Archive: 05/2025
2025-05-01
- Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party in the Australian federal election! Take a stand against war, genocide, austerity and the assault on democratic rights!
- Dorset National Health Service workers denounce plans to transfer contracts to private subsidiary
- Australian workers, youth denounce police killing of homeless man
- Palestinian student activist Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE custody by court order
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns for socialist program in local government elections
- Powerful strike by Los Angeles County workers rattles Democrats
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Thousands protest Trump speech in Warren, Michigan
- Judge rules against University of California’s assertion of blanket police access to student protester’s phone
- Canada’s federal election and the crisis of working class political perspective
- Trump delivers fascist rant to sparsely attended 100th day rally in Warren, Michigan
- New Zealand ruling elite escalates preparations for war
2025-05-02
- US government sued for stranding Tennessee man in Guatemala
- Trump-appointed judge rules administration improperly invoked Alien Enemies Act, blocks deportations in Texas
- Lockheed Martin strike in Florida and Colorado as General Dynamics Electric Boat workers authorize walkout
- US military spending surged to nearly $1 trillion in 2024
- Ukraine, US sign critical minerals deal
- Anti-migrant Reform UK makes major gains in elections in England
- Australian election: “Purple pingers,” lead candidate for pseudo-left Victorian Socialists
- Trump tariff war hits both China and US economies, threatening millions of jobs
- WATCH: Panel discussion with the SEP candidates in the Australian federal election
- Trial of former officer who killed Patrick Lyoya three years ago begins in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- New York Times, Democratic Party seek to smother the struggle against Trump
- Trump tightens the screws on education funding
- Supporters of Laaila Irshad speak out against anti-democratic seizure of her personal phone by UCSC police
- In memory of Des Beach: Victimised Royal Mail worker
- Social Democrat membership backs coalition agreement with conservatives for new German government
- Australia: SEP opposes official “Let COVID-19 rip” policy, advocates elimination
- German trade union federation calls for support for the new right-wing government
- Kneecap win worldwide backing from musicians over Gaza witch-hunt
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2025-05-03
- Australian unions promote Labor at May Day rally
- Socialist Equality Party wins support from Newcastle workers and youth in Australian election
- Fascist Stephen Miller declares Trump intends to circumvent Supreme Court, deploy National Guard to carry out mass deportations
- Teamsters financial documents show record income, 213 officials making $200,000 or more a year
- Sri Lanka: Vote SEP in the Local Government elections
- Unite All Workers for Democracy, faction of UAW apparatus, dissolves itself: The lessons for the working class
- May Day protests throughout the United States draw tens of thousands in opposition to dictatorship
- More than 5,000 doctors strike in New Zealand
- Global explosion of military spending and the struggle against imperialist war
- UCLA police storm pro-Palestinian film screening, arrest 3
- Germany’s Left Party supports war policy against Russia
2025-05-04
- Iberian blackout exposes financial oligarchy’s looting of European energy infrastructure
- Filton 18 supporters protest outside Old Bailey: “This is about criminalising resistance”
- Anti-fascist mural by US painter Philip Guston restored in Mexico after 90 years
- Texas county sheriff stonewalls despite graphic video of police killing unarmed man
- Humanitarian aid ship bound for Gaza hit by drones off Maltese coast, evidence points to Israel
- Washington University ejects student and pro-Palestinian art exhibit in St. Louis
- Kenyan filmmakers arrested in crackdown over BBC exposé of Gen-Z massacre
- This week in history: May 5-11
- May Day rallies: German Trade Union Federation closes ranks behind new right-wing federal government
- Rich and poor in Germany: The gulf continues to widen
2025-05-05
- “I don’t know”: Trump rejects due process, Constitution in NBC interview
- Auto layoffs mount, as Trump praises UAW president for backing tariffs
- “This was the heart and soul of our community”: Residents speak against hospital closures in Chester and Ridley Park, Pennsylvania
- Trump issues executive order requiring English proficiency for truckers, escalating attacks on immigrant workers
- Communication Workers Union leaders hail completion of Kretinsky’s EP Group buyout of Royal Mail
- South Korean parties select their candidates for presidential election
- Australian workers and youth oppose war and Trump on election day
- New Zealand media proposes compulsory military training
- Long Beach Medical Center nurses vote overwhelmingly to strike against layoffs
- University of Sheffield staff strike against hundreds of job losses
- Australian election highlights mass opposition to Trump globally
- Experts warn new HHS requirement for placebo-controlled vaccine trials undermines public health
- May Day 2025: Socialism Against Fascism and War
- USPS sorting facility partially collapses in Tampa, Florida
- Canadian unions line up behind government of Liberal ex-banker Carney
- Trump’s tariff on foreign films: An authoritarian attack on culture and the working class
2025-05-06
- Newark airport crisis highlights chronic air traffic controller shortage, antiquated equipment in US
- Trump’s dictatorship, global war, and the fight for socialism
- The Soviet victory over Nazism and the fight against imperialism today
- Birmingham bin workers strike enters eighth week, Labour council demands driver pay cuts
- Congressional Republicans demand more money for military, cruel cuts in healthcare
- Australian voters speak out against Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza
- Donald Trump’s war on the Constitution and democratic rights
- Israel announces military occupation of Gaza in next phase of Trump-Netanyahu ethnic cleansing plan
- Connecticut Pratt & Whitney workers join Lockheed Martin strikers as walkouts spread in US weapons industry
- Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat: Sympathy for migrants spiked by misanthropy
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The fight against German militarism 80 years after World War II
- Fascist candidate wins first round of Romanian presidential election
- Germany’s Social Democrats and conservatives elect Merz as Chancellor, sign reactionary coalition agreement
2025-05-07
- Ending the Gaza genocide requires the fight for socialism
- Anti-genocide student protesters attacked by police at University of Washington in Seattle
- Warning that Japan could play debt “card” in tariff war
- Millions of Americans face garnishment and the seizure of benefits as the US Department of Education begins pursuing student loan debtors
- The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
- Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes—a gripping exposure of a state cover-up
- Trump’s tariff war and the breakdown of global capitalism
- Spreckels Sugar announces closure of last beet sugar refinery in Brawley, California
- The origins of wealth inequality as reflected in the archaeological record
- Revolutionary struggle and the unity of the international working class
- NPR and PBS say they will “push back” on Trump’s executive order terminating their federal funding
- Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal
- Strike wave in Panama hits pension cuts and Trump’s threat to “take back” the canal
- 3 immigrants killed, 7 still missing and 4 injured after boat capsizes off San Diego coast
- South Asian confrontation escalates as Indian airstrikes hit inside Pakistan
- Israeli finance minister pledges Gaza will be “entirely destroyed” and Palestinians sent to “third countries”
- Defiant Life: Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith confront Gaza genocide
- After the Australian election—The socialist alternative to Labor’s government of war and austerity
- Independent soil testing finds staggering levels of toxic contamination in Los Angeles fire zones
- New York University seeks to blackmail 31 students into halting protests against Gaza genocide and the assault on free speech
- Australian election day interviews: Major parties have no answers for social crisis
- Sri Lankan plantation union leaders call on European powers to support democratic rights
- False start for the Merz government
- Trump administration seeking to exile immigrants to Ukraine, Libya and Rwanda
- Thousands of households in Berlin without water for hours after burst water main
2025-05-08
- Tüpraş oil refinery workers in Turkey protest trade union’s sell-out agreement
- South Asia on knife’s edge after Indo-Pakistani clash
- Trump backs nomination of FedEx board member as Postmaster General, signaling privatization of USPS
- New Zealand’s Daily Blog backs compulsory military service
- The IYSSE’s fight for a Marxist political culture among youth
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unleashes a barrage of anti-science ravings
- White House meeting between Trump and Carney underscores historic breakdown in US-Canada relations
- 3 former Memphis police officers acquitted on state murder charges in death of Tyre Nichols
- International backing for Kneecap’s stand against genocide continues to grow
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deporting immigrants to Libya
- GM Oshawa Assembly workers facing 700 layoffs amid ongoing Canada-US trade war
- New York Mayor Eric Adams forces cancellation of concert by anti-genocide singer Kehlani
- 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe
- Fed warns economic risks rising because of tariff hikes
- Dictatorship, war and the fight to build the SEP in Turkey
- One month after death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: Family, Dundee workers support call for independent rank-and-file investigation
- Left Voice calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- Union sell-out of Berlin Transport workers: Build the Transport Workers’ Action Committee!
2025-05-09
- Spanish union bureaucracies endorse EU militarization plans
- Trump proposes to reopen Alcatraz as America’s Guantanamo
- Community kitchens shut down in Gaza, as food runs out
- 90 seconds of terror: Breakdown of air traffic controller systems at Newark airport points to system on the brink of collapse
- A tribute to Wolfgang Weber: A Marxist intellectual and fighter for the working class
- Australian unions pledge support for re-elected Labor government
- Ricky, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) and American social reality, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud and Triumph from Bulgaria
- US and China in talks on tariff war
- Public outcry against proposed cuts to Chicago-area transit system
- Unite Latin American and US workers against Trump’s imperialist drive
- US-UK trade deal points to spiraling trade war with Europe
- Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrested
- Trump, cryptocurrency and the criminalization of American politics
- Michigan Attorney General drops charges against 7 anti-genocide protesters at U-M, defends decision to prosecute
- German President Steinmeier on 80th anniversary of the end of World War II: “We must become stronger militarily”
- India’s suspension of Indus Waters Treaty escalates threat of all-out war with Pakistan
- Detention of hospital worker by ICE provokes anger among nurses
- No to Labour’s NHS privatisation! Oppose mass staff transfer to private subsidiaries!
- Prosecutor seeks death penalty in case of Cincinnati father accused of killing deputy one day after police shot and killed his son
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Lula and unions use May Day to divert growing opposition to capitalist exploitation in Brazil
2025-05-10
- Democratic mayor of Newark arrested by federal agents at protest amidst escalating deportation campaign
- Sri Lanka: Local government elections reveal growing popular opposition to ruling JVP/NPP
- The global implications of the Trump-Kennedy war on science
- “The concluding moves”: Israel launches Trump’s “final solution” in Gaza
- White House adviser Stephen Miller: Trump could suspend habeas corpus unless courts “do the right thing”
- How Germany’s Left Party paved the way for Friedrich Merz to become chancellor
- Australian pseudo-left promotes illusions in pro-business, pro-war Labor government
- Autoworkers back call for independent investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- Trial of former Grand Rapids, Michigan cop who killed Patrick Lyoya ends in hung jury
2025-05-11
- Thirteen gold mine workers massacred in Peru
- The Birmingham “megapicket”: Performative solidarity to cover for the trade union bureaucracy
- Argentina’s President Milei joins in US preparations for war against China
- Opposition aide tortured by Museveni’s son as Uganda escalates repression ahead of 2026 elections
2025-05-12
- California State University students wage hunger strike against Gaza genocide
- 50,000 protest in Madrid against Gaza genocide of Palestinians and PSOE-Sumar complicity
- US immigration Gestapo continues nationwide terror campaign
- Economic nationalism divides us. International socialism is the answer.
- Unite the New Zealand and Pacific working class against war!
- Starmer invokes Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech to launch Labour’s anti-immigration offensive
- This week in history: May 12-18
- Australian construction union boss vows to impose Labor’s restructure plan
- NZ government blocks “pay equity” claims for hundreds of thousands of workers
- Massive price increases, layoffs in the video game industry as trade war escalates
- Continuing injuries at Stellantis and StarPlus plant expose UAW’s claim of an EV “just transition”
- Amended lawsuit filed over illegal deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh by US border control
- Federal mediators intervene against potential New Jersey Transit strike
- Pratt & Whitney strikers remain firm as walkout enters Week 2: “It’s capitalism run amok—We get pinched so it all stays on top”
- After the Australian election, what the crisis of the Liberals reveals
- India-Pakistan conflict threatens nuclear catastrophe
- The Australian election and plans for war against China
- ICE raids tear through California despite Democrats’ “sanctuary” promises
- A devastating insight into Zionism: Louis Theroux: The Settlers
- Crisis in South Asia and the fight for socialism
- Berlin Senate deepens cuts to the city’s cultural sector
- UN human rights expert calls for prosecution of EU Officials over complicity in Israeli war crimes
2025-05-13
- Sri Lankan union leaders respond to US trade war with class collaboration
- UK government providing weapons for Gaza genocide despite formal suspension of arms exports to Israel
- Hasan Piker detained and interrogated at Chicago airport by Trump’s border agents
- Entire Gaza population faces “critical risk of famine,” UN-backed monitor warns
- Join the Trotskyist movement to fight for socialism
- Political warfare deepens as Philippines holds midterm elections
- Uneasy 90-day truce in US tariff war against China
- Trump’s ban on “gain-of-function” research: An attack on science and preparation for war
- Kurdish Workers Party dissolves itself amid deepening war in the Middle East
- University of Rochester graduate workers on indefinite strike
- Railroad companies request Trump administration dismantle two-person crew regulations
- 2 more air traffic outages at Newark, New Jersey airport trigger further disruptions, expose National Airspace System on the brink
- Australia: Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee blocked from speaking at rally against cuts
- The socialist response to the breakdown in Canada-US relations
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The politics behind the selection of the American-Peruvian Pope
- Why we oppose tariffs and the USW’s nationalism: Unite workers globally to defend the jobs and rights of all!
- Ford workers in Cologne vote for all-out strike as IG Metall tries to slam on the brakes
2025-05-14
- DHS agents imprison Guatemalan mother at hospital during labor and birth, provoking public outcry
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announces plan to lay off 1,000 workers
- Official campaigning underway in South Korean presidential election
- Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
- Trump administration welcomes Afrikaner “refugees” from South Africa
- European foreign ministers threaten sanctions, military build-up against Russia
- Australia’s second-term Labor government will accelerate pro-business, pro-war agenda
- NHS FightBack campaigns at Royal Bournemouth Hospital protest: “We shouldn’t be afraid to speak up”
- Ignoring overwhelming opposition, Atlanta Democratic mayor welcomes “Cop City”
- Hundreds of directors, writers, actors denounce Israeli genocide in Gaza and the film industry’s “silence,” “indifference” and “passivity”
- Labor government-driven cuts and restructuring hit Western Sydney University
- UAW holds “invest in US” rallies to support Trump’s tariffs and scapegoat Mexican autoworkers
- Republicans move forward with plan to cut an estimated $715 billion in Medicaid funding
- For a rank-and-file investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.!
- German President Steinmeier receives Israeli President Herzog, backs genocide against the Palestinians
- Labour “left” refuse to fight Starmer after his anti-migrant “island of strangers” speech
- Cleveland-Cliffs announces mill and mine closures, impacting over 2,000 workers across 4 states
- Trump and the American oligarchy dine with Saudi despot Mohammed Bin Salman
- German auto industry crisis deepens as layoffs mount
2025-05-15
- Kennedy escalates war on health in congressional testimony
- Israel escalates Gaza bombings, forcible displacement and famine as Trump tours Middle East
- ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: How USPS workers can organize to fight privatization
- Save the US Postal Service! Build a rank-and-file movement against privatization!
- After the “truce,” what now for the Trump economic war against China?
- End isolation of Birmingham bin workers’ strike: Build rank-and-file opposition to Starmer’s strike breaking and austerity cuts
- India’s opposition parties rally behind far-right Modi regime’s provocative attack on Pakistan
- Smith’s snack food workers strike in South Australia
- Rapper Kanye West releases pro-Nazi song “Heil Hitler”
- Michigan safety agency denies information request as support grows for rank-and-file investigation of death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- New Zealand government seeks to ban social media for under-16s
- Support the IWA-RFC’s rank-and-file investigation into the death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr.!
- German general spends 80th anniversary of the defeat of Hitler’s Wehrmacht with Ukrainian neo-Nazi commander
- Massive 7-alarm warehouse fire engulfs West Baltimore, disrupts rail and displaces residents
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Two construction workers airlifted to hospital after sustaining serious injuries at Indiana Amazon warehouse site
2025-05-16
- Detroit and Toledo autoworkers back rank-and-file investigation into death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- Philippines: President Marcos continues the “war on drugs”
- The murder of Turkish worker Erol Eğrek demands an independent investigation
- The legal and political issues in the Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship
- UK’s Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers hosts David Brotherton for talk on the “United States of Deportation”
- New York University withholds diploma from Logan Rozos for condemning Gaza genocide during commencement speech
- Major League Baseball lifts lifetime bans on 17 deceased players, including Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson
- Restored 1972 concert film Pink Floyd at Pompeii—MCMLXXII: A record of artistic transition in a tumultuous world
- A pseudo-left attack on science in Flint, Michigan—Part one
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dorset County Hospital workers protest creation of subsidiary company threatening terms and conditions
- Dockworker unions back trade war amid collapse of traffic on US docks
- Australian Labor state government charging protesters over anti-Zionist slogan
- Romania goes to second round of presidential election
- German journalist Ole Nymoen’s book: A protest that can’t stop the warmongers
- Portugal snap general election prepares rightward lurch by ruling elites amid mounting social crisis
- Anatomy of a social crime: How financial speculation shuttered Crozer Health in Chester, Pennsylvania
- Concluding Middle East tour, Trump reiterates plan for US to “take” Gaza
- Police send file on British independent journalist Richard Medhurst to Crown Prosecution Service
- Berlin: Humboldt University student parliament condemns deportations of political activists
2025-05-17
- A pseudo-left attack on science in Flint, Michigan—Part two
- New Jersey Transit commuter rail engineers launch strike
- Eurovision 2025—Thousands of cultural workers, music fans condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- WATCH: After the Australian election—The socialist alternative to Labor’s government of war and austerity
- Defend Logan Rozos! Mobilize workers and students to demand his diploma, oppose the assault on democratic rights!
- Trump administration junks committee on preventing infections in hospitals
- Sri Lanka’s fake-left FSP claims to be socialist while promoting pro-capitalist policies
- “We want the truth”: Rank-and-file investigation breaking wall of silence around death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Make Bundeswehr “the strongest conventional army in Europe”
- Australian prime minister visits Indonesia to push anti-China build-up
- Indian workers and students speak out against Modi government’s assault on Pakistan and anti-Muslim incitement
- Trump embraces the “Syrian revolution”: The bankruptcy of the pro-imperialist pseudo-left
- Capitulating to Modi’s war-mongering, India’s unions cancel May 20 general strike
- Vote for the Action Committee list in the Berlin Transport staff council elections!
- Glen Rogers’ execution in Florida and the “pure evil” rationale for state killings
- Buoyed by bipartisan support, corporate profits and immigrant prisons soar in US Midwest
2025-05-18
- Canada Post workers face political battle against management, Liberal government and CUPW leadership as contract expiration approaches
- Corporate media casts ex-Uruguayan president and former guerrilla José Mujica as secular saint
- This week in history: May 19-May 25
- DOGE shuts down AmeriCorps programs nationwide, affecting education, disaster services and environmental programs
- Hundreds of thousands protest in London to oppose Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza
- UK Special Forces personnel give eyewitness accounts of officially sanctioned assassinations and war crimes in Afghanistan
2025-05-19
- Israel launches “concluding” Gaza offensive, US plans displacement of Palestinians to Libya, Syria
- Protesters at mass London demonstration denounce Israel’s Gaza genocide
- Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Rouge worker collapses, dies on shop floor
- “We have no real power unless we unite”: Teachers rally in defense of education, against Trump across California
- Peruvian general strike demands resignation of President Boluarte
- Germany’s new interior minister embarks on course of the far-right AfD
- Greens in crisis after Australian federal election losses
- Providence, Rhode Island: Butler Hospital workers strike over wages, safe staffing and pensions
- Left Party conference hides support for Merz government with left-wing rhetoric
- The Encampments film screened to large audience in Santa Cruz, California
- Tornadoes rip through several US states, leaving trail of destruction and at least 28 dead
- The Democratic Socialists of America’s “Labor for an Arms Embargo” campaign: A cover for the Democratic Party
- California Governor Gavin Newsom demands cities force homeless people to move every 72 hours
- Victory Day in Russia: The real historical lessons for the working class
- “We must speak one language!”: Striking Ford workers in Germany support international struggle
- Donald Trump incites fascist followers against Bruce Springsteen
- Oppose the sellout of the New Jersey Transit strike!
- Ukrainian and Russian officials meet in Istanbul
2025-05-20
- The fraud of Starmer, Macron and Carney’s “opposition” to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza
- Imperialism launches its “final solution” in Gaza
- Canadian postal worker calls for unified struggle with American colleagues at USPS Rank-and-File Committee meeting
- US postal workers discuss how to fight privatization at USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting
- Pro-EU candidate Dan wins Romanian presidential elections
- Only on Earth (Spain), The Wolves Always Come at Night (Mongolia), I Dreamed His Name (Colombia), The Brink of Dreams (Egypt) and Beloved Tropic (Panama): Sincerity and passivity
- Australia: NSW Labor government moves to slash workers’ compensation
- UK seeks to shore up relations with Europe at London summit centred on military security alliance
- University job cuts continue under re-elected Australian Labor government
- Support independent rank-and-file inquiry into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.—call from National Steel Car workers in Canada
- The demoralized pessimism of Chris Hedges’ “New Dark Age”
- Neo-fascist Chega surges in Portugal as ruling right-wing Democratic Alliance coalition wins election
- Trump administration denounces Colombia for joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative
- Communist Party Marxist-Kenya’s “International Theoretical Conference”: Stalinist parties gather to disorientate workers and youth
- Moody’s cuts US credit rating as debt crisis grows
- New Zealand Greens posture as “socialist” with alternative budget
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Political issues revealed in Biden’s advanced cancer diagnosis
- Organise rank-and-file resistance to the CWU’s pact with Kretinsky at Royal Mail
2025-05-21
- 300 million people in 53 countries at risk of starving to death
- The Correspondent: The frameup and incarceration of Australian journalist Peter Greste
- US Treasury Secretary issues threat in tariff negotiations
- VIDEO: Attend “Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal”
- Trump visits Capitol Hill to whip up votes for military spending and social counterrevolution
- Four fatal work accidents on Germany’s railways in just four weeks
- Hundreds of nursing home workers go on strike in Western New York
- How the Ukrainian government is trying to ban and erase the Victory Day holiday
- Potential measles mass-spreader event at Newark Airport, latest sign of US transit and health infrastructure free fall
- Australian central bank cuts interest rates amid global economic turmoil
- Musk’s gutting of workplace safety and the investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- NHS FightBack holds meeting to oppose Labour government cuts and privatisation
- Why the German government supports the genocide in Gaza
- Right-wing Coalition breaks apart after Australian election debacle
- Trump Justice Department charges US Representative LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal officers
- Indiana executes Benjamin Ritchie, inmate with “severe brain damage,” and denies media access
2025-05-22
- South Korean presidential election: Democrat frontrunner’s right-wing agenda
- “What are they covering up?”: Stellantis Dundee Engine worker provides details for rank-and-file investigation into death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- The Pitt—Taking the side of science and healthcare workers
- Trump administration violates judge’s order, banishes immigrants to South Sudan
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump targets 350,000 Venezuelans for deportation, revoking their Temporary Protected Status
- Rise of the far right in Europe: A product of the anti-working class and pro-war policies of the established parties
- 55,000 Canada Post workers set to strike Friday morning, but CUPW has no plan to beat back government-management onslaught
- Nurses at Long Beach and Alhambra: Build Rank-and-File Committees to take the struggle into your own hands!
- Jacobin and Labor Notes promote UAW election as model for “union democracy” despite massive voter suppression
- An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan lab lie and the defense of science—Part 1
- Australian PM backs Zelensky and discusses strategic ties with EU
- Kneecap rap group member charged with terrorism offence
- For first time, Netanyahu names ethnic cleansing of Gaza as official war aim
- Oppose the arrest of political prisoners Ahmad Mammadli and Afiaddin Mammadov in Azerbaijan!
2025-05-23
- Major Sri Lanka apparel company, Next, retrenches 1,500 workers
- California fertility clinic struck by car bomb, leaving 1 dead and 4 injured
- An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan Lab Lie and the defense of science—Part 2
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Department of Homeland Security revokes Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students
- At Cannes film festival: Robert De Niro speaks out against Trump and dictatorship, more opposition to Gaza genocide and Kevin Spacey denounces blacklisting
- US healthcare workers union president ousted by opposition slate following corruption scandal
- The bankrupt perspective of the French Morenoite Révolution permanente group’s May 24 anti-war meeting in Paris
- National strike by Canada Post workers sabotaged by CUPW bureaucracy
- ICE Gestapo ambushes and imprisons Mississippi father at immigration hearing
- Australia: Union officials offer no way to fight Labor government attack on workers’ compensation
- Opposing Gaza genocide demands a socialist political struggle against Starmer Labour government
- As talks resume at Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut, company cuts off workers’ healthcare
- The case of Nancy Wohlforth, a.k.a. Fields, and the origins of Security and the Fourth International
- Nurses carry out one-day strike at Long Beach and Alhambra hospitals in Southern California
- Unite’s Sharon Graham admits ACAS talks over Birmingham bin strike were a fraud
- Bond market concerns over Trump tax bill
- Stop the layoffs at Mack and Volvo Trucks! Unite across plants, industries, and borders to defend jobs and oppose war!
- A year after historic flood, Rio Grande do Sul continues to face Brazilian government’s negligence
- US House declares war on working class and the poor, advances “Big Beautiful Bill”
- 5 killed and thousands affected by latest Australian floods
- 2 workers killed in separate fatal workplace accidents in Georgia
- Australian protests against Trump: The fight against fascism is a fight against capitalism!
- Presidential elections in Poland shake up the ruling camp
2025-05-24
- Trump DOJ dropping police reform agreement with Minneapolis and Louisville
- 100,000 join Netherlands’ largest anti-war protest in two decades against Gaza genocide
- “There is no reason this should happen in a modern, civilized society”: Canadian Stellantis workers back rank-and-file investigation into death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- Pennsylvania’s governor, local Democrats posture over closure of Chester’s hospital system
- Neil Young and Eddie Vedder defend Bruce Springsteen against Trump’s attack on free speech and fascist threats
- Exhibition Rift through Europe: How the history of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is being rewritten in the interests of German imperialism
- Oppose the Trump administration’s fascist attack on international students and academic freedom at Harvard!
- “I cry every day”: Chester, Pennsylvania healthcare workers speak about the devastating impact of the hospital system’s closure
- A week of state killings in America: Executions in Indiana, Texas and Tennessee
- Trump’s Big Lie about “white genocide” in South Africa
- An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan Lab Lie and the defense of science—Part 3
- Amid new COVID-19 wave, FDA places millions at risk by restricting access to vaccines
- Ford Germany: IG Metall union calls off second, indefinite strike against Cologne plant closure
- 80 years after Hitler’s war of annihilation in the east: Germany establishes combat brigade against Russia in Lithuania
2025-05-25
- Trump’s Gulf visit sends message to China: “Back off. The Middle East is ours”
- A conversation with Blake Bailey, Philip Roth biographer and author of Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me: “I said ... I’m not going to take this lying down”
- Photo London 2025: The enduring significance of Lee Miller’s war photography
2025-05-26
- Australia: Victorian state Labor government budget sees record debt, massive cuts
- Spain’s Morenoite CRT peddles illusions in protest pressure on imperialism over Gaza genocide
- UK agrees handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius to protect key US Diego Garcia base
- This week in history: May 26-June 1
- Berlin bus drivers support Transport Action Committee slate for the staff council elections
- Memorial Day 2025: Honor the memory of Ronald Adams Sr. and the other victims of class war in America
- High Court case reveals damning evidence of UK Labour government complicity in Gaza genocide
- Donald Trump puts US presidency up for sale at cryptocurrency dinner
- Israeli military unveils plan to internally displace entire remaining population of Gaza
- ICE agents assault and detain US citizen in Alabama
- Vote ‘No’ on Pratt & Whitney tentative agreement! Build rank-and-file committees to expand the strike and prepare a strategy for victory!
- Duisburg Regional Court rules chants of “From the river to the Sea, Palestine will be free” and “Yalla Intifada” are not punishable by law
- 5 years since the police murder of George Floyd
- New Zealand’s budget for austerity and war
- Germany: Three construction workers fall to their death
2025-05-27
- Killing of 2 Israeli embassy staffers in D.C. seized on to slander opponents of Gaza genocide as antisemites and terrorists
- Pseudo-left promotes CTU sellout contract as Democrats prepare austerity measures
- Oppose European rearmament!
- Healthcare workers speak out about NewYork-Presbyterian layoffs
- Israel launches air strike on school housing displaced Palestinian families in Gaza City
- Australia: Labor’s university job cuts raise critical political issues
- Taiwan’s currency destabilized by its trade deal with Trump, signalling escalating currency and trade wars
- Ofcom’s “investigation” into Royal Mail: A cover for sabotaging the Universal Service Obligation
- The Virginia Opera’s Loving v. Virginia revisits critical civil rights battle of the 1960s
- Oppose the attack on GWU student Cecilia Culver and other students for opposing the genocide in Gaza!
- Turkish workers must support independent rank-and-file investigation into the death of US Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- “We want the truth”: Educators support the IWA-RFC Investigation into the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- Australian Labor government issues phony condemnation of Israel’s starvation of the Palestinians
- SMART union decries “misinformation” while helping management prepare for one-man crews at BNSF
- Trump defends trillion-dollar war budget in fascistic tirades at West Point and Arlington
- Hundreds of Spanish musicians boycott festivals organised by pro-Zionist hedge fund
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Boeing receives sweetheart deal to avoid criminal prosecution over 737 MAX crashes
- US-EU tariff talks resume after Trump blew up negotiations with threat of 50 percent hike
- Striking Australian bakery workers at Allied Pinnacle need a new political strategy
- Sri Lankan workers must defend retrenched Next apparel workers
2025-05-28
- Trump administration cancels Harvard’s remaining federal funding, escalates attack on international students
- US postal unions seek to divert opposition to privatization to dead-end appeals to Congress
- The workplace carnage continues: New York City worker killed in explosion on sewage boat
- Leading SEP member addresses Sri Lankan Michelin factory workers struggling to defend their jobs
- Sri Lankan Michelin workers’ jobs in danger after JVP trade union leaders’ secret deal with the company
- Trump issues flurry of pardons for millionaire tax cheat, corrupt sheriff and reality-TV swindlers
- Chaos and repression on first day of US-backed Gaza “aid” operation
- Still no information about Amazon contractor killed two days after Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- Workers walk out of ratification meeting as IAM bureaucrats push through sellout to end Pratt & Whitney strike
- Hundreds of British and Irish writers demand immediate ceasefire, as opposition to Gaza genocide escalates
- Australia: Northern Beaches Hospital, a case study in the consequences of profit-driven healthcare
- The World Socialist Web Site and the fight against war, genocide, fascism and the Big Lie
- Australian private hospital giant’s liquidation threatens jobs and patients
- BBC’s suppression of “Gaza: Medics Under Fire”: Solidarity with NHS workers standing against censorship and genocide
- Merz government on course for war
2025-05-29
- Israeli troops massacre 10 aid-seekers in two days as Netanyahu says food distribution plan aims to create “sterile zone”
- An interview with trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on his latest experience with the US-Israel genocide in Gaza
- Ban on Red Media: EU sanctions against Russia attack press freedom
- King Charles III’s Ottawa visit and what it says about the Canadian ruling class’ “opposition” to Trump
- Senior judge rules police acted unlawfully in raiding home of British independent journalist Asa Winstanley
- Australian court rejects appeal by jailed Afghan war crimes whistleblower David McBride
- School communities protest removal of principals in São Paulo
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Union cancels Connecticut nursing home strike, rams through sellout deal
- SAG-AFTRA continues isolation of video game performers, on strike for more than 10 months
- 85 years since the May 24, 1940 assassination attempt against Leon Trotsky
- Indonesia seeking to appease Washington in tariff negotiations
- Swedish journalist Joakim Medin released after 7 weeks in Turkish prison
2025-05-30
- Rescinding COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, RFK Jr. escalates assault on science and public health
- Housing crisis hits home for 20,000 residents of Rochdale Village co-operative in New York City
- Detroit high-school student arrested by ICE on a field trip, sent to prison in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula
- Germany’s interior minister launches new attacks on refugees and migrants
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union seeking reelection alongside pro-fascist union head Sean O’Brien
- Former leading Ukrainian political operative assassinated in Spain
- Strike by 950 nurses in Madison, Wisconsin over workplace safety and wages
- Trump administration launches witch-hunt of Chinese international students
- Australian construction union boss steps down as Labor-appointed administrator tightens screws
- Detroit Opera production of The Central Park Five takes aim at Trump
- Reciprocal tariff negotiations directed against China
- US immigration Gestapo continues terror campaign: Over 100 workers arrested while building student housing in Tallahassee, Florida
- Worsening poverty and social misery in New Zealand
- The treatment of Alan Bates: Justice denied, compensation slashed for victims of Post Office scandal by Starmer government
- Stellantis Dundee engine workers speak out on the death of Ronald Adams Sr.: “They knew it was dangerous. He didn’t have to die.”
- 5 employees of the Turkish-backed aid organisation IHH killed by Israel in Gaza
- UN reports slowing human development and growing inequality, promoting AI as a solution
- Appeals court orders a stay on ruling against Trump’s tariff war
- Genocide in Gaza: Chancellor Merz gives himself an alibi
- Kennedy unilaterally ends COVID vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant women
2025-05-31
- Australia’s right-wing Coalition re-forms but rifts continue
- US Supreme Court gives Trump green light to deport over half a million legally residing immigrants
- United Nations warns Gaza is the “hungriest place on earth,” as Israel orders new mass expulsions
- Bankrupt healthcare provider Prospect Medical Holdings begins auctioning off parts of closed hospital system in southeastern Pennsylvania
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The significance of the Socialist Equality Party’s vote and campaign in the Australian election
- Michelin management begins witch-hunt against tyre factory workers in southern Sri Lanka
- Stellantis Warren Truck workers call for answers in death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- Glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland—A portent of an ecological catastrophe
- “It’s impossible to live in California on these wages”: Healthcare workers on 5-day strike at West Anaheim Medical Center
- Trump hosts press conference for Musk exit from DOGE after 130 days
- Tens of thousands of grocery workers to vote on strike in Southern California
- The lead poisoning of Milwaukee Public Schools students
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