Archive: 08/2024
2024-08-01
- US-led Quad meeting menaces China with naval build-up
- Acute shortage of nurses deepens healthcare crisis across US
- Mexico bows to US pressure over trade with China
- Royal Mail delivery worker slams latest revisions: “It’s absolutely killing people”
- Trump attacks immigrants, defends January 6 fascists and white supremacists at black journalists’ convention
- US Fed opens the way for September rate cut
- Union “militancy” vs. mobilizing Canada Post workers in a political struggle: A correspondence with a former Canadian Union of Postal Workers official
- Israel’s US-backed rampage across the Middle East threatens to ignite region-wide war
- 733 million of the world’s people faced hunger in 2023
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington D.C. prosecutors forced to drop charges against 11 people arrested during Israeli prime minister’s visit
- Robert Downey Jr. will receive $100 million in salary and bonuses to play Dr. Doom for Marvel Studios
- WHO warns Gaza children facing immediate threat of polio
- Boeing names new CEO and reports $1.4 billion quarterly loss
2024-08-02
- Australia: 610 aviation jobs destroyed in Regional Express collapse
- Body camera footage of murder of 4-year-old Terrell Miller reveals callous brutality of police
- UAW bureaucracy endorses Harris for president, Biden’s war criminal replacement
- Wellington, New Zealand rail workers in the dark over union-company negotiations
- Turkish infectious diseases specialist Dr. Esin Davutoğlu Şenol speaks out on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
- Bill paving the way for the killing of stray dogs in Turkey becomes law
- Illinois Democrats, the Pritzker dynasty and the imperialist plunder of Ukraine
- Deadly heat waves scorching India’s cities point to impact of capitalist-induced climate change
- Fascist anti-migrant riots spread as UK Prime Minister Starmer outlines clampdown on “all violent disorder”
- Who is the US to preach “democracy” to Venezuela?
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Amazon Labor Union leadership election marked by abysmal turnout
2024-08-03
- Top Secret Service, FBI officials maintain lone gunman narrative, attack “conspiracy theories” in Trump shooting
- Organise action committees to fight privatisation of Telecom, Insurance and Electricity corporations!
- The way forward for Walmart Chile workers after union federation sells out mass strike
- Financed by venture capitalists and CEOs, Kamala Harris campaign boasts July fundraising total of $310 million
- Video released of death of migrant woman stuck on US-Mexico border wall
- Rank-and-file meeting issues call: Stop the Western Sydney University College cuts!
- German army declares itself rooted in the “traditions” of Hitler’s Wehrmacht
- Canadian warship transits through the Taiwan Strait in provocation against China
- VIDEO: SEP (Australia) national secretary calls for workers and youth to put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot
- Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders: A road out of history
- Australian Labor government whitewashes Israel’s murder of aid worker
- Top-level US-Philippine ministers meeting escalates war drive against China
- Intel slashes 15,000 jobs as US unemployment rate jumps to 4.3 percent
- In show of support for Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader, US to send more fighter jets and warships to Middle East
2024-08-04
2024-08-05
- This week in history: August 5-11
- UK Prime Minister Starmer launches police “standing army” following far-right riots
- New York City adds 200,000 to affordable housing wait list for first time in 15 years
- Britain’s far-right riots: The class issues
- US generals tour Middle East to prepare military escalation against Iran after Haniyeh assassination
- Human waste muddies the waters at the 2024 Paris Olympics
- Trump rails against “disloyal” Republicans at Atlanta, Georgia rally
- Germany: Defend rail jobs and working conditions against the government, Deutsche Bahn, and the union apparatus!
- German government ban on far-right Compact magazine paves way for further attacks on democratic rights
- Cost-of-living crisis fuels financial stress and job losses in Australia
- Quebec’s ultra-nationalist media hails the rise of France’s Rassemblement National and promotes fascism
- Fears of US recession and financial turbulence grow
- British blues legend John Mayall dead at 90
2024-08-06
- Wall Street selloff exposes financial parasitism
- US Defense Secretary Austin revokes plea deal with 9/11 defendants
- German state of Hesse sends Ukrainians who have fled back to war
- Great British Energy: Profit bonanza for big business and monarchy as Starmer builds a war economy
- Global and Chinese slump slashes prices for Australian mineral exports
- In Face the Nation interview, UAW President Fain stumps for Kamala Harris’ election campaign
- Israel-Iran conflict on hair trigger as military and diplomatic preparations for war proceed
- Australian coal mine fire again exposes deadly working conditions
- In video game strike, SAG-AFTRA pickets one company, with no further plans
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts double down on support for US-NATO imperialism in Ukraine war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Court of the University of St Andrews in Scotland dismiss rector Stella Maris for opposing Gaza genocide
- Bangladeshi Prime Minister flees to India amid mass uprising
2024-08-07
- Nearly 800 artists protest Royal Academy’s anti-Palestinian censorship
- Australian government uses “terrorism” alert to target anti-genocide protests and wider political discontent
- Dell announces mass layoffs amid expanding global tech job cuts
- WHO considers declaring public health emergency of international concern due to outbreak of deadlier Mpox strain
- As Middle East war looms, US restates its “ironclad” support for Israeli regime
- Kamala Harris picks right-wing governor as Democratic running mate
- Australian PM touts business opportunities at Garma Indigenous festival
- German Defence Minister Pistorius on World War mission in the Pacific
- Five dead in Florida, one in Georgia, as Hurricane Debby floods US southeast
- British trade union leaders suppress opposition to far-right riots to cover for Labour government
- “Welcome to Hell”: Torture, abuse and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli jails is deliberate policy
2024-08-08
- Royal Mail workers speak on far-right danger: “We are not safe on the streets anymore”
- Report from a young Ukrainian in Germany: “The working class in Ukraine does not want a war against Russia at all”
- Macron’s moves to form right-wing French government expose bankruptcy of New Popular Front
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- More revelations of trips by Justice Clarence Thomas paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow
- Muhammad Yunus, promoter of “entrepreneurial development,” to head Bangladesh’s emergency interim government
- Mass protests erupt against UK’s far-right: The way forward
- Vote “no” to sellout union-management agreement at Australia Post!
- Ukrainian military launches incursion of Russia
- Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolves main opposition party
- Dakkota auto parts workers walk out, impacting production at nearby Ford Chicago plant
2024-08-09
- Elon Musk proclaims inevitable “civil war” after UK’s anti-migrant riots
- New study finds Long COVID is one of the most common diseases globally
- US, European officials endorse Ukrainian offensive inside Russia
- OSHA investigating work-related death at Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas
- Homeless encampments proliferate across Canada as government policies fuel bonanza for property speculators
- Workers denounce UAW collusion as accidents and deaths plague Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan
- Fall in Chinese growth indicative of mounting problems in global economy
- Fifty years since the resignation of Richard Nixon
- Massive job cuts in the German automotive and supplier industry
- New York police arrest journalist on “hate crime” charges for filming anti-genocide protest
- Australia: New South Wales public sector health workers reject Labor government wage cut
- Tunisia’s President Saied announces bogus election as judiciary disqualifies and imprisons opposition leaders
- DSA Democrat Cori Bush defeated in primary by well-funded pro-Israel challenger
- Cost-of-living spiral worsens legal aid crisis in Australia
- Striking Dakkota auto parts worker in Chicago speaks out: “We are not making living wages”
- Censored for criticizing Glencore, singer of Quebec metal band Guhn Twei speaks out
- US leads G7 in ambassadors’ boycott of ceremony commemorating atomic bombing of Nagasaki
- In endorsement of Harris for president, Association of Flight Attendants bureaucrats hail anti-strike Railroad Labor Act
2024-08-10
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Two executions this week, in Texas and Utah, within six hours
- “I’m speaking now”: Kamala Harris denounces anti-genocide protesters at Detroit rally
- California Governor Newsom enforces Los Angeles homeless encampments sweeps
- Nassau County government passes fascistic mask ban law in New York City suburbs
- Kellogg’s to close Omaha, Nebraska plant, destroying 550 jobs
- Stellantis announces 2,450 permanent layoffs at Warren Truck, escalating global jobs bloodbath
- Money over lives: The tragic case of Noah Lyles’ collapse at the Paris Olympics
- Ukrainian attack on Kursk prompts media calls for US escalation against Russia
- Threat of Middle East war on hair-trigger as Israel kills Hamas official in Lebanon, US lifts ban on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
- New Zealand Labour Party feigns opposition to anti-China AUKUS military pact
- SEP (Sri Lanka) presidential election meeting: Fight for international socialism against war, austerity and dictatorship!
- Australian government has given secret “commitments” over AUKUS pact
- FBI raids home of Scott Ritter over allegations he is an unregistered foreign agent
- Paramount Global to slash 15 percent of workforce as jobs disaster in film and television deepens
- Baltimore sanitation worker dies from overheating on the job
2024-08-11
- UK: Teachers should reject 5.5 percent wage offer and fight for billions needed for schools
- Workers and young people speak at protests in Britain against far-right
- Thousands demonstrate against far-right in Britain, but offered no perspective by Stand Up To Racism
- “Now is the time to stand up and fight back”: Striking Dakkota parts workers speak from the picket line
2024-08-12
- Israel’s Tabeen school massacre and the normalisation of war crimes
- UK Supreme Court refuses Shamima Begum appeal against revoking her British citizenship
- Lawsuit launched by family of Austin, Texas worker killed at Tesla
- This week in history: August 12-18
- German army recruits more and more minors
- Meet BMA’s sellout of junior doctors in England with socialist opposition to Labour government
- Market gyrations a symptom of a deep-seated crisis
- SEP (Sri Lanka) presidential candidate holds Colombo press conference
- Resistance to war grows among soldiers and civilians in Ukraine
- The right-wing attack on Algerian boxer Imane Khelif
- CN and CPKC prepare to lock out rail workers across Canada
- Thousands of university jobs being axed in Australia as Labor scapegoats international students
- At Las Vegas rally, Kamala Harris vows to “walk the walk” in waging war on immigrants
- Wicked Little Letters: A biting comic work, but gilding the lily only weakens it
- Further mine closures point to deepening job cuts across Australia
- Growing number of homeless migrants forced to sleep in the open in New York
- Fight the layoffs at Stellantis Warren Truck! Organize a rank-and-file counteroffensive!
- Socialist Equality Party candidates on the ballot in New Jersey
2024-08-13
- The political significance of the NATO-Ukrainian attack on Kursk
- Review into Nottingham killings by mentally ill man ignores decades-long collapse in care provision
- In threat to Iran, US sends warships to Middle East
- Steward Health Care to shutter two Massachusetts hospitals by August 31
- 80 years since the liberation of Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp: From Hitler’s war in the East to the Holocaust
- Socialist Equality Party (US) holds Eighth National Congress
- Over 1.3 million Americans are now being infected with COVID-19 each day
- Former Australian PM says the US is an “aggressor” targeting China
- Australian political turmoil intensifies as central bank predicts ongoing inflation
- Macron agrees to Pacific leaders’ fact-finding mission to New Caledonia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Berlin district court punishes woman calling for freedom for Palestine
- Hack work vs. history: Aidan Beatty’s The Party Is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
- Dockworker union issues 60-day strike notice ahead of potential walkouts on US East Coast
- “The death toll is absolutely terrible”: A conversation with sociologist Doris Bühler-Niederberger on the conditions for children in Gaza
2024-08-14
- New York judge rules Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. off state ballot
- Socialist Equality Party achieves ballot status in Washington state
- Biden administration approves huge $20 billion arms sale to Israel
- AUKUS documents underscore advanced plans for war against China
- Argentine pseudo-lefts join forces with Milei in #MeToo campaign against former President Alberto Fernández
- Stop the mass layoffs at Stellantis Warren Truck Assembly Plant!
- Hundreds of Australian students attend meetings opposing Israeli onslaught
- The 2024 US elections and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Spouting democratic phrases, Bangladesh’s new “interim” government moves to impose capitalist order
- Charli XCX’s Brat: Superficial posturing instead of genuine opposition
- Chicago Teachers Union uses “public bargaining” charade as cover for austerity contract
- Fascist billionaires Trump and Musk express hatred of working class and fear of Marxism in interview on X
2024-08-15
- Socialist autoworker Will Lehman proposes 3-point program to defend Warren Truck jobs
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- German government supports Tabeen massacre and Kursk invasion
- Union Pacific unilaterally revokes time-off policy, citing “labor shortage”
- Strike at world’s largest copper mine exposes Boric government and union apparatus in Chile
- The Delinquents: A promising heist film seeks a false escape route
- Washington intensifies preparations for Middle East war with $20 billion arms sale to Israel
- Rail drivers in England should reject ASLEF’s Labour-backed sellout deal
- Boeing Board of Directors onboards defense industry veteran as new CEO
- Grand jury indicts Ohio officer who shot and killed pregnant woman in 2023
- Coral bleaching threatens 73 percent of world’s reefs
- Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
- Melbourne Symphony Orchestra cancels performance over dedication to murdered Palestinian journalists
- Job cuts at Deutsche Bahn: Rail workers report short-staffing and work-related stress
- Strengthening recessionary trends in global economy
- More Australian workers and youth explain why they have joined the SEP as electoral members
- Gov. Walz defends military record, union bureaucracies at AFSCME convention in Los Angeles
2024-08-16
- “It’s almost like the letter carriers have been to war. They have shell shock and PTSD”: Canada Post worker speaks out on dangerous working conditions
- Hundreds of thousands abused in state and religious facilities in New Zealand
- RMT seeks to rein in strike action by Royal Fleet Auxiliary seafarers to aid Labour government’s war agenda
- As new school year opens, COVID-19 surge forces abrupt classroom closures in the US
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mpox detected in Sweden one day after World Health Organization declares epidemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
- What way forward in the fight against the far right in the UK?
- Opening report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US)
- Columbia University President Shafik resigns amidst right-wing attacks over anti-genocide protests
- NATO main battle tanks are operating inside Russia in Kursk offensive
- Twenty-fifth anniversary of the August 17, 1999 Gölcük earthquake
- Record temperatures spread wildfires in Greece and southern Europe
- Wall Street Journal: Ukrainian President Zelensky approved Nord Stream pipeline attack
- Reflections on the death of Lt. Willam Calley Jr.: Imperialist atrocities, from My Lai to Gaza
- “Everyone needs to get together and strike”: Detroit autoworkers speak out against mass layoffs at Warren Truck Assembly Plant
2024-08-17
- Australian opposition leader spearheads bipartisan offensive against Gaza refugees
- While Modi professes concern for the jobless, his government’s budget escalates class war
- SEP stands in Sri Lankan presidential election to fight for a socialist program
- Australian Labor government tries to ram through laws to place construction union under state control
- More book banning in Utah and Iowa
- Series of workplace incidents at ports around the world highlights serious global safety issues for dockworkers
- Stop mass layoffs at Warren Truck! Mobilize the international working class against job cuts!
- Kremlin expands internet censorship amid NATO escalation of the war against Russia
- Ukrainian troops trained in UK before attacking Kursk
- 16 years since the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
- 5-day strike at California Rady Children’s Hospital called off as nurses forced to vote on identical agreement
- New Thai prime minister: Daughter of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra
- Chinese steel giant warns of “long cold winter”
- Kamala Harris outlines pro-corporate economic agenda at North Carolina campaign stop
- Dismissal “with prejudice” of case against Harvard vindicates Professor John Comaroff
- Support the Dakkota workers strike! Ban scab parts and launch a rank-and-file counteroffensive!
- Homeless Detroit teenager handcuffed, publicly humiliated by judge after falling asleep during courtroom field trip
2024-08-18
2024-08-19
- Online public meeting: For global action to defend jobs at Warren Truck and around the world!
- Catalan nationalists back social-democratic police state regime in Catalonia
- “We need a worldwide strike”: Striking Dakkota auto parts workers call for expanded struggle
- The political theater of the Democratic Party National Convention begins
- In latest attack on voting rights, Democrats attempt to remove Cornel West from Michigan ballot over notary technicality
- Australian state Labor government plans to demolish 6,600 public housing units
- Left Party leader supports sending German soldiers to Ukraine
- Ukraine continues offensive inside Russia
- This week in history: August 19-25
- New York-Presbyterian intensifies its offensive against nurses
- Oppose “antisemitism” frame-up of Alejandro Bodart in Argentina
- Australia becomes a “central base of operations” for US war plans against China
- Calls for UK and US to authorise Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles against Russia
- 25,000 jobs at risk at Stellantis plants in Italy
2024-08-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington Post and NPR join right-wing witch-hunt against tech journalist Taylor Lorenz
- German interior minister seeks to massively step up police state powers
- New Zealand PM reaffirms support for anti-China AUKUS military pact
- Russian Neo-Stalinists, Maoists oppose the campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- 2014-2024: The ICFI’s response to a decade of global war
- The financialization of higher education and the fight against war
- Kroger’s EDGE and other corporate swindlers use AI to rob working people
- Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act
- The global mpox emergency and the destruction of public health
- IMF mission lays down the law to next Sri Lankan president
- Pittsburgh plans to close 16 schools, devastating communities
- “Vote no! We deserve a lot better!”: Dakkota auto parts workers furious after UAW announces snap vote on sellout deal to shut down the strike
- While Fain stumps for Harris at DNC, UAW issues strike bluster at Stellantis
2024-08-21
- Israel continues Gaza genocide as Washington pushes “ceasefire” deal to pave way for region-wide war
- Melbourne Symphony Orchestra musicians demand management resign over its persecution of Jayson Gillham
- As video game performers continue strike, SAG-AFTRA announces backdoor agreement with AI company
- Dakkota auto parts workers furious over snap vote on deal to end strike: “Why would they even bring this back to us?”
- On the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Democrats attack ballot access in Washington state
- Central bankers meet at Jackson Hole as economic problems mount
- In speech at Democratic National Convention, Biden warns of second Trump coup
- Ruto’s new Kenyan coalition government to reinstate rejected tax measures
- Amid continuing jobs threats, Kokomo Stellantis workers call for action against Warren Truck layoffs
- UN special rapporteur condemns Canada’s temporary foreign worker program for “breeding contemporary forms of slavery”
- Zoom meeting announcement: A rank-and-file fightback strategy for Royal Mail workers
- Peruvian peasant leaders sentenced to 9 years in prison for participating in mining protests
- UK Labour government mounts anti-immigration offensive targeting over 14,500 people
- In DNC speech, UAW President Fain covers up role of Democrats and union bureaucrats in mass layoffs
- Japanese PM resigns amid scandals and widespread unpopularity
2024-08-22
- Australia’s Labor government joins with Coalition to pass anti-working class bills
- More FBI-suppressed evidence is exposed in lawsuit over Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 terror attacks
- National Education Association union announces deal to end strike by staffers
- Garnisonkirche in Potsdam: President Steinmeier inaugurates a symbol of German militarism
- Behind silence over foreign policy at DNC, Democrats prepare escalation of global war
- 53-year-old Stellantis worker Antonio Gaston crushed and killed at Toledo Jeep plant
- CN and CPKC lock out 9,300 workers at Canada’s two main railroads
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds public meeting to launch presidential election campaign
- UK CEOs earn 120 times more than UK workers and gap is widening
- Desperate to suppress truth about Gaza genocide, 150 pro-Israel Hollywood figures attempt to get Emmy nomination for Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda rescinded
- Australia: Industrial court shuts down strike by electrical workers across New South Wales
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Dakkota auto parts workers reject second UAW sellout agreement: “The fight is on”
- The strategic necessity of uniting the international working class against political xenophobia
- Over 17,000 AT&T workers strike in the southeast US
2024-08-23
- California Democratic Party and university administrations institute “zero tolerance” policies for university protests
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the DNC: The pro-imperialist politics of the DSA
- Study finds 64 percent higher risk of dementia among elderly hospitalized COVID-19 patients
- In run-up to November election, US Army brass voices concern over “civil-military environment”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Anger at “abysmal” and “extortionate” Isle of Wight ferries in UK
- Bangladesh’s right-wing interim government moves to consolidate its power, end popular ferment
- Ukrainian parliament passes law banning Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Gold price reaches record high
- Leipzig court suspends ban on right-wing extremist Compact magazine
- Israel murders 50 Palestinians in Gaza as Democratic National Convention concludes in Chicago
- Increased mortgage rates push 320,000 UK adults into poverty
- Pacific leaders’ New Caledonia mission deferred over conflict with France
- Wellington rail workers reject proposed attacks on wages and conditions: Form a rank-and-file committee to fight back!
- Australian “Closing the Gap” report reveals worsening conditions for Aboriginal youth and workers
- Dakkota workers: Vote NO and reject UAW-corporate blackmail! Organize rank-and-file oversight of the vote!
- Left-wing organisations in Sri Lanka support “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk” campaign
- Canada’s Liberal government colludes with White House to shut down rail strike
2024-08-24
- Canada’s rail workers in political battle with Trudeau and Biden governments following strike shutdown
- Venezuela’s Supreme Court upholds Maduro’s re-election
- The SAG-AFTRA bureaucracy and the video game performers’ strike
- Harris’s concluding speech at DNC embraces agenda of global war
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends campaign, endorses Trump for president
- Biden administration promotes bogus Gaza ceasefire talks
- Major supermarket chain Coles opens new automated Sydney warehouse, destroys hundreds of jobs
- Colleges reopen amid nation-wide escalation of attack on free speech
- IYSSE launches petitions for Special General meetings at Australian universities against Gaza genocide
- Socialism, history and the defense of democratic rights
- “We are still in the fight”: Less than an hour after striking Dakkota parts workers reject third sellout, UAW bureaucracy announces a fourth
- German Chancellor Scholz assures Kiev of undiminished war support
- “There better be a damn fight”: On back foot at rallies, UAW deflects blame for Stellantis layoffs onto foreigners and “mismanagement”
- Attacks on jobs and social benefits at Opel, Germany part of global job cuts by Stellantis
2024-08-25
2024-08-26
- Pentagon to begin producing weapons for Ukraine in Argentina
- The political lessons of Sri Lanka’s 2022 uprising for Bangladesh 2024
- Rebellion at Dakkota: Chicago auto parts workers reject fourth UAW sellout
- The Middle East arena of competition between the US and China
- Rural mail carriers inform WSWS of mail volume drop during RRECS route evaluation
- Staff at Noguchi Museum in New York City walk out over anti-Palestine censorship
- Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein selects academic Butch Ware as running mate
- FDA approves the latest COVID booster shots but there is no push for mass vaccination
- Democrats deploy Bernie Sanders to con workers and youth into supporting Harris-Walz campaign
- Horrific death of female factory worker in Tamil Nadu highlights unsafe working conditions across India
- Labor government suffers landslide defeat in Australia’s Northern Territory
- The Morenoites and the Venezuelan crisis: The pseudo-left exposed as aides of imperialism
- Ten months of the Gaza genocide: The way forward in the fight against war
- One UPS driver dies and another barely survives after heat emergencies in Texas
- Labor government places Australian construction union under state control
- Parliamentary elections in Austria: Right-wing extremist FPÖ leads in the polls
- This week in history: August 26- September 1
- Missouri Supreme Court blocks plea deal that would stop Marcellus Williams’ impending execution
- Israel launches major attack on southern Lebanon
- 38 Amazonian indigenous leaders murdered in Peru from 2013 to 2024
- Mélenchon signals he could back right-wing French PS government led by Macron
- After Jackson Hole, Fed chair Powell and Wall Street “on the same page”
- Antisemitic arson attack hits synagogue in Grande-Motte, France
- Massive job cuts at German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp: IG Metall union sides with management
- University of Michigan institutes authoritarian attacks on due process and free speech rights
- AT&T and CWA union agree on federal mediation as strike in US southeast enters second week
2024-08-27
- Labour government is “going to be painful” for workers, says Starmer
- Teamsters union scuttles Canadian rail workers’ struggle in response to government strikebreaking
- Russian soprano Anna Netrebko to make first US appearance in six years
- Australian Labor government partners with Coalition to slash disability services
- Analyzing a World in Chaos from an Island of Tranquility
- Dakkota parts workers’ strike at crossroads: “If we don’t fight now, then we will never have the opportunity”
- Michigan elections board places Cornel West back on the ballot
- Alaska Airlines flight attendants overwhelmingly reject sellout agreement, while opposition builds against American Airlines contract
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The twilight of American democracy (1991-2024)
- Central bankers reassured after Jackson Hole, but others are not
- Fire destroys east London tower block with Grenfell-type flammable cladding
- Socialist Equality Party candidates win ballot status in Michigan
- Support the Dakkota auto parts strike! An injury to one is an injury to all! Ban the use of scab parts from Dakkota!
- Franco-Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram app, arrested in Paris
- Workers across the US attend rank-and-file meeting on Warren Truck layoffs, Dakkota parts strike
2024-08-28
- Meeting: Oppose Australian Labor government’s cuts to international students and tertiary education jobs
- In appeal to far right, Cornel West adopts Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine platform
- Failure of Boeing spacecraft strands 2 astronauts on the International Space Station
- Instagram shuts down accounts of anti-genocide student groups before start of fall classes
- Air Canada pilots vote massively in favour of strike action
- Washington, D.C. transit workers forced to vote on “memorandum of understanding” instead of contract
- Socialist Equality Group meeting on Wellington rail workers’ dispute calls for rank-and-file committee
- The arrest of journalist Richard Medhurst and the fight to defend democratic rights
- RMT union General Secretary Mick Lynch: The Labour government’s toady-in-chief
- One fifth of world’s youth not in employment, education or training
- Release comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk unconditionally and immediately!
- Autoworkers need to communicate around the world and make a plan to fight back
- UN forced to suspend food distribution as Israel places 89 percent of Gaza under evacuation orders
- Dakkota Integrated Systems: The low-wage sweatshop workers are fighting against
2024-08-29
- Hearing into death of Baltimore sanitation worker reveals medieval working conditions
- Australian fossil fuel exports underscore Labor’s climate change fraud
- From far right to pseudo left: anti-refugee witch-hunting after the attack in Solingen, Germany
- With US support, Israel extends Gaza genocide to the West Bank
- As COVID-19 infection numbers top 1 million a day, the CDC promotes a campaign against public health
- Pabloite Anticapitalistas promotes Catalan nationalist alliance with Spanish imperialism
- UK’s Prince Andrew and the 2019 BBC interview on his relations with Jeffrey Epstein: Scoop
- Five rail unions announce sellout deal with CSX, in bid to avoid repeat of 2022 rank-and-file rebellion
- Protests mount over Zionist targeting of Leeds University academic James Dickins
- State elections in eastern Germany: The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance advocates far-right politics
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Socialist Equality Party’s fight to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, 2022-2024
- Powerful storms knock out power for nearly 400,000 homeowners and businesses in Michigan
- Australia: Tens of thousands of construction workers protest Labor government attack
- Australian Labor’s NDIS legislation will have a “devastating” impact on disabled people
- Finance capital sucking the lifeblood out of impoverished countries
- Macron refuses to name New Popular Front to French government
- Striking Dakkota auto workers picket Ford Chicago Assembly and call for ban on scab parts: “An injury to one is an injury to all!”
2024-08-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Sri Lankan asylum seeker dies after self-immolation, amid protests against Labor’s brutal anti-refugee regime
- IV fluid shortages intensify crisis in Australian healthcare system
- Israel’s West Bank offensive continues
- Chinese bond market surge points to economic and financial problems
- Declaring COVID-19 “endemic,” Biden administration oversees policy of forced mass infection
- The political issues in the fight to defend public education in the US
- Ocasio-Cortez and the normalization of genocide as state policy
- Police arrest four anti-genocide protesters at the University of Michigan
- Left Party-led government pushes anti-refugee agitation and police-state measures ahead of state elections in Thuringia
- Australian anti-war whistleblower David McBride passes one hundred days behind bars
- Lupe Fiasco, Chief Keef and Previous Industries: A cross section of current hip-hop
- Students speak on mass spread of COVID on college campuses as semester begins
- Up to 2 million UK pensioners will be in “serious trouble” this winter with 10 percent energy bills rise/means test introduction
- Reporter Sarah Wilkinson arrested by UK government for opposition to Gaza genocide
- Exposing and opposing Zionism: A conversation with Ilan Pappé
- US block on British court hearing leaves Tamil migrants stranded on Diego Garcia
2024-08-31
- Socialist Equality Party campaign team fights for socialist perspective against war and social cuts in Eisenach
- Unemployment sharply escalates in New Zealand
- Railroad unions conspiring with carriers to ram through de facto national agreement
- Fiji PM Rabuka visits China to re-set relations
- Canada’s largest union victimizes senior official, Fred Hahn, for opposing Gaza genocide
- Dakkota workers’ strike in danger as UAW demands fifth vote on sellout agreement: “We have the strength to stand up and fight back”
- The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and the fight against war
- Israeli missile strike on aid convoy kills 4 Palestinians near Rafah
- Kamala Harris pledges no letup in genocide, war, attacks on immigrants in CNN interview
- Oppose the far-right anti-refugee campaign in Germany! Defend refugees and democratic rights!
- New York University faculty and staff group announces limited strike action to oppose criminalization of anti-Zionism
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