Archive: 05/2022
2022-05-01
- Oppose the bans on Russian scientists
- May Day 2022: Michelle, working parent, Michigan USA
- UK nurse testifies about life on a COVID ward: “There was a general feeling that we were expendable”
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns at Sri Lanka solidarity rally in London
- UK: University and College Union shelves national strikes for a year
- Vote “NO” on the sellout contract at Stanford! Throw out the bargaining committee and elect a new one committed to fight for what nurses need!
2022-05-02
- NATO prepares to repress mass protests at June 2022 war summit in Madrid
- Four Florida prison guards arrested and charged in murder of mentally ill inmate
- King Crimson sues Universal Music Group over unpaid royalties from streaming Kanye West’s “Power” since 2010
- East Timor’s presidential election won by Jose Ramos-Horta
- Sellout contract at Vigor Marine shipyards passes amid widespread opposition from workers
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting discusses socialist program needed to advance mass anti-government struggle
- Stanford nurses’ anger grows as union attempts to force them back to work
- Australian Labor Party’s election launch pitches for corporate backing on restructuring and war
- German court shuts down trial of right-wing extremist professor Jörg Baberowski in exchange for payment of €4,000
- The NATO-Russia war and the tasks of the international working class
- British Virgin Islands premier’s arrest exposes Britain’s central role in global corruption and criminality
- The CIA Democrats and their media courtiers celebrate the “end” of the COVID pandemic
- Quebec educator speaks out against being forced back to work while infected with COVID-19
- Pseudo-left cover for Unite in Coventry refuse collectors’ strike
- May Day 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism
- May Day 2022: Greetings of the Young Guard of the Bolshevik-Leninists
- A revealing interview with Australian Labor leader Albanese
- Striking signalmen at Toronto’s Union Station must broaden their struggle to avoid a union-imposed sellout
- Mélenchon turns his back on his voters to negotiate with French social democrats
- Sharp rise in cost of living, high unemployment portend renewal of class conflict in Chile
- Pelosi pledges “victory” in Kiev, Republicans back dispatch of troops, hint use of nuclear weapons
- This week in history: May 2-8
- “Enough is enough!” Statements of sympathy pour in from nurses in response to suicide of a California nurse
- Ukrainian government continues campaign of domestic oppression
- UAW extends CNH contract “hour by hour,” provoking growing discontent among workers
2022-05-03
- Climate change will lead to increasing spillover of viruses to humans, potentially causing new pandemics
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold a May 4 demonstration in Gampaha
- Widespread anti-war sentiment at May Day demonstrations in Germany
- China holds “emergency” conference over sanctions threat
- Alexei Yarotsky’s remarkable memoirs of the early Soviet Union and the Stalinist terror: Part Two, “Golden Kolyma”
- Sri Lanka: Opposition JVP seeks to divert mass struggle into dead-end of parliamentary politics
- New York grand jury, impaneled to consider charges against Trump, expires without issuing indictment
- Australia: NSW teachers’ strike—form rank and file committees, prepare political struggle against government!
- Biden and Congress attack postal workers’ health care with phony reform
- “Truce” imposed on Polish air traffic controllers’ struggle
- Pelosi pledges war “until victory is won”
- SEIU international intervenes to impose contract on Muskegon nurses
- French police crack down on May Day rallies
- Alexei Yarotsky’s remarkable memoir about the early Soviet Union and the Stalinist terror: Part One
- Australian SEP candidates to speak on Brisbane community radio
- May Day 2022: German imperialism rearms for World War III
- May Day 2022: The class struggle in Sri Lanka in the “decade of socialist revolution”
- May Day 2022: The significance of anti-government popular protests in Sri Lanka and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- May Day 2022: No to war and capitalist misery! For socialist revolution in Latin America!
- May Day 2022: Canadian imperialism, Hitler’s Ukrainian accomplices, and the NATO-Russia war
- May Day 2022: The map of the class struggle vs. the map of war
- May Day 2022: The revolutionary role of the American working class
- May Day 2022: The class struggle in the Asia-Pacific
- May Day 2022: Australian ruling class promotes anti-China campaign
- May Day 2022: Young people must turn to the working class and the fight for socialism!
- May Day 2022: Finance capital and the deepening crisis of global capitalism
- May Day 2022: Turkey’s role in the US-NATO war drive against Russia amidst growing class struggle
- May Day 2022: Lessons of the French election between Macron and Le Pen
- May Day 2022: UK signs up for front line in war against Russia
- Biden administration sets up Disinformation Governance Board ahead of 2022 elections
- Chevron strike in seventh week as oil industry announces first quarter profit bonanza
- Workers speak to SEP Australian election candidates on the impact of social inequality
- Nurses describe intolerable conditions in hospitals in response to suicide of emergency room nurse
- United Steelworkers solicits aid for fascist-linked “union” in Ukraine
- Post Office workers mount one-day UK-wide pay strike
- UK’s Boris Johnson hails Ukraine’s “finest hour” and pledges more military equipment
- Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending right to abortion
- CNH Industrial workers in Wisconsin, Iowa launch first strike in 18 years
- UK: Unite enforces below-inflation pay deal at CHEP, ending 21-week strike
- Workers speak out on May Day 2022: “The working class should rule the whole world!”
2022-05-04
- PayPal shuts accounts of anti-war publications Consortium News and MintPress News
- Charges filed against Philadelphia police officer for execution-style killing of unarmed 12-year-old
- “It is becoming very difficult for people to survive”: Workers at UK’s Bradford Central Foodbank speak on rising cost of living
- Miners force ANC President Ramaphosa to abandon May Day speech
- Mobilize the working class to oppose the attack on abortion rights!
- Brazilian steelworkers at CSN reject union-backed sellout agreement by more than 96 percent
- New Zealand, Japan prime ministers sign security pact
- Germany’s preparations for a third world war in full swing
- Amazon Labor Union rejected in vote at second warehouse, following its embrace of AFL-CIO and Democratic Party
- Quebec Court of Appeal covers up violent activities of far-right
- More than 15,000 construction workers on strike across Ontario
- Sri Lankan SEP discusses socialist program with Colombo protesters on May Day
- Australian central bank interest rate rise targets wages, as it hits home buyers
- Immigrant deaths and injuries surging along US-Mexico border wall
- The Met Gala and the hubris of wealth
- Decision to shutter Ford Saarlouis is looming closer: Stop the plant closure!
- Hellish conditions drive sailors stationed on USS George Washington to suicide
- New Zealand experiences deadliest month of the COVID pandemic
- Interview with co-directors of The Time of the Fireflies: “We saw it as a form of resistance”
- CNH Industrial beats first quarter earnings estimates while threatening to break US strike
2022-05-05
- National intelligence report found FBI searched the data of Americans millions of times in 2021
- While U of M Hospital demands major concessions, nurses’ union proposes only a petition
- The Ontario Federation of Labour’s fraudulent May Day “day of action”
- Ukraine war begins to spill into neighboring countries
- The White House Correspondents’ Association super-spreader event
- Candidate backed by Trump and fascist congressmen wins Ohio Senate primary
- Striking New South Wales teachers speak out over low wages and worsening conditions
- Interview with Ariel Karlinsky, the creator of the World Mortality Dataset and member of the WHO COVID-19 Mortality Assessment Groups
- Striking Oakland teachers denounce inequality and school cuts
- Australia: Tens of thousands of NSW teachers strike against intolerable conditions, pay cuts
- Why hasn't CRONA released the vote totals on the contract?
- The Paxlovid-only strategy: A “let them eat cake” response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Midwives, Mija, Întregalde, Bitterbrush: Documenting dictatorship, immigration, poverty ...
- The way forward for striking Sri Lankan workers
- Unite suspends strike at UK’s ExxonMobil refinery, after union rep is victimised and workers refuse to cross picket line
- US Federal Reserve raises rates, outlines class war policy against workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The fight for a future free of climate change and war is the fight for world socialism!
- UK: Starmer threatens to expel Corbyn and any Labour MPs not backing NATO’s war on Russia
- European Union calls for embargo on Russian oil
- Australian SEP candidates discuss key political issues on Brisbane community radio
- Strikes break out among transit workers in the Washington, DC region
- Solomon Islands PM warns of invasion by Australia and US
- Protests in defense of abortion rights met with police violence in Los Angeles
2022-05-06
- Bavarian constitutional protection law ruled largely unconstitutional
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hostility to the ruling parties deepens political crisis in the Australian election
- Strike by Toronto Union Station signal operators sabotaged by IBEW union
- Expand the CNH strike to fight for a $10 raise and COLA! Join the CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- Fascist militia leader Stewart Rhodes sought Trump’s approval on January 6 for more violent attacks
- UAW blocks strike, moves for snap contract vote for 1,300 Detroit Diesel workers
- United States seeks to provoke Russia into escalation in Ukraine
- The World Health Organization says the COVID pandemic has killed nearly 15 million across the globe
- Australia: Students and youth speak out over war, COVID and rising poverty
- “At the end of the day, it’s them and us”: UK workers and youth speak on the cost-of-living crisis
- German federal and state governments cut quarantine period to five days
- Two New Zealand port workers killed in one week
- Labour’s party of NATO and austerity tanks in UK local elections
- Violinist Dmitry Smirnov in concert: A courageous stand against the anti-Russia campaign
- Sharp price rises in essentials and shortages drastically hitting Sri Lankan workers and the poor
2022-05-07
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) election candidate speaks with striking bus drivers in Melbourne
- Open letter to German Chancellor Scholz expresses mounting opposition to threat of Third World War
- The Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion: The spearhead of a massive assault on democratic rights
- US transportation officials express alarm about deteriorating rail service
- Following yesterday’s general strike, Sri Lankan president imposes state of emergency
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) challenges Labor at Sydney candidates forum
- Many questions in death of worker outside Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- Behind the mental health crisis in nursing: Testimonial from a Californian travel nurse
- East Texas school district moves to four days a week
- Major swings on Wall Street as monetary policy tightens
- Turkey plans deportation of 1 million Syrian refugees
- Contractors linked to fascist paramilitary groups paid to train police in at least 12 US states
- White House will do nothing as COVID-19 cases surge
- Turkish doctors mount nationwide strike as prices explode
- French police linked to far-right murder of rugby player Federico Aramburu
- Amazon announces end to paid COVID-19 sick leave
- Mother in New Zealand denounces pressure to send children back to school
2022-05-08
- Sinn Féin wins Northern Ireland Assembly election
- UK government military spending for Ukraine reaches almost £3 billion
- Serological testing suggests nearly half of Canadians and two-thirds of children under 10 have had COVID-19
- This week in history: May 9–15
- Berlin bans Soviet flags on Liberation Day
- The Batman: Obscuring reality behind shadows and capes
- Health care workers strike at Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai Medical Center
2022-05-09
- Oppose US and Australian threats to Solomon Islands!
- California nurse dies by suicide, and nurses respond: “We went from health care heroes to sacrificial lambs”
- As Sri Lankan protests grow, Ceylon Workers Congress courts India’s Hindu-supremacist BJP
- SEP Australia online meeting: “Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party”
- One hundred million coronavirus cases in the US predicted for fall and winter surge
- Oppose the draconian State of Emergency! No to presidential dictatorship! Abolish the executive presidency!
- Workers in London oppose NATO proxy war in Ukraine: “The mass media prepare us for war with propaganda and lies”
- CNH threatens to cut off health benefits in provocation against striking workers
- BBC lays out what “Learning to live with the virus in the UK” means
- Germany supplies self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine for war against Russia
- Iowa cement truck drivers’ strike for higher pay enters second week at King’s Ready Mix
- Los Angeles County workers vote for strike action
- On the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, US seeks to escalate conflict with Russia
- Australian Labor leader Anthony Albanese pitches to big business at Chamber of Commerce
- “System-relevant & budgeted to death”: Child care personnel demand better working conditions
- Australia: Victorian state Labor government budget tries to conceal austerity agenda
- Democrats duck any real fight on abortion rights
- Bernie Sanders speaks at “Unity Fest” rally in Richmond, Virginia: A trap for Starbucks workers
- Anger at Detroit Diesel as UAW attempts to rush a vote on six-year sellout agreement
2022-05-10
- German government imposes war costs on working class
- Australia: Labor and the Coalition in lockstep as COVID-19 infection toll passes six million
- Actor Frank Langella denounces “cancel culture” in response to firing from Netflix’s Fall of the House of Usher
- Questions over May Day demonstration shootings in Santiago, Chile: Who ordered the attack on unarmed protesters?
- US West Coast dockworkers prepare for summer battle
- Strong support for SEP’s socialist program in Australian rural city of Shepparton
- Disabled Ontario woman pursues medically assisted death after being denied access to suitable housing
- UK: Queen’s Speech lays out brutal class war agenda and evisceration of democratic rights
- Sri Lankan workers defy curfew, government-organised violence
- Indian workers and students speak out on NATO-Russia war
- On anniversary of defeat of Nazi regime, German Chancellor Scholz delivers war speech
- Foreign lenders continue to strangle Ukraine
- Support Arriva South bus drivers! For a London-wide strike to break Unite’s de facto pay freeze!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Nurses speak out on mental health crisis: “We are witness to those who suffer without the support needed to survive ourselves”
- Police release video of the shooting of DeAnthony VanAtten in East Lansing, Michigan
- Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wins Philippine presidential election
- Detroit Diesel workers: Vote NO on UAW sellout contract! Form a rank-and-file committee to take control of the struggle!
- “We’ve all suffered the same way”: Striking Cedars-Sinai Medical Center workers speak out
- Study finds unmitigated spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the US could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths
2022-05-11
- BBC Panorama exposes crimes committed against hundreds of sub-postmasters by the Post Office
- Providence St. Vincent nurses in Portland, Oregon authorize strike for safe staffing and pay
- Australian election features “wage growth” sham
- “People are raising hell”: Volvo Trucks worker describes impact of contract one year after strike
- In major escalation of the NATO proxy war against Russia, US rams through $40 billion aid package for Ukraine
- Suspend the sentence of Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught! No jail time, fines or penalties!
- Timothy Snyder falsifies the history of the Holocaust
- The Greek government’s responsibility for violent attacks on Russians in Athens
- Detroit Diesel workers repudiate UAW sellout, vote by 79 percent to reject pro company deal
- UK: BT imposes below inflation pay award as telecom workers prepare strike ballot
- Mother of twins killed in New Jersey house fire abandoned by local and state officials: “I’m pretty much on my own at this point”
- Coronial inquiry into Christchurch terror attack will continue cover-up of state agencies
- Israel assassinates veteran Al Jazeera reporter in West Bank
- Biden sets aside COVID-19 funding to secure tens of billions to escalate war against Russia
- The election of Marcos in the Philippines and the death rattle of democracy
- Canadian education worker infected by COVID-19 speaks to the Global Workers Inquest: “An indifferent, sociopathic regime equal to any despotic cabal in any era”
- Wet Sand, Private Desert, Montana Story and Fire on the Plain: Dramatic possibilities
- Germany’s conservative CDU wins state election in Schleswig-Holstein
- Following multiple suicides on the USS George Washington, US Navy belatedly discloses an apparent suicide on the USS Bataan
- Record gas prices cut further into US workers’ real wages
- Scholz, Macron meet in Berlin to call for EU military build-up against Russia
- The German trade unions hold their war congress
- Stock market falls point to mounting problems in financial system
- Bolsonaro advances coup plots with Brazilian military’s support
- The sellout of the UIC graduate student strike: The political lessons
- Nurses speak out in support for RaDonda Vaught in advance of sentencing hearing
2022-05-12
- UK’s Jeremy Corbyn prostrates himself before NATO on Radio Free Europe
- Elon Musk says he will restore Donald Trump’s account on Twitter
- Sri Lanka: Build independent action committees to protect lives and democratic rights!
- New York Times says economic conditions for US workers “haven’t been this bright since men landed on the moon”
- US overdose deaths rose to record levels in 2021, fueled by fentanyl, exacerbated by pandemic
- Texas oil worker calls for industry-wide mobilization to back Chevron strike
- Democrats fund Ukraine war at the expense of American workers
- Spanish police detain popular blogger at behest of Ukranian secret service
- UK: Cadent engineers’ strike mandate suppressed as GMB union offers “gesture of goodwill” to management
- Media intensifies campaign to exonerate cop who killed Patrick Lyoya
- The hypocrisy of Anthony Fauci’s graduation remarks at the University of Michigan
- US Bureau of Reclamation fudges water levels in Lake Mead to avoid implementing additional water cuts
- Nurses begin indefinite strike in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- France’s Jean-luc Mélenchon announces a “New popular union” with the capitalist Socialist Party
- Live updates: Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught sentenced to three years probation, no jail time
- Workers denied any choice in key German election Sunday
- Covid-19 still spreading in Spain as PSOE-Podemos government ends mask mandate
- Australian election “debates”: a display of bipartisan unity
- Kentucky nurse on the crisis in health care: “Hospital policies should be committed to patient care, not stockholders’ portfolios”
- After resounding contract rejection: The way forward for Detroit Diesel workers
- UAW seeks to block distribution of Autoworker Newsletter, censors Detroit Diesel workers on Facebook
- Sri Lankan president mobilises military with orders to shoot on sight
- Amazon fires managers for not being sufficiently aggressive against union organizing efforts at JFK8
- Six US Air Force personnel indicted for stealing thousands of rounds of ammunition from air base
- Australian union turns aged care workers’ strike into Labor election stunt
2022-05-13
- Texas governor announces intent to bar undocumented immigrant children from attending public schools
- Macron to dismantle last remaining anti-COVID health measures in France
- Wage suppression: The international strategy of finance capital
- West Virginia retiree speaks about life on a fixed income, war and the pandemic
- Sri Lankan President Rajapakse installs Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister to enforce austerity dictates of the US and IMF
- Mixed results for Trump-endorsed candidates in Nebraska and West Virginia primary elections
- Master of Light, Ayoungman, Stay Awake, Riotsville, USA: Lives and struggles of the oppressed
- Northern Ireland elections deepen crisis of British imperialism
- Astronomers publish first imagery of Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole
- Reject Unite’s latest sell-out pay deal at Arriva London South bus company! Form rank-and-file strike committees!
- Biden marks 1 million US COVID deaths by preparing for the next million
- Arizona executes disabled, mentally ill man
- Let them bake cake: UK Conservative MP blames foodbank use on workers’ lack of budgeting and catering skills
- Finland’s decision to join NATO marks major escalation of US-led drive to war with Russia
- Swiss-Russian virtuoso musician Alexander Boldachev excluded from Dutch Harp Festival
- Senate Democrats hold phony vote on abortion rights legislation
- Nazi propaganda in Germany’s taz newspaper
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Strike by Ontario construction workers for wage increases expands to include 43,000 workers
- Family of 75-year-old New Mexico woman fatally shot by police officer calls for murder charge
- New South Korean president lines up behind US war drive
- Australia: Workers and youth support SEP election campaign
- UK mum Sarah Paxman given trial date for stand against COVID-19 infected schools
- School Strike 4 Climate organisers turn Australian youth climate rallies into campaign for Labor-Greens
- Chile’s pseudo-left government sends police to break strike, arrest refinery workers
2022-05-14
- January 6 Select Committee subpoenas 5 of Trump’s congressional co-conspirators
- Mass mobilization of nurses keeps RaDonda Vaught out of jail, but the battle must continue!
- Australia’s “teal independent” candidates backed by major corporate interests
- Congressional report confirms meat processors made baseless claims of impending food shortage to keep plants open as pandemic spread
- The legal implications of the US Supreme Court’s draft anti-abortion decision
- 10,000 New Zealand healthcare workers prepare to strike
- Indiana University Bloomington grad student workers vote to suspend their strike until the fall semester
- The imaging of Sagittarius A*: A monumental scientific achievement
- 11 die, dozens rescued from capsized migrant boat off coast of Puerto Rico
- Victorian teachers to vote on Australian Education Union sell-out industrial agreement
- Sweden to join NATO with Finland as US-led war on Russia escalates
- At least 450 children across 20 countries now suffering from acute hepatitis
- The realities confronting Ukraine’s six million refugees
- Newly appointed Sri Lankan PM pledges to implement brutal IMF program
- As CNH strike concludes second week, workers voice growing frustration over UAW information blackout
2022-05-15
2022-05-16
- This week in history: May 16-22
- Profits over lives: The New York Times demands China end its Zero-COVID policy
- Cryptocurrency market in turmoil
- Cedars-Sinai Hospital workers speak out as union ends strike without agreement
- Canadian imperialism’s fascist friends—Part 1: Ottawa’s decades-long alliance with the Ukrainian far-right and the NATO war on Russia
- The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York: A political crime
- Texas Supreme Court allows investigation against parents of transgender children
- Texas travel nurse on the health care crisis: “The profits are going to the CEOs instead of trying to keep nurses and support staff”
- Pseudo-left Socialist Alliance seeks to chain workers and youth to Labor and the Greens in Australian elections
- Striking Ontario construction workers speak out: “What they’re offering is nothing. It’s a slap in the face. Corporate greed”
- Germany: Two people killed by police in the city of Mannheim
- Thornton Heath bus drivers denounce latest offer from Arriva London South: “It’s a pay cut!”
- Hundreds take to the streets to oppose police immigration raid in Hackney, London
- Madrid doctors and nurses on indefinite strike against temp work, poor conditions
- Aluminum workers furious over USW’s last minute deal with Arconic
- Imperialist powers back Israel’s assassination of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
- ICE has created a “surveillance dragnet” for accessing the personal information of all US citizens
- NATO, G7 threaten military escalation against Russia and beyond
- Lawrence Tabak’s Foxconned: A valuable forensic analysis of a disastrous, politically motivated scam
- State election in North Rhine-Westphalia reveals growing class divisions in Germany
- Andy Warhol 1964 painting sells for $195 million, breaking auction record
- Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and the DSA vote for war
- SEP (Australia) campaign raises political issues in flood-devastated Lismore
- German government extends combat mission in Mali and Sahel
- Democrats attempt to channel abortion rights protests into a blind alley
2022-05-17
- Finland and Sweden formally announce application for NATO membership
- Strong response to SEP final election campaign meeting in Australia
- Turkey threatens veto as Finland, Sweden to join NATO against Russia
- Los Angeles teachers and support staff face June 30 contract expiration
- Sri Lankan prime minister demands more sacrifice from working people
- WHO study reveals high excess mortality in Germany during the pandemic
- Announcement on Assange’s extradition due any day as protest held in London
- The Buffalo shooting and the fascistic transformation of the Republican Party
- Last-ditch Australian Coalition and Labor campaign “rallies”: More desperate lies
- Baby formula shortage leaves millions in need across United States
- What is behind the International Socialist League’s support for the US/NATO war drive against Russia?
- Canada’s official COVID-19 death toll surpasses 40,000 amid sixth wave of infections
- Why is nurse Michelle Heughins facing charges for the December 2019 prison death of John Neville?
- Stop the slave labor! Build rank-and-file committees!
- Teacher denounces Australian Education Union censorship over new agreement
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- California wildfire season begins early with first months of 2022 the state’s driest on record
- In the face of continuing COVID pandemic: Dangerous “science experiment” being carried out on music fans, musicians by industry officials
- US hosts special ASEAN summit as conflict with China deepens
- UK: Arriva Yorkshire bus workers ballot for strike action against pay offer less than half the rate of inflation
2022-05-18
- In Buffalo, Biden covers up role of Republican Party in promoting fascist “Replacement Theory”
- Sri Lanka marks 13 years of Mullivaikal massacre amid mass anti-Rajapakse protests
- U-Mich Health System continues hard line toward nurses
- Finnish parliament approves proposal to join NATO
- Washington D.C. transit union calls off 3-day strike, agrees to below-inflation wages for 150 D.C. transit workers
- Pay packages for US CEOs hit record for sixth year in a row
- Las Vegas sanitation workers vote to strike
- Social workers and day care educators carry out warning strikes throughout Germany
- SEP candidates for Australian election discuss socialist program on podcast
- The 2022 Australian election and the bipartisan assault on refugees
- ASDA distribution workers in the UK vote overwhelmingly for strike action for a third time
- Protests against hike in food and fuel prices across Middle East and North Africa
- Striking Iowa CNH worker speaks out, as UAW floats ending strike without a contract
- Oppose military deployment in Sri Lanka’s free trade zones
- Johnson government pushes UK to the brink of trade war with Europe over Northern Ireland Protocol
- LA County workers must reject sellout agreement!
- Teachers in Brookline, Massachusetts, end one-day strike after union agrees to below-inflation, six-year contract
- One week after decisive contract rejection, why aren’t workers at Detroit Diesel on strike?
- “Labour, Conservative, they’re all friends”: UK workers speak on cost-of-living crisis as inflation surges to over 11 percent
- Australian Greens beg for power-sharing arrangement with right-wing Labor government
- Soaring food prices threaten workers with food insecurity and starvation
2022-05-19
- Why young people should support the SEP (Australia) election campaign
- Cannes Film Festival promotes US-NATO war against Russia
- School districts slash spending across the US
- Sri Lankan attorney general orders arrest of leaders of mob violence against anti-government protesters
- Inflation surge past 11 percent in UK a disaster for millions
- Strikebreakers brought in to replace FireKing workers in New Albany, Indiana
- Pussy Riot, the war in Ukraine and Russia’s upper middle class
- Wall Street plunges as global recession looms
- Primary elections in five US states show intensifying political tensions
- 10,000 healthcare workers strike in New Zealand
- Australian workers and young people voice their support for the Socialist Equality Party’s election campaign
- Ontario construction workers demand unified struggle as trade unions keep strikers divided: “We need everybody to come out to strike”
- Australian postal workers support SEP candidates in federal election
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UAW President Ray Curry sits on board of directors of Mercedes-Benz, parent company of Detroit Diesel
- As US daily COVID-19 cases surpass 100,000, White House makes clear that it will take no serious action
- Canadian imperialism’s fascist friends—Part 2: Hitler’s accomplices, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
- Iowa BNSF rail workers speak out on impact of Hi Viz policy: “It’s like your kids don’t know who you are, your dog doesn’t recognize you”
- Biden administration says government has no role in producing baby formula amidst nationwide shortage
- Australian unions promote illusions Labor will reverse wage decline
2022-05-20
- Sri Lankan workers and rural poor must mobilize against the Rajapakse-Wickremesinghe austerity agenda!
- Timothy Snyder claims “Russia is fascist”: Falsification in the service of US-NATO war propaganda
- More than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in New Zealand
- UK: Johnson government calls for slashing 90,000 civil service jobs
- UK: Richmond upon Thames College tutors oppose management’s “fire and rehire” attack
- Biden sends US troops back into Somalia
- After keeping workers in the dark, UAW announces snap contract vote at Detroit Diesel
- The pseudo-left Victorian Socialists in the Australian elections: Parochialism and parliamentary cretinism
- Germany’s Left Party in free fall
- Vote 1 for Socialist Equality Party candidates in the Australian election!
- Senate passes $28 million bill that does not resolve US baby formula supply crisis
- Metropolitan Police “partygate” investigation ends with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unscathed
- January 6 Select Committee requests to interview Republican lawmaker who provided “tour” of Capitol grounds day before coup
- UK workers on North Sea oil and gas rigs stage unofficial strike action in “wage revolution”
- Over 100 monkeypox infections detected in 10 countries as unprecedented outbreak spreads globally
- Outraged Arconic aluminum workers speak out against USW’s contract proposal: “It’s a bad deal!”
- In-store video shows DeAnthony VanAtten shopping prior to being shot in the parking lot by East Lansing, Michigan police
- Stellantis workers back contract fights at Detroit Diesel and CNH
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Tax documents reveal Black Lives Matter improperly spent tens of millions in donations
- COVID rips through US schools during sixth surge
- Biden administration pushes for NATO accession of Finland, Sweden, as Senate passes $40 billion aid package for Ukraine
- The Dropout–On the fraudulent rise and ignominious fall of Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos
- Dana workers must prepare common action to halt contract violations
- USW isolating strike by California Chevron workers over refinery staffing and safety
- George W. Bush inadvertently tells the truth about the Iraq War
2022-05-21
- Right-wing Ukrainian nationalism as applied in the field of musicology
- Workers react as UAW rolls out new sellout deal at Detroit Diesel
- Powerful strike movement emerges in the United States
- Australia: Phony election promises will do nothing to resolve housing crisis
- New York Times indicates divisions over the course of NATO-Russia war
- Canadian imperialism’s fascist friends—Part 3: The role of the OUN and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the Nazi war on the USSR and the Holocaust
- The World Health Organization to meet urgently to review the global spread of monkeypox infections
- All parties in Ontario’s provincial election bear responsibility for the province’s disastrous housing crisis
- German Chancellor Scholz’s government statement: Rearming for war against Russia
- Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, pressured Arizona state legislators to overturn 2020 popular vote
- Principal at high school in Seattle, Washington fired by district for informing families of abandonment of contact tracing
- Six things striking CNH workers need to know about the company
- Sri Lankan trade unions undermine workers struggles
- In major attack on free speech, Migrants NZ Facebook group forced to close
- Australian academics union censors SEP member at University of Sydney strike
2022-05-22
- UK Chancellor Sunak enters Sunday Times Rich List: The face of oligarchic rule in Britain
- Reject the Translink pay offer! Northern Ireland bus workers’ strike cancelled to vote on below-inflation pay deal
- This week in history: May 23-29
- Canadian educators support Ontario construction workers’ strike for wage increases and improved workplace safety
2022-05-23
- Australian election result shows mass hostility to Labor and the Liberal-Nationals
- London United bus drivers oppose Unite’s divisive role in pay fight
- The failed COVID-19 pandemic policies: An interview with Arijit Chakravarty of Fractal Therapeutics
- Steel tube manufacturer Vallourec closes plants in Germany, France and the UK
- Flint, Michigan schoolchildren and educators: Poisoned by lead, devastated by COVID
- Chicago imposes ban on youth in downtown area on weekends
- Forever: Rapper Phife Dawg bids us a posthumous farewell
- Germany’s Dax 40 companies enjoy record profits, while workers face record inflation
- “False positives”: The cold-blooded murder of over 6,400 poor civilians by Colombian military assassins between 2002 and 2008
- Little Nightmares II: Confronting and escaping from a rotting, dystopian world
- Federal judge orders continuation of Title 42 deportations of refugees seeking asylum
- Strikes mount across Spain against spiralling cost of living
- Death of UK teacher Donna Coleman blamed on “community transmission” despite Burnley College breaching COVID rules
- University and College Union sabotages college strike in northwest England
- US military delivery of baby formula from Germany does little to stem supply crisis
- US aligns with European Union against the UK on Northern Ireland Protocol
- Biden’s trip to Asia prepares for military confrontation with China
- German Ford autoworkers at Saarlouis plant support joint struggle with colleagues in Valencia
- Poor families in northern Sri Lanka flee to India to avoid hunger
- New Zealand Labour government’s budget imposes new burdens on working class
- Unite’s Arriva London South pay deal accepted, but large “no” vote shows anger
- Firefighters in New Mexico face more dangerous conditions as wildfires spread
- Berlin: Judiciary bans pro-Palestinian demonstrations
2022-05-24
- Protesters march after Omari Cryer shot and killed by US Marshal in Louisville, Kentucky
- Detroit Diesel: Reject the second UAW sellout contract! Demand strike action!
- Workers speak on Australian election: “It doesn’t matter who gets in, the whole system is broken”
- Iraqi refugee speaks of Washington’s proxy war against Russia and the destruction of her home country by US imperialism
- Tory government threatens to defund UK National Union of Students citing bogus anti-Semitism allegations
- Online book launch: Political lessons of the Pike River disaster and cover-up
- Australia’s still-minority Labor government rushes to commit to war and austerity
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Elisabeth Borne named French Prime Minister: Macron launches assault on the workers
- Sri Lanka defaults on foreign debts, prepares to implement IMF austerity
- Papua New Guinea elections loom amid growing domestic and global crisis
- Latest COVID wave exacerbates dire conditions in New York City K-12 schools
- Martha Raddatz on the USS Maine: ABC News glorifies submarine capable of annihilating hundreds of millions
- Imperialism and the lie of the soul
- Oxfam report: As millions face starvation food giants’ profits soar
- As it escalates war against Russia, Biden administration threatens war against China
- Canadian imperialism’s fascist friends—Part 4: How Ottawa provided the Ukrainian fascists refuge and incubated and promoted far-right Ukrainian nationalism
- UK plans naval intervention against Russia in the Black Sea
- Expand the Minnesota mental health workers strike! Unite with Minnesota nurses!
- US nurses form rank-and-file committee to defend scapegoated healthcare workers
- US/NATO-provoked war in Ukraine creates food crisis in Africa
- German imperialism sets its sights on Africa
- Biden’s summits in South Korea and Japan strengthen anti-China alliances
2022-05-25
- Trump headlines fascist CPAC Hungary conference
- North Sea oil and gas rig workers end wildcat strike as Unite lines up with employers
- Persecution continues of UK mum Sarah Paxman for stand against COVID-infested schools
- Quad summit in Tokyo ramps up confrontation with China
- French media documents war crimes by NATO-backed Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias
- 19 children, two adults killed in Texas elementary school shooting
- Gray report allows UK Prime Minister Johnson to brush off partygate scandal
- Russian economic problems continue, despite ruble rebound
- Who is responsible for starvation and rising food prices?
- Biden, port officials and the ILWU close ranks as West Coast dock contract expiration looms
- UAW claims ratification of sellout contract at Detroit Diesel
- Striking Wisconsin CNH workers speak from the picket line: “What I make is not a livable wage in this day and age”
- With new COVID-19 outbreak in Latin America, governments let virus rip
- Sri Lankan SEP holds its Third National Congress
- UK rail workers vote overwhelmingly for strike action
- Family of man killed on Boston transit demands answers: "The MBTA slaughtered my uncle"
- “I believe she is being sacrificed”: Growing outrage over charges against nurse Michelle Heughins in the tragic death of John Neville
- Keeping schools open during the pandemic is causing a mental health crisis for US teachers
- Ontario unions hail NDP for putting “working people first”—Who do they think they are kidding?
- Turkey denounces Greece as tensions mount in NATO over war with Russia
- Russian DJ and performer Nina Kraviz banned from three music festivals
- Arconic workers denounce United Steelworkers contract proposal
- US Supreme Court denies federal appeal of Arizona death penalty cases on grounds of ineffective counsel
- Germany: Vote "NO" to the sell-out contract in education and social services!
- Australian election: Workers and youth speak out over rising inflation, war dangers and COVID-19
2022-05-26
- Australia surges past seven million COVID-19 infections, 8,000 deaths
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Biden marks two year anniversary of police murder of George Floyd by signing pro-cop executive order
- Trump rebuffed in Georgia Republican primary elections
- “The American elite don’t care about the children”: US teachers and students respond to Texas school shooting
- The global monkeypox outbreak and its implications
- Ukraine sentences Russian soldier to life in prison
- Ford Europe prepares job cuts with union support in Spain, Germany
- Minneapolis mental health workers speak out during one-day strike: “Staffing issues have become worse”
- Long COVID affects nearly 2 million in the UK
- US arms Taiwan to prepare a Ukraine-style quagmire for China
- The Wobblies (1979): What the IWW means for the working class today
- Retired US general calls for “coalition of the willing” for naval conflict with Russia
- The Uvalde massacre and the tragedy of school shootings in America
- Workers must oppose Bill 96, Quebec’s chauvinist language law
- Johnson UK government announces cost of living support package fearing social explosion
- Australian election: Workers oppose war, the persecution of Assange and rising living costs
- The international significance of Australia’s crisis election
- Sri Lankan central bank governor warns of unprecedented economic contraction in 2022
- County sheriff shoots and kills 66-year-old white woman in rural Wyndham Township, Ohio
2022-05-27
- Body Brokers: The business of making billions out of drug addiction
- FDA Commissioner says unsanitary conditions at Abbott Labs Michigan baby formula factory were “shocking”
- As Russia war rages on, US secretary of state declares China the “most serious long-term challenge”
- Vote NO on Chevron/USW sellout tentative agreement! Rally the tens of thousands of oil workers to join Richmond, California refinery strikers!
- Study finds that vaccines offer little protection from Long COVID after breakthrough infection
- US government awards $10 billion NSA cloud contract to Amazon
- Germany’s IG Metall union rejects seeking compensation for inflation through higher wages
- UK: Arriva Yorkshire bus workers vote to strike against insulting 4.1 percent pay offer
- Amazon’s former CEO Jeff Bezos clashes with Biden on social media, denounces taxes on the wealthy and stimulus payments
- Historian Timothy Snyder whitewashes the crimes of the Ukrainian far right
- US students walk out to protest gun violence, as police story of response to Uvalde massacre falls apart
- Australian Labor government already functioning as US attack dog in the Pacific
- Stop the sellout of the Ontario construction workers’ strike! Build rank-and-file committees!
- UK cost of living surges, dwarfing Sunak’s one-off payments
- Canadian imperialism’s fascist friends—Part 5: Mobilize the working class against the US-NATO war with Russia and fascist reaction!
- The anti-democratic firing of Princeton professor Joshua Katz
- Beyond the official clichés: The Texas school shooting reveals the advanced sickness of American society
- CNH worker in Racine, Wisconsin, speaks out: “We need a much heavier strike”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
- “The lives of working class Americans are expendable to the ruling class”—US workers speak on Texas school massacre
2022-05-28
- Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book: American reality and racialist illusion
- Australian Education Union rams through deal to slash Victorian teachers’ pay and conditions
- Two derailments within five days underscore dangerous conditions on Canada’s railways
- SEIU says it has reached a tentative contract agreement covering Los Angeles County nurses
- Uvalde Texas police, Border Patrol, refused to engage Robb Elementary shooter for over an hour
- Mack Trucks workers vote out UAW leadership at local in Pennsylvania, one year after union betrayal of Volvo Trucks strike
- Newark, New Jersey healthcare workers strike against low wages and understaffing
- The US baby formula crisis and capitalism’s indifference to the lives of children
- Critical resources, imperialism and the war against Russia
- Australia’s Labor government demands “sacrifices” from workers
- In wake of Texas school shooting, Trump glorifies police and vigilante violence at NRA convention
- Australia’s crisis election: The way forward for the working class
- Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP holds talks with right-wing parties
- Oklahoma implements strictest abortion ban in US
- New South Korean government plans onslaught on working class
- Who is Chuck Browning, the UAW’s head “negotiator” in the CNH strike?
- Alaska pilots overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike
2022-05-29
- UK: Police attack refuse workers’ picket in Wealden, England, arresting union officials
- Molar of ancient human Denisovan species discovered in northern Laos
- Jacobin attempts to resurrect image of pro-war Ocasio-Cortez, DSA
- Israeli ultra-nationalists and settlers attack Palestinians in “Flag March” through Jerusalem
2022-05-30
- IG Metall union “social collective agreement” means closure of Vallourec steel tube plants in Germany
- “Nonunion drivers are getting paid better than us:” Car haul truckers in US determined to strike Tuesday night
- Contract talks break down for 70,000 Ontario hospital workers
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds powerful online rally against war
- California Chevron oil workers’ strike sabotaged by United Steelworkers in total sellout
- UN Human Rights High Commissioner condemned over China trip
- Chinese premier details mounting problems for economy
- Biden hails Modi, the butcher of Gujarat, for India’s COVID policy of mass death
- US rail unions seek government-imposed contract settlement
- Following Uvalde massacre, Biden and Pelosi offer empty platitudes
- Shanghai emerges out of lockdown after beating back Omicron
- This week in history: May 30-June 5
- US actor Ray Liotta dead at 67: Known for Something Wild, Field of Dreams, Goodfellas
- Dallas school district’s proposed budget cuts teacher pay while union declares “victory”
- UK: Rail strike at TransPennine Express continues over pay-parity and conditions
- Australia’s Labor government to intensify pro-business restructuring of universities
- Sri Lanka: Oppose job and wage cuts in the public sector! Build action committees to defend workers rights!
2022-05-31
- Sri Lanka faces worsening health crisis
- US gives Ukraine blank check for strikes inside Russia
- Sri Lankan doctor speaks out over catastrophic medical crisis
- UK civil servants face crucial fight against jobs massacre
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Officials, media spread complacency as US enters third summer of COVID infections and death
- Inquest into fatal shooting by Ontario police finds “totally deficient” arrest planning for suspects with mental health problems
- Australian Labor government grants Tamil refugee family only insecure bridging visas
- Parents and teachers defend Seattle principal fired for exposing district’s abandonment of contact tracing
- Trader Joe’s cut retirement benefits during pandemic
- New Zealand PM in the US promotes internet censorship, downplays pandemic
- 15,000 Minnesota nurses prepare for fight as contracts expire
- With vote for war, Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and DSA give over $17 billion to weapons manufacturers
- One-day general strike against war and social cuts in Italy
- UK: BT facing first national strike in 35 years as 40,000 telecoms workers ballot over pay
- With 3,000 car haulers ready to walk out, Teamsters sign last-minute deal to block strike
- Central banks tighten interest rates amid warnings of social crisis
- New Australian Liberal leader doubles down on “prepare for war” call
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