Archive: 12/2023
2023-12-01
- GM execs boast about low costs of UAW contract, hand over billions to shareholders
- Boric’s police state: 200 Carabineros raid university in Chile
- Unite UK rail workers! Defeat the de-escalation and sellout strategy by RMT-ASLEF officials!
- Toronto police pursue criminal charges of “hate-motivated” mischief against 11 anti-genocide, pro-Palestinian protesters
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Jewish professor who has spoken out against Israeli war crimes assaulted in Sydney
- Australian government demands parliament sits until it passes “preventative detention” law
- Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands: How can war and fascism be stopped?
- OSBCU president Laura Walton elevated to head Ontario Federation of Labour after sabotaging 2022 education workers’ strike
- Henry Kissinger and the crimes of American imperialism
- Political and media establishment slander New York City high school students protesting Gaza genocide
- Modi government bans all expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Indian-held Kashmir
- Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a life dedicated to the liberation of the working class
- Israel resumes its genocidal assault on Gaza, targeting the southern strip
- Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Incoming New Zealand government prepares sweeping attack on public education
2023-12-02
- Visit by Vietnamese president forges closer ties with Japan
- Governors Newsom and DeSantis affirm Israel’s “right” to genocide against Palestinians in right-wing Fox News debate
- Maestro: A hopelessly one-sided portrait of Leonard Bernstein
- CDC’s provisional US life expectancy and suicide rates for 2022: An indictment of the capitalist system
- UAW’s “ceasefire” resolution on Gaza designed to prop up pro-war Democratic Party
- Over 1,300 British actors, artists sign letter protesting censorship of pro-Palestine views by art institutions
- Portland Association of Teachers forces through sellout contract
- Gaza genocide protesters locked out of sit-in by Wayne State University campus police
- Jacobin once again endorses Sweden’s “herd immunity” COVID policies
- President AMLO invites US special forces to train troops in Mexico
- Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack
- Australia: Committee for Public Education holds online meeting opposing genocide in Gaza
- New Zealand “left” commentator Chris Trotter defends Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Australian media witch hunts Sydney Theatre Company actors over Gaza protest
- University of Michigan cancels student referendum on genocide in Gaza
- A young man dies after torture by the police in northern Sri Lanka
- Republican George Santos, chronic fabulist and accused conman, expelled from US House of Representatives
2023-12-03
2023-12-04
- The barbarity of Australian government’s detainee shackling laws
- More reasons to oppose the SAG-AFTRA contract and build rank-and-file committees
- Australian protesters denounce Gaza genocide: “It’s a continuation of the 75 years of oppression”
- Right-wing Supreme Court majority on brink of gutting federal regulatory powers
- Knoxville, Tennessee postal facility the latest impacted by nationwide restructuring program
- San Diego student-run high school newspaper pressured to retract a political cartoon criticizing the genocide against Gaza
- UK: Unite enforces sellout pay deal at Go North East bus dispute to end all out strike action
- Thousands of California State University faculty begin limited four-day strike
- New Zealand’s far-right government seeks stronger alliance with US imperialism
- UAW keeps Allison Transmission workers on job after 96 percent vote to reject union-backed deal
- Australian unions maintain complicity with genocide amid phoney week of action
- Helen Halyard (1950-2023), a tribute to a life dedicated to the victory of world socialism
- US pledges to “continue to support Israel” as over 1,000 more Gazans are massacred over the weekend
- This week in history: December 4-10
- Education funding crisis devastating UK teaching profession
- Brazil’s pseudo-left PCO defends its support for Erdoğan in an attack on the WSWS
- Massive new wave of coronavirus infections in Germany
- The bankruptcy of the Signa Real estate empire
2023-12-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Striking New Jersey nurses determined not to settle as union announces tentative agreement, prepares betrayal
- Spain’s pseudo-left parties divert anger over Gaza genocide behind PSOE-Sumar government
- British government to send surveillance planes to facilitate Israel’s genocide
- German government prepares huge social cuts
- Israel’s war on women and children
- Sir Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher: The Labour Party versus the working class
- Massive new investments in the Port of Savannah, as East Coast dockworkers’ contract looms
- Holiday strikes of pilots, flight attendants blocked by Railway Labor Act
- Los Angeles area homeless targeted in series of killings last week
- A huge jobs massacre is unfolding in Germany’s auto industry
- White House warns of funding crisis in war against Russia in Ukraine
- SEP (Sri Lanka) denounces violent assault by ruling party thugs on its members
- AUKUS talks underscore accelerating US-led war drive against China
- US Department of Labor charges poultry processor a measly $3.8 million for child labor violations, wage theft and retaliation by firing
- Australian protesters oppose Gaza genocide: “All our systems are failing us”
- Noir City festivals highlight critical US films from 1948 on 75th anniversary
- How the 2015 Quebec public sector workers’ struggle was derailed—vital lessons for today
- University of Pennsylvania threatens Jewish students for showing anti-Zionist film
- Union belatedly sets strike date for postdoctoral workers at Icahn School of Medicine in New York
- Texas Republican Party leaders reject resolution disavowing support from Nazis, Hitler-lovers
- Australian government seeks to rush through new citizenship cancellation laws
- Blue Cross Michigan workers: Reject UAW-backed sellout agreement
2023-12-06
- Germany taking police state measures against Gaza protests
- UK homelessness figures rise amid council funding crisis
- US Justice Department alleges Indian intelligence agent plotted assassinations in North America
- Protests continue for eighth weekend across Canada against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Hostages and families clash with Netanyahu
- Bereaved families denounce Boris Johnson as he testifies at UK COVID Inquiry
- US politicians and university presidents slander anti-genocide protesters, Roger Waters as antisemites
- Pushback against Zionist witch-hunt of Sydney Theatre Company performers
- Video: Joseph Kishore, national secretary of the SEP (US), welcomed on arrival in Sri Lanka
- “Helen’s achievements live on in our fight today under conditions of the emergence of the international working class.”
- COVID-19 surges across the US despite official cover-up
- UAW seeks to ram through fourth sellout contract at Indiana Lear auto parts plant
- Israel steps up ethnic cleansing of Gaza with expansion of ground and air onslaught to the south
- Communist Party of the Philippines announces the opening of peace talks with the Marcos government
- Boris Johnson appears at UK COVID Inquiry to justify his crimes
- Unify the faculty and entire workforce at California State University in joint strike action! Build rank-and-file committees!
- Enthusiastic response to campaign for Sri Lankan Centenary of Trotskyism meetings
- Uncertainty over where central banks’ monetary policy is headed
- Support Australian school strikes! Build a socialist anti-war movement to stop the genocide and war!
- Sosyalist Eşitlik Grubu holds public meeting in Istanbul on Israel’s genocide in Gaza
2023-12-07
- Biden’s Education Department expands scope of investigations into alleged antisemitism on college campuses
- Yellow bankruptcy auction raises $1.9 billion for Wall Street
- The struggle of Quebec’s 600,000 public sector workers at the crossroads
- Multiple people killed at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and in Austin, Texas as 2023 breaks record for mass shootings
- “Helen was the genuine article, as we say in the UK—a revolutionary leader through and through”
- Behind the UAW unionization campaign: Containing the class struggle on behalf of Biden and auto bosses
- Johnson unrepentant on second day of UK COVID Inquiry questioning
- New Zealand protests continue against genocide in Gaza as new far-right government backs Israel
- Ten years since the death of leading British Trotskyist Dave Hyland
- “The measure of my dreams”: Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spain: Trade unions support Telefónica’s scheme to lay off a third of its workforce
- “The essence of Helen Halyard is that she was party, she was cadre”
- Gaza health system collapses amid nonstop Israeli bombardment
- Giant Chinese property developer Evergrande given stay of execution
- Former Japanese general reveals plans for war with China over Taiwan
- No to censorship of opponents of war! Stop the genocide in Gaza! Protest December 12 at Ruhr University Bochum!
- France: Protesters denounce the escalation of Gazan genocide
- Public meeting in Australia: Stop the Gaza genocide! Build a socialist anti-war movement!
- SAG-AFTRA contract ratified, with a large abstention
- US and Israeli mass rape propaganda, without credible evidence, is being used to justify Gaza genocide
2023-12-08
- Labor government announces end of daily delivery at Australia Post
- Question mark raised over the world’s most important financial market
- Venezuela claims oil-rich territory controlled by Guyana as Pentagon carries out flight operations
- UK pupils and students protest during day of action against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza
- Growing tensions between Ukrainian President and army leadership as staggering death toll comes into view
- David North sends a message to Sri Lankan SEP members attacked by pro-government thugs
- Postdoctoral workers at Icahn School of Medicine in New York begin strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Helen was our comrade, friend and fighter. She was an indefatigable fighter for the working class and socialism”
- 1,100 DHL Express workers launch strike at Global Superhub at Cincinnati airport
- Trump threatens dictatorship, but “Genocide Joe” is no alternative
- Turkish President Erdoğan’s links to ongoing trade with Israel exposed
- How the pseudo-left covers up the UAW’s betrayal of autoworkers
- Australian government rams through detention and citizenship-stripping laws
- Stellantis announces 3,680 layoffs at Detroit and Toledo Jeep plants, as automakers escalate job cuts under new UAW contracts
- Growing support for Sri Lankan SEP campaign against pro-government thug attack on its members
- “Helen was a true comrade, who was willing to sacrifice so much, even her life, like Tom Henehan”
- Teacher, author and activist Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer murdered in Israeli airstrike
- Australian Nazis march through regional city as entire establishment vilifies refugees
2023-12-09
- Australian state Labor governments threaten school teachers over Palestine solidarity actions
- “Helen visited the Ruhr area in Germany, where workers still today remember her very well”
- Australia: A revealing bipartisan parliamentary love fest
- Israel’s murder of Palestinian author Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer sparks global outrage
- Facing over $17 million budget shortfall, Michigan school district could lay off up to 100 workers
- Thousands in Guernica, Spain draw link between 1937 fascist bombings and Gaza genocide
- Wayne State University Board of Governors snubs students protesting Gaza genocide
- Workers evacuated from future Toyota electric battery production mega-site in North Carolina after being overcome by fumes
- Quebec public sector strike wave swells, as 420,000-member Common Front launches seven-day strike
- “If we were going to ask Helen serious questions, we were going to get serious answers”
- Minnesota Nurses Association fires staffer for pro-Palestinian statements
- Protesters in the Philippines denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- The divisive role of the GDL rail union leadership
- Australian school students strike against Gaza genocide, but pseudo-left advance dead end of protest politics
- US special counsel announces federal indictment of Hunter Biden, alleging 9 tax law violations
- SEP (US) National Secretary Joe Kishore addresses “Centenary of Trotskyism” public meeting at Sri Lanka’s Peradeniya University
- Washington Post staff wage 24-hour strike to oppose low salaries and corporate restructuring
- New COVID variant JN.1 fuels eighth wave of mass infection in the US
- Australian students speak out at school strike against Israel’s genocide against Gaza
2023-12-10
- This week in history: December 11-17
- Video report: Workers and youth speak to WSWS at London, UK demonstration against genocide in Gaza
- Behind the “revival” of the Parti Québécois: as class struggle mounts, ruling class intensifies anti-immigrant chauvinism
- Inquest into suicide of UK headteacher Ruth Perry demonstrates that school inspectorate Ofsted must be abolished!
- University of California Irvine targets students opposing genocide in Gaza
- Around 100,000 protest in London against US and UK support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza
2023-12-11
- Australia signs anti-China security agreement with Papua New Guinea
- Australia: Union bosses force unpopular Queensland Labor premier to quit
- Prime Minister Sunak given kid gloves treatment by official UK COVID Inquiry
- Australian Greens offer no way forward in fight against Gaza genocide
- “Comrade Helen was connected to us through the great ideas of the October Revolution”
- New false accusations of antisemitism in Germany’s cultural sector
- New York University suspends student for removing Zionist posters
- Protests in Leeds and Sheffield, UK call for a ceasefire in Gaza
- UAW rams through fourth sellout agreement at Indiana Lear seating plant
- Ouster of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill represents new stage in witch-hunt against opposition to Gaza genocide
- “The UAW knew these layoffs were coming”: Toledo Jeep workers denounce job cuts
- UK government snubs key NATO ally Greece over stolen Parthenon sculptures
- UAW reports sellout contract ratified by Blue Cross Blue Shield workers
- Australian protests against Gaza genocide: Governments are not listening to us
- Thousands mourn Professor Refaat al-Ar’eer at anti-genocide protests and online memorial
- Vetoing Gaza ceasefire resolution, Biden administration upholds genocide as state policy
- Second warning strike by train drivers in Germany: “We’re at work for 10 or 11 hours”
- Reject the tentative agreement with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and expand the strike!
- Police provocatively break up peaceful protest against Gaza genocide in Royal Oak, Michigan
- South Korea major supplier of shells to Ukraine
- “The expansion of the ICFI in Turkey was made possible by the determined struggle of Comrade Helen and her generation of Trotskyist leaders”
- Democrats offer to gut asylum rights in exchange for GOP support for Ukraine war funds
- Mobilize educators to stop the genocide against Gaza and to defend our students!
2023-12-12
- Spotify lays off 17 percent of workforce ahead of holidays in third round of layoffs this year
- 9 in 10 Gazans report lack of food
- “Helen Halyard educated and inspired many thousands of workers and youth”
- Meeting of striking Quebec public sector workers calls for building of rank-and-file committees to expand struggle, oppose union sabotage
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pro-Israel demonstration in Berlin: The powers-that-be keep to themselves
- Elon Musk reinstates fascist Alex Jones to Twitter/X
- Helen Halyard’s legacy lends immense power to the building of Trotskyism in Brazil
- After suppressing strike, unions sanction job cuts at GM Brazil
- Six killed, including two children, as dozens of tornadoes strike Tennessee
- US and Philippines heighten tensions with China in South China Sea
- US teachers denounce Biden, demand to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Sunak survives Rwanda deportation Bill rebellion but lurch to the right continues
- Oppose the state-organized witch hunt of opponents of genocide on US campuses!
- Australian government denounces High Court for upholding Constitution
- Spain’s neo-fascist Vox party visits Israel to back Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza
- Las Vegas demonstrators honor Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer at rally against Israeli genocide
- Zelensky attends Milei’s inauguration in Argentina: Two puppets of US-NATO axis embrace
- Mass protests continue in Pakistan’s Balochistan province over extra-judicial killings and other state crimes
- South Australian education union pushes a sell-out agreement on wages and conditions in schools
- China deflation worsens as economic problems mount
- Australian protesters: We have to connect the struggles of workers and fight the Gaza genocide
- SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore addresses “Centenary of Trotskyism” public meeting in Colombo
- The COVID-19 winter surge and the failed policies of the ruling elites
2023-12-13
- American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten’s trip to Israel: A cover for genocide against Gaza
- Biden, Zelensky demand billions more for anti-Russia war
- New Zealand pseudo-left group whitewashes unions’ complicity in Gaza genocide
- University of Michigan permanently bans student resolution against genocide in Gaza
- Union Pacific railroad lays off 1,300 maintenance of way workers
- Australian working class confronts deepening social and housing crisis
- The Texas Supreme Court’s anti-abortion ruling and the war on democratic rights
- Forty-one Brown University students arrested for protesting Gaza genocide
- Key central bank meetings as higher interest rates start to bite
- UK Trades Union Congress special conference signals no fight against Tory anti-strike laws
- Social Democrats position themselves as the leading party of German imperialism
- Hundreds of textile workers in Turkey continue wildcat strike in defiance of military police crackdown
- “To mark Helen’s life is to recognise her place of honour in the history of the Fourth International”
- Three establishment candidates line up for Indonesian presidential election
- “The attack on the SEP members is an attack on the international working class”: Will Lehman defends Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka
- As UN calls for Gaza ceasefire, Israel begins flooding Gaza with seawater
2023-12-14
- British writer Benjamin Zephaniah: an appreciation
- Year-end job cuts spread across the US
- “Block the Boat” actions used as cover for Australian unions’ complicity with genocide
- “What the life of Comrade Helen shows is the power of the Trotskyist movement itself”
- Australia Labor government unveils plans to slash disability funding
- Republican-controlled House votes for impeachment inquiry into Biden
- Irish government seizes on far-right riot as pretext for state clampdown
- Militant protest against genocide in Gaza and censorship of war opponents at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- British Trotskyists condemn pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
- Australian government postures over ceasefire, but backs Israeli war machine
- Biden admits Israel is carrying out “indiscriminate bombing”: A confession of complicity in war crimes
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “This is a capitalist government that just wants to dismantle the system, then privatize it”: Over half- a-million Quebec public sector workers complete sixth day on strike
- Actor Brian Cox reading Palestinian poet Refaat al-Ar’eer’s If I Must Die viewed more than 11 million times
- Wall Street celebrates Fed interest rate “pivot”
- Israeli officials spell out plans for ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians, as Gaza massacres continue
- Ford reveals production to be cut in half at Rouge Electric Vehicle Center after Stellantis announces 3,600 job cuts
- 86-year old FedEx worker killed on Thanksgiving at air freight hub in Memphis, Tennessee
- Union keeps Northern Virginia transit workers on the job after contract expires
- Argentina’s Milei announces first batch of class war measures dictated by the IMF
- UAW keeps Allison Transmission workers on the job two weeks after 96 percent contract rejection
2023-12-15
- Australian Labor government intensifies attack on working-class living conditions
- Change of government in Poland ushers in period of bitter class conflict
- In bipartisan vote, US House passes authoritarian resolution calling on Harvard, MIT presidents to resign
- Powerful rally in front of Berlin’s Humboldt University against the genocide in Gaza
- UK poll findings showing substantial support for COVID public health measures denounced by right-wing media
- Covering for Biden, Bay Area city governments and dockworkers union local pass resolutions supporting Gaza ceasefire
- Malaysian government confronts mounting and intractable issues
- Australian cricketer banned from displaying “all lives are equal” on his shoes in reference to Gaza genocide
- US corporations launch holiday jobs bloodbath
- Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers suspended as part of right-wing witch hunt against opponents of Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SAG-AFTRA member and stuntwoman Michelle Shock: “How can we survive if all the money in the world is being taken by corporations?”
- Bibby Stockholm suicide due to UK’s brutal treatment of asylum seekers
- “Workers could see in Helen the potential for what they as a class could and must become”
- COP28 climate summit exposes the dead end of fighting climate change under capitalism
- New Zealand protests continue against genocide in Gaza as government calls for “steps towards” ceasefire
- New contract for German state public workers means fresh wage cuts and a ban on strikes
- Australian gallery owner dumps artist Mike Parr for opposing Gaza genocide in performance piece
2023-12-16
- Rural postal workers at the breaking point over Amazon package delivery, understaffing
- Swissport workers hold 1-day strike at Denver International Airport over unsafe working conditions
- Israeli regime assassinates journalist in Gaza amid growing threat of region-wide war
- Australia: Health Services Union imposes sellout of ambulance workers
- In bipartisan vote, US Congress authorizes record Pentagon budget: A blueprint for global war
- Grand Rapids school board moves to approve plan to shut down 10 public schools
- Israeli soldiers ransack West Bank theatre, beat and detain artists
- US Supreme Court to hear case on banning or restricting abortion pill
- US, Japan, and South Korea boost military collaboration against China
- Report finds decline in the well-being of American Millennial women when compared to previous generation
- “We must carry forward Helen Halyard’s life and work through the struggle of the ICFI for the victory of socialism throughout the world”
- Australian trade union powerbrokers instal new Labor state premier
- Major split opens between central banks
- “No money for anything but war”: US autoworkers speak out on layoffs, Gaza genocide
2023-12-17
2023-12-18
- As Gaza genocide continues, US prepares major escalation of war throughout Middle East
- A reading of the Gaza Monologues in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- “Museum of Austerity” tells story of those killed due to punitive UK benefits system
- US financial system a “minefield of vulnerabilities”
- Australian protesters: “We need a general strike to stop the Gaza genocide!”
- New York City educators protest AFT President Randi Weingarten’s role in Gaza genocide
- German government finalizes its war budget
- Australian Labor government hails US passage of AUKUS legislation
- Australian government tries to thwart High Court challenges to new detention laws
- The lioness, the oak tree, the matron: In loving memory of my mother, Helen Halyard
- Channeling Hitler, Trump accuses migrants of “poisoning the blood of our country”
- Amnesty International/Human Rights Watch expose Greece’s lies over drowning of 600 migrants on the Adriana
- USW imposes rotten contract, ends four-month strike by New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson nurses
- Member of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party injures 26 in grenade attack
- John Pring of Disability News Service on Museum of Austerity exhibition
- After decisive contract rejection, Southwest Airlines flight attendant union calls for revote, based on unsubstantiated claims of fraud
- US city letter carriers union holds national meeting in New Orleans amid months-long silence on contract talks
- UAW President Fain, DSA congresspeople hold press conference to falsely posture as opponents of Gaza genocide
- Virginia county greenlights massive data center, imperiling Civil War battlefield
- New study proves that COVID-19 is far more harmful and deadly than the flu
- Imperialism, the genocide in Gaza, and the world struggle for socialism
- This week in history: December 18-24
2023-12-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Biden, Democrats offer virtual destruction of asylum rights in return for Ukraine war funding
- Joint meeting of US educators and students resolves to mobilize the working class to stop the genocide against Gaza
- Record high for debt repayments by low-income nations
- The Quebec public sector workers’ struggle and the fight against imperialist war
- US announces naval operation targeting Yemen and Iran
- SEP (Australia) holds speakout to promote meeting tomorrow in Sydney opposing Gaza genocide
- The Israeli state’s fascist ideology and the genocide in Gaza
- Genocide in Gaza: Baerbock and Cameron back Netanyahu
- Scapegoated nurse RaDonda Vaught loses appeal for reinstatement of nursing license
- Strikes erupt after the formation of new PSOE-Sumar government
- Australia: Unprecedented Queensland floods cause widespread damage and suffering
- Junior doctors resume strikes in England: For a joint offensive of NHS workers against below inflation pay deals!
- AmericaFest 2023: Republicans embrace genocide in Gaza, fascism in America
- Clarence Thomas demanded more money just before receiving gifts from his ultra-rich supporters
- UK Prime Minister Sunak joins hands with Italy’s Meloni over immigration at far-right rally
- No evidence of “gas the Jews” chant at Sydney Opera House
2023-12-20
- North Korea conducts ICBM test launch amid increasing US-led provocations
- Quebec Public Sector workers: Build rank-and-file committees to mobilize working class power against Legault, counter unions’ sabotage!
- Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy to face no criminal charges
- Twenty-five years since the impeachment of Bill Clinton
- Texas Governor Abbott signs bills empowering police to carry out mass arrests, summary deportations of immigrants
- CWU General Secretary Dave Ward slammed by postal workers during LBC radio show
- Hundreds call for ceasefire in Gaza at Irvine, California protest
- South Australia teacher opposition emerges against education union’s wage and conditions sell-out agreement
- Brutal police operation against anti-genocide protest at Berlin’s Free University
- Israel’s slaughter of president of the Islamic University of Gaza triggers international protest
- Nippon Steel acquires US Steel for $14.9 billion
- Polls show mass opposition to Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza among US workers and youth
- Artists protest ongoing censorship of Palestinian culture in the UK
- Five-year-old boy dies during outbreak at overcrowded Chicago migrant shelter
- UN Special Rapporteur denounces extreme poverty in UK for second time
- Montgomery County, Maryland public schools remove teachers expressing pro-Palestinian sentiments
- Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “Everyone is waking up,” that’s why governments are cracking down
- Australian workers and youth condemn violent attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
2023-12-21
- Largest nursing home in St. Louis, Missouri shuts down, leaving residents in disarray and workers unpaid
- Remarks by David North at the conclusion of the international memorial meeting for Helen Halyard
- Quebec emergency room doctors warn conditions “out of control” due to surge of COVID and other respiratory infections
- World Health Organization designates Omicron JN.1 a “variant of interest” due to its rapid global spread
- Immigrant advocates prepare legal battle against fascistic Texas immigration laws
- Another Labor state or territory leader quits suddenly in Australia
- National defense budget extends illegal electronic spying on US citizens
- Israelism: A sensitive film commentary that enrages Israel's supporters
- The “election victory” of al-Sisi in Egypt
- Sri Lankan SEP General Secretary Deepal Jayasekera discusses international socialist program in TV interview
- UK heads and teachers condemn Ofsted inspections after Ruth Perry suicide inquest verdict
- 19-year-old Amazon worker found dead near South Carolina fulfillment center
- Deadly earthquake strikes impoverished region of China
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The working class must stop the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Podemos takes its distance from Spanish PSOE-Sumar government to pose as opponent of Gaza genocide
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation sacks journalist after Zionist witch-hunt
- United Nations reports Israeli forces are carrying out mass summary executions in Gaza
- Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump coup attempt disqualifies him as candidate
- Anheuser-Busch workers vote by 99 percent to authorize strike
2023-12-22
- G7 powers discussing plan to seize frozen Russian financial assets
- Kurdish political prisoners on hunger strike in Turkey
- Australian Prime Minister Albanese hides behind riot cops, declares support for Israel at elite gathering
- Philadelphia IBEW union executive found guilty of embezzling hundreds of thousands in union dues
- Climate scientists predict devastating weather conditions for the Southern Hemisphere summer
- Amid mass executions and genocidal rhetoric, US deepens support for Israeli onslaught on Gaza
- Solidarity action supporting Swedish Tesla strike spreads across Nordic region
- Parents at Barclay Primary School in London, UK protest victimisation of pupils over pro-Palestinian sentiment
- Human Rights Watch reports mass censorship of opposition to Gaza genocide
- One conviction obtained under Australia’s “foreign interference” laws
- On Gaza War, Indian Stalinists combine phony anti-imperialist rhetoric with appeals to Modi and “thieves kitchen” that is UN
- Adolph Reed, Jr.’s The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives
- Macron passes fascistic anti-immigration law in alliance with Le Pen
- Oklahoma man exonerated after 48 years in prison
- Study finds that half of confirmed COVID patients in Africa now suffer from Long COVID
2023-12-23
- Argentina’s ultra-right government declares war on working class
- Attendees at SEP (Australia) meeting against Gaza genocide: “Protesting is not working, we need a revolutionary perspective”
- Political and media witch hunt launched over release of a “terrorist” in Australia
- Twitter/X censors Susan Sarandon’s support for protest demanding a ceasefire in Gaza
- New Zealand’s new PM visits Australia to strengthen military ties
- Social Democrats and Christian Democrats agree a coalition in Hesse with a declaration of war on refugees
- IYSSE holds rally to mobilize Detroit area Stellantis autoworkers against US-Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Ukraine proposes mobilizing 500,000 more troops
- Workers Struggles: Asia & Australia
- 2,000 attend Labor for Palestine rally in Oakland, California
- Gaza genocide death toll tops 20,000 amid mass starvation
- Corruption scandal threatens the stability of Japanese government
- As Quebec public sector workers press for a broadening of the struggle, unions conspire to scuttle strike movement
- Melbourne dock protests continue but Australian unions do nothing to oppose Gaza genocide
- The value added tax increase in Sri Lanka: A brutal attack on the working class
- “Stop the Gaza genocide! Build a socialist anti-war movement!”—SEP (Australia) holds well-attended public meeting
- Henry Taylor: B Side: An exhibition of the US painter’s work at the Whitney Museum in New York
- Australia: Labor government representatives promoted at Gaza vigil in Newcastle
- “Helen Halyard's patience and kindness have nurtured an entire generation of socialists”
- Los Angeles County doctors and dentists set to strike December 27
- The New Zealand National Party-led government’s agenda of war and austerity, and how to fight it
- JN.1 becomes dominant COVID-19 strain across the US, fueling winter wave of mass infection
- As billionaire wealth surges, US faces record homelessness
- Fire at GM flagship Factory Zero EV plant highlights dangers of lithium-ion batteries
- UAW continues to block strike at Allison Transmission more than 3 weeks after overwhelming contract rejection
2023-12-26
2023-12-27
- “Helen was convinced the international socialist programme of our world party would resonate with the working class”
- Australian governments prioritise business over residents in north Queensland flood disaster
- Organized campaign of violent threats and intimidation against Canadian Palestinian activists: The case of Ghada Sasa
- UK shadow health secretary Wes Streeting: “The NHS is going to have to get used to the fact that money is tight”
- Japan exports Patriot missiles to assist US-led war on Russia
- UN report finds Sri Lanka’s social inequality among the worst in Asia
- Biden greenlights Israel’s Christmas massacre in Gaza
- Protest letters from New Zealand and Australia condemn pro-government violence against Sri Lankan SEP members
- This week in history: December 25-31
- Rappers Macklemore and Residente denounce genocide in Gaza
- Prime Healthcare victimizes 7 workers as struggle by Southern California healthcare workers against understaffing continues
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Secretaries Blinken, Mayorkas travel to Mexico City to organize further crackdown on immigrants
- Instagram bans activist Shaun King over pro-Palestine posts
- Amazon urged its workers to write Christmas lists to its corporate mascot
2023-12-28
- Billionaires, imperialists, and antisemites: The forces behind the assault on opposition to Gaza genocide
- Homelessness soaring in Australia as corporate wealth surges
- Sri Lankan Telecom trade union leaders betray strike
- “Helen profoundly influenced the character of the party in the US and internationally”
- Gunman massacres 14 at university in Czech capital Prague
- As Gaza death toll nears 30,000, Israeli leaders call for ethnic cleansing
- Berlin police terrorise left-wing women’s group for expressing solidarity with Palestine
- “Helen was one of the greatest products to emerge out of the ranks of the American working class”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkey’s escalating clashes with Kurdish militias in Iraq, Syria threaten war
- “We feel deeply indebted to Comrade Helen and the political fight she waged for over 50 years to build the ICFI”
- Australian pseudo-left promotes alliance with pro-Zionist Labor Party
- Michigan state Supreme Court allows Trump to remain on ballot
- “Helen was imbued with confidence in the revolutionary capacity of the working class and the power of political principle”
- Israel guns for war with Lebanon and Iran
- Fire at Indonesian nickel smelter leaves 19 dead
- Mexico’s AMLO vows to “strengthen measures” against migrants as mass caravan faces repression
- ACLU protests U of M’s suppression of resolution condemning US/Israel genocide
- Australian protests continue against Gaza genocide: “The system is so full of harm”
- A comment on the life and death of Czech-French novelist Milan Kundera (1929-2023)
- EU adopts refugee policy of the extreme right
2023-12-29
- India’s ruling far-right BJP secures narrow overall state election win, as Congress Party suffers further debacle
- Israeli military refuser sentenced to prison after exposing lies behind Gaza genocide
- 2023: A year of financial turbulence
- London Underground workers to strike in New Year over pay
- American Medical Association sends police against healthcare workers calling for Gaza ceasefire
- 2023: The year of the total COVID cover-up
- Military tensions rise in South America after Venezuela claims oil-rich region controlled by Guyana
- Britain’s police-state dragnet against pro-Palestinian activists widens
- Poverty rises and real income falls in Michigan as state now ranks 12th worst in US poverty
- May December: Todd Haynes’ new film inspired by a famous scandal
- Corbyn, the Stop the War Coalition and the way forward in the fight against the genocide in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Volkswagen: Management and works council agree on a billion-euro cuts programme
2023-12-30
- Providence nurses in Everett, Washington still without contract one month after strike
- China’s central bank “sidelined”
- Sri Lankan workers condemn pro-government thug attack on SEP members
- Oppose the unions’ attempt to short-circuit the Quebec public sector workers’ struggle!
- Behind the exoneration of Australian woman convicted of killing her children
- Biden administration approves “emergency” sale of howitzer shells to Israel amid intensification of ethnic cleansing in Gaza Strip
- Acapulco two months after Hurricane Otis: An indictment of capitalist response to climate crisis
- Crisis looms over 2024 election as Maine becomes second state to rule Trump off the ballot
- “When I think of the party in America, I think of Helen”
- Zelensky government submits draft law for the mobilization of another 500,000 men
- Assange’s final British appeal against extradition set for February
- New York City to evict 3,500 migrant families from shelters in January
- Mass protests and strikes erupt in Argentina against Milei’s steps toward dictatorial rule
- Jewish opponent of Zionism tells WSWS: “Our liberation is joined. It’s that simple”
- Film and television in 2023
- Comrade Helen Halyard “believed deeply in the revolutionary future of the international working class”
- License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023
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