Archive: 03/2022
2022-03-01
- Data scientist Dr. William Ku on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Tower auto parts worker describes management harassment during COVID quarantine: “You’re basically owned by Tower”
- Mask mandates being eliminated throughout Texas school districts
- SOS NHS day of action: Health unions’ politically criminal appeal to Tory MPs
- Sri Lankan government declares it “takes no sides” in Ukraine war crisis
- In war speech, German Chancellor Scholz triples defense budget to rearm against Russia
- As over 10 children die from COVID-19 each day, all US states drop mask mandates in schools
- NATO goes to war against Russia
- Gaullist French presidential candidate endorses far-right “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory
- Minneapolis, St. Paul teachers file intent to strike
- Flood victims in devastated Australian regional city denounce lack of government warning
- Germany’s Left Party closes ranks with federal government and NATO on Ukraine
- Long COVID patient Laura Miers testifies on her experiences during the pandemic
- UK students and young people speak on COVID pandemic, danger of war at NHS protests
- David North speaks on the NATO-Russia war on Turkey’s KİTABA DAİR
- French presidential candidates back NATO war drive against Russia
- Floods cause deaths and widespread destruction in Australia
- Trudeau’s deployment of emergency powers—a warning to workers across Canada
- Coroner’s inquiry begins into New Zealand’s far-right terror attack
- BNSF reports record 2021 profits days after obtaining anti-strike injunction
- Australian governments abandon remaining COVID-19 restrictions as deaths mount
- USDAW and GMB unions secure below-inflation pay rise at ASDA supermarkets
- Business leaders and Murdoch editor praise Australian Labor Party leader
- Abbott Elementary on ABC: Comedy in the tragedy of public education
2022-03-02
- More American workers speak out against US–NATO provocations against Russia
- UK government confirms regime change agenda against Russia
- Biden dispatches military-national security delegation to Taiwan
- NATO’s proxy war on Russia and the death of the Corbynite “left”
- UK: Stagecoach West bus drivers to stage month-long strike over pay
- Thousands die in Spain as PSOE-Podemos declares pandemic measures over
- The way forward for the Sri Lankan health workers’ struggle
- Sanctions produce chaos in Russian financial system
- Biden’s “State of the Union”: Confronting internal crisis, the American ruling class turns to war
- United Steelworkers president met with Biden to enforce sellout, block oil strike and back war drive against Russia
- UK mother faces court for protecting her child from COVID-19 infected schools
- New CDC guidelines and lifting of mask mandates further endanger the lives of Americans
- UK university workers finish 10 days of strikes against pension decimation and attacks on pay and conditions
- US and NATO intensify “economic warfare” measures against Russia, weapons transfers to Ukraine
- US presses India to back war drive against Russia
- French students denounce state inaction on COVID
- Macron intensifies mass infection policy ahead of French presidential elections
- Further devastation expected as severe weather, floods hammer Australia’s east coast
- Drive My Car from Japan: The triumph of simply “carrying on”
- Police sent to the home of Michigan parent protesting the end of school mask mandate
- Virginia preschool teacher shares her story with the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- More than 120,000 COVID cases in New Zealand
- Remaining UK COVID restrictions end as study shows most Omicron deaths occurred in deprived areas
- Canada sends anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, bans Russian oil imports
- Berlin demonstration against Ukraine war: From serious concerns to pro-NATO propaganda
- Care Ambulance drivers protest low wages in Southern California health care workers protest
2022-03-03
- An interview with Bryan Wizemann, writer-director of You Mean Everything to Me: “There’s another ‘underserved’ population … and that’s people without money”
- Rashida Tlaib gives “progressive” response to State of the Union: Full support for US–NATO war against Russia
- Stellantis CEO complains of worker “absenteeism” in US following massive 2021 profit report
- Anti-Russian propaganda campaign intensifies in professional sports
- The lies and absurdities in Biden’s State of the Union address
- Major Australian construction company Probuild enters administration
- Fed will move “aggressively” on interest rates if inflation persists
- Spain: Podemos lines up with NATO’s drive towards war with Russia
- Is the pandemic really over?
- Police break up anti-vaccination camp at New Zealand parliament
- NATO floods Ukraine with weapons
- Japanese government imposes sanctions on Russia
- The threat of world war looms: Take up the fight against imperialism and for international socialism!
- Climate change is triggering a humanitarian crisis, UN report finds
- How German militarism is exploiting the Ukraine war
- Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister carries Ukrainian fascist banner at Toronto demonstration
- Australia: Floods hit Sydney as Brisbane, Lismore face further storms
- Commissioner Rob Manfred cancels opening week of Major League Baseball season as owners’ lockout continues
- Australian Education Union’s record of agreement sell-outs
2022-03-04
- UK: Unite will not oppose Labour’s strikebreaking operation in Coventry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK attendees speak on WSWS webinar “Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III!”
- Vanuatu inquiry into Australia’s exploitative seasonal worker scheme
- Biden’s COVID-19 Preparedness Plan will keep schools and businesses open regardless of the death toll
- John McDonnell and Diane Abbott pull out of Stop the War Coalition rally
- Twelve-year-old boy killed by Philadelphia police
- The war in Ukraine: The questions that must be asked
- USW tries to blackmail oil workers to accept sellout agreement
- Sri Lankan action committee holds a successful online meeting in defence of Julian Assange
- French President Macron backs NATO war drive against Russia
- As Tube strikes throw London into chaos, Labour and Tory MPs denounce RMT as “Putin stooges”
- UK university workers speak on higher education dispute
- German Left Party backs war drive against Russia
- George Monbiot: NATO’s witchfinder
- Sewage leak at Stanford Health Care as contract expiration date looms for 5,000 Stanford nurses
- Officer involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor found not guilty of wanton endangerment
- Australia: Residents abandoned by government in flood crisis
- Film industry, festival officials join anti-Russian campaign: What are they signing up for?
- Florida governor Ron DeSantis berates high school students for wearing masks
- Railroad workers at Canadian Pacific vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike action
- House Select Committee: Trump potentially guilty of at least two crimes connected with January 6 attack
- International censorship mounted against Russian state-affiliated media outlets
- Canada’s schools remain high risk for COVID-19 as governments scrap public health measures
- Historians capitulate to war propaganda over Ukraine
2022-03-05
- Who gets NATO’s weapons in Ukraine?
- Educators and students on the US West Coast denounce the drive to war with Russia and lifting of COVID-19 mitigation measures
- The hysterical anti-Russian campaign and the US-NATO drive to war with Russia
- Demands grow in Washington for US war with Russia
- Turkey ends remaining pandemic measures as over 200 die every day
- Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzohkhar Tsarnaev
- Eastern European governments at forefront of NATO war drive against Russia
- COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness is rapidly waning in children
- New Zealand court bans strike by 10,000 health workers
- Metropolitan Opera announces the banning of soprano Anna Netrebko
- How Germany’s “new foreign policy epoch” was prepared
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Ex-Japanese Prime Minister Abe suggests Japan host US nuclear weapons
- APWU postal union claims contract ratification despite widespread ballot problems
- Conductor Valery Gergiev sacked from Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
- Florida legislature passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks
- Australian workers face closure of Eraring coal-fired power plant by 2025
- Australian Education Union uses anti-democratic delegates’ meetings to promote sellout agreement
2022-03-07
- Head of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery Alistair Hudson sacked after Zionist witch-hunt
- US gives “green light” for Poland to provide fighter jets to Ukraine
- 8,000 Minneapolis, St. Paul educators set to strike Tuesday: What’s at stake
- This week in history: March 7-13
- US and NATO have Syria in their sights
- COVID cases explode in South Korea ahead of presidential election
- Gas explosion rips though apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland
- Student ejected from audience of Australian current affairs program for asking critical question on Ukraine
- Concerns over impact of Russian sanctions on global financial system
- Russian government cracks down on media and protests
- Stop the reckless spiral toward nuclear war!
- COVID-19 infection rates and deaths on the rise in Germany
- Tornadoes in central Iowa kill 7, cause extensive damage
- Australia’s floods: An indictment of capitalism
- COVID deaths hit 6 million worldwide as Omicron mutation devastates Hong Kong
- Far-right “People’s Convoy” arrives outside Washington D.C.
- 300 workers locked out at Troy, Ohio aeronautics plant
- In the face of anti-Russian venom, the Cliburn piano competition takes a principled stand
- Embracing far-right Freedom Convoy’s demands, Canada’s governments rapidly drop remaining COVID-19 public health measures
- Australia: Brisbane flood victims condemn government response
2022-03-08
- Stop the War Coalition demos offer no way forward
- San Francisco school district lays off 364 educators and staff
- Playing reckless politics on the rim of a volcano
- Studies warn Omicron BA.2 is the most dangerous COVID variant ever
- The German state tries to cover its tracks in latest far-right trial
- Norfolk Southern derailment forces partial suspension of Amtrak service
- Australian PM denounces China and announces $10 billion nuclear submarine base
- Minneapolis educators launch first strike since 1970, as St. Paul teachers union blocks joint walkout
- Capitol Police Board issues emergency declaration as far-right “People’s Convoy” camps outside Washington D.C.
- US sends more troops to Russia’s borders, weighs sending anti-aircraft systems
- India refuses to condemn Russia over Ukraine invasion at special Quad summit
- An interview with Yaneer Bar-Yam on Omicron, BA.2 and the ongoing dangers of the coronavirus pandemic: Part 1
- Australia: Death toll reaches 20 as flood disaster hits Sydney
- European powers escalate threats against Russia over Ukraine war
- Canada’s Trudeau visits Europe to plot escalation of war drive against Russia
- A discussion with a Russian socialist opponent of the war in Ukraine
- UK pallet workers at Chep, Manchester speak on three month strike
- Brazil passes 650,000 COVID-19 deaths as ruling class adopts “endemic” narrative
- Over 600 students at Australian National University test COVID-positive one week after return to campus
2022-03-09
- Jury seated in federal trial of four who plotted to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Whitmer
- Reactions in Germany to the webinar: “Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!”
- Ukrainian neo-Nazis torture Jewish anti-war MMA athlete
- Storming Heaven (1987): Meeting the responsibilities of historical fiction
- Sri Lankan government tables sham amendments to draconian anti-terrorism law
- Wildfires rage along South Korea’s east coast
- Academic boycott of Russia: Science in the service of German war policy
- Australia’s Socialist Alliance lines up behind imperialist war drive against Russia
- US ramps up “financial war” on Russia as retired generals call for no-fly zone
- Foreign corporations exit Russia to provoke economic collapse
- Russian-backed cable news network RT America shuts down
- European Union employs double standards on refugees from Ukraine, discriminates against non-Ukrainians
- Johnson’s plan for war with Russia means war on UK working class
- Omicron BA.2 subvariant fuels new global surge of the pandemic
- Backing Biden’s war drive, USW boasts its deal for 30,000 oil workers “does not add to inflationary pressures”
- Australia: Sydney rail shutdown planned by multiple government departments
- Australian PM declares “national emergency” amid mass anger over response to flood crisis
- Striking Minneapolis teachers express support for united struggle across Twin Cities
- Water supply disruptions continue in Iqaluit, a major city in Canada’s far-north and Nunavut’s capital
- US Senate passes Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
- 4 months after UAW/USW sellout contract, auto parts maker Dana Inc. reports massive boost to profits in 2021
- Oppose the arrest of Ukrainian Communist Youth leaders!
- Brazil’s “herd immunity” policy: poverty and mass death for workers, bonanza for super-rich
- Unite agrees de facto pay cut to end Serco health workers strike at Barts NHS Trust
- An interview with Yaneer Bar-Yam on Omicron, BA.2 and the ongoing dangers of the coronavirus pandemic: Part 2
- Report on California’s Amazon warehouses reveals massive COVID-19 cover-up
- Questions that must be answered after Relay Building fire in central London
- Anger mounts at Ukrainian security forces’ treatment of Africans fleeing war
2022-03-10
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold online public meeting: Oppose US–NATO war drive and the Russian invasion of Ukraine!
- Philadelphia police fire officer who shot 12-year-old Thomas Siderio in the back
- The US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership of November 2021 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- From pacifism to a party of war: The political evolution of Germany’s Greens
- Three more children die from COVID in New York City as Democratic mayor removes mask mandate
- US undersecretary of state acknowledges there are biological warfare labs in Ukraine
- USW says its sellout contract was passed at key naval shipyard in Newport News, Virginia
- Australian PM in flood-hit Lismore: People are on their own in natural disasters
- Market convulsions could spark financial crisis
- The anti-democratic targeting of Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev
- Workers and youth in the US speak out against US imperialism and Russian militarism in Ukraine
- Six teens charged with first-degree murder after fatal shooting outside Des Moines, Iowa high school
- Eaton aerospace workers in Iowa reject second contract offer, after company threatens to hire permanent replacements
- Pseudo-left International Marxist Tendency provides cover for imperialist powers in conflict with Russia
- Amsterdam Hermitage ends “Russian avant-garde: Revolution in art” exhibit
- War in Ukraine and Russia sanctions threaten food supplies in Middle East and North Africa
- Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo declares “healthy” children should not receive vaccine in new COVID-19 guidelines
- Britain’s trade unions demand stepped-up sanctions against Russia: beating the drum for World War III
- British ruling class to vastly increase military spending
- Fascist Three Percenter militia member found guilty on all five counts in first federal January 6 trial
- China offers to mediate talks between Russia and Ukraine
- Democrats, Republicans, Biden agree on staggering increase in military budget
- UK imaging study finds that even in mild COVID cases there is brain atrophy and cognitive decline
- COVID-19 infections rise in Australia as BA.2 begins to take hold
2022-03-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Chicago-area teachers and staff strike over pay, class sizes
- As inflation surges, Spanish unions and Podemos slash real wages
- SEP (Australia) deregistered under anti-democratic electoral laws
- Omicron wreaks death in Quebec on a scale not seen since the pandemic’s first wave
- Australia: Flight attendants’ union orchestrating sell out of Qantas workers
- New Zealand police end borehole drilling at Pike River mine after finding more human remains
- The NATO campaign against Russia will drive escalating class struggle across the world
- French New Anti-capitalist Party backs NATO war drive against Russia
- Amid warnings of world war, demands grow in Washington for escalation against Russia
- Striking Minneapolis teachers denounce increased military funding while schools starve: “War fills the capitalists’ coffers”
- King Richard: The monomaniac as likable eccentric
- German trade unions support military build-up and declare an industrial truce
- Australian flood victims in Sydney speak out, condemning government response
- Popular hostility against pro-war denigration of Engels statue in Manchester, UK
- US educators call for building a mass movement to prevent World War III and end the pandemic
- Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates line up behind war drive, denounce DSA
- US pandemic funding dries up as BA.2 Omicron subvariant spreads uncontrolled
- Masking recommendations lifted as COVID-19 continues to ravage Arkansas
- Australia’s state-funded broadcaster pumping out pro-war anti-Russian propaganda
- US media continues coverup of State Department admission of biological weapons labs in Ukraine
2022-03-12
- David North responds to Wall Street Journal’s interview with Robert Service
- EU summit pledges more arms to Ukraine against Russia
- Ukraine becomes an international rallying point for neo-Nazis and mercenaries
- WSWS publishes the Chinese translation of “The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left”
- PSOE-Podemos government escalates Spain’s threats against Russia
- Sri Lankan president sacks two ministers amid deepening crisis
- Nurses at Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Oregon push for strike action
- Regarding war crimes, Russian and American
- Two years since the WHO declared the COVID pandemic: New cases rising once again, driven by the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron
- German government ends COVID-19 measures despite BA.2 wave
- COVID infects hundreds of public transport workers in New Zealand
- Australian government announces largest military expansion since Vietnam War
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- European Central Bank moves to tighten monetary policy
- Detroit autoworkers reject pro-war propaganda in corporate media
- Skyrocketing gasoline prices place unbearable burdens on rideshare and delivery drivers
- Senate passes biggest-ever US military budget with unanimous Democratic support
- Bonnie Henry: The public face of British Columbia’s pandemic policy of mass infection and death
- More stonewalling by the White House and US media about the Ukrainian biolabs
- Germany: Berlin coalition government adopts drastic austerity budget
- UK: Record numbers of health workers quit NHS as Sajid Javid calls health spending “not sustainable”
- Arriva London South bus drivers vote to strike, rejecting derisory 1.5 percent pay offer
- Australian Labor Party leader commits to big business restructuring and US militarism
2022-03-14
- UK: Johnson government keeps Ukrainian refugees entry to bare minimum
- This week in history: March 14-20
- International Monetary Fund calls for drastic austerity measures in Sri Lanka
- Saudi monarchy executes 81 men in one day: Medieval barbarism from top US ally in Mideast
- Anti-war demonstrations continue in Russia, despite mass repression
- The NATO-Russia conflict spirals out of control
- Oppose the New Zealand government’s criminal policy of mass infection. The working class must fight to eliminate COVID-19!
- Nuclear winter—the long-suppressed reality of nuclear war
- Expand the Minneapolis educators strike! Mobilize the working class for higher wages and against war and the pandemic!
- As federal trial opens, prosecutor lays out evidence of fascist plot to kidnap and murder Michigan Governor Whitmer
- Residents in flooded Australian regional city condemn lack of government help
- Green Party environment minister worried more about her image than raising the alarm over last year’s German floods
- China locks down Shanghai and Shenzhen as Omicron BA.2 subvariant surges
- Buffalo Philharmonic holds concerts with Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev
- Australian governments ending all “close contact” rules as COVID infections increase
- New Zealand government expedites law to ramp up Russian sanctions
2022-03-15
- UK cost of living crisis worsens
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US threatens China over Ukraine crisis
- US threatens trade embargo as fighting continues to escalate, sanctions devastate Russian economy
- Former Democratic Party congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard attacked for demanding the US shut down Ukrainian biolabs
- Spanish truckers mount nationwide strike against rising fuel prices
- Citing the pandemic, Biden administration continues to deny asylum to immigrant families and adults
- Russia on the brink of debt default
- Australian government dumps two Iranian refugees in the US after nearly nine years of imprisonment
- Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and the hypocrisy of imperialism
- Oil refinery workers oppose USW sellout contract
- Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
- Elon Musk challenges UAW to unionize Tesla
- Nation magazine, DSA seek to channel Minneapolis teachers strike behind Democratic Party
- Baseball lockout ends with agreement failing to resolve players’ demands
- Colorado Republican election officials indicted
- Arson attack on Berlin’s Lomonosov International School—a result of anti-Russian agitation
- Iran’s attack on Irbil confirms widening of US/Russia conflict to the Middle East
- Australia: No charges for deadly explosion at Anglo American’s Grosvenor mine
- Ford Motor Company severs EVs from traditional business, threatening massive job cuts and poverty wages
- Australia: Brisbane flood victims face long cleanup delays
- Pro-imperialist pseudo-left event on Ukraine ends in debacle for organizers
- Democrats to run as party of war and national unity in midterm election
- US states shut down daily COVID-19 death reporting
- The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
- Omicron BA.2 subvariant threatens to deepen record surge of US child deaths
- Survey reveals mental health crisis among Canada’s international students during pandemic
- Australian floods and climate change
- UK Supreme Court refuses Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to US
- My Best Friend Anne Frank: “We were just children … People should know about the cruelty”
2022-03-16
- US to send another $1 billion in weapons to Ukraine
- Reports expose UK, US arming of Ukraine military including fascist forces
- Virginia Thomas, wife of right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, admits to participating in January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally
- Educators across US send support to striking Minneapolis teachers
- Police shoot Madrid striker as Spanish trucking strike mounts
- Right-wing candidate narrowly wins South Korean presidential election
- China mounts all-out effort to stop the spread of Omicron BA.2 subvariant
- Nearly 1,000 people in hospital with COVID in New Zealand
- Nickel crisis points to fragility of global finance
- Details of St. Paul teachers union deal reveal austerity agreement
- Australia launches legal action against Russia over MH17 downing
- Australian mental health workers to take stopwork action
- Manchester Evening News dubs Ukrainian World War II Nazi collaborator a “hero”
- Anger developing in flood-devastated Australian regional city
- An unoriginal hagiography of the Democratic Party: Michael Kazin's What it Took to Win
- IYSSE (Australia) meeting against war provokes lively discussion
- The issues in the unionization vote at Hershey's Stuarts Draft, Virginia plant
- Passage of anti-democratic bill banning discussion of sexual orientation in Florida schools triggers student walkouts
- End of mediation period sets up potential strike by 3,000 railway workers at Canadian Pacific
- ACAS sides with strike-breaking Coventry Labour council against refuse drivers
- Churchill station and train cleaners hold second strike across London and southeast England
- Support strike action at Canadian Pacific! For a united movement of North American railroaders against wage cuts and brutal working hours!
- CIA detainee Ammar al-Baluchi was used as a training prop to teach torture techniques
- Silence in the media and Labour “left” on Assange’s extradition danger
- German satirical television show Die Anstalt and the Ukraine war, or, How I Learned to Love NATO
2022-03-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Fed targets wage demands as it lifts interest rate
- Ukrainian news anchor quotes Adolf Eichmann, calls for genocide against Russians
- Turkish doctors, health workers on nationwide strike for wages, safety
- For united strike action by London Underground, bus and rail workers to defeat Tory-Labour cuts! Money for transport and essential services, not war!
- Sri Lankan workers and youth speak out against US-led war drive and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
- Johnson’s cap-in-hand appeal for Saudi Arabia and UAE to increase oil supplies fails
- San Antonio, Texas, officers assault protesters after fatal police shooting
- German population shows solidarity with Ukrainian refugees in Berlin, authorities display indifference
- The US arming of Ukraine and the preparations for war
- Oppose USW threats and lies! Launch a national strike to overturn the government-dictated sellout contract!
- Climate scientist Michael Mills describes the devastation of a nuclear detonation
- Nationalist frenzy mounts to seize art of Russia’s Morozov Collection on exhibit in Paris
- Mask mandates end in nearly every US school district as pediatric death toll climbs
- German air force procures US nuclear bombers
- Suspect apprehended in multiple killings of the homeless in Washington, D.C. and New York City
- Australian flood victims in northwest Sydney reveal extent of the devastation
- Lancet report shows pandemic death toll is triple the official total
- UK government enlists schools in NATO war drive against Russia
- Unifor, Canada’s largest industrial union, announces Jerry Dias under investigation just days after he quits as its president
- NATO plays Russian roulette with nuclear weapons
- We Might as Well Be Dead: An absurdist portrait of a hysteria-ridden society
- Australian establishment responds to latest UK judicial travesty against Assange with a stony silence
2022-03-18
- Australian police officer found not guilty over fatal shooting of indigenous teenager
- Spain mobilises 23,000 police in bid to crush nationwide truckers strike
- David North to address Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE online public meeting: Oppose US–NATO war drive and the Russian invasion of Ukraine!
- San Diego police shoot and kill woman while serving eviction notice
- Waukegan, Illinois police face no charges after forcing false confession from teenage boy
- P&O Ferries sack 800 workers on-the-spot in class war offensive
- Once again on war crimes and war criminals
- Unions accelerate efforts to isolate and shut down Minneapolis teachers strike
- An interview with Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee: “One of the characteristics of sick societies … is that they don’t give you any good choices”
- The questions confronting Amazon workers in New York amid upcoming union vote
- The issues at stake in the US West Coast dockworkers contract
- Faced with a new wave of COVID-19, France ends public health restrictions
- Ford Saarlouis works council chairman defends secret negotiations and threatens workers
- Russian court rejects appeal by historian Yuri Dmitriev, upholds 15-year prison sentence
- CP Rail issues 72-hour lockout notice for 3,000 railway workers
- Republican lawmakers meet with leaders of far-right “People’s Convoy” in Washington
- Under a strict Zero-COVID strategy, new infections in China turn sharply lower
- Pseudo-left president takes office in Chile
- Three years since the Christchurch terror attack
- French CGT union backs NATO imperialism in Russian-Ukrainian war
- Australia’s rising cost of living outpacing official inflation
- Biden appoints mass infection advocate Ashish Jha as COVID-19 Response Coordinator
- Ahed’s Knee from Israel, made “with a sense of urgency”
2022-03-19
- Australian government sending second shipment of arms to Ukraine
- Brother of New Zealand mine disaster victim denounces abandonment of underground investigation
- Sri Lankan visual and performance artist condemns attacks on Russian art and artists
- FBI informants testify in federal trial of four men accused of plot to kidnap Michigan governor
- UK: The UCU’s right and “left” factions are preventing an effective fight by lecturers
- Britain’s TUC cancels annual protest outside Tory conference to support war drive
- #SpeakOutAgainstWW3: Workers and youth in Germany oppose militarism and war
- Protests at four UK ports against the sacking of 800 P&O ferry crew workers
- In talks with Chinese president, Biden bullies China over Ukraine
- India: Striking Maharashtra transport workers defy state government’s latest back-to-work ultimatum
- Zelensky appeals to Germany’s militaristic traditions
- France’s Lutte Ouvrière demobilizes worker opposition to NATO-Russia war danger
- Obama defense secretary Leon Panetta says NATO is in a “proxy war” with Russia
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- This is Going to Hurt: Adam Kay’s poignant drama-comedy about junior doctors and the NHS
- Howard University non-tenured teaching staff and adjunct professors rally for improved pay and conditions, plan three-day strike
- Strong interest in SEP Sri Lanka meeting on Ukraine war crisis this Sunday
- Australian floods victims left homeless while aid goes to business
- Virologist Dr. Stephen Griffin speaks on the COVID pandemic and the Omicron variant: Part 1
- A letter to a friend on the historical and political background to the war in Ukraine
- Amid economic crisis, Sri Lankan president pledges to work with IMF
- Canadian CP Rail worker speaks out against brutal working conditions
2022-03-20
2022-03-21
- Sacked P&O ferry workers speak out at rally in London
- Warning strikes after no agreement reached for German airport security staff
- Reject Arriva-Unite’s 3 percent pay offer in London South: Build a rank-and-file committee for a unified fightback!
- COVID-19 surges in Solomon Islands
- Giving in to anti-Russian prejudice, New York Philharmonic cancels appearances by conductor Tugan Sokhiev
- Sri Lankan plantation action committees hold public meeting to demand reinstatement of sacked workers
- Siemens workers in Germany speak out against war
- Labor Party wins South Australian election on back of COVID disaster
- NHS staff struggling to provide patient safety as Johnson government lifts all pandemic mitigations
- Why teachers should oppose the Minneapolis Public Schools-MFT “Educators of Color” memorandum
- P&O resumes sailings with workers on £1.82 an hour
- The Canadian Pacific lockout and UK ferry mass sackings: Ruling class ruthlessness in response to growing class struggle
- University of Michigan social work students strike to win pay for internships
- Deepening political crisis in New Zealand as living costs surge
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Retired workers suffering from Long COVID in Flint, Michigan, speak to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Grocery store workers in Southern California to vote on possible strike
- German government ends pandemic measures
- Canadian Pacific locks out 3,000 railroad workers across Canada
- Surge in UK COVID cases fuelled by Omicron BA.2
- Columbus, Ohio police officer cleared of wrongdoing after killing 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant
- CDC “adjustment” slashes child COVID-19 deaths by 25 percent
- Pabloite leader Gilbert Achcar spouts pro-imperialist sophistries
2022-03-22
- Customs: Poet Solmaz Sharif examines imperialism and exile
- Sri Lanka’s parliamentary opposition attempt to exploit popular anger against Rajapakse government
- Ultra-right takes control of Northern California county through recall election
- Russia threatens rupture of diplomatic ties with US amidst growing frictions within the oligarchy
- White House plans major escalation of NATO’s proxy war with Russia
- Britain bans RT
- Germany deploys more combat troops to Eastern Europe
- UK government proposes Wimbledon ban on Daniil Medvedev, other Russian tennis players unless they repudiate Putin
- Macron presents militarist, class war program in French presidential elections
- Oskar Lafontaine leaves the Left Party
- Union suppresses socialist perspective at Australian mental health workers’ strike “rally”
- East Timor’s presidential election goes to second round
- UK schools in crisis as COVID surges, with cases highest among youngest and unvaccinated
- China continues offensive against the spread of Omicron BA.2 subvariant
- French presidential candidates present programs in scripted TV “debate”
- Teamsters union shuts down Canadian Pacific rail workers’ struggle
- No charges against Chicago police officer in fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo
- In rebuke to USW, California Chevron workers strike to demand higher wages, shorter work hours
- Massive increase in COVID-19 in Austria after protective measures ended
2022-03-23
- West Coast schools remove mask mandates as US child deaths from COVID-19 continue to mount
- Testimony from FBI informant continues in second week of Whitmer kidnapping plot trial
- Seattle students walk out in protest over dropping of mask requirements
- Vigilante punishment spreads in Ukraine
- US Indo-Pacific commander in provocative flight over South China Sea
- Sacramento, California educators strike over short staffing and lack of COVID safety measures
- “Aggressive” speech by Fed chair Powell targets wages
- Peruvian transport carriers end road blockages as giant copper mines remain shut down
- US COVID-19 death toll reaches 1 million
- Support the Chevron workers in California! For a national strike to overturn the sellout agreement!
- Australian rail union brokers peace deal with NSW government
- Minneapolis School Board, Democratic Party demand millions in budget cuts in provocation against striking educators
- Trade union-backed NDP pledges to sustain Trudeau government in power until June 2025
- Health care struggles grow in the US as Omicron BA.2 surge spreads
- Sudan erupts as millions in Africa go hungry due to Ukraine war and sanctions on Russia
- Teamsters union sabotages CP Rail workers struggle by agreeing to binding arbitration
- CP Rail worker involved in accident denounces terrible working conditions
- Biden arrives in Europe to press for military escalation against Russia
- Impoverishing Ukraine: What the US and the EU have been doing to the country for the past 30 years
- Australian Education Union sell-out agreement met with record opposition—Vote “No” in employee ballot!
- Impoverishing Ukraine: What the US and the EU have been doing to the country for the past 30 years
- A comment on American author Joan Didion (1934-2021)
2022-03-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- As Omicron BA.2 threat grows, US COVID-19 testing, treatment funds exhausted
- Major storm system causes multiple tornadoes across US South, destroys neighborhood in New Orleans
- Opera on the story of lynching victim Emmett Till comes under vicious attack
- UK’s spring budget reduces living standards to levels last seen after World War Two
- Attend Sri Lankan estate workers action committee meeting and demand reinstatement of all victimised workers
- Russia steps up political repression as economic crisis intensifies
- Train derailment in California highlights dangers from relentless attack on railroad workers
- The dead end of the “Save Britain’s Ferries” campaign: Build rank-and-file committees!
- NATO meets to plot next stage in Ukraine proxy war
- Education workers outraged by hard-right Ford government’s removal of mask mandate in Ontario’s schools
- Australia: New South Wales nurses voting for second statewide strike
- A revealing line up at right-wing Australian Labor senator’s funeral
- Fascistic demagogy from Republicans at hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Howard University lecturers’ union announces “historic victory” in tentative agreement, calls off strike
- Democratic Socialists of America in crisis as it covers for Biden administration’s war drive against Russia
- Letter from a Canadian Pacific rail worker: How deregulation and corporate greed are imperilling workers’ lives and public safety
- To end climate change, war and the pandemic, take up the fight for world socialism!
- A falling-out among fascists: Trump rescinds endorsement of Alabama co-conspirator Mo Brooks
- BA.2 variant fuelling new COVID surge in Australia
- Julian Assange marries Stella Moris in London’s Belmarsh prison
- Assange supporters speak outside his Belmarsh prison wedding
- Strike by airport security staff halts hundreds of flights across Germany
2022-03-25
- Wall Street bonuses surge to record high
- No Third World War! Against war in Ukraine, NATO aggression and German armament!
- Ex-Unifor president Jerry Dias exposed as COVID profiteer in kickback scandal
- Defend Spanish truckers strike from PSOE-Podemos repression!
- US auto companies complain of “labor shortage” as temporary workers denied profit sharing
- Poland jails Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo González on bogus spy charges
- Pittsburgh officials continue cover-up of police murder of Jim Rogers
- 1989 Texas execution documented in The Phantom: The wrong man?
- The NATO-Russia conflict threatens nuclear war
- RMT union promotes nationalism to block a class mobilisation against P&O Ferries and UK government
- Criminal trial begins against Vanderbilt nurse over medication error death
- Minneapolis educators strike at crossroads as MFT reaches deal to end walkout
- Commodity markets in turmoil
- Disability patient testifies to Global Workers’ Inquest into COVID-19: “The pandemic is a mass-disabling event”
- Virginia musician Aaron speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- German parliament debates war budget
- Australia: Thousands of people devastated by Queensland floods
- COVID clusters grow at Australian schools as Omicron BA.2 surges
- Three deaths in Sydney boarding house fire highlight Australia’s housing crisis
- Madeleine Albright dead at 84: American imperialism mourns a war criminal
2022-03-26
- Convicted militia member testifies that Whitmer kidnap plot was intended to stop election of Biden
- Solomon Islands drafts military agreement with China, defying US-Australian threats
- Terry Telfer, educator and socialist (1947–2022)
- Biden’s student debt scam: Restructuring debt, not forgiveness
- New Zealand government ends COVID-19 restrictions amid escalating death toll
- Text messages reveal leading role of Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife in facilitating Trump coup plot
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Australian high school students denounce major parties at climate rallies
- Crossing the psychological Rubicon: US-NATO risks nuclear war
- War, rearmament and “Green values” in Germany
- Oppose the betrayal of the Minneapolis educators strike! Reject the MFT’s sellout contract!
- China battles to contain Omicron outbreaks
- Canadian Pacific rail worker fired under company’s draconian disciplinary regime speaks out
- Omicron BA.2 wave begins its assault on the United States
- USW tries to isolate striking Richmond, California Chevron workers just as strike slows West Coast production
- Exhibition at the German-Russian Museum in Berlin: “Postscript—‘Eastern Workers’ in the German Reich”
- Australian government accuses Russia of war crimes, buries its own atrocities in Afghanistan
- New Zealand “lefts” and unions promote pro-business mayoral candidates in Auckland
2022-03-27
2022-03-28
- Southern California grocery workers vote to authorize strike
- Warrior Met tries to frame up striking workers for gas line explosion
- 14-year-old boy dies after falling from amusement park ride in Orlando, Florida
- This week in history: March 28-April 3
- Washington state tulip farm workers strike against unsafe conditions and low wages
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE holds well attended online meeting against US-NATO war drive and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Sri Lanka: SEP/IYSSE meeting participants denounce US-NATO war and Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Socialist Equality Party holds successful event against imperialism and war
- How the anti-Russian sanctions were planned
- Boris Romanchenko, 96-year-old concentration camp survivor, killed in Kharkiv bombing
- Son of New Zealand mine disaster victim denounces lack of accountability
- Biden’s new “forever war”
- Brixton drivers’ fury at anti-strike injunction: “The union is in cahoots with management”
- Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught convicted of criminal negligent homicide for medication error
- Australian university union helps managements drag out industrial bargaining
- Over widespread opposition, MFT pushes through austerity contract, ending Minneapolis educators strike
- University of Michigan nurses open contract talks
- Millions of Indian workers to join two-day general strike against Modi’s ruinous pro-investor policies
- Arriva London South bus drivers mount two-day strike over pay
- Medical student at UK’s Cardiff University speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest
- How the Democratic Party prepared the war in Ukraine
- Last American state drops indoor mask mandates as Omicron BA.2 threatens to surge across United States
- The homicidal irresponsibility of the German government’s coronavirus policies
- Australia: Major construction company Condev appoints liquidator
- CDC remains silent on unexplained 25 percent cut in child COVID-19 deaths
- Stop Canada’s sixth pandemic wave! Build the Cross-Canada Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee!
- UK COVID memorial wall anniversary: The pandemic still raging, the criminals still at large
- National Opera of Belgium announces season “in which Russian titles feature more prominently than ever”
- Australian workers and youth oppose US-NATO war drive and Russia invasion
- US Indo-Pacific military chief warns of conflict with China over Taiwan
2022-03-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Striking Spanish truckers reject inadequate state bailout offer
- The COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and the fight for global elimination
- Australia: Expand strike action by NSW nurses! Form rank-and-file committees to break the isolation imposed by the union!
- Australian union shuts down industrial action by Sydney rail workers
- British journalist Paul Mason: The pseudo-left’s chief pro-NATO, pro-war ideologue
- North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missile
- Macron criticizes Biden’s call for regime change in Russia
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs anti-democratic “Don’t Say Gay” bill”
- Organize a counter-offensive against the Canadian Pacific-Teamsters’ anti-worker arbitration deal! Build the CP Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- How the Democratic Party prepared the war in Ukraine
- Stop Facebook's censorship of the SGP's anti-war video!
- Biden unveils 2023 budget with massive spending on the military and police
- Unions block fight by BNSF workers, call on arbitrator to rule on Hi-Viz attendance policy
2022-03-30
- As pandemic funding dries up, BA.2 has become dominant COVID-19 variant in the US
- Russia, Ukraine hold peace negotiations as US continues to ratchet up tensions
- State investigation reveals new details about death of 14-year-old boy who fell from amusement park ride in Orlando, Florida
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government announces record military budget
- Escalating tensions over Solomon Islands security pact with China
- Strike by Sacramento, California educators at critical juncture as union signals support for austerity demands
- Following Saarland state election, SPD prepares social attacks
- Stop censoring the opponents of war!
- Twenty fined for Downing Street lockdown parties as Johnson throws party near COVID bereaved protest
- Maritime Union of Australia backs US-led war drive against Russia
- Families of the dead mark one year of the UK’s National Covid Memorial Wall
- Tens of millions of Indian workers join general strike against Modi’s class-war assault
- New York’s Mayor Eric Adams orders dismantling of homeless encampments
- BCTGM drive at Hershey in Virginia ends with decisive vote against union affiliation
- RMT’s alliance with UK government leads P&O Ferries fight into a dead end
- Federal judge declares Trump illegally conspired to overthrow the Constitution
- Canadian workers denounce US-NATO war drive against Russia and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
- Blinken moves to bring Middle East allies behind US/NATO war on Russia
- 2022 Academy Awards: Will Smith’s disorientation, Hollywood’s and America’s
- Chevron, the USW, and the threat of war: What striking oil workers need to know
- Australian “cash splash” budget masks military boost and pandemic health cuts
2022-03-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Prosecution rests in the trial of men charged with plot against the governor of Michigan
- Nurses and health care workers come to the defense of former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught
- Spanish truckers strike continues in third week, as inflation hits 10 percent
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government arms Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
- Defeat Sri Lankan regime’s brutal austerity measures! Fight for socialist policies
- Death of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson on Orlando, Florida, amusement park ride highlights consequences of deregulation, lax oversight
- No to Steinmeier’s demands for “sacrifices” for Ukraine war!
- Conflict over Russian demand for payments in roubles
- New Zealand’s ISO backs US-NATO imperialism in Ukraine war against Russia
- Peru imposes mandatory school attendance as COVID risks rise
- Finance capital demands an end to Shanghai’s lockdown and China’s Zero-COVID policy
- Rutte government lifts COVID-19 measures in Netherlands as infections surge
- UK: Birmingham Six investigator Chris Mullin defeats legal threat from West Midlands Police
- German government plans missile defence system for war against Russia
- Socialist Equality Party discusses building an anti-war movement with UK workers
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season Four: Less “marvelous” and more “Mrs.”
- US escalates arms transfers to Ukraine
- 1,300 copper mine workers in Utah prepare for struggle against Rio Tinto
- Michigan health care worker shares experiences with the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Illinois State University workers authorize strike, while Champaign teachers union reaches deal to avert walkout
- Six years of Chris Hedges’ On Contact program erased by YouTube
- Australia: Renewed flooding again imperils thousands of people
- Pakistan’s right-wing populist Imran Khan-led government facing likely defeat in no-confidence vote
- Mother of conductor killed in 2019 Canadian Pacific train derailment speaks out
- White House logs omit nearly eight hours of Trump calls during January 6 coup
- Video: Families of the dead mark one year of the UK’s National Covid Memorial Wall
- Determined Richmond, California Chevron workers join global movement against spiraling cost of living
- Australia Post workers oppose US-led drive to World War III
- Australian budget boosts military spending amid escalating war drive
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