Archive: 05/2024
2024-05-01
- The new law on mobilization: Is Ukraine turning into a giant prison?
- Spain’s farm labourers, University of Valencia students protest Gaza genocide
- GM closes Colombia and Ecuador plants as UAW and other bureaucracies remain silent
- As ICC reportedly prepares war crimes charges, Israeli officials call to bomb Rafah
- Reject trade unions’ sellout of strike vote against Tata Steel’s Port Talbot closure
- IYSSE Australia and New Zealand hold meetings on way forward in fight against Gaza genocide
- New Zealand public health agency imposes sweeping budget cuts in hospitals
- Germany: Saxony state government moves to further restrict democratic rights
- Trump hush money trial enters third week with more details about payoffs and right-wing influence
- UK students set up Gaza protest encampments
- Biden promotes Fain’s sellout at Daimler Truck as another “historic” win
- Australia: Fight the climate change disaster, become an SEP electoral member
- “Not welcome in UCD”: Students at Ireland’s biggest university protest Nancy Pelosi’s visit and honorary degree
- Demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of NATO’s proxy war, from a Ukrainian prison
2024-05-02
- The Teacher, from the occupied West Bank, and Empty Nets from Iran: “The system … is perverted”
- Abolish UK’s Ofsted school inspectorate—Spend money on education, not war!
- In TIME interview: Trump threatens military repression and post-election violence
- Workers must prepare industrial action to halt police crackdown on student anti-genocide protests!
- Teamsters hail sellout contract for 600 Orange County, California bus operators
- Quebec government targets construction workers’ jobs and working conditions
- As Israel prepares assault on Rafah, US mouths meaningless humanitarian concerns
- Far-reaching anti-democratic implications of US Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s legal immunity claim
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- French police crack down on spreading university protests against Gaza genocide
- New Zealand May Day rallies seek to cover up union complicity with austerity
- Fed says interest rates to stay higher for longer
- London protest halts Conservative government’s round-up of asylum seekers for deportation to Rwanda
2024-05-03
- International support builds for campaign demanding Ukraine release socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- “Best-case” UN assessment says rebuilding Gaza homes destroyed by Israel’s genocidal onslaught will take close to two decades
- IYSSE (Australia) holds lecture on the fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left
- Sunak’s lies about UK disability benefits system are to justify cutting access to them
- Italian court sets out evidence of Egypt’s state torture and murder of Giulio Regeni in 2016
- Democrats join with Republican fascists to witch-hunt scientist Peter Daszak
- UAW sets strike vote at Stellantis Warren Stamping over health and safety but raises no demands
- Another Boeing whistleblower dies, the second in two months
- Jobs massacre at department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof
- Ford Rouge workers denounce forced overtime, brutal speed-up after death of Tywaun Long
- Florida law banning abortions after 6 weeks takes effect
- May Day in Germany: Police and unions take action against opponents of war
- Australia: Union seeks to shut down NSW nurses’ demand for 30 percent pay rise
- Germany: IG Metall union organizes job cuts
- Biden backs police repression against non-violent anti-genocide protests
- Colombia cuts ties with Israel over Gaza genocide
- British foreign secretary gives go-ahead for Ukrainian strikes on Russia with UK-supplied missiles
2024-05-04
- Anti-genocide encampments spread across Canada
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- In Jacobin interview, UAW official covers up bureaucracy’s support for genocide
- Agent of Happiness, Sidonie in Japan, Woodland: “Do I have to say I’m happy?”
- Students at university encampments in Australia speak out against Gaza genocide, war
- Lecturers: Reject sellout contract! Strike to halt crackdown against student protests! Secure a living wage, pay parity and job security at all University of Michigan campuses!
- As Biden backs police assault on anti-genocide protests, Netanyahu prepares Rafah bloodbath
- Sri Lankan workers and youth must demand the repudiation of all foreign debt
- New Solomon Islands prime minister maintains China alliance
- Minneapolis teachers’ union praises “historic” tentative agreement despite Minneapolis Public Schools demands to gut school funding
- Australia: Victorian nurses and midwives vote for strikes against Labor government wage cuts
- Ukraine updates its exemptions from the European Convention on Human Rights
- European Union parliamentary groups prepare to collaborate with the far right ahead of European elections
- German defence minister signs decree for war against Russia
2024-05-05
2024-05-06
- Spain’s Pabloite Anticapitalistas diverts anger over Gaza genocide in “Vote Uncommitted” campaign
- Roman Polanski’s Chinatown: Film noir in a time of malaise
- New Zealand foreign minister ramps up anti-China campaign
- 50 years since the socially critical films of 1974: an introduction
- Philippines drawn into US network of anti-China alliances
- This week in history: May 6–13
- Reject CWU’s repackaged sell-out at Royal Mail Fleet
- Israeli officials double down on threats to assault Rafah
- Imperialist leaders cover up illegal detention of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
- Berlin’s Humboldt University sends police to violently disband peaceful Gaza sit-in
- Australian educators’ rank-and-file committee demands that Ukrainian regime release Bogdan Syrotiuk
- May Day 2024: The working class and the struggle against imperialist war
- Under pressure from rank and file, California academic workers union announces vote to strike against campus crackdown
- Over 9,300 Canadian railroad workers authorize strike action as soon as May 22
- Mass arrests after DSA-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson deploys Chicago police SWAT against peaceful anti-genocide protesters
- What are the lessons from the brutal attack on SPD politician Matthias Ecke?
- Success of UK rail drivers struggle means challenging ASLEF’s betrayal with fight for rank-and-file committees
- As bird flu spreads among dairy cattle, CDC scraps COVID reporting for hospitals
- Turkey: 200 detained and 49 arrested at May Day rally in Istanbul protesting genocide in Gaza
- United front of Democrats and Republicans back escalation of police attacks on campus protests against genocide in Gaza
- Australian government, media downplay reports of Indian spy ring
2024-05-07
- Virginia state police assault peaceful anti-genocide protesters at Charlottesville
- Poland’s Tusk government intensifies its attacks on refugees
- Australian health professional faces discipline on bogus antisemitism charges
- NATO escalation in Ukraine threatens nuclear war with Russia
- 54 years since the Kent State massacre—and a warning for today
- Sri Lankan Tamil parties debate tactics in the presidential election
- The results of capitalist restoration and the fight for Trotskyism in the former USSR
- Democratic Party enlists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cover up Biden’s war crimes
- Humanitarian crisis looms in Kenya and East Africa as floods kill over 400 and displace tens of thousands
- Hundreds attend Detroit funeral for Ford worker Tywaun Long
- Right-wing Ontario Premier Ford demands crackdown on anti-genocide student encampments
- Australian PM Albanese backs Zionist witch hunt against anti-genocide protesters
- The Haymarket Martyrs and the origins of May Day
- UAW delays strike vote against campus crackdown to next week for California grad students, sparking rank-and-file anger
- US intelligence agencies say Putin “didn’t order” murder of Alexei Navalny, Wall Street Journal reports
- Boeing locks out private firefighters after contract talks break down
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US reiterates “ironclad” support to Israel as Netanyahu launches assault on Rafah
2024-05-08
- Australia: Police shoot dead 16-year-old accused of extremist stabbing
- Stellantis Warren Stamping workers approve strike over health and safety
- Police besiege Berlin’s Free University and attack peaceful pro-Palestinian protest camp
- European Union to step up electric vehicles war
- As it cracks down on student anti-war encampments, NYPD claims to represent New York
- Rhode Island School of Design students occupy building, MIT and Harvard threaten protesters with suspension and “involuntary leave”
- Social Security and Medicare trustees’ reports trigger new calls to cut workers’ benefits
- Student encampments protesting Gaza genocide spread across Britain, emergency protest at Downing Street
- University of Chicago sends police to destroy protest encampment
- Australian central bank signals no let-up on interest rates
- Wayne State University faculty members say: “Hands off students!”
- US police have arrested over 2,500 anti-war protesters in less than 3 weeks
- Biden endorses Israel’s assault on Rafah
- Grammy award-winning hip hop artist Macklemore denounces Gaza genocide in viral hit “Hind’s Hall”
- Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail: “Imprisoned” by the US Navy, two sailors escort a young seaman to the brig
- CWU’s Martin Walsh caught in a lie over support for Royal Mail ending six-day letter delivery
2024-05-09
- Alstom plants in eastern Germany threatened with closure
- University students across Europe protest Gaza genocide
- Transport Workers Union president threatens legal action against Columbia University protesters
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian youth and students call for immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Australian chopper and Chinese fighter involved in so-called “near miss”
- Democrats step up campaign to block third parties
- In France, Xi rejects Macron’s call for China to pressure Russia in Ukraine war
- Roger Waters calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Australia spearheads US war plans against China in the Indo-Pacific
- The working class must take up the fight against the genocide in Gaza and in defense of democratic rights
- New bans on Huawei: Another shot in Biden’s economic war on China
- Australian state Labor government austerity budget targets health, education, social services
- Union federations turn May Day in Brazil into platform for Lula government
- At House hearing on “antisemitism,” school officials placate GOP fascists, back suppression of anti-genocide protests
- Bangladesh students protest Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Israeli assault on Rafah creates humanitarian catastrophe
- UK contaminated blood inquiry to publish findings, as more heinous crimes are revealed
- The fight against war is a fight against the union bureaucracies
- Genuine socialism will triumph in Ukraine
- To stop war, students must unite with the working class
2024-05-10
- Jobs assault deepens, while report says workers’ share of national income has fallen to 55 percent
- For a UAW-wide strike against the police attack on campuses! Autoworkers must defend the right to protest!
- University of Michigan lecturers’ union blocks strike in order to isolate anti-genocide protesters
- The return of fascism and war in Germany and the fight for socialism
- Democrats back ultra-right House Speaker: A bipartisan coalition for war and repression
- The class struggle in France and the fight against war
- American military planners declare: “War is peace”
- UK Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to Starmer’s right-wing Labour Party
- Sri Lankan president announces wage rise to dissipate estate workers anger
- 33 people arrested as George Washington University pro-Palestinian encampment is broken up by police
- The danger of nuclear escalation: What would be the impact of dropping atom bombs on Germany?
- Hundreds of educators protest pay and job cuts at Ann Arbor, Michigan school board meeting
- Healthcare workers must defend students against police crackdown!
- Australian political, media establishment threatening pro-Palestinian student encampments
- After strike vote Warren Stamping workers back broader fight
- South Korean opposition party pledges phony reforms
- Australia: Unions at May Day rally cover up Labor’s complicity in Gaza genocide
- “Strikes and industrial labor action … can actually make a difference,” student at Cal State Los Angeles Gaza encampment tells WSWS
- Israel expands attacks throughout Rafah, intensifying catastrophic humanitarian conditions
2024-05-11
- Japanese university encampments established against Gaza genocide
- Australia: Union bureaucracy blocks NSW nurses and midwives’ demand for 30 percent pay rise
- “It’s the working class’s turn to stop business as usual and demand change”: Workers speak out against police crackdowns
- Boeing 737-300 catches fire on runway in Senegal, injures 10
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Foreign Affairs article lays out path for war against China
- Robert Altman’s Thieves Likes Us (1974): “What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?”
- Canada Post, announcing major losses, demands massive concessions from workers
- Florida deputy kills airman after entering the wrong apartment
- Stop the US-backed Israeli attack on Rafah!
- Sri Lankan university students, academics and workers support US students opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Healthcare giant Steward Health Care files for bankruptcy
- Nearly 3,000 protesters arrested in US as crackdown on anti-genocide encampments continues internationally
- Australian government hails High Court ruling backing indefinite immigration detention
2024-05-12
2024-05-13
- Russia launches offensive on Kharkov as NATO threatens escalation in Ukraine
- Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View (1974): America “is a country with many dark secrets”
- SEP (Australia) public meeting: Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!
- The struggle for socialism against British imperialism and the Labour Party
- Sri Lankan workers enthusiastically support SEP’s party development campaign
- South Korea expresses its desire to join the anti-China AUKUS alliance
- UK Prime Minister Sunak warns of nuclear war
- Protests continue in UK towns and cities against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- Democrats and Republicans: US enablers of Israeli onslaught on Rafah
- Postal workers in Britain demand: Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
- On behalf of Biden administration, UAW bureaucracy and DSA struggle to contain anti-war sentiment
- Auroral display dazzles millions around the globe
- This week in history: May 13-19
- As California academic workers begin strike authorization vote, protests against Gaza genocide continue
- Proposed school closures, budget cuts provoke massive opposition among Los Angeles educators
- The emerging global war and the international strategy of the working class
- Nordic military operations highlight NATO’s preparations to attack Russia from the north
2024-05-14
- Michael Cohen testifies in Trump “hush money” fraud trial
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Study reveals doubling of opioid deaths across Canada during early stages of COVID-19 pandemic
- Canadian and US imperialism “modernizing” NORAD for global war
- “We would have a new iteration of the Stand-up Sellout,” former faculty warn of UAW betrayal as University of California strike vote begins
- University of California strike vote must be the start of a working class fight against war and assault on democratic rights
- Australian PM incites attacks on pro-Gaza student encampments
- Four-year witch-hunt continues against Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka
- US reiterates “ironclad” support for Israel, as hundreds of thousands displaced from Rafah
- The struggle for international socialism in South Asia
- Child care providers across the US protest deplorable wages and conditions
- Medical missions in Gaza trapped without access to supplies and basic aid
- New Zealand junior doctors hold 25-hour nationwide strike
- US general confirms UK Special Forces operating in Ukraine
- US to quadruple tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
- Scientists call for urgent action on the threat posed by H5N1 bird flu
- CWU tells Parcelforce workers they must accept company’s “bottom line” and compete with gig-economy
- The onslaught on Rafah: German Chancellor Scholz supports Israel's genocide
- The reshaping of Latin America by the new imperialist war
- Hundreds of lecturers condemn the police terror at Berlin universities
2024-05-15
- Child homelessness in England reaches a record high
- Biden administration intensifies economic war against China
- UPDATE: UAW calls off strike at University of Washington after less than one day
- Accomplices in Genocide: Canadian imperialism and fascist barbarism
- “They say we have freedom of speech but when we utilize it, we’re persecuted”: Detroit autoworkers support strike vote by University of California academic workers
- Fight the Australian Labor government’s program of war and austerity!
- University of Michigan lecturers' union imposes sellout contract, isolating student anti-genocide protesters
- As strike vote against police crackdown continues, students and educators oppose UAW stalling
- Australian Labor government’s budget benefits the corporate elite behind token “cost-of-living relief”
- The struggle against imperialist war among students and youth
- Australia: Misleading stats used to conceal social causes of “gender-based violence”
- The fight against imperialist war in New Zealand and the Pacific
- Oppose imperialist War! SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka
- Half a million Palestinians forced to flee latest Israeli military attacks
- Canada’s union-backed Liberal government imposes indefinite ban on national rail workers’ strike
- Nationwide construction strike begins in Germany
- Stella Assange: “Julian is just one decision away from being extradited”
- Australian whistleblower sent to prison for exposing Afghan war crimes
- Dutch students and faculty members protest against the genocide in Gaza
- Amazon Labor Union hosts Stalinist Communist Party of Greece
2024-05-16
- Slovak prime minister Robert Fico shot in assassination attempt
- Australian federal Labor government budget includes paltry student debt “relief”
- A lesson in “lesser-evil” politics: Democrats join forces with Republican Speaker Mike Johnson
- I.S.S.: War in space without—for a change—anti-Russian xenophobia
- Voting continues at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama on UAW unionization
- University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns
- What is behind the turmoil in the New Zealand Green Party?
- Biden oversees jobs bloodbath in public education
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Sweeping pro-business restructuring and job cuts at Western Sydney University College
- Former Fijian PM Bainimarama jailed for 12 months
- UK unions and Labour Party agree partnership ahead of general election
- Australian Zionist who planted bomb outside pro-Palestinian household given lenient sentence
- Port workers and an academic in Sri Lanka call for the immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Biden pledges $1 billion in additional military aid, as new report accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
- Professors come to the defense of New Orleans students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza
2024-05-17
- Turkey’s “Kobane trial” sentences Kurdish politicians to prison for decades
- R.W. Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)—A story of enduring affection and protest: “Together we’re strong”
- US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says NATO will deploy troops to Ukraine
- Labor government attacks its own senator for condemning Gaza genocide, Australian complicity
- The political significance of the 2024 May Day Online Rally
- The way forward after strike vote by 48,000 California academic workers against police crackdowns
- Call for industrial action to halt Gaza genocide stifled at Australian university union meeting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel expands Rafah slaughter
- Anti-Zionist Israeli historian Ilan Pappé stopped and interrogated at Detroit airport
- Australian universities moving to shut down student encampments against Gaza genocide
- Québec Solidaire intensifies its reactionary campaign for an independent capitalist state
- UK Labour Party rail policy: A pro-capitalist rescue plan
- 8 Mexican farmworkers killed in Florida bus crash
- Workers and students demand all-out strike in support of University of California academic workers
- Is Deutsche Bahn Cargo covering up a potentially fatal on-the-job injury in Mannheim?
- Stop the genocide in Gaza! Stop police violence against anti-war students!
- SEP/IYSSE (Sri Lanka) to hold public lecture—“Two years since the 2022 mass uprising in Sri Lanka: The political lessons”
- Protesters at Cardiff and Edinburgh anti-genocide encampments speak out
- Major Trump trials delayed until after election
2024-05-18
- Powerful storm winds hit Houston, Texas leaving 5 dead and 740,000 without power
- UAW bureaucracy limits “stand up” strike against police crackdown to one campus, UC Santa Cruz
- Australian government debit system a “vehicle for financial abuse” of welfare recipients
- US drug overdose deaths top 100,000 for third consecutive year
- State interior minister in North Rhine-Westphalia bans “Palestine Solidarity Duisburg”
- Australia: Deakin staff defend students involved in pro-Gaza university encampments
- Stop the political frame-up of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
- Ukrainian oligarch and former Zelensky backer Kolomoisky charged with attempted murder
- The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum: Rewarding, incomplete look at contributions of African-Americans to art and culture in first half of 20th century
- International Court of Justice hearings expose “coordinated plan aimed at the destruction of the essential foundations of Palestinian life”
- As NATO prepares to provide Ukraine capability to strike deep within Russia, SEP presidential candidate denounces plans to deploy troops
- NATO-backed protests in Georgia raise prospect of another “color revolution” in south Caucasus
- Thousands of New Zealand doctors hold second strike
- Macron declares state of emergency in New Caledonia as riots erupt over voting change
- A new biography of West Coast longshoremen’s leader Harry Bridges
- Leipzig University management uses police and right-wing groups to suppress pro-Palestinian protests
2024-05-20
- Iranian president killed in helicopter crash
- Australia: Workers face 30 percent pay cut during protracted repairs at Whyalla Steelworks
- Australian Labor Party hysterically denounces pro-Palestinian protesters at its Victorian conference
- Sri Lankan police attack striking university workers in Colombo
- Entertainment industry union IATSE pauses negotiations with studios, workers continue to be left in the dark
- Doctors Against Genocide inaugural conference details health disaster in Gaza amid press boycott
- Police crackdown against anti-genocide protests continues, as Biden appeals for African American support in Atlanta and Detroit
- Oppose CWU-Labour Party collusion with Kretinsky’s Royal Mail takeover: Organise a rank-and-file fightback!
- German Chancellor Scholz insists on debt brake: Austerity for rearmament and war
- SGP election campaign meeting discusses socialist perspective in the fight against genocide in Gaza
- UAW loses vote among Alabama Mercedes-Benz workers: The political issues
- As NATO escalates Ukraine war, Putin meets Xi for Russia-China summit
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardons fascist killer of protester
- Regents and UAW bureaucracy seek to contain political rebellion of UC academic workers
- Assange granted leave to appeal before UK’s High Court against extradition to the US
- This week in history: May 20-May 26
- Durham, North Carolina teachers picket for union recognition, pay dispute resolution
2024-05-21
- Republican congresswoman Stefanik calls for “crushing” protests against Gaza genocide
- President Ruto grovels to Washington to put Kenya on the global war map
- Biden’s tariffs, a significant economic turning point
- Death of Iranian president in yet to be explained helicopter crash further destabilizes a blazing Middle East
- The Tortured Poets Department and the Taylor Swift phenomenon
- Canada Post letter carrier speaks out against management harassment
- Rising infection and death rates from COVID contracted in Australian hospitals
- University of California academic workers launch strike at UC Santa Cruz, as demands grow for system-wide walkout
- Nakba anniversary in Sri Lanka—an expression of growing opposition to the Gaza genocide
- Taiwan, the “Axis of Genocide” and Holocaust amnesia
- Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee founded in opposition to UAW betrayals and war
- International Criminal Court prosecutor charges Netanyahu with “murder” and “extermination” of civilians
- 800 Michigan nurses prepare for strike as Ascension leads the industry in cost cutting
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian “cost-of-living” budget fails to stem political disaffection
- Left-wing websites, artists and workers endorse campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- North Carolina Senate passes reactionary anti-masking bill
- Australia: Police called to shut down SEP campaign as Victorian nurses reject union-government wage cut
- Apple Store workers in Maryland vote to strike
- German hospital “reform” will initiate a nationwide closure of clinics
2024-05-22
- Working class life expectancy falling in England
- New Caledonia unrest continues amid massive French security operation
- PUBLIC MEETING: Mobilize the working class to defend the University of California strike against genocide!
- Netherlands parties strike agreement on most right-wing government since 1945
- Growing calls for an all-out strike by UC academic workers
- Pro-independence president inaugurated in Taiwan
- University of California files for injunction against academic worker strike over Gaza protest crackdowns
- League of imperialist criminals denounces the International Criminal Court
- University of Michigan police violently clear anti-genocide encampment
- Chinese study finds association between viral persistence and Long COVID
- Australian “military secrets” laws threaten researchers
- Ann Arbor school board votes for draconian budget cuts
- Political prisoners mount hunger strike as state repression grows in Turkey
- Berlin: Thousands demonstrate against genocide in Gaza
- US Treasury secretary seeks European support in economic war against China
- Snap British general election on July 4: Socialist Equality Party will challenge Tory and Labour parties of genocide and war
2024-05-23
- Australia: Telstra slashes 2,800 jobs in latest profit-driven restructuring
- 100 years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924
- Second pro-insurrectionist flag revealed to have flown on property owned by Justice Samuel Alito following Trump coup
- Dallas UPS worker dies after falling into trash compactor as company fatalities mount
- The working class must organize to defeat injunction threat against the University of California Gaza strike!
- 50,000 Canada Post workers face political battle against pro-austerity, warmongering Liberal government
- The welcome reappearance of actor Kevin Spacey
- Members of Congress demand White House authorize Ukrainian strikes inside Russia
- Oppose all capitalist candidates in the Mexican elections — unite workers across the Americas against US imperialism!
- NATO war on Russia in Ukraine drove attempted murder of Slovakia’s Fico
- Brazil’s Morenoite-led union federation cements ties with UAW based on support for war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: NTEU opposes fight against job cuts and restructuring at Western Sydney University College
- Bust UK councils allowed to sell public assets to cover increasing deficits
- Seeking re-election, Modi and his BJP wage far-right, communalist campaign
- German Foreign Minister Baerbock’s war visit to Kiev
- Philadelphia union head charged in dues embezzlement scheme to support Democratic candidates
- Berlin police brutally assault students occupying Humboldt University to protest against the genocide in Gaza
- Sri Lankan court takes case of violent assault on SEP members
- Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Australia demands the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Students set up pro-Palestine protest camp at Frankfurt's Goethe University
- Failed pro-imperialist coup targets Democratic Republic of Congo
- Seven killed in bus accident in St. Petersburg
- Academic workers speak out on the University of California picket line: “We should be pushing for a general strike”
2024-05-24
- Stop the genocide in Gaza! Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds Berlin rally for the European elections
- As student protests over Gaza spread, US House Committee demands further crackdown
- Australian Labor government lines up behind US/Israeli attacks on ICC
- 12,000 Toronto transit workers set for first strike in 16 years as of June 7
- With de facto endorsement from Biden, Israel broadens Rafah onslaught
- Arrest warrant against Netanyahu undermines German war propaganda
- Britain’s snap general election: A prelude to direct NATO war against Russia
- Revealing data on escalation of income inequality in Australia
- UK Infected Blood Inquiry report: “Justice delayed is justice denied”
- New York City steps up evictions of migrants from shelters
- A second US farmworker infected with the bird flu virus
- Pro-Palestinian artists face ongoing censorship in the US, while rich art collectors demand student protesters be “dragged off campus”
- UAW forced by growing anger to expand University of California anti-genocide strike to UCLA, UC Davis
- After closing restaurants and terminating workers without notice, Red Lobster files for bankruptcy
- Teamsters push through sellout contract to shut down three-month strike at Molson Coors brewery in Fort Worth, Texas
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds European Union election rallies in Duisburg and Munich
- The fight against war and the tasks of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei
2024-05-25
- Use of lethal force by US county sheriff’s deputies on the rise
- The Board of Regents of the University of California and the subordination of higher education to the war machine
- “We should have freedom of speech at all costs”: Support builds among Detroit autoworkers for University of California anti-genocide strike
- Government cover-up continues two years after Uvalde, Texas school massacre
- Pabloite France Unbowed leader speaks on Ukraine war and the class struggle
- As NATO moves to allow Ukraine to bomb Russia with its weapons, Kremlin floats possible Ukraine cease-fire
- Mobilize the working class against the French state of emergency in New Caledonia!
- Musician Michael Barenboim, Berlin professors defend Gaza protests at Federal Press Conference
- Invoking Genocide Convention, International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive
- China mounts military exercises near Taiwan after new president inaugurated
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian universities begin dismantling anti-genocide student encampments
- 2024 Cannes Film Festival: #MeToo shows its reactionary colors
- Educators in the US demand: Free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk at once!
2024-05-26
2024-05-27
- G7 steps up economic and financial war against Russia and China
- US Department of Justice launches investigation into abuse in Kentucky’s juvenile justice system
- Jeremy Corbyn to run as an independent in UK general election
- Large turnout for WSWS online meeting for working class to support University of California anti-genocide strike
- The assault on Rafah and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
- Thai court to hear petition to dismiss prime minister
- Macron imposes “republican order” to quash New Caledonia unrest
- At least 670 dead, two thousand buried alive in Papua New Guinea landslide
- 80 years since the mass murder in Ozarichi, Belarus carried out by the German military
- Sri Lanka: Statements demanding the immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Official briefing on Australian “military secrets” laws points to wartime-like regime
- Ten years of Spain’s pseudo-left Podemos party
- Workers must defend Berlin’s Humboldt University students against brutal police violence: Stop the pro-war policy!
- Israeli anti-war activists speak with the WSWS
- Zionists mount provocation against anti-genocide protest in Manchester, UK, as police arrest students in Oxford
- The case of Samuel Alito: Biden, Democrats shield pro-coup fascists on US Supreme Court
- Workers in Berlin condemn police violence against students at Humboldt University
- This week in history: May 27-June 2
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei rally in Stuttgart: “War can only be stopped when the working class rises up”
- The US ruling class lurches to right: Kennedy and Trump appeal for support at fascistic Libertarian Convention
- Pixar Animation announces layoffs in the midst of the Great Hollywood Contraction
- Chief of Canada’s top spy agency urges shutdown of Tiktok as anti-China hysteria continues
- “Protective Shield East”: Poland to build new €2.3 billion eastern wall
2024-05-28
- Sri Lanka: Defend striking non-academic university employees! Fight for a decent wage increase!
- Canada to dramatically expand domestic spying powers and curtail democratic rights
- Israel massacres dozens in strikes on Rafah refugee camp
- University of Michigan protesters charged with assaulting cops
- New Zealand actor goes on hunger strike over government’s complicity in Gaza genocide
- As University of California anti-genocide strike expands, Trump’s threat to crush protests underscores bipartisan crackdown
- Wayne State University officials in Detroit order students to shut down anti-genocide encampment
- VIDEO: SEP (Australia) meeting—“Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”
- Texas petrochemical giant fined $30 million for plant explosions in 2019
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington Post flippantly acknowledges abdication of public health responsibility in ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
- Tory Lord Hague urges a pro-war Starmer Labour government to back national service
- Close to 500 workers at Toronto Nestlé plant enter fourth week on strike
- Australian educators demand the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Sunday Times Rich List: Newspaper calls for policies to make Britain more attractive to the billionaires
- Tornadoes kill 23 across five states over Memorial Day holiday weekend
2024-05-29
- “All workers should take action”: University of California strike against genocide expands to UCLA and UC Davis
- UK Channel 4’s Spacey Unmasked: Smear campaign with more unsubstantiated #MeToo allegations against award-winning actor
- Calling Israeli airstrikes “limited” and “targeted,” White House fully endorses Rafah massacre
- Australian Labor government backs indefinite gas mining
- Campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk discussed on NZ Māori radio
- Biden’s tariffs, a further stage in the breakdown of the international economic order
- Bill Walton, Hall of Fame basketball player and one of the most outspoken athletes of his time, dies at 71
- India’s Congress Party makes populist promises while courting big business
- Campaign to free anti-war Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk is gaining international support
- The crisis at Boeing and the case for nationalization
- NATO prepares direct intervention into Russia-Ukraine war
- London police arrest 40 following Gaza protest outside Downing Street
- Republican Louisiana governor enacts law restricting access to abortion pills
2024-05-30
- The campaign to free Ukrainian Socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to gain support in Australia and New Zealand
- Ireland, Norway and Spain recognise Palestine as a state—A cynical gesture to conceal support for genocide
- Trump hush money trial goes to the jury
- Seattle museum workers walk out over exhibition equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism
- Amid strike against Gaza war at University of California, defense plant near UCLA linked to Israeli bombing of tent camp
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Popular protests mount in Pakistan against government’s IMF-dictated austerity measures
- Canadian workers call for freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Victorian nurses: Oppose union-government wage cuts! Build rank-and-file committees to fight back!
- Norfolk Southern to walk away with $310 million fine for East Palestine, Ohio derailment
- Netherlands: Nijmegen Radboud University students and faculty members walk out against the genocide in Gaza
- New study highlights significant health impacts three years after COVID-19 infection
- Abandoned in the desert: The EU’s murderous anti-migrant and refugee policy
- Aid delays in reaching thousands displaced by PNG landslide disaster
- Early Canadian wildfire season prompts fears of repeat of 2023 record-breaking year
- Texas Republicans push secession referendum, law to block Dems from winning state office
- Southern Brazil faces humanitarian crisis after historic flooding
- As contract expiration nears, Chicago teachers need a strategy to defeat another sellout
- Defending Rafah massacre, White House vows to defy “public opinion”
- Macron’s state visit to Germany: Pro-war policy in the name of Europe and democracy
2024-05-31
- SEP (Sri Lanka) public meeting demands immediate release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Students, autoworkers denounce police assault on Gaza encampment at Detroit’s Wayne State University
- Seven years after Grenfell Tower Fire, justice for victims is further away than ever
- Art College 1994 from China: The effort “to recreate life out of life”
- Unite Community branch in Greater Manchester, England demands freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Australia: Victorian nurses denounce government-union pay deal
- New York hospital fires Palestinian-American nurse for referring to Gaza genocide while accepting award for outstanding care
- New York jury convicts former President Donald Trump on all 34 counts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Biden gives go-ahead for NATO attacks on Russia: A new stage in the escalating imperialist world war
- Alabama teacher calls on workers to oppose Gaza genocide: “People don’t realize the power we have”
- “Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”—Leading SEP (UK) member addresses meeting in Australia
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting opposes imperialist war
- Ascension Genesys nurses must vote NO on sellout contract!
- The “People’s Conference for Palestine”: No perspective to stop the genocide in Gaza
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