Archive: 02/2023
2023-02-01
- Facing bankruptcy, Pakistan government unleashes brutal IMF austerity on flood-devastated population
- Memphis police reveal 2 more cops suspended in Tyre Nichols killing
- NATO sends over 120 battle tanks to Ukraine in “first wave”
- How the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on American theaters
- Peace activist sentenced for criticizing German war policy in Ukraine
- No record of Australian Labor government’s diplomacy to US about Assange
- Despite Biden’s lies, the COVID emergency continues
- Top US general predicts war with China by 2025
- Blinken green lights Israel’s far right government suppression of Palestinians
- Half a million UK workers strike
- “Everyone should be on the ballot”: Stellantis workers in Kokomo, Indiana, denounce fraudulent UAW run-off election
- 850 faculty and staff begin strike at Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Workers, youth denounce war at protest in southern France against pension cuts
- Australian Gold Coast and Tweed Coast bus workers strike again over pay and conditions
- As lockout at WestRock paper mill in Alabama enters fifth month, company holds job fair to keep mill running with scab labor
- After Congress imposes rail contract, BNSF announces plans to contract out locomotive maintenance
- Millions of workers in France march against pension cuts, Macron and war
2023-02-02
- Striking teachers detail crisis facing UK education
- Thousands of Sri Lankan port workers protest against tax increases
- Abellio London bus drivers resume strike, defying Unite’s attempted sell-out
- Video: Berlin SGP candidate Endrik Bastian on health care disaster
- COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children in the US, study finds
- Stop the censorship of anti-war videos on TikTok!
- McCarthy, Biden meet over debt ceiling crisis
- Interview with author Ahmed White on the historical significance of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Australian state government forcing 2,000 residents from inner-Sydney public housing
- New Zealand pseudo-left group glorifies former PM Jacinda Ardern
- Democrats use Tyre Nichols’ funeral to push token police “reform”
- France and Australia to make artillery shells for Ukrainian army
- No to Macron’s pension cuts! Workers will not pay for war!
- Striking workers speak out at UK rallies: “This is the only thing we have got, the right to vote and the right to strike.”
- German Social Democrats grasp at world power
- Museum Berlin-Karlshorst commemorates World War II blockade of Leningrad
- Oppose the state repression of the Union of Left forces in Ukraine!
- Video: 500,000 workers strike in Britain, attend rallies to defend right to strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Price-gouging drives record profits at US energy giants
- Australia Post meeting highlights corporatist role of Communication Workers Union
- “The German government is marking the 90th anniversary of Hitler’s seizure of power by sending tanks against Russia again”
- Rank-and-file committees needed at Australian universities to fight cuts, commercialisation and militarisation
- US defense secretary in South Korea to further war preparations against China
- Indiana Stellantis workers denounce bogus UAW “run-off” election, back Will Lehman's campaign for new vote
- Caterpillar handed investors $6.7 billion in 2022, while demanding more concessions from workers in next contract
- Defend German peace activist Heinrich Bücker! The real criminals are sitting in the Chancellery!
2023-02-03
- Communications Workers Union strike re-ballot buys Royal Mail time to impose restructuring
- Video: Teachers speak out at London, UK rally
- In TV interview, French Prime Minister Borne pledges to impose pension cuts
- SGP Berlin state elections candidate Rippert: “It is necessary to combine the struggle against social austerity with the struggle against war!”
- Money for war, but no money for special educational needs in England’s schools
- To Leslie, Andrea Riseborough and the Academy Awards: The real scandal is corporate dominance and racial politics
- F-16 fighters: The next stage in the relentless US military escalation against Russia
- Podemos bemoans crackdown in Peru, but arms Peru’s regime against the workers
- Video shows California police kill double amputee in hail of gunfire
- Biden administration reaffirms “US support” for murderous regime in Peru
- Ukraine cracks down on military “deserters”
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US media and policy outlets oppose student debt relief, claim it will subsidize “low value” degrees
- Woburn, Massachusetts teachers strike continues in face of injunction and court-ordered fines
- Over 90 percent of Europeans worry about the rising cost of living
- In last-minute legal maneuver, Michigan Appeals Court overturns imminent increase in minimum wage
2023-02-04
- Surging inflation in Japan leads to growth of inequality
- US sends long-range missiles to Ukraine
- Temple University graduate students begin open-ended strike for higher pay, better health care
- Australian bar and restaurant chain exploits Fair Work Act to avoid penalty rates
- Canada’s governments exploit health care crisis of their own making to press for privatization
- US issues ludicrous “spy balloon” charge against China
- Musician Steve Van Zandt propagandizes for imperialist war
- Washington announces basing of US troops in the Philippines
- After Quran-burning provocations, Turkey-NATO tensions rise amid war on Russia
- The specter of socialism haunts US Congress
- Indian budget intensifies austerity for working people, hikes military spending
- Republicans remove Ilhan Omar from House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrats capitulate
- The lessons of the rail struggle of 2022
- Germany’s Chancellor Scholz visits Argentina, Chile and Brazil
- European Union urges intensification of Ukraine war
- “Operation Nightingale”: Fraudulent nursing diploma scandal exposes US health care and education crises
- A letter from the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists to the International Committee of the Fourth International
2023-02-05
2023-02-06
- Sudan’s military junta to normalise relations with Israel amid massive crackdown on Palestinians
- IYSSE (Australia) statement: Join the fight against imperialist war and for world socialism
- February 5, 2003: Colin Powell and the lie that sanctioned the invasion of Iraq
- Democratic National Committee reorders presidential primary schedule
- New Zealand: Court action over Pike River mine disaster
- Number of police officers in UK schools increases by 300 in one year
- US media whips up anti-Chinese hysteria over balloon flight
- Germany drops all requirements to wear masks—but coronavirus remains
- Toxic fire continues burning in Ohio days after massive, 50 car train derailment
- Novelist Russell Banks (1940-2023): “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
- Hundreds attend Socialist Equality Party rally in Berlin against Ukraine war and German militarism
- Australian Gold Coast and Tweed Coast bus workers to strike against company ballot “offer”
- Macron hosts Netanyahu in Paris to plan Israeli arms deliveries to Ukraine
- “We don't want this war!”: Participants at Berlin rally organised by SGP speak out
- This week in history: February 6-12
- Laborers’ union shuts down strike by 600 Portland city workers ahead of ratification vote
- Thousands of American high school students illegally forced into Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps
- Record cold in US Northeast exposes deepening cracks in social infrastructure
- Crisis deepens in Australia’s emergency departments
- Socialist Equality Party (US) condemns violent attacks on Chicago DSA Alderman Daniel La Spata
- Withdraw frame-up cases against Sri Lankan estate workers! Unconditional reinstatement of all suspended workers!
- Union shuts down strike after Woburn, Massachusetts teachers defy injunction
- Stronger than expected US jobs report for January evokes concerns on Wall Street
- UK nurse and ambulance workers stage biggest strike in 75-year history of NHS
2023-02-07
- 75 years since independence: Sri Lankan ruling elite celebrates its brutal record
- Australian Labor government prioritises indigenous “Voice” in bid to divert mounting class tensions
- PC manufacturer Dell announces 6,650 job cuts, 5 percent of total workforce
- Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education!
- National Health Service nurses continue strike, as UK government rejects concessions
- UK: Lecturers strike at Sheffield College continues into fourth week
- Earthquake death toll in Turkey and Syria rising rapidly
- Berlin public sector “warning strikes”: The trade unions and state executive want to push through a wage reduction
- Biden aide says door is open to discussing spending cuts with Republicans
- Crews burn toxic chemicals from Ohio train crash in “controlled release”
- Migrants forcibly evicted from protest encampment in New York
- 50,000 people protest Danish government’s planned scrapping of public holiday to pay for military spending increase
- How should workers respond to the right-wing furor over Trudeau’s appointment of a Canadian Special Representative to combat Islamophobia?
- Zelensky government in turmoil amidst reports of impending Russian offensive
- Video: National Health Service workers speak from picket lines during largest strike in history of the NHS
- “A Safe Place” exposes state and federal cover-up of 2018 death of Jerod Draper inside Indiana jail
- Australian government, media join hysteria over Chinese balloon
- Build rank-and-file committees to fight for high quality education and an end to the pandemic!
- The Socialist Equality Party candidates for the March 25 NSW election
- Germany’s housing crisis: 700,000 more homes needed
- Estimate by Airfinity places COVID-19 deaths in China over 1.3 million
- The capitalist economics and imperialist geopolitics behind the earthquake disaster in Turkey
- Forest fires kill at least 26 in Chile
2023-02-08
- Ukraine’s Zelensky visits London, Paris to push for NATO fighter planes
- Former UAW presidential candidate Brian Keller promotes UAW bureaucrat Shawn Fain in fraudulent run-off vote
- Millions of workers in France join third mass protest against pension cuts
- Howard University awarded $90 million contract to conduct military research for the Pentagon
- Video: Bournemouth nurse speaks on Britain's NHS strike
- Thousands displaced by New Zealand floods
- Johannes Stern: “The SGP’s anti-war rally is in the tradition of Karl Liebknecht”
- Thousands of postal workers in Germany strike again for 15 percent pay rise
- NYU graduate student loses job, investigated “for anti-Semitism” after writing anti-Israel slogan on trash bag
- Australian pathology workers form rank-and-file safety committee
- Neo-Nazi couple arrested in plot to attack Baltimore-area substations
- Patient deaths on the rise due to health care understaffing
- Canada deploys surveillance plane over Haiti to lay groundwork for US-demanded military intervention
- US-backed provincial leader in Solomon Islands removed from office
- Christoph Vandreier: “We unite workers across all borders in the fight against war”
- Union bureaucracies try to block Spanish health care workers struggle
- Public anger grows as death toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake rises
- The 65th annual Grammy Awards: A spectacle of self-absorption and self-delusion
- Intact hominid skull found in China offers insights into human evolution
- Left Party leader speaks out in favour of arms deliveries to Ukraine
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian coronial inquest reveals Aboriginal death in custody due to horrific neglect and cruelty
- Communication Workers Union cancels strike action, bowing to Royal Mail legal threat
- Aid to earthquake victims requires the immediate lifting of US sanctions against Syria
2023-02-09
- Socialist program needed to halt rate rise and cost-of-living crisis in Australia
- After earthquake, Syria abandoned to its fate as Turkey seeks to quell public anger
- Over 50,000 Sri Lankan workers strike and protest against Wickremesinghe government’s austerity measures
- Australia: Sydney garbage collectors strike over pay and conditions
- New Zealand: Demands for Maori “co-governance” intensify
- Indiana workers denounce fraudulent UAW run-off election
- Biden covers up plans for US shooting war against Russia in State of the Union address
- Massive release of toxins at Ohio train derailment site following “controlled release”
- Where next for the UK's National Health Service workers?
- Lawyers for family of environmentalist killed by Atlanta police say the victim was shot at least 12 times
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Allegations of Adani Group corruption shake India's financial markets, Modi government
- International greetings at SGP anti-war rally in Berlin: “This rally is of enormous importance to workers in all countries.”
- 4,000 teachers take part in warning strike in Berlin as mistrust of GEW trade union grows
- US Navy attacked Nord Stream pipeline, says Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh
- Los Angeles school workers hold strike authorization vote after years-long contract impasse
2023-02-10
- Roger Waters delivers impassioned speech at the UN demanding an end to the war in Ukraine
- Two US executions this week: Missouri inmate maintained his innocence, Texas inmate claimed racial prejudice and juror misconduct
- Stepping up US war preparations against China, Victoria Nuland visits South Asia
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation workers prepare to strike over wage-slashing offer
- As Syria digs earthquake victims from the rubble, US occupation denies access to direly needed energy supplies
- After fourth round of voting, Steelworkers union forces sellout of locked-out WestRock paper mill workers in Alabama
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- As economic distress grows in Russia, government makes officials’ wealth and income classified information
- In budget talks with Biden: Republicans target food stamps, student loans for cuts
- “We never got a ballot”: Kentucky Ford workers denounce illegitimate UAW election
- Video of SGP anti-war rally published with English subtitles
- Seymour Hersh’s exposure of the Nord Stream bombing: A lesson and a warning
- Australian transport union anti-democratically “postpones” Gold-Tweed Coast bus strike
- Fire Brigades Union ballots on two years of pay cuts
- Temple University rescinds health care and tuition remission for 750 striking grad students
- Body camera footage from police killing of environmental activist shows Atlanta police speculating trooper was shot by fellow cop
- Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague—A portrait of a 17th century lockdown
- Reporter arrested as public officials attempt to placate victims of rail disaster in East Palestine, Ohio
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A new film version of D.H. Lawrence’s novel
- UK university workers speak from the picket lines during national strike
- What is Maximus, the call center contractor which laid off hundreds in the US South?
- Former NATO general to be next Czech president
- Gregor Link: “We fight for a united international movement of the working class against the war and against capitalism”
2023-02-11
- Ottawa and Quebec intensify their efforts to block refugees from filing asylum claims
- Death toll in Turkey-Syria quake nears 25,000, reports expose Turkish government’s criminality
- The history and science behind airborne infections and the use of ultraviolet irradiation for disinfecting indoor air
- Video: “Workers in the US need to know about the major strikes happening across Europe”
- The international significance of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei election campaign in Berlin
- Public sector warning strikes in Germany: “We should be aware of our power”
- Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu's Ulaş Ateşçi calls for a vote for the SGP: “An international movement against the war must be built in the working class and youth!”
- Berlin Transit Workers Action Committee: Against war and social devastation! Vote for the SGP!
- Ulrich Rippert: “The strength of our party is the historical tradition it represents.”
- Sixty percent cut in benefits floated for Teamsters’ New England pension fund
- Lights off on the pandemic: Johns Hopkins University to retire COVID-19 tracker
- Animals reported sickened as more details come out on toxic Norfolk Southern tanker derailment in eastern Ohio
- The mass strike movement, war and the revolutionary crisis in Europe
- In White House meeting, Brazil’s Lula and Biden promote fraudulent “democratic alliance”
- UAW announces pro-company tentative agreement with publisher HarperCollins
- Trial evidence shows Proud Boys coordinated with Trump campaign in lead-up to January 6 coup attempt
- Saturday Night Live production workers authorize strike
- Build the Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee! Unite with autoworkers in a counteroffensive to win what workers need!
- Massachusetts court interpreters demand fee increase, refuse to work
- Disney announces 7,000 layoffs after exceeding Wall Street profit estimates
- Special counsel subpoenas Mike Pence in criminal probe of Trump’s January 6 coup attempt
2023-02-12
- Abellio London bus drivers challenge Unite’s online “survey” used to end strikes
- Airstrikes on Yemen using UK and US weapons “part of a pattern of violence against civilians”
- Toronto unveils major hike in police budget as city’s social crisis deepens
- UK survey shows nurses’ mental health is at its lowest point in the pandemic
2023-02-13
- Australian Greens split over indigenous “Voice” to parliament
- New Zealand faces ongoing pressure to upgrade anti-China stance
- The 1619 Project, streaming on Hulu, expands its racialist falsification of history, politics and culture
- Sri Lankan workers require a socialist strategy to fight Wickremesinghe’s class-war policies
- CSX’s granting of paid sick leave: A PR stunt to distract from railroads’ continuing attacks on workers
- As death toll rises past 35,000, earthquake in Turkey and Syria now one of the greatest disasters in the 21st century
- This week in history: February 13-19
- Wage negotiations break down at Deutsche Post
- Shoot-downs of objects over US territory are first in history, Pentagon says
- The history and science behind airborne infections and the use of ultraviolet irradiation for disinfecting indoor air
- Hold those responsible for the earthquake disaster to account! Oppose the anti-Syrian campaign and police crackdown in Turkey!
- RMT union stifling opposition to UK train companies and Network Rail final offers
- UK courts/energy companies told to stop the forced installation of energy pre-payment meters after popular outrage
- With Minnesota Opera management demanding massive cuts, orchestra musicians authorize strike
- European powers prepare delivery of fighter jets to Kiev
- On-the-spot report from earthquake-hit region in Turkey
2023-02-14
- On the origins of the war in Ukraine: A reply to Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times
- Abellio London drivers speak out against Unite betrayal
- Unprecedented hospital layoffs and closures underway in US health systems
- National Education Union suspends Welsh school workers’ strike after paltry 6.5 percent pay offer
- More questions than answers for residents poisoned by Ohio train derailment
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Human rights complaints mount against Bukele’s state of exception in El Salvador
- Australian unions ram through sell-out deal for NSW rail workers
- The Berlin state election results: A vote against all parties in government
- On the 25th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site
- UCU suspends strike at University of Sheffield International College to bring back derisory pay offer
- Opposition mounts in Israel to Netanyahu’s fascistic government
- Democratic Socialists of America members in Congress join Republicans and Democrats in support of anti-China “spy balloon” resolution
- As death toll in Turkey-Syria earthquake rises, Erdoğan government seeks to cover up responsibility
- US Fed at the centre of financial crisis
- Fifteen years on: The fraud of Australian parliament’s “stolen generations” apology
- Anti-abortion zealots, federal judge conspire to ban abortion pill mifepristone
- Sri Lankan health services “heading for total breakdown”
- “The vote was not legitimate!”: Kentucky Ford workers demand fair election
- Australian Labor health minister lies about COVID disaster
2023-02-15
- The toxic rail disaster in Ohio: The homicidal indifference of the ruling class laid bare
- Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll tops 41,000: A colossal social crime
- Florida Disney World workers vote overwhelmingly to reject company’s paltry “best offer”
- Journalists in West Virginia under political siege
- UPS lays off second-tier delivery drivers, in shot across the bow ahead of summer contract talks
- Report of higher than expected price rises in January points to continued rate hikes
- Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football
- Bernie Sanders, flanked by union bureaucrats, issues pathetic moral appeal to railroad CEOs in press conference
- European Union decides on massive intensification of assault on refugees
- Widespread destruction from New Zealand’s worst storm in decades
- Edward Hopper’s New York, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York
- Two workers killed in protest at Indonesian nickel smelter
- “A strike is the only thing they’re going to listen to”: Kentucky Ford workers look ahead to contract battle in the wake of illegitimate UAW election
- Sharon Graham declares Unite’s sell-out pay deal at Abellio London “an important victory”
- NATO pledges to “ramp up” defense production for “grinding war of attrition”
- UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace demands up to £11 billion extra for military budget
- South Korean opposition leader under investigation
- Thousands of University of Washington students rely on campus food pantry to stave off hunger
- Mass shooting at Michigan State University leaves three students dead, five critically wounded
2023-02-16
- Earthquake-ravaged Syria abandoned as Washington continues to pursue its goal of regime change
- Golden Globe award winner Argentina, 1985 examines trial of military junta leaders
- After mass shooting at Michigan State University: Student protests, vigils, calls for an end to gun violence
- “We make billions for this company, and most of us can’t pay our rent”: UPS workers speak out ahead of summer contract talks
- New Zealand government slashes funding for COVID response
- Hazardous materials expert speaks out as anger over intentional chemical release erupts at East Palestine, Ohio, town hall meeting
- How Canada’s Liberal-trade union-NDP alliance suppressed the Ontario education workers’ strike
- Architect of the Capitol fired after Inspector General report revealed complicity in January 6 coup
- “Rage Against the War Machine” rally promotes alliance between the “left” and the extreme right
- UK university workers hold three day national strike
- Caterpillar workers speak out as UAW contract deadline approaches: “How do they expect anybody to live on these wages?”
- Bus workers on Australia’s Gold and Tweed Coast to strike again after overwhelmingly rejecting Kinetic’s “offer”
- UK: Starmer says Corbyn cannot stand as a Labour MP
- US media report calls into question balloon “spy mission” claims against China
- US College Board capitulates before Florida governor’s attack on AP African American Studies curriculum
- Japan plans to downgrade COVID-19 classification
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ratified UIC faculty contract fails to address faculty and students’ needs
- On Chris Hedges’ unprincipled alliance with the political right
- New Bank of Japan governor has to tread a fine line
- 10 years of the Alternative for Germany: How the state, its political parties and the media promoted the far right
2023-02-17
- Who is responsible for earthquake deaths in Turkey?
- Australia: Two workers killed at Queensland zinc mine
- 72 mass shootings in 46 days in the United States: What are the social and political causes?
- Workers speak out against UAW complicity as Stellantis prepares to shutter Belvidere Assembly
- Railroad workers confirm “nasty” toxic train “broke down” two days prior to crash in East Palestine, Ohio
- Reserve Bank of Australia governor Lowe, political theatre and interest rate hikes
- Russian offensive underway in Ukraine as war destabilizes the entire region
- Delhi’s air most polluted of any capital city for fourth year in a row
- Disabled man starved to death in Arkansas jail in 2021
- Rise of congenital syphilis in the US the result of a decades-long deterioration in public health
- Republicans revive discredited Wuhan Lab Leak theory and call Anthony Fauci to testify
- Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s anti-democratic attack on local elections
- UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits Kiev to pledge loyalty to NATO’s war
- UAW bureaucracy falsifies the heritage of the Flint sit-down strike to push the bogus run-off
- A preventable disaster: Antioch, Turkey once again razed by earthquake
- East Palestine, Ohio, residents demand answers after release of toxic chemicals: “You’re telling us the air and water are safe. Why are we getting sick?”
- Temple University students rally in support of striking grad students as union promotes Democrats
- Biden refuses to explain why Air Force shot down harmless civilian balloons
- Cal Poly Humboldt enacts new profit-driven policies provoking student protests demanding the right to decent housing
- UK: Far-right violence amid Knowsley anti-migrant protest
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Ford slashes another 3,800 jobs across Europe, including 2,300 in Germany
- Hyundai in talks with US Labor Department over child labor in Alabama
- Thousands of people lose everything in New Zealand floods
2023-02-18
- Canadian government secretly arrogated new powers to invoke the anti-democratic Emergencies Act
- An exhibition in Berlin: German artist George Grosz in the Soviet Union in 1922
- Why the US media is silent on Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream bombing revelations
- Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs forms far-right “stormtrooper” brigades
- Death toll tops 45,000 in Turkish-Syrian earthquake
- Biden invited to visit Pacific in escalating diplomatic offensive against China
- The East Palestine rail disaster and the case for workers’ power
- Australia: Socialist Alliance NSW election campaign has nothing to do with socialism
- Amazon workers protest plans to close Shakopee sorting facility in Minnesota
- 1,000 Legal Aid workers in New York City hold walkout in contract struggle
- Australian union halts Gold-Tweed Coast bus strikes to try to impose sellout deal with Kinetic
- Ford agrees to card check procedure to allow UAW to organize new Michigan battery plant
- Alabama man froze to death after police shackled and left his naked body inside a “frigid environment” for hours
- Ground staff take part in 24-hour strike at seven German airports
- Turkish worker in Germany helped coordinate rescue and relief
- Malaysian workers face intensifying economic and social crisis
- US-backed Boluarte regime continues repression as protests spread across north of Peru
2023-02-20
- Health care workers’ protests and strikes mount across Spain
- Warmonger Alexander Vindman to speak at University of Michigan
- VIDEO: NSW election candidate Oscar Grenfell interviewed on SEP (Australia) fight against war
- Temple University administration, corporate press and union bureaucrats falsely claim sellout agreement means “end” of grad student strike
- In Leopoldstadt, playwright Tom Stoppard looks to his past and the fate of Europe’s Jews
- Anti-Netanyahu protests continue, but their Zionist agenda cannot combat fascist threat
- Why educators should support the SEP in Australia’s NSW state election
- Washington accuses Russia of “crimes against humanity” to justify escalation of Ukraine war
- Spanish Amazon workers launch indefinite strike against closure of Martorelles facility
- University and College Union sells out UK higher education strike
- Oakland public schools face drastic cuts in the face of massive budget deficit
- This week in history: February 20-26
- Fox News emails, messages show its role in instigating January 6 attack
- Mississippi House Republicans back controversial white-run court system for heavily black capital city
- The “Rage Against the War Machine” rally: A reactionary political freak show
- Fascist election denier wins race to be chair of Michigan Republican Party
- Fiji’s ex-PM Bainimarama suspended from parliament for sedition
- Why are 42 percent of US high school students experiencing persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness?
- Union executive orders end to strike by Newfoundland’s Memorial University faculty although contract yet to be finalized
- US menaces China over balloon, arms for Russia
- Cincinnati-area water districts shut off intake from Ohio River due to contamination from East Palestine derailment
- Sri Lankan Socialist Equality Party to hold election meetings at Kolonnawa and Masakeliya
2023-02-21
- Royal College of Nursing moves to end nurses strike in England
- Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s moves to block local elections! Mobilise the working class to defend democratic rights!
- SEP (Australia) candidate for NSW election exposes fraud of indigenous Voice
- Strong opposition by striking Temple grad students to tentative agreement as voting begins
- The answer to the East Palestine disaster: Railroad workers’ control over safety and working conditions
- Biden’s Kiev visit threatens direct US war with Russia
- Australia: Queensland Police exploit right-wing terror attack to target socialism and Marxism
- Thousands still isolated one week after devastating floods in New Zealand
- US exploits North Korea’s missile test to flex military muscle
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German interior minister to tighten up “radicalism decree”
- Modi orders raids on BBC offices after documentary points to his role in 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom
- Oppose performance of plays to segregated audiences at the Canadian government-funded National Arts Centre!
- US prisoner deaths rose more than 60 percent from 2019 to 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
- One year on, Australian flood victims still left abandoned
- Turkish official says earthquake death toll could reach 150,000 as aftershocks shake region
- Tentative Agreements reached between AT&T and the CWA in lead-up to contract votes
- Intriguing discovery of ancient tools, butchery, and hominin teeth in Kenya
- 12,000 ambulance workers begin new round of strikes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland left isolated by RCN calling off nurses’ action
2023-02-22
- Top level Taiwanese ministers hold secret talks in Washington
- Russia suspends participation in New START nuclear arms control treaty as US prepares expansion of Ukraine war
- The socialist answer to the toxic peace petition of the Left Party’s Sahra Wagenknecht
- Temple University graduate students overwhelmingly reject sellout contract, continue strike
- 1 worker killed, another 13 injured in Ohio metal factory explosion
- Sturgeon resigns, Scottish National Party in crisis
- UK nurses denounce RCN union for suspending strikes to enter talks with government
- US and NATO plot wars while ignoring Turkey/Syria earthquake victims
- 800 nurses poised to strike South Shore University Hospital in Long Island, New York
- French union bureaucracies pause strikes as social explosion against Macron looms
- Bernie Sanders blames rail workers for Ohio rail disaster, defends strikebreaking Biden administration
- Greens make fraudulent appeal to disaffected voters in Australia’s NSW state election
- Letter from a Syrian reader on the earthquake’s catastrophic impact
- With no contract after a 2-year strike, United Mine Workers of America sends miners back to work at Warrior Met
- Opposition builds among Caterpillar workers with UAW contract deadline one week away
- NATO powers intensify offensive against Russia after Munich Security Conference
- French students speak out against NATO-Russia war in Ukraine
2023-02-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Flint, Michigan workers warn East Palestine residents: “You can’t trust the government!”
- The way forward for striking Temple graduate students after rejection of sellout contract
- Biden boasts of his role in expanding NATO to Russia’s borders
- Ontario’s hard-right Ford government failed to distribute PPE stockpile during more than two-and-a-half years of the pandemic
- Australian PM pushes economic nationalism to justify huge military build-up
- Banks burn in Lebanon amid collapse of state institutions
- Abysmal turnout in UAW run-off confirms fraudulent character of election
- White House violates right to asylum and bans immigration at US-Mexico border
- Spanish Morenoites cover for Podemos sending tanks to Ukraine
- The Stop the War Coalition and the collapse of the official anti-war movement
- Following corruption allegations, the fall of India's Adani group continues
- Japan exploits Chinese balloon incident to justify war plans
- Trump seeks to exploit the East Palestine rail disaster for political gain
- Support the SEP (Australia) in the NSW election to oppose bipartisan slashing of public sector wages!
- War propaganda dominates Berlin film festival opening, including Sean Penn’s Superpower
- Stop the campaign of smears and censorship targeting anti-war meetings on Canadian university campuses!
- Sri Jayawardenepura university students respond enthusiastically to SEP lecture
- UPS workers talk to the WSWS ahead of contract expiration
- The New York Times promotes misinformation on masks and COVID-19
2023-02-24
- Arizona attorney general suppressed his agents’ reports refuting “stolen election” claims
- Retired German General Erich Vad and the militarist agenda behind the “Revolt for Peace” of the Left Party’s Sahra Wagenknecht
- Amid mounting mass protests against IMF austerity, Sri Lanka’s autocratic president cancels local elections
- UAW official appointed to $174,000/year leadership position after donating $25,000 to Shawn Fain’s campaign
- The devil in the detail of the UCU’s “breakthrough” for university workers
- Interview with Michael Anderegg, author of Lincoln and Shakespeare and Orson Welles, Shakespeare and Popular Culture: “Shakespeare in the 19th century could be seen simultaneously as popular as well as elite”
- SEP (Australia) candidate for NSW election Max Boddy campaigns at Sydney university
- Transportation Secretary Buttigieg visits East Palestine for photo-op, as more details emerge of derailment and its aftermath
- Unions reject Quebec government’s wage-cutting offer to half a million public sector workers
- The NATO-Russia War in Ukraine enters its second year
- Department of Labor imposes token $1.5 million fine for flagrant child labor violations at US meatpacking plants
- Turkey, hit by earthquake, conceals mass COVID-19 pandemic deaths
- Company plans to dump a million gallons of radioactive water into the Hudson River
- Youth in Ukraine speak on one year of the NATO-Russia war
- US sends troops to Taiwan after general threatens war with China by 2025
- Why the German media deny US responsibility for the destruction of Nord Stream
- Israel’s murderous assault on Nablus a deliberate provocation
- US Fed interest rate hikes far from over
- LAUSD school district workers angry at SEIU for delaying strike action, as district begins hiring scabs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Michigan firefighter dies from downed power line as massive winter storm hits continental US
- Greetings to the Anniversary Meeting of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists
2023-02-25
- Health authorities in Cambodia report a young girl has died from bird flu
- Australian study shows inflation the result of profit gouging, not wages
- Scores of immigrants die in bus crashes trying to reach locked-down US border
- Open letter to undergraduates of Temple University: Support striking Temple grad students! Fight back against tuition increases!
- Hydrologist warns of long-term consequences of catastrophic US train derailment
- The COVID cover-up, or how the ruling class learned to stop worrying and love the virus
- University of Michigan graduate student workers move closer to strike
- Sri Lankan workers protest against tax increases
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds open-air election meeting in Jaffna district
- SEP demands billions for health and education, not for war
- Living: A “sort of dead” civil servant comes to life
- Twelve years after Christchurch earthquake, building collapse victims denied justice
- In last words, Florida death row inmate denounces Governor Ron DeSantis
- 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was paid over $1 million to speak about race at colleges in 2022
- Letter from a Caterpillar worker: “We are done messing around”
- Pueblo, Colorado, family file lawsuit over 2022 police killing of Richard Ward
2023-02-26
2023-02-27
- This week in history: February 27-March 5
- UK government agrees deal with European Union on Northern Ireland trade
- Der Spiegel asks: “Is the CIA hunting Assange’s supporters?”
- Lula government ends daily COVID-19 tracking in Brazil
- Anti-Defamation League: All “extremist” mass killings in the US in 2022 linked to the far right
- The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China
- Norway emerges as key staging ground for US military provocations against Russia
- “They have upended people’s lives”: East Palestine residents speak out at Erin Brockovich town hall meeting
- Sri Lankan SEP election campaign wins support from plantation workers
- Will Lehman demands UAW monitor investigate appointment of Vail Kohnert-Yount to leadership post after $25,000 donation to Shawn Fain
- More than 300,000 in Michigan with no power five days after ice storm
- Retired Detroit nurse: “When you have CEOs at ‘not-for-profit’ hospitals making millions a year … something is wrong with the whole system”
- Junior doctors in England set to strike for three days from March 13
- The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: Online meeting advances a socialist anti-war strategy for the international working class
- SEP (Australia) candidates hold speak out in southwest Sydney ahead of NSW election
- Turkish Red Crescent’s sale of tents after the earthquake revealed as “government resign” chants rise from stadiums
- Fascists stage provocation at Broadway show Parade about 1915 lynching of Leo Frank
- Moldova’s President Sandu tightens grip on power, as the country is being drawn into the maelstrom of the NATO-Russia war
- At least 59 migrants drown off Italian coast, including newborn baby and 19 other children
- Democrats place policing and “public safety” at center of Chicago municipal elections
- Amazon workers mount further strikes at Coventry warehouse, posing need for rank-and-file committees
2023-02-28
- Sri Lankan SEP denounces police attack on Sunday protest against cancellation of local elections
- Vengeance: B.J. Novak’s directorial debut
- The Wuhan lab lie: “Weapons of mass destruction” redux
- Stripping Shamima Begum of British citizenship a vindictive crime
- Strike at Brazil’s Petrobras is suppressed by PT-led unions
- One year on—Australia’s floods: An indictment of capitalism
- Video: Residents of East Palestine speak out on poisoning of their town by Norfolk Southern
- Australian military analysts warn against a US-led war with China
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Class struggles mount in Turkey after earthquake disaster
- Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists celebrates 5-year anniversary
- Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht’s “Revolt for Peace”: German nationalism instead of a fight against war
- Oppose University of Sydney’s suspension of students who protested former prime minister!
- Frankfurt city authorities censor Roger Waters concert under false accusation of anti-Semitism
- SEP/IYSSE (Sri Lanka) online public meeting this Sunday: Oppose the president’s scuttling of local elections! Mobilise the working class to defend democratic and social rights!
- Biden’s program for mass hunger: Food stamps being cut back for 42 million
- Ontario Federation of Labour’s “Enough is enough” campaign: a trap for the working class
- Zionist settlers carry out murderous pogrom on Palestinian town
- Orion 23: France holds its largest-ever military exercise for war with Russia
- Caterpillar workers have a right to know what’s being said in the contract talks! Prepare to launch a counteroffensive of Cat workers and autoworkers!
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