Archive: 05/2023
2023-05-01
- The fight against war is a fight against Australia’s Labor government
- Svitzer Australia drops bid to tear up tugboat workers’ enterprise agreement
- US President Biden to make bullying visit to Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand PM rules out raising tax on super-rich after report shows massive concentration of wealth
- Nurses strike half of National Health Service trusts in England
- Five people killed, including 8-year-old boy, in Texas mass shooting
- The American ruling class confronts its most powerful antagonist at home: The working class
- The fight against British imperialism and world war must be based on the working class
- May Day 2023: For the international unity of the working class against national chauvinism and war!
- Sri Lankan parliament approves savage IMF measures
- UK abandoned 440 migrants in the Channel across just four days
- UK: Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee’s call for No vote against CWU’s pro-company deal welcomed by Royal Mail workers
- Strike by 11,500 film and TV writers in US begins
- San Francisco Bay Area nurses set to strike against understaffing, falling real wages
- Fate of First Republic Bank hangs in the balance as report on SVB collapse exposes “regulatory” framework
- Australia plays central role in US plans for war with China
- “Journalism is not a crime,” says Biden—except for Julian Assange
- Canadian imperialism bares its fangs
- The CDC will end “community level” COVID tracking with the end of the public health emergency
- Build an anti-war movement of workers and youth in South Asia
- UK: Nurses speak from the picket lines during strike over pay
- The conditions facing youth in Europe and the tasks of the IYSSE
- The growth of international class struggle and the crisis of bourgeois rule in Latin America
- The return of German militarism and the lessons of World War II
- New Zealand Labour government imposes austerity, war and endless COVID infections
- As Canadian government workers push to expand strike, union leaders stay silent on negotiating blitz
2023-05-02
- Mass May Day demonstrations in Turkey ahead of national elections
- The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: Meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University explains causes of war and socialist perspective
- Why the sell-out by Germany’s public service union Verdi must be rejected
- Government backing crucial for JPMorgan takeover of First Republic Bank
- More than 330,000 Australian workers face “significant rental stress”
- 37,000 New York City transit workers face fight against Democrats’ austerity program when contract expires May 15
- May Day 2023 and the struggle against war
- Classified Australian defence review discussed US-led war with China over Taiwan
- May Day rallies in France demand rescinding of Macron’s pension cuts
- Opposition grows to CWU agreement with Royal Mail: “It’s all about profit on the backs of postal workers”
- David North addresses historical context of Ukraine war at San Diego State University
- Netanyahu’s far-right government presses ahead with judicial coup
- New job cuts hit New Zealand universities and polytechnics
- Rail union bureaucrats in the US “demand” temporary pause to stock buybacks
- New York City teachers union prepares contract betrayal
- Striking workers at AdvanSix continue their fight in face of union-management collusion
- The ICFI’s May Day 2023 online rally: A milestone in the building of a global, working class movement against war
- Union orders striking Canadian government workers back on the job after reaching sellout agreement
- Washington D.C. Democratic Mayor proposes austerity while calling for an increase of police presence in schools
- Mississippi River flooding pushes infrastructure in Iowa to its limits
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Arcturus COVID mutation claims five lives in Britain
- Opposition from Rutgers academic workers grows against AFT-backed contract proposals
- For the unity of the Russian and Ukrainian working class!
- New reports on Jeffrey Epstein demonstrate deep-going corruption of US ruling elite
2023-05-03
- Biden sending 1,500 active-duty troops to Mexican border
- Roger Waters wins legal case against Frankfurt concert cancellation
- DSA continues false promotion of new UAW administration as “reformist” as its members are elevated into top union positions
- Join the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
- CFPE delegates to intervene in Australian teacher union conference
- An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part one
- IYSSE concludes US part of international anti-war meeting series
- Rank-and-File delivery worker sets out case for No vote on CWU-Royal Mail agreement
- Macron’s police state wages war on French workers
- Berlin Mayor elected with votes of far-right AfD
- After First Republic takeover, banking crisis deepens
- US film and television workers strike: “We are not going to sit by silently as they keep paying us less and less”
- UK: Starmer’s pro-big business, pro-war Labour Party prepares for office
- BP contests fines for gross safety violations that led to deaths of two Ohio refinery workers
- After rejecting contract by 98%, Clarios workers ask: “Why aren’t we striking?”
- Australian central bank hikes rates again to increase “pain” on workers
- UK civil servants hold national strike over pay pensions and jobs, as Tory government refuses concessions
- The struggle for a Democratic and Socialist Congress of Workers and Rural Masses in Sri Lanka
- New Zealand COVID deaths continue to mount
- The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the ruling class’ return to Social Darwinism
- In bipartisan push for social cuts, Biden invites House, Senate leaders to discuss debt ceiling
- The right-wing, pro-war character of Australia’s indigenous Voice plan becomes clearer
- The developing struggle to bring down the Macron government in France
- Teamsters President Sean O’Brien was a frequent guest at the White House in advance of rail strike ban
2023-05-04
- Australian PM defends attendance at radio host’s million-dollar wedding
- Japanese prime minister visits Africa, targeting Russia and China
- US writers strike enters third day as workers call for broadening the struggle: “This is a class confrontation”
- Voting underway on contract for 35,000 Los Angeles teachers, amid continuing censorship by UTLA
- Thailand election to be held amid deepening political crisis
- Canadian postal worker voices support for UK Royal Mail workers' fight against concessions-filled contract
- The struggle against war and the perspective for the working class in the Turkish elections
- Fed lifts interest rates but signals possible pause amid financial turbulence
- Ten-year-olds found working at McDonald’s in Louisville, Kentucky
- Former Minneapolis cop who held back bystanders during George Floyd’s murder found guilty
- Oakland, California teachers to strike Thursday
- Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84
- PSOE-Podemos silent on Spanish reporter Pablo González jailed in Poland
- An interview with Harvard anthropology Professor John Comaroff—Part two
- Michigan education unions hold Lansing lobby stunt while isolating striking University of Michigan grad student workers
- UK higher education institutions respond to University and College Union marking boycott with escalated attacks on workers
- Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government plots privatisation of public health care
- Members of Zelensky’s party introduce internet censorship bill
- AFT President Randi Weingarten defends push to reopen schools during pandemic
- May Day in Germany: Union officials and government politicians united against the working class
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ukrainian attack on Kremlin is a criminal provocation
- Cotton Capital: The Guardian cynically “discovers” its links to the slave trade—Part 1
2023-05-05
- Florida carries out third execution of 2023
- CDC confirms that its 2023 Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference became a COVID superspreader event
- Israel’s military deliberately brings Palestinian conflict to boiling point
- Quebec’s CAQ government launches class-war assault
- Former New Democrat Premier of British Columbia parachutes out of office and into top corporate job
- The 1619 Project and the New York Times’ promotion of the racialist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism
- One kindergartner dead, more hospitalized and sickened as unidentified infections spread through Detroit elementary schools
- The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla: The terminal crisis of the British monarchy
- Royal Mail workers speak out against union-company agreement in run-up to ballot: “Most of us feel the CWU proposed deal is a sellout”
- Migrants caught between troop deployments along Chile-Peru border
- The social, cultural and historical significance of the US television and film writers strike
- 3,000 Oakland, California teachers begin strike
- US financial crisis deepens as shares in regional banks continue to fall
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Ideological opponents of the Ukrainian government are waiting for prison or death
- Australia: Menindee fish kill incident highlights environmental degradation
- Cotton Capital: The Guardian cynically “discovers” its links to the slave trade—Part 2
- North Carolina legislature poised to establish three-year high school option, vastly expand privatization of public education
- US media promotes absurd claim that Russia staged attack on Kremlin
- New Zealand boosts support for US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine
- Proud Boys leaders convicted of conspiracy against democracy
- Huge pay packages for auto execs, mass layoffs and savage wage cuts for workers
- Sri Lanka’s public health services face breakdown
- Germany: Conservative-Green Party state government passes repressive assembly law
2023-05-06
- Facebook blocks Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand from advertising
- TV and film corporations use US writers strike to threaten mass firings
- Michigan hospital workers picket for improved wages and benefits at Trinity Health Grand Haven
- Teamsters seek to isolate Philadelphia Coca Cola workers as strike approaches one month
- Mississippi River flooding exposes deep problems with US infrastructure
- More revelations of corruption on US Supreme Court
- Germany: Postal and Public Service Action Committees adopt resolution in support of the struggles in France
- Stronger than expected US jobs report increases pressure for further interest rate hikes
- Assange letter to King details brutal conditions at Belmarsh Prison
- World Health Organization falsely declares end of COVID-19 public health emergency
- Momentum builds on second day of Oakland teachers’ strike
- Los Angeles Fire Department personnel speak out on shortage of rescue ambulances
- Australian prime minister feigns concern for Assange but defends “national security” secrecy
- US Homeland Security chief visits southern border to threaten migrants with expedited removal
- Australian university workers join limited union “week of action”
- Norfolk Southern conducted toxic chemical burn in East Palestine, Ohio without consulting federal authorities
- Homeless man strangled to death on New York subway
2023-05-07
- Video released of Chicago police killing 24-year-old on the West Side
- London police carry out mass arrests during coronation of King Charles
- This week in history: May 8-14
- Stark increase in UK homeless deaths in 2022, more than 4,000 dead since 2019
- Zoom meeting next Sunday May 14: A fighting programme for Royal Mail workers
2023-05-08
- Sri Lankan trade union leaders call for “broader unity” to pressure the Wickremesinghe regime
- Australian Defence Strategic Review warns of military recruitment crisis
- UK government report lays bare educators’ unsustainable working conditions
- The struggle against war and the perspective for the working class in the Turkish elections
- Teamsters bureaucracy orders members not to join picket lines of Writers Guild strike
- Record waiting times in Australian hospitals
- Eight migrants dead, at least 10 injured, following deadly vehicle crash in Brownsville, Texas
- Nine killed, seven wounded in Texas mall shooting
- American imperialism demands new bloodbath in Ukraine
- The March on Rome, Milisuthando and The Tuba Thieves: Most importantly, the rise of Italian fascism and how it’s viewed
- AFT and GEO liquidate strike by grad student workers at University of Michigan
- Fires break out at Dana auto parts plant in Warren, Michigan
- Following unexplained death of kindergartner, Detroit elementary school reopens amid cluster of “mystery” illnesses
- Australia: New South Wales health workers protest Labor’s inaction on wage cap
- The fight against British imperialism and world war must be based on the working class
- Resident physicians in Queens, New York, could strike next week
- NATO to expand Asia-Pacific presence by opening office in Japan
- Union oversees ratification of concessionary deal for 35,000 Los Angeles teachers
2023-05-09
- AMLO accuses US of meddling in Mexico
- No to war! Reject the pro-imperialist alliances of the Turkish ruling class! Build the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi!
- In vote marred by irregularities, Teamsters ram through contract to shut down Philadelphia Coca-Cola strike
- Mounting anger among Canadian federal workers over PSAC’s sellout agreements
- Navy reservist and intelligence contractor sentenced to four years in prison for storming Capitol with Proud Boys
- Hostile Terrain ’94: The suffering and sacrifices of undocumented migrants
- The far-right violence in Texas
- Indian defense minister visits Maldives to strengthen strategic ties
- Hundreds of Clarios workers strike Toledo, Ohio battery plant to fight pay cuts
- Japanese, South Korean leaders meet ahead of G7 summit in Hiroshima
- England’s local elections confirm Labour’s disconnect from working class
- Parents speak out against reopening of Detroit elementary school amid a cluster of “mystery” illnesses
- US economic policy integrated with war drive
- Stop the censorship of the IYSSE anti-war meeting at Goethe University in Frankfurt!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Early start to wildfire season displaces 30,000 across Alberta
- Berlin police ban a series of pro-Palestine demonstrations
2023-05-10
- In midst of lethal disease outbreak, nurses, paraprofessionals, counselors on the chopping block in Detroit Public Schools
- The corporatist record of the Communication Workers Union at Royal Mail: 2007 to 2023
- Texas police confirm Allen Mall shooter was neo-Nazi
- German Chancellor Scholz visits East Africa and sends the Bundeswehr to Niger
- Widespread anger in New Zealand over anti-immigrant “dawn raids”
- New report details the affordability crisis in New York City
- Six-year-old dies in Detroit school-based outbreak: What remains of public health after three years of the pandemic?
- Financial storms building up on several major fronts
- NATO powers move to send long-range missiles to Ukraine
- Notes on the financial oligarchy: Jeffrey Epstein and the criminality of the ruling class
- Strike by 11,000 US film writers enters second week
- Australian Labor government’s budget hits workers behind sham “relief”
- FedEx Freight to close 29 locations in fourth round of layoffs
- The DSA-backed “Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee” attempts to co-opt a rank-and-file movement from below
- Contract bargaining for German public sector workers: A response to the union’s lies
- Sweden holds largest military exercise in 30 years
- UK deepens warmongering in Ukraine with plans to supply long-range missiles
- Australian prime minister hails opening of highly automated grocery warehouse
- White House meeting kicks off bipartisan talks on debt limit, social cuts
- Oakland teachers speak on conditions as strike continues
- Clarios, Dana and Stellantis workers call for joint action to win strike at battery plant in Toledo, Ohio
- Turkish elections: Morenoites rally behind Kılıçdaroğlu, HDP and Stalinist TİP
2023-05-11
- Assange and the Australian government’s persecution of alleged Afghan war crimes whistleblower
- Will Lehman: “The Clarios workers have set a powerful example, but they cannot win this strike alone”
- Teamsters negotiators violate their own pledge not to start national talks at UPS until after supplemental deals
- Quebec unions refuse to lift a finger to fight closure of Olymel meatpacking plant
- Sweetwater schools face renewed cuts as district administrators receive massive raises
- New Zealand teacher strikes continue
- Spain’s union bureaucrats slash real wages, fear revolutionary contagion from France
- French unions aim to strangle fight against Macron by delaying protests until June 6
- Rock bands Boygenius and the Hold Steady: Diverging approaches, diverging results
- IMF-dictated debt restructuring will deepen economic instability in Sri Lanka
- “Show strength again” and “lead”: the German Bundeswehr advertises for World War Three
- Anti-COVID advocate Jess discusses death of six-year-old in Detroit from “mysterious illness”
- Family of Reginald Clay Jr., 24-year-old Amazon worker killed by police, protests at Chicago City Hall: “You can’t just keep shooting people, it has to stop”
- Royal College of Nursing congress meets Sunday: Form rank-and-file committees to defeat sell-out of NHS strikes
- Outgoing Chicago mayor declares state of emergency over influx of migrants
- The narrative of the “unprovoked war” in Ukraine falls apart
- Mass protests erupt across Pakistan after military seizes opposition leader Imran Khan
- Roger Waters in Hamburg: A tremendous start of German tour amid media smear campaign
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US troops arrive at southern border to prepare for post-Title 42 mass deportations
- Artificial intelligence and the film and television writers’ strike
- Citing “lack of service to customers,” Teamsters bureaucrats shut down Coca-Cola strike in West Virginia
- Student debt to soar in Australia as indexation reaches ten-year-high
- Trump found liable in sexual assault case
- The latest New York state budget—an attack on the working class
2023-05-12
- Drug shortages in Europe endangering the lives of children and adolescents
- Royal Mail delivery workers explain why they are attending Sunday’s online meeting
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- At CNN Town Hall, Trump defends January 6 coup, repeats election lies
- As Title 42 expires, US and Mexico deploy tens of thousands of police and military against immigrants
- Washington manoeuvres as Beijing pushes for Ukraine peace talks
- New York City housing situation grows increasingly desperate
- Biden ends COVID-19 emergency declaration, codifying perpetual mass death and debilitation
- The Oakland teachers strike and the need for rank-and-file committees
- A profile of global battery maker Clarios: Company leading drive for low-wage EV workforce
- Five years' probation for Pennsylvania police officers who killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility
- 75 years since Israel’s foundation: The Nakba and the struggle for Jewish-Arab unity
- Australia: The Labor budget and the stage three tax cuts
- Postal worker replies to Communication Workers Union spin doctors Dave Ward and Andy Furey
- An invitation to Sunday’s Zoom meeting from the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
- At least 22 people killed in boat accident in southern Indian state of Kerala
- What striking film and television writers are up against: Who controls the major film and television studios and streamers?
- Shawn Fain’s first weeks in office: Rebranding the UAW bureaucracy and promoting illusions in the Democratic Party
- Ninety years since the Nazi book burnings
- Nonfiction television writer speaks about the WGA strike: “We need to come together and take back the power of filmmaking”
- After unleashing IMF austerity, Sri Lankan president initiates “compensation” welfare program for the poor
- Kılıçdaroğlu denounces Russia as rival candidate withdraws on eve of Turkish elections
- Amazon worker killed in fulfillment center accident in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany
- Protest emails oppose censorship of IYSSE meeting at Goethe University in Frankfurt
- Following a wave of protests IYSSE anti-war meeting at Goethe University in Frankfurt will take place
2023-05-13
- Fumes force evacuation of Stellantis Mack Avenue plant in Detroit
- New York Congressman and serial liar George Santos indicted on 13 federal charges
- Coup prospects overshadow Thailand elections
- Turkey heads to critical elections in shadow of NATO-Russia war
- Australian Labor budget outlines record military spending
- After Title 42: Biden steps up deadly violence, repression at southern border
- Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan released on bail amid mass protests; authorities vow to jail him again
- Australia: At Port Kembla protest, unions and pseudo-left set a nationalist trap for anti-war sentiment
- WSWS readers demand Facebook reverse ban on SEG in New Zealand
- Jordan Neely’s murder on the New York City subway and the terminal crisis of capitalism
- Stanford staff stop masking during Long COVID clinical trial, prompting some participants to quit study
- Lula government embraces “forever COVID” in Brazil after WHO scraps coronavirus public health emergency
- Alliance Interiors workers speak out following workplace death: “This should have never happened!”
- Injunction against striking Clarios workers in Toledo, Ohio provokes widespread anger
2023-05-14
- Israel agrees to ceasefire in Gaza amid mounting provocations against Palestinians
- “Young people should have the right to a good life”: Asylum seekers in open air camps along US/Mexico border speak out
- Educators at Acero charter schools in Chicago authorize strike action: “There’s overwhelming support for a strike”
- A Hell Called Ohio: The working class and American fiction
- Ukraine fires first UK-supplied long-range missiles into Russian-held territory
- Another Norfolk Southern train derails 15 miles from site of East Palestine, Ohio disaster
- “Every day, people are getting injured”: Amazon workers speak out following death of 20-year old in Amazon warehouse in Indiana
2023-05-15
- The Clarios strike and the global counteroffensive of the working class
- “UPS destroys human beings”: Current and former UPS workers speak out as contract deadline looms
- New Zealand Labour government boosts military spending
- “The CWU treat us like nothing and bow down to Royal Mail demands”
- Homeland Security chief Mayorkas boasts of “success” of Biden’s crackdown on asylum seekers
- German pseudo-left groups defend union’s wage cut for public service workers
- In the dead of night, teachers union shuts down 7-day strike in Oakland, California
- Russia downs British-supplied long-range missile as Zelensky and Sunak declare “jets coalition”
- New Zealand police extend investigation into Pike River mine disaster until the end of 2023
- This week in history: May 15-21
- Australian Labor government’s belated aged care pay rise will not resolve dire conditions for workers or residents
- Australian university unions cover up cuts in Labor’s budget
- Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu advance to run-off in Turkish presidential election
- Tensions over China at G7 finance meeting amid deepening banking crisis
- Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee resolution: It is time to declare our own red lines in the fight against Royal Mail and the CWU bureaucracy
- DeSantis, “MAGA” Republicans and WSJ editorial board lionize vigilante killer Daniel Penny
- Witness to a social crime: The reality of US immigrant child detention
2023-05-16
- IYSSE holds successful anti-war meetings in Munich, Bochum and Frankfurt
- Rank-and-file meeting adopts fighting programme for Royal Mail workers
- DSA “Strike Ready” UPS campaign promotes Teamsters bureaucracy and the Democratic Party
- New Zealand teachers reject union-backed sellout
- Zelensky’s wartime visit to Berlin and Germany’s new “Drive to the East”
- At least six dead in New Zealand hostel fire
- “Collective agreements serve to enforce real wage reductions”
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, backed by DSA, takes office, pledging to “work together” with political establishment
- Striking television and film writers speak to the WSWS: “We’re only asking for what’s fair”
- Britain’s undeclared war with Russia
- Explosion and fire kill refinery worker at Marathon Texas City facility
- Inflation drives US household debt to record $17 trillion
- Union tries to limit action after overwhelming strike vote at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- Poll shows 79 percent of Australians want Assange freed
- Biden meets Spanish prime minister Sanchez to discuss war, migration
- Thailand’s military-backed parties suffer losses in general election
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2023-05-17
- Clarios hiring strikebreakers after court injunction limits picketing at Toledo, Ohio battery plant
- Plan 75, a cautionary tale about a society that provides no comfort to the elderly and then disposes of them
- Turkish elections: Far-right candidate demands Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu expel refugees
- Modi and his far-right BJP suffer a major reversal in Karnataka state election
- Sharp rise in official workplace deaths in Canada as thousands go unreported
- Dana workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania expose unsafe conditions
- White House debt limit talks: A manufactured, bipartisan conspiracy to make workers pay for war
- New Mexico high schooler kills 3, injures half a dozen more in “purely random” shooting
- Tens of thousands of excess deaths recorded in 2022 in England and Wales
- Owner of sushi restaurant in Philadelphia stole $1 million from over 200 workers
- Picketing writers in New York City: “The people who run these companies are getting richer and richer, and they’re asking us to work for as little as they can possibly pay us”
- Sri Lankan government launches a massive security operation in Colombo
- Papua New Guinea foreign minister stands aside amid coronation travel furore
- Baltimore teenager hospitalized after being shot in the back running from police
- Southern California dockworker: “Every dockworker from Alaska to Miami should all be on the same page”
- UK education unions begin ballots for strike action
- Famed pianist and chamber musician Menahem Pressler is dead at age of 99
- Australian union tries to subordinate nurses to NSW Labor government
- Lessons from the betrayal of the AdvanSix strike
2023-05-18
- A balance sheet of the contract disputes in Germany’s public sector, at Deutsche Post and the railways: Build independent action committees!
- New Zealand hostel that caught fire described as “death trap”
- Truck drivers plan boycott of Florida in response to state’s new anti-immigrant bill
- Who is Teamsters bureaucrat Lindsay Dougherty, head of the union’s Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division?
- Railroaders face cuts in unemployment and sickness benefits due to debt ceiling, end of federal COVID emergency
- IYSSE member calls on U-M students, faculty, staff to mobilize in support of graduate student instructors’ fight for a living wage
- Vote “No” on the OEA’s tentative agreement! Fight for what Oakland educators and students need!
- “Independent” union provides cover for AMLO’s attacks on migrants in Mexico
- Significant signs of slowdown in Chinese economy
- Argentine dockworkers strike over co-worker’s death
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Generic drug shortages in the US, particularly chemotherapy agents, reach historic highs
- Georgia parent speaks out on H. influenzae infection in school child
- US lawmakers demand White House send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
- Communication Workers Union unites with management to enforce revisions at Parcelforce
- Automaker Stellantis suspends construction on Windsor, Ontario EV battery plant in bid for bigger government handout
- TWU keeps New York City transit workers on the job as contract expires
- Sri Lankan ruling party demonises last year’s mass uprising
- A call to action to rank-and-file autoworkers: Mobilize support for the Clarios strike!
2023-05-19
- Quebec government’s trade union-backed Bill 19 sanctions dramatic rise in child labour
- New Zealand budget deepens austerity
- Ecuador’s president dissolves Congress to halt impeachment
- Sri Lankan public health system in crisis as doctors warn of rising dengue fever infections
- Pakistan lurches to dictatorial rule as authorities launch vendetta against Imran Khan and supporters of his Islamic populist PTI
- Escalating homelessness crisis in Los Angeles as deaths reach new records
- Anger at layoffs and budget cuts dominates Detroit School Board meeting
- Biden cancels trip to Australia for anti-China Quad meeting
- Italy hit by worst floods in a century
- Hollywood’s race and gender quotas, identity politics and the writers’ strike
- Howard commencement speech: Biden appeals to identity politics and covers up the White House’s promotion of war and reaction
- Washington D.C. homelessness up by nearly one-fifth in one year
- North Carolina bans abortion at 12 weeks, similar ban under way in South Carolina
- UK asylum seeker housing protections scrapped
- Striking Los Angeles film and television writers tell WSWS: “Our struggle is the struggle of so many other workers in the US and all over the world”
- 8-year-old dies in CBP custody as Biden administration escalates attack on asylum seekers
- Greek general election takes place amid mass discontent with rotten political set-up
- US wars since 2001 have killed 4.5 million people
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Constellium workers in Michigan strike for safety and a living wage
- Clarios workers in Germany support Toledo strike and report dangerous working conditions
- Montana bans TikTok: Anti-China hysteria and the attack on democratic rights
2023-05-20
- Chair of Ukraine’s Supreme Court arrested in bribery scandal
- US announces plans to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
- A year of Australia’s Labor government: Militarism, austerity and “let it rip” mass death
- California UPS driver describes conditions ahead of July 31 strike deadline
- G7 leaders gather in Hiroshima amid rising threat of nuclear war
- San Diego educators and staff rally after a year of working without a contract
- Washington D.C. police lieutenant indicted for tipping off, obstructing investigation into convicted Proud Boys leader
- Australian police Taser 95-year-old woman at nursing home
- Union calls off New York resident physicians’ strike at last minute
- Biden signals readiness to impose social cuts, work requirements in debt limit deal with Republicans
- Durham report shows Democrats fabricated anti-Russia intelligence during 2016 elections
- Interest rate hikes, inflation, rent and financial parasitism
- Lessons of the 1984-1985 AP Parts strike in Toledo
- Stop the attempt by the UAW to shut down the Clarios strike! Workers have a right to know what’s in the contract!
2023-05-21
2023-05-22
- International students in Australia confronting cost-of-living crisis and housing shortage
- Jobless rate rising in Australia, while tax cuts grow for wealthy
- Writers Guild leaders promote strike-breaking, warmongering Democratic Party politicians
- Biden proposes $1 trillion in social spending cuts after announcing $375 million more for war in Ukraine
- Turkish elections: Kılıçdaroğlu’s xenophobic campaign exposes the pseudo-left
- New York’s Democratic mayor considers housing asylum seekers at Rikers Island
- University of Michigan submits new wage-cutting contract to striking graduate workers
- Study sheds light on massive police violence in Germany
- US imperialism’s relentless escalation in Ukraine
- Royal Mail workers speak against revisions and sell-out deal: “Massive failure from CWU!!”
- Hayleys Plantations in Sri Lanka uses competition to drive up workloads
- An open letter to Royal Mail workers from the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Spanish Morenoite CRT covers for Podemos government's austerity, war with Russia
- New Zealand hostel fire survivor describes unsafe, rundown building
- Striking Clarios workers overwhelmingly reject second UAW-backed deal
- German rail workers union negotiates wage cuts after cancelling strike action
2023-05-23
- NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China
- Family of worker killed in Marathon refinery explosion files lawsuit
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- In attack on rights of immigrants and Native Americans, Arizona education chief targets dual language instruction
- Surge of COVID across Canada as hospitals drop mask mandates
- Widespread opposition against “Cop City” police training center at Atlanta city council meeting
- The rebellion at Clarios and the way forward
- Canada’s trade union bureaucracy flaunts its support for pro-war, pro-austerity Trudeau Liberal government at CLC convention
- Bangladesh releases a major strategic policy document
- NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China
- Poorly attended “mass” meeting of Oakland, California teachers precedes vote on sellout agreement
- Resident physicians strike at Elmhurst hospital in Queens, New York
- Ukrainian-backed far-right saboteur units stage largest attack on Russian territory yet
- Australia: Workers and students express anger over Labor government’s budget
- COVID-19 continues to run rampant in South Korea
- Tory anti-strikes bill passes latest vote as UK trade unions mount token protest
- Spate of breakdowns in New Zealand’s railways and ferries
- Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to meet with Assange’s wife
- US Border Patrol agents shot and killed Arizona man at his home in remote border community
- An emergency meeting of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee discusses death of Jimari Williams and fight against school layoffs
- Czech Republic: Unions announce strikes against government’s austerity package
- Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left academic preaches phony “alternative” to IMF austerity
2023-05-24
- Lower Colorado River basin states reach agreement to conserve minimal water, avoid federal cuts
- With Nova Scotia government support, Halifax education authority uses strikebreakers against support workers
- To combat “fake news,” India’s far-right government creates new body of state censors
- Neo-Nazi facing multiple charges after ramming security barrier outside White House with U-Haul truck
- Outrage continues over police tasering of 95-year-old woman in Australian nursing home
- Chinese health authorities warn of a new surge in COVID-19 infections with the XBB subvariant
- Spain’s pseudo-left Revolutionary Left promotes Mélenchon in France, Podemos government at home
- “It’s time we stand up together and fight for what we need”: Statements of support pour in for striking Clarios workers
- Moving exhibition depicting devastation of Hollywood blacklist opens as television and film strike continues
- A message of solidarity to Royal Mail workers from a Belgian postal worker
- Introduction to new pamphlet from Mehring Books: Marxism vs. Critical Race Theory
- Amazon workers hold strike votes at UK Midlands warehouses, GMB union seeks recognition
- Oakland, California teachers union pushes through sellout contract
- Navalny: Imperialism’s right-winger in Moscow
- Michigan hospital merger threatens jobs and patient services
- Right-winger wins Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary on law and order platform, pseudo-left candidate comes in third
- Syriza’s rout in the Greek general election
- CWU “postpones” vote on Royal Mail deal to head off rejection: Demand strike action and remove Ward and Furey!
- Turkish elections: Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu both call to deport refugees, for “law and order”
- Australia: Union faces opposition at Macquarie University staff meeting
- Australian parliamentary inquiry into Long COVID downplays crisis
- Postal workers slam Communication Workers Union agreement with Royal Mail: “It’s a surrender deal to appease the company.”
2023-05-25
- Australia’s Gold-Tweed Coast bus workers fight to prevent another union betrayal at Kinetic
- Attendees at Sydney protest defending Assange speak out
- Pacific leaders’ meeting ramps up US-led anti-China offensive
- Lawsuit exposes horrific conditions in Washington D.C. jail
- Roger Waters in Berlin: A powerful musical and political statement against fascism, militarism and war
- Stella Assange at Sydney rally: “It’s not just Julian who has lost his freedom, but all of us”
- Norfolk Southern announces limited paid sick leave for railroad engineers
- UAW President Shawn Fain on Clarios strike: Empty phrases and outright lies
- Manufactured crisis over US debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare
- Independent autopsy rules death of Georgia prisoner who was “eaten alive” by lice and bed bugs a homicide
- Workers Party imposes austerity in Brazil
- South Carolina legislature passes law banning abortions after 6 weeks
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- G7 summit ultimatum sets stage for war with Russia
- Union abruptly ends strike of New York City resident physicians
- Australian Labor’s budget cuts real spending on schools, maintains lucrative subsidies for private system
- Police lies unravel over events leading to deaths of two boys in Cardiff, Wales
2023-05-26
- Behind Boric’s defeat and strengthening of fascists in vote on Chile’s constitution
- Clarios workers defiant as support grows for solidarity action by all autoworkers to win crucial strike
- Autopsy reveals Detroit kindergartner Jimari Williams’ death was from Hib infection: What parents and teachers need to know
- Australia: Telstra targets poor with price hike while slashing jobs and wages
- Spy agency-instigated anti-China furor within Canada’s political establishment intensifies after rapporteur’s report
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- San Francisco Chronicle writers hold lunch-hour picket to protest low wages
- Royal Mail: A hedge fund that delivers parcels
- Australian unions hail announcement of new Qantas boss
- Postal workers speak ahead of Sunday’s rank-and-file Zoom meeting: “The union is in Royal Mail’s pocket”
- Trudeau government orchestrates massive growth in partnerships between Canadian military and universities
- Assange’s brother and Australian lawyer speak out: “Julian must be brought home”
- The next escalation in the war against Russia: US sends largest warship ever constructed to Norway
- Clarios workers in Germany declare support for striking workers in Ohio: “They should get what they demand”
- DeSantis joins Republican presidential race, challenging Trump from the right
- Argentine pseudo-left coalition FIT-U joins section of Peronist government in a “united front”
- HDP, pseudo-left back anti-refugee, anti-Kurdish candidate Kılıçdaroğlu in Turkish elections
- Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for 2021 attack on US Capitol
- Striking television and film writers rally in New York City
- Sri Lankan government’s “let it rip” policy produces COVID-19 surge
2023-05-27
- Germany launches police-state crackdown on climate protesters
- Jacobin backs Kiliçdaroğlu's reactionary campaign in Turkish elections
- Russian fascist with ties to leading German neo-Nazis led Ukrainian-backed incursion of Russia
- Car haulers remained locked out at a CSX railhead facility
- Australia: 95-year-old Clare Nowland dies after police tasering
- US and European powers scramble to acquire critical minerals necessary for EV vehicle production
- Erdoğan runs phony “anti-imperialist” populist campaign in Turkish elections
- Video: Stellantis workers at Warren Truck Assembly Plant in Michigan support striking workers at Clarios
- What our strike is about: An open letter from the Clarios Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Ultium Cell workers in Lordstown, Ohio support Clarios strikers: “Everyone needs to stand together”
- Berlin police open criminal investigation aimed at silencing Roger Waters
- COVID spreading through schools in Australia
- “60 Minutes” exposé reveals massive Pentagon price-gouging
- Transatlantic: The plight of artists and intellectuals fleeing the Nazis in 1940
- Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride demands freedom for Julian Assange
2023-05-28
2023-05-29
- Oppose Sri Lankan government’s privatisation of state enterprises! Build workers’ action committees to fight for jobs and wages!
- US Supreme Court guts wetlands protections
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton impeached by state House of Representatives on corruption charges
- With Alberta election, Canada’s political elite lurches still further right
- A new interpretation regarding the origin of Homo sapiens
- US truckers at ABF vote to strike as contract negotiations with Yellow and UPS continue
- Mexico cracks down on migrants, performing Washington’s dirty work at the border
- 27 gold miners perish in Peru
- Erdoğan wins reelection in Turkish presidential elections
- Henry Kissinger and the crimes of American imperialism
- Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for fascistic Indian PM Modi
- In Sydney, Australia, David North and Evan Blake launch two critical books on Trotsky and the pandemic
- This week in history: May 29-June 4
- Pentagon sending troops to train Peruvian coup regime’s killers
- Spanish right sweeps regional elections as Podemos vote collapses
- Tina Turner (1939-2023): A performer of great power and universal appeal
- Amazon workers plan walkout at Seattle headquarters on May 31
- A Modern Metternich: Henry Kissinger, imperialism’s intellectual servant
- Floods and landslides in Italy: a man-made disaster
- Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal attacks social programs to pay for war
2023-05-30
- Police escort scab trucks through pickets at Constellium Automotive in Michigan
- Introduction to Lawrence Porter’s Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ochsner Health lays off nearly 800 in Louisiana and Mississippi
- At latest Zoom meeting: Parcelforce, mail centre, delivery and international postal workers discuss way forward in Royal Mail dispute
- The yearlong UK Royal Mail dispute and the fight for rank-and-file committees
- What next in the growing dollar crisis?
- Australian Rich List shows growing concentration of wealth at the very top
- Strikes at Manchester and Bradford FE Colleges as UCU negotiates below inflation deals
- Form a rank-and-file committee to prevent a sellout and take forward the fight at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- After regional election defeat, Spain’s PSOE-Podemos government calls snap elections
- Indiana Medical Board reprimands OB-GYN physician who spoke about providing medical abortion for 10-year-old rape victim
- Clarios workers are taking a stand for all autoworkers. We must stand with them! No handling of scab batteries!
- Australian health union’s “Big Wednesday” campaign is a sham! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for wage increases and decent conditions!
- Ukrainian nationalists refuse to speak at New York literary festival with Russian authors
2023-05-31
- Attend “The war in Ukraine and how to stop it” on June 4 in Toronto!
- “The necessity of learning from history”—Workers and students respond to new books on Trotsky and COVID-19 at Australian meeting
- “We are exploited all the time”: New York City UPS workers speak out as July 31 contract deadline draws closer
- “I am fighting for my students and my program”: Outspoken educator targeted as Detroit school officials prepare mass layoffs
- Protest erupts against demolition of collapsed building in Iowa while five residents remain unaccounted for
- 16 people killed in mass shootings in the US during Memorial Day weekend
- Closure of Milwaukee Master Lock plant exposes dead end of UAW’s nationalist “insourcing” strategy
- China growth rate falters as youth unemployment rises
- San Diego bus drivers on strike against poor working conditions, unpaid breaks, lack of bathrooms and low wages
- Biden-McCarthy austerity debt ceiling bill moves to vote in Congress
- US budget deal will accelerate savage cuts to public education
- Sudden departure of Western Australian premier points to political instability
- Where is our Zola?
- Drone attack on Moscow aims to escalate US-NATO war with Russia
- Unions use Los Angeles rally billed as support for striking writers to promote Democrats in 2024
- Oppose the witch-hunting of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation workers
- UK’s BAE Systems announces plan to produce armaments in Ukraine
- The right-wing origins of Australia’s indigenous Voice
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