sanitation workers continue strike for wages and safe working conditions
- 13-year-old Florida boy on dirt bike dies during attempted traffic stop by police
- Don’t Look Up: Science vs. a deadly catastrophe confronting humanity
- UK children with disabilities asked about “do not resuscitate” notices during COVID pandemic
- Outrage among US workers over CDC decision to reduce quarantine guidelines
- Omicron variant fuels unprecedented surge in Canada’s COVID-19 cases
- Australian health workers report dire conditions as COVID-19 cases soar
- Australian SEP supporters: “The only force that can free Assange is the international working class”
- Apple employees mount one-day strike on Christmas Eve to demand COVID-19 protections and better working conditions
- Russian Supreme Court orders liquidation of Memorial, the leading research center on Great Terror
2021-12-30
- CDC Director Walensky dismisses the seriousness of child COVID-19 hospitalizations
- Ukrainian government expands military conscription among women
- Man claiming to work for Turkish intelligence burned Syrian refugees to death
- An open letter to the working class: The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!
- Biden administration withdraws federal COVID-19 safety standards for health care workers
- Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of sex-trafficking young girls for Jeffrey Epstein
- Misanthropy and ‘90s nostalgia: The Matrix Resurrections
- A financial “blockbuster” year fuelled by death and disease
- Rate of police killings remained unchanged in 2021
- Morenoite Izquierda Diario criticizes lockdowns as COVID-19 surges in Spain
- Daily COVID-19 infections near 1 million as Omicron wave engulfs Europe
- Detroit police killed 33-year-old mother one week before Christmas
- Fascist kills five people in shooting spree; Denver police chief admits shooter was “on the radar of law enforcement”
- Omicron variant thrashes global luxury cruising industry
- Parents in Australia expose COVID-19 school clusters
- British Columbia’s New Democratic government intensifies policy of mass infection as Omicron spreads
- Australian medical specialist speaks out about escalating COVID crisis
- Michigan governor signs bill to keep K-12 classes open by using non-teaching staff as substitutes
- Outrage grows as Australia’s “National Cabinet” scraps basic protections against mass COVID infections
2021-12-31
- Workers respond to Socialist Equality Party open letter calling for movement to end the pandemic
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The historic assault on university education and Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
- Turkish government rejects public health measures as Omicron rages
- UK Employment Tribunal rules against worker who refused to return to work over COVID safety concerns
- December tornadoes cut swath of devastation through southeastern Missouri
- 10 individuals increased their net worth by $500 billion in 2021
- Pakistan to impose new raft of austerity measures and pro-investor reforms to secure IMF bailout funds
- Typhoon Rai death toll rises to 397 in the Philippines
- White House lies about child hospitalizations amid Omicron surge
- An open letter to all workers: The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!
- New Zealand government removes more public health restrictions despite Omicron cases
- Stop the reopening of New York City schools! Mobilize the working class to save lives, not profits!
- UK health workers denounce government refusal to combat Omicron threat to National Health Service
- CUPE’s sabotage of the New Brunswick public sector strike—the political lessons
- Favorite jazz and pop music of 2021
- Modi ignores Court request to postpone elections as Omicron surges in India
- Maryland State Board of Education passes proposal to loosen mask regulations in schools as state sees record infections
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Preface to Halil Çelik: A Fighter for Socialism
- Scientists denounce French government’s inaction amid Omicron wave
- Sri Lankan and Indian ruling elites whip up national rivalry between poverty-stricken fishing communities
- Deere CEO John May brought onto Ford board of directors
- Australian unions promote slashing of COVID-19 health measures
- United Auto Workers prepares another sellout contract at Columbia University
- The arts, film and television during the second year of the pandemic
- Ambulance services buckling as COVID-19 surges in Australia
- Colorado governor reduces sentence of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos to 10 years, while workers continue to call for his freedom
- Australia’s governments scrap virtually all safety measures amid skyrocketing COVID cases
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