Archive: 03/2023
2023-03-01
- UK teachers speak from picket lines during latest three days of strikes
- Temple University undergraduates rally in support of grad students as strike continues into second month
- Intelligence agency-incited furor over lurid claims China interfered in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections
- German government ends masking requirement in health and care facilities
- Voting ends in UAW runoff election, with less than 13 percent of rank-and-file workers casting ballots
- Second storm in one week knocks out power for tens of thousands again in Michigan
- UC academic workers report major cuts to departments in the aftermath of six-week strike
- US Supreme Court poised to overturn Biden administration’s limited student debt relief plan
- UAW announces tentative agreement with Caterpillar shortly after midnight, defying calls by workers for strike action
- Ford to pay near-poverty wages at new Michigan battery plant
- Fake concern about gambling addiction emerges in Australian state election
- Child and youth poverty in Germany rises sharply
- Musician Marilyn Manson accuser repudiates earlier #MeToo accusations
- US demands for “existential struggle” threaten war with China
- The international significance of the developing revolutionary confrontation in Sri Lanka
- Greece’s worst train disaster kills at least 40
- Vote NO on the UAW-Caterpillar concessions contract! Organize now to defeat the sellout and prepare a strike!
2023-03-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan workers strike in defiance of government’s essential service orders
- Disco Boy: A remarkable anti-war film from Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese
- Worker in China in violent clash over unpaid wages
- The Left Party: Swinging between NATO war policy and German militarism
- Body camera footage shows Knoxville, Tennessee police mocking 60-year-old Lisa Edwards before she died in their custody
- The East Palestine disaster: A crime of capitalism
- Support the strike against government austerity! Withdraw draconian essential service orders! Fight for a socialist program to defend workers’ social and democratic rights!
- Marcus Garvey and the reactionary logic of racialist politics
- Stellantis begins indefinite idling of Belvidere Assembly in a major assault on autoworkers
- 57 confirmed dead in Greek train crash, as protests and strikes erupt
- Australia’s largest-ever real wage cut highlights need for rank-and-file committees
- Israel’s fascist minister Smotrich calls for town of Huwara to be wiped out, anti-Netanyahu opposition grows
- White House and US media revive the Wuhan lab lie
- Union “sets stage” for strike vote by 6,000 FedEx pilots in US
- UAW and Dana Inc. conspire to fire dozens of autoworkers from Toledo Driveline plant
- Anger erupts among Caterpillar workers as details of UAW agreement emerge: “We deserve way better”
- New Zealand’s flooding disaster and the case for socialism
2023-03-03
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Publisher agrees to an uncensored edition of Roald Dahl’s books, but not before PEN America exposes its own hypocrisy
- UK University and College Union presides over 10 percent pay cut at Sheffield’s private college
- Biden seeks renewal of warrantless spying powers
- German Foreign Minister Baerbock presents “feminist” war policy
- The forces behind the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally: Libertarian Party turns to anti-Semites and the fascist right
- Sri Lankan trade unions’ treacherous role in suppressing the growing struggles of workers against government austerity
- Financial markets signal more interest rates hikes to come
- The growing crisis of declining obstetric services in rural America
- Massive surge in COVID infections across Canada as federal Liberal government suspends dispatch of rapid test kits
- Chris Hedges’ disoriented concept of “political maturity”
- Heavy rain and snow highlight inequality in California
- Leaked UK government messages confirm pandemic crimes
- UAW negotiates massive wage cut for Caterpillar workers
- Graphic Packaging International workers in Domino, Texas reject second contract, issue strike notice
- Australian state election: SEP raises critical issues on war and floods in northern NSW
- Chicago mayor defeated in municipal elections, challengers Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson advance to April run-off
- Striking teachers from Jewish Community Secondary School in north London: “Teachers are at breaking point”
- Protests and strikes over deadly Greek train crash denounce government and private rail firm
- Governments make provocative offer to German public sector workers
2023-03-04
- German talk show utilises atrocity propaganda to justify expansion of the Ukraine war
- Inequality in Sweden reaches highest level in decades
- Official death toll in Turkish-Syrian earthquake exceeds 53,000
- Dana workers fired with UAW consent for reporting exploitation, wage theft and sexual harassment
- Angry residents confront EPA and railroad officials at East Palestine, Ohio town hall
- The global significance of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
- Heavily armed fascist arrested by FBI after threatening to murder “anyone that is Jewish” in Michigan government
- Sham motorway toll promises in NSW election
- Thousands join climate change protests in New Zealand
- Support and build the Caterpillar Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- Norfolk Southern, rail union floated exchanging sick days for automatic track inspections
- German Chancellor Scholz pushes for rearmament and war against Russia
- The return of the “Grand Coalition” in Berlin
2023-03-05
2023-03-06
- Australia: Labor’s NSW election launch highlights bipartisan pro-business program
- Financial parasitism and the war drive against China
- Sri Lanka’s JVP-NPP collaborates with ex-military officers and business representatives
- Dispute over challenged ballots will decide winner in illegitimate UAW runoff election
- Republicans embrace fascist rant from Trump at CPAC conference
- What did Biden and Scholz decide at their top-secret war summit?
- “It’s going to keep happening all over America”: East Palestine, Ohio residents speak out at town hall on train derailment
- Australia: Teachers speak on impact of union betrayal in Victoria, public education crisis
- Study finds people suffering Long COVID have higher rates of cardiovascular events and excess deaths
- Huwara offensive against Palestinians fuels anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel
- Abandonment of Australian flood victims underscores fraud of official NSW election pledges
- Why Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon continues to resonate after 50 years
- This week in history: March 6-12
- Mass protests and strikes over train crash threaten Greek government
- Warning strikes in Germany’s public sector and local transport
- US Supreme Court hears case challenging Section 230 online liability shield
- NYSNA rams through rotten contract for nurses at Long Island hospital
- Former nurse at Lewis Center nursing home, Ohio, sentenced on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the accidental death of a resident
- Public meeting: Support the Socialist Equality Party in the New South Wales state election!
- What’s at stake in the Caterpillar workers’ struggle
2023-03-07
- More Dana workers stand up to reveal rampant corporate-union abuse
- SEP (Australia) campaigners for NSW election speak to workers about cost of living crisis and war
- UK government plans mass detention and expulsion of asylum seekers
- Third storm in 10 days shuts down power for 220,000 in Metro Detroit
- Caterpillar Rank-and-File Committee announces online meeting Wednesday: “Vote NO on the UAW-Caterpillar concessions contract!”
- Deutsche Post DHL workers: Take the strike into your own hands
- UAW runoff elections end in debacle for bureaucracy
- Australian “robodebt” lies expose how governments work
- South Korean government demands “normalization” of labor unions
- Stalin: The gravedigger of the revolution
- Caterpillars, My Beloved Man’s Female Body, Just Super: Once again on the role of identity politics at the Berlin film festival
- Millions suffer plunge in living standards as cost of living surges in UK
- Utah man shot and killed by Farmington police during traffic stop
- Sri Lankan SEP election meeting in central plantation district denounces cancellation of local polls
- New Zealand deaths increased 10 percent last year
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tennessee governor signs anti-transgender and anti-drag bills
- Mass teachers strikes erupt across Portugal
2023-03-08
- Communication Workers Union deepens collusion with Royal Mail to prepare strike sell-out
- Ukrainian government spends millions on monuments and streets to honor Nazi collaborators and neofascists
- The Swimmers: Images of the horrific refugee crisis
- Fed chair tells Congress interest rate hikes will continue
- 300,000 federal workers confront Canada’s union-backed Liberal government in struggle for real-terms pay increases
- Scottish teachers offered 28 months of pay cuts—Vote NO!
- Residents of California’s San Bernardino County trapped by snow for days with no help
- A call to action to all autoworkers: Join the Dana Workers’ Rank-and-File Committee
- Top US military officials visit Middle East to ratchet up conflicts with Iran and Russia
- Hundreds of thousands strike and protest Greece’s mass train crash deaths
- UAW tells Caterpillar workers it will not distribute full contract at informational meetings: “It was a propaganda show mixed with passive-aggressive bullying”
- Chinese officials: US war plans threaten “confrontation” in the Pacific
- Two Norfolk Southern rail accidents in four days in Ohio show nothing has been done after East Palestine disaster
- Norfolk Southern offers pittance to cover East Palestine, Ohio residents’ hotel costs
- Six months without a contract: New York City educators must take the struggle into their own hands
- Deutsche Post strike ballot: Postal Workers Action Committee call for strike receives strong support
- China’s National People’s Congress convenes amid mounting crises
- The way forward after collapse of School Strike for Climate movement in Australia
- Stop the pension cuts and the war, bring down the Macron government!
- Australian rate rise offensive shows necessity for SEP’s socialist campaign
- Show us the full Caterpillar-UAW contract! Workers have a right to know what’s in the agreement!
2023-03-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkish bourgeois opposition names Kılıçdaroğlu presidential candidate amid earthquake disaster
- Manchester Arena bombing inquiry delivers cover-up “in the national interest”
- Labor government plans biggest-ever restructuring of Australia Post
- Temple University grad students dragged into dead-end appeals to the Democratic Party as tuition deadline looms
- Strikes erupt across French economy after March 7 protest against pension cuts
- Mass firings continue at Dana as momentum builds for rank-and-file fight back
- US complicity in Nord Stream bombing stands exposed
- The new anti-AUKUS Coalition in Australia: A nationalist trap for anti-war sentiment
- Norfolk Southern’s “six point plan” for rail safety: More PR damage control after East Palestine, Ohio derailment
- Aftersun: A small film widely celebrated
- Public inquiry endorses Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act, whitewashes his ruling class opponents’ weaponization of far-right “Freedom” Convoy
- “We have to unite and stop being enslaved”: Toledo Jeep workers demand that victimized Dana workers be reinstated
- Australian “youth barometer” survey highlights growing poverty, precariousness
- Tens of thousands protest fascist attack at high school in Florence, Italy
- Caterpillar workers at forefront of escalating class conflict in US
- Deepening debt and currency crises hit poorer countries
- Pacific Island of Vanuatu devastated by twin cyclones
- Danish parliament votes to abolish public holiday in order to finance military spending increase
- Ongoing warning strikes in Germany’s public sector
2023-03-10
- Governor DeSantis leads Florida Republicans in assault on democratic rights in new legislative session
- Australian corporate papers call for war with China, nuclear weapons and mass conscription
- Biden’s $1 trillion budget for world war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Jacob the Liar (1974)—the original East German version
- European Union ramps up ammunition production and organizes war economy
- Despite 86 percent vote in favour, Verdi seeks to prevent a strike at Deutsche Post
- Greek government and opposition parties fall in polls due to mass revulsion at train deaths
- Michigan Democratic Governor Whitmer signs state budget, automakers cash in
- “This is a fight for working class people globally”: Caterpillar workers rank-and-file committee holds powerful meeting against sellout agreement
- RMT union pulls March 16 UK strike action at Network Rail to ballot over repackaged sellout
- US Justice Department investigation details widespread civil rights abuses by Louisville, Kentucky Metro Police Department
- Sri Lankan government unleashes brutal state attacks on student protests
- Australian Labor’s universities Accord seeks to tie universities to big business and war preparations
- Demise of crypto firm FTX brings down a bank
- Class struggle at Caterpillar: Lessons from the past
- Racist witness complicates Democrats’ efforts to promote “lab leak” conspiracy theory
- 23 charged with domestic terrorism over protest against proposed Atlanta, Georgia police training center
- The earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria and the role of German imperialism
2023-03-11
- Second biggest bank failure in US history as Silicon Valley Bank collapses
- Build action committees in every workplace! Fight for a united struggle against Sri Lankan government’s austerity measures
- Georgian government withdraws “foreign agents” bill after two days of NATO-backed protests
- Anti-China campaign ramps up in New Zealand
- Deadly atmospheric river storm causes massive flooding in California, forcing thousands to evacuate
- Promoting NATO, Ukrainian fascists and right-wing Russian oppositionists: Leading US universities host pro-war events on campus
- Three years and 21 million dead from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Norfolk Southern CEO testifies to the US Senate on East Palestine, Ohio disaster, hours after yet another derailment
- Canada’s New Democrats stoke intelligence agency-incited furor over alleged Chinese election interference
- Pakistan economy unravels as IMF imposes ever harsher conditions
- Philadelphia students kept in asbestos-ridden school for over two years
- Leading Republicans call for US military intervention against Mexico
- Flint, Michigan mother arrested, fined $350 for the “crime” of stealing vitamins
- US Director of National Intelligence confirms end of “strategic ambiguity” over Taiwan
- Texas executes two mentally impaired death row inmates, temporarily spares a third
- Husband and wife report Dana fired them within same month at Dry Ridge, Kentucky plant after filing grievance over lost wages
- Far-right Ukrainian World Congress demands Hollywood take “appropriate action” against Top Gun: Maverick
- Excess deaths in Australia highest since World War II
2023-03-12
- Warning strikes in Germany’s public sector: “There is something wrong with the system itself”
- BBC’s removing sports host Gary Lineker for opposing government anti-migrant legislation provokes public outrage
- UK trade unions and Labour MPs only attract a few thousand to NHS demonstration
- Chris Hedges’ dishonest defense of the January 6 fascist mob
2023-03-13
- One year of pseudo-left Boric government in Chile: A program of pro-imperialist and anti-working class reaction
- The Whale: The new film by Darren Aronofsky
- Dana Rank-and-File Committee wins backing from Toledo Jeep workers for fight against unjust terminations
- Amid mass strikes, France’s Morenoite Révolution permanente group embraces capitalist rule
- Denver, Colorado light rail passenger train derails, injuring two
- Body camera footage released of Utah police shooting Chase Allan during traffic stop
- Xi Jinping reappointed to head Chinese regime under siege
- Hands off the IYSSE’s democratic rights on Sri Lankan universities!
- The rank-and-file struggle against mass firings at Dana
- Biden announces bailout for wealthy depositors in Silicon Valley Bank
- Junior doctors stage first day of 72-hour strike action across England
- Workers’ Party of Turkey backs Kılıçdaroğlu in presidential election
- Striking Temple graduate workers offered another rotten contract
- This week in history: March 13-19
- Australia, India deepen military ties against China
- Australia’s housing crisis demands a socialist solution
- Quebec government demands sweeping concessions as unions work to demobilize half a million public sector workers
- UAW announces contract passes at Caterpillar amid widespread opposition: “I think it’s a huge sellout”
- Organise to prevent sell-out of UK teachers’ strike by education unions' bureaucracy
- Israeli protest leaders ignore escalating attacks on Palestinians, direct opposition along nationalist lines
2023-03-14
- The transformation of Germany’s postal service into a low-wage sector
- New York City municipal unions impose privatized health care on retirees
- Vote “No” to Verdi’s fraudulent contract agreement for German postal workers! Build the Postal Action Committee!
- US-UK-Australian nuclear submarine deal: Preparation for war against China
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- 50,000 New Zealand teachers prepare for nationwide strike against pay cuts
- California ends mask requirement for health care workers in health facilities
- After the refugee tragedy off Crotone, Italy: Brussels and Berlin further restrict sea rescues
- SEP (Australia) campaigners for NSW election speak to Central Coast workers about cost of living crisis and war
- Los Angeles education unions prepare minimal strike actions as district pushes forward with austerity contracts
- Eight migrants drowned in capsized boat off the San Diego coast
- George Galloway’s No2Nato: War cannot be opposed based on nationalism and an embrace of capitalism’s “rising powers”
- US-South Korea staging largest joint military drills in five years
- The “safe,” “familiar” and “reassuring” 2023 Academy Awards: tedious, self-involved and distant from the population
- The bailout of Silicon Valley Bank and the historic crisis of capitalism
- The Hamburg massacre: Symptom of a brutalized society
- Vinyl chloride, dioxin and the poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio
- Sellout being prepared in closed-door talks between Royal Mail and CWU
- Many school buildings in England at risk of collapse
- The betrayers of Julian Assange
- Caterpillar workers erupt in anger after UAW declares sellout contract ratified: “The whole thing feels like a sham”
- Evidence presented in 1973 murder of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
2023-03-15
- Chinese-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia raises alarm bells in Washington
- Another 10,000 layoffs at social media giant Meta
- Biden approves huge oil extraction project in Alaska
- UAW election debacle continues as delay in results stretches into second week
- SVB collapse exposes deep problems in US financial system
- Temple University strike ends with poverty contract
- Fort Wayne Philharmonic to resume concerts following bitter three-month strike
- Russia downs US drone as NATO plans major escalation in Ukraine
- New autopsy reveals 26-year old environmental activist was sitting cross-legged with hands raised when killed by Georgia state troopers
- February marks 23rd straight month of real wages decline for US workers
- Stop the war in Ukraine! Mobilize the international working class against imperialism!
- The UAW sellout at Caterpillar and the way forward
- Big political issues discussed on SEP campaign in flood-affected Australian regional city
- IYSSE holds anti-war demonstrations in front of two major universities in Sri Lanka
- 400,000 workers strike in the UK, tens of thousands rally in London
2023-03-16
- Anti-Defamation League reports “all-time high” white supremacist propaganda incidents in United States in 2022
- UK budget deepens social catastrophe for workers
- Hundreds of thousands Sri Lankan workers join one-day strike against government austerity
- Kentucky autoworker says Dana Inc. forced him out of job for going to hospital for severe injuries sustained at Dry Ridge plant
- Massive flooding as storms drench California, continue dumping snow
- UAW imposes massive real wage cuts at Caterpillar
- Former Fiji PM Bainimarama arrested, charged with abuse of office
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New Zealand government barely acknowledges anniversary of Christchurch far-right terror attack
- UK postal workers describe brutal exploitation by Royal Mail and complicity of Communication Workers Union
- Kenyan playwright Francis Imbuga’s Betrayal in the City returns: A drama of post-colonial violence
- General strike and protests in Greece continue over Tempi train crash deaths
- Postal workers express anger at Verdi union as it recommends below-inflation pay offer at Deutsche Post
- Sharp lurch of official Canadian politics to the right expressed in increasing use of anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause”
- Market turmoil and threat of Credit Suisse collapse, as fallout from SVB’s demise spreads
- Australia: Sydney rail network brought to a standstill by failure of “obsolete” system
- The international significance of the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria
2023-03-17
- Michigan hospital worker with Long COVID speaks about the destruction of health care in the US
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Zelensky government steps up persecution of Russian-affiliated Orthodox Church amid mounting military losses
- Former Australian prime minister says AUKUS submarine deal about ensuring US hegemony in Asia
- Police assault protests across France against anti-democratic attack on pensions
- Teachers strike across New Zealand over crisis in schools
- Wall Street banks organise a bailout operation as financial crisis deepens
- 1.7 million Maharashtra state government employees on indefinite strike in defence of pension rights
- Australian SEP candidate blocked from speaking to flood victims
- US federal judge hears anti-abortion zealots’ arguments for nationwide ban on abortion pill
- Oppose University of Washington’s censorship of Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin!
- Wisconsin man pleads guilty to state charges in plot to kidnap governor of Michigan
- UK postal workers continue to speak out against punishing workloads and CWU collusion with Royal Mail
- UK National Health Service workers must organise to defeat the Tory-union sellout deal!
- Striking teachers and junior doctors in the UK speak on their struggle
- More than half a million Sri Lankan workers participated in Wednesday’s national strike
- The Grammys, the Super Bowl and the crisis in popular music
- As casualties mount in Ukraine war, US presses for major new offensive
- US maternal mortality rate soars: An example of capitalist barbarism
- Clashes erupt across France as Macron imposes pension cuts without parliamentary vote
- Striking hospital workers across Germany call for all-out action against cuts in real wages and excessive workloads
- Immunocompromised mother in Manhattan speaks to Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Biden green-lights bipartisan attack on Washington DC criminal code revision
2023-03-18
- Rank-and-file candidate Will Lehman’s statement on the UAW election crisis
- Paris police assault garbage workers striking against Macron's cuts
- California UPS worker speaks out ahead of contract talks: “Now is the time for action”
- My Lost Country: The fate of Iraqi culture and society
- Honduras cuts ties to Taiwan in favor of China
- French students speak out after 5 arrested at protest to defend garbage workers striking against Macron’s pension cut
- ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin as part of US-NATO propaganda campaign for regime change
- The German chancellor and government intensify their pro-war policies
- Norfolk Southern alleges defective railcars may have contributed to recent derailment
- Australian PM promotes AUKUS as platform for a total war economy
- Chicago mayoral forums mark Democratic Party’s sharp shift to the right
- Australian IYSSE holds meetings against war in Ukraine and preparations for war with China
- After Microsoft announces 10,000 layoffs, CWA union endorses tech giant’s multibillion-dollar bid for video game publisher ABK
- After nuclear-capable B-52 flies near Russian airspace, British and German warplanes intercept Russian jet over Baltic
2023-03-19
2023-03-20
- UK Home Secretary Braverman pushes forward policy of mass deportations of asylum seekers
- Killing prompts call for federal investigation of Paterson, New Jersey, police department
- African protests met with savage repression
- Los Angeles County report confirms that deputy gangs are rampant in Sheriff’s Department
- Newfound DNA data indicates wild animals at Wuhan market were infected with SARS-Cov-2
- Workers object to Australian SEP candidate being barred from speaking to flood victims
- UAW election crisis continues after Curry acknowledges “rampant disenfranchisement”
- This week in history: March 20-26
- Staffing crisis and declining wages after sellout of New Zealand rail workers
- Updated report shows poverty in Germany is higher than previously thought
- The class struggle against Macron and the lessons of the Paris Commune
- Tyson announces plant closures in Arkansas and Virginia, impacting nearly 1,700 workers
- Kroger-Albertsons grocery chain merger in US threatens job cuts as Wall Street eyes payday
- GM Lansing workers launch the GM Lansing Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Musicians, actors, artists sign petition demanding Roger Waters be allowed to perform in Frankfurt
- Economic devastation worsens as Sri Lankan government imposes IMF austerity
- French police step up crackdown on protests vs Macron’s imposition of pension cuts
- Drastic closures and job cuts at Germany’s biggest department store chain
- Credit Suisse taken over amid fears of financial meltdown
2023-03-21
- Police protect Nazi march in Australia
- What the SEP was prevented from asking at the anti-AUKUS meeting in Sydney
- Amazon announces 9,000 more job cuts as tech industry jobs massacre builds
- Postal workers condemn sweatshop conditions at Royal Mail rubber stamped by Communication Workers Union
- Protests sweep France as National Assembly accepts Macron’s pension cuts without a vote
- Fight for fishing facilities at affordable prices! Reject communal provocations that divide Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen!
- Credit Suisse and the power of money
- Detroit public schools begin cutting educator jobs, services and summer programs, as COVID funding runs out
- Twenty years since the US invasion of Iraq
- Striking LAUSD teacher: “All the issues we were fighting for in our 2019 strike are the same now”
- Video: Workers speak out against war and inequality in NSW election
- John McDonnell leads support of UK Labour “left” for NATO’s war against Russia
- The way forward for the strike by 65,000 Los Angeles school workers
- Police raid German real estate giant Vonovia
- Pressure grows on another US bank amid controversy over Credit Suisse takeover
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- My Father the Guest Worker, I, Your Mother and Oyoyo: Three documentaries about immigrants in former East and West Germany
- Trade unions support Ford Valencia scheme to lay off 1,144 workers
- Anti-AUKUS meeting in Sydney: Fake anti-war movement promotes right-wing militarists
- Democrats push reactionary diversion in pending indictment of Trump over sex scandal
2023-03-22
- French students denounce complicity of union bureaucracies, National Assembly in Macron’s cuts
- Top US official visits New Zealand to strengthen ties against China
- Oppose president’s suppression of local election! Mobilise working class to defend democratic and social rights!
- Pay offer at Deutsche Post: Make a “no” vote the start of a rebellion against the Verdi union leadership!
- Arrests, convictions and jail terms mount for January 6 attackers—but not for organizers and coup plotters
- How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers
- Dana worker says he became homeless after being fired on pretense
- Alberta’s far-right premier leads charge to criminalize pandemic public health measures
- UK postal workers expose grinding exploitation by Royal Mail, overseen by Communication Workers Union
- Georgia’s PM warns of World War III, as political tensions grip country
- UAW Monitor denies Will Lehman protest, disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of rank-and-file members
- Why health workers should support the SEP (Australia) in the NSW state election
- Boris Johnson appears before UK parliamentary committee over COVID “Partygate” scandal
- Stellantis fires veteran workers: “The same thing is happening to us as at Dana”
- Arbitrator orders Metropolitan Opera to pay soprano Anna Netrebko $200,000 after breaking contract
- 65,000 school workers begin three-day strike in Los Angeles
- Video shows Virginia police murder of man during hospital admission
- US treasury secretary Yellen pledges more money for the ultra-wealthy if needed
- The March 18 anti-war rally and the dead end of “pressuring” the Democratic Party
- The Turkish-Syrian earthquake and the impending danger to Istanbul
2023-03-23
- French police assault refinery workers striking against pension cuts
- UK postal workers condemn corporate greed at Royal Mail and betrayal by Communication Workers Union
- Sri Lankan president anti-democratically shuts down local government elections
- Macron brazenly defends decision to impose pension cuts without parliamentary vote
- The global significance of the Los Angeles school workers’ strike
- US Fed attempts a balancing act on interest rates
- Canada’s Waterloo University threatening to shut down IYSSE meeting opposing Ukraine war
- The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 1
- Washington D.C. police officer facing murder charge in killing of motorist in moving car
- Biden’s Canada visit aimed at girding North American imperialist alliance for war with Russia and China
- What is the struggle by workers at Deutsche Post about?
- Damien Chazelle’s Babylon: Disoriented and confused
- Anti-AUKUS demonstration in Australia promotes nationalism, “effective” military spending
- Next UAW president will have to beat back “unreasonable expectations” of autoworkers, leaked document from Shawn Fain transition team says
- Chinese and Russian presidents meet as US targets both countries
- Vote for the Socialist Equality Party in NSW state election! Take up the fight against war, austerity and “let it rip” COVID policies!
- Striking Los Angeles education workers speak out on second day of strike
2023-03-24
- US congressmen game out war with China in 2025
- Body of student who shot two Denver high school faculty found in Park County, Colorado after police manhunt
- UK: RCN union tries to defend National Health Service sellout deal as nurses rebel
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- UK postal workers expose back breaking working conditions at Royal Mail
- Sri Lankan president threatens to impose essential services orders banning strikes on teachers
- White House to shut down COVID response task force
- The value American capitalism places on workers’ lives: BP fined $156,250 for the deaths of two refinery operators in Ohio explosion
- Netanyahu given UK backing amid deepening Israeli crisis and repression of Palestinians
- New warning strikes in Germany’s public sector
- The international pseudo-left and the lifting of Zero-COVID in China: Part 2
- Teachers around the world send in support for striking Los Angeles school workers
- Union announces sellout contract after three-day strike at Los Angeles schools
- Tens of thousands of jobs lost in film, performing arts in the US due to pandemic
- Bankstown: A microcosm of Australia’s social crisis
- Scientists find extensive wildlife DNA from the Wuhan wet market mixed with SARS-CoV-2
- Clashes erupt across France as police assault record protests to defend pensions
- Video: SEP (Australia) holds well-attended final NSW election meeting
- Autoworkers speak out after Monitor rejects Will Lehman protest of fraudulent UAW election: “The whole thing smells”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Strike vote by railroaders at CSX over constant underpayment of wages
- Municipal workers in New York City vote on sellout tentative agreement
2023-03-25
- The revival of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis
- Manhattan district attorney in sex scandal case receives mail death threat as Trump warned of “death and destruction” if charged
- US Congress holds anti-China witch-hunt at TikTok hearing
- Strike wave sweeps across the Netherlands
- Norfolk Southern CEO stonewalls on safety in second US Senate hearing on East Palestine, Ohio derailment
- IMF props up Ukraine with $15.6 billion loan package
- Bring down the Macron government!
- IMF declares its Sri Lankan program a “brutal experiment”
- Canada’s Waterloo University backs down on threat to cancel IYSSE anti-war meeting
- US bombs Syria in defense of its illegal occupation
- Los Angeles teacher: Pay for school workers “is not enough to support a family”
- Teachers in Bolivia stage national strike against police repression by MAS government
- Treasury secretary Yellen twists to the power of money
- Lawsuit over Vermont Law School murals depicting slavery lands in Court of Appeals
2023-03-26
- Six construction workers killed in highway accident in Baltimore County
- What filmmaker Ken Loach makes of The Spirit of ’45
- More UK postal workers write in to describe impact of Royal Mail cost-cutting exercise
- Strike wave erupts in Portugal against inflation and soaring poverty
- This week in history: March 27-April 2
- Pro-Israel groups spearhead attack on free speech at high school in suburban Detroit
- Sinn Féin backs NATO’s war against Russia ahead of Biden’s planned visit to Ireland
2023-03-27
- Northern Virginia police officer fired after executing man suspected of stealing sunglasses
- Explosion at Pennsylvania chocolate plant kills five
- Australian workers and young people speak out against war and austerity in NSW election
- Build a mass movement of workers and youth to demand Macron’s removal!
- All eyes in financial markets on Deutsche Bank
- Widespread destruction in US South after tornadoes touch down over the weekend
- Joint Chiefs Chairman: Record military budget “prepares us to fight” China
- Seymour Hersh’s latest revelation: Why is German Chancellor Scholz covering up the destruction of Nord Stream by the US?
- Communist Party of Turkey, Left Party support for Kılıçdaroğlu in presidential election exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left
- Trump kicks off 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas embracing January 6 fascist foot soldiers
- Shawn Fain’s election will not quell growing rank-and-file anger in the UAW
- Oakland, California teachers hold wildcat sickout in support of Los Angeles schools strike
- Biden uses Canada visit to strengthen North American imperialist powers’ alliance for world war and global economic dominance
- Australia: NSW election sees further crisis of Liberals, but no landslide to Labor
- US workers speak out in support of last week’s Los Angeles schools strike, urge rejection of tentative agreement
- Temple University graduate worker exposes lies about supposedly “historic” contract following six-week strike
- Former Montgomery, Alabama teacher testifies about the forced reopening of schools in 2020-21
- Chicago Democrats promote racialist politics during mayoral election
- 67 families homeless after massive landslide at Poonagala Estate in Sri Lanka
- UK head teacher takes own life after school fails government Ofsted inspection
2023-03-28
- US universities enlisted in military production as part of anti-China campaign
- Australian government unveils “tweaked” Voice referendum proposal
- Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in former Soviet Union send greetings to antiwar meeting held by Brazilian Trotskyists
- Report from Texas Marathon refinery worker on death of 25-year old contractor
- UK: Teachers must reject derisory pay offer and fight unions’ demobilisation through independent rank-and-file committees
- Six killed, including three children, in mass shooting at private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee
- SEP (Australia) election campaign finds intense opposition to war and austerity in northern NSW
- SEIU Local 99 calls snap vote of Los Angeles education workers to push through concessionary contract
- Fallout from Silicon Valley Bank collapse raises broader concerns over financial system
- Two massive train derailments in the US in the span of 12 hours
- Shawn Fain administration continues UAW’s undemocratic ban on WSWS
- As strikes mount against Macron’s cuts, French union bureaucracy tries to orchestrate sellout
- General strike and mass protests stagger Israeli regime
- In letter to UAW Bargaining Convention, Will Lehman outlines the demands of the rank and file
- Democratic Socialists of America, in control of school board and teachers union, keeps Los Angeles teachers on the job without a contract
- HBO’s The Last of Us: With humans like this, who needs zombies?
- Australia: After media lies about a Labor landslide, NSW election likely to result in minority government
- IYSSE holds meeting against Ukraine war at Brazil’s University of São Paulo
- Defend Sri Lankan teachers’ right to strike!
- 180,000 German transport workers strike, paralyzing large parts of air, rail and local transport
- Israel protests to continue despite Netanyahu’s “pause” of dictatorial legislation
- Autoworkers resolve to establish network of rank-and-file committees at powerful IWA-RFC meeting in Detroit Sunday
2023-03-29
- Death toll rises in Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion
- Shawn Fain presides over bargaining convention as UAW outlines pro-corporate agenda in Detroit
- Georgia authorities continue using repressive measures against “Cop City” protests
- The social and political issues raised in the strike by graduate employees at the University of Michigan
- Workers speak out during joint rail and public sector warning strike in Germany
- NSW election: Australian workers and youth speak about COVID, war and social crisis
- The three lies of the Brandon Johnson campaign for Chicago mayor
- At least 40 immigrants dead in fire at US-Mexico border: A crime of US imperialism and the Mexican state
- Delaware River chemical spill impacts drinking water in the Philadelphia region
- Anti-AUKUS meeting seeks to divert anti-war concern in reactionary nationalist direction
- Regulators knew of failed Silicon Valley Bank’s problems but took no action
- As millions march against Macron, French unions call for “mediation”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Dicastal Inc. explosion highlights dangerous conditions in auto parts industry
- UK government plans prison ships and internment camps for asylum seekers
- Japan, South Korea normalize intelligence sharing agreement
- Former Los Angeles teacher: “Those people in the district and the unions up there, they need to respect us and our children”
- Parti de l’égalité socialiste intervenes in Paris student meeting to call to bring down Macron
- UK life expectancy growth lags behind all other G7 states besides US
- Targeting China, US Navy to purchase 100 new ships
2023-03-30
- No to French unions’ “mediation” with the state! Mobilize workers to bring down Macron!
- Adenovirus outbreak in Indian state of West Bengal ravaging children
- Aboriginal workers raise concerns about Australia’s Voice to parliament
- University of Michigan graduate student workers strike for living wage
- Higher education employers begin imposing pay cut as University and College Union steps up moves to sell out UK national strike
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government calls for “social peace” as mass protests sweep France
- Washington’s Summit for Democracy reaches new heights of hypocrisy
- Striking French rail workers call to bring down Macron regime
- “How do people manage to live in this world?”—Youthful voices in short films at the Berlin film festival
- Will Lehman files official protest with Department of Labor over illegitimate UAW elections
- Los Angeles area high school students express support for education workers continuing struggle against sellout tentative agreement
- Australia: Labor win in NSW election will not end wage cuts or dire conditions for public sector workers
- Fear of rank-and-file rebellion looms on last day of UAW convention
- New Zealand high school teachers hold second one-day strike
- The slanderous campaign of “Our Harvard Can Do Better” against Professor John Comaroff
- Indie rock duo Quasi returns to the fray with new album: “Thoughts and prayers won’t get you there”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lanka: Kolonnawa residents denounce government’s IMF-dictated austerity
- Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi expelled from Indian parliament after trumped-up criminal conviction
- Tentative agreement would leave tens of thousands of Disney World workers in poverty
- Israel’s protest leaders enter talks to stabilise Netanyahu government
- For an all-out strike in the public sector and beyond! Build independent rank-and-file committees
2023-03-31
- The US CDC and WHO weaken guidelines on COVID booster shots despite the ongoing pandemic
- On eve of contract battle, Stellantis CEO escalates threat against Warren Truck workers
- New York grand jury votes to indict Trump
- German government sends battle tanks against Russia and multiplies military aid to Ukraine
- Deadly helicopter collision along Kentucky-Tennessee border claims the lives of nine US Army paratroopers
- California drivers and warehouse workers join strikes against Sysco in Indiana and Kentucky
- UAW Monitor conflict of interest exposed: Jenner & Block and Crowell & Moring are longstanding lawyers for General Motors and auto corporations
- Netflix airs docudrama on the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff: Part one
- Sri Lankan cinnamon farmers and workers discuss worsening social conditions
- Factory explosions, tainted water and derailments: The cost of doing business for US capitalism
- UK: Communication Workers Union ditches talk of renewed strike action
- Australian Rich List: Skyrocketing wealth for billionaires amid social misery
- Three things Los Angeles school workers need to know about the sellout SEIU contract
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Philadelphia landlord’s private police officer shoots tenant in the head during attempted eviction
- Long COVID sufferer in Florida denounces the abandonment of all pandemic response
- Bank of England points to deep-going financial problems
- IYSSE holds first meeting in Canada on the war in Ukraine and how to stop it
- Amid mounting losses, Zelensky rules out negotiations with Russia
- UK living conditions in unprecedented decline according to Resolution Foundation data
- Mélenchon quietly proposes a general strike to the French union bureaucracy
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