Archive: 09/2024
2024-09-01
2024-09-02
- Pacific Islands Forum approves Australia’s anti-China policing plan
- Contemporary lessons from the slave power’s plot to overturn the 1860 election
- Biden and Harris call for escalation of Gaza genocide following death of six Israeli hostages
- PSOE, Sumar and Spanish union bureaucracies agree to new attack on pensions
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government threatens mass expulsions of migrants and refugees
- American Academy of Pediatrics updated guidelines encourage kids experiencing “mild” diarrhea and vomiting to attend school
- Following endorsements from RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Trump escalates fascistic agitation, phony anti-war posturing
- Chile’s Boric and Argentina’s Milei join exercises of US Southern Command
- Management safety violations preceded crash of UPS driver who suffered heat stroke behind the wheel, co-worker says
- Palestinian filmmakers accuse Hollywood of “dehumanization”
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei members call on Opel workers in Eisenach to fight together with their colleagues at Stellantis
- The political issues confronting workers on Labor Day
- Supreme Court rejects Biden’s appeal to lift injunction on student debt relief plan
- “The war’s not over”: Dakkota workers seething after UAW rams through contract with threats of lockout
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Stop the bank boycott of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei! Donate now!
- Thai opposition party turns to right after being anti-democratically dissolved
- Latest economic data put question mark over China’s growth target
- Tulane University in New Orleans upholds suspension of anti-genocide protesters
- Dana Corp. announces closure of auto parts plant in Lima, Ohio, destroying 280 jobs
- Far-right Alternative for Germany achieves over 30 percent in Saxony and Thuringia state elections
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court rules cancellation of local elections violates democratic rights
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson demands “sacrifices” to pay for $1.2 billion school budget gap
- Australian doctors warn dialysis patients are receiving third-world care
- This week in history: September 2-8
2024-09-03
- ASLEF blocks train drivers’ strike at LNER to fall in line with UK Starmer government
- While trying to ram through more sellouts, US rail union official warns of “class warfare” in Labor Day message
- Protests and general strike in Israel pose the need to break with Zionism
- Union bureaucrats stump for Democrats in Detroit, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh on Labor Day
- Racial inequality among the working poor shrinks in America
- 10,000 hotel workers launch nationwide strike during Labor Day holiday weekend
- Faculty at 2 Michigan universities set for potential strike as fall classes start
- Unstable right-wing government formed in Thailand
- Footage of trapped Dagenham fire residents published as victims demand secure housing, assistance and justice
- Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s: Revolutionary art outshines Ukrainian nationalist narrative
- The SEP intervention in the UAW election and the fight for socialism among autoworkers
- The lessons of the UAW sellout at Dakkota
- Deepening crisis in New Zealand public health system
2024-09-04
- Overriding strike vote by 33,000 Boeing workers, IAM bureaucrats schedule vote on non-existent contract
- Atlanta-area postal worker dies on the job
- Russian organizations and social media pages demand Bogdan Syrotiuk’s release
- Lessons from the electoral success of the far-right Alternative for Germany
- Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry delivers its final whitewash
- Sri Lanka: SEP presidential candidate speaks to media, public meetings
- Israel pounds Jenin refugee camp as assault on West Bank continues for seventh day
- California College of the Arts faces deep crisis: “The ultimate judgment upon the quality of a civilization”
- VW workers must prepare for industrial action to oppose factory closures and layoffs
- As US East Coast dockworkers face contract deadline, union, government and management draw from playbook of sellouts at UPS, rail
- Australian Labor PM now as unpopular as his hated Liberal-National predecessor
- UK suspension of Israeli arms contracts a guilty fraud
2024-09-05
- Israeli defence minister foreshadows Gaza-type genocide in West Bank
- Metformin and COVID-19: An old drug with compelling anti-viral properties
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Finishing Palestinians, preventing “war”, bringing “peace”, Nikki Haley extends support for Taiwan
- The barbarism of “forever COVID” and the fight for socialist public health
- Australian economy heading into recession
- Oil workers walk out at Marathon Detroit refinery
- Anheuser-Busch announces closure of two distribution facilities, exposing false job protections in new Teamsters contract
- Boeing machinists ready to strike ahead of September 12 contract expiration
- Trump, Republicans openly plot to suppress vote, overturn election
- Four killed in mass shooting of sleeping train riders in Chicago suburb
- US-organized police-military “stabilization” force deploys in Haiti
- Canada joins US in imposing 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made EVs
- Twelve refugees drown in Channel due to criminal actions of British and French governments
- 4 dead, dozens wounded in Georgia high school shooting
2024-09-06
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Appeals court ruling backs big publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive
- US urges New Zealand to ramp-up military capacity to police the Pacific
- Canada’s NDP ends governmental pact with Trudeau in hopes of averting electoral debacle
- Israel hampering polio vaccine drive as daily bombardment of Gaza continues
- Zelensky begins mass dismissal of cabinet ministers
- Harris and Trump compete for support from billionaires
- Canada’s New Democrats posture as defenders of rail workers, while abetting Trudeau’s strikebreaking
- Erdoğan welcomes al-Sisi to Turkey for the first time in the shadow of the Gaza genocide
- UK studies on Long COVID reveal its brutal impact and prevalence
- What is revealed in the school massacre in Winder, Georgia
- Wellington rail workers voting on strike action
- Melbourne Symphony Orchestra doubles down against British-Australian pianist Jayson Gillham
- Macron names Barnier to lead right-wing French government backed by neo-fascists
- With contract expiring soon for East Coast dockworkers, ILA make radical-sounding statements to head off rank-and-file anger
- Prasanna Vithanage’s Paradise: Police brutality and a marriage implosion amidst Sri Lanka’s economic collapse
2024-09-07
- One month of Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk region
- The banning of X/Twitter in Brazil and the authoritarian drive of the capitalist state
- Sri Lankan president appeals to Muslim voters with apology over forced cremation
- US citizen killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces
- Macron’s naming of a right-wing government in France and the bankruptcy of Mélenchon
- Australia: Ousted CFMEU leaders seek to bury workers’ opposition to administration in drawn-out legal challenge
- Washington presses regional governments to secure Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela
- Trial of “Uhuru 3” begins in Florida as US government accelerates anti-Russia campaign, war drive
2024-09-08
2024-09-09
- Following challenge from Democrats, Nevada Supreme Court removes Green Party’s Jill Stein from ballot
- SAG-AFTRA continues to sabotage video game strike, signing 80 interim agreements
- This week in history: September 9-15
- Australia: Asylum seekers protesting Labor’s anti-refugee policies speak to the WSWS
- Workers furious after IAM announces sellout contract at Boeing
- Missouri health officials report first bird flu case in adult without previous known animal contact
- Australia: NSW nurses to strike against Labor government’s wage cuts
- Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate speaks at official media briefing
- Two Delta Airlines workers killed and one injured at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
- SMART-TD announces concessions contract with Norfolk Southern, responsible for East Palestine, Ohio disaster
- Audi workers in Brussels strike against jobs massacre across the VW group
- Bankrupt Thames Water demands rate hikes as UK waterways flooded with sewage
- Postal workers speak ahead of Sunday’s rank-and-file Zoom meeting: “The CWU puts management’s agenda front and centre”
- Groundbreaking study uncovers mechanism of blood clotting caused by COVID-19, points to possible treatments
- Australia: Two workers killed in separate incidents at Queensland mine
- An election dominated by the threat of war and dictatorship
2024-09-10
- UK unions campaign facilitates thousands of Tata Steel/British Steel job losses
- Noguchi Museum in New York City fires workers for opposing Gaza genocide
- Sri Lankan presidential candidates silent over the threat of WWIII
- Mass protests oppose Macron’s naming of far-right government in France
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis uses police to intimidate abortion petition signers
- Strike wave erupts across Kenya despite trade unions’ attempt to strangle it
- US officials demand stepped-up militarisation of Australia for war with China
- Top Australian, Japanese ministers prepare for war against China
- Mpox cases on the rise in Canada
- Vote “NO” on the Boeing sellout contract! Organize the rank and file against the sellouts in the IAM bureaucracy!
- TUC Congress on message with Starmer’s right-wing Labour government
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Defend all jobs at VW! Build rank-and-file committees!
- Strike by 17,000 AT&T workers across the southeastern US approaches one month
- Canada Post workers: Vote YES to strike! Prepare a political struggle against the corporatist alliance between Canada Post management, CUPW, and the Liberal government!
- Boeing workers hold mass rallies against sellout IAM contract
- Australian Labor government’s international student cuts hit thousands of university jobs
- Maryland sanitation workers strike over working conditions, low wages
- Michigan carnival company ordered to pay back wages and travel expenses to H-2B visa workers
- Neo-fascist RN gives its marching orders to the incoming French government
- UN expert accuses Israel of “deliberate starvation” as a means of exterminating the Palestinians
- Jacobin, DSA and Sanders promote lie that Harris is progressive
- After the far-right AfD’s election success, Social Democrats and Christian Democrats intensify their anti-refugee agitation
- Eyewitness report from the West Bank: “The Israeli army is now commencing major military operations to drive us out”
2024-09-11
- UN report exposes Israel’s imperialist-backed “intentional starvation campaign against the Palestinian people”
- UK Labour government cuts fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners unopposed by the “left”
- Ukrainian youth speaks out in support of Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Philippine and Chinese vessels repeatedly collide in the South China Sea
- Key minister deserts unravelling Australian Labor government
- Boston University resident assistants strike, joining grad students striking since March
- Ukraine launches largest drone attack on Russia yet as US moves to expand strikes with NATO weapons
- Washington state employees walk out as momentum builds against sellout Boeing contract
- With massive layoffs at Warren Truck less than a month away, autoworkers must organize a fight
- Australia: Thousands of nurses strike across New South Wales against Labor’s wage cuts
- Trump and Republicans spearhead fascistic campaign targeting Haitian immigrants
- Australia: Striking NSW health workers speak out against dire wages and conditions
- CWU’s Martin Walsh wins endorsement at the TUC after Royal Mail betrayal
- With closure of Ontario Science Centre, Conservative Premier Ford attacks science, education and the working class
- Venice Film Festival—Filmmakers powerfully denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- World’s two biggest economies show recessionary trends
- Work accidents at Germany’s national rail operator Deutsche Bahn: “We don’t know how many there are”
2024-09-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Israel kills humanitarian workers, children and displaced people in spree of war crimes
- The AFL-CIA’s Solidarity Center expands operations in Latin America
- Mounting concerns in US-NATO circles over critical minerals and war with China
- Germany’s “migration summit:” A booster for the far-right AfD
- Vote “No” on the sellout contract! Build the Boeing Workers Rank-and-File Committee to fight for workers’ control!
- US, UK to announce expansion of NATO weapons strikes inside Russia
- Wildfires erupt across Southern California amid sweltering heat wave
- As over 1 million Americans continue to be infected with COVID each day, updated vaccines belatedly rolled out
- JVP/NPP leader in Sri Lanka pledges to impose IMF austerity
- New details emerge about warnings before Georgia school shooting
- The Harris-Trump debate: A degraded exhibition of political reaction
- After the Grenfell Fire inquiry: Where are the arrests?
- Australian police rampage against protesters at massive weapons expo in Melbourne
- Kenyan trade unions shut down aviation workers’ strike in one of Africa’s largest airports
2024-09-13
- The threat of bird flu reaching Australia
- Total capitulation by US Federal Reserve on bank regulation
- Air Canada demands government intervention to rob pilots of right to strike
- Rail union BMWED releases details of sellout agreements with CSX, Norfolk Southern
- Australian union boss Sally McManus defends government attack on construction workers
- Brazil faces new wave of the pandemic amid shortage of COVID-19 vaccines
- In massive repudiation of IAM bureaucracy, Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject sellout contract
- One month into mpox PHEIC: Redux of vaccine nationalism and pandemic profiteering
- Labour’s Darzi report details National Health Service crisis, but sets stage for more attacks
- Shooter still at large after 5 motorists injured on Interstate-75 in Kentucky
- Canadian authorities keep a lid on the ravages caused by Long COVID
- Government-backed Ukrainian Canadian Congress opposes naming 900 Nazi war criminals who found refuge in Canada
- I Saw the TV Glow: A life unfulfilled
- Authorizing NATO weapons strikes in Russia, US prepares major escalation of global war
- Republicans continue racist anti-immigrant agitation after bomb threats force closure of Springfield, Ohio City Hall
- On the history of Washington’s ties to the Ukrainian Banderites and their role in the war against Russia
- Under government pressure and threats from far right, Toronto International Film Festival cancels screenings of Russians at War
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2024-09-14
- Australian university rank-and-file committees and IYSSE host forum opposing job and international student cuts
- German warships in the Taiwan Strait: A war provocation against China
- “New-hires, old hires, retirees, we’re sticking together for a common goal”: Boeing machinists explain what is at stake in their strike
- Trump doubles down on anti-immigrant lies after bomb threats force closure of Springfield schools, City Hall again
- Russian authorities step-up anti-immigrant measures and propaganda
- Sri Lanka’s presidential candidates make phony promises, while plotting to enforce IMF austerity
- Film director Prasanna Vithanage discusses Paradise with the WSWS
- The US and Russia on the verge of open war
- Hurricane Francine brings major flooding and extensive power outages to Louisiana
2024-09-15
2024-09-16
- Sri Lankan election: The pro-capitalist program of the Frontline Socialist Party charlatans
- H5N1 Bird flu, climate change, and the social rights of the working class
- Rail workers vote to strike in Wellington, New Zealand
- Australia: Build rank-and-file committees on building sites! End the Labor government’s CFMEU administration, defend wages and conditions!
- Australian Labor government unveils sweeping political censorship laws
- Michigan Attorney General charges 11 pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Michigan
- University of Michigan police ban IYSSE/SEP campaigners from campus
- Three rail unions announce sellout contract at CSX without releasing vote details
- Trump’s campaign of political terror against immigrants in Springfield, Ohio
- Chinese leadership concerned over meeting growth targets
- This week in history: September 16-22
- Strike deadline looms at GM’s CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario as contract set to expire for 1,200 workers September 17
- College administrators escalate crackdown on students who protested against the Gaza genocide
- Peru’s coup regime imposes national mourning for ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori
- Seminal documents of the Soviet Trotskyist movement from the early 1930s published for the first time
- China’s economic ascendancy in Africa threatens US imperialism
- The Goat Life: Indian workers victims of slave labor in America’s great friend, Saudi Arabia
- After defeating the IAM sellout, the rank and file must control the Boeing strike!
- NATO’s top military officer calls for NATO weapons strikes deep inside Russia
- East Coast dockworkers demand higher pay, protection from automation
- Starmer and Meloni discuss war on migrants and against Russia
- Suspect arrested in apparent second Trump assassination attempt
2024-09-17
- Royal Mail rank-and-file meeting discusses fightback against management attacks and EP Group takeover
- New York City police shoot four in subway car over suspected fare evasion
- As deadline for Warren Truck layoffs nears, UAW President Fain holds phony “Day of Action”
- “They treat us like modern day slaves”: Boeing workers speak from Washington state picket lines
- Oppose the police-state attacks on anti-war and anti-genocide protests on college campuses!
- Australian Labor government opening the door for right-wing Coalition victory
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Striking BorgWarner auto parts workers vote down second Teamsters-backed sellout deal
- Brazilian jazz musician Sergio Mendes, 83, dies after battle with Long COVID
- The CIA Democrats in the 2024 elections
- US and German-sponsored union at Volkswagen Mexico imposes sellout contract, blocking a global struggle
- MIOSHA whitewashes death of Ford Rouge worker Tywaun Long, as industrial slaughter rages on
- “The urgent need to develop rank-and-file committees in every workplace and across national boundaries has never been clearer”
- What does Turkey’s application to join BRICS mean?
- The killing of Pakistani workers and the dead end of Baloch ethno-separatist nationalism
- UAW forces through contract maintaining poverty wages at Sandusky, Ohio Ventra auto parts plant
2024-09-18
- Catastrophic floods in Central Europe claim over 20 lives
- Long COVID patient in Canada requests medical assistance in dying due to lack of health and social care
- Australia: Vote “no” to union-Labor sellout of Victorian nurses
- Meta Platforms and YouTube ban RT worldwide
- Mobilize the working class behind the Boeing strike! Break the IAM-imposed isolation!
- VW workers in Wolfsburg, Germany fear for their jobs
- Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams faces execution September 24 for a crime he did not commit
- Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
- Sri Lankan presidential election: Sordid manoeuvres by the Tamil capitalist parties
- 7,000 California CVS retail pharmacy workers hold strike vote against poverty wages
- Berlin supports US-British missile plans against Russia
- Opposing Gaza genocide demands a political struggle against the Starmer government
- Nearly a year of the Gaza genocide: The way forward in the fight against war
- Leaked communique increases China-Malaysia tensions over South China Sea
- Israeli terror attack in Lebanon injures thousands, kills 9
- In wake of attempted assassination, Trump and Vance continue anti-immigrant agitation
2024-09-19
- ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING SUNDAY: Mobilize the working class behind the Boeing strike! Break the IAM-imposed isolation!
- Airline workers speak out in support of strike by 33,000 Boeing machinists
- Former Labor foreign minister warns that AUKUS means Australian involvement in war with China
- 700 US actors, directors and performers denounce entertainment unions’ silence on Gaza and McCarthyite “repression” of pro-Palestinian views
- US Fed announces large rate cut, but Wall Street wants more
- Israel’s war of annihilation against Palestinians puts King Abdullah’s regime in Jordan on a knife edge
- BMA sells out junior doctors’ pay fight in partnership with Labour government
- Vote Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lankan presidential election
- Rise of anti-immigrant BSW from Germany’s Left Party exposes Podemos and Sumar in Spain
- US presidential election overshadowed by threats of violence
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “We need to stand together”: As Boeing strike continues, 525 Eaton Aerospace workers strike in Jackson, Michigan
- Mass protest in Brussels opposes Audi auto plant shutdowns in Belgium
- Australia: Building workers hold second round of mass protests against Labor government attack
- Terror attack on Lebanon opens new front in US-Israeli war in Middle East
2024-09-20
- Unifor announces tentative agreement at GM’s CAMI plant after indefinitely extending strike deadline
- Israel bombing southern Lebanon as government and military officials threaten full-scale invasion
- Massive explosion at Russian arms depot leaves unanswered questions
- Draghi report reveals deep crisis of European capitalism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bowing to government pressure, German arts centre cancels Guernica Gaza exhibition
- The new EU Commission: Militaristic, right-wing, authoritarian
- On defensive from mass anger, UAW President Fain threatens strike action “if necessary” against Stellantis
- Samsung India workers’ strike continues in face of mounting state repression
- Stop the attack on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio!
- Seattle dockworkers support Boeing strikers
- Trump’s planned visit to Springfield, Ohio: An incitement to violence
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds powerful meeting to conclude its presidential election campaign
- Large class sizes and “well below” average spending on early years education in UK schools, OECD reports
- Protests break out against police shooting in the New York City subway
- New studies show growing risk of chronic neurological diseases associated with Long COVID
- Boar’s Head closes Virginia plant responsible for listeria outbreak that killed 9 and hospitalized at least 57
- The JVP/NPP presidential campaign—a trap for the Sri Lankan working class
- US-backed opposition in Venezuela suffers further setbacks after its candidate fled to Spain
- Union prepares to suppress opposition to GM’s job cuts in Brazil
- Third postal contract expires with no deal reached as APWU bureaucracy prepares sellout
- More information emerges about would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh
2024-09-21
- Join us in building the Volkswagen Rank-and-File Committee!
- Two Canadian by-election results underscore urgency of workers repudiating the union-NDP-Liberal alliance
- Boeing begins furloughs in response to strike by 33,000 machinists
- Sri Lankan presidential elections amid deep political crisis
- Australian Labor government refuses to condemn Israel’s terrorist attacks in Lebanon
- As voting begins, Trump and his Republican allies intensify efforts to suppress and subvert election
- SMART-TD union announces deal at BNSF, paving way for 1-person train crews
- Israel escalates Middle East-wide war with bombing of Beirut
- German government readies further war package for Ukraine
- Typhoon Yagi wreaks havoc across Southeast Asia
- Detroit police have gathered electronic dossiers on hundreds of protesters
- Zionist-led witch hunt threatens anti-genocide dissent and free speech at Australian universities
- Australia: Melbourne man dies, four hours after emergency call for ambulance
2024-09-22
2024-09-23
- Turkish government’s Medium Term Program: A frontal attack on the social conditions of the working class
- Some revealing comments on the state of the global economy
- This week in history: September 23–29
- No to wrist-slap fines for workplace deaths! Reject the National Steel Car/United Steelworkers-backed settlement for Quoc Le’s death!
- Reeves tries to sugarcoat austerity as UK Labour’s support plummets
- Romanian doctors blamed for health crisis fuelled by the ruling class “forever COVID” policy
- Former Australian union boss pushes for renewed business-union partnership to deepen attack on workers
- JVP/NPP leader elected as new president of Sri Lanka
- Thousands laid off in August and September in the technology sector as the global jobs bloodbath intensifies
- Biden hosts Quad meeting directed against China
- Trade groups again appeal for government intervention as East Coast dockworkers’ strike deadline nears
- Trump and Vance refuse to distance themselves from self-admitted Nazi and North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson
- Seattle Public Schools set to close up to 21 schools next year
- South Carolina executes first prisoner in 13 years, rejecting new evidence that questions his guilt
- Imperialist powers turn UN General Assembly into a war summit
- 5,000 Textron machinists walk out in Wichita, Kansas, while Boeing workers hold public meeting on strike
- Stop the intimidation of opponents of war! Defend bus driver Andy Niklaus against the Berlin Transport Company!
2024-09-24
- Striking Boeing machinists denounce company’s “Best and Final Contract Offer”
- Prominent Australian Jewish cultural leader denounces Zionism and Israel’s barbarism
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Rail union cancels industrial action against privatisation, automation
- Missouri governor and Supreme Court refuse to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams, an innocent man on death row
- University of California Regents summon riot police to expel students protesting further militarization of campuses
- Taiwan pathetically blames China’s cognitive warfare for implicating the island in the Lebanon pager bombings
- Israel massively expands Middle East war, killing nearly 500 in Lebanon
- New Zealand government’s Treaty of Waitangi “debate” stokes racial divisions
- A comment on David North’s review: Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism
- SAG-AFTRA has no strategy to defeat ravages of AI and other technologies
- Study by international researchers zeroes in on the natural origin of the COVID pandemic
- The Sri Lankan elections: JVP assumes responsibility for defending capitalism amid a deepening revolutionary crisis
- Maternal mortality rates soar in Texas after abortion ban
- Teamsters union shuts down BorgWarner auto parts strike with third vote on sellout agreement
- Starmer makes right-wing nationalist pitch for austerity
2024-09-25
- Targeting China, US deploys medium-range missile system to the Philippines
- Corbynites moot new party
- Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, an innocent man on death row
- Protests by West Bengal junior doctors over rape and killing of colleague continues after state passes reactionary death penalty legislation
- Australia: More than 10,000 nurses and midwives strike against Labor government cuts
- Former workers at New York City’s Noguchi Museum speak out on museum’s firings, anti-Palestine censorship
- Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War, by David North
- Cornell student suspended and threatened with deportation for protesting Gaza genocide
- Far-right AfD and anti-immigrant BSW win half the seats in Brandenburg state election
- Biden delivers warmongering tirade at the United Nations
- Study shows that COVID-19 causes cognitive decline among those without long COVID symptoms
- Biden-Harris administration intensifies economic war against China
- Israel vows to intensify onslaught on Lebanon as danger of region-wide war grows
- Union calls off Wellington, New Zealand rail workers’ industrial action
- Reject Boeing’s blackmail threats! Mobilize all workers to win our strike!
- Forest fires engulf the entire Amazon basin
- At statewide strike, NSW nurses speak on increasingly difficult working conditions
- Barnier government ministers embrace policies of French far-right
- Strike by Sheffield Hallam University staff over 400 planned redundancies suspended by UCU
- Vernon Stevens, long time working class fighter for Trotskyism, dies at age 82
- “We need to come together as one”: Striking Eaton workers call for unity with Boeing strike
- Austria: Anti-refugee hate campaign dominates elections
- Intel halts construction of chip factory in Magdeburg, Germany
- RCN blocks strike ballot after nurses in England reject 5.5 percent pay award by Labour government
2024-09-26
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) completes campaign to win 1,500 electoral members
- Türk-İş work stoppage and DİSK’s rallies aim to restrain workers in Turkey
- Boeing machinist denounces company’s “Best and Final” offer
- As US prepares to allow NATO weapons to strike Russia, Putin threatens nuclear retaliation
- New Sri Lankan president calls snap elections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Japan’s main opposition party elects right-wing ex-prime minister as leader
- Australia: Royal Commission details high suicide rate among soldiers and veterans
- What’s behind the Teamsters’ decision not to endorse in the presidential election
- PQ sets tone for Quebec establishment with anti-immigrant incitement
- Kamala Harris courts the billionaires
- 3,000 VW workers in Germany protest against cutbacks
- Chinese central bank unleashes major financial stimulus
- After Vice President Harris doubles down on global war and genocide in Gaza, Uncommitted Movement commits to electing Harris
- Israeli military threatens ground invasion of Lebanon amid expanding air assault
- Israeli government rejects calls for ceasefire in war on Lebanon
- East Coast dockworkers: Unite with Boeing workers to build a movement of the working class! Build rank-and-file committees to take control out of the hands of ILA bureaucrats!
- Toronto International Film Festival screens Russians at War amid ongoing government-backed, pro-Ukraine war censorship campaign
- No to the Gaza genocide, mobilize workers against Spanish state complicity!
- The state murder of Marcellus Williams and the fight to abolish the death penalty
- Britain’s Jewish Chronicle exposed as propaganda outlet for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- San Francisco Symphony Chorus holds three-day strike, forcing cancellation of season opener
2024-09-27
- As protests mount, Cornell University VP of Student Life rejects Momodou Taal’s appeal of suspension
- Grangemouth refinery in Scotland to close, with hundreds of jobs lost
- Toxic PFAS chemicals detected at high levels in Blue Mountains, Sydney drinking water
- Relentless attempts to suppress the truth about Israeli crimes: Conflict at New York’s 92NY and, in the face of attacks, the Emmy victory of Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda
- Starmer secures his sought-after meeting with Trump
- Police killings in New Caledonia as Macron installs far-right administration
- Plan to use long-range NATO missiles against Russia threatens uncontrolled escalation of global war
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams charged with bribery
- SMART union endorses fascist Republican Senator Josh Hawley
- Berlin-Tegel refugee camp: Inhuman conditions, a climate of fear—and huge profits for the operators
- IAM leaders work with Boeing and federal mediator to shut down strike as official “talks” resume
- President Dissanayake’s address to the nation—a commitment to global capital and Sri Lankan big business
- Trump fascists continue terror campaign against Haitian immigrants with racist X post
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- As working class upsurge grows, Michigan Medicine workers vote on strike action
- Stellantis Warren Truck worker: “If we don’t fight now, they are going to take our jobs”
- Australian Labor government desperate to falsely claim action on the housing crisis
2024-09-28
- Artists with principle: Novelist Sally Rooney, actor Javier Bardem and author Jhumpa Lahiri protest Israeli mass murder in Gaza
- Campaigning in Arizona, Kamala Harris pledges to “work across the aisle” to expand border police
- Reject sellout of Wellington, New Zealand rail workers!
- Week of executions in America ends with a nitrogen gas asphyxiation in Alabama
- Netanyahu declares all-out war at UN, then Israel slaughters hundreds in Beirut
- Japan stages provocative naval transit through Taiwan Strait
- Oppose the persecution of Momodou Taal! Mobilize the working class to defend democratic rights!
- Sri Lankan big business rushes to congratulate new president
- IYSSE at Western Sydney University initiates Special General Meeting against genocide and war
- Hurricane Helene devastates a wide swath of southeastern United States
- With only days to go before the deadline, US corporations prepare to deal with potential East Coast dock strike
- Thousands in New York City protest Netanyahu and the bombing of Lebanon
- Despite Putin’s nuclear warning, NATO escalates campaign to allow strikes deep inside Russia
2024-09-30
- House of Lords lays out plans to make UK fully war ready
- Mass school closures revealed as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson works with CTU to suppress opposition
- Biden congratulates Sri Lanka’s new president
- This week in history: September 30-October 6
- Rival factions of MAS ruling party clash in Bolivia
- National Symphony Orchestra musicians back to work after brief strike in Washington DC
- Japan’s ruling party selects far right leader as prime minister
- 15-year-old in Mississippi sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing her mother
- “We run everything”: East Coast dockworkers defiant on eve of contract expiration
- 1,000 missing, at least 66 dead, as Hurricane Helene devastates southern Appalachia
- “They want a fair share the same as us”: Boeing, Textron and Eaton strikes continue as clash looms on East Coast docks
- The murder of Hassan Nasrallah: Imperialism abandons all restraint on global war
- The first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Rwanda
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