Archive: 08/2022
2022-08-01
- UK: BT Group workers hold second day of national strikes
- Amazon denies sick leave to pregnant worker hospitalized with COVID-19
- Growing support for campaign in defence of zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Military and political tensions escalate over threatened Pelosi visit to Taiwan
- Detroit City Council approves $60 million tax break for billionaire Dan Gilbert
- Biden tests positive again after completing Paxlovid course: The dangers of the “forever COVID” policy
- Governor says full death toll from eastern Kentucky flooding will not be known for weeks
- The closing of the San Francisco Art Institute: “The artists can go hang themselves”
- David North’s tribute to Wije Dias
- New Zealand goes from zero COVID to world-leading infections and deaths: Workers must fight for an elimination strategy
- Support Will Lehman for UAW president!
- Michigan approves plan to impose millions in fees on victims of dam failures
- COVID predicted to surge to new heights in the UK this autumn
- The Michigan Medicine nurses contract fight and the right to strike
- BT Group workers speak out during second UK-wide strike day:
- Handcuffed Georgia woman dies in police custody after ‘falling’ out of moving squad car
- Thousands pay their respects at funeral of veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist Wije Dias
- German government drives up heating costs by imposing gas surcharge
- With support of ILWU bureaucracy, Oakland city and port officials sue truckers to stop protests against AB5 law
- This week in history: August 1–7
2022-08-02
- Condolences sent by ICFI sections on the death of Wije Dias, Sri Lankan SEP chairman
- Family holds funeral for Joseph Nagle five weeks after he was killed by Michigan county sheriff
- Monkeypox continues its global assault as governments do nothing to bring the pandemic to an end
- Australian tram workers strike in Melbourne, but unions push real wage cut
- Nancy Pelosi, stay out of Taiwan!
- UK: Workers at Greater Manchester food plant walk out in wildcat strike over pay and conditions
- Flood catastrophe in eastern Kentucky worsens
- UPS driver reprimanded for stopping to sip water in heat
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Canadian neurocognitive disorder expert speaks to Global Workers Inquest into the Pandemic: “To say ‘they are old, they can die’—it’s criminal”
- Columbus, Ohio Kroger workers: Now is the time to organize an independent fight against both management and the UFCW!
- A year after the explosions in Chempark Leverkusen the danger remains
- Macron greets killer Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Paris
- Doctor takes her own life in Austria following threats from anti-vaxxers
- Australian workers support zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger, condemn Twitter censorship of SEP (Australia)
- Australian COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths reach record levels
- Australian educator speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest: “The biggest lie was that kids didn’t get COVID, did not transmit it, and then if they did become infected it was mild.”
- On eve of school reopenings, Hawaii teacher calls for fight against state’s elimination of COVID measures
2022-08-03
- Australian university union claims a sham “historic win”
- Biden orders drone assassination of al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan
- Support continues for Australian physician and zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Britain joins US imperialism’s anti-China provocations
- Autoworkers eager to back Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns police raids on Frontline Socialist Party
- Tense military standoff as US House Speaker Pelosi lands in Taiwan
- As inflation surges, France’s TotalEnergies posts €18 billion super-profits
- Spain signs military agreement with US amid US-NATO war in Ukraine
- Oil giants reap record profits from war, pandemic and skyrocketing prices
- Five Haitian migrants dead, dozens rescued as US escalates its anti-immigrant policies
- Why did Volkswagen fire CEO Herbert Diess?
- Israel’s cover up of the 1956 Kafr Qasem massacre: “The commander said fatalities were desirable”
- UK Labour Party expels Audrey White after confrontation with Sir Keir Starmer
- Coal millionaire Manchin promotes Democrats’ phony “climate” bill
- Karl Marx and Capitalism – A remarkable exhibition at Berlin’s German Historical Museum
2022-08-04
- Joy: Humanizing the lower depths
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Michigan Medicine workers call for joint struggle against hospital management and nurses’ union bureaucracy
- IYSSE establishes club at Australia’s La Trobe University in meeting defending zero-COVID campaigner Dr David Berger
- Buffalo Veteran Affairs nurses walk out as Kaiser mental health clinicians set August 15 strike deadline
- Svitzer Australia continues attack on tugboat workers’ wages and conditions
- Bill Russell, basketball’s first black superstar, 11-time champion, and opponent of racial injustice, dies at age 88
- US baby formula shortage drags on with no end in sight
- Workers, youth and intellectuals hail the lifelong struggle of veteran Trotskyist Wije Dias
- Top Trump officials at Department of Defense erased text messages following January 6 coup
- Reserve Bank of Australia hikes interest rates for fourth month in a row
- Athlete Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked illegally to the UK
- Fascistic Trump supporters win most Republican primary contests—with Democratic Party support
- UK: Unite ends Coventry bin dispute on strikebreaking Labour authority’s terms
- Australian Aboriginal man died of treatable ear infection in prison
- Biden wants war with China
- Southern California dockworker defies ILWU and calls for joint action with protesting port truck drivers
- CSX railroad records strong second-quarter profit on the backs of hyper-exploited workers
- Ukrainian top intelligence official reveals US involvement in missile strikes against Russia
- Landslide vote to defeat anti-abortion initiative in Kansas
2022-08-05
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Why Canadian autoworkers should support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Canadian Pacific Workers Rank-and-File Committee launches Facebook page to fight hazardous working conditions on railroads
- German government’s new “infection protection measures” let coronavirus run wild
- Kremlin sentences US basketball star Brittney Griner to 9 years in a penal colony
- Australian mining company issued token fine over mine worker death
- German government sets course for world war as it backs Pelosi’s Taiwan visit
- Wildcat walkouts over pay at UK Amazon warehouses
- White House reluctantly proclaims monkeypox a public health emergency
- The social physiognomy of an American trade union executive: The case of Connor M. Lewis
- Australia: NSW rail workers step up industrial action over wages, unsafe trains
- Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic: How a young Tesco worker was victimised for whistleblowing
- Lufthansa pilots vote overwhelmingly in favour of strike action
- Sri Lankan government widens its arrests and police-state measures
- Officers involved in murder of Breonna Taylor arrested on federal charges
- Doctors and students support zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- US pledges to send warships through Taiwan Strait in standoff with China
- The politics and science of the monkeypox pandemic
2022-08-06
- New Zealand government nervous about US-China confrontation
- Democrats gut provisions in “climate” bill to raise taxes on hedge funds, corporations
- The Gray Man: A CIA killer on the run
- US-China relations at breaking point
- Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to meet with Assange’s family
- Florida Governor DeSantis sacks elected state prosecutor for speaking out against anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ legislation
- University students and health worker condemn censorship of zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Republicans at CPAC give Viktor Orban a standing ovation after fascist speech
- Youth detainees moved to adult maximum-security prison in Western Australia
- Fascist Alex Jones ordered to pay damages to parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim
- Free Brittney Griner!
- Preparing deportation law, France targets imam Hassan Iquioussen
- Workers action committees in Sri Lanka support Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Amnesty International report exposes Ukraine’s violations of international law, deliberate use of civilians as human shields
2022-08-07
2022-08-08
- CDC, Reuters suppress warnings about airborne transmission of monkeypox
- Some reflections on the Kansas abortion rights vote
- Senate passes Democrats’ fraudulent climate and “tax fairness” bill
- Australian tugboat workers strike as unions work with Labor to head off further stoppages
- Machinists’ union cancels strike of Boeing defense workers at last minute, rams through sellout deal
- Trump outlines police-state plans in fascist speech to Texas CPAC conference
- The new “bullet fee”: Actor Kevin Spacey must pay $31 million because producers fired him from House of Cards
- Australia backs US provocations against China over Taiwan
- Reject all-party regime! No to IMF austerity! Fight to build Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses!
- US Senate targets Social Security and Medicare
- Oakland, California school security guards violently suppress anti-school closure protest
- UK: Grenfell Tower fire inquiry hearings end with guilty evading justice
- Russian-Turkish talks raise concerns in Western capitals amid NATO war on Russia
- UK bus workers’ determined strike at Arriva North West continues, as GMB union declares for “compromise”
- This week in history: August 8-14
- Publishing workers speak out on their conditions following HarperCollins strike
- Columbus, Ohio public school teachers poised to strike
- Indiana signs law effectively banning abortion
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Four Corners” promotes scare campaign over China-Solomon Islands ties
2022-08-09
- National Labor Relations Board orders United Mine Workers of America to pay $13.3 million to Warrior Met for lost profits incurred during strike
- Families of trapped Mexican coal miners denounce president AMLO’s photo-op visit
- Monkeypox reported at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant as infections rise across Detroit area
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Killers of Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life terms for federal hate crimes
- FBI agents raid black nationalist group’s homes, offices over bogus allegations of conspiracy with Russia
- Frustration builds among nurses as union leaves them in the dark in contract talks at Michigan Medicine
- Fire in Berlin’s Grunewald forest demonstrates the political recklessness of the municipal authorities
- UK Amazon walkouts continue: Build rank-and-file committees!
- Youth and students defend zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Biden administration approves $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the largest yet
- Michigan attorney general requests criminal charges against multiple Republican politicians, far-right sheriff for tampering with voting machines
- Gaza slaughter: Israel’s war crimes and US hypocrisy
- FBI raids Trump estate at Mar-a-Lago
- In wake of Pelosi visit, US-China military standoff continues
2022-08-10
- Workers at Harley-Davidson in York, Pennsylvania face second sellout contract vote as union hides the details from its members
- Germany’s foreign minister bangs the drum for war in New York speech
- US will send warships through Taiwan Strait “in the coming days,” US Naval Institute reports
- Cancer-causing chemicals dumped into Huron River threaten water safety of Michigan residents
- United Steelworkers seeks to push through sellout agreements at tire makers Bridgestone, Goodyear and Michelin
- Walkouts at Grangemouth oil refinery and Amazon as UK strike wave escalates
- Sri Lankan trade union leaders line up with President Wickremesinghe
- The New York Times push for multilingual censorship
- Australia: NSW state government in spiralling crisis
- Biden visits Kentucky after devastating floods
- Incumbent PM declares victory in turbulent Papua New Guinea election
- Kaiser mental health therapists in Northern California to begin strike August 15
- Ali & Ava: A love story between people “ordinarily overlooked”
- COVID-19 now leading cause of death in New Zealand
- Democrats cover up reasons for FBI raid on Trump estate
- Dr David Berger: A principled advocate for equality and science in healthcare
- As COVID-19 spread deepens, Arkansas reports a dozen cases of monkeypox
2022-08-11
- Why ancient drama speaks to our time: An interview with Joel Christensen and Paul O'Mahony of Reading Greek Tragedy Online
- Latest primaries tighten Trump's control over Republican Party
- Protests held across Sri Lanka against Wickremesinghe government repression
- Germany becomes global monkeypox hotspot
- Australian Labor government promotes indigenous “Voice” amid mounting class tensions
- UK Amazon workers speak on wildcat walkouts and rank-and-file committees
- Democratic Party schemes to remove COVID-19 whistleblower, Green Party candidates from the ballot
- Discovery of polio virus in London sewers prompts urgent vaccination of children
- Australia: Worker killed in building accident at inner-west Sydney school
- Retrial opens of two men who plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan in 2020
- Immigrants being bused from Texas and Arizona to New York and Washington D.C.
- Australian Education Union conference underscores collusion with state Labor government after wage cutting agreement
- “People can hardly afford to eat”: US inflation continues to hammer workers
- The Mar-a-Lago raid and Trump’s ongoing coup plot
- Why is the nurses’ union at Michigan Medicine appealing to the UM Board of Regents?
- Australian COVID-19 death toll passes 12,500 as monkeypox concerns grow
- The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canada’s young people
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: “Halt production at SHAP to stop monkeypox spread!”
- Roger Waters refutes US war propaganda in CNN interview and World Beyond War webinar
- With less than 1 week left before emergency arbitration board issues ruling, US train dispatchers vote near-unanimously to authorize strike action
- Amazon Labor Union suspends unionizing efforts in New York as Amazon continues legal bid to overturn election at JFK8 warehouse
- Wildfires erupt across Alaska as climate change drives up temperatures in the Arctic
2022-08-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Albert Woodfox, “Angola 3” prisoner, dies of COVID-19 six years after his release
- Anger grows at Illinois Tyson food plant where 22-year-old worker was killed: “This stuff needs to change”
- Wildcat walkouts hit UK oil refineries and power stations
- Sri Lanka: Protesting health workers in Colombo expose deplorable conditions facing patients and staff
- Two new monkeypox cases reported at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- CDC drops quarantine guidelines for those exposed to COVID-19
- Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, answers questions from autoworkers
- Public health specialists demand action as COVID-19 surges in Turkey
- Attorney General Garland calls for release of search warrant for Trump’s estate
- Mississippi grand jury fails to indict woman whose accusations led to murder of Emmett Till 67 years ago
- Police expel homeless advocates from Los Angeles City Hall
- The American trade unions and the parasites who run them
- Canada’s Liberal government allows CP Rail to draw up its own safety rules following report into Field train derailment
- One month after ramming through sellout deal in Indianapolis, UFCW Local 700 attempts to push through second deal at Fort Wayne
- Australian media responds to Chinese ambassador’s address with militarist hysteria
- Fire at Cuban oil storage facility further exacerbates electricity shortages
- Pseudo-left slate wins union election after wildcat strike at Brazil’s CSN steel mill
- Scotland and Northern Ireland council and National Health Service workers in growing pay battle
- Facebook assists police in prosecuting mother, teen seeking abortion
2022-08-13
- US House passes pro-corporate climate bill
- Henan rural bank scandal points to wider social tensions in China
- Failure to eradicate polio allows a resurgence of this dread disease
- Australia: Oppose anti-democratic attacks on student clubs at Macquarie University!
- Sri Lankan government “postpones” visit by Chinese research vessel
- Gustavo Petro praises capitalism, military and right wing in inauguration as president of Colombia
- Union bargaining for 55,000 Ontario education support staff strikes militant pose while preparing to sell out
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Motown songwriting legend Lamont Dozier dies at 81
- Australia: NSW rail workers continue industrial action with six-hour strike
- United Steelworkers president intervenes to block strike by Tenneco auto parts workers in Van Wert, Ohio
- Italy faces the threat of a far-right government
- Ukraine claims 60 dead, 100 wounded, in blasts on Crimea as satellite images show destroyed Russian aircraft
- Wildfire in France’s Gironde region reignites amidst record drought, heat wave
- CDC guidelines deepen Biden’s “forever COVID” policy
- Search warrant in FBI raid on Trump compound cites Espionage Act
- German police kill four people in just one week
- US health care workers face increasing risk of injury and death on the job
- Australia: Melbourne bus drivers face real wage cuts under union-backed deals
- New Zealand firefighters to hold nationwide one-hour strike
- Undercover FBI agent testifies in retrial of accused Whitmer kidnapping plotters
2022-08-14
- German government’s “Inflation Compensation Act:” More money for the rich
- Train drivers hold 24-hour UK-wide strike as Aslef union offers to accept real-terms pay cuts
- Spanish scientists call to contain pandemic amid “eighth wave” of COVID-19
- London United bus drivers speak out ahead of this week’s strike: “the pay offer is a joke”
- A new wave of strikes erupts in Turkey as inflation surges
2022-08-15
- Worst-ever drought devastates Europe amid capitalism’s climate crisis
- The Workers’ Movement and Salman Rushdie (1989)
- Novelist Salman Rushdie attacked in New York
- Nurses denounce Verdi sellout of university hospital strike in Germany’s largest state
- State of emergency declared in Metro Detroit following failure of huge water transmission main
- Thousands of Kaiser mental health workers begin powerful open-ended strike
- Street protests erupt across Bangladesh over fuel price hikes
- Why is the Michigan Medicine nurses’ union abridging freedom of speech?
- Jacobin, Morenoites foster illusions that incoming Colombian government can be pressured to defend workers
- Environmental disaster triggers mass fish die-off in the Oder River bordering Germany and Poland
- FDA authorizes rationing of the vaccine against monkeypox
- 15,000 Minnesota nurses to vote on strike authorization Monday
- Australian Greens endorse Labor government’s bogus greenhouse emissions targets
- Death of GM Lake Orion contract worker in apparent personal dispute highlights deplorable conditions
- Australian university union’s “historic win” now a “grand compromise”
- Students, graduates, artists oppose the closing of the San Francisco Art Institute: Part 1— “What happens to the human spirit over time?”
- Vote NO on the UFCW’s sellout contract in Fort Wayne, Indiana! Demand an end to the union information blackout!
- Julian Assange’s US lawyers sue CIA for violating their constitutional rights
- This week in history: August 15–21
- More information emerges on fascist gunman who attacked Ohio FBI office
2022-08-16
- WWII battle commemoration boosts US anti-China offensive in the Pacific
- Government, union officials invoke nationalism in response to growing supply chain crisis
- Eight murder convictions overturned due to Chicago police corruption and torture
- Students and teacher support zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Trump, state secrets and the crisis of the American state
- US congressional delegation in Taiwan amid tense standoff with China
- City of Los Angeles raises private health care workers’ minimum wage to $25 an hour
- Los Angeles schools reopen as county health officials cover for removal of public health measures at public forum
- First day of Kaiser mental health strike receives broad support
- Mobilize the working class in defence of public education and to stop the pandemic! Build the Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- Creeping martial law in the Philippines as poverty grows
- Federal judge rules senator must testify on Trump effort to overturn Georgia vote
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Worker seriously injured in four-storey fall in south Sydney
- The German government’s war tax: gas consumers to face huge cost rises
- Nine in 10 UK dental practices not accepting new adult patients for NHS treatment
2022-08-17
- Amazon air freight workers stage walkout in California’s Inland Empire in protest against low wages and lax safety
- Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers training in the UK for NATO proxy war with Russia
- Revelations about secret ministerial posts show resort to dictatorial powers in Australia
- Sri Lankan government continues proscription of Tamil and Muslim groups and individuals
- Shawn Fain: A longtime cog in the UAW bureaucracy’s machine
- Another Russian military base in Crimea rocked by major explosions
- Opposing unsealing of FBI affidavit, DoJ signals expanding state secrets investigation of Trump
- OSHA opens investigation of Amazon warehouses after three New Jersey workers die on the job over three-week period
- Seattle City Council repeals $4 hazard pay for grocery workers
- Railroaders furious after Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board issues recommendations on national contract, siding with rail corporations on all major points
- Britain’s strike wave escalates as millions push for action
- No to oligarchic rule! Mobilize the working class against the threat of dictatorship!
- Wall Street rises as economic and financial problems mount
- Beloved author-illustrator Raymond Briggs, dies at 88
- Mobilize the working class against imperialist war!
- Two recent papers further confirm natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus
- Michigan Medicine nurses’ union blocks strike action with unfair labor practice filings
- Michigan lifts “no contact” recommendation two weeks after spill of toxic chemicals into Huron River
- Kaiser striking mental health workers speak out against poor conditions
- Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in the United States! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!
- Locked-out Montreal Rolls-Royce aeronautics workers denounce multinational’s concession demands
- Port workers' strike at Felixstowe docks threatens to bring UK economy to a standstill
- The University of Michigan downplays monkeypox pandemic in the lead-up to return to campuses
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism
2022-08-18
- Survey of Brazilian workers gathers critical information for Global Workers’ Inquest into COVID-19 Pandemic
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his fascistic attacks against education
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Growing recessionary trends in major economies
- UK rail workers speak from the picket line
- Bridgestone, Michelin tire workers speak out against USW sellout agreements
- Trump purge of Republican Party claims Liz Cheney in Wyoming
- Convicted co-conspirator says accused kidnapper Fox wanted to publicly hang the governor of Michigan
- UK Conservative government unveils dictatorial plan to “smash the rail strikers”
- Railroaders demand strike action as pro-management Presidential Emergency Board declares workers have “no claim to share” in record profits
- Pop artist Claes Oldenburg dies at 93
- Ford Action Committee (Germany): For an international fight to defend our jobs and livelihoods
- Dropping pretense of “non-involvement,” US seeks to escalate war with Russia
- Young steelworker seriously injured by steel coil at Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Mill
- Independent autopsy reveals Alabama’s botched execution of Joe Nathan James
- 15,000 nurses in Minnesota authorize strike against major hospital systems: “Something has to change”
- Workers at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art plan one-day strike
- Sri Lanka’s JVP seeks to revive illusions in parliamentary democracy
- Australia: Union suppresses discussion of a socialist perspective as rail workers continue strikes in NSW
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: Mobilize the entire working class against the Biden administration’s assault on rail workers!
- Fort Wayne Kroger workers begin voting on phantom contract
- Trump coup lawyer Rudy Giuliani testifies before Atlanta grand jury in criminal probe of effort to overturn 2020 election
- Kaiser Permanente mental health workers speak out on third day of strike
- Turkish drillship sails to Mediterranean amid tensions with Greece
- Rolls-Royce locks out 530 Montreal airplane engine plant workers for 5 months
- German Interior Minister Faeser wants to fight climate change activists “with all her might”
- US government announces new water cuts in Southwest as states fail to reach agreement
- New Zealand sends another 120 troops to train Ukrainian soldiers
- Biden administration agrees arms sales to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to counter China’s growing influence
- AMLO transfers National Guard to military in a threat against Mexican working class
- Ex-PM and governor-general both defend creating secret ministerial posts in Australia
- New study reveals potentially “life-altering” neurologic complications in children hospitalized with COVID-19
2022-08-19
- Coahuila miners still trapped as Mexico’s government focuses on covering its tracks
- Palestinian President Abbas’ Holocaust remark and the hypocrisy of Germany’s media and political establishment
- Sri Lankan government detains hundreds fleeing overseas amid economic crisis
- Presidential Emergency Board ruling on railroads: The Biden administration declares war on the working class
- CDC director announces reorganization of agency after COVID-19 debacle
- Patients and staff at risk as UK National Health Service faces real-terms funding cuts
- Judge orders DoJ to produce redacted version of affidavit in state secrets investigation of Trump
- “He wants to abolish this horrible tiered labor system”—GM Flint temp worker supports Will Lehman for UAW president
- Striking California Kaiser mental health workers call for expanding their strike, as 50 Kaiser workers in Hawaii are set to join them on the picket lines
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Left Party’s call for protests is a reactionary manoeuvre
- Pandemic-driven teacher shortage in US reaches crisis levels as school year begins
- Sri Lankan government unleashes brutal police attack on student demonstration
- Greek government changes definition of COVID deaths in response to surge of disease
- Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to tax fraud
- Aerosol physicist and health scientist Lidia Morawska speaks with WSWS about worsening COVID pandemic
2022-08-20
- Australian establishment in cover up mode over former PM’s secret ministerial positions
- Florida courts deny teen access to abortion without parental or guardian approval
- Unifor staggers through triennial convention, as rank-and-file seethes over union corruption, concessions
- Canadian rail worker denounces Presidential Emergency Board’s attack on US railroaders
- American University administrative staff set to walk out amid contract negotiations stalemate
- “The RLA needs to be destroyed”: Railroaders denounce pro-company decision by federal board, call for strike action
- Behind the far-right book burning campaign in the US
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: Support the strike by the MASS MoCA workers! Fight for good wages and the right to art and culture for all!
- On the 82nd anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- US approves further attacks on Crimea, provides $775 million in weapons for Ukrainian offensive
- Michigan Medicine nurses’ union announces “work stoppage” authorization vote
- First teachers’ strike since 1975 looms in Columbus, Ohio
2022-08-21
2022-08-22
- New Zealand firefighters hold nationwide strike
- Sri Lankan president struggling to form all-party government
- Twitter falsely labels WSWS report on natural COVID-19 origins as “misleading”
- What did the Australian Labor Party know about former PM Morrison’s secret ministerial appointments?
- Workers and campaigners speak in support of the UK rail strike
- Investigative report into US state teacher retirement system data exposes mass coverup of teacher COVID-19 deaths
- The new bivalent COVID vaccine boosters: The withering of the vaccine-only strategy
- “We’re at an unheard of level of solidarity to strike”—Letter from a US railroader
- In wake of Pelosi visit, US announces trade talks with Taiwan
- William Ruto declared winner in Kenyan presidential election amid mass abstention
- Democrats allow school budget cuts in New York City to move ahead
- The assassination of Daria Dugina and the US-NATO war in Ukraine
- Ukrainian government uses war to enforce privatization, passes new anti-Russian laws
- UFCW claims passage of contract in Fort Wayne, announces second agreement in Columbus, Ohio after one day of negotiations
- Down with the conspiracies of Bolsonaro and the military!
- Committee for Public Education meeting passes resolution opposing censorship of David Berger
- This week in history: August 22-28
- The Ark and Great Happiness: Young Chinese filmmakers and social reality
- El Salvador’s President Bukele arrests 1 percent of population in four-month “state of exception”
- Students, graduates, artists oppose the closing of the San Francisco Art Institute: Part 2— “The roots we’ve been growing individually and collectively have been ripped apart”
- Egypt’s Central Bank governor resigns amid escalating economic and social crisis
- Lessons of the 2021 Kaiser Permanente contract struggles
- The global significance of the resort to extra-parliamentary forms of rule in Australia
- The Luftwaffe goes on a world war mission in the Indo-Pacific
- Dangerous air conditioning issues remain New Jersey’s Saint Michael’s Hospital in aftermath of deadly heatwave
- UK bus workers’ strike at Arriva North West ends as Unite and GMB push through below-inflation deal
- What’s behind the US air traffic controller labor shortages
2022-08-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Chat-controls: EU plans to abolish privacy for digital communications
- South Korean workers take action against assault on working conditions
- Preliminary hearing for cop who killed Patrick Lyoya delayed again
- Interest rate hikes and inflation deepen crisis for advanced and less developed economies alike
- Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo Gonzalez held six months in Polish jail on bogus spying charge
- Union bureaucracy sabotages Scottish local authority workers’ strikes as class tensions escalate
- Release students detained under Sri Lanka’s anti-terror laws!
- “We want our pound of flesh”: US railroaders press for strike action after pro-company ruling by Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board
- Turkey calls for Ukraine-Russia mediation, signaling deal with Syria
- No to another school year of mass infection, death and austerity!
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has 20 people arrested for voting in the 2020 presidential election
- Striking Columbus teacher speaks on school conditions
- Video of Arkansas police viciously beating unarmed man sparks mass anger
- Australia: Patients forced to wait overnight in overwhelmed Melbourne emergency department
- Shipyard workers denounce United Steelworkers, months after contract rammed through at Newport News
- Washington Post reveals aims behind US-approved Ukrainian assassination of Daria Dugina
- “We need to get back to our roots”: Growing rank-and-file support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Video: UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman on the lessons of the 1932 Ford Hunger March and the transformation of the UAW
- Solicitor-General and Labor government greenlight former PM Morrison’s secret ministerial appointments as “legal”
- Worker at UK’s Drax power station speaks out on pay and conditions in the industry
- Teachers take to the picket lines in Columbus, Ohio
- Australian Labor government supplies more fuel to Sri Lankan navy for anti-refugee operations
- Brooklyn teacher speaks out after year of COVID and budget cuts
- David McCullough, 1933-2022—The promise, and the perils, of popular history
- Case against ringleaders of kidnap-murder plot targeting Michigan governor goes to the jury
- Attend the IYSSE (Australia) AGM at Brisbane's Griffith University against war and the assault on democratic rights
2022-08-24
- US, South Korea resume large-scale joint war games
- US to announce another $3 billion in military aid for its “forever war” in Ukraine
- Petroleum workers in Sri Lanka protest against privatisation
- UK: 170,000 telecom and postal workers to strike at BT Group, Royal Mail and Post Office
- American Historical Association president issues groveling apology after racialist social media attack
- Grand Rapids jury finds Fox and Croft guilty of conspiracy to kidnap the governor of Michigan in 2020
- Lockout of Essity workers in New Zealand in third week
- No let-up in criminal probe of Trump’s handling of military-intelligence documents
- “Everything has gotten worse since the UAW sold out the GM strike”: UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman speaks to workers in Flint, Michigan
- Second union-backed tentative agreement for Columbus Kroger workers nearly identical to the one workers rejected in July
- Markets nervous on the eve of central bankers’ meeting
- Australia: Community transmission reported in two states as monkeypox infections climb
- UK National Health Service warns thousands will die due to unaffordable energy bills
- Video statement: The Flint Sit-Down Strike and the role of socialists in establishing the UAW
- Mass layoffs at Ford: Ruling class launches new stage in offensive against jobs
- Australian Labor PM tries to smother outrage over Morrison’s secret ministerial appointments
- Japan and the state of the COVID pandemic: Lessons from the BA.5 surge
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: Mobilize the entire working class behind striking Columbus teachers!
- High-level Trump lawyers personally directed efforts to break into voting machines
2022-08-25
- Australia: Union limits industrial action at University of Newcastle
- Michigan Medicine recruiting strikebreakers in anticipation of nurses’ strike
- Socialist Equality Party and action committees in Sri Lanka to demonstrate this Sunday in defence of victimised estate workers
- Roger Waters named on far-right Ukrainian hit list
- Biden pledges billions more for the “forever war” against Russia in Ukraine
- German Chancellor Scholz announces new arms deliveries to Kiev for war against Russia
- Strike blocked at key ammunition plant after media portrayed work stoppage as national security threat
- “1000 year rain event” in Dallas, Texas, is a sign of things to come
- Public sector unions preparing sell-out in Western Australia
- COVID-19 rages across Japan as government slashes mitigation measures
- The socialist response to US railroads’ false claim that “labor does not contribute to profits”
- As teachers continue strike in Columbus, Ohio, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman visits picket lines
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Will Lehman’s ad for UAW president: “Power to the Rank-and-File”
- Monkeypox cases double in the week since Los Angeles schools opened
- CIA Democrats and fascist Republicans notch primary wins
- Polish government uses Ukraine war to massively expand military spending
- The revival of German militarism and the fight for socialism
- Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback group champions Teamsters’ top-down Amazon unionization drive
- Video statement: Mobilize all workers to support striking Columbus educators!
- Eighteen months after being accused, still no trial for framed-up Sri Lankan plantation workers
2022-08-26
- “It is 140 to 150 degrees in the back of those trucks”: UPS workers speak out about intense heat and other abuses at the logistics giant
- UK: Royal Mail and Post Office workers begin first of a series of strikes, BT to follow
- Boston teachers must reject the tentative agreement reached by the teachers union
- LMPD detective admits to fraudulent warrant application that led to Breonna Taylor’s murder
- The CDC minimizes the danger of monkeypox among children as students begin returning to school
- Biden announces limited student debt relief
- Why the Australian political and media establishment is burying Morrison’s authoritarian power-grab
- South African trade unions organise “stay away” as warning to ANC
- Union representing 55,000 Ontario, Canada education support workers delays strike vote, as Ford government unveils wage-cutting plan
- Sri Lankan president demands public sector employees “work” or “quit”
- Columbus Kroger workers: Vote NO on the UFCW’s “new” contract! Build support in the working class for a counter-offensive for better wages and working conditions!
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Expand the Kaiser mental health workers strike! Demand strike pay! Fight for staffing and patients!
- “The union doesn’t exist in the plant”: Powerful support for Will Lehman at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant
- Britain’s next prime minister Liz Truss says she is ready for global nuclear annihilation
- The scandal engulfing German broadcaster RBB and the rot of capitalist society
- Former Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, pardoned by Trump for war crimes, provided “training” to police in Tallahassee, Florida
- Britain’s TUC launches farcical campaign for £15 an hour minimum wage by 2030
- The social and political crisis in the UK and the tasks of the working class
- The Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia honors Trotsky on anniversary of his assassination
- Australia: Where to for the New South Wales rail dispute?
- A disaster in the making: Back to school in Detroit, Michigan
- James Coddington executed in Oklahoma: The first of 25 state killings set through 2024
- Columbus Education Association shuts down three-day strike after reaching “conceptual agreement”
- UK postal workers speak as national strike begins: London, Sheffield and Manchester
2022-08-27
- New Zealand firefighters hold second one-hour strike
- Recently-released videos show federal agents assaulting immigrant workers in 2018 raid at Tennessee slaughterhouse
- German workers pay the cost of war as gas and electricity prices skyrocket
- US rail unions in damage control mode as railroaders press for strike action after pro-company federal intervention
- Australian judicial “inquiry”: Another bid to bury outrage over ex-PM’s secret ministerial appointments
- Pledging “pain,” Federal Reserve declares war on the working class
- Julian Assange files appeal against extradition
- Warning strike at Frankfurt University Hospital in Germany
- Australia: Five-year-old girl dies after waiting more than 30 hours for treatment in Canberra Hospital
- Severance: Employees undergo surgery to separate work and home life
- French police shoot two dead amid growing wave of police murders
- Twitter labelled scientific reporting of COVID-19 as “misinformation”
- Release of redacted affidavit heightens political crisis after FBI raid on Trump compound
- Contra Costa County educators move towards a potential strike over pay and class sizes
- UK postal workers speak during national strike: Bradford, Bournemouth and Cambridge
2022-08-28
- Water companies pour raw sewage into English waterways and onto beaches
- Union-backed arbitration decision condemns Canadian Pacific Rail workers to real-terms pay cut, onerous working conditions
- Savage UK energy bills pauperise millions, threatening many deaths
- Kent School District teachers near Seattle strike for safe staffing, expanded support services and higher pay
2022-08-29
- Monkeypox reported at General Motors’ Wentzville plant, suspected at Flint Assembly
- This week in history: August 29-September 4
- Baltic governments use war in Ukraine to accelerate removal of Soviet World War II monuments
- Central bankers back Fed’s war on the working class
- Exchange with a railroad worker and Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president: How to build rank-and-file committees
- Union strangles dockworkers’ strike movement in Germany
- Hospital pharmacist discusses the disastrous impact of COVID on Australian hospitals
- Ford-Spain signals plant closure, more attacks on auto workers in Valencia
- The New York Times calls for indictment of Trump–and covers up the roots of the crisis of American democracy
- Quebec schools to reopen without any anti-COVID measures
- Koggala free trade zone workers in Sri Lanka establish action committee
- London United bus drivers take second round of two-day strike action
- Long COVID: Dramatic consequences seen among top German athletes
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman concludes historic tour of US auto plants with online meeting
- Five construction workers injured in explosion in Auckland, New Zealand
- UFCW’s message to Columbus Kroger workers following rejection of second sellout deal: “Continue to work”
- Kaiser mental health workers in Northern California share their experiences as strike enters third week
- Pfizer’s anti-COVID pill Paxlovid shows no benefit for younger adults
- US warships sail through Taiwan Strait four weeks after Pelosi trip
- One-third of American women have lost abortion rights since Roe v. Wade overturned
- American University staff union calls off five day strike against poverty-level pay and management abuses
- Fish kills in the Oder River: Interaction of climate change and systematic pollution
- Beyoncé’s Renaissance: Banal, lifeless musical output as “major cultural event”
- Energy bill surge threatens UK arts/culture venue cuts and closures
2022-08-30
- Australia hosts major war games simulating aerial combat
- US cuts off free COVID-19 rapid testing
- Killer cops in Akron, Ohio, cut body-cam audio after realizing Jayland Walker was unarmed
- Record attrition in Texas public schools exacerbates teacher shortage
- Australia: NSW inquiry points to breakdown of public health services in rural areas
- Engine problems delay launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon
- Why is the MNA-UMPNC saying Michigan Medicine nurses will receive no strike pay?
- Unions announce first tentative agreements with US railroads, as bureaucracy employs divide-and-conquer strategy
- New Zealand Labour government to expand exploitative migrant labour schemes
- Candidate for UAW President Will Lehman: “For a united struggle of US, Mexican and Canadian workers!”
- Enough is Enough campaign: A political fraud in service to the Labour Party and TUC
- The fight against Canadian imperialism and for socialist internationalism
- Ukraine announces beginning of offensive to retake Kherson
- Chancellor Scholz promotes militarisation of Europe under German leadership in Prague speech
- “The Rank-and-File needs to be brought back!”: As West Coast dockworkers approach two months without a contract, casual worker calls for unity
- Outrage among Columbus teachers as union pushes through concessions contract
- New revolutionary epoch opens doors for building the ICFI in Brazil
- BT and Openreach workers return to picket lines across the UK:
2022-08-31
- Greece’s secret service illegally tapped phone of leader of social democratic PASOK party
- The same criminal “profits before lives” response by capitalism to COVID-19 and monkeypox is allowing the resurgence of polio
- University of Michigan ends all COVID-19 protection measures as Fall semester begins
- Australia: Expand strike action by NSW nurses! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for unified struggle!
- “Unless people take a stand, nothing will ever change”: Volvo Trucks workers in Virginia back Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Scottish cleansing workers maintain unified picket lines involving members of three unions
- Australia: Unions, business and Labor deepen collaboration as Summit nears
- Mexico’s “Truth Commission” on 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students—what it does and does not reveal
- More than 30 killed as rival Shia groups struggle for power in Baghdad
- “The IAM has sold us out once more”: Railroad machinists speak out after union announces sellout deal
- “Do not drink the water”: More than 180,000 without running water in Jackson, Mississippi
- Gunman kills two at Oregon supermarket after publishing intent to commit a mass shooting online
- The fight against mass COVID infection and militarism in New Zealand
- Nineteen months after January 6, Biden discovers the threat of fascism
- Texas public health officials confirm death of immunocompromised man infected with monkeypox
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Climate-change driven floods ravage Pakistan, killing more than 1,100 and threatening millions with hunger and disease
- Hate incidents targeting Quebec’s religious minorities spike after passage of CAQ’s Bill 21
- Vote “Yes” to strike for safe nurse-to-patient ratios! Mobilize hospital staff, university community against Michigan Medicine strikebreaking!
- Licensed therapist explains the terrible working conditions behind strike of Kaiser mental health workers
- Hundreds of thousands without electricity in Southeast Michigan after severe thunderstorm
- MBTA Orange Line shutdown: The breakdown of Boston-area public transit
- Structural shifts in global economy driving central bankers’ class war program
- Fourth of July and the vindictive campaign against comic Louis C.K.
- UK: Royal Mail workers stage second 24-hour national strike with more to follow
- Tensions mount at West Coast ports as dockworkers enter third month without contract
- YDSA helps kick Will Lehman volunteers from public event at Wayne State University in Detroit
- New Australian Labor government intensifies assault on working class and war preparations against China
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