Archive: 06/2022
2022-06-01
- German government and opposition agree on €100 billion special fund for war
- National Health Service dentistry faces “death” as hundreds of thousands in UK lack access to treatment
- China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi tours the Pacific
- Pseudo-left Socialist Alliance promotes Australia’s new right-wing Labor government
- San Francisco Bay Area becomes California’s COVID-19 hotspot after serving as model for pandemic response
- Baby formula shortages reach more than 80 percent in some states amid US government inaction
- The Uvalde massacre and the pathological violence of American life
- Orlando nurses walk out in protest after understaffing led to unnoticed patient suicide
- Nearly five years after the fire, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has changed nothing
- Biden’s reckless escalation toward nuclear war with Russia
- Tüpraş workers occupy Aliağa refinery in Turkey to oppose layoffs
- Peruvian government uses “slight increase” in COVID numbers to extend state of emergency
- The way forward for students and youth in the fight against school shootings
- Australian Labor PM unveils “disciplined” ministry for war and austerity
- Vote NO on the USW-Arconic sellout contract! Build rank-and-file committees to prepare a workers’ counteroffensive for higher wages!
- EU blocks Russian oil shipments
- COVID-19 cases rise in the Mid-Atlantic as school districts refuse to impose any safety measures
- Colombian elections go to second round amid coup threats and false promises of change
- Ronnie Hawkins, the rockabilly performer who mentored The Band, dies at 87
- City and state governments across US bolster police in wake of Uvalde massacre
- Manassas Civil War battlefield threatened by real estate development
- The great unmentionable during the Ontario election campaign—the COVID-19 pandemic
2022-06-02
- Four-week strike at hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: Build independent action committees!
- “Who counted the votes?”: Arconic workers erupt in anger after USW claims contract ratification
- Shanghai reopens after suppressing COVID: A triumph for science and public health
- Sri Lankan police intensify witch hunt against anti-government activists
- Meltdown: Three Mile Island – A valuable reconstruction of the 1979 nuclear disaster and its aftermath
- Ten years after the Queensland floods in Australia: What has changed?
- US bank chief warns of economic “hurricane”
- BA.4/5 Omicron subvariants produce a fifth wave of infection in South Africa despite 98 percent population immunity
- Australian Labor government cites economic “perfect storm” to demand austerity
- UK: The Deliveroo/GMB model for corporatism
- Amid desperate teacher shortage, East Baton Rouge Parish Public Schools eliminates hundreds of positions
- Houston janitors prepared to strike as contract expires
- US, UK to deliver advanced longer-range missile systems to Ukraine
- RMT union targeted as “Putin’s stooges” following UK national rail strike vote
- Spain, European epicentre of monkeypox, enters seventh COVID-19 wave
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A record 86 million people forcibly displaced worldwide
- Australian Catholic school teachers and support staff hold first strike in 18 years
- UK: Reject Cadent and GMB’s de facto pay cut! Build rank-and-file committees for unified action
- Michigan Medicine demands nurses accept pay package that is half the rate of inflation
- The way forward for education workers after Ontario’s provincial election
- A pair of experiments reveal new details regarding the origin of life on Earth
2022-06-03
- Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion attempts rebranding
- Health care workers support nurse walkout at Orlando medical center: “I feel bad for the patients and terrified for the staff”
- Speaker at DSA panel: “War creates the possibility for a push of socialist ideas”
- COVID-19 cases compound economic crisis in North Korea
- India: Chennai sanitation workers forced to end strike for job permanency
- One-day national public sector strike against inflation brings Belgium to a halt
- Éric Duhaime, the Quebec Conservative Party and the ruling class’ turn to social reaction
- The jury verdict in the Depp-Heard case: A telling, deserved blow to the #MeToo witch-hunt
- The Australian Education Union betrayal of Victorian public school workers and the need for rank-and-file committees
- Sellout at Arconic: The latest showdown between workers and the unions
- Ford and his Conservatives win Ontario election amid collapse in support for all establishment parties
- Following mass killing at Tulsa hospital, Biden pushes dead-on-arrival gun reform measures
- UK: Johnson government leadership challengers claim confidence vote within reach
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
- Australia’s largest home builder narrowly staves off collapse as construction crisis mounts
- Benefits for Ukrainian refugees cut, as social crisis in Ukraine deepens
- Still no decision on charges against Grand Rapids officer who killed Patrick Lyoya on April 4
- Hundreds of COVID deaths every week as Australia’s new Labor government continues “let it rip” policies
- Matt Duss, Christopher Hitchens and the lies of the pro-imperialist “left”
- Biden enforces largest Medicare premium hike in history while funneling more profits to private insurers
- Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: The end of the “New Elizabethan Age”
- Top Sri Lankan ministry official declares those opposing government austerity are “traitors”
- “Honestly, I don’t trust Arconic or our union”: Arconic workers continue to speak out against USW-company sellout
- Elon Musk orders office staff to return to on-site work or face termination
2022-06-04
- Interview with influencer Nurse Erica on RaDonda Vaught’s prosecution and the state of health care in the US
- Sri Lankan government increases VAT and other taxes in a new round of social attacks
- SEIU announces tentative agreement for 2,800 Houston janitors
- US infant formula shortage continues to surge, with 10 states 90 percent out-of-stock
- Brutal police murder by gassing in Brazil provokes international outcry
- Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia exposes the hypocrisy of the imperialist war against Russia
- Australia’s new Labor foreign minister back in the Pacific on US-instigated anti-China mission
- Arms race in the Bundestag
- Amazon workers walk out of facility at Bellmawr, New Jersey
- Massive job cuts in Europe at the food delivery services Gorillas and Getir
- What the so-called “best contract ever” at Cedars-Sinai Hospital contains
- Australian university union again censors socialist worker during a strike
- Danish referendum produces majority for participation in European Union defence policy
- Sacramento school district punishes strike with cuts, extended school year
2022-06-05
2022-06-06
- Gunman kills Wisconsin judge, had Whitmer, Evers on list
- Why did the Michigan Medicine nurses union turn its “Contract Campaign Ally Meeting” into a private event?
- ScotRail train drivers reject pay cut negotiated by Aslef trade union
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The return of “Concerted Action” in Germany
- UK: 24-hour London tube strike as rail unions sabotage genuine fightback
- Australia’s Labor government opposes inflation wage rises, despite soaring living costs
- OSHA issues wrist-slap fine to JBS for COVID safety violations
- Kroger workers in central Indiana vote down UFCW sellout agreement
- Initial official story on police response to Uvalde shooting crumbles
- Expand the Newark, New Jersey health care workers’ strike!
- CP Rail worker speaks to the Global Workers Inquest about his experience with COVID-19 on the job
- Dozens dead and hundreds injured after fire and explosion at Bangladesh container depot
- How Swedish authorities worked to export “herd immunity” to other countries
- Boris Johnson scrapes through no-confidence vote and survives as UK Prime Minister—for now
- David North in Prinkipo: A tribute to Leon Trotsky
- Los Angeles resident physicians vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Australian Rich List reveals accelerating wealth
- NATO opens Northern front in war against Russia
- Spanish court summons Mike Pompeo to testify on CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate Assange
- In White House visit, New Zealand PM joins escalating US offensive in the Pacific
- Minnesota nurses press for improved wages and staffing, while MNA forces work to continue without a contract
- Secret Service warned by Pence’s chief of staff that Trump attack would incite violence against VP
- Canadian restaurant worker speaks to the Global Workers Inquest
- Caterpillar worker falls into molten iron crucible and dies at Mapleton, Illinois foundry
- This week in history: June 6-12
- Alan White, drummer for the progressive rock band Yes, dead at 72
- Health care workers in Cologne: “We are fighting for all of society”
2022-06-07
- Striking Newark nurses speak out on the picket line
- Australian government, media whip-up anti-China hysteria over murky encounter between military aircraft
- Third National Congress of the SEP (Sri Lanka): Popular uprising against the Rajapakse government and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- UK set to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda on June 14
- Meeting to launch book on New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster exposes 11-year long cover-up
- Australia: 40,000 public sector workers to strike in New South Wales
- Union announces sellout tentative agreement for 1,600 Providence St. Vincent nurses in Portland, Oregon
- Biden White House discusses how many daily COVID deaths would be acceptable to declare the pandemic over
- Josef Braml’s The Transatlantic Illusion: Why Germany is rearming
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation televising Ithaka: A fight to free Julian Assange this week
- Harlem Nights: The shadowy state operation to ban black jazz musicians performing in Australia
- UK: Arriva Yorkshire bus workers begin indefinite strike over pay
- Workers denounce USW sellout of California Chevron strikers
- Sussmann acquittal is blow to pro-Trump Durham investigation
- FBI informant and former Proud Boy chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio charged with seditious conspiracy
- The growing global movement of nurses and health care workers
2022-06-08
- Australian central bank’s “jumbo-sized” interest rate rise targets wage demands and home-buyers
- UK rail strikes announced: workers demand action in “summer of discontent”
- Podemos plans to join NATO summit in Madrid against Russia, China
- Under banner of “de-Sovietization,” Ukrainian government prepares deep assault on workers’ rights
- Paula Rego dies aged 87
- “We want the hospital and the system to be held responsible”: Family member of Orlando Health patient who died by suicide demands answers
- UK on collision course with US over Northern Ireland protocol after Washington diplomacy ends in acrimony and threats
- COVID-19 cases explode in Brazilian schools
- South Korean truck drivers strike against skyrocketing fuel prices
- As January 6 Select Committee prepares public hearings, Trump and his accomplices walk free
- Trump’s CIA director Gina Haspel watched as a detainee was tortured at US black site in Thailand in 2002
- Horrific death at Caterpillar Mapleton foundry evokes outpouring of shock and anger among workers
- Major Russian industries break down under weight of sanctions
- CNH workers need full strike pay and a new strategy to win this struggle!
- John Deere to move some production from Iowa to Mexico, after beating quarterly earnings estimates
- Pay disputes spread among UK refuse workers
- “It was divide-and-conquer”: Arconic workers simmering in anger over sellout USW-company contract
- Australian Labor PM visits Indonesia as part of US-backed regional blitz
- Second mass shooting in a week in Chattanooga is one of nine such incidents in the US last weekend
2022-06-09
- The death of Steven Dierkes: A victim of America’s industrial slaughterhouse
- Chancellor Scholz in Lithuania: Germany boosts combat troops for war against Russia
- The CDC raises its alert on the global monkeypox outbreak to level 2, but abruptly drops the use of facemasks for infection prevention
- UK benefit agency to be given powers to search premises and arrest claimants
- Rally in Auckland, New Zealand promotes US-NATO war against Russia
- US students speak out on the way forward in the fight to end school shootings after Uvalde massacre
- World Bank warns of soaring prices and global recession
- Lucia di Lammermoor in a 21st century setting at the Metropolitan Opera
- The pandemic is not over! Build a movement of educators, parents and students for COVID-19 elimination!
- Assange denounced as UK’s dictatorial National Security Bill passes second reading
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- South Korean ruling conservative party secures victory in local elections
- Top Gun: Maverick—War propaganda built to order for the United States military
- Amazon obstructs congressional investigation into deadly Illinois tornado disaster
- San Francisco DA recalled as Democratic Party shifts further to the right
- Video footage and transcript expose police indifference in drowning of Arizona man
- China warns of US-led “provocative” military actions in South and East China Seas
- Ohio attorney general prosecuted more than 100 nursing home workers, but no owners
- United Nations report declares “perpetual occupation” as “the underlying root cause” of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Thousands of Australian flood victims still denied government aid
- Trade unions offer to work with Ford and his Tories after debacle in Ontario election
- Indian Ford workers continue sit-down strike against planned plant closure
- Australia: Striking NSW public sector workers call for united struggle against wage cap
- President of PEN Germany resigns after demanding more weapons for Ukraine
- Sri Lankan prime minister declares class war policies against workers and rural toilers
- French health care workers mount one-day nationwide strike
2022-06-10
- Support nurses’ strike in North Rhine-Westphalia! Build independent Action Committees!
- Attend CFPE (Australia) meeting: “The crisis of public education, the betrayal of the teacher unions, and the need for independent rank-and-file committees”
- On IMF orders, Pakistan’s government imposes massive price hikes ahead of crisis budget
- Prosecutor charges Grand Rapids, Michigan, officer who killed Patrick Lyoya with second-degree murder
- Victims’ testimony exposes official account of Paris police killing
- Sri Lankan port workers speak out against union leadership
- Airport strikes hit Paris and spread across Europe
- Anger erupts after worker killed in horrific accident at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario, third plant death in two years
- Former Australian defence minister reveals plans for fast-tracked purchase of US nuclear-powered submarines
- Train accident near Garmisch-Partenkirchen: A fatal accident that could have been predicted
- The January 6 hearing: What took 18 months?
- Johnson sets out class war agenda as UK “summer of discontent” strike wave takes shape
- The ISL’s Oleg Vernyk promotes Ukrainian fascist Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
- The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 1
- UAW increases weekly strike pay to $400 in desperate bid to placate workers’ anger
- UK POWs sentenced to death by Donetsk court
- Former Forsyth County jail nurse Michelle Heughins declares her innocence at arraignment
- More details on police response come into focus as survivors testify on Uvalde massacre
- Australian unions back Labor government’s “productivity” agenda
- Baby formula whistleblower’s complaints were known 8 months earlier than acknowledged by Abbott Labs and the FDA
- Factory and health care workers strike, protest in Russia and Georgia
- Financial house of cards becoming increasingly shaky
- Business groups demand Biden administration intervene to prevent any work stoppage on West Coast ports
- Air travel chaos deepens as airlines pursue profits at expense of jobs and living standards
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Unite ends strike action at largest oil refinery in UK run by ExxonMobil with a whimper
2022-06-11
- The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 2
- Arizona executes two inmates in less than a month
- 2.6 million US educators and staff quit public K-12 and higher education jobs during pandemic
- Australian Treasury chief: Labor government must slash spending and suppress wages
- Biden administration lifts COVID testing requirements for international travelers
- 3,000 Palomar Health nurses and caregivers in San Diego overwhelmingly authorize strike
- Sri Lankan president imposes essential public services order, banning power and health workers strikes
- Striking health care workers in Newark, New Jersey reject austerity proposal from management
- Elon Musk threatens to cut 10 percent of Tesla’s white collar workforce
- Australia’s Aspen Medical: A case study of healthcare privatisation
- The significance of January 6 and the conspiracy to establish a dictatorship in the United States
- Mélenchon surges in polls in run-up to French legislative elections
- Virginia Thomas and Trump’s election coup: More revelations about role of Supreme Court justice’s wife
- Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visits Turkey as NATO escalates war in Ukraine
- Japanese cabinet approves policy to double military spending
- US workers speak out as May inflation hits 8.6 percent, rips household budgets
- New Zealand hospitals inundated, healthcare system “imploding”
- Washington Post promotes Trump’s other “big lie”: The Wuhan Lab theory
- Significant opposition to CORE leadership emerges among Chicago teachers in latest CTU election
2022-06-12
2022-06-13
- US escalates conflict with China at Shangri-la forum
- The pandemic, the global crisis of capitalism, the resurgence of class struggles and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)—Part 3
- Mélenchon vote rises in first round of French legislative elections
- Emails confirm pro-NATO warmonger Paul Mason works with intelligence agencies
- Germany prepares for World War III with the passage of 100 billion euro “Bundeswehr Special Fund”
- This week in history: June 13-19
- Democrats continue appealing for Republican support in January 6 investigation
- Students, teachers and workers rally against gun violence in cities across the US
- London rail workers speak out ahead of national strike
- Spain deports whistle-blower Mohamed Benhalima to Algeria to face execution
- French government defends police rampage against Liverpool fans at Champions League Final
- UN warns war in Ukraine could amplify cost-of-living crisis
- Inflation to fuel long, hot summer of workers struggles in the US
- Bangladeshi prime minister threatens protesting garment workers
- The St. Michael’s strike in New Jersey and the criminal record of Prime Healthcare
- A class strategy to defeat TfL’s cuts to London bus routes!
- The crocodile tears of Texas politicians for Uvalde's schoolchildren
- Educators speak against Australian Education Union agreement betrayal
- The Grenfell fire and fight for justice five years on
- Australian Labor government stonewalls demands to free Assange
- Facing an international outcry, India’s Hindu supremacist government cynically distances itself from top BJP officials’ anti-Muslim incitement
- Seven more children died after consuming baby formula produced at contaminated Abbott Labs factory in Michigan
- 31 fascists arrested at Idaho Pride parade on conspiracy to riot
- Doctors’ orders to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel: “Do not extradite Assange”
- Germany’s biggest real estate company announces new round of rent increases
2022-06-14
- NATO-Russia war inflames conflict between Turkey and Greece
- Arriva Yorkshire bus strike enters second week as bus workers defy de facto pay cut
- The trade unions in Germany act as wages police
- COVID denial vs. reality: The growing threat of Omicron subvariants
- University of Tel Aviv study points to COVID as cause of recent unexplained acute liver failure among children
- Australian university union again blocks criticism at a strike rally
- Australian unions promote NSW government’s cynical wage cap manoeuvre
- “The unions work together with the managers”: UK rail workers speak out ahead of national strike
- United Nations report reveals worsening social catastrophe in Sri Lanka
- Los Angeles Unified School District to cut at least a dozen special education classes
- Herd immunity in education: “I fear for children’s lives and what the future legacy will be.”
- The economic and geostrategic significance of the Black Sea region and the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine
- Johnson government legislates to rip up Northern Ireland protocol
- South Korean truckers continue indefinite strike against soaring fuel prices
- Support pours in for scapegoated North Carolina nurse Michelle Heughins
- Scottish nurses threaten pay strike in “broken” National Health Service
- Nurses need a winning strategy for contract fight at Michigan Medicine
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian High Court overturns citizenship-stripping law but backs government power to do so
- Lawyer for families of rail workers killed in 2019 Canadian Pacific derailment: “The railway companies are a law unto themselves”
- Second hearing details Trump lies of “stolen election” but seeks to exonerate Republican Party
- New Zealand PM affirms anti-China stance on visit to Australia
2022-06-15
- Strike at university hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Illinois child welfare agency wrongfully imprisoning youth
- Spanish unions work with PSOE-Podemos government against postal, metalworkers strikes
- Trump denounces January 6 hearings as “treasonous” and repeats baseless claims of a “stolen election”
- “It’s like a death sentence in that place”: Former Caterpillar Mapleton foundry worker speaks out following death of Steven Dierkes
- Germany’s Supreme Court strengthens far-right Alternative for Germany
- South Korean union reaches sellout deal with government in attempt to shut down truck drivers’ strike
- Last-minute ruling prevents UK government deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda
- Despite workers’ willingness to fight, IG Metall union organises sell-out in the German steel industry
- Ukrainian government plans book banning on massive scale
- Democratic controlled Congress allows funding for school meal programs to expire, threatening 10 million children with hunger
- The British rail strike: Mobilise the entire working class against the Johnson government!
- Oklahoma seeks execution of 25 prisoners after federal judge denies challenge to state’s lethal injection protocol
- “It’s hard to believe they work for us”: Central Indiana Kroger workers speak out against rejected UFCW contract
- Somalia pushed closer to famine by US/NATO sanctions on Russia, international speculation and drought
- The WHO to convene emergency meeting on the global monkeypox epidemic
- 100,000 Turkish doctors strike amid growing global movement of health care workers
- With contract expiration for dockworkers looming, Biden makes warmongering speech at Los Angeles ports
- Pandemic profiteers prey on the crisis in education, while US schools are increasingly riven by class divide
- Wall Street slide continues in lead-up to crucial Fed decision
- The Democratic Socialists of America and the invention of the pro-imperialist “Ukrainian resistance”
- Amid strike wave across France, Macron calls to rearm against Russia
- Australian deputy PM travels to Japan to help ratchet up conflict with China
- Britain admits to spying on Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson
2022-06-16
- Australian Labor government backs ruling that further cuts real wages
- Terence Davies’ Benediction: The mostly tortured life of poet Siegfried Sassoon
- From Greece to Ukraine: 75 years of the Truman Doctrine
- Governments across Canada massively undercount COVID-19 deaths
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses crisis of Australia’s two-party system and the way forward for the working class
- As losses mount in war with Russia, US floods Ukraine with weapons
- Australia: NSW Teachers Federation complains of no government concessions, after its Term Two strike ban
- Fed hikes interest rate to crush wage demands
- At AFL-CIO convention, Biden looks to unions to impose his program of austerity and war
- January 6 Committee releases video of Republican lawmaker leading “reconnaissance” tour of Capitol complex on eve of coup
- Gross safety violations at Russian paper plant where five workers died
- Retrial of Joshua Schulte begins for allegedly leaking CIA “Vault 7” documents to WikiLeaks
- Ukrainian official admits to at least 100 to 200 military deaths a day
- US and Israel ratchet up threats and aggression against Iran
- Heat wave affecting 100 million people as extreme weather extends across United States
- Letter from a nurse at Providence St. Vincent: “Myself and many of my colleagues will be voting no on June 20th”
- Harley Davidson workers vote unanimously against tentative agreement in York, Pennsylvania
- Republican who voted for Trump impeachment defeated in South Carolina primary
- Odessa, Texas water line break leaves tens of thousands without water
- UK: Rail maintenance workers in Doncaster take strike action against fire and rehire by Wabtec
2022-06-17
- Sharp Wall Street fall resumes as more central banks lift interest rates
- Turkey arrests Kurdish journalists, politicians and prepares to invade Syria
- Australian central bank chief declares interest rates must rise despite financial distress
- New Zealand: Change of police minister signals shift to the right
- Third National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka): Greetings from David North on behalf of the ICFI and the SEP in the US
- To oppose IMF austerity, Sri Lankan workers must draw the lessons of past two months of popular uprising
- Ambulance services at breaking point across Australia
- Court ruling against Workers Cause Party (PCO) marks escalation of assault on democratic rights in Brazil
- Scholz, Macron and Draghi in Kiev: European imperialism backs escalation of war against Russia
- Retired federal judge warns Trump will attempt another electoral coup
- Russians and Ukrainian among six finalists at Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
- Canada announces further arms shipment to Ukraine as calls grow for industry to shift to “wartime footing”
- US squanders $80,000 every minute on nuclear weapons
- Teamsters leaders endorse sellout deal for 3,000 car haulers, schedule mail-in vote
- UK Home Secretary Patel approves extradition of Julian Assange to the United States
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, fires officer charged with second-degree murder in shooting of Patrick Lyoya
- UK: RMT officials offer surrender to Tories on eve of national rail strikes, as Corbyn and McDonnell give their blessing
- Gaylord, Michigan residents left without FEMA aid in the aftermath of devastating tornado
2022-06-18
- Nearly 120 Breakthru Beverage drivers in Illinois strike after overwhelmingly rejecting Teamsters agreement
- One in five Canadians eating less due to food price rises, as Liberal government squanders billions on war
- Mediation fails at railroad talks, Biden likely to appoint Emergency Board
- Workers Struggle: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Facing poverty and starvation, Sri Lankan mother of three attempts to take her own life
- Republican lawmakers and officials hail Trump at far-right “Faith and Freedom” event
- Australian Labor government moves to slash social spending and impose real wage cuts
- The January 6 hearings and the ongoing plot against democracy
- Australia threatened with blackouts as profiteering generating companies withhold supply
- Australia: Three hundred bus drivers to strike in Newcastle
- Global condemnations of Assange extradition order as Australian government refuses to defend persecuted journalist
- Future funding for COVID-19 testing and treatment “probably dead”
- Coinbase terminates 1,100 employees following 25,000 tech sector layoffs since May
- “It seems like every year it gets worse”: Inflation devastates California workers and their families
- Tunisian workers hold one-day general strike against rising food prices
- Forty-year anniversary of Vincent Chin killing marked amid surge of anti-Asian violence
- US Supreme Court authorizes indefinite detention of immigrants and immunizes Border Patrol agents from brutality claims
- Flooding of Abbott baby formula factory in Michigan forces new shutdown amid severe national shortage
2022-06-19
2022-06-20
- Australian Labor government prepares to cut disability services
- UK rail strikes begin this week: the working class needs its own strategy
- Texas Republican Party passes resolution declaring Biden government illegitimate
- Young Scots for Independence embraces NATO
- Vote NO on the Providence St. Vincent sellout contract! Build rank-and-file committees to fight for safe staffing, good wages and benefits!
- Hung parliament emerges from French legislative elections in debacle for Macron
- San Antonio Symphony to file for bankruptcy and go out of existence
- This week in history: June 20-26
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on “The lessons of the mass uprising in Sri Lanka”
- Julian Assange faces extradition and state murder while the war criminals he exposed walk free
- TUC unions make eleventh hour attempt to sabotage UK rail strikes
- Saint Michael’s health care workers’ strike in Newark, New Jersey at crossroads
- Michigan Medicine nurses describe intolerable conditions at union-organized protest to University of Michigan regents
- UK: Talks resume between Unite and Arriva Yorkshire as strike enters third week
- The British rail strike and the lessons of the 1926 British General Strike
- Senate panel approves record US military budget for 2022-2023
- Workers at five Atlantic City casinos vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Three groups vie to shore up discredited Australian university trade union
- US will double number of long-range missile launchers deployed in Ukraine
- Papua New Guinea election campaign amid escalating crises
- Third National Congress of the SEP (Sri Lanka): Greetings from the French and German sections of the world Trotskyist movement
- Sickout cripples New Jersey commuter rail service
2022-06-21
- Third National Congress of the SEP (Sri Lanka): Greetings from Canadian, Australian and UK sections
- Crypto currency meltdown points to deeper financial crisis
- Sri Lankan police arrest 21 anti-government protesters
- British rail strike solid in the face of government attacks
- Australia’s Labor government rejects surging demands to free Assange
- The CDC approves vaccines for children under five: An advance, but with many limitations
- Lawyer for families of rail workers killed in 2019 Canadian Pacific derailment: “There are a hundred different ways that things can go wrong, all linked to profit”
- NATO’s Baltic blockade opens new front in war against Russia
- Network Rail engineer in Sheffield, UK speaks on risk to safety from cuts and fragmentation
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sabotages vaccinations of young children
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK rail strike live coverage
- Video shows Uvalde, Texas, police were armed and on scene within 9 minutes of gunman entering school
- New York Times series The Ransom absolves capitalism for Haiti’s oppression
- Australia, New Zealand to maintain brutal deportee policies
- 750 signal and communication workers in Canada strike CN Rail for pay hikes and improved conditions
- “Nothing has changed”: Workers speak out after death of Caterpillar worker Steven Dierkes
- Israel’s government collapses after one year in power
- Study suggests more than half of all Australians may have caught COVID-19 in 2022
- Increase in violent attacks on mosques and Muslims in Germany
- Apple Store employees in Towson, Maryland vote to unionize
2022-06-22
- UK Royal Mail workers ballot for national strike action against imposition of 2 percent pay award
- Australian central bank aims at real wage cuts for years
- Family of Detroit autoworker who died of COVID-19 demands answers
- US Supreme Court orders state funding of religious education in Maine
- Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: A new translation of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad’s work
- Stellantis announces more indefinite layoffs, as rising gas prices and interest rates slow auto sales
- Child hospitalisations rise as new UK COVID wave begins
- Sri Lankan government shuts down government offices and schools
- UK: Migrant nurses speak out against the dreadful conditions patients face in Sri Lanka
- COVID-19 driven staff shortages fuel crisis in Australian schools
- At its 2022 conference, Labor Notes promotes Democratic Party, trade union apparatus
- Joe Nagle, 22, killed by Allegan County, Michigan sheriff during traffic stop
- Long Beach Medical Center nurses must reject the TA! Unite with nurses’ struggles across the West Coast!
- Australian Labor foreign minister visits Solomon Islands, reinforcing threats over China ties
- Missouri Republican candidate for US Senate and former Navy SEAL releases gun-toting ad urging violence against “RINOs”
- Pandemic profiteering fuels crisis in the global airline industry
- German Air Force chief calls for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia
- India: Chennai Ford workers continue their strike against planned plant closure defying management threats
- Stop right-wing violence against student criticism! Stop supporting the radical right-wing professor Baberowski!
- Fourth January 6 hearing documents fake electors plot and fascist threats against election officials, workers
- New Zealand government maintains “let it rip” policy despite worsening crisis in hospitals
2022-06-23
- With Modi's support, BJP governments waging bulldozer campaign of state lawlessness and terror targeting Muslims
- Pseudo-left president-elect Gustavo Petro: “We will develop capitalism in Colombia”
- Australia: More than 130,000 New South Wales nurses and teachers to strike next week
- Australian university union defends silencing socialist and delaying strike action
- Union shuts down New Jersey hospital walkout before Nevada Prime Healthcare workers strike
- Lithuania to expand blockade of Russian goods as Ukraine war widens
- New York City transit and other US workers back UK rail strikers
- RMT says new UK rail strikes in July after talks with Network Rail and train operators break down
- Sri Lankan trade unions back IMF austerity policies
- Britain’s rail strike and the struggle against war: Bring down the Johnson government!
- Bipartisan gun bill passes procedural vote in US Senate
- Canadian rail workers express support for British rail strike
- Stalinist PCF discusses French national unity government with Macron
- France’s hung parliament, rising class struggles stagger Macron
- Rail workers rally in Glasgow: “We can’t let them get away with it”
- The real message in Biden’s phony gas tax cut: Workers must pay for Ukraine war
- January 6 committee “flooded” with new evidence on Trump coup
- A conversation with Deirdre O’Connell, author of Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age
- Ukraine bans largest opposition party
- “The tier system has to go”: Pennsylvania Harley-Davidson workers speak out after defeating sellout contract
- Uvalde mayor accuses Texas officials of coverup in mass shooting at Robb Elementary
- Australian minister dispatched to Sri Lanka to demand a halt to refugees fleeing destitution
- At least 1 in 12 Chicago Public Schools students caught COVID-19 during past school year
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2022-06-24
- “Hopeful” talks between RMT and the employers ahead of Saturday’s rail strike in Britain
- The Fallout: A high school shooting and its aftermath
- Fed chief admits rate hikes could bring recession
- Assange was stripped and placed in “suicide watch” isolation cell after British extradition announcement
- Brazil’s fourth COVID wave is a “time bomb,” warns researcher Lucas Ferrante
- Amazon Flex drivers in Avenel, New Jersey stage walkout to protest corporate efforts to cut costs at workers’ expense
- Supreme Court strikes down NY gun law, protects police from lawsuits
- FDA investigating a tenth infant who died after consuming Abbott Labs baby formula product
- US heat wave endangers lives of most vulnerable, especially growing homeless population
- “I think they’re setting us up to get screwed”: Unions move to shut down multiple health care struggles in California
- Australia: Striking Newcastle bus drivers speak out on pay and conditions
- Texas teen who wanted abortion prevented by state-funded clinic
- Afghanistan earthquake exposes disaster caused by decades of US occupation
- 50,000 Chilean copper miners launch strike against Boric government
- Quebec’s ruling CAQ whipping up anti-immigrant chauvinism ahead of provincial election
- Chinese government seeks to head off outrage over human trafficking
- For a socialist movement against fascism and war! Vote IYSSE on July 12th!
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Report points to corporate price gouging amid soaring inflation in US
- German Ford factory faces closure, with the collusion of the union
- US Supreme Court abolishes constitutional right to abortion
- Federal officials warn of impending water crisis in the American Southwest
- Massive police raid highlights attack on protest rights in Australia
- January 6 hearing reveals multiple Republican congressmen sought pardons for participating in Trump’s coup
- One in five Americans previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 reports lingering symptoms of Long COVID
- Dock workers strike at six German ports
- Johnson under renewed threat as prime minister after devastating by-election defeats
- BLET union calls nationwide strike vote in US rail industry
2022-06-25
- Over 400 beverage distribution workers on strike in Philadelphia region weeks before July 4 holiday
- Wave of protests against India’s new military recruitment scheme driven by anger over mass unemployment
- Spain’s Morenoite CRT works to trap anti-war sentiment behind pro-war Podemos government
- India and the US send envoys to Sri Lanka amid worsening economic crisis
- Democratic-led Louisiana bans abortion after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
- Australian Labor Party records lowest primary vote since 1934
- US-China tensions flare over Taiwan Strait
- New Zealand emergency doctor describes crisis caused by lifting COVID public health measures
- Autopsy reveals 14-year-old died of blunt force trauma, other injuries after fatal fall from Orlando, Florida ride
- Ahead of the WHO emergency deliberations, the World Health Network declares monkeypox a pandemic
- Washington D.C. metro brings back defective train cars without solution for defect that caused series of derailments
- Protests erupt throughout the US in response to Supreme Court decision overturning abortion rights
- Rail workers and supporters speak at London rally
- New Brunswick educator speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest on the abandonment of pandemic protections: “All decisions were made above our heads. We had no say”
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government bans walkout as Ryanair workers strike across Europe
- Rap artist M.I.A. defends Julian Assange and denounces Tony Blair as a war criminal
- Australian defence minister cajoles India over Russia and China
- US doubles long-range missile shipments to Ukraine in war with Russia
- Democrats hail “bipartisan” passage of toothless gun legislation
- Australia: Striking NSW teachers and nurses must fight for unified struggle
- Eighty-one years after the war of annihilation: German Chancellor Scholz makes new war threats against Russia
2022-06-26
- UK: RMT’s Mick Lynch tries to rehabilitate Keir Starmer and Labour
- The lessons of the 1984-5 miners’ strike for the UK rail strikes
- Former National Union of Mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill warns of state attacks on UK rail strike
- UN investigation finds Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with “seemingly well-aimed bullets”
2022-06-27
- Detroit begins a school reorganization which leaves children and parents in the lurch
- Committee For Public Education public meeting discusses the crisis in Australian schools and the role of the teacher unions
- Behind California’s school budget proposal: An education system in an advanced state of decay
- St. Vincent nurses in Portland, Oregon prepare to strike after rejecting union-backed proposal
- Ventra Evart auto parts workers overwhelmingly defeat UAW sellout deal
- A historic advance in the fight for Trotskyism: The International Committee of the Fourth International accepts application of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu to become its section in Turkey
- Australia: As NSW nurses and teachers strike, Labor Party accuses state government of “spending spree”
- Elon Musk confirms termination of 10 percent of Tesla salaried employees amid economic turmoil
- Abortion rights protests encounter police, right-wing violence
- 37 refugees dead, hundreds injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border
- Imperialist war and the attack on democratic rights
- This week in history: June 27-July 3
- As Trump looks on, Illinois Republican hails overturn of Roe as “victory for white life”
- Works Council and union at Ford Saarlouis to enforce plant closure
- Bank for International Settlements calls for accelerated interest rate hikes
- The witch-hunting of professor John Comaroff: Harvard seeks dismissal of sexual harassment lawsuit
- Students at Berlin Humboldt University speak out against rearmament and right-wing violence
- Australian health workers support NSW nurses strike, call for united struggle
- Criminal barristers join UK summer of discontent
- Québec Solidaire prepares for provincial election by turning even further right
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government denounces migrants as “hybrid threat”
- Kroger workers: Break the UFCW-imposed isolation of our struggles! Unite to fight for higher wages and better working conditions!
- UK COVID-19 cases rising again, as monkeypox spreads and polio re-emerges
- Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants fuel yet another global surge of COVID-19 infections
2022-06-28
- Nurses must mobilize their strength to win the contract fight at Michigan Medicine
- UK: Unite suspends Stagecoach Merseyside strike, isolates Arriva Yorkshire workers
- Massacre in Morocco: The ugly face of European imperialism
- NATO summit to embrace US-led confrontation with China
- German government abolishes free coronavirus testing
- As state abortion bans take effect, Democrats confine their response to election appeals
- IHR Emergency Committee stops short of declaring the monkeypox epidemic a global emergency
- Turkish government escalates attack on democratic rights amid explosive social conditions
- London Tram drivers in Croydon strike against real terms pay cut
- US Supreme Court rules in favor of public school officials pressuring students to participate in Christian prayer
- NATO announces plan for massive European land army
- New army chief General Sanders urges Britain to prepare for total war with Russia
- Teamsters local abruptly ends Philadelphia beer distributors’ strike
- Australian universities further integrated into military build-up
- Australia: NSW rail workers to hold partial strike in 14-month dispute over pay, safety
- Australia: Kinetic bus drivers should reject sell-out deal
- At least 46 undocumented immigrants found dead in truck trailer in sweltering Texas heat
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan corporations reap large profits as workers and rural toilers face poverty and starvation
- British band Wet Leg follow up their viral single with an accomplished album
- US, Israel and Gulf States discuss anti-Iran alliance as nuclear talks set to restart in Qatar
- Widespread opposition by truck drivers to Teamsters’ deal with car-hauling companies
- ILWU and PMA issue joint statement announcing no “work stoppages or lockouts”
- One year after the German flood disaster, angry victims complain: “We have received nothing”
- 3 people dead, dozens injured after Amtrak train derails in rural Missouri
- Bolsonaro and Workers Party seek support of US imperialism as Brazil’s presidential elections near
- The staggering hypocrisy of Wimbledon’s ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis players
2022-06-29
- Residents outraged after former Governor Snyder and others responsible for Flint water poisoning let off the hook by Michigan Supreme Court
- Strong interest in SEP meeting on the mass uprising in Sri Lanka
- Ventra workers deserve a $10 raise! Throw out the bargaining committee and elect a new one from the shop floor!
- New York City teachers denounce savage school cuts
- Two months after strike, 8,000 Sutter nurses in Northern California nurses remain on the job without a contract
- Lessons of the British rail strikes
- West Coast dockworkers: Demand an immediate vote for strike action!
- Testimony exposes Trump’s plan to declare himself dictator
- Medical contrast dye shortage forces delays in diagnostic and surgical procedures
- What must be done to end the pandemic
- Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison
- Strike by 630 workers at Glencore's Raglan Mine in northern Quebec enters second month
- Australia: Queensland unions cancel protest over wage-cutting state budget
- Crypto turmoil intensifies as major fund defaults
- Australia: NSW nurses stopwork meeting highlights union efforts to isolate workers
- Ecuador shaken by anti-government protests, mass strikes over inflation
- Los Angeles teachers face looming austerity as contract set to expire
- Costco workers reject sellout contract by 93 percent
- “Why are we not on strike?”: Anger at the boiling point at Ventra after rejection of UAW contract
- Stop the closure of the Ford Saarlouis plant! Stop the works council manoeuvres! No step-by-step job reductions! For the international unity of all Ford workers in defence of all jobs!
2022-06-30
- Sri Lankan government declares virtual national lockdown! Fight for a socialist program to end the social calamity
- Pilots protest across the US as flight cancellations mount ahead of Fourth of July weekend
- Turkey retracts veto on Sweden, Finland joining NATO amid war summit in Madrid
- Death total climbs to four in rural Missouri Amtrak train crash
- UAW calls off GM Subsystems strike at last minute, announcing tentative agreement
- US announces plans to flood Europe with troops and weapons
- Australia: Striking NSW teachers oppose intolerable working conditions and pay cuts
- Australia: Striking NSW nurses speak on crisis in healthcare
- Letter to a Young Trotskyist in Russia
- Germany’s Left Party declares support for war with Russia at Erfurt party congress
- New Zealand opposition MPs applaud criminalisation of abortion in the US
- Will Lehman, Mack Trucks worker, announces campaign for UAW president
- Trump-backed Republicans win Illinois primaries, Democratic establishment prevails in New York
- Australian PM commits to NATO war offensive against Russia and China
- Immigrant detainee workers strike at California detention centers to protest low pay and hazardous conditions
- UK: Three GMB union officials charged under Thatcherite anti-strike law appear in court
- Taiwan experiencing one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the world
- UK education unions delay industrial action for months amid growing rank-and-file anger
- Republicans and Democrats respond to San Antonio immigrant deaths by pledging further crackdown on migration
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