Archive: 11/2022
2022-11-01
- UK: Hull Stagecoach bus strike enters fourth week
- Australian Labor government’s industrial relations bill aims to block strikes
- Sri Lanka: To fight for housing Kajimawatte residents need to build an independent action committee
- Federal kidnapping and assault charges filed against Paul Pelosi’s attacker
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ontario government to use brutal anti-strike law to impose massive wage cut on education support workers
- Four killed in Bronx house fire
- Record numbers of Canadians used food banks this year, report shows
- Contract votes begin for US rail conductors, engineers and machinists; Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds successful public meeting
- Arizona federal judge rules that fascists have free speech right to intimidate voters at ballot drop boxes
- Atlanta Medical Center closes, laying off hundreds and abandoning patients
- South Korean workers in major industries vote to strike
- US to station nuclear-capable B-52 bombers in Australia
- Kokomo Stellantis workers voice support for Will Lehman for UAW president, denounce atrocious working conditions
- Australian academic Dr Pippa Yeoman speaks about her ongoing struggle with Long COVID
- One in ten New York City public school students is homeless
- During campaign for November 1 general election, Danish Social Democrats call for alliance with right-wing parties
- Boston University study on Omicron variant smeared as dangerous gain-of-function research by right-wing reactionaries
- US GDP up but recession trends grow
- Studies indicate that new Omicron subvariants could cause devastating COVID-19 surge in US
- Lula is elected president of Brazil as Bolsonaro maintains silence on results
2022-11-02
- Australian state governments end mandatory reporting of positive COVID tests as new surge begins
- Suspension bridge collapse in Indian state of Gujarat claims over 140 lives
- German government plans hospital “reforms”: A recipe for more cuts
- Reserve Bank of Australia chief delivers a blunt warning as interest rates lifted again
- Pentagon confirms deployment of active-duty military personnel in Ukraine
- Michigan teacher calls for support for Will Lehman for UAW president: “We all need rank-and-file committees”
- “They cut our wages in half… and the UAW let them do it”: Indiana autoworkers support Will Lehman, describe legacy of UAW betrayals
- From the Archives: The betrayal of the 1997 Ontario teachers’ strike
- “Everyone is underpaid”: Workers at Amazon’s ONT8 warehouse, site of stalled unionizing effort by Amazon Labor Union, speak out on working conditions
- Communication Workers Union officials go cap-in-hand to shareholders as UK’s Royal Mail declares war
- No to capitalist party-trade union fronts in Sri Lanka! Defeat government-IMF austerity measures! Build a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses!
- Judge rules former Grand Rapids officer who shot Patrick Lyoya will stand trial for second-degree murder
- The Biden administration’s war on refugees
- Nazi Billionaires by David de Jong: How Hitler’s financiers are still in business
- Will Lehman’s letter to Monitor: Workers report UAW violating federal law by telling TPTs they cannot vote
- “Grossman wanted the truth”: An interview with Robert Chandler, translator of Soviet novelist Vasily Grossman
- Opposition builds among education workers to Ontario government’s draconian anti-strike law
- Oppose the censorship of WSWS rail coverage on Reddit and Facebook!
- Bolsonaro breaks silence after defeat in Brazilian election, hailing fascist protests against “injustice of the electoral process”
- Janitorial staff at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx file class-action suit over denial of overtime pay
- Why is the fascist background of anti-migrant Dover arsonist being played down?
- The return of German militarism and the perspective of international socialism
- Australia: NSW rail union calls limited industrial action after government rejects concessionary deal
- On fourth day of his private ownership, Elon Musk fires Twitter board of directors
- Delta Airline pilots vote near-unanimously for strike action amid growing struggle of transport workers
- Australia: Tragic death of indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey after violent assault
- Big oil, food giants, restaurant chains reap windfall profits as US real wages plunge
2022-11-03
- Armed forces establishes new Territorial Leadership Command to militarise German society
- War hawk Liz Cheney campaigns for CIA Democrat Elissa Slotkin
- US Supreme Court hears lengthy oral arguments on racial preferences in university admissions
- Qatar Football World Cup being played on the bones of thousands of construction workers
- Pennsylvania Democratic candidate assaulted outside home in politically motivated attack
- The criminalization of the Ontario education workers strike and the global onslaught on workers’ rights
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- BLET national officers “election” begins—without opposition candidates
- Ebola crisis in Uganda: A new public health warning from WHO
- Australian Labor government defends brutal budget
- Biden’s technology war against China
- Huge US-South Korea air force exercises provoke North Korean missile launches
- Questions emerge about police security for high-level lawmakers in wake of assault on Paul Pelosi
- New Zealand arts funding agency attacks Shakespeare as part of “canon of imperialism”
- UK: Sarah Paxman found guilty for protecting her son from COVID-infected schools
- Detroit Stellantis Mack workers issue statement: “Support Will Lehman for UAW president!”
- Fed continues rate hikes to target wages
- “I voted for Will because he’s a socialist, he’s for the workers”: Ford Kentucky Truck Plant workers express support for Will Lehman
- Alliance with fascistic party returns Benjamin Netanyahu to power in Israel
- EPA investigation declares Jackson, Mississippi, drinking water safe despite continued complaints by residents
- Biden addresses nation to warn of “chaos” and “violence” ahead of midterm elections
- Arizona judge reverses ruling that allowed fascists to intimidate voters at ballot drop boxes
2022-11-04
- Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan shot in failed assassination attempt
- Northern Ireland elections delayed by a British ruling class in crisis
- Australian Labor government continues to bury ex-PM’s secret ministerial appointments
- German Chancellor Scholz visits Athens and seals tank deal with Greece
- Alleged names of eight Akron, Ohio cops uncharged in the murder of Jayland Walker released
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- The Humans: Lower middle class life as a horror story
- Mobilize Ontario workers to defy and defeat Ford’s anti-strike law!
- Candidate for Wisconsin governor promises permanent Republican power
- A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war!
- Egypt’s el-Sisi prepares for Cop27 summit by cracking down on dissent
- Blood tests reveal at least two-thirds of Australians have contracted COVID-19
- Bank of England lifts rates and forecasts “prolonged” recession
- CDC study: Excessive alcohol use accounts for one in eight deaths among working-age Americans
- The working class and the struggle against European imperialism’s drive to war
- Indian auto workers mount militant struggles against bosses’ attacks and union betrayals
- Fortress Europe policy kills hundreds more refugees in Mediterranean and Aegean Seas
- Australian health workers and educators support meeting calling for unified struggle against “let it rip” COVID policies
- Momentum among airline workers continues to build as American Airlines pilots reject new tentative agreement
- Contract bargaining in the German metal and electrical industries: Workers are ready to fight
2022-11-05
- Australian Labor PM pledges to boost long-range military weaponry
- Large police mobilisation blocks anti-government rally in Sri Lanka
- Elon Musk begins mass layoffs at Twitter
- South Korean government faces public anger over deadly Halloween crowd crush
- The precarious position of the working class and the prospects for a radicalization of the masses in Russia
- 60,000 Ontario education workers defy Ford government’s draconian anti-strike law with province-wide walkout
- PT rushes government transition as it covers for Bolsonaro’s electoral conspiracy in Brazil
- Netanyahu to form Israeli government of racists and fascists
- Shergold Review into Australia’s pandemic response rails against lockdowns
- Campaigning in Iowa, Trump calls on supporters to become “poll watchers” and “challengers”
- “They are sweeping it under the rug”: Metalsa Kentucky auto parts workers denounce cover-up of fatal accident, express support for Will Lehman for UAW president
- Till: A new film about the 1955 racist atrocity in Mississippi
- Australia: NSW TAFE teachers hold one-day statewide strike
- Major disruption at Port of Oakland, California after dockworkers walk off the job
2022-11-06
- Socialist Party/Socialist Workers Party police mounting opposition to CWU capitulation before UK’s Royal Mail
- People’s Assembly London demonstration: A smokescreen for the Labour and trade union bureaucracy
- People’s Assembly rally participants speak on UK social crisis
- Collective bargaining in Germany’s metal and electrical industries: Workers call for all-out strike
- Rank-and-file Ontario educators pledge to fight for “mass defiance of Ford’s strike ban” at well-attended meeting
2022-11-07
- This week in history: November 7-13
- Glenugie Estate workers in Sri Lanka strike indefinitely over wages and workloads
- Trump coup lawyers saw Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “key” to overturning 2020 election
- Fed report points to potential sources of new financial turbulence
- Rail machinists union claims narrow ratification in contract revote; Labor Secretary threatens congressional intervention
- UK dockers at port of Liverpool hold further two-week strike
- Pittsburgh Amazon driver speaks out: “It is time for all of us to unite together and stand up to these companies”
- US midterm elections: American democracy in shambles
- Funding cut to Shakespeare Festival in New Zealand widely opposed
- Orange County, California declares health emergency due to viral infections
- New Zealand ruling class prepares for war and social unrest
- Postal workers comment on UK strike
- “Workers everywhere want to fight”: Will Lehman holds powerful online rally as UAW elections enter final weeks
- US health officials are declaring the 2022-2023 flu season an epidemic
- US flies nuclear-capable B-1B strategic bombers over South Korea
- “A general strike is absolutely required”: Strike by 55,000 Ontario education workers in defiance of Ford government to continue Monday
- Union sends Australian plasterboard workers back to work after 40-day lockout
- German Chancellor Scholz criticised for trip to China
2022-11-08
- UK: University and College Union names strike days but intensifies corporatist strategy
- Oppose the Berlin state’s witch-hunting campaign against Roger Waters over claims of “anti-Semitism”!
- This England: A deeply flawed drama on the pandemic in the UK
- US 2022 midterm live updates: Congressional elections appear to end in deadlock
- Union Pacific maintenance worker dies in explosion near Houston as BMWED keeps workers on the job after contract rejection
- David North visits Prinkipo to organize Leon Trotsky commemoration event
- Fatigue emerges as key issue as US airline pilots reject contracts, authorize strike action
- Ontario Education Workers Rank-and-File Committee opposes unions’ scuttling of school support strike, charts way forward
- Teamsters pauses 4-day strike by bus mechanics fighting for wages, medical care in Orange County, California
- Online rally for UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman elicits strong support: “Will’s objective is to speak to the truth”
- Mass layoffs in tech spread to Meta, corporate parent of Facebook
- Plagued: An “inside” look at Australia’s political crisis
- Ukrainian officials discuss Kiev evacuation as danger of total power loss grows
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- 2,200 transit workers strike commuter bus lines in Greater Toronto region
- Stop Canada’s unions from scuttling the general strike movement in Ontario!
- Trump delivers fascistic speech amidst threats of violence ahead of Election Day
2022-11-09
- The Box: “Everyone in the north of Mexico depends on the factories”
- Canadian teachers express solidarity with Ontario education support workers' struggle
- London bus drivers send messages of solidarity to Will Lehman
- Kentucky and Michigan Ford workers speak in support of campaign of Mack Trucks autoworker Will Lehman for UAW president
- Facebook censors Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace and a Sydney health worker
- UK: Royal College of Nursing votes to strike
- The Workers Party’s electoral victory over Bolsonaro and the struggle confronting the Brazilian working class
- Australian Labor government in growing crisis over budget and IR bill
- Ford Louisville Assembly workers: Build rank-and-file committees to fight job cuts and concessions
- Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace speaks to WSWS about Facebook censorship
- COP27 climate summit overshadowed by US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for support for HarperCollins strike: “Your fight is every worker’s fight”
- Pro-war Bernie Sanders campaigns for Democrats at the University of Michigan
- Who is Chrystia Freeland, Washington’s “prime candidate” for NATO Secretary-General?
- Sri Lankan government suspends doctor for revealing extreme levels of child malnutrition
- A reply to a BLET bureaucrat’s attack on the World Socialist Web Site and rank-and-file workers
2022-11-10
- New York City educators speak out against attacks on early childhood education
- Video: German workers support Will Lehman
- Ukraine hunts for “collaborators”
- Two weeks of Italy’s Meloni government: Social cuts, refugee baiting and preparations for dictatorship
- After the midterms, Biden sets course for bipartisan collaboration with Republicans on war and austerity
- US Steel workers face cuts in real wages, no job guarantees in USW-company contract
- Mass layoffs expand from technology to financial and housing industries
- Modeling projections by Ugandan health officials suggest that Ebola deaths could reach 500 by April
- Report reveals how Canada’s unions intervened to strangle Ontario education support workers’ strike and rescue Ford government
- 48,000 University of California graduate students in the UAW set to strike next week
- The Los Angeles trial of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the effort to revive the #MeToo witch hunt
- Vote No to Metroline’s below-inflation pay offer!
- South Korean public sector workers to strike against job cuts, privatization
- Kenyan union calls off pilot strike after reactionary court ruling
- Protests continue in Iran in face of government repression
- Crypto market in turmoil as rescue plan for bankrupt FTX falls through overnight
- Australia: Striking NSW TAFE educators call for unified action of teachers
- Letter to UAW members from Will Lehman: Curry team violates election rules amid reports of voter suppression
- Reject Sri Lankan unions’ attempt to end strike at Glenugie Estate!
- COVID-19 reinfections substantially increase risk of death and Long COVID
- Railroaders furious as BMWED bureaucracy extends strike deadline once again, at White House’s request
2022-11-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spanish Morenoite CRT covers for sellout of Barcelona bus strike
- Brazilian military’s report on elections lends ammunition to coup plots
- “It’s a cycle of misery and low pay”: HarperCollins workers launch indefinite strike for a livable wage
- Upsurge in class struggle in UK and internationally: A harbinger of decisive revolutionary conflict
- Teacher calls for unity with health workers to fight Australian governments’ lifting of COVID protection measures
- Second rail maintenance worker dies in four days; rail workers respond to BMWE strike deadline extension, engineers’ contract
- The final stage of the campaign of Will Lehman for UAW president: The rank-and-file vs. the bureaucratic union apparatus
- As vote deadline approaches, supporters of Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman oppose voter suppression by UAW apparatus
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for extension of vote deadline as workers report not receiving ballots
- General strikes in Belgium and Greece, mass walkouts in France
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season Eleven in light of the events of 2022
- October inflation report: Prices continue to devastate living standards of US workers
- Whistleblowers reveal unsafe conditions on Sydney Metro construction project in Australia
- The price of a worker’s life in America: OSHA fines Caterpillar $145,027 for “willful” safety violation that led to Steven Dierkes’ death
- Australian workers send messages of support for the campaign of Will Lehman for UAW President
- Australian university union hails Labor’s cost-cutting budget
- Texas executes Tracy Beatty, a mentally ill man denied access to mental health testing
- German companies announce mass redundancies and social cuts
2022-11-12
- UN report: Record food import prices threaten food insecurity for hundreds of millions worldwide
- Paris mass transit mounts one-day strike against inflation, austerity
- PSOE-Podemos government ignores surge of COVID-19 cases in Spain
- Imperialist powers abandon climate pledges at COP 27 summit
- Jerry Lee Lewis, galvanic force of early rock and roll (1935-2022)
- Far-right deputy launches anti-immigrant outburst in French National Assembly
- Poland: Social and economic crisis intensifies as inflation surges past 25-year highs
- Sri Lankan plantation workers union to join President Wickremesinghe’s government
- Paris mass transit strike: Build rank-and-file committees, break union bureaucracies’ diktat over strikes!
- Trump-appointed judge strikes down Biden student debt relief program
- Hurricane Nicole and the climate crisis
- Brazilian union bureaucrats travel to Germany amid massive job cuts at Mercedes-Benz
- UAW Local 1302 vice president reports management was sent ballots in UAW elections: “This isn’t right, and workers should know about it”
- Canadian workers express solidarity with Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president
- Western Australian state Labor government applies to Industrial Relations Commission to shut down nurses’ action
- GM Flint Assembly workers launch rank-and-file committee, endorse Will Lehman for UAW president
- PSOE-Podemos government exhumes Spanish fascist general Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
- Australia: New COVID-19 variants fuel another surge of infections
- Editor of German right-wing daily FAZ slanders Roger Waters as an anti-Semite
2022-11-13
- PCS union delays strike date announcement after largest ever vote by 100,000 UK civil servants
- ATU ends Toronto-area GO Bus workers strike, seeks to impose Ford’s wage-cutting Bill 124
- Arts Council England pits London against the regions in an assault on culture
- Chilean dockworkers and the role of the unions and the pseudo-left: Lessons from the 2014 and 2018 strikes
2022-11-14
- Doctors and nurses warn of “breaking point” in hospital ERs
- Tax rises and severe cuts expected in autumn budget as Britain enters longest ever recession
- GE Aerospace workers in Ohio explain impact of UAW givebacks and why they are backing Will Lehman: “He’s for democratizing power back to the workers”
- COVID outbreak exposes oppressive conditions for Foxconn workers in China
- IG Metall union bans WSWS leaflet at strike rally in Germany
- “These living conditions are without dignity”: University of California academic workers begin powerful strike across 10 campuses
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: Mobilize all workers behind the striking University of California academic workers!
- Australian industrial court imposes real wage cut on NSW public school teachers, union accepts ruling
- Australia Post prepares new round of restructuring—from the Sustainable Delivery Model to Post 26
- This week in history: November 14-20
- Peru hit with credit rating downgrade over deepening political and economic crises
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praises Biden, defends war against Russia, and attacks socialist critics in interview with The Intercept
- Frankfurt’s corrupt Social Democratic Party mayor ousted in referendum
- Obituary: Australian Socialist Equality Party member Virginia Grenfell (May 2, 1953–November 8, 2022)
- “We need to fight these people to defend our jobs”: Louisville Assembly Plant workers denounce threatened plant closure
- UAW members demand extension of voting deadline in national union election due to widespread ballot issues
- Japan, UK to sign military agreement next month
- Former Oath Keepers vice president revealed to have been FBI informant “months” before January 6 attack
- European study finds hospitalization rates for RSV infections among infants have been higher than expected
- New Zealand national security briefing promotes war and censorship
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds Sixth National Congress
- The US midterm elections and the ongoing threat of fascism
- Ten Amazon workers injured in violent workplace incident at JKF8 warehouse in New York
- Mobilise the working class against imperialist war!
- 230 refugees land in France as spat with Italy sparks EU diplomatic crisis
- Bomb attack in Istanbul: At least six people killed, 81 injured
2022-11-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hundreds of thousands march in Madrid against health cuts
- Biden pledges to “manage” economic war with China
- FTX collapse: A damning exposure of the criminality of capitalism
- As US rural hospitals close at unprecedented rate, health care workers speak on deteriorating conditions
- New York Times warns right-wing political violence from within the US military and police “put the nation at risk”
- Chicago Ford Rank-and-File Election Committee member speaks out: “Workers have to unite”
- Strike by 48,000 academic workers begins at University of California campuses
- Public sector workers across Tasmania, Australia, strike against government austerity measures
- Railroaders: Build support from workers in other industries for our fight against Congress, the carriers and the corrupt union bureaucracy!
- Boilermakers become the fourth to reject national rail contract brokered by the White House
- “A way to tell the story of how the United States operates in the world”: An interview with Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire
- German federal states abolish quarantine requirement for those infected with COVID
- The escalating class struggle in Britain and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- South Korean trade unions hold mass rally in Seoul
- Metroline bus drivers in London vote to strike, rejecting below-inflation pay offers
- The crisis of bourgeois rule in Sri Lanka and the tasks of the SEP
- Pro-business frontman in Detroit schools awarded “Urban superintendent of the year”
- Pseudo-left Québec Solidaire reacts to its election debacle by turning still further right
- Legal aid attorneys in New York City fight low pay and overwork as tens of thousands face eviction
- Australian university union shuts down strikes at University of Sydney
- Terrorist attack in Istanbul leads to stepped-up police-state measures, militarism
- Chinese translation of “A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war!”
- UK and France sign new repressive anti-immigration deal
- UC striker calls for supporting UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: We must “build solidarity not just across 10 campuses but across sectors and geography”
2022-11-16
- Australian Labor PM has “reset” meeting with Xi
- Will Lehman replies to incumbent union president Ray Curry’s violation of federal law and UAW election rules
- The FTX crypto collapse and the underlying crisis of the capitalist financial system
- Strike of 48,000 academic workers in California enters third day
- Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW president, to appear on Turkish TV program Thursday
- Trump delivers fascist diatribe to announce 2024 reelection bid
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism
- Causeway: Hardly a hint left of antiwar sentiment
- UK schools face devastating funding crisis
- As the class struggle grows in US, another rail union rejects White House-backed contract
- NATO to convene under Article 4 after Poland says Russian missiles struck its territory
- Transit workers in Loudoun County, Virginia, authorize strike amid ongoing transit crisis
- Video: Support the striking University of California academic workers!
- The campaign against “Last Generation” climate activists: Preparation for establishing a police state in Germany
- Separate deadly incidents at American universities highlight the ongoing epidemic of mass violence in the United States
- G20 meets amid mounting economic and geopolitical crisis
- British Columbia Teachers' Federation seeks to impose massive wage cuts on 49,000 educators
- Chinese Communist Party begins lifting Zero-COVID policy
- Svitzer Australia moves to lock out 582 workers
2022-11-17
- Australia: Unions, government, Svitzer, industrial courts agree—strikes must be stopped
- Democratic think tank plots war against Russia and China: What is the Center for a New American Security?
- US, Japan and South Korea pledge to improve intelligence sharing
- Sri Lankan apparel workers hit by major jobs and wages cuts
- Michigan Medicine worker speaks out against capitalism’s COVID policy
- Germany’s IG Metall union holds warning strikes in Leipzig and Stuttgart: “In reality, an 18 percent wage increase is needed”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Federal appeals court blocks Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan indefinitely
- Former Australian prime minister calls for mandatory national service for young people
- Supreme Court rejects request by Arizona Republican Party chair to shield phone records from January 6 Select Committee
- Republican Party wins control of the US House of Representatives
- German government increases military spending for war against Russia
- Ukraine attacks Poland: A deliberate provocation
- The Quebec unions and the Ontario education workers’ struggle—how the bureaucracy sows disunity
- Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter employees: Submit to “extremely hardcore” culture, or face termination
- Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in Britain! For a global counteroffensive of the working class!
- Union representing 55,000 Ontario education support workers announces strike for November 21
- From the archives: What was the “victory” on the Australian waterfront?
- Strike wave of academic workers in US grows: 50,000 out at UC, New School
- World Socialist Web Site readers in North Asia support online public meeting to fight “let it rip” COVID policies
- Ford Action Committee in Saarlouis, Germany declares support for Will Lehman
- 1,600 part-time faculty strike at the New School in New York City
- University of California strikers determined to fight against poverty level wages
- UK Chancellor Hunt unleashes class war budget
2022-11-18
- Four months after contract expiration, UTLA still refusing to hold strike authorization vote
- Sri Lanka: Glenugie Estate workers return after union betrays strike
- Rail workers vote to extend UK national strike action as RMT union holds closed door talks with employers
- Three death row prisoners executed over two days in the US
- “It’s literally nationwide, and we really have to stand with each other”: Striking New School part-time faculty speak out on the picket line
- As fallout from crypto collapse spreads, concerns grow over financial stability
- Australian wages data shows historic cut to working-class living standards
- Detroit autoworkers support lawsuit to extend deadline on UAW election
- Australia: Fair Work Commission suspends Svitzer lockout, strikes
- Evictions in Detroit return to pre-pandemic levels
- Harvey Weinstein's lawyers point to dozens of friendly emails from accuser Jennifer Siebel Newsom
- Pelosi retires as House Democratic leader after narrow election defeat
- Build the Assange defence campaign in the working class!
- The disastrous implications of lifting Zero-COVID in China
- Planned strike at University of Sheffield International College suspended by University and College Union
- Will Lehman sues UAW and Monitor in federal court to guarantee workers’ right to vote in election
- IG Metall moves toward sellout of metal and electrical industry workers
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman visits HarperCollins picket lines
- US hospitals are closing as demand for care increases
- Trump-backed Kari Lake refuses to concede Arizona gubernatorial race
- Video: Attorney for Will Lehman’s statement on lawsuit against UAW and Monitor for violating members’ right to vote in election
- The fight against war and the global expansion of the ICFI
- Australian workers support online rank-and-file public meeting to fight government removal of COVID-19 safety measures
- Floods once again devastate Australia’s most populous state
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
2022-11-19
- Australian university union’s “historic win” at WSU exposed
- Attorney General Garland appoints special counsel to oversee Trump investigations
- Economic hardship, COVID and political instability dominate today’s Malaysian election
- Musk’s attack on Twitter workers brings company to the brink of collapse
- Autoworkers voice support for lawsuit by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to defend right to vote
- Washington Post backs Republican-led witch-hunt against scientists
- Will Lehman files lawsuit to oppose anti-democratic vote suppression by UAW apparatus
- New state election in Berlin: The SGP gives opposition to war a voice and a perspective
- Infections, hospitalisations and fatalities rise as COVID-19 surges unhindered throughout Australia
- Massive snowfall fueled by climate change hits Buffalo and Great Lakes region
- West Australian nurses denounce union sellout and state Labor government gag
- More Australian workers support November 20 public meeting to initiate united action to fight COVID-19
- All Quiet on the Western Front: A strong anti-war film, and at the right time
- Third COVID wave worsens in New Zealand
- Explosion and fire in apartment complex in Gaithersburg, Maryland, kills 1 and injures 14
- Ontario education workers speak out ahead of strike by 55,000 workers Monday: “We were kept in the dark on negotiations for almost 10 days”
- Nine refugees, mostly children, die in fire in Turkey: A social crime
- UC strike pits academic workers in battle against the Democratic Party
- Corporate media fears rail strike as major unions close contract vote
2022-11-20
2022-11-21
- Union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers calls off strike, endorses sellout agreement
- Van Gogh in America at the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Australian maritime unions declare “victory” after court bans strikes at Svitzer
- Successful launch of Artemis I: In the footsteps of Apollo, but no further
- Australian floods underscore the sham of a government “buyback” scheme
- Largest US rail union rejects White House-brokered tentative agreement, setting stage for historic strike
- Menzies ground staff strike at Heathrow Airport
- Australia: Well-attended educators and health workers meeting opens with video presentation on COVID-19
- German workers outraged over IG Metall union deal
- Amazon workers in Japan to protest against brutal conditions
- Federal judge orders US secretary of labor to respond to Will Lehman’s lawsuit
- Brazil faces new COVID-19 wave amid sabotage of child vaccinations
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman visits picket line at New School in New York City
- Turkey bombs Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq
- IG Metall union in Germany agrees to third consecutive cut in real wages
- Gaza house fire kills 22: Victims of Israel’s war on Palestinians
- University of California strike begins second week: “We need a society that works for everyone, not just the capitalists at the top”
- Mass shooting at gay nightclub in Colorado leaves at least 5 dead and 25 injured
- Biden administration grants immunity to Saudi crown prince, murderer of Jamal Khashoggi
- Lifetime award for noted British playwright Caryl Churchill cancelled in “anti-Semitism” smear
- Sri Lankan president presents IMF-dictated budget
- Thousands attend UK March With Midwives demonstrations
- She Said: The origin story of the #MeToo campaign, or a version of it
- This week in history: November 21-27
2022-11-22
- COP27 summit does nothing to address climate change
- “Somebody needs to stand up to all this”: Workers back Will Lehman’s lawsuit demanding extension of vote deadline in UAW election
- Australian pseudo-left Victorian Socialists in state election campaign—a pro-imperialist group sets sights on parliament
- SGP election campaign in Berlin: “We are turning the election into a referendum against the war!”
- Sri Lankan police brutally attack student protest demanding the release of political prisoners
- Two arrested in New York City for allegedly planning an anti-Semitic attack
- Spanish Morenoites cover for Podemos war budget
- Australia: The way forward for striking New South Wales nurses
- Colorado mass murderer is grandson of coup-supporting Republican California assembly member
- US railroaders’ vote against contract sets stage for conflict with capitalist state, union bureaucracy
- New School makes “final offer” to striking part-time faculty in New York City
- Watch SEP online memorial meeting: A Tribute to Regina Lohr – Australian Trotskyist
- Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee announces Wednesday public meeting: “The way forward after conductors reject White House contract”
- Australian government protects LNG producers even as gas prices soar
- Hospitals across the US experience an alarming surge of respiratory viruses
- Democrat Karen Bass will quickly dash voter expectations after election as Los Angeles mayor
- Renault-Nissan workers in Chennai form India's first rank-and-file autoworkers’ committee
- Many UK excess deaths likely caused by COVID reinfections
- Beijing reports three COVID-19 deaths as cases continue to surge across China
- UC academic workers: Build a rank-and-file strike committee to prevent a sellout by the UAW bureaucracy!
2022-11-23
- New Zealand’s far-right terrorist Brenton Tarrant to appeal conviction
- Germany’s Documenta 15 art exhibition: An inspiring display sullied by malicious accusations of anti-Semitism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Videos appear to document execution of Russian POWs by Ukrainian armed forces
- Final video of Will Lehman’s UAW election campaign translated into nine languages
- Australia: CFPE and Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee hold successful, well-attended public meeting
- Chinese government’s new COVID policy causes public concern as infections rise
- Facing far-right coup plot in Brazil, Lula curries favor with imperialism at COP27
- President Biden intervenes in rail talks in last-ditch effort to head off national strike
- Verdict in neo-Nazi trial maintains the fairy tale of a lone perpetrator
- UK postal workers renew strikes against Royal Mail for decent pay and against restructuring
- Scottish teachers to strike over derisory pay offer
- Harris visits Philippines President Marcos: Human rights hypocrisy and war mongering
- Will Lehman speaks to University of California strikers as rank-and-file rebellion grows against UAW bureaucracy
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2022-11-24
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2022-11-25
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2022-11-26
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- Turkey continues bombing Kurdish forces in Syria, threatens ground invasion
- Sri Lankan president threatens to crush anti-government struggles
- Australia: NSW nurses speak on crisis in healthcare at fourth state-wide strike
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- Australian Education Union campaigns for Labor government in state election, following imposition of sellout industrial agreement
- China tallies three consecutive days of record COVID-19 infections
- The German government’s Citizen’s Income: Hartz IV poverty gets a new name
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2022-11-27
2022-11-28
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- Australia: Victorian state election underscores crisis of major parties
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- Australia: Oppose sell-out rail deal in New South Wales!
- The protests in China and the lifting of Zero-COVID
- Germany’s coalition government adopts a budget for war and austerity
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- Strong support for an international mass movement against war at Germany’s University of Leipzig
2022-11-29
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- Opposition by University of California strikers grows against UAW’s dropping of COLA demand
- Striking part-time faculty at The New School vote on “last, best, and final” offer
- Spain: PSOE-Podemos prepares new repressive laws against strikes, protests
- Biden calls on Congress to impose rail contract in a major assault on workers’ democratic rights
- RMT promotes ScotRail deal as model for ending national rail strike
- Australians Against COVID holds vigil for 16,000 COVID deaths
- What took them so long? New York Times, Guardian finally call for Assange’s freedom
- UK: Guardian suggests Conservative peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29 million from government COVID contract profits
- Transcript from hearing in Lehman v. UAW details arguments for extending UAW election deadlines
- Form rank-and-file committees to lead a UK general strike!
- New Zealand government reaffirms support for US-NATO war against Russia
- Press reports claim Liz Cheney blocks probe of FBI, Pentagon in January 6 attack
- Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin proposes right-wing revision of public school curriculum
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- Paul Krugman defines 1 million US COVID deaths as a victory for democracy
- Faced with CUPE propaganda campaign endorsing sellout, Ontario education support workers determined to defeat concessions-filled contract
- Warning strikes on Austria’s railroads and in hospitals
2022-11-30
- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and top lieutenant found guilty of seditious conspiracy
- Under conditions of murderous exploitation, a worker dies at Amazon in Leipzig, Germany
- Australia: Qantas moves to overturn court ruling that outsourcing 2,000 workers was illegal
- NATO summit vows to continue troop surge to Russia’s borders
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- UK: Communication Workers Union agrees sellout deal to end BT strike, pledges partnership in £3 billion cost-cutting agenda
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- UAW local covering 11,000 University of California postdoc and academic researchers announces sellout agreements, as union seeks to shut down strike
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