Archive: 09/2022
2022-09-01
- Columbus, Ohio, cop fatally shot Donovan Lewis as he was sitting up in bed
- Australia: NSW premier denounces striking rail and bus workers
- Vote “No” on USW phantom deal with Cleveland Cliffs
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Theory of Permanent Revolution in Turkey and throughout the world
- After shutting down Indian Ford plant, union and management keep workers in the dark
- Right-wing attack on Princeton historian: Marco Rubio smears Sean Wilentz
- The death of Mikhail Gorbachev and the legacy of Stalinist counterrevolution
- Maquiladora worker speaks out about unsafe return to school in Matamoros, Mexico
- Rail unions promote toothless regulation on two-man crews while working to ram through terms of pro-corporate PEB report
- Australia’s National Cabinet slashes COVID isolation time amid record deaths
- Sri Lankan president deepens social attacks in interim cost-cutting budget
- US life expectancy continued to decline in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Routine COVID testing ended in English hospitals, care homes, prisons and homeless shelters
- Children crammed back into Philippine schools amid COVID-19 surge
- New Zealand media, politicians ramp up war propaganda after soldier killed in Ukraine
- DOJ lays out obstruction of justice case over Trump’s retention of classified documents
- One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan
- More than 10,000 migrants bused from US-Mexico border to East Coast
- Federal Court terminates injunction that temporarily preserved the independent contractor status of California truckers
- Berlin Senate imposes education cuts and encourages the contamination of the city schools
2022-09-02
- Trump-backed Sarah Palin loses special election for Alaska congressional seat
- Jackson, Mississippi, water outage continues for fourth day
- Will Lehman writes to UAW members: “Five takeaways from my tour of auto plants”
- New Zealand universities hit by long-term assault on pay and jobs
- Australia: Striking NSW nurses speak out, “We have never seen it this bad”
- Eurowings pilots vote to strike as determination of German airline workers to fight grows
- Build the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee to fight for a national railroad strike!
- UK energy price hikes threaten half of small businesses with collapse
- Euro zone inflation hit new high amid near certain recession
- Australia: NSW nurses hold fourth statewide strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Will Lehman demands monitor investigate UAW acts of intimidation against Lehman, workers at Flint GM Assembly
- SEIU abruptly cancels strike for 2,000 Philadelphia school workers in abject capitulation to school officials and the Democratic Party
- The raid against Bolsonaro coup backers and the fight against authoritarianism in Brazil
- Australia: Escalating government threats against rail workers a warning for the working class
- UK: Unite averts further action at Felixstowe port after 1,900 dockworkers complete eight day strike
- Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Kaliningrad as Ukrainian counteroffensive falters
- Sullivan Walter, incarcerated for 36 years, exonerated in Louisiana
- Surging prices in Europe: The ruling class makes workers pay for the capitalist crisis
- Spanish union betrayal at Ford Valencia exposes their role in Mercedes strike
- US Educators Rank and File Safety Committee holds critical meeting in defense of public education and against the spread of COVID-19
- Philadelphia Museum of Art workers authorize a strike
- Behind the hue and cry over the firing of Canadian news anchor Lisa LaFlamme
- Biden’s national address warns of imminent threat of dictatorship
- Former UAW bureaucrat Terry Dittes attacks “outside influences” in UAW election
2022-09-03
- El Paso train conductor killed in preventable accident
- New Zealand paper mill workers locked out for nearly a month
- Why is the UFT silent on the expiring contract for New York City educators?
- South Korean healthcare workers’ union agrees to sellout contract
- Nurses vote by 96 percent for strike action against Michigan Medicine
- Unsealed list shows thousands of government documents seized by FBI from Trump’s Florida compound
- Australia: Bogus jobs Summit outlines tripartite assault on workers
- Two more rail unions announce sellout deals, as railroaders continue to demand strike action
- Biden’s speech and the danger of fascism in America
- Pennsylvania nursing home workers launch strike against poverty pay, low staffing
- “The power needs to be in all the workers’ hands”: Highlights from online Q&A with Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president
- Texas attorney general threatens legal action against schools that try to mitigate the spread of COVID and monkeypox
- Jackson, Mississippi mayor warns public water system could break under pressure as service slowly resumes
- Australian media menaces Solomon Islands over pause on naval visits
- Job growth slows in August and unemployment rises as US Fed plans further interest rate increases
2022-09-04
2022-09-05
- Long COVID and the working class: Brookings Institution report finds millions have left the labor force
- Michigan Medicine plans to hire strikebreakers and the MNA-UMPNC refuses to set a strike date
- Pilots strike at Lufthansa and LH Cargo
- Railroad unions release joint Labor Day statement aimed at blocking strike action
- This week in history: September 5-11
- The political issues confronting American workers on Labor Day 2022
- Strike of 6,000 Seattle Public Schools teachers looms as walkout by 2,000 teachers in neighboring Kent School District enters second week
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump escalates fascist rhetoric in response to Biden’s speech on MAGA Republican threat of dictatorship
- Argentina’s political crisis deepens with attempted assassination of Vice President Cristina Kirchner
- Macron visits Algeria amid escalating NATO war on Russia
- Russia, China conduct joint military exercises in East Asia
- Australian union limits Qantas aircraft engineers to one-minute strikes
- Acclaimed war photographer and steadfast opponent of “embedded” journalism Tim Page (1944–2022)
- “As far as the wood’s edge”: 250 years since the removal of the Delaware people from the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: “Mobilize the working class behind striking CNH workers!”
- SEP member calls for unified struggle of workers at Australian university strike rally
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman responds to questions from workers
2022-09-06
- Quebec government allows multinational Glencore to continue poisoning the population of Rouyn-Noranda
- Columbus Kroger workers: Prepare now to defeat UFCW’s next sellout deal
- Russia ends Nord Stream 1 gas exports to Europe as US prepares “more aggressive” involvement in Ukraine war
- Jackson, Mississippi: Water pressure returns, but safety issues linger
- Australia: NSW teachers union blocks industrial action yet again
- Financial crisis in European energy markets
- UN backs US propaganda of Chinese abuses against Uyghurs
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman interviewed on popular US podcast
- Arriva UK Bus hit by pay strikes in south of England
- First presidential debate in Brazil: Silence on Bolsonaro’s coup threats
- Minnesota union calls three-day walkout as 15,000 nurses press for open-ended strike
- Sri Lankan workers discuss the fight for a democratic and socialist congress
- UK: RUSI military think tank details Liz Truss’s warmongering agenda
- Australian childhood educators holding protests on Wednesday
- “A vote for anyone else is a vote for more inequality in our workplace”: Toledo Jeep supplemental employee backs Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Torrential downpour produces flash flooding in parts of Rhode Island, shutting down interstate highway
- Virginia Thomas, wife of far-right Supreme Court justice, pushed Wisconsin legislators to overturn election in November 2020
- Thatcherite warmonger Liz Truss becomes Britain’s prime minister
- Bernie Sanders at RMT rally in London: Hawking the myth of a trade union revival
- Court approves Trump request for independent review of documents seized in Mar-a-Lago raid
- The German government’s “relief package” means billions for corporations and wage cuts for workers
- European Union suspends its visa agreement with Russia
- Prince George’s County school system becomes latest Maryland district to lift mask mandate
- Berlin Transit Companies restrict bus services as schools return in German capital
- Jon Stewart honors Azov Battalion at Pentagon-funded Disney World event
- Israel’s military “investigation” whitewashes murder of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
2022-09-07
- NZ government’s “Working with Survivors” continues cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
- Australia Post to close retail outlets as cost-cutting continues
- Austria’s largest energy company given billions in state aid
- Oklahoma teacher victimized under state book ban bill
- Anger among Columbia University support staff as SEIU rams through sellout contract with de facto pay cuts
- Teachers unions, White House host town hall to demand in-person learning as school year starts
- Protected by police, fascist Patriot Front holds march aimed at menacing Labor Day festival in Indianapolis
- Jackson, Mississippi’s water disaster is a crime of capitalism
- Fall COVID-19 booster campaign begins in the US as CDC approves bivalent vaccines with limited data
- “I can’t afford to live in the district I work in”: 6,000 Seattle teachers and support staff strike, cancelling first day of school
- Build rank-and-file committees, the organs of 21st century working class struggle!
- IMF announces preliminary bailout loan agreement with Sri Lanka
- Mo: Netflix series shows complex, painful, comic sides of an immigrant’s life
- Horrific mass killing on Canadian First Nation reserve leaves 11 people dead
- “The UAW leadership has been bending over to the company”: Kentucky Truck workers speak with UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman
- Why UAW university employees should vote for Will Lehman for UAW president
- UK: Truss assembles cabinet of class war at home and escalated war against Russia
- Hans-Christian Ströbele (1939-2022) and the rightward shift of Germany’s Green Party
- Eastern Michigan University faculty vote 91 percent for strike
2022-09-08
- Bolsonaro leads pro-coup rallies amid military parades on Brazil’s bicentenary Independence Day
- New turn in Fed policy threatening financial stability
- No to war and surging prices!
- The Good Boss: A film, unfortunately, that Bernie Sanders would also like
- What does the newly-established “Socialist Union of Forces” in Turkey stand for?
- Biden calls rail unions to Washington for talks in bid to head off strike action
- Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: “Labor Day 2022—just another day of labor”
- Australia’s Biosecurity Act: An unprecedented handover of power
- Seattle teachers join expanding strike wave of US workers
- Kaiser mental health strike in Northern California enters fourth week
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian central bank continues aggressive interest rate rises as government outlines austerity budget
- UK: Truss announces £150 billion energy cost relief package
- South Korean truck drivers continue months-long protest for better conditions
- Lufthansa pilots’ union cancels strike despite broad support for pilots
- UK: Royal Mail workers launch third round of strikes
- FBI found documents on nuclear weapons at Mar-a-Lago, Washington Post claims
- RMT, Unite and GMB unions denounce North Sea oil and gas rig wildcat strikes
2022-09-09
- US government appeals court order delaying criminal investigation of Donald Trump
- Eastern Michigan University seeks injunction against striking faculty
- European Central Bank hikes interest rate with more to come
- Australian union seeks to bury New South Wales rail workers’ struggle in industrial courts
- Melbourne artist forced to remove anti-war mural after reactionary social media campaign
- Central Florida hospitals report spike in teen suicide attempts
- Spanish home care workers continue strike after two-week stoppage
- Canadian state intelligence asset aided UK schoolgirl Shamima Begum’s entry to Syria
- Pakistan faces massive humanitarian crisis as unprecedented flooding continues
- Business groups demand that Congress intervene to block national railroad strike
- Ontario education workers speak out against union efforts to intimidate rank and file
- Sri Lankan plantation workers protest to demand reinstatement of sacked colleagues
- French cops shoot two dead on same day amid wave of police violence
- Amid “massive casualties,” Washington vows to fight to the last Ukrainian
- Unite Michigan Medicine nurses with Minnesota and California health care workers!
- 10 million children have lost parents or other caregivers to COVID-19, according to latest estimate
- Who bears political responsibility for the rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Video statement from Will Lehman: Stop the UAW sabotage of CNH strike!
- Australia: Thousands of early childcare educators protest poverty-level conditions
- Heat emergency threatens thousands of lives in California
- “We can’t go on like this”: Striking Pennsylvania nursing home workers speak out on issues behind their strike
- US and Israel escalate covert war against Iran and its allies
- Australia: Chris O’Brien Lifehouse nurses’ open letter calls for “no” vote on union-management agreement
- Top European leaders visit Canada, as Ottawa takes on still larger role in US-led aggression against Russia and China
- Anger builds following police murder of unarmed man at father’s funeral in West Virginia
- Cost of energy crisis piles more pressure on UK’s National Health Service and social care
- Oppose the German government’s austerity and war budget!
- The death of Queen Elizabeth II: A major political crisis for British imperialism
2022-09-10
- Ten years since the defeat of the Quebec student strike—Critical lessons for today
- Boil water advisory lifted in Baltimore after E. coli detected in water supply
- Educators’ strikes spread across Pacific Northwest led by 6,000 Seattle teachers
- With one week left before potential national rail strike, showdown building between US railroaders and Biden administration
- Sri Lankan unions mount phony campaign against state repression
- Democratic Party spent $44 million to promote pro-Trump fascists in Republican primaries
- GM Flint Assembly workers denounce UAW efforts at intimidation in election campaign
- Australia ends daily COVID reporting after deadliest month of the pandemic
- Homelessness worsens dramatically in New Zealand under Labour
- Video emerges showing Georgia Republican Party officials giving Trump-operatives access to voting machines
- Caterpillar workers: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with Deere, CNH and autoworkers in a fightback!
- Protesting Australian childcare workers speak out: “We’re paid an absolute pittance for what we do”
- Defend Harvard professor John Comaroff against the right-wing witch-hunt!
- Prague: Mass protest against war and inflation reveals crisis of political perspective
2022-09-11
- Stellantis workers strike Kokomo Casting Plant over health and safety
- German State Labour Court rejects appeal by sacked WISAG airport bus drivers
- Railroaders have the upper hand! Organize now to demand national rail strike and rejection of PEB-patterned contracts!
- Workers angered as UK post and rail unions call off strikes after queen’s death
- This week in history: September 12-18
- Pregnant women held indefinitely in Alabama jail for drug use
2022-09-12
- Florida Democrat Charlie Crist taps Miami/Dade teachers' union head as running mate in gubernatorial election
- Tap water remains undrinkable in Jackson, Mississippi
- King Charles addresses UK parliament as workers are subjected to propaganda barrage
- “They’re trying to ram the same thing down our throats”: US Steel worker in Gary, Indiana, denounces USW-Cliffs sellout deal
- Following train collision which killed two, US railroad unions try to orchestrate surrender in advance of strike deadline
- New York declares a state of emergency on polio over growing community transmission of the virus
- Russia’s debacle in Kharkiv
- Local Democrat official arrested for murder of Las Vegas investigative reporter
- Nevada nurses refuse to clock-in due to understaffing
- Three Minutes–A Lengthening: Nazi barbarism in Poland
- Dilapidated dormitory complex in Munich highlights drastic situation facing students
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman discusses socialism with libertarian worker (and other correspondence)
- Sri Lankan farmers speak out over catastrophic conditions
- Japan, South Korea seek to improve military cooperation
- Strident far-right “Freedom” Convoy advocate Pierre Poilievre wins leadership of Canada’s Conservatives
- Seattle educators speak out on the consequences of understaffing, inadequate support and low pay
- Caterpillar workers voice support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president: “The main issue for me is equality”
- “We should be striking too”: Former Allina nurse says small hospitals should join walkout
- 15,000 Minnesota nurses begin statewide strike: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with health care workers in Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and California!
- US prosecutors move to exempt classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago from review by special master
- Australian retail lobby calls for working age to be lowered to 13
- Former Los Angeles teacher speaks out as unions and district impose horrifying conditions at school sites
2022-09-13
- Australia: Chris O’Brien Lifehouse nurse endorses “Open Letter” call to reject management enterprise offer
- Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee public meeting: Organize to prepare for a national strike!
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman launches new campaign website: “Put rank-and-file workers in power!”
- North Carolina Supreme Court rules that nurses can be held criminally liable for medical errors
- IG Metall union organises jobs sellout at Vallourec plants in Germany
- Greek forces fire on a ship in Aegean Sea amid rising danger of war with Turkey
- Sri Lanka: Stop the repression of anti-government protesters! Release all political prisoners!
- Spanish Morenoites back Podemos government’s moves to suppress struggles against inflation
- Socialism 2022 Conference: The pseudo-left promotes imperialist war
- EMU professors: Vote “no” on sellout contract!
- Seattle teachers have a right to read full contract! Vote "no" and continue the strike!
- Australia and New Zealand end daily COVID-19 reporting: The “let it rip” conspiracy against the population
- Millionaires’ Congress threatens to intervene against potential US railroad strike
- Attack on Carnegie Mellon professor over criticism of British imperialism
- DHL strikers pepper sprayed, arrested on picket line in Rhode Island
- UAW ends three-day “Hollywood strike” at Stellantis Kokomo casting plant
- Minnesota nurses support call for open-ended strike: “I don’t think they’re going to budge until we do it”
- Michigan Democrats end K-12 school COVID safety measures, following Biden’s CDC
- Effusive official response to Queen’s death underlines deep political crisis in Australia
- US dollar surge causing financial and economic instability
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman comments on UAW Local 2320 contract negotiations with Heartland Alliance
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman challenges other candidates to debate
- New Zealand government ends COVID mask mandates
- Amid corruption charges and cabinet resignations, President Pedro Castillo’s government on the brink in Peru
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Death of Los Angeles County man infected with monkeypox under investigation by health officials
- Spain’s Ryanair cabin walkout enters second month, defying PSOE-Podemos government anti-strike laws
- Amid Russian rout in Ukraine, US media demands greater NATO involvement in war
- Police crackdown on UK anti-monarchy protesters tears apart democratic pretensions of ruling elite
2022-09-14
- UK Royal College of Nursing union calls off strike ballot “out of respect” for the queen
- Unite postpones London bus strikes out of respect for the Queen, puts below-inflation pay offer to members
- Australia: Baggage handlers’ strike cancelled as union prepares sellout
- Seattle Education Association shuts down strike of teachers in antidemocratic maneuver
- Rail unions grovel to Congress, as Washington makes contingency plans ahead of Friday strike deadline
- Justice Department expands criminal probe of Trump’s coup plot
- Surging cost of living in US drives class tensions to the breaking point
- Irish government moves nearer NATO and war with Russia
- One-day wildcat strike on North Sea oil rigs defies threats by employers and trade unions
- 15,000 Minnesota nurses complete second day of strike, as demands for open-ended walkout grow
- Federal judge rules HIV prevention drug coverage unconstitutional on “religious freedom” grounds
- Live updates: SMART-TD union acknowledges that no final rail agreement exists, despite move to block strike
- “The bills don’t stop when you’re off work”: Detroit autoworkers back Will Lehman’s fight to defend jobs and abolish tiers
- Fuel price hike sparks protests in Indonesia
- Union opposes Michigan Medicine nurses’ demands for strike action at informational meetings
- Politicians and media demand delivery of German battle tanks to Kiev for war against Russia
- SEP and IYSSE in Sri Lanka call public meeting to oppose state repression against anti-government protesters
- Wall Street slumps as inflation data signify continued Fed interest rate hikes
- William Ruto sworn in as Kenyan President as IMF demands austerity
- War and poverty in Elizabeth Strout’s novel, Oh William!
- NLRB rejects Amazon’s objections to ALU Staten Island election win
- Far-right Sweden Democrats gain ground in election as composition of future government remains unclear
2022-09-15
- Worker at meeting of Rail Workers Rank-and-File Committee: We must bring power back to the rank and file
- No, the queen was not “one of us”
- Japan to further militarize the East China Sea
- A sordid fight over money between Black Lives Matter factions
- “This is basically the same as the PEB”: Railroad workers denounce deal reached by White House and unions
- Veteran UK rail worker speaks on British and US rail struggles
- UK rail workers support US railroad struggle
- The Queen’s death and the fraud of an apolitical monarchy
- Oppose the right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing Canadian anti-COVID activist and former teacher Ryan Imgrund!
- Kenneth Starr and the right-wing politics of sexual witch-hunts
- Canadian rail workers back strike action by their US colleagues
- Australian parliamentary report exposes—and whitewashes—government response to floods
- Hundreds of hospitality workers in Hollywood, Florida prevented from striking after Unite Here announces sellout agreement
- Fiji government prepares for another anti-democratic election
- Succession, The White Lotus, Dopesick collect significant number of Emmy awards
- Defend Esquel and Aura workers jobs at the Koggala Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka!
- Azeri-Armenian clashes erupt amid NATO war with Russia in Ukraine
- Warnings of financial turbulence amid rising workers’ struggles
- Parents of young man slain by Colorado police call for justice after body camera footage exposes heinous police murder
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Chris O’Brien Lifehouse nurses overwhelmingly reject union sell-out agreement
- Former Western prime ministers propose military alliance with Ukraine
- Australia: Rail union announces token industrial action to conceal plans for sellout
- Democratic money helps pro-Trump election deniers win Republican primary contests in New Hampshire
- Workers at GM plant in Silao, Mexico: US-sponsored union “destroyed our independence”
2022-09-16
- Will Ray Curry debate a rank-and-file worker?
- US- and German-backed “independent” union at Volkswagen in Puebla, Mexico, imposes sellout deal
- Lumber workers in Washington and Oregon continue strike for wage increases, benefits
- No to another school year of mass infections, and deaths! For a unified struggle of educators!
- Oppose the reactionary smear campaign against Harvard Professor John Comaroff!
- Kaiser mental health workers continue five-week strike as unions instruct 20,000 Kaiser nurses to cross picket line during contract struggle
- How the trade unions suppressed the class struggle during UK’s “Summer of Discontent”
- While rail unions meet with Biden to avert strike, 500 railroaders attend meeting to organize rank-and-file opposition
- Democratic House Speaker Pelosi to rail workers: Accept a pro-company deal or we’ll force you to
- UK social care faces “tipping point” as energy costs soar
- Mexican Government declares it will take months to retrieve bodies of Coahuila coal miners
- The modern cult of Independence Day and the buildup of a fascist movement in Brazil
- Quebec election campaign dominated by right-wing, chauvinist appeals
- Essity ends lockout in New Zealand after unions impose sellout deal
- German corporations use economic crisis to impose mass layoffs
- Putin, Xi meet as Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit opens in Uzbekistan
- Two convicted Whitmer kidnap plotters claim juror misconduct and seek third trial
- Palmer: A man just out of prison reenters society
- 6,300 Buffalo, New York health care workers vote to strike Kaleida
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Seattle educators outraged after Seattle Education Association forcibly shuts down strike
2022-09-17
- University of Sydney staff vote for more stoppages
- Military debacle in northeastern Ukraine fuels infighting in Russian oligarchy
- Overturn University of Melbourne student union’s anti-democratic disaffiliation of the IYSSE!
- Sri Lanka: Glenugie Estate workers protest wage cuts and harsh conditions
- Bill proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham would ban abortion at 15 weeks nationwide
- Railroaders furious after unions reveal that no tentative agreement exists, despite sabotage of strike
- After Russian debacle in Ukraine, US escalates conflict with Russia and China
- The adulation for Elizabeth II: The capitalist class celebrates the principle of monarchy
- Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks: Fathers and daughters
- MNA sends Minnesota nurses back to work with no contract after three-day walkout
- Why rail workers need the support of the entire working class
- Columbus Kroger workers reject third sellout deal, vote for strike action
- Australian central bank demands deeper cuts to wages and social spending
- Dairy giant Norco threatens to sack over 170 workers in flood-torn Australian city
- IG Metall union preparing real wage reductions in German contract negotiations
- Judge in Mar-a-Lago case denies government motion to exempt documents marked classified
- Florida governor ships refugees like cattle to Massachusetts island
2022-09-18
2022-09-19
- World Bank says interest rate hikes are leading to global recession
- Demonstrations continue to protest UK police killing of Chris Kaba
- Australian workers striking at highest rate in almost two decades
- “We are ready to vote ‘no’ because this fails to meet student and community needs”: Seattle teacher opposes union-backed sell out contract
- Trump headlines fascist rally in Youngstown, Ohio, calls for mass execution of “drug dealers”
- The queen’s funeral and the spectre of war and revolution
- Railroad workers’ opposition builds to sellout deal to block national strike
- Left Party representatives demand expulsion of Sahra Wagenknecht for criticising German government war policy and NATO
- US-NATO escalation in Ukraine risks nuclear war
- Hurricane Fiona knocks out power in all of Puerto Rico
- Protests erupt across Haiti against hike in fuel prices
- Drastic increases in commodity prices pummel Peruvian working class
- The queen and the Commonwealth: A legacy of imperialist domination and oppression
- Oppose the anti-democratic shutdown of the EMU faculty strike!
- Social attacks continue in Greece despite end of enhanced EU financial surveillance
- This week in history: September 19-25
- With Ontario government plotting to ban education strikes, workers demand to know how unions plan to respond
- New Zealand: Auckland University of Technology sacks over 230 staff
- Seattle educators: Vote “no” on the sellout tentative agreement!
- UNICEF warns of worsening child malnutrition in Sri Lanka
- “I know about Will and think he’s the best candidate running”: Toledo Jeep workers welcome rank-and-file campaign for UAW president
- The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ glorification of the monarchy
- Illinois autoworker Travis Baker died after being injured at the Belvidere Stellantis plant; one month later, his family has no answers
- Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: “Why is it so hot in the warehouses?”
- German trade unions and employers conspire against the working class in a new round of the “Concerted Action”
2022-09-20
- Australia: More than 3,000 COVID-19 deaths in residential aged care this year
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkish-Greek tensions escalate amid NATO-Russia war
- Fired over a bathroom break: Amazon worker with debilitating Long COVID fired for publicly exposing management’s abuses
- Strikes and protests for wages grow as inflation surges in Turkey
- The rail unions have violated our rights. Organize the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Network to countermand their betrayal!
- Canadian dock workers go on strike, leading to closure of major coal terminal
- Powerful Typhoon Nanmadol tears through Japan
- New York City teachers union prepares sell-out contract with city
- Biden on “60 Minutes”: American capitalism is at war with the world, at war with reality
- COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic
- New School instructors rally to end three years of wage freezes
- Social Democrats concede defeat in Swedish election as far-right Sweden Democrats become second-largest party
- A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917–2022): “The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever”
- “Will wants to abolish the tier system. I say yes!”: Broad support for Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president at Ford Michigan Assembly
- Australia: University of Newcastle staff to strike for 24 hours
- Tajik-Kyrgyz border conflict erupts in violence
- Long COVID and ME/CFS patients denounce Biden in protest outside White House
- Hurricane Fiona triggers massive flooding and damage in Puerto Rico
- African countries face double whammy of debt crisis and food crisis
2022-09-21
- More Australian mask mandates lifted as continuing mass deaths and Long-COVID hidden
- CDC report: More than 80 percent of US maternal deaths are preventable
- Crisis-ridden Kremlin pushes through new law on wartime mobilization, prepares referendums in East Ukraine
- Liverpool dockers launch two-week strike with Felixstowe to follow
- UK Prime Minister Truss pledges escalated offensive against Russia
- Demand immediate strike action at Michigan Medicine
- The White House intervention to block rail strike and the political issues confronting railroad workers
- Pentagon’s secret social media influencing campaign exposed
- After Biden threatens war with China over Taiwan, US sends warship through Taiwan Strait
- Australia: Rail union cancels plan to turn off fare collection machines
- Unions sabotage struggle against 3,600 layoffs at Mercedes in Brazil
- How German imperialism is gearing up for World War III
- Podemos backs Madrid's commitment to NATO war on Russia
- Boil-water notice lifted in Jackson, Mississippi, but serious problems remain
- At UAW Monitor’s VP debate, Solidarity House candidates lie about eliminating tiers
- On fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican workers denounce lack of response to new flooding
- Key question from today’s policy meeting: Where the US Fed is heading?
2022-09-22
- Greek riot police attack students and education workers protesting universities clampdown
- The Forgiven: The accidental death of “a nobody”
- New York state files huge lawsuit against Trump for systematic fraud
- “We’ll fight for what we deserve, with or without the union”: Railroaders furious after last week’s White House-brokered deal to block strike action
- Desperation, delusion, and recklessness: The war in Ukraine threatens to go nuclear
- Why I joined the Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee: Dispatches from a public school teacher
- America’s “New World Order”— The historical and social roots of US plans for war with Russia and China
- New Zealand ruling elite glorifies British monarchy
- As COVID deaths and infections climb, Biden presses claim that pandemic is over
- In the Italian election campaign, the establishment parties and media pave the way for the fascists
- French auto workers at Hordain Stellantis plant on wildcat strike
- The Nicole Linton case: Deadly crash in Los Angeles sheds light on exhausting conditions, mental stress facing nurses
- Top US official visits Sri Lanka to bolster strategic ties
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Lessons of the 2022 Seattle teachers strike
- Today at 6 PM Eastern (US): Will Lehman to debate UAW President Ray Curry
- Fed makes clear recession and job losses are its goal
- Scottish school teacher suspended for encouraging discussion on the monarchy
2022-09-23
- Ontario education support workers: Vote YES to strike! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education and stop COVID!
- Hilary Mantel, renowned author of Wolf Hall trilogy, dies aged 70
- German government spends 29 billion euros on gas importer Uniper
- Appeals court lifts stay of FBI investigation into Trump’s mishandling of state secrets
- US political establishment seizes on declining test scores to bar remote learning and accelerate attack on public education
- UK: Simon Armitage’s poem on the queen’s death: Laureateship in opposition to poetry
- EU states thrust aside Kremlin’s warnings of nuclear war over Ukraine
- UK Truss government delivers class war budget
- “Through this brutality, Sri Lanka’s government is imposing IMF burdens on the people”: Support builds for SEP meeting against state repression
- Peter Seaton, an Australian-based anti-war muralist speaks with the WSWS
- Canadian education workers speak out against reckless return to school after the abandonment of all COVID-19 public health measures
- Former SMART-TD top official floats idea of forcing through sellout rail contract even if workers reject it
- Arriva London North bus drivers to strike indefinitely from October as Unite prevents city-wide pay fight
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, agrees to testify before the House Select Committee
- Sri Lankan workers and youth support SEP public meeting opposing state repression
- Vowing “pain,” Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers’ wages
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman sends letter to Steven Greenhouse protesting falsification of his position at debate
- On eve of Brazil's election, Workers Party covers up collaboration in Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 “herd immunity” policy
- New Zealand government promotes complacency about COVID-19
- Deere workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight for what workers need!
- In historic debate, UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for abolition of union bureaucracy, power to the rank and file
- Bolsonaro, military intensify antidemocratic conspiracies on eve of Brazil’s elections
- China experiences surge in COVID-19 cases after relaxing travel and quarantine policies
2022-09-24
- Opel destroys another 1,000 jobs in Germany
- Washington’s nuclear brinkmanship threatens catastrophe
- Workers react to Will Lehman campaign after historic UAW presidential debate
- Railroaders furious upon reading Biden-brokered tentative agreement used to sabotage strike
- Hurricane Fiona exposes social inequality in Puerto Rico
- “My turn is to workers on the factory floor”: Highlights from UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman’s debate with the union bureaucracy
- Berlin transport workers support struggle of US rail workers
2022-09-25
2022-09-26
- Protests against political and social crisis continue in Haiti as imperialist powers consider military intervention
- US pledges “catastrophic” response to potential Russian use of nuclear weapons
- “We’re on the same page as Will”: Detroit autoworkers back Will Lehman for UAW president
- Pound plummets as UK Tory government and Labour fight over how to protect profits
- The Woman King: Rewriting the past for money and status
- Neo-fascist Georgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy wins general election
- US troops kill 15-year-old girl in Iraq
- How the rail unions plan to ram through their sellout contracts
- The UAW presidential debate: A rank-and-file socialist confronts the apparatus
- Ongoing support for zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger
- Vote “Yes” in UK National Education Union ballot over pay and demand immediate strike action
- Lawsuits and investigations launched over Florida migrant flights
- This week in history: September 26-October 2
- MNA-UMPNC “highlights” expose sellout agreement with Michigan Medicine
- Protests in Iran enter second week after young woman’s police-custody death
- The CDC moves to end universal masking in health care settings
- Striking health care workers in Germany: “Privatization was a big mistake!”
- South Korean bus drivers overwhelmingly vote to strike
- BP refinery in Ohio, where two workers were killed, has long record of safety violations
2022-09-27
- Defend all jobs at the Daimler plant in Ludwigsfelde, Germany!
- UK: Starmer offers a Labour government to rescue big business from catastrophe
- Supporters of UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman campaign in Indiana
- Brazilian Workers Party turns sharply to the right a week before elections
- Former January 6 investigator details Trump White House, Supreme Court connections to January 6 fascist attack
- Preparing for class war, Sri Lankan president declares “high security zones”
- Chancellor Scholz’s Gulf trip exposes German government human rights propaganda
- September 28 public meeting of the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee: Organize independently to defeat the government- and union-backed sellout!
- Lawsuits on mRNA technology show profit-driven struggle for control over vital scientific discoveries
- Live Updates on the fight of rail workers: Evidence grows of widespread failure by IBEW to send ballots before TA vote
- Mussolini’s heirs return to power in Italy
- Vote No at Arriva London North: take the dispute out of the hands of Unite’s pro-company officials!
- Will Lehman replies to Steven Greenhouse on the falsification of his position during UAW presidential debate
- California state university system promises steep cuts after passage of meager wage increases for university staff
- Roger Waters denounces pro-imperialist campaign to cancel his concerts in Poland
- Alabama calls off execution after failing to access veins for lethal injection
- Build the Tire Workers Rank-and-File Committee to unite against the USW sellout contract!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: Bezos, the royalist
2022-09-28
- Alberta Labour Relations Board bans scaffolders from refusing voluntary overtime, declares it an “illegal strike”
- Philadelphia Museum of Art workers strike for better pay, conditions
- 48,000 University of California academic workers in UAW facing contract fight
- As UK strike wave grows: Break the grip of the trade union bureaucracy! For rank-and-file committees in every workplace!
- How to defeat the government-union sellout and put rail workers in control
- UK further education staff at 29 colleges strike against below inflation pay offers
- The tragic death of two brothers at a BP refinery and America’s industrial slaughterhouse
- Reject the MNA-UMPNC sellout agreement with Michigan Medicine
- The soulful voice of the Aboriginal stolen generations, Archie Roach (1956–2022)
- US, Russia trade threats of nuclear war as referendums in East Ukraine end
- British pound collapse at centre of global currency and financial storm
- “It’s time to make a change!”: Stellantis Jefferson North worker urges support for Will Lehman, rank-and-file committees
- Socialist Equality Group to hold online event “The Crisis of Democracy in Brazil and the Perspective of Socialist Revolution”
- COVID-19 infection significantly increases one’s risk of a neurological disorder
- US military buildup against Russia escalates Turkey-Greece tensions
- Texas jury acquits police officer who fatally shot unarmed man
- Mélenchon’s Unsubmissive France party implodes over concocted domestic violence scandal
2022-09-29
- Australian nurses’ union “surveys” Lifehouse workers after wage-cut offer rejected
- Widespread opposition in Japan to Shinzo Abe’s state funeral
- Britain on the brink of a social explosion after pound’s collapse
- German workers support UAW president candidate Will Lehman: “It’s time for us to stand up to union bureaucrats”
- Twitter locks account of Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, in act of censorship
- Bank of England launches emergency operation to stave off financial collapse
- German secret service operates hundreds of far-right social media profiles
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold online public meeting against nuclear war
- White House hunger conference offers only token “solutions” to a mounting social crisis
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Money for the rich, money for war, but none for education
- Inmate strike spreads to all major Alabama prisons
- After weeks of silence from union, Mercedes-Benz begins mass firings in Brazil
- Munich Philharmonic’s first violinist sacked by city’s SPD-Green council for being “too close to Russia”
- United, Southwest flight attendants picket in US as airline workers reach breaking point
- Hurricane Ian makes devastating landfall in Florida
- The right-wing record of the “Quebec First” CAQ government
- Deere workers voice support for Will Lehman for UAW president: “What he says, it’s all true”
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting discusses a socialist program to fight state repression
- Seditious conspiracy trial begins for Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and accomplices in January 6 attack
- Former Australian PM Abbott weighs the cost of saving 40,000 lives and decides the price is too high
- Lawsuits on mRNA technology show profit-driven struggle for control over vital scientific discoveries
- The bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline: Who benefits?
- Electricians demand revote on rail contract after IBEW fails to mail ballots to many members
2022-09-30
- Thousands of Virginia students from almost one hundred schools walk out in protest over new proposed anti-transgender school policies
- Hundreds attend memorial service for two young workers killed at Ohio BP refinery
- The IBEW contract vote was fraudulent: Demand a re-vote under rank-and-file oversight!
- Ahead of strike vote: UK higher education workers must build rank-and-file committees
- No to another school year of mass infection and death! Mobilize Canada’s education workers to fight for the global elimination of COVID-19!
- After the Bank of England intervention financial turmoil continues
- US announces plans to expand “industrial base” for war with Russia
- Sri Lanka: Massive fire destroys dozens of shanty homes in Kajeemawatte, Colombo
- Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, reaffirms Trump’s “Big Lie”
- At UN, New Zealand PM backs war against Russia, promotes internet censorship
- Devastation from Hurricane Ian: Billions are needed for relief, not war!
- Murdoch media displays Australian Labor PM’s close ties to business and dependence on the unions
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