Archive: 06/2023
2023-06-01
- Republican governors sending National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border
- Quebec’s political elite mounts hysterical anti-immigration campaign
- As attacks inside Russia continue, Macron calls for NATO membership “path” for Ukraine
- Senator Lindsey Graham says US financing of Ukraine war against Russia is “the best money we’ve ever spent”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New spike of COVID in Australia, highest deaths since February
- USPS rural letter carriers suffering devastating cuts under new contract
- Tamil Nadu state government rescinds its Factories Amendment Act—a political fraud
- British novelist Martin Amis: The voice of a horrible era
- SAG-AFTRA and Directors Guild contracts expire June 30: No plans for joint action with striking writers
- New Zealand primary teachers’ union cancels strike, pushes new sellout offer
- Democratic New York City mayor uses Memorial Day speech to rail against socialism and communism
- Sri Lankan government approves paying wards in state hospitals
- Growing number of elderly homeless in the US
- “They are trying to strong-arm us”: Clarios workers call for support as company steps up strikebreaking campaign
- Australian health union’s “Big Wednesday,” a farce aimed at blocking a real struggle by workers
- Oppose the detention of Kit Klarenberg! End British state intimidation of anti-NATO journalists!
- Papua New Guinea students protest military pact with US
- DeSantis, Trump compete over who is the bigger fascist
- Strike wave grows in Portugal despite trade unions’ attempt to strangle it
- Davenport, Iowa building inspector resigns as evidence emerges of lax oversight of apartment which collapsed
- Political lessons of the 2023 Turkish presidential elections
- Royal Mail workers speak out: “My life is turned upside down. Will I survive?”
- Australian inflation rate moves back up as real wages continue to fall
- Dana workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania form rank-and-file committee
2023-06-02
- Australian state Labor government cuts social services, jobs amid skyrocketing debt
- Court finds Australian “war hero” is a war criminal who murdered Afghan civilians
- Voting begins on tentative agreement between SDEA union and San Diego Unified
- Escalating assault on jobs and living standards in New Zealand
- Alleging financial crimes, Georgia police arrest 3 organizers of Atlanta Solidarity Fund in militarized SWAT raid
- Stop the state-led censorship of opponents of the US/NATO war against Russia! Defend the IYSSE’s Toronto June 4 meeting!
- Hundreds of Amazon workers walk out at company’s Seattle, Washington headquarters
- New York City transit workers union announces sellout contract
- CWU silent on unofficial strike and witch-hunt at Glasgow G1-5 Royal Mail delivery office
- Struggle against Macron continues as strikes break out in multiple French industries
- UK rail strikes continue as unions call on Conservative government to resolve dispute
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Democrats provide critical votes to pass budget-cutting bill on US debt ceiling
- Attacks inside Russia continue as NATO head declares “Ukraine will become a member”
- CWU announces “agreement” with Royal Mail on revisions: A backroom manoeuvre to ram through a sell-out deal
- Germany: “Renewing the Trade Unions” conference defends the bureaucracy
2023-06-03
- Worcester teachers must draw lessons from union sellouts across Massachusetts
- Why is musician Roger Waters being witch-hunted in Germany?
- US rural letter carriers speak out over massive pay cuts from new compensation formula
- US unemployment rate inches up despite 339,000 new jobs added in May
- South Australian Labor government imposes draconian anti-protest laws
- US denounces North Korea’s attempted satellite launch
- Federal call center contractor Maximus carries out second round of layoffs in six months
- As US film and television writers strike enters second month, union officials organize “joint stab in the back”
- FBI appears to be continuing investigation of Julian Assange
- Strikes across Italy opposing Meloni’s social cuts and war policy
- Psych examiner reported “no suicidal thoughts” days before Epstein death
- Support builds for IYSSE anti-war Toronto meeting in face of right-wing censorship campaign
- US Supreme Court issues far-reaching attack on the right to strike
- Germany: “Renewing the Trade Unions” conference refuses to support temporary workers
- Biden’s debt deal: A bipartisan blueprint for war and austerity
- With less than two months to go before the deadline, Teamsters bureaucrats still have not begun strike vote at UPS
2023-06-04
2023-06-05
- Video: Clarios strikers and Toledo Jeep workers call for UAW ban on scab batteries
- Brazil’s Congress launches January 8 coup inquiry as Lula covers for the military
- Major slowdowns on West Coast ports after dockworkers learn about insulting pay increase
- Zelensky says “a large number of soldiers will die” in new offensive
- Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism
- Why New York transit workers must reject the negotiated contract and build independent rank-and-file committees
- IYSSE holds powerful anti-war meeting in Toronto, defeating government-backed censorship campaign, far-right Ukrainian disrupters
- Australian university union blocks call by CFPE members for broader struggle
- French National Assembly to examine €413 billion defense spending bill
- Germany: Long prison sentences for attacking Nazis—a political judgement
- Spanish PM Sánchez mooted as possible NATO Secretary General
- UK COVID inquiry in crisis as Conservative government tries to conceal pandemic crimes
- Russian autoworkers protest low wages
- Royal Mail workers oppose revisions and Communication Workers Union sell-out agreement: “Remove the white flag wavers from office.”
- Directors Guild of America leadership announces tentative agreement, stabbing striking writers in the back
- Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia and Ukraine issue statement in support of Toronto anti-war meeting
- Electricity and rent hikes expose Australian government’s “cost-of-living” budget
- The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops
- Why hasn’t alleged Australian war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith been charged?
- Mélenchon pushes fight against French pension cuts into parliamentary dead end
- At UAW town hall, Fain & Co. falsely claim “transparency” while blacking out Clarios strike
- Britain’s special forces deployed in Ukraine and at least 19 countries
2023-06-06
- Canada’s wildfire season off to record start, with fires burning in the East, West and Far North
- Sydney’s Macquarie University refuses to affiliate IYSSE club, despite it meeting all requirements
- German Chancellor Scholz erupts in militaristic outburst of anger
- Pence, Christie join growing list of Republican presidential candidates challenging Trump
- Over 150,000 teachers on strike in Romania
- After five weeks of the writers’ strike: What are the critical social and political issues?
- Postal worker explains reason for Royal Mail Glasgow G1-5 walkout, breaking news blackout by Communication Workers Union
- US calls for peace at Shangri-La Dialogue but prepares for war with China
- The Ukrainian “counter-offensive”: A new stage in the US-NATO war against Russia
- UAW International orders GM Flint plant to handle scab batteries from Clarios, according to local official
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Greens offer Labor a rotten “compromise” on Australia’s housing crisis
- Australian Public Service workers reject federal Labor government wage cut
- Worker describes conditions at Amazon’s JFK8 facility in Staten Island, New York
- Telecom union leader calls on Sri Lankan government to maximise profits at state-owned enterprises
- UK National Union of Journalists withdraws its defence of Kit Klarenberg
- CSX locomotive crash results in air pollution of local Baltimore community
- In Eastern European tour, Macron calls to integrate Ukraine into EU, NATO
- Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht publishes a militarist manifesto
2023-06-07
- Australian Labor treasurer manoeuvres as RBA lifts interest rates again
- UK government steps up mass deportation of refugees and asylum seekers
- Succession: A significant artistic and cultural development
- Rejecting popular opposition, Atlanta City Council approves millions in public funding for “Cop City” police training complex
- Under pressure from UPS workers, Teamsters bureaucracy announces hastily-organized strike vote
- Missouri executes third inmate this year despite widespread calls for clemency
- South Korean president pledges restrictions on right to protest
- Dam collapse in Ukraine causes major humanitarian and ecological disaster
- United States government’s anti-China semiconductor strategy thrown into disarray by congressional budget cutting
- El Pais reports proof that the CIA illegally spied on Julian Assange
- Paul Krugman’s dishonest apologetics for Ukrainian fascism
- Norfolk Southern seeks to have lawsuits dismissed over derailment, toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio
- Australian PM spearheads US diplomatic offensive against China
- Protests against university staff cuts in New Zealand
- UAW, CWA move to sabotage Clarios strike, allowing company to increase production at Missouri factory
- Attempting to define Long COVID: The NIH-funded RECOVER initiative trial
- Australian university union seeks sellout deal in industrial tribunal after Newcastle strike
- 1,000 anti-fascist demonstrators detained in Leipzig, Germany police kettle for hours
2023-06-08
- Texas Republicans pass bills that would allow governor to take over elections in Houston
- Indian government attempts to find scapegoats for horrific Odisha train disaster
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia-US critical minerals deal: The “third pillar” of the military alliance
- As port disruptions continue, big business lobby groups call on Biden to step in with railroad-style intervention
- Australian Labor government backs real wage cut for 2.5 million workers
- The persecution of British daytime TV presenter Phillip Schofield
- Former NATO head raises prospect of “troops on the ground” in Ukraine
- Over 115 million across US and Canada choked by smoke as massive wildfires burn out of control
- Scrambling of fighter jets over Washington against off-course Cessna raises many questions
- CWU/Royal Mail “agreement” on revisions fails to materialise a week after being announced
- Open letter of protest to Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union
- No to pension reform and war, bring down Macron!
- Oppose the State Department’s slanders against Roger Waters!
- China slowdown drives Saudi oil production cut
- 900,000 people demonstrate against Macron as the union apparatuses try to strangle the fight
- As Clarios strike reaches one month, growing threat of UAW sabotage
- Worker outrage over air quality crisis forces shift cancellations at Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s privatisation of state enterprises! Build workers’ action committees to fight for jobs and wages!
- Far-right demagogue Danielle Smith leads United Conservatives to victory in Alberta election
2023-06-09
- The strike that can’t be spoken of: Pseudo-left groups maintain blackout on Clarios strike as UAW steps up efforts to isolate workers
- British High Court rejects Assange appeal: Extradition an imminent threat
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UPS workers: Form rank-and-file committees independent of the Teamster bureaucracy to defeat the upcoming sellout, fight for a national strike!
- US and Britain agree “Atlantic Declaration,” pledging economic warfare against Russia and China
- As Ukrainian counteroffensive begins, NATO moves closer to direct intervention
- Jacobin promotes defeatist politics of Salvador Allende after far right wins vote in Chile
- Nepal leader visits New Delhi as China and India compete for influence in South Asia
- Deadly wildfire smoke spreads across much of northeast US
- Florida Governor DeSantis dumped asylum seekers in Sacramento, California
- Trump indicted on seven federal charges in documents case
- Australia Post and Labor plan to end daily letter delivery as part of major restructure
- Furore over bilingual road signs dominates New Zealand pre-election positioning
- PwC in Australia: The social and political anatomy of a scandal
- Teamsters announced tentative agreement with trucking company ABF
2023-06-10
- Western Australian industrial court hands down record fine for nurses’ strike
- Vote no at University of Sydney and form a rank-and-file committee to prevent a sellout
- Supreme Court strikes down Alabama congressional district map as motivated by racial discrimination
- Remains dumped in Guadalajara identified as those of missing Mexican call center workers
- No to layoffs! No to budget cuts! Build rank-and-file committees to defend public education in Detroit!
- University of Washington researchers and postdocs strike now in fourth day
- Justice Department indicts Trump for retaining top secret military plans
- SEP rejects Sri Lankan government invitation to discuss “labour law reform”
- Ex-Unifor head Dias to face no criminal charges in kickback scandal
- SAG-AFTRA and studios, networks begin talks behind closed doors
- Teamsters hold online meeting in response to anger over delayed UPS strike vote
- Australia discussing sending fighter jets to Ukraine in US-NATO proxy war
- NZEI pushes through sellout of New Zealand primary teachers
- US, Japan promote plans for boosting Tokyo’s rearmament
- As slowdowns continue on West Coast docks, Chamber of Commerce calls on Biden to force through tentative agreement
- CWA seeks to divert Maximus struggle behind Democratic Party
- The war in Ukraine and the fight over raw materials
2023-06-11
2023-06-12
- Strikes and mass protests led by teachers erupt across Argentina
- Australia’s pseudo-left Socialist Alternative holds fraudulent “anti-war” meeting
- An interview with Arijit Chakravarty on ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Part 2
- German air force conducts massive exercise targeting Russia
- UPS workers in New York City and Louisville speak out during snap Teamsters strike vote
- Trudeau visits Kiev to bolster US-NATO war on Russia
- UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship
- Sri Lankan comedienne Natasha Edirisooriya arrested: An attack on freedom of speech
- The Trump indictment and the “national security” secrets of the state
- Australian health union’s online meetings present no way forward for workers
- This week in history: June 12-18
- US to sell drones to Taiwan in provocative intelligence-sharing plan
- NATO members move toward formal alliance with Ukraine
- Clarios workers call for joint action to defeat strikebreaking by auto battery company: “All UAW members should be on strike”
- An interview with Arijit Chakravarty on ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Part 1
- Radio New Zealand removes references to 2014 Ukraine coup from online articles
- New York transit workers speak out as TWU pushes sellout deal
- CWU blocks Royal Mail strike in Craigavon Northern Ireland: Reinstate all victimised reps and workers!
- Volkswagen plans a radical program of cuts aimed at boosting profits
2023-06-13
- Royal Mail workers speak: “Disgrace of a company and union leaders should hang their heads in shame and resign"
- Nazis, DeSantis supporters rally outside Disney World in Orlando, Florida
- More rural postal workers in the US speak out about thousands in lost wages due to new compensation formula
- Residents of Davenport demand justice after missing bodies found in collapsed apartment building
- Ukrainian nationalists demand Russian and Belarusian pianists be barred from Australian music competition
- Nicola Sturgeon arrested as Scottish National Party crisis intensifies
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fed faces a dilemma as it meets to set interest rates
- DTE Energy hikes electricity rates on Detroit-area workers, while stockholders cash in
- The Democratic Party, Donald Trump and the Espionage Act
- NATO launches massive war game targeting Russia
- Junior doctors in England strike again as government insists on real terms pay cut
- More information that Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan were covered up
- Oppose attempt to disrupt defence for witch-hunted Sri Lankan plantation workers
- EU interior ministers abandon the Geneva Refugee Convention
- ILWU local president at Port of San Diego threatens to blacklist dockworkers who talk to reporters
2023-06-14
- France, Germany and Poland hold Paris summit to escalate NATO war on Russia
- Pseudo-left Québec Solidaire remains silent on workers’ revolt in France
- Hundreds of refugees feared dead after boat sinks off Greek coast
- New Zealand signs defence pacts with Japan, Fiji
- UAW announces another sellout deal in bid to end five-week Clarios strike
- JPMorgan Chase settles with victims of Jeffrey Epstein for $290 million
- 7,200 British Columbia dockworkers vote to strike, as US workers disrupt West Coast ports
- Australian Labor government faces rising discontent as recession looms
- Postal workers speak out against Communication Workers Union's partnership with Royal Mail over punishing workloads: “The union has well and truly sold its members out”
- Podemos joins Sumar in a pro-war alliance for Spain’s July 23 snap elections
- The global significance of the North American dockworkers’ struggle
- Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023): The fusion of wealth, criminality and government power
- Stop the ILWU’s threats of blacklisting against workers for talking with reporters!
- John McWhorter’s Woke Racism: An argument about how to secure privilege
- El-Sisi dictatorship plunges Egyptians into poverty, steps up repression
- US to send radioactive depleted uranium shells to Ukraine
- Trump formally arrested and arraigned in south Florida court
- Tanker truck crash in Pennsylvania kills one, closes Interstate 95
- UK mother cruelly jailed for late abortion
2023-06-15
- Mass protests against anti-Russian law in Warsaw as Poland moves towards open war with Russia
- Clarios workers challenge UAW officials at “informational” meetings on third sellout deal
- Author Elizabeth Gilbert suspends novel’s publication due to protests by Ukrainian nationalists
- Political uncertainty continues after Thai election
- Royal Mail thanks “our union” for biggest revisions in history: Rank-and-file must take control!
- After Annecy knife attack, French politicians stoke anti-immigrant hatreds
- Greek government tries to deny responsibility for hundreds of migrant drownings
- Union calls off resident physicians’ strike at Mount Sinai Morningside and West
- Colombia’s President Petro warns of “soft coup” attempt
- “Spring offensive” produces bloodbath for Ukraine
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ukrainian youth speak on war, social catastrophe: “The military is grabbing draft evaders everywhere”
- Workers on Clarios picket line speak out against new UAW-backed deal: “Basically, it’s the same agreement we voted down”
- Faced with rank-and-file rebellion, White House intervenes to push out tentative agreement for West Coast dockworkers
- Sri Lankan workers back SEP campaign against sweeping privatisation
- Vote NO on the UAW-Clarios sellout contract! Reject corporate slavery and launch a workers’ counteroffensive throughout the auto industry!
- After arraignment, Trump unleashes fascist tirade
- Study finds that COVID-19 could cause brain cells to fuse, leading to permanent damage
2023-06-16
- Wall Street demands cuts at Yellow Corp as contract negotiations with Teamsters stall
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- For a socialist movement against war! Vote the IYSSE into Humboldt University’s student parliament on July 4!
- Germany’s National Security Strategy: A blueprint for total war
- Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation boss cites WSWS article, warning union leaders not to give information to websites
- Largest House Republican group backs increase in Social Security retirement age to 69
- Fourth Florida execution this year after US Supreme Court denies death row inmate’s appeal
- Over 600 migrants drowned near Greece: Fortress Europe and the refugee crisis
- Australian Labor government slashes annual health budget by $11 billion
- Australian Labor government’s proposed labour hire reform will not stop rise of low-paid, insecure work
- Australian parliament dominated by recriminations over sexual misconduct
- Canadian security agencies prevail on universities to scuttle joint research with Chinese academics
- China’s second wave of COVID-19 infections, deaths, debilitation, and government lies: Part 1
- China’s second wave of COVID infections, deaths, Long COVID, and government lies: Part 2
2023-06-17
- Striking film and television writers rally in New York’s Times Square
- UPS workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, as Teamsters boast about sham deal for AC in trucks
- New York City teachers union announces sellout deal
- Intensifying witch hunt over Radio New Zealand’s “pro-Kremlin” Ukraine war reports
- Tentative agreement for New York City transit workers attacks retiree health care
- Workers Party government in Brazil joins pro-imperialist campaign against Roger Waters
- Jacobin covers for DSA betrayal of U-M grad students’ strike
- “We should have struck!” West Coast dockworkers decry White House-brokered sellout agreement
- Australian news site Crikey self-censors article critical of MeToo, Higgins saga
- Reject NTEU sellout at University of Sydney and form rank-and-file committees for a broader struggle
- Esteban Volkov, grandson of Leon Trotsky, has died
- UAW rams through sellout deal, shuts down 40-day Clarios strike
- Are nuclear weapons the next red line NATO will cross in Ukraine?
- Germany: Train drivers union leader turns union into a temporary employment agency
2023-06-18
- Communication Workers Union political smear of World Socialist Web Site falls flat on its face
- Guatemalan government launches witch-hunt against journalists, judges and prosecutors
- CWU launches “mass engagement exercise” to ram through rotten sell-out at Royal Mail
- Kakhovka Dam explosion exacerbates social catastrophe facing the Ukrainian working class
2023-06-19
- IYSSE spokesperson files disciplinary complaint against Humboldt University President Julia von Blumenthal
- Australian parliament joins hands to block new Russian embassy
- Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange
- Australia: Despite coal bonanza, Queensland Labor budget cuts social services
- Maritime unions ram through wage-slashing deal at Svitzer Australia
- Modi’s BJP foments ethno-communal violence in India’s northeastern state of Manipur
- This week in history: June 19–25
- Postal workers speak against CWU leaders’ line-up with Royal Mail
- UAW President Shawn Fain falsely touts “massive gains” as his administration sells out Clarios and other strikes
- Australian Senate inquiry highlights worsening problem of children “refusing” to attend school
- China’s second wave of COVID infections, deaths, Long COVID, and government lies: Part 3
- British MPs complete former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s removal from parliament
- New evidence suggests Greek coastguard lied about sinking of refugee ship with loss of over 600 lives
2023-06-20
- Britain’s pseudo-left groups mount phoney “rank-and-file” initiatives in defence of trade union bureaucracy
- Blinken in Beijing: Washington tries to ease tensions with China to escalate war against Russia
- Unite calls off strike action at Arriva London North
- Spain’s Pabloite Anticapitalistas call to vote for pro-war Sumar in July 23 elections
- Over 1,400 workers at Canada’s National Steel Car vote by 95 percent for strike action
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Macquarie University workers in Sydney, Australia form rank-and-file committee
- Sri Lankan SEP demonstrates in Colombo against privatisation and government repression
- Stop the witch-hunt against vaccinologist Peter Hotez!
- Australian Catholic school workers threatened with substantial real wage cut by teachers’ union
- US-EU move forward in anti-Chinese critical mineral supply chain agreement
- Australian Senate passes Voice referendum bill amid falling public support
- The destruction of an independent judiciary in Ukraine
- New York resident physician evaluates the strike at Elmhurst hospital
- UK’s slowing headline inflation rate does nothing to ease social crisis
- Nursing home strike in Redford Township, Michigan
- Texas Governor Abbott ships 42 migrants from Rio Grande to Los Angeles by bus
- Australia: Macquarie University Rank-and-File committee members speak out
- Australia: Demolition worker dies on the job at Port of Newcastle
- China’s second wave of COVID infections, deaths, Long COVID, and government lies: Conclusion
- Clarios workers return to work, angered over UAW sellout of their strike
- Happy FKN Sunshine: Life in a decaying industrial town
2023-06-21
- India-China border conflict enters fourth year as Modi visits Washington
- Joint declaration of the Postal and Public Service Action Committees in Germany
- Teenage worker killed at Western Australian sandblasting plant
- International students in Australia speak about rental and cost-of-living crisis
- Glenda Jackson (1936–2023): “The best theatre is about trying to find and tell the truth”
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold memorial meeting for lifelong Trotskyist Jerani Ratnayake
- The Clarios strike and its lessons for the working class
- Craigavon postal worker speaks about dire working conditions after CWU blocks local industrial action
- UAW announces tentative agreement at GE Aviation, while Spirit AeroSystems workers to vote on contract proposal Wednesday
- Abolish UK school inspectorate Ofsted—fully funded schools not punitive inspections!
- Journalist who promoted false Iraqi WMDs narrative now endorses claims that Chinese researchers were first COVID-19 patients
- New dangers in film and TV writers’ strike: SAG-AFTRA officials hint may not call strike when contract expires
- Fire in Chinatown electric-bike shop leaves 4 dead, highlighting the immense social crisis in New York City
- Australian Labor government suffers parliamentary defeat over housing bill
- Media outlets claim Iran-US close to a temporary “understanding”
- New strike dates announced as UK education unions promote below-inflation deals
- Biden kicks off reelection bid with “America First” speech to trade union bureaucrats
2023-06-22
- Israel’s settlers, army and far-right government attack the Palestinians on all fronts
- Hunter Biden plea deal intensifies political warfare in Washington
- London’s Ukraine Recovery Conference plans imperialist looting operation
- Australia records 205 COVID deaths, highest weekly figure since February
- UK nurses’ strike in danger: union leader claims action has “hit the end of the road”
- Scapegoated nurse RaDonda Vaught fights for reinstatement of nursing license
- Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative supports nationalist, pro-business indigenous Voice to Australian parliament
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A quarter of Canadians report being impacted by record-breaking wildfire season
- Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean
- Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): Chronicler of American carnage
- Ukrainian counteroffensive falters amid mass casualties
- Pakistan on the brink of default as IMF pushes for still more austerity
- Biden Justice Department sought to avoid investigation of Trump over January 6 coup
- American Airlines fined $15,000 after worker was sucked into plane engine
2023-06-23
- Syriza shifts further to right in Greece, as conservative New Democracy set to win general election
- Biden leads Washington in feting Modi, India’s far-right prime minister
- Podemos electoral debacle in Spain exposes bankruptcy of Revolutionary Left (IR) group
- Australian authorities blocking prosecutions over lawyer who spied on clients
- Millions losing Medicaid coverage, other benefits, after Biden-Republican deals
- Ward and Furey’s live Q&A: Browbeating by the Communication Workers Union to impose a betrayal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Strike ballot at Deutsche Bahn: Vote for strike and build action committees independent of the unions
- More Royal Mail workers write to denounce Communication Workers Union
- Toronto’s mayoral campaign: a “dog and pony show” prelude to huge cuts to public and social services
- Democrats continue attacks on immigrants in Chicago and Illinois
- Union cancels Toronto anti-war meeting, surrendering to state-backed, far-right led censorship campaign
- “It's also time for weapons”: Germany’s Protestant church assembly under the shadow of war
- Los Angeles march for striking writers reveals major support, but union officials prepare betrayal
- The economic, political and military logic behind the sellout contract for West Coast dockworkers
- Sri Lankan government intensifies witch-hunting of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation union leaders and activists
- More UK universities deduct academic workers’ pay as marking boycott continues
- No to “critical status” at Stellantis plants! We are not robots!
- Germany’s highest labour court rules: No to equal pay for equal work
2023-06-24
- Cornel West’s campaign for US president: A pragmatic and bankrupt muddle
- UPS demands new tiers, massive wage concessions in next contract with Teamsters union
- One year since the US Supreme Court’s abolition of the constitutional right to abortion
- After women’s prison massacre, Honduran president places military in charge
- A Small Light: Miep Gies and the struggle to save Anne Frank and her family
- New Zealand sinks into recession
- Experts warned of potentially catastrophic problems with OceanGate submersible at extreme depths
- “No third world war! Stop the rearmament!”: IYSSE holds successful student election event at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Detroit teachers and students take their fight against layoffs to the auto plants
- Senate bill would criminalize work slowdowns on US ports
- Workers at Wabtec locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania walk out after decisive rejection of company’s “final offer”
- Three weeks since Odisha train disaster: Indian authorities desperate to cover up their responsibility for the tragedy
- West Coast dockworkers speak out against White House-backed tentative agreement
2023-06-25
2023-06-26
- Texas Governor Abbott signs law authorizing school library censorship
- A memoir of a worker’s experience in the American gulag
- This week in history: June 26-July 2
- 6,000 workers strike Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas
- The far-right politics of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Sri Lankan SEP wins strong support for its campaign against government austerity and privatisation measures
- After failed coup attempt, Kremlin gives Wagner free passage, tries to subordinate paramilitary formations
- Virginia UPS worker speaks out on conditions in the company’s warehouses
- Fed chair tries to project calm as financial problems continue to mount
- Official US intelligence report finds no evidence for laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2
- Police locate more bodies in New Zealand’s Pike River mine
- New York City educators begin voting on sellout contract
- Australian central banker openly calls for higher unemployment
- After union contract betrayal, Los Angeles school district presses ahead with additional cuts
- Australian IYSSE member advances antiwar perspective at pro-establishment “anti-AUKUS” meeting
- Montana train falls into Yellowstone River, leaking asphalt and molten sulfur
- Witnesses accuse Greek Coast Guard of responsibility for refugee tragedy in the Mediterranean
- Ford Australia to axe 400 more jobs as part of global cost-cutting strategy
- After years of betraying teachers’ struggles, AFT and NEA endorse Biden for reelection
- Ruling New Democracy wins Greek elections, far-right make gains, pseudo-left Syriza routed
- New US diplomatic provocations fuel tensions with China
- Intelligence report exposes media promotion of Wuhan Lab lie
2023-06-27
- Scottish further education college staff strike against job losses
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Climate change and extreme weather across the South
- Three San Antonio police officers charged with murder after gunning down 46-year-old woman in her locked apartment
- Brazil’s Lula tries to revive South American alliance ahead of BRICS summit
- UPS workers speak out against company demands for massive concessions
- Amazon and political officials celebrate grand opening of HQ2 in Northern Virginia
- Federal investigation reveals “controlled release and burn” that poisoned East Palestine was unnecessary
- Strikes erupt across Spain as snap general election campaign begins
- Bank for International Settlements report charts a financial system in crisis
- African Book Festival in Germany and the attack on Mohamedou Ould Slahi–another case of political censorship
- Trump escalates fascistic rants against socialism and Marxism
- How Syriza’s betrayals strengthened the extreme political right in Greece
- Australian union shuts down industrial action by New South Wales health workers
- Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meets as balloting opens on CWU-Royal Mail agreement
- Australia announces another $110 million for US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
- Release Turkish journalist Merdan Yanardağ!
- Reject National Steel Car’s provocative “final offer”! Build the NSC Rank-and-File Committee to lead our strike and mobilize broad working class support!
- Australian media denounce striking warehouse workers for opposing real wage cut
2023-06-28
- New Zealand factors ethnicity in prioritising surgery waiting lists
- Voting concludes at trucking company ABF amid opposition to Teamsters sellout
- Kremlin allows Wagner to continue operations in Belarus as Prigozhin defends coup attempt as legitimate “demonstration”
- US Supreme Court rejects far-right “independent state legislature” theory
- Tenneco spark plug workers vote down second UAW agreement as more US auto parts contracts set to expire
- Anger grows as Clarios imposes terms of sellout agreement
- Germany to station 4,000 combat troops permanently in Lithuania
- In Nazi diatribe, Trump calls for mass deportations of socialists and communists
- Revealing accolades for ex-Australian Labor Party leader Simon Crean
- PSOE-Podemos enforcement of EU “Let them drown” policy kills another 37 migrants in Spain
- Michigan and Northeast Educators Rank-and-File Committees discuss strategy to defend jobs and stop budget cuts
- UK slips down child height ranking as a result of austerity
- Sri Lanka: Plantation unions promote reactionary identity politics at Malaiyaham 200 conference
- IMF deputy chief outlines “uncomfortable truths” about inflation and financial instability
- Michael Tippett: The Shadow and the Light–BBC film on the life of the British composer
- The election of the far-right AfD in Sonneberg, Germany and the fight against fascism
- Senate report confirms support for Trump’s coup at FBI and Department of Homeland Security
- Longshore union issues 72-hour strike notice after dragging out talks for 7,200 dockworkers in British Columbia
2023-06-29
- Ukraine’s counteroffensive remains a debacle despite efforts to exploit coup attempt in Russia
- Veteran letter carrier dies in Dallas, Texas heat wave
- East Timor’s Xanana Gusmão returns to power as prime minister
- Teamsters union threatens strike at UPS as bureaucracy struggles to rein in workers
- Defying company threats and USW inaction, 1,400 National Steel Car workers walk off the job in Hamilton, Ontario
- UK plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda ruled unlawful by Court of Appeal
- The bankrupt politics of Socialist Alternative’s Workers Strike Back campaign in New York: “Frighten the Democrats to respond”
- Actors warn SAG-AFTRA union leadership: Don’t sell us out!
- Australian ballet dancer speaks on fight against pay cuts, conditions during pandemic
- Union holds token one-day strike at Australia’s University of Melbourne
- Biden and Modi sign “ground breaking” military-technology agreements, hail enhanced Indo-US alliance
- Riots erupt across Paris and France after police murder 17-year-old driver in Nanterre
- Vote NO! For a rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- CSX worker killed on the job at Baltimore rail terminal
- Spirit AeroSystems workers: Vote “no” on IAM sellout contract! Build rank-and-file committee to expand the strike!
- Australian Ballet dancers launch industrial action against attacks on pay
- New research finds that COVID-19 can cause cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and thyroid disfunction
- Over 120 million Americans under air quality alerts as wildfires continue to rage across Canada
2023-06-30
- Los Angeles writers and actors express agreement with open letter to SAG-AFTRA leadership warning against sell-out
- CDC issues advisory alert after several cases of “locally acquired mosquito-borne” malaria found in Florida and Texas
- From Argentina to the Rio Grande, wave of teachers’ strikes sweeps Latin America
- Biden administration’s Department of Labor denies Will Lehman’s complaint protesting UAW election disenfranchisement
- Ford Saarlouis, Germany: The stalling tactics of the union and works council
- Federal and provincial government ministers threaten 7,400 west coast Canadian dockworkers following 72-hour strike notice
- Wabtec bringing in scabs in attempt to break Erie, Pennsylvania strike
- Workers respond to mandatory 7-day schedule at Stellantis plants: “I don’t think workers realize the power we have”
- Virgin Australia seeks “intractable bargaining” declaration in first test of Labor’s new anti-strike laws
- Alliance Interiors fire in Lansing, Michigan once again exposes unsafe conditions at the plant where a young worker was crushed in April
- Royal College of Nursing betrays UK pay strikes
- Jacobin, Democratic Socialists of America cover up for Syriza and prepare new betrayals
- As millions across US and Canada continue to suffer the effects of wildfires, Chicago officials bury their heads in the smoke
- US moves toward sending cluster bombs and long-range missiles to Ukraine
- “If we got to go on strike, so be it,” Southern California dockworker tells WSWS
- Australia: Corruption allegations against former NSW Premier Berejiklian were a political takedown
- Cities burn across France as cops assault protests against police murder of youth
- Sri Lanka power unions conference demands “real restructuring” of Ceylon Electricity Board
- Trial of actor Kevin Spacey opens in London
- What is Teamsters for a Democratic Union?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Central bankers insist rate hikes to continue as wages are targeted
- Message of solidarity to UPS workers from Royal Mail workers in Britain
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