Archive: 11/2023
2023-11-01
- Educators denounce American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten’s support to Gaza genocide
- Ex-Australian PMs back Israeli genocide in Gaza
- GM Flint UAW official admits part-time temps will not be immediately rolled over to full-time positions
- Demonstration held at Australian Broadcasting Corporation headquarters after silence on Israeli killing of journalist in Gaza
- White House in discussions with Israel on deploying US troops to Gaza
- Sundial: Rapper Noname shows political commitment and serious confusion
- Germany’s defence minister calls for total militarisation: “We have to become fit for war”
- India’s far-right government joins imperialist powers in backing Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza
- Civil rights attorney speaks on intimidation of Muslim high school students in suburban Detroit following protest in defense of Palestinians
- UK bus workers at Go North East escalate strike in fight against poverty pay
- Bernie Sanders holds sham hearing to cover USW betrayal of striking New Jersey nurses
- World Bank warns of possible major oil price hike
- Secret talks underway to form incoming New Zealand government
- Pakistan mounting campaign of state harassment and intimidation to expel 1.7 million Afghan refugees
- Who is Omar García Harfuch, ruling Morena party’s top candidate to head Mexico City government?
- The corporate media, Gaza and the death of television actor Matthew Perry
- Israel’s bombing of the Jabaliya refugee camp: Another atrocity in the genocide in Gaza
- Michigan Blue Cross workers kept in dark as UAW isolates strike
- Taiwan backs Israel while US war drive against China continues
- Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said COVID virus was “just nature’s way of dealing with old people”
- Postal workers union president opposes Israeli genocide of Gaza at AFL-CIO meeting
2023-11-02
- Stop the Juso motion in support of the genocide in Gaza! Attend the next Student Parliament meeting at Humboldt University!
- Food bank usage in Canada up one-third in a year as social crisis dramatically worsens
- Labor governments betray Australian flood victims
- Educators in Portland, Oregon begin strike for higher pay, staffing and support
- WSWS speaks with former Radio New Zealand journalist Mick Hall about being smeared as a “Russian agent”
- “This ‘conversion’ really means remaining in a temporary position”: Stellantis TPT calls for “no” vote on UAW sellout deal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Fed pauses interest rate hikes amid rising bond yields
- Israel’s Jabaliya refugee camp bombing: A new stage of imperialist barbarism
- Mike Johnson as House Speaker: A Christian fascist now second-in-line to White House
- Death toll in Jabaliya refugee camp massacre soars to 195
- German IG Metall union congress intensifies support for war and austerity
- Mack Trucks workers need a strategy to win! No return to work without a ratified contract!
- Reports confirm Maine police ignored months of warnings prior to Lewiston massacre
- Belgian airport unions call to stop handling arms shipments to Israel
- Thousands protest arrival of “Genocide Joe” Biden in Minneapolis
- Gaza: From colony, to open air prison, to killing field—Part One
- Australia’s Northern Territory schools crisis shows ongoing impact of 2007 “Intervention”
- “It’s a no for me”: Ford workers denounce sellout contract as UAW bureaucracy organizes snap vote at Michigan Assembly Plant
- Palestinian artists under attack
- Stop the Genocide in Gaza!: Wayne State IYSSE and Students for Justice in Palestine to host rally Thursday in Detroit
- Albanese’s comments expose charade that Australian government is trying to free Julian Assange
2023-11-03
- Berlin’s Jewish Museum sacks an employee for describing Israel as an apartheid state
- 60 Minutes: “The Air We Breathe”—damage control for the criminal official response to the COVID pandemic
- Idaho teen and mother charged with kidnapping after taking 15-year-old girl to Oregon for abortion
- Cases closed on Flint water crisis criminal prosecutions without any convictions
- Thousands of UK academics oppose government censorship of Palestinian solidarity
- 2022 UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman demands UAW cease producing equipment for Israeli military
- Sri Lanka: Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers demand pay rises, oppose austerity measures
- UK COVID Inquiry reveals how Johnson government planned mass murder
- Israel strikes Jabaliya refugee camp for third day running as war crimes pile up in Gaza
- UAW claims ratification of Ford contract at Michigan Assembly after snap vote
- UAW executives spout lies about Stellantis sellout deal
- Gaza: From colony, to open air prison, to killing field—Part Two
- Australian universities suppressing opposition to Gaza genocide
- Defend the right to protest in Germany!
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 1 worker killed, another missing in Kentucky coal prep plant collapse
- Mobilize the working class to stop the genocide in Gaza!
- Conference in Brazil brings together renegades and charlatans to slander the Fourth International
- Hundreds attend IYSSE and Students for Justice in Palestine rally at Detroit’s Wayne State University
- Australian anti-Zionist Jews protest government complicity in Gaza genocide
2023-11-04
- Americas Summit in Washington discusses plans for global war
- Over 80,000 sign petition against NYU Langone’s termination of a pro-Palestinian resident physician
- After more than two decades on the decline, US infant death rate rose significantly in 2022
- New York City postal workers speak out against Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Bernie Sanders sheds crocodile tears for Gaza while backing Israeli bombing
- Collective bargaining in Germany’s federal states: Establish independent rank-and-file committees against Verdi bureaucrats!
- The social implications of the bond market turmoil
- For a mass mobilization of workers to stop the genocide in Gaza!
- SAG-AFTRA members and supporters call for workers’ unity and an end to war
- Long COVID expert Dr. Amy Proal discusses the ongoing dangers of the pandemic
- Powerful appeal to workers at Port of Oakland stalls military vessel en route to Israel
- No to anti-Semitism! For the unity of the Russian, Palestinian, and Israeli working class!
- Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists line up with Netanyahu genocidal’s war in Gaza
- FedEx pilots vote out union chair who negotiated rejected contract
- Israeli military bombs hospitals, ambulance convoys and schools
- Australian High Court overturns a citizenship-stripping law but upholds another
- With pseudo-left Quebec Solidaire’s support, Quebec National Assembly endorses Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza
- Exclusive: UAW-GM contract does not automatically convert temporary part-time workers
- Massive march in Washington, as millions take part in global protests against the genocide in Gaza
2023-11-05
2023-11-06
- Maritime Union of Australia taking no action to oppose Gaza genocide
- Israel bombs Gaza’s al-Maghazi, Bureij refugee camps
- “It’s a global economy. The companies are talking to each other, why don’t we?”—Windsor Stellantis autoworkers speak out at Unifor ratification meeting
- Department of Labor investigates payroll “glitch,” which left tens of thousands of postal workers without paychecks
- Palestinian artist victims of the Israeli slaughter in Gaza: An actor, a painter, a writer and a muralist
- Rallies and press conferences held by healthcare workers across the world in opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- The way forward in the fight against the genocide in Gaza
- Socialist Equality Party addresses Palestine Solidarity Committee rally outside RAF Lossiemouth
- Blinken-Abbas meeting: Palestinian Authority courted as Israel’s policeman in Gaza
- Protests against Israeli genocide grow larger in Australia
- “We’re being lied to”: Toledo Jeep worker denounces UAW sellout, Biden’s support for genocide in Gaza
- This week in history: November 6-12
- Protests continue in New Zealand against genocide in Gaza, Labour MP booed off platform
- For a socialist perspective against the genocide in Gaza!
- UK: Hundreds protest outside Wes Streeting’s constituency office against Labour’s support for genocide
- Washington Post reports Trump plan to deploy military against political opponents if he returns to the White House
- Japan prepares to deploy fighter jets to Australia on a rotational basis
- Huge protests throughout the Asia-Pacific against the Gaza genocide
- Enthusiastic response to IYSSE lecture on historical materialism at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka
- AFL-CIO bureaucracy clamps down on growing support for Palestine among US workers
2023-11-07
- World economy “defying gravity”
- Teachers unions push concessions contracts to prevent strikes in Fresno and San Francisco
- Will Lehman challenges Biden administration’s refusal to investigate voter suppression in the UAW elections
- Deals between the Big Three and UAW shine light on the global class war
- More workers and youth in Australia denounce the genocide in Gaza
- Australia actively involved in Gaza genocide through Pine Gap spy base
- Public meetings in Sri Lanka: Stop Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza!
- Powerful protests at Port of Tacoma and Missouri Boeing bomb plant stall war materiel to Israel
- “A man of his time, ahead of his time and, now, of our time”
- Amid Israeli genocide in Gaza, Washington threatens Iran with nuclear war
- Six Pacific states line up with US-Israel against UN vote for Gaza ceasefire
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK government demands Saturday’s national Gaza protest rally in London be banned
- Waltz With Bashir (2008) and the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre of 3,000 Palestinians: “Memory takes us where we need to go”
- “Stop Israel’s genocide against Gaza!”—Socialist Equality Party in Australia holds well-attended public meeting
- Death toll in Gaza passes 10,000, as Israeli military prepares massive ground attack
- Chicago mayor approves first migrant tent camp as political crisis boils over in city council
- Tens of thousands in Germany demand: “Stop the genocide in Gaza!”
- The genocide in Gaza and the attack on the right to demonstrate in Germany
- Vote NO on the UAW sellout contracts at Ford, Stellantis and GM!
- Strike deadline set for 35,000 Las Vegas, Nevada casino workers
- German Vice Chancellor Habeck justifies the genocide in Gaza
2023-11-08
- “They kept saying ‘This is the best we could do’”: Flint GM workers denounce UAW’s bogus “informational” meetings
- Washington’s war drive against China fuels political conflict in the Philippines
- Netanyahu vows Israel “will not stop,” as humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens
- Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky cancels elections as US expands conflict with Russia in Middle East
- New York Times writer forced to resign after opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Ben Affleck, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain, Brian Cox and others call for a “ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost”
- Reserve Bank of Australia deepens attack on working class
- Australian PM’s visit to China part of pre-war manoeuvring
- Hundreds protest Gaza genocide at Friends of the IDF gala in San Carlos, California
- For an all-out mobilization of the working class on November 9 against the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza
- Tsar to Lenin now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video
- Hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers stage walkouts after CAQ government reiterates demand for real wage cuts
- Barcelona port workers refuse to ship arms to Israel
- Democratic Socialists of America is a “key player” in Israel’s assault on Gaza
- Australia: Newcastle steelworkers strike over pay and conditions
- Growing opposition to Gaza genocide at Columbia University
- Spain’s social democratic UGT union bureaucracy defends Israeli war on Gaza
- The racialist theory of “color blind racism”: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s Racism without Racists
- Mass protests in Malaysia against Gaza genocide
- Rail Action Committee in Germany demands: Stop all arms transports to Israel! Stop the genocide in Palestine!
- UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee: For solidarity action with Palestinian workers to shut down Israel’s war machine
- Workers and young people speak out against Gaza genocide at SEP (Australia) public meeting
2023-11-09
- “This ‘conversion’ means remaining in a temporary position”: Part-time worker calls for “no” vote on UAW-Stellantis deal
- Greens stage walkout of Australian parliament to protest Gaza genocide
- Japanese PM Kishida visits Manila, intensifies preparations for war with China
- Sri Lanka: Laid-off CWE workers demand higher compensation and a united struggle to defend jobs!
- GM workers vote down UAW contract at Michigan propulsion plants
- G7 members threaten Iran with regional war amid ongoing Israeli slaughter in Gaza
- New Zealand Labour PM defends Israel’s genocidal bombing, smears pro-Palestine protests
- Massive international response to Will Lehman Tik Tok video calling on workers to take action to stop genocide in Gaza
- SAG-AFTRA striker on the fight against sellout deal: “The rank and file are the ones who are going to have to do it”
- UK government prepares crackdown on political opposition with new “extremism” definition
- UAW pushes Mack Trucks’ “last, best and final offer,” identical to contract voted down in October
- Rashida Tlaib censure vote sets precedent for criminalizing opposition to Gaza genocide
- Off-year US election shows mass popular support for defending democratic rights
- What are the US weapons used by Israel in Gaza, and where are they made?
- Australian protesters prevent Israeli ship from docking at Melbourne port
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2023-11-10
- Massive protests in Indonesia against Gaza genocide
- Defend David McBride! Australian government proceeding with trial of Afghan war crimes whistleblower
- Actors must mobilize now to stop SAG-AFTRA betrayal!
- The fate of Marwan Barghouti, the most famous Palestinian political prisoner of Israel, explored
- Killings of striking teachers in Panama fuel mass protests against major copper mine
- Thousands of students, youth and working people protest in major imperialist countries against the genocide in Gaza
- The November pogroms of 1938 and the genocide in Gaza
- Ontario education unions work to block teachers’ struggle despite massive strike votes
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation under fire over its pro-Israeli Gaza coverage
- Israel bombs three hospitals after Biden says “no prospect” of ceasefire
- Indian-Canadian poet Rupi Kaur rejects White House invitation over Gaza mass murder
- “Our neighborhoods remain a dangerous mess”: Acapulco hotel worker speaks out two weeks after Hurricane Otis
- Deepening uncertainty and fear in ruling financial circles
- Four GM plants vote down UAW deal as momentum builds against sellout contract
- Public meeting in New Zealand, NOW ONLINE: Stop Israel’s genocide against Gaza
- “We’re fighting for our lives”: Warren Truck workers turning against UAW-Stellantis deal
- “The vote was rigged” : Detroit Stellantis workers say UAW used fraud to pass deal
- Australian critical minerals vital for US war plans against China
- UK rail workers should reject the RMT/train operators deal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As opposition grows to sellout auto contracts, Biden and Fain hold “back to work” rally
2023-11-11
- Protesters march in Seoul against the genocide in Gaza
- Macron’s ministers, French neo-fascists join hands in pro-Israel rally
- Why is there an epidemic crisis of congenital syphilis in the United States?
- German government increases arms deliveries to Israel tenfold
- Brandeis and Columbia universities suspend pro-Palestinian student groups
- New Jersey postal facility set to close as part of nationwide restructuring of the US Postal Service
- South Australian public school staff strike again for better wages and conditions
- Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the resurgence of imperialist barbarism
- Australian High Court partly overturns indefinite detentions
- Thousands of workers and youth participate in global protests against Gaza genocide
- Australia: IYSSE club at VU holds successful affiliation meeting opposing Gaza genocide
- As Blinken’s visit exposes Ankara’s complicity, Italian, Greek, Turkish unions call for industrial action to halt Israeli genocide
- Senator Manchin forgoes 2024 reelection bid, considers “centrist” third-party presidential run based on austerity and war
- Reject the UAW-Mack Trucks blackmail! Vote NO on the contract revote!
- Sri Lanka: Peradeniya University lecturers and students demand ceasefire in Gaza
- Canada’s ruling elite witch-hunting opponents of the imperialist-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza
- A winter surge of COVID-19 is underway in the US
- Australian Labor government hosts massive naval conference to plot war against China
- WGA for Peace: Opposition mounts among film and television workers to unions’ support for Israeli genocide in Gaza
2023-11-12
2023-11-13
- Video report: Workers and youth speak to WSWS at London, UK rally against genocide in Gaza
- Largest Australian protests against Gaza genocide yet, blacked out by media
- Unifor shuts down Integram Windsor Seating auto parts strike before vote on tentative agreement
- UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman sacked and plans far-right campaign from backbenches
- Australia strikes neo-colonial “security” pact with Tuvalu to counter China in Pacific
- Germany’s defence policy guidelines: “Ready for war”—like the Nazis
- After the ratification at Stellantis: Lessons from the 2023 Canadian Detroit Three contract struggle
- Unions celebrate suppression of GM strike in Brazil
- Without a contract for months, New York City school bus workers speak out against intolerable conditions
- Portland teachers enter second week of strike as Democratic politicians refuse to secure more funding for schools
- Thousands rally in Israel demanding Netanyahu’s resignation as government seeks to crush dissent
- Ethnic cleansing in Gaza: Israel’s agriculture minister declares, “We’re Rolling Out Nakba 2023”
- In response to question, how many Gazans must die, Florida legislator shouts, “All of them.”
- Two million US children have been removed from Medicaid health insurance since April
- Meeting erupts as Toledo Jeep workers voice strong opposition to UAW-backed sellout deal
- Reserve Bank of Australia: No letup in attack on living standards
- Bangladesh police kill four garment workers during mass protests for higher wages
- Contract expires next year for 45,000 dockworkers on the US East Coast
- Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions claim approval of contract by 98.5 percent without releasing vote totals
- Under the Shadow: A psychological horror film about 1980s wartime Iran
- The mass protest in London and the global fight against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- “The COVID pandemic broke my spirit”: A day in the life of a nurse in Louisville, Kentucky
- This week in history: November 13-19
- Massive blaze burns at chemical plant north of Houston
- Food insecurity increases in Australia amid cost-of-living crisis
2023-11-14
- German Health Minister Lauterbach: Supporting the Gaza genocide and trivialising the Holocaust
- Sydney protest points to striving for working-class action to stop the genocide, but maritime union collaborates with Israel
- Establishment silent on campaign against Palestinian-Australian businessman who opposes Gaza genocide
- German trade unions support Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Skilled trades workers carry out one-day strike at California State University system
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE demonstrates in Colombo against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza
- Gaza officials stop updating death toll amid health system collapse
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Postal Workers: Oppose the genocide in Gaza! For action to halt the shipment of weapons and equipment to Israel!
- Why Mack Trucks workers need to vote “no” and take this fight out of the hands of the UAW bureaucracy
- More workers speak out against Gaza genocide at mass Australian protests
- Artists from Los Angeles to Santiago to Dhaka: Mounting horror over Israeli mass murder in Gaza
- UK government, Met Police and right-wing media launch witch-hunt against protesters of Israeli genocide
- Culinary Workers Union cancels strike of Las Vegas Strip casinos at last minute
- Channeling Hitler, Trump threatens to “root out” leftist “vermin”
- Massive budget cuts underway at colleges and universities throughout the US
- Ontario NDP mayor Horwath calls for use of scabs against striking Hamilton bus drivers
- Harvard University escalating anti-democratic attack on opponents of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
2023-11-15
- Moody’s lowers US debt outlook to “negative”
- UPS workers face job cuts due to automation, stagnant wages under new contract
- YouTube demonetizes antiwar website MintPress News
- This Saturday: Public meeting in London, UK to mark the Centenary of Trotskyism
- The American Medical Association rejects a resolution for ceasefire in Gaza
- Bernie Sanders holds Senate hearing to prop up union bureaucracy
- The Washington D.C. “March for Israel”: A bipartisan rally for genocide
- Opposition mounts to SAG-AFTRA sellout agreement: “This contract will be the death of working class actors”
- New Zealand meeting discusses the socialist perspective to stop the genocide in Gaza
- UK: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suffers large rebellion over Gaza ceasefire motion
- US, South Korean leaders pledge greater military cooperation in war drive against China
- Australian workers and youth condemn Gaza genocide: “Governments are ignoring the will of the people”
- Falconer Review of victimised Royal Mail workers: CWU delivers a travesty of justice
- Warren Truck workers accuse UAW officials of rigging vote to get Stellantis contract ratified
- Israeli forces bombard Al-Shifa Hospital, as finance minister calls for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza
- US Supreme Court papers over rampant corruption with first-ever “Code of Conduct”
2023-11-16
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation doubles down on support for Gaza genocide with filthy “Q+A” program
- A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World — November 16, 1953
- San Diego healthcare workers protest AMA’s refusal to support Gaza ceasefire
- Israel’s war on hospitals and the normalization of war crimes
- Biden-Xi summit: US ramps up aggression against China
- German government plans to more than double military aid for Ukraine
- Spanish shipyard workers denounce complicity of PSOE-Podemos government in Gaza war
- Sri Lankan port workers and Jaffna university students denounce Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Over 350 Spanish artists denounce Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza
- The censure of Rashida Tlaib, the Creole uprising, and the American Civil War
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump endorses “citizen’s arrest” of prosecutor and judge in New York civil trial
- UAW declares ratification of Mack Trucks contract following re-vote and blackmail campaign
- French workers, students denounce Israeli genocide in Gaza
- House passes budget resolution to postpone federal shutdown to New Year
- Australia: Sydney University sacks immune-compromised academic for insisting on COVID safety
- UK Parliament rejects ceasefire in Gaza: For an anti-war movement based on the working class!
- Thousands of steel workers’ jobs set to go, as UK unions preach nationalist campaign to “Save our Steel” industry
- UAW reportedly planning to announce GM deal “ratified,” despite massive “no” votes and suspicions of ballot fraud
2023-11-17
- Useless hand wringing and empty platitudes in the latest US climate report
- US Capitol Police attack peaceful Jewish protesters and their allies at vigil against Gaza genocide
- Canada’s unions trumpet federal anti-scab legislation to bolster “progressive” Liberal government as it backs Israel’s Gaza genocide
- University and College Union capitulates, ending years long UK higher education dispute
- Biden meets Indonesia’s Widodo ahead of APEC summit
- Join Melbourne school strikes against Gaza genocide! Oppose threats and intimidation from politicians
- Trump prepares fascist assault on migrant workers beginning in 2025
- New York City mayor Eric Adams faces deepening FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign
- Amid Israeli war on Gaza, Iran blocks IAEA nuclear inspectors
- Australian Aboriginal nationalist leader Marcia Langton backs Israeli onslaught on Gaza
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds meetings on Israel’s war on Gaza
- 20-hour warning strike shows train drivers’ determination
- US, Israeli lies about “command center” at Al-Shifa hospital fall apart
- Australian artists denounce Labor’s support for Israeli assault on Gaza
- UAW to announce fraudulent contract “ratification” at GM and Ford
- Spain's Sánchez re-elected prime minister amid mass strikes, protests over Gaza
- German Constitutional Court rules climate change fund is unconstitutional—A signal for further social cuts
- “Stop the massacre in Gaza!”—Socialist Equality Party holds anti-war meetings in Berlin and Stuttgart
- New York hospital cancels medical presentation over speaker’s support for Palestinians
- Erdoğan calls Israeli state “terrorist,” maintains flow of Turkish military supplies to Israel
- California State University skilled trades workers hold one day strike
- US Supreme Court clears way for executions in Alabama and Texas
- Israel provokes diplomatic row with Brazil over Gaza, Hezbollah
- Socialist Equality Party protests obstruction of public meeting by London Metropolitan Police
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “I guarantee you that they stuff the ballot box!”: Michigan autoworkers speak out against UAW contract “ratification”
2023-11-18
- Peronist Massa lurches further to right ahead of Argentina’s presidential runoff with the fascistic Milei
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union’s national convention stumps for union bureaucracy, suppresses resolution against genocide in Gaza
- The forced evacuation of southern Gaza: The next stage in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
- Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe’s 2024 budget deepens attack on workers and the poor
- In a stinging rebuke to the New York Times, poetry editor Anne Boyer resigns over Gaza genocide
- Australian government rams through bill to impose unprecedented restrictions on released detainees
- Canada’s Trudeau government reaffirms support for Israel’s Gaza genocide, as crackdown on protests intensifies
- Illinois John Deere worker dies following workplace accident
- Australia Post workers: Oppose genocide in Gaza! Heed the call of Palestinian workers to shut down Israel’s war machine!
- Over 1,000 Jewish protesters and their supporters hold ceasefire protest in Hollywood, California
- UAW delays official announcement of GM ratification as questions are raised over vote
- US Department of Education announces probe into alleged antisemitism on college campuses
2023-11-19
2023-11-20
- Germany to prosecute slogan calling for freedom for Palestine as a crime
- Right-wing CIA Democrat, Abigail Spanberger, announces run for governor of Virginia
- Sixth week of mass protests in New Zealand against Gaza genocide
- Biden’s plan for “peace” through war and genocide
- UK Tories promise deportations and other anti-migrant attacks will proceed following Supreme Court ruling against Rwanda policy
- Union focuses striking New Jersey nurses on fruitless appeals to multimillionaire governor
- At least 80 dead as Israel bombs UN schools in Gaza
- The end of the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the demise of public health
- Widespread resistance from actors to SAG-AFTRA betrayal on Artificial Intelligence, streaming residuals
- Portland teachers union prepares sellout of citywide strike
- DSA covers for complicity of Biden and Democratic Party in Gaza genocide
- Opposition to crackdown on pro-Palestinian student organizations mounts at Columbia University
- German politicians and media attack Greta Thunberg for condemning the genocide in Gaza
- Global protests against Israeli genocide continue as official death toll in Gaza climbs past 13,000
- This week in history: November 20-26
- Retired Spanish generals call for coup, back right-wing protests vs PSOE-Sumar government
- UN expert exposes Australian government, media complicity in Gaza genocide
- Mass protests in Australia declare: “Albanese, you can’t hide: You’re supporting genocide”
- Genocide in Gaza: Imperialism descends into the abyss
- Australian government gives David McBride no choice but to plead guilty after exposing war crimes
- Protests demanding a limit to front-line deployments continue, as infighting intensifies within Ukrainian ruling class
- New York City educators hold rally outside UFT headquarters to demand union call for ceasefire in Gaza
- Meeting of Indian WSWS readers discusses how the working class can stop the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza
- As challenges to UAW votes continue, media declares “contentious voting” over
2023-11-21
- Hamilton, Ontario transit workers must Vote “No” on sellout contract offer
- Australia: Sacked Sydney University immune-compromised academic speaks out
- Healthcare workers speak out against the genocide in Gaza as Palestinian healthcare system crumbles
- Ceasefire protesters interrupt California Democratic Convention, temporarily halting event
- Israel escalates fighting with Lebanon, as ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues
- Globe and Mail defends Canadian businesses’ “right” to use scabs to break strikes
- “The CWU Executive led by Ward and Furey has betrayed each of you:” A victimised rep at Royal Mail speaks on Falconer Review
- Pro-business Democrat Cherelle Parker wins Philadelphia mayor's race
- UAW announces ratification of sellout contracts at the Big Three: The way forward for autoworkers
- Japan holds military exercises amid US-led war preparations against China
- Gaza demonstrations targeting Starmer and other MPs’ offices prompt Labour call for police clampdown
- Indonesian protests against Israeli genocide continue
- Australian protesters declare: “No human heart can accept the Gaza genocide”
- MGM Grand Detroit casino workers reject contract betrayal, continue strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP speakouts in Sydney and Melbourne: “Mobilise workers to end the Gaza genocide!”
- Fascistic candidate Javier Milei elected president of Argentina
- Award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy denounces “brazen slaughter” and “crimes against humanity” in Gaza
- OpenAI board of directors ousts company co-founder and CEO Sam Altman
- French pseudo-left parties block struggle by the working class to stop Gaza genocide
- Corrupt self-promoter George Santos faces expulsion from US House of Representatives
2023-11-22
- All the Light We Cannot See: Shedding little of that on the events of World War II
- UPS opens huge automated warehouse, where robots outnumber people 15 to 1
- The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- Job cuts and speedup planned after UAW pushes through sellout contracts
- Thanksgiving travel fuels latest COVID-19 wave amid collapse of public health
- New Zealand medical lab workers strike again over low wages
- Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) celebrates 80th birthday of veteran Trotskyist K. Ratnayake
- “There is not enough staff and wages are low”: Striking Quebec healthcare worker speaks out on deteriorating public services and Gaza genocide
- Netanyahu vows continued war on Gaza as Israel, US agree to hostage swap, brief pause in Israeli rampage
- Militarization of the Brazilian state escalates under Lula
- Elon Musk promotes fascist “Great Replacement Theory” on X/Twitter
- Interview with Udi Raz about dismissal from Berlin’s Jewish Museum
- More Australian school students prepare to strike against Gaza genocide
- Greetings to veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist K. Ratnayake on his 80th birthday
- Facebook blocks page of the Palestine Committee of Norway
- 420,000 Quebec public sector workers launch three-day strike
- Video: David North speaks at London meeting on the centenary of Trotskyism
- Australian police violently attack pro-Palestinian protest at Sydney port, arrest 23
- Australia uses minor naval incident to condemn China for “unsafe and unprofessional conduct”
- Left Party conference in Augsburg: support for Gaza genocide, NATO war against Russia, and capitalism
- UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s electioneering budget: an attack on workers and the poor
2023-11-23
- Rural Minnesota postal workers protest Amazon-USPS agreement forcing high workloads
- Sri Lankan president unveils plans to intensify exploitation of plantation workers
- Israel’s Gaza “truce”: A pause to reload the guns for the next stage in the genocide against the Palestinians
- Australian health workers rally against Israel’s genocide
- Workers must fight Quebec Common Front leaders’ sabotage of swelling public sector strike movement
- McCarthyite witch-hunt against actresses Melissa Barrera and Susan Sarandon for opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza
- North Korea conducts satellite launch as US-instigated tensions rise in Indo-Pacific
- Veteran State Department official Stuart Seldowitz outed as genocidal bigot after videos of him harassing New York food cart workers go viral
- Government and media threaten Documenta art exhibition with cancellation
- Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India contained after 6 infections
- “Everybody’s pissed off”: Mack Trucks workers return to work following UAW sellout
- US appeals court guts Voting Rights Act
- New York City mayor announces draconian mid-year budget cuts, blaming increasing costs due to immigrants
- JFK: What the Doctors Saw
- Students and workers protest Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s pro-Israel reportage
- UK: End Unite’s isolation of the Go North East bus dispute to defeat strikebreaking operation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UN expert speaks in New Zealand on Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians
- Israel’s lies about October 7 incursion fall apart
- Labor shortages among air traffic controllers threatens airline safety
2023-11-24
- School students strike in Melbourne against the Gaza genocide
- Australian PM Albanese, opposition leader exploit Holocaust to legitimise Gaza genocide
- Southeastern US states see a host of hospital closures, attacks on healthcare programs
- Australian High Court decision sheds light on shocking housing conditions in Northern Territory
- Thousands join protests across Germany to demand an end to Gaza genocide
- “Just let people die” said “Dr Death the chancellor,” now UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak
- Hostage/prisoner exchange used to prepare next stage of Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Striking Quebec public sector workers speak out on deplorable working conditions, need to mobilize to defeat a back-to-work law
- Tens of thousands of Australian healthcare workers sign petitions demanding Gaza ceasefire
- While hunger soars in US, Biden feasts at billionaire’s estate
- Child hospitalizations soar across China one year after the lifting of Zero-COVID
- Israel intensifies bombardment of Gaza ahead of 4-day “pause”
2023-11-25
- Public meeting in Istanbul: Stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza!
- Legal challenge to Australian government’s new laws to impose inhuman conditions on released refugees
- Health crisis in Gaza intensifies as Israel deepens its genocidal attack
- The election of Milei and the breakdown of Peronism and bourgeois democracy in Argentina
- Australian Committee for Public Education campaigns against Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Study finds that SARS-CoV-2 can shut down mitochondria, the cellular “power plants”
- SAG-AFTRA releases full tentative agreement, amidst growing distrust, criticism
- Victimized Stellantis temp worker speaks on lessons of 2023 contract struggle
- New surge in New Zealand COVID-19 cases and deaths
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting calls on working class to intervene to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- The “No to Wars” demonstration: A cover for the war policy of the German government
- Hundreds of Sydney school students strike against the genocide in Gaza
- Australian high school students ferociously attacked for protesting Gaza genocide
- Neo-fascist Wilders wins Dutch general elections
- Far-right government formed in New Zealand
- Defend Berlin’s Oyoun cultural centre! No to censorship of war opponents!
2023-11-26
2023-11-27
- State of emergency declared in Kentucky after chemical train derails
- Vast scale of Gaza genocide comes into view
- Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha detained and beaten by Israel Defense Forces
- Three Palestinian students shot in Burlington, Vermont in suspected hate crime
- Thousands strike once again in Germany against assault on educational and social programmes
- Australian journalists take a stand against official media’s backing of Israeli war crimes
- Berlin: Humboldt University Student Parliament rejects pro-Israel motion proposed by Social Democrats
- New surge of COVID-19 in Australia
- New board of directors restores Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI
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- Thanksgiving in America: End of pandemic social programs fuels rising hunger
- Hundreds converge on Capitol in Lansing, Michigan to oppose the genocide in Gaza
- US, Australia stage joint patrols with the Philippines in South China Sea
- UAW announces tentative agreement with Allison Transmission, running roughshod over mass sentiment for strike
- SEP (US) national secretary to visit Sri Lanka to speak on the centenary of Trotskyism
- Amazon warehouse workers strike in Coventry, UK as part of international “Black Friday” protests
- China suspends publishing youth unemployment data
- Australian protesters speak out: Gaza genocide “is about protecting US imperialist interests in the Middle East”
- In chilling attack on free speech, court issues injunction against public defenders’ union resolution opposing Gaza genocide
- UN and Human Rights Watch accuse UK of grave attacks on democratic rights
2023-11-28
- London’s “National March Against Antisemitism” aimed at legitimising Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians
- San Diego Sweetwater educators begin contract vote, as union bureaucrats use scare tactics against opposition
- Australia protesters denounce Gaza genocide: “The whole capitalist system has shown its true face”
- Palestinian theater calls for international performances of the play The Gaza Monologues
- Censorship campaign against Roger Waters intensifies on his Latin American tour
- Royal Mail workers denounce stitch up of reps and members by the Communication Workers Union in Falconer Review
- Rail workers in Germany can place no trust in the union leadership! Join the Rail Action Committee!
- Home ownership the “preserve of the rich” in Australia
- US invests in Colombo Port, deepening tensions with China
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Surge of respiratory illness in northern China part of global outbreak of pneumonia among children
- Tens of thousands protest in Ottawa against Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza
- NSW police arrest more than 100 Australian climate change protesters
- UN warns “humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting worse” as Israel plans to resume onslaught after “pause”
- Suspected shooter arrested on attempted murder charges in shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont
- Biden announces raft of measures aimed at securing supply chains for World War III
2023-11-29
- Government and unions seek to contain and suppress swelling Quebec public sector strike wave
- Many actors, stunt workers, and now production assistants oppose tentative SAG-AFTRA agreement
- Australia: Western Sydney health workers protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- South Korean president visits Europe to promote US-led war drive against China
- Graduate student union announces sellout deal before strike deadline at University of Southern California
- MGM Grand Detroit casino workers continue strike, as unions prepare new sellout
- Palestinian student Hisham Awartani issues powerful statement following Vermont shooting
- Drastically rising rents fuel growing homelessness in Germany
- BMA proposes sell-out deal with UK government in consultants’ dispute: Reject the deal, form rank-and-file committees!
- “Slow death”: Israel weaponizes disease in the Gaza genocide
- Wes Streeting prepares Labour for deepening attack on UK’s National Health Service
- COVID cases in the US have risen 50 percent in four weeks
- Why have right-wing forces attacked Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Detail?
- “Society has plenty of resources, but the question is where are they going?"—Quebec teachers speak out as they launch indefinite strike
- Heightened US-China tensions impact Taiwan’s presidential election campaign
- A Tribute to Helen Halyard (November 24, 1950–November 28, 2023)
- Allison Transmission workers erupt in anger over details of UAW sellout contract: “The whole thing is loophole after loophole”
2023-11-30
- Bernie Sanders: The left face of genocide
- Australian pseudo-left seeking to divert anger over Gaza genocide behind Labor, unions
- Governments flaunt their indifference to runaway global warming at COP28 climate summit
- UAW officials move to shut down BCBS strike with sellout “verbal agreement”
- Sri Lanka Telecom workers strike against privatisation and social cuts
- French unions and pseudo-left parties march alongside Zionist group in government-sponsored feminist march
- Instagram shutters account of Palestinian publisher Quds News Network
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Actor Robert De Niro censored in a revealing episode: US ruling elite “fears superstitiously” every critical word
- Contrasting inter-group behavior of our two closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, provides possible insights to human evolution
- Democratic Majority Leader Schumer libels anti-genocide student protesters as “aiders and abettors” of antisemitism
- Green Party conference in Karlsruhe: Militarism and dictatorship, agitation against refugees
- World’s media conceal the brutal treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
- Israeli military kills two children in West Bank raid on last day of Gaza truce
- The plight of Thai workers in Israel
- Walkout to protest Gaza genocide at London universities UCL and SOAS
- Indiana government slaps pathetic $7,000 fine on Amazon for death of 20-year-old worker
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