Archive: 02/2025
2025-02-01
- Collision over Washington: The political issues and unanswered questions behind the DC airline disaster
- DeepSeek has shattered basis of US AI stock market surge
- Australian Labor government escalates Zionist witch hunt against academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Lancet study finds Gaza life expectancy slashed in half by Israeli genocide
- “We are just numbers around here”: BNSF railroaders denounce “slave labor” attendance policy
- Australian state Labor government undermines Arts curriculum in schools
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- University of Michigan bans pro-Palestinian student group as part of escalating assault on democratic rights
- New Zealand government witch-hunts Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
- The fight against fascism requires a fight against capitalism and war!
2025-02-02
2025-02-03
- Trump launches global trade war, with Canada and Mexico as his first targets
- Australian construction worker killed in unexplained circumstances
- Trump administration forces shutdown of critical public health websites
- Hundreds of thousands demonstrate across Germany against promotion of the fascist AfD
- Water companies paid to pollute UK waterways while consumers face steep rise in bills
- UAW pushes through ratification of Detroit Axle contract based on cherry-picked “highlights”
- Australia: Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee members speak out in defence of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Gershwin centennial concert at University of Michigan highlights composer’s extraordinary range
- South Carolina executes Marion Bowman, Jr.: “I’m innocent of the crimes I’m here to die for”
- Australia: More than 300 workers locked out at Opal paper mill in Victoria
- Two crashes put the crisis of air traffic controller staffing in the spotlight
- Chicago area immigrant support worker speaks on first days of Trump administration
- Student general assembly at Berlin’s Humboldt University agrees to fight against cuts and militarism
- How should Los Angeles be rebuilt after the fires?
- Teachers, students denounce Santa Ana school district’s layoff nearly 300 educators
- Arriving in US, Netanyahu pledges to “redraw” map of Middle East
- Garth Hudson, The Band’s last surviving member, dies at 87
- Thousands of workers and students protest Trump’s mass deportation operation
- Warning strikes at Deutsche Post: Build independent action committees!
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s “complete lie” over deadly Samoan measles outbreak
- Teamsters bureaucracy calls off Costco strike at last minute, sparking outrage from workers
- This week in history: February 3-9
- Communication Workers Union welcomes Ofcom’s announcement gutting Royal Mail USO
- Bridgestone America and Nissan announce plans for major layoffs, thousands slated to lose their jobs
2025-02-04
- Trump’s executive orders put New York City college students in the crosshairs
- At big-business forum, Sri Lankan president pledges to enforce IMF austerity
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump “pauses” 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as global trade war proceeds
- Rene Lichtman, Holocaust survivor and ardent opponent of US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, dies at age 87
- US Postal Service city letter carriers reject contract in large turnout
- Texas governor and Trump administration escalate attack on immigrants
- A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- King Soopers grocery workers in Colorado vote for strike, planned for February 6
- Rubio conducts gunboat diplomacy in Panama as Trump reiterates threats to seize Canal
- Trump-Musk wrecking operation illegally shuts down 2 federal agencies, gains access to Treasury payment system
- Australian working-class households plunged into financial stress
- Starmer joins European Union heads to discuss “defence”, refuses to back bloc in US trade war
- Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
- Shock waves of Trump trade war spreading
- An interview with veteran jazz musician Charles McPherson: “Art is an expression of the human condition”
- Peru’s President Boluarte curries favor with Trump and mining corporations
- German employers, politicians and media seek to abolish mandatory sick pay
- Study exposes COVID-19’s dire social impact in Brazil
- With Steadfast LA, billionaire Rick Caruso spearheads elite's exploitation of Los Angeles wildfires
2025-02-05
- UK Labour government to impose massive welfare cuts and criminalisation of benefits claimants
- Australian cricket commentator sacked for noting mass deaths in Gaza
- Milwaukee teacher suspended for sharing immigrant rights resources
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog attacks Socialist Equality Group over Wuhan lab lie
- 67th Annual Grammys reward mediocrity and backwardness
- LA high school students walk out to protest ICE raids
- Arab states policing Gaza as Trump and Netanyahu plan ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
- EU summit: bracing for trade war and war
- Police sweep at Ford Michigan Assembly west of Detroit as UAW colludes in security crackdown
- Trump administration purges FBI and Justice Department officials who prosecuted criminal president
- China hits back at US tariffs
- Trump calls for total ethnic cleansing and US annexation of Gaza
- Senate committee clears the way for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his planned assault on public health
- Democrats silent as Trump wages war on immigrants, erects framework for presidential dictatorship
- Nurses at University Medical Center in New Orleans begin 2-day strike
- Mobilize students and turn to the working class to defend immigrants and democratic rights!
- New Zealand school lunches compared to “dog food” after government cutbacks
- Turkish pseudo-left line up behind CHP as Erdoğan’s crackdown intensifies
- Ohio nurse charged with involuntary manslaughter for patient who went missing
- What next in the fight against the far-right Alternative for Germany?
- Australian state government deepens attack on public sector mental health care
- Oregon Nurses Association agrees to separate deal at 6 Providence Women’s clinics, but strike at 8 hospitals continues
2025-02-06
- As Rubio ends Latin America tour, Trump relishes prospect of deporting US citizens to El Salvador
- ACIS president-elect Aidan Beatty and the Zionist libel against Irish history
- A new biography of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
- Guard breaks the arms of two teenage boys: Abuse continues within the Kentucky juvenile justice system
- Trump’s plan to annex Gaza and the return of colonialism
- Bayrou rams through French austerity budget, exposing bankruptcy of New Popular Front
- White House plans attack on the Department of Education
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vote ‘NO’ at Providence! Organize the rank and file for the next stage of the fight against healthcare executives and the ONA bureaucracy!
- Mass jobs cull continues at UK universities
- Argentina militarizes northern borders with Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil
- Trump’s trade war threats trigger alarm in Australian ruling circles
- Ukrainian secret service SBU arrests anti-war youth in multiple cities
- Canada’s trade unions in nationalist frenzy amid Trump’s trade war
- Thousands throughout the US protest Trump administration’s assault on immigrants, democratic rights
- Australia: NSW nurses’ union shuts down fight for wage increase
- Democratic Socialists of America on LA City Council seek to smother opposition to attacks on immigrants
- Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025), tough and unflinching: A survivor of the “Swinging Sixties”
2025-02-07
- Australian university rank-and-file committee members oppose Zionist witch hunt against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Israel moves towards implementation of Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan
- British independent journalist Richard Medhurst raided and detained by Austrian authorities
- Unions end dispute with Royal Fleet Auxiliary to protect UK Mideast operations
- Hands off immigrant children and parents! Build the Educators Rank-and-File Committee to defend democratic rights!
- Trump grants Musk access to every American’s data to spearhead social spending cuts
- Mass protest on second anniversary of deadly Turkey-Syria earthquake
- Volkswagen workforce must have vote on the “Future Contract”
- Australian PM Albanese refuses to condemn Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza
- 10,000 King Soopers workers launch two-week strike
- Amazon announces shutdown of all its facilities in Quebec, eliminating more than 4,500 jobs
- Los Angeles students walk out in fifth straight day of pro-immigrant protests
- Worst mass shooting in Swedish history claims 11 lives
- Germany’s Greens on course for the far-right AfD
- More rent increases on the horizon in Germany following the merger of 2 major property companies
- Nosferatu (2024): An exercise in neo-gothic aestheticism
- Mozambique opposition parties call off protests, beg for seat in FRELIMO government
2025-02-08
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian rail unions “excruciatingly close” to sellout deal with NSW Labor government
- Australia: Flooding devastates northern Queensland, two confirmed dead
- Canadian government refuses to condemn Trump’s proposal for ethnic cleansing of Gaza
- Works meeting at VW in Wolfsburg: “This is death in instalments”
- Students, faculty attend meeting to oppose attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters and democratic rights at the University of Michigan
- Trump’s assault on public health and the growing threat of an H5N1 bird flu pandemic
- “To maintain my voice as an artist … I must decline this award”: Arab-American artist Fareed Armaly declines prestigious German art prize over censorship of pro-Palestinian voices
- Australian Labor PM accedes to Coalition on sweeping “hate speech” laws
- Trump tariff war exacerbates financial market fragility
- White House claims 65,000 federal workers have accepted buyout offers, as judge imposes temporary hold
- California Governor Newsom goes to the White House to grovel at Trump’s feet
2025-02-09
2025-02-10
- Australian Labor government pledges collaboration with Trump in anti-China war drive
- Storm Eowyn brings Ireland’s rural electricity distribution to near collapse
- Neo-Nazis flee Lincoln Heights, Ohio after being confronted by local residents
- Michigan ACLU files lawsuit against University of Michigan over anti-protest trespass bans
- Donald Trump plans to become chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of his fascistic campaign against “degenerate art”
- The 80s: Photographing Britain—Through the prism of identity politics
- To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism!
- Striking Oregon healthcare workers overwhelmingly reject tentative agreement
- Australian state by-elections underscore disaffection with major parties
- The anti-immigrant ICE raids and the 1854 “Slave Catchers Riot” in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Trump vows to continue anti-constitutional rampage, as Democrats do nothing
- This week in history: February 10-16
- From NATO’s war in Libya to Italy’s courts: The imperialist web behind Al-Masri’s release
- Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
- The wildfire profiteers: Insurance, corruption, and the Democratic Party’s complicity
- Attending physicians at 3 New York City public hospitals reject sellout contract
- The anti-refugee policies of Germany’s Greens
- Alaska Airlines flight attendants to vote on second sellout contract deal
2025-02-11
- Autoworkers speak out as UAW-Ford say police in auto plants will be the new normal
- Grenfell Tower to be dismantled: Why is there still no justice?
- Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against racism and the AfD
- AFT-UMMAP agrees to sellout tentative contract at Michigan Medicine
- Royal Mail workers speak on USO pilots: “They have already started to gut the mail service”
- Trump imposes steel and aluminium tariffs as global economic war expands
- Trump vows Palestinians will be barred from returning to Gaza after ethnic cleansing
- Australia: Hundreds of jobs in danger amid temporary shutdown of Tahmoor coal mine
- Trump administration rapidly expands Guantánamo migrant concentration camp
- Australian parliamentary witch hunt: Labor spearheads Zionist demands for sacking of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Turkish government escalates crackdown against CHP and DEM Party
- Trump slashes medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health
- Threatened closure of VW plant in Zwickau, Germany jeopardises whole region
- Australia: Workers speak on social crisis, Gaza genocide at Werribee by-election
- Sri Lankan president’s Independence Day speech: All for the “motherland”
- Details released on sellout agreement used to block strike by 18,000 Costco workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Striking Providence nurses in Oregon speak out after rejecting latest contract
- Trudeau says Trump’s push to annex Canada is “real thing”
2025-02-12
- German federal elections: Social Democrats and Christian Democrats agree on all key issues
- As miners march to Ankara, the strike wave of textile workers in Gaziantep grows
- 6 years since wildcat strike in Matamoros: Unite US, Mexican and Canadian workers to defend jobs and living standards!
- New Zealand government alarmed by Cook Islands deal with China
- No, rapper Kendrick Lamar did not “protest” Trump at the Super Bowl—he wallowed in backwardness
- States target Plyler court ruling on educating immigrant children
- “We’re going to take it”: Trump’s plan to annex Gaza and the return of imperialist barbarism
- 2 Detroit children freeze to death as homeless family shelters in vehicle
- Cornell students and faculty hold meeting to defend immigrants' rights
- Jacobin preaches complacency, covers for Democratic complicity in Trump’s moves to dictatorship
- Mass immigration raids planned in Los Angeles this month, according to leaked document
- New Zealand medical laboratory workers strike
- Oregon Nurses Association holds stunt in state legislature demanding Providence disclose its spending on scabs during strike
- Costco worker urges coworkers to vote NO on Teamsters sellout deal
- Philippine Vice President Duterte impeached
- UK Labour government legislates Trump-style anti-migrant agenda
- Munich university censors lecture by UN Special Rapporteur for human rights who has accused Israel of genocide
2025-02-13
- UK Labour government seeks to overturn asylum for Palestinian family
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Federal judge finds Trump defied injunction to unfreeze funds
- Warning strike at Berlin urban transit operator BVG
- Australia: Rail, Tram and Bus Union isolates striking NSW rail workers
- A tragedy caused by capitalism: Two Detroit children freeze to death in homeless family’s vehicle
- New York University complies with Trump attacks on basic democratic rights
- Trump quashes Adams prosecution to speed attacks on immigrants
- Sri Lanka: A photo essay on Colombo’s porters—a centuries-old practice of inhuman exploitation
- Prosecution presents its case against Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Australian establishment seizes on backward comments by nurses to escalate phoney antisemitism witch-hunt
- An interview with Elijah Wald, author of Dylan Goes Electric!
- Unifor bureaucrats rally round Ontario hard-right premier Doug Ford in province’s “tariff war” election
- Australia: Mounting opposition to Zionist-instigated witch hunt against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
- With contract vote looming on the east coast, Trump’s tariffs would place a heavy burden on dockworkers
- Lula government prepares new attacks on Brazil’s workers and poor
2025-02-14
- Trump steps up global economic war with “reciprocal tariffs”
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as Trump’s HHS secretary and the fascist assault on public health
- I’m Still Here: A serious portrait of life under Brazil’s military dictatorship reaches mass audience
- After the NALC contract rejection: Organize the working class to save the US Postal Service!
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Swan Island UPS hub set to close July 1 as industry-wide closures and layoffs continue
- New Macklemore song, “F-cked Up,” gives voice to mass global opposition
- Ukraine: Growing unrest in the population, army, amid hype of peace talks
- Austin Beutner’s lawsuit against LA school district: A smokescreen to conceal real cause of public education crisis
- King Soopers files lawsuits attacking right to strike against 10,000 workers
- Australian state government’s rationale for demolition of public housing debunked by refurbishment proposal
- Zelensky to meet with Trump officials following Putin-Trump phone call
- Trump’s call with Putin plunges European powers into crisis
- Sri Lankan action committees condemn Peradeniya University ban on IYSSE meeting
- Build rank-and-file committees at Australian universities to fight cuts, victimisations and war drive!
- Australian Labor government roiled by Trump tariff threats
- Wave of protests in Greece over Tempi rail crash deaths and cover-up
- Banker and war hawk vie to replace Trudeau as Liberal leader and Canada’s PM
- Musk, Trump begin to purge US government workers—except military and police
- ICE allegedly conducts raid at JFK8 Amazon warehouse in New York City
- Break the isolation of the Oregon nurses strike! For a counteroffensive by all workers against Trump and for the right to healthcare!
- Massachusetts: Democratic governor facilitates Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda
2025-02-15
- Trump and Kennedy fire 5,200 HHS workers and gut the Epidemic Intelligence Service
- Detroit and Windsor orchestras promote “Music has no Borders”
- Michigan teachers defend immigrants, oppose Democratic Party collusion in Trump’s attacks on education and social rights
- AFGE, AFL-CIO oppose mobilizing workers against Musk/Trump mass firings
- Fed launches probe into expanding private credit market
- Vance promotes fascist right amidst escalating US-Europe conflicts at Munich Security Conference
- New Zealand government refuses to condemn Trump’s Gaza takeover
- Failed media-Zionist provocation at Sydney restaurant as witch-hunt of Bankstown nurses continues
- Florida and Texas execute intellectually disabled death row inmates
- 15 years after devastating earthquake, Haiti is being transformed into a concentration camp
- Over 700 residents file additional suits over East Palestine, Ohio train derailment in 2023
- What is behind the “Heidi hype”?—the Left Party lead candidate in Germany’s federal election
2025-02-16
2025-02-17
- Munich car rampage exploited for right-wing agitation in federal election campaign
- Norman Finkelstein, opponent of Zionist crimes against Palestinians, speaks at University of Michigan
- Federal prosecutors resign in protest over Trump’s order to quash NYC Mayor Adams’ criminal indictment
- Pro-government thugs disrupt farmers’ conference in Sri Lanka: A warning to working people
- 300 people a day die while living in poverty in Britain
- Mobilize the working class against Trump’s attack on federal workers!
- How the Democratic Socialists of America enforces unsafe staffing levels in Oregon hospitals
- Israeli finance minister says he hopes the displacement of Gazans can be started within “weeks”
- This week in history: February 17-23
- Corporate media bosses bow to Trump demands
- Oppose the Steiner-Tissot smear campaign! Defend Comrade Bogdan Syrotiuk!
- Australia: Students and staff oppose pro-corporate restructure at University of Newcastle
- No police, no dogs, no undercover agents in our factories! Build rank-and-file-committees in every plant!
- Rank-and-file union leader arrested as wildcat strikes broaden in Turkey
- Vote NO! on the sellout contract! Build the Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
- Australian polls show Labor paving the way for a possible minority Coalition government
- Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts’ largest health system, to cut 1,500 jobs
- A letter from a northern California postal worker: “We need to flex our muscles as ‘essential workers’”
- Australia: Teachers oppose Zionist and government witch hunt against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Bosch auto supplier in Germany: No end in sight to job losses
2025-02-18
- Public transport union leaders sabotage 5th general strike in Peru
- Indianapolis Rolls-Royce workers authorize strike
- At least 12 dead from Kentucky flood disaster
- “The money is there to give the workers”: Brooklyn postal workers speak out after rejecting poverty contract
- The political and social implications of the attack on USAID by the Trump White House
- Modi imposes austerity budget as social inequality continues to grow at torrential pace
- Trump’s plan to seize Ukraine’s minerals and the mounting US-EU conflict
- Musk seeks access to IRS tax data on all Americans
- Australian federal Labor government threatens to shut down NSW rail dispute
- Deportation of Miami teacher exposes bipartisan character of attack on immigrants
- CSX advances major restructuring of operations, eliminating dozens of train crew jobs
- Trump demands Ukraine become de facto US colony in exchange for military support
- Documenta’s new “Code of Conduct” paves the way for cultural and artistic censorship in Germany
- Australian parliamentary committee proposes new powers to sack anti-genocide university staff
- Bursting of century-old water main floods Detroit neighborhood
- European powers demand military build-up at emergency Paris summit on Ukraine
- Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei holds final election rally in Berlin
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkish government crackdown on political opposition intensifies: Dozens detained and thousands under investigation
- Thousands protest attacks on immigrants, federal workers and fascistic takeover of US government
- Canada and US hockey players brawl amid nationalist furor over Trump’s trade war
- Australian union joins pile-on against Bankstown nurses
2025-02-19
- Australian artists demand immediate reinstatement of Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino to Venice Biennale
- Nurses strike at Geisinger hospitals in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Israel creates directorate to oversee ethnic cleansing of Gaza
- Pediatric flu deaths jump to 68, with 11 children dying in the last reported week alone amid media blackout
- In federal election, Germany’s four main parties all incite anti-refugee hatred and call for greater military spending and war
- Musk’s data takeover: A weapon for dictatorship and social plunder
- Australian central bank cuts interest rates slightly but warns of uncertainty ahead
- Australian electoral authorities reject Socialist Equality Party’s registration, despite it meeting membership requirements
- Cook Islands signs strategic agreement with China
- UFCW calls off King Soopers strike, agrees to 100 day “labor peace”
- Democrats urge New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign
- Wave of retail store closings in US as consumers pull back spending
- UK Labour government plans savage social cuts to meet military spending demands
- As Congress approves RFK to destroy public health, Jacobin says “Keep the booze flowing”
- US federal workers denounce firings, call for mass action: “I do advocate for a general strike”
- Ofcom’s “package of reforms”: a wrecking ball against the mail service and postal workers’ jobs and conditions
- Major US think tank probes debt crisis
2025-02-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Bullied over family’s immigration status, Texas 11-year-old takes own life
- Trump, McKinley, and US imperialism in Asia
- Alex Steiner’s tangled web of political deceit
- University of California healthcare workers vote overwhelmingly for strike, again
- Trump issues executive order asserting absolute authority over independent federal agencies
- Buddhist groups in Sri Lanka provoke communal tensions by seeking temple expansion
- Coalition talks between the conservative ÖVP and far-right FPÖ in Austria have failed
- Taiwan’s Lai Ching-te vows to build “democratic supply chains” as US tariffs loom
- 1 month of the Trump administration: The oligarchy vs. the working class
- British Columbia’s NDP government scraps $1,000 grocery rebate for workers to “find dollars” to defend big business in trade war with Washington
- Mo, Season 2: A Palestinian-American comic at the US-Mexico border and other disasters
- Trump administration labels cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as CIA flies drones over Mexico
- Students protest at UCLA against the suspension of two pro-Palestinian clubs
- Portland, Oregon city council postures in defense of striking Providence nurses
- ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!
- Pathology workers have rejected Australian Clinical Laboratories’ wage cut—a new strategy is needed!
- Michigan teachers join rank-and-file campaign to defend immigrants and public education
- Australia: Explosive-filled caravan likely not connected to antisemitism
- Australian government uses Nauru as a neo-colonial prison for immigration detainees
- US East coast dock union’s “solution” to automation in new contract: work harder!
- Tragic deaths of 2 homeless children in Detroit must sound alarm for workers to end poverty and inequality
- Norway’s coalition government breaks down amid dispute over energy policy
- Massive police intimidation of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Berlin
2025-02-21
- Volvo announces layoffs at New River Valley, Virginia truck plant, site of major 2021 strike
- “We need to get the masses to realize what’s happening”: Federal workers protest jobs massacre by Trump and Elon Musk
- At protest against Amazon’s closing of all its Quebec facilities, unions promote nationalist boycott campaign
- City carriers’ contract heads to binding arbitration, as Trump and Musk take aim at the US Postal Service
- University of Sheffield International College strike suspended by union
- Outpouring of public sympathy at Detroit funeral for homeless children who froze to death
- Rank-and-file historians oppose American Historical Association's censorship of opposition to Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Fair Work Commission shuts down industrial action by rail workers
- German foreign policy circles and media react to Trump with increased warmongering
- Actress Tilda Swinton condemns “state-perpetrated and internationally enabled genocide” at Berlinale
- Kennedy openly targets childhood vaccine schedule as Texas measles outbreak approaches 100 patients
- Trump’s Ukraine policy shift signals new phase of US global war
- Fascist Kash Patel confirmed by US Senate to lead FBI
- Bipartisan electoral laws rammed through to prop up Australian political establishment
- Run-down schools in Stoke-on-Trent, England withhold payments to private corporations raking in millions
- Worsening unemployment, hunger and homelessness in New Zealand
- New Democrats block anti-genocide candidate Sarah Jama from standing for party in Ontario election
- The Trump-Navarro blueprint for global economic warfare
- Australia: Oppose the attack on students’ right to political freedom of expression at Victoria University!
2025-02-22
- Sean Baker’s Anora: Half a film
- As rank-and-file outrage grows against Trump’s plans to attack US Postal Service, unions promote dead-end letter-writing campaign
- Australia: Macquarie University meeting issues strong call to oppose Zionist witch hunt against Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Sri Lankan President Dissanayake presents IMF-dictated austerity budget
- Germany’s 2025 federal elections: A turning point in post-war German history
- New Zealand nurses union promotes racial divisions
- CPAC 2025: A festival of fascist reaction
- Chinese warships off the Australian coast trigger militarist outburst
- Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro indicted for fascist coup attempt
- Right-wing violence in Germany highest since Nazi rule
- George Mason University forges close ties with the US military as it clamps down on opposition to genocide and war
- Australia: Hardship continues from North Queensland floods
- German rail union agree to real wage reduction and 33-month strike ban
- Trump intensifies mass firing of federal workers after judge refuses to block layoffs
- How the pseudo-left RIO group in Germany is manoeuvring to cover the right-wing policies of the trade unions and Left Party
- Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Form action committees and join the SGP!
- Fifth anniversary of the Hanau murders in Germany: A bitter assessment
2025-02-23
2025-02-24
- George Mason University president dodges and distorts at student town hall after crackdown on anti-genocide protesters
- Trump, Hegseth purge Pentagon leadership to prepare for war and mass repression
- Stellantis Luton closure confirmed with 1,200 job losses: Workers must adopt a new strategy
- Trump federal cuts threaten Native American universities and tribal sovereignty
- This week in history: February 24-March 2
- Australia: Messages of support for campaign against Zionist witch hunt of Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Australia: False bipartisan Medicare promises underscore political crisis
- Claiming “Victory in Sight,” ONA bureaucracy recommends sellout contract for striking Providence nurses
- Mass shooting at Pennsylvania hospital leaves 2 people dead and 6 injured
- Reject the sellout contract on the East and Gulf Coast docks! Build a rank-and-file committee of dockworkers to oppose the ILA-company-Trump conspiracy!
- Online rank-and-file meeting calls for mass mobilization of working class in US and internationally in opposition to illegal firings
- Spain’s trade unions and pseudo-left approve allowing workers to retire at 72
- Australia: Blue Mountains resident has 10 times safe limit of toxic “forever chemicals”
- For emergency action to stop the Trump-Musk purge of federal workers!
- German federal election 2025: Historic debacle for government parties, gains for the far-right AfD and Left Party
2025-02-25
- Royal Mail workers at Mt Pleasant and Salisbury condemn USO pilots: “It can’t keep going on like this”
- UK National Health Service hit with devastating winter crisis
- Australian Labor governments place Whyalla Steelworks under administration, announce huge bailout
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Gold price continues to reach record highs
- New York state prison guards wildcat over investigation into beating death of inmate
- Nickel Boys ignores history in favor of psychology
- Pseudo-left outlet Left Voice covers for union bureaucrats’ embrace of Trump
- Amid unprecedented attacks on public education, teacher unions launch “email Congress” campaign
- Despite reprieve for Stellantis workers in Toledo, threats to jobs remain
- New Zealand government whips up hysteria over Chinese naval exercise in Tasman Sea
- Trump administration plans to build concentration camps on US military bases
- Confusion, anger grows as Trump-Musk deadline passes for federal workers to justify their jobs or be fired
- Second round of Industrial Inquiry Commission hearings confirms gang-up against Canada Post workers
- Will Lehman: Oppose the arrest of Mehmet Türkmen, independent union leader in Turkey!
- Australia: Build rank-and-file committees against accelerating assault on public education!
- Los Angeles raids: Trump’s fascistic crackdown escalates attack on immigrants, democratic rights
- After 3 years of war in Ukraine, imperialist war propaganda collapses
- COVID excess deaths “saved” $300 billion in Social Security payments
- Los Angeles truckers walk off the job over wage cuts and rising healthcare costs
2025-02-26
- ONA forces through sellout contract for nurses at Providence
- For an indefinite strike by University of California workers! Build a working class movement against the policies of the Trump administration!
- Sanders takes his fraudulent “Fight Oligarchy” show on the road
- Israel plans second genocide in Gaza, steps up ethnic cleansing in West Bank
- 6 babies freeze to death in 2 weeks in Gaza
- Letter from Costco worker to rank-and-file meeting: “The working class is primed and ready for mobilization, it is now on us to act”
- Cracks appear in facade of US “boom”
- 8-year-old Venezuelan boy drowns off Panama as migrants turned away by the US
- Mercedes’ “Next Level Performance” cuts programme: A declaration of war on the workforce
- Germany’s 2025 federal election: How the struggle against fascism and war must be waged
- Ford targets historic Rouge complex for police raid with complicity of UAW officials
- Australian billionaire sets up “Trumpet of Patriots” party
- Who is Trump’s education secretary nominee Linda McMahon?
- Starmer announces UK military spending increase to appease Trump prior to Washington talks
- New York governor puts “guardrails” on New York City mayor Eric Adams
- Ontario’s “tariff war” election and the crisis of working-class leadership
- Pathology workers at Australian Clinical Labs vote for industrial action
- Indian Samsung workers strike against multinational giant’s campaign of arbitrary suspensions
- The Substance: Youth, aging and Hollywood
- Fascist podcaster and Trump loyalist Dan Bongino named FBI deputy director
2025-02-27
- Nurses at NYU Langone-Brooklyn poised to strike for better staffing and pay
- Trump, Musk and fascism, the film industry and the Academy Awards
- Australian state Labor government slashes public service jobs
- Sydney hospital workers face up to 20 years’ imprisonment after being baited by Israeli provocateur
- Erdoğan government's wave of repression continues amid growing wildcat strikes
- RFK Jr. greets first measles death in Texas outbreak with callous indifference
- Trump administration demands immigrants, including children, register with DHS in preparation for deportation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lanka: Trade unions back government austerity budget
- Trump-Musk intervene against Brazil’s trial of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro for fascist coup attempt
- US House adopts budget plan to spearhead social counterrevolution
- ONLINE MEETING: No police, no dogs, no undercover agents in the auto factories! Build rank-and-file committees to defend workers’ democratic rights!
- Chicago Teachers Union faces rank-and-file rebellion, as contract talks stall and layoffs loom
- UK special forces rejected 2,000 Afghan asylum claims to conceal war crimes
- A discussion with a resident physician on the fight to unionize doctors in training at the Detroit Medical Center
- Postal worker exposes underhand dismantling of the USO: “Royal Mail, Ofcom and the CWU are involved in a major cover-up”
- Ontario’s healthcare crisis deepens as Ford’s Tories accelerate privatization drive
- French overseas minister convenes talks on New Caledonia’s future
- 57,000 University of California workers launch strike
- Chancellor-elect Merz invites genocide perpetrator Netanyahu to Germany
- South Korea: Final Constitutional Court hearing on president’s impeachment
- US Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip
- Closure of Australian retail chain Rivers points to a deepening economic crisis
2025-02-28
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dockworkers union pushes through contract offering “labor peace for the next 6 years”
- Alarm grows as “mystery illness” in Congo has now killed 60 people and infected over 1,000
- Trump/Musk rampage could leave up to 1 million workers jobless, major investment firm warns
- UN report says Israel “consistently breached international law” in assault on Gaza
- Trump tariffs against Mexico and Canada to go ahead
- University of California strike raises major political issues
- Greece’s largest ever protests and general strike demand justice for Tempi rail crash victims
- Europe rearms amid crisis in NATO alliance
- Anger erupts as Stellantis workers told profit-sharing checks will be cut by 73 percent
- Starmer-Trump meeting resolves nothing for British imperialism
- The German People makes clear the culprits behind the 2020 racist murders in Hanau are to be found among the German authorities
- Ontario Tories win third term with union-backed Canadian nationalist campaign in “tariff war” election
- Pro-Palestinian students occupy Columbia University building to protest expulsions
- Australian educator reinstated, but democratic rights in schools are under attack
- 2 Chicago construction workers electrocuted, 1 dead, at West Side building site
- Australian university staff meetings defend Randa Abdel-Fattah against Zionist witch hunt
- Trump calls for federal takeover of the District of Columbia
- “We will fight to defend our immigrant neighbors”: Texas worker calls for workplace and neighborhood committees to fight Trump
- Öcalan calls on Kurdish PKK to lay down arms and dissolve itself
- Billionaire Jeff Bezos makes Washington Post an ally of Trump
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