Archive: 12/2024
2024-12-01
2024-12-02
- Finance capital increases its domination of healthcare
- Chad ends longstanding military cooperation with France
- Australia: State of the Climate report warns of dangers if global warming continues
- North Shore Massachusetts strikes end with educators’ demands unmet
- The Amazon workers’ Black Friday protests and the strategy of global class struggle
- This week in history: December 2-8
- Biden administration pledges “massive surge” of weapons to Ukraine
- Trump says he will appoint loyalist and top January 6 co-conspirator Kash Patel to head FBI
- Australia: Striking warehouse workers block Woolworths’ attempt to break picket line in Melbourne
- The crisis of public education in California: Budget cuts, layoffs, and the role of the Democrats and trade unions
- Sri Lankan JVP/NPP government prohibits “commemoration of war heroes” by Tamils
- Prominent anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein charged in Britain under Terrorism Act
- Trump will launch tariff war to defend dollar supremacy
- Australian Labor Party ex-premier supports Zionist witch-hunting in the arts sector
- Woman of the Hour: Actor–director Anna Kendrick, a gender politics perspective and all the questions unasked and unanswered
- The weaponization of student absenteeism: Lies to justify school privatization under Trump
2024-12-03
- Widespread opposition to Australia’s social media ban for under 16s
- Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael likely to seek coalition with Irish Labour Party
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Thai autoworkers face mass layoffs
- Denver Public Schools closing 7 schools, reducing grades in 3 others, as deeper cuts to public education funding loom
- 4 workers exposed to toxic hexavalent chromium at Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas
- Grisly accident during school’s work-based program a sign of things to come for child labor under Trump
- President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden on gun and tax felonies
- Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares forced out as global automakers escalate job cuts
- Under Labor government, Australia’s Future Fund profits from genocide and war
- Australia: Paramedics must reject Victorian Labor government-union cost-cutting agreement
- US-backed Islamist militias storm Aleppo, Syria
- Will Medicare and Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs survive RFK Jr.?
- Hundreds take to the streets to oppose counter-terrorism police raids on Turkish Kurds in London
- Battle lines harden with strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers in 3rd week
- Turkey leads regime change battle in Syria
- The Parti Québécois’ immigration plan: Normalizing the chauvinism and xenophobia of the far right
- John Proctor Is the Villain: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, an anti-McCarthyite play, hijacked by the new McCarthyism, #MeToo
- Australian rank-and-file educators support striking Woolworths workers
- Germany’s war Chancellor Scholz visits Kiev
2024-12-04
- Mexican government cracks down on migrant surge ahead of Trump’s inauguration
- UPS closing facilities in Oklahoma City and Vernon, California, laying off hundreds
- Namibia elections see declining support for ruling SWAPO
- Sri Lankan police attack protesting School Development Officers, detaining four
- The Mother of All Lies: Reconstructing family and social history in Morocco
- University of Michigan confirms filing of complaint against campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine
- The significance of Trump’s war to maintain dollar supremacy
- Sheffield universities to cut hundreds of jobs amid higher education deficit crisis
- Growing anger over Australian university job cuts but NTEU deflects blame from Labor government
- Trump team mulls Mexico “invasion” amid crushing tariff threats
- French New Popular Front, neo-fascist RN poised to bring down Barnier government
- Trump’s election emboldens Netanyahu’s far-right Israeli government
- New Zealand nurses hold eight-hour strike
- American Federation of Teachers president seeks common ground with Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education
- South Korean president attempts to impose martial law
- Socialist Equality Party exposes Aidan Beatty’s falsifications in Institute of Historical Research seminar
- Warning strikes at nine VW plants in Germany
2024-12-05
- In move to break 3-month strike, Marathon ending medical coverage for Detroit refinery workers
- The pardon of Hunter Biden and class “justice” in America
- UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down on New York City street
- UK Labour government deports thousands of migrants, raids ports and workplaces and arrests hundreds of alleged “people smugglers”
- Trump names more and more billionaires to top posts
- Oppose the attacks on the democratic rights of students at George Mason University! Mobilize the working class in defense of democratic rights!
- Canada to reveal new Arctic policy by year’s end amid deepening geopolitical tensions across the region
- The South Korean coup attempt and the global attack on democratic rights
- Stellantis: The Opel plant at Rüsselsheim, Germany shrinks to single-shift operations
- After lengthy delay, DC cop goes on trial for protecting fascist Proud Boys
- 1,500 artists call on Tate Britain to sever ties with organizations complicit in Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Japan integrates itself into Washington’s war preparations in the Philippines
- Australia: Health Services Union forces through Labor government wage-slashing deal
- Build rank-and-file committees to expand the Woolworths struggle! Mobilise workers to defeat the company’s strike-breaking operation!
- China hits back at latest US high-tech bans
- French National Assembly brings down Barnier government
2024-12-06
- Australian rank-and-file health workers support Woolworths workers’ strike
- The Canada Post strike at the crossroads: Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee to hold public meeting on Sunday, December 8
- Fluoridation of community water and the politics of disinformation
- Shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson remains at-large
- Australian Greens appeal for big business coalition government with Labor
- Dept. of Justice investigation finds Memphis police routinely break law, assault, terrorize and abuse residents
- WHO investigating unidentified illness which has killed at least 143 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- At New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires salivate over money to be made under Trump
- Mobilize the industrial and independent political power of the working class to defend the Canada Post strikers and all public services!
- “Silver Locks Mission”: Germany’s Left Party stands for capitalism, social cuts and war
- Starmer pledges UK Labour government to “drain the swamp”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany’s election campaign at the expense of refugees
- China’s New Zealand ambassador warns against joining AUKUS
- Australian industrial court bans Woolworths picket in Melbourne
- Australian GDP figures reveal plunge in the economy
- The fall of the French government and the bankruptcy of the New Popular Front
- After Stellantis CEO resigns, UAW moves to wrap up phony “Keep the Promise” campaign
- Vauxhall workers in England oppose closure of Luton plant by Stellantis and support international fightback
- Nine arrested in Turkey for protesting Erdoğan’s complicity in genocide
- Amnesty International documents genocidal intent of Israeli leaders
- Riefenstahl: New documentary about Nazi propagandist warns of the danger of dictatorship and war
2024-12-07
- Police release body cam footage of shooting death of 15-year-old in Akron, Ohio
- Genocidal intent: Amnesty International exposes malice aforethought in the Gaza genocide
- Right-wing Supreme Court majority appears ready to approve state bans on gender-affirming care for adolescents
- OSHA delays release of reports on Amazon worker deaths in New Jersey
- Democrats and Republicans express support for unelected billionaires’ plans to slash government and social spending
- Court hearing held for University of Michigan Gaza solidarity encampment protesters charged by Attorney General Nessel
- No Other Land, exposing Israeli settlers’ military criminality, wins awards at International Documentary Association ceremony in Los Angeles—but still no distributor in the US!
- Australia’s housing crisis sees more retirees burdened with mortgage debt
- Parties in French New Popular Front enter government talks with Macron
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei campaigns for the 2025 federal elections in Germany
- Street protests, backed by EU and US, try to bring down Georgian government
2024-12-08
- Fluoridation of community water and the politics of disinformation
- More than 16 million people in poverty in UK, including one in three children
- This week in history: December 9-15
- The Democratic Socialists of America on the Los Angeles City Council: Hypocrisy and betrayals in the service of big business
- Made in Ethiopia—or anywhere else in the world
2024-12-09
- The Canada Industrial Relations Board: A tripartite conspiracy against the working class
- Trump lays out blueprint for mass repression, beginning with immigrants
- Syrian government collapses after Bashar Al-Assad flees to Russia
- Australia: Reject union sellout of Woolworths strike!
- Corporate media expresses fear over public response to murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Thompson
- Historian Kerby Miller discusses Aidan Beatty and the writing of Irish history
- Australian Greens bow to Labor and big business on environmental agency
- Condemn the police attack on School Development Officers in Sri Lanka! Release four teachers arrested by the police!
- More than 2,000 people hospitalised as UK faces “quad-demic” including COVID
- Federal judge rejects Boeing plea deal for two fatal 737 MAX 8 crashes
- Impeachment against South Korean president over martial law fails
- Firebombing of Melbourne synagogue used to attack opponents of Gaza genocide
- No deployment of German troops to Ukraine! Prevent a nuclear escalation!
- Taiwan’s ruling DPP retreats from endorsing South Korea’s martial law
- Drastic austerity measures planned for German universities
- Thousands protest in Berlin against massive public service cuts
2024-12-10
- Record number of homeless school students in New York City—1 in 8
- Traveller Movement officer Yvonne MacNamara: “There were children arrested, put in handcuffs, herded back onto those trains”
- Detroit Marathon strikers call for support as oil giant ceases healthcare coverage
- Students protest against military recruitment at school in Leipzig, Germany
- University of Michigan-Dearborn signals “unprecedented” cuts and layoffs
- In memory of Larry Moore, 1948-2024
- Protests as police deny Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller children entry into Manchester, UK
- William Gropper: Artist of the People, at Washington DC’s Phillips Collection
- Sydney school students condemn disciplining of Palestinian pupil for wearing keffiyeh
- The popular response to the shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO and American realities
- Argentina’s fascist President Milei hailed as a “beacon” at Buenos Aires CPAC conference
- UK Labour chancellor pledges austerity offensive to fund military spending increase
- Turkish-backed Islamists attack Kurdish forces after Syria regime’s collapse
- Australian tunnel construction workers exposed to dangerous silica dust
- Florida IHOP waitress fired for buying homeless man a meal
- Media polls point to an accelerating political crisis in Australia
- George Mason University students demand democratic rights for leaders of Students for Justice in Palestine
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2024-12-11
- New Caledonia’s pro-independence movement splits
- Northern Ireland police clamp down on anti-genocide protesters opposing Hillary Clinton’s Belfast visit, while far right treated with kid gloves
- Australian Labor leaders seize on Sydney graffiti to activate police-state powers targeting anti-genocide protests
- Acero teachers, parents, students speak out against school closures in Chicago: “I will not stand by and watch this happen to my children”
- Anatomy of a worsening betrayal: The NTEU’s role at Western Sydney University College
- In his twilight, President Biden boasts of economic success and decades of servitude to corporate America
- GM selling stake in uncompleted EV battery factory in Lansing, Michigan
- US, Israel launch mass bombing campaign against Syria after fall of Assad
- Australian think tank urges social media campaigns to target youth for military propaganda
- Orbital: Samantha Harvey’s award-winning novel about problems of climate and social change
- MIT student effectively expelled for opposing Gaza genocide
- Luigi Mangione, suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare chief executive, arraigned in Pennsylvania
- UnitedHealth Group: Corporate criminality and the destruction of healthcare in the US
- Alan Woods, leader of pseudo-left RCI, hails election of Trump as “kick in the teeth” to US ruling class
- Daniel Penny found not guilty in NYC subway murder of Jordan Neely
- UNRWA suspends humanitarian aid to Gaza after Israel allows armed gangs to rob convoys
- Right wing groups in California use bogus claims of antisemitism to launch legal attacks on education and free speech
- Canada Post strike at the crossroads: Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds well-attended public meeting
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE holds successful meeting on the US and Sri Lankan elections
- Canada Post striker demands: Transparency in negotiations! All offers submitted or received by the CUPW must be made public!
- Donald Trump’s threat to abolish birthright citizenship
- New Zealand COVID-19 inquiry endorses abandonment of elimination strategy
- The speculative Bitcoin frenzy
2024-12-12
- Labour plans to force disabled people into work, as government pledges to slash UK benefits bill
- New Zealand and Australia to build integrated military force against China
- Australian police officer out on bail despite conviction for manslaughter of frail nursing home resident
- Pabloite political charlatans hail US-Israeli-Turkish onslaught against Syria
- Sri Lankan parliament unanimously approves IMF austerity measures
- California film and television tax breaks: Subsidizing corporate profits at the expense of workers
- Jeep supplier Mobis tells laid-off workers in Toledo, Ohio to come back at half pay
- Trump nominates fascists for top State Department posts
- South Korean president faces second impeachment vote
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany’s “steel summit”: State intervention at Thyssenkrupp will not save jobs, but strengthens war industry
- Rapidly spreading wildfire in Malibu, California, forces evacuations
- “They value the lives of their employees very cheaply”: Stellantis fined $16,000 for death of Toledo Jeep worker Antonio Gaston
- 2 years after unionization, Belleville, New Jersey nurses remain without a contract
2024-12-13
- Peru’s corporate chiefs rattled by deepening crisis
- Time magazine picks fascist Trump as “Person of the Year”
- The Bouazzi affair: Québec Solidaire legitimizes Quebec chauvinism and anti-immigrant incitement
- War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Pakistani government intensifies repression after murderous assault on Islamabad protest
- US threatens to investigate Spain’s partial port denials of ships carrying arms for Gaza genocide
- German response to Assad's downfall: glorifying HTS Islamists, militarism and anti-refugee agitation
- Mobilize the working class to defy and defeat MacKinnon’s strike ban! Stop the Liberal government-backed destruction of Canada Post and all public services!
- BMWED announces new deal at CSX as sellout of US railroaders continues
- 10-day strike by UAW International staffers in New York ends
- China makes steps to increase economic stimulus measures
- Arrested School Development Officers in Sri Lanka given bail and ordered to return to court next year
- Deals establish Australian neo-colonial control over Nauru, PNG security policy
- Blinken visits Ankara with Israel and Turkey on collision course in Syria
- Australia: NSW Labor government wins injunction banning rail strike
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Record US military spending bill continues expansion of US nuclear arsenal
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds its Seventh National Congress
- UPS to close down Portland facility next summer, as workers condemn mass layoffs enabled by Teamsters union
- China steps up retaliation against US economic warfare
- GM, Michigan billionaires hold state hostage for more handouts, even while slashing jobs
- Alam: A Palestinian youth steps out “of the safe zone of passive fear into the light of freedom”
- New Zealand far-right government’s anti-democratic “law and order” agenda
2024-12-14
- Argentine trade union bureaucracy deepens partnership with fascist President Javier Milei
- 1,100 books purged from public school libraries in Tennessee as districts comply with the reactionary Age-Appropriate Materials Act
- New York University bans pro-Palestinian faculty and students
- Students and faculty protest layoffs at California State University system
- Explosive anger mounts against Acero school closures in Chicago: “We are not items to be counted as dollar signs!”
- The record Pentagon spending bill and America’s hidden nuclear rearmament
- Volkswagen: “New era” in social policy means thousands of auto jobs cut
- The for-profit health insurance racket: From HMOs to “Value-based care”
- Liberal government intervenes to outlaw Canada Post strike
- Trump promotes “America First” nationalism to head off potential second strike on US East Coast docks
2024-12-15
2024-12-16
- House select committee gives bipartisan approval to the Wuhan “Lab leak” lies about the origins of COVID-19
- Justice Department Inspector General report confirms FBI had over 2 dozen informants in militia groups during January 6 attack
- Argentine President Milei’s first year in office: Self-delusion and a frontal assault on the working class
- Drop in Australia’s official jobless rate ends hope of mortgage interest rate relief
- Elon Musk’s wealth approaches half a trillion dollars: Capitalism and oligarchy
- Threats of deportation and agitation against Syrian refugees in Germany and across Europe
- Communication Workers Union has paved the way for Kretinsky takeover of Royal Mail
- Student general assembly at Berlin’s Humboldt University adopts IYSSE amendment, agrees to fight right-wing shift and pro-war policies
- This week in history: December 16-21
- Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
- Leonardo and the human potential: An appreciation of Ken Burns’ series Leonardo da Vinci
- South Korean president impeached, suspended from office
- In run-up to Trump’s inauguration, University of Michigan ends major component of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs
- “We will redouble our efforts to build a mass campaign for Bogdan’s release”
- Canada Post workers call for working class to mobilize in opposition to Liberal government’s strike ban
- Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance joins government in 2 German states to impose austerity measures
2024-12-17
- Starmer visits British-NATO troops in Estonia, pushes war agenda
- Official death toll in Gaza genocide tops 45,000
- Teamsters force through sellout deal at Detroit Marathon refinery after snap vote
- Biden commutes sentence of judge jailed in Pennsylvania “kids for cash” scandal
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Los Angeles City Council’s minimum wage vote: A band-aid over a deep wound
- Yet again, horror in an American school: Two dead, six injured in Madison, Wisconsin shooting
- Workers and young people speak at book launches by David North in Australia
- Macron names new French minority government based on New Popular Front support
- All parties back war and cuts as German Chancellor Scholz loses confidence vote
- Biden administration places profits over lives, fueling the spread of H5N1 bird flu
- Turkish government bans metalworkers’ strike as war in Middle East deepens
- Unelected Canada Industrial Relations Board orders postal workers back to work from Tuesday
- US high official visits Sri Lanka to enhance strategic ties
- ABC settles defamation lawsuit as media moves to accommodate Trump
- House select committee gives bipartisan approval to the Wuhan “Lab leak” lies about the origins of COVID-19
- Disney’s wage theft settlement: A drop in the bucket amid corporate exploitation
- Australian corporate voices call for “Milei-style” assault on working class
- Romania’s Constitutional Court annuls presidential elections
- David North addresses book launches in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
- Thousands of US Amazon workers on verge of holiday season strike
2024-12-18
- Mass casualties feared from Vanuatu earthquake
- Trump taps ex-Green Beret, CIA operative as ambassador to Mexico
- Trump declares intent to privatize US Postal Service
- Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government honors Italian fascist Prime Minister Meloni
- Opening report to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)
- Dozens of Dallas, Texas area schools slated for closure
- Artists protest Gaza genocide in Toronto and Miami
- 36-year-old worker killed on multi-billion dollar Australian wind farm project
- Florida woman arrested for saying “delay, deny, depose” to Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance representative on phone
- The deep rift in the global economy and its significance
- Australia: Victorian Labor government unveils sweeping crackdown on anti-genocide protests
- Trump stokes right-wing hysteria over alleged drone sightings
- UK Labour government announces thousands of job losses and public sector pay restraint
- Canada’s Liberal government implodes
- Federal judge orders UAW to stop obstructing ongoing investigation into corruption within Fain administration
- US, UK hail murder of Russian lieutenant-general in charge of nuclear defense
- Government-imposed strike ban at Canada Post: The way forward in struggle against austerity and war
- SEIU calls off George Washington University resident doctors strike at the 11th hour
2024-12-19
- Widespread anger among Canada Post workers as CUPW enforces government strikebreaking
- Layoff notices for Toledo Jeep workers, Christmas bonuses for Wall Street
- Trump, Musk intervene to squash funding bill, threatening government shutdown
- Democrats join Republicans in passing fascistic “Crucial Communism Teaching Act”
- Labour’s Wes Streeting witch-hunts UK healthcare workers who oppose Gaza genocide
- Detroit teachers face missing bonuses, inflation, and cuts: Join the fight to defend public education
- NATO-Ukrainian murder of Russian General Kirillov and the escalating global imperialist war
- Jacobin promotes Bernie Sanders to peddle illusions in the Democrats and “Medicare for All”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Thousands feared dead as Indian Ocean cyclone Chido devastates Mayotte
- Student Parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University passes resolution against militarism and budget cuts
- Australian budget crisis deepens even before Trump escalates economic war against China
- Fed cuts interest rate but Wall Street slides
- Labour’s John Healey moots sending British military trainers to Ukraine
- Amazon strike in the US poses need for global rank-and-file strategy against hi-tech exploitation
2024-12-20
- The CWU’s “framework agreement” backs Kretinsky’s Royal Mail takeover
- Indiana and Oklahoma put mentally ill inmates to death in final executions of 2024
- New Zealand nurses hold more strikes
- Canadian writer Alice Munro 1931–2024, an assessment
- Australian foreign minister visits Ukraine, backs US war against Russia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Minority state government in Saxony opens door to cooperation with far-right Alternative for Germany
- California governor declares a state of emergency over bird flu threat
- University of Michigan DEI administrator fired over alleged “antisemitic” remarks
- 10th COVID wave now surging in the US, amid total silence in the corporate media
- The election debacle and the fight against dictatorship
- Trump and Republicans threaten Liz Cheney with criminal prosecution as Georgia election interference case crumbles
- Sounding the Alarm and The Logic of Zionism: A discussion with David North on his two recent books
- Oppose the police operation against the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey!
- Introduction by Thomas Scripps to resolution “War, the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party”
- Trump-Musk budget intervention: Dress rehearsal for presidential dictatorship
- Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state
- The Platypus Affiliated Society: A pro-imperialist trap for students and young people
- Heavy police deployment as US Amazon drivers launch nationwide strike
2024-12-21
- IG Metall approves 35,000 job cuts and billions in wage reductions at VW
- 60,000 feared dead: Residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte boo Macron
- House Democrats join majority of Republicans in passing Elon Musk-approved government funding bill
- Arrest of top Brazilian general exposes military’s role in January 8 coup
- Income and wealth inequality reach record highs in Canada
- Israel targets Gaza refugee camps and kills more than 100 in 2 days
- Australian government strikes deal with Indonesia to release “Bali Nine” survivors
- Sri Lankan IYSSE public meeting: How to defeat the IMF austerity program?
- Elon Musk promotes the global fascist right
- Workers in Staten Island, New York, join Amazon strike
- NSW Labor government’s latest attack on rail strike highlights need for rank-and-file committees
- We Were Dangerous, a film about the abuse of girls by the New Zealand state
- Sri Lanka: Workers action committee discusses defence of school development officers
- As NATO doubles down on war offensive against Russia, Brussels and Berlin demand more rearmament and a war economy
2024-12-22
2024-12-23
- Trump election threatens to torpedo UK Starmer government China policy “reset”
- Attack on German Christmas market in Magdeburg: the bitter fruit of right-wing extremism and anti-refugee agitation
- Rallies in Paris, Berlin and Cologne show growing opposition to the war in Ukraine
- Australian rail union offers to shut down industrial action
- Report: UAW made secret deal for unionization of EV company Rivian based on profitability
- Israel closes Dublin embassy in response to Irish government ICJ intervention and Occupied Territories Bill
- This week in history: December 22-28
- Trump threatens to seize Panama Canal
- The socialist attitude to the tragedy of Luigi Mangione
- Race to find survivors following devastating Vanuatu earthquake
- South Korean president stonewalls removal from office
- French fascists attack NFP leader Mélenchon’s house
- Wisconsin judge strikes down Act 10, the law behind mass 2011 protests
- On contemporary music and musicians: What singer Kate Nash’s choice tells us …
- RFK Jr. adviser petitioned the FDA to revoke the polio vaccine 2 years ago
- Resident physicians protest conditions at Detroit Medical Center
- Turkish foreign minister visits Damascus and embraces Jolani
- Australian teacher shortages worsen in public schools
- George Mason University president doubles-down on lies to justify crackdown on Students for Justice in Palestine
- Students and faculty at New York University rally against the banning of anti-genocide protesters
2024-12-24
- Canada Post workers denounce union complicity in enforcing Liberal government’s strike ban
- Australian Labor government quietly acknowledges likely COVID holiday surge, but no public health measures
- Patrick Martin of WSWS interviewed on US political crisis for “Law and Disorder” podcast
- Australian Labor government approves extradition of ex-US pilot to face trumped-up charges
- Trump adds Greenland to list of potential US acquisitions
- Andrew Bird’s Gezelligheid concert series: “Don’t let the human factor fail to be a factor”
- Amazon and Starbucks strikes in US portend escalation of global class conflict in 2025
- Teamsters bureaucrats block socialists, but welcome Democrats to Amazon picket line
- Pabloite NPA hails pro-business Umbrella for Democratic Change’s election victory in Botswana
- Trump’s economic warfare looms over global economy
- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to three years in prison
- Peru’s crisis-ridden president launches police-state buildup
- Report to New York City-area rally exposes role of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Gaza genocide
- US Labor Department reports 5,283 work-related deaths in 2023 as Trump prepares to slash safety oversight
- South Korea’s Democrats sow complacency and roll back protests
- Germany’s Federal Electoral Committee seeks to bar the Maoist MLPD from the upcoming parliamentary election
2024-12-26
2024-12-27
- What makes human culture unique from culture of other animals?
- Australian government cuts international student numbers by decree
- Postal workers slam CWU “Framework Agreement” endorsing Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail
- Berlin state government adopts austerity budget
- Trump’s “border czar” promises incoming administration will build “family facilities” to hasten mass deportations, including of US citizens
- Syracuse Opera files for bankruptcy, one of numerous smaller companies in the US in trouble or simply closing down
- Mass protests against jihadist HTS rule in Syria
- What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 1
- Trump renews call for acquisition of Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal
- Vanessa Scammell denounces #MeToo campaign that ruined Australian actor Craig McLachlan’s career
- 2 rail workers killed, 3 others injured in west Texas train derailment
- Macy’s, Big Lots join other US retailers in shutdown of thousands of stores
- The way forward for Canada Post workers after CUPW’s surrender to government strike-ban
- New Zealand economy in deepening slump
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York Times reveals Israeli extermination order authorizing killing 20 civilians for each “combatant”
- Biden steps up anti-China trade war and provides a springboard for Trump
- Impoverished countries ask world court to rule on climate change disaster
- Sri Lankan teachers and workers must defend School Development Officers
- Slight membership increase hailed by Australian unions to cover plummeting real wages
- Brazilian Federal Police report covers up military’s role in January 8 coup attempt
2024-12-28
- Trump administration preparing historic attack on immigrant workers and democratic rights
- Strikes at Amazon and Starbucks in the US called off without any concessions from management
- At least 38 dead as Azeri jetliner bound for Russia crashes in Kazakhstan
- Israeli strike endangers World Health Organization director-general in Yemen
- Rising rents leads to increasing poverty in Germany
- Trump seizes on Biden commutations to pledge resumption of federal executions
2024-12-29
2024-12-30
- Australian Greens leader fraudulently claims Labor shifting to the left on Gaza
- Bodycam footage shows New York state correction officers beating prisoner to death
- Homelessness in US has doubled under Biden
- UAW leaving Kokomo workers in limbo as Stellantis-StarPlus Energy lease deal finalized at battery plant
- New Sri Lankan president visits India on his first overseas trip
- Kenyan trade unions suppress strike action by doctors, airport workers
- This week in history: December 30-January 5
- Brazilian pseudo-lefts seek to divert campaign to cut workweek into dead end of parliamentary politics
- Israel storms and sets fire to the last hospital in northern Gaza
- Assessing popular music in 2024
- Victorian Liberal leader ousted in further shift to right by Australian political establishment
- South Korea’s acting president impeached amid ongoing protests
- Plane crash in South Korea leaves 179 dead
- Petition against the frame-up of the Socialist Laborers Party in Turkey
- What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3
- Trudeau government scrapes all names from “Victims of Communism” monument in attempt to hide Canada’s patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals
- The Bibi Files—Israel’s crisis not the product of Netanyahu but of the entire Zionist project
2024-12-31
- Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
- US credit card defaults at highest level since Great Recession
- The right-wing legacy of Jimmy Carter
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Rail union liquidates industrial action by Sydney train drivers
- Three deaths at one facility within a month expose disastrous conditions in Canada’s jails and prisons
- High interest rates in US starting to bite
- The Indian Ocean tsunami: 20 years on
- Hundreds of Big Lots and Party City stores to close, as jobs bloodbath in retail accelerates
- US-backed Pacific Policing Initiative directed against China
- Film, television and politics in 2024
- Almost 20 percent real wage cut at VW agreed by IG Metall union
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