Archive: 01/2024
2024-01-02
- Mass police mobilization in cities around the world during New Year’s Eve celebrations
- Stephen Fry’s “Alternative Christmas Message” of peace, goodwill and a blind eye to Israeli genocide
- Strike wave building in Northern Ireland as Stormont crisis drags on
- UK: Starmer outlines Labour’s militarist agenda, including use of nuclear weapons
2024-01-03
- Union pushes rotten contract onto Mount Sinai postdoctoral fellows
- Popular music and jazz in 2023, a selection
- This week in history: January 1-7
- Netanyahu suffers defeat on curbing judiciary, but Supreme Court and opposition parties back Gaza genocide and planned war on Iran
- For a European movement against capitalism and war
- Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “Governments are trying to suppress the opposition”
- The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism, and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution
(Part One) - “Helen exemplified what it means to be a party cadre”
- Junior doctors in England begin longest strike in NHS history as BMA backpedals on pay restoration demand
- Academics denounce pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
- Earliest known example of a human-built wood structure, dating to nearly a half-million years ago, discovered in Africa
- Harvard president’s forced resignation: The working class must be mobilized to fight the new McCarthyism
- Britain steps up military action in Middle East, threatens Iran, Russia and China
- Oppose the ouster of Harvard University President Claudine Gay!
- Threat of wider war in Middle East rises as Israel assassinates Hamas deputy leader in Beirut
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Homelessness crisis in Australia exposes Labor-Greens housing deal
- Earthquake strikes central Japan leaving dozens dead
- Biden’s border police doubled deportations in Fiscal Year 2023
2024-01-04
- Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “What’s happening is a crime against humanity”
- Thai ruling establishment promotes amnesty bills for political offences
- Despite the cover-up, current coronavirus wave reaches new heights in Germany
- UPS rings in the new year with hundreds of job cuts across the US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government’s “war on drugs and crime”—a rehearsal for police-state measures
- The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution
(Part Two) - Comedian and musician Tom Smothers dies at 86: A victim of government and corporate censorship in the late 1960s
- The Deschenes Commission: A state cover-up of Canada’s role in providing refuge to Nazi war criminals
- AOC silent as Biden prepares bipartisan deal with Republicans to eviscerate right to asylum
- US commercial real estate facing “wall of debt.”
- Turkey’s foreign minister warns of “risk of spreading war” from Gaza to wider region
- New Zealand media demands more military spending
- UK: Labour plans to streamline Tory crackdown on asylum seekers
- US draws up plan to attack mainland Yemen as Middle East spirals into war
- In memory of a remarkable comrade Helen Halyard
- Texas federal appeals court upholds state ban on abortions over Biden administration's emergency provision
- Bomb scares force evacuation of multiple state capitols amid MAGA death threats in Colorado and Maine
- Germany’s SPD-led government slashes welfare benefits
- Take the strike into your own hands! Join the Railway Workers’ Rank-and-File Committee!
2024-01-05
- Weekly protests against Gaza genocide continue on New Year’s Eve in Irvine, California
- Germany’s Left Party leaders pay homage to arch-reactionary Wolfgang Schäuble
- “The system is rigged against the working class”: US postal workers describe overwork, exhaustion caused by Amazon package delivery
- Culinary Workers Union hosts Democratic Party rally featuring VP Harris in Las Vegas
- Sellout agreements in Quebec public sector: Workers demand to see their contents in full
- CNN Business names UAW President Shawn Fain “labor leader of the year” after sellout at Big Three
- Australian media studies teacher denounces Gaza genocide and escalating attacks on democratic rights
- New York City educator speaks out against Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Thousands of Sri Lankan electricity workers hold three-day anti-privatisation protest, defying government threats
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government renews austerity
- Michigan healthcare workers describe dismal conditions in hospitals amid COVID-19 surge
- The Riot Report: A conscientious, flawed examination of the 1967-68 Kerner Commission
- Food bank usage in Toronto doubles in just one year
- New York Times backs far-right campaign to oust Harvard’s President Gay
- Starmer makes his pitch for a right-wing government of austerity and war: No vote for Labour!
- US carries out illegal murder of Iraqi militia leader in expanding Middle East war
- The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution
(Part Three)
2024-01-06
- Important Palestinian films, new and old, available for viewing
- Despite “strong” US jobs report, unemployment expected to rise in 2024
- Teamsters president meets with would-be Führer Donald Trump
- School shooting in Iowa follows record year for incidents in 2023
- Biden launches reelection campaign with fraudulent claim to defend democracy against Trump
- Young midwife speaks out about worsening conditions in Australian hospitals
- Sri Lankan workers oppose pro-government thug attack on SEP members
- California State University teachers and faculty to hold one-week strike in January
- Gaza death toll tops 30,000, as US escalates wider Middle East war
- South Korean opposition party leader attacked in assassination attempt
- The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism, and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution
(Part Four)
2024-01-07
- Protests in Britain against Israel’s destruction of Gaza: “All the people that have died can’t be in vain. This needs to be a catalyst for change”
- Chiapas rebellion 30 years on: The shipwreck of Mexico’s Zapatista experiment
- Thousands protest in London against Gaza genocide, as police step up repression
- Ontario education worker urges workers across Canada to support the Quebec public sector workers’ struggle
2024-01-08
- Widespread protests across the Pacific call for ceasefire in Gaza
- Mass layoffs begin in California as corporations retaliate against new state minimum wage laws
- Former D.C. Guard lawyer alleges retaliation by Army officials covering for generals implicated in Trump’s coup
- UK protesters demonstrate at weapons factories and demand “Stop Arming Genocide”
- CWU’s Martin Walsh’s pro-company New Year’s message receives angry put down from Royal Mail workers
- Ukraine continues strikes on Russian city of Belgorod
- This week in history: January 8-14
- “To Helen ours was a party of the great principles of internationalism and the central revolutionary role of the working class”
- Israel admits deliberately targeting journalists in strike that killed son of Al Jazeera bureau chief
- UN experts call on US to halt first planned execution by nitrogen asphyxiation
- Malaysian government targets workers and the poor
- US Supreme Court to decide whether Trump is eligible to appear on the ballot
- More than 300 British artists demand Turner Contemporary take stand against “ongoing genocide in Gaza”
- What Biden leaves out about Trump’s January 6 coup
- Court documents list Jeffrey Epstein’s associates among political, corporate, celebrity elite
- Amid second-largest wave of COVID infections in the US, Florida’s surgeon general calls to halt mRNA vaccines
- RMT cancels London tube strikes: A far-reaching betrayal in the making
- Australian protests against Israeli genocide of Gaza: “The issue is Zionism and imperialism”
2024-01-09
- Quebec Public Sector Workers Rank-and-File Coordinating Committee meeting discusses strategy to counter unions’ attempt to impose sell-out contracts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The 2024 Golden Globes: Some legitimate awards handed out, but a shameful silence on Gaza genocide
- Ceasefire protesters interrupt Biden campaign speech at South Carolina church
- 2024 begins with 600 UK communication workers at Communisis facing redundancy
- Blowout on Alaska Airlines flight exposes ongoing catastrophic failure of Boeing 737 MAX jetliners
- UK Post Office scandal implicates all main political parties in injustice against hundreds of postmasters
- The US-Israeli war on journalists
- Post office debacle in Richmond, Virginia: “optimization” initiative leads to late or lost mail
- As Stellantis layoffs loom in US, global auto companies announce job cuts
- Clement Virgo’s Brother, from Canada: “That bigger story of life and vitality”
- “Helen was one of those comrades in the leadership that I and other members looked to for clarity on the political issues involved and an internationalist perspective”
- New Zealand in COVID surge as government plans new attacks on public health
- Stop the German government’s pro-war policy and social devastation! For new nationwide elections!
- German arms exports, including to Europe, Israel and Ukraine, at record levels
- The way forward for Ceylon Electricity Board workers fighting Sri Lankan government’s austerity
2024-01-10
- The earthquake in Japan highlights crimes of the Turkish ruling class
- Amid signs of a COVID surge, Sri Lankan government blocks testing and preventive measures
- Biden asks Supreme Court to give State Department sweeping power to separate immigrant families, provoking anger across Latin America
- Attal named French prime minister as Borne government falls
- International Court of Justice complaint demonstrates that Israel is carrying out genocide
- The University of Sheffield and growing links to the arms trade by academic institutions
- West Australian union sells out public sector nurses and midwives
- Pro-Palestinian household targeted with bomb in Sydney, Australia
- John Pilger (1939-2023): A courageous anti-war journalist
- German Greens on the war offensive in the Middle East
- US congressional leaders announce $1.7 trillion budget deal for 2024
- For an international strike against the genocide in Gaza!
- Oppose BMA’s planned sellout of UK junior doctors’ fight: For a joint struggle across the NHS
- Defense Secretary Austin’s failure to tell White House of his hospitalization exposes collapse of civilian control over the military
- Billionaire Bill Ackman targets MIT’s President Kornbluth
- Uncertainty drives market gyrations
- Twitter/X purges, then restores accounts of journalists and left-wing opponents of Israeli genocide in Gaza
- 215 bodies, known to the police, found in unmarked graves behind jail in Jackson, Mississippi
- UAW pushes second sellout contract at Allison Transmission, after defying unanimous strike vote
- Hospitals strained across the US as over 2 million Americans now infected with COVID each day
2024-01-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US and UK threaten war against Yemen
- One year since the January 8 fascist uprising in Brazil
- How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer: A documentary approaches the American novelist with sympathy, but not enough scrutiny
- Commercial real estate plunges posing major problems for banks
- Biden administration meddles in the Taiwanese election
- Oppose the frame-up of the Toronto “Peace 11”! All charges must be dropped against anti-genocide, pro-Palestinian activists!
- Ongoing COVID-19 surge heralds another winter of death
- Interview with New York City educator at Yemeni-American demonstration for Palestine
- Winter COVID and flu wave hits UK’s National Health Service
- Australian COVID surge the worst in at least six months
- Netanyahu and IDF downplay mounting Israeli deaths and severe injuries in Gaza
- Sri Lanka joins US-led coalition in Red Sea amid Gaza genocide
- Ecuador’s government declares state of war with support of Washington
- Appeals Court panel hears Trump claim of absolute immunity
- “Goon Squad” of Mississippi sheriff deputies carried out campaign of terror and torture
2024-01-12
- International Court of Justice hears devastating presentation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
- US and UK launch war against Yemen
- Automation jobs bloodbath is underway at UPS: Seven facts workers need to know
- Democratic Socialists of America complicit in Chicago Democrats’ scapegoating of immigrants
- Led by billionaire Elon Musk, anti-immigrant, racist and antisemitic propaganda explodes on Twitter/X
- International financial markets hail first year of Brazil’s Lula government
- An appreciation of Comrade Helen Halyard
- Respiratory infections rip as Spain’s COVID cases rise
- Alcoa to shut down West Australian alumina refinery, destroying more than 1,000 jobs
- Britain bombs Yemen alongside US with no parliamentary discussion and Labour’s total support
- Google, Amazon start off new year with job cuts, as corporations plan to use AI to slash workforces
- “Helen Halyard gave to the party, its program, and the international working class, the ‘full measure’ of her life”
- Oxfam report describes Israel’s onslaught on Gaza as “deadliest conflict of the 21st century”
- Train drivers in Germany strike for better wages and shorter working hours
- US presidents can order assassinations—Trump lawyers and Justice Department prosecutors agree
- Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: The problem of representing titanic events
- Door plug blowout exposes government collaboration with Boeing’s profit-before-safety strategy
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Magistrate court hearing on violent assault on Sri Lankan SEP members
- New Zealand joins US threats over Red Sea shipping attacks
2024-01-13
- Trudeau denounces International Court of Justice case exposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Davos report highlights deepening capitalist crisis
- Australia aided US-British airstrikes on Yemen
- Awami League wins Bangladeshi elections amid mass opposition boycott
- Over 500,000 people view reading of Palestinian poem by US actor Mahershala Ali
- Republican presidential candidates campaign on mass deportations, abolishing right to asylum
- Social discontent erupts in Papua New Guinea
- Citigroup announces plans for 20,000 layoffs as corporate attack on jobs continues into 2024
- One month of the Milei presidency in Argentina
- The US/UK attack on Yemen and the global eruption of imperialist war
- Governor Abbott deploys Texas National Guard to patrol border, supplanting US Border Patrol
- Defend the right to free artistic expression! Oppose the Berlin Senate’s censorship clause!
2024-01-15
- Worker suffers life threatening burns at Meridian Magnesium plant in Eaton Rapids, Michigan
- As anger grows among Quebec public sector workers over sellout agreements, unions silent on key issue of working conditions
- Socialist Equality Party/International Youth and Students for Social Equality UK public meetings: How can the genocide in Gaza be stopped?
- Protests in Leeds and Sheffield, UK against genocide in Gaza and bombing of Yemen
- Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s witch-hunt of Ceylon Electricity Board employees
- An interview with public health expert Dr. Yara Asi on the genocide in Gaza: “What we’re seeing is a complete assault on every aspect of life”
- Actors reading out South African indictment of Israeli genocide viewed 13 million times
- Investigation into Japanese plane crash exposes safety flaws
- Brutality on the US-Mexico border: Migrants die as Texas blocks rescue
- This week in history: January 15-21
- Five migrants die in desperate attempt to cross English Channel
- UK: Sunak and Starmer united in support of war in the Middle East
- Video report: Workers and youth speak to WSWS at London, UK demonstration against genocide in Gaza and attack on Yemen
- Thousands of jobs threatened by insolvency of German department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof
- Australian journalist fights back against sacking for exposing Israeli crimes
- Union shuts down strikes as DP World threatens Australian port workers
- Democratic Socialists of America covers for right-wing attack on democratic rights on campuses
- University of Michigan IYSSE protests attack by pro-government thugs on Sri Lankan SEP members
- WHO officials warn sharply of the ongoing dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Netanyahu pledges to defy International Court of Justice as Gaza death toll mounts
- Indiana University art museum cancels career retrospective of Palestinian artist Samia Halaby
- “It was a lie”: Workers denounce UAW as Stellantis fires hundreds of supplemental employees
- Far-right meeting in Potsdam discusses mass deportations
- City Council of Harvey, Illinois refuses to address residents boarded up in homes
- Taiwan’s election result signals escalating tensions with China
- The farmers’ protests in Germany: A social uprising against the coalition government
2024-01-16
- Oxfam report: A devastating indictment of monopoly power and inequality
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- One hundred days of the imperialist-Zionist genocide in Gaza
- “I’m a strong no vote”: Widespread opposition to UAW sellout at Allison Transmission
- Australia: 54-year-old man dies in Adelaide after waiting ten hours for ambulance
- Arctic blast brings deadly cold to 231 million in the US
- Workers Party government lays groundwork for police state in Brazil
- 160,000 metal and auto workers in Turkey to strike
- Over 100,000 protest in Washington D.C. against the US-backed genocide of Gaza
- As layoffs loom, Stellantis Toledo Jeep worker says temp workers “are outraged and they have plenty to be angry about”
- Guatemala’s new president Arévalo thanks Washington and the military for securing his inauguration
- Australian protesters oppose bombing of Yemen, ongoing Gaza genocide
- Victimised union rep at Britain’s Royal Mail speaks on the mass frame-up of sub-postmasters by the Post Office
- Newsom announces plan to delay highly touted healthcare minimum wage bill
2024-01-17
- How the Israeli army used 95-year-old veteran of Deir Yassin massacre Ezra Yachin to “motivate” the troops
- Mr Bates vs the Post Office plunges Tory government into deeper crisis: The need for serious drama
- Trump wins Iowa caucuses
- Nasser hospital targeted in Gaza, ten killed in the West Bank
- “If they can do this to SEs, they can do it to full-timers”: Stellantis temporary workers appeal for support to fight UAW-backed mass firings
- Protest letters against pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
- Oppose the mass firings at Stellantis and the escalating assault on jobs!
- US expands Middle East war as UN warns “every single person in Gaza is hungry”
- High-level US delegation to Taiwan fuels tensions with China
- Leaked messages expose pro-Israel campaign to sack Australian journalist
- Junior doctors take three-days of strike action in Wales against de facto pay cut by Labour-run Assembly
- Petition opposes intimidation of Australian health workers who have spoken out against Gaza genocide
- Striking junior doctor in Wales: “Staff morale is low, and people are leaving, and we can’t sustain that. We need better pay and better staffing.”
- Protesters denounce New Zealand government’s support for US-UK Yemen bombings
- Led by Mississippi, 15 states opt out of children’s food program for low-income families
- A tribute to Comrade Halil Çelik
- Farmers’ demonstration shuts down Berlin city centre
- Germany’s “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance”: A stale attempt to save capitalism
- Berlin-Neukölln: Powerful strike and demonstration against the genocide in Gaza
- Emmys and Critics Choice awards continue to heavily honor Succession and Oppenheimer in particular
2024-01-18
- AI and its implications a central topic at Davos meeting
- Macron address signals right-wing shift by new French government
- USPS city letter carriers kept in the dark as union preps for binding arbitration in contract talks
- Fired Stellantis temp: “We need to figure out a way where everyone can come together because no one’s safe”
- Bernie Sanders backs US attack on Yemen
- State funeral for Barry Humphries, creator of Dame Edna Everage and other Australian caricatures
- Sri Lankan health unions call off strike as government refuses to address workers’ demands
- UN Special Rapporteur denounces Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program as a “contemporary form of slavery”
- Trump victory in Iowa caucuses intensifies 2024 crisis elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Comrade Halil successfully laid the foundations for the establishment in 2022 of a Turkish section of the International Committee
- Conditions deteriorate for survivors of Noto earthquake in Japan
- NYC physician, medical student speak on Gaza genocide and intimidation at campuses and workplaces
- Australian government buries 2003 Iraq invasion documents
- Emergency online meeting: Stop the mass layoffs in the auto industry!
2024-01-19
- One day public sector strike brings Northern Ireland to a standstill
- Berlin’s support for Israel and the genocidal traditions of German imperialism
- Long COVID specialist tells US Senate that “the best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent COVID in the first place!”
- Justice Department review continues cover-up of law enforcement failures in Uvalde, Texas school massacre
- Right-wing Supreme Court majority conspires with billionaires to undermine federal regulations
- Israel continues Gaza onslaught and strikes on southern Lebanon
- Explosion at Thailand fireworks factory leaves 23 workers dead
- Australian foreign minister travels to Israel to back ongoing genocide in Gaza
- Palestinian student paralyzed by right-wing gunman tells NBC his suffering is “one drop in the ocean of what’s going on in Palestine”
- Indian trade unions moving to betray Tamil Nadu state transport workers’ strike
- Long live the memory of Halil Çelik!
- Labour pledges loyalty to Zionism and Israel’s Gaza genocide at Jewish Labour Movement conference
- Protesters demand reinstatement for victimized Southern California healthcare workers
- Tribute to Helen: Beverly Lozano, a supporter from California
- US imperialism setting Middle East ablaze
- How can the far-right Alternative for Germany be beaten?
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Will Lehman calls on workers to attend January 20 emergency meeting to fight mass layoffs in the auto industry
2024-01-20
- Capitalist breakdown, barbarism and the irrefutable case for international socialism
- Protests in San Francisco and on Oakland docks against genocide in Gaza
- Malaysian government scapegoats foreign workers over social crisis
- Oligarchs in Davos applaud fascist rant by Argentine President Milei
- Biden signs third continuing resolution, temporarily avoiding a government shutdown
- Boeing cargo plane returns to Miami airport after engine catches fire
- Ford announces 1,400 layoffs at Dearborn plant, as job cuts accelerate across the US
- Past Lives: Neither the road taken nor the one not taken is all that intriguing
- NATO plots escalation of Ukraine war against Russia into all out war across Europe
- Australian government vows to “fast track” military buildup, while slashing social spending
- Al Jazeera documents more mass summary executions by Israeli troops
- UAW pushes through sellout deal: The lessons of the Allison Transmission struggle
- Sri Lankan court bans industrial action by Ceylon Electricity Board workers
- “They are messing people’s livelihoods up”: Stellantis Warren Truck workers denounce mass firings of temps
2024-01-21
2024-01-22
- Modi inaugurates a Hindu supremacist temple on the site of the razed Babri Masjid: One historic crime atop another
- UK victims of the infected blood scandal denied justice after decades
- Netanyahu outlines his plan to ethnically cleanse and seize Gaza for Israel
- Israeli military refuser vows to continue opposition to “war of revenge” despite new orders to report
- Australia: Labor urges union-management deal in DP World dispute
- Expand the California State University strike of 29,000 lecturers, faculty, counselors and coaches! Build rank-and-file committees!
- Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Australia defends medical practitioners targeted for opposing Gaza genocide
- China growth hits official target but significant problems remain
- 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin
- Winter COVID surge continues across Canada
- #MeToo witch-hunt targets French actor Gérard Depardieu
- Chicago Public Schools kept open without power, heat or running water during snowstorm and bitter cold
- Former IDF soldiers attack pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University
- Growing social crisis in Indonesia ahead of presidential election
- Columbia University students and faculty protest ongoing genocide and further attacks on academic freedom
- Opposition grows to France’s fascistic immigration law
- Papua New Guinea government intensifies emergency crackdown
- The enduring power and significance of Lenin’s legacy
- Official Gaza death toll tops 25,000 as Israel threatens to invade Lebanon
- SAG-AFTRA voice actor members outraged at union’s deal with Replica Studios
- Lenin’s place in history
- Warning strikes at Ford in Saarlouis: German auto union seeks to sabotage resistance to plant closure
- This week in history: January 22-28
- 2,000 teachers strike in Newton, Massachusetts, the latest in a wave of educator strikes in the state
- More than a million people in Germany demonstrate against the return of fascism
2024-01-23
- Johnson administration in Chicago knew of dire conditions in migrant shelter weeks before five-year-old died
- Oppose the Sri Lankan government witch hunt against electricity workers! Prepare a counter offensive!
- International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees holds emergency online meeting to organize fight against mass job cuts
- Fascistic Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspends presidential campaign, endorses Trump
- UPDATE: Union shuts down California State University faculty and staff strike against wage cuts, casualization of jobs
- War on migrants intensifies in Mexico as Biden administration prepares renewed assault on asylum rights
- Kentucky bill aims to criminalize homelessness
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation in crisis over revelation journalist was sacked at behest of pro-Israel lobby
- Nursing home and assisted living residents exposed to freezing temperatures during Arctic blast
- Texas police face possible charges over failure to stop school shooter
- Trotskyists in the former Soviet Union commemorate centenary of Lenin’s death
- Media giant Condé Nast announces restructuring of music publication Pitchfork
- “Our rank-and-file committees need to spread to fight this”: Opposition grows to job cuts at Ford Rouge complex
- Tata Steel to cut 2,800 jobs across UK, decimating Port Talbot plant
- Public transport workers in the Philippines face huge job losses
- Protests continue as NZ government refuses to condemn Israel’s genocide
- Comrade Halil Çelik: An inspiration for workers and youth internationally
- Britain’s Conservative government and Labour opposition compete over far-right anti-immigration agenda
- Doctors in Turkey warn of new pandemic wave
- The mass mobilisation against the far-right Alternative for Germany and the fight against fascism
2024-01-24
- CWU-Royal Mail joint statements: reality versus corporate spin
- Biden to speak at UAW political action conference as union prepares to endorse warmongering president
- Supreme Court narrowly upholds federal immigration authority against Texas measures
- Israel plans to demolish all buildings in “buffer zone” in Gaza
- Emergency Online Public Meeting - Oppose the betrayal of the CFA strike!
- Zionists using Australian medical regulator’s complaint process to silence doctors opposing Gaza genocide
- Opposition grows to strike betrayal by California Faculty Association
- Death by starvation of toddler Bronson Battersby due to UK poverty and social care catastrophe
- Free Palestine protests in Australia: “We need a complete system change, globally”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump wins New Hampshire primary
- Khan Younis besieged as Netanyahu calls for the “eradication of the new Nazis”
- IMF sounds a warning on commercial real estate
- The Academy Award nominations, a protest at Sundance and political repression in Hollywood over Gaza genocide
- “We just got to be adults about the situation”: Ocasio-Cortez calls for vote for “Genocide Joe” Biden
- Kiev kills 27 civilians in artillery attack in East Ukraine as it plots geographic expansion of war into Russia
- Australian police assault pro-Palestinian protesters at Melbourne dock
- Holocaust Survivor Rene Lichtman: “Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. We’ve got to fight back.”
- Comrade Halil Çelik: a fighter for Trotskyism
- The Indian ruling class and imperialist powers embrace Modi as he erects a Hindu supremacist state
- Columbia University blames student victims hospitalized after Zionist chemical attack
- Australian government reactivates “Pacific Solution” anti-refugee regime
2024-01-25
- Discredited ex-Australian PM quits, but Labor government deepens his attacks
- Greetings by the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Halil Çelik’s death
- Australian experts warn of COVID surge, condemn absence of public health response
- Turkey backs Sweden’s NATO membership amid escalating war against Russia
- Alaska Airlines CEO says many of the carrier’s Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes have loose bolts
- LFI’s response to new French government exposes its bankruptcy
- Drop the charges against anti-genocide protesters in New Orleans!
- Maldives gives India deadline to evacuate soldiers
- Interview with Hany Abu-Assad, Palestinian filmmaker (Paradise Now, Omar): “Gaza is the Bastille of our day … a lot is going to change”
- Public meeting: Oppose the Sri Lankan government’s witch hunt against electricity workers
- China’s stock market fall sounds alarm bells
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Baltimore Sun newspaper sold to right-wing media conglomerate
- Stop the CFA betrayal of the California State University strike! Vote NO on the sellout TA! For rank-and-file control of the struggle!
- British Army chief issues call for conscription and “whole of nation mobilisation” for war
- From Germany, farmers’ protests erupt across France and Europe
- Why is Britain's Labour Party soft-pedalling the Post Office Horizon scandal?
- US presidential election heads toward Trump-Biden contest
- United Auto Workers backs reelection of warmonger Biden
- Support the train drivers’ strike in Germany!
- Vote “no” to the sell-out agreement for education workers in South Australia! Build Rank-and-File Committees!
- Vote “No” to Quebec unions’ sellout deals as first step in preventing the scuttling of the public sector workers’ struggle
- Historic flash flooding batters Southern California
- Amazon response to labor shortage caused by high turnover rate: More automation, threatening jobs
2024-01-26
- New Zealand personnel to assist in US-led bombing of Yemen
- The Boy and the Heron: Animated film by veteran Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki
- Upcoming UK rail drivers’ strike poses combined struggle against train operating companies, Tory government and ASLEF union bureaucracy
- Protesting French farmers threaten to blockade Paris
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Canada imposes catch-all definition of “espionage” as part of bellicose anti-China furor
- Texas governor claims migrant “invasion” justifies defying federal authority over border
- Thousands of jobs cut in Western Australia as figures point to national downturn
- More than a million workers demonstrate during general strike against Milei in Argentina
- The UAW apparatus backs the war criminal in the White House
- Ukraine shoots down Russian plane carrying prisoners of war
- Killing for Country: A Family History—a harrowing but distorted view of the massacres of Australian Aboriginal people
- Amid fourth winter of death, COVID excess death toll approaches 30 million globally
- Israel fires on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid, killing or injuring 170
- Massive wave of COVID infections throughout Europe
2024-01-27
- New York educators horrified by Zionist chemical attack on Columbia University students
- Oppose the suppression of anti-genocide protests by the UAW bureaucracy and the Biden administration!
- French government offers minor concessions to try to strangle farmers’ protests
- International Court of Justice rules against Israel but declines to order end to genocide in Gaza
- Germany’s defence minister threatens Russia with war
- Australian government’s desperate tax backflip still benefits the rich
- Academic Workers Rank-and-File Committee at SDSU holds successful online meeting in opposition to union betrayal of Cal State strike
- Sri Lankan government imposes repressive social media laws
- Death row inmate executed by first-ever nitrogen asphyxiation: “Tonight Alabama causes humanity to take a step backwards”
- Protests erupt in Russia over sentencing of Bashkir nationalist Fail Alsynov
- The Holdovers: Alexander Payne on safe, familiar ground ...
2024-01-28
2024-01-29
- Sri Lankan workers denounce government’s witch-hunting of electricity employees
- TIAREAP surveillance system secretly extended by US Postal Service and city letter carriers’ union
- Stop UAW-backed speedup scheme at GM Flint Assembly!
- Far-right organizations aid White House in bogus antisemitism investigations of universities
- Money for war but no money for UK’s crumbling schools
- Biden pledges to shut down the border to gain Ukraine war funds
- “How can you support somebody pushing for war?” Autoworkers denounce UAW endorsement of Biden
- Australian Zionist organisations defend Israeli genocide, witch-hunt opponents
- Historian Robert Sutton speaks on commercial real estate threat to Civil War battlefield at Manassas
- Macron mobilizes 15,000 cops as protesting farmers threaten to blockade Paris
- Norman Jewison (The Russians Are Coming..., In the Heat of the Night), popular filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s, dies at 97
- This week in history: January 29-February 4
- Train drivers in Germany demand their strike be extended
- Jury trial of Oxford High School shooter’s mother on manslaughter charges opens in Pontiac, Michigan
- Demands in Congress for war with Iran after drone kills 3 US soldiers in Jordan
- Israel seeks destruction of Palestinian refugee agency and establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza
2024-01-30
- US seizes upon deaths of troops in Jordan to justify escalation against Iran
- Protests against Gaza genocide in Australia: “The capitalist system cannot be reformed. It needs to be changed by us.”
- Hong Kong court liquidates failed Chinese property giant
- Michigan court rules former cop can stand trial for murder of Patrick Lyoya
- Global automakers in US and Europe slashing thousands more jobs
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pelosi accuses anti-genocide protesters of being agents of Putin
- GDL train drivers union in Germany cancels strike: Take the strike into your own hands!
- Farmers’ protests paralyze France and spread across Europe
- Nazi Town USA: US public television examines the German-American Bund in the 1930s
- Passenger flights resume on Boeing 737 Max 9 planes three weeks after midair door plug blowout
- Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting discusses a fighting strategy against the CWU-Royal Mail alliance
- Nazis blocked from gathering on Australia Day in Sydney
- Australian Aboriginal professor Marcia Langton presents indigenous business as “the way forward”
2024-01-31
- UPS announces 12,000 layoffs as corporate job cutting accelerates
- Sydney worker death underlines failure of government safety regulators
- Mexico’s June presidential race to be dominated by two right-wing candidates
- Nationwide protests in New Zealand against expanding Middle East war
- Biden gives green light for retaliation against Iran
- Musicians at Brighton, UK community event speak out against Gaza genocide and in defence of asylum seekers
- Defunding UNRWA aimed at starving Palestinians to death and completing Israel’s plans for ethnic cleansing
- GM profits exceed Wall Street’s expectations
- Harvard professor named to task force investigating allegations of antisemitism comes under right-wing attack for views on Israel
- Britain’s Trades Union Congress holds bogus “Protect the right to strike” march
- Canada backs Israel’s crusade to dismantle UN Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees
- US-backed Israeli war machine destroys last standing university in Gaza
- “Building the world party was Helen’s goal in life, to which she made an indelible contribution”
- Sri Lankan government refuses to protect migrant workers who lose their jobs in Oman
- Vote NO on the California Faculty Association sellout at CSU! For rank-and-file control of the struggle!
- “Invasion Day” protests oppose oppression of indigenous Australians, genocide in Gaza
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