Archive: 01/2022
2022-01-04
- Top Pentagon official declares Taiwan critical to “vital US interests”
- This week in history: January 3-9
- German court ruling on triage for elderly patients in pandemic: A double-edged sword
- The CDC’s unscientific “Test to Stay” program: A pro-corporate COVID-19 policy to keep schools open
- Book Review: The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland by Mark Kruger
- K-12 schools forced open across the US amid Omicron surge
- The Power of the Dog: A small world under the big sky
- Philippine election in crisis, as COVID cases skyrocket
- 2022: Year Three of the pandemic and the emerging global class struggle
- Amid record-breaking COVID infections, Pennsylvania governor and teacher unions call for in-person learning to continue
- Facing public outrage and Omicron catastrophe, Ontario government reluctantly delays school reopening
- The massive Omicron surge is leading to soaring hospitalization in the US
- New York City educators, parents and students must act now to close schools to stop the spread of COVID-19!
- European Union funds Greece’s fascistic anti-refugee offensive—Part 1
- Ford: Works councils in Germany and Spain outdo each other with savings proposals
- ATF joins investigation into New Year’s Eve fire which destroyed abortion clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Hundreds of new COVID-19 cases in Fiji amid third Delta wave
- As Omicron infections soar, Europe’s governments force the sick back to work
- No return to schools! Children’s lives matter!
- Cruise ship crews respond to heightened CDC warnings, recommendation to “avoid cruise travel”
- Marshall Fire displaces thousands in worst wildfire in Colorado history
- US moves to shut down case reporting to cover up Omicron disaster
- Australian hospitals in meltdown amid record COVID-19 infections
- As flight cancellations mount, airlines pressure COVID infected crews to return to work
2022-01-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Longest nurses strike in Massachusetts history ends with concessions contract
- New Jersey to pay $53 million to settle claims related to 119 veterans’ home COVID-19 deaths
- UK unions’ betrayal of 2021’s strikes must be answered by forming rank-and-file committees
- World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism
- Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of criminal fraud
- K-12 schools reopen as Omicron surges throughout the US South
- Major winter storm causes turmoil throughout the US Capital Region
- Sri Lankan president blames COVID-19 for economic crisis
- How American capitalism profits on death
- UK National Health Service overwhelmed as COVID surge escalates
- Michigan teachers discuss collective action to close schools
- After seeking to bring back defective railcars, Washington D.C. transit system reverses course again after more defects emerge
- Chicago mayor threatens locked out teachers with legal action, as entire political establishment mobilizes behind school reopening
- Jazz pianist, bebop legend Barry Harris dies of COVID at 91
- European Union funds Greece’s fascistic anti-refugee offensive—Part 2
- Texas power grid remains unprepared for severe winter storms
- Global arms sales rise amid pandemic
- German government looks to shorten quarantine time despite Omicron and rising infections
- Florida COVID-19 infections continue to hit record levels as officials abandon testing measures
- Cruise ship workers must form committees to protect the lives, health of passengers and crew!
- House Select Committee plans open televised hearings on January 6 attack
- Johnson declares, “We can find a way to live with this virus” as UK reports one-day record 218,000 COVID infections
- Chicago teachers vote to reject return to in-person learning as COVID-19 cases surge
- Infections and hospitalizations skyrocket as Canadian governments facilitate rampant Omicron spread
- Bruce Springsteen sells his music, songwriting catalog to Sony for $550 million
- Australian health workers warn of hospital system collapse
- Julian Assange passes one thousand days in Belmarsh Prison, dubbed “Britain’s Guantanamo Bay”
- Apple market valuation touches $3 trillion
- Australian epidemiologist Adrian Esterman condemns government response to Omicron
- Eric Adams takes office as Mayor of New York City, pledging to keep schools open amidst record COVID-19 infections
2022-01-06
- China’s lockdown in Xi’an suppressing COVID-19 outbreak
- Omicron surge pushing the US health care system over a precipice
- Canton, Ohio police officer fatally shoots man during New Year’s celebration just minutes into 2022
- The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!—an open letter to the working class
- Thousands of students and faculty take a stand against the University of Michigan’s return to in-person learning
- Nervous reaction on Wall Street to Fed minutes
- Macron launches obscene rant against the unvaccinated as COVID-19 soars
- Colorado King Soopers grocery workers authorize strike in nearly unanimous vote
- Fire in Philadelphia row house kills 12 people, including 8 children
- SEP Australia electoral members discuss worsening coronavirus infections and the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- One year since the fascist coup attempt of January 6
- Mobilize the working class behind Chicago teachers! Stop the pandemic!
- Teachers in San Francisco and Oakland organize wildcat sickouts
- German Federal Court of Justice confirms lenient sentence for NSU accomplice André Eminger
- US autoworkers sound alarm as Omicron rips through factories
- Australian prime minister declares the country must “ride the wave” of Omicron surge
- Afghans protest Washington’s starvation strategy
2022-01-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US West Coast hospitals overwhelmed by Omicron with thousands of doctors and nurses infected
- Multimillionaire Republican donor declares vaccines are part of a Jewish plot for world domination
- Historical falsification and the struggle for socialism
- Philadelphia teachers demand switch to virtual learning as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
- What Biden did not say in his national address on the January 6 coup attempt
- Third Omicron case found in New Zealand
- Omicron is not “mild”
- Thousands of Michigan health care workers test positive for COVID-19 as Omicron surge accelerates
- Kazakhstan mobilizes military, kills dozens in attempt to suppress mass protests
- The way forward for University of Michigan faculty and students in the fight against the pandemic
- Emergency Meeting! Close All Schools to Stop the Spread of Omicron!
- German police raid far-right antivaxers who planned a series of murders
- Australian authorities revoke entry permit for anti-vaccine tennis player Novak Djokovic after public backlash
- Chicago teachers’ struggle part of growing class battle against deadly pandemic policy
- The Real Charlie Chaplin: New documentary about the immortal comic actor, director
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 4,764 job deaths, not including thousands from COVID-19
- Mounting crisis in Australian hospitals drives workers to quit
2022-01-08
- Letter from a supplemental autoworker on 12-hour shifts at Warren Truck Assembly Plant
- US hospitalizations for COVID-19 rapidly closing in on pandemic high
- US Supreme Court hears challenge to Biden administration vaccine mandates
- Australian state government considers forcing unvaccinated COVID patients to pay for hospital care
- COVID-19 surges in Thailand, amid mounting Omicron cases
- Squid Game and the survival drama genre
- Spanish authorities to cut COVID-19 reporting as cases explode
- US pressure mounts over Solomon Islands’ relations with China
- Educators and parents denounce UK education unions over unsafe schools
- An open letter to all South Asian workers: The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!
- Teachers and students denounce nightmarish conditions as Omicron rips through US schools and colleges
- An open letter to workers in Australia: Join the global fight to end the pandemic and save lives in 2022!
- Republic Services mobilizes scab labor against striking workers
- Pioneering African-American actor Sidney Poitier dead at 94
- Capitalism’s perpetual pandemic
- US health staff forced to work while infected with COVID-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia and New Zealand
- Colorado grocery workers prepare for three-week strike against King Soopers supermarket chain
- India reports first Omicron death as daily infections surge past 100,000
- Teachers and students in Germany support Chicago teachers’ fight for remote learning
- More details emerge about the causes of Philadelphia row house fire which killed a dozen people
- Steelworkers union conspires with auto parts maker Dana to keep workers on the line despite mass infection
- Lockout of Chicago teachers continues as child hospitalizations climb
- Rank-and-file Canadian educators to hold emergency meeting this Sunday to fight for COVID-19 elimination strategy
- London bus drivers expose safety breaches amid Omicron surge: “They have sent us to death row”
- Infections rise in Brazil as Omicron spreads across the country
- Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair knighted, courtesy of Corbyn’s cowardice
- German Foreign Minister Baerbock and US Secretary of State Blinken intensify warmongering against Russia
- Hospitals in crisis as Australian COVID-19 infections surge
- No, colleges and universities are not safe to reopen for in-person learning
- Alabama educator calls for support to Chicago teachers, “We got our degrees to teach, not to die.”
- Three killers of Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life in prison
2022-01-09
- 2021 deadliest-ever year for drug overdose deaths in British Columbia
- UK: “Much loved” teacher, Nick Stone, dies of COVID-19
- A comment on the Iranian film, Mermaid, and an interview with writer-director Saber Mostafapour: “Cinema is nothing without reality”
- Sudan’s prime minister resigns amid lethal military crackdown on protests
- UK first European country to record 150,000 official COVID deaths
- UK: Colston Four acquittals fuel Johnson government’s determination to intensify law-and-order agenda
2022-01-10
- Northern California man sues police who paralyzed him during traffic stop, mocked his cries for help
- This week in history: January 10-16
- Amid warnings of an Omicron surge, Sri Lankan government maintains criminal “opening up” policy
- Cruise ship doctor exposes shipboard conditions amid Omicron crisis
- Knoxville, Tennessee abortion clinic fire ruled arson
- The stench of eugenics at the White House
- New Zealand government to reopen schools despite Omicron threat
- Week two of forced in-person school begins in Massachusetts amid record COVID case counts
- More than half a million new pediatric COVID-19 cases reported last week, shattering previous records
- Kazakhstan crisis heightens instability in Central Asia
- Canton, Ohio police, district attorney, blame victim after body camera footage confirms cop shot James Williams without warning
- Profits before lives: Germany’s federal and state governments shorten quarantine time despite massive Omicron wave
- Deadliest fire disaster in decades kills 17, including 8 children, in New York City
- Infection with the virus causing COVID-19 may increase the risk of diabetes in children
- A high school student’s petition demands remote option for Massachusetts schools
- US autoworkers call for shutdown of production as Omicron spreads
- Healthy double-vaccinated 23-year-old dies from COVID in Sydney
- Chicago teachers in forefront of nationwide fight to close schools as COVID-19 infections reach record levels
2022-01-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Unforgivable: A woman leaves prison and the punishment begins
- Quebec government’s decision to let Omicron run rampant pushes hospitals beyond the brink
- Omicron variant drives COVID surge to record levels in the Philippines
- With world’s highest COVID-19 death rate, Peru confronts third wave of pandemic
- Winter of death: Two deadly housing fires in less than a week expose the reality of American capitalism
- New York City universities plan to reopen for in-person instruction amid Omicron surge
- Hospitals in Massachusetts exceeding capacity, threatening collapse of the state’s health care system
- “Your determined struggle is being watched around the world”: Parents, workers back Chicago teachers’ fight against in-person learning
- UK campaigner Lisa Diaz subject to concerted media attack for demanding COVID safe schools
- “There are zero safety protocols to keep us safe from COVID”: Autoworker denounces conditions at Warren Truck Plant
- Acclaimed Australian respiratory scientist Guy Marks calls for global action to end the pandemic
- US and Russia meet for negotiations in Geneva
- Democrats attempt to deflect blame for deadly Bronx fire
- Australian court overturns government cancellation of Novak Djokovic’s visa
- UK schools kept open as child infections soar above 3 million
- Continuing problems for China’s real estate sector
- China implements stringent measures to suppress Omicron outbreak in Tianjin
- More than half a million children infected with COVID-19 in the US last week, shattering previous records
- Chicago Teachers Union attempts to ram through agreement to reopen schools as Omicron surges
- Vote “No” on the CTU-CPS deal to reopen infected schools and spread COVID-19! Educators must launch a walkout now to save lives!
- New California guidelines push COVID-infected health care workers back to work
- Auto factories are not safe! Stop production to halt spread of Omicron!
- Australia Post workers oppose criminal “let it rip” COVID-19 policies
- Australia records eighth-highest weekly COVID-19 infection total globally
- Paradigm shift in Austria: Government openly advocates deliberate mass infection
- University of Michigan instructors and students denounce reckless in-person teaching
2022-01-12
- WHO warns: Government policies will make half of Europeans catch COVID-19
- Biden gives lip service to voting rights in Atlanta as legislation remains stalled in Senate
- Virginia legal aid groups drop lawsuit against unemployment agency despite massive backlog of unresolved claims
- Fed chair’s confirmation testimony focuses on wages
- FDA director tells Senate “Most people in the US are going to get COVID”
- Committee for Public Education (Australia) sends messages of solidarity to Chicago teachers
- Amid record COVID infections, say no to Australian school reopenings! Educators, students, parents—join the fight for rank and file safety committees!
- A modest proposal by Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara to help Democrats restore faith in two-party system
- UK: Oppose Unite’s betrayal of Stagecoach Yorkshire pay strike
- Amplify Energy indicted for causing massive oil spill off the coast of Southern California last October
- Sri Lanka: Kahatagaha mine workers protest lockout and cuts in daily allowances
- Video emerges of New York police running away, looking on, after setting a man ablaze with a taser, resulting in his death
- A New Year’s appeal from the World Socialist Web Site
- One thousand Oakland, California students plan strike in opposition to deadly school reopening
- “The teachers are with us, and we have their backs”: 1,000 K-12 students in New York City walk out to protest unsafe reopening of schools
- Engineer Nicolas Smit exposes Canadian authorities’ refusal to protect workers from COVID-laced aerosols
- Modi indicates no lockdown even as COVID-19 tsunami rips through India
- Two US miners killed in first week of 2022
- Mack Trucks workers: We must defend ourselves from the corporate effort to sacrifice us for profit!
- Los Angeles school district restarts in-person learning as pediatric hospitalizations skyrocket
- The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) and the 1947 smallpox outbreak: “Every effort must be made. …”
- Greek police attack strikers at Kavala Oil
- The way forward for high school students in the fight against the pandemic and the reopening of schools
- Strike by Huntington, West Virginia metalworkers passes 100 days
- Fed Vice Chair Clarida resigns amid revelations of how he cashed in on the pandemic
- Opposition high among Chicago teachers as voting begins on CTU leaders’ deal to reopen schools
- West coast educators: Organize action to close schools!
2022-01-13
- Young workers expose conditions amid Omicron surge in Australia
- Wildcat strike erupts against Turkish metal unions’ sellout contracts
- Flint “Water Warrior” Tony Palladeno Jr. dies tragically of COVID-19
- Southern educators, parents and students must act now to close schools to stop the spread of COVID-19!
- Hundreds of thousands of power-loom operators in south India launch indefinite strike
- Communist Party of the Philippines opposes mandatory vaccination, demands school re-openings
- From Paris to Chicago: The global fight to close schools and save lives
- Omicron surge is pushing hospitals to the brink across the US
- New Zealand scientists express alarm over Omicron threat
- Failure of NATO-Russia Council underscores the risk of war
- Thousands of Colorado grocery workers strike at King Soopers as opposition continues to build in the working class
- Johnson government plunged into crisis, the working class must bring it down
- December inflation surge leaves US workers’ wages even further behind
- New revelations in assassination of Haitian president point to conspiracy of high-ranking government officials
- Students, parents and educators in Germany condemn the reckless policy of deliberate infection with coronavirus
- French teachers launch one-day strike against Macron’s COVID-19 policy
- UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee holds meeting on threat of Omicron
- Eastern Europe reaches over 1 million coronavirus deaths
- Victimised bus driver David O’Sullivan’s preliminary hearing opens in Watford
- Sri Lankan educators’ safety committee supports Chicago teachers fight against union sellout
- Chicago Teachers Union claims deal to reopen schools amidst surging pandemic passes by 55 percent
- Bronx apartment building where recent blaze claimed 17 lives had numerous building code violations and tenant complaints
- Brazilian Army prepares for “Capitol scenario” in coming presidential election
- World Bank downgrades global growth forecast
- “This is exactly what all the factory workers should do”: Autoworkers support struggle by teachers and students to shut down schools
- Australia records deadliest week of pandemic as governments force more close contacts back to work
- Australian union chief offers services to the government amid mass anger over COVID surge
2022-01-14
- Worksop B&Q warehouse workers enter fourth week of all-out pay strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Congressional Democrats maintain pretense as Biden concedes defeat on voting rights bill
- Striking Çimsataş workers appeal for support against Turkish police repression
- US Supreme Court strikes down Biden large employer vaccine mandate
- Ronnie Spector, singing star of the 1960s, dies at 78
- Sri Lankan migrant workers support Global Inquest into COVID-19 Pandemic
- Opposition by educators and students to in-person classes mounts as COVID-19 infections surge across US
- Students in Portland, Oregon issue call to action to close schools
- Family of Wichita, Kansas teenager Cedric Lofton demands justice after his death in juvenile detention
- Price surge slashes workers’ living standards
- Israel escalates war on all fronts against Palestinians
- Pennsylvania moves forward with a vicious attack on the public university system as enrollment collapses
- Mass infections among New York City transit workers raises prospect of further deaths
- Thousands of students in Chicago and across the US protest unsafe return to schools
- Australian media COVID propaganda barrage intensifies ahead of schools’ reopening
- Denver area King Soopers strike part of growing wave of opposition in the working class
- UK: Further revelations of Tory government partying during COVID lockdown
- French teachers strike vs. COVID-19 policies
- Leader of fascist Oath Keepers arrested on seditious conspiracy in January 6 coup attempt
- Corbyn and McDonnell combine to help manage the Johnson government’s crisis
- UAW secures second tentative agreement at Columbia with de facto pay cuts
- Students, educators and parents angered over Chicago Teachers Union deal to reopen schools
- How Canada’s homicidal let it rip policy paved the way for the catastrophic Omicron wave
- Massachusetts principal admonishes students for sharing photos of their COVID-19 rapid tests
- Australian governments forcing COVID-exposed workers to stay on the job, pressing ahead with school reopenings
- Labor leader promises strategic maritime fleet as part of Australia’s preparations for war
- Amazon cuts COVID-19 quarantines in half to keep workers on the job
- Amazon workers strike for one day in Leipzig, Germany
2022-01-15
- German student Yasmin’s protest against unsafe in-person teaching sparks wave of solidarity
- US hospitals rapidly reaching capacity as Omicron continues nation-wide surge
- US media launches war propaganda campaign against Russia as CIA prepares to back an “insurgency” in Ukraine
- Wildcat strike at Çimsataş defies company, Turkish police and unions
- Growing support for Southern California trash collection workers as local government seeks to break month-long strike
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana teachers stage sickout as COVID-19 ravages the South
- Seattle students and teachers stage walkouts over lack of COVID-19 safety protocols in schools
- Being the Ricardos: Aaron Sorkin plays fast and loose with the history of the Hollywood Red Scare
- Stewart Rhodes and Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy
- Students and teachers in Oakland, California, speak on planned strike against unsafe schools
- New York Times compares China’s Zero-COVID policies to the Holocaust
- Mexico’s COVID cases soar as AMLO minimizes danger
- Nationwide protests break out in Lebanon amid mounting economic, social and political crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- COVID-19 cases surge 340 percent among ICE detainees in one week
- US government moves to end daily COVID-19 death reporting by hospitals
- Documents show Google operated a secret management program to prevent workers from organizing
- Australian SEP electoral members discuss Omicron surge and Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Crisis-ridden Australian government cancels Novak Djokovic’s visa amid mass backlash
- Thousands of Chicago students walk out to protest unsafe return to schools
- Attend Committee for Public Education meeting to fight the deadly reopening of Australia’s schools amid COVID surge
- Mass opposition to Monday’s return to in-class learning in Ontario and Quebec
- Hundreds of Boston students walk out to protest lack of remote learning option amid COVID-19 surge
- Potential strike by BNSF Railway workers over new attendance policy
- Australian governments claim Omicron peaking as hospitalisations and deaths mount
- Appalachian State faculty member issues open letter against administration’s reckless COVID-19 policies
2022-01-17
- Jacobin to teachers and kids: Back to death trap schools!
- Volcanic eruption in Tonga triggers tsunami warnings across the Pacific
- This week in history: January 17-23
- Management-union collaboration ends Çimsataş wildcat strike in Turkey
- Hostages released and suspect dead after 10-hour standoff in Texas
- Spanish scientists oppose PSOE-Podemos call to treat COVID-19 like the flu
- Doctor discusses desperate situation at Sri Lankan COVID-19 treatment hospital
- Redondo Beach, California high school students walk out amid mass COVID-19 infections
- US and NATO escalation of conflict with Russia is leading to war
- Fire ravages chemical plant in Passaic, New Jersey
- Omicron wave in Germany leads to massive increase in infections
- Omicron’s surge through rural America will take a terrible toll
- Missouri hospitals and schools reel from staffing shortages
- The effort to “delete” American novelist Norman Mailer
- Starmer and Corbyn try to prop up UK government as Johnson flounders
- UK income inequality worsens during pandemic
- Germany’s health care workers’ bonus—another insult to employees
- 32-year-old Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker dies of COVID-19
- Thousands attend mass funeral for Bronx fire victims
- Novak Djokovic deported by Australian government terrified of public opposition to its “let it rip” COVID policies
- Australian childcare centres hit by COVID outbreaks
- Australian COVID-19 deaths continue to climb as governments claim Omicron is about to “peak”
- Thousands of airline workers out due to COVID-19 infections in the US
2022-01-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “Into school, it's the safest place for kids!”
- German media on course for war against Russia
- UK: Unite celebrates sell-out agreement at Stagecoach Yorkshire
- Record surge in COVID-19 child deaths as opposition grows among US educators and students
- University of Michigan President Schlissel, who led unsafe reopening of campus, fired over sex scandal
- UK Tory Party threatens war against Russia, prepares class war at home
- Quebec’s public health director forced to resign as Omicron infections overwhelm health care system
- Polls point to historic political crisis in Australia
- America’s COVID-19 nightmare
- Australian pathology worker warns about dangerous conditions facing frontline health staff
- Oxfam report “Inequality Kills”: Billionaires racked up wealth while millions died during the pandemic
- Oxfam report highlights widening pandemic inequality in Asia
- New York University announces in-person reopening for spring semester 24 hours after former librarian dies from COVID-19
- Australian prime minister demands schools reopen to maintain workforce for corporations
- Michigan educators and students: Join the fight to close schools and stop the pandemic!
- “Our literal lives are at stake!”: Students, teachers and parents back striking students in Oakland, California
- What King Soopers strikers are up against: profile of a corporate giant
- “Get COVID out of schools!”: Hundreds of school occupations in Greece
- Amid COVID-19 outbreaks in China, corporate fears of a worsening supply chain crisis
- Chicago students, teachers and workers: Unite! Close all schools and nonessential workplaces to end the pandemic!
- Ontario educator’s post about allowing infectious students to return to class gives voice to widespread outrage
- Robert Huber of Canton, Ohio police department identified as officer who killed James Williams
- Autoworkers describe horrible working conditions: “There are so many out because of COVID; we are operating with a serious skeleton crew”
- Trump peddles fascist lies and conspiracy theories at Arizona rally
- Amid record infections, Argentina’s Peronist President scraps measures to contain COVID
2022-01-19
- Winter storm wreaks havoc across Southeastern US
- Turkish iron miners launch wildcat strike for wages and benefits
- Over 1,000 Teck Resources copper miners in British Columbia voting on wage-cutting contract proposal
- UK: Johnson government suffers defeats in Lords over Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill amendments, but core threat remains
- “Inequality kills”: Capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic
- New Jersey psychologist describes horrific conditions in K-12 schools during Omicron surge
- Michigan K-12 schools see 74 new COVID-19 outbreaks as opposition to in-person learning builds
- Hundreds of students walk out across Manitoba to protest unsafe schools
- The Lost Daughter and the challenges of motherhood
- King Soopers strike enters second week as company seeks restraining order against strikers
- Tory leadership crisis used to engineer savage rightward lurch
- COVID-positive health care workers in Washington state told to work while symptomatic
- Anger, grief among autoworkers following COVID death of young Chicago Ford worker
- Johnson ends mask-wearing in English schools
- David O’Sullivan’s preliminary hearing held at Watford Employment Tribunal
- January 6 Committee announces new subpoenas targeting Giuliani and other Trump coup lawyers
- Coronavirus infection rates in Germany reach all-time high
- Seattle-area concrete workers strike enters third month
- Further slowdown in Chinese growth
- Nearly 1 million US children were infected with COVID-19 last week
- UK social care driven to the point of collapse by Omicron wave
- Amid record deaths Australian prime minister declares “we should not fear” Omicron
- Workers reveal COVID-19 infections at Australia Post
- Inquest evidence exposes COVID disaster at Australian aged care facility
- Australian unions appeal to business for “COVID-safe plans” to keep a lid on working-class opposition
- Australian teacher unions collaborate with school reopening drive amid record COVID infections
2022-01-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian governments claim Omicron surge was inevitable, the odd state out proves they are lying
- New projections estimate that up to 304,000 in the US could die from COVID-19 by mid-March
- Court filing by New York attorney general reveals massive fraud at highest levels of Trump Organization
- Tonga faces “unprecedented disaster” following volcanic eruption
- Solomon Islands’ government imposes snap lockdown after COVID outbreak
- Historian Jack Rakove on American history writing and the falsifications of the 1619 Project and its defenders
- Three Pennsylvania police officers charged in killing of 8-year-old girl
- Biden at one year: A government of mass death and political crisis
- “Our literal lives are at stake!”: Students, teachers and parents back striking students in Oakland, California
- Modi pledges to defend financial oligarchy’s profits as Omicron tsunami rips through India
- What’s at stake in the looming contract fight of 30,000 US oil refinery workers
- New Zealand COVID-19 experts take action against Auckland University over online abuse
- Maryland students and teachers oppose school reopenings as state officials seek to force in-person classes at all costs
- Inmates file lawsuit against Arkansas jail for administering ivermectin for COVID-19 without informed consent
- The global media’s latest anti-China salvo: “Won’t somebody please think of the hamsters?”
- UK: Bus workers at First Manchester strike against pay restraint
- Djokovic saga sets dangerous legal precedent in Australia
- French Révolution permanente group blocks fight against Macron’s mass infection policy
- UK: Johnson’s ending of COVID restrictions backed by Labour Party and trade unions
- Amid teacher shortages, Oklahoma schools bring in cops as substitutes
- “They are focused on keeping students in school no matter how dangerous it is”: Students in Chicago speak on struggle for remote learning to save lives
- CHEP UK workers continue indefinite strike action
- Toronto caretaker speaks out against school reopenings: “Schools are not safe for in-person learning as long as COVID is not eliminated”
- Massive explosion and fire in the Bronx kills one and injures at least eight
- Students in Austria strike against government’s herd immunity policies
- Australian hospital meltdown: Doctor declares “staff are literally falling apart”
2022-01-21
- Reports show worsening conditions for Australian youth
- West Bengal adopts mass infection policy amid India’s COVID-19 surge
- Democrats’ pretend fight on voting rights comes to its predictable end
- Turkish doctors strike as government policies spread Omicron variant
- Hundreds of thousands of educators, children infected in Spanish schools
- Virginia state officials ignored National Weather Service warnings about catastrophic snowstorm that left thousands stranded on interstate
- As Omicron rages through US workplaces, 8.8 million workers were off sick in early January
- Australia: Shepparton resident supports Global Workers’ Inquest and speaks on “living with the virus” in regional community
- Australian state and federal governments confirm school reopening plan amid record COVID infections
- San Diego sanitation workers’ strike ends with sellout contract
- German politicians and media intensify war threats against Russia
- Michigan autoworker Randall James testifies for the Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Peruvian miners strike over COVID surge
- The global struggle to close schools and stop the pandemic
- Amidst Omicron surge, Pakistan’s government declares war on poor, moves to close hospitals
- New Zealand PM declares “We won’t stop Omicron”
- Canada’s Nunavut Territory reports first Omicron death one day after lifting lockdown measures
- New Mexico governor calls in National Guard to substitute teach as educators and child care workers fall ill from COVID
- Massachusetts hospitals “gasping for air”
- Stellantis refusing to distribute supply of N95 masks to workers at Sterling Stamping Plant
- The Tragedy of Macbeth: The social order collapses into civil war
- Over 1,000 Montgomery County, Maryland, students walk out over unsafe conditions
- Kroger workers denounce court injunction against King Soopers strikers
- Canadian foreign minister’s Ukraine visit underscores Ottawa’s backing for US-led war drive against Russia
- At least one in 10 workers out with COVID at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island
- High school students stage walkouts in Texas and Colorado amid wave of student protests
- Nearly 4,000 COVID-19 deaths reported in the US on Friday
- French unions try to demobilize teachers strike vs. mass COVID-19 infections
- End of HHS COVID-19 hospital death reporting prompts outrage from public and scientists
- A Chicago Public Schools parent condemns the deadly return to school
- Former White House press secretary details “secret meetings” Trump held at White House residence before January 6 coup
2022-01-22
- Western Australian government keeps border shut, fearing mass opposition to COVID disaster
- Graduate students at University of Oregon walk out for safe working conditions
- “Democracy” in Ukraine—What is NATO risking a war for?
- Education secretary threatens UK schools opposing scrapping mask-wearing, unions complicit
- US and NATO press ahead with anti-Russian military buildup
- Qantas to slash wages and conditions of Australian cabin crew
- UK government crisis forces backtrack on scrapping free prescriptions for over 60s in England
- Australia’s COVID explosion shows workers must fight for global elimination of the virus
- Parallel Mothers: Pedro Almodóvar shifts his focus
- As deaths from Omicron surge across Canada, opposition mounts to in-person learning
- Hundreds of Oakland students and teachers show support for student strike during online rally
- North Carolina COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations skyrocket amid reckless school reopenings
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, teacher speaks on local sickout and chaotic conditions in schools
- Two hundred autoworkers out due to COVID-19 at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant
- A 28-year-old disabled man dies as COVID is “let rip” in Australia’s state of Queensland
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- UFCW shuts down King Soopers grocery store strike in Denver before workers vote on tentative agreement
- Harvard tells students with COVID-19 to “self-isolate” and conduct their own contact tracing
- Federal charges dismissed against MIT professor Gang Chen
- Escalating COVID-19 cases and deaths as Omicron enters Fiji
- Trump draft executive order called for military to seize ballots and voting machines as part of coup plot
- British, Australian ministers strengthen military collaboration against China
2022-01-24
- Texas fascist indicted for calling for assassination of Georgia officials one day before Trump’s coup attempt
- As death toll mounts, US officials, media try to declare the pandemic over
- This week in history: January 24-30
- Tamil National Alliance in Sri Lanka ramps up support for anti-China campaign
- Scores killed in Saudi-led airstrikes, highlighting US-Saudi war crimes
- Romanian bus drivers stage wildcat strike over pay and conditions
- Quebec government to tax the unvaccinated—a reactionary diversion
- Portland, Oregon municipal workers vote to strike
- Fatal housefire in Pontiac, Michigan, highlights poverty in former GM manufacturing center
- On eve of January 6 attack, Trump lawyers drafted order requiring military to seize ballots
- Pasadena City College faculty demonstrate against resumption of in-person learning
- Herd immunity policy leading to several hundred thousand cases daily in Germany
- Euclid Teachers Association files 10-day strike notice in Cleveland, Ohio suburb
- Oakland Education Association pursues farcical “safety” bargaining
- Omicron outbreak in New Zealand
- “This is the worst moment of the pandemic,” an interview with Brazil’s leading neuroscientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis
- White House discussed plans to send up to 50,000 troops to Eastern Europe
- Inflation and threat of interest rate rise send tremor through financial markets
- Malaysian government sets the stage for mass Omicron infections
- King Soopers workers: Reject the sellout contract! Demand the restart of your strike! For democratic control by the rank and file, not union bureaucrats!
- US brings new charges against Haitian suspect in assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
- NFL halts COVID-19 testing of football players
- Chicago Public Schools covers up COVID-19 data, sparking widespread anger
- Oppose the dangerous reopening of universities! Students and youth must take up a fight against the pandemic!
- Australian Labor and Coalition governments sending hundreds of thousands of children and teachers into COVID-infested schools
- Assange granted leave to appeal to UK Supreme Court against extradition
- Anne: One Mother’s Story (World Productions for ITV) available to UK viewers to stream on ITVHub until February 4
- Health workers reveal worsening crisis in Australian hospitals
2022-01-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Johnson government mounts warmongering campaign of lies and threats against Russia
- University of Illinois Chicago downplays danger of in-person learning amid Omicron surge
- Jury hears opening statements in federal trial of three former cops involved in the murder of George Floyd
- South Australian teachers vote for strike action against dangerous school reopenings
- In face of protests, US judge imposes Puerto Rico debt restructuring plan
- Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education discusses opposition to school reopenings in Germany
- Why the US and NATO want war with Russia
- Three more children die from COVID-19 in New York City
- As UFCW rams through deal, more details of sellout contract at King Soopers made public
- Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant hammered by spread of COVID-19
- Sinhala chauvinist JVP promotes itself as alternative Sri Lankan government
- Ford plants in Germany and Spain told to present their cutback plans
- Poverty surging so fast in UK that foodbanks unable to keep up with demand
- Bus driver sacked by First Bus after suffering stroke: “You felt you were being pushed to the limit”
- What “endemic” COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever
- Newt Gingrich threatens January 6 committee members with imprisonment
- The Conference: A haunting, disturbingly topical film about the Nazis’ “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”
- 1 million children infected with COVID in the United States last week
- Committee for Public Education (Australia) holds online meeting opposing schools reopening
- Canada’s state broadcaster CBC peddles lies and slanders about jailed journalist Julian Assange
- One in thirteen students and staff at Central Valley school district contracted COVID-19
- Student-led walkout in Broward County, Florida canceled after county school board threatens students
- Illinois locomotive engineer describes brutal scheduling, new attendance policy at BNSF
2022-01-26
- As pandemic rages across the EU, WHO Regional Director for Europe proclaims pandemic “endgame”
- Anti-vaccine zealots join with fascist militia forces at D.C. rally to oppose all COVID-19 public health measures
- Thousands of couriers at Turkey’s largest e-commerce platform Trendyol launch wildcat strike for wages
- UK: The sellout of the Stagecoach Yorkshire pay strike and the pseudo-left accomplices of Unite
- The Silent Sea on Netflix: A barren Earth, a mysterious Moon
- British Columbia university students hold walkout to protest unsafe return to in-person classes
- Amid Ukraine crisis, US Navy stages war games in South China Sea
- Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko allowed to remain free in treason case amid war crisis
- American capitalism demands the infection of China
- COVID-19 cases spread across the Pacific
- OSHA fines auto parts maker $25,000 for two COVID deaths, while leaving the big fish off the hook
- New Zealand schools and public transport will be breeding grounds for Omicron infections
- US delivers 300 Javelin missiles to Ukraine as EU announces further military deployments
- “We are striking for our very existence”—Maharashtra state transit worker tells WSWS in 12th week of militant job action
- Australian epidemiologists call for global action to eliminate COVID-19
- Macron calls to introduce massive US-style university tuition fees in France
- More than a quarter of Los Angeles students are out sick amid Omicron surge
- Bernie Sanders town hall covers for UFCW betrayal of King Soopers strike: See no sellout, hear no sellout, speak no sellout
- UK: Metropolitan Police launch Tory pandemic parties investigation
- Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James
- Workers at the General Motors Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky overwhelmingly reject UAW-backed local agreement
- German officials cut back on contact tracing and testing amid largest COVID-19 wave
- French high school students speak on COVID-19 pandemic: “The government waits without taking action… I find that cruel and sick.”
- Late-January wildfire erupts near Big Sur, California
- What “endemic” COVID-19 really means: Mass infection and death forever
- Students in Washington D.C. protest in-person classes amid record levels of infection
- Labour’s NEC votes against reinstating Jeremy Corbyn as a Labour MP
- COVID disaster set to hit Australia’s schools—Build rank and file committees! Prepare strike action to halt infection and death!
- More than 1,000 COVID deaths in Australia since January 1
2022-01-27
- Wall Street millionaire Jeff Zients directs Biden’s policy of mass death
- Wisconsin judge temporarily blocks employees from leaving their hospital jobs
- West Coast educators and students hold meeting on the fight to pause in-person learning at unsafe schools
- As COVID-19 surges, deaths exceeded births in half of US states
- UK: UCU university reballots confirm members’ lack of confidence in the union
- US charged with war crimes in Syria prison siege
- Sri Lankan president maintains criminal silence as Omicron cases surge
- Australian school guidelines detail dangerous COVID-19 conditions
- Pseudo-left National Educators United “understands” Biden’s diktat that schools stay open
- US rejects Russian demands for security guarantees, escalates Ukraine crisis
- Judge imposes strike ban on 17,000 BNSF railway workers
- Close schools to eliminate the virus! Why the OUSD tentative agreement will not stop COVID-19
- Victimized Indian autoworker speaks in support of Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- School-driven explosion of COVID cases in children linked to alarming spike of MIS-C
- Australian Labor leader offers to use pandemic crisis to restructure economy
- JBS meatpacking worker killed in industrial accident in Grand Island, Nebraska
- COVID-19 ravages homeless shelters in Toronto
- Fed set to lift interest rates amid concerns over “very, very tight” labour market
- E.O. Wilson, groundbreaking figure in evolutionary biology, dead at 92
- Workers devastated as UK cost-of-living crisis worsens
- UK: “Partygate” report delayed as Johnson seeks political survival through warmongering and untrammelled COVID herd immunity
- Federal judge blocks strike by 17,000 BNSF railway workers
- Berlin justice system prosecutes anti-fascist artists
- Berlin film festival officials decide to hold in-person event despite record Omicron infection rates
2022-01-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin removes last remaining pandemic safety measures, declares state “open for business”
- Australian university union tries to stifle opposition to unsafe campus reopenings
- A Twelve-Year Night from Uruguay: No reckoning with the past
- RMT union suppresses action by London Underground workers as Johnson government in meltdown
- Workers at Trinity-Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan demand new contract by January 31
- Eighty-five percent of Tonga’s population impacted by volcanic eruption
- Canada secretly amends Safe Third Country Agreement with US to nail door shut to refugees
- Union trying to cancel South Australian teachers’ strike against dangerous school reopening
- Educators and students around the world deepen fight to stop the spread of COVID-19
- Riverside, California, school bus driver speaks out against mass infection in schools
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government backs NATO war threats against Russia
- US-NATO escalate war threats against Russia: Are you ready for World War III?
- BA.2 subvariant of Omicron in more than 40 countries across the globe
- Quebec educator exposes government’s provision of masks that failed quality standards to school staff
- London United bus drivers reject derisory 2.5 percent final pay offer
- Scientists and health experts call on Johnson government to help vaccinate world, as it ends all UK COVID restrictions
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- “I no longer believe the people in the union”: anger from King Soopers grocery workers over shutdown of their strike by UFCW
- All COVID restrictions ended in UK amid deepening government crisis
- Israel’s labour court bans teachers from striking in opposition to soaring Omicron infections
- One dead, dozens missing from capsized migrant boat off Florida coast
- IMF cuts global growth forecast as Omicron spreads
- “Return of in-person classes will be catastrophic,” warns Brazilian scientist Lucas Ferrante
- “America First” secretary of state candidates in eight states promote Trump’s “stolen election” lie
- US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires
- “I want to just be treated like a human!”—BNSF workers voice opposition to punishing schedules
- Fifty years since Bloody Sunday: How the Trotskyists fought British imperialism
- COVID-19 surges in Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities
2022-01-29
- Contradicting US, Ukrainian President Zelensky denies Russian attack imminent
- University of Chicago students denounce in-person classes and inadequate safety measures as Omicron spreads
- Tesla-Berlin: Build an independent rank-and-file committee instead of electing a union-led works council!
- Southern US educators and students meet to discuss campaign for remote learning
- Omicron case rates explode in Russia
- Bridge collapses in Pittsburgh ahead of Biden’s visit touting scaled-back infrastructure bill
- With 900,000 dead from COVID-19, US capitalism doubles down on mass infection
- An open letter from Detroit teachers to autoworkers: Close the schools and plants to save lives, not profits!
- An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
- Ford Kansas City Assembly workers speak out against mass infections and deaths in the plant
- American Trotskyist and retired General Motors worker Jim Lawrence dies at age 83 (February 18, 1938—January 25, 2022)
- Supreme Court poised to end racial preferences in university admissions
- Bolsonaro’s “herd immunity” led to Manaus health care collapse, mass infection of indigenous populations, says Brazilian scientist Lucas Ferrante
- Canadian media and Conservatives promote far-right trucker protest to push for scrapping of remaining anti-COVID-19 measures
- Oklahoma and Alabama execute two intellectually disabled men after US Supreme Court clears the way
- Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee joins with autoworkers to demand the shutdown of schools and nonessential businesses
- Nearly 1,500 West Contra Costa, California, educators support strike action to stop the spread of COVID-19
- California universities and colleges force reopenings at the peak of the winter Omicron surge
- Microsoft to become third-largest video game company through $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Amazon worker denied sick leave during holiday peak
2022-01-31
- The NHS vaccine mandate: Corbyn, pseudo-left and trade unions join Tory and libertarian right
- Ukraine war would threaten regional and global food prices
- This week in history: January 31-February 6
- At Texas rally, Trump promises to pardon January 6 militia foot soldiers if reelected
- Spanish Morenoites attack China’s “Zero COVID” strategy
- Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers hold one-day strike in Western Province
- Fascist podcaster manipulates tragic case of Minnesota COVID patient to attack health care providers
- The Democratic Party spearheads war drive against Russia
- Greater Manchester drivers escalate pay strike against First Bus: “It’s modernised slavery”
- Brazil’s Workers Party lays out 2022 election program: austerity and corporatism
- US-NATO war threats against Russia intensify war dangers facing India
- Stop the intra-company bidding war at Ford! No concessions—neither in Saarlouis nor in Valencia
- SEP (Australia) files objection to party deregistration
- Verdi’s Macbeth at La Scala in Milan: The opera of the year—an inspirational experience for millions of viewers
- Detroit teachers oppose resumption of in-person classes for 50,000 students
- Expiration of expanded tax credit throws millions of US children into poverty
- Labour-run Coventry council mount strikebreaking operation against bin workers
- New York, Michigan and Ohio end contact tracing
- Chinese foreign minister signals support for Russia over Ukraine crisis
- Canada’s opposition parties line up behind imperialist war drive against Russia
- National Labor Relations Board schedules new election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama
- Mass school reopenings in Australia amid record COVID deaths
- Teachers denounce forced reopening of Australian schools amid COVID explosion
- NYC mayor Adams steps up law and order campaign after two police officers killed
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