Archive: 01/2023
2023-01-02
2023-01-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Trades Union Congress head offers partnership with UK Tory government to end strikes
- Lula is inaugurated as Brazil’s president amid deep crisis of bourgeois rule
- Kiev kills “hundreds” of Russian recruits in strike with US-supplied missile
- German government plans to remove all coronavirus protections
- 2023: The global capitalist crisis and the growing offensive of the international working class
- NYSNA union officials seek to preempt strike with tentative agreement at New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- New Zealand’s COVID wave continues over holiday season
- Storm clouds massing over global economy and financial system
- Pentagon deployed security forces to protect itself while ignoring besieged Congress on January 6
- In New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping covers up massive public health crisis
- Sri Lankan president holds “national reconciliation” conference
- Homeless deaths surged across the US in 2022 due to extreme weather, economic hardship
- UK rail workers resume strikes as Network Rail declares sell-out deal within “touching distance”
2023-01-04
- Quebec government makes provocative, wage-cutting offer to half-million public sector workers
- What companies are behind the rotten deal for Pampas workers in Australia?
- A record year of death: Who were the victims of police violence in the US in 2022?
- Proud Boys, far-right groups terrorize New York City drag event
- Britain’s National Health Service faced with deliberate collapse
- First state killing of 2023: Missouri executes transgender woman Amber McLaughlin
- The CDC cover-up of Omicron XBB.1.5 and the growing winter COVID surge
- Jewish Supremacist Ben-Gvir stages provocation at al-Aqsa mosque compound
- This week in history: January 2-8
- Australia imposes mandatory COVID tests for Chinese travelers
- Germany’s president and chancellor beat the drum for Ukraine war and invoke national unity
- As trade unions seek end of UK strike wave: Socialist Workers Party attempts cover-up
- 104 people across the United States died in home fires during last week of December
- New Year’s Day row house explosion levels homes, injures five in Philadelphia
- After three ballots, Republicans fail to elect a House speaker, paralyzing incoming US Congress
- In bid to shut down strike, UAW to bring CNH’s “last, best and final offer” to a vote
2023-01-05
- Seven months after workplace death, injuries continue apace at Canada’s National Steel Car
- COVID-19 infections surge in China
- US and South Korea hold talks on “nuclear sharing”
- The White Lotus Seasons 1 and 2: Satirizing the wealthy and privileged
- Two years after January 6 attempted coup, Republican fascists deadlock the House
- Trades Union Congress general secretary writes “Dear Prime Minister” letter calling for talks to end UK strike wave
- Central bank gold purchases highest in more than half a century
- Will Lehman to Ray Curry and Shawn Fain: Stop blaming worker apathy for low turnout caused by voter suppression!
- An interview with historian Christian Gerlach on the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union
- Ukrainian parliament, army leadership celebrate birthday of the fascist mass murderer Bandera
- UK government announces new anti-strike laws for education, health, transport, and other workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hundreds attend funeral of Sri Lankan Trotskyist Sarath Kumara
- Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin in critical condition after heart stops mid-game
- Arizona prison forced pregnant inmates into induced labor
- Australian report shows growing homelessness
2023-01-06
- Sri Lankan Health Workers’ Action Committee initiates fight against “paying wards” in government hospitals
- Biden announces Trump-style measures against refugees
- Washington makes Ukraine war new flashpoint in its confrontation with Iran
- 60,000 Detroit households threatened with water shutoff
- Hundreds of Cuban and Haitian refugees arrive in Florida at the start of the new year
- Opposition to union bureaucracy, class war monetary policies to fuel growth of US class struggle in 2023
- Starmer pledges austerity alliance between future UK Labour government, big business and unions
- SGP holds successful launch event for the Berlin state elections
- Two years on, the January 6 coup continues
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- In attempt to preempt strike, New York nurses union announces tentative agreements with two more hospitals
- After shutting down strike, UAW pushes through sellout contract for New School part-time faculty
- Britain’s rail unions RMT and ASLEF will not fight anti-strike laws
- Australia purchasing sophisticated HIMARS and naval strike missiles
- NATO powers send tanks to Ukraine
- As Washington prepares for conflict with China, US confronts major labor shortages in semiconductor manufacture
- Australia: Pampas workers, vote “no” to union sell-out! Form a rank-and-file committee to fight for wages and jobs!
- Amazon confirms layoff of 18,000 workers
- US Fed says no letup in financial tightening
- Racist campaign for a police state after Berlin New Year's Eve
2023-01-07
- NFL player Damar Hamlin in recovery three days after on-field collapse
- White Noise: A film adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel
- January 6 Committee Final Report downplays central role of Virginia Thomas, Supreme Court in Trump coup
- Mobilize the working class against the jobs massacre at Amazon and other industries!
- SGP Berlin election campaign meets with widespread support
- “The whole world's watching”: 10,000 New York City nurses prepare to strike, as NYSNA blocks united struggle
- Interview with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly on the COVID pandemic and Long COVID
- 2,800 Akron teachers set to strike Monday
- Macron’s sending of tanks to Ukraine marks escalation of France’s role in war on Russia
- Australian students and youth: “We need an anti-war movement because otherwise we won’t have a future”
- Mass protests resume across Peru against the coup regime and social inequality
- At least two dead as California battered by high winds and heavy rain and snow
- Australian public health system breaking down as funding cuts to Medicare deepen
- Republicans elect House Speaker on 15th ballot, Biden praises police and “patriotic” Republicans
- 2022 was Canada’s deadliest year of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Former secretary at Stutthof concentration camp sentenced to juvenile probation
- CNH workers: Vote NO on the contract! Form rank-and-file committees to expand and win the strike!
2023-01-08
2023-01-09
- Nepali prime minister sworn in amid growing political instability
- Netanyahu’s far-right government plans political control over Israel’s judiciary
- Britain’s trade unions attend government strike talks, desperate for a sellout
- No tank deliveries to Ukraine! Stop the threat of a third world war!
- Visiting US-Mexico border, Biden seeks bipartisan unity in attack on migrants
- NATO recklessly escalates war against Russia
- What is behind the United Workers’ Union sell-out of Pampas workers?
- 200 Meters: A Palestinian father separated from his family by a wall
- Australian life expectancy declines as a result of COVID “let it rip” policy
- After McCarthy election, Republicans, Democrats outline right-wing budget agendas
- Washington, D.C. police officers found guilty in 2020 traffic death of Karon Hylton-Brown
- Seven thousand nurses at two New York hospitals launch open ended strike
- The XBB.1.5 “Kraken” subvariant of Omicron takes hold in the US
- University of California workers fight to appeal UAW sellout contract, following anti-democratic union betrayal
- Fascists storm Brazilian government buildings two years after attempted coup at US Capitol
- “The contract was a joke”: CNH workers reject pro-company agreement, extend 8-month strike
- Massive German arms exports in 2022
- The Makeevka missile attack and the political crisis in Russia
2023-01-10
- University of California to invest $4 billion in private equity giant Blackstone
- Mandatory overtime is increasingly the norm for Canadian workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New Zealand: Reject sellout of Wellington rail workers!
- SGP holds powerful Berlin election rally against war
- Japan’s health care system pushed to collapse by COVID-19 cases
- Britain prepares to send battle tanks to Ukraine as war against Russia escalates
- The fascist storming of Brasilia: A warning to the working class
- Details emerge of union sell-out at Pampas as voting begins
- New York City nurses online picket line
- Mobilize the working class behind the New York nurses strike!
- PCS union sits on strike action by 100,000 civil servants against UK government
- Sri Lankan president demands more austerity
- New York City nurses take a stand against deadly understaffing
- FTX bankruptcy fallout continues unchecked in crypto market
- US military “setting the theatre” for war with China
- UK government brings anti-strike bill before Parliament
- UC workers must organize a re-vote on the fraudulent contract ratification!
2023-01-11
- Seditious conspiracy trial of Proud Boys who led January 6 assault begins
- Teacher describes struggle to get treated for Long COVID in New Zealand
- Australian union/Pampas management demand a real wage cut—why should workers sacrifice?
- Management issues ultimatum as strike by Fort Wayne Philharmonic musicians enters second month
- Union imposes sell-out contract on Renault-Nissan India workers through sham vote
- The New York City nurses and the fight against the pandemic
- Family sues Disney over production worker’s COVID-19 death
- Surplus in German retirement funds testifies to high excess mortality from pandemic
- Trades Union Congress rejects day of coordinated strikes against new UK anti-strike laws
- US House passes rules package dictated by Republican far right
- Zelensky government expands media censorship
- Teacher shot by first grade student in Virginia elementary school
- Teachers continue strike action after Scottish National Party government refuses concessions
- Striking teachers speak out during two day walkout in Scotland
- Biden advances US interests and attack on immigrants at North American summit
- Thousands of Sri Lankan health workers strike against austerity measures
- A significant exhibition of Puerto Rican art–and the nationalist outlook that mars it
- Canada escalates war in Ukraine with purchase of surface-to-air missile system for Kiev
- New York City nurses determined to win safe staffing levels
- NATO to train hundreds of Ukrainian troops in US, Germany
- German politicians and media demand Leopard battle tanks for Kiev, further escalating danger of world war
- China fully reopens borders amid devastating COVID-19 surge
- How the German government is reigniting the conflict in Kosovo
2023-01-12
- Republicans demand special counsel as Biden aides turn over second batch of classified documents
- Failure of antiquated flight safety system shut down all US air travel Wednesday
- Australian teachers and postal workers support Pampas workers
- “The great powers are playing checkers with the lives of real people”: University of Michigan students speak out against war
- World Socialist Web Site launches its Ukrainian-language edition
- Sky Glow (Streulicht)–German novel looks at class society with fresh pair of eyes
- Ultraviolet light and indoor air disinfection to fight pandemics: A technology long overdue
- Britain confirms plan to send heavy battle tanks to Ukraine
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pledges to “put aside” differences with Democratic leadership after Republican concessions to far right
- Former leader of the Turkish Grey Wolves assassinated
- Family, friends and supporters hold Washington D.C. memorial service on second anniversary of Amazon COVID-19 tester Poushawn Brown’s death
- Green Party organises police violence against climate activists in Lützerath, Germany
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Union announces sellout deal, shuts down strike by 7,000 New York City nurses before ratification vote
- With sham trials and executions, Iran’s rulers intensify repression of anti-government protests
- US Labor Department reports 5,190 workplace deaths in 2021, a nearly 9 percent increase
- The California floods and the climate crisis
- Macron’s attack on pensions sets stage for showdown with French working class
- German postal workers ready to strike
- World Bank makes major reduction in global growth forecast
- UK ambulance workers stage second national strike
- Striking UK ambulance workers speak
2023-01-13
- UK students face severe housing shortage amid cost-of-living crisis
- Australian Labor government defends arms exports to Saudi Arabia, UAE
- Los Angeles police begin new year killing three people in just over 24 hours
- Australia: Pampas workers are in a fight against labour-hire casualisation
- Fed chief Powell defends the dictatorship of finance capital
- In letter to Monitor, Will Lehman demands response to complaint over fraudulent UAW election
- The Golden Globes dominated by the US war drive and identity politics
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- “Two World Wars are enough! Stop the warmongers!”: Socialist Equality Party puts up over 6,000 election posters across Berlin
- Thames Water online map confirms appalling sewage pollution in UK
- Special counsel appointed to probe Biden handling of classified documents
- Oppose the sellout of the New York City nurses strike! Build rank-and-file committees!
- Video: SGP rally against tank deliveries to Ukraine
2023-01-14
- US political warfare escalates: House committees launch probes of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents
- Australia: Pampas workers call on colleagues to vote “no” to union sell-out
- Rock guitar great Jeff Beck dies at 78
- US and Japan accelerate war drive against China
- Australian rank-and-file health workers support Pampas pastry workers
- Ultraviolet light and indoor air disinfection to fight pandemics: A technology long overdue—Part 2
- Far-right premier of Australia’s largest state admits to having worn a Nazi uniform
- Mass unrest continues in Peru following police massacres
- Shawn Fain and Ray Curry debate launches fraudulent UAW runoff election
- Workers back Will Lehman protest over voter suppression in UAW election
- After fascist assault in Brasilia, Lula points to military coup threat
- Growing support for far right and targeting of Trudeau within Canada’s military
- US and NATO send tanks to fight Russia
- Sri Lankan government endorses arrest and detention of YouTuber
- “The weapons help no one, it’s just about economic interests”—SGP continues campaign for Berlin state election
- Tech firms, crypto companies, Goldman Sachs announce major layoffs
- Teachers union pushes through sellout contract to avert a strike in Akron, Ohio
2023-01-15
2023-01-16
- New York nurses oppose sellout deal after union shuts down strike against dangerous understaffing
- Local government elections announced in Sri Lanka amid intense political crisis
- The war frenzy of Germany’s Greens
- Avatar: The Way of Water—James Cameron’s latest effort
- California floods cause estimated $31 billion in damage, 19 dead
- Crisis in Britain’s emergency care threatens patient safety and costs lives
- This week in history: January 16-22
- Australia: Vote “no” to union-enforced real wage cuts at Pampas! Form a rank-and-file committee to fight for jobs and pay!
- Biden and the secrets of the national security state
- US treasury secretary issues warning on debt ceiling
- Opening statements, first witness in Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial
- Chinese National Health Commission discloses 60,000 deaths since abandoning Zero COVID
- Locked out WestRock paper mill workers in Alabama reject company’s offer for third time
- Sri Lankan plantation workers support Australian Pampas workers’ fight against wage-cutting agreement
- Australian PM visits Papua New Guinea to deepen anti-China campaign
- Maryland state government gives wrist-slap fine to CSX railroad for massive Baltimore coal explosion
- Video: SGP chairman pays tribute to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- UK recorded 50,000 more excess deaths in 2022 than in 2019
- Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers
- Faculty at University of Illinois at Chicago to strike over pay and support for student mental health
- The Berlin Senate and the German government end compulsory mask wearing on public transport
2023-01-17
- Ukraine defense minister says Kiev is a “member of NATO de facto”
- Hundreds protest against Sri Lankan president’s visit to Jaffna
- Australian Labor Party saves right-wing NSW premier after admission he wore Nazi uniform
- Oxfam: Social inequality and poverty soaring in Australia
- Louisiana and Alabama see surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Oxfam report documents “explosion of inequality” during pandemic
- National Education Union members vote for strike action in England and Wales
- Protesters demand release of video after Memphis, Tennessee man dies from injuries suffered at the hands of police during traffic stop
- Indonesia’s new criminal code: A major assault on democratic rights
- An open letter to New York nurses from a participant in the 2022 California nurses strike
- National Health Service nurses take second round of national strike action across England
- Britain’s trade unions promote future Labour government as answer to Tory anti-strike laws as they head towards statute books
- Court strikes down 2017 Quebec law criminalizing strike by 175,000 construction workers–but rejects any compensatory measures
- New Zealand’s COVID wave continues as XBB.1.5 variant found
- Egyptian court hands down 38 life sentences for 2019 anti-government protests
- German defence minister resigns as government prepares to triple special fund for the military
2023-01-18
- New Mexico Republican arrested for attempting to kill Democratic office-holders
- As XBB.1.5 variant spreads across Canada, COVID-19 deaths hit 11-month high
- New German defense minister plans major escalation of NATO war with Russia
- US Department of Education publishes plan to revise income-based student loan payments
- Police attack protest by Sri Lankan students against state repression
- China’s abandonment of Zero-COVID and imperialist hypocrisy
- Berlin refuse workers protest for higher wages: “We are ready to strike!”
- University of California UAW members denounce voter suppression in UC contract vote and national officers election
- “I want them to keep on fighting!”: University of Illinois Chicago faculty begin strike with widespread student support
- Diego Rivera’s America: A tantalizing exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Nurses begin two-day national strike across England, as government demands any pay increase reliant on NHS cuts
- Leading German politicians try to halt the recall Berlin state elections
- Break Unite’s isolation of the Abellio London bus dispute!
- Over 400 COVID deaths in Australia last week
- Striking National Health Service workers nurses speak out from picket lines
- Thousands of demonstrators from across Peru march “to take Lima”
- Race to the bottom at Ford in Europe: IG Metall offers 18 percent wage cut for German auto workers
2023-01-19
- Republicans elevate Freedom Caucus fascists to top House committees
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- VIDEO - Striking UK nurses speak from the picket lines
- US “likely” to send long-range missiles to Ukraine
- Microsoft announces 10,000 layoffs as jobs bloodbath in US accelerates
- SOS: A look at singer–songwriter SZA’s chart-topping album
- Will Lehman submits additional evidence of voter suppression in UAW election to UAW Monitor
- Top Ukrainian interior ministry officials die in helicopter crash
- UAW isolating three-month strike by Sherwin-Williams workers in Maryland
- China’s growth rate falls as population declines
- World Economic Forum’s global risk report: A devastating picture of the capitalist crisis
- Bipartisan eulogies for Australian ex-general Jim Molan
- Australia: Wage-slashing agreement imposed at Pampas despite strong opposition
- “The election was a farce, and the monitor didn’t monitor anything”: Retired GM worker backs Will Lehman protest against voter suppression in UAW election
- NZ Labour government entrenches Māori tribal “co-governance” of water infrastructure
- Liberty Steel plans to cut 450 UK jobs and downscale production
2023-01-20
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- ASLEF and RMT unions announce joint strike by UK train drivers to pre-empt wider mobilisation
- Australian Labor government’s plan to address school staffing crisis set to further undermine public education system
- Ontario Public Service Employees Union bureaucrats enmeshed in massive corruption scandal
- VIDEO: Striking nurse in Bournemouth, England speaks to WSWS
- NYSNA rams through sellout contract at Mount Sinai Hospital
- South Africa: Electricity outages compound ANC government crisis
- Mass protests against Israel’s far-right government: A harbinger of revolutionary struggle
- US unions suffer further decline in membership rate
- Republicans demand massive cuts in social spending as countdown begins for debt ceiling crisis
- Pregnant women with COVID-19 face 7 times higher risk of dying, new study finds
- Failed Republican candidate who organized shooting attacks on New Mexico Democratic politicians held without bail
- The climate change protests at Lützerath and the reactionary face of Germany’s Greens
- Millions march in France against Macron’s pension cuts
- UK nurses speak from picket lines
- Political crisis emerges within leadership of Democratic Socialists of America
- NATO members pledge “unprecedented” new arms shipments to Ukraine
- Charges dropped against Baltimore man who had been tried four times for same alleged crime
- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern resigns
- SGP denounces the Left Party and warns against the fascist AfD
2023-01-21
- The Fabelmans: Steven Spielberg’s family drama
- Australia: NSW leader Chris Minns typifies Labor’s right-wing, pro-business character
- Harvard forced to reverse decision denying fellowship to critic of Israel
- Bowing to coup threats, Lula promises massive investments in Brazil’s armed forces
- Spain’s Podemos backs Brazilian PT’s accommodation to far right coup plotters
- Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo González held in Polish prison for nearly a year on bogus spy charges
- UAW bureaucrats collaborate with UC to retroactively dock strikers’ pay
- Sri Lankan parliament passes draconian “rehabilitation” law
- Michigan mother and sons freeze to death
- Australia: Betrayal of workers at Pampas is nothing new for the United Workers Union
- Immigrant worker shot dead by police at Oklahoma meatpacking plant
- Three active-duty Marines arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6
- BBC documentary indicts Modi for 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat pogrom
- US pledges to “go on the offensive” against Russia
- French unions impose wage rises well below inflation
- Google carries out mass layoffs of 12,000 workers as global jobs massacre continues
- The billionaires at Davos protect themselves from COVID-19, while declaring the pandemic “over” for working people
- Sweden and Finland negotiating bilateral military agreements with the US
- Thailand: Bid for Chinese New Year tourists threatens new COVID surge
- “Vote against war! Vote SGP!”: SGP election spot for the Berlin election
- New laws targeting the homeless passed in multiple US states
2023-01-22
2023-01-23
- Long wait times in emergency rooms lead to deaths and poor health outcomes across North America
- This week in history: January 23-29
- Mass protests grow against Israel’s far-right government
- Stop the sellout of the University of Illinois Chicago faculty strike! Expand the fight for free public education!
- COVID claimed more Australian lives in first three weeks of 2023 than all of 2020
- UK: Mother collapses from hunger at South Tyneside Food Bank
- Alec Baldwin indicted for involuntary manslaughter in shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
- Ex-Australian Labor MP joins anti-immigrant One Nation
- Google lays off 12,000 workers as tech jobs bloodbath intensifies
- Texas prisoners on hunger strike against solitary confinement
- New warning strikes at Deutsche Post
- Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeals emergency COVID-19 measures
- Protests and arrests follow police killing of environmental activist outside of Atlanta, Georgia
- New Zealand Labour Party installs new right-wing PM
- Lula government appoints pro-business officials to Brazil’s Ministry of Education
- Gunman kills 10 people during Los Angeles-area Chinese New Year celebration
- UAW rams through contract at CNH with new health care tier, shutting down nearly 9-month-long strike
- Pandemic deaths in China hit 700,000 since end of Zero-COVID policy, according to modeling estimates
- Berlin Senate pushes police-state measures after New Year’s “riot night”
- Earthquake budget conflict erupts in disaster-prone Istanbul as scientists ring alarm bells
2023-01-24
- Biotechnology professor Greg Foley dies after bravely documenting impact of his COVID infection
- Ambulance workers stage third round of strikes in England and Wales
- Australian Labor government spends $4 billion on weapons in three weeks
- Workers, students denounce inequality at youth protest against French pension cuts
- Death toll in Monterey Park, California dance studio massacre climbs to 11
- Ontario teacher unions seek to soften up members for major concessions as opposition grows among rank and file
- Striking ambulance workers speak on strike in England and Wales
- Peru protests continue in face of police state repression
- China’s massive COVID-19 death toll: Social murder at the behest of imperialism
- Australia: Lismore flood victims protest against buy-back scheme “limbo”
- South Korean government lifts indoor mask mandate while COVID-19 continues to run rampant
- White House shake-up as attacks mount on Biden over handling of classified documents
- Far-right Texas attorney general attempts to compile list of transgender residents
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Best American Short Stories 2022
- Fiji’s military head threatens newly installed government
- Shooting at San Diego shelter highlights the rise in violence against the homeless
- Portuguese teachers mount nationwide strike
- New Zealand Māori “cultural experts” fawn over naming of Jeff Bezos’ superyacht
- New York City retirees fight Democrat-union conspiracy to privatize health care
- Australian neo-Nazi spared prison sentence after violent attack on security guard
- While slashing pensions, Macron demands 40 percent hike in French military budget
- To fight war and French pension cuts, rebel against the union bureaucracy!
- University of Washington librarians and publishing workers set to strike
2023-01-25
- Five officers involved in death of Tyre Nichols fired, body camera footage shows “nonstop beating” of a “human piñata” say attorneys
- Australia: Pampas pastry workers need rank-and-file committee to prevent future sellouts
- Amazon workers’ strike in Coventry, UK
- French police assault students protesting Macron’s pension cuts, arresting 20
- UK rail workers denounce train companies' “best and final offer” being considered by RMT union
- Sri Lankan SEP to run candidates in local government elections
- German government sends Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine
- Pentagon presses Latin America to ship arms to Ukraine
- Canadian energy giant Suncor faces multiple charges for death of contractor in frozen tailings pond
- Autoworkers in Detroit and Chicago support Will Lehman protest against voter suppression in UAW election
- The mass shootings in California and the social pathology of capitalism
- Right-wing extremist head of Germany’s secret service co-authored a standard legal text on the constitution for years
- Four more Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy in Trump’s failed coup
- Federal judge hears motion for injunction against end of water shutoff moratorium in Detroit
- Ford cuts more than 3,200 jobs in Cologne, Germany
- NATO to send over 100 heavy tanks against Russia
- Amazon, Spanish union bureaucracy work to close Martorelles facility
- Zelensky government shaken by political crisis as NATO prepares escalation of war with Russia
- 95th Academy Award nominations: All Quiet on the Western Front, Tár, Triangle of Sadness recognized
- Folk-rock pioneer and social critic David Crosby dead at 81
2023-01-26
- Australian “Closing the Gap” report reveals worsening conditions for Aboriginal workers and youth
- Australian Labor government slashes access to mental health services
- Israeli military kill 10, wound 20 Palestinians in deadliest raid on Jenin in years
- NATO tanks in Ukraine: Prelude to a US-Russia shooting war
- UK schools sinking under teacher retention crisis and billions in funding cuts
- Sri Lankan plantation trade union leader elevated into cabinet
- IBM, 3M and hospitals join job cutting drive in US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New Stellantis absentee policy punishes workers for getting medical treatment and taking their kids to the doctor
- Teamsters and NDP laud back-to-work legislation against striking Newfoundland ambulance workers
- Workers at federal subcontractor Maximus protest layoffs at call centers in Louisiana and Mississippi
- In new gesture to fascist right, House Speaker purges two Democrats from committee while promoting Marjorie Taylor Greene
- US Supreme Court hands down decision denying retroactive benefits to veterans
2023-01-27
- 5 Memphis cops charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping for beating Tyre Nichols to death
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Debt ceiling “clash” will lead to major cuts in social spending
- US Labor Department levies paltry $60,000 fine against Amazon for “failing to keep workers safe”
- Retired teacher killed in Chicago apartment that failed fire alarm test
- Australian school year commences amid ongoing mass COVID infection, workload crisis, staffing shortages, and record inequality—Build rank-and-file committees to fight for a fully funded public education system!
- Thousands of NHS physiotherapists in England strike for first time
- Union membership in Australia continues to fall as workers face deepening wage cuts
- 10 facts workers should know about the disputed first round of voting in the UAW elections
- Hip hop artist Sankofa speaks out on the Fort Wayne Philharmonic strike, its implications for art and culture: “I am not a politician. I’m an independent musician.”
- UK anti-strike legislation goes to third reading in parliament
- Nurses at major Montreal hospital threaten to resign en masse over chronic understaffing
- Harvard UAW, pseudo-left groups organize provocation against professor John Comaroff
- Greece drops charges against Syrian swimmer Sara Mardini for helping refugees
- The DSA’s role in the sellout of the New York City nurses strike
- “A Modest Iowa Proposal” to ban access to fresh meat and other grocery staples for SNAP recipients
- “The UAW didn’t think there would be people pushing back”: University of California worker reviews experiences during six-week strike
- Caterpillar workers in US gear up for 2023 contract battle
- Warning strike paralyses Berlin airport
2023-01-28
- Voodoo Macbeth: Dramatizing Orson Welles’ 1936 Harlem production
- Outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 100 million birds and poses a serious threat of becoming a human pandemic
- The class issues in the police killing of Tyre Nichols
- What is behind Socialist Alternative and Kshama Sawant’s latest non-socialist initiative?
- White House “discussing” sending US fighter jets to Ukraine
- Protests erupt across Sri Lanka against IMF-dictated tax hikes
- Layoffs expand in US manufacturing and retail amid deepening economic slowdown
- Collective bargaining in the German public sector: Verdi union and Social Democrats prepare sellout
- Surging inflation intensifies cost-of-living crisis in Australia
- Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington D.C. makes bankrupt appeal to Biden to drop charges against Assange
2023-01-29
- UK: University of Sheffield International College staff set to strike again
- Abellio strike at a crossroads: Defeat Unite’s sabotage of London bus pay fight!
- This week in history: January 30-February 5
- California parent reflects on the social and personal trauma of three years of pandemic
- DSA crisis intensifies as Democratic Party establishment discusses giving Ocasio-Cortez House leadership position
- London Metropolitan police officer exposed as prolific sex offender, reject myth of police “reform”
2023-01-30
- German share prices soar, while incomes and jobs plummet
- PSOE, Podemos send Spanish tanks to Ukraine for war with Russia
- Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer makes a pro-business appeal for bipartisan unity in her 2023 State of the State address
- UK Conservative Party chair Zahawi forced to resign
- Israeli drones, warplanes strike Iran and Syria
- Indian foreign minister visits Sri Lanka to strengthen strategic ties
- Chinese health authorities declare COVID infection peak has passed
- Top NATO spokesman calls for “wartime economy”
- Dockworker falls to his death at Port of Los Angeles
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington D.C. transit system regulator reduces safety inspections to speed up use of defective rail cars
- 90 years since Hitler took power: A sinister anniversary
- Sweden discovers major rare earth deposits in Arctic region
- Engine failure on Auckland to Sydney flight poses questions over Qantas cost-cutting
- Woburn, Massachusetts teachers vote overwhelmingly for strike action as state threatens retaliation with anti-strike law
- US Caterpillar-UAW workers authorize strike by more than 98 percent
- Protesters demand end to police violence after seeing Tyre Nichols’ beating video
2023-01-31
- A tale of two elections: US political establishment calls Tunisian election (11 percent turnout) an “illegitimate sham” but praises UAW election (9 percent turnout) as “historic and democratic”
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman responds to Monitor’s request for more information about election protest
- UK's University and College Union bureaucracy puts below inflation pay deal to a ballot
- On the death of German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929–2022)
- Race, class and the police killing of Tyre Nichols
- London bus drivers urge united action as Unite tries to close down Abellio strike
- Concern and anger in China over ending of zero-COVID policy
- Unprecedented flooding in Auckland, New Zealand
- Abbott Labs under federal criminal investigation at Sturgis, Michigan baby formula factory
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