Archive: 10/2023
2023-10-01
2023-10-02
- “We need to all be out now”: Autoworkers demand all-out strike to break corporate resistance to their demands
- This week in history: October 2-8
- Kaiser pharmacy workers in Oregon and Washington begin 21-day strike
- Pro-Zionist film smears Roger Waters as an “antisemite”
- The Voice referendum and the huge “reconciliation” march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 2000
- New Thai government seeks foreign investment
- New Zealand PM contracts COVID during election campaign
- The fraud of the Writers Guild contract: Reject and mobilize against this rotten deal!
- Youth speak out against the resumption of student loan payments
- UAW announces tentative agreement at Mack Trucks minutes before strike deadline, provoking outcry by workers
- Surge of saltwater up the Mississippi River threatens New Orleans water supply
- British government prepares to send troops into the war against Russia
- Behind the stop-gap spending bill: Democrats to agree on border crackdown in exchange for Ukraine war funding
- UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman calls for overturn of UN refugee convention in fascistic speech
- Mount Sinai postdoctoral medical researchers speak to the WSWS on their struggle
2023-10-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany’s 2024 budget: Armaments über alles
- Trump fraud trial opens in Manhattan
- Leading filmmakers protest German culture minister’s assault on the Berlin Film Festival
- Release the full UAW-Mack contract! Workers have a right to know what’s in the agreement!
- Labor government starves Aboriginal schools of funds in Australia’s Northern Territory
- California Governor Newsom picks long-time Democratic Party operative Laphonza Butler to replace Senator Feinstein
- Oppose RMT and ASLEF sell outs: Build rail and Tube workers rank-and-file committees!
- Nobel Prize awarded to pioneering mRNA scientists who helped develop COVID vaccines
- Mass demonstration in Warsaw against right-wing Polish government
- Cost-of-living, jobs and social crisis deepening in Australia
- Workers and young people support SEP campaign for active boycott of Australia’s Voice referendum
- European Union foreign ministers meet in Ukraine to escalate war with Russia
- Six facts autoworkers need to know about the UAW strike fund
- Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses its campaign for an active boycott of Australia’s Voice referendum
- “We all should be on strike at the same time”: Ford Chicago workers speak out from the picket lines
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs $29 million contract with Virginia-based defense firm for migrant camp
2023-10-04
- Damning report exposes Ontario government’s catastrophic pandemic policy in long-term care facilities
- World Bank forecasts slowdown in east Asian economies
- The UAW bureaucracy’s fraudulent “stand-up” strike will end in a sellout of autoworkers
- Tens of thousands of educators threaten strikes across the US
- Why no referendum on AUKUS and Australia’s role in war plans against China?
- Spanish-Russian journalist Pablo González still in “Polish Guantanamo” 18 months after arrest
- UK government prepares to use anti-strike laws against doctors
- Australian teachers union strikes sellout deal with Labor government in NSW
- California nursing home worker speaks on the continued spread of COVID and workers’ struggles
- Florida executes man after US Supreme Court denies his intellectual disability claim
- Judge bans Trump from posting statements about court staff in New York civil fraud trial
- Australia: Molycop steelworkers speak out against job cuts in Newcastle
- US political crisis deepens with removal of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker
- Stellantis Jeep and Ford Dearborn Truck workers join call for all-out strike
- 50 years since the Who’s Quadrophenia
2023-10-05
- Both camps in Australia’s Voice referendum pledge to cut spending for impoverished Aborigines
- Yaroslav Hunka, Politico and the rehabilitation of Nazi war crimes
- Chinese property giant Evergrande another step closer to collapse
- Wall Street backs GM and Ford, while UAW bureaucracy accelerates moves towards sellout of Big Three autoworkers
- McCarthy’s downfall, the Democratic Party and the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Striking Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield workers angered over UAW silence on contract talks
- “Highlights” of UAW-Mack deal reveal sellout contract with below-inflation wage increases
- Vote NO on the UAW-Mack sellout contract!
- Ex-Prime Minister Robert Fico wins parliamentary election in Slovakia
- The Present: The brutality of Israeli checkpoints
- 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers begin the largest healthcare strike in US history
- UK Conservative government lurches to far-right on agenda of war and austerity
- Lahaina resident and aid hub volunteer blasts government response to Maui fire disaster
- Chemical spill kills five after tanker truck crash in southern Illinois
- Kaiser workers speak out on first day of strike
- The Polish far-right’s vicious campaign against Agnieszka Holland's film The Green Border
- Hesse and Bavaria state elections: Anti-refugee agitation strengthens far right
- Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to resume construction of Trump’s border wall
- Sri Lankan Appeal Court upholds government decision to terminate all CWE employees
2023-10-06
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- How the Waffen SS Galicia division is glorified on Ukrainian television
- Kaiser strike deepens rift between union bureaucracies and rank-and-file healthcare workers
- As VW announces first EV conversion plans, IG Metall union prepares to implement them
- The Workers League’s defence of the Theory of Permanent Revolution against the opportunism of the Workers Revolutionary Party
- Kaiser workers call for a united struggle with all workers for better wages and safe conditions
- Biden moves towards deal with Republicans: Ukraine war funding in return for border crackdown
- Mass auto parts layoffs expose UAW’s fake “solidarity” with US-sponsored unions in Mexico
- Government-backed Ukrainian Canadian Congress chides: Don’t “besmirch” the reputation of Nazi Waffen-SS veteran Hunka
- As UAW reveals efforts to lengthen workday at Mack Trucks, workers voice opposition to sellout contract
- Australia: Fight the closure at Molycop! Form a rank-and-file committee to defend steelworker jobs!
- India’s Modi government uses “anti-terror” laws to persecute NewsClick editor and manager
- UK Covid-19 Inquiry evidence reveals how “let it rip” policy determined the end of COVID lockdowns
- Trades Union Congress “Solidarity” rally a smokescreen for the RMT’s sabotage of London Underground strike
- Oppose sending British troops to Ukraine! Mobilise the working class against imperialist war!
- Autoworkers must build rank-and-file committees to stop a sellout by the UAW and Unifor!
- Autoworkers angered over being kept in the dark as UAW moves towards sellout deal
2023-10-07
- Is COVID pandemic or endemic? A discussion with Boston University epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Murray
- We are tired of the sham Fain is putting us through! For an all-out strike now!
- Mail carriers in eastern Tennessee issue open letter describing their working conditions
- Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers’ brutal attack on unarmed Florida man sparks outrage
- US shoots down Turkish drone as Turkey bombs Kurdish forces in Syria, Iraq
- As federal student loan repayments resume, President Biden covers up government abuse of borrowers
- Bond market selloff: Finance capital’s call for deep attacks on the working class
- Biden’s border wall and the war in Ukraine
- Kaiser workers speak out as union orders a return to work with no contract
- Actors strike in great danger: Oppose a sellout!
- Governments prepare to slash benefits for Ukrainian refugees
- Capitalist parties promise sweeping attacks on working class in New Zealand election
- Anger mounts after UAW President Shawn Fain says no new plants to be struck, citing supposed “progress”
- Voices from Lahaina: Residents languish with little relief, fear health risks
- EU summit in Granada, Spain plans continued military escalation against Russia
- Pro-China candidate wins Maldives presidential election
- Golden Orange Film Festival cancelled as result of Turkish government-backed censorship attempt
- The Kaiser workers’ strike and the fight for socialized medicine
2023-10-08
- Netanyahu regime staggered by Palestinian uprising
- No to the amendment of Germany’s Postal Act! Build action committees independent of the Verdi union!
- Mack workers erupt in anger at UAW “information sessions”
- Mexico’s president AMLO shields military’s complicity in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students
- Household water bills to soar in UK
- Unifor’s Dave Cassidy postures as an “opponent” of the Ford Canada sellout—a sham opposition to a rigged ratification process
- Labour benefits from Scottish National Party collapse in Rutherglen and Hamilton West
2023-10-09
- This week in history: October 9-15
- For an all-out strike to win our demands! Join the Toledo Jeep Rank-and-File Committee!
- South Korean main opposition leader in court on corruption charges
- Following latest student walkouts, thousands of teachers and their supporters hold mass rally in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Police raid at VW: Works council members defend their high salaries
- Facing rank-and-file rebellion UAW president holds rally with Democrats in Chicago
- IYSSE at University of Melbourne holds successful meeting to re-establish club
- What’s the proof that “80 percent of indigenous people” support the Voice to Australian parliament?
- Spanish social-democrats, pseudo left try to form pro-war, austerity government
- Mobilise the working class against the Sri Lankan government’s dictatorial Online Safety and Anti-Terrorism bills
- On the Founding of the Left Opposition
- 4,000 Mack Trucks workers walk out after rejecting sellout contract backed by UAW President Fain
- October 8, 1923 Letter from Leon Trotsky to the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the Russian Communist Party
- Georgia prosecutor announces no charges against police who shot and killed “Cop City” protester
- Thousands of asylum seekers face destitution due to UK’s “Illegal Migration” legislation
- Australian SEP receives support for active boycott campaign of Voice referendum
- Down with Netanyahu’s government! Stop the imperialist-backed Zionist onslaught against Gaza!
- Pro-Trump election deniers vie for speakership of US House
- UK Labour backs Israel’s bloody reprisals against Palestinians, supports NATO military escalation against Russia and China
- Stop Making Sense (1984): Talking Heads’ concert film still speaks to us
2023-10-10
- Who is responsible for the violence in Israel and Gaza?
- Breaking from Democratic Party, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declares “independence” from any pretense of social reform policies
- German politicians and media support Israel’s genocidal crackdown on Palestinians
- Unifor orders GM Canada workers to end strike after just 14 hours and without a ratified contract
- “It’s worker abuse”: Mack Trucks strikers speak out
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- How and why big business is backing Australia’s Voice referendum
- Brazil: Amid university strikes, São Paulo public sector workers walk out against privatizations
- Latest round of rural carrier route evaluations maintains attack on US postal workers’ pay
- Australia: Newcastle workers and youth oppose Molycop sackings
- Israeli army lays siege to Gaza
- Proposed Ukraine funding bill skyrockets to $100 billion
- Bond market “rout” a result of major structural shifts
- Palestinian uprising exposes Turkish political establishment’s complicity with Israel
- “We’re all fighting for the same thing”: Michigan autoworkers call for united strike with Mack Trucks workers
- British government seeks to outlaw pro-Palestinian protests
- SEG and IYSSE hold public meeting ahead of New Zealand election
- Australian establishment hysterically denounces pro-Palestinian protests
- UFCW rushes vote by Hormel meatpacking workers on tentative agreement
- Victimised union rep speaks on Falconer Review: “I am of the strong belief Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union are in cahoots. It is a web of lies.”
- Thousands protest outside Israeli embassy in London in solidarity with Palestinians
- Study finds that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the arteries of the heart
- Temp workers face increasingly precarious position as UAW non-strike continues
- Starmer sets out British Labour party’s mission for government: authoritarianism, austerity and war
- IMF withholds second installment of bailout loan to Sri Lanka
- 4,300 GM Canada autoworkers take to picket lines as strike against Detroit Three spreads across North America
- Ford Saarlouis: Investor pulls out leaving 6,000 jobs in danger
2023-10-11
- Australia: Surge in human metapneumovirus due to elimination of COVID safeguards
- United Workers Union sells out Australian poultry workers’ strike after five days
- Australia: Molycop and the fight to defend jobs
- El Conde: The Chilean dictator Pinochet and counterrevolution through the years
- Walgreens Pharmacy employees walk out across the US against unsafe working conditions
- Ocasio-Cortez says pro-Palestinian demonstrations should be “shut down” as opposition to Israeli war crimes grows
- Australian workers speak about Voice referendum and SEP’s active boycott campaign
- Biden proclaims unlimited support for Israeli onslaught on Gaza
- Harvard University student organizations targeted for opposition to Israeli war crimes in Gaza
- Far-right AfD overtakes parties of Germany’s federal government in Bavaria and Hesse state elections
- Canadian politicians and media rally behind Israel’s murderous response to Palestinian uprising
- We demand an all-out strike: An Open Letter to UAW President Shawn Fain from the Mack Trucks Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- WSWS speaks to workers and student ahead of New Zealand election
- Deacon tased to death by Atlanta cop; Washington officer on paid leave after beating grandfather who was resting in parking lot
- Mack Trucks strike shows autoworkers way forward in fight against UAW, Unifor betrayals
- New data show 51 percent increase in US teacher vacancies in the past year
2023-10-12
- Republicans nominate Scalise for Speaker but lack clear majority
- John McDonnell and Labour “left” in Britain pledge loyalty to Starmer
- Australia’s Voice referendum, the record of ATSIC, and the emergence of the Aboriginal elite
- UK government demands intensified clampdown on protests in defence of Palestinians
- New Zealand political establishment backs Israel’s genocidal crackdown in Gaza
- Putin regime works to rehabilitate Joseph Stalin, as memorials to victims of the Terror are vandalized
- Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony files for bankruptcy days before beginning of 2023-24 season
- Texas Tribune Festival: Warmongering, racialist politics and calls for bipartisan unity
- Freight industry publication discusses “surprise” Mack Trucks strike, “socialist fervor” among autoworkers
- Financial problems still loom large as IMF downgrades global growth forecast
- The Dark Side of the Moon Redux: Roger Waters reimagines the 1973 Pink Floyd classic
- Warnings of domino effect if Chinese property giant Evergrande is liquidated
- 30,000 postal workers demonstrate in Berlin against amendment of postal law
- India and Sri Lanka “stand with” Israeli state amid its barbaric assault on Gaza
- Oppose the outlawing of solidarity protests in defense of Gaza!
- Israel: Gantz joins Netanyahu in National Unity government to wage war on Palestinians
- California Democratic Senate candidates advance same right-wing, pro-war policies at union forum
- Dearborn, Michigan: Hundreds attend rally in defense of Palestinians and residents of Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- With pressure mounting for all-out auto strike, UAW calls out 8,700 workers at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant
- Spontaneous protests in solidarity with Palestinians in German cities
2023-10-13
- Laid-off Yellow workers struggling to find work as Wall Street prepares billion dollar sale of bankrupt freight company
- Reject all capitalist parties in New Zealand’s crisis election! Join the Socialist Equality Group!
- As House Republican crisis deepens: Democrats seeking deal on Ukraine, Israel military aid
- US, European powers fully implicated in Israeli mass murder
- French President Macron endorses Israeli war on Gaza
- Australian students denounce attacks on Gaza and hypocrisy of Labor’s Voice campaign
- Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and other short films: Beginning to look at life more squarely
- Ford exec says “take it or leave it” as autoworkers press for all-out strike
- 1985-86: The victory of Trotskyism within the ICFI
- German parliament in a war frenzy
- Australian educators rank-and-file committee endorses Voice referendum active boycott campaign
- California Governor Newsom issues vetoes against healthcare and worker benefits
- For an active boycott of the Voice referendum! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war and austerity!
- WSWS series exposed Australia’s Northern Territory “intervention”
- No to the criminalization of anti-war views on US campuses! For a mass movement by workers and youth against the onslaught on Gaza!
- Flurry of negotiations spells danger for New Brunswick, New Jersey nurse strike
- Growing opposition to Unifor’s sellout “pattern” at Detroit Three after it scuttles GM Canada strike after just 14 hours
- What the 2007 Northern Territory “intervention” reveals about Australia’s Voice referendum
- Berlin teacher hits pupil for supporting fellow student holding Palestinian flag
- Nursing home workers strike in Detroit suburbs
- UK union leaders line up behind Starmer and Labour’s agenda of austerity and war
- French police assault banned pro-Gaza demonstration in Paris
- Australian Labor government bans pro-Palestinian protest, threatens police rampage in Sydney
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2023-10-14
- Sri Lankan students oppose Israeli war on Gaza
- Democratic Senator Menendez charged with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government
- Stop Israeli genocide!
- Thousands in New York protest genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians by Israel
- Actors’ strike negotiations “hit a snag”: Yes, the companies are offering nothing
- Mass protests erupt internationally against Israeli war on Gaza
- Open letter from Harvard employee opposing persecution of students protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza
- Young Ohio nurse leaves behind suicide letter naming for-profit healthcare system “My Abuser”
- Parroting Washington, Chile’s President Boric denounces Palestinian uprising as “terrorist”
- UAW President Shawn Fain announces no new strikes Friday, heads to Mack Trucks to tamp down rank-and-file rebellion
- Unions announce tentative agreement reached with Kaiser Permanente for 85,000 healthcare workers
2023-10-15
- Modi government targets acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri activist for criminal prosecution for 2010 remarks
- Over 150,000 protest in London against Israel’s war on Palestinians
- Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo back Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza
- French police arrest Jews protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Tens of thousands protest Israel's war in cities throughout the UK
- Millions throughout the world protest Israeli war crimes
- UK Labour Party threatens to expel members protesting Israel’s genocidal war
- Mobilize workers and youth throughout the world against Israel’s genocide!
2023-10-16
- As it gives Israel green light for genocide, US prepares war against Iran
- The Declaration of the 46
- Sunak and Starmer back Israel war in British parliamant
- British government and Labour leadership reported to Scotland Yard as accomplices to Israeli war crimes
- Texas Republicans host neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, fascist killer Kyle Rittenhouse
- Stop the massacre in Gaza!
- CDC ends Biobot Analytics contract for wastewater surveillance of COVID pandemic
- Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights massive class divide
- This week in history: October 16-22
- UAW president holds meetings at Mack Trucks to rein in rank-and-file rebellion
- As the UAW prepares to suppress US auto strike, GM and Mercedes-Benz announce new round of layoffs in Brazil
- Workers speak on social crisis and war ahead of NZ election
- IUSF at Kelaniya University in Sri Lanka threaten physical violence against IYSSE anti-war campaigners
- Healthcare workers speak from the picket lines at St. Francis Medical Center
- “What the UAW tried to do at Mack Trucks is a warning to all workers”: Will Lehman visits Toledo Jeep picket lines
- After sabotaging strike, Unifor rams through sellout contract at GM Canada
- Hollywood celebrities’ “open letter” solidarizes itself with Israeli government policies
- Rank-and-File Committee of Academic Workers at California State University calls for No vote on Tentative agreement
- Thousands protest in Australia against Israel’s war on Palestinians
- On referendum day Australian workers and young people support the SEP’s active boycott of Labor’s Voice to parliament
- Landslide defeat for Labour in New Zealand election
2023-10-17
- Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists in the former Soviet Union celebrates the centenary of the Left Opposition
- New York City Palestinian educator witch-hunted by right-wing media for speaking out on Gaza genocide
- Victimized NYU student Ryna Workman releases powerful statement against US-backed Israeli genocide
- Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
- Public meeting in London to mark the Centenary of Trotskyism
- Right-wing oligarch defeats “pink tide” candidate in Ecuador
- Leading British Conservative calls for dictatorship and national government with Starmer
- Bill Ford threatens autoworkers with layoffs and plant closures if strike expands
- Jacobin Congress in Germany promotes war and capitalist policies
- On the centenary of the founding of the Left Opposition
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Las Vegas students walk out in support of teachers
- Circumstances of fatal accident of Deutsche Bahn rail worker in Cologne must be clarified
- Change of government likely in Poland
- More details on US banking failures
- After two weeks of repayments, student borrowers still lack basic information about their loans
- Ankara calls for “de-escalation” in Gaza amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations across Turkey
- Australian Labor government, opposition join hands in support of Israeli war crimes
- Attend the IYSSE anti-war public meeting in Colombo! Stop the Israel genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza!
- Illinois landlord murders Palestinian-American child: The product of US imperialism’s propaganda campaign
- Workers and youth in Australia denounce genocide in Gaza
- Unbearable working conditions at Germany’s Deutsche Bahn Cargo—a switchyard worker’s reports
- Gaza faces imminent starvation amid Israeli bombing, blockade
- Brutal repression of Palestinians and peace activists in Germany
2023-10-18
- Global outrage erupts over Israeli bombing of Gaza hospital
- Australian workers and youth oppose the Voice, denounce Labor’s support for genocide in Gaza
- 500 dead as Israel bombs Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza
- Auto giant Renault Nissan uses EV transition to undermine conditions at Chennai, India plant
- Rural letter carriers in the US speak out after latest mail count continues massive wage cuts
- Germany’s chancellor supports the genocide against Palestinians
- Craig Murray, defender of Julian Assange, detained under Britain’s anti-terror laws
- Actors, filmmakers, musicians, writers speak out against Israeli war crimes
- Reject Ford job threats! We demand an all-out strike now!
- Mass opposition emerges to Sir Keir Starmer’s support for Israeli war crimes as UK Muslims desert Labour Party
- IYSSE meeting series in the United States: Stop Israel’s genocide against Gaza!
- Australia: Despite opposition, IYSSE at University of Newcastle proceeds with speakout
- Vote NO on the CKPU sellout! Kaiser workers must see the full contract!
- UFCW claims “historic” Hormel contract ratified, while inflation will erode wage increases
- US dispatches B-52 bomber to South Korea
- Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
- Chicago Democrats pass resolution supporting Israeli assault on Gaza, as DSA members stage bankrupt stunt
- Mass protests erupt across Turkey against Israel’s massacre in Gaza
- Members of UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee condemn Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians
- Pennsylvania firm fined only $44,000 for factory explosion that killed seven workers
- Shooting in Belgian capital leaves two Swedish citizens dead, one in critical condition
- Billionaire CEOs continue campaign to blacklist students for opposition to Israel’s war crimes
- “All UAW members should be on strike”: Will Lehman discusses Mack workers open letter with Detroit workers
- Germany’s Left Party supports Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
2023-10-19
- Palestinian author Adania Shibli “shut down” at the Frankfurt Book Fair
- AOC backs US funding of Israeli missile defense
- Protests in London and Sheffield over Israeli war on Gaza
- Mass protests erupt in US against Israel war crimes
- Australian dairy industry workers strike across multiple companies and sites
- US steps up high-tech war against China
- Tens of thousands march across Spain in solidarity with Palestinians
- UK Prime Minister Sunak stands with Netanyahu to back Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza
- Sri Lankan IYSSE public lecture: An Introduction to Historical Materialism
- Biden declares total support for Israel’s destruction of Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- 500,000 Quebec public sector workers vote massively in favor of unlimited, province-wide strike
- Protests against US-backed Gaza genocide continue in New York City
- Australian Greens slandered as anti-Semitic for condemning bombing of Gaza
- Trump-backed election denier Jim Jordan fails in second vote for House speaker
- Thousands attend vigil for Wadea al-Fayoume in Plainfield, Illinois
- Defend temp workers! Call an all-out auto strike to win our demands! Raise strike pay to $750!
- China marks ten years of Belt and Road Initiative
2023-10-20
- Biden demands $100 billion for wars in Ukraine, Israel and planned conflict with Iran and China
- British trade union leaders silent on Palestinian trade unions’ call for solidarity action against Israeli war machine
- Australian healthworkers rally in opposition to Israeli destruction of Gazan hospitals, clinics
- Top Trump coup lawyer Sidney Powell turns state’s witness on eve of Georgia trial
- Ford and GM have only lost $500 million from UAW’s limited “stand-up strikes,” according to Wall Street estimates
- 8,000 artists and cultural workers warn of genocide in Gaza and call for ceasefire
- Protests across Canada oppose Israel’s onslaught against Gaza
- Israeli regime continues bombardment of Gaza as ground offensive looms and threat of regional war grows
- More than 50 students attend Wayne State IYSSE meeting to oppose Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Oppose repression of UK university students protesting Israeli war on Gaza!
- New York JFK8 Amazon workers walk out during October Prime Day
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Actor Kevin Spacey receives standing ovation at first public performance as #MeToo persecution continues
- Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
- Detroit casino workers march as opposition grows to phony UAW “stand up” strike
- “Delivering for America”: A 10-year plan to destroy the US Postal Service
- COVID-19 infections rise sharply across Canada as hospitalizations reach highest level since last winter
2023-10-21
- Bond prices fall, financial risks rise
- Oregon teachers authorize strike, face isolation from union bureaucracy
- Ukrainian forces on defensive as “counteroffensive” ends in failure, mass casualties
- Death toll in Israeli genocide against Gaza more than 4,100
- Nurses respond to Ohio nurse suicide, blaming her abuser: The American healthcare system
- Millions march in global protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza
- David North to speak at the University of Michigan on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine
- Sri Lankan journalists protest against Israeli war on Gaza
- Biden’s demand for $105 billion in military spending: A declaration of war against the working class
- Prominent German journalist Gabor Steingart writes that aircraft carriers and armoured divisions could be the hope for “the West”
- Lenin, Trotsky and the Origins of the Left Opposition
- Millions protest worldwide as Israel unleashes deadliest bombing campaign against Gaza since October 7
- Detroit-area immigration lawyer reports police state arrest of Palestinian migrant in Dearborn
- Why the working class turned against Labour in New Zealand’s election
- UAW president refuses to expand strikes, while ascribing rank-and-file opposition to management propaganda
- German Chancellor Scholz’s government statement and the ruling class campaign for war and dictatorship
2023-10-22
2023-10-23
- Demonstration in Inverness, Scotland against Israel’s war on Gaza
- The class-based life expectancy gap in the US has widened to more than 8 years
- Against Israel’s genocide and war in the Middle East
- Lenin, Trotsky and the Origins of the Left Opposition
- French protesters denounce genocidal Israeli onslaught against Gaza
- Australian PM in Washington to give full support for eruption of imperialist violence
- Leonard Cure, wrongfully imprisoned for 16 years and exonerated, shot dead by Georgia police officer
- Over 8,000 UK health workers denounce government support for Israel’s war
- Dan La Botz in International Viewpoint: A moral eunuch condemns Palestinian violence
- US lifts ban on Venezuelan oil in preparation for global war
- Thousands at Toronto demonstration condemn Israeli genocide in Gaza
- The global protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza must turn to the working class
- US Defence Department report inflates the “China threat”
- Workers and youth speak out at Australian marches against Israeli assault on Gaza
- IYSSE Colombo anti-war meeting demands halt to Israeli war on Gaza
- Israel and the Palestinians: A state founded on dispossession and ethnic cleansing—Part One
- As House Republicans deadlock on speaker, Senate Republican leader backs Ukraine war bill
2023-10-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Strike by Canadian-based operators paralyzes St. Lawrence Seaway shipping
- Trump coup plot accomplice Chesebro pleads guilty in Georgia fake elector case
- Public meeting in Australia: Stop Israel’s genocide against Gaza!
- UN report says global economy could be heading for systemic crises
- US inflames war throughout the Middle East
- Palestinian American hospitalized following suspected hate-crime vehicle assault in Cleveland, Ohio
- Brazilian parliamentary inquiry indicts former president Bolsonaro and generals for attempted coup
- Famed New York City cultural center shuts down program after censoring writer for supporting Palestinians
- New Zealand government and opposition maintain support for Israel’s assault on Gaza
- Striking Mack Trucks workers need a winning strategy, not more backroom negotiations between management and the UAW!
- Trotsky’s October 23, 1923 letter to the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the Russian Communist Party
- Israel and the Palestinians: A state founded on dispossession and ethnic cleansing—Part Two
- Tens of thousands demonstrate in Germany against the genocide in Gaza
- IMF releases second instalment of Sri Lanka’s bailout loan
- Official documents show Australian government doing nothing to free Assange
- UK Labour’s crisis deepens as Starmer’s lame denial that he endorsed Israeli war crimes flops
- Defend London Underground driver victimised for expressing solidarity with Gaza!
- UAW strikes Michigan Stellantis and Texas GM plants amid signs union is close to announcing sellout deal
- Death toll from Israeli war on Gaza passes 5,000
2023-10-25
- Australian workers and youth speak out: “The people of Palestine are a symbol for workers everywhere”
- A working class drama at the Theatre Factory in Istanbul: Ekrem the Communist
- Third Trump coup lawyer pleads guilty and agrees to testify in Georgia election case
- Inquiry hears evidence of war crimes by UK Special Forces in Afghanistan
- Social inequality, the university “donor revolt” and the McCarthyite campaign against Harvard student activists
- Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
- Thousands protest across New Zealand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Canadian unions urge pro-war Trudeau government to push for a “ceasefire” in Gaza
- US, South Korea, and Japan stage joint air force drills
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) announces public meetings opposing Israeli war on Gaza
- Israeli bombardment claims over 700 lives in 24 hours as imperialist powers double down on support for genocide against Palestinians
- In Israel, Macron endorses Netanyahu’s genocidal war on Gaza
- Second Thomas Shoal incident: A provocation made in Washington
- Study finds potential mechanism for “brain fog” in Long COVID
- Argentine elections expose political rot and the growing threat of fascism
- Over 150 attend lecture by David North at University of Michigan
- Number of UK schools and hospitals liable to collapse rises
- UAW bureaucracy preparing to announce sellout deal at Big Three
- UK: Minimum Services Legislation to be used against teachers in future strikes
2023-10-26
- Fossil discovery in China raises intriguing questions for human evolution
- Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza, as Biden describes civilian casualties as “the price of waging a war”
- University student walk-out at London’s SOAS against crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests
- Hands off Ukrainian socialist Maxim Goldarb!
- Berlin’s Humboldt University censors criticism of genocide in Gaza
- Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism
- Israeli government promotes call by Columbia University professor to “eradicate” pro-Palestinian student organizations
- War in Gaza threatens global oil and gas price surge
- Protesting Sri Lankan teachers defy police water cannon and tear gas
- Thousands of students at over 100 US and Canadian universities protest against Gaza genocide
- UAW announces sellout deal, orders Ford strikers back to work
- Celtic football supporters defy clampdown to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza
- New Reserve Bank of Australia governor warns interest hikes could continue
- SAG-AFTRA resumes talks with conglomerates amid mounting rank-and-file anger, international tensions and efforts at censorship
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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2023-10-27
- GM workers in Brazil strike against mass layoffs
- Thousands march in Costa Rica against right-wing Chaves administration
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- New Democrats join witch hunt of Ontario NDP legislator, Sarah Jama, who denounced oppression of Palestinians
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- Australian unions complicit in Gaza genocide
- Louisiana college students hold protest at Tulane University denouncing Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza
- Germany’s ruling class fuels Israel’s genocide
- Erdoğan denounces Israel as onslaught on Gaza sets stage for war across Middle East
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- Widespread protests in Ireland oppose Israel’s war on the Palestinians
- Israel targeting, censoring journalists for covering assault on Gaza
- Unifor maintains blackout on talks with Stellantis as Sunday strike deadline approaches
2023-10-28
- Western Sydney University IYSSE holds successful AGM opposing Gaza genocide
- Australian Nazis treated with kid gloves, pro-Palestine protesters vilified and threatened
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- US attacks Iranian “proxies” in Syria, as Israel intensifies assault on Gaza
- Thousands of supporters of Jewish Voice for Peace occupy Grand Central Station in New York City to protest genocide in Gaza
- Two Dartmouth College students arrested for peacefully protesting genocide in Gaza
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- Students and workers speak out against Israeli genocide in Gaza at IYSSE meeting in Chicago
- UAW prepares to announce sellout deals at GM and Stellantis, as rank-and-file anger mounts against Ford deal
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2023-10-29
- Video report: WSWS reporting team speak to protesters at Gaza anti-war rally in Manchester, UK
- 500,000 march in London against Gaza war
- Workers and young people protesting Israeli assault on Gaza speak from demonstrations across the UK
- Thousands protest in Israel calling for an end to the bombing of Gaza
- Exclusive: Leaked details of UAW’s sellout contract at Ford reveal pro-company deal
- Enforcing Ontario government’s witch-hunt, York University threatens pro-Palestinian student associations with de-registration
2023-10-30
- Artists oppose firing of Artforum editor—under pressure from wealthy collectors—for defending Palestinians
- French police ban and assault pro-Gaza protest: 21 arrested, 1,500 fined in Paris
- Unifor sanctions phony 7-hour strike by 8,200 Stellantis Canada autoworkers before announcing sellout tentative agreement
- Russia’s war-time budget
- As popular opposition mounts, state-backed campaign against pro-Palestinian students intensifies in New York
- Department of Labor orders re-run of rail mechanics’ election marred by massive fraud
- 16-year-old Australian Aboriginal dies in maximum security adult prison
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- UK government plans harder clampdown on protests against Israeli war crimes in Gaza
- UAW shuts down Stellantis strikes after announcing tentative agreement
- Jewish intellectuals call for “freedom of dissent”
- Mass protests continue in New Zealand against genocide in Gaza
- Workers and youth speak out at Australian marches against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza
- Thousands of US pharmacy workers mount 3-day “pharmageddon” wildcat strike
- French Morenoites cover up US-NATO escalation against Gaza, Iran
- Death toll mounts after Category 5 hurricane destroys Acapulco, Mexico
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- Corporate media censors mass protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Hawaii public health worker speaks out on criminal pandemic response
- Berlin: Thousands demonstrate against genocide in Gaza
- Hundreds of Houston teachers and students protest against right-wing district takeover
- 100,000 march in Madrid in defense of Gaza
- 24 migrant children illegally working at Ohio chicken slaughterhouse
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna workers and youth demand a halt to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza
- Israeli military announces plans to attack hospitals and schools
- Capitalism, German nationalism and fake populist demagogy—the program of Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party
2023-10-31
- Florida Governor DeSantis to ban pro-Palestinian student groups
- Thousands of striking US actors in new open letter once again warn union officials: Don’t sell us out!
- Brazil’s Workers Party and pseudo-lefts isolate teachers’ and students’ struggles
- We Want Them Infected: The integration of pseudoscience into the US pandemic response
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Protests in Ukraine demand return of soldiers from the front
- The UAW-Ford sellout contract: What autoworkers need to know
- UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer reaffirms support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
- US condemns calls for Gaza ceasefire, as Israel accelerates ground offensive
- Early bushfire crisis a warning of another black summer in Australia
- Mack Trucks intransigently refusing striking workers’ demands, as engines run low at Volvo Trucks plant in Virginia
- Workers and youth in Australia protest and denounce the genocide in Gaza
- Australian imperialism alarmed by East Timor, China “strategic partnership”
- Over 50 Culinary Union workers arrested after blocking Las Vegas strip
- Exclusive: Leaked “Administrative Letters” between UAW and Ford expose labor-management collusion in planned job cuts
- Democrats, Republicans work to rig 2024 US congressional election through gerrymandering
- Australian pseudo-left seeks to channel anger over Palestine behind pro-genocide Labor government
- Mass deportations and genocide in Gaza: German parties embrace the far-right AfD
- Vote NO on the UAW-backed sellout contracts at Ford, GM and Stellantis!
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