Archive: 02/2022
2022-02-01
- New poll shows growing political discontent and anger among young people in the US
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Two years since the WHO declared a public health emergency, COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten humanity
- US wants war in Ukraine, Russia charges at UN debate
- Johnson government to double UK troop presence in Eastern Europe, threatens sanctions against Russia
- Stuart delivery drivers’ strike enters sixth week
- Expand and unite the global student and teacher walkouts into a mass movement against COVID-19!
- UFCW cancels strike vote, extends negotiations with Smith’s grocery chain in New Mexico
- Open letter to New Zealand rail workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight for safe working conditions
- Poverty in Germany: 2021 report exposes profit-before-lives policy
- Omicron disaster intensifies political instability in Australia
- Trump admits aim of January 6 plot was to “overturn election” and “change results”
- Emboldened by ruling class support, far-right Freedom Convoy lays siege to Canada’s Parliament
- Winter Storm Kenan pummels US East Coast, leaving thousands without power and at least four dead
- One year since the military coup in Myanmar
- Cold temperatures expose crisis of homelessness and hunger in Missouri
- Redacted Sue Gray “partygate” report debated as Labour’s Starmer invokes spirit of Margaret Thatcher
- First Bus Greater Manchester drivers speak about their strike: “It’s not just about the pay… they did a rewrite of our conditions”
- The COVID pandemic continues to rage despite the delivery of more than 10 billion doses of vaccines
- The fight for Trotskyism and the political foundations of the World Socialist Web Site
- Detroit students, parents angered as schools open amid COVID surge
- Denmark scraps all pandemic restrictions as Omicron subvariant runs rampant
- Growing opposition to CUNY push to cripple remote learning options for spring semester
- Canada records highest daily COVID-19 death toll since start of pandemic
- Unions help BNSF railway clamp down on workers’ dissent in aftermath of anti-strike injunction
- The Best American Short Stories 2021: A good deal of talent but little to say
- Serco ancillary staff at St Barts NHS Trust begin two-week pay strike
- January: The worst month of mass illness and death in Australia since pandemic began
2022-02-02
- Putin warns US seeks to “drag” Russia “into an armed conflict”
- Wildcat strikes against high prices spread across Turkey amid pandemic
- George Clooney’s The Tender Bar: Writing as a mere “state of mind”
- Neil Young and other artists leave Spotify in opposition to COVID-19 misinformation spread by podcaster Joe Rogan
- COVID-19 death of a student reported in Sri Lanka
- Auto plants throughout Midwest continue operating during major winter storm
- Stalinist Makabayan Coalition endorses right-wing Robredo campaign in the Philippines
- Far-right “Freedom Convoy” besieges Canada’s parliament—an inflection point in the breakdown of Canadian democracy
- Tory government launches right-wing attack on BBC
- Jim Lawrence, American autoworker and longtime Trotskyist, dies at age 83: A life dedicated to the fight for socialism
- International Viewpoint supports war propaganda against Russia
- California single-payer health care plan dead on arrival, as Democrats abandon bill they campaigned on
- SEP (Australia) electoral members support Global Workers’ Inquest
- UK teachers at independent schools set to strike in defence of pensions
- “Meaningfully milder” Omicron variant continues to kill more than 2,300 Americans each day
- Press reports reveal Trump commissioned second draft executive order to seize voting machines
- Teachers union in Contra Costa, California prevents strike over COVID-19 safety measures
- An open letter to all Brazilian workers: The pandemic must be ended and lives saved in 2022!
- Boris Johnson pushes anti-Russia war rhetoric in Ukraine amid UK government crisis
- As shift to electric vehicles accelerates, unions collaborate with automakers to slash jobs and labor costs
- COVID outbreaks hit more than 380 schools in Victoria, Australia in two days
- USW blocks strike, extends contract for 30,000 US oil workers
2022-02-03
- US sends another 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe
- Warmongering against Russia in the name of Auschwitz
- SunRice grain processing and packing workers strike for two days at six facilities in Australia
- Spanish government bails out “bad bank” Sareb as workers’ living conditions plummet
- Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional
- Portland city workers authorize strike action for February 10
- Australian government in meltdown months out from federal election
- Deepening crisis of American capitalism as national debt hits $30 trillion
- Ottawa police mull appealing for military support to end far-right occupation of Canada’s capital
- Beijing Olympics mired in geopolitical tension
- Governor Ron DeSantis refuses to denounce Florida Nazis, attacks Democrats instead
- Fertilizer plant fire in North Carolina threatens to ignite massive explosion, putting thousands at risk
- Maus, graphic novel about the Holocaust, censored by Tennessee school board
- As oil giants announce massive profits, BP oil refinery worker in Indiana declares: “We’re ready to strike”
- US autoworkers support European Ford workers’ fight against concessions: “We are all behind you in the United States”
- Detroit educator denounces unsafe school reopenings
- End of COVID-19 hospital death reporting is “incomprehensible,” says US health official
- Former engineer describes dangerous and hostile conditions at BNSF
- Australian Education Union shuts down Victorian work bans as it enforces COVID-hit school reopening
- Whoopi Goldberg suspended for comments about the Holocaust
2022-02-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Growing student opposition to reopening of Australian universities amid COVID surge
- Petition to save Boston’s Tufts Children’s Hospital garners more than 56,000 signatures
- Students and faculty demand remote learning options at University of California campuses
- Poorer countries facing sovereign debt crisis
- The COVID-19 cover-up: Hear no deaths, see no deaths, speak no deaths
- Canada’s ruling elite pressures Trudeau to meet with far-right Ottawa occupiers
- An open letter to workers in New Zealand: Join the fight to stop the pandemic and save lives in 2022!
- Biden visits New York City to press law-and-order campaign
- Declassified NSA oversight report shows illegal surveillance by US government continues unimpeded
- New Dutch government lifts COVID-19 measures as infections skyrocket
- Shooting at suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota school leaves one student dead
- US claims assassination of ISIS leader in Syria
- As India passes 41 million official COVID-19 cases, Modi boasts of his “great success”
- The new leadership of Germany’s Green Party: A toxic mixture of militarism and identity politics
- Ford Saarlouis and Valencia plants: The blackmail continues
- Trump plotters, Republican lawmakers met on eve of coup to seek NSA “intelligence” on foreign interference in 2020 election
- Johnson government to end daily reporting of UK COVID deaths
- “Our kids are pawns”—Parents, teachers outraged Chicago Public Schools kept open during snowstorm
- US health care workers speak out as COVID-19 continues to fill ICUs and overwhelm hospitals
- Unite refuses to oppose Coventry Labour council strikebreaking against bin workers
- Berlin: SPD-Left Party-Greens coalition Senate pursues mass infection
- A conversation with literary scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate about Shakespeare and “the empowering possibilities that I’ve always believed that literature has”
2022-02-05
- COVID-19 death toll in US officially surpasses 900,000, driven by Omicron
- COVID outbreak in Tonga after volcanic eruption and tsunami
- Texas teacher exposes nightmarish conditions in schools with COVID
- Students and parents speak out over Australian school reopenings
- US-backed SINTTIA union wins representation as workers at Silao, Mexico GM plant vote out CTM
- Republican Party officially endorses Trump’s January 6 putsch as “legitimate political discourse”
- Australian government in disarray as workers’ anger grows over pandemic disaster
- Olympics open under clouds of war
- The working class must mobilise to bring down the Johnson government!
- Canadian workers need a socialist program to defeat the threat of far-right political violence, end the pandemic and oppose war
- Oakland, California educators and students protest planned budget cuts and school closures
- In New Zealand, rising inflation, inequality intensify social crisis
- Nebraska teacher and parent describe brutal conditions in schools during Omicron surge
- Munich—The Edge of War: Distorting the historical record
- Widespread contract violations at Mack Trucks in Pennsylvania
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- With re-election of Mattarella, Italian government will seek to enforce “EU recovery plan”
- Bomb threats sent to historically black colleges across the United States
- Conceptual artist places gold cube in Central Park: Once again charlatanry meets extreme wealth
- Australian respiratory scientist Guy Marks discusses need for global elimination strategy to end COVID pandemic
- Virginia police officials accused of human sex trafficking, intimidation
- Europe’s governments go all in for “herd immunity”
- Another death in Los Angeles Harbor
- Chilean and international capital praise Boric’s cabinet picks
- Bank of England governor tells workers, we “need to see a moderation of wage rises”
- Thousands of students and teachers infected during first week of Australian schools
- Australia: New South Wales nurses set to vote on statewide strike
- AP reporter challenges US lies about Russian war preparations
- Anti-Semitic attacks on the rise in the US during the pandemic
2022-02-07
- China-Russia summit forges quasi-alliance against Washington
- All 72 Wisconsin counties at “critically high” rate of COVID-19 transmission for record fourth week in a row
- Sydney University meeting highlights union’s role in blocking opposition to reopening of Australian campuses
- US combat troops arrive in Eastern Europe as Washington steps up war hysteria
- This week in history: February 7-13
- For remote education to protect lives and public health!
- Over half of all US teachers consider leaving the profession due to pandemic-related stressors
- Michigan State University student speaks out against in-person learning amid record COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations
- Portugal’s Socialist Party wins legislative election as Left Bloc collapses
- US death toll from COVID-19 heading toward 1 million
- Pennsylvania Governor Wolf raises minimum wage for state employees, calls for a $15 statewide minimum
- State of emergency declared in Ottawa as far-right Freedom Convoy occupation continues
- US oil refinery workers face two-front war against energy companies and USW
- Protests erupt after Minneapolis police kill man in no-knock raid
- Wild swings on Wall Street
- Kiev denies war plans against Russia as conflicts within the Ukrainian ruling class escalate
- A Hero from Iran: Asghar Farhadi’s honest, intriguing new film
- SEP (Australia) public meeting: Join strike action by nurses! Form rank-and-file committees. Lives over profit
- German Chancellor Scholz’s first US visit: War summit in Washington
- Vote “No” to First Manchester/Unite pay offer: No more concessions! Build a rank-and-file strike committee!
- Brian Flores suit alleges corruption, racial discrimination in National Football League
- Germany continues to relax protective measures despite 250,000 new coronavirus infections every day
- Ford, GM report massive 2021 pandemic profits
- Australian government at war with itself as parliament resumes
- Vote No to Australian Education Union wage cutting agreement with Victorian Labor government!
- Australia: Over 500 COVID-19 deaths in residential aged care since January 1
2022-02-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Second Whitmer kidnap plotter to plead guilty in federal court
- Turkish health workers strike as COVID-19 pandemic, living costs surge
- Labour leader Keir Starmer mobbed by far-right anti-vaxxers
- Sri Lankan justice minister calls for strike ban in key sectors
- Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival: A portion of life’s complications makes its way through
- The far-right occupation of Ottawa: January 6 conspiracy hits Canada
- Maritime Union of Australia deal to sell out Patrick Terminals workers
- More than 200,000 American children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19
- New Zealand government to re-open borders amid escalating Omicron outbreak
- Omicron wave devastates US nursing home residents and staff
- Boston University epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Murray speaks on COVID-19 and endemicity
- Democratic governors in the US northeast dropping school mask mandates
- Washington pushes UK Conservatives to impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs
- Health and Care Bill drives another nail in the coffin of the UK National Health Service
- War tensions mount as EU powers hold talks in Moscow, Washington
- Throughout his presidency and following the failed coup, Trump illegally burned, shredded and hid White House documents
- Columbia student workers ratify contract with cuts in real wages: The political lessons
- Right-wing majority on Colorado school board fires superintendent to attack COVID mitigations
- BNSF railroad unions beg Biden administration to intervene against punitive new attendance policy
- Australian nurse speaks out about worsening conditions on the front lines of the pandemic
- Australian ruling elite steps up “let it rip” program amid mass school infections, aged care deaths
- UK rail cleaners strike against poverty pay
2022-02-09
- Virginia public universities drop vaccine mandates
- COVID cases explode in Russia and Ukraine amid war crisis
- Stop the infection of Berlin transport workers!
- Two right-wing figures to contest South Korean presidential election
- More than 300 children infected on first day back at school in Australian state of Queensland
- Biden’s task force on unionization: A corporatist agenda for austerity and war
- 94th Academy Awards nominations: Don’t Look Up, The Tragedy of Macbeth and the rest
- As far-right Ottawa occupation continues, Canadian authorities move to shred all anti-COVID measures
- Growing concern about New Zealand government allowing Omicron to spread
- Oil refinery workers demand strike action, denounce USW information blackout: “We don’t want to work 80 hours a week”
- Oakland, California, school closures and budget cuts are an attack on the entire working class!
- Boston University epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Murray speaks on COVID-19 and endemicity
- Death of boy trapped in well highlights Morocco’s social catastrophe
- Over 1 million years of life lost to drug overdose among youth in the US
- McGill University students strike against in-person classes
- Interview with late American Trotskyist autoworker Jim Lawrence
- Johnson lays out UK military offensive against Russia
- UK: Prime Minister Johnson announces requirement to self-isolate with COVID will end in days
- Petition in Germany gathers more than 125,000 signatures opposing deliberate mass infections in schools
- War threat escalates as Israel strikes Syrian army targets
- Ford temporarily lays off thousands at North American plants, citing chip shortage
- EU powers endorse NATO war threats against Russia as Macron visits Ukraine
- US Supreme Court restores Alabama’s anti-democratic electoral redistricting plan
- Republican National Committee resolution declaring January 6 “legitimate political discourse” deepens crisis in both parties
- Opposition growing among BNSF workers one week after management imposes draconian new “Hi-Viz” policy
- White House seeks to fabricate lower COVID-19 hospitalization numbers
- Student petition calls for reinstatement of COVID safety policies at Baylor
- B&Q, Wincanton workers should reject below inflation pay offer! Mobilise a unified fightback against B&Q and its subcontractors!
- Australia: New South Wales nurses vote for statewide strike
- UK ASDA workers: Reject poverty level pay deal! For a joint fight of supermarket distribution workers!
2022-02-10
- VIDEO: Australian health staff call for workers to attend SEP meeting in support of NSW nurses strike!
- NATO, Ukraine, Russia stage military exercises amid US-promoted war hysteria
- Mobilise the working class to support Sri Lankan national health strike
- From “herd immunity” to “endemic”: The ruling class policy of perpetual mass death
- Continuing US-led economic blockade provokes North Korean missile tests
- Thousands of students protest against police killing of Amir Locke in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- German politicians and media attack students opposing herd immunity COVID policies
- Canada’s governments implement key elements of far-right Freedom Convoy’s pandemic policy
- Workers in Australia face soaring prices and debt
- Trump and his fascist allies double down on defense of January 6 coup
- Far-right “Freedom Convoys” prepare to occupy capitals across Europe
- The concerted, cowardly #MeToo attack on Harvard professor John Comaroff
- Wife of locomotive engineer describes BNSF’s toll on family life
- Bankers bare their teeth on wages
- Right-wing racialists mount campaign against Asian entertainer Awkwafina’s use of a “blaccent”
- Fascist protest leaders welcomed into the Australian parliament
- Far-right Freedom Convoy protesters blockade busiest Canada-US border crossing, clogging trade and shuttering auto plants
2022-02-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- AFT President Randi Weingarten calls for “off-ramp” to end mask mandates in schools
- Sir Keir Starmer confirms Labour is “the party of NATO”, denounces anti-war protestors
- Biden administration tests “robotic dogs” at US-Mexico border
- As inflation surges, unions impose cuts in real wages
- “The working class has the most power it’s ever had”: US oil refinery workers speak out on contract battle
- Hundreds of anti-vaccine mandate protesters rally at New Zealand parliament
- Widespread opposition from workers to USW sellout at Newport News naval shipyard
- German government deploys more combat troops to Lithuania against Russia
- UK’s most senior police officer Cressida Dick resigns
- White House leads charge by states to end masking
- Australia’s Macquarie University deepens job cuts, aided by the union
- IG Metall’s idea of solidarity: Wage and social cuts for all
- Students protest the promotion of religious fundamentalism in West Virginia public school
- Omicron sweeping through workplaces in Germany
- Australia: New South Wales government agency uses “unlawful” automated debt collection system to target poor
- National Archives sends criminal referral to Justice Department over Trump’s withholding of classified documents
- Jeremy Corbyn covers for Labour’s filthy role in Ireland
- Hospital merger creates Michigan’s largest chain and biggest employer
- Australia: COVID-19 swamps Northern Territory schools and Aboriginal communities
- Australia to treat COVID like the flu amid mass school infections, record deaths
- Little Green House: Debut album by Anxious offers punk without politics
2022-02-12
- Bryan Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me: Confusing love with ownership
- UAW, Detroit Democrats facilitate brutal exploitation of temp workers as pandemic decimates Stellantis workforce
- US accelerates troop deployments as Biden threatens “world war” with Russia
- Sri Lankan nurses defy court ban and remain on indefinite strike with other health workers
- US exploits Quad meeting in Australia to condemn Russia
- Australian PM’s defeat on religious discrimination bill deepens political crisis
- The collapse of the “mitigation” strategy exposes the class issues in the fight against the pandemic
- Unions push through sellout agreement to call off strike of Portland, Oregon municipal workers
- New Zealand joins diplomatic offensive against Russia amid escalating war build-up
- Mars-Wrigley announces closure of its West Side Chicago factory
- Modi blames losses from COVID-19 lockdown on Indian opposition parties
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Unite secures sell-out pay deal to end strikes at First Bus Manchester
- Australian defence minister accuses Labor Party of “appeasing” China
- Unite tries to corral opposition to Labour’s strike breaking against Coventry bin workers
- Under pressure from the White House and big business, Trudeau vows to do “whatever it takes” to end far-right Canada-US border blockades
- Department of Homeland Security leaks security bulletin warning of far-right “trucker” protest culminating in occupation of Washington D.C.
- CIA has been secretly collecting information on US citizens for decades
2022-02-14
- Young workers in Australia speak on dire working conditions amid pandemic
- How Germany’s domestic intelligence agency promotes the far right
- As US COVID-19 deaths continue to surge, corporate media maintains near blackout
- UK university workers begin strikes against attacks on pensions, pay and conditions—Unite education workers and students! Build rank and file committees!
- Zelensky again rejects US claims of imminent Russian invasion even as Kiev continues war preparations
- This week in history: February 14-20
- Sri Lankan president imposes essential services strike ban on health and power workers
- Puerto Rico: Teachers strikes and protests continue against debt payment deal
- Oppose the US-NATO drive to war with Russia in Ukraine!
- Marathon workers say USW union is sabotaging struggle against oil companies
- Despite massive opposition, Oakland, California, school board votes to close seven schools
- COVID-19 surges in New Zealand
- SEP (Australia) meeting on NSW nurses strike provokes lively discussion on role of unions, fight against pandemic
- Spain’s pseudo-left covers for Podemos as it threatens Russia with war
- Lessons of the King Soopers grocery workers strike
- UK HGV drivers respond to WSWS coverage of working conditions
- Australian health workers speak after public meeting in support of NSW nurses’ strike
- Students in Germany go on strike against herd immunity policies
- German federal government preparing abolition of coronavirus safety measures
- Lawyers for BNSF gloat that the unions have “never prevailed” in court in 33 years
- Historic Rotterdam bridge to be cut up to make way for Bezos’ mega-yacht
- As far-right siege of Ottawa continues, police dismantle Detroit-Windsor bridge blockade
- US steals billions in Afghan bank funds
- Belfast: Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical tale of growing up in Ireland at the onset of the Troubles
2022-02-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US moves embassy from Ukraine’s capital Kiev to the western city of Lviv
- The political dead end of Britain’s Stop the War Coalition: For a socialist anti-war movement, not opportunist manoeuvres
- As COVID-19 surges, Sri Lankan apparel workers support Global Workers Inquest
- Sri Lankan action committee to hold a public meeting in defence of Julian Assange
- Sharp swings in Australian by-elections underscore political instability
- What’s at stake in the struggle by US rail and oil workers
- UK university staff strike in defence of pensions
- Thousands of Australian nurses strike in NSW, defying government-court ban
- Veteran musician Ian Anderson comments on right-wing populism with Jethro Tull’s The Zealot Gene
- French COVID-19 deaths reach highest level since the winter of 2021
- Temporary layoffs extended at US Ford auto plants, expand to other automakers
- US secretary of state visits Fiji, escalating confrontation with China
- Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act to end far-right Ottawa siege, border blockades
- Dana Fort Wayne workers speak on death of their coworker
- Governments across the globe are pressing to declare the pandemic over
- Omicron rages in German hospitals and nursing homes
- UK schools inspectorate blames COVID-19 “bubble mentality” for pupil absences
- Super Bowl 2022—A spectacle of money-making and nationalism in the midst of mass death
- Denver, Colorado, BNSF worker killed in rail yard accident
2022-02-16
- Unite ends Worksop B&Q distribution centre strike with below inflation pay agreement
- Ruling elite celebrate UK economy’s “rebound” at workers’ expense
- UK lecturers and students speak on conditions they face as strikes continue
- NBC’s Richard Engel promotes Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
- Turkey calls for mediation in Ukraine as US presses for war with Russia
- The criminal role of the Swedish government in the pandemic: Testimony from anti-COVID activist Keith Begg
- Steinmeier, re-elected as German president, talks war
- Scientists protest Johnson government ripping up UK COVID restrictions
- Increasing COVID cases on UK university campuses as all restrictions lifted
- Far-right anti-vaccine protests in Australia’s capital promoted by corporate media
- Six inmates have died in the past three months at Louisville, Kentucky jail
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government approve anti-working class labor law
- Biden’s Russia speech: Hypocrisy, lies and warmongering
- “Endemic” COVID-19 may lead to 250,000 deaths each year in the US
- Texas Marathon worker describes intolerable conditions behind growing demands for national strike
- Australian university union blocks debate on dangerous reopening of campuses
- Defying management reprisals and state repression, Maharashtra public transport workers’ strike surpasses 100th day
- Congress holds hearings with Washington D.C. transit leaders over failure to resolve ongoing mechanical failures
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza: The doubts and questions the filmmaker should not “swat away”
- Parents and teachers in Germany support students protesting mass infection pandemic policy
- Pandemic and vaccine inequality have exacerbated global inequality
- Federal hate crimes trial begins for men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery
- UK High Court bans pickets at Great Ormond Street Hospital: A frontal assault on the right to strike
- Defend the Coventry bin workers from Labour’s strike-breaking!
- Donor list leak exposes business and far-right forces sponsoring Canada’s “Freedom Convoy”
- Australian teacher speaks out against reckless reopening of schools
- Striking New South Wales nurses reveal dire conditions in Australian hospitals
2022-02-17
- How Volkswagen plays off temporary workers against each other and the permanent workforce
- Inquest into deadly construction accident convenes 12 years after four workers fell to their deaths in Toronto
- The criminal role of the Swedish government in the pandemic: Testimony from anti-COVID-19 activist Keith Begg—Part 2
- Medical officials estimate Long COVID affects 1 million in Spain
- Sri Lanka unions betray health workers’ indefinite strike
- COVID cases surge in South Korea as virtually all public health measures ended
- The war that must be waged is the war on COVID-19
- Orange County bus drivers: Vote No on Teamster sellout! Prepare for strike!
- New Zealand right-wing, pseudo-lefts urge government to “engage” with far-right protesters
- US, NATO double down on war threats against Russia over Ukraine
- Growing fears over what interest rate hike will produce
- Energy, transport and municipal service worker strikes in Kazakhstan
- Canada’s ruling elite applauds Trudeau’s use of emergency powers against far-right Freedom Convoy
- Refusing Trump’s claims of “executive privilege,” Biden orders National Archives to turn over White House visitor logs
- COVID-19 deaths continue to rise among children in the US
- Prince Andrew settles out of court with Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse victim
- The “reality” of this year’s Berlinale and Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
- VIDEO – Australia: Striking New South Wales nurses speak out
- In New Yorker interview, Ocasio-Cortez defends Biden and Pelosi, urges readers not to lose “hope” in reforming two-party system
- The UK anti-vax movement is not an “ally” against Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
2022-02-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: SGP chairman condemns NATO’s war preparations against Russia
- The vicious US media campaign against Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva
- Reject APWU sellout! Oppose Postal Reform Act robbery
- Shelling in Donbass brings Europe to brink of war
- Australia: Svitzer steps up pressure on workers to accept cuts to wages and conditions
- Health experts declare Sri Lanka is being hit by a tsunami of Omicron infections
- Blinken at the UN: A Colin Powell moment
- Would-be putschists and other leaders of Canada’s far-right Freedom Convoy
- New Zealand rail workers highlight unsafe conditions as COVID-19 surge continues
- Thousands of mail-in ballots rejected in Texas under restrictive voting law
- USW pushes ExxonMobil deal to end Texas lockout: A warning to all oil workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Germany’s federal and state governments decide to scrap pandemic measures
- Oklahoma executes Gilbert Postelle despite clear evidence that state’s lethal-injection protocol causes extreme pain and suffering
- Filing by special counsel greeted with right-wing media celebration and Trump death threats
- Attorney Steven Donziger detained for five days in a Bronx halfway house
- Sarah Palin loses libel suit against New York Times
- DC police lieutenant placed on “administrative leave” for ties with Proud Boys leader
- UK cost of living crisis hits millions as inflation reaches new record
- Internal investigation launched after Florida infant injured while in police custody
- Australia’s state and federal governments lifting handful of remaining COVID restrictions
- CDC director spouts anti-mask rhetoric as thousands of Americans die daily
- Mass strikes and protests continue in Puerto Rico against debt deal
2022-02-19
- Deadly BA.2 subvariant of Omicron spreading in more than 74 countries
- Turkish ship-breaking workers stop working amid a wildcat strike wave
- South Korean logistics workers strike against brutal conditions
- British government appoints Australian immigration “offshoring” pioneer Alexander Downer to oversee its “pushback” policy
- Crisis-wracked Australian government ramps up war drumbeating
- California’s “endemic plan” sets the stage for unending COVID-19 infections and deaths
- COVID-19 disaster intensifies across the Pacific
- Using emergency powers, Canadian police move to end far-right Ottawa occupation
- US workers express solidarity with striking nurses in New South Wales, Australia
- The dispute over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
- UK government spent billions on substandard PPE, as private sector made a killing
- Minneapolis, St. Paul teachers vote to authorize strike
- Virginia’s Republican Governor signs law banning school mask mandates with bipartisan support
- Biden threats over Ukraine roil markets
- Macron announces withdrawal of French troops from Mali
- Pseudo-left Workers’ Struggle (Lutte ouvrière) welcomes far-right “freedom convoys” in Paris
- Hundreds gather to mourn Amir Locke, victim of Minneapolis police shooting
- UK teacher Kathleen Munro speaks of “devastating” effects of Long COVID
- Strikes, protests engulf Haitian capital as workers demand higher wages, better conditions
- Germany increases military spending for war against Russia
- Biden administration and Republicans use war crisis to push phony “national unity”
- Victoria Nuland in Colombia: Is Washington plotting another coup?
- Canada to arm Ukraine with lethal weapons as part of US-led war drive against Russia
- Canadian workers speak out against far-right Freedom Convoy and the dismantling of COVID-19 public health measures
- Organize a counteroffensive against Hi Viz and the anti-strike injunction! Join the BNSF Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- Baltimore public health professional exposes horrific conditions during the Omicron surge
- Director Andrew Levitas discusses Minamata and its creative underpinnings
- Biden claims “Putin has made the decision” to invade Ukraine as mass evacuations begin in the Donbass
- National day of strikes and protests in Puerto Rico
2022-02-21
- UK Prime Minister Johnson lies that Russia has already initiated plan to subjugate Ukraine
- This week in history: February 21-27
- Striking ship-breaking workers hold a mass rally in Aliağa, Turkey
- WSWS readers give support to 2022 New Year appeal
- Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem jailed under anti-terror laws speaks with the WSWS
- The New York Times 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: History as the emanation of race
- Hundreds arrested in Ottawa as police, using emergency powers, end far-right “Freedom Convoy” occupation
- Stop the drive to World War 3!
- Fossilized dinosaur egg discovered to have fully-intact remains of oviraptor embryo
- Australian state government locks out Sydney rail workers, accusing them of “terrorist-like activity”
- 10,000 New Zealand healthcare workers vote to strike
- Munich Security Conference targets Russia
- UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer speaks on book, The Trial of Julian Assange
- Democratic governors in Oregon, Washington and California set to end statewide mask requirements
- Tyson Foods lifts mask mandate as states abandon COVID health measures
- Left Voice covers for Biden and the unions on school openings
- Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Jean-Luc Brunel found dead in Paris jail cell
- War plotters at Munich Security Conference hear call for surrender to COVID-19
- What next in the fight against the internal bidding war at Ford in Europe?
- Retail workers at Kroger affiliated chains describe conditions fraught with danger and abuse
- Brazil’s return to classrooms fills pediatric ICUs
- Miloš Pušić’s Working Class Heroes from Serbia: A call to battle
- Prince Andrew and a monarchy in crisis
- Amazon announces end of mask requirements, while COVID-19 remains widespread in warehouses
2022-02-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK announces sanctions on Russian banks and oligarchs, as armed forces prepare anti-Russian provocations
- Russia sends troops into East Ukraine, Biden announces sanctions
- UK higher education workers continue strikes over pensions, pay and conditions
- Donald Trump’s social media app launches on iOS
- Three San Francisco school board members recalled in special election
- Mass shooter, targeting anti-police-violence protesters in Portland, Oregon, kills one, injures four
- The political and historical background to the US war drive against Russia
- Widespread anger over Australian state government’s provocative shutdown of Sydney rail network
- Damning Auditor General report exposes failure of Canada’s government to protect migrant farm workers from COVID-19
- Marathon Petroleum Corp: What are oil workers fighting against?
- IYSSE wins support at Australian university orientations from students opposed to war, “herd immunity” policies
- UK lecturers and students speak as higher education strike enters second week
- Shipbuilder in Newport News, Virginia, speaks out against USW-backed sellout agreement
- Germany: The far-right murders of Hanau, two years on
- Democratic Socialists of America confront left-wing opposition to Biden by shifting further to the right
- Johnson government adopts “dying with COVID” strategy for the UK
- CODA: The film’s concerns go beyond deafness
- US Centers for Disease Control withheld critical statistics on COVID-19 for more than a year
- Bolsonaro’s Russia trip highlights rising geopolitical tensions in South America
- Australian government accuses China of “aggression” over naval laser incident
- European Union refuses vaccine patent waiver but agrees mRNA transfer technology scheme as a sop to Africa
2022-02-23
- Omicron is proving to be deadly serious for children in the US
- Southern US teachers discuss the fight to eliminate COVID-19 and stop the threat of war
- Democratic mayor, police launch coverup of fascist mass shooting in Portland
- Who in the Lord’s name gave the US the right? A question for Mr. Biden
- Canada’s parliament endorses Trudeau’s use of emergency powers, as the union-backed NDP votes with government
- Despite massive opposition, Oakland, California school board forges ahead with school closures
- Australia: Rail union saves NSW government after provocation backfires
- Australia: The way forward for New South Wales nurses
- Nervous market response to sanctions on Russia
- EU countries impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine crisis
- Bipartisan congressional war consensus emerges, bringing together progressive “left” and Republican right
- COVID surge accelerates in New Zealand
- COVID deaths and hospital admissions on the rise in Germany
- Dozens of US colleges and universities end efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19
- A revolutionary German Film: Werner Hochbaum’s Brothers (1929)
- Jury finds Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers guilty of federal hate crimes
- Ukraine’s President Zelensky calls for “war coalition in the parliament”
2022-02-24
- Wisconsin records first child death from MIS-C, condition triggered by COVID-19 infection
- UK university employers go on offensive with vote to slash pensions—Take the struggle out of the hands of the UCU!
- Strikers at the University of Manchester speak on working conditions
- UNESCO report: 10 million arts jobs lost in 2020 due to COVID-19
- Phil Wayland on UK High Court upholding denial of Unemployment Credit uplift to two million claimants
- Johnson government announces “ferocious” UK sanctions against Russia, steps up war preparations
- After Russia announces “special military operation” in Ukraine, Biden declares US will “hold Russia accountable”
- Spain’s UGT union holds sham vote at Ford-Valencia to ram through cuts
- Labour’s strikebreaking in Coventry bin strike: Socialist Party proposes a Labour Party Mark II
- Australia: 46-year-old teacher in NSW dies from COVID
- Bernie Sanders backs imperialist provocations against Russia
- Beijing condemns Washington’s “irresponsible and immoral” behaviour in the Ukraine crisis
- Judge upholds strike injunction at BNSF: US capitalism disciplines the working class while preparing for war
- US warns Nepal of serious consequences if aid program not ratified
- Jury deliberations begin in the federal trial of three officers who assisted the murder of George Floyd
- Mental health crisis among Canada’s youth exposes failure of Trudeau governments’ pandemic response
- Life insurance companies report a sudden rise in non-COVID-related deaths
- Pentagon approves deployment of National Guard soldiers as fascist pro-Trump caravans set sights on Washington D.C.
- Spain: Far-right Vox poised to enter Castilla y León regional government
- Bipartisan line-up in Australia behind US moves against Russia
- How Amazon workers can fight to defend their interests
2022-02-25
- “We can’t let nuclear war break out”: US workers respond to conflict in Ukraine
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hundreds reported dead in first day of Russia-Ukraine war
- War danger surge as Ukraine demands Turkey close straits to Russia, Israel bombs Syria
- Quebec government scraps remaining COVID-19 mitigation measures
- Oppose the Putin government’s invasion of Ukraine and US-NATO warmongering! For the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers!
- Teachers prepare to strike in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania
- COVID pandemic continues mass killing, notably focused on US and Russia
- Build the Oil Workers Rank-and-File Committee! For a national strike to protect oil workers’ lives and livelihoods!
- New Zealand government aligns with US against Russia
- Three neo-Nazis plead guilty in terror plot targeting US power plants
- Three former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officers convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights
- War crisis triggers market swings
- Singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan dies at 57
- James Webb Space Telescope completes second month of commissioning, accomplishing many key steps
- Germany: What next in the fight against the herd immunity policy?
- North Carolina prison inmates initiate hunger strike against inhumane treatment and grossly inadequate pandemic response
- Demonstrations in over 100 cities commemorate the 2020 fascist murders in Hanau, Germany
- Ten-month lockout at ExxonMobil refinery ends in union betrayal
- EU imposes sanctions on Russia as NATO escalates troop deployments
- Workers at Iowa defense contractor enter second week on strike
- Financial scandal at Black Lives Matter foundation: Who benefits from racialist politics?
- Major League Baseball spring training delayed as lockout continues
- Australian Education Union promotes misinformation over Victorian teachers’ agreement
2022-02-26
- Herd immunity in Northern Ireland: “My family has been torn apart”
- New CDC mask guidelines lifts mandates for most regions in the US
- NATO mobilizes troops as UK MPs, US congressmen call for air war against Russia
- Two prosecutors leading criminal investigation into Trump Organization resign
- “The US has been at war the entirety of our lives”—Students in the US denounce warmongering against Russia
- German workers speak out on war in Ukraine: “The only war we need is the war against the Coronavirus!”
- Sri Lanka engulfed by power cuts and fuel shortages
- Australia announces Ukraine military aid and condemns China
- The enthusiasm of despair and the rise of Ferdinand Marcos Jr in the Philippines
- The campaign against Russian conductor Valery Gergiev: Middle-class hysteria in the service of war
- Australia: Lessons of the 2018 union sell-out of NSW rail workers
- UK Labour Party spearheads anti-Russia warmongering
- Canada imposes “severe” sanctions on Russia, puts 3,400 troops on stand-by for deployment to Europe
- Wildcat school bus driver sickout in Louisiana forces retreat by school district
- Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
- US-NATO war threats against Russia heighten geopolitical crisis in South Asia
- Omicron surge in Indonesia tops record for daily cases
- Chinese translation of “2022: Year Three of the pandemic and the emerging global class struggle”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- San Mateo County Community College District students and faculty speak out against unsafe return to campus
- Churchill rail cleaners stage one day strike in London and south-east to fight low pay
- Unrest, Leonora Addio and other signs of social polarisation
2022-02-28
- Three international studies into the origins of coronavirus refute the fabricated Wuhan “lab leak” claim
- This week in history: February 28-March 6
- Tower auto parts workers penalized for following COVID safety protocols during Omicron surge
- Imperialist powers use “financial nuclear weapon” against Russia
- Surging inflation deepens social catastrophe in Sri Lanka
- South Korean presidential candidates stoke anti-Chinese sentiment
- Toronto school shooting leaves 18-year-old student dead
- Anti-Russian fever takes hold of entertainment, music and sports world
- Conflict between US-NATO and Russia over Ukraine threatens nuclear war
- Oil workers: Reject the USW sellout agreement!
- Aerosol physicist Lidia Morawska calls for long-term measures to combat COVID-19 pandemic
- UK workers and youth speak in support of “Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III !” webinar
- In mid-winter, New York politicians act to drive the homeless off the trains
- Omicron wave overwhelms health system in Hong Kong
- Three months after John Deere strike, company again announces massive profits
- Former locomotive engineer says CSX forced him to complete trip after fatal 2017 accident
- CPAC, America First conferences: A snapshot of the fascist transformation of the Republican Party
- CDC tells Americans to take off their masks as COVID-19 death toll approaches 1 million
- Australia to send “lethal aid” to Ukrainian armed forces
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