Archive: 11/2024
2024-11-01
- Bird flu virus detected in pigs for the first time in US
- Survivors of abuse demand accountability over decades-long cover-up by the New Zealand state
- The Unequal Pandemic exposes COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on the poor
- VIDEO: Victimised Royal Mail delivery worker Des Beach exposes anatomy of a management frame-up
- Trump kickstarts campaign to overturn 2024 election results
- Bill Clinton defends mass murder of civilians in Gaza genocide
- European Union imposes tariffs on Chinese EVs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Opposition to job cuts mounts as Ford announces months-long shutdown of EV truck plant in Rouge complex
- Sri Lanka’s JVP government drops election promise to abolish terrorism law
- Australia: Rail union holds 5-minute “strike” as NSW Labor government seeks to cut real wages
- Erdogan government arrests Kurdish CHP mayor in Istanbul
- Oppose threat to close UK Vauxhall plants: for a unified fight against job losses worldwide
- IAM union announces third sellout deal to end Boeing strike, with vote the day before US presidential election
2024-11-02
- PepsiCo announces closure of four US plants, eliminating 500 jobs
- Australian COVID inquiry promotes “let it rip,” denounces public health measures
- Australian university educators send message of support to striking US Boeing workers
- Trump says anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have leading health policy role in his administration
- The German government’s “security package”: a further step towards a police state
- Wartime economy vs. public education: Harris’ platform promotes the school-to-military industry pipeline
- Despite strong opposition from Quebec’s nurses, the FIQ trade union pushes through concessionary contract
- No Other Land playing in New York for one week but no US distributor—A courageous indictment of Israel’s crimes and its defenders
- War, inequality and dictatorship: The critical issues excluded from the 2024 election
- Australian prime minister fails to stem Qantas upgrades scandal
- Hundreds of journalists sign letter condemning Israel for targeting and killing Palestinian reporters
- Australia: Hospital-acquired COVID infection caused more than 6,000 cases and almost 300 deaths in NSW last year
2024-11-03
2024-11-04
- Social murder in Spain: 217 dead, 1,900 missing in Valencia flood
- Nearly 150 people killed in Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Trami
- SAG-AFTRA leadership continues to betray workers in the entertainment industry
- UNICEF head warns everyone in Northern Gaza “is at imminent risk of dying”
- Governors in three US states ready National Guard troops in response to threats of election-related violence
- Kartal Municipality strike in Turkey exposes CHP, DISK and the pseudo left
- Stanford University promotes the anti-public health agenda of the COVID denialists
- Renowned academic Haim Bresheeth arrested in London under Terrorism Act during protest against Israel’s genocide
- Far-right commentator Candace Owens barred from entering Australia
- Trudeau slashes immigration as part of a lurch still further right
- South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite pleas from trial judge, jurors and former corrections department director
- As Boeing workers vote on third sellout deal, parts supplier Eaton begins replacing striking workers at Michigan factory
- Third Peruvian transport strike raises demand for end to Boluarte regime
- Stop CUPW’s delaying tactics! Launch a working-class political struggle against Canada Post and the Trudeau government!
- Oxfam report: “Inequality is at an all-time high – and rising.”
- Explosion kills 12 steelworkers in Tlaxcala, central Mexico
- Pacific leaders’ fact-finding mission in New Caledonia
- Reject the third sellout TA at Boeing! The rank and file must seize control of the strike from the IAM bureaucrats for victory!
2024-11-05
- Body of last missing Impact Plastics worker lost in Helene’s flood water recovered
- Australia: New South Wales teachers’ union rams through sell-out wages and conditions deal
- Harris holds rally at Muhlenberg College in wake of firing of professor for speaking out against Palestinian genocide
- Amid crackdown on Gaza protests at US art schools, School of the Art Institute of Chicago students stage walkout over genocide
- Release the Filton 10! Oppose state repression of anti-genocide protestors in Britain
- Israel bans UN Palestine relief agency as part of Gaza mass starvation campaign
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Who is Sri Lanka’s new President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake?
- DSA-backed “Uncommitted Movement” received nearly half a million dollars from pro-Democratic Party Super PAC
- American historians issue politically bankrupt and intellectually dishonest appeal for Kamala Harris
- Far-right Zionist vigilantes target anti-genocide youth and workers, with open support of Canada’s ruling class
- Hundreds of New York Times technology workers go on strike, disrupting US election coverage
- Longshore job actions spread to largest Canadian seaports in BC and Montreal
- An insight into China’s high-tech development and its implications
- IAM bureaucracy runs roughshod over rank and file to force through sellout contract at Boeing
- UK budget: a pittance for crumbling, asbestos riddled schools
2024-11-06
- Israel kills 54 Palestinians in one day during renewed northern Gaza offensive
- Democratic Party debacle hands presidency to Trump
- Comic, effervescent Teri Garr, US actress, dies at 79
- A letter to a Civil War historian on the causes of the election debacle
- Erdogan government suspends elected Kurdish mayors
- Postal workers speak in defence of victimised Royal Mail delivery worker Des Beach
- UPS pushing forward with automation and facility closures, threatening thousands more jobs
- Voters at polls in Michigan speak out against campaign silence on major issues in the elections
- Australian central bank refuses relief as interest rates, rents and prices keep punishing workers
- German finance minister declares war on the working class
- PSL presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz in vote-swap deal with Green Party’s Jill Stein
- North Korean troops in Russia as US/NATO escalates Ukraine war
- Transport Workers Action Committee slate in Berlin meets with significant support
- BNSF workers reject contract which would have paved the way for one-man crews
- Netanyahu fires Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, signalling escalation of war
- Protests against trade with Israel grow in Turkish ports
- JVP/NPP leader foreshadows strike ban in Sri Lanka
- Australia: Unions block fight against job cuts at Centennial Coal mine in Mandalong
- On the election of Donald Trump
- Western Sydney University “Green Paper” sets out pro-war and pro-business restructuring
2024-11-07
- Largest employer in Juniata County, Pennsylvania to close, costing 420 workers their jobs
- Republicans capture US Senate, near control of House of Representatives
- Booming US economy is a mirage
- Why has CUPW refused to call a strike at Canada Post?
- Milwaukee public education under attack, with 13 schools targeted for closure
- Ukrainian army suffers major setbacks, as Trump election sows doubt on US war plans in Ukraine
- Vauxhall workers in Luton speak on threatened plant closures by Stellantis and fightback in global auto industry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian police step up targeting of anti-genocide protesters
2024-11-08
- Democrats grovel before Trump
- Big business demands back-to-work legislation on Canadian docks
- Stellantis laying off 1,139 Toledo Jeep workers, as global auto jobs bloodbath expands
- New Zealand government pledges “even closer” alliance with US under Donald Trump
- German parliament adopts far-right “antisemitism” resolution
- New study warns of the dangers in “overshooting” climate targets
- Breakup of Germany’s coalition government ushers in new phase of class struggle
- Schools on rations: US education funding lags behind UNESCO benchmarks
- The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
- Woolworths warehouse workers in Australia face punitive performance monitoring
- Demands grow in ruling circles for UK Labour government to massively increase military spending
- More than 5,500 writers pledge to boycott Israeli cultural institutions
- Book presentation in Nuremberg: Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century by David North attracts great interest
- Fed cuts interest rate as chair Powell bats away questions on impact of Trump agenda
- After campaigning for Clinton, Biden and Harris, Bernie Sanders accuses Democrats of “abandoning working class”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Agent of Happiness: People in this small South Asian country live in an economically unequal, unjust and oppressive society, why should they be happy?
2024-11-09
- Australian Labor government pledges to collaborate with fascist Trump
- Australian Labor government pushes phoney student debt relief in bid for youth votes
- University of Michigan moves to ban local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine
- Attend Canada Post Worker Rank-and-File Committee’s first public meeting this Sunday!
- MIT suspends student and bans magazine for article opposing Gaza genocide
- Australia: New guidelines for toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water allow levels 50 times higher than US
- NATO states denounce “antisemitism” after Israeli football hooligans riot in Amsterdam
- South Asia’s governments rush to congratulate America’s fascist president-elect Trump
- Trump’s Republican Party nears control of all levers of federal government
- UN report: Israeli war of extermination kills more children than men
- The role of the Biden administration in the Boeing sellout
2024-11-11
- Australia: Build rank-and-file committees to fight Labor’s attack on construction workers and the entire working class!
- Australia’s two major supermarket chains charged for price-gouging with fake discounts
- Vote SEP in Sri Lanka’s November 14 parliamentary election!
- Trump victory deepens crisis of UK Labour government
- Michigan Medicine technicians prepare for one-day strike
- A few points about My Old Ass with Aubrey Plaza
- Break the UAW bureaucracy’s isolation of the Eaton walkout! No strikebreaking in Michigan!
- Sumitomo Tire abruptly closes western New York plant, wiping out 1,550 jobs
- China announces package for debt-ridden local governments
- Justice Department reaches $102 million settlement in Baltimore bridge collapse case
- Mountain Fire rages through Southern California causing massive destruction
- Mass protests erupt in Spain over official inaction on deadly Valencia floods
- Early federal election in Germany: Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei declares war on all-party coalition of war and austerity
- CDC video downplays danger of H5N1 bird flu
- This week in history: November 11-17
- Australian government defies another High Court ruling on immigration detainees
- Lying allegations of antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam fall apart
- White House sends military contractors to Ukraine
- European governments debate relations with Trump at Budapest summits
- UK Labour government hikes student tuition fees, maintains Tory repayment threshold
2024-11-12
- Teachers strike 3 districts on Massachusetts’ North Shore
- Grounded, a contemporary opera with an anti-war theme, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera
- NSW nurses and midwives: Form rank-and-file committees to fight the Labor government’s wage cuts!
- Trump names key aides for war on immigrants, China
- Nigerian government forced to drop treason charges carrying death penalty against 119 cost-of-living protesters
- Dozens killed by Israeli air strikes and ground assaults across Gaza and Lebanon
- Message of support from David O’Sullivan to Berlin Transport Workers Action Committee: “The fight against war and the fight against austerity are one and the same”
- Employer lockouts close Canada’s largest container ports in Montreal and British Columbia
- More than 100 staff accuse BBC of pro-Israel bias over Gaza genocide
- Kaiser Permanente mental health workers in California continue strike to improve patient care and secure pensions
- South Korean auto parts workers strike
- The socialist response to the election of Trump
- Global temperatures set new record as capitalist governments abandon climate change pledges
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Meeting of postal workers demands rank-and-file control over contract struggle at Canada Post
- PPG Industries to cut 1,800 jobs worldwide and sell off manufacturing plants
2024-11-13
- Valencia floods expose inaction of Spanish trade unions
- From the Stalinist SED to the xenophobic BSW: The political evolution of Sahra Wagenknecht
- Strike looms for 1,700 University of Illinois nurses, as Trump plans sweeping assaults on healthcare system
- Australian Labor government faces widespread opposition to its “misinformation” laws
- “We’re treated like numbers”: Boeing, Stellantis lay off thousands as US job cuts mount
- Australia: More than 2,000 Sydney workers protest Labor government takeover of CFMEU
- Poll shows majority of Australians oppose participating in US-China conflict
- Trump assembles cabinet of fascist repression and imperialist war
- Morenoite CRT tries to tie anti-genocide protests to Spain’s pro-government union bureaucracies
- Enforcing employers’ demands, Canada’s Liberal government decrees end to port disputes
- Michigan Medicine strike called off with “memorandum of understanding”
- Scottish local authority workers should reject COSLA's agreement
- Starmer agrees deal to deport migrants to South Atlantic like UK Conservatives’ Rwanda plan
- Management and Verdi union conceal cuts programme at Berlin transit operator BVG
- Trump tariff threats sending shock waves around the world
- White House endorses Israel’s deliberate starvation policy in Gaza
- German auto and supplier industries announce job cuts on a daily basis
2024-11-14
- Pro-Palestinian TikToker Guy Christensen speaks out on Zionist harassment and FBI investigation
- Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War: Foreword to the German edition
- Strike by nearly 40,000 University of California healthcare workers set for next week
- Police crack down on anti-genocide protest in Paris as Amsterdam “pogrom” lies unravel
- Zionist lawsuit initiated against two anti-genocide Australian academics
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Israel bombs Beirut and Lebanon-Syria border, as UN declares basic foodstuffs “barely exist” in Gaza
- Pitchfork shocks many fans by announcing the end of its Chicago music festival: “Corporations ruin everything”
- Teachers union officials sow complacency over Trump’s threat of fascist transformation of public education
- Public housing residents speak out against planned tower demolitions in Melbourne
- Don’t let CUPW make us fight Canada Post and the Liberal government alone! Build rank-and-file committees to launch an all-out strike, broaden our struggle, and defeat state strikebreaking!
- As Trump assembles dictatorial regime, Biden offers “smoothest” transition
- Philadelphia transit union leaders defy members’ vote to strike as contract expires
- New contract for Germany’s metal and electrical industries paves the way for mass layoffs and wage cuts
- Germany’s early elections: A conspiracy of all parties in favour of war and cuts
- WSWS readers demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Lee: New film examines the life of courageous World War II photographer Lee Miller
- Thousands of new buildings found unsafe as UK flammable cladding crisis worsens
2024-11-15
- Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza
- Following end of two-month strike, Boeing begins carrying out mass layoffs
- H2: The Occupation Lab: Reality in the Occupied Territories
- Ukraine: A wave of desertions turns into an avalanche amid the US elections
- British Columbia teenager in critical condition with H5N1 bird flu
- “We can’t keep fighting these battles alone”: Striking Marathon Detroit Refinery workers call for joint fight against job cuts and falling living standards
- Family physicians in Turkey to strike for five days in December
- 15 Salisbury University students charged in anti-gay hate crime
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Channel 4 documentary on Jean Charles de Menezes killing part of moves to justify police shoot to kill policy
- Ocasio-Cortez defends Democrats, denounces “sectarianism” and “the narcissism of small differences”
- The Trump presidency and the rapacious demands of the financial oligarchy
- Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers continue protests
- Amsterdam provocation used as pretext to assault Dutch workers’ democratic rights
- Post Office in Britain announces plans to close 115 branches and cut thousands of jobs
- Joe Biden and Xi Jinping meet at APEC summit in Peru amid nationwide strikes and deployment of US troops
- Jury awards $42 million to 3 Iraqis tortured in Abu Ghraib prison 20 years ago, holding US military contractor responsible
- UAW bureaucracy betrays eight-week strike by Michigan Eaton Aerospace workers
- Australia’s school system increasingly integrated into war drive
- APEC free trade agenda thrown into turmoil
- New Zealand government makes empty apology to people abused by the state
- Trump selects anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Dept. of Health and Human Services
2024-11-16
- Mass redundancies at auto parts suppliers Schaeffler and Continental in Germany
- General Motors cuts 1,000 salaried jobs, while UAW covers for its role with bogus “Keep the Promise” campaign
- Australian Labor government and unions impose historic cut to workers’ real wages
- Sri Lankan President Dissanayake’s JVP/NPP wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections
- Australia: Tens of thousands of NSW public sector nurses walk out against Labor’s pay caps
- ZeniMax video game workers strike, demanding remote work and an end to outsourcing
- Trump proclaims Argentina’s fascist President Milei a model for incoming US administration
- “Everything is going up except our wages”: Striking University of Illinois nurses in Chicago speak from the picket line
- United Nations committee finds Israeli war on Gaza “consistent with genocide”
- 55,000 Canada Post workers walk off the job in nationwide strike
- Striking nurses and midwives speak about wages and conditions in NSW hospitals
- Australian Labor government’s social media ban for under-16s provokes mass anger
- Nikole Hannah-Jones and other racialists go on tirade against population for Democrats’ election loss
- 2 workers killed, 11 injured in Louisville, Kentucky plant explosion
- “Why are we even talking about a contract when it is never followed by the corporation?”: Canada Post strikers speak out from the picket line
- Trump nominates Christian fascist, defender of war criminals Pete Hegseth to head Department of Defense
2024-11-17
- Dahomey: “Our heritage comes back to make us ask questions”—but what are the questions?
- North Shore Massachusetts teachers strikes at impasse: Expand strike action! Build rank-and-file committees!
- This week in history: November 18-24
- Why Sri Lankan workers must demand: Repudiate all foreign debt!
- Contract talks for US East Coast dockworkers breaks down two days after restart
- Record homelessness in London, surge in rough sleepers since Labour took office
2024-11-18
- Global rate of measles surged by 20 percent in 2023
- In major escalation, Biden authorizes long-range strikes inside Russia
- Germany’s Greens hold a war conference
- New bipartisan electoral laws seek to shore up Australian political establishment
- Mass layoffs announced in France at Auchan and Michelin
- Collapsing Syriza set to be replaced as main Greek opposition party
- Medicine amidst genocide in Gaza: An interview with Bilal Irfan
- Police knew attack on Palestinian-Australian restaurant may have been politically motivated
- Democrats seek “common ground,” as Trump prepares government of, by and for the oligarchs
- Homeless astrophysics professor speaks out on poverty pay at UCLA
- In memory of Wolfgang Weber (6 June 1949 – 16 November 2024)
- New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a DSA member, enters New York City mayoral race
- New York Democrats express willingness to collaborate with Trump
- Why a rebellion against Germany’s IG Metall union apparatus is necessary
- Germany: Who are the “Saxon Separatists?”
2024-11-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Canada Post strikers must unify their struggle with all logistics workers to stop the “Amazonification” of our jobs!
- Trump’s tariff threats bring warnings of “recession, poverty and conflict”
- Discount carrier Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy as restructuring of global airline industry accelerates
- Turkish and Kurdish elites seek to profit from Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians
- Military offensive against Russia: Germany inaugurates new naval headquarters in Rostock
- Defeat Unite’s collusion with Stellantis and Labour government! Organise rank-and-file action to defend jobs!
- For an indefinite strike by University of California workers! Build a working class movement against the policies of the incoming Trump administration!
- Tyson vs. Paul on Netflix and the degradation of American culture
- Texas death row developments: Stay of execution blocked for Robert Roberson, Melissa Lucio ruled innocent
- US, Japanese, Australian defence ministers boost anti-China military collaboration
- Bolsonaro supporter bombs Brazil’s Supreme Court as probe of January 8 coup attempt draws to a close
- A carnival of reaction: G20 meets for summit in Rio
- University of Michigan student leaders impeached over opposition to Gaza genocide
- Racist riots target Sinti and Roma in Russia amid rise in far-right violence
- South Africa’s ANC government employs police blockade to trap illegal gold miners underground
- Aidan Beatty’s hackwork: The Israel-Zionist connection
- The dictatorial threat of Trump’s recess appointment plan
- Drought-fueled wildfires create dangerous conditions in New York and New Jersey
- Faculty at California State University, Long Beach censured for exposing ties between the university and the military
- Russian Militant group supports campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Trump vows military roundups of millions of immigrants
- Australia: Woolworths workers at four warehouses set to strike over pay and conditions
- Australia: NSW teachers discuss latest pay deal and their worsening working conditions
- Florida leads the US in the sharp rise in books banned in schools
- CNH announces “tentative” plans to close Burlington, Iowa tractor plant nearly 2 years after UAW sellout of strike
- Berlin Senate prepares widescale social and cultural cutbacks
- Reports expose how Canada’s state-sponsored assisted suicide program disproportionately targets the socially vulnerable
2024-11-20
- The Workers’ Party of Turkey and the impasse of pseudo-left politics
- Ukrainians in Berlin demonstrate in defence of democratic rights against the Zelensky regime
- European governments back use of US missiles to bomb Russia
- Ukraine reportedly fires UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time
- The RCP’s call for a “student strike for Palestine” and the real lessons of the 2012 Quebec student strike
- Trump’s election sparks speculative frenzy on Wall Street
- Family and community members outraged after Missouri police shoot and kill mother and 2-month-old daughter
- UAW president in damage control as rank-and-file anger mounts over Stellantis layoffs
- Mozambique bans demonstrations after weeks of protests following general elections
- Canada’s ruling elite plotting massive full-time job cuts at Canada Post to make Crown corporation “profitable”
- Sri Lankan president appoints cabinet committed to IMF austerity
- New Zealand government’s racially divisive Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading
- General strike in Greece to demand higher pay and end to austerity
- Authorizing strikes deep inside Russia, NATO powers seek to provoke escalation of war
- I Should Call Them: For singer Dua Saleh, the apocalypse is essentially an afterthought
- Australian government determined to slash international student numbers despite rejection of enrolment cap bill
2024-11-21
- Current emission reduction pledges by governments internationally will result in disastrous global warming
- Ukraine prepares to end transit of Russian natural gas
- US Senate overwhelmingly rejects resolutions to block weapons shipments to Israel
- Brazil’s municipal elections reveal chasm between capitalist political order and the working class
- Far-right Dutch government bans protests, implements massive social cuts
- Trump’s cabinet of social counterrevolution
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Embraer and Avibras workers’ struggle in Brazil confronts nationalist pro-military program of Morenoite-led union
- Opposition builds among Chicago educators to school closures and signs of another CTU sellout contract
- Japan’s prime minister preparing pro-war, economic stimulus package
- The human cost of GM’s record profits: Autoworker in Mexico speaks out after traumatic disability and dismissal
- UK Labour government maintains its genocide denial in Gaza
- “We have to fight”: Tens of thousands of University of California workers start 2-day strike
2024-11-22
- European Central Bank points to return of sovereign debt crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wolfgang Weber (1949-2024): A revolutionary intellectual and fighter for Trotskyism
- After fascist Matt Gaetz withdraws, Trump names another Florida reactionary, Pam Bondi, for attorney general
- Sydney rail strike cancelled as union works with NSW Labor premier on wage-cut deal
- Nurses union ends strike at University of Illinois-Chicago after announcing tentative agreement
- Mpox and H5N1 bird flu viruses continue on the march
- US threatens to sanction International Criminal Court over war crimes charges against Netanyahu
- Germany’s early federal election: Social Democrats want to be “ready for war”
- CPS teachers must fight for real raises! Stop school closures at Acero and CPS!
- Neo-Nazis stage provocation in Columbus, Ohio
- Three Hyundai Motor workers killed in South Korea
- Frontal attack on auto workers at Ford and VW in Germany
- Berlin Senate website defames award-winning, Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land as “antisemitic”
- Turkey: Workers occupy mines against privatisation as reaction to trade union sell-out contracts grows
- Stop Starmer’s escalating war against Russia! Build a socialist anti-war movement!
- Valencia flood disaster exposes Spain’s pseudo-left Podemos and Sumar parties
- Stop the escalating NATO war against Russia!
- Communication Workers Union embraces Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail
- 1,500 Australian Woolworths workers begin indefinite strike
- University of California 2-day strike ends without resolution to core issues
2024-11-23
- Las Vegas father shot dead by police after calling for help during home invasion
- Haiti’s unelected prime minister ousted amid surging gang and state violence, increasing social misery
- US Postal Service demands rural carriers send back “overpaid” wages right before Christmas season
- Protesters at APEC summit in Lima, Peru: “Let the world hear, they are killing us.”
- Second Baltimore DPW employee dies on the job in four months
- Australia: Labor government and unions inflict deep cut to workers’ living standards
- A banana taped to a wall sells for $6 million: Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian and the state of contemporary art
- Bolsonaro and top generals indicted for January 8 coup in Brazil
- Pentagon “adjusts nuclear deterrence strategy” amid escalating war with Russia
- US threats against the International Criminal Court and the normalization of genocide
- New Zealand opposition parties seek to contain mass protests against racist Treaty Principles Bill
- Sri Lankan president announces JVP/NPP government will implement savage IMF austerity program in full
- Alabama executes death-row inmate in third nitrogen asphyxiation execution
- Australian Greens make overtures to big business Labor government
- Wisconsin: Molson Coors closing Leinenkugel facilities, laying off workers
2024-11-24
2024-11-25
- Over 150 workers to be laid off by trailer manufacturer Great Dane in central Pennsylvania
- Trade unions’ isolation of Canada Post strikers facilitates government-backed concessions drive
- Australian Labor government trying to push through bill for mass deportations
- Trump’s cabinet: A blueprint for authoritarian rule and social counterrevolution
- UPS announces plans to close Commerce City, Colorado facility as Teamsters head meets with top Republicans
- Israel responds to ICC ruling with bombings in Lebanon, mass expulsions in Gaza
- The way forward for the Samsung India workers, after the Stalinist CITU’s suppression of their militant 37-day strike
- Student disciplined at working-class Sydney school because he wore a Keffiyeh
- Dubious “bomb scares” in UK, as de facto war is declared on Russia
- COP29 ends with empty deal, as 2024 set to be warmest year on human record
- Southern California Kaiser Permanente mental health workers’ strike enters sixth week
- This week in history: November 25-December 1
- Berlin state government cuts spending by €3 billion and announces further austerity
- Withdrawal of Gaetz will not alter fascist character of Trump’s cabinet or impede its installation
- In Berlin, US artist Nan Goldin condemns both Israel and Germany for their role in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon
- Toledo Stellantis workers denounce mass layoffs
- Australian warehouse workers speak out as Woolworths strike continues
- Figurative painter Frank Auerbach dies aged 93: “Our voices carry ...”
2024-11-26
- Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya’s reactionary attack on public health
- Small disturbances can have big effects, US Fed warns
- Trump says pick for US labor secretary will work toward “historic cooperation between business and labor”
- European powers plan ground intervention into Ukraine targeting Russia
- US Defense Secretary visits Fiji to boost military ties
- Trump deportation operation could target over 13 million people, including millions of “mixed-status” families
- Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s hackwork and Zionist-Israeli financial ties
- Detroit-area Corewell Health nurses vote to unionize with the Teamsters
- South Korean railway workers to strike
- Teamsters at subsidiary Purolator scabbing on Canada Post strike
- Sinn Fein poll ratings collapse in advance of Irish general election
- Petition calling for British general election: a right-wing political initiative
- Sri Lankan government agrees with IMF to implement savage austerity measures
- In terms redolent of the Nazis, Germany’s far-right AfD condemns the Bauhaus as an “aberration of modernism”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Trump administration and the escalating imperialist war in Ukraine
2024-11-27
- Israel carpet bombs Beirut after Biden announces ceasefire
- Trump threatens Canada and Mexico with 25 percent tariffs from “Day One”
- The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance drops its fake left mask in Thuringia, Germany
- Courts call to jail French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen over party financing
- 14 years after New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, no justice for victims’ families
- French government on brink of collapse over 2025 budget vote
- A government of men, not laws: Trump coup cases dropped by Department of Justice
- Australia: Budget crisis means deeper attacks on the working class
- Postal workers oppose CWU-Labour government collusion with Kretinsky Royal Mail takeover
- Workers and youth defend Palestinian student barred from Sydney school formal
- Biden administration sets stage for ruthless escalation against Venezuela under Trump
- Joint US-Philippine military task force formed targeting China
- Oppose Vauxhall Luton plant closure! Defeat Unite’s alliance with Stellantis and the Labour government! For a global fightback!
- Who owns Australia’s Woolworths and what is driving its offensive against workers?
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s role in Samoan measles epidemic
- Oppose Facebook’s shutdown of the WSWS in Portuguese page, an act of political censorship!
- The spread of H5N1 bird flu among animals and the growing possibility of a pandemic
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting: The political lessons of the US and Sri Lankan elections
2024-11-28
- Los Angeles police terrorize schoolchildren in series of unannounced campus raids
- Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
- US postal workers fighting same issues as Canada Post strike, posing need for international movement
- Charlotte Airport service workers union mounts 24-hour strike during Thanksgiving travel week
- Thanksgiving in America 2024: Social devastation for the working class, billions more for the oligarchs
- Trump nominates public health opponent Jay Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health
- “It’s the ultimate in legal exploitation!”: Striking Canada Post worker condemns management and poor working conditions
- Philippine political crisis: Threats of assassination, military coup, and impeachment
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Starmer government’s weasel words over Netanyahu arrest warrant make clear he will face no UK action
- Queensland building workers protest Liberal government attack on safety, wages and conditions
- German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp to cut 11,000 jobs
- Trudeau smears Montreal anti-NATO protest as “antisemitic”
- Following Trump’s shadow, European Union Commission moves far to the right
2024-11-29
- Australia Post executives handed massive bonuses while workers face real wage cuts, worsening conditions
- UPS workers sleeping in parking lots between split shifts after job cuts at New York hub
- Deepening frustrations among Pacific Island nations over climate inaction
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- French government crisis: Mobilize the working class to bring down Barnier and Macron!
- Australia: NSW private hospital nurses strike for higher wages and safe working conditions
- New Zealand nurses to hold nationwide strike
- Australian Labor government adopts Trump-style attacks on immigrants
- Keith Locke: Socialist Action League founder, Green MP and defender of New Zealand imperialism
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat: Imperialist criminality to a jazz accompaniment
- Australia: Striking nurses and midwives speak on dire wages and conditions in Ramsay hospitals
- Student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University approves IYSSE motion opposing state attacks on freedom of expression and academic freedom
- Amazon Labor Union holds strike vote at JFK8 facility in New York
- Wake in Fright (1971): A nightmare vision of the Australian outback
2024-11-30
- Strike by more than 1,500 Woolworths warehouse workers enters second week
- Bernie Sanders urges “independent” candidates to emulate right-wing nationalist campaign of ex-union bureaucrat Dan Osborn
- Pakistani army opens fire in brazen, US-backed massacre of pro-Imran Khan protest
- General strike in Italy opposes fascist Prime Minister Meloni’s austerity budget
- Tehran makes overtures to Trump, as he prepares to escalate Washington’s war on Iran
- Romanian fascist Georgescu wins first round of presidential elections
- Federal police agencies investigating bomb threats against Trump nominees and Democratic lawmakers
- COP29, climate change and the normalization of mass death
- A letter to the Institute of Historical Research on Aidan Beatty’s falsification of the life and politics of Gerry Healy
- Reactionary bills rammed through Australian parliament amid worsening economic and political turmoil
- The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon and American imperialism’s drive for hegemony in the Middle East
- Mass arrests at protest targeting Australian coal port in Newcastle
- European Central Bank chief’s interview points to shock of trade war threat
- Unions, Democrats wind up opposition to closure of Charleroi, Pennsylvania glass plant
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