Archive: 01/2025
2025-01-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian Labor government approves 4 more coal mine projects
- Washington escalates regime change conspiracies against Venezuela
- Record number of protesters in British prisons over Christmas
- “Robodebt”-style offensive against welfare recipients continues in Australia under Labor
2025-01-03
- US police killed record number of people in 2024
- Oligarch Elon Musk posts torrent of far-right content backing Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson in the UK
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump exploits New Year violence to prepare attacks on immigrants and political opposition within the US
- A Complete Unknown: A drama about singer Bob Dylan’s rise to fame
- Kurdish nationalist DEM Party delegation meets imprisoned PKK leader Öcalan
- Holiday season highlights deepening inequality in New Zealand
- Minnesota: Deer River Essentia Health strike enters 27th day
- Explosion at Tyson poultry plant in Camilla, Georgia, leaves 1 dead and several injured
- Cultural institutions in the UK face an existential crisis, with Labour government worsening austerity
- Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war
2025-01-04
- Impeached South Korean president blocks arrest
- Biden blocks US Steel sale to Nippon Steel
- Australia: Coronial inquest whitewashes death in custody of 41-year-old mentally ill man
- Understaffing persists in New York’s hospitals despite safe staffing law
- German media promotes fascist oligarch Musk and the far-right Alternative for Germany
- Israel intensifies genocide as children freeze to death in Gaza
- Condemn Peradeniya University’s ban on IYSSE lecture opposing IMF austerity in Sri Lanka!
- German police state to be expanded following the auto attack in Magdeburg
- After intervention from Trump, Republicans re-elect far-right Mike Johnson as House Speaker
- Unexplained workplace death at Halifax Walmart shows oligarchy’s indifference to workers’ lives in Canada and beyond
- Bushfires in Victoria highlight government inaction on infrastructure and climate change
2025-01-05
2025-01-06
- Stock market bubble gets even bigger
- University of Sydney seeks to ban anti-genocide protests and all political dissent
- 4 years after failed January 6 coup: Trump prepares return to power
- This week in history: January 6-12
- Teamsters confirm closure of UPS Swan Island hub in Portland as part of nationwide automation drive
- Washington Post cartoonist resigns after paper kills her scathing sketch depicting Bezos and other oligarchs bowing before Trump
- Orphism, the early 20th century art movement, in focus at New York’s Guggenheim Museum
- IYSSE (Sri Lanka) public meeting in Kandy: How to defeat the IMF austerity program
- Japanese cabinet earmarks record 8.7 trillion yen for war
- Perryville, Maryland IKEA workers vote to extend strike into the new year
- “Feminist foreign policy” in action: German Foreign Minister Baerbock meets al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria
- UK Labour government refuses to pay pension compensation to millions of women
- Taiwan’s former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je charged with bribery
2025-01-07
- Postal workers meet to discuss fightback against Kretinsky’s CWU and Labour-backed takeover of Royal Mail
- Global healthcare vigils demand release of Dr Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza
- Sri Lankan students, academics and media activists denounce Peradeniya University’s ban on IYSSE lecture
- Far-right Austrian Freedom Party on the verge of heading the government
- Democrats applaud with Republicans after certifying Trump’s re-election victory
- Oklahoma governor threatens to withhold high school diplomas
- Crisis in UK special needs education escalates as Labour announces a fraudulent inquiry
- First death from H5N1 “bird flu” in the US occurs amid surge in multiple infectious diseases
- Trump claims Trudeau’s political scalp, paving way for far-right regime in Canada
- Tens of thousands of physicians and health workers in Turkey go on general strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”–Part 1
- University of Michigan student government president and vice president removed over pro-Palestinian views
- Trump threatens “terrorist” designation for drug cartels, paving way for US military operations against Mexico
- George Cukor's People: A new study of the remarkable Hollywood film director
- Bolivia faces deepening economic crisis at start of election year
- South Korean investigators seek extension of arrest warrant for president
- New Zealand government, opposition parties glorify deceased Māori Party founder
- Pro-Palestinian group banned and genocide opponent sacked in German city of Duisburg
2025-01-08
- Australian disability support worker denounces big-business attacks on “sleepover” rates and other hard-won rights
- As war chancellor, Green Party leader would triple Germany’s military budget
- Trump denies any paring back of tariff plan
- More Australians at risk of homelessness but missing out on vital support
- Heavy snowfall across United States from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic region leaves 7 dead
- The political significance of the first death from H5N1 “bird flu” in the US
- Canada’s prime minister-in-waiting Pierre Poilievre outlines anti-worker agenda in interview with far-right huckster Jordan Peterson
- European imperialists demand Russian withdrawal from Syria as great-power conflicts simmer following Assad’s downfall
- Trump reveals foreign policy of annexation and global conquest
- A revealing strike by ski patrol workers at Park City, Utah resort
- UK Labour government announces surge in privatisation of the National Health Service
- Does Ukraine face a “Syrian scenario?”
- Talks restart for US East Coast docks contract
- Palestinian Authority bans Al Jazeera as it wages war on the Palestinians in a bid to secure a role in post-war Gaza
- Questions surround Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing after police release portions of new manifesto
- 2024 was the deadliest year on record for migrants trying to reach Europe
2025-01-09
- At least 67 dead in Nigeria in stampedes for food assistance
- Vanuatu left reeling after deadly December earthquake
- Students in every country have the right to free speech! Oppose the censorship of the Sri Lankan IYSSE!
- UK retail chains begin cull with more than 200,000 job losses predicted in 2025
- Why was the Sri Lankan IYSSE meeting cancelled at Peradeniya University?
- Jacobin promotes Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, comparing him to Morris Hillquit in 1917
- Jimmy Carter and the 1977-78 coal miners strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- SPD interior minister threatens thousands of Syrians with deportation from Germany
- Fires ravage Los Angeles area, killing 5 and forcing mass evacuations
- The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism
- Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative covers up union sellout at Woolworths
- European powers respond to Trump’s annexation threats with calls for rearmament
- A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”—Part 2
2025-01-10
- As US experiences 10th COVID-19 wave, Portland, Oregon nurses poised to launch largest strike in state history
- 125,000 insured by Anthem Blue Cross dropped from Scripps San Diego health system
- The Los Angeles fire disaster and the necessity of socialist planning
- Workers at Luton Stellantis Vauxhall plant must mobilise in rank-and-file struggle to prevent plant closure
- Ending of COVID funding prompts mid-year round of mass layoffs and budget cuts in US public schools
- US grocery chain workers heading into significant contract battles in 2025
- Senate Democrats overwhelmingly vote with Republicans to advance fascistic anti-immigrant bill
- I.G. Farben and the Buna-Monowitz Concentration Camp—A traveling exhibition of the Fritz Bauer Institute, currently on display in Bonn
- Australian Labor Prime Minister Albanese says he is best placed to work with fascist Trump
- Over 9,000 structures, mostly homes, damaged or destroyed as Los Angeles fires continue to burn
- International statements oppose banning of IYSSE (Sri Lanka) lecture at Peradeniya University
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sellout deal announced for US East Coast docks as ILA bureaucrats praise Trump
- China’s economic malaise deepens as economic warfare intensifies
- Demonstrations across Australia oppose attack on Gaza Hospital, demand release of health workers
- As Ankara and Washington disagree over the future of Syrian Kurds, Israel warns of war with Turkey
2025-01-11
- The 2024 wildfire season in Canada: Climate catastrophe and capitalism converge
- New Zealand government’s “foreign interference” bill prepares new attacks on democratic rights
- The Los Angeles fires: What must be done
- Park City Mountain ski patrollers’ strike concludes after 2 weeks
- 140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part One
- Russian gas transit to Europe via Ukraine ends
- First congestion pricing scheme in the US begins in New York City
- Maria fails to capture the complex life and vocal tragedy of soprano Maria Callas
- National Guard deployed to Los Angeles fire zones as anger builds over government failure to prevent disaster
- Mexican government treats Trump’s intervention threats as a joke
- Los Angeles residents speak out on ongoing fire catastrophe
- Australia: Labor government’s NDIS overhaul excluding thousands of children from disability support
- Milei shuts down museums memorializing victims of Argentina’s military dictatorship
- Workers Party marks second anniversary of coup attempt hailing Brazil’s military and condemning socialist revolution
- Obama and Trump laugh as Los Angeles burns
- International working class unity, not the USW’s support for tariffs and nationalist warmongering, can defend our jobs at National Steel Car!
- Why are multi-billionaire Elon Musk and the German Springer publishing house backing the far-right Alternative for Germany?
2025-01-12
2025-01-13
- American Historical Association condemns Gaza genocide
- Trump’s threats against Chinese immigrants and the history of Chinese Exclusion in the US
- New Caledonia government installs anti-independence president
- Vice President-elect JD Vance pledges to “knock out” Gaza
- Australian Labor government’s school funding model entrenches underfunding and inequality
- 140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part Three
- Bronx apartment building fire exemplifies the crisis in working class housing
- Students at Berlin’s Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences for Social Work protest against genocide in Gaza
- IMF chief issues warning on Trump tariffs
- 22,000 patients lose coverage at 2 Massachusetts hospitals
- Official death toll in Los Angeles fires climbs to 24, as rising winds threaten further devastation
- One week until Trump’s return to the White House: The countdown begins
- Sri Lankan IYSSE holds meeting in Kandy on the fight against the IMF program
- The political censorship of No Other Land in the US, the film exposing Israeli criminality and violence on the West Bank: “Americans have a responsibility”
- Labour in crisis and Reform UK gaining ground—build the Socialist Equality Party!
2025-01-14
- Sri Lanka: Peradeniya University tries to justify ban on IYSSE lecture
- Workers support SGP decision to contest German elections, criticise war and social cuts
- Australian election campaigning begins with lies, banalities, suppression of issues facing working people
- Outrage grows over the arrest of 78 workers by Border Patrol in Kern County, California
- BNSF cuts time-off allocations for US railroaders after 2024 days go “unused”
- Financial markets and corporate media call for “Milei model” in Brazil
- Expand the Stellantis Kokomo Rank-and-File Committee! End the blackmailing of workers and job cuts!
- At last, serious television: Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
- From Ground Zero, Stories from Gaza, a moving film from 22 Palestinian filmmakers
- Republicans threaten to withhold federal support to Californians devastated by raging infernos
- New Jersey police departments repeatedly hired training firm that promotes violence and bigotry
- New Zealand government prepares anti-strike law
- Surge of respiratory viruses infecting millions worldwide in first weeks of 2025
- UK Starmer government under mounting pressure to massively increase military spending
- Australia: Labor government docks pay of Sydney rail workers over limited work bans
- Oppose the US ban on TikTok!
- Ottawa responds to Trump’s threats by affirming fealty to Canada-US war alliance, preparing retaliatory tariffs
- Over 100 miners starved to death by the ANC in South Africa, hundreds still in danger
- Study finds Israeli bullets and bombs likely killed over 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- In first major US strike of 2025, Oregon nurses and physicians continue historic walkout
2025-01-15
- Impact Plastics sent fast food gift cards to grieving families while denying wrongdoing in the deaths of six employees during Hurricane Helene
- Democrats’ pro forma opposition to fascist Pete Hegseth smooths path to his confirmation as Trump’s defense secretary
- Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship: Anatomy of an anti-democratic conspiracy
- Biden boasts that he increased American “military power”
- Indonesia and Japan pledge to deepen military ties
- Labor Notes, DSA back sellout on US docks, keep quiet on union’s support for Trump
- Arch-criminal Trump to assume the presidency
- Experts say the LA fires are a warning for Australia
- COVID surge underway in Bolivia and Peru
- Southern California wildfires continue to burn as high wind warning takes effect
- Daimler Truck Detroit Axle workers: Vote “yes” to strike! Build rank-and-file committee to fight for an immediate $10 per hour raise, cost of living, no more tiers
- Spiralling cost of UK borrowing heralds sharp new attacks on the working class
- Surge in flu and other viruses puts Britain’s National Health Service at breaking point
- Australia: Hundreds of public hospital psychiatrists resign to demand increased staffing and decent wages
- Outgoing Biden administration announces sweeping AI controls
- Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance party conference: A reactionary spectacle for more German nationalism, police state powers and anti-refugee measures
2025-01-16
- “What we saw was nothing short of an apocalyptic film”: US travel nurse describes experience volunteering in Gaza
- Sri Lankan government escalates witch-hunt against school development officers
- Pam Bondi refuses to rule out prosecution of Trump’s opponents if confirmed as attorney general
- Pete Hegseth, fascist and defender of war crimes, set to lead American military
- Talks resume on final day of contract extension for King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado, 3 years after 10-day strike
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei certified to stand in German federal election
- “Everybody on my line voted to strike”: Daimler Trucks Detroit Axle workers deliver 99 percent mandate for walkout
- The Stilfontein massacre: A crime of the ANC and South African capitalism
- Workers speak out on devastation from Los Angeles fires
- Israel massacres dozens in Gaza after Biden announces ceasefire
- Australia: Disinformation campaign directed at public housing tower residents
- NHS worker in Britain speaks out against Labour privatisation
- Syria’s new foreign minister visits Ankara as tensions between Turkey and Israel and France escalate
- Australia hit by second hottest year on record in 2024
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Los Angeles fires destroy the archive of 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg
2025-01-17
- 1 month after CUPW sellout, stage set for historic attacks on Canada Post workers
- As fires continue to burn, Los Angeles residents face toxic smoke, mudslides and astronomical housing costs
- South Korean president arrested
- Further evidence of UK special forces war crimes in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria
- Reporter dragged from Blinken’s final press briefing for asking about US support for Gaza genocide
- Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez: A mishmash of a musical
- Portland nurses strike at crossroads as Providence states it is prepared to resume bargaining
- US postal union extends deadline for contract vote—due to problems with mail-in balloting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Poland’s EU Council presidency: Rearmament, police-state measures and a war economy
- Israeli forces have killed 86 people in Gaza since Biden announced a ceasefire
- The Sydney rail dispute and Labor’s war on workers’ democratic rights
- 1 in 6 UK schoolchildren studying in schools in disrepair
- UK Prime Minister Starmer signs “100-year partnership treaty” with Ukraine ahead of Trump inauguration
- Biden and the American oligarchy
2025-01-18
- Los Angeles fires survivors face arduous federal aid process, delayed payouts
- Oppose imperialist war through the fight for socialism!
- Russian taxi drivers strike
- 5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the return of Trump and the war on public health
- All We Imagine as Light: A tender real-life story about Mumbai health workers
- China growth reaches official target as economic conditions trend down
- In run-up to Trump’s inauguration, US ruling circles discuss plans for Venezuela intervention
- Upholding TikTok ban, Supreme Court attacks First Amendment ahead of Trump inauguration
- German reaction to Trump presidency: More rearmament, more austerity
- Trump’s DHS pick prioritized sending National Guard to the US-Mexico border over providing aid to flood victims
- Almost 2 million lightning strikes recorded as storms batter eastern Australia
- NATO announces further militarisation of Baltic Sea
2025-01-19
2025-01-20
- CTU and Mayor Brandon Johnson prepare austerity contract for Chicago teachers
- Attempted assassination of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya, as abductions, repression mount
- German military setting up a new homeland security division
- Senate Democrats provide key votes to fast-track Trump’s mass detention plan
- American Historical Association leadership vetoes members’ resolution condemning genocide in Gaza
- The exploitation of inmates in the Los Angeles wildfires
- New Zealand government moves to scrap regulations that constrain corporate profit
- Coalition negotiations in Austria: Right-wing government to implement drastic austerity measures
- American degradation: Trump returns to the White House
- National Health Service body in Dorset, England calls on workers to resign to balance books
- US forces temporary shutdown of TikTok in major attack on First Amendment
- This week in history: January 20-26
- Trudeau government refuses to release the names of 900 Nazi war criminals, for fear it would damage NATO-Ukraine war on Russia
- Australian health workers denounce NSW Labor government’s attacks on public hospital psychiatrists
- As Trump is inaugurated, victims of Los Angeles fires fear no help from the government
- Australia’s Socialist Alternative sends correspondent to Syria: The pseudo-left in alliance with al-Qaeda and the CIA
- UK protesters speak on Gaza genocide, ceasefire and the Labour government
- Another set of Israeli lies collapses: Prosecutor admits no evidence of rape in October 7 attack
2025-01-21
- California Democrats announce cynical $50 million fund to “Trump-proof” the state ahead of mass deportation of immigrants
- Trump begins signing executive orders attacking immigrants and democratic rights
- 18,000 Teamsters prepare to strike at Costco across 5 states
- Australian Labor government pledges to work with Trump, billionaires hail inauguration
- Review clause in German VW contract means no job or location is safe
- Oxfam says world ruled by “aristocratic oligarchy,” as billionaire wealth surges by $2 trillion
- Sparse turnout at Democratic Party and pseudo-left-controlled People’s Marches throughout the country
- Pre-Christmas reconciliation in the German film Bach—A Christmas Miracle
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- “Führer” Trump declares war on the world, and the working class
- Bans at Sri Lanka university: A far-reaching attack on students’ democratic rights
- As viruses spread in Los Angeles shelters, fire survivors discuss the class issues
- Biden issues last-minute pardons for family and January 6 Committee members, commutes sentence of Leonard Peltier
- Licking, Missouri prison saw 19 deaths last year and another in the first days of 2025
- Key documents “missing” from 1975 Canberra Coup
- NHS workers speak out, demanding more staff, resources and end to UK Labour government privatisation
2025-01-22
- Oppose Zionist witch hunt against Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Hotel fire in Turkey: A preventable massacre
- Israel tightens its grip on Jenin and the wider West Bank
- UAW President Shawn Fain declares his willingness to “work” with fascist Trump
- As Southern California fires expand, President Trump announces plan to visit Los Angeles
- Democrats, media fall in line as Trump begins administration of “shock and awe”
- Sri Lanka: School development officers demand job permanency
- What is in Trump's executive orders on immigration?
- White House signals new phase in ethnic cleansing of Palestine
- It Ends with Us: The film, the Lively-Baldoni feud and the Los Angeles fires
- Strike votes scheduled for King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado
- German ruling elite’s answer to Trump: Adaptation, emulation and retaliation
- Bowing to fascist-led witch-hunt, EcoHealth Alliance fires Peter Daszak, the scientist who warned of pandemic dangers
- The Netherlands 80 years on: Unique archive reveals names of nearly half a million Nazi collaborators
- Right-wing coalition government deal reached in Ireland
- Australian Labor government pitches for business backing with huge aluminium subsidies
- US autoworkers discuss class issues behind Trump’s attack on immigrants
- Trump executive order calls for sweeping expansion of the death penalty
- Australian governments exploit murky antisemitic incidents to attack democratic rights
- Trump pardons all January 6 far-right foot soldiers and commutes sentences of high-level fascist militia leaders
- Trump’s threats to seize Greenland and the imperialist scramble for the Arctic
- Oregon Nurses Association announce contract vote at Providence Medford Emergency Department, as 5,000 nurses remain on strike
2025-01-23
- Trump’s January 6 pardons: The boss of the attempted coup lets loose his fascist thugs
- IYSSE/SEP (Sri Lanka) campaigns against meeting ban at Peradeniya University
- Mexican government responds to Trump’s decrees with soporifics and calls for “national unity”
- Rednote the #1 download in app store as TikTok “refugees” join Chinese-owned app in protest of US government ban
- Australian educators speak on deteriorating conditions in Victorian schools after sell-out union agreements
- Trump declares “invasion” and orders deployment of 1,500 active-duty troops to US-Mexico border
- “Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine” conference defies boycott by Frankfurt’s Goethe University
- 10 deaths from record-breaking winter storms across US Gulf Coast
- Australian research reveals deep crisis in public education
- UAW praises Trump-backed deal to “save” Stellantis jobs
- New Zealand political leaders congratulate Trump
- Australia: Mass resignations no way forward for psychiatrists as NSW Labor government steps up attack
- Cultural, architectural destruction in the Los Angeles fires
- Trump lays out blueprint for global economic war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Aggressive Hughes Fire erupts in Southern California two weeks after catastrophic Los Angeles fires
- 20 years since the death of Oury Jalloh in a Dessau police cell
- Gig economy apps demand payment for UK workers to even receive their wages
- “Corridor care” in Britain’s National Health Service—the normalisation of indignity and unsafe care
2025-01-24
- Quebec’s ruling elite responds to Trump’s threats with trepidation and an orgy of nationalism
- Trump says aid to Los Angeles fire victims will have political strings attached
- Rubio hosts Quad meeting with Japan, India and Australia, directed against China
- Argentina’s president defends fascism, expands war on the working class
- 2025 Academy Award nominations: What’s happening in Hollywood, what’s happening in the world
- Homeless man crushed to death as Atlanta city authorities attempted to clear encampment
- Arrested Gaza protester speaks to the WSWS about police crackdown
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Establishment parties in Saxony place far-right AfD in key parliamentary positions
- Trump promises Davos oligarchs lowest corporate tax rate “of any nation on Earth”
- Detroit Axle workers ready to walk out as strike deadline approaches
- Ghanaian army kills nine “illegal” miners at AngloGold Ashanti’s goldmine
- Bond markets reveal growing concern over government debt
- Trump declares all-out war on public health and science
- Oppose Starmer’s repression of anti-war protesters!
- New Zealand government installs new far-right health minister
- Thousands of US troops to deploy to Mexico border as part of Trump's mass deportation operation
- Popular beach near Sydney Airport contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals”
2025-01-25
- Russian oligarchy greets Trump with mixture of hope and anxiety
- Trump’s visit to Los Angeles foreshadows massive attacks on social programs, democratic rights
- On Biden’s posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, the “patron saint” of black separatism
- Fascist kills one, injures two, before turning gun on self, in Nashville, Tennessee high school shooting
- German police raid pro-Palestinian association in Hesse
- US quits the World Health Organization and sabotages international public health
- Australian unions shut down industrial action by Sydney rail workers, propose sell-out “counter offer”
- Australia: Senior mental health care nurse denounces NSW Labor government attacks on mental health care
- The thesis of Squid Game 2: Capitalism is a hell of our own making
- Federal civil rights agency accuses UAW and GM of age discrimination and Stellantis of abetting sexual harassment
- Despite lack of evidence, dubious incidents exploited to escalate “antisemitism” witch hunt in Australia
- The “aristocratic oligarchy” assembles at Davos
- Nurses in Louisiana and Wyoming threaten vote to go on strike as 5,000 Oregon nurses begin third week of picketing
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