Archive: 12/2022
2022-12-01
- Australian PM says “legal action” against Assange should end
- No COLA, No Contract! Build rank-and-file strike committees across UC campuses and beyond! For a counteroffensive against the attacks on the working class!
- Mississippi-based United Furniture Industries fires 2,700 workers without notice on eve of Thanksgiving holiday
- Fed chief Powell spells it out: workers are its chief target
- Millions placed under two-day boil water advisory in Houston, Texas
- Belgian rail workers mount three-day nationwide strike
- Rank-and-file workers resolution: Congressional imposition of railroad contract is “completely illegitimate”
- Australian parliament censures ex-PM: An extraordinary coverup
- Democrats move to ban rail strike, impose settlement opposed by workers
- Workers in three UK national strikes speak to the WSWS
- Youth in Australia speak out against war, promote IYSSE global anti-war webinar
- Socialist candidate Will Lehman on pace to win thousands of votes in UAW election with suppressed turnout
- Defeat Unite’s sabotage of London bus strikes! Vote NO to sellout pay deal at Metroline!
- German parliament declares 1930s famine in Ukraine a genocide: Falsification of history in the service of war propaganda
- US airline workers join railroaders in fight against abusive work conditions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- NZ tertiary union takes legal case over job cuts
- Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness: Today’s “master class” and “subject class”
- Taiwan’s local elections a blow to ruling DPP and Washington
- Workers in Germany reject IG Metall’s collective bargaining agreement
- Workers’ Party of Turkey’s Erkan Baş’s call for a “Peace Accord”: A middle class delusion
2022-12-02
- Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE campaign for global anti-war webinar
- In letter to Detroit News, Will Lehman says conduct of UAW election is a “travesty”
- UK: BT workers denounce Communication Workers Union sellout deal seeking end of national strike
- Flight attendant shares his experience being intubated for 19 days with COVID-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Macron warns of “fracturing” of NATO alliance on state visit to Washington
- Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part One
- Train and track authorities prosecuted over fatal derailment in Australia
- Bernie Sanders, DSA play crucial role in passing anti-strike law against railroaders
- With US police killings on track to eclipse last year’s record, Democratic-run cities seek to add killer robots
- OECD forecasts worsening global economic outlook
- Without Russian gas imports, France prepares winter power cuts
- 2022 global art market benefits from an “explosion of wealth” at the top
- University of Sheffield International College staff mount first strike at a UK private higher education provider
- Chinese vice premier signals shift from Zero-COVID based on lie that Omicron is mild
- Australia: Labor’s new anti-strike industrial relations bill approved by parliament
2022-12-03
- University of California academic workers counter efforts by UAW bureaucracy to sell out strike
- Jacobin promotes student debt bankruptcy
- ONLINE RALLY: Defend the railroad workers! Down with Washington’s illegitimate anti-strike law!
- Western Australian industrial court threatens to deregister nurses’ union after strike
- Kanye West’s fascism and the crisis of American society and culture
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals slams Trump, vacates special master for Mar-a-Lago state secrets documents
- High excess mortality as coronavirus death rates rise in Germany
- Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, wins 4,777 votes amid anemic turnout
- Stronger than expected US jobs report sparks calls for further interest rate hikes
- Sri Lankan president hints at dangers of conflict in Indian Ocean
- “The political parties don’t represent the people”: US workers furious after Biden signs bipartisan anti-strike legislation
- South Korean trade unions isolate striking truckers amid government threats
- Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Two
2022-12-04
2022-12-05
- Ontario and Quebec Education workers condemn CUPE’s push to ram through sellout contract
- New Zealand government suppressed COVID testing to keep infected people at work
- We Are Not Ghouls and The Corridors of Power: Two films probe or fail to probe US responsibility for genocide and torture
- Trump calls for “termination” of US Constitution to restore him to power
- Patient dies at Nashville hospital after being set on fire from defibrillator paddles
- Labor historians’ “open letter” to Biden falls on deaf ears
- Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Three
- Indian government doubles down on support for US war drive against China
- Australian state election in Victoria deepens Liberal Party crisis
- German parliament supports far-right war propaganda with “Holodomor” vote
- “All workers everywhere stand with railroad workers!”: Workers denounce Washington’s imposition of sellout contract on railroaders
- South Africa: Corruption scandal threatens Ramaphosa’s presidency and the ANC’s grip on power
- Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, receives nearly 5,000 votes despite bureaucratic suppression of election turnout
- Vote “No” on the Postdocs and Academic Researcher Contracts! For unified action until all our demands are met!
- Health experts warn of impending public health crisis as China quickly adapts itself to herd immunity policy
- Many UK schools structurally unsound, posing danger to life
- Will Lehman demands that all candidates be on the ballot in second round of UAW elections
- This week in history: December 5–11
- Youth and students in Australia support IYSSE’s call for global anti-war movement
- New School administrators step up strikebreaking threats after part-time faculty reject “final” offer
- New York City mayor attacks the civil rights of the homeless
- Democrats propose new primary schedule with South Carolina first
- Resistance in Germany is growing to insolvencies, redundancies and wage dumping
2022-12-06
- Climate change protester jailed for 15 months in Australia
- ILO report reveals deepening cuts in real wages
- DeSantis-backed school boards begin firing superintendents and enacting reactionary measures across Florida
- UAW tries to silence opposition as University of California strikers press their demand for higher wages, COLA
- German government steps up armaments drive and sends more tanks to Ukraine
- Democratic Socialists of America scrambles to defend its role in imposing rail contract
- CUPE rams through sellout contract for 55,000 Ontario education workers after massive propaganda campaign
- Pennsylvania and Ohio educators pass resolution supporting railroad workers
- Attack on two substations leaves nearly all 100,000 residents of Moore County, North Carolina without power
- Chinese Communist Party moves towards “herd immunity” policy
- South Korean unions prepare sell-out of striking truck drivers
- Australia: Multinational food corporation uses desperate measures against striking Pampas pastry workers
- Sri Lanka: Brandix factory locks out 1,500 workers protesting against bonus cut
- Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Four
- 15,000 Minnesota nurses set to strike on December 11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959): One of the science fiction works of the era depicting the consequences of nuclear war
- WikiLeaks editor-in-chief warns Assange may be extradited “within weeks”
2022-12-07
- Auto parts workers strike Pennsylvania plant after third contract rejection
- Stellantis Warren Truck workers voice support for Will Lehman’s call for all candidates to be included in UAW election runoff
- Campaign for December 10 rally to build international anti-war movement reaches students across Canada
- Australia: Supermarket cleaner Malerato Harrison dies in workplace accident
- “I support the right to rebel against exploitation”: More workers declare their solidarity with US railroaders
- Australia: Pseudo-left “Victorian Socialists” seek to divert working-class discontent
- Reserve Bank of Australia again lifts rates to cut wages
- Drone attacks on Russian airbases: A major escalation in the war authored in Washington
- UK rail strike: government brokered talks end with demand for surrender
- Sri Lankan workers need action committees to fight IMF austerity measures
- Manhattan jury finds Trump family companies guilty on all charges
- Berlin Humboldt University Student Parliament: IYSSE rejects anti-democratic campaign of Social- and Christian-Democratic youth organizations
- Soaring maternal mortality figures expose deplorable state of women’s health care in America
- Tantura: Documentary about Israeli destruction of a Palestinian village in 1948
- Interest rate hikes start to make their impact
- Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Conclusion
- Janitors set up picket line after being fired by Twitter in latest attack by billionaire owner Musk
2022-12-08
- Right-wing US Supreme Court justices appear divided over “independent state legislature” threat to democracy
- Ukraine threatened with total blackout
- Hertz rental company ordered to pay millions to customers falsely accused of auto theft
- At online rally, railroad workers and their supporters discuss way forward after anti-strike law
- A glimpse into what Chinese workers think about COVID restrictions
- New York Times journalists and staffers to launch 24-hour strike on Thursday
- AUSMIN talks expand Australia’s role in US war preparations against China
- What kind of company do the striking HarperCollins workers face?
- Weekly US influenza cases highest on record
- Anger among West Australian nurses who face joint Labor-union offensive
- IYSSE campaigns at UK universities and town centres for international anti-war rally on December 10
- Netanyahu strikes deal with fascistic Religious Zionism in bid to form Israeli government
- Power returns to Moore County, North Carolina, as perpetrators of blackout remain at large
- Democrat Raphael Warnock narrowly wins runoff election for US Senate from Georgia
- Large-scale raid against right-wing terrorist network reveals the extent of the fascist danger in Germany
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The US and the Holocaust: Documentarian Ken Burns examines the failure of Roosevelt to rescue the victims of the Nazis’ Final Solution
- UK government mounts state offensive against striking workers
- New Zealand university hosts exhibition glorifying Ukrainian fascists
- Danish Social Democrats seek coalition with right-wing parties
2022-12-09
- Peru’s President Castillo is impeached and arrested after attempting to dissolve Congress
- University of California academic workers: Replace the bargaining teams! Build rank-and-file committees to expand the strike and win our demands!
- Delta Air Lines and ALPA reach “agreement in principle” on inadequate three-year deal
- After anti-strike law against railroaders breezes through Congress, partisan gridlock on budget threatens government shutdown
- House Democrats pick former CIA agent Spanberger for leadership post
- Unite’s Sharon Graham declares below-inflation pay deal at Metroline a “victory”
- French students support December 10 IYSSE rally for an international anti-war movement
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog denounces state surveillance of right-wingers, but demands it for the Socialist Equality Group
- Indian students and workers support December 10 rally to build international anti-war movement
- New York Times workers stage a one-day strike
- New Brunswick’s anti-worker Bill 23 is part of the global, state-led assault on workers’ rights
- At the behest of world capitalism, Chinese Communist Party opens China to COVID-19
- “If they use the nuclear bombs nothing will be left,” Sri Lankan student tells IYSSE campaigners
- Another serious accident at Thyssenkrupp Steel following death of worker Refat Süleyman
2022-12-10
- The US-led war plans against China and the building of an anti-war movement in the Asia-Pacific
- New Jersey governor seeks private vendor to run state’s veterans homes
- Australia faces holiday surge as COVID infections, hospitalisations grow
- The pro-imperialist pseudo-left backs US-NATO war against Russia
- The social crisis facing youth in the United States
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Stalinist-led Kerala government connives with Modi against fishers protesting Adani Port project
- The class logic behind Washington’s anti-strike law against railroaders
- Thousands of workers protest against privatisation in Sri Lanka
- Senator Kyrsten Sinema declares herself an “independent” to push the Democrats further to the right
- The historical background to the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine
- The position of Latin America in the imperialist redivision of the world
- An anti-war movement must be led by the working class
- Brittney Griner arrives in the US after prisoner exchange
- War, social crisis and the tasks of young people in South Asia
- The socialist and internationalist basis for opposing the Putin government and fighting US-NATO imperialism
- The World Cup and human rights: Qatar 2022 and Argentina 1978
- Youth, students and workers in Australia and New Zealand support global IYSSE anti-war webinar
- Sick children turned away as crisis deepens in Australian hospitals
- The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the right to a future
- The impact of 30 years of imperialist war on the Middle East and Central Asia
- Low levels of testing in Europe obscure rapid COVID-19 winter surge
- Museum workers, identity politics and class
- Record US military budget prepares for “future conflict with China”
- South Korean truckers’ union calls off strike following sham vote
- Humboldt University students in Berlin support call for an international mass movement against war
- Anti-government protests continue in Iran despite mounting repression
- Stellantis announces indefinite layoffs for 1,350 Belvidere Assembly Plant workers
- January 6 Committee considers sending criminal referrals to Justice Department targeting Trump, others
2022-12-11
- Channel Islands: Up to 12 people killed in explosion at Jersey apartment block
- UK postal workers speak on fight against Royal Mail and wider strike movement
- Communication Workers Union pleads at national rally for pro-business settlement to end UK postal strike
- Catastrophe in care at German children’s hospitals
2022-12-12
- UK unions try to prevent National Health Service strikes by agreeing sell-out deals with government
- Democratic Socialists of America provide cover for UAW and Democrats as they move to shut down University of California strike
- Australia and Japan boost military ties against China
- BIS warns of dollar debt “black hole”
- US COVID death toll surges in third winter of the pandemic
- This week in history: December 12-18
- The International Youth and Students for Social Equality and the fight against war
- Judge drops all charges against former Michigan Governor Snyder for his role in the Flint water crisis
- Orion spacecraft splashes down, completing Artemis I mission
- Two-year-old killed by household mould exposes UK-wide public health crisis
- UAW reaches tentative agreement with the New School, calls off strike
- Australian “energy relief” plan to subsidise business while household bills continue to soar
- Fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene boasts January 6 coup would have succeeded if she led it because “we would’ve been armed”
- Sri Lanka: Glenugie estate workers hostile to unions’ collaboration with management
2022-12-13
- San Diego, California: Family of Brian Umana still searching for answers one year after fatal police shooting
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Biden administration goes to court to defend Trump anti-immigrant policies
- Violence against refugees at EU external borders increases dramatically
- Oppose the separatist agenda of the Scottish National Party and pseudo-left groups: For working class unity not national division
- Australian election surveys point to “fracturing” political establishment
- Scope of right-wing terrorist network in Germany comes into focus
- 40,000 rail workers resume national strike as UK government prepares anti-strike legislation
- Letter from Toronto school caretaker answers the lies CUPE told Ontario education workers to ram through its sellout contract
- Australian strike wave continues despite union suppression
- Karen Bass sworn in as Los Angeles mayor, plans crackdown on homeless
- US COVID-19 policy: “Social murder” of older Americans
- UAW negotiators agree to mediator to impose deal on striking University of California workers
- Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies
- Railroad workers visit Baltimore Amazon fulfillment center workers to explain their struggle and appeal for support
- Kash Kash and Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling: A movie immersed in social life and one that drifts away from it
- The young generation holds the fate of humanity in its hands
- To fight for the future we must fight for socialism!
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman: “Why I am not supporting Shawn Fain in run-off vote”
- As CNH strike reaches 225 days, workers remain determined to win: “We’re all fighting for our families”
2022-12-14
- FTX founder Bankman-Fried indicted on criminal charges
- Armageddon Time: Growing up in 1980s New York
- Australian Labor government restricts COVID testing
- Chinese hospitals face deluge of patients with end of Zero COVID
- Vote “no” on the UAW-New School contract for part-time faculty! Continue striking until workers’ demands are met!
- India-China border clash highlights simmering war danger in Himalayas
- Sri Lanka president threatens to take “tough decisions” on budget
- Another #MeToo trial collapses in Australia
- For a general strike to back nurses' fight to defend the NHS from UK Tory government: Build rank-and-file committees!
- Australia: University of Newcastle pushes a non-union enterprise agreement
- As inflation eases slightly, Biden and the Fed say recessionary interest rises will continue
- New York Times covers up for Biden, Trump and other COVID-19 criminals
- Text messages from Mark Meadows confirm January 6 coup was organized and supported by dozens of Republican lawmakers
- Five more men to stand trial for 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Whitmer
- Thousands of garment workers laid off in the Philippines
- Fight back against the attack on jobs at Stellantis Belvidere Assembly Plant! Mobilize support behind Stellantis workers!
- Iran publicly hangs second anti-government protester after show trial
- Police killings fuel protests across Peru against newly installed US-backed Boluarte regime
2022-12-15
- Fed lifts rates and indicates they will remain higher for longer
- Video: UK nurses speak to WSWS as national strike begins
- Florida drops case against COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones in deferred prosecution agreement
- Hundreds of Oath Keepers revealed to have worked for US Department of Homeland Security
- US to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine: The “most escalatory action to date”
- Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service nurses strike for first time
- Nurses and supporters speak from UK hospital picket lines
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More than 27,000 Sri Lankan postal workers hold national strike
- University of California strike in danger as UAW promotes Democratic Party mediation
- German military’s special forces unit has ties to far-right Reichsbürger terrorist network
- Interview with a Foxconn worker from China
- Brazil’s Lula endorses Castillo’s impeachment in Peru on behalf of imperialism
- Nationwide crackdown on “Last Generation” climate activists in Germany
- UCU leader Jo Grady moves to block all out-strike action by UK university staff
- Ukrainian President Zelensky speaks to New Zealand parliament
- Australia: Union isolation of Pampas pastry workers’ strike continues
- UAW pushes Daimler/Freightliner contract reopening to impose 3-year contract extension
- Biden administration preparing escalation of anti-migrant attacks, including revival of Trump-era limits on the right to asylum
- In assault on democratic rights, rail union sanctions victorious opposition candidate for sharing WSWS article
- More than 200 inmates in Louisiana prison system held beyond scheduled release date each month
- Fatal accident at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg
2022-12-16
- UK post and rail strikes continue, as trade union bureaucracy steps up efforts to end wave of industrial action
- Two major central banks step up the interest rate war against the working class
- Mass protests in Bangladesh against brutal cost of living increases
- German parliament agrees purchase of F-35 fighter jets for nuclear war against Russia
- Novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, a homage to Charles Dickens
- Poorly attended union rallies seek to rehabilitate Democrats after voting to impose rail contract
- German states strike mask requirements in public transportation
- Education workers across Canada must link the fight for Zero COVID to the growing working-class challenge to capitalist austerity and imperialist war
- Elon Musk’s Twitter mass bans tech reporters
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Alberta nurse speaks about union indifference to mass illness and death
- Detroit area Stellantis workers issue statement opposing indefinite layoffs at Belvidere Assembly
- Chinese Communist Party embraces the global “forever COVID” policy
- New Zealand: Wellington rail workers face struggle against corporations, government and union bureaucracy
- Factory meeting at Ford Motors Saarlouis - What must be done to defend our jobs!
- Three men convicted of aiding plot to kidnap Michigan governor sentenced in state court
- Mississippi executes Thomas Loden despite ongoing lawsuit by inmates against state’s lethal injection protocol
2022-12-17
- Turkish presidential hopeful sentenced to prison
- Children dying as “tripledemic” of COVID, flu and RSV swamps New York
- Virginia’s Republican Governor vows to reimburse businesses fined for COVID-19 health violations
- Department of Energy announces successful nuclear fusion ignition
- Health care workers speak out under devastating conditions of the “tripledemic” surge in the US and Canada
- 36,000 UC academic workers to vote on concessions contract agreed to by UAW
- Who is the University of California strike mediator, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg?
- Rail union bureaucracy allows opposition candidate to take office, while demanding sweeping attacks on freedom of speech
- Protests mount in Peru with at least 21 killed by US-trained security forces
- Australia: Union herds Pampas pastry workers back on the job after wage-slashing company offer
- Prime Minister Bainimarama under challenge in contentious Fijian election
- Orchestra musicians in Fort Wayne, Indiana on strike against poverty wages
- January 6 Committee to vote for criminal referrals against Trump at final public meeting
- National Archives releases thousands of documents on John F. Kennedy assassination
- Tragic shooting at Forvia auto parts plant in Highland Park, Michigan
- Musk continues to ban from Twitter journalists who criticize him
- Australia: Queensland shootout highlights dangers of far-right
- Australian “energy relief” plan rushed through parliament
- The imperialist powers prepare for World War III: US, Japan, Germany plan record military spending
2022-12-18
2022-12-19
- Britain’s High Court rules asylum deportations to Rwanda legal
- This week in history: December 19-25
- Talks continue between Unifor and Canadian National as contracts for 3,600 rail workers set to expire December 31
- Wales agreement proposed by RMT union as template for betraying UK rail strike
- Australia: Major construction firm Clough collapses, placing thousands of jobs in jeopardy
- Vote “No” on UAW-backed sellout deal! Build rank-and-file committees to expand and win the UC strike!
- Australia’s housing crisis pushing thousands into poverty and homelessness
- Germany’s Reichsbürger terrorist network and the fight against fascism
- Proud Boys, fascists terrorize drag shows across United States
- Michigan Medicine announces plan to acquire Sparrow Health in Lansing
- Global Workers’ Inquest survey exposes the ongoing impact of the pandemic in US schools
- Striking CNH workers speak from the pickets: “We need to fight like a united movement of workers”
- Long live the memory of Comrade Keerthi Balasuriya (1948-1987)
- NHS nurse and ambulance strikes face UK government, army and sellout by union leaders
2022-12-20
- Minnesota Nurses Association pushes through contracts after blocking strike by 15,000 members
- Youth and students in Berlin respond to the IYSSE rally against war: “In a nuclear third world war, no one would escape unscathed”
- Days after Congress passed anti-strike law, railroads launch major escalation in campaign for one-man crews
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Farha: Film about Israeli atrocities in 1948 comes under attack
- Who is responsible for China’s COVID catastrophe?
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman submits official protest challenging voter suppression in elections
- Workers speak from the picket lines of largest nurses strike in UK history
- Australia steps up anti-China campaign in the Pacific
- Thirty five years since the death of Comrade Keerthi Balasuriya
- Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly reverses ban on promotion of alternative social media platforms
- Canada preparing to lead new military intervention in imperialist-ravaged Haiti
- January 6 committee issues criminal referral charging Trump with four felony crimes
- Sweden to increase military budget 64 percent by 2028
- Escalating assault on workers’ living standards in New Zealand
- 9 million received misleading emails about their student debt forgiveness applications as Biden’s cancellation program heads to Supreme Court
2022-12-21
- SGP election statement for 2023 Berlin state election: Vote against war! Vote SGP!
- Sri Lankan SEP pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya
- Kari Lake calls for Republican election officials to be incarcerated at fascist Turning Point USA rally
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: An empty, generic sequel to an already-empty original
- Australia: Pampas workers rushed back to work after wage-cutting offer
- Sherwin-Williams paint manufacturing workers in Maryland strike
- UK ambulance workers speak from picket lines
- Australia: Union letter to Chris O’Brien Lifehouse nurses shows plans for a sell-out
- Autoworkers back official protest by Will Lehman against voter suppression in UAW election
- US Supreme Court intervenes to keep Title 42 anti-migrant policy in place
- The January 6 Committee’s referrals against Trump and the intensifying crisis of American democracy
- Newly released bodycam footage shows Jacksonville, Florida police murder of Kevin Mahan
- Thousands of UK ambulance workers strike, Tory government deploys army as scabs
- Japan plans to double military spending
- Australia’s Gold Coast bus drivers strike over poor wages and conditions
- Florida Governor DeSantis convenes anti-vaccine panel
2022-12-22
- Canada passes 50,000 registered COVID-19 deaths as “tripledemic” wreaks havoc on health care systems nationwide
- Danish Social Democrats finalise right-wing coalition committed to military build-up and attacks on public services
- Fiji election produces unstable coalition government
- Sri Lanka’s JVP makes bid for power to “save the country”
- Libyan citizen kidnapped and flown to US to face Lockerbie charges
- Texas governor deploys troops, police against migrants in El Paso
- Australia’s foreign minister visits Beijing to mend fractured relations
- Australian CEOs praise Labor government and union leaders
- The UAW cannot be trusted to oversee the University of California contract vote!
- Bank of Japan decision sends “shock” through global markets
- Study finds that COVID was the leading cause of death globally in 2021
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Biden uses Zelensky to whip up a pro-war frenzy
- January 6 Committee’s executive summary whitewashes role of intelligence agencies, police, military in Trump coup attempt
- Former German Chancellor Merkel admits the Minsk agreement was merely to buy time for Ukraine’s arms build-up
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German ambulance services overwhelmed by calls, short staffing
2022-12-23
- Theaters of War: Hollywood in bed with the Pentagon and the CIA
- Colorado River crisis accelerates as water use negotiations stall
- Congress, Biden boost war spending at the expense of social programs
- USW forces through wage concessions at US Steel after isolating workers for months
- US death penalty report: More “botched” executions in 2022 as public support for death penalty nears record low
- Australia: Nurses at two private hospitals in NSW take industrial action
- Corruption scandal engulfs Philadelphia IBEW union
- The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, cryptocurrency, and the financial crisis
- Australia: Victorian Socialists cover for union sell-out at Pampas
- Plant closures and mass layoffs in Germany continue at Christmas
- Sydney private hospital nurses speak out against wage cuts and understaffing
- Australian police claim far-right shootout in Queensland was not terrorism
- British musician Terry Hall (1959-2022): “When you see injustice, all you can do is think: what can I do to help, what can I say about this, how can I make people aware of this?”
2022-12-26
- US life expectancy drops to lowest level since 1996
- Six-week strike of 48,000 University of California academic workers betrayed by the UAW
- UK Communication Workers Union sellout BT deal: A warning to Royal Mail workers
- Workers speak from the picket line during UK Royal Mail Christmas strikes
- Netanyahu forms far-right Israeli coalition government
- An estimated 250 million Chinese people were infected with COVID-19 through December 20
2022-12-27
- South Korean pseudo-lefts cover up union sell-out of striking truck drivers
- Ex-Australian prime minister Rudd appointed ambassador to US
- Fragile Fiji coalition government installed amid ongoing turmoil
- After Zelensky’s Washington trip, Ukraine launches another attack inside Russia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK trade union bureaucracy tries to sabotage mounting strike wave
- Lenin’s last struggle
- Judge rejects lawsuit by Trump-endorsed Kari Lake seeking to overturn Arizona election defeat
- Malaysian parliament endorses unstable new government
- Sarath Kumara: Sri Lankan Trotskyist fighter dies at 57
- Roger Waters releases new versions of antiwar tracks on The Lockdown Sessions EP
- New VW CEO restructures company with support of the trade unions, costing thousands of jobs
- Migrants dumped in front of VP Kamala Harris’s home in sub-freezing conditions: Gratuitous cruelty and political reaction
- Australian poverty report reveals impact of COVID austerity drive
- Death toll continues to mount as extreme winter weather inundates Buffalo and freezes much of United States
- Turkey’s new minimum wage accelerates collapse in living standards
- Strong support for SGP election campaign in Berlin
- This week in history: December 26-January 1
- Australian climate activist Violet Coco speaks on her jailing for Sydney Harbour Bridge protest
- New York state nurses vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Germany: Children’s clinics on the brink of collapse while the government procures nuclear bombers
- The Garrison Church in Potsdam: A symbol of German militarism is being rebuilt
2022-12-28
- Western Australian nurses’ union prepares to ram through Labor government wage cut
- Interview with Kentucky-based wildland firefighter: “They would work us off the clock a lot... all unpaid”
- Suncor celebrated as one of Canada's “top employers” despite monstrous record of worker injury and death
- “The problem is not ‘apathy,’ it’s the UAW bureaucracy”: GM Flint Rank-and-File Committee denounces voter suppression in UAW elections
- US-backed coup regime in Peru extends emergency rule and military repression
- China’s lifting of Zero-COVID and the ongoing dangers of the pandemic
- Thousands of airline travelers stranded following deadly winter storm, meltdown at Southwest Airlines
- Death toll climbs to 60 as impact of widespread US winter storm becomes clear
- Germany’s Left Party’s “Peace Plan”: NATO warmongering in pseudo-pacifist garb
- The Crown Season 5: Exhausting itself in defence of the monarchy
- Up to 25,000 COVID-19 deaths in Australia this year
- UK: “Left antisemitism” campaign downplays far-right danger to promote crackdown on anti-Zionism
- COVID hospitalisations up almost 30 percent in Britain
- 2022: A year of deepening economic and financial crisis
2022-12-29
- Australia: Labor government delays pay rise for aged care workers
- Québec Solidaire rallies behind imperialist powers’ campaign of aggression and provocation against Iran
- Jackson, Mississippi water crisis continues with thousands of residents left without water after winter freeze
- January 6 Committee Final Report upholds “one-man coup” whitewash of Republican Party, Supreme Court, military-intelligence agencies
- Youth and workers in Sri Lanka speak on IYSSE global anti-war webinar
- US winter storm death toll expected to rise as National Guard and emergency services conduct search and rescue operations in Buffalo
- Germany’s Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof department store chain being liquidated in instalments with help of the unions
- Rank-and-file Committee at Renault-Nissan plant in India opposes union attempt to ram through wage-cutting contract
- Cruel and unconstitutional: US Supreme Court maintains Title 42 exclusion of migrants seeking asylum
- Is Sahra Wagenknecht founding a new party?
- Australian central bank rate rises target working-class households
- Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines, dies aged 83
- UK counter-terror Prevent scheme to downplay far-right threat and strengthen anti-Muslim scapegoating
- Two leaders of plot to kidnap and kill Michigan governor are sentenced in federal court
- Australian Labor government greenlights extradition of former pilot to US
- Lula appoints former union bureaucrat as Brazil’s new labor minister
- Tár: A drama set in the classical music world
- Abellio London bus drivers strike against below inflation pay award
- George Santos and the putrefaction of capitalist politics: US Republican congressman-elect exposed as fraud
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US requires travelers from China test negative for COVID amid surging infections and deaths
- Slave labour systemic in New Zealand’s Pacific employment scheme
- Films and television in 2022
2022-12-30
- The New Year ushers in the fourth year of the COVID pandemic
- Mexicans protest President AMLO’s “neglect” in case of 43 Ayotzinapa teaching students
- Socialist candidate Will Lehman exposes massive voter suppression in the UAW elections
- Will Lehman discusses his protest to the UAW monitor
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