Archive: 02/2024
2024-02-01
- Republicans advance articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas
- US Supreme Court agrees to hear Biden administration appeal aimed at giving State Department sweeping power to separate immigrant families
- Fed stays its hand on interest rate cuts
- UPS cuts 12,000 jobs: The ruling class accelerates its policy of mass unemployment
- New slander campaign against Roger Waters amid growing mass global opposition to Gaza genocide
- US plans “weeks” of attacks throughout the Middle East
- Chicago City Council approves Gaza ceasefire resolution directed to Biden
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Persecuted UK sub-postmasters offered rock-bottom compensation, denied justice
- EMERGENCY ONLINE MEETING: Organize the rank and file to fight the job cuts at UPS! Unite with autoworkers, tech workers and the whole working class against layoffs!
- Reject the GDL rail union’s secret negotiations with Deutsche Bahn! Take the strike into your own hands!
- Prime Minister Attal outlines fascistic agenda for French government
- Social crisis in Warren, Michigan, a center of the auto industry
- Australia: Psychologist reveals “horrors” for children in Queensland police cells
- Ukrainian president Zelensky attempts to remove commander-in-chief Zaluzhnyi
- SPD leader Lars Klingbeil calls for faster mass deportation of refugees from Germany
- Opposition grows against pro-government thug attack on Sri Lankan SEP members
- Poor Things with Emma Stone: “If I know the world, I can improve it”
- Climate crisis driving extreme drought in the Amazon River Basin
- Washington resumes imperialist sanctions after Venezuelan government disqualifies US-backed candidate
2024-02-02
- Riot police protect Biden from anti-genocide protesters at UAW campaign event
- Court challenge exposes Canada’s decade-long xenophobic anti-Muslim adoption ban
- British health workers support struggle against Zionist witch hunting of Australian doctors
- Teamsters bureaucracy holds private “roundtable” meeting with Trump
- Mexican president denounces election meddling after US officials claim he took drug cartel money
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Alarm in Canberra over Papua New Guinea-China negotiations on policing co-operation
- US Senate hearing uses child sexual exploitation as pretext for state control of social media content
- 14,000 Houston Kroger workers authorize strike
- Break the stranglehold of the Verdi union! Build independent action committees!
- Israel vows to attack Rafah “safe zone” as White House approves US air strikes in Iraq and Syria
- Youth treated like animals at Wayne County juvenile detention center
- Australian government continues coverup of 2003 Iraq invasion documents
- Lula government rules out universal COVID-19 vaccination, deepening “herd immunity” policy in Brazil
- Labour’s business conference promises government of, by and for the banks and corporations
- French teachers hold nationwide one-day strike vs Attal government
- European Union spends another €50 billion on Ukraine war
2024-02-03
- University of Michigan regents affirm commitment to free speech: The facts say otherwise
- Australian maritime union pushes sellout deal with DP World
- School districts across US announce massive cuts in response to fiscal cliff, as teachers fight to defend education
- Banks starting to take a hit from commercial property downturn
- Quebec educator speaks out on unions’ demobilization of public sector workers
- Youngstown, Ohio public schools face closures and potential layoffs
- US historians file brief with Supreme Court calling for Trump’s exclusion from the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment
- Sri Lankan Collective of Workers Action Committees hold public meeting to defend victimised electricity employees
- Alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower hit with 40-year sentence: A warning of what’s in store for Assange if extradition is not defeated
- DeSantis pledges 1,000 Florida National Guard troops in support of Texas Gov. Abbott’s anti-migrant campaign
- South Australian educators oppose union’s sell-out school agreement
- The global resurgence of measles and the abdication of prioritizing public health
- New Zealand establishes closer military ties with Australia against China
- Opposition INDIA electoral bloc in shambles after key partner defects to Modi-led alliance
- US unleashes military strikes in Iraq and Syria, targeting Iran
- Australian police admit: No evidence of “gas the Jews” chant at Sydney Opera House
- Last days of work for thousands of Stellantis autoworkers facing job cuts at Toledo and Detroit plants
- New York City vigil commemorates Palestinian journalists, artists murdered in Gaza by Israeli military
2024-02-04
- The Israel/US agenda for war against Lebanon
- Video report: Workers and youth speak to WSWS at London, UK demonstration against genocide in Gaza
- Rising inequality provokes strike wave in Turkey
- Privatization schemes advanced by governments amid deepening health care crisis across Canada
- 250,000 demonstrate in London against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, as police step up repression
2024-02-05
- English local councils face £4 billion funding gap, bankruptcy and maximum council tax hike
- Wave of layoffs hits UK workers
- Striking bus and tram drivers in Germany demand expansion of their strike
- DSA endorses pro-Zionist Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman
- UPS cuts shifts at major sorting hub in Baltimore, Maryland
- Indonesian presidential candidates back greater military spending
- Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism!
- Prize-winning novelist Lana Bastašić denounces Austrian literary organizations’ acceptance of Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Michigan jury to begin deliberations in trial of Oxford High shooter’s mother, Jennifer Crumbley
- One year since the Turkey-Syria earthquake—Part I
- This week in history: February 5-11
- With end of 11-day Newton, Mass. teachers strike, union faces $1 million in fines
- UAW president pledges to send workers “to war” for Biden
- Republican governors join Abbott and fascist militias in Texas to denounce Biden and immigrant “invasion”
- US escalation against Iran threatens all-out war in Middle East
- German government decides on war budget for 2024
- New York University suspends two professors for opposing Gaza genocide
- Sri Lankan health unions end two-day strike, claiming “positive response” by government
- Australian school year begins amid unprecedented crisis of public education system
- German Airport security staff go on 24-hour warning strike
2024-02-06
- One year since the Turkey-Syria earthquake—Part 2
- “Wayfair would seemingly want to kill me”: Stage 4 cancer patient laid off
- Amid extreme temperatures and drought, Chile suffers its deadliest wildfire on record
- Workers discuss global strategy against layoffs at online meeting hosted by UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- SEP (Sri Lanka) public meetings to launch Tamil translation of Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed
- State of emergency declared for Southern California as atmospheric river leads to flash floods, mudslides
- The trade unions, the working class and the UK's day of action for Gaza
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian Labor government backs US bombings and wider war in Middle East
- Millions infected, thousands dead in winter surge of COVID-19 in the US
- The 66th annual Grammy Awards: Notable protests against Israeli-US genocide in an ocean of self-satisfaction
- Australian pseudo-left slanders workers, defends unions’ complicity in Gaza genocide
- Biden demands “immediate” passage of $118 billion World War III/anti-immigrant package
- Hundreds of thousands again protest on the streets of Germany against the far right
- New Zealand protests continue as government backs Gaza genocide
- The case of Hans-Georg Maassen: A fascist at the summit of the German state
- Media and politicians whip up anti-immigrant frenzy over altercation in New York City with police
- US IYSSE opposes pro-government thug attacks on Sri Lankan SEP members
- Israel poised to expand war against Hezbollah in Lebanon
- Stellantis spearheading global wave of job cuts in the auto industry
2024-02-07
- Denver begins discharging migrants from shelters after brief pause
- More Australian demonstrations against Gaza genocide: “Protesting is not working, I believe we need a complete revolution”
- One year since the Turkey-Syria earthquake—Part 3
- More left-wing groups targeted by Britain’s pro-Israel police dragnet
- Australian and New Zealand doctors condemn bullying of health workers opposing Gaza genocide
- Australian police framed up 13-year-old autistic boy on serious terrorism charges
- Mail delayed for months in the Houston area as a result of “Delivering for America” restructuring program
- School workers in Durham, North Carolina stage ongoing sickouts as district rescinds raises
- Canada’s prime minister invited Nazi war criminal Hunka to exclusive reception for Ukrainian president
- Israel assaults Rafah, where one million Gaza refugees are sheltering with nowhere to go
- Pakistan to go to polls in elections stage managed by military
- US pressures Papua New Guinea over security talks with China
- Britain reneges on resettling Chagossians on Diego Garcia and returning islands to Mauritius
- Zelensky confirms planned purge of Ukrainian military leadership
- Palestinian-American man stabbed after attending anti-genocide protest in Austin, Texas
- Over 200 film workers protest participation of fascist AfD at Berlin film festival
- Ford reports $10.4 billion in 2023 profits, outlines plan to cut jobs
- Central Banks face interest rate dilemma
- Appellate court rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election
- Republican bid to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas fails
2024-02-08
- Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's would-be dictator, re-elected president
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Florida Republicans attack sociology
- Australian Jewish academics condemn Zionist lie that opposition to Israeli war crimes is antisemitic
- In defense of actress Melissa Barrera, victim of McCarthyite campaign over her opposition to Israeli genocide
- Faculty Senate calls on University of Michigan to divest from firms aiding Israeli genocide
- British Columbia NDP education minister forced to resign over anti-Palestinian remarks
- Seeking war funding, Biden embraces far-right anti-immigrant policies
- Israel presses assault on Gaza as Netanyahu and Blinken reject ceasefire
- Malaysian government under pressure to reintroduce goods and services tax
- Detroit EV plant fire cost GM reported $1.3 million in damages
- Philippine president angers Beijing by congratulating Taiwan’s president-elect
- UK teacher speaks to WSWS about ongoing COVID surge in schools
- Bipartisan backing for Australian government’s war commitments and rejigged tax plan
- Evidence on “parallel” intelligence network cultivated by Bolsonaro exposes rot of Brazil’s democracy
2024-02-09
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Godzilla Minus One: A little more thoughtful approach to the genre
- Pseudo-left Québec Solidaire complicit in unions’ suppression of public sector workers’ struggle
- The “Stand with Gaza” workplace protests: token “solidarity” blocks action to paralyse Israel’s war machine
- Supreme Court lines up with Trump at hearing on Colorado ballot exclusion ruling
- Biden administration demands another $60 billion to fund the Ukrainian bloodbath
- Pseudo-left maintains guilty silence on job cuts at UPS, Teamsters courting of fascist Trump
- Australian youth survey highlights cost-of-living crisis
- US National Transportation Safety Board exposes further safety compromises on Boeing 737 Max aircraft
- Florida legislature working to roll back protections for young workers
- “It needs to change but it feels like it won’t unless we, the working class, do something!”: UK students discuss how to end genocide during “Stand with Gaza” protests
- The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance adopts a right-wing manifesto for the European elections
- Jury finds mother of teenage Oxford High School shooter guilty of involuntary manslaughter
- AOC praises Biden for his “leadership” in MSNBC interview
- Dearborn residents denounce Wall Street Journal slander of city as “jihad capital”
- Chile’s deadly forest fires, climate change and the need for socialism
- Fired Stellantis temps issue open letter: “Unite all workers to stop the job cuts!”
- ABC promotes US military-build up as “cross-cultural exchange” with indigenous Australians
2024-02-10
- Rank-and-file committees must be built at Australian universities against genocide, war, cuts and corporate control
- Argentina’s fascistic president Milei embraces Netanyahu in Jerusalem
- British Columbia’s NDP government imposes concessions contract on Vancouver transit workers by appointing “special mediator”
- Leader of Sri Lanka’s opposition JVP party visits India
- Israel announces plans for ethnic cleansing of Rafah
- Zelensky officially dismisses Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny
- As it supports Gaza genocide, UK government wages war on democratic rights
- German Chancellor Scholz on war mission in the US
- US bases military “trainers” permanently in Taiwan
- Italian autoworkers at Stellantis Mirafiori plant walk out for the third day
- White House in crisis after special counsel report on classified documents slams Biden’s “limited” memory
- The resignation of Maria Svart and the political crisis in the Democratic Socialists of America
- An interview with Giacomo Abbruzzese, director of anti-war Disco Boy: “The stranger’s gaze sees things we no longer see or perhaps have never seen”
- A revealing comment on the Boeing crisis
- AFL-CIO issues pro-war “ceasefire” resolution on Gaza
- Australia: NSW Labor government ends free parking in further attack on health workers
2024-02-12
- New Zealand government uses Waitangi Day to stoke racial divisions
- Ahead of South Carolina primary, Trump pledges mass deportations, police state actions if elected president
- More health workers oppose the witch hunting of Australian medical practitioners for denouncing the Gaza genocide
- 100 years of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: An interview with performer and archivist of the “Great American Songbook” Michael Feinstein
- Sri Lankan trade unions oppose mass mobilisation, abandoning victimised electricity board workers
- Amid furor over Biden’s age and acuity: The deeper issues in the Democratic Party crisis
- Oppose the firing of Ghassan Hage!
- Stellantis threatens more job cuts at Warren Truck in wake of mass firings
- New York election for George Santos’ seat reflects bipartisan anti-immigrant, pro-war agenda
- The crisis in UK hospice funding leaves many charitable providers on the brink
- Biden reaffirms US support for Israel as Netanyahu pledges to proceed with assault on Rafah
- German trade unions and employers’ associations renew their pact against the working class
- Australia hosts Indian Ocean gathering to ramp up US-led confrontation with China
- Mass layoffs in US healthcare industry carried out to maximize profits
- Bryan Palmer’s James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938
- Workers at Audi plant in Mexico vote to continue strike as company plans EV transition
- This week in history: February 12-18
- Long suppressed report sheds light on Canada’s “Open Door Policy” for Nazi war criminals
- Anger erupts in Iraq over US drone strike in Baghdad
- HBO drops Serb actor Miloš Biković from The White Lotus, capitulating to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s anti-Russia campaign
- Contract deadline looms at month’s end for 5,000 Anheuser-Busch workers in the US
2024-02-13
- In a sign of growing instability, loans to US shadow banks pass $1 trillion
- Indonesian presidential candidates make empty promises to improve social conditions
- Chicago blocking protests at Democratic National Convention in August
- Australia: No “resilient homes” in Northern Rivers until at least 2026, more than four years after devastating floods
- Opposition grows against pro-government thug attacks on Sri Lankan SEP members
- Australian Indigenous leader Nova Peris promotes fascistic Zionism, calls for pro-Palestinian activists to be “imprisoned”
- Infighting in Pakistan’s ruling elite intensifies following shock election result
- UK teacher unions to hold consultative strike ballots over pay and conditions
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- With a green light from Biden, Israel commencing Rafah massacre
- Study finds that COVID infection increases risk of new-onset dementia among elderly people
- Seiji Ozawa, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, dead at 88
- Sri Lankan IYSSE public lecture at Peradeniya University: “A study of the Communist Manifesto”
- Which way forward for the struggle against France’s Macron-Attal government?
- UK legal ruling finds Professor David Miller was discriminated against and sacked for anti-Zionist beliefs
- Thailand: Opposition Move Forward Party faces dissolution
- Oklahoma Superintendent of Instruction spearheads far-right attack on public education
- Chinese regime announces “support” for Russia in war with NATO in Ukraine
- Ford Saarlouis: IG Metall and works council put the final seal on plant closure
2024-02-14
- Strike looms for 3,000 York University academic workers: What way forward in the struggle for wage increases and job security?
- University of California optometrists launch two-day strike
- University of Pennsylvania president denounces lecturer for anti-genocide cartoons
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government continues arming Israel for Gaza genocide
- Police raids against former president Bolsonaro and generals expose coup plot in Brazil
- Australia: Exoneration of Kathleen Folbigg of infanticide raises important legal issues
- Michigan Governor Whitmer releases 2025 budget plan tailored to corporate priorities
- Germany’s top military brass: Prepare for war with Russia in “five to eight” years
- US gives Israel blank check to massacre civilians in Rafah
- New York City museum and cultural workers protest Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Millions of working class UK households suffer 18 percent cut to incomes in space of five years
- Modi government unleashes massive police-military crackdown against farmers’ protest
- In bipartisan vote, US Senate backs $95 billion for war in Ukraine, genocide in Gaza
- Gold mine disaster in Turkey poses international public health risk
- CNN whistleblowers expose systematic bias in Gaza war reporting
- Australian Labor government pushes anti-doxxing laws to protect Zionist witch-hunters
- Italy’s Stellantis confirms end of Maserati Levante production
- Union organizes sham vote on contract for California State faculty, where “no” means “yes”
- Normalizing mass infection and death, CDC to scrap COVID-19 isolation guidelines
- Amid surging wildcat strike wave in Turkey, union bureaucrats accuse workers of terrorism
- Hamburg: Proceedings against G20 protestors partially dropped
- The Best American Short Stories 2023: A step backward
- Labor Notes hails sellout contract at Allison Transmission, which produces parts for Israeli fighting vehicles
2024-02-15
- Protests continue in New Zealand against Gaza genocide, Labour MP booed outside parliament
- Australian parliament passes a vague motion on Julian Assange
- Israel buys ads during Super Bowl LVIII to justify Gaza genocide
- House Republicans impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas by single vote
- Israeli strikes kill 7 civilians in Lebanon as war spreads throughout the Middle East
- St. Paul teachers to vote on strike Thursday, as Minneapolis teachers kept on job without contract
- The ruling class demands more “economic pain,” as corporations accelerate job cuts in US and around the world
- Suharto-era general poised to take Indonesian presidency
- Sri Lankan unions end health workers strike, citing an offer of ministerial talks
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Fort Worth Coors workers reject company contract, authorize strike
- London press briefing warns of dangers of Assange extradition
- Valentine’s Day strike against Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eats and Stuart to fight poverty pay
2024-02-16
- Protests erupt across Senegal as President Sall cancels elections
- Anti-Zionist Jewish activist in New Zealand speaks out against genocide in Gaza
- On Verdi: Lufthansa’s “house union”
- Health workers prominent at Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “I’d never vote Labor again”
- House Intelligence Committee chair sparks uproar over Russian “space weapons”
- Amazon worker in Canada, forced outside in freezing conditions during fire alarm, dies of heart attack
- Layoffs continue at UPS, as Teamsters maintain guilty silence
- Stellantis made $20 billion in 2023, as media reports temps will get no profit-sharing checks under UAW deal
- Arab regimes collude with Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza
- Sri Lankan president calls on parliamentary opposition to assist his government to impose IMF austerity
- Mounting economic problems for Chinese government
- Health workers in Sri Lanka and Australia denounce the doxxing of Australian medical practitioners speaking out against Gaza genocide
- Saltburn: The worm turns
- Egypt building camps to host Palestinians expelled from Gaza as Israel prepares for Rafah onslaught
- Japanese prime minister pushing for summit with North Korean leader
- European governments demand massive arms buildup after Trump’s threats to withdraw support for NATO members
- 1 killed, dozens injured in shooting at Super Bowl celebration rally
- Canadian political establishment united in smearing Gaza genocide protesters as antisemitic
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian farmer protest continues in face of Modi government’s massive deployment of security forces
2024-02-17
- UPS worker dies at at Worldport air freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky
- Israel prepares ground invasion of Rafah
- Australia: Tasmanian state Liberal government implodes
- Rail Action Committee appeal to German railway workers: Stop the military transports! No weapons for the war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza!
- Sri Lanka and Maldives: Battle grounds for geo-political rivalry in the Indian Ocean
- Jail term halved for former Malaysian prime minister
- Public meetings in Australia: How to stop the genocide in Gaza
- Former Thai prime minister Thaksin to be released on parole
- On eve of British hearings, Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton speaks out: “This is Julian’s last chance in the UK courts”
- Another act of war: Israel sabotages Iranian gas pipelines
- The death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny
- Writers oppose PEN America’s right-wing stance on Gaza genocide
- More than a year after toxic train derailment, Biden visits East Palestine, Ohio to praise government response
- Cal State professors, lecturers, counselors and coaches irate over sham contract vote, where “no” means imposing of management's offer
- The WHO and the inability of capitalism to prevent future pandemics
2024-02-18
2024-02-19
- $355 million fraud penalty sparks Trump rampage at Michigan campaign rally
- Video report: Workers and youth speak out at February 17 London, UK demonstration against genocide in Gaza
- Medical professionals under attack from Zionist witch-hunters in Australia: A conversation with Dr Zewlan Moor
- Democrat wins special election for Congress running right wing, anti-immigrant campaign
- House fire explosion in Northern Virginia results in firefighter death, multiple injuries
- Peradeniya University students in Sri Lanka discuss the contemporary relevance of the Communist Manifesto
- As global war intensifies, world economy moving to slump
- US vows to veto ceasefire resolution as Israel’s Rafah onslaught looms
- Australian government imprisons more refugees on Nauru
- This week in history: February 19-25
- Australia: Asbestos contamination found in public spaces across Sydney
- Molson Coors brewery workers strike in Fort Worth, Texas
- Spanish actors, directors denounce Israeli genocide at Goya Awards
2024-02-20
- SEP leader addresses Hamtramck protest against Gaza genocide
- EMERGENCY ONLINE MEETING: Throw out the results of the sham contract vote at Cal State!
- New Zealand foreign minister seeks to block Chinese influence in Southwest Pacific
- The fight to free Assange is the fight against war!
- In Turkey’s local elections, pseudo-left TİP exploit anger over earthquake to horse-trade over seats
- Demonstrators outside UK High Court demand Assange’s freedom
- Data analyst Greg Travis speaks on COVID pandemic-related excess deaths in the US
- Australian IYSSE wins support at universities for its opposition to the Gaza genocide
- Australian Labor government’s new workplace laws codify second-class status for gig workers
- Workers denounce fraudulent election by US-sponsored union at General Motors in Mexico
- Irish protesters denounce Bernie Sanders as a Zionist genocide denier over Gaza
- Ottawa police arrest union leader in crackdown on strike by civilian employees at military bases
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Students sanctioned for protest in defense of pro-Palestinian colleagues at University of Texas at Austin
- Gaza genocide death toll crosses 29,000
- UK postal workers demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Automakers announce billions in Brazil investments after jobs bloodbath imposed by unions
- How the pseudo-left tendencies in Germany are sabotaging the fight against fascism
- Assange’s lawyers expose US-UK persecution on first day of High Court hearing
- American Fiction founders on American reality
- Sri Lankan government promises amendments to its repressive online media laws
2024-02-21
- UAW reaches deal with Ford, calls off bogus strike threat at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant
- Top UN court hearings expose longstanding Israeli plans to occupy and annex Palestinian land
- Paris police ban protests on Algeria as it presents UN resolution vs. Gaza genocide
- Interview with Dwayne Booth, Penn lecturer attacked over anti-genocide cartoons
- Recessionary trends in the world economy strengthening
- Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson: The Russian oligarchy pleads for “peaceful coexistence” with imperialism
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna University Student Union’s silence on Gaza war
- Five year old asylum seeker died of sepsis from strep, COVID and other infections linked to overcrowding in Chicago shelter
- IYSSE in New Zealand campaigns at Otago University against genocide in Gaza
- Rampant abuse in Kentucky’s juvenile justice system
- Assange lawyers rebuff anti-democratic US government extradition arguments
- Australian Labor government announces major naval build-up directed against China
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government holds fraudulent “pro-Gaza” protest in Madrid
- Assange supporters march to Downing Steet as two-day hearing ends in London
- California Faculty Association ratifies sellout contract for 29,000 Cal State educators through sham vote
- Winter COVID wave of mass infection continues across the US
- 80 hour workweeks, heat strokes, coronavirus outbreaks: Striking Molson-Coors workers describe overwork, unsafe working conditions at Ft Worth brewery
2024-02-22
- “Vote Uncommitted”: A Democratic, pseudo-left ruse to swindle opponents of genocide into voting for Biden in November
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- 300 million people need humanitarian assistance, with one in five children living in or fleeing conflict zones
- Australia: Paramedics threaten industrial action over Victorian Labor government wage cuts
- Australia: Flood victims plan convoy to parliament to protest government betrayal
- No Other Land–A courageous statement against Israel’s crimes and their defenders
- Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north
- Successive governments have used Sri Lanka’s Essential Public Services Act multiple times to ban strikes
- Preeminent COVID-19 scientists urge action to confront Long COVID
- Ongoing Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “The capitalist ideology is really elitist and not empathetic at all”
- Alabama court ruling on embryos: A sweeping attack on democratic rights and science
- Labour Party’s sordid manoeuvre against Gaza ceasefire motion plunges UK parliament into chaos
- East Palestine, Ohio residents speak out one year after catastrophic train crash and chemical spill
- The Munich War Conference
- Ukrainian forces withdraw from Avdeevka
- Australia: Wild storms result in largest-ever blackout in the state of Victoria
- University of Michigan student government to investigate administration’s shutdown of referendum on Gaza genocide
2024-02-23
- Congress prepares renewal of Section 702 warrantless surveillance by US intelligence
- While layoffs accelerate at UPS, Teamsters bureaucracy makes huge donation to the Republican Party
- Northern Virginia transit workers launch largest transit strike in half a decade in the Washington, D.C. region
- Johnny & Me: An animated film about left-wing German artist John Heartfield
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: The commemoration of the racist shooting spree in Hanau and the SPD’s crocodile tears
- Biden White House prepares Trump-style anti-immigrant executive order barring asylum claims
- Australian pseudo-left promotes pro-genocide Labor Party in Gaza protest movement
- UK Gaza genocide protesters threatened following Labour’s sabotage of ceasefire motion
- Israel ramps up provocations against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
- The Assange case and the working class
- Australian teachers and Melbourne health worker denounce Zionist doxxing of doctors
- Quebec government reinvokes “notwithstanding clause” to shield its chauvinist “secularism” law from court challenge
- Nonbinary student dead following beating by group in Oklahoma high school bathroom
- RMT’s sellout pay deal on London Underground rammed through without a vote
- Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo allows children with measles to attend school
2024-02-24
- Netanyahu outlines plans for de facto Israeli annexation of Gaza
- San Francisco artists protest Israeli massacres in Gaza by “vandalizing” their own works
- Australian housing crisis: Full-time workers forced into homelessness
- Impact of Alabama Supreme Court ruling against in vitro fertilization spreads across the US
- Stop the smear campaign against opponents of war at German universities! No to the tightening of the Higher Education Act!
- New Zealand working class faces deepening social crisis
- Kentucky legislature seeks to limit access to SNAP food stamp benefits
- New study finds hundreds of rural hospitals at risk of closure in the US
- Western media anoint Navalny’s widow leader of Russian “democratic” opposition
- Nvidia and AI fuel market frenzy
- Two years of the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine
- Federal prosecutors charge journalist with 14 felonies for sharing unaired segments of antisemitic Tucker Carlson/Kanye West interview
- Mass layoffs sweep Canada as interest rate hikes push economy toward recession
- After unions betray Quebec public sector workers’ struggle: Workers must draw the political lessons
- Italian autoworker: “Build a strong class movement of workers internationally”
- Amazon argues in court that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional
2024-02-25
2024-02-26
- UK Zionist Community Security Trust group equates opposition to Israel’s genocide with antisemitism
- Germany’s call for the bomb
- 3,000 academic workers at Toronto’s York University set to begin strike action Monday
- As anger boils over Stellantis mass firings, UAWD faction covers for Fain bureaucracy
- Bob Marley: One Love—Airbrushing the complicated life of the great reggae singer
- Macron pays false tribute to French-Armenian resistance fighter Missak Manouchian
- Massive increase in anti-Muslim violence in Germany
- New York Times report demolishes the narrative of the “unprovoked war” in Ukraine
- This week in history: February 26-March 3
- Australian by-election campaign underscores crisis of political establishment
- Addressing far-right and neo-Nazi supporters at CPAC, Trump and his allies outline police state agenda
- IYSSE holds first meeting at Otago University in New Zealand
- Australian educators demand freedom of Julian Assange
- Police attack anti-Netanyahu protesters as disillusionment with Gaza offensive grows
- Israel pledges to assault 1.4 million Gaza refugees in Rafah city
2024-02-27
- The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide
- Richmond, Virginia history teacher removed for lesson on Gaza genocide
- Stormont’s return in Northern Ireland: Not a “new dawn” at all
- MIT suspends pro-Palestinian group following “emergency action for Rafah” protest
- Climate change disruption of Atlantic currents reaching dangerous tipping point
- Hundreds protest, hold vigils across US for non-binary Oklahoma high school student who died after being beaten
- Sri Lankan trade unions end protest with more futile appeals to government
- Socialist Equality Party selects Joseph Kishore and Jerry White as its presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2024 US election
- Biden claims Gaza ceasefire in sight as Palestinians starve
- J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow: An optimistic view of humanity
- The SEP launches its campaign for a socialist alternative in 2024 to Biden and Trump, the corporate candidates of war and dictatorship!
- Stellantis Kokomo workers meet to organize opposition to mass firing of supplementals
- US Labor Department reports 5,486 workplace fatalities in 2022 as on the job toll continues rise
- Washington D.C. Democrats and pseudo-left support draconian, punitive crime bill
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Flint, Michigan teachers, living in poverty, outraged over school board’s revoking of labor contract
- Paris war summit prepares for direct deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine
- Berlin Film Festival: Artists courageously speak out against Israel’s genocide despite right-wing media agitation
- Australian government’s universities report outlines pro-business and war restructuring
- Opposing genocide in Gaza, US Air Force soldier live-streams self-immolation in front of Israeli embassy
2024-02-28
- Growth of US debt threatens dollar dominance
- BBC Panorama’s “Where is my post?”: What we’ve got here is a failure to investigate
- UK Tory Deputy Chairman refuses to apologise for anti-Muslim diatribe
- Minnesota: 8,000 janitorial workers plan March 4 walkout; 3,700 St. Paul teachers set to strike on March 11
- Tlaib, UAW, pseudo-left promote “uncommitted” diversion on eve of Democratic primary in Michigan
- Biden presses House Speaker for Ukraine war funding with congressional leaders at budget impasse
- Sri Lankan SEP gains support for campaign against pro-government thuggery
- Australian audit report reveals severe housing shortages after 2022 floods
- “Labor for Ceasefire” event with Rashida Tlaib: Official “pacifism” in the service of war
- What brewery workers are up against: The international operations of Molson Coors and Anheuser-Busch
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