Archive: 04/2023
2023-04-01
- Destructive outbreak of more than 40 tornadoes rips through US South and Midwest
- NATO’s border with Russia to double in length as Finland joins US-led alliance
- Eight people found dead near Canada-US border just days after Biden and Trudeau sign pact to stop refugee crossings
- Protesting French students denounce trade union “mediation” with Macron
- The indictment of Donald Trump: A politically bankrupt diversion
- University of Michigan grad students remain defiant as university seeks injunction against strike
- Australian Labor government refuses to defend Assange as it backs US plans for war against China
- Hungarian PM warns EU may discuss sending “peacekeeping” troops to Ukraine
- Preview release of ChatGPT shows potential of artificial intelligence
- Services union Verdi accepts arbitration to stall all-out strike in Germany’s public sector
- Temple University president resigns in the wake of graduate workers’ strike
- Taiwanese president’s trip to US exacerbates tensions with China
- Sri Lankan government deploys military and police against petroleum workers’ strike
2023-04-02
- Amid mass protests in France, Spain’s PSOE-Podemos regime slashes pensions
- Humza Yousaf replaces Nicola Sturgeon as Scottish National Party leader
- Turkish parliament accepts Finland in NATO: The ruling elite unites in service of imperialism
- This week in history: April 3-9
- Israel attacks Syria and Palestinians as an answer to anti-government protests
2023-04-03
- NPA attacks “leftist” opposition to French union bureaucracy’s talks with Macron
- Sri Lankan government’s Anti-Terrorism Bill: A sweeping attack on democratic rights
- At least 32 people dead, hundreds injured after dozens of tornadoes, thunderstorms tear through US
- Netflix airs docudrama on the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff: Part two
- Facing strikebreaking by Democratic-led UM regents, grad student instructors rally for a living wage
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brings the US war machine to Bronx high schoolers
- French students denounce fraud of union “mediation” with Macron
- Australia: Labor minority confirmed in NSW election as new premier rejects calls for pay increases
- International Council of Nurses calls state of nursing workforce a “global health emergency”
- Finland’s NATO membership prepares major escalation of war against Russia
- UK: Corbyn barred from standing again as a Labour MP
- Surprise oil production cut in response to recession concerns
- Australian by-election defeat highlights Liberal Party crisis
- German government coalition parties hold marathon meeting to prepare for class confrontation
- Verdi union uses questionable vote to push through cuts in real wages for postal workers in Germany
- Nine dead, 44 still missing in mine collapse in China
- Dana paid shareholders $57 million last year, but where is our “profit sharing”?
- Germany’s parliamentary parties criminalise COVID-19 protection measures
- First-ever outbreaks of Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania
- The banning of Michelangelo’s “David” and the orgy of cultural censorship in the United States
- Chicago election rally with Bernie Sanders gives left cover as Democrat Brandon Johnson moves to the right
2023-04-04
- Taiwan president to meet House speaker on US soil, in latest move against “one-China” policy
- Sri Lankan trade unions in high-level talks with the IMF
- Postal workers at UK’s Royal Mail vote to establish rank-and-file committee
- Free Gershkovich, and stop the vicious persecution of Julian Assange
- US provided India real-time military intelligence in China border clash
- Royal College of Nursing calls police against members
- WHO says that XBB.1.16 “Arcturus” is the next Omicron variant “to watch”
- Vote ‘No’ on the SEIU Los Angeles contract! Education workers must build their own rank-and-file committees to take the struggle into their own hands!
- A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a “mass disabling event”: Part 1
- Stellantis cutting hundreds of jobs at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- Explosion in St. Petersburg café kills pro-Kremlin military blogger, wounds 32
- Rifts erupt in Australian ruling class over Voice referendum wording
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Québec Solidaire: Electoral squabbles and support for NATO’s war with Russia
- Mass drowning of refugees off the coast of Tunisia
- Newly elected French CGT union leader rushes to prop up Macron
2023-04-05
- Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
- Sarah Polley’s Women Talking: What made the appalling sexual abuse possible?
- LO tacitly backs French unions’ call for “mediation” to strangle fight against Macron
- Jacobin, DSA promote fraud of “reformed” UAW administration after bargaining convention
- Pro-war Social Democrat-led government paves way for right-wing victory in Finnish elections
- French rail workers denounce Macron and his fraudulent “mediation” with the unions
- Teamsters bureaucracy offers hot air to UPS workers at contract rallies
- The pathetic farce of Mélenchon’s aborted “march on the Elysée Palace”
- Michigan’s school buildings: Neglected and unfunded
- Mexican president snubs immigrants in wake of deadly detention center fire
- Trump arraignment: A degraded political spectacle that covers up his real crimes
- What the merger of CP Rail and Kansas City Southern means for North American rail workers
- University of Michigan graduate student strike continues after judge denies injunction
- A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a “mass disabling event”: Part 2
- UK Royal Mail postal workers speak on their forming a rank-and-file committee
- The mass protests in Israel and the “left-anti-Semitism” witch-hunt
- Australian Labor government’s claim it cannot free Assange is a lie
- Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer declares Ukraine war is “Global power struggle for future world order”
- Australian parliamentary report urges boost to war powers
- Chicago State University faculty and staff strike against low pay and high workloads
2023-04-06
- Sri Lankan Telecom workers strike against privatisation
- Question marks emerge over dollar supremacy
- Netanyahu attacks on all fronts to suppress anti-government protests with war fever
- Los Angeles school workers speak out on working conditions, sellout tentative agreement
- Brandon Johnson, backed by Sanders, CTU and DSA, elected mayor of Chicago
- What way forward in the struggle to bring down Macron?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a “mass disabling event”: Part 3
- Teachers across England overwhelmingly reject derisory pay offer
- US Supreme Court, ignoring exculpatory evidence, refuses to hear appeal from Louisiana death row inmate
- US House Speaker McCarthy demands faster arms sales to Taiwan
- Stellantis layoffs in Detroit area part of escalating global attack on jobs
- Anti-abortion Republican defeated in contest for seat on Wisconsin state supreme court
- Ford Saarlouis: The strikes in France and the fight against plant closure
- Ukrainian parliament approves anti-Russian law to “decolonize” place names
- IYSSE in New Zealand holds meeting against the war in Ukraine
- Lively discussion at online meeting of the Postal Action Committee in Germany
- Amid collapsing trade volumes, 238 business groups ask Biden to intervene in contract talks for West Coast dockworkers
- UK: Support grows for no-confidence vote in Royal College of Nursing officials
2023-04-07
- South Korea’s Democrats stoke nationalism to obscure growing danger of war
- The great “unwinding” of Medicaid enrollment will leave millions without health coverage
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Two construction workers killed in trench collapse at New York's JFK airport
- Chile’s pseudo-left government rams though laws giving police, military license to kill
- UFCW calls off strike of 3,000 Cub Foods grocery workers in Minnesota with “last-minute” tentative agreement
- IYSSE holds anti-war meeting in Sydney, Australia
- Lessons of the Temple University strike
- Canadian grocery executive gets $3 million raise as inflation eats up workers’ wages
- Vermeer—A major cultural event, a large collection of the Dutch master’s paintings at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum
- Communication Workers Union mass meeting paves way for rotten sellout
- SEP and IYSSE hold successful public meeting against Sri Lankan government’s cancellation of local elections
- University of Michigan graduate students’ strike at a critical turning point
- UK rail workers must organise to prevent the RMT’s final sellout of their strike
- Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaçi on trial for war crimes
- Australian building company collapses destroying hundreds of jobs and impacting thousands
- Netanyahu attacks Lebanon and Gaza, with full support of Israel’s opposition leaders
- Australia: Leaked data shows thousands of people caught COVID-19 in hospitals last year
- Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov’s performances cancelled by Boston Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall
- Reserve Bank of Australia pauses rate hikes but insists that they are not over
- German Economy Minister Habeck in Kiev: German big business makes grab for Ukraine
2023-04-08
- Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers
- Forward to May Day 2023! Build a mass movement of workers and youth against war and for socialism!
- Rising rents in Germany plunge many into poverty
- The crimes of the Banderovites against the Ukrainian people: Notes by a Ukrainian Trotskyist
- French union leaders plan to abandon struggle against Macron’s pension cuts
- March US jobs report shows deepening impact of interest rate increases on the working class
- A social and medical examination of Long COVID as a “mass disabling event”: Part 4
- The strike by Russian Wildberries workers and the growing instability of the Putin regime
- Washington D.C. law enforcement releases videos showing police killing of 17-year old in a moving vehicle
- ProPublica documents corrupt relations of Supreme Court arch-reactionary Clarence Thomas with billionaire Republican donor
- Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University!
2023-04-09
2023-04-10
- Southern California dockworkers, working without a contract, shut down ports for 24 hours
- In China, Macron criticizes US policy on Taiwan, demands European “war economy”
- Biden visits Ireland to mark 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement, snubs UK government
- Truck drivers on strike for three weeks in South Hesse, Germany
- Farmington, New Mexico man fatally shot by police who went to wrong address
- Texas judge issues injunction barring most common abortion drug
- Junior doctors begin four-day strike in England to demand pay rise
- SYRIZA’s responsibility for Greece’s Tempi train deaths
- Life expectancy fell 4.6 years in New York City in 2020
- Leaked documents show massive US involvement in Ukraine war
- Mobilize educators and workers to support striking University of Michigan graduate students!
- The “Independent National Convention ’23”: A reactionary political freakshow, part two
- Train drivers’ union agrees to massive cut in real wages for railway workers in Germany
- US Navy Secretary: AUKUS submarine pact is about “defeating” China
- Australian defence minister visits New Zealand to strengthen anti-China alliance
- Texas Republican Governor Abbott pledges to “swiftly” pardon fascist killer
- Sri Lankan sewage maintenance workers killed due to lack of basic safety measures
- British-Irish agreement enshrines sectarian division
- Texas state government takes control of Houston public schools
- This week in history: April 10-16
- Warren Truck workers denounce layoffs at Stellantis Sterling Heights plant
- Danny Wu, director of American: An Odyssey to 1947, discusses Orson Welles and political and cultural life in the US in the 1930s and ’40s
2023-04-11
- Four years since the arrest and imprisonment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
- US states push discipline against “disruptive” K-12 students
- US students walk out of classrooms nationwide protesting gun violence
- Israel ramps up provocations against Palestinians and neighbouring states
- Liberal Party decision to oppose indigenous Voice intensifies internal divisions
- SEIU claims ratification of Los Angeles school workers contract by 99 percent
- 9,000 academic workers begin powerful joint strike at Rutgers University
- Governor’s State University faculty and staff the latest US college workers to launch strike action
- China military drills following provocative US visit by Taiwanese president
- US court’s abortion pill ruling: Another milestone in the assault on democratic rights
- Public meeting: After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!
- Mass shooting at Louisville, Kentucky bank leaves 6 dead, 9 injured
- Court conclusively denies injunction against University of Michigan graduate student strike
- Junior doctors strike begins as British Medical Association offers government deal to “call off the strikes”
- Profit hikes, not wages the key driver of inflation
- Sri Lankan trade unions launch bogus campaign against Wickremesinghe’s anti-terror bill
- Junior doctors in the UK speak on their strike
2023-04-12
- Far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress urges Trudeau government to censor anti-war meetings and activists
- IMF report: Threat of a financial crisis hangs over slowing global economy
- Germany’s federal and state governments end all remaining coronavirus protection measures
- Biden navigates Brexit, Northern Ireland crisis in visit to Belfast
- Migrant family’s asylum claim denied just days before fatal attempt to cross Canada-US border
- Leaked Pentagon documents expose role of British imperialism in provocations and war against Russia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Rutgers University strike continues as governor, union bureaucracy aim to shut it down
- Leaked Pentagon documents expose US war propaganda
- Writers Guild of America holds strike authorization vote
- Trace compounds of vinyl chloride found in East Palestine, Ohio residents after derailment and chemical spill
- Australian central bank applies “painful squeeze” to working-class households
- Macron surges French military budget while slashing pensions
- Michigan health care crisis: Billionaires cash in at the expense of nurses’ conditions
- Thousands of building workers protest across Australia over wages and anti-strike laws
- US lawmakers used privileged information to cash in on latest round of bank bailouts
- Lawyer to defend California nurse Nicole Linton at preliminary hearing over fatal car accident
- As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc globally, Biden ends national emergency declaration
- Growing support for UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Air traffic controllers outraged over union bureaucrats’ junket to Hawaii
2023-04-13
- Scientists, health care workers, and advocates speak against Biden’s ending COVID emergency
- Sri Lankan police attack rally to mark start of last year’s popular uprising
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian tertiary education union continues to isolate Sydney University strikes
- Almost 100 workers infected by rare fungal disease at paper mill in Escanaba, Michigan
- Teamsters union shuts down expanding strike at Sysco in advance of UPS contract talks
- Why is Britain’s Socialist Workers Party downplaying the no-confidence petition against the RCN nurses’ union leadership?
- Expand and unite the university strikes in New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois!
- The Indiana fire disaster: Another case of US industry polluting and killing with virtual impunity
- Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial reveals deep penetration of militia group by FBI and police prior to January 6 coup
- Australia: Right-wing figures vent racialist opposition to indigenous Voice plan
- UK: Criminalisation of homelessness escalates under Conservative and Labour law-and-order agenda
- Tori and Lokita: The new film by the Dardenne brothers
- Authorities in the dark over key area of financial system, IMF report shows
2023-04-14
- Appeals court sides with lower court attack on abortion pills, but delays its effects
- Poland receives Zelensky and prepares direct intervention in Ukraine war
- Oppose massive fines against Western Australian nurses!
- New York Times helps arrest source of documents showing US lies
- US operations in the Philippines threaten war with China
- Multi-state university strike wave in the US continues
- Workers at Tyson poultry plant in Arkansas strike against plant’s closure
- Chemical workers strike in Hopewell, Virginia
- Frame-up case against Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka enters third year
- Australian state government internal report details spread of COVID infections in schools
- Over 1.5 million people march in 12th protest against Macron's pension cuts in France
- UK nurses vote to strike again on last day of Junior Doctors’ four-day action
- Two months after earthquake disaster, Turkish government keeps ignoring public safety
- First lawsuit filed against Pennsylvania chocolate factory owner, vigil for 7 workers killed in explosion
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Florida inmate sentenced to death by nonunanimous jury
- Stellantis expands layoffs to Warren Truck as contract battle approaches
- Press response to Biden’s Ireland visit underscores sharp tensions in UK government
- Breakup of Germany’s remaining large department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof decided
- From Georgia to Indiana, inmates left by jailers to die in deplorable, inhumane conditions
2023-04-15
- An Open Letter to members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America from the IYSSE
- Suburban New Orleans school district to close six schools
- American Library Association registers a near doubling of efforts to censor, ban books in 2022
- How the UFCW worked with Uber Canada and the Ontario government to deny workers basic rights
- Remote area general practitioner David Berger denounces abandonment of COVID protections by Australian governments
- The Pentagon leaks and the US media
- French pseudo-left POID calls for bourgeois government of national unity
- Riots erupt across France as Constitutional Council validates Macron’s pension cuts
- Dr David Berger speaks with WSWS about stopping COVID in Australian hospitals
- Stellantis workers speak out on tragic death of Mack assembly worker
- DSA leaders of U-M grad students’ strike promote top UAW sellouts Shawn Fain and Bob King
- March inflation report shows corporate America’s continuing wage-cutting campaign
- French youth denounce union bureaucracies’ “mediation” with Macron
- Bangladesh government tables new “essential services” anti-strike laws
2023-04-16
- Sudan fighting erupts between rival military factions backed by external powers
- AFT and U-M partner to increase profits at Michigan Medicine and suppress workers’ opposition
- Unions betray 9,000 Rutgers academic workers by suspending strike without a tentative agreement
- The significance of the repeal of Michigan’s right-to-work law
- Kenya’s civil servants threaten strike over wage delay as economic crisis deepens
- Berlin state executive coalition agreement: CDU and SPD focus on increasing state powers
- This week in history: April 17-23
- Florida Governor DeSantis signs new legislation restricting abortion rights, expanding the death penalty
2023-04-17
- Bureau of Reclamation floats federal cuts to Colorado River water use as extreme drought continues
- As Teamsters and UPS begin negotiations, union president O’Brien claims that Biden “did not intercede” to ban rail strike
- How the Sri Lankan working class must fight IMF austerity and defend democratic rights
- Will Lehman responds to Department of Labor decision denying access to former UAW President Ray Curry’s election protest
- Scottish National Party in meltdown
- The Wuhan lab lie and US war propaganda
- Communication Workers Union attack on WSWS and UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee backfires
- Movement to abolish Ofsted watchdog must be linked to fight for fully-funded inflation busting pay rise for UK teachers
- Stop union sellout of University of Sydney workers! Form a rank-and-file committee to fight for job security, workload reduction and real pay increases!
- Thousands of Iowans to lose Medicaid and SNAP benefits as lawmakers pass bill restricting access to public assistance
- Australian Liberal Party leader launches vicious attack on Aborigines in Alice Springs
- French President Macron’s China trip exacerbates conflicts between imperialist powers
- Chemical fire in Brunswick, Georgia forces residents to evacuate
- Trump, Republicans venerate police, fascist Texas murderer at far-right NRA conference in Indianapolis
- Arbitrator’s recommendation means massive cuts in real wages for German public sector workers
- Dana auto parts workers hold meeting series in Toledo to organize joint fight back with Jeep workers
- Australian “foreign interference” arrest of businessman linked to China
- Attack on Japanese prime minister points to growing political instability
2023-04-18
- Macron demands “100 days of calm and unity” amid protests against French pension cuts
- CDC covers up spread of Omicron XBB.1.16, the latest COVID variant
- Nurses in England vote to continue strikes but must defeat sabotage by RCN union
- After SVB and Credit Suisse: Whither the financial system?
- UPS workers speak out against dire working conditions as contract talks begin
- NATO to surge troops to Russian border
- America’s barbarous prisons: A daily crime against humanity
- No charges against police for the murder of Jayland Walker
- Shootings in Alabama and Kentucky over the weekend latest in wave of mass violence
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian foreign minister defends commitment to US war plans against China
- Speaker McCarthy appeals to Wall Street to back massive social spending cuts
- Toronto high schools to replace Grade 11 English with compulsory Indigenous literature class
- Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP promotes “people’s councils” and class collaboration
- Universities Australia chief visits Washington to “cement” campuses into AUKUS military pact
- Workers must demand full investigation into accident at Flint GM plant
- After shutdown of grad students strike, UC Berkeley prepares to shutter three libraries
- Ukraine war exposes the pro-imperialist politics of the “Left Workers Front” in Argentina
- UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues call to reject CWU deal with Royal Mail
- Electoral deadlock continues in Bulgaria
2023-04-19
- Interest rate hikes threaten recession and job losses but boost profits of major banks
- 84-year-old surrenders in shooting of Missouri teenager Ralph Yarl
- Killing of Australian paramedic exposes the daily dangers confronting healthcare workers
- Australian man detained on trumped-up “foreign interference” charges
- Democrats rush to prop up Supreme Court amidst new revelations of rampant corruption
- Russia’s near shooting down of UK spy plane used to ratchet up conflict by head of Britain’s Defence Select Committee
- Far-right Ukrainian nationalists force cancellation of Montreal antiwar meeting—this brazen act of censorship must not go unchallenged
- Over 100,000 federal government workers launch Canada-wide strike
- With 1 worker dead, Michigan paper mill still running amid fungal outbreak
- Why are German unions silent about the revolt against Macron’s pension cuts?
- Union drops core demand for 60 percent wage increase in University of Michigan strike
- After the passage of Macron’s pension cuts: What way forward for workers in France?
- Daughter of Rage, La Bonga: Terrible poverty in Nicaragua, the devastation of Colombia’s civil war
- Tamil nationalists back austerity, police-state measures against Sri Lankan workers
- Australian central bank and Labor government cover up corporate profit-gouging
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Railroad Workers United pass blame for strike ban onto each other
- Questions that must be posed at tonight’s GEO membership meeting
- Chicago police prepare to crack down on youth after “law and order” mayoral election
- FedEx pilots begin voting to authorize strike action
- Workers at Coca-Cola distribution plant in Philadelphia launch strike action
- UK’s two-child limit welfare policy driving children into poverty
- Condemn UK police arrest of French publisher Ernest Moret under anti-terror legislation!
2023-04-20
- New insight into the possible origin of chipped stone tool technology
- Fox Corp. to pay $787.5 million for pushing Trump election lies
- European Central Bank chief warns of global fragmentation
- South Africa roiled by global crisis of capitalism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian governments allow Aboriginal communities to be exploited by funeral fund
- Russian pro-NATO oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in prison
- Protests continue in Akron, Ohio against decision not to prosecute police for murder of Jayland Walker
- Mass layoffs start at Disney as US Federal Reserve’s moves to increase unemployment take effect
- Television and film writers vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Los Angeles teachers union announces sellout three-year deal
- Sri Lankan trade unions hold “delegate conference” to derail growing class struggles
- Canada’s federal workers’ strike and the global resurgence of the class struggle
- Faculty union ends strike at Illinois universities
- Tens of thousands strike across Norway as Swedish train drivers hold three-day wildcat job action
2023-04-21
- US Supreme Court declines to hear case of Texas prisoner held in solitary confinement for 27 years
- The UK’s plummeting wages and the trade unions
- “We’re replaceable parts to GM, not human”: Workers react to accident at Flint Truck plant
- Strike by over 100,000 Canadian federal government workers continues for third day
- Uncrewed SpaceX rocket Starship explodes after launch
- Build a rank-and-file committee to continue the Rutgers strike!
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government sends Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
- UK: RMT rail union edges closer to final sellout of rail dispute
- Defeat the CWU’s rotten deal with Royal Mail!
- Official autopsy report contradicts Georgia police claim that “Cop City” protester was killed in self-defense
- In Germany, Left Party youth group calls for donations to the Ukrainian army
- Biden’s “Irish roots” and the attack on migrants
- US debt ceiling “debate” inaugurates new round of social austerity
- Sri Lankan president still blocking local council polls while manoeuvring for an early presidential election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Australia: NSW Labor government closes PCR COVID testing sites
- Pentagon leaks intensify political crisis of Zelensky government
- Following nationwide trend, Iowa Senate passes bill to loosen child labor laws
- Homelessness soars in Australian state of Queensland
2023-04-22
- Australian Labor government refuses to increase below poverty-level welfare
- Police attack protesters with tear gas and pepper spray in Akron, Ohio
- Opposition mounts to Los Angeles teachers’ tentative agreement as union seeks to silence criticism
- Rutgers workers speak out against the shutdown of their strike
- US Supreme Court stays restrictions on abortion pill pending appeals of anti-abortion rulings
- DOJ files baseless charges against black nationalists of conspiring with Russia
- Stoltenberg calls for Ukraine to join NATO amid escalation of conflict with Russia
- Child labor returns to the United States: A society moving in reverse
- Spate of vigilante and police killings highlights fascistic character of BJP’s rule over India’s most populous state
- Australian PM confirms attendance at NATO summit
- Biden administration declares Argentine union bureaucracy a “model” as it enforces historic cuts in living standards
- Workers engage in second nationwide warning strike at Deutsche Bahn
- The final season of HBO’s Succession: Corporate-family power struggles and an elite in decline
- Major restructure of Australian central bank to intensify class-war agenda
2023-04-23
- Amazon warehouse workers speak out during Coventry, UK strike
- Campaigner Claire Mercer speaks on UK government announcement to shelve smart motorway builds
- Amazon workers strike at Coventry, UK warehouse
- Hundreds protest in Sheffield, UK against enforced academisation of King Edward VII Secondary School
2023-04-24
- Australia: Student pseudo-left group slanders the SEP and the IYSSE
- Anti-China AUKUS pact fuels tensions in the Pacific
- Television writer on fight with studios, networks: “We’re looking at the extinction of writing as a profession”
- Los Angeles teachers: No to the UTLA sell-out! Demand the immediate release of the full contract and adequate time to study it!
- Sudan fighting provokes mass exodus
- NATO declares “Ukraine will become a member:” A prelude to direct NATO-Russia war
- Tens of millions at risk as new COVID-19 cases explode in India
- After visiting China, Lula hosts Russian foreign minister in Brazil
- Germany: Public Service Action Committee calls for vote against wage cuts and to prepare for an all-out strike
- Union for West Coast dockworkers in the US announces “tentative agreement,” but refuses to share details
- This week in history: April 24-30
- New York Philharmonic will not perform Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony
- Yellen lays out economic war against China
- Unite to fight job cuts and concessions! Build the Warren Truck Rank-and-File Committee!
- UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee resolves to fight Communication Workers Union sell-out deal
- State board could declare U-M strike illegal: Who is on the Michigan Employment Relations Commission?
- Sri Lankan pseudo-left FSP and IUSF silent on their thuggish attack against IYSSE socialist campaigner
2023-04-25
- PSOE-Podemos government exhumes remains of Spanish fascist Primo de Rivera
- International Monetary Fund demands cuts as Egypt faces bankruptcy
- South Korean president heads to Washington for summit
- Los Angeles teacher: New tentative agreement does not meet rising cost of living
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Royal Mail workers oppose Communication Workers Union’s sell-out deal: “This will never be forgiven.”
- Australian defence review outlines massive military build-up for war with China
- Mobilize all autoworkers to fight plant closures and mass layoffs! Defend the right to every job!
- Australian indigenous Voice seeks to entrench existing elite
- COVID infections rise in Sri Lanka, despite government’s efforts to hide the crisis
- London United bus drivers denounce Unite’s below-inflation pay ballot
- “Those he inspired will rise up, and like him, use their talents and their passions for good”—Minamata director Andrew Levitas marks the passing of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Former Louisville cop who killed Breonna Taylor rehired as nearby county sheriff's deputy
- Benjamin Ferencz, last surviving Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor, dead at 103
- The emergence of a dangerous fungus, Candida auris, in US health care systems
- Battle lines harden in Canadian federal workers’ strike
- January 6 conspiracy trial: Prosecutor alleges Proud Boys saw themselves “as Donald Trump’s army”
2023-04-26
- Sentiment for strike grows at Clarios Toledo battery plant as UAW withholds contract details
- UK: National Education Union leadership drives dispute into “negotiations” dead end
- In run-up to 2023 elections, Argentina’s pseudo-left prepares Syriza-style betrayal
- Pentagon’s Ukraine war leaks expose Spain’s Podemos and its pseudo-left rival, Sumar
- Behind the lies: What’s in the CWU-Royal Mail agreement?
- Stop the strikebreaking against U-M grad student instructors! Mobilize the students! Build a rank-and-file strike committee!
- 1,300 workers strike North Sea oil and gas companies
- Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback group upholds authority of unions and NDP as they sabotage federal government workers’ strike
- Europe leads record rise in global military spending to $2.2 trillion as governments prepare for world war
- Fox News abruptly ends relationship with fascistic demagogue Tucker Carlson
- Oakland, California teachers authorize strike action, amid growing frustration with union bureaucracy
- Truck drivers on strike for six weeks in Germany
- Erdogan regime jails Kurdish nationalists
- SEP (Australia) holds well-attended post-election public meeting
- China economic growth up but major problems mount
- California Amazon delivery contractors vote to join the Teamsters as Amazon announces canceling of their contract
- German Defense Minister Pistorius announces further arms deliveries to Kiev and justifies attacks on Russia
- Biden seeks reelection amid war, COVID and inflation
- Australia eases citizenship requirements for New Zealanders as countries strengthen military ties
- Sri Lankan president threatens protesting teachers with draconian attacks
2023-04-27
- Japan dispatches military to evacuate citizens from Sudan
- UK: University of Sheffield paid private investigators £40,000 to spy on anti-war students
- Free fall of First Republic Bank in US signals deepening of financial crisis
- 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Australia: Liddell coal power station closes, cutting jobs and raising supply concerns
- As Stellantis moves to cut 3,500 jobs, workers livid at UAW collusion
- 45-year-old man dies after violent police assault in Brandenburg, Germany
- Dire shortages in essential chemotherapy drugs means “people will die” needlessly
- Royal College of Nursing gifts UK government opportunity to block nurses’ strike
- One worker dies and at least one other injured in asphalt tank explosion near Illinois refinery
- Georgia National Guard to use location data to target students for recruitment
- Enthusiastic response by Sri Lankan workers and students to upcoming international May Day online rally
- Australian military buildup backs US plans for war with China
- Singer, actor, civil rights activist Harry Belafonte is dead at 96
- UK posties fury over Royal Mail deal deepens: “I have been a member of the CWU for 39 years and they have sold us out.”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Inmates in Hamilton, Ontario jail hold week-long hunger strike against deplorable conditions
- Teachers in England strike as National Education Union bureaucracy says pay, terms and conditions “all up for negotiation”
- Caterpillar workers: Fight back against attacks on paid absence time, sick days and more! Build rank-and-file power!
2023-04-28
- US hails Australia’s bellicose defence review, China warns against military build-up
- Death of Alliance Interiors worker: A case of profits over safety
- Anger over sham “buy-back” scheme deepens in Australian flood-hit region
- US, South Korean presidents agree to greater nuclear cooperation in further move towards war with China
- Home is a Hotel, King Coal and Bad Press: Documentary filmmaking and the problem of social, artistic passivity
- Texas Senate bill requires Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom
- Five things Los Angeles teachers need to know about the tentative agreement
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