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
- 700 US actors, directors and performers denounce entertainment unions’ silence on Gaza and McCarthyite “repression” of pro-Palestinian views
- Rise of anti-immigrant BSW from Germany’s Left Party exposes Podemos and Sumar in Spain
- US presidential election overshadowed by threats of violence
- Mass protest in Brussels opposes Audi auto plant shutdowns in Belgium
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