Archive: 03/2024
2024-03-01
- Demonstrations in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Mannheim and Nuremberg demand an immediate halt to the genocide in Gaza
- Australia: The truth behind the Labor government’s claims of real wage growth
- Widespread wage theft persists as latest US Postal Service rural route evaluation begins
- Communication Workers Union agrees mass job cuts at Royal Mail processing centres
- Another pro-Zionist doxxing outrage aimed at New York City educators
- Worker, father of 3, killed on the job at Stellantis plant in Italy
- Indian port workers refuse to handle arms shipments to Israel
- Biden appeals to Trump to support anti-immigrant bill: “Join me”
- Record-breaking Texas wildfires scorch more than 1 million acres in Panhandle region
- Australian workers and youth speak on social crisis, hostility toward political establishment ahead of Dunkley by-election
- Texas executes prisoner despite doubts of his guilt, Idaho calls off lethal injection after failure to insert IV line
- How the Verdi union wants to prevent an indefinite all-out transport strike in Germany
- George Galloway wins Rochdale by-election landslide in de facto referendum on Gaza
- Israel massacres Palestinians seeking flour: A war crime made in Washington
- Anatomy of a Fall: “Forcing the game”
- British Columbia’s NDP follows hard-right Ford government in denying basic rights to gig workers
- After denouncing Gaza genocide, Lula embraces “Genocide Joe’s” emissary in Brasilia
- Teamsters announce sellout agreement with Anheuser-Busch, blocking strike action
- Supreme Court hears arguments on state laws restricting social media platforms from suppressing content
- Will books be burned again in Germany?
2024-03-02
- The Zone of Interest: Making the commandant of Auschwitz into “one of us”
- “Delivering for America” restructuring program at US Postal Service shifting into high gear in 2024, according to report by Postmaster General
- Philippine president delivers anti-China speech to Australian parliament
- Fired Stellantis worker in Cassino, Italy: “The need to unite goes beyond national borders”
- Australia’s spy agency’s latest “foreign interference” scare campaign backfires
- US imperialism defends Israel as death toll from Gaza City massacre rises to 115
- Federal judge blocks anti-immigrant SB4 law in Texas as unconstitutional
- Biden calls on Trump to “join me” in waging war on immigrants
- Socialist Equality Party (US) 2024 presidential campaign initiates ballot access drive in Michigan
- More Australian health workers speak out in solidarity with their doxxed colleagues and in opposition to the Gaza genocide
- Strong response to IYSSE lecture on the Communist Manifesto at Sri Lanka’s Peradeniya University
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Interview with Dr. David Brenner of Columbia University on far-UVC 222-nm and the COVID pandemic
- IMF, White House applaud Milei’s “shock therapy” as Argentina’s poverty rate nears 60 percent
- US leads multilateral Cobra Gold military exercises in Thailand
- At Biden’s behest, Canada’s Labour Minister convenes meeting with US ambassador and top union leaders
2024-03-03
2024-03-04
- Sunak government ready to roll out new “extremism” legislation targeting anti-genocide protests and the left
- This week in history: March 4-10
- BNSF announces 362 job cuts, continuing railroad jobs bloodbath in the US
- Jamieson Laboratories workers in Windsor, Ontario continue strike after overwhelmingly rejecting union-backed sellout
- Australian by-election results point to deepening political crisis
- High-profile US officials visit Sri Lanka as Washington steps up preparations for war against China
- Public meetings called by the SEP/IYSSE in Britain: The fight to free Julian Assange is the fight against war!
- Top German military commanders plan direct attacks on Russia
- As protests against Gaza genocide continue across Canada, Trudeau forced to cancel reception for Italy’s fascist prime minister
- From Hilde, With Love: Resistance to fascism then and now
- Trump doubles down on fascist rhetoric in Super Tuesday states
- Following “flour massacre,” hundreds of thousands around the world protest Gaza genocide
- Indian security forces shoot one farmer dead as protest nears three-week mark
- Fired Stellantis supplemental workers protest at UAW headquarters in Detroit
- CDC urges actively infectious COVID-19 patients to return to work and school
- Vote NO on the Anheuser-Busch sellout contract! Build rank-and-file committees to organize strike action!
2024-03-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Migrant worker exploitation escalates in New Zealand
- Deepening economic problems as China’s National People’s Congress meets
- US-NATO risks nuclear war with plans for attacks on Russia
- Three Norfolk Southern trains crash near Philadelphia, as CEO receives huge pay raise
- Kentucky seeks to remove child labor restrictions
- US Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of Trump, restoring him to Colorado primary ballot
- Democratic Socialists of America commits to rescuing Biden’s presidential election campaign
- Harvard University caving in as “antisemitism” witch-hunt intensifies
- Harvard Professor Noah Feldman denounces opposition to the Gaza genocide as the “New antisemitism”
- Forty years since the British miners’ strike
- After 50 percent hike in his wealth, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim hails the president as “good for business”
- The Bear: Comedy-drama set in Chicago restaurant mostly offers crumbs
- Former UK Post Office chairman Henry Staunton exposes government efforts to deny victimised sub-postmasters compensation
- Mobilise the working class to stop the victimisation of Sri Lankan electricity workers!
2024-03-06
- UK Chancellor Hunt presents austerity budget as Labour pledges “iron discipline” over spending
- Liberal cowards join in the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor of Trump
- An interview with Baker Museum Director Courtney McNeil, co-curator of Gershwin and Modern Art: A Rhapsody in Blue
- Fifth “warning strike” by German train drivers: GDL union leader Weselsky refuses to call all-out strike
- Massive study confirms safety profile of COVID-19 vaccines
- Anger explodes as Stellantis terminates hundreds more temp workers at Toledo and Detroit Jeep factories
- Australian community support worker speaks on surge of homelessness
- Surge in gold and bitcoin prices points to concerns over stability of US dollar
- South Korean doctors oppose government plans to expand medical school enrollment
- Hunger and starvation intensifying in Gaza
- Thousands of janitorial and nursing home workers strike in Minnesota, while St. Paul teachers union announces tentative agreement
- Teenager killed by exploding metal canister in Michigan warehouse fire
- Steward Health Care: Massachusetts hospital chain held hostage to private equity parasitism
- In Prague, French President Macron repeats call to send European troops to Ukraine
- Jeremy Corbyn spurns George Galloway’s offer of an alliance of “socialists”
2024-03-07
- Jobs massacre in German industry
- Amid Ukraine war, EU Commission adopts plan for European war economy
- US kidnaps prime minister it imposed on Haitian people, as Western hemisphere’s poorest country descends into chaos
- Protests in New Zealand denounce government’s complicity in genocide in Gaza
- Measles outbreak continues to expand across the US
- Latin American leaders line up behind Biden and Trump in 2024 US election
- United Nations human rights experts oppose UK decision to make Shamima Begum stateless
- Record breaking Texas Panhandle wildfires blaze into second week
- Union rams through non-existent “tentative agreement” to end Northern Virginia transit strike
- Biden, Trump consolidate presidential nominations in “Super Tuesday” vote characterized by low turnout
- Put the SEP on the ballot! Become an electoral member of the SEP! Take up the fight against genocide, war and inequality!
- Trump’s Republican Party primary victory: A new stage in the crisis of American democracy
- White House attempted to hide arms shipments for Israeli genocide
- Wisconsin documents reveal details of strategy behind Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme
- Erkan Baş’s local election campaign shows the TİP’s orientation towards the bourgeoisie and trade union bureaucracy
- Law firm refers Australian Prime Minister Albanese to International Criminal Court for complicity in Gaza genocide
- Venice Biennale rejects appeal by 22,000 artists for Israel’s exclusion over Gaza genocide
- War and class warfare: A socialist strategy is needed to defend jobs in Germany
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Workers and residents outraged as scale of industrial fire in Detroit suburb comes into view
- Teamsters declare ratification of sellout contract at Anheuser-Busch
- Video report: Thousands protest across Australia against Gaza genocide
2024-03-08
- UK and German foreign secretaries Cameron and Baerbock meet to plan escalated war against Russia
- At Washington’s behest, Kenyan President Ruto moves ahead with police deployment to Haiti
- Australian workers hit by biggest cut to living standards in 50 years
- 10 people, including children, seriously injured while attempting to cross San Diego border wall, in “mass casualty” event
- Electricity disconnected to over one million Sri Lankans amid soaring tariffs
- Australia pushes anti-China campaign at ASEAN summit
- Netanyahu reaffirms support for Rafah ground onslaught amid growth of starvation across Gaza
- Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Which Way Africa?
- Medicaid disenrollment threatening clinics and hospitals relied on by workers and the poor
- Democrats spearhead military-police crackdown in New York City
- Parcelforce owner drivers’ legal challenge to gig economy contracts exposes CWU’s pro-company alliance
- Xi’s economic agenda no answer to China’s problems
- Armorer found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in tragic death on the set of Rust
- Houston, Texas area school district to impose massive budget cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wagenknecht in favour of cooperation with Christian Democrats and far-right Alternative for Germany
- YouTube Music workers laid off while speaking before Austin, Texas city council
- Depreciating ringgit creating political problems for Malaysian government
- Ayotzinapa students and parents protest state killings as Mexican presidential candidates promise military build-up
2024-03-09
- Disability rights of Long COVID patients are routinely trampled upon
- Musicians withdraw from SXSW Festival over Gaza, inclusion of military and “war profiteers”
- The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
- Florida legislature passes bill criminalizing the homeless
- New Zealand academic witch-hunted for criticising military boot camps for young offenders
- US will deploy 1,000 troops off Gaza shore in plan to build floating dock
- 170 killed in Burkina Faso massacre as French-Russian rivalry grows in Sahel
- Quebec ruling elite intensifies its anti-immigrant agitation
- Far-right Chega party rises in run-up to Sunday’s Portuguese elections
- The mad race to war: Sending Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, deploying NATO ground forces, using the atomic bomb
- Cuba slashes fuel subsidies and appeals for UN aid as economic and political crises deepens
- 120 workers on strike at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
- Xcel Energy acknowledges “faulty equipment” likely ignited record-breaking Texas Panhandle wildfires
- Families denounce Uvalde report whitewashing police response to 2022 school shooting
- Biden’s State of the Union message: Get ready for World War III!
2024-03-10
- “The Trades Union Congress let the miners down. They caved in.” Ex-miners and supporters speak on 1984-85 strike
- Mass protest in London defies Sunak’s dictatorial threats against “extremists”
- Veterans of 1984-85 UK miners’ strike mark 40th anniversary with march and rally
- Israel forced UNRWA employees to falsely admit agency links to Hamas and staff participation in October 7 incursion
2024-03-11
- UK protesters denounce Conservative and Labour support for Israel’s genocide, demand freedom for Julian Assange
- Sri Lankan police attack student protests against austerity measures
- Canada’s Conservatives back NDP-Liberal anti-scab legislation that undermines the right to strike
- UK teacher dismissed for discussing Gaza in response to a pupil’s question
- Sweden joins NATO amid escalation of US-led war on Russia
- Amid ongoing recruitment crisis, Zelensky government prepares to mobilize Ukrainian convicts
- Maritime Union of Australia embraces pro-Israel, pro-war, Albanese at national conference
- Epic storms batter California as global climate crisis worsens
- Former US-backed president of Honduras found guilty of drug trafficking
- NATO plans for troop deployments in Ukraine threaten nuclear war
- US Justice Dept opens criminal probe of Boeing “door plug” failure on 737 MAX-9 flight
- UAW shuts down academic student workers strike at The New School in New York City after 3 days
- Right-wing PSD carries Portuguese elections as neo-fascist vote surges
- Short films in Berlin: Surreal and realistic depictions of “the absurdity of our capitalist times”
- German education minister wants to make universities fit for war
- New Zealand and Australia discuss expanding AUKUS military pact
- A discussion with victimized Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught: An in-depth review of the fatal incident and the ensuing criminal trial
- Widespread interest in IYSSE’s socialist perspective at university orientations across Australia and New Zealand
- Bernie Sanders reaffirms support for “Genocide Joe” after Biden declares “no red lines” in Israeli assault on Gaza
- This week in history: March 11-17
- US military strengthens presence at Haitian embassy as gang violence in Port-au-Prince escalates
2024-03-12
- Dr Zewlan Moor addresses SEP (Australia) public meetings against Gaza genocide
- White House reaffirms it has no “red lines” for Israeli war crimes
- Chinese provinces in talks with state banks on debt
- United States Postal Service and city letter carriers move towards binding interest arbitration
- Average global surface temperatures rose to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in 2023
- St. Paul, Minnesota teachers contract “highlights” reveal sellout agreement
- Biden budget promotes war in Ukraine, Middle East, China and at US-Mexico border
- British government intensifies school and campus clampdown under guise of combating “antisemitism”
- “How to end the genocide in Gaza”—strong responses to SEP public meetings in key Australian cities
- US ends free rapid antigen tests as CDC sabotages the fight against COVID
- Biden says he will sign law banning TikTok if Congress passes it
- The Maldives signs military pact with China
- German health minister wants to make health care system fit for war
- UK Tory and Labour parties plan joint push for “extremism” legislation
- Measles outbreak continues to expand in Chicago due to overcrowding in migrant shelter
- Australian government to fast-track gas projects in new pro-business blueprint
- SEP candidates Joseph Kishore and Jerry White discuss war, inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic on the Eclectic Radical Show
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- School authorities, police and media step up harassment of pro-Palestinian educators in New York City
- Oppenheimer’s victory at the Academy Awards
2024-03-13
- Netanyahu and Gallant declare Israeli ground invasion of Rafah imminent
- India’s 1983 Nellie communal massacre in historical perspective
- UPS part-timer in New York City speaks out against mass layoffs
- Veteran of 1984-5 UK Miners’ Strike Malcolm Bray speaks on its lessons and the fight to build a socialist leadership in the working class
- Boeing 787 jet nosedives, injuring 50 people on a flight from Australia to New Zealand
- US, South Korea conduct huge war games on Korean Peninsula
- IATSE workers prepare to fight as union signals another contract betrayal is in the works
- German Green and Christian Democratic politicians dismiss danger of nuclear war
- Video: SEP (Australia) launches electoral registration campaign
- Council on American-Islamic Relations files lawsuit on behalf of teachers suspended for pro-Palestinian views
- A discussion with victimized Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught: An in-depth review of the fatal incident and the ensuing criminal trial
- Profits over toes and fingers: Kansas City football fans suffer amputations after attending sub-zero game NFL would not postpone
- Trump consolidates power within party on way to securing Republican nomination for president
- Autoworkers respond to UAW President Shawn Fain at Biden’s State of the Union
- No charges or investigation one week after fatal industrial explosion in Detroit suburb
- East Palestine, Ohio train disaster: Safety experts told railroad “controlled burn” which released toxic chemicals was unnecessary, NTSB says
- On the eve of Long COVID protest: An interview with Julie Lam, photographer and founder of MaskTogetherAmerica
- The global significance of Germany’s train drivers’ strike
2024-03-14
- The Gaza genocide and the death of Aaron Bushnell: What are the political lessons?
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei submits over 4,000 signatures for its candidacy in the 2024 European elections
- Teamsters bureaucrats meet with President Biden while continuing to court Republican extreme right
- Flint, Michigan teachers organize sickout over district’s decision to overturn pay raises
- Hundreds of jobs to be axed in New Zealand media restructure
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Brazil’s anti-COVID activists denounce Lula government’s “forever COVID” policy
- Sri Lankan health unions to strike as government talks near collapse
- UK Whitworth Art Gallery exhibits Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, but is silent on Gaza genocide
- US House passes bipartisan bill to ban TikTok or force its sale
- Workers at Daimler Truck North America vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- As East Coast docks contract nears, maritime shippers and Biden administration rely on union bureaucrats to keep workers in line
- US financial regulators concerned about another crisis
- UK’s new “extremism” definition is a major assault on democratic rights
- Pentagon sends $300 million in additional weapons to Ukraine
- Australian Labor government helping to starve Gaza
- US and Canada oust the prime minister they imposed on the Haitian people—A case study in imperialist gangsterism
2024-03-15
- Democrats set up unit to attack third-party candidates
- “I’d like to live in a world where I work one job”: Flint, Michigan teachers vote to strike after sickout over pay and conditions
- Poland on a war course: government and opposition close ranks
- Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish edition of Vadim Rogovin’s 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror
- Growing condemnations: Australian health workers speak out against victimisation of medical practitioners for opposing Gaza genocide
- What is German Chancellor Scholz hiding in the debate about sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine?
- Socialist Equality Party (US) candidates Joseph Kishore and Jerry White discuss campaign for international socialism on the Punch Up Pod
- Spain’s Podemos politically complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
- Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “I don’t think we can trust Labor ever again”
- YouTube censors David North’s lecture on the death of Aaron Bushnell
- New York Democratic Socialists of America endorses Ocasio-Cortez, Jacobin calls for “left” support for Jamaal Bowman
- Fired Stellantis worker in Atessa, Italy: “The unity of the exploited masses scares the bosses!”
- Brazil’s anti-COVID activists denounce Lula government’s “forever COVID” policy
- US anti-TikTok bill: Escalating online censorship and preparing for war with China
- SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York threatened with closure
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold critical meetings on the Tamil translation of Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed
- Amid mass layoffs across the US, Dollar Tree announces nearly 1,000 Family Dollar store closures
- Germany’s 2023 armed forces report: A call for war and the militarization of society
- Israel kills more than 60 Gazans in latest breadline massacre
- The corporate plundering of America: Major companies spend more on executive pay than on federal taxes
- Mexican police kill Ayotzinapa student hours after AMLO likened protest to “dirty war”
- In defense of Jonathan Glazer: The Zone of Interest director comes under venomous attack for Academy Awards statement
2024-03-16
- Columbia University latest target in state-led McCarthyite campaign against anti-genocide protests
- More than 100 bands, musicians boycott SXSW festival to protest US Army and military contractor sponsorships
- Political instability continues as Pakistan cobbles together a pro-austerity minority government
- A year since the AUKUS submarine announcement: Australia’s transformation into a hub of militarism and war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church receives death threats for defending Palestinians in Gaza
- Australian students strike again to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Five years since the Christchurch terror attack, many unanswered questions remain
- Charles Schumer’s Senate speech and the US-Israeli “Final Solution” in Gaza
- Germany, France and Poland pledge to escalate war with Russia at Berlin summit
- Boeing whistleblower, found dead last week, told family friend, “If anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.”
- Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns at Detroit area auto factories
2024-03-17
- Leading Spanish Stalinist calls for more Gaza protests—against his own government!
- Former US ambassador Ryan Crocker: Nearly every Arab state has long viewed the Palestinians with “fear and loathing”
- “Stakeknife” murders report a cover-up of Britain’s dirty war in Northern Ireland
- Macron reiterates call to send French ground troops to Ukraine for war on Russia
2024-03-18
- UK Conservative government in meltdown as plotting intensifies to remove Sunak
- Trump hails January 6 “hostages,” says migrants are not people, threatens “bloodbath” if he is not returned to the White House
- Stop the reintroduction of military conscription in Germany!
- Trudeau government backs Israel as it prepares to launch next stage of Gaza genocide
- Sri Lankan police arrest two journalists in a direct attack on freedom of speech
- Bernie Sanders’ Senate hearing on 32-hour workweek aimed at promoting Biden, union apparatus
- James Crumbley found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for Oxford High School shooting
- This week in history: March 18-24
- The suspicious “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett
- Australian pseudo-left group Solidarity defends maritime union’s promotion of pro-genocide Prime Minister Albanese
- German train drivers’ union GDL discusses accepting arbitration
- Florida launches crackdown on Haitians fleeing violence
- Artists protest at London’s Barbican Centre over suppression of opposition to Israeli genocide
- Netanyahu doubles down on planned assault on Rafah
- Australia: Staggering Labor losses in Queensland elections underscore wider political breakdown
- Mount Sinai Health System fined $2 million for persistent understaffing
2024-03-19
- Imperialism’s “final solution” to the Palestinian question
- Draconian crime bill becomes law in Washington, D.C. as “law-and-order” campaigns spread across the country
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Victorian public sector nurses and midwives must oppose union-government wage cut
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting to launch two books on the Sinhala chauvinist JVP
- Amazon strikes in Coventry and Birmingham, UK must break out of the GMB’s corporatist straitjacket
- US layoffs in February hit highest mark since Great Recession
- Questions remain surrounding Nex Benedict’s death following release of autopsy summary
- US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin insists no retreat in war with Russia at Ramstein
- Australian government to unveil new anti-democratic electoral laws
- The Russian presidential elections and the tasks of the working class
- Australian Labor government cancelling visas of refugees fleeing Gaza genocide
2024-03-20
- Sri Lankan students and lecturers speak out about deteriorating conditions
- On the eve of the storming of Rafah: German Chancellor Scholz backs Israel’s genocide
- Sunak UK government oversees “catastrophic” teacher shortage and education funding crisis
- Timeline proves ABC sacked Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf at behest of Zionist lobby
- Mail delays mount only weeks after the latest post office distribution center opens near Atlanta
- Top Trump aide and coup plotter, Peter Navarro, begins four-month sentence
- Chicago begins evicting asylum seekers from shelters
- A group of “Hollywood professionals” smears filmmaker Jonathan Glazer and defends Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Australian health workers speak out against Zionist persecution of medical professionals
- Russian miners trapped 30 stories below ground
- University of Michigan lecturers’ union holds rally to build support for contract fight
- Worker found dead after being crushed by forklift at the Port of Los Angeles
- An appeal from David North: Build the socialist movement against war and fascism! Support the WSWS!
- Nurses overwhelmingly authorize strike in Staten Island, New York
- Molson Coors strike in danger as it enters second month
- A political farce in parliament: Canada’s House of Commons passes resolution backing Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians
- Professors file lawsuit against University of Pennsylvania administration’s witch-hunt of opposition to Israel’s genocide
- Australia: Ballarat Gold Mine reopens days after fatal collapse
- United Nations says Israel using “starvation as a method of war”
2024-03-21
- Greek government enacts private university laws, facing down mass protests with police repression
- Australia: Coles supermarket workers face union-management attack
- Australia: Tasmanian Labor leader tries to distance herself from AUKUS
- Israel allegedly carried out mass summary executions at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
- Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer receives support against Zionist smear campaign
- Oppose Zionist harassment of Gaza genocide opponents at the University of Melbourne!
- Sri Lanka: Ceylon Electricity Board witch-hunting workers opposed to privatisation
- The American oligarchy and the 2024 election
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Wall Street hits record high on the back of Fed decision
- Allegations of staggering criminality by Boeing spelled out in complaint by whistleblower John Barnett, released by lawyers after his death
- Leipzig Book Fair: David North to present his book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
2024-03-22
- French army prepares to send ground troops to Ukraine
- San Diego Unified School District to cut more than 400 jobs
- 2021 Rust movie set shooting tragedy: The product of low-budget, cost-cutting filmmaking
- Canada Post demands sweeping concessions in contract talks as postal union keeps workers demobilized
- Australia’s Rich List: Bonanza for billionaires amid cost-of-living crisis
- Democratic Party escalates efforts to block third parties from US presidential ballot
- With mass auto investments in Brazil and Argentina, capitalism recognizes the “Pink Tide’s” Lula and fascist Milei as loyal servants
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Genetic makeup of modern Europeans derived through ancient migrations from Asia
- The fraud of Biden’s call for a “ceasefire” in Gaza
- Australia: Health Services Union hails meagre award “win” for aged care workers
- Documenting and misrepresenting the 1984-85 British miners’ strike
- Migrant workers destitute after collapse of Buildhub in New Zealand
- Climate change report predicts devastating worldwide impacts
- Polish Post plans to cut thousands of jobs
- US$152 million “pre-wedding” bash of Asia’s richest man shows contempt of billionaires toward workers and rural poor
2024-03-23
- Australia and UK ratchet up AUKUS war preparations against China
- Homeless Australians dying 30 years younger than the national average
- Neo-Confederate Texas state law remains at center of attacks on migrants
- Israeli regime praises fraudulent US-backed Gaza “ceasefire” resolution
- Australia: NSW Labor, Canterbury-Bankstown Council ban discussion of Gaza genocide at Lakemba Ramadan night market
- PEN America in crisis as writers withdraw from World Voices Festival over Gaza genocide
- Japan hosts anti-China “security support” talks with Pacific Island foreign ministers
- More details emerge exposing pro-corporate character of 2023 UAW contracts
- Dana Corporation workers forced to remain on job after near-catastrophic water system failure in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
- Pseudo-left Workers’ Cause Party (PCO) denounces WSWS for exposing fascist coup attempt in Brazil
- One week after Flint teachers’ sickout, school board refuses to pay contractual wages
- At least 60 dead, 145 wounded, in Moscow terrorist attack
- Georgia executes Willie James Pye despite his intellectual disability
- The Democrats’ “all-out war” on third parties and independent candidates
- Deep rifts remain after Chinese foreign minister visits Australia
2024-03-24
- 25,000 protest against mass redundancies at Bosch in Germany
- University and College Union leader Jo Grady awarded massive pay rise, as members sold out in UK national strike
- Niger’s junta cancels military agreement with the United States
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government steps up anti-Russia war propaganda
2024-03-25
- Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war
- This week in history: March 25-31
- UAW files for union vote at Chattanooga Volkswagen factory
- Instant denials of Ukrainian intelligence involvement in Russian terror attack are not credible
- Laid off UPS worker denounces Teamsters: “They knew they would enact these mass layoffs ahead of time”
- Oppose the state-led censorship of German universities! Stop Berlin’s new higher education law!
- Massive budget cuts and layoffs announced for K-12 will devastate school districts across the US
- EU, IMF and regional powers bail out Egypt in return for services rendered to Israel’s genocidal war
- Israel to force cancer patients being treated in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv back to Gaza
- Educators block budget-cutting measure at Wayne-Westland school board meeting in Detroit area
- US/Israeli talks in Washington to plot offensive in Rafah
- Following bipartisan vote, Biden signs $1.2 trillion budget bill devoted to war, genocide
- Growing opposition to Democrats’ “all-out war” to block third parties from ballot
- Australia: Tasmanian election results in unstable hung parliament
- No to imperialist war and genocide! Reject the capitalist political establishment! Build the Socialist Equality Party in Turkey!
- Australian Labor governments escalating police repression of pro-Palestinian protests
- Herzsprung (1992): A sober look at German reunification
2024-03-26
- Liz French on the 40th Anniversary of the British Miners’ Strike: “We were betrayed by the TUC and Labour Party.”
- Sri Lankan government, companies and unions conspire to impose poverty wage on estate workers
- New Zealand government continues to stoke racism
- Guitarist Steve Hackett brings Genesis Revisited–Foxtrot at 50 tour to Kalamazoo, Michigan
- UK High Court puts Assange on the brink of extradition to the United States
- Junior doctors mount 96-hour stoppage against de facto pay cut by Labour-run Welsh Assembly
- UPS lays off night shift at New York City hub, as nationwide job cuts continue
- Over 1,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 each week since August 26
- Top Boeing executives announce early retirements as questions over whistleblower “suicide” remain unanswered
- US insists UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire will have “no impact at all”
- David North presents German edition of Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century at the Leipzig Book Fair
- Biden’s budget for world war
- Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!
- Little Rope: Rock band Sleater-Kinney shows signs of wear
- Social collective agreements prepare way for closure of Ford Saarlouis parts supplier park
- Pro-NATO media doubles down on propaganda narrative about Moscow terror attack
- US/Japan to strengthen military pact against China
- University of Michigan steps up repression of opponents of US/Israel genocide in Gaza
- Tyson to close Iowa plant, lay off 1,200, leaving devastation in local community
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Latin America faces unprecedented dengue outbreak
2024-03-27
- Terrorist attack in Moscow: The Ukrainian trail
- Australian government fails to ram through bill to quickly deport non-citizens
- Palestinian-American journalist files lawsuit against firing by CBS News Detroit for his Gaza reporting
- Media blackout of “suicide” of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett continues as company CEO David Calhoun steps down
- Argentine President Milei defends fascist-military junta on anniversary of 1976 coup
- Australia: SEP electoral members call on workers and youth to help put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot
- Baltimore-area bridge collapses following collision with cargo vessel
- Canadian imperialism and the Gaza genocide: The contrived, right-wing furor over a cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a vampire
- Right-wing presidential candidate RFK Jr. picks wealthy Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as running mate
- Spanish Acerinox metalworkers strike in Cádiz
- UK ramps up tensions with China, in alliance with the US
- Campaigning begins for South Korea’s general election
- Stern: The Man, The Gang & The State, produced by Al Jazeera Documentary and directed by Hossam Sarhan
- Declaring latest protest in Toronto antisemitic, Canadian political establishment escalates campaign to squash opposition to Gaza genocide
- “Unprecedented” growth of US debt could bring market shock
- Stellantis fires 400 white-collar workers during mandatory remote workday
- Leipzig Book Fair: A seismograph for the growing opposition to war, genocide, and Germany’s coalition government
2024-03-28
- Oppose UM’s anti-democratic attack on opponents of US/Israeli genocide in Gaza!
- New York Times’ Hannah-Jones demands affirmative action programs based on “lineage” from slavery
- Behind the NBC hiring and firing of Ronna McDaniel
- UPS outlines plans to close at least 200 facilities
- Biden embraces Indonesia’s incoming president and notorious Suharto-era general
- Young people speak at UK public meetings on fight to free Julian Assange: “It should be a focus for this generation”
- Pro-Palestinian sit-in forcibly removed by Vanderbilt University police, reporter arrested
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- World Health Organization warns of “looming famine” in Gaza
- The Baltimore bridge disaster: A product of profit-driven cost-cutting
- Zelensky government intensifies shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region in wake of Moscow terror attack
- Turkey: TİP’s Hatay candidacy crisis underscores bankruptcy of the pseudo-left’s orientation to the bourgeoisie
- Sudan’s “forgotten war” leads to epic suffering and regional instability
- New Zealand sinks into recession amid escalating assault on jobs, social conditions
- The “divest from Israel” referendum at the University of Michigan and the pro-Democratic Party politics of the DSA
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan parties in sordid manoeuvres over presidential and national election dates
- Australian protests against Gaza genocide continue as Labor governments step up police repression
- German train drivers’ union, GdL, submits to the dictates of the company executive
2024-03-29
- Mother of whistleblower John Barnett holds Boeing responsible for his death
- Massachusetts nurses fired by St. Vincent Hospital after blowing whistle on dangerous conditions
- Artists, museum workers protest New York City institutions’ silence over Gaza genocide
- Over 1,000 students protest against the Gaza genocide and new anti-democratic policy at University of Michigan
- The German Train Drivers Union wage settlement and the government’s pro-war policy
- Quebec Court of Appeal validates CAQ’s discriminatory “state secularism” law
- Teamsters UPS negotiator: Company “has a right” to carry out mass layoffs
- Venezuela’s electoral dispute triggers regional crisis
- Accelerated US protectionism rooted in preparations for war
- Australia: Queensland’s chief health officer calls for the scrapping of the term “Long COVID”
- Reject The New School-UAW sellout contract! Resume the strike by academic student workers!
- New Zealand Labour Party leader feigns concern about inequality
- Germany’s children to be schooled for war once again
- Warning “famine is setting in,” International Court of Justice orders “unhindered provision” of humanitarian aid to Gaza
- Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis, the crisis of the British monarchy and the politics of diversion
- Search and rescue operations halted at Baltimore Key Bridge collapse due to threat posed by hazardous material release
- UK child poverty at highest level in 30 years, with schools providing basic living necessities
- Targeting opposition to Gaza genocide, University of Michigan proposes policy to suppress protests
- Australia: Labor government targets Aboriginal youth with draconian curfew in Alice Springs
- Stellantis cuts 3,597 jobs in Italy, escalating global jobs bloodbath
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- California fast food restaurants conduct mass layoffs in retaliation against state minimum wage increase
2024-03-30
- Yanis Varoufakis tours Australia: A pseudo-left representative of European capitalism in search of political allies
- Washington sends Israel more city-busting bombs to level Rafah
- Ford announces mass layoffs at flagship Rouge complex west of Detroit
- Mass layoffs hit auto industry as job cuts mount, profits surge
- California cop shoots and kills autistic teen; Ohio grandma dead after brief stint in jail; FBI raids California prison dubbed “the rape club”
- Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat
- Rank-and-file forum to discuss Australian Labor government’s pro-business and war restructuring of universities
- PEN America attempts to muzzle its workers
- University of Michigan Board of Regents rejects demand for divestment from Israel
- IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: The crisis of political perspective of the Gaza protests
- Biden, Obama and Clinton defend US/Israeli slaughter of Palestinians at record $26 million fundraiser
- Deere cuts over 300 jobs at Waterloo, Iowa plant
- Seven months after the USW sold out our strike: Layoffs, speed-up, and a structurally unsound National Steel Car plant in Hamilton, Ontario
2024-03-31
- Australian mental health worker denounces state government’s assault on WorkCover
- Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government establishes NATO naval base on Menorca island
- Australia: Queensland Labor government moves to further bolster police powers against youth
- Anti-China “hacking” furore highlights New Zealand’s growing integration into war preparations
- 200,000 attend anti-genocide protest in London, as Israel prepares to destroy Rafah
- Stellantis job cuts in Italy spreading to other employers
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- UN report highlights growing global inequality since beginning of COVID-19 pandemic
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