Archive: 07/2024
2024-07-01
- SEP member calls for release of Bogdan Syrotiuk on Tamil Nadu YouTube channel
- Australia to train specialized Pacific police intervention force
- Kenyan President Ruto imposes savage austerity as High Court upholds military deployment
- Australia: Opposition Coalition makes nuclear power central to election strategy
- Australian political, media establishment buries alleged far-right plan to behead Labor MP
- Major media outlets continue campaign to replace fading Biden following public unmasking
- Right-wing Supreme Court majority approves making homelessness a crime
- After the European elections: EU summit intensifies war against Russia
- IMF says growing US debt must be “urgently” dealt with
- French snap elections: Macron’s party collapses as New Popular Front, neo-fascists rise
- New York police murder 13-year-old youth
- Iran’s presidential elections head to a run-off amid escalating Mideast war
- Bheed: The plight of India’s migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown
- This week in history: July 1-7
- Corporate America appeals to crisis-ridden Biden White House to block strike on East Coast docks
- UK Socialist Equality Party election rally advances socialist and internationalist opposition to war
- California Food 4 Less grocery workers must reject UFCW’s sellout agreement!
- Genocide by design: The Gaza massacre is made in Washington
- Attendees at UK general election rally speak: “The Socialist Equality Party is what I want to dedicate my efforts to building.”
- Two Uvalde police officers indicted for failed response to Robb Elementary School mass shooting
- Deportation after one “like”—German cabinet tightens up deportation rules
- Essen, Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against far-right Alternative for Germany
2024-07-02
- Argentina’s Milei launches assault on workers after pushing through sweeping legislation
- Supreme Court declares America a presidential dictatorship
- BIS report points to mounting economic and financial instability
- German Publishers and Booksellers Association awards its annual “Peace Prize” to US war hawk Anne Applebaum
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Starmer’s Labour: The “party of NATO” prepares a UK government of genocide and war
- Spreading protests demand Kenyan president “Ruto must go!”
- Australian climate policy debate exposes Labor’s bogus emissions targets
- Satnam Singh: A fatal victim of brutal exploitation on Italy’s farms
- Mother charged after daughter dies in car while she was working at Amazon
- North Carolina Democrats strike three campaigns from the ballot, including Cornel West and RFK Jr.
- Online public meeting in Sri Lanka: Condemn the police attack on teachers! Defend free public education! Higher salaries for educators!
- Families of crash victims outraged over Justice Department sweetheart plea deal with Boeing
- Deere announces plans to cut over 800 more jobs in Iowa and Illinois
- Details of Molson Coors contract expose sellout of strike by Teamsters union
- Australian Labor government ferociously attacks its own senator for condemning Gaza genocide
2024-07-03
- Bridgerton: Season 3 of the anti-history
- Amazon delivery drivers strike in Illinois
- SEP (UK) candidate Tom Scripps speaks at Palestine Solidarity Campaign hustings
- Democrats downplay Supreme Court immunity ruling, while Trump doubles down on plans for dictatorship
- No to Macron and Le Pen! The French election crisis, the threat of fascism and the treachery of the New Popular Front
- Australian retail union pushes through sell-out wage deal at Woolworths amid growing worker opposition
- Ukrainian refugees talk about the war and the fight for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s liberation
- The bogus African National Congress-derived political credentials of Andrew Feinstein—Part 1
- More than 100 protest police killing of Nyah Mway in Utica, New York
- Biden campaign in free fall as Democrats privately and publicly call on president to withdraw
- The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud: A political witch-hunt against science and public health
- Holocaust survivor leads Michigan vigil against US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Backed by the Trudeau and Ford governments, Toronto Police wage campaign of repression against anti-genocide protestors
- Israeli regime escalates destruction of Bedouin villages
- Ex-US pilot in Australia faces extradition to face trumped-up charges of assisting China
- Israel orders mass displacement of Palestinians from Khan Younis
- In European elections across Nordic region, ex-Stalinist and pseudo-left parties benefit from opposition to war and far right
- Mounting pressure within Canada’s Liberals for Trudeau to quit as PM, party leader
- Provocations against Syrians in Turkey: Oppose mob attacks and defend refugees!
2024-07-04
- The bogus African National Congress-derived political credentials of Andrew Feinstein—Part 2
- Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
- Record breaking Hurricane Beryl is a warning of the consequences of unchecked climate change
- “The company bought out the union”: UFCW claims ratification of sellout contract for California Food 4 Less grocery workers
- Far-right Alternative for Germany holds party conference
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Problems mount in Russian economy as government tries to finance war machine
- Australian IYSSE members call for the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- As calls mount for Biden’s withdrawal and resignation, White House pushes ahead with war policies
- Sri Lankan president threatens the Supreme Court
- New whistleblower exposes Boeing's use of scrapped parts
- Socialist Equality Party’s Joseph Kishore and Tom Scripps speak at Marx’s grave in London
- Democrats and Republicans unite to block RFK Jr., Jill Stein and other third parties from Illinois ballot
- Michigan Democratic Governor Whitmer delivers gut punch to schools in 2025 budget
- More tanks, ammunition, warships and fighter jets: German government intensifies arms offensive ahead of NATO summit in Washington
- The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution of July 1, 2024
- US puts military bases in Europe on second-highest alert ahead of Washington NATO Summit
2024-07-05
- Demand a new UAW election! All power to the rank and file!
- Biden admits to seeing doctor after debate debacle
- Landslide victory against Tories, but collapse in Labour’s popular vote heralds UK government of crisis
- The anatomy of an act of censorship: St. Louis arts center shuts down pro-Palestinian exhibition
- France’s Lutte Ouvrière backs New Popular Front as it seeks alliance with Macron
- Australian university union tries to block campaign against Western Sydney University College job cuts
- 9,000 Liquor Control Board of Ontario workers on strike for real wage increases and job security
- Fatima Payman resigns, Australian Labor government on Islamophobic rampage
- California grocery warehouse workers fight unionbusting by Smart & Final
- Sri Lankan workers and youth support public meeting to demand release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Contract negotiations in Germany’s metal and electrical industries a prelude to job cuts in automotive sector
- No to anti-immigrant campaign and imperialist war! Unite the workers of Turkey, Syria and the Middle East!
- Political prisoner and Native American activist Leonard Peltier denied parole again
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2024-07-06
- NATO to announce creation of Ukraine “command” at Washington summit
- Record-breaking heat wave hits 150 million in the US
- UPS to close facilities in Portland and Baltimore, threatening thousands of jobs
- UAW formally ends UC academic workers strike as university works to expand no-strike clause
- Stellantis imposes “temporary” layoffs on over 4,000 in Michigan and Ohio in cost-cutting move
- Build the socialist opposition to Starmer’s right-wing government!
- Execution dates set for innocent men on death row in Missouri and Texas
- Bernie Sanders calls on voters to assume “a maturity” and back Biden following debate debacle
- Hanns Eisler, 20th century composer
- Cuban government declares “war economy”, deepening austerity measures
- Australia: Victorian Labor government demands public hospitals slash budgets
- Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern joins pro-war US think tank
2024-07-07
2024-07-08
- Iran’s run-off presidential election won by “reformer” advocating rapprochement with US imperialism as it sets Mideast ablaze
- This week in history: July 8-14
- Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000
- Germany’s new austerity and war budget
- Racist attack leaves Chinese-New Zealand teenager badly injured
- Thousands mourn those slain by Kenya’s Ruto government, as health workers strike
- As Venezuela’s election campaign kicks off, US-backed opposition appeals to military
- Workers and youth in Britain demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk: “These charges are bogus!”
- Anti-refugee attacks in Turkey claim life of Syrian child worker
- Florida’s right-wing governor DeSantis eliminates all state funding for the arts
- Minneapolis Park Board workers on strike against concessions demanded by Democratic Party
- Eastern European workers in Offenbach, Germany support the fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk: “I have respect for him”
- Spanish workers condemned to three and a half years in prison for picketing
- The Democratic Party crisis and the civil war election
- New Popular Front carries French snap elections as hung parliament emerges
- Fourth US dairy farm worker infected with bird flu virus
- Meta maintains censorship regime in Canada a year after passage of Online News Act
- German historian Mario Kessler denounces persecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Labor’s cuts threaten thousands of jobs in Australian universities
2024-07-09
- Action committee denounces Sri Lankan president’s threats against teachers
- Australian government ramps up “foreign interference” witch hunt as a key prosecution case unravels
- UK Labour Defence Secretary visits Ukraine to back escalated war
- New York Times reveals Ukrainian war crimes, remains silent on paramilitaries’ ties to US state
- Wes Streeting seeks to end UK junior doctors strike as Labour declares war on NHS
- Australian doctors rally US colleagues: Unite against Gaza genocide and imperialist war on July 24 in Washington
- Boeing accepts DOJ’s “sweetheart deal” and pleads guilty to felony fraud conspiracy
- Debt cloud hangs over new governments in France and UK
- On eve of NATO summit, conflict within Democratic Party over Biden’s nomination intensifies
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York City teachers union abandons plan for retiree healthcare reform, but educators still face union complicity in attacks on education
- Report exposes PSOE-Podemos government’s role in Melilla migrant massacre in Spain
- PBS documentary Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal—an unanswerable indictment of US corporations and government
- West Nile fever epidemic in Israel
- Holocaust survivor denounces Zionist slander of protests against genocide in Gaza
- Acclaimed Indian author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under India’s draconian anti-terror law for 2010 remarks on Kashmir
- China detains Taiwanese fishing boat amid rising cross-strait tensions
- Imperialist-backed Israeli mass murder in Gaza: Lancet medical journal estimates Palestinian death toll at 186,000
- Millions lose power as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas
- German Health Minister Lauterbach to cut nursing care funding
- Budget for 2025: Germany’s coalition government plans to slash “citizen’s allowance” by billions
2024-07-10
- Educators in Turkey protest draft anti-labor law
- The Philippines and Japan sign military access agreement
- Australian government launches crusade to slash disability services
- Mass outrage after Kenya’s opposition Azimio party joins Ruto’s “dialogue” initiative
- Donald Trump’s lawyers and right-wing supporters seek to prevent US distribution of the docudrama The Apprentice
- Washington summit will announce plans to set up NATO office inside Ukraine
- Australia’s new “special envoy” on antisemitism supported Israel’s bombing of hospitals
- Global warming and negligence fuel deadly impact of Hurricane Beryl, heat wave and California wildfires
- Stop the Gaza genocide! Join the rally in Washington, D.C. on July 24!
- Israel’s use of Hannibal Directive led to many deaths on October 7, including Israeli civilians
- Report reveals nearly one quarter of Canadians are living in poverty
- Federal NTSB report finds East Palestine, Ohio derailment preventable, “vent and burn” unnecessary
- Research reveals precipitous decline in UK working class living standards
- Autoworkers support call for new UAW elections: “This time everybody’s vote should count”
- UN experts confirm famine throughout Gaza, condemn Israel’s starvation policy
- DSA Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fellow “Squad” members spearhead Biden rescue operation
- UAW monitor demands court intervention as Fain administration blocks investigation into bureaucracy
- Reject union-management sellout at Australia Post! Form rank-and-file committees to fight for pay, conditions and oppose restructuring!
- After the French elections, New Popular Front swings to the right
- Amid record temperatures, UPS delivery drivers still without air conditioning
2024-07-11
- US Fed chair takes a step towards interest rate cut
- David Fincher’s The Killer: Why this film? Why now?
- Chicago teachers: Organize rank-and-file committees to fight another sellout contract!
- Morenoite Révolution permanente group backs French New Popular Front as it allies with Macron
- Power still out for 1.5 million Texans amid deadly heat wave in aftermath of Hurricane Beryl
- Socialist Workers Party “Marxism 2024” festival promotes Jeremy Corbyn as leader of a “left” regroupment
- Train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails and catches fire in North Dakota
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- National Education Association shuts down annual convention, locks out striking staffers
- Peru’s President Boluarte visits China amid domestic crises and global tensions
- Lessons of the witch-hunt against Australian Senator Fatima Payman: Labor is a party of war and repression
- Democratic-controlled North Carolina election board continues to block third parties from ballot
- New Caledonia sees surge in pro-independence vote in French election
- Greek government introduces six-day working week in stepped up offensive
- NATO war summit prepares direct entry into Ukraine war
- Democratic Party crisis intensifies as first senator calls for Biden to drop re-election bid
- Sri Lankan public sector workers take national industrial action over pay
- Former Labourite intelligence chief Schoof heads far-right Dutch government
- Biden proclaims AFL-CIO union bureaucrats as “my domestic NATO” before attending second day of summit
2024-07-12
- US-German missile plans at NATO summit threaten cities deep inside Russia
- Washington uses Panama’s new government to attack migrants crossing deadly Darien jungle
- Sorry/Not Sorry: The continuing campaign against comedian Louis C.K.
- Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea stage first-ever strike in company’s 55-year history
- Biden’s “domestic NATO”: The trade union bureaucracy backs escalating global war
- Macron officials hold secret talks with neo-fascists amid French government crisis
- Unite calls off south Wales steelworkers strike, partnering with Labour government and Tata Steel UK
- Australia: Rank-and-file committee calls for staff, student and wider support to stop Western Sydney University College cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP/IYSSE (Sri Lanka) holds powerful meeting to demand the immediate release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Australia: Rental pain sharpest in working-class suburbs
- Fatal accidents at work in Germany: What is a worker’s life worth?
- Extreme heat wave claims 33 lives in western US as Biden administration promotes inadequate “heat protection rules”
- Hundreds protest in Stuttgart, Germany against the genocide in Gaza
- Factory meeting initiates closure of the Ford plant in Saarlouis, Germany
- Starmer’s UK Labour government escalates offensive against immigrants and asylum seekers
2024-07-13
- Zelensky government prepares further social cuts ahead of new debt negotiations
- Dozens killed in their homes in renewed Israeli attack on Gaza City
- Palestinian-Australian under police investigation for protests against Gaza genocide
- Reject IATSE sellout contract—Organize rank-and-file committees!
- Political and media accomplices of Gaza genocide condemn Russian missile strike on Ukrainian hospital
- Biden’s press conference and the war hysteria of American imperialism
- Indonesian government attacks wages through phony public housing scheme
- Canada’s ruling elite deploys court injunction and police violence to crush two anti-genocide student encampments
- Western Australian teachers’ union pushes through sell-out wages and conditions deal
- Boeing near-disasters continue to pile up in wake of sweetheart plea deal
- European Central Bank official sounds warning on growth of private credit
2024-07-14
2024-07-15
- UNRWA headquarters “flattened” as destruction of Gaza continues
- The summer surge of COVID in the US and the implications of the anti-public health policy
- Public health crisis deepens as many doctors leave Sri Lanka
- Taiwan’s statehood illusion, US imperialism and the “Pro-Palestine” initiative
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- President Milei rides tank in Argentine independence day parade
- John Deere to lay off a further 345 workers, adding to its bloodletting of over 1,500 jobs
- Case against actor Alec Baldwin in 2021 death on Rust film set collapses over prosecution’s withholding of evidence
- On the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
- NATO moves to formalise anti-China “partnership” with Indo-Pacific nations
- Two Russian-Australians arrested on vague charges of “preparing for espionage”
- Why is Mélenchon silent on Macron’s secret talks with French neo-fascists?
- The Democratic Party, the Biden campaign crisis and the billionaire “donor” class
- No stationing of US missiles in Germany! Stop the danger of nuclear escalation!
- Milei and Bolsonaro attend fascistic CPAC conference in Brazil
- China experiencing torrential rain and major floods
- Messages from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release
- Israeli airstrikes massacre hundreds across Gaza over the weekend
2024-07-16
- Rising unemployment and poverty in New Zealand
- Harvard appoints former Pentagon general counsel and Northrop Grumman executive as vice president
- Maruti Suzuki India workers jailed for life on frame-up murder charges speak to the WSWS
- This week in history: July 15-21
- Australia: Second major fire in nine months at Melbourne chemical factory
- Mexican steel workers continue strike in defiance of courts and union
- The Republican National Convention opens: A carnival of fascistic demagogues
- Global Wealth Report 2023: An orgy of enrichment for the super-rich
- In the face of fascist goons summoned by the Anti-Defamation League, Holocaust survivor denounces Gaza genocide
- 50,000 foreclosures expected to be enforced in Greece this year
- Framed-up Maruti Suzuki India workers demand release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Toronto workers support campaign for Bogdan Syrotiuk’s freedom and express opposition to imperialist war
- Kenyan anti-Ruto protests continue as Uber drivers walk out and truckers threaten to strike
- SEIU bureaucrats attempt to push through concession contract for library workers in Cleveland, Ohio
- Boeing machinists: Vote YES to strike! Build rank-and-file committees to enforce the will of the membership!
- Palestinian-Australian activist issues defiant response to police preparation for arrest on bogus charges
- Growing numbers of protesters arrested and jailed in Australia
2024-07-17
- Conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen leaves the San Francisco Symphony: The profit system once again proves incompatible with serious art
- UK Labour’s King’s Speech promises nothing for workers
- USPS worker dies in Fayetteville, North Carolina after shift in mail truck on 95-degree day
- Judge Cannon dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump
- Australian Labor government exploits Trump assassination bid to intensify witch hunt against anti-genocide protests
- French New Popular Front’s attempt to form government collapses
- Teamsters president at the Republican National Convention: The bureaucracy throws its lot in with fascism
- Delas report exposes PSOE-Sumar-Podemos collaboration with Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Talks resume as strike by 9,000 Liquor Control Board of Ontario workers approaches third week
- Anger grows among striking Minneapolis Parks and Recreation workers: “How are you supposed to make ends meet?”
- J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy memoir: How Trump’s VP choice got his start in right-wing, anti-working class politics
- Chinese leadership meets amid mounting economic problems
- Summer COVID wave develops in Germany
2024-07-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The normalization of American-style fascism
- Australian Labor Party holds state funeral for global Ukrainian fascist leader
- Democrats on North Carolina election board block Cornel West from appearing on presidential ballot
- Renewed massive police violence and media smears against Gaza protesters in Germany
- Stalinist CPN-UML leader Sharma Oli sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister
- Royal Academy in London censors anti-Gaza genocide art work by young people
- “We are in Hell”: Gaza resident speaks to WSWS
- Kenya’s Ruto bans protests as hundreds of thousands of teachers threaten to strike
- Interest rates should remain elevated, says IMF
- Demand a new UAW election! Defend jobs against the UAW-management conspiracy through rank and file power! Expand the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee!
- Five cops gun down homeless man in Milwaukee amid massive police presence for RNC
- Democratic Senator Robert Menendez convicted of bribery, acting as a foreign agent
- Starmer’s UK Labour government hosts European summit on stepping up war with Russia
- German reactions to the attempted assassination of Trump: Nervousness, fascination with fascism and calls for rearmament
2024-07-19
- Trump delivers fascistic rant to conclude Republican National Convention
- Australia: IYSSE campaigns at meatworks plant for anti-war movement of the working class
- Columbia University removes three administrators on bogus charges of antisemitism
- More statements demanding freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk from Australia and New Zealand
- Germany’s 2025 war budget dictated by big business
- Australian Labor government, ACTU line up behind media campaign over alleged construction union corruption
- IATSE members ratify tentative agreements, big struggles lie ahead
- CWU electioneering for Labour: delivering the Starmer government’s pro-business agenda against postal workers
- David Lammy: UK Labour’s foreign secretary reaches out to Trump
- Socialist Equality Party candidates submit 20,000 signatures to appear on Michigan presidential ballot
- Cluster of H5N1 bird flu cases among Colorado poultry farm workers raises alarm
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Canada, US and Finland form trilateral icebreaker-building pact to counter Russia and China in the Arctic
- Study reaffirms that masks prevent COVID-19 transmission
- Two recent studies on Long COVID underscore the dangers posed by the “forever COVID” policy
- UAW Monitor cites continuing “culture of fear or retaliation” in latest status report
- Mexico’s pseudo-left launches coalition inspired by Argentine FIT-U
- Alabama executes Keith Gavin despite serious constitutional questions in his case
- Washington abandons aid to Gaza via floating pier, as famine intensifies
2024-07-20
- University of Sydney cracks down on campus protests amid broader assault on opposition to Gaza genocide
- Chinese leadership meeting points to social tensions amid economic problems
- International Court of Justice finds Israel’s occupation of Palestine illegal
- Corporate media whitewashes fascist reaction at Republican National Convention
- Australia: Opposition’s nuclear power plans open the door for nuclear weapons
- Sri Lankan university non-academic trade unions betray 75-day strike
- As calls for Biden to drop out intensify, Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders mount rescue operation
- Tens of thousands of Boeing machinists vote to strike
- Microsoft Windows outage causes global infrastructure shutdown
- Australian workers and youth explain why they have joined the SEP as electoral members
- One Life: Anthony Hopkins in a drama of the Kindertransport, the 1938-39 rescue of children from Nazi-controlled territory
- The fascist spectacle of the Republican National Convention
2024-07-21
2024-07-22
- Reservists issue open letter refusing to fight in Gaza, exposing Israel’s war crimes
- Fallout from global IT failure continues for third day
- Michigan mired in poverty, with 41 percent living paycheck to paycheck
- Biden’s third COVID infection and the ongoing dangers of the pandemic
- Underground journalists speak on war fatigue and the slide to dictatorship in Ukraine
- Deepening cuts to jobs and wages in Australia intensify political crisis
- Rising death toll as Bangladeshi government unleashes military-police crackdown on protesting students
- UK COVID Inquiry publishes first findings, as whitewash of ruling class criminality gets underway
- “We support the call to declare war on war”—Australian health workers endorse July 24 rally
- NSW nurses and midwives: Build rank-and-file committees to fight Labor government pay cut!
- German federal and state governments deport ever-increasing numbers of refugees
- Trudeau pledges tens of billions of dollars more per year to wage global war
- Logistics workers: Support the July 24 demonstration against the Gaza genocide!
- Southern California Disneyland workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of strike action
- This week in history: July 22-28
- 322 possible heat-related deaths in Maricopa County, Arizona
- Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibits work of left-wing German artist: Käthe Kollwitz
- After the collapse of the Biden campaign
- American Postal Workers Union convention last week combined Gaza ceasefire resolution with ill-timed endorsement of “Genocide Joe” Biden
- Many unanswered questions remain more than a week after Trump assassination attempt
- Berlin Administrative Court dismisses Junge Welt lawsuit against secret service surveillance
- Volkswagen threatens 3,000 jobs as it prepares to shut down its Audi plant in Brussels
2024-07-23
- Australian government persecutes refugees, including on remote Nauru
- Australian Zionist lobby targets journalist Mary Kostakidis for opposing Israeli war crimes
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Union sellout of LCBO workers paves way for privatization of alcohol sales in Ontario
- UK judge hands down four and five-year jail terms to Just Stop Oil campaigners for peaceful protest
- Solomon Islands and Vanuatu PMs visit Beijing amid escalating Pacific tensions
- Bodycam footage shows former Illinois sheriff deputy murdered Sonya Massey
- Austerity protests in Uganda violently crushed
- Democrats, corporate media glorify right-wing candidacy of Kamala Harris
- Minneapolis park board strike at the crossroads following overwhelming rejection of latest contract offer
- The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL): The alliance of Stalinism and middle-class radicalism
- Alberta arbitrator dismisses UFCW’s 2020 COVID grievance at Cargill’s High River plant
- A call to the July 24 demonstration: Take forward the fight against genocide and war!
- Kenyan protesters defy Ruto’s threats
- Billionaire Illinois governor Pritzker refuses extra funding for Chicago schools, setting stage for huge cuts
2024-07-24
- Lear auto parts workers in Missouri launch strike, disrupting production at nearby GM plant
- Samsung Electronics workers’ strike in South Korea continues into third week
- Western Sydney University advertising covers up job cuts at “pathway” College
- Israeli tanks massacre Palestinians in Khan Younis as Netanyahu arrives in Washington D.C.
- Hospital workers face off against Michigan Medicine and union bureaucracy
- An appreciation of virtuoso guitarist Allan Holdsworth
- Starmer routs UK Labour “left” over vote on two-child benefit cap
- Regional tensions escalate over ongoing New Caledonia crisis
- The execution of Sonya Massey: Police violence continues unabated in the US
- No to the ban on Palestine Solidarity Duisburg! Stop the moves to a police state in Germany!
- UK army chief warns NATO must be able to fight a major war in three years
- Secret Service director resigns amid bipartisan demands that she step down following Trump assassination attempt
- California nurses at large pediatrics hospital sent back to work after two-day strike
- Tentative agreement for American Airlines flight attendants mirrors sellouts in auto, UPS and rail
2024-07-25
- The French government’s crisis and the bankruptcy of the New Popular Front
- Only God Was Above Us: US band Vampire Weekend surveys a multifarious, crisis-ridden world
- Right-wing faction emerges as victor in Thailand’s Senate election
- Pakistan’s government threatens to illegalize the country’s most popular party
- Chinese leadership focuses on high-tech as problems of slowdown grow
- Millions outraged in Britain at savage police assault on family at Manchester Airport
- Socialist Equality Party holds demonstration in Washington D.C. against the Gaza genocide and imperialist war
- US unions combine call for end to Israeli military aid with continued support for “Genocide Joe” and warmongering Democrats
- Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt expresses “big respect” for “Genocide Joe” Biden
- NSW health workers: Form rank-and-file committees to fight Labor government wage cuts!
- Harris consolidates control of Democratic presidential nomination
- German government intensifies campaign for militarism and war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2024-07-26
- State prosecutors decline to press charges against western Illinois police in murder of four-year-old
- New survey shows Australian youth prefer socialism
- Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees, escaped from “prison,” search for the land of milk and honey
- Global temperature records again broken on Monday and Tuesday
- Worker killed by falling equipment at Michigan stamping plant slated for closure
- Sydney rail workers to vote on industrial action against Labor’s wage cuts
- UAW shuts down Lear Wentzville strike in Missouri, seeks to push through sellout agreement
- Congress hails the war criminal Netanyahu
- An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, director of To a Land Unknown: “Do we want to actually respect and embrace our humanity?”
- Jeremy Corbyn comes out firmly against a break with Starmer’s Labour Party
- Kamala Harris welcomes “Butcher of Gaza” to Washington: “I told him that I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Gaza war takes its toll on Israel’s finances as threat of war with Lebanon escalates
2024-07-27
- 2024 Paris Olympics open amid massive police-state clampdown
- Stationing of long-range US precision missiles in Germany: Another step towards Third World War
- Australian PM seeks desperate cabinet reshuffle amid growing political discontent
- The latest wave of COVID-19 and Biden’s destruction of public health
- Much of Jasper, Alberta destroyed as Canada’s climate-change fueled fire season flares
- Neo-Nazi suspect arrested in killing of Ukrainian fascist Iryna Farion
- Venezuela’s Maduro appeals to Wall Street and warns of “civil war” ahead of Sunday’s elections
- Bangladeshi government launches witch hunt after police kill hundreds of student protesters
- Director Wray tells Congress FBI has no evidence of conspiracy in Trump shooting
- After SAG-AFTRA delays 18 months, video game performers strike against major companies
- Amazon workers carry out one-day strike at San Bernardino air hub
2024-07-28
2024-07-29
- Holiday season, Euro 2024 tournament, music festivals, and lack of vaccines fuel UK COVID wave
- CIA psychologist defends waterboarding at military hearing
- Anger as Kenya’s President Ruto forms government with Orange Democratic Movement opposition
- US appeals court blocks Biden student debt plan
- Erdogan threatens Turkish military intervention against Israel
- Journalist, novelist, workers and youth in Sri Lanka demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
- SEP vice presidential candidate issues message to Michigan Medicine workers: “Healthcare workers must fight to take profit out of medicine”
- The Disappearance of Émile Zola: Zola, Dreyfus and the struggle against antisemitism
- German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn announces 30,000 job cuts
- US, Japan agree to biggest boost to military cooperation in decades
- Northern California’s Park Fire rages, on track to become state’s largest on record
- The political issues in the July 24 demonstrations against the genocide in Gaza
- The 2024 Paris Olympics COVID-19 superspreader event
- Backed by US, Israel threatens wider war after Golan Heights blast
- New Zealand health system faces steep funding cuts, possible privatisation
- Australia: 500 journalists at Nine Entertainment strike over jobs and pay
- Tommy Robinson holds far-right rally in London weeks after UK election
- US Chemical Safety Board issues damning report on 2022 BP refinery disaster that killed two in Ohio
2024-07-30
- “Pharmacy deserts” grow as Rite Aid closes most Michigan operations
- Hundreds of Michigan Medicine workers demand new contract
- Australian PM unveils right-wing ministerial reshuffle as political disaffection intensifies
- German Interior Ministry attacks religious freedom with ban on the Islamic Centre Hamburg
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Israel prepares region-wide escalation of war across Middle East with American imperialism’s support
- Democrats push war, Trump pushes dictatorship
- Democratic California Governor enacts executive order to break up homeless encampments
- Hundreds protest police killing of Sonya Massey in Chicago
- Workers speak out against Rite Aid drugstore closings
- Maduro declared winner of presidential vote, as Washington escalates drive for regime change in Venezuela
- World economy “stuck in a low gear”
- Portuguese Left Bloc appeals to big-business PS to form alliance based on France's New Popular Front
- Chancellor Reeves announces UK Labour’s austerity agenda: “If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it”
- A warning to healthcare workers: Nurses union ordered to pay $6 million for strike over COVID protections
- Australia: NSW Labor conference held behind wall of security to block protesters
- French New Popular Front backs top finance ministry official as prime minister
- American Federation of Teachers convention stumps for Democrats, genocide and budget cuts
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