Archive: 04/2022
2022-04-01
- UK: Sacked P&O workers lose jobs in rout organised by trade unions and Labour Party
- Wealth bonanza for Australia’s billionaires continues as the pandemic rages
- As Quebec faces its sixth wave of COVID-19 pandemic, CAQ government continues to put profits before lives
- More guns, less butter: Biden’s World War III budget
- COVID deaths surge in New Zealand
- New York state enacts token safe staffing requirement for nursing homes
- Australia: New South Wales nurses again defy government-court ban in statewide strike
- Australia: Striking New South Wales nurses call for unified struggle by all health workers
- Australian respiratory scientist speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest
- Inflation slashes living standards and pushes millions of workers in the US to the brink
- Workers and youth condemn Facebook censorship of Socialist Equality Party’s anti-war video
- Unite isolating Coventry refuse drivers’ strike to prevent challenge to Labour Party
- Striking Chevron workers denounce unpaid “standby” policy and other oppressive conditions at California oil refinery
- German government steps up its army recruitment campaign in schools
- National Endowment for the Arts report lifts the lid on the devastation of the US arts economy
- RWDSU likely headed for defeat as turnout declines in second vote at Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama
- Australian Labor leader Albanese’s budget reply: Militarism, business handouts, nothing for workers
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s first three months: Operating as a ruthless law-and-order frontman for big business
- Health care workers denounce scapegoating of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught
2022-04-02
- Despite BA.2’s global dominance, World Health Organization shifting to end emergency phase of COVID-19 pandemic
- Biden administration announces end of Title 42 anti-asylum policy, issues a fast pass for Ukrainian refugees
- Stellantis announces hundreds more job cuts at Belvidere, Illinois plant, as layoffs continue to roil global auto industry
- Sri Lankan president declares state of emergency to suppress mass protests over austerity
- Growing outrage over victimization of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught
- Global food crisis fuels international class struggle
- Mothering Sunday: A World War I film not at all about World War I
- “McKinseyGate” scandal hits Macron ahead of French presidential election
- A letter from David North to a Russian Comrade: “Putin’s invasion is a desperate response to the relentless pressure exerted by the US and NATO upon Russia”
- US corporate profits, CEO pay surged in 2021 while inflation slashed real wages
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Workers and students in Australia call for international anti-war movement
- Germany supplies tanks to Ukraine and prepares for war against Russia
- French Morenoites cover for New Anticapitalist Party’s backing of NATO against Russia
- Canada’s Transport Safety Board presents damning report on 2019 CP Rail train derailment
- China rejects EU calls to cut ties with Russia over Ukraine war
- Support grows to break USW isolation of California Chevron strike
- Democratic-led Congress provides meager increase to education funding in 2022 budget
- Strikes sweep Brazil as prices soar
- Victoria Nuland visits Bangladesh, demanding it support US-NATO war drive against Russia
- The “exceptional” economics of the Australian budget
- Australian parliament unites behind warmongering address by Ukrainian President Zelensky
- Arriva London South bus drivers’ strike becomes focus of broader opposition
- Amazon Labor Union wins election at Amazon warehouse in New York City
- German unions agree to below inflation “wage rise” for airport security workers
2022-04-03
2022-04-04
- One year since the start of Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama
- Imperialist powers escalate Ukraine war over allegations of Russian war crimes in Bucha
- Stumping for “America First” Republicans, Trump holds campaign rally in Macomb County, Michigan
- Democrats reject calls to impeach far-right Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
- UK workers oppose Facebook’s censoring of German Socialist Equality Party’s anti-war video
- 5,000 California nurses to take strike vote at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospitals
- Anti-government protests continue in Sri Lanka in defiance of curfew and police repression
- Sacramento teachers: No return to work without seeing the contract!
- Texas, Louisiana Kroger grocery workers press for strike action
- UK: British ruling elite imposes “historic shock to real incomes” of the working class
- Massive social protests erupt in Sri Lanka: A critical development in the global class struggle
- Shanghai under citywide lockdown as COVID-19 cases continue to climb
- COVID-19 deaths escalate across the Pacific
- “Look to the health care system for being at fault”—Health care workers continue to voice support for victimized nurse, RaDonda Vaught
- Mélenchon aligns with NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine
- Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen surges in French presidential polls
- On eve of contract expiration, thousands of Los Angeles County workers march to demand improved wages, working conditions
- French presidential candidates silent on COVID-19’s human cost
- Fortieth anniversary of Malvinas/Falklands war exploited to protect Johnson and sanction NATO aggression against Russia
- Davino Watson, American citizen wrongfully imprisoned by ICE, speaks out against American war drive and calls for elimination of COVID-19
- Warning strike by hospital doctors in Germany: “It’s modern slavery, nothing else”
- Australian governments continue to drop health measures as COVID-19 surges
- Canadian imperialism using US-NATO war drive against Russia to expand military operations in the Arctic
- German federal and state governments end coronavirus protection measures
- This week in history: April 4-10
2022-04-05
- Judge tells jury to consider entrapment defense in trial of alleged Michigan governor kidnap plotters
- Tunisian president assumes dictatorial powers amid deepening social unrest
- Three-alarm house fire kills twin brothers in Trenton, New Jersey
- Nation-wide protests escalate, plunging Sri Lankan government into deep crisis
- Mass shooting in Sacramento, California, leaves 6 dead and 12 injured
- Sacramento teachers’ strike called off
- California’s reparations task force limits potential recipients to those who can prove lineage
- The end of COVID-19 testing for the uninsured: The American ruling class doubles down on mass infection
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Zealand student with Long COVID denounces abandonment of public health measures
- Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North
- UK COVID infections rise massively after end of mitigation measures
- IDLES’ Crawler: Intriguing musical effort at odds with its own imagery
- UK workers and youth speak out against war and NATO
- Australian state premier offers pittance to flood victims
- East Tennessee wildfires prompt evacuations of thousands of residents and tourists
- “Fridays for Future” climate protest leaders back German war drive
- Fed moving for bigger interest rate hike to hit wages
- UK: ExxonMobil oil refinery workers in Southampton set to strike after two-year 2.5 percent pay offer
- Facebook overturns deletion of SGP anti-war video after widespread protest
- English language instructor in China speaks to the Global Workers Inquest about the Zero COVID program
- Prime Minister Naftali Bennett puts Israel on a war footing against the Palestinians
- UK government axes coronavirus infection control funding in social care
- Labor-Greens bury Assange’s plight ahead of Australian federal election
2022-04-06
- What is American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten doing in Poland?
- Chinese authorities complete COVID testing for Shanghai’s population of 25 million in less than one day
- UK schools face teacher shortage as government makes derisory pay offer
- What the UAW 2021 financial report shows: Assets rise, membership falls
- Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition crumbles, but president refuses to resign
- Spanish trucker on suspending the strike: “Fuel prices will keep rising as the war goes on”
- Spanish truckers “temporarily suspend” 3-week strike against high fuel prices
- Sri Lankan plantation workers strike and demonstrate for overthrow of Rajapakse government
- Sacramento teachers: Vote “NO” on the sellout deal! Form rank-and-file committees to carry the struggle forward!
- German press seizes upon claims of Russian atrocities to demand military escalation
- US workers and poor suffer widely disproportionate death toll from COVID-19, study finds
- Peruvian government deploys army, locks down Lima, then rescinds order as cost-of-living protests swell
- The Bucha atrocity allegations: A pretext for escalating NATO’s war against Russia
- RWDSU touts Kansas City Kellogg’s contract with below-inflation raises as “historic”
- US Justice Department expanding probe of taxes, business dealings of Hunter Biden
- Flee: The animated portrait of an Afghan refugee
- Canada commits to purchase F-35 fighter jets, vows massive defence spending hike in April 7 budget
- Profiting off of the pandemic, CEO pay increased to record levels in 2021 while workers’ wages fell
- Cold Response 2022: NATO concludes war rehearsal on Russia’s northern flank
- Brixton bus garage strike re-ballot as Unite kicks Arriva South London pay dispute into the long grass
- Corporate media parrots the Azov Battalion
- Australia: NSW health workers need to break union isolation and fight for unified struggle
- Home buyers to take major hit as Australian central bank moves to lift interest rates
2022-04-07
- Trump hosts Republican politicians, financiers, co-conspirators at premiere of election conspiracy film
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US boosts arms shipments to Ukraine, admits to training Ukrainian fighters
- Tennessee legislature passes bill banning “Critical Race Theory” in higher education
- Bring down Sri Lanka’s Rajapakse government! Abolish the executive presidency! No to austerity and starvation! Form action committees to fight for a socialist program of action to secure food, fuel and medicines for all!
- SEP and IYSSE members hold discussions with anti-government protesters across Sri Lanka
- Ford Saarlouis: Instead of a bidding war and blackmail—fight to defend all jobs at all plants!
- Global life expectancy drops two years since the start of the pandemic
- Billionaire Elon Musk buys his way onto Twitter’s board of directors
- Over 900 warehouse workers in Toronto on strike at Canadian grocery chain Metro
- Survey of US high school youth finds mental health issues climbed in second year of pandemic
- Federal judge in Virginia issues ruling reinstating COVID mask mandate for small number of immunocompromised school children
- Video: “Support the 70,000 striking bus workers in Maharashtra, India”—London bus drivers issue call
- AUKUS pact expanded to base hypersonic missiles in Australia
- Australian junior doctor speaks to the Global Inquest on the conditions in ICU
- Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes: New poems by Nicky Beer
- General strike in Greece against destruction of living standards worsened by Ukraine war
- Ukraine’s Zelensky at the Grammy awards and the promotion of US war aims
- Bank of International Settlements chief says new era of inflation has begun
- Pandemic profiteers: GXO Logistics acquires Clipper Logistics in billion pound deal
- For real solidarity with Chevron workers! Expand the strike to all refineries!
2022-04-08
- NATO intensifies anti-Russia war drive
- Teamsters to do nothing after inquiry documents Canadian Pacific’s responsibility for fatal Field, B.C., derailment
- Sri Lanka still has no finance minister amid continuing anti-government protests
- Sacramento teacher speaks out against SCTA sellout contract: “I’m not happy about any of this”
- No to war! For a scientific struggle against COVID-19! Build the PES!
- COVID-19 cuts a swath through official Washington
- New Zealand’s leading health officials resign as COVID deaths mount
- The New York Times, war crimes and the Nuremberg precedent
- Striking New South Wales health workers speak out
- Australia: Health workers strike reveals mounting opposition to union bureaucracy and Labor
- Five-month Maharashtra bus workers’ strike in grave danger after Bombay High Court issues menacing ruling
- Germany’s war of retribution against Russia
- Senate confirms Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson with only three Republican votes
- Record inflation is driving mass poverty in Germany
- Southern California grocery workers union announces sellout tentative agreement, averting strike action
- UK doctors surgeries forced to close doors to all but urgent care needs
- Trump-appointed federal judge acquits January 6 insurrectionist on all counts
- No charges for Minneapolis police officer who killed Amir Locke during no-knock raid
- Workers around the world come to the defense of former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught
2022-04-09
- Verdict in trial of Michigan kidnap plotters sanctions right-wing political violence in the US
- British trade unions enrol in Johnson government’s war drive
- German government and IG Metall celebrate opening of Tesla factory in Grünheide
- Sri Lankan SEP holds press conference to outline way forward for mass protests
- Family of 14-year-old boy who died at Orlando, Florida amusement park plans to file lawsuit as evidence of recklessness, endangerment surface
- PSOE-Podemos ends COVID-19 mitigations forcing Spanish workers to stay on the job sick
- Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war
- Oklahoma legislature passes bill banning almost all abortions, makes performing one a felony
- Oakland Unified approves expansion of charters amid school closures
- Protesters outside Sri Lankan High Commission in London speak on social and political crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Unanswered questions about the Kramatorsk missile strike
- Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders no-confidence vote, paving way for change in government
- Howard University Hospital staff plan one-day strike due to staffing ratios, low pay
- French elections too close to call, far right calls for national unity government
- Global protest movement grows on every continent amid worsening commodity shortages
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye: A far cry from Elmer Gantry
- Sri Lanka at centre of growing debt and inflation crisis
- Shanghai lockdown extended indefinitely as COVID-19 cases continue to climb
- Chevron refinery strike enters fourth week as union and company signal agreement to end strike
- Sixth wave of pandemic underway in Canada as governments dismantle COVID reporting and last protective measures
- Wildcat strikes erupt in Brazil’s steel industry as workers defy unions
- Video: David Berger, a remote area general practitioner in northern Australia, endorses Global Inquest into COVID-19 pandemic
- Australia pushes for stepped-up NATO confrontation with China
- Amazon Labor Union turns to AFL-CIO following successful vote at Staten Island warehouse
2022-04-11
- The political issues in the Governor Whitmer kidnap plot verdict
- Vigor Marine shipyard workers in Portland and Seattle vote again to authorize strike
- Budget cuts to deepen in Australian universities
- This week in history: April 11-17
- Thailand risks 50,000 daily cases after Songkran Festival super-spreader
- Huge rally in Colombo demands Sri Lankan President Rajapakse resign
- Sri Lankan Central Bank governor: Prepare for more austerity
- Exploding food and energy prices in Germany: “It’s a disaster”
- US-NATO arming Ukraine for military offensive against Russia signals a massive and dangerous escalation
- German coalition government adopts far-right AfD's coronavirus policy
- Sri Lankans in New Zealand join global protests against Rajapakse government
- Video message from David O’Sullivan to striking Maharashtra bus workers wins support
- Grand Rapids police officer killed Congolese refugee Patrick Lyoya, 26
- UK: Martin Lewis and Sir Michael Marmot warn of “humanitarian calamity” and “civil unrest”
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson stakes his claim as Europe’s top warmonger
- Victor Orbán wins fourth election victory, remains Hungarian prime minister
- Renewed strikes at German day care and social services centres
- Macron, neo-fascist Le Pen advance to runoff in French presidential election
- Trump endorses “America First” politicians at North Carolina rally
- Chinese health officials seem to make progress in the struggle against BA.2 in Shanghai
- Crisis election begins in Australia as major parties suppress discussion of key issues facing working class
- Australian governments plan to scrap COVID-19 mitigations as cases pass five million
2022-04-12
- No to Macron and Le Pen! For an active boycott of the 2022 French elections!
- University of Kansas professor Franklin Tao convicted on concocted evidence
- NATO Secretary-general calls for “transformation” of NATO into a fighting force against Russia and China
- Unifor bullies 900 Ontario grocery warehouse workers into accepting sellout contract
- Scottish National Party joins anti-Russia war chorus and embraces NATO
- Autoworkers furious over Stellantis plan to lay off hundreds in Detroit
- Race versus class at Howard University
- Media charlatan Ashish Jha takes the helm of Biden’s COVID-19 response team
- In warmongering speech, Biden lines up trade unions for US-NATO proxy war against Russia
- Australian prime minister begins election campaign with a big lie on COVID
- Australia: New South Wales bus drivers strike for 24 hours
- Texas District Attorney reverses on indictment of woman arrested for “fetal homicide”
- International Monetary Fund agrees minimal loan for Lebanon amid potential social and political meltdown
- Los Angeles County workers at crossroads as union pushes concessions contract
- Sweden: Only 11 individual working days lost to strikes and lockouts in 2021
- UK Tories say “not the moment” for Johnson’s resignation after PM is fined for lockdown breach
- Sibelius Violin Competition expels Russian performers
- Nation-wide strike of Sri Lankan public employees demands president’s resignation
- Activision Blizzard workers walk out over vaccine mandate rollback
- The reactionary hate campaign in Germany against Russia
- Sri Lankans demonstrate in Australia to demand President Rajapakse resigns
- Oppose Twitter’s act of censorship against George Galloway!
- Oil refinery workers in Southampton, UK mount one day strike at ExxonMobil
- Union helps university managements reopen Australian campuses as COVID-19 resurges
- Spanish Morenoite CRT covers for Podemos’ war drive against Russia
- Health care expert Gregory Travis speaks on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, misinformation and the cover-up of data
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2022-04-13
- The Worst Person in the World: A young woman in Oslo finds herself
- EU and Germany supply heavy weaponry to Kiev to “force a defeat of Russia”
- Sri Lankan prime minister delivers menacing speech against working class
- Stalinist PCF wiped out after lackluster French presidential campaign
- A working class program to fight inflation
- Pakistan’s new prime minister promises “paradise” for investors, as mass anger over price hikes, joblessness grows
- New Zealand challenges Solomon Islands’ sovereignty over agreement with China
- New York state budget—millions for the rich, lengthy jail time for the poor
- Why did Mélenchon retire after nearly reaching the French presidential runoff?
- Howard University Hospital health care workers hold day-long strike against wage cuts, unsafe staffing
- Southern California and Texas grocery workers outraged over being denied time to study full contract details before voting
- Green Party minister resigns from German cabinet after flood disaster
- Pink Floyd, but not Roger Waters, is swept up by pro-war propaganda
- No voice for the working class in Johnson lockdown fines crisis
- Police launch criminal investigation into kickback scandal involving Unifor ex-president Jerry Dias
- US orders non-emergency staff out of Shanghai consulate as a provocation against Zero-COVID policy
- Buffalo police officers who assaulted 75-year-old during 2020 George Floyd protest reinstated
- Subway shooting in Brooklyn seized on by New York mayor to boost law-and-order campaign
- A socialist program of action for the working class to oppose war and fight COVID-19 and austerity
- London bus drivers speak on Arriva South pay dispute: “The union is useless”
2022-04-14
- Australia: Telstra workers should vote “NO” to regressive union-management deal
- Svitzer seeking to slash Australian tugboat workers’ pay as part of global assault
- As it heads to the IMF, Sri Lankan government declares bankruptcy
- Spain Morenoite CRT denounce China’s “Zero COVID” strategy
- Students occupy Sorbonne University as anger mounts at French elections
- UK announces brutal policy to “offshore” refugees in Rwanda
- Quebec legislature debate on pandemic lays bare ruling class’ prioritization of profits over lives
- Leaked IRS data expose manipulation of US tax system by the ultra-wealthy
- Biden’s claims of “genocide” in Ukraine: A pretext for war against Russia
- May Day 2022: For working class unity against imperialist war!
- Former Trump officials, fascists, Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal headline anti-vaxxer rally in LA
- Macron, Le Pen court Mélenchon voters in second round of French election
- Australian election features jobs fraud
- Calgary’s Honens International Piano Competition forced to revoke ban on Russian musicians after outcry
- London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital security guards strike continues, United Voices of the World union isolates fight
- Push for European Central Bank to tighten monetary policy
- UK government report reveals COVID disruption has produced developmental delays in younger children
- Dana workers furious over high prices, poor conditions under UAW/USW sellout contract
- CP Rail CEO among Canada’s highest paid
- Russian workers crushed by rising prices as GDP falls
- “Activists” promote Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham in Arriva London South pay dispute
2022-04-15
- Washington D.C. transit system crisis deepens as officials report no quick fix for defective railcars
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Sunak tax scandal and the global oligarchy
- Police, far-right youth attack student protests amid French elections
- What are Sri Lanka’s trade unions doing amid the mass anti-government upsurge?
- Russian Pabloites and Ukraine’s pseudo-left “Social Movement” back NATO war against Russia
- Genocide and war propaganda
- Five teenagers killed in early morning house fire in north-central Pennsylvania
- New Zealand escalates involvement in NATO war against Russia over Ukraine
- Ukraine war spirals out of control after US announces major arms shipment
- Protests mount over Grand Rapids police murder of Patrick Lyoya
- Labor’s posturing on health in Australia’s election is a sham
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Sri Lankan SEP rally in Jaffna in support of anti-government protests urges workers build action committees
- Israel attacks worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque to stoke war
- “Workers aren’t getting bailed out like the billionaires”: Detroit workers livid over surging gas prices
- The issues in the Indiana University grad workers strike
- Ken Burns’ Benjamin Franklin: The good and the bad of a Founding Father
- Commodity market turbulence heightens financial instability
- CP Rail worker on how the company disregards safety and fires workers who raise concerns
- Former Top White House lawyers, advisers, testify before January 6 Select Committee
- Britain reports nearly 2,000 COVID deaths in a week
- Striking Richmond, California refinery workers must turn to working class allies in fight against Chevron
- Mexican truckers block border crossings protesting Texas vehicle inspections
- Black Lives Matter purchases $6 million property with donation money
- Suspect arrested in subway shooting in Brooklyn was emotionally troubled
- Mass protests demanding Sri Lankan President Rajapakse resign continue in Colombo
2022-04-16
- COVID-19 continues to run rampant in South Korea
- At the Ready: Texas high schoolers taught “how to handcuff, how to lift fingerprints … how to do verbal commands and to use force”
- Mass demonstrations spread worldwide as food, gas costs spiral
- The silent phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: Biden administration does nothing as US cases begin to rise
- Elon Musk proposes to buy Twitter for $43 billion and make it his private property
- Anger builds among Minneapolis educators, students over proposed budget cuts and rollback of COVID-19 safety measures
- Berlin bus workers support the 70,000 striking bus drivers in Maharashtra, India!
- White House says “nothing will dissuade” US from arming Ukraine
- Health care workers prepare strike action at major hospitals, other facilities throughout California
- Parisian workers who voted for Mélenchon speak out on French election
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs bill banning abortion after 15 weeks
- Reinstate the fired strikers at Brazil’s CSN! Unify the struggles of the working class!
- Alabama budget throws crumbs to teachers
2022-04-17
2022-04-18
- UK special forces are supplying war zone training to Ukraine’s troops
- University of Illinois Chicago grad student workers strike against poverty wages
- UFCW forces through three-year deal covering 47,000 Southern California grocery workers
- This week in history: April 18-24
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold picket and public meeting to fight for socialist perspective in the mass anti-government protests
- SEP and IYSSE holds plantation workers’ demonstration to fight for socialist policies
- UK COVID-19 vaccine roll out for 5-11-year-olds mired in delays during unprecedented virus surge
- As Omicron BA.2 subvariant surges in the US, Biden administration deepens COVID-19 coverup
- NHS in a state of collapse amid resurgent COVID hospitalisations and deaths
- New York City parent victimized by Child Services denounces government after daughters contract COVID-19 at school
- Strike wave in Northern Ireland against below inflation pay offers
- French presidential candidate Le Pen threatens Germany and Algeria
- Anger continues to seethe over government abandonment of Australian flood victims
- Ukrainian President Zelensky threatens “end of all negotiations” as Russia takes control of large parts of Mariupol
- 600 Kansas City-area construction workers near second week on strike for major wage increases
- Life and Death in the Warehouse: A gruesome depiction of relentless exploitation
- Woody Guthrie—People Are the Song, at Morgan Library and Museum in New York
- Protests erupt throughout France against Macron and Le Pen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- European Central Bank paints bleak picture of economy
- Australian elections: Behind mudslinging and diversion, Labor and Liberals pledge stepped-up attacks on the working class
- Video: PES calls for active boycott of French presidential elections
2022-04-19
- UK Labour leader Starmer calls on “decent, honourable” Tory MPs to unseat Boris Johnson
- Demonstrations continue in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in response to the police murder of Patrick Lyoya
- Migrant woman dies suspended from US border wall, a death on Washington’s doorstep
- Unite blocks joint action by London bus drivers against pay restraint
- Tamil nationalists try to prop up Sri Lankan government against mass protests
- Sri Lankan president appoints a new cabinet, as IMF bailout talks begin
- Public meeting: Support the Socialist Equality Party in the Australian federal election!
- Quebec nurses’ union admits much of rank and file view it as “sellouts” and government accomplices
- Polls show deepening rejection of major parties in Australian election
- The Challenge of May Day 2022: For the International Unity of the Working Class against Capitalism, National Chauvinism and War!
- Oxfam report: Poorer countries going from crisis to catastrophe
- An “unjust verdict”—Medical safety expert Bruce Lambert speaks against conviction of former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught
- 8,000 in one-day strike at Sutter Health in California: Nurses speak out on working conditions, contract demands
- As “invisible” pandemic spreads in New York City, another child dies of COVID-19
- As residential eviction proceedings in New York City skyrocket, renters are left without legal representation
- Australian war crimes from 1999 in East Timor exposed
- “It’s just really hard to live”: Chicago workers describe impact of surging food and gas prices
- Workers and youth in Germany speak out against Ukraine war and NATO aggression
2022-04-20
- Arriva London South pay dispute: fact vs fiction
- UK court approves extradition of Julian Assange to US, decision with home secretary Patel
- Chevron resists workers’ wage demands as California refinery strike enters fifth week
- Mélenchon pledges to serve as French prime minister under Macron or neo-fascist Le Pen
- “You can’t live on this wage”: Striking UIC graduate student workers in Chicago speak from the picket line
- Macron-Le Pen second round in French elections exposes pseudo-left Lutte ouvrière
- COVID-19 infection spread in Australian schools exacerbates staffing crisis
- Internal FBI reports document mass surveillance of left-wing, anti-police violence social media accounts following 2020 police murder of George Floyd
- One killed, two dozen injured as Sri Lankan police fire on protestors
- Ending masks on transit, White House demands permanent mass infection
- Mack Trucks worker in the US: Attend the May Day Online Rally!
- Survey shows majority in Germany rejects an energy embargo against Russia
- Veteran actor Frank Langella targeted for alleged “sexual misconduct”
- IMF cuts growth forecast and targets wages
- Global finance capital presses China to abandon Zero-COVID
- Union diverts nurses’ struggle against Trinity Health Muskegon into useless petition drive
- Democratic senator and Biden ally Chris Coons calls for discussion on sending US troops to fight Russian forces
- “My utility bills are ridiculous”: UK workers speak on the cost-of-living crisis
- “Under both candidates our futures look very bad”: French high schools protest against elections between Macron and Le Pen
- President of largest Canadian Union of Public Employees local resigns amid corruption scandal
- Australian Greens bid for power-sharing arrangement with right-wing Labor Party
- Alabama ICU nurse describes his front-line pandemic experience to the Global Workers’ Inquest
2022-04-21
- Airline workers throughout US oppose overwork, health and safety violations
- Ukraine uses US facial recognition technology to terrorize families of dead Russian soldiers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Maryland school district signs backroom agreement to bring police back into public schools after community referendum removed them
- UK National Health Service abandons social distancing and other COVID restrictions
- Critical political issues facing anti-government protests in Sri Lanka
- Autopsy confirms Patrick Lyoya was killed by shot to the back of the head by Grand Rapids police officer
- Biden’s escalation against Russia threatens nuclear war
- Forensic investigation into death of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson reveals manual adjustment was made prior to fatal amusement ride fall
- Witness to a social crime: The reality of US immigrant child detention
- Workers and youth in Sri Lanka support International Online May Day Rally
- Brazilian researcher Lucas Ferrante testifies on the role of schools in spreading COVID-19
- International Tchaikovsky Competition expelled by World Federation of International Music Competitions
- Tennessee state senator offers Hitler as a role model for the homeless
- Over 200 homeless deaths recorded during 2021 in Toronto
- Australian election debate showcases right-wing unity between Labor and the Coalition
- Australian aged care workers vote to strike in three states
2022-04-22
- Sri Lankan government deploys military, defends police shooting of protesters
- Where is Anne Frank: The new animated film from Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir)
- UIC graduate student workers continue strike against poverty wages, as AFT prepares austerity agreement
- After claiming pandemic is over, Australian Labor Party leader contracts COVID-19
- Defying imperialist pressure, China and Solomon Islands sign security pact
- Macron-Le Pen debate shows rising danger of far-right dictatorship in France
- The barbaric reality of American society: Police murder and state executions
- German government invests billions into prolonging Ukraine war
- British Columbia's New Democratic Party government abandons remaining COVID-19 protective measures
- New Zealand nurse describes disorganised COVID-19 vaccination campaign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Spain UGT union cuts wages at Ford’s Valencia-Almussafes plant
- Homeless deaths in Los Angeles reached record numbers in 2021
- Australian election campaign covers up housing affordability crisis
- White House announces another $800 million in military aid to Ukraine
- The next stage in the fight of educators against the pandemic, school cuts and the danger of war
- Workers denounce $20.5 million payout to Stellantis chief as job cuts mount
- Detroit youth stage “die-in” to demand more school counselors
- Striking Maharashtra bus workers and their lawyer charged with “rioting” and “conspiracy”
2022-04-23
- The Socialist Equality Party candidates for the May 21 election
- Sri Lankan big business demands a “bipartisan national government”
- Stop the execution of Melissa Lucio! Abolish the death penalty!
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE holds powerful demonstration advocating a socialist program for the anti-government protests
- Socialist Equality Party announces candidates for Australian election
- Democrats dominate funeral service held for Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Right-wing radical Professor Jörg Baberowski faces trial for causing bodily harm and damage to property
- Australian government, Labor wash their hands of Assange amid imminent extradition threat
- US Supreme Court upholds exclusion of Puerto Rico residents from supplemental income benefit
- Audio confirms Republican House leader McCarthy discussed Trump’s role in failed coup with lawmakers following attack
- UK: Johnson’s premiership under renewed threat over “partygate” scandal
- Actor Johnny Depp’s testimony exposes unsubstantiated #MeToo allegations by Amber Heard
2022-04-24
- A response to the Teamsters’ denunciation of the Canadian Pacific Rail Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- British ruling class fears “summer of discontent”
- Workers and youth in northern Paris speak against candidates in French election
- Israel’s anti-Palestinian provocations threaten stability of Israel, Gaza, West Bank and Jordan
- In life’s pressure cooker: Boiling Point
2022-04-25
- Militarist frenzy erupts in Australia over security pact between China and the Solomon Islands
- London bus drivers speak out against smears and censorship of WSWS by defenders of Unite
- This week in history: April 25-May 1
- The firing of Detroit teacher Nicole Conaway: A warning to educators everywhere
- UK Chancellor Sunak demands billions more be clawed back in student loan repayments
- What way forward for the nurses strike at Stanford Health?
- History and war propaganda: Timothy Snyder falsifies role of Ukrainian fascism
- Thousands pay their respects to Chaminda Lakshan, killed by Sri Lankan police during mass protests
- Production of Being Mortal suspended after actor Bill Murray accused of “inappropriate behavior”
- US workers explain why they’re attending the International May Day Online Rally
- French student speaks out on election “catastrophe”
- New Zealand Labour government advances pro-union, anti-strike law
- Working class struggles explode in Peru
- UK mum Sarah Paxman faces trial for stand against Covid-19 infected schools
- Demonstrations in Lansing and Detroit demand officer who killed Patrick Lyoya be charged and prosecuted for murder
- Australia: Vote “no” to the teachers’ sell-out agreement in Victoria! Prepare for a political struggle against state Labor government!
- Growing outrage over imminent execution of Melissa Lucio
- Workers and youth in Germany support the May Day call of the ICFI
- January 6 committee court filing reveals intimate involvement of Republican lawmakers, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows in attempted coup
- Mélenchon to ally with Greens, PCF, NPA in French legislative election
- “Breaking the back” of Russia: US war aims emerge in Ukraine
- Macron re-elected French president against neo-fascist Marine Le Pen
- Brother of victim of 2011 police shooting comments on latest police killing in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan SEP member W.A. Sunil addresses Chaminda Lakshan funeral
2022-04-26
- Four children killed in early morning mobile home fire in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Sri Lankan finance minister declares austerity will get worse before it gets better
- Defense Secretary Austin admits the US is a party to Ukraine war
- GEO shuts down University of Illinois Chicago grad workers strike, seeking to push through sellout agreement
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Southwest Airlines reaches tentative agreement for customer service workers
- California nurses press for statewide action: “Everyone is stressed out. Everything is more expensive. It can’t continue like this.”
- Film production company for Rust given wrist slap fine in death of Halyna Hutchins
- Top-level US visit to Pine Gap highlights Australia’s role in war planning against China
- Text messages reveal Trump’s chief of staff orchestrated January 6 coup attempt
- Michigan, Ohio Republicans embrace pro-Trump fascists
- Wimbledon bans Russian and Belarusian players in foul anti-Russia campaign
- Twitter accepts $44 billion acquisition offer from Elon Musk
- Melissa Lucio granted temporary stay of execution, but no clemency
- The disintegration of the German Left Party—the price of right-wing politics
- Video report from funeral of Sri Lankan protester Chaminda Lakshan killed by police
- Berlin Administrative Court affirms secret service observation of left-wing newspaper junge Welt
- Finland and Sweden prepare to join NATO
- UK: Striking Fawley oil refinery workers speak out against poor conditions and low pay
- Canadian educator explains why he will attend the International May Day Online Rally
- CNH Industrial workers in Wisconsin, Iowa vote to strike, determined to win higher wages
- As the death toll in Shanghai climbs, China moves to contain the rise in new COVID infections in Beijing
- Brazilian government announces fraudulent end of pandemic
- Turkey attacks PKK, YPG in Iraq, Syria
- Florida Governor signs bill banning classroom instruction and employee training on race, sexuality and nationality
- As debts mount, IMF calls for Australian budget “repair”
- Australian government, Labor use Anzac Day to declare plans for war against China
2022-04-27
- With inflation raging, Pacific Northwest Vigor shipyard workers vote on another union-backed sellout
- New Zealand nurses “lied to” over union-government pay equity settlement
- Chicago Ford workers speak out on impact of inflation
- Political lessons of the 2022 French presidential elections
- Diary of a striking Stanford nurse: What’s the plan to win our strike?
- The Time of the Fireflies (El tiempo de las luciérnagas) and Sun (Sonne): Young people making their way in strange lands
- WHO warns of severe hepatitis among children across several countries, possibly tied to spread of COVID-19
- Johnson government acted unlawfully in policy that led to mass deaths in care homes, UK High Court rules
- Stanford nurses must not fight alone: For a California-wide health care worker strike to fight understaffing and the erosion of living standards
- Teachers throughout Sri Lanka join one-day strike against the Rajapakse government
- The Guns of April
- “This is a mass disabling event that’s taking place”: Canadian mother speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest on her struggle to protect her children from COVID-19
- Brixton bus drivers vote to strike at Arriva London South: “We are not okay with 3 percent”
- Donald Trump cited for civil contempt for failing to comply with subpoena
- UFCW forces through contracts for Texas and Louisiana Kroger grocery workers, provoking growing indignation
- German-European war plans: Politicians and media rejoice over Macron's election victory
- Grand Rapids law enforcement releases name of officer who murdered Patrick Lyoya
- COVID-19 spread among Australian political establishment exposes pandemic lies
- Amazon cited and fined for willful serious safety violation at Kent fulfillment center
2022-04-28
- Diary of a striking Stanford nurse: Why is the union not providing any updates about the strike?
- Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva threatens reporter for exposing cover-up of deputy violence
- Russian miners work in “bondage-like conditions” says government official
- Human rights attorney Steven Donziger released after nearly 1,000 days in arbitrary detention
- The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial, #MeToo and Hollywood tragedy
- Russia vows “lightning” response to NATO as war threatens to spill beyond Ukraine
- SEP (Australia) election campaigners find widespread opposition to inequality and cost of living crisis in Queensland
- Biden looking to delay end to Title 42 mass expulsions of migrants at US-Mexico border
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UIC graduate students: Vote no on the GEO-AFT sellout tentative agreement! Form rank-and-file committees to expand the struggle for a living wage!
- US teacher supports international online May Day rally
- Widow of train conductor, who died in accident, sues Norfolk Southern
- Germany supplies heavy weapons to Ukraine, risking nuclear war
- 2021 Anti-Defamation League report documents “all-time high” number of anti-Semitic incidents in United States
- “We want adequate staffing and pay that meets inflation”—Striking Stanford nurses speak out
- Australian workers explain why they are attending the International May Day Online Rally
- UK: Fire-and-rehire threat to hundreds of jobs at Wabtec rail engineering in Doncaster and Birkenhead
- Police murder in Rambukkana exposes Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance
- Half of all Americans infected with COVID-19, three-quarters of children
- The Socialist Equality Party launches Australian election campaign
- At least a dozen US universities reinstate mask mandates as COVID cases rise
- A socialist program for striking Sri Lankan workers
- At Staten Island rallies, Amazon Labor Union closes ranks with Democrats and trade union bureaucracy
- Introduction to new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up
- Inflation intensifies cost of living crisis for workers in Australia
2022-04-29
- Balloting begins for biggest UK rail strikes in decades
- Kevin McCarthy meets with Republican House conference amid ongoing revelations regarding January 6 coup
- Workers across the US call for wide attendance of international May Day rally
- Britain to deploy 8,000 troops as part of massive anti-Russian operation
- Johnson’s visit to India and the crisis of British imperialism
- Gradually, Then Suddenly: A whitewashing of the 2013 Detroit bankruptcy
- Teachers speak out against Australian Education Union-Victorian Labor government agreement
- At bogus aged care rallies, nurses union promotes Australia Labor Party’s big business election campaign
- UK Post Office workers to stage national strike on May 3 against government pay restraint
- Canadian workers declare support for International May Day Online Rally
- As Stanford nurses strike continues, Oakland teachers launch one-day strike against school closures
- UK workers urge maximum attendance of International May Day 2022 Online Rally
- US GDP drops 1.4 percent in first quarter amidst Omicron surge and war in Ukraine
- Zero-COVID strategy drives Omicron cases down across China
- German parliament threatens Russia with war
- Biden massively expands US war with Russia
- Early season wildfires erupt across Arizona
- Canada dispatches heavy weaponry to Ukraine, while accusing Moscow of “genocide"
- US interest rate policies leading to major shifts in global currency markets
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Millions join Sri Lankan general strike to demand ouster of Rajapakse government
- No fines against Amazon for warehouse collapse during tornado that killed 6 people
- Daily Blog urges “treason” investigation into New Zealand Trotskyists
2022-04-30
- Japan takes more aggressive stance towards Russia, China
- “The ruling class long ago sold our future”: German workers urge attendance at International May Day Online Rally
- Attend the 2022 May Day Online Rally!
- SEP member outlines socialist program to 2,000 striking workers in Sri Lanka
- Nancy Pelosi touts arms shipments to Ukraine, refuses to answer questions on Republican role in January 6 coup
- Michigan State Police submit initial investigative report on police killing of Patrick Lyoya
- Union forces Boston teachers to work without a contract as COVID-19 persists in public schools
- “We are creating a working class movement”: Striking Oakland teachers, Stanford nurses voice support for united struggle
- Iowa CNH worker speaks out on eve of contract expiration: “We’re ready to walk out today”
- California nurse dies by suicide while on shift in emergency room
- Tenet Healthcare seeks to impose 12-hour shifts on St. Vincent nurses in Massachusetts
- US confirms threat to invade Solomon Islands over China security agreement
- Australia: NSW teachers to strike against unbearable working conditions, real pay cuts
- Australian workers and youth support Socialist Equality Party election campaign
- Protests mount in Germany and internationally against boycott of Russian artists and culture
- Sri Lankan workers join SEP and plantation action protests
- Oklahoma passes Texas-style anti-abortion legislation
- Fed monetary tightening hits Wall Street
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