Archive: 04/2024
2024-04-01
- IATSE locals negotiate secret deals with movie producers with no details released after one week
- University of Michigan retaliates against student protesters as over 3,200 back referendum calling for divestment from Israel
- Cleanup begins on collapsed Baltimore bridge as Biden places official response in the hands of corporations
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei of Germany authorized to stand in European elections
- Trump shares video on social media featuring image of Biden hogtied with rope
- New York’s home health aides wage hunger strike to abolish 24-hour shifts
- This week in history: April 1-7
- Tensions mount as India deploys 10,000 additional troops along its contested border with China
- Video Report: Workers and youth speak out at UK demonstrations against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Hungary’s new president lied about his father’s Nazi past
- Unite’s General Secretary Sharon Graham denounces industrial and political action against Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Israeli rallies demand end of Netanyahu government, early elections and a hostage release deal
- Strike by Fort Worth Molson Coors in danger after provocative five-cent wage offer
- German train drivers’ union appoints reactionary law-and-order man to head Fair Train, its temporary employment operation
- The destruction of Gaza and American imperialism’s genocidal global war
2024-04-02
- Study demonstrates effectiveness of air cleaners at daycare centers
- Sudden death of Sri Lankan student at Kelaniya University exposes harsh conditions facing undergraduates
- 19 million in the US purged from Medicaid rolls in “post-pandemic” unwinding of expanded coverage
- Ghassan Zeineddine’s Dearborn: Short stories about Arab-American life
- Financial assets of UAW rose in 2023 as bureaucracy pushed through sellout contracts
- Multiple campaigns plan to stand against UK Labour Party candidates
- Washington’s enablers of Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Union announces tentative agreement, unilaterally calls off nurses strike in Staten Island, New York
- UAW-backed Mexican union tries to ram through sell-out contract at General Motors
- Oppose union-management cost cutting at Australia Post! Build rank-and-file committees to fight for jobs, wages and conditions!
- Growing outrage among Canada Post workers over miserable working conditions and complicity of CUPW bureaucracy
- World-renowned pianist Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
- Israeli airstrike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria
- Migrant children held in fetid open-air encampments near Southern California-Mexico border
- Erdoğan’s AKP suffers setback in Turkish local elections as CHP comes first
- Jobs massacre at UK universities
- White House defends Shifa hospital massacre that killed over 400
2024-04-03
- Florida Supreme Court ruling enables adoption of six-week abortion ban on May 1
- Long-time Australian Labor Party member resigns to become SEP electoral member
- Kokomo, Indiana Stellantis workers discuss conditions after UAW betrayal of 2023 contract fight
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Four fatalities following arson attack in Solingen, Germany
- Mass protests erupt in Turkey after election of Kurdish mayor annulled
- Further evidence of Boeing’s criminality exposed as near-silence on death of whistleblower John Barnett continues
- University of Florida eliminates all “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” positions, Texas shuts DEI offices
- UK arts venue HOME bans performance of Palestinian poetry and writings, Voices of Resilience
- ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING SUNDAY: The rank-and-file counteroffensive against building closures at UPS
- Sri Lanka: Build action committees to fight for salary increase, against IMF austerity
- Israel bombs Iran’s embassy in Damascus: The Middle East on the brink of region-wide war
- UK leaders issue cynical protests over Israeli assassination of British aid workers in Gaza
- Details show Israel’s airstrike on World Central Kitchen staff was deliberate
- Thousands of Australian demonstrators protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Australian government in cynical damage control over Israeli murder of aid worker
- Worker infected with H5N1 bird flu in Texas after cases found in US dairy cows
2024-04-04
- Fire disaster in Istanbul kills 29 workers
- Vultures 1: Rapper Kanye West’s ongoing romance with fascism
- “Nothing has changed”: White House backs Israel after murder of foreign aid workers
- Mexico faces economic tug of war between US and China
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2024 US elections
- Record low primary turnout as Chicago Democrats shift further to the right
- VIDEO: Australian workers explain why they’ve joined the SEP as electoral members
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Fight the UPS job cuts: For workers’ control over production and new technologies!
- Biden-Xi phone call underscores US confrontation, not cooperation, with China
- Hundreds of desperate Sri Lankans hired as mercenaries in Ukraine war
- Australian Labor government appoints corporate leader to key post of governor-general
- Slowing global economy intensifying economic war against China
- NATO summit in Brussels prepares massive escalation of war on Russia
- COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose major challenge for healthcare system across Canada
2024-04-05
- 13 Russian miners declared dead after rescue effort ends
- UK arts centre HOME forced to reverse censorship of Palestinian event after protests
- France rejects Russian offer of Ukraine peace talks
- Trump, Republicans step up anti-migrant hate campaign
- Australia: Mine owner rejected safety measures ahead of fatal collapse, citing “significant cost”
- UK minister told to name sources in Afghan war crimes inquiry or face jail
- Federal judge dismisses $600 million lawsuit against paper mill for decades of toxic chemical releases in Kalamazoo, Michigan
- US Federal Railroad Administration finalizes regulations on two-person crews full of exceptions and loopholes
- Royal Mail delivery worker explains: “The Communication Workers Union is facilitating a race to the bottom”
- Mehring Yayıncılık publishes Turkish edition of The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide
- Oklahoma executes Michael Smith despite claims of intellectual disability
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- St. Paul and Minneapolis Public Schools reveal plans to cut hundreds of jobs and gut student programs
- Socialist Alternative boosts presidential campaign of Cornel West
- Hundreds of students protest against authoritarian policy at University of Michigan
- The US-Israeli murder of World Central Kitchen aid workers
- Dangerous heatwaves in West Africa exacerbated by climate change
- German public service union agrees wage cuts and industrial action amnesty for Lufthansa ground staff
2024-04-06
- After murder of aid workers, Australian government tries to hide its complicity in Gaza genocide
- Biden continues cover-up of Key Bridge disaster in visit to Baltimore
- 75 years of NATO: From Cold War to hot war
- Marlon Brando at 100
- As Palestinians starve, Netanyahu government attempts face-saving gesture following US-Israel murder of aid workers
- Ford extends Oakville, Ontario assembly plant EV retooling layoffs into 2027
- Danville, Illinois Quaker Oats plant to close, laying off over 500 workers
- Ten dead after major quake strikes Taiwan
2024-04-07
2024-04-08
- Furore over racial “segregation” at New Zealand university
- Irish premier Leo Varadkar’s resignation prompts demands for general election
- UK National Education Union backs conference resolution opposing genocide in Palestine, defying antisemitism slurs
- Jordan clamps down on protests against Israel’s Gaza genocide
- British dramatist Trevor Griffiths (4 April 1935 – 29 March 2024): “I didn’t invent myself. The world invented me”
- Scientific—and social—dimensions of the 2024 total solar eclipse
- Royal Mail workers expose “toxic workplace environment” and destruction of mail service for corporate profit
- Vanderbilt University expels Nashville students for pro-Palestinian sit-in as attacks on campus free speech spread
- Berliner Sparkasse freezes bank account of “Jewish Voice” due to anti-war event
- A “war against humanity”: Six months of the Gaza genocide
- Boston University graduate students strike over pay, healthcare, housing and other benefits
- RFK Jr. downplays Trump’s failed coup and defends his convicted and jailed foot soldiers
- World Bank report shows drastic increases in Sri Lanka’s poverty and inequality
- Ecuadorian regime invades Mexican embassy, kidnapping ex-vice president
- US treasury secretary Yellen warns China on military and economic fronts
- On the 60th anniversary of the 1964 military coup: Build the Brazilian section of the ICFI!
- This week in history: April 8-14
- Wisconsin brewery workers vote to authorize strike action
- Thai court accepts case to dissolve largest parliamentary party
2024-04-09
- Columbia University suspends and evicts pro-Palestinian students
- UK NEU and NASUWT conferences sabotage teachers’ pay and working conditions struggle and promote Starmer-led Labour government
- Japan to join AUKUS military pact against China
- ASLEF calls off London Underground strikes claiming attack on train drivers is “resolved”
- UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee hosts meeting to organize opposition to mass layoffs
- Moscow terror attack: French Morenoite website covers up role of NATO and Ukraine
- Israel withdraws soldiers from Khan Younis to regroup ahead of assault on Rafah
- Australian government, media silent on last COVID wave that killed one thousand people
- Canada Post workers denounce working conditions and CUPW complicity with management
- VIDEO: Workers and young people sign up to put the SEP (Australia) on the ballot
- Jewish actors, directors and others campaign in defense of filmmaker Jonathan Glazer and against Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Dune: Part Two–An endless series of explosions and gunfights
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The danger of the imperialist carve-up of the former Soviet Union and the tasks of the working class
- H5N1 avian flu virus found in cattle across six US states
- Protests continue in New Zealand as government maintains support for US-Israel genocide in Gaza
- US and UK officials deny Israeli crimes as Gaza is deliberately starved
- Biden touts his token college debt plan amid collapse of student support over Gaza genocide
- An election for the billionaires
- Arrest of masterminds in Marielle Franco murder points to rot of bourgeois democracy in Brazil
2024-04-10
- Royal Mail workers speak: “We have been sold down the river: walks impossible, terms and conditions evaporating"
- Jennifer and James Crumbley sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for Oxford High School shooting
- Hidden Long COVID crisis deepens in New Zealand
- Chicago police shot at 26-year-old Dexter Reed 96 times in 41 seconds
- IMF warning over growing private credit market
- What does the UAW 2023 financial report reveal?
- US Congress returns from recess to focus on tens of billions in new military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
- UK Foreign Secretary Cameron urges Trump/Republican backing for Ukraine war
- Norfolk Southern avoids admission of wrongdoing in settlement on East Palestine, Ohio derailment
- SEP (Sri Lanka) launches two books on the rightward evolution of the JVP
- Australian doctor denounces Zionist witch-hunting of medical workers opposing Gaza genocide
- “Army of the Future”: Germany restructures its military for total war
2024-04-11
- Multiple students at Pomona College in Southern California arrested for protesting against Gaza genocide
- Biden declares “ironclad” commitment to Israel as death toll mounts in Gaza
- Six months of protest: Australian workers and young people denounce Israel’s genocide and Labor government
- Threat of war between Israel and Iran grows as new offensives launched in Gaza
- Argentine pseudo-lefts denounce Milei as a “traitor to the Fatherland”
- Delhi Chief Minister jailed on politically manipulated charges as India’s election campaign kicks into high gear
- Anti-Zionist artists withdraw work from San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum exhibition
- German government slashes support for children to fund its war drive
- German imperialism must answer for complicity in Gaza genocide
- Amid cover-up of whistleblower John Barnett’s “suicide,” new Boeing whistleblower exposes safety violations in manufacture of 787 Dreamliner
- York University threatens to hire scabs to break six-week strike by 3,700 academic workers
- UN Rapporteur: Australian government is “aiding and abetting” genocide in Gaza
- Arizona Supreme Court revives primitive 1864 law to criminalize abortion
- Australian state Labor government slashes school budgets
- Oppose Royal Mail’s assault on the USO! Defeat CWU’s collusion!
- Washington threatens China over aid to Russia in Ukraine war
- Missouri death row inmate executed despite widespread calls to spare his life
- Finland closes border with Russia indefinitely to block asylum seekers, prepare for war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Study finds nearly 70 percent of Chicago’s children under 6 are exposed to lead contaminated drinking water
- Thames Water set to collapse as UK’s rivers and seas flooded with sewage by private operators
- Ann Arbor, Michigan schools post $25 million deficit, plan to cut teachers and staff
2024-04-12
- Germany’s Coronavirus Commission of Enquiry aims to criminalise protective measures
- 950 lose jobs as Cleveland-Cliffs closes mill in Weirton, West Virginia
- The US-Japanese summit: A major step towards war with China
- South Korea’s Democrats obtain large majority in general election
- Ukrainian parliament expands conscription to dragoon young people to the front
- What does Labour’s praise for Thatcher mean for workers under a Starmer government?
- Secret RCMP report calls for increased police powers to meet growing threat of social unrest
- Muslim UT Austin student assaulted after leaving mosque
- After mass layoffs, Ford Rouge workers denounce union-sponsored “Going Away Party”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UAW President Fain dines with billionaires, warmongers at White House reception for Japanese PM
- More writers shun PEN America over genocide of Palestinians
- SEP (Australia) forum in Melbourne demands freedom for Assange
2024-04-13
- Stellantis cuts another 200 supplemental workers in Detroit as auto layoffs continue
- Emergency room workers threaten strike at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit
- Ann Arbor board approves layoffs and budget cuts over mass opposition
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government feigns sympathy with Gaza, calling for Palestinian statehood
- President of Germany’s Kiel Institute proposes financing war rearmament using the Nazi model
- Cornel West selects Black Lives Matter promoter Melina Abdullah as running mate
- Australian actors condemn Gaza genocide, oppose Zionist crackdown on free speech
- Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance: The “wonderfully wealthy” businessman as a sociopath
- UAW President Fain at the White House dinner: The corporatist alliance for World War III
- Berlin police raid and shut down conference opposing Gaza genocide
- Biden gives Israel “ironclad” backing against Iranian retaliatory strike
- Australian union cancels strike by airport firefighters, announces sell-out deal
- US House passes bipartisan 2-year reauthorization of Section 702 warrantless surveillance
- New Zealand strengthens military alliance with US
2024-04-15
- Floods devastate parts of Russia, Kazakhstan
- Inspector General’s reports find massive issues in rollout of “Delivering for America” restructuring of US Postal Service
- Mass stabbing in Sydney shopping centre by mentally ill man
- Inflation numbers push back possible Fed interest rate cut
- Biden condemns Iran’s strike on Israel: A case study in imperialist hypocrisy
- UK Labour leader Keir Starmer boasts of readiness to kill millions of people in nuclear war
- The Simpson murder case: Imitation of life
- Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter: A masterpiece of corporate kitsch
- Dengue fever epidemic sweeps through Latin America
- Australian government announces war-related economic policy
- Sri Lankan trade unions seek alliance with opposition parties
- Solomon Islands holds national election as US confronts China in the Pacific
- This week in history: April 15-21
- The O.J. Simpson trial: Some ugly truths
- Federal officials target end of May for full reopening of Port of Baltimore after bridge collapse
2024-04-16
- DSA backs Morena’s re-election in Mexico: A dry run for endorsing Biden
- Rank-and-file forum discusses Australian Labor government’s pro-business and war restructuring of education
- Trump “hush money” trial begins—A political diversion
- Tesla announces more than 14,000 layoffs as global attacks on jobs mount
- Tories denounce BBC’s Nick Robinson for referring to “murders of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians”
- David North answers questions at Wayne State University on the Gaza genocide and the fight for socialism
- Video: “The SGP strongly condemns the suppression of the Palestine Congress in Berlin”
- Thousands participate in global protests targeting economic arteries and weapons manufacturers
- US, South Korea conduct massive air force drills
- Canadian imperialism outlines its plans for global war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israel vows “response” to Iranian strikes, as Gaza genocide continues
- Germany: Police terror, intimidation and censorship against opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- Texas governor orders crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech on campuses
- Berkeley law student Gaza protest sparks frenzy from university administration
2024-04-17
- Nearly five million removed from Medicaid have no health insurance
- “Something will have to give”—IMF warns of build-up of US debt
- Damage to Glen Canyon Dam pipes threatens Colorado River water supply
- Tesla axes 14,000 jobs: Workers need a global strategy to fight against mass unemployment
- Biden administration issues “weasel words” assurances to secure Assange’s extradition
- After 24,000 sign open letter calling for Israel’s exclusion from Venice Biennale, artist shuts down exhibition
- US imposes new sanctions on Iran amid looming threat of Israeli attack
- CUPE announces sellout agreement for 3,000 striking York University academic workers
- No layoffs! No budget cuts! Mobilize the working class to defend public education in Ann Arbor and across Michigan!
- New York City universities step up purge of pro-Palestinian faculty
- Thousands could be deported under Australian government’s draconian immigration bill
- Ban on the Palestine Congress: Another step towards a German police state
2024-04-18
- Starmer’s UK Labour Party declares for nuclear war
- Modi banks on venal, right-wing character of opposition to secure third term
- New Zealand unions collaborate with thousands of job cuts
- Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour testifies before Congress on safety of the 777 and 787 aircraft
- Meeting of Canada Post workers calls for establishment of Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
- Global pandemic agreement undermined by corporate interests
- Indian Stalinists stump for big business Congress Party and ethno-chauvinist DMK in Tamil Nadu phase of national election
- Will Israel attack Iran’s nuclear plants?
- Tehran warns of “massive and harsh” response if Israel again bombs Iran
- IMF says US debt creating “significant risks” for the global economy
- Right-wing Supreme Court majority signals it may dismiss obstruction charges against January 6 insurrectionists
- UK Tories hound tens of thousands of unpaid carers for benefit repayments
- Australian police rapidly declare Sydney church attack a “terrorist” incident
- Oppose the campaign to silence opponents of the Gaza genocide on campuses!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Biden, steelworkers union beat the drums for anti-China campaign
- Google employees arrested for sit-in protest against cloud services contract with Israel
- Brazil’s chief justice “turns the page” on military’s involvement in Bolsonaro coup attempt
- Civil War without politics or social context
- Germany’s suppression of the Palestine Congress and the fight against genocide and dictatorship
2024-04-19
- Upcoming IYSSE (Australia) lecture: The fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left
- Soldiers’ testimony at House hearing on January 6 belies attempts to whitewash military role in Trump coup attempt
- Latin America drawn into Middle East conflict amid warnings of “Third World War”
- Royal Mail’s planned cuts to mail service part of global offensive against postal and logistics workers
- Rising gold price a sign of emerging financial crisis
- Teamsters call off Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, resulting in all members losing their jobs
- Oppose the firing of Google workers for protesting tech giant’s complicity in Gaza genocide!
- Israel’s Arab allies fear repercussions of the escalating war with Iran
- Sri Lankan government announces unprecedented anti-democratic restrictions on election candidates
- Australian Labor government seeks to delay nominal wage rise for aged care workers
- Israel strikes Iran as US and EU impose a new round of sanctions
- Unionization vote underway at Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant
- Labor Notes opens 2024 conference after helping push through massive sellouts in auto, UPS
- EU and Berlin step up attacks on refugees
- Biden administration tells Supreme Court: Providing immigrants with explanations about a visa denial is a threat to national security
- Quebec nurses reject union-backed concessions contract
- New York police arrest over 100 Columbia University students in crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests
- Australian protesters oppose Gaza genocide: Imperialist powers are “not just complicit, but directly responsible”
- Hundreds protesting Gaza genocide barricaded by Chicago police, as Mayor Johnson prepares crackdown on DNC protests
- Strike of ER clinicians begins at Ascension St. John in Detroit
- FBI opens criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse
2024-04-20
- Protests erupt in New Caledonia as France amends colony’s electoral system
- Australia’s National Defence Strategy outlines plans for war with China
- The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral … American Berserk
- Israeli strike on Iran expands Middle East war
- Democrats provide votes to pass procedural motion, paving the way for adoption of Ukraine war funding by Republican-controlled House
- Jeopardizing the right to protest, Supreme Court refuses to block lawsuit by police officer against demonstration organizer
- A day after mass arrests, Columbia students continue protest against Gaza genocide
- Right-wing social democrat Pellegrini wins presidential election in Slovakia
- Ascension St. John clinicians speak out during 24 hour strike
- Australia: Teachers and parents outraged by NSW public school cuts
- The hush money trial of Donald Trump and the crisis of class rule in America
- Google worker fired for pro-Palestinian protest: “Workers are the ones that have the power to stop the genocide”
- Yale professor of African American studies attacks Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess as “white supremacist” and “misogynist”
- Ontario legislature bans the kaffiyeh as Canada’s ruling class clamps down on pro-Palestinian demonstrations
- Volvo Group announces plans for truck plant in Mexico to “deliver logistical efficiency” after betrayed Mack Trucks strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia & Australia
- Anger mounts as Ann Arbor Public School board prepares cuts
2024-04-21
2024-04-22
- The bipartisan politics of imperialism: Democratic liberals and Republican fascists unite in funding Gaza genocide and Ukraine proxy war
- Biden signs expanded warrantless surveillance law hours after Senate reauthorization of Section 702
- Thousands continue to protest in Britain against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Hundreds of students demonstrate in Berlin against destruction of their democratic rights
- New Zealand survey finds 65 percent agree the economy is “rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”
- “Progressives” and Democratic Socialists of America members vote to fund imperialist war against Russia, China
- Unionization vote at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee hailed by Democrats and corporate media
- Western Australian school teachers to strike, first time in a decade
- German Economy Minister Habeck’s war visit to Kiev
- The films of South Korean director Lee Chang-dong in New York City
- Police brutally break up peaceful anti-genocide demonstration in Berlin
- New Zealand strengthens military ties with Philippines against China
- As AMLO cracks down on migrants, presidential candidates advocate their super-exploitation in Mexico
- Open letter to Teamsters General President O’Brien: We demand answers on layoffs!
- This week in history: April 22-28
- Israeli air strikes kill 22 women and children in Rafah
- Columbia University students defy crackdown, continue pro-Palestinian protest as solidarity actions spread to other campuses
- Human-to-human transmission with a novel Mpox virus identified in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
- In Time magazine comment, Biden lauds UAW President Fain as one of 100 most influential people of the year
- US begins largest annual war games with the Philippines
2024-04-23
- SGP candidate Ulrich Rippert at Tesla plant in Germany: “Build action committees to prevent layoffs!”
- Trump “hush money” cover-up trial opens in Manhattan
- Mobilize the working class in defense of protesters against the Gaza genocide!
- Nearly 300 bodies discovered in mass graves at Gaza’s Nasser hospital
- Financial report shows Teamsters bureaucracy pays 160 people more than $200,000 a year
- Weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez-Reed receives brutal sentence over 2021 Rust set death
- Spain’s Morenoite CRT launches EU election campaign, appealing to Pabloite Anticapitalistas
- The SEP (Sri Lanka) launches party development fund to expand its political work
- The Dmitriev Affair: A confused and confusing film about the historian of Stalin’s Great Terror
- New York City’s Koch Theater bows to right-wing pressure, cuts performance of Russian dancers at gala
- Quebec band critical of Glencore censored as transnational firm continues to pump out toxic emissions
- Protests erupt on campuses across the US in opposition to the Gaza genocide and attack on free speech
- UK Tory government passes fascistic Bill on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda
- Bodycam footage and lawsuits detail police killings of Texas men suffering mental health crises
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Attend UK Postal Workers Rank-and File meeting Sunday: “They want Royal Mail on a par with Evri and Amazon”
- Poll shows deepening crisis of Australian Labor government amid social distress
- Google employees fired for opposing Gaza genocide hold emergency press conference after 20 more are terminated
2024-04-24
- UK Prime Minister Sunak pledges 2.5 percent GDP military spending to place economy on a “war footing”
- Biden launches police state crackdown at US universities
- Columbia University threatens to deploy National Guard as mass arrests of anti-genocide protesters continue
- ILO report reveals severe gender pay gap in Sri Lankan labour force
- Mobilize workers against the French police state’s ban on opposition to the Gaza genocide!
- Senate passes TikTok ban, putting it on track for Biden's signature
- US Senate quickly advances $95 billion global war package
- Ocasio-Cortez donates over $250,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
- Australia: Workers and youth in Melbourne explain why they support the SEP’s electoral member campaign
- Defend democratic rights! Support the anti-genocide resolution at Austin Community College!
- More Stellantis layoffs at Sterling Heights and Mack Avenue Assembly in Detroit, forced overtime announced in Toledo
- Ford Rouge worker dies on the assembly line
- Fifty years since Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
- In Supreme Court arguments, Biden administration demands unrestricted power to separate families “without judicial oversight”
- Number of bodies found in Palestinian hospital mass graves rises to 310 as Israel prepares assault on Rafah
2024-04-25
- How to fight to reinstate 62 Sri Lankan victimised electricity workers
- Israel escalates war with Lebanon, plans Rafah invasion, as Nasser hospital atrocity details emerge
- The People App: Big Brother at Royal Mail
- Inhumane conditions in Tegel arrival centre, Germany’s largest refugee camp
- 10 years since the lead poisoning of Flint, Michigan water supply
- Feminists demand terrorism designation of Bondi stabbings by mentally ill man
- London, Ontario train car fire highlights safety concerns for rail workers in contract talks with CPKC, CN
- Ripley: A new series based on the Patricia Highsmith novel
- Over one million march in defense of Argentina’s universities as Milei brutally represses protests
- Labor Notes’ 2024 conference stumps for world war, pro-genocide Democrats
- In huge police raids, Australian teenagers arrested on vague “terrorism” charges
- Ukrainian government cancels consular services for military-age men
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Israel constructs tent camps to hold Gazans displaced by imminent Rafah onslaught
- Police raids, mass arrests of anti-genocide protesters continue at campuses in NYC and beyond following Biden’s green light for repression
- US Secretary of State Blinken in China with a bagful of demands and threats
- Republican House Speaker Johnson stages provocation at Columbia University, demands repression of protests
- Right-wing Supreme Court majority seems ready to sanction arrest of homeless people for sleeping in public
- Foxtrot, Dom’s Kitchen & Market abruptly close all locations: “It feels like we’re disposable”
- ACTU statement calls for end to military trade with Israel, but Australian unions are taking no action
- Biden signs bipartisan bill for world war
- Polish government steps up military indoctrination in schools
2024-04-26
- Supreme Court hearing on Trump immunity claim debates how far US president can go in committing crimes
- UPS stock price and earnings beat market Q1 expectations as the attack on jobs accelerates
- Interest in rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail: Belfast, London, West Yorkshire
- May Day 2024: Build a socialist movement of workers and youth to stop World War III, fascism and dictatorship!
- Inequality in India greater today than at the height of the British Raj
- Higher for longer interest rates hit the global economy
- Germany’s Green Party vice-chancellor appoints himself “defence industry minister”
- New York appeals court overturns producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction, orders new trial
- Survivors and families of the victims of Manchester Arena bombing to sue MI5
- The WHO updates its terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air
- UAW announces 11th hour sellout deal at Daimler Truck North America blocking strike by 7,300 workers
- New Zealand: Court action continues over Pike River mine disaster
2024-04-27
- Near-tragic plant shooting at Dana Fort Wayne puts spotlight on abusive working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Brazilian federal education strikes expose broad attacks by Lula government
- American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten promotes slander of Gaza protests as “antisemitic,” covers for brutal government repression
- Sri Lankan IYSSE to hold public lecture on “Leon Trotsky and his place in history” at Peradeniya University
- Australia: Qenos collapse threatens hundreds of manufacturing jobs
- 18 indicted on felony charges for fake Trump elector scheme in Arizona
- Teamsters Local 952 keeps membership in the dark as Southern California bus drivers contract expires April 30
- PEN America cancels World Voices Festival, literary awards ceremony due to protests over its conduct on Gaza
- Biden’s campus crackdown: The Democratic Party bares its fangs, again
- UAW does nothing as CNH lays off 220 in Wisconsin, more cuts expected
- Australian workers protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Students at Australian universities form encampments to protest Gaza genocide
- “Hands off Students’ Rights”: Student parliament at Humboldt University rejects law targeting critical students
- Australian police and media fuel anti-Islamic witch hunt to justify arrests of teenagers on flimsy “terrorism” charges
2024-04-28
- 200,000 march in London against genocide in Gaza but offered no perspective by organisers
- Mobilise against UK Tories’ roundup of asylum seekers for deportation to Rwanda!
- The way to commemorate our colleagues’ deaths is to end the subordination of workers’ lives to corporate profits at National Steel Car and beyond!
- As University of Michigan cracks down on protesters, AFT-affiliated lecturers’ union blocks strike, signs sellout tentative contract
- Amid anti-genocide protests, Spain’s Revolutionary Left group covers up its ties to PSOE-Sumar government
2024-04-29
- Berlin police violently disperse Gaza protest camp in front of the parliament
- Workers and students in Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow speak against Gaza genocide
- White House correspondents’ dinner celebrates “free press” amid propaganda in support of war, genocide and repression
- Humza Yousaf resigns as Scottish First Minister after ditching coalition pact with Greens
- UPS workers say: The working class must oppose the attack on students’ right to protest!
- This week in history: April 29-May 5
- Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War or: How American imperialism learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
- Massive cutbacks in the German steel industry: Build independent action committees!
- Australian defence minister in Ukraine, backs US-NATO war against Russia
- US Secretary of State’s visit to China: An exercise in confrontation and bullying
- The arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an attack on democratic rights
- UAW pushes through sellout deal at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
- Former Japanese prime minister meets with Trump in New York
- “Independent” German political website censors SGP candidate for European elections
- US to send largest weapons shipment yet to Ukraine
- Canadian students at McGill University defy threats of state repression
- On heels of Fed’s two-person rail crew rules, BNSF tightens screws on Hi-Viz attendance policy
- Australia: Committee For Public Education holds forum opposing the Gaza genocide and educators’ victimisation
2024-04-30
- “Fishing is no life”: Heartless from Brazil, short films from Colombia, South Korea and the US
- UAW secretly agreed to remove limits on forced overtime, leading to 70 hour work weeks at Toledo Jeep
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian media campaign to shut down protests against Israeli genocide
- Rank-and-file meeting discusses fight against mass job losses and reduced mail service at Royal Mail
- Sri Lanka: Hands off US university students! Mobilise the working class in defense of all those protesting against genocide!
- Northwestern University encampment organizers end anti-genocide protest, provoking widespread opposition: “I hope the other encampments do not follow suit”
- Florida Governor DeSantis signs new law mandating teaching the “evils of communism” to children as young as five
- FAA issues new rules for air traffic controllers after runway incursion in Washington D.C.
- Australian PM Albanese pushes anti-China campaign in Papua New Guinea
- Istanbul police declare de facto state of emergency against May Day celebrations
- Dutch foreign minister van Leeuwen demands population “get used to… civilian casualties and body bags”
- Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stays in office after threatening to resign
- US condemns International Criminal Court investigation of Israeli war criminals
- Academic arrested for “statements against Zionism” as Israel intensifies anti-genocide crackdown
- Australia: Gold Coast Gaza rally hears socialist anti-war perspective
- A significant speech by a central banker
- FDA reports fragments of avian influenza found in US commercial milk supply
- Germany’s political establishment and media accuse far-right Alternative for Germany of “lacking patriotism”
- German train drivers’ union announces approval of collective agreement with Deutsche Bahn
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