Archive: 07/2023
2023-07-01
- US Supreme Court majority abolishes racial preferences in university admission
- Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief
- Labor’s “buy-back” scheme cuts and exclusions outrage residents in Australian flood-hit region
- Australian defence minister seeks extension of military-police deployment in Solomon Islands
- Justice Department report fails to substantiate the suicide narrative of Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody
- Teamsters declared ABF contract “overwhelmingly ratified” without providing vote tally
- The privatization of public education in the US is accelerating backed by billionaires including Betsy DeVos
- For strike pay immediately at our full pay rate! Broaden the National Steel Car strike to win our demands!
- EVG rail union agrees to arbitration with Deutsche Bahn, calls off strike
- GEO accepts “illegal strike” ruling in contract talks with University of Michigan
- IYSSE Australia members speak out against disaffiliation of club at Macquarie University
- Mobilize the working class against French police murders and state repression!
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation axes 120 jobs, decimating news, arts and other vital services
- Sri Lanka: Health Workers Action Committee holds meeting at Kandy General Hospital
- NZ trade union hails phony “victory” in universities’ jobs crisis
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis campaigns on “shoot on sight” anti-immigrant policy
- Strike by 2,500 grocery workers at Minnesota Lunds & Byerlys called off as UFCW and company announce tentative agreement
2023-07-02
2023-07-03
- Spanish Premier Sánchez travels to Kyiv to support NATO’s war against Russia for “as long as it takes”
- New Zealand PM visits China amid growing war tensions
- Pseudo-left club at Australia’s Macquarie University slanders IYSSE amid affiliation struggle
- Trump campaign descends on rural Pickens, South Carolina, drawing an estimated 50,000
- Attacks on rural letter carriers the beginning of devastating restructuring of the US Postal Service
- More hot air at UPS as Teamsters falsely claim “victory” on second-tier wages
- Last-minute contract extension: SAG-AFTRA officials do everything in their power to avoid calling strike
- Stop the cuts to public education in Detroit! Prepare strike action to defend jobs and win inflation-busting wage gains! Billions for schools, not war!
- Communication Workers Union stalls “rule 13” industrial action in Shropshire against revisions
- Government and union shut down Romanian teachers' strike
- The US Supreme Court’s rampage against democratic rights
- This week in history: July 3-9
- Stop the attacks on the IYSSE’s anti-war campaign at Berlin's Humboldt University
- Sri Lanka: Management, union and police seek to stop SEP/Plantation Workers’ Action Committee defence campaign
- Australia: One worker dead, two injured after incident at Woolworths warehouse in Western Sydney
- Macron’s police state launches brutal crackdown on French protesters
- Australian government’s NDIS review paves way for deeper cuts to disability services
- Thirty people hit in Baltimore mass shooting, two dead
- The Nation promotes Teamsters, UAW bureaucracy, says contract campaigns key to “reset working-class vote” for Democrats
- UK: Support workers strike for living wage at Leicester Ash Field Academy SEND school
2023-07-04
- Netanyahu government mounts all-out offensive on Palestinians in Jenin
- The detection of the Universe’s background gravitational wave radiation: a scientific triumph
- Students and workers outraged at Supreme Court ruling blocking Biden’s partial student debt forgiveness plan
- World’s richest added $852 billion to their fortunes in first half of 2023
- Workers voice support for lawsuit by Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman challenging fraudulent UAW election
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Body camera footage confirms border agents executed unarmed Native American man in hail of gunfire
- Grueling workloads, missing pay: Virginia worker speaks on terrible conditions inside UPS warehouse
- Corporate Canada demands anti-strike law to criminalize west coast dock strike, as bosses break off talks
- Will Lehman sues Biden administration demanding rerun of fraudulent UAW election
- Stellantis Belvidere trades worker speaks out against plant closure, UAW and media silence
- Pentagon admits Chinese “spy balloon” did not spy on the US
- “They are trying to take everything away from the working class”: Wabtec seeks to restore production with scabs at Erie, Pennsylvania plant
- US to dispatch ballistic missile submarine to South Korea
- Reject the Transport Workers Union sellout contract! Build rank-and-file committees to unite transit and other workers in New York City
- CWU instructs reps to enforce Royal Mail’s brutal revisions: the IR Framework in action
- The National Health Service at 75: Defending free healthcare demands a struggle for socialism
- Australian Pharmaceuticals Industry warehouse workers’ strike enters second week
- Germany’s draft budget: More military spending to be paid for with social cuts
- Strike by 1,400 National Steel Car workers in Canada continues as strikers report health benefit cut-off
- IYSSE at San Diego State University demands Australia’s Macquarie University reinstate IYSSE as an official club!
- Israel’s war crimes in Jenin create a humanitarian disaster
2023-07-05
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams employs racial identity politics to cover over the deepening social crisis
- Teaching staff strike over University of Brighton plans to make over 100 workers redundant
- Teachers begin two-day national strike in England: “This infatuation with money is devastating for kids and teachers alike”
- The scientific and social dimensions of the Canadian wildfires
- Australian Labor government unveils big budget surplus but rejects cost-of-living relief
- North American workers must mobilize to defend the Canadian dockworkers’ strike!
- Thousands of Los Angeles hotel workers strike
- At least 14 killed in mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Texas and Missouri over Independence Day holiday period
- New Zealand Post to sack 750 workers
- Guatemalan court threatens to invalidate election as Washington defends its preferred candidate
- Spain’s July 23 snap election and the bankruptcy of Podemos and Sumar
- Letters in support of IYSSE at Humboldt University
- Australian health workers call for strikes as union leadership scrambles to negotiate with NSW Labor government
- Sri Lankan government to slash billions from workers’ pension funds
- New study finds that lifting Zero-COVID in China caused 1.4 billion infections and up to 2.6 million deaths
- Chevalier and the life of composer Joseph Bologne: Why the mean-spirited attack on Mozart and Gluck?
2023-07-06
- “I think they should man up and strike,” SAG-AFTRA actors call for joint struggle with striking writers
- GM, Stellantis workers support Will Lehman lawsuit
- Four killed at Shreveport, Louisiana outdoor party on Fourth of July
- Israel warns more to come after withdrawal from Jenin
- Fearing expanded strike action, Unite Here shuts down Southern California hotel workers strike
- Bluster from UAW President Fain as Ford receives $9 billion federal loan for electric vehicle production
- Indonesian president visits Australia amid intensifying US-China tensions
- Talks “collapse” at UPS, as management digs in its heels over demands for sweeping concessions
- Will Lehman and attorney discuss lawsuit against Biden admin demanding re-run of UAW election
- Communication Workers Union whitewashes Royal Mail health and safety violations at Warrington “Super Hub”
- After the youth protests in France: Macron strengthens fascist forces
- South Korean trade union confederation launches phony two-week strike
- Thames Water brought to near collapse by private looting
- Yellen’s China visit a tactical manoeuvre
- Australia’s second-largest state Victoria blocking people from reporting COVID infections
- Statements from Britain and Sri Lanka oppose attacks on IYSSE at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- US ruling class sets the stage for a massive attack on Social Security and Medicare
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- NATO plans escalation against Russia at Vilnius summit
- National Steel Car strikers should forge solidarity with striking BC dockers and Wabtec workers! For a North America-wide working-class counter-offensive!
- Provocation against refugees in Kocaeli, Turkey highlights growing dangers
2023-07-07
- RMT rail union advances no opposition to closure of nearly all 1,000 ticket offices
- Day two of national teachers’ strike in England: “We’re stretched to the limit already”
- IYSSE wins two seats in Berlin’s Humboldt University student parliament
- Global warming drives new world heat records in first week of July
- Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist director Judy Chaikin: “When you silence that part of society, you cut its heart out”
- Thousands protest Sri Lankan government’s attacks on welfare subsidies
- Global markets fall on reports of better than predicted hiring
- Australian Pampas factory worker speaks with WSWS on API warehouse strike
- FBI trying to pressure British journalists into giving evidence against Assange
- UK: Paris Mayo jailed for murder of a baby she delivered alone, aged 15
- Residents denounce Labor’s broken “buy-back” scheme promises in flood-hit Australian region
- Ontario Public Service Employees Union silent on why it cancelled Toronto anti-war meeting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As West Coast Canadian dockworkers near end of first week on strike, federal government steps up threats to criminalize job action
- Mobilization in Ukraine: Zelensky government on a manhunt
- Australian maritime workers respond to union sellout at Svitzer
- Brazil’s Electoral Court bars fascistic former president Bolsonaro from running for office
- US media covers up Israeli war crimes in Jenin
- Australian Pharmaceuticals Industry warehouse workers’ strike in serious danger due to union’s isolation tactics
2023-07-08
- Gary Tyler, then and now: From class war prisoner to artist
- China retaliates against US with export restrictions on strategic metals
- Heavily armed January 6 insurrectionist arrested outside Obama’s home after Trump posts his address on social media
- Devastating COVID-19 surge in Okinawa exposes lies that the pandemic is over
- Sending cluster bombs to Ukraine, Washington makes clear it will stop at nothing
- Guantánamo Diary Revisited: Mohamedou Slahi seeks out his torturers
- Young people around Australia speak out against Macquarie University’s refusal to affiliate anti-war IYSSE club
- Support grows among autoworkers for lawsuit demanding UAW elections be re-run: “This entire election needs to be tossed”
- Trudeau government and Biden administration conspiring to shut down west coast Canadian dockworkers strike
- Australian Robodebt inquiry covers up political responsibility for systemic cruelty to welfare recipients
- Thailand to hold joint parliamentary session to install next government
- As Canadian dockworkers strike enters second week, container ships bound for British Columbia are being diverted to American ports
- Biden taps Elliott Abrams, champion of death squads, for US diplomacy panel
- Australia: Young apprentice worker killed at Newcastle hospital building site
- 10 years since the military coup in Egypt
2023-07-09
2023-07-10
- Right-wing judge bars federal agencies from restricting COVID-19 misinformation on social media
- Stop a rushed NTEU sellout at Sydney’s Macquarie University!
- Canada’s New Democratic Party feigns “solidarity” with striking West Coast dockers
- Two American high school students demand Sydney’s Macquarie University end censorship of anti-war IYSSE club
- Fluorinated carbons, PFAS, found in nearly half of US tap water
- An interview with economic historian Stephen Wheatcroft on the Soviet famine and historical falsification
- This week in history: July 10-16
- “I’m a supplemental / TPT / Stellantis slave”: Message from a Warren Truck temporary part-time worker
- Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee outlines fightback strategy on eve of ballot result on CWU-Royal Mail agreement
- For a European movement against capitalism and war
- United Workers Union promotes Australian Labor government at API warehouse workers’ strike event
- Radio New Zealand “editorial audit” expands censorship net
- A fraudulent presentation of Australia’s Indigenous Voice
- NATO’s Vilnius summit will authorize escalation of its war against Russia
- SEP public meeting in Sri Lanka discusses how to fight Wickremesinghe’s privatisation measures
- Three University of California academic workers charged with felony for chalking slogans on building
- The bankruptcy of DSA politics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Biden reelection
- Teamsters promote strike-breaking Democrats as UPS contract nears expiration
- Leading German media outlets call for unlimited arms deliveries to Ukraine and “tank battles” in Europe
- Biden puts UK on point ahead of NATO’s Vilnius summit
- Australia: Vote “no” to the Health Services Union’s sellout of public sector health workers! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for decent wages and conditions!
- What autoworkers need to win the 2023 Big Three contract battle
- Erdoğan backs Ukraine’s NATO membership, releases Azov commanders in Turkey
2023-07-11
- Japan to dump Fukushima radioactive water into Pacific Ocean
- Turkish President Erdogan gives go-ahead for Sweden’s NATO membership
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK’s University and College Union steps up efforts to end higher education workers’ struggle
- Dockworkers’ union spouts “internationalist” rhetoric, while conniving to sell out strike at Canada’s West Coast ports
- New York City’s austerity budget—worse is yet to come
- Why were tanks and soldiers paraded through the streets of Adelaide, Australia?
- Orgy of book banning, censorship continues in the US
- Nebraska mother faces two-year sentence for providing daughter with abortion pills
- Netanyahu presses ahead with neutering the judiciary, mobilising the police to suppress protests
- Memorial meeting to honour comrade Wije Dias: A fighter for Trotskyism
- 2 firefighters dead and at least 6 injured in effort to extinguish cargo ship blaze at Port Newark, New Jersey
- 10 years since the Chicago school closings: The legacy of the CTU’s CORE faction
- NATO summit in Vilnius: War plotting at the site of a historic crime
- The German budget 2024—a declaration of war on the working class
- Yellen offers no concessions in economic push against China
- Biden appoints senior economic advisor as White House point man in UAW contract talks
- Australian PM boosts involvement in Ukraine war and hails arms export deal with Germany
- Putin met with Prigozhin and Wagner commanders days after insurrection
- CWU imposes historic betrayal of postal workers as Royal Mail agreement accepted
- As scab freighters arrive at US ports to avoid strike in Canada, US dockworker calls for joint strike action across North America
2023-07-12
- Statements from France, Turkey and New Zealand oppose censorship of IYSSE by Sydney’s Macquarie University
- German President backs delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine
- Asbestos in UK schools responsible for 10,000 deaths in four decades
- Build the UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- The SAG-AFTRA strike and the path of global class struggle
- Deflation starts to grip the Chinese economy
- Canada’s union-backed Liberal government intervenes to break BC dockworkers’ strike
- French police kill young man during Marseille riots
- “Once in a 1,000 year” rain triggers flash flooding in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley, killing 1
- Australia: Victorian Labor government shuts down COVID-19 respiratory clinics
- Prosecution evidence completed in Kevin Spacey sexual assault trial in London
- United Federation of Teachers ratifies sellout contract for 120,000 New York City educators
- UAW organizes publicity stunts as “negotiations” with automakers start
2023-07-13
- Junior doctors begin five-day strike as Sunak offers “final” public sector pay deals to end strikes
- Family of assassinated anti-fascist activist Michael Reinoehl files federal wrongful death lawsuit
- North Carolina neo-Nazi sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting police on January 6
- Wabtec presses demands for deep concessions as strike enters third week
- Stop the censorship of socialists and opponents of war at Ruhr University Bochum!
- ILWU endorses government-dictated contract, shuts down Canadian West Coast dockworkers' strike
- Arrested Sri Lanka comedian Natasha Edirisooriya granted bail
- Australia: Queensland Labor government expanding brutal imprisonment of children
- Vilnius NATO summit unveils plans for global domination
- Extent of record-breaking Canadian wildfire season continues to grow
- Unable to suppress opposition, Los Angeles hotel union calls “second strike wave” of limited walkouts
- Trump lawyers seek indefinite delay in documents trial as legal cases pile up
- Australian Labor government pushes social media censorship
- Royal Mail workers indict CWU leadership for rotten sellout of their year-long fight
- 161,000 SAG-AFTRA members to strike in the US, joining 11,000 writers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ford Saarlouis, Germany: Down tools until we know what’s planned! Stop the sellout! Prepare combative measures!
- “An Island at the Center of World History”: Leon Trotsky commemoration to be held on Prinkipo on August 20th
- Trade union bureaucrats and pseudo-left groups celebrate NDP stalwart Olivia Chow’s election as Toronto mayor
- Die Insel (The Island): A harrowing account of the European Union’s murderous refugee policy
2023-07-14
- Body camera footage confirms unarmed Orlando, Florida father was murdered by police while sitting in legally parked car
- Guatemala election rocked by prosecutor’s “coup” attempt
- Tens of thousands of US film and television actors strike, joining 11,000 writers
- House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic begins political inquisition of scientists
- Australian hospital administration worker denounces Labor’s ending of mask mandates and front-desk screening in public hospitals
- Video: Gary Tyler reflects on his frame-up and the fight for his freedom at solo art exhibition in Detroit
- British postal workers send greetings to founding meeting of UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Letter from former Amazon worker Christina Brown to UPS workers: “Help make it so that what happened to my sister should never happen to anyone ever again”
- NTEU tries to prepare a sellout at Australia’s Macquarie University
- The Biden doctrine: “As long as it takes,” or “No matter how many die”
- Trump incites killing of Hunter Biden
- Sri Lankan port workers support striking Canadian dockworkers
- Writers and actors in Los Angeles speak to the WSWS: “I think we’re seeing capitalism at its worst in a lot of ways”
- Gary Tyler art exhibit in Detroit: “Everyone should see Gary’s work and learn about his case”
- CWU betrayal at Royal Mail: Draw the lessons and organise the fightback
- Israel turning Palestinian territories into “open-air prison” says UN Special Rapporteur
- Heavy rainfall kills over 100 people in India, following heatwaves that took the lives of almost 200
- PSOE-Podemos government intensifies Spain’s housing crisis and pushes thousands into poverty
- The case of Texas A&M: A university integrated into the military-intelligence apparatus
2023-07-15
- DSA in damage control after state legislator Mike Connolly calls for raising rent on Massachusetts workers
- Biden administration announces new limited student loan forgiveness program for 804,000 borrowers
- Australian construction insolvencies hit record highs
- Bastille Day 1789—Bastille Day 2023
- UAW white paper on EV battery plants promotes union’s corporatist “joint” safety programs
- Macquarie University stonewalls after its political censorship of IYSSE is exposed
- Record-breaking US heat wave demonstrates the growing dangers of climate change
- Vilnius summit marks NATO’s turn to war against China
- House Republicans load Pentagon bill with anti-abortion, anti-gay provisions
- Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York
- 16-year-old worker killed in Wisconsin sawmill amid growing erosion of child labor laws
- Oppose JVP trade union thuggery against SEP’s fight to mobilise Sri Lankan workers against IMF austerity
- Chicago police officers investigated for abusing migrant youth forced to sleep in police stations
- Australian government installs new central bank chief to put fresh face on offensive against workers
- New Orleans UPS workers speak about working conditions ahead of potential strike
- Tightening ties with NATO, Ankara deepens social attacks at home
- Study finds correlation between Long COVID and a particular human gene variant
2023-07-16
- This week in history: July 17-23
- Jeering metalworkers force Sumar’s Yolanda Díaz to suspend rally in Cádiz
- Starmer confirms Labour’s UK education strategy is warmed-over Thatcherism
- Pseudo-left pays tribute to Peruvian ex-radical Hugo Blanco
- On the first year of astronomical discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope
- Growing opposition among Canadian West Coast dockworkers to ILWU’s support for government-dictated contract
- Germany’s hospital “reforms”: Another blow to healthcare
2023-07-17
- “It is like one big sweatshop”: Yellow worker describes horrendous working conditions at near-bankrupt freight company
- Fire in Australia’s tallest building endangers lives, confirming warnings made 17 years ago
- Netherlands: Rutte’s resignation further emboldens the far-right
- New Zealand Prime Minister Hipkins “unwavering” in support of US-NATO war in Ukraine
- Antisemitism and anti-Chinese racism: The case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Australia: Health workers should reject union-government sellout and build rank-and-file committees to fight for a real pay rise!
- Modi’s visit to France highlights India’s military build-up amid imperialist war drive
- Campaign to defend victimised Sri Lankan estate workers wins significant support
- Macquarie University student and alumnus demand end to political censorship of IYSSE
- UK Defence Secretary warns of war with Russia and China by 2030
- London housing rental crisis: “A bad situation is now becoming disastrous”
- Australian Pharmaceutical Industry workers vote down company offer again as strike enters fourth week
- Actors and writers bring film and television production in the US to a halt, with growing impact in Canada, UK
- Media touts “new era” for UAW, as union carries out closed-door talks with Big Three automakers
- Suspect in shooting death of 4 in suburban Atlanta killed in gun battle with police
- As ninth COVID wave sweeps Japan, wastewater data show another surge beginning in the US
2023-07-18
- Turkey’s Erdoğan depicted as “anti-imperialist leader” by Brazilian pseudo-left PCO
- Ukraine attacks Kerch Bridge to Crimea
- Letter carrier, who died on the job in Texas heatwave, received a disciplinary letter less than a month before his death
- Leading House Democrat retracts and apologizes for criticism of Israel
- Teamsters president holds UPS rally in New York with head of UAW, strikebreaking Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Hundreds of refugees missing near the Canary Islands
- US flying blind amid warnings of new COVID-19 surge
- “It’s happening in France, now it’s our turn”: Chicago Ford workers speak on contract fight, growing strike wave in US and worldwide
- Costa Rican workers strike against health care privatization
- Australian universities defunded by successive governments
- Free trade giving way to hi-tech war
- Striking film and television actors and writers in California and New York: “There are too many people who cannot get along, so we’re not going to accept it”
- Stop the United Steelworkers bureaucracy’s threats against the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee and intimidation of its supporters!
- Halt the “critical status” nightmare! Restore the 8-hour day! Prepare a national strike by all Stellantis, GM and Ford workers!
- Kevin Spacey defence completes evidence in sexual assault trial in London
- Solomon Islands’ prime minister visits China, extends “strategic partnership”
- US presidential candidates report over $125 million raised in initial batch of campaign disclosure reports
2023-07-19
- Canada’s West Coast dockers resume strike after rejection of sellout tentative contract
- Rail strikes resume as government proceeds with mass closure of ticketing offices
- USPS rural letter carrier whose wages were cut by $20,000 speaks out on slashed pay, harsh working conditions
- Homes evacuated following CSX train derailment near Philadelphia
- Historical falsification in the service of pro-war propaganda
- Vote No to the UK education unions’ pay deal sell-out!
- Former Amazon worker Christina Brown campaigns among UPS workers to seek justice for her sister Poushawn Brown
- Global heatwave exacerbates social crisis across US, Europe, Asia and Middle East
- Austin, Texas and Wichita, Kansas nurses go on one-day strike against Ascension
- Germany’s new strategy: Preparing for war against China
- Sri Lankan SEP pays tribute to lifelong Trotskyist Jerani Ratnayake
- Greek coastguard tried to tow hundreds of migrants to Italy, capsized the vessel
- South Korean flood deaths expose government indifference to climate change
- US students oppose censorship of IYSSE by Macquarie University in Sydney
- Rising financial distress in Australia triggers surge in calls to suicide hotline
- “What do photographs tell?”: Images from occupied Eastern Europe in 1941-42 in Berlin museum exhibition
- China slowdown worsens
- Film and television strikers in Los Angeles call for mass action: “I think we need a general strike in this country”
- UAW quietly reinstated rule limiting strike pay for workers with second jobs
2023-07-20
- Rents soaring to record levels in Australia
- 22,000 Yellow freight workers poised to strike after company fails to pay benefit contributions
- Dave Ward and Mick Lynch: Birds of a feather
- Trump’s imminent indictment: The political issues
- Lutte Ouvrière covers up police repression of French riot protests
- Michigan attorney general indicts 16 Republicans in 2020 fake elector scheme
- German government pushes the militarisation of schools and conscription of young people
- Mobilize North American workers to defend Canadian dockers, defeat government strikebreaking!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Taiwanese presidential contender to make provocative US “stop-overs”
- Stellantis Kokomo workers discuss fight for rank-and-file control of contract fight
- Teamsters hold rally in Los Angeles as negotiations re-start at UPS
- Report slams New Zealand Labour government’s immigrant “dawn raids” apology
2023-07-21
- Wabtec rejects UE’s latest concessions offer
- Striking National Steel Car worker on the need for rank-and-file committees: “All the USW bureaucrats have made their peace with the system a long time ago”
- Trudeau denounces Canadian dockers’ “unacceptable” opposition to government-dictated contract, vows ports “can’t be disrupted”
- Australia hosting its largest ever military games to simulate war against China
- Illinois and Kentucky UPS workers speak on conditions and approaching strike deadline
- German government decimates research funding for Long Covid
- Reject management-union privatisation and job destruction program at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation
- Autoworkers at General Motors’ CAMI plant in Canada forced to rely on food banks during electric vehicle transition
- Residents of Northside Kalamazoo fight poisoning of their neighborhood by global paper packaging company
- In the midst of bitter conflict with actors and writers, Netflix reports $8.2 billion in second-quarter revenue
- What did Biden and the UAW president discuss at the White House?
- Democrats in Washington D.C. and Maryland announce law and order policies in response to shootings
- Michael: Rapper Killer Mike releases an unflattering self-portrait
- Congress, Biden embrace Israeli racists and warmongers
- Two Australian schoolgirls die amid surge of flu infections
- Australian entertainment union opposes industrial action to support striking US actors and writers
- TWU pushes through concessions contract for NYC transit workers
2023-07-22
- Protests resume against US-backed Boluarte regime in Peru
- Oklahoma and Alabama carry out back-to-back executions by lethal injection
- Judge sets May 2024 trial date in criminal case against Trump for stealing classified documents
- New York Times publishes graphic details of US hi-tech war with China
- Statement from Brazil opposes censorship of IYSSE at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- 16-year-old immigrant killed while working in Mississippi poultry plant
- The Spanish elections: Podemos/Sumar and the return of Francoism
- US writers and actors continue their fight against entertainment giants
- Texas agents told to push immigrant children back into Rio Grande, according to trooper
- Francis Fukuyama parades Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Stanford University
- 10,000 airport ground workers strike across Italy
- “They’re trying to strip us of our right to our livelihoods”: Ford Kentucky Truck workers denounce Biden intervention into auto talks
- ONLINE MEETING: The battle at Yellow freight: Logistics and postal workers must rally in support!
- Thai military blocks general election winner from forming government
- Latin American bourgeois nationalist, pseudo-left parties gather at São Paulo Forum in Brazil
- Australia: Sydney apartment residents face $50 million repair bill for building defects
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Three dead, 10 injured in New Zealand mass shooting
2023-07-23
2023-07-24
- Teamsters announces last-minute deal at Yellow to block strike, as hundreds of workers gather to discuss industry-wide strategy at rank-and-file meeting
- Spain in election limbo after right-wing Popular Party and far-right Vox fail to secure majority to govern
- This week in history: July 24-30
- Workers speak out: Actors and writers, UPS workers, and autoworkers across the US
- Australian Pharmaceutical Industries workers’ four-week strike shut down with no real wage gains
- Fiji government imposes “belt-tightening” austerity budget
- Stop the censorship of socialist students at Macquarie University! Grant the IYSSE at Macquarie University official club status!
- ILWU leadership forcing Canadian dockers to vote on government-dictated sellout contract previously rejected by union delegates
- Hot labor summer: Growing strike movement colliding with pro-corporate union bureaucracies
- The past 20 days have been the hottest ever recorded
- Australian government’s universities report demands restructuring for big business and war
- Union calls more limited strikes by Southern California hotel workers
- Striking actors and writers in New York speak to the WSWS: “This money, this greed, could ultimately end art as an industry”
- City of New York agrees to $13.7 million settlement for police brutality in George Floyd protests
- Study shows substantial increase in childhood diabetes rates during COVID-19 pandemic
2023-07-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Netanyahu’s coalition rams through judicial coup law in Israel despite largest ever protest movement
- Congressional inquiry into Brazil’s January 8 coup attempt marked by secrecy and cover-up for the military
- “The bottom line is everyone is tired of corporate America getting all of the money”: Michigan Yellow freight workers speak out on pension cuts
- American Airlines pilot union postpones contract vote citing better United Airlines offer
- A warning to all autoworkers: GM Flint Assembly cuts hours of temporary workers in countdown to contract battle
- The Spanish election and the way forward in the fight against fascism
- Most Australians unable to afford an unexpected major expense as cost of living crisis deepens
- Rural letter carrier in the US discusses management attack on workers’ conditions: “People need to know that they have a voice”
- Residuals, streaming and the class assault against writers and actors
- The World Press Photo 2023 exhibition in Amsterdam: Visual war propaganda in the service of NATO
- Tony Bennett (1926–2023): An artist who combined jazz and the American Songbook to elevate popular culture
- Sydney anti-AUKUS meeting promotes pro-war Labor Party
- Ohio cop unleashes police dog to maul black truck driver with his hands up
- Sri Lankan president visits India to strengthen economic and political ties
- Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting draws lessons of CWU Royal Mail betrayal and discusses fightback strategy
- Strike vote by Rochester, New York nurses
- Ukrainian drone strikes target Moscow as fighting intensifies in Black Sea region
- UK government’s planned anti boycotts, divestments and sanctions law criminalises opposition to Israeli repression of Palestinians
- The summer surge of COVID infections is accelerating across the United States
2023-07-26
- Macron reshuffles government to prepare new round of attacks on working class
- Report exposes massive profits in shipping industry as Canadian government and ILWU conspire to impose sellout contract on West Coast dockers
- RMT union sell out London Underground dispute claiming “progress”
- Right-wing opposition mounts to Biden’s new limited student loan forgiveness program
- After posting $3.2 billion in quarterly profits, GM execs vow to maintain “cost discipline” against autoworkers
- Strikebreaking Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visits New York actors’ and writers’ picket line
- Teamsters announce sellout deal at UPS to block strike by 340,000 workers
- UPS workers denounce “miserable” tentative agreement
- New York Times admits, then covers up, massive Ukraine casualties
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. boosted by fascistic Trump Republicans at hearing on alleged “censorship”
- US West Coast dockworkers speak out against pro-corporate government intervention, call for a joint struggle with Canadian longshoremen
- Record-shattering heat signals a global climate change tipping point
- UK jury finds Kevin Spacey not guilty of all charges
- Germany’s Christian Democrat leader moves closer to far-right AfD
- Australia: Telstra cuts another 500 jobs as restructure continues
- Interview with Germany’s Left Party chair: a declaration of political bankruptcy
2023-07-27
- Oppenheimer: A drama about “the father of the atomic bomb”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hunter Biden plea deal blocked by federal judge as Republicans threaten impeachment probe
- Under court order, UAW monitor admits to existence of widespread protests over voter disenfranchisement
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- European Union and Tunisia agree dirty deal to keep refugees out of Europe
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2023-07-28
- New York City teacher speaks out following announcement of sellout contract ratification
- Australian Labor MP calls for Assange to plead guilty to frame-up US charges
- Biden welcomes fascist Italian premier to the White House
- Days after Teamsters calls off strike, Yellow freight prepares to declare bankruptcy
- On eve of 2023 DSA convention, leaders strategize to suppress socialist and anti-war views
- Washington demands renewed bloodbath in Ukraine
- “We have to show them we’re not going to retreat, we’re not going to concede”: Southern California warehouse worker speaks out against UPS contract
- Labour pledges to continue Tory policies: Workers need a socialist party
- Australian Education Union boasts of time in lieu gain as schools crisis escalates
- Rural mail carrier speaks on Post Office cuts, deteriorating conditions in West Virginia
- Kevin Spacey’s acquittal in London: A guilty verdict delivered on the entire #MeToo witch-hunt
- What is behind the attempt to censor war opponents at Ruhr-Universität Bochum?
- Albanese, Blinken visit New Zealand to boost anti-China campaign in Pacific
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2023-07-29
- Metro Detroit enclave Highland Park cannot pay for water
- Vote “NO” on the UPS Tentative Agreement! Organize the rank-and-file to take matters into our own hands!
- German broadcaster WDR provides platform for professional anti-Trotskyist and right-wing extremist Jörg Baberowski
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lanka: Ramboda Estate workers continue 10-week strike
- Texas sued by Biden administration for refusing to remove barrier in Rio Grande
- New charges in Mar-a-Lago documents case intensify political crisis in US
- Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: All’s well that ends Mattel
- New Zealand government in crisis ahead of election
- Australia a regional hub for US-led plans for war in the Indo-Pacific
- COVID-19 wastewater levels have doubled in the US over the past 5 weeks
- The climate crisis reaches a tipping point
- Record profits harden resolve of autoworkers to strike, as UAW, Unifor contract expirations loom in US and Canada
- German Rail dispute: Vote against the arbitrator's decision and for an indefinite strike!
2023-07-30
2023-07-31
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- UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds public meeting on sellout contract
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- West Coast Canadian dockers on collision course with union-backed federal Liberal government after rejecting tentative agreement
- The Yellow Corp. bankruptcy: A brutal attack on the working class
- As drones strike Moscow, US approves hazard pay for troops in Ukraine
- Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” promotes racism and vigilante violence against protesters
- Australia-US talks outline accelerated military build-up for war with China
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- Speaking in Iowa and Pennsylvania, Trump doubles down on fascistic threats
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