Archive: 09/2023
2023-09-01
- China property market crisis deepens
- Mpox pandemic spreads into China after lifting of Zero-COVID policy
- Catastrophic floods and forest fires kill dozens and leave thousands homeless in Chile
- No fight over railway ticket office closures proposed at London RMT union rally
- At least 74 dead in Johannesburg, South Africa apartment blaze
- The campaign against Spain’s Luis Rubiales over “the kiss”
- India’s anti-Modi opposition electoral alliance: A right-wing political trap for the working class
- Rail Action Committee decides to continue struggle at Deutsche Bahn
- Military coup ousts Bongo political dynasty in Gabon
- Texas National Guard soldier shot Mexican citizen across the border
- More than 100 schools in England told to shut buildings at critical risk of collapse days before new school year
- After ratification of UPS contract, Dallas-area UPS driver dies after collapsing in the heat
- Australia, Philippines conduct joint war games directed against China
- Dr. Anthony Fauci says many will “fall by the wayside” in new COVID-19 surge
- Social protests in Syria as US tightens net around Iran and its allies
- Over 1,000 workers protest in Colombo against Sri Lankan government’s social attacks
- Tennessee woman gave birth alone in jail cell
- Clarence Thomas admits to free flights last year with billionaire Harlan Crow
- New York City public school therapists accept concessions contract on second vote forced by union
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2023-09-02
- SAG-AFTRA announces strike authorization vote against video game companies, more interim agreements
- United Electrical workers union rams through contract to shut down Wabtec strike in Erie, Pennsylvania
- Death and capitalism: The Johannesburg fire and the case for expropriation
- Judge rules for Georgia election workers in defamation case against Rudy Giuliani
- NTEU pushing sellout agreements at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- “It is beyond toxic. The morale is so low”: Texas rural letter carrier speaks out on terrible working conditions, massive pay cuts
- Two US academics protest ongoing political censorship of IYSSE at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- Ten years since the formation of Canada’s Unifor union: A political balance sheet
- Cost of damage from Hurricane Idalia could reach $20 billion
- Guantanamo military judge rules against evidence “derived from torture”
- Leon Trotsky commemoration on Prinkipo is widely covered in Turkish media
- Autoworkers prepare to strike as UAW president offers no strategy to fight wage cutting and EV jobs massacre
- Protect holidays and personal days for New York UPS workers!
- Escalating maternity service crisis in Australian public health facilities
- South Australian public school workers take one-day strike action
- Detroit teachers denounce DFT union’s last-minute sellout deal, low pay, and unsanitary, unsafe working conditions
2023-09-03
2023-09-04
- Deteriorating economic forecasts ahead of New Zealand election
- A Compassionate Spy: The Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb and the genesis of the Cold War
- The evolution of the Omicron variants and the policy of forever COVID
- Mass protests in Niger demand withdrawal of French troops
- An attack on Holocaust research: The takeover of the History Chair at the Institute for East European Studies at Berlin’s Free University
- Mexican autoworkers kept in the dark on looming US-Canadian auto strike
- Five railway workers killed on the job in northern Italy
- NYPD marks Labor Day by sending drones to monitor backyard parties
- Fascist mobs terrorise migrants in Cyprus while police turn blind eye
- Students speak out against the attack on public education and culture at West Virginia University
- German government prepares frontal attack on the working class with 2024 budget
- US student debt crisis deepens as federal loan interest accrual resumes
- This week in history: September 4-10
- Japanese department store workers strike in Tokyo
- Australian senate report on “school refusal” whitewashes ruling elite’s responsibility for the crisis in public schools
- Bavarian deputy prime minister kept in office despite neo-Nazi past
- UK schools, hospitals, houses and other public buildings at risk of collapse in expanding RAAC concrete scandal
- Proud Boy leaders sentenced to double-digit prison terms
- Poland’s school system on the brink of collapse
2023-09-05
- Monsoon rains cause flooding in Nevada, leave 70,000 people stranded at Burning Man festival
- Effects of China slowdown spreading
- Unifor sells out five-week strike by Toronto-area grocery workers with imposition of major real-terms pay cut
- Train engineers vote almost unanimously to strike New Jersey Transit
- Zelensky fires defense minister as US prepares for Ukraine war to last for years
- Educators and students discuss how to form rank-and-file committees at Australia’s universities
- Striking New Jersey nurses lose health insurance over Labor Day weekend
- Greek government unveils savage employment bill attacking workers’ rights
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- On Labor Day in Detroit, UAW and Democratic strikebreakers conspire to block fight by autoworkers
- US Open tennis players “fall by the wayside” as COVID-19 surges
- Protesters in Ohio call for charges against killer cop following release of bodycam footage showing shooting of Ta’Kiya Young
- Germany to acquire hypersonic anti-ballistic missile system—another step towards nuclear war
2023-09-06
- Chinese security ministry points to real aim of recent US visits
- Protests mount against Macron’s refusal to withdraw French troops from Niger
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders end to remote work in the midst of a new wave of COVID-19
- Australian workers demand end to persecution of Sri Lankan plantation workers
- The continuing struggle against Pabloism, the centrism of the OCI and the emerging crisis within the ICFI
- Ex-leader of Proud Boys and “prolific” FBI informant sentenced to 22 years in prison for role in January 6 coup
- Pakistan’s IMF-dictated electricity price hikes spark mass protests
- Biden reveals conspiracy with UAW bureaucracy to block auto strike
- Depp v. Heard on Netflix: A documentary about the widely followed defamation suit
- Australia: University of Newcastle students demand affiliation of IYSSE at Sydney’s Macquarie University
- UK: Almost 240,000 people died in past two years waiting for National Health Service care
- American Airlines flight attendants overwhelmingly vote for strike authorization
- Homeless 73-year-old dies while being held in Arlington County jail in Northern Virginia
- Resident assistants at Tufts University wage one-day strike on freshman move-in day
2023-09-07
- Australian Labor government’s workplace reforms will enshrine insecure jobs and low pay
- Postal workers in Scotland and London vote for action as CWU-Royal Mail partnership ushers in savage attacks
- WGA co-chair Chris Keyser’s Labor Day message: The union apparatus prepares to sell out writers’ strike
- Biden hails sellout dockworkers’ and UPS agreements ahead of autoworkers’ contract expiration
- Impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton begins
- Germany’s war budget
- German rail workers on the wage settlement: “A huge mess”
- Amid debacle of Ukrainian offensive, US demands the bloodbath continue
- New Zealand senior doctors hold nationwide strike
- Israel: Netanyahu threatens Eritrean migrants with mass deportations after violent police crackdown
- Sri Lankan government declares “security operation to wipe out underworld”
- Report to G20 summit glosses over problems in global financial system
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UAW president backtracks on autoworker demands one week before Big Three contract expirations
- For an active boycott of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum!
- Will Lehman replies to Biden’s Department of Labor in ongoing lawsuit to demand rerun of UAW election
- Jill Biden reinfected with COVID amid latest wave of the pandemic
- The US military recruitment crisis and the struggle against imperialist war
2023-09-08
- FBI indictments allege California cops engaged in violent terror campaign against East Bay residents for years
- How people in Ukraine are declared traitors to the state: The mechanism of the repressive apparatus
- Two under-construction bridge collapses in India kill scores in space of a month
- Ontario teacher unions conspire to divide 200,000 educators after forcing them to work for a year without a contract
- Floods cause death and destruction across Europe
- After week-long strikes, NTEU seeks deal with University of Melbourne management
- A call to action to all autoworkers: Only the rank and file can win this fight!
- Per capita contraction in Australian economy
- Kaiser and other SEIU workers speak out against intolerable working conditions and living standards
- After months on strike, US film and television writers’ and actors’ anger reaching the boiling point
- The upcoming Mack Trucks contract battle, electric vehicles, and the need for rank-and-file committees
- Australian artist John Olsen (1928–2023)—an appreciation
- Evergreen teachers in Washington state continue strike as Camas Education Association in splitting move rams through agreement on short notice
- Chicago Teachers Union scuttles strike at ChiArts High School and helps keep students and teachers in sweltering classrooms during a dangerous heatwave
- Determination of autoworkers grows as confrontation against UAW bureaucracy and auto companies intensifies
- New evidence of Trump’s plans for January 6 coup emerges at Eastman disbarment trial
- UN report reveals multidimensional social catastrophe in Sri Lanka
- “I build Dodge trucks selling for $70,000 and can’t afford to fix my own car”: Detroit temporary part-time worker speaks on contract battle and impact of UAW concessions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Students and faculty voice opposition to slashing programs at West Virginia University
- Study documents devastating effects of Long COVID two years after infection
- As student loan payments resume, millions face a lifetime of debt while Wall Street profits
- Lear auto parts workers overwhelmingly reject 3rd UAW sellout contract, while UAW president desperately seeks to maintain credibility: Live updates on the Big Three contract fight
- Raac concrete scandal shows Britain is collapsing: Fight for safe schools, hospitals and social housing!
2023-09-09
- Blacklisted in the US, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski receive standing ovations at Venice Film Festival
- Scholz’s “Germany Pact”: A war alliance against the population
- Protests against cuts at West Virginia University continue as lawmakers allocate tens of millions to war-related research
- Kaiser healthcare workers must prepare for their fight: Study betrayal of 2019
- Wildfires continue out of control across British Columbia as Canada’s record-breaking fire season shows no signs of abating
- The ICFI’s exposure of Ernest Mandel’s “neo-capitalism” and the analysis of the global economic crisis: 1967–1971
- Biden rejects medical treatment as part of a possible plea bargain for Guantanamo prisoners tortured by CIA
- Russia strengthens ties with African military juntas calling to expel French troops
- As Ukraine offensive collapses, US tries to drum up support for war at G20
- Federal judge orders Texas to remove floating barrier in Rio Grande, appellate court stays order
- Georgia special grand jury recommended charging 39 top Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, lawyer Cleta Mitchell and retired Gen. Michael Flynn
- On Brazil’s Independence Day, Lula government seeks to strengthen armed forces
- One month after deadly wildfires in Maui, public anger grows over government response
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE holds memorial meeting in Jaffna to honour Wije Dias
2023-09-10
- Podemos campaigns to jail former Spanish football chief Rubiales over women's world cup kiss
- Communication Workers Union joins regulator Ofcom in review to end Royal Mail’s six-day letter delivery service
- Turkey, Russia agree separate grain deal as Black Sea corridor talks stall
- Unifor declares Ford Canada contract passes at conclusion of sham ratification process | Updates on the Big Three autoworkers struggle
- UK set to station US nuclear bombs on British soil, 15 years after their removal
2023-09-11
- “Oppose the system designed to steal our wages”: US Postal Service workers found rank-and-file committee
- Pseudo-left Socialist Alternative promotes Australian Labor government’s Voice referendum
- Florida’s surgeon general Joseph Ladapo tells people to “stay clear” of COVID-19 booster shot
- Supporters of the “Last Generation” climate action group held in preventive detention in Bavaria
- Congress reconvenes amid budget crisis as US federal deficit doubles
- This week in history: September 11-17
- Painkiller: Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic dramatized
- The UAW bureaucracy is making massive concessions behind autoworkers’ backs
- Sri Lankan government moves to impose draconian media laws and Anti-Terrorism Bill
- Zelensky government cracks down on conscription loopholes
- New York school bus workers kept on the job despite strike authorization
- Poverty Strategy Commission report finds millions “surviving not living” in Britain
- Democratic Socialists of America debates two ways to remain within Democratic Party
- On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup: Lessons of a revolution betrayed
- Australia: Qantas CEO resigns early amid public anger
- Democratic Mayor Eric Adams says migrants “will destroy New York City”
- Over 2,000 people killed as earthquake devastates Morocco
2023-09-12
- Public meeting: A socialist perspective against war and austerity in New Zealand’s crisis election
- “Socialism 2023” conference: Imperialist warmongering and Democratic Party politics
- After “climbdown” at G20, US plans to step up involvement in Ukraine war
- Chile’s pseudo-left government commemorates 50th anniversary of Pinochet’s coup by appeasing far right
- Unite Canadian, US and Mexican autoworkers in a joint fight against the Detroit Three! Build rank-and-file committees to seize control from the Unifor bureaucracy!
- Australian IYSSE holds meeting protesting political censorship at Macquarie University
- Thousands dead and 10,000 missing in Libyan floods
- Reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 and their potential role in Long COVID
- Biden administration infrastructure council advises removing barriers to privatization of water utilities
- Sri Lankan government begins looting workers’ pension funds
- Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee’s call for a fight against CWU-Royal Mail agreement receives welcome response
- Biden’s visit to Vietnam attempts to tighten the noose around China
- The social roots of the Moroccan earthquake disaster
- “The rank-and-file workforce needs to unite globally”: Big Three autoworkers in US and Mexico give voice to growing militancy in meeting Sunday
- Australia’s Labor government and its phony Voice referendum in deepening crisis
- Trump pledges to stop EVs, issues ultra-nationalist appeal to autoworkers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Military junta accuses France of preparing invasion of Niger
- Unifor maintains information blackout as strike deadlines approach for Canadian and US autoworkers
2023-09-13
- “Every carrier I work with has lost thousands of dollars”: Postal workers respond to founding statement of USPS rank-and-file committee
- Biden in Vietnam: The leader of American imperialism returns to the scene of one of its great crimes
- Growing vulnerabilities in US Treasury market
- Wohlforth’s renegacy, the renewal of the struggle against Pabloism in the Workers League, and the turn to the working class
- Behind “parental rights”—billionaires and bigotry
- The global implications of the auto struggle in the United States
- Declassified documents expose UK’s involvement in Pinochet’s 1973 coup
- Transition to electric vehicles threatens Mexican auto jobs
- Strike and lockout of nurses at Ascension Providence Hospital in Detroit suburb
- New Zealand: Māori Party leader says Māori are genetically superior race
- Raac concrete public safety crisis widens in Britain with every type of building affected
- US media responds with hysteria, vindictiveness to Woody Allen and Roman Polanski at Venice film festival
- South Korean Hyundai union agrees to sellout contract ahead of looming autoworkers’ struggle in US
- Speaker McCarthy announces House impeachment probe of President Biden
- Beating the drum for war: The pro-imperialist tour of the pseudo left
- Ford Action Committee in Germany supports strike preparations by US autoworkers
- Republican-run Georgia state government uses racketeering laws to suppress opposition to “Cop City”
- UAW planning to sabotage autoworkers’ struggle with isolated strikes
2023-09-14
- NATO imperialism and the Libya flood catastrophe
- Kaiser healthcare workers demand sharp pay increases and safe staffing as strike authorization vote ends
- Sri Lankan railway union calls off drivers strike, after government threats and bogus promises
- Strike shuts down Pennsylvania auto parts plant
- Rising number of fatal accidents on railways in Germany is the result of putting profits first
- Billionaire began making payments to wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in advance of Citizens United decision
- “Russian War Crimes” exhibition at Berlin’s Humboldt University: Atrocity propaganda in the service of German militarism
- The war policy of Germany’s Greens: Foreign Minister Baerbock in Washington and Kiev
- Thousands of writers and actors rally in Los Angeles: “Most revolutions occur … when you have nothing left”
- New negotiations are a trap for striking nurses in New Brunswick, New Jersey
- The struggle against the cuts at West Virginia University and the role of the AFT
- CDC approves updated COVID vaccine boosters
- 1,100 workers go on strike at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
- Ukraine uses NATO-supplied missiles to strike Crimea
- Mack Trucks workers vote 98 percent for strike authorization
- Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW sellout!
- Australia: Marcia Langton implies opponents of indigenous Voice are “racist” and “stupid”
- Public meeting: For an active boycott of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum!
- UK’s Birmingham council, largest local authority in Europe, declares effective bankruptcy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- General Motors worker in Mexico speaks out in support of US-Canada auto strike
- Australian property developer Tim Gurner reveals the real face of capitalism
- Evergreen Education Association shuts down teachers’ strike and forces sellout agreement in less than 24 hours
- Shawn Fain orders vast majority of autoworkers to “keep working” if contract expires
- South Korean government targets democratic rights
- Death toll rises in Greece as flooding devastates Thessaly region
2023-09-15
- Unite the rank and file for an all-out autoworkers strike!
- Oppose all capitalist parties in the New Zealand election! Fight against war and for world socialism! Build the Socialist Equality Group!
- Unifor keeps Canadian autoworkers in dark, opposes joint struggle with US workers as strike deadline approaches
- Leaked body camera footage reveals officer mocking young pedestrian killed by speeding Seattle police cruiser
- Hunter Biden indictment, Biden impeachment inquiry mark intensification of US political crisis
- Millionaire speculator blurts out ruling class strategy of mass unemployment and wage-slashing
- Report exposes fraudulent antisemitism accusations at UK universities
- New Zealand doctors hold second strike
- UAW orders vast majority of autoworkers to stay on the job after Big Three contracts expire
- UK Trades Union Congress gears up for pro-business partnership with Labour government
- Child poverty in the US doubled in 2022 with ending of expanded benefits
- Mobilize the rank and file against the UAW’s “keep working” order! For an all-out strike against the Big Three!
- Surrendering to racialists, Philadelphia officials cancel contract with white artist to create Harriet Tubman sculpture
- At Washington’s behest, India’s military weighing how it would assist the US in waging war on China
- Libyan officials warn Derna flood death toll could reach 20,000
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Las Vegas school district declares impasse and demands arbitration as union starts to lose control
- ECB lifts interest rates again as euro economy slows
2023-09-16
- US resumes drone flights amid mass protests in Niger
- Australian studies reveal record levels of wealth inequality
- UPS executives gloat over Teamsters contract: “Really good” for shareholders
- Retiring Senator Romney confirms Pentagon, Congress knew Trump planned violent coup days before January 6
- What’s behind the Australian “productivity” campaign
- Kaiser workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, warn of a new influx of COVID-19 patients
- North Korean leader meets Putin in Russian Far East
- UAW tells Lear auto parts workers: “Why are you crying and complaining about the contract?”
- Study adds to growing evidence of link between COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes in children
- Philadelphia cop arrested in murder of Eddie Irizarry
- Sri Lankan migrant workers speak out over worsening social conditions
2023-09-17
2023-09-18
- Impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Paxton ends in acquittal
- The battle against the automakers is more than a strike, it’s class warfare
- US imperialist hypocrisy and the Libyan flood
- “It is the lack of communication that keeps the UAW bureaucracy in power. But knowledge is power”: Volvo Workers Rank-and-File Committee leader sends message of support to autoworkers
- Shawn Fain enlists Democrats to promote fraudulent “Stand-up Strike” strategy
- “Russian War Crimes” exhibition at Humboldt University in Berlin: Students and staff protest against rearmament and war propaganda
- Royal Mail workers speak in run-up to next Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting
- Elon Musk, world’s richest promoter of antisemitism
- Yes marches in Australian Voice referendum promote big business Labor governments
- Autoworkers demand all-out strike while UAW conspires with Biden to sell out struggle
- American pseudo-left speaking tour fails to shore up support for war against Russia
- British Trades Union Congress backs NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine
- US careens toward government shutdown
- Stellantis workers report victimizations as workers forced to work without contract protections
- The lie of a “just transition” under capitalism: EVs, critical minerals and the exploitation of the working class
- UK students: Stop the war in Ukraine! Build a movement in the working class! Fight for socialism!
- Board of Governors approves draconian attack on education at West Virginia University against mass opposition
- Contract fight begins for 150,000 metal, auto workers in Turkey
- Chemical leak at AdvanSix plant triggers shelter-in-place in Hopewell, Virginia
- New Thai cabinet stacked with pro-military and big business figures
- Students, faculty and staff denounce cuts to West Virginia University programs
- The pact with the far-right Alternative for Germany in Thuringia and the fight against fascism
2023-09-19
- GM halting production at Ontario EV assembly plant due to battery shortage, once again throwing workers’ lives into chaos
- Workers denounce Unifor’s extension of Ford strike deadline, call for joint struggle with American workers against Detroit Three
- Millionaire celebrities delay talk show return after Writers Guild announces negotiations with studios, networks
- Australian Greens back Labor’s grossly inadequate housing policies
- Fain announces Friday “deadline” for more walkouts as rank-and-file opposition mounts to UAW’s selective strike policy
- VW in Germany cuts at least 2,200 jobs at its Zwickau plant and threatens other sites
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Interview with Finnish pulmonologist Dr. Alexander van Assendelft on airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Unifor sabotages strike by Canadian Ford autoworkers with 24-hour contract extension
- Australia: Steel worker dies on the job in Perth
- The Voice and Australia’s 1999 Republic referendum: Political lessons and parallels
- Gabon coup: Morenoites deny growing opposition to French imperialism
- New strain fuelling rising COVID infection in UK
- EU parliament backs Podemos campaign to jail Rubiales over women’s world cup kiss
- Excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic reach 26 million
- After failure of Ukraine’s “spring offensive,” US-NATO escalate war against Russia
2023-09-20
- Interview with artist Diego Marcial Rios, whose paintings in San Mateo, California show were taken down because of police objections
- Far-right Republicans block short-term funding proposal, increasing chance of government shutdown
- Auto strikes spread as Biden and UAW struggle to contain rank-and-file movement
- Biden, Zelensky, and US generals call for expansion of war with Russia
- After sham vote, SEIU claim ratification of contract for 100,000 California government workers
- Stop the unjust disciplinary measures against Warren Truck workers! For an all-out strike against Stellantis, GM and Ford to win our demands!
- Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso form alliance against French invasion threat
- Expand the Big Three autoworkers strike! For an industry-wide walkout, not phony “stand up strikes”!
- “It’s almost like we are in a civil war between the rich and the poor”: Autoworkers respond to Will Lehman’s Newsweek op-ed
- Hormel workers in Austin, Minnesota—site of bitter 1985-1986 strike—overwhelmingly reject contract
- After protests in flood-hit Derna, Libyan officials order journalists to leave
- Unifor announces sellout tentative agreement for 5,600 Ford Canada workers to block strike
- Student loan borrowers face servicer disarray as monthly payments are set to resume
- Unite educators and all workers behind the autoworkers’ strike! End poverty wages and unsafe conditions!
- Another warning on US Treasury market instability
- Stop the war on refugees in Europe!
2023-09-21
- Comic-actor Russell Brand lynched by media mob after sexual assault allegations
- South Korean union pushes through sellout deal at Hyundai Motors
- Expand the strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital! Full strike pay for nurses!
- The political significance of the Workers Inquiry into the death of Aboriginal youth Daniel Yock
- IYSSE protest against war propaganda at Berlin’s Humboldt University generates strong support and media coverage
- Fed pauses rate increases but indicates more to come
- The role of Security and the Fourth International in the fight for the continuity of the International Committee of the Fourth International
- UAW keeps Columbia University postdoctoral workers on the job after overwhelming strike authorization vote
- Former Capitol Police chief blasts Pentagon officials for delaying deployment of National Guard during January 6 coup
- “All our support and solidarity with our fellow workers”: Mexican autoworkers denounce sabotage by Unifor and UAW, call for North American-wide fight
- New Zealand election debate points to bipartisan agenda of austerity and war
- The rank and file demand an all-out strike in the auto industry!
- Parents and students support growing rebellion of Las Vegas teachers
- Right-wing political theater at House hearing for Attorney General Garland
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “We should all be out right now”: At factory gates and picket lines in Michigan, autoworkers demand all-out strike
- 3,000 job losses planned at Tata Steel as company receives £500 million subsidy from UK government
- Indian and Sri Lankan auto industry workers support US autoworkers
- Biden’s UN war speech paves way for direct clash with Russia
2023-09-22
- Consultant psychiatrist speaks on UK’s joint junior-senior doctors strike
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A petty agent for US imperialism tours Latin America
- Inquiry confirms brutal repression at UK’s Brook House detention centre but provides no redress
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Oklahoma death row inmate who maintained innocence
- New Zealand medical laboratory workers strike
- Alabama plans to use a more “humane” method of execution: Nitrogen gas asphyxiation
- UAW President Fain’s “expanded strikes” will have zero impact on automakers’ production or sales
- Unifor aims to ram through Ford sellout tentative agreement with anti-democratic ratification process
- Australian health workers committee votes for active boycott of Voice referendum
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Canada-India relations in turmoil after Ottawa accuses Modi regime of assassinating Sikh separatist in BC
- Vote “No” to Unifor’s sellout Ford Canada contract! Build rank-and-file committees to fight for a North America-wide strike against the Detroit Three!
- Stop the UAW sabotage of the autoworkers struggle! Hold emergency local meetings to demand an all-out strike!
- Reject the Unifor/UAW sabotage operation! Expand the autoworkers struggle across North America!
- “How are you going to hit the companies if you’re still making profits for them?”: Detroit Stellantis workers say all-out strike is needed
- Ukrainian president holds crisis talks in Washington amid failure of “spring offensive”
- White House acknowledges the pandemic is not over by offering to send out free COVID tests
- Amazon to hire 250,000 new US workers, increase average starting pay to $20.50
2023-09-23
- Hospital workers in Bay City, Michigan protest starvation wages
- “School expenses are unbearable”—Students, parents and teachers denounce Sri Lankan government
- Biden orders deployment of 800 soldiers to US-Mexico border
- Secret talks between Writers Guild and studios, networks continue for third day: Strikers have a right to know what's going on
- Biden announces trip to Michigan amid autoworker demands for all-out strike
- Ibram X. Kendi’s “antiracism research center” squanders $43 million, lays off staff
- Hitler would be proud: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers anti-Russian tirade at the United Nations
- Despite warning from northern hemisphere bushfires, Australia is unprepared for the fire season
- Far-right Polish government threatens to halt new arms shipments to Ukraine
- Socialist Alternative hysterically defends Voice referendum as its crisis deepens
- Australia: Molycop slashes 250 steelworker jobs in Newcastle
- “Highlights” of Unifor’s tentative agreement with Ford Canada underscore why workers must vote “No”
- Ukraine war funding emerges as central issue in US budget impasse
- Campaign for active boycott of Australian Voice referendum wins support from workers and students
- Signs of political instability in Chinese regime
2023-09-24
2023-09-25
- US Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds second national meeting
- Australian parliamentarians lobby for Assange in Washington
- Biden to visit picket lines to bolster UAW apparatus and its betrayal of auto strike
- Strike actions by 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers to begin in early October
- Why won’t Unifor release the Ford Canada vote totals? Workers should challenge Unifor’s sham Ford contract ratification process!
- Indictment of Democratic Senator Menendez exposes corruption in the US political establishment
- Looming shutdown of federal government threatens workers with furloughs and missed paydays
- This week in history: September 25-October 1
- Canadian parliament and prime minister give standing ovation to Ukrainian Nazi war criminal
- US to send long-range ATACMS missile to Ukraine
- Autoworkers in Germany voice support for Big Three workers in US: “All workers have to pull together”
- Two Australian referenda on indigenous people: 1967 and 2023
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