Archive: 06/2025
2025-06-01
- Remastered 1977 live album Playing the Fool: The infectious eccentricity of Gentle Giant
- DOJ settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family: A political gift to the fascist right
- Momodou Taal meeting in London wins powerful support
- This week in history: June 2-8
- DSA member Zohran Mamdani emerges as one of the leading candidates for New York City mayor
- Industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp to be broken up
- 23,000 workers on strike in Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey
2025-06-02
- ICE Gestapo raids popular San Diego restaurant drawing mass outrage from community
- US defense secretary delivers war-mongering speech in Singapore
- IMF demands Sri Lankan government increase electricity tariff by nearly 20 percent
- Ukraine: From social collapse to social explosion. What are the obstacles?
- After 4 years of negotiations, World Health Assembly adopts toothless Pandemic Agreement
- Will Lehman: “Support the rank-and-file investigation into the death of Ronald Adams Sr. Now is the time to come forward for your coworkers and for his family”
- Australia rail union announces sell-out deal with NSW Labor government
- High Court injunction against mass picketing by Birmingham bin workers as Unite considers “watered down” proposal
- Horror: The Mekons denounce imperialism and defend refugees
- After adverse court ruling, Trump steps up tariff war
- Ukrainian drones strike Russian nuclear bombers in Siberia
- Israeli academics issue open letter condemning Gaza genocide
- Starmer's defence review prepares UK for nuclear war with Russia
- Three months before presidential elections, Bolivia gripped by economic crisis
- “Hitler’s ovens”: Hunger strikes against isolation and inhumane conditions in “well-type” prisons in Turkey
2025-06-03
- Video by Will Lehman sparks outpouring of support for investigation into death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.
- 3 killed, dozens wounded in latest Israeli aid massacre in Gaza
- Treasury secretary says US will never default on its debt
- DHS thugs detain congressional aide to New York Rep. Jerry Nadler in his Manhattan office
- “Well, we all are going to die”: Republicans gloat over death-dealing social cuts
- Reinstate victimised Michelin workers in Sri Lanka! Mobilise working-class support to defend Michelin employees’ struggle!
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Michelin workers in southern Sri Lanka appeal for support from international Michelin employees
- How Wall Street cashes in on charter schools
- Australian Labor government prepares to boost military spending at Trump’s demand
- Far-right opposition candidate wins presidential election in Poland
- NATO risks nuclear catastrophe with attack on Russian airports
- MIT class president banned from graduation over pro-Palestinian remarks
- More than 300 public figures sign letter demanding Starmer end UK complicity in Gaza genocide
- Kenya’s China orientation provokes Washington’s wrath
- “They just want production done at whatever the cost”: Dundee plant reopening as UAW-Stellantis stonewalls information on death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- Canada Post rejects union’s offer of binding arbitration to end contract struggle
- Teachers lead growing strike movement across Latin America
2025-06-04
- VW emissions scandal: Some managers and engineers sentenced to prison, but not former CEO Winterkorn
- VIDEO: Trump’s war on free speech—The case of Momodou Taal
- Australian Labor government approves 40-year extension of major gas project
- Attorney Eric Lee addresses London meeting on case of Momodou Taal: “The president is attempting to establish a dictatorship”
- US demands Asian allies prepare for “imminent” war against China
- Jonathan Joss, King of the Hill voice actor, shot dead in alleged hate crime
- Trump signs off on US Steel-Nippon Steel merger, while doubling steel and aluminum tariffs
- Union blocks staff and students from speaking at Western Sydney University job cuts rally
- Momodou Taal tells London meeting: Protesting the Gaza genocide “placed a target on my back”
- US train engineers union tries to whip up anti-Mexican hatred
- OECD cuts global growth forecast
- The Indo-Pakistan conflict and the threat of nuclear world war
- Tanzanian regime tortures East African activists
- Chicago transit crisis: As legislative session ends, funding crisis threatens massive service cuts and layoffs
2025-06-05
- Two construction workers killed in Florida crane collapse: The latest victims of America’s industrial slaughterhouse
- Greek coast guard officials face prosecution over deaths of hundreds of migrants in Pylos boat disaster
- Trump’s universal school voucher proposal: Another handout to the rich
- The political issues behind the persecution of Momodou Taal and the assault on democratic rights in the US
- Families continue fight to expose cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
- Australian study finds more than 10 percent of Queensland tunnelling workers at risk of silicosis
- New York’s Whitney Museum suspends longstanding program in the face of protest over censoring of pro-Palestinian event
- Democrat Lee Jae-myung wins South Korea’s presidential election
- Canadian wildfires kill 2 and force over 33,000 to evacuate so far
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Former Maryland police officer previously involved in fatal shooting of unarmed man pleads guilty in fraud scheme
- Israeli forces have killed or wounded over 600 people at aid centers over the past week
- Judge issues temporary restraining order blocking deportation of family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman
- Milwaukee immigrant worker faces deportation after being framed up for threatening to kill Trump
- Voting concludes on sellout contract for CSX train engineers
- Providence, Rhode Island: Butler Hospital plans to permanently replace striking workers
- The way forward in the struggle against Trump’s attack on immigrants
- 22,000 metalworkers strike in northern Spain’s Cantabria region
- Stalinist CITU imposes new sell-out agreement on Samsung India workers
2025-06-06
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Federal firings create massive recession in Washington, D.C.
- Miserly Australian award wage rise leaves low-income workers behind in real terms
- Sri Lanka: Michelin workers continue struggle, defying management’s threats
- Trump implements new travel ban, restricting travel from 19 countries
- Blame, a documentary film: The defense of science and scientists against the Wuhan-Lab leak conspiracy
- Australia slides back into per capita recession
- Pro-Israel lobby groups in Britain use “lawfare” to silence solidarity with Palestine
- International lawyers sound alarm over counter-terror laws against Filton 18
- Wildfire smoke blankets large parts of North America
- Boeing machinist exposes ongoing safety problems following last year’s strike
- Trial of ex-president Bolsonaro for fascist coup bid advances in Brazil
- Australia: Indigenous man dies after being violently restrained by police
- Stop militarisation and cuts at universities! No to genocide and world war!
- Lessons to be learned from the Izmir municipal workers’ strike
- Procter & Gamble announces 7,000 layoffs, as impact of trade war mounts
- Spanish metal strike in Cantabria grows, Cádiz workers to strike next week
- Under pressure from far-right congressmen, Eastern Michigan University ends US-Chinese research partnerships
- The Musk-Trump blood feud and the US political crisis
2025-06-07
- Trump brings Abrego Garcia back to the US to face felony charges
- 2 months after Ronald Adams Sr.’s death at Michigan Stellantis plant, support grows for rank-and-file investigation
- Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration raids
- Australia: Queensland nurses and midwives vote to strike for first time in decades
- International tributes to Wolfgang Weber
- As part of entertainment industry bloodletting, Disney lays off hundreds in latest round of job cuts—despite increased revenue
- Rehabilitating Hitler’s army, the Wehrmacht: Military historian Sönke Neitzel promotes fascist warriors
- Trump-Xi phone call maintains fragile trade war truce
- Chicago Public Schools floats plan to overturn teachers’ contract to slash budget deficit
- Trump administration moves to dismantle Job Corps, throwing lives of tens of thousands of youth and workers into crisis
- NATO powers prepare for world war: Defence ministers agree on largest military buildup since 1945
- Military-style anti-immigrant raids in Los Angeles spark mass protests and violent repression
- Trump administration revives medieval “kin punishment”
- Our struggle is in grave danger: Canada Post workers must seize leadership from the pro-company CUPW and mobilize working-class power!
- Australian military chief calls for war readiness
- Australia: University of Melbourne expels pro-Palestinian students
2025-06-08
2025-06-09
- The dead end of the Morenoite Révolution permanente’s anti-war conference in Paris
- Seven Days in June: Trump’s unfolding coup d’état
- The White Lotus Season 3: A good deal goes on, but what does it add up to?
- Unanswered questions as postal carrier in Grand Junction, Colorado discovered dead on the job two hours after collapsing
- Trump administration attacks the preservation of archaeological resources
- Food used as weapon of war in US-Israeli militarization of aid in Gaza
- Samoa faces early election after government’s budget voted down
- Reject the Cantabria metalworkers’ pre-agreement! Build rank-and-file rebellion against Spanish union bureaucrats’ sellout!
- Australia: Workers in flood-affected Taree denounce inadequate government emergency response
- Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
- Minnesota nurses demonstrate against low staffing, poor conditions
- UK trade union leaders back Starmer government’s war drive
- This week in history: June 9-15
- Los Angeles police, National Guard fire thousands of “less lethal” rounds at residents protesting fascist immigration raids
- DHL workers strike at Halle/Leipzig Airport: Place no trust in the Verdi union!
- Henry Ford Health imposes 5-day lockout on Rochester Hospital nurses in preemptive move against strike action
- Demand the dropping of charges against Chinese University of Michigan graduate researchers!
- Questions and answers at London public meeting, “Trump’s war on free speech: The case of Momodou Taal”
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Shawn Fain endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor
2025-06-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Protests in the UK against Israel’s seizure of the Freedom Flotilla’s Madleen aid ship bound for Gaza
- US cops shoot Australian journalist amid Trump’s dictatorial rampage
- German politicians, theatre management denounce actor Shehab Fatoum for calling for peace in Gaza
- Far-right Dutch coalition government collapses
- UAW pressing Stellantis to “finish their retooling” of Dundee plant as cover-up of Ronald Adams’ death continues
- Growing support for striking Michelin workers in Sri Lanka
- Philadelphia sanitation workers prepare to take strike vote against city’s austerity demands
- Quebec adopts draconian anti-strike law with complicity of unions
- Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military deployment in Los Angeles
- Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 2
- Australian public housing tower residents speak out against demolition
- Sri Lanka: Union leaders in new conspiracy against striking Michelin workers
- Study paints disturbing picture of Long COVID in early childhood
- Mass protests across Europe after Israeli forces seize Freedom Flotilla boat with aid for Gaza
- Trump escalates coup by sending Marines to Los Angeles
- Coventry bin workers speak on strike-breaking by Labour authority in 2022 and Unite’s sellout deal: “We need to take back the power”
- Trump begins new travel ban
- Petty-bourgeois nationalism vs. Trotskyism: Brazil’s Workers Cause Party (PCO) defends Erdoğan’s repression in Turkey–Part 1
2025-06-11
- Arbitrator-dictated contract imposed on rail workers after Canadian government’s strike ban
- Trump’s Fort Bragg rant: A declaration of war on the American people
- Detroit memorial for René Lichtman, Holocaust survivor and ardent opponent of Israeli genocide in Gaza
- Texas Republicans strip immigrant college students of eligibility for in-state tuition
- NATO chief Rutte says Europe’s social spending must be gutted to pay for war
- Cummins engine and parts workers in Wisconsin and Indiana vote down concessions contracts
- Australia: Electricity prices to rise by up to 10 percent
- Ukraine war escalates, as Russia warns of nuclear war should peace talks fail
- UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir while greenlighting Israel’s starvation of Gaza
- Stagecoach West Scotland drivers launch six-week strike
- Kennedy’s purge of ACIP vaccine panel signals deepening attack on public health
- Union calls off strike of 350 New Jersey nurses, attempts to impose contract
- Rapper Doechii denounces Trump’s drive toward dictatorship; Green Day, Fineas O'Connell, Florence Pugh and others condemn ICE
- Despised ex-Australian PM awarded highest official honour
- Seven Days in May (1964): When American filmmaking envisioned a military coup
- Framework deal to maintain US-China trade truce
- American Postal Workers Union announces sellout tentative agreement
- Defying police rampage, tens of thousands across US protest immigration Gestapo and Trump’s coup plotting
- No censorship of anti-war events! Defend freedom of expression at Berlin’s Humboldt University!
- Devastating hospital fire in Hamburg raises issues of safety and staffing
2025-06-12
- Charges laid over deaths in New Zealand hostel fire
- Documenting the human toll of the Gaza genocide
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump administration carries out large-scale workplace raids as deployment of military to US cities continues
- Merz government tightens migration policy and arms police
- From classroom to war economy: Trump’s youth workforce agenda
- Federal judge issues preliminary injunction against detention and removal of Mahmoud Khalil
- US Justice Department indicts Rep. LaMonica McIver over confrontation at immigrant prison
- The Democratic Party and Trump’s coup
- Trump administration amplifies white supremacist propaganda, as anti-ICE protests spread
- Number and wealth of UK billionaires soars as poverty deepens
2025-06-13
- Australia: Rich List highlights soaring wealth of billionaires
- German ruling class shows sympathy for Trump’s dictatorial plans
- UAW hails Trump tariffs, remains silent on coup after GM announces $4 billion “commitment” to auto production in the US
- California Senator Alex Padilla violently assaulted by federal agents during Kristi Noem press conference
- The enemy of culture Trump at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Boos, cheers, suggestions of blacklisting actors who refused to perform
- Israel launches attack on Iran’s nuclear program
- Kennedy appoints vaccine skeptics and anti-science zealots after purge of immunization advisory panel
- Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!
- Judge rebukes Trump’s seizure of California National Guard, orders return to Newsom
- UK coroner rules that Jodey Whiting suicide was triggered by the DWP’s wrongful removal of welfare benefits
- West Coast truck drivers sounding the alarm on plummeting work and looming shortages
- CIA Democrat wins New Jersey nomination for governor
- OSHA denies request for information on death of Toledo Jeep worker Antonio Gaston
- World Bank slashes global growth forecast
- John McDonnell proposes to save the Labour Party from Starmer
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