Archive: 08/2023
2023-08-01
- Spain’s acting PSOE-Podemos/Sumar government carries out huge military spending increases
- “Vote this trash pile down”: UPS workers speak out against new tentative agreement
- Preparing for war with China, US provides $345 million in arms to Taiwan
- The Yellow bankruptcy and the US ruling class’s war on two fronts
- US Secretary of State Blinken denounces Assange, indicates extradition going ahead
- Vote No to an “in-principle” agreement at Sydney’s Macquarie University! Demand that the NTEU make public all the details of its proposed enterprise agreement!
- J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls: Class injustice and a muted, stifled cry of despair
- Germany’s secret service intensifies persecution of war opponents and warns against “Trotskyism”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- 4 million cut from Medicaid in the United States
- Youth in Germany and former Soviet Union oppose political censorship of IYSSE at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- UK education unions end strikes with below-inflation pay deal
- Macron visits Pacific to bolster France’s position amid escalating strategic tensions
2023-08-02
- Over 3,500 Metro grocery workers strike in Toronto area
- Oppose the arrest of Boris Kagarlitsky!
- UPS-Teamsters deal freezes pension contribution increases for most plans
- “We need to organize for a strike”: UPS worker campaigning against new contract speaks out
- Children imprisoned on the former death row at notorious Angola prison in Louisiana face brutal, dangerous conditions
- Japanese department store workers vote to strike
- Australian movie workers back US strike and speak out on poor conditions
- Another 165 million people join more than one billion in poverty as cost of government debt servicing soars
- Ukraine strikes Moscow again as war expands
- Georgia DA investigating Trump hit with racist threats
- Australia: Virgin Australia drops intractable bargaining case after union agrees to real wage cut
- Mounting strike movement in Turkey against rising cost of living
- Trump indicted on 4 counts for seeking to overturn 2020 election defeat
- Volkswagen plans massive cuts at its main German plant
2023-08-03
- Who is counting the ballots in the UPS contract vote?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US credit downgrade: Another sign of a deepening crisis
- UAW president releases bogus “demands” while promoting Democratic Party
- The Canadian forest fires and global climate change: a conversation with forest fire scientist Dr. Ellen Whitman
- Bank of England raises interest rates, plunging millions into financial distress
- Canadian West Coast dockers set to vote on yet another government-dictated contract
- Sri Lankan SEP pays tribute to Wije Dias on first anniversary of his death
- Two academics oppose censorship of IYSSE at Sydney's Macquarie University
- Healthcare workers at Loretto safety-net hospital on Chicago’s West Side go on strike
- 11-year-old Milwaukee boy to be tried as adult in mother’s shooting
2023-08-04
- CDC investigation finds the ancient disease leprosy may be endemic in Central Florida
- Film industry workers in Australia call for unified global action to support striking US scriptwriters and actors
- Hundreds of asylum seekers forced to sleep on New York City’s sidewalks for days
- New York federal judge orders “compassionate release” of 3 of the Newburgh Four convicted in FBI entrapment scheme
- The Ukrainian nightmare
- Australia Post and Communication Workers Union expand trial of new delivery model
- UK Prime Minister Sunak announces fossil fuel bonanza for corporations, with his own family to reap rewards
- Jury gives fascist Pittsburgh synagogue shooter the death penalty
- Japan releases military white paper justifying war preparations against China
- Alternative for Germany positions itself as open fascist party for the 2024 European election
- Trump arraigned on four felony charges linked to 2020 election plots
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Pennsylvania budget impasse threatens public education
- Italy’s Meloni wages war on the poor
2023-08-05
- Wall Street moves to profit from mass layoffs as Yellow prepares to file for bankruptcy
- Employment report for July shows decline in US job creation under impact of rate hikes
- Nurses in New Brunswick, New Jersey begin strike for safe staffing
- Auto companies threaten jobs, as UAW bureaucracy seeks to head off opposition with demagogic “members’ demands”
- Striking healthcare workers at Loretto Hospital in Chicago speak on conditions
- Unarmed Minnesota father shot and killed in traffic stop by state trooper; 6 Mississippi cops, who led torture “goon squad,” plead guilty to several felonies
- The indictment of Trump and the threat of fascism in America
- More than 500 sign petition demanding end to political censorship of IYSSE at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- Blinken’s denunciation of Assange exposes Australian government’s phony posturing
- Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023)
- COVID-19 wastewater levels and hospitalizations continue to rise across the US
2023-08-06
2023-08-07
- The bodies of two migrants found in the Rio Grande, one in buoy barrier set up by Texas governor
- The cutbacks at Volkswagen and the international struggle of auto workers
- DSA, Teamsters for a Democratic Union promote UPS sellout contract
- Sri Lankan union agrees to government censorship of health employees
- US to establish military command centre in northern Australia
- David Walsh discusses US writers-actors strike on Punch Up Podcast
- Union pushes through “in principle” sellout deal at Australia’s Macquarie University
- This week in history: August 7-13
- Vote “No” on the NSC/USW tentative agreement! Mobilize working class support across North America for our strike!
- Trump incites violence against prosecutors, political enemies, in social media posts and Republican Party fundraisers
- Wisconsin: Leinenkugel and New Dairy Select Milk workers strike to win back concessions surrendered by Teamsters
- Russian soprano Anna Netrebko sues Metropolitan Opera for discrimination and defamation
- West African states to hold Thursday summit on Niger intervention
- The YGBL in Russia and Ukraine protests attempts to ban the IYSSE at Bochum University
- 78th anniversary of US atomic bombing of Hiroshima: In 2023, socialism or barbarism
- New Zealand Defence Policy Review targets China
- COVID variants drive UK summer infection wave
- Two CIA Democrats, Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin, are seeking higher offices
2023-08-08
- Yellow freight declares bankruptcy, in the latest assault on workers’ jobs
- Questions arise over pay raise for part-timers in UPS tentative agreement
- Corporate media nervous over rising militancy among autoworkers, as UAW contract deadline looms
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tribute messages from SEP leaders internationally to Sri Lankan memorial meeting for Wije Dias
- Minnesota Blandin Paper workers continue strike, as Teamsters threaten mediation to push pro-company agreement
- Australia: Victorian hospital worker explains impact of government cost-cutting
- Socialist Equality Party Summer School: The lessons of history in the fight for socialism today
- Pseudo-left groups seek new nationalist diversions as Scottish National Party unravels
- Asteroid City: Important art doesn’t come to the artist “in sleep”
- NATO-backed anti-Putin oppositionist Navalny sentenced to additional 19 years in prison
- Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Epoch of Imperialist War and Socialist Revolution
- UAW colludes in Forvia closure of Highland Park, Michigan plant
- Deutsche Bahn workers demand resignation of union executive following arbitration result
- At DSA 2023 convention, delegates resolve to remain faction of Democratic Party
- Australian government vows to hold indigenous Voice referendum despite falling support
- Catastrophic floods strike Slovenia and Austria
2023-08-09
- One-day strike of 11,000 Los Angeles city workers shuts down services
- Chinese deflation and economic slowdown brings political clampdown
- UPS made massive revenues in the last quarter, financial statement reveals
- UK “warehousing people” in overcrowded, unsafe prisons
- The hidden COVID-19 wave and the destruction of public health
- Political lessons of the West Coast Canadian dockworkers’ strike
- Mobilize workers and students against U-M’s strikebreaking threats! Reject the sellout contract!
- COVID-19 cases surge in South Korea
- Workers from around the world oppose censorship of IYSSE by Sydney’s Macquarie University
- Italy abandoning all COVID mitigation measures
- Lear auto parts workers in Indiana overwhelmingly reject UAW sellout contract in 95 percent “no” vote
- Democratic politicians threaten to intervene against writers and actors as “dual strike” enters fourth week
- Southern California hotel workers assaulted on picket lines
- UK Tory government launches fascistic campaign against asylum seekers
- Australia’s Talisman Sabre war games: Missiles, four deaths, urban warfare exercises
- Yellow workers dealing with lost hours, no severance pay after freight company shuttered operations and declared bankruptcy
2023-08-10
- As fifth round of strikes begin: The way forward for England’s junior doctors
- Germany’s Taurus cruise missiles to be used in attacks on Russia
- New coalition in Thailand excludes general election winner
- Loretto Hospital strike in Chicago at a critical turning point
- Second CSX worker killed on the job in two months
- Chinese exports slump amid global downturn and US trade war
- Australian workers call for strikes at highest rate in five years
- How autoworkers can win their demands in the Big Three-UAW contract fight
- Reject GEO/AFT push to impose U-M contract ultimatum! Mobilize campus workers, students, teachers against strikebreaking and poverty wages!
- West African states step back from immediate military action against Niger due to popular opposition
- Ohio voters reject referendum measure backed by anti-abortion forces
- At least 36 killed as Maui is overrun by wildfires fueled by climate change
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Moody’s announces significant downturn in ratings of mid-sized banks
- Racially charged brawl erupts at Montgomery, Alabama riverfront
- Sri Lankan workers and youth discuss Wije Dias’ decades-long struggle for Trotskyist principles
2023-08-11
- Death toll from wildfires in Maui reaches 55, with many more expected
- New Zealand unions push through below-inflation pay deals for nurses, teachers
- White House requests another $24 billion for Ukraine war
- How the “friends” of Royal Mail workers helped the CWU inflict defeat - Part 1
- University of Michigan IYSSE members call for workers, students to defend grad student strikers against administration threats
- Australia: Labor seeks to impose real pay cuts on education staff in New South Wales
- As Detroit school workers’ contracts set to expire, the unions openly sabotage a fight
- Florida censorship laws curtail Shakespeare in schools
- Biden escalates economic war against China
- 100 days of the writers’ strike: What is the way forward?
- United Steelworkers union sells out strike of 1,400 workers at National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario
- Why railway workers in Germany should reject the arbitration agreement being recommended by the EVG union
- Amid cost of living crisis, Commonwealth Bank of Australia reports record profit
- Why is Canada giving two automakers $30 billion dollars in subsidies for EV battery production?
- Texas woman wrongly convicted of murder exonerated after serving 18 years of life sentence
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Clarence Thomas has lived like a billionaire in more than 30 years on US Supreme Court
2023-08-12
- Washington D.C. Democratic councilman calls for National Guard intervention amid spike in violent crime
- How Wall Street and the Teamsters bureaucracy paved the way for the Yellow freight bankruptcy
- Australia: Nurses’ union pushes through wage-slashing NSW Labor deal
- Socialist Alternative, Left Voice promote loyal “vote no” campaign to head off rank-and-file rebellion at UPS
- Tyson Foods closes four more plants, resulting in 3,000 job cuts
- Deaths of despair and suicides in the US at historic levels
- Kremlin changes conscription laws to increase army without a general mobilization
- Heatwave and agricultural crisis hit Ukraine
- Former Japanese prime minister provocatively visits Taiwan
- State of emergency declared in Ecuador after killing of presidential candidate
- GEO/AFT pushes through sellout contract in U-M grad students’ strike
- Indiana Lear auto parts workers to vote on strike action, after rejecting UAW sellout deal
- US attorney general gives Hunter Biden prosecutor expanded powers by appointing him special counsel
- Maui disaster sirens never sounded as deadly fire engulfed hundreds of homes
- Australian government insists on unfettered war powers
- Academics at Sydney’s Macquarie University protest management’s political censorship of the IYSSE
- The Niger crisis and the global threat of war
- Former Australian PM says “real risk” of war with China
2023-08-13
- How the “friends” of Royal Mail workers helped the CWU inflict defeat – Part 2
- After the convention: A balance sheet of the DSA, 2016-2023
- Six asylum seekers drowned in Channel due to criminal actions of UK and France
- German Rail workers contract: Do not be intimidated by the union bosses—prepare an all out strike!
2023-08-14
- Far-right Temecula school board in California sued over critical race theory ban
- How COVID killed thousands in Michigan nursing homes, as Whitmer administration stood by
- Utah Trump supporter who threatened to assassinate Biden, Democrats killed in FBI raid
- States, districts across US expand police presence in schools
- Detroit singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez who won acclaim in South Africa dead at 81
- Sanders promotes UAW bureaucracy, economic nationalism in online event
- UK junior doctors speak on National Health Service strike
- New York University hosts segregated “anti-racism workshops”: The logic of identity politics exposed
- Legionnaires’ disease reported among two Stellantis Warren Truck workers
- Committee For Public Education members advance independent perspective in defence of educators, Julian Assange
- Hundreds likely dead in Maui wildfire due to criminal negligence of the capitalist ruling class
- Spain’s capitalist parties all pledge austerity following July general election
- This week in history: August 14-20
- UPS workers in Chicago and New York speak out: “Sean O’Brien talks out of both sides of his mouth and insults us with this garbage contract”
- With mounting evidence of his attacks on the 2020 election, Trump faces fourth indictment in Georgia
- New Zealand intelligence report targets China over “foreign interference”
- Union thugs assault workers in effort to suppress Turkey’s wildcat strike movement
- US Postal Service city letter carriers face cuts under next contract
- UK: Junior doctors strike sees the Times demand slashing funds to NHS “insatiable machine”
2023-08-15
- More than 1,500 academics denounce Israel for imposing apartheid-style regime on Palestinians
- World Health Organization reports 80 percent rise in global COVID infections
- Biden responds to devastating Maui fire death toll: “No comment”
- Growing resistance to sellout arbitration recommendation by German rail union
- University and College Union sanctions further UK strikes only to maintain control of its members
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington’s “Asia tsar”: AUKUS makes Australia one of America’s “closest partners”
- Police illegally search small-town Kansas newspaper, triggering death of 98-year-old owner
- Forty years since the beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka
- New Zealand Labour government scraps remaining COVID public health measures
- Germany’s Left Party parliamentary chair resigns
- Unifor targeting Ford in Detroit Three auto talks, seeks to divide Canadian and US workers
- The Historical and Political Foundations of the Fourth International
- US Labor Department uses spurious arguments to reject Will Lehman’s election complaint, sanctions disenfranchisement of UAW members
- Australia hosting anti-China Malabar naval exercises
- Biden’s intervention in the UAW-Big Three contracts: A warning to autoworkers
2023-08-16
- Record rainfall leads to massive flooding in northern China
- Joint Michigan educators-IYSSE meeting calls for mobilization of workers and students behind grad student strikers
- Writers Guild of America seeks to sabotage strike as secret in-person negotiations continue
- “They are destroying the Postal Service”: USPS workers speak out on restructuring program, wage cuts, electronic monitoring
- Amid military debacle for Ukraine, US pledges to fund war for “as long as it takes”
- Australian Labor Party conference faces rising discontent over war, austerity and the Voice
- Fascistic candidate places first in Argentine presidential primaries
- Canada’s ruling class and medically assisted death—a new form of euthanasia?
- Los Angeles school district officials encourage sick students to attend school and spread infection
- West Coast ILWU carries out vote on contract covering 22,000 dockworkers
- Biden offers contemptible $700 per household for survivors of Maui wildfires
- After brutal suppression of anti-police riots, French pseudo-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon defends capitalist state
- Trade union bureaucrats, Democrats prepare betrayal of New Jersey nurses’ strike after they reject latest offer
- Union bureaucracy cancels strike of San Jose, California city workers
- Georgia indictment of Trump exposes the rot of American political system
- Australia: Two Sydney Uber Eats workers die in three weeks
- GM Flint Assembly Rank-and-File Committee issues call to action after life-threatening flooding and severe weather
- SEP/IYSSE (Sri Lanka) public meeting: The Ukraine war and how to stop it
2023-08-17
- Thousands of refugees dying amid fascistic European anti-migrant campaign
- French troops ordered out of Niger
- Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe advances right-wing racialism in speech on Voice
- A steelworker in China writes about his working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vote “NO” at UPS! Prepare for the next stage of the battle against UPS and the Teamsters bureaucracy!
- Vote No to the union sellout at Macquarie University!
- YouTube deletes viral video of far-right Berlin professor Jörg Baberowski’s assault on students
- Newsweek publishes response from Tom Hall to Teamster official’s attack on WSWS for opposing sellout UPS contract
- Royal Mail’s new regime: PDAs used to sack workers for tea break at local pub
- Lear auto parts workers vote to authorize strike: “The first contract proposal was an insult”
- US public schools open for Fall 2023 amid wave of educators’ struggles
- Deepening problems for the Chinese financial system
- Providence union accepts agreement at two units, isolating workers at a third unit
- Leon Trotsky commemoration in Prinkipo to be livestreamed August 20
- ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: The “No” vote at UPS and the next stage of the battle against the Teamsters bureaucracy
- Over 1,000 people still missing as Maui fire death toll, and social anger, continue to rise
2023-08-18
- Details of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries deal reveal union sell-out of warehouse workers
- Under threat of flames, 22,000 flee Northwest Territories as Canada's record shattering wildfire season continues unabated
- UK wage growth cannot conceal escalating cost-of-living surge and social inequality
- San Diego bans homeless encampments, erects caged parking lot "solution"
- Biden’s response to the Maui wildfire: The ruling class indifference to mass death
- Trump incites threats of fascist violence against grand jurors and judges
- Founding resolution of the German Railworkers’ Rank-and-File Committee: “Form rank-and-file committees to break the dictatorship of the EVG apparatus”
- “Left-wing Vitriol is Unwarranted”: Jacobin defends Ocasio-Cortez and denounces socialist criticism of DSA
- Meeting: End political censorship at Sydney’s Macquarie University! Affiliate the IYSSE!
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian rental crisis hitting workers
- Ukrainian government persecutes pacifist, while Zelensky meets with neo-Nazi leader
- UAW president grovels before Biden, as opposition builds among autoworkers
- West African states reiterate threat of military action against Niger, but are hampered by divisions
- Drought-affected small farmers in Sri Lanka denounce government indifference
- Australian advocate for scientifically-based COVID-safety measures dies
2023-08-19
- Wall Street ramps up looting of Yellow freight as Apollo pulls out of bankruptcy deal
- Growing pressure on Xi as China’s economic woes mount
- Amazon JFK8 workers at a crossroads: Which way forward?
- Australian Labor Party conference endorses AUKUS military pact
- All-out propaganda blitz by Teamsters bureaucrats in final days of UPS vote
- Brazilian student and teacher unions cover for Lula government attacks on education
- Scientists raise alarm over global spread of new highly-mutated COVID-19 variant
- Survey shows majority of New Zealanders struggling financially
- Founding meeting of the German Railworkers’ Rank-and-File Committee agrees to fight against arbitration result and against division of the workforce
- An interview with Ukrainian socialist Maxim Goldarb
- Trudeau government spending tens of billions to rearm Canadian imperialism; ruling elite clamours for more
- Strong opposition as dockworkers finish voting on West Coast contract
- The Origins of Pabloite Revisionism, the Split Within the Fourth International and the Founding of the International Committee
- US intelligence agencies admit Ukrainian offensive will fail
- US actors, writers speak about lengthy strike and the crisis facing their profession
- US, Japan, and South Korea hold trilateral summit in preparation for war with China
- Leaked inquiry report into aborted Australian #MeToo trial deepens legal crisis
2023-08-20
- U-M strikers: Vote no on contract betrayal! Form a rank-and-file strike committee to expand the struggle!
- US and Iran reach agreement amid escalating pressure, tensions and threats
- The Huxley family and the history of evolutionary theory
- Indian court accuses Haryana’s BJP state government of “ethnic cleansing” after it targets Muslims in bulldozer rampage
- Britain among four countries where new highly mutated COVID strain detected
- State election in Hesse, Germany: Social Democrats adopt far-right platform
2023-08-21
- Australian Labor Party conference adopts platform of war and austerity
- Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist of the Band, dead at 80
- Sri Lanka: Enthusiastic student response to forthcoming IYSSE anti-war meeting at Peradeniya University
- Acting PSOE-Podemos government removes remaining mitigation measures as new Covid-19 variant Eris spreads across Spain
- Lear workers reject second UAW-backed contract, as battle with Big Three automakers nears
- The ICFI’s investigation exposed the GPU conspiracy to murder Trotsky
- Australian Labor governments: Nothing for renters, a bonanza for property developers
- An Island at the Center of World History: Trotsky on Prinkipo
- Unite Detroit public school educators with autoworkers to defeat austerity and budget cuts!
- This week in history: August 21-27
- Tropical Storm Hilary hits US and Mexico, threatening flooding and devastation
- SEP (Australia) national secretary Cheryl Crisp responds to pro-war attacks by Murdoch media
- From Maui to Pacific Northwest, climate change-fueled wildfires continue to rage
2023-08-22
- Strike of 1,700 nurses in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at critical juncture
- The lessons of the 1953 mass uprising (hartal) in Sri Lanka
- Georgia court sets bond and restrictive release terms for Trump
- The battle lines in the autoworkers fight: Class struggle vs. the UAW’s promotion of the Democratic Party
- US test scores decline in history, civics, reading and math
- Biden makes belated visit to Maui wildfire zone as death toll rises to 114 and 850 remain missing
- Teamsters declares ratification of UPS contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tropical Storm Hilary continues north after devastating California’s southeastern desert region with flash flooding, trapping people in their homes and cars
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold memorial meeting in Jaffna to honour Comrade Wije Dias
- Deepening problems in the global economy
- Students at Sydney’s Macquarie University speak out against political censorship of IYSSE
- Malaysian government suffers losses in six state elections
- Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry opens with presentation by vaccine sceptic Dr. Ashley Croft
- Wildfires rage across British Columbia, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes
- Saudi massacres of refugees: Mass murder by key US ally
- Australian Labor Party conference calls for “tripartite” integration of unions into industry councils
2023-08-23
- “Left” posturing on tax and housing laid bare at Australian Labor Party conference
- West Virginia University students protest planned slashing of cultural and language programs
- Between Two Worlds: The brutally exploited in France
- Stop the slash-and-burn at VW!
- Real estate speculators descend on Maui wildfire victims
- US federal appeals court abortion pill ruling calls for further restrictions
- Biden’s war summit with Japan and South Korea
- Detroit teachers face snap vote on concessionary contract that keeps all budget cuts in place
- Leon Trotsky’s years on Prinkipo
- 18 migrants killed as fires rage in Greece and southern Europe
- U-M grad student workers: Vote “No” on sellout contract! Form a rank-and-file committee to unite with Detroit teachers, autoworkers and win a living wage!
- US-backed candidate Bernardo Arévalo wins presidential vote in Guatemala
- Royal Mail workers describe wave of victimisations and bullying: “Our lives have been devastated”
- The right-wing record of the New Zealand Māori Party
- Netherlands and Denmark deliver F-16 fighter jets to Kiev
- Australia: Lifehouse nurses, vote “no” to union sell-out! Form a rank-and-file committee to fight for decent wages and conditions!
2023-08-24
- Military-backed coalition government installed in Thailand
- Local Democratic Party leaders and corporate media demand Washington D.C. transit workers pay for massive budget shortfall
- Detroit teachers outraged over sellout contract
- Australian Labor government whitewashes the Vietnam war
- US writers, actors rally as unions prepare betrayal: More than ever, the need for rank-and-file committees!
- ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: How autoworkers can win their demands in the 2023 UAW contract fight
- South Carolina Supreme Court reinstates 6-week abortion ban
- Corruption scandal forces another shakeup in Chile’s pseudo-left government
- On eve of Trump booking in Georgia conspiracy case, Giuliani, Powell, other 2020 election criminals turn themselves in
- UPS contract declared ratified under cloud of suspicion among the rank and file
- Youngstown, Ohio teachers strike over contract demands
- COVID hospitalizations double amid worsening US pandemic surge
- Election campaign in Poland dominated by war hysteria and xenophobia
- Australian Greens stage housing protest at Labor Party conference
- UK local councils and private sector partners intensify attacks on refuse workers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Country singer Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” promotes antisemitism and racism
- California shop owner murdered over LGBTQ pride flag by fascist gunman
- Sri Lankan racist groups whip up communal tensions over controversial archaeological site
- As autoworkers cast massive strike vote, UAW bureaucracy begins running from demands
- Gaadi: Caste oppression in pre-colonial Sri Lanka
- Pakistan’s military strengthens hold over government, reinvigorates ties with Washington
2023-08-25
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German railroad workers speak out about union arbitration and working conditions
- Surveillance camera exposes police lies in Philadelphia killing
- UK: Rail workers union leader Mick Lynch announces de facto end of industrial action
- Biden administration launches new student debt repayment program
- Plane that reportedly carried Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin crashes in Russia
- Video: For a European movement against capitalism and war
- As Ukrainian offensive collapses, US demands more frontal assaults
- Growing mortgage stress in Australia amid cost of living crisis
- End political censorship at Macquarie University! Affiliate the IYSSE!
- Trump, Meadows surrender to arrest in Fulton County, Georgia
- Reinstate all victimised reps and postal workers! End the CWU-Lord Falconer conspiracy at Royal Mail!
- Republican presidential debate—the ugly face of American fascism
2023-08-26
- GEO ratifies sellout contract at University of Michigan, calls off strike
- No abatement in high interest rates, say key central bankers
- UAW announces deal that continues second-tier poverty wages for Ultium battery workers
- Volkswagen workers in Germany oppose slash-and-burn cost-cutting plan
- Dangerous Melodies: Classical music and US foreign policy in the 20th century
- Share buybacks and the parasitism of US capitalism
- US autoworkers vote by 97 percent for strike authorization, expressing overwhelming determination to reverse UAW-backed concessions
- The Prinkipo commemoration of Trotsky’s exile and the global resurgence of the working class
- The rise of the far-right ACT Party in New Zealand
- For a rank-and-file investigation into the contract vote at UPS!
- Canada’s government moving to ban port strikes, as big business demands outlawing of job action by key “infrastructure” workers
- Recent reports reveal Louisiana’s rising maternal and infant mortality rates
- The Amazon Labor Union’s first “mass membership meeting”: A tiny rally of Democrats and union officials
- Uncovered emails reveal US Secret Service coordinated with Oath Keepers founder prior to January 6 insurrection
- Slavoj Žižek’s slavish support of NATO
- Reject the union sellout at Sydney’s Macquarie University!
- The Cuban Revolution and the SLL’s opposition to the unprincipled Pabloite reunification of 1963
2023-08-28
- Neo-Nazi massacre targets blacks in Jacksonville, leaving 4 dead, including shooter
- Jackson Hole meeting of central bankers reveals a deepening crisis of capitalist rule
- Mass opposition developing to CDC’s proposed anti-scientific infection control guideline
- Autoworkers speak on massive strike vote as UAW keeps workers in the dark about company concession demands
- Tornadoes, severe storms hit Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, killing at least 5
- “They were giving people the goods”: UPS workers speak out against national contract as Teamsters announce ratification of Chicago local deal
- This week in history: August 28–September 3
- Postal workers denounce mass sackings at Royal Mail’s Prenton Delivery Office
- GM Rank–and-File Committees respond to malign neglect by UAW bureaucracy and GM management in response to life-threatening storm in Michigan
- Mass furlough at Virginia Beach-based chainsaw manufacturer Stihl
- Australia: University of Melbourne workers launch week-long stoppages
- Acting Socialist Party-Podemos government indifferent to wildfires raging across Spain
- 115 dead and hundreds still missing in Maui wildfire disaster
- IYSSE holds well-attended anti-war meeting at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka
- In New Hampshire speech, Bernie Sanders seeks to give Biden “progressive” credentials, comparing him to FDR
- Detroit Federation of Teachers claims ratification of concessionary contract, sparking anger and disbelief
- Ukrainian journalists protest army censorship of reporting on the counteroffensive
- Australian intergenerational report sets stage for deeper austerity
- Long distance truck drivers take renewed strike action in Germany
- New waves of migrants expose alleged “recovery” in Venezuela
- United Steelworkers asks New Jersey governor to intervene in nurses’ strike
2023-08-29
- What is happening to hundreds of victimised Royal Mail workers?
- Netanyahu government set on provoking all-out Israeli war with Palestinians
- Extreme heat, drought and record-breaking wildfires hit Louisiana
- Stop the war in Ukraine! Build a movement in the working class! Fight for socialism!
- ILWU ends rushed vote on West Coast dockworkers’ tentative agreement
- California state workers vote on concessionary tentative agreement
- Reject the union sellout at Macquarie University! Unite with striking University of Melbourne workers!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit Water and Sewerage Department resumes shutoffs
- Macron threatens war as Niger’s junta calls to expel French ambassador
- US Marines’ deaths highlight secretive military exercises in Australia
- Job cuts in the automotive supply industry and the role of the IG Metall union
- Canadian Detroit 3 autoworkers overwhelmingly authorize strike when contracts expire in three weeks
- Railway workers in Germany express enormous opposition to sell-out contract
- Atlanta Democratic city government gears up to sabotage city-wide referendum on “Cop City”
- Teachers in Evergreen and Camas school districts set to strike as public education budget is slashed across Washington state
- BRICS to expand to counter US dollar dependence
- Judge sets March 4 date for Trump trial on charges in 2020 election coup
- First 100 days of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration focused on policing
- The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and US war propaganda
2023-08-30
- SAG-AFTRA member: Why striking actors and writers need rank-and-file committees
- The “Great Betrayal” in Ceylon, the formation of the American Committee for the Fourth International, and the founding of the Workers League
- Australia: Queensland Labor government further expands brutal detention of children
- New Zealand criminal investigation into systemic migrant worker exploitation
- RMT union moves to end all UK industrial action: Fight the betrayal, form rank-and-file committees!
- Wave of tragic school shootings resumes across the US with return of students to fall classes
- School systems in the United States experience surge in COVID-19 and other illnesses as classes resume
- Ontario judge intervenes against militant Toronto-area Metro grocery workers strike
- The political lessons of the 2023 Thai election
- “The struggle at Deutsche Bahn is not over with the strike ballot, it has only just begun”
- Ruling class propaganda on the “end of the pandemic” falls apart
- New York school bus workers prepare to strike
- Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves promises more austerity for workers and no more taxes for the wealthy
- 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers begin strike authorization vote
- Stop the EV jobs bloodbath!
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