Archive: 10/2022
2022-10-01
- New UNHRC resolution aimed at pressuring Sri Lanka to end ties with China
- Fall surge of COVID-19 begins across Northern Europe
- Four men linked to neo-Nazi terror plot arrested in Iceland
- Twitter reverses account lock on Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, without explanation
- In cave-in to the banks, Biden changes student loan forgiveness rules to make 800,000 people ineligible
- Spanish Pabloites hail gender politics of Podemos as it wages NATO war on Russia
- Munich Oktoberfest emerges as COVID superspreader event in Germany
- Putin’s annexation speech and the bankruptcy of Russian nationalism
- Australia: Knauf locks out plasterboard workers in Melbourne
- Southern California nurse stabbed outside emergency room
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Death toll mounts from Hurricane Ian
- Candidate for UAW President Will Lehman: Defend the fired workers at GM Silao in Mexico!
- For the independent mobilization of the working class against the threat of dictatorship in Brazil
- Australian PM leads bipartisan delegation to funeral of Japanese militarist Abe
- French workers on one-day strike 29 September against inflation, war
- Australia ends COVID isolation requirements: Business hails “freedom,” medical experts warn of mass deaths
- US pediatric hospitals face massive crisis due to COVID and other respiratory viruses
2022-10-02
2022-10-03
- Amid mounting crises, Chinese Communist Party to reappoint Xi Jinping as leader
- Enough is Enough rally attendees speak on social crisis in UK
- Ford and Stellantis workers back UAW candidate Will Lehman’s campaign to fight job cuts and unify workers globally
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Minnesota Allina mental health workers begin 3-day strike: Build rank-and-file committees to unite with nurses!
- In letter defending sellout of railroad workers, SMART-TD union president falsely claims US Constitution prohibits workers from striking
- Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP backs imperialist manoeuvring at the UNHRC
- Stop the war in Ukraine!
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government to slash public sector wages, pensions
- Amazon Prime’s The Rings of Power: One show to ruin them all
- SEP (Australia) holds successful Sixth National Congress
- Australian union chief offers greater collaboration with government, employers
- Quebec election campaign dominated by anti-immigrant agitation
- Brazil’s elections yield runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro amid mounting political crisis
- Québec Solidaire courts big business ahead of provincial election
- Biden, Democrats approve spending bill with no funds for pandemic, $12 billion for Ukraine war
- Ebola outbreak threatens to expand into densely populated Ugandan capital Kampala
- Labor and unions allow Norco to sack its workers in flood-torn Australian city
- Nurses’ union announces ratification of sellout contract at Michigan Medicine
- Truss U-turns on scrapping top tax rate as Tories’ UK budget crisis deepens
- Open letter to Arriva London North drivers
- Where to now for the UK and global financial system?
- Army launches coup in Burkina Faso amid mass protests against France
- Trump issues death threat targeting Republican Senator Mitch McConnell
- Death toll from Hurricane Ian continues to climb as tens of thousands are left ruined and neglected by state and federal governments
- US holds anti-China summit with Pacific Island leaders
- 7 million workers in contract struggles in Germany: Build independent action committees!
2022-10-04
- Ukraine forces advance dozens of miles in southern offensive
- Workers demand answers: Why did IBEW mail 40 percent fewer ballots for 2022 rail contract vote versus 2018?
- Despite Russian nuclear threats, Germany announces new arms deliveries to Kiev
- Hurricane Ian and the American ruling elite’s malign neglect
- UK crisis fuels warnings on the stability of global financial system
- Sri Lankan plantation unions call protests amid rising anger among workers
- Child hunger “single biggest challenge” facing UK schools
- UFCW tells Kroger workers to vote on same contract for fourth time
- Philadelphia Museum of Art workers strike enters second week
- Australia: Amid rising discontent, a one-day stoppage at University of Newcastle
- Bus drivers at Tottenham and Palmers Green on Arriva London North deal: “It’s a pay cut”
- 125 people killed in stampede at Indonesian soccer stadium
- Massive vote in favour of strike against Ford government’s austerity agenda by 55,000 Ontario education support workers
- Catastrophic situation at Berlin children’s hospitals
- Rapper Coolio dead at 59
- Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe's biography of Stepan Bandera: A devastating portrait of the figurehead of Ukrainian fascism
- Neptune, N.J.: More than half of JSUMC nurses would not feel safe being treated at their own hospital
- Further pay strike set to bring Liverpool docks to a standstill as Felixstowe threatens more walkouts
- Leading Republican senator refuses to condemn Trump death threat against McConnell
- Sysco employees strike in western New York and Boston
- New Zealand police to drill more boreholes at Pike River mine
- Australian university workers speak out against casualisation, cuts and restructuring
- Will Lehman holds meeting with academic workers: “We need to advance our own interests, not the interests of the capitalist class”
2022-10-05
- Prevent the Ford Saarlouis plant closure! Unite all Ford workers! No trust in the IG Metall union, works council and the corporation!
- The global strike wave and the crisis of revolutionary leadership
- Pseudo-left union in Argentina imposes sellout contract on tire workers after following nationalist strategy
- Will Lehman joins Stellantis workers in denouncing job cut threats at Warren Truck plant
- New Zealand nurses take action over staffing crisis and pay cut
- Doncaster Sheffield Airport in the UK set to close with 800 job losses
- In Germany, more and more depend on food banks
- Young worker killed at Tyson meatpacking, family fights to get the truth out
- CIA co-opts Harriet Tubman to boost its efforts to recruit spies and assassins
- Re-elected Coalition Avenir Québec government will come into headlong conflict with the working class
- Kenyan President Ruto auditions for US and British imperialism
- US attorneys reveal coordination between Stewart Rhodes and Roger Stone following Trump’s defeat
- Australian university union tries to impose sellout at Western Sydney University College
- Australia’s central bank slows pace of interest rate rises but insists they will continue
- “At what point are we safe to drink it, if ever?”: Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, speak about ongoing water crisis
- US sends hundreds of armored vehicles to Ukraine as offensive continues
- Australia: Massive Optus data breach highlights lax regulations for telco giants
- Florida Governor DeSantis defends government inaction as Hurricane Ian death toll surpasses 100
- UK Tory government meltdown as Truss faces threat of removal
- Australia: Health workers support Chris O’Brien Lifehouse nurses’ fight against union-management agreement
- A history of US threats to use nuclear weapons
- Journalist Katie Halper censored and fired for telling the truth about Israeli apartheid
- Amazon suspends as many as 80 workers who refused to work after a fire in Staten Island warehouse
- Elvis: A film biography of the legendary musical artist
2022-10-06
- Sri Lankan cabinet tables repressive “rehabilitation” bureau bill
- Los Angeles unions preparing new betrayals of education workers
- Poland discusses hosting American nuclear weapons as US buys up anti-radiation drugs
- The art and politics of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)
- Trump seeks Supreme Court intervention in Mar-a-Lago state secrets dispute
- Pipefitter says BP used unskilled contractors on unit before fatal explosion at Toledo, Ohio refinery
- Alabama inmate strike enters its second week
- Trump’s death threat against McConnell and the silence of the Democratic Party
- Modi booster Gautam Adani becomes world’s second richest man amid social misery for Indian working class
- Court dismisses criminal charges against Flint water crisis defendants
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: Form rank-and-file election committees to build workers’ power!
- IBEW acknowledges problems with ballots for rail contract but refuses to conduct re-vote
- UK train drivers mount further national strikes as rail unions seek a sell-out deal with Tory government
- Truss’s mini-budget debacle costs UK economy £300 billion
- UK: BT Group workers national strike resumes, including emergency call handlers for first time
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- University of Melbourne student union refuses to affiliate IYSSE despite successful affiliation meeting
- Biden appears with DeSantis in Fort Myers as death toll from Hurricane Ian continues to rise
- Coronavirus deaths in Germany reach 150,000
- New York Times acknowledges Ukraine behind assassination of Darya Dugina
- Reinforcements for the CIA Democrats in the 2022 elections
- Australia: Optus data breach highlights widespread security vulnerabilities
2022-10-07
- Canada leads calls for Ukraine’s NATO membership, joins US in recklessly downplaying nuclear war threat
- American University administration stonewalling contract signing after staff union had declared contract “ratified”
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman demands investigation into BP refinery deaths and a halt to the “carnage in America’s workplaces”
- Amid deepening crisis of Putin regime, US steps up regime-change operation
- Biden warns: Prepare for nuclear Armageddon
- Scottish local authority dispute betrayed by trade union bureaucracy in alliance with SNP government
- Suspicion mounts among railroaders over ballot fraud as train dispatchers’ union announces ratification of deal
- Congressional leaders of both parties welcome members of neo-Nazi Azov Battalion to Washington
- Reinforcements for the CIA Democrats in the 2022 elections: Part two
- Workers locked out at Australian plastics manufacturer Qenos
- Opposition mounts to sellout deal covering Kaleida Health workers in western New York
- Health experts, disabled workers and others denounce Australian government’s “forever COVID” policies at online meeting
- Biden warns of nuclear “Armageddon” as Zelensky calls for “preventive strikes” on Russia
- NHS maternity doctor in London, UK speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- After executive threatens to close the plant, Warren Truck workers speak with supporters of UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman
- Warmongering on the anniversary of German reunification
- Assange’s wife Stella Moris demolishes US warmonger John Bolton on live TV
- Texas executes John Ramirez despite objections of Nueces County district attorney
- Striking French refinery workers speak out against inflation
- North Korea fires missile over Japan for first time since 2017
- French refinery strikes defy Macron’s policy of inflation and war
- Millions driven into poverty by pandemic, soaring prices and recession
- Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: trials and tribulations with transportation
- Eurowings pilots in Germany go on 24-hour strike
2022-10-08
- Weak US jobs report not weak enough: Financial markets plunge
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Another tragic death at Stellantis Sterling Stamping
- Will Lehman: “Oppose threats to Stellantis Warren Truck Plant workers’ jobs!”
- Interest rate hikes leading to recession, UN says
- To fight COVID-19, Michigan educators must build independent rank-and-file committees
- Former police officer massacres 38 people, including 24 children, in Thailand
- The lies, distortions and half-truths in rail unions’ joint video statement against “misinformation”
- Australia: Nurses’ union promotes New South Wales Labor election campaign
- Endless Australian university union betrayals result in election debacle
- Kroger workers furious after union claims sellout contract passed on fourth revote
- After WestRock paper mill workers in Alabama reject second contract, company enforces lockout
- Half of Ukrainian 2023 budget dedicated to NATO proxy war against Russia
- GM workers in Silao, Mexico speak out after co-worker loses his leg
- Jews. In Their Own Words: A propaganda play on “left anti-Semitism”
- European Political Community summit pledges to escalate war on Russia
- Rank-and-file Ontario education worker denounces union bureaucracy’s bogus “Why vote yes!” campaign
- Sri Lankan workers and youth support October 16 SEP meeting on nuclear war danger
- CDC deepens COVID-19 cover-up, switches to weekly reporting of cases and deaths
- Class tensions mount in wake of rejection of Chile’s draft constitution
- 7,000 form human chain in London to protest treatment of Assange
2022-10-09
2022-10-10
- GM Flint workers support Will Lehman’s call to unite US and Mexican workers
- Fishermen in northern Sri Lanka establish action committee
- US officials gave Ukraine public green light to bomb Kerch bridge
- New Zealand university staff hold nationwide strike
- Horrific negligence in National Football League handling of Tua Tagovailoa concussion
- German neo-Nazis remain at large after assassination attempt on journalists
- Australian state teachers’ union capitulates before Liberal government wage cutting drive
- State trial begins for defendants in 2020 plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan
- Live updates: Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee announces Wednesday public meeting: “No more delays! Organize the rank-and-file to fight for strike action!”
- Australian Labor government to cut social spending to pay for tax handouts and war plans
- World Socialist Web Site interviews CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou about Julian Assange’s extradition
- Julian Assange tests positive for COVID-19
- The “choice” in the 2022 US midterm elections: Fascist Republicans vs. war-crazed Democrats
- Barrick Gold and Canadian imperialism—a predatory partnership
- The class issues in New York City’s “No More 24” home health aide bill
- Fort Myers, Florida resident: Poverty, inequality fueled hurricane disaster
- Build an international movement of the working class against imperialist war!
- Build a rank-and-file defense campaign for the reinstatement of Staten Island Amazon workers who refused to risk their health for profit!
- US reroutes passengers from Uganda for screening as Ebola outbreak spreads
- Shipwrecks of refugees boats off Greek islands kill at least 23, many people still missing
- Long COVID advocate Dr. Elisa Perego speaks on the pandemic and the need for global elimination
- This week in history: October 10–16
- Eugene V. Debs and the struggle of railroaders
- Oath Keepers trial documents White House-militia plot to overturn 2020 election
- Family, friends and co-workers pay last respects to Detroit Sterling Stamping worker who died September 30
2022-10-11
- Ontario Premier threatens to ban strikes as education workers prepare to walk out to defend public education
- As search for victims ends, grim details emerge of deaths caused by Hurricane Ian
- IMF points to growing dangers in key area of financial system
- “Code of Academic Freedom”: A plea for enforced conformity at Germany’s universities
- After rejection of BMWED contract: Fight against union sabotage! Prepare a strike before the midterm elections!
- Australia: Knauf continues lockout of workers at Melbourne plasterboard factory
- One week until the UAW elections begin: Rank-and-file workers’ power vs. the bureaucracy
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Campaigners for UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman win support from autoworkers in three states
- Meeting of the ICFI and IYSSE resolves to build global movement of young people against imperialist war
- UK economic crisis leading to soaring housing costs
- Nobel Prize awarded to Svante Pääbo for study of ancient human DNA
- US transforming Taiwan into “giant weapons depot”
- An interview with Larry Ceplair, author of The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist–Seventy-Five Years Later: The biggest consequence ‘was censorship and self-censorship, not officially, but unofficially’
- US seeks “turning point” in Ukraine after Russian strikes
- Australian government to detain women repatriated from Syria
- Bulgaria elections offer no way out of the political crisis
- United Steelworkers seeks to isolate workers at US Steel as it pushes concessions contracts at Cleveland-Cliffs
2022-10-12
- US imposes crippling controls on export of advanced chips to China
- United Nations, diplomatic preparations for military intervention in Haiti met with widespread protests
- More evidence emerges about how unskilled contract labor may have contributed to deadly fire at BP Husky refinery in Ohio
- Workers walk out at Iranian petrochemical plants, amid ongoing nationwide anti-government protests
- After threatening railroaders with congressional intervention, rail union parties with Nancy Pelosi on Las Vegas Strip
- In runup to November elections, Trump Republicans step up anti-Semitic rhetoric
- University of California grad students demand higher pay and better conditions
- After Biden warns of “Armageddon,” NATO escalates war with Russia
- Things to get much, much worse for UK workers
- Indian Ford workers mount protests for jobs in defiance of union-management severance deal
- French government threatens to break nationwide refinery strike
- Hull Stagecoach bus workers mount all-out pay strike
- Mental health courts signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom
- Australian governments treat Lismore flood victims with contempt
- IMF cuts growth forecast amid warnings of global recession
- OPEC agrees to major oil production cut, sparking US-Saudi rift
2022-10-13
- Rising protests among Amazon workers throughout the United States
- White House draws up blueprint for World War III
- For the organization of an international movement of workers and young people against war!
- Two German airport workers win case in Hessian State Court and must be rehired after their illegal dismissal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Services rendered: Ben Bernanke awarded Nobel Prize for economics
- After murdering unarmed Akron, Ohio worker Jayland Walker, 8 killer cops return to “service”
- Jacobin magazine promotes sellout of Michigan Medicine nurses as “groundbreaking contract”
- Railroad workers at rank-and-file meeting call for strike action to oppose sellout contracts
- US-instigated tensions around Korean Peninsula intensify
- German Government delivers air defence system to Kiev
- Contemporary Misanthropy: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- French government requisitions refinery workers as strikes spread
- Sri Lankan media covers up danger of nuclear war over Ukraine
- Why aren’t UK Royal Mail workers receiving strike pay from the CWU?
- Illinois governor's race highlights the reactionary politics of both Democrats and Republicans
- The Democratic Party, identity politics and the Los Angeles City Council scandal
- Australia: AWU forces workers back on the job at Qenos after company lockout, without a single concession
- “By mid-month we have no money left”—Workers speak out against war and inflation at Job Centres in Berlin and Duisburg
- Germany’s gas price cap: A gift for large corporations and the rich
- The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism
- Autoworkers speak out following tragic death at Stellantis Belvidere plant: “When will it stop?”
- “Workers must fight to free Julian Assange!”—Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president
2022-10-14
- UK financial markets face “cliff day”
- Royal Mail announces plans to axe 10,000 UK jobs
- Alabama prison strike in third week amid reports of deaths, murder and staff beating of inmate
- Will Lehman calls on workers to fight elimination of third shift at Stellantis Warren Truck plant
- Sri Lankan workers and youth support forthcoming SEP-IYSSE public meeting on the danger of nuclear war
- Spain’s Podemos adopts massive military budget amid war with Russia
- Lower Saxony state election and the strengthening of the far-right Alternative for Germany
- UK: Truss sacks chancellor, U-turns on corporation tax as Tories prepare another palace coup
- Report: One-third of US counties are “maternity care deserts”
- Supporters of Will Lehman speak to Ford workers in Ohio and Michigan
- Washington D.C. protest honors memory of Amazon COVID tester Poushawn Brown
- Randi Weingarten covers up the role of Ukrainian fascism in the Holocaust
- Dominican Republic militarizes border with Haiti, cracks down on migrants
- Ohio Democratic Senate candidate attacks Trump loyalist from the right
- UK Royal Mail strikers: “They are aiming for an Amazon style business”
- Columbus Kroger workers speak out after union contract betrayal
- US Secret Service confirms contact with Oath Keeper leaders, including Stewart Rhodes, leading up to January 6 coup
- Oppose the ending of COVID-positive isolation requirements in Australia! Unite educators and health workers to fight for safety and lives above profit!
- House Select Committee on January 6 attack holds final hearing, votes to subpoena Trump
- Australian teachers’ union leader concedes to government wage cutting offensive
- ILWU compels dockworkers to labor without a contract three months after expiration
- Indigenous women account for almost half of Canada’s female federal inmate population
- Republicans unite with right-wing Muslim groups to promote book-banning in Dearborn schools
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Gifted actress Angela Lansbury dies at 96
- New Zealand media, government demonise Russian migrant workers
- Huge rise in UK COVID infections amid threat of flu “twindemic” and new immune-evading variants
- The People Immortal: Soviet writer Vasily Grossman’s first novel about World War II
- September inflation report signals more attacks on US jobs and living standards
2022-10-15
- Russian government cuts expenditures as it struggles to finance mobilization
- Rank-and-file action committees independent of IG Metall union needed to defend all jobs at all sites
- Australian Apple retail workers to strike over proposed wage-cutting agreement
- Australia: NSW teachers speak out against grueling conditions, government pay cuts
- UPS employee falls to her death at Worldport air hub in Louisville, Kentucky
- Obituary: Australian Socialist Equality Party member Regina Lohr (June 21, 1956–October 10, 2022)
- Floods, hunger, disease and IMF austerity devastate Pakistan’s workers and poor
- Anger builds among railroaders as more unions claim passage of tentative agreements
- South Korean auto union reaches sellout deal with Kia Motors
- What was Biden doing on January 6?
- Kroger announces purchase of Albertsons for $25 billion in deal to make grocery superchain
- Washington bullies Mexico into supporting war against Russia
- IMF report reveals dictatorship of finance capital
- At least 25 miners killed in a blast in Turkish coal mine after lack of precautions
- The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination
- Ukrainian military chief photographed with far-right paraphernalia
- Workers and students support SEP (Sri Lanka) anti-war meeting
- 15-year-old shooter in camouflage kills five in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Flood in Germany’s Ahr Valley: Many lives could have been saved
2022-10-16
- French motorists support striking refinery workers
- Almost a million excess deaths in Britain due to decades of social inequality
- Ontario education workers discuss way forward in contract struggle against the hard-right Ford government
- French government threatens to requisition striking refinery workers at Total
- This week in history: October 17-23
- UK: Unite secures acceptance of below-inflation pay deal at Go-Ahead London buses
2022-10-17
- Whitmer refuses to confront far-right politics of Dixon in Michigan gubernatorial debate
- Strikes grow as Macron postpones threat to crush French refinery strike
- The SPD and Greens seek to gag rock musician Roger Waters and silence criticism of NATO’s war in Ukraine
- UK teachers vote overwhelmingly for strike in “preliminary” ballot
- The mining disaster in Turkey and the case for socialism
- Independent Task Force on COVID-19 calls for urgent action to combat emerging diseases
- CDC: Over 212 nursing home workers have died from COVID-19 since August
- Large swaths of south-eastern Australia hit by floods
- Ahead of winter surge, CDC covers up COVID-19 variant data
- As voting approaches for railroad engineers and conductors, union head refuses to release vote totals for firemen and oilers contract
- “This campaign is not just for me, it’s for all of the people who come after me”: Stellantis worker urges support for Will Lehman
- Trump posts anti-Semitic warning that “US Jews have to get their act together”
- The crisis in education and the case for rank-and-file committees
- Chinese Communist Party congress convenes amid slowing economy and war threats
- After third rejection of contract proposal, Port of Mobile dock workers poised to strike
- Australian teacher staffing shortage exacerbates schools’ crisis
- US rehearses dropping nuclear bombs in Europe
- Australian teachers detail impact of school staffing shortages in inquiry submissions
- Further audio leaks expose backroom dealings by Los Angeles Democrats
- Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
- As COVID surges in Germany, studies show more risks from infections for children
- “Everybody believes that Daimler has the union in their pocket”: Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president wins support on Ray Curry’s home turf in North Carolina
- New Zealand local elections highlight growing opposition to Labour government
2022-10-18
- “Everybody was traumatized”: 25-year-old Chicago Ford worker dies on the job
- Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
- Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers
- Workers die in extreme heat during China’s summer
- At Paris march, French workers and youth denounce inflation, war
- Anti-Semitism and the Socialist Workers Party
- Vallourec, Germany: Build rank-and-file action committees to stop plant closures
- Massachusetts: Teachers strike in Haverhill and Malden
- The historical and political principles of the socialist opposition to imperialist war and the Putin regime
- Trump’s rant against Jews and the growth of anti-Semitism in the US
- EU foreign ministers pledge to train 15,000 Ukrainian troops for war with Russia
- As ballots go out in UAW election, growing support for rank-and-file candidate Will Lehman
- Bali bombings anniversary used to promote war agenda
- Mobilize the working class against the requisition of French refinery workers!
- Victims’ relatives reveal: Turkish mining disaster was social murder
- Brazilian presidential run-off dominated by religious and law-and-order reaction
- Ugandan officials impose lockdown across two districts to control the spread of Ebola outbreak
- Biden administration drafts UN resolution for deployment of foreign military forces to Haiti
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New government takes power in Sweden with backing of far-right Sweden Democrats
- Australia: Unions silent as court imposes fines over “illegal” strikes by teachers and nurses
- US and Mexico begin mass deportation of Venezuelan migrants
- Australian report documents cold conditions for renters
- UK Supreme Court case on the Scottish referendum draft bill: a reactionary distraction
- Amazon engages in job cutting as economic crisis worsens
2022-10-19
- Striking Liverpool dockers defy redundancy threats, announce further strikes
- Sri Lankan petroleum workers strike against privatisation, defying essential services laws
- Public inquiry begins into Trudeau government’s use of Emergencies Act against far-right Freedom Convoy
- Jackson, Mississippi residents confronted with massive water bills
- India strengthening anti-China alliance with US as Washington wages war on Russia
- What does the “Labour and Freedom Alliance” in Turkey stand for?
- IMF warns of global financial disorder
- Up to 20 arrests at Sysco picket line in Plympton, Massachusetts
- Senate bill gives Pentagon wartime procurement powers
- Teamsters president’s message to railroad workers: Stop “complaining” about union betrayals to “outsiders”
- US prosecutors recommend wrist-slap six-month sentence for January 6 conspirator Stephen Bannon
- California high school students speak out on massive respiratory virus outbreak at school
- One year after strike, John Deere workers in Iowa back Will Lehman campaign
- French police assault workers marching against inflation and in support of refinery strike
- Doctors send open letter to British and US governments demanding Assange’s freedom
- Australia: NSW rail union ban on fare collection set to begin
- Build rank-and-file power to fight layoffs and concessions!
- French high school students stage mass walkout in solidarity with striking refinery workers
- Surge in COVID-19 infections deepens crisis in Germany’s hospitals
- Wall Street cheers the prospect of mass unemployment
- US, Japan conduct large-scale military exercises in Hokkaido
- AFT President Randi Weingarten: A longtime agent for American imperialism
- Nurses speak out on needless patient deaths due to short-staffing at US hospitals
- German Green Party in a war frenzy
- The failure to eradicate polio: Capitalism cannot protect the world’s population from a growing number of epidemic diseases
2022-10-20
- British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns—a revolutionary crisis for British imperialism
- Lawyer Jennifer Robinson gives powerful defence of Assange at Australia’s National Press Club
- Pilots at German airline Eurowings on strike for three days
- Amid French refinery strike, Macron to impose 2023 budget without parliamentary vote
- On the resignation of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss
- The lessons of the failed Amazon Labor Union campaign in Albany, New York
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mobile, Alabama port workers in powerful position in lead-up to strike deadline
- Democrat Stacey Abrams advances right-wing agenda in Georgia gubernatorial debate
- Free Julian Assange!
- The significance of the UK financial crisis
- The Russo brothers’ Cherry: The cumulative social trauma
- Convicted Oath Keeper testifies in third week of seditious conspiracy trial
- Australian university union promotes Labor Party at Sydney strike rally
- Philadelphia Museum of Art workers agree to end their strike and ratify tentative agreement
- Growing COVID hospitalisations and cases in New Zealand
2022-10-21
- IYSSE members discuss international movement against war at beginning of semester at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Two workers killed in three days in Western Australian mines
- Révolution Permanente covers French union bureaucracy’s betrayal of refinery strike
- Russia evacuates tens of thousands from Kherson ahead of Ukrainian offensive
- Videos made public of Florida police arresting workers for voting “illegally”
- UK trade unions prepare corporatist partnership with a Labour government
- Six train derailments in 36 hours as conductors and engineers begin vote on sellout contract
- Engineers and conductors: Vote “NO” on sellout White House-brokered contracts! For rank-and-file oversight of balloting!
- Teachers in Haverhill, Massachusetts, defy injunction and continue strike for fourth day
- Australian High Court further shreds due process in the name of “security”
- Dangerous new COVID-19 variants threaten massive fall-winter surge
- German Chancellor Scholz announces more weapons for war against Russia
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman receives warm reception from co-workers at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania
- Broad audience at Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting against the threat of a nuclear war
- “They must be running scared”: UAW officials tell Ford management to remove Will Lehman campaigners at Kansas City assembly plant
- Oklahoma executes Benjamin Cole, a severely mentally ill inmate, after US Supreme Court denies appeal
- CGT bureaucracy works to strangle French refinery strike
- Rise in sudden deaths among young people with “mild” COVID-19 points to urgent need to end the pandemic
- Australia: Victoria triple-zero call delays linked to 33 deaths over 18 months
- Franco-German tensions shape EU summit
- Fort Myers resident speaks of Hurricane Ian and its aftermath: “It was a catastrophe waiting to happen”
- How global consultancy firm McKinsey helped craft Quebec’s profits-before-lives pandemic policy
2022-10-22
- January 6 House Select Committee subpoenas former President Donald Trump
- International Longshoremen’s Association to resume negotiations at Port of Mobile, preventing strike
- Condemn brutal Sri Lankan police attack on student demonstration!
- David O. Russell’s Amsterdam and the 1933–34 “Business Plot”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Opposition of railroaders to Biden-brokered contract points to breakdown of bureaucratic control
- Leon Trotsky and revolutionary strategy in the 20th and 21st centuries
- California judge rules Trump attorney involved in “a conspiracy to defraud the United States”
- New York City retirees protest attempts by Adams administration and unions to slash health benefits
- Boric orders violent police crackdown on anniversary of Chile’s 2019 revolt
- Momentum builds for Will Lehman’s campaign at GM Fairfax and Wentzville plants
- Official inquiry into Japanese ruling party’s ties to right-wing cult
- Australian rank-and-file groups call online public meeting: “Unite educators and health workers: Oppose the ending of COVID protection measures! Lives before profit!”
- German chemical workers union agrees 15 percent real wage cut for 580,000 workers
- Diary of a socialist Amazon worker: Why we need democracy in the workplace
2022-10-23
2022-10-24
- Iranian teachers hold two-day sit-down strike against state repression of nationwide protests
- Ebola infections take hold in Uganda’s capital Kampala
- RSV and other viruses strain US children’s hospitals, filling up pediatric beds
- This week in history: October 24-30
- One year since WSWS webinar, “How to end the pandemic”
- Craig Wallace, a spokesperson for Australians Against Covid, speaks with the WSWS
- Two health care workers fatally shot at Dallas hospital
- Weeks after landfall, Hurricane Ian leaves thousands displaced, financially ruined
- Oppose the Australian university union’s sellout at Western Sydney University College
- “We need to put our demands out there and not leave it up to the bureaucracy”: Baltimore rail maintenance workers hold informational picket against sellout contracts
- Once more on the brink: Sixty years since the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Travel nurse speaks on the conditions in California nursing homes: “I am guaranteeing you that the virus is still in that facility right now”
- Students at Joliot-Curie high school near Paris denounce police attacks
- Fascist Giorgia Meloni heads new Italian government
- What is behind the pseudo-left’s renewed support for Lula in Brazil?
- Will Lehman campaign holds meeting to oppose layoffs as election enters final stages
- Union ends California mental health strike with sellout deal
- Trouble brewing in $24 trillion US Treasury market
- Jacobin and Labor Notes on the UAW elections: Defenders of the apparatus against the campaign of Will Lehman
- New York begins sheltering refugees in tent city
- Australia: NSW rail union calls off fare collection ban as government targets workers in lawsuit
- Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo refuse to step down from Los Angeles City Council
- Early voting begins in US mid-term elections amid threats of disruption, suppression and violence
- On CNH picket line in Iowa, workers back Will Lehman’s call for full strike pay and mobilization of UAW membership behind their struggle
- Rishi Sunak: The UK’s new, multi-millionaire prime minister
- Arsonists attack refugee shelter in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
- New Zealand Stalinist Ken Douglas and the historic degeneration of the trade unions
- Frankfurt Book Fair dominated by Ukraine war propaganda
- Nurses in Joliet, Illinois organize protest after three ER nurses escorted off the premises for demanding safe staffing
2022-10-25
- Biden administration detained a record 2.3 million migrants at the US-Mexico border in 2022
- Sri Lankan workers support the campaign of Will Lehman for UAW president
- Australia and Japan sign far-reaching anti-China security pact
- Canadian Union of Public Employees rally shows union leadership has no strategy for education workers to defeat Ford
- Australia: Svitzer tug workers to hold limited stoppage as unions prepare sell-out
- The CCP Congress and the bankruptcy of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”
- Discredited Sri Lankan ruling party attempts a comeback
- “If that is socialism, then that’s what I am for”: Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president wins growing support across Midwest and Appalachian auto plants
- Sunak unveils UK government of austerity and war
- Poverty skyrockets in Ukraine
- Appeals court blocks Biden’s student loan relief plan
- Three dead, six injured in St. Louis, Missouri school shooting, fortieth in the US this year
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump, pro-coup Republicans step up anti-Semitic agitation
- Thirty Democrats in Progressive Caucus urge Biden to open talks with Russia in Ukraine war
- Canadian education workers call for Zero COVID as deadly eighth wave gathers pace
2022-10-26
- Details emerge about St. Louis high school shooter Orlando Harris
- Erdoğan orders Turkish Medical Association head detained: Hands off Fincancı!
- What accounts for the delays in the railroad engineers and conductors contract vote?
- Mounting problems in Chinese economy will have global effects
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want: Kenya’s play of the year on the unresolved issues of independence
- 24 hours after calling for negotiations to end Ukraine war, DSA and “progressive” Democrats demand escalation
- Australian Labor budget inflicts historic cuts on workers
- PSOE-Podemos, unions oversee largest growth of inequality in Spain since 2008 crash
- “You can make the same flipping burgers”: Nexteer workers tell Will Lehman campaigners they are fed up with UAW, management
- Four killed as devastating floods hit Australia’s most populous states
- Before collective bargaining in Germany’s public sector even begins, unions have sided with the government
- On eve of Brazil’s presidential run-off, National Student Union sabotages struggle against Bolsonaro’s attacks on education
- UK Sunak government considers bans on select strikes and “serious disruption”protests
- Tragic death of forklift driver in suburban Detroit parts plant shocks area autoworkers
2022-10-27
- At public inquiry, Ontario police intelligence chief tries to cover up “Freedom” Convoy’s fascist politics
- Sri Lankan president declares “harder times are inevitable”
- Police look on as Proud Boys assault students, media at Pennsylvania State University
- US expands military presence near Russian border
- “He’s for the people”: Detroit Stellantis workers explain why they voted for Will Lehman for UAW president
- Railroad signalmen vote to reject contract, in latest blow delivered by workers to White-House backed deal
- University of California grad student describes life under great stress
- Less than two years after January 6 coup, why are the Republicans surging?
- Jury in state court convicts three more men involved in plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan
- The US-NATO war against Russia and the revolutionary role of the American working class
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Five years of #MeToo: New York Times complains not enough damage has been done
- Australian Greens instigate right-wing witch-hunt against own Senator
- A Tribute to Regina Lohr – Australian Trotskyist
- “Reconstruction of Ukraine” Conference: The dispute over the spoils has begun
- “We feel very badly mistreated on many levels”: striking nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in California speak out
- Protesters demand answers after young temp worker dies at Thyssenkrupp steel mill in Duisburg
2022-10-28
- Hip hop celebrity, millionaire Kanye West emerges as full-blown anti-Semite
- Australia: Report reveals soaring levels of hunger, the result of rising living costs
- Democrat Fetterman moves to the right in Pennsylvania Senate debate
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Sunak prepares scorched earth UK November budget
- Following Uvalde shooting, Texas sends home DNA kits to identify schoolchildren
- German parliament agrees to drastically restrict freedom of speech and assembly
- US testing shows decline in math and reading skills among students, aggravated by the ruling class response to the pandemic
- Ascension Saint Joseph Medical Center suspends four Joliet nurses who opposed dangerous staffing shortages
- A reply to BMWED President Tony Cardwell: Who has the right to “sanction” a strike—the bureaucracy or the workers?
- Australia Post ends contactless delivery, COVID-19 isolation
- The crisis in US children’s hospitals and the need for socialist public health
- European Central Bank announces another big interest rate hike as recession trends strengthen
- City Colleges of Chicago faculty union sets November 2 strike date
- “He’s fighting for everything everybody wants”: More Michigan and Ohio autoworkers say why they are voting for Will Lehman for UAW president
- Mississippi River water levels plummet to all-time lows
- Brazilian presidential run-off unfolds under shadow of military’s “parallel vote count”
- Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee Sunday public meeting: “The unions say they won’t ‘sanction’ a strike. That decision rests with workers, not the bureaucracy!”
- Rank-and-file must take control of UK rail strike
2022-10-29
- Unite all Ontario education workers to defy Ford’s impending no-strike law!
- New COVID wave in New Zealand
- Amazon Labor Union withdraws plans to hold election in the California Inland Empire
- Australian Labor budget delivers triple hit to public hospitals
- Texas public safety director claims state police “did not fail” in response to Uvalde massacre
- German President Steinmeier delivers war speech to the nation
- Letter by 300 business groups urges White House to intervene against growing movement of railroaders
- Fascist who attacked Paul Pelosi was targeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
- “No more crooks!”: Support grows for Will Lehman for UAW president among Michigan autoworkers
- Elon Musk completes private takeover of Twitter
- UAW candidate Will Lehman wins growing support among coworkers at Mack Trucks: “It’s time somebody stands up”
- Sri Lankan parliament passes constitutional amendment on executive presidency
- Australia dispatching military “trainers” to aid the US-NATO war against Russia
- Pentagon national strategy document targets China
- Proud Boys assault students at University of California, Davis ahead of right-wing Turning Point USA event
2022-10-30
- Former French prime minister under investigation over COVID-19 response
- Israeli crackdown to crush insurgency in the occupied West Bank
- Spanish trade unions work to strangle mounting strike wave
- Macron calls to impoverish French workers by keeping wage rises below inflation
- Russia accuses Britain of blowing up Nord Stream pipelines
- This week in history: October 31-November 6
- Corporate donors pump billions into 2022 US midterm elections
2022-10-31
- Rock and pop musicians cancel fall tours out of pandemic-related concerns
- 100 years since Mussolini’s March on Rome
- “Trust and respect given to others must be earned”: Railroad worker demands accounting of BLET finances, moratorium on officers’ salaries
- The attack on Paul Pelosi and the crisis of American democracy
- Attack on Russian fleet leads to collapse of deal ensuring vital grain shipments
- Canadian imperialism’s predatory reach far exceeds its grasp
- Australian state election campaign in Victoria—major parties conceal preparations for austerity agenda
- Pentagon recommends promoting general involved in delay of National Guard to US Capitol on January 6
- Europe’s governments prepare third winter of mass COVID-19 infection and death
- Arson attack on UK asylum centre the product of government’s anti-migrant agenda
- Netanyahu and establishment parties pave way for rise of far-right in Israel’s election
- Pediatric health care workers plead for help as US hospitals are overwhelmed by spread of respiratory viruses
- As more infectious variants spread in Germany, rising number of COVID patients experience severe illness
- Reject the sell-out contract at Frankfurt University Hospital! Build action committees!
- Australian Labor budget benefits the rich at the expense of workers
- Chicago Ford rank-and-file committee issues statement: “Elect Will Lehman for UAW president!”
- Over 150 dead in Halloween disaster in South Korea
- The significance of the Democratic Socialists of America’s call for US war against Russia until “Ukrainian victory”
- Strike cancellation provokes workers’ fury as UK’s Royal Mail declares war
- Elon Musk tweets right-wing conspiracy theory about violent assault on Paul Pelosi
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