Archive: 07/2022
2022-07-01
- Central bankers commit to rate hikes amid growing signs of recession
- Education workers on collision course with Ontario’s Doug Ford-led Tory government
- Ukraine bans import of Russian books and performances of Russian music
- Ascension St. John Hospital fires lab technicians after signing outsourcing contract with Labcorp
- US Supreme Court preemptively blocks EPA regulations which would mitigate global warming
- Frustration builds among West Coast dockworkers as ILWU keeps them on the job past contract expiration
- Why was there no organized resistance to Trump’s January 6 coup?
- Ohio nurse responds to WSWS coverage of nursing home witch-hunt
- Australia: Tens of thousands of striking teachers protest in Sydney
- SEP (Australia) public meeting: Oppose British extradition order: Fight to free Julian Assange!
- Germany commits tens of thousands of soldiers, combat aircraft and ships in the deployment against Russia
- High-profile Australian rape trial delayed after speech by celebrity journalist
- World Health Organization warns of war, famine, pestilence and death
- Health care workers struggles continue across the US
- NATO prepares for “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors”
- Scottish National Party makes renewed right-wing independence pitch
- Philadelphia’s Democratic Party government votes unanimously for massive increase in city police budget
- US Steel announces layoffs at Granite City Works in Illinois
- 40,000 BT workers in UK vote to strike, but Communication Workers Union pledges no “knee jerk reaction”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
2022-07-02
- Workers support campaign by Will Lehman for UAW president: “All it takes is a spark”
- Uvalde parents angered over lack of answers in school shooting
- Australia: Striking teachers in New South Wales speak out
- Protests in Akron, Ohio after initial autopsy confirms police shot unarmed Jayland Walker 60 times
- As nurses' contract expires, Michigan Medicine demands 101 concessions and refuses to grant step raises
- COVID-19 infections rising in Turkey as scientists warn of a new surge
- At NATO summit, New Zealand PM backs war with Russia, military build-up against China
- US-led initiative to strengthen imperialist grip on the Pacific
- Biden, Democrats seek to channel outrage over abortion bans into midterm election campaigns
- Who will pay for Biden’s new “forever war”?
- Trudeau government increasingly using authoritarian secret orders-in-council
- Oregon Nurses Association announces new tentative agreement for Providence St. Vincent nurses to avoid strike
- Workers and youth explain why they are attending Sri Lankan SEP’s online public meeting
- Latest COVID-19 surge deepens across Europe and globally, fueled by Omicron BA.4 and BA.5
- Two men to be retried in Grand Rapids for kidnap plot against Michigan Governor Whitmer in 2020
- Detroit billionaire Dan Gilbert and Ford Motor Co. in line again for public handouts
- “Any self-respecting nurse would run screaming from HCA”—Pennsylvania nurse describes her experience working for Healthcare Corporation of America
- “There was blood everywhere”: Former Caterpillar worker speaks out on lack of safety
- LAUSD high school valedictorian rips into the erosion of public education in graduation speech, sparking mass support
- Australia: Labor government implements new onerous welfare requirements
2022-07-03
2022-07-04
- Australia’s official COVID-19 deaths toll surpasses 10,000
- Assange submits extradition appeal to UK High Court as events held to mark his 51st birthday
- From the Fourth of July to the Sixth of January
- Starbucks workers in Chicago strike against understaffing, low pay, unsafe conditions
- Opera star Anna Netrebko files grievance against the Metropolitan Opera
- Akron police executed unarmed, fleeing Jayland Walker in a hail of gunfire
- Family demands answers in killing of Joe Nagle by an Allegan County, Michigan sheriff
- Kenosha far-right vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse announces a shooter video game targeting media organizations
- Official monkeypox cases surpass 6,000 as model projects over 1 million cases globally by this fall
- Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnyk defends Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite Stepan Bandera
- This week in history: July 4-10
- UK: Unite suspends strike action at Arriva Yorkshire before a vote on revised offer
- Indian government proposal to study “racial purity” draws widespread attack from scientists
- “Stop the war!”: Successful IYSSE meeting with students at Humboldt University, Berlin
- Half year of financial turbulence set to worsen
- “We sleep in our cars trying to get work”: Casual worker at San Diego docks speaks out on working conditions
- Australian Labor prime minister in Kiev pledges support for US-NATO proxy war against Russia
- Australia: NSW rail workers continue industrial action despite union-government backroom talks
2022-07-05
- An American massacre on the Fourth of July
- Prisoners in Haiti’s Les Cayes National Penitentiary being starved to death
- One year since President Biden declared “independence” from COVID-19
- Australia: Sydney again hit by devastating floods
- Western Australian health workers to take stopwork action
- Australian foreign minister continues US-instigated anti-China campaign in Southeast Asia
- Ventra Evart worker describes sweatshop conditions, UAW collusion with management
- Pike River mine disaster families seek answers about unlawful payment to avoid prosecution of CEO
- House Select Committee likely to issue criminal referral against Trump
- Terminated nurse at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans exposes disastrous workplace conditions
- Cabinet resignations seek ouster of Boris Johnson
- Sri Lankan health employees strike over fuel shortages and inability to travel to work
- Stranger Things, Season 4 embraces psychological horror
- Greece forces refugees to participate in brutal “pushbacks” on Turkish border
- Train drivers and salaried staff in UK balloted for strikes as unions block united fight
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Akron, Ohio mayor declares “state of emergency” as protests continue in the wake of police murder of Jayland Walker
- US paramilitary forces on the ground in Ukraine
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for support for Ventra and GM Subsystems workers
2022-07-06
- Texas Supreme Court lifts stay on anti-abortion law
- As death toll rises in July Fourth Highland Park shooting, more evidence emerges linking gunman to pro-Trump fascist circles
- Japan stepping up war planning following G7, NATO summits
- Support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president!
- Australian central bank raises interest rates again to drive down wages
- COVID surges in New Zealand, fuelled by new variants
- Recession storm clouds gathering
- Pandemic is driving poverty in Germany to new highs
- Multiple anti-police violence protesters imprisoned more than 36 hours after Akron, Ohio police riot
- Supreme Court security officer demands state officials crack down on protests outside of justices’ homes
- Tennessee Republican Governor silent as ultra-conservative charter school peddler calls public school teachers “dumb”
- Over 33,000 British Columbia government workers vote for strike action, as contracts for 400,000 public sector workers expire
- Johnson’s days are numbered, but the Tory government must be brought down
- Well-attended SEP online meeting discusses the lessons of Sri Lankan mass uprising
- German government, employers and unions join in a “Concerted Action”--an alliance against the working class
- German government funds its war spending by increasing health insurance contributions
- Health care workers at Providence St. Vincent oppose efforts by Oregon Nurses Association to sabotage scheduled strike
- Southern California UPS driver dies from heat stroke
- Data cover-up deepens as at least 3 children die of COVID every day in the US
- Workers and students demand freedom for Assange at Melbourne protest
- Unite and GMB sit on strike mandate by Heathrow workers to reverse 10 percent wage cut at British Airways
2022-07-07
- Turkish health workers on two-day nationwide strike after murder of Dr Ekrem Karakaya
- Highland Park shooter charged with 7 counts of first-degree murder, considered second shooting in Madison, Wisconsin
- Australia: Flood affected Sydney residents speak out
- Trump’s former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to give closed-door testimony to House January 6 Committee
- UN documents civilian deaths in Syrian war, ignoring their cause
- Ruling sorcerers turn impoverished humans into monsters and mushrooms … that is the anime Dorohedoro!
- “We need at least 50 percent, minimum, over 5 years”—Railroaders explain their demands as nationwide balloting for strike continues
- Australia: Queensland public hospitals crisis leads to death of young child
- The US-NATO war in Ukraine must be stopped!
- Australian rallies condemn US Supreme Court abortion decision
- Democrats promote right-wing extremist candidates in Republican primaries
- Turkish security forces fire on migrants, killing a child and wounding 12
- Why Australia’s Labor government refuses to defend Julian Assange
- US extends economic war on Russia to China
- Citing Europe’s “cohesion” against Russia, Norway’s government bans oil workers strike so imperialist powers can continue to wage war
- Police in Akron, Ohio continue rampage against anti-police violence protesters and journalists
- At least seven Alpine climbers killed and many injured by a glacial avalanche, the result of rapid melting due to global warming
2022-07-08
- Democratic Mayor of Akron, Ohio reimposes curfew as police continue to riot against protesters
- French railworkers strike for pay raises as inflation surges across Europe
- Australia: As floods continue, Albanese maintains indifferent response of former Liberal-National government
- Australia: Labor’s “capacity mechanism” to reward profit-hungry energy companies
- Workers at publisher HarperCollins authorize a strike
- DHL strike in Rhode Island for livable wages and affordable health care meets with violence on picket line
- Ventra Evart workers: Vote YES to authorize a strike! Demand a deadline for a walkout and prepare a real fight for higher wages!
- Ontario government inspectors made scores of visits to National Steel Car plant where three workers died in past 22 months
- Johnson remains UK prime minister as Tories lurch to right and Labour offers a “stable” alternative
- US Chamber of Commerce calls on Biden to head off national railroad strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- In “time of war,” Biden awards top medals to Vietnam veterans
- Akron protester and friend of Jayland Walker’s fiancee: “They are not ‘protecting and serving,’ they are hunting and killing us”
- UK Living Standards Audit 2022: Stagnant wages have left millions “brutally exposed”
- German government’s energy policy means billions in aid for corporations, unbearable costs for consumers
- The July 9 protest in Sri Lanka: A socialist program for workers and youth
- Strike called at General Dynamics Mission Systems plant in Marion, Virginia after workers vote down tentative agreement
- UFCW announces second tentative agreement for Kroger in Indianapolis
- Los Angeles teacher: “I feel like we’re living in a COVID coverup”
- Leader of 2021 Volvo Trucks fight backs Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- After Johnson’s resignation: Mobilize the working class against capitalism and war
- Union shuts down strike against impending closure of Ford India assembly plant
- As new COVID surge begins in Australia, Labor government declares public health restrictions a thing of the past
- Australian medical authorities order Zero-COVID activist Dr David Berger to undertake “education” program or be deregistered
2022-07-09
- Detroit Stellantis (Chrysler) workers back Will Lehman's campaign for UAW presidency
- German hospitals face deepening crisis as COVID-19 infections and deaths rise
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- New details reveal Highland Park shooter’s extensive far-right history
- Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party rejects appeal to participate in “all-party” talks
- Massive floods in South Asia kill hundreds, displace millions
- VIDEO: Attend SEP public meeting to oppose British extradition order and fight to free Julian Assange
- The Democratic Party-sanctioned police rampage in Akron, Ohio
- Arkansas reports first case of monkeypox
- Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated
- Australian rail union winds back industrial action in response to government attack
- Tug of war on global financial markets
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers sells out Canadian National Railway signal and communications strike
- New Conservative-Green state coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, declares war on the working class
- Biden signs toothless executive order in lieu of serious measures to defend abortion rights
- “Boomers and Zoomers” battle for the fate of the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All at Once
- An interview with microbiologist Dr. Diane E. Griffin on Long COVID and viral RNA persistence
- Pentagon spokesperson refuses to “preclude” Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kerch bridge
- Scientists and anti-COVID activists defend Australian physician Dr. David Berger
2022-07-10
2022-07-11
- New Zealand PM attempts to cover up alignment with US against China
- “The rank and file needs to have a say”: Chicago Ford workers support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for support for auto parts workers: “Workers at Ventra Evart are showing us the way forward”
- This week in history: July 11-17
- UK health workers’ sick pay torn up as COVID-19 infections surge
- French COVID-19 deaths pass 150,000 as Omicron BA.5 subvariant erupts across Europe
- South Korean autoworkers at Hyundai Motors vote to strike
- Biden’s Saudi trip and the fraud of human rights imperialism
- Sri Lankan uprising forces resignation of president and prime minister
- Biden administration’s continuation of Trump border wall will destroy Friendship Park, a historical site
- Tesla’s plant at Grünheide, Germany: After a two-week production halt, work set to continue at “hell’s pace”
- Sri Lankan protesters occupy official residences of president and prime minister
- KFC workers walk out at Alabama restaurant after working six weeks without air conditioning
- Supreme Court agrees to hear “independent legislature” case as Republicans prepare their next coup
- UK warship seizes “advanced Iranian missiles” bound for Yemen
- University students in Berlin condemn historical falsification and right-wing violence
- GM Subsystems workers: Reject UAW’s pro-company deal
- General practitioner shortages across Australia heighten health crisis
- “Striking is the only option, it seems like”: LA casual dockworkers call for united struggle with full-time workers
- Oath Keepers brought grenades, rifles, “suitcases full of ammunition” to Washington D.C. on eve of January 6
- Texas governor sends National Guard, state police to deport immigrants at the border
- Public outcry in Pennsylvania borough forces resignation of officer who killed Tamir Rice
- More workers and scientists support Australian physician and Zero-COVID advocate Dr. David Berger
- German parliament votes for NATO admission of Finland and Sweden to intensify war on Russia
2022-07-12
- Wisconsin Supreme Court declares absentee ballot drop boxes illegal, questions validity of 2020 election
- Large Hadron Collider resumes collecting data at new record energy
- German and Indian Ford workers discuss fight against plant closings at IWA-RFC meeting
- German Socialist Equality Party files constitutional complaint against criminalisation of Marxism
- COVID-19 killed more people in Quebec during the first 6 months of 2022 than all of 2021
- End the Tory government’s rule by conspiracy: Demand a general election!
- Police crackdown continues in Akron, Ohio, as Democratic mayor keeps curfew in place
- Australian doctors and health workers speak out in defence of physician and Zero-COVID advocate Dr. David Berger
- Australian government drops charges for lawyer who exposed spying on East Timor, but maintains anti-whistleblower laws
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- January 6 committee hearings resume with focus on ties between fascist groups and Trump camp
- Strong response to SEP online meeting on the fight to free Julian Assange
- How Biden’s “forever war” in Ukraine was prepared: Billions of dollars for weapons and military training since 2014
- NYC Emergency Management Department issues Public Service Announcement for nuclear attack
- US rail union president denounces claims he is pressing for strike action, significant wage increases
- UK Post Office workers in third round of national strikes against de facto pay cut
- Anti-government protests shake Uzbekistan
- Following president’s resignation, political turmoil in Sri Lanka intensifies
- New York Times declares “people around the world are better off than ever”
- UAW presidential candidate speaks at meeting of Indian and German Ford workers
- Sri Lankan workers in Europe speak out on mass uprising against Rajapakse
- Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents—Exhibition of the great 19th century American painter at the Metropolitan Museum
- Final IYSSE election campaign event: How the return of German militarism was prepared at Humboldt University in Berlin
- Ryanair on strike in Spain as airline strikes spread across Europe
- Pacific Islands Forum meets as region becomes a focal point of US confrontation with China
- Port of Tacoma dockworker speaks out about working conditions, inequality and union corruption
- Johnson government passes scab agency laws as train drivers vote to strike
2022-07-13
- Report whitewashes 2021 Border Patrol attack on Haitian migrants at US-Mexico border
- During US visit, Australian defence minister outlines massive military build-up
- Central Indiana Kroger workers: Vote “No” on the UFCW-Kroger sellout contract!
- Highland Park shooter posted anti-Semitic and racist messages days before shooting
- German finance minister attacks the long-term unemployed
- Blue Bayou: An adopted immigrant’s cruel fate
- Arizona governor signs law limiting ability of media and public to video police actions
- President Rajapakse flees Sri Lanka after popular uprising
- BBC’s Panorama exposes British war crimes in Afghanistan
- New York City releases nuclear war alert
- January 6 hearing details Trump’s call for fascist violence to overturn election, conceals role of military and police in coup plot
- Pro-corporate Workers Party signals sweeping attack on public education in Brazil
- Scottish health workers ballot on strike action as doctors call for 30 percent rise
- Security footage released from inside Uvalde, Texas, school confirms police ran away from gunfire, loitered in hallway
- Michigan Medicine nurses must demand a strike vote now!
- Will Lehman, Mack Trucks worker, approved as eligible candidate for UAW International president
- Mounting uncertainty over effects of central banks’ tightening policies
- NASA releases first images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope
- GM Subsystems workers denounce poverty wages as UAW pushes deal with substandard pay and benefits
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers reaches tentative agreement with Alaska Airlines
- “Rough ride” in police van leaves New Haven, Connecticut, man paralyzed
- Further rail strikes announced amid UK Tory leadership contest
- Australian governments reject health advice amid COVID-19 surge
- Australian workers defend Zero-COVID advocate Dr. David Berger
2022-07-14
- US vice president intervenes at Pacific Islands Forum against China
- Ex-health insurance worker, former chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Western Australia, and others defend Dr. Berger
- After inflation hike, US Fed set for major interest rate increase
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Organize a ‘no’ vote among your coworkers”: Open letter from an Indianapolis Kroger worker
- 1,200 Buffalo nursing home workers conduct two one-day strikes
- What way forward at Ventra Evart after the strike vote?
- What next for US railroaders after near-unanimous strike vote?
- Living and dying with COVID-19
- Australian academics attack Julian Assange on ABC program
- Family members mourn police murder victim Jayland Walker
- Threats of “Capitol scenario” coup mount with approach of Brazil's general elections
- New Brunswick’s right-wing Tory government abolishes student financial aid program without notice
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for delegates to nominate him at upcoming convention
- Biden arrives in Israel to begin four-day tour courting dictators and war allies
- Unite suspends strike action again at Arriva Yorkshire as an act of “good faith”
- Sri Lanka’s acting president orders military, do “what is necessary to restore order”
- “The cost of living is tearing us apart”—Inflation rate in US hits 9.1 percent
- Questions remain unanswered after New York City nuclear war alert
- Publisher’s lawsuit seeks to take down Internet Archive’s digital lending library
2022-07-15
- Global monkeypox outbreak surpasses 10,000 infections
- New Zealand government refuses to stop mass COVID infection, as doctors warn of catastrophe
- Joshua Schulte convicted on all counts in second trial over 2017 leak of Vault 7 cyberwarfare trove published by WikiLeaks
- California port truckers stage protest against state law affecting independent contractors
- US Secret Service deleted text messages sent between January 5-6, 2021
- Rajapakse formally resigns as Sri Lankan president after fleeing to Singapore
- Yale historian Timothy Snyder promotes anti-Russian racism
- “Hell on Earth!”—US railroad workers speak out against intolerable working conditions
- All IYSSE candidates elected to Berlin’s Humboldt University student parliament
- Family of Albuquerque, New Mexico, teenager killed in SWAT siege joins calls for “thorough, independent and transparent investigation”
- Fast-moving storm system in the Mid-Atlantic region results in missing persons, hundreds of thousands without power
- Worker missing for two months determined to have fallen into industrial plastics shredder
- A wolf in clown’s clothing: Philosopher Slavoj Žižek pens shameful pro-imperialist op-eds in the Guardian
- Australian journalist Andrew Fowler says the persecution of Assange is a “symptom of a declining empire”
- The theatrical quest: British director Peter Brook (1925-2022)
- American imperialism meets its blood-soaked clients in the Middle East
- MetroAccess workers ratify vote to go on strike in Washington D.C. as transit system’s financial crisis becomes critical
- Major crypto lender files for bankruptcy
- Australia: COVID-19 leave payments scrapped amid cost-of-living crisis and rising infections
- Letter from an Australian doctor to AHPRA in defense of Zero-COVID advocate Dr. David Berger
- RMT union throws a lifeline to Johnson government with new rail strike schedule
- Mass anti-government protests hit Albania
- Michigan’s Hillsdale College set to expand far-right charter schools
2022-07-16
- Key hearing in case of former Grand Rapids cop who killed Patrick Lyoya delayed for two months
- Biden hands blank check to Saudi Arabia in Middle East visit
- “All temps, once they reach 90 days, should be rolled over”: Support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president at Warren Truck in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Ventra Evart workers vote to strike by 98 percent
- 100 million in the US weighed down by medical debt
- Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia) adopts resolution to defend Dr David Berger
- COVID infections skyrocket again in New York City
- Ukraine’s International Socialist League whitewashes crimes of Ukrainian fascism
- Significant economic slowdown as China battles COVID
- “It’s time to make the necessary changes”: Railroaders speak out as Biden announces emergency board to block a nationwide strike
- Washington D.C. teachers, school system facing impasse three years after contract expiration
- You Me Lenin: When a statue of Lenin shows up on a beach in Turkey…
- As Ford confirms closure of its Saarlouis plant: Lessons from 50 years of car production
- The nightmarish reality of post-Roe America
- Australian defence minister hails “unbreakable alliance” with the US in Washington
- Right-wing media, politicians seize on Ohio child’s pregnancy to promote reactionary anti-abortion agenda
- Australian government forced to reinstate “pandemic leave” as COVID-19 infections and deaths soar
- Wickremesinghe threatens state repression following his formal installation as acting Sri Lankan president
- Jerani Ratnayake, intransigent fighter for Trotskyism, dies at age 73
- Medical examiner’s report confirms Akron, Ohio police shot unarmed Jayland Walker 46 times
- UM spends millions on new president while spurning Michigan Medicine nurses
2022-07-17
2022-07-18
- This week in history: July 18-24
- Political crisis in Italy deepens
- German court sentences far-right army officer to 5½ years imprisonment
- UFCW claims passage of Indianapolis Kroger contract, deletes local’s Facebook page in response to opposition
- Surging prices push US workers to the brink
- Biden concludes Mideast trip focused on US conflict with Russia, China
- Documents show Australian Labor government does not oppose Assange’s extradition to the US
- Following appeal by unions, Biden announces Emergency Board, blocking nationwide railroad strike
- January 6 Committee subpoenas Secret Service to turn over deleted text messages
- UK government ignores US and European concerns over Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
- 15,000 Minnesota nurses still working without contract as union continues to block strike
- Australia: Union tells Queensland teachers to vote for government deal without seeing it
- Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb calls the global monkeypox outbreak a pandemic
- Nurses’ picket protests working conditions at Michigan Medicine
- Oppose union-sanctioned monitoring and speedups at Australia Post!
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman replies to UAW refusal to release delegate list as legally required
- Texas plan to deport migrants violates federal authority
- The relativisation of fascism in Germany and the recall of Ukrainian ambassador Andrij Melnyk
- Detroit City Council endorses the creation of a racialist Reparations Task Force
- Succession, Dopesick and The Dropout receive 45 Emmy nominations
- Demands to escalate war against Russia as Tories back their own confidence motion
- “Left” Democrats make gains in Washington D.C. primary
- Anger erupts in chaotic, drawn-out Papua New Guinea elections
- “We should be getting paid enough to live”: Ford workers throughout the Midwest support Will Lehman for UAW president
- Down with the anti-democratic Sri Lankan presidential election!
- London bus drivers describe intolerable heat: “All we have been offered by management is a bottle of water!”
- Protests in Hungary against tax hike for small businesses amid skyrocketing inflation
- Third strike of dock workers at major German seaports
- South Korean Hyundai workers to vote on wage agreement
- Bus drivers face 40+ degrees cabin heat: “We are so undervalued. We’re treated worse than cattle”
- Australia: Open letter demands AHPRA end “disciplining” of Dr Berger
2022-07-19
- UN report confirms Ukrainians’ use of civilians as “human shields”
- Senator Sanders rediscovers his faux outrage
- Zelensky dismisses head of secret service, state prosecutor general
- Australian hospitals in meltdown as governments allow COVID to take off
- Contempt of Congress trial begins for coup plotter Stephen Bannon
- “Our brothers and sisters are being worked to death”: UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman backs Ventra Evart workers’ fight against sweatshop conditions
- European heat wave devastates France
- State of emergency imposed as parliament convenes to choose new Sri Lankan president
- Britain’s leading health journals the BMJ and HSJ warn: “The NHS is not living with Covid, it’s dying from it.”
- Surge of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant sweeps Europe, North and South America, Japan
- IAM calls for contract rejection after anger erupts over Boeing offer
- Statements of support from Australia, New Zealand and the US for Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- London bus drivers protest deadly heat, abandon non-A/C buses on side of road
- Behind the purges in the Ukrainian state
- Workers speak on Johnson government crisis and the SEP’s call for a general election
- Staffing crisis in Florida schools intensifies as schools struggle to fill 9,500 vacancies
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hands off the Documenta exhibition: No censorship of art!
- Dockworker crushed to death by straddle carrier in Newark, New Jersey
- CFPE members interviewed over Australian Education Union’s wage-cutting industrial agreement
- Interim report details “systemic failures” by law enforcement in Uvalde, Texas, school shooting
- Europe’s “apocalypse of heat” highlights capitalism’s climate crisis
2022-07-20
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman supports striking HarperCollins workers
- UK: 40,000 BT telecoms workers to strike as 115,000 postal workers vote for action at Royal Mail
- New Mexico judge clears former Las Cruces cop of second-degree murder from lethal chokehold
- UK: Johnson prepares to pass on his premiership as Conservative Party candidates reduced to final two
- Seventh COVID-19 wave sweeps across Canada
- Tick, Tick… Boom!: A struggling artist at a crossroads
- Denver, Colorado, police fire into crowd, injuring six people
- National Education Association’s annual convention ignores plight of US teachers fighting COVID and austerity
- Intolerable conditions fuel class struggle in the United States
- Australian workers and youth speak out: “If there was democracy Assange would never have gone to jail”
- Police massacre of immigrants in Melilla exposes Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government
- Australian Treasurer delivers “confronting” news on cutting real wages and social spending
- Nurses question staffing levels after patient suicide at Palomar Health in Escondido, California
- No charges filed against gunman arrested outside home of Democratic representative Jayapal
- Sri Lanka’s parliament to elect president Wednesday with vast authoritarian powers in fraudulent anti-democratic exercise
- Chinese officials raise “military” response to planned visit by US House speaker
- Video interview with Zero-COVID activist Dr David Berger, republished with transcription
- Michigan teachers describe rampant illness, burnout and other dire conditions in 2021-22 school year
- Arizona governor signs universal school voucher program into law
- California public school system faces massive teacher shortage
- Deaths mount, wildfires spread as heat wave shatters records across Europe
- Arriva North West bus workers begin all-out strike against below inflation pay offer
- Arriva North West bus drivers speak as strike begins
- Amazon worker in New Jersey dies during Prime Week amid worldwide heat wave
- Michigan Medicine nurses must act now to stop a sellout and win their contract fight
- Kentucky CSX worker describes dangerous conditions, grueling schedules as Biden moves to block strike
2022-07-21
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams presses forward on school funding attacks
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- One year after devastating metro Detroit flooding, Great Lakes Water Authority rejects all damage claims
- Skies of Lebanon: The shattering impact of civil war on one family
- The rise and rise of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants
- Kremlin prepares for mass repression
- Los Angeles teachers pressing for a fight three weeks after contract expiration
- Wildcat strike at TPI Turkey against low pay raise defies company, union
- Secret Service defies January 6 Committee subpoena for text messages
- Fascist pro-Trump Republicans advance in primary contests
- European Central Bank to make crucial interest rate decision
- For a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka!
- On eve of union convention, court-appointed monitor exposes further criminality by UAW bureaucrats
- Australia’s COVID hospitalisations at record levels as Labor government rejects safety measures
- US plans to send NATO-made jets to Ukraine to fight against Russia
- US Homeland Security purchased “staggering” volumes of location data to illegally track citizens and immigrants
- Former GM worker: “UAW retirees have a chance to vote this year, and they should vote for Will Lehman”
- Will Lehman’s letter to UAW members: “I am running for president to transfer power to the rank-and-file”
- Shielding UK mother of seven given “final warning” by schools over COVID-19 absences, also facing homelessness
- Thousands of Quebec workers join strikes and protests against big business assault on wages, working conditions
- European states commit to climate inaction as heat wave begins to recede
- Chancellor Scholz promotes German great power policy
- War against Russia plunging Germany into a massive energy crisis
- Subcontractors at South Korean shipbuilder on strike after years of wage cuts
- 22-year-old worker killed at Tyson Foods plant
- Sri Lankan parliament elects rightwing, pro-US Ranil Wickremesinghe as president
- Trucker protests bring work at Port of Oakland to a halt, as dockworkers refuse to cross picket line
- Philippines government declares COVID-19 is “here to stay”
- Inmates at two CoreCivic private prisons in Arizona protest inhumane living conditions following power outage
- Gunman killed by armed bystander after murdering 3 at a mall in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Right-wing ruling party wins Japanese upper house election
2022-07-22
- Australia: Western Sydney nurses protest unsafe conditions for patients as union steps up isolation
- Unsealed testimony confirms judicial misconduct in filmmaker Roman Polanski’s 1977 criminal case
- Elon Musk sued for reneging on agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion
- Twitter locks Socialist Equality Party (Australia) account over video defending Dr David Berger, Julian Assange and free speech
- “They’re going to lose their livelihoods”: Protesters blockading Port of Oakland speak out against new state legislation which would eliminate independent truckers
- Iraqi, Kurdish governments blame Turkey for bombardment killing 9 civilians
- Newly-installed Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe oversees brutal police-military assault on protesters
- Poverty in Germany: Food banks count 2 million people seeking help
- Biden’s infection exposes “living with COVID” propaganda
- New Zealand workers hit by surging living costs
- US unemployment claims and job cuts mount as interest rate hikes begin to hit economy
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman informs Monitor of UAW efforts to block his nomination
- UAW denies WSWS press credentials to cover Detroit convention
- Kroger workers in Columbus, Ohio, to vote on sell-out UFCW contract next week
- UK: RMT agreement at Merseyrail paves the way for ending national rail strike
- HarperCollins workers in New York City stage one-day strike for liveable wages
- Iran imprisons film directors amid escalating crackdown on dissent and protests
- Four weeks after announcement of Ford Saarlouis closure, works council and union demand workers stay calm
- Italy’s Draghi government comes to an end
- Detroit, Michigan gears up to resume water shutoffs, potentially impacting tens of thousands of workers
2022-07-23
- Jury finds Trump co-conspirator Stephen Bannon guilty of contempt of Congress
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- More statements in defence of Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Officer sentenced to 2.5 years for civil rights violations in George Floyd murder
- UAW announces second tentative agreement for parts workers at Ventra Evart
- The pandemic in Russia and the bankruptcy of national-chauvinist politics
- Truck driver protests reach critical juncture as port threatens arrests over blockade
- White House confirms US may send US-NATO jets to fight Russia
- January 6 Committee covers up role of Republican Party, national security officials in Trump coup
- Growing opposition to Twitter censorship of Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
- Letter to UAW delegates from Will Lehman: “The UAW has become a union in name only”
- Peasants form action committee in southern Sri Lanka to fight government attacks
- SEP condemns state attack on Galle Face protesters in Sri Lanka
- New Zealand foreign minister sounds alarm about Sri Lankan “lessons”
- Australian government prepares pro-business university “Accord”
- Coronavirus outbreak at children’s summer camp in Germany
- China’s youth unemployment rate climbs to record high
- Oregon Nurses Association forces through sellout contract at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
2022-07-24
2022-07-25
- German government hosts “climate dialogue” with the Butcher of Cairo, exposing its human rights propaganda
- Lost Illusions: Balzac’s great novel interpreted for our time
- UK rail and BT telecoms workers to strike this week
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- UAW continues to stall, while Tenneco auto parts workers call for strike
- One day queuing for cooking gas in Embilipitiya, Sri Lanka
- A socialist campaign in the UAW presidential elections
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency “weaponised” against health workers in the COVID pandemic
- US considers deploying carriers to support House speaker’s Taiwan trip - Washington Post
- The way forward for port truckers is unity with the dockworkers!
- An interview with John Pilger: “Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world”
- New Sri Lankan president appoints his predecessor’s cabinet
- IYSSE video statement on its electoral success at Humboldt University
- Trump, Republican lawmakers incite fascist violence at far-right conference in Florida
- How Left Voice and the DSA assist the union bureaucrats in selling out the Michigan Medicine nurses’ contract fight
- Towns outside of Yosemite National Park evacuated as wildfires rage across California and Pacific Northwest
- Pacific Islands Forum proclaims false “unity” on climate crisis
- Kroger workers of Columbus, Ohio: Vote “NO” on the UFCW’s sellout contract! Build a nationwide movement of grocery workers!
- WHO Director-General declares monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern
- Australian ruling class demands governments “stand firm” against safety measures as COVID-19 toll explodes
2022-07-26
- Following vote by staff to unionize, Maryland Institute College of Art announces layoffs
- How the January 6 hearing covered up Trump’s co-conspirators
- Video shows overheated UPS driver collapse on doorstep in Arizona
- War and anti-strike threats dominate UK Conservative Party leadership debate: Demand a general election now!
- Canadian education workers support Will Lehman’s campaign for United Auto Workers president
- American Federation of Teachers convention: In service of American capitalism’s COVID-19 coverup, strike suppression, and war plans
- German government to supply heavy tanks to Ukraine
- WSWS readers denounce Twitter lockdown of SEP Australia account and in defence of Dr David Berger
- Biden declares Washington D.C. cops the heroes of January 6
- Sri Lanka’s former Central Bank governor calls for tough austerity measures
- UK postal union sits on strike mandate at Royal Mail after 115,000 vote for action against 2 percent pay award
- “My entire store plans on voting no”—Significant opposition from Ohio Kroger workers to UFCW-backed contract
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman campaigns on first day of convention
- Roger Waters in concert: Art and politics in a time of crisis
- Child labor used in Hyundai-owned metal stamping plant in Alabama
- The Biden administration’s new policy: Everyone will get COVID
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Seventeen dead, dozens rescued after Haitian migrant boat capsizes in the Bahamas
- SEP (Australia) files second appeal against Twitter censorship
- Fair Work Commission rubber stamps Australian Education Union wage cutting sell-out agreement
- US Fed meets amid fears of global recession and financial turbulence
- Unifor corruption scandal deepens in run-up to convention of Canada’s largest industrial union
- Australia: Opposition grows among Queensland teachers to union deal with state Labor government
- Under threat of arrests, trucker protest at Oakland Ports enters second week
2022-07-27
- China’s real estate crisis deepens amid homebuyer boycott movement
- Striking UK rail workers: “They are taking away workers’ voices. It’s going to a dictatorship”
- Ventra Evart workers: Vote NO on the second sellout agreement! Throw out the UAW bargaining committee! Prepare for immediate strike action!
- Australian and New Zealand workers defend Dr David Berger and oppose censorship of SEP Twitter
- The Documenta 15 exhibition and the false accusations of anti-Semitism
- Sri Lanka: Fishing workers speak out against the destruction of their livelihoods
- Australia: SEP member calls for unified struggle by university staff against Labor’s pro-market agenda
- Detroit Chrysler workers demand UAW delegates nominate Will Lehman
- Germany: Ford Saarlouis works council wants to use summer break for orderly wind-down of the plant
- Will Lehman is nominated to run for UAW president
- UK: RMT threatens general strike against Tory anti-strike charter amid escalating rail dispute
- Company collapses continue in Australia’s “construction industry bloodbath”
- Pelosi’s Taiwan visit is a reckless provocation
- Trump returns to Washington D.C. to lay out his police state agenda before cheering Republican officials
- European Union demands rationing of natural gas to wage war
- US police on track to kill over 1,100 people in 2022
- UAW convention rejects amendment opposing tiered wage system, approves wage increase for top officials
- UK: Arriva North West bus workers in second week of strike
2022-07-28
- Dozens of women allege Indiana corrections officers, police did nothing as they were assaulted and raped
- Saxophone highlights Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert in New York
- Final two officers involved in George Floyd murder sentenced for civil rights offenses
- Canada’s New Democrats join far-right Ukrainian nationalists in denouncing Trudeau over Nord Stream turbine’s return to Russia
- St. Louis Boeing defense workers vote down contract, prepare to strike
- US Senate passes CHIPS and Science Act to bolster US tech against China
- Fed lifts interest rate in the face of growing signs of economic slowdown
- WSWS readers, workers and students denounce “disciplining” of Dr Berger and SEP Twitter lock
- UK: Strike by 40,000 BT workers builds growing opposition to Tory-imposed austerity
- Australian inflation figures point to intensifying cost-of-living crisis for working-class households
- Comrade Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism (August 27, 1941 – July 27, 2022)
- Workers speak from UK rail strike picket lines: “You get walked over, and you can only take so much”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Grand jury hears testimony on Trump role in “fake electors” scheme
- Ground workers paralyze Lufthansa flights in Germany
- Twitter ends censorship of Socialist Equality Party (Australia) after widespread opposition
- Massive flooding in St. Louis, Missouri, leaves one dead, 20,000 without power
- Defeat Unite’s sabotage of London bus pay fight: rank-and-file must take control!
- ILWU announces agreement with West Coast port operators on health care but refuses to release details
- Sri Lankan government endorses and extends President Wickremesinghe’s state of emergency
2022-07-29
- BT workers speak from the picket lines in first UK-wide strike in 35 years
- German union Verdi ends strike at university hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Safety concerns persist at National Steel Car’s Hamilton, Ontario, plant in aftermath of three tragic deaths
- As monkeypox spreads through universities, US government refuses to act
- Biden’s infection and the horrific reality of “forever COVID”
- Armed Seattle man who threatened to kill Democratic Congresswoman Jayapal charged with one felony
- Martha’s Vineyard: “Playground of the rich” wracked by poverty and social crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Greek government moves to weekly COVID reporting as cases and deaths surge
- Kroger workers in Columbus, Ohio overwhelmingly reject pro-company contract
- Sri Lankan regime extends its arrests of leading anti-government protesters
- 2,500 people killed by police in the US since 2015 were attempting to flee
- Australia’s Labor treasurer declares working people must swallow “tough medicine” amid inflation crisis
- US economy starting to move into recession
- Over objections of victim’s family, Alabama prisoner executed after US Supreme Court denies stay
- On last day of convention, UAW delegates rescind strike pay increase
- 7 Prisoners from Brazil and modern slave labor
2022-07-30
- Germany’s war offensive: Berlin approves delivery of 100 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine
- COVID-19 cases explode again in Japan, South Korea
- Record second quarter profits for US oil corporations
- Papua New Guinea’s Governor-General tries to avert failure of election
- Quebec’s CAQ government defends massive, deadly pollution by mining giant Glencore in Rouyn-Noranda
- Top Trump Homeland Security officials deleted January 6 messages
- Following nomination for UAW president, Will Lehman appeals for support: “We can’t fight for what we need without organizing ourselves”
- The class dynamics of the Fed’s recession program
- Devastating flash floods in eastern Kentucky leave 16 dead, including 6 children
- Marcia Walters, widow of deceased UAW member Danny Walters, endorses Will Lehman's campaign for UAW President
- WSWS readers defend Zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Bolsonaro calls for mass fascist demonstration against Electoral Court on Brazil’s Independence Day
- Striking UK telecoms workers speak from the pickets
- US carrier group heads toward Taiwan as Pelosi flies to Asia
- Australian schools in crisis after governments reject basic COVID-19 safety measures
- Funeral of Sri Lankan SEP chairman Wije Dias livestreamed
- Germany’s military-academic complex publishes war manifesto
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