Archive: 08/2025
2025-08-01
- UCLA agrees to $6 million settlement with Zionist plaintiffs as repression intensifies against pro-Palestinian students
- Shamenia Stewart-Adams, widow of Ronald Adams Sr.: “Our family is demanding the truth”
- Stop Israel’s imperialist-backed starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza!
- Anger erupts as strike by 2,100 miners in Turkey is effectively banned
- Kremlin steps up internet censorship
- Worker killed at Michigan LG Energy battery plant
- Buzz Hargrove and the rotten corporatist legacy of the Canadian Auto Workers—Part 2
- Sri Lankan SEP and estate workers action committee intensifies defence of victimised Alton workers
- Family, lawyers and community members demand freedom for falsely imprisoned Korean American scientist Tae Heung “Will” Kim
- Providence, Rhode Island: Butler Hospital workers overwhelmingly reject management’s “last, best and final offer”
- Detroit Opera cancels season opener as Trump’s cuts impact cultural life across Michigan
- Wes Streeting boasts of Labour government’s war on resident doctors
- New Zealand nurses strike against wage cuts, staffing crisis
- Vernon, California: The company town where Brayan Neftali Otoniel Canu Joj was killed
- Students speak out about impact of Australian university job cuts
- Facing attacks from billionaires, Mamdani reassures ruling class by embracing police
- German government adopts 2026 budget: Rearmament and social cutbacks
- Angola’s MPLA regime kills 22 anti-austerity protestors, arrests 1,200
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese prime minister under pressure to resign
- Germany deports family to Iraq despite legal ruling declaring they can remain
2025-08-02
- Secretive overhaul of New Zealand terror law targets protests
- Trump enacts tariffs, sanctions state officials and invokes “national emergency” against Brazil
- Australia: Winter surge of respiratory disease ignored by government
- Texas flood hearings reveal widespread failures in response and prevention while leaving Abbott and Trump blameless
- The lessons of the Philadelphia municipal strike and the way forward
- Readers protest against the closure of Mehring Verlag’s bank account
- US Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee praises IDF and GHF killers in visit to Gaza
- Initial results of the IWA-RFC investigation into the death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- The militarist agenda at the centre of Trump’s tariff war against the world
- Family of Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre raises: What did Trump know and when did he know it?
- With the state killing of Edward Zakrzewski, Florida on track to execute 11 death row inmates in 2025
2025-08-03
2025-08-04
- Trump fires Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner following negative July jobs report
- Stater Bros. workers vote overwhelmingly to strike as UFCW moves to sabotage struggle
- This week in history: August 4-10
- Australian childcare worker explains unsafe conditions
- Trump announces US submarine deployments in nuclear war threat against Russia
- Thousands of Boeing fighter jet workers strike in St. Louis
- Trump targets Social Security for privatization
- 100,000 march across Sydney Harbour Bridge demanding end to Gaza genocide
- Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal: Allegations point to police involvement
- High Court grants permission for legal challenge to Palestine Action ban, with intelligence evidence heard in closed session
- Thailand’s parliament proposes phoney amnesty bill
- “We’re like slaves”: Stellantis Dundee worker testifies at IWA-RFC hearing on death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- Germany: Printing press manufacturer Heidelberg joins in war fever
- Trump’s American-style Gleichschaltung proceeds: The closing down of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
2025-08-05
- Australian workers and youth condemn US-Israeli ongoing genocide in Gaza
- Texas Republicans issue civil arrest warrants, as Democrats flee to block Trump-backed gerrymander
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fascist mobilisations in Britain: For a socialist defence of asylum seekers and refugees!
- Australia: Queensland teachers strike for first time in 16 years
- Israel’s “final decision” for conquest and occupation of Gaza
- As war tensions rise, Australia’s ASIO spy chief ramps up “espionage” scare campaign
- New Zealand trade union endorses government’s war agenda
- The death of autoworker Ronald Adams Sr. and the law of capitalist profit
- Berlin state executive to impose brutal austerity amid rising debt
- Trump administration freezes over $300 million in UCLA research funds in attack on science and dissent
- Israel’s annexation of the West Bank is almost complete
2025-08-06
- Quebec’s ruling elite salivates over huge increase in Canada’s military budget
- Netanyahu meets with military leaders on details of Israeli conquest and annexation of Gaza
- Oppose the far-right takeover of George Mason University!
- Trump threatens FBI “may have to” seize fugitive Texas Democratic state legislators
- Behind Streeting’s smears against resident doctors: Cuts and ramped-up privatisation of the British National Health Service
- Australian “affordable” housing forces workers into financial straits
- Souleymane’s Story: “I don’t know why I came to France”
- Tuberculosis threatens immigrants at Tacoma ICE detention center
- Hamburg dockworker demands union action against genocide in Gaza
- Boeing strike erupts at the heart of the US war machine
- Chinese woman arrested in Australia on charge of “foreign interference”
2025-08-07
- Mass arrest threat, terrorist prosecutions and censorship prior to London protest of Palestine Action proscription
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: Mercedes increases pressure on 40,000 employees to leave the company
- New exposures of far-right activities in Canada’s military and beyond
- University of Michigan holds disciplinary hearings against anti-Gaza genocide protesters
- Tennessee carries out state killing of Byron Black, an intellectually disabled man, amid concerns over a torturous execution
- Protesters speak out against Australian state Labor government’s planned public housing demolition
- Boeing workers connect strike to capitalism and war
- Public meeting discusses how to fight Australian university job cuts
- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cuts funding for mRNA vaccine grants
- Australia: Hundreds protest Labor government plans to demolish Melbourne public housing towers
- An interview with Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler on the impact of Trump’s cuts and privatization on health care
- US, South Korea to “modernize” military alliance as war drive against China accelerates
- 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Los Angeles County CEO unveils sweeping assault on social programs and public health care
- Investigative report exposes Microsoft support for Israeli war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank
- Concerns grow over sacking of BLS commissioner
2025-08-08
- Open Letter by Jewish public figures challenges Starmer government: “Proscribe genocide, not protest”
- Sri Lankan health workers and patients’ relatives denounce public hospital crisis
- Workers and workplace safety experts at the IWA-RFC hearing on death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- South Africa’s ANC government arrests 1,000 miners
- Trump administration announces, then rescinds, pilot program offering ICE agents bonuses for quick deportations
- Venezuelan man nearly dies after being denied medical care at Florida Everglades concentration camp
- Huge Talisman Sabre war games blacked out by Australian media
- House committee subpoenas Epstein files, Bill and Hillary Clinton
- Probe into ICE abuse exposes crimes authorized by Congress
- Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition at Tate Modern
- Workers must mobilise to halt the Zionist/imperialist extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- FBI opens office in New Zealand
- Poor classroom air quality endangers students and educators in Australia
- What way forward for postal workers after the rejection of Canada Post’s concessions-laden contract?
2025-08-09
- Australia: Queensland teachers walk off the job for the first time in 16 years
- Trump orders federal police mobilization in Washington DC
- From Los Angeles to Ukraine: The continuation of the war raises new horizons for social struggle
- Italian dockworkers block Saudi ship carrying weapons for Israel
- Six UAW locals approve charges against President Fain as bitter infighting erupts within union bureaucracy
- New Zealand government legislates to restrict voting rights
- Trump imposes 50 percent tariff on India, demands radical downgrading of its ties to Russia
- Israel formally adopts plan to occupy all of Gaza
- Workers internationally state support for IWA-RFC hearing on the death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- German actors, musicians demand Chancellor Merz take action to prevent Israeli atrocities in Gaza
- Germany supplies Kiev with more Patriot systems, rearms for war as it did under Hitler
- US imposes 20 percent tariff on Sri Lanka
2025-08-10
2025-08-11
- Voices Without Faces: “I don’t exist there, nor do I exist here” — A mother and daughter speak out against the war on immigrants
- 75 years since Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard: The cruelty of the motion picture business
- 182 Royal Ballet and Opera staff denounce “genocide in Gaza,” forcing cancellation of Tel Aviv Tosca production
- Inquest into the police killing of Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker
- Fight Starmer’s police state—Build a movement in the working class!
- International statements of solidarity to IWA-RFC hearing into the death of Ronald Adams Sr.
- Nearly 400 “voluntary redundancies” sought at Western Sydney University
- Renowned Palestinian footballer Suleiman al-Obeid murdered by Israel at aid distribution site
- Gunman opens fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- This week in history: August 11-17
- Canyon Fire ignites in Southern California, echoes January’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires
- Vote No on the UFCW’s sellout tentative agreement with Safeway in northern California!
- Washington and Brazilian fascists escalate attacks after Bolsonaro’s arrest
- Israel murders 6 journalists, as Netanyahu says annexation of Gaza will proceed “swiftly”
- Germany temporarily halts arms deliveries to Israel: Chancellor Merz gives himself an alibi
- New revelations confirm DHS cover-up in near-death of Venezuelan detainee Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez
- Trump ends collective bargaining for 370,000 federal workers
- Blackwater founder Erik Prince pitches deployment of US mercenaries to South America
2025-08-12
- US Customs and Border Protection agents violently arrest Los Angeles nurse monitoring ICE operations
- New Zealand government snubs Cook Islands’ 60th anniversary celebration
- Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake government announces market-driven education reforms
- Mexico’s Sheinbaum orders arrest of prominent immigrant rights activist in bow to Trump
- Declining birth rate highlights impact of government cuts and corporate profiteering on UK families
- Trump extends China tariff war truce
- Australian government to “recognise” Palestine, as it continues to support Gaza genocide
- EU denounces Trump-Putin talks in Alaska over Ukraine
- At least 1 worker dead, 10 injured in massive explosion at US Steel plant in Pennsylvania
- Pentagon again demands higher Australian military spending
- Trump orders police-military takeover of Washington D.C.
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Oppose sellout of resident doctors by the BMA: for a unified struggle of NHS workers against Starmer government
- No contract offer in sight as Philadelphia public school teachers press for August 31 strike
- Homeless population in Canada’s largest city doubles in less than four years
2025-08-13
- Australia’s central bank cuts rates marginally, warning again of world “uncertainty”
- DHS cover-up continues as outbreak spreads at Florida Everglades concentration camp
- Australia: NSW doctors oppose meagre Labor government pay offer
- UK Labour government doubles down on criminalising opposition to Gaza genocide
- Washington Post publishes government plans for deployment of troops to cities across the US
- The Clairton Coke Works disaster: Social murder in Pennsylvania
- The 2025 Boeing strike and the lessons of the 2014 contract extension
- Worldwide condemnation of Israel’s targeted murder of Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif
- South Korean online retail workers to hold one-day strike
2025-08-14
- Germany’s media place the rapper Macklemore in its crosshairs
- Socialist Equality Party holds International Summer School on Security and the Fourth International
- New Zealand woman and 6-year-old son detained by ICE
- The work of theatre director Robert Wilson (1941-2025)
- Wildfires hit France, Spain and entire Mediterranean rim of Europe
- Deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in low-income neighborhoods of New York City
- Sri Lankan army suspected over death of Tamil man in Mullaitivu
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- With union’s approval, Irvington, New Jersey letter carriers work in filthy, hazardous post office
- Teachers union executives maintain alliance with Zionist Anti-Defamation League
- Controversy over Trump’s new Bureau of Labor Statistics chief
- Supreme Court poised to revisit and potentially overturn marriage equality
- Africa and Asia face rising hunger as giant grain traders and food corporations rake in profits
- Trump seeks “long-term” military-police control of Washington D.C.
- The place of Security and the Fourth International in the history of the Trotskyist movement
- Fatalities in maritime industry show the urgent need for rank-and-file action
- CBO report: Trump’s Robin Hood-in-reverse law takes from the poor and gives to the rich
- European imperialists dampen their conflict with US ahead of Trump-Putin summit
- Netanyahu reiterates call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza
2025-08-15
- New Zealand teachers to strike over 1 percent pay offer
- California company receives probation and fine for two workers suffocated in 2020 nitrogen leak
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Royal Mail workers challenge CWU’s claim of a “no strings” pay deal with billionaire Kretinsky
- In run-up to Trump-Putin talks, Russian offensive encircles Ukrainian units in Pokrovsk
- Union Pacific train derails near Dallas, Texas carrying hazardous materials
- Family of Toledo Jeep worker Antonio Gaston files lawsuit for wrongful death, citing Stellantis safety violations
- Trump orders Pentagon to use military force against Latin American drug cartels
- More Trump thuggery as Border Patrol goons threaten Democrats in downtown Los Angeles
- IAM bureaucracy appeals to fascist Senator Hawley to intervene in Boeing strike
- Germany pledges additional military aid for Ukraine and spearheads European rearmament drive
- Trump’s tariffs: A war against the working class
- Australia: Police officers jailed over assault of mentally ill woman in Western Sydney
- Air Canada demands government intervention against 10,000 flight attendants set to strike Saturday
- Lula’s “Security Bill” strengthens police state in Brazil
- Britain’s National Union of Students targets opposition to Gaza genocide amid growing movement for disaffiliation
- New Zealand and Australian leaders discuss stronger military ties against China
- “This could have been prevented”: Clairton steelworkers speak out after deadly plant explosion
- UK Defence Secretary John Healey pledges troops on the ground in Ukraine
2025-08-16
- Continuing Biden’s policy, Trump Labor Department rejects Will Lehman’s UAW election complaint
- Trump and Putin make no meaningful announcements at Alaska summit
- Australia: Deadly Grosvenor coal mine prepares to reopen with union support
- ICE raids intensify in San Diego as Democrats, trade unions do nothing
- Hundreds attend viewings for Timothy Quinn, steelworker killed in Clairton explosion
- How the far-right AfD shapes German government policy
- EW4D holds Indianapolis rally to dissipate opposition of Kroger workers to UFCW sellout contracts
- Boeing workers: Organize to expand the strike under rank-and-file control!
- Death rate for US children surges 25 percent in 10 years
- Russian soprano Anna Netrebko facing continued blacklisting threat
- Zohran Mamdani’s establishment credibility gets a boost from Obama
2025-08-18
- UK Starmer government deports more asylum seekers and migrant workers
- For a socialist perspective against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany!
- Nearly 1 million Israelis demonstrate, calling for hostage deal and end to Gaza war
- COVID-19 most likely causing superspreader event at Alligator Alcatraz
- Philadelphia region transit system begins to enact “doomsday” budget cuts
- Corporate whitewash underway: US Steel calls actions leading to deadly explosion at Clairton facility “planned maintenance”
- Australia: Unions agree to facilitate sweeping job cuts at Western Sydney University
- 52-year-old Guatemalan father killed on Los Angeles freeway fleeing ICE raid at Home Depot
- Pseudo-left Socialist Alliance seeks to divert opposition to Gaza genocide behind Australian Labor government
- Air Canada flight attendants defy Liberal government strikebreaking order
- FEMA staff shifted to immigration hiring duties amid peak hurricane season
- This week in history: August 18-24
- Roger Waters’ remarkable This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague concert film: A warning and call to action
- Sinners: A racialist horror show
- Governments of Colombia and Peru exploit border dispute to promote national chauvinism
- The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and the shift in American geostrategy
- Wildfires fueled by climate change devastate Spain
- Sri Lanka: SEP bids farewell to long-standing Trotskyist Ananda Daulagala
- DSA’s 2025 convention: Left cover for the Democratic Party
- Democrats downplay Republican governors joining Trump’s military occupation of Washington
2025-08-19
- Australian university union admits to over 3,500 job cuts
- Remarks to the Third International Commemoration of Leon Trotsky held on Prinkipo
- Despite Trump’s “deals,” confusion reigns over tariffs
- Glasgow Village Hotel workers in month-long strike
- 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants defy Liberal back-to-work order for second day
- Striking Boeing workers in St. Louis speak out against poverty pay, IAM bureaucrats
- A socialist perspective for mass student meetings in Australia against the Gaza genocide
- Education instead of war! Skilled workers instead of austerity measures for our nurseries and day-care centres!
- Crisis summit at White House over Ukraine war riven by divisions
- Trump’s EPA grants email exemptions to California polluters, accelerating environmental destruction
- Sri Lankan government fails to condemn Israel’s planned seizure of Gaza
- National strike by public employees in Turkey
- Profits for shareholders, pink slips for workers: John Deere cuts 238 jobs
- The decline of geographic and job mobility in the United States: A symptom of capitalism’s deepening crisis
- Texas Democrats end stunt as Gov. Newsom advances his own gerrymandering gambit
- Armed National Guard troops to begin patrols in Washington, D.C.
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Air Canada workers defy back-to-work order: A turning point in the global class struggle
- Australian Labor government maintains military exports for Israeli war machine
- Swedish advanced battery maker Northvolt purchased by US competitor
- Royal College of Nursing blocks pay fight against Starmer government
2025-08-20
- Romanian farmworker Gheorghe Vranciu dies amid record heat wave in Spain
- Far right regaining power in Bolivia after collapse of Movement Toward Socialism (MAS)
- German government plans to cut housing support amid drastically rising rents
- Trump calls for banning all mail-in ballot voting
- Defying rank-and-file push for strike, UFCW bureaucrats bring third tentative agreement for Indiana Kroger workers
- Air Canada workers denounce government strikebreaking from the picket line: “There is no right to strike in Canada”
- The theory of Permanent Revolution and the origins of Trotskyism
- Australia: Writers boycott Bendigo Writers Festival over pro-Zionist “code of conduct”
- Judge hears arguments on legality of British prosecution of Kneecap’s Mo Chara
- The stock market fever chart
- Wet Leg, Juan Wauters and Aesop Rock in their own separate worlds
- Thousands of Sri Lankan postal workers remain on strike, defying government threats
- CUPE suppresses Air Canada flight attendants strike in late-night backroom deal
- On the 85th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- New Zealand government “considering” recognition of Palestine, as it continues to back Gaza genocide
- White House summit exposes deep rift within NATO
- Two firefighters killed in Osaka inferno: A warning of deepening social crisis in Japan
- Australian university and high school students strike against the Gaza genocide
2025-08-21
- Two South Korean railway workers killed
- Spain’s neo-fascist Vox party launches anti-Muslim campaign
- One month after Cleveland Cliffs Dearborn Works layoffs, UAW stages token protest
- Pacific Islands Forum embroiled in dispute over Taiwan
- Israel launches onslaught against Gaza City
- Australian state Labor government invoking neo-Nazi march to justify sweeping anti-protest laws
- What is the Permanent Revolution?
- Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
- Trump eliminates funding for federal agency investigating Clairton Coke Works explosion
- Immigrant dairy workers strike to stop Wisconsin cheese company from violating their basic rights
- Kenya’s National People’s Council: A petty-bourgeois nationalist trap for the Gen Z revolt
- Trump’s military grip tightens on Washington
- Coal barge catches fire in Baltimore Harbor
- Ananda Daulagala (1948–2025), a longstanding Trotskyist leader in Sri Lanka
- US government revives McCarthyite bans on socialism, imposes ideological litmus test on immigrants
2025-08-22
- Massachusetts: 326,000 could lose health insurance in the next decade with passage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill
- Germany’s Left Party fuels the NATO war on Russia
- Australia: NSW Labor government slashes art gallery jobs and programs
- The Revolutionary Communist Party and Corbyn and Sultana’s new party: Naked opportunism and political amnesia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Philadelphia teachers: Prepare for a struggle—break the cycle of sellout, unite the working class, and build rank-and-file power!
- The political lessons of Netanyahu’s fascistic tirades against Australian Prime Minister Albanese
- Autoworkers speak on the investigation into the death of Dundee Engine worker Ronald Adams Sr. and continuing industrial carnage
- Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour: A political trap to promote the Democratic Party
- The origins of COVID-19 and the politics of the “lab-leak” myth: A discussion with science writer Philipp Markolin
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Trump administration to begin continuous police-state surveillance of 55 million US visa holders
- As Boeing strike enters third week, rank-and-file opposition to IAM bureaucracy grows
- Sharp tensions lodged within Jackson Hole central bankers’ conclave
- Details of CUPE’s sellout of Air Canada workers emerge, as pseudo-left seeks to conceal union bureaucracy’s betrayal
- Israel as a matter of German state policy: The myth of reparations
- Japan to sell advanced naval frigates to Australia
- US deploys Marines, landing craft in escalating threat to Venezuela
2025-08-23
- 20,000 New Zealand high school teachers strike
- Famine officially declared in Gaza
- No to US imperialist aggression against Venezuela! For the unity of the working class across the Americas!
- Suspect in Nord Stream pipeline explosion arrested
- Australia: Disability services cuts spearhead Labor’s productivity “roundtable”
- A summer of sellouts: UFCW pushes through three grocery contracts in one week amid growing rank-and-file resistance
- Confusion, unclarified issues and a gaping hole in this year’s Berlin Biennale art exhibition
- Trump-Putin summit exposes Mélenchon’s New Popular Front
- FBI raids home and office of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton
- Pentagon authorizes DC Guard contingent to carry weapons of war as Trump threatens martial law in Chicago, San Francisco, New York
- Gas exposure at Colorado dairy farm kills 6
2025-08-24
- Origins of the Left Opposition: From Lenin’s Last Struggle to the fight against “Socialism in One Country”
- 29 immigrant workers arrested and 3 injured in latest ICE raid in New Jersey; Democrats complicit
- “It is time for us to build towards a general strike”: Letter from former steel worker on the Clairton Coke Works explosion
- The World of Debt: “Stark disparities and systemic inequalities” in the world of public debt
2025-08-25
- Take up the fight for socialism! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship, genocide, and world war!
- Large marches in Australia voice hostility to Labor’s role in Gaza genocide
- This week in history: August 25-31
- Famine claims lives of 289 Gazans as Israel attacks Gaza City
- Bernie Sanders’ Mission Impossible: Save the Democratic Party
- Pentagon’s secret plans to send troops into Chicago
- Fed chair shifts toward interest rate cut
- German military prepares the municipalities for war
- Anti-genocide protesters attacked and beaten at St. Louis town hall event for Democrat Wesley Bell
- Tom Lehrer, satirical singer-songwriter of the 1960s, is dead at 97
- Ukrainian government proposes prison sentences for illegal border crossings
- New Caledonia’s pro-independence FLNKS rejects French-led agreement
- Voices Without Faces: “We are workers, not criminals!” — A DACA recipient speaks on fear, family and solidarity
- Britain’s ruling elite set out to create a fascist movement
2025-08-26
- Trump issues executive order to prepare military intervention in multiple US cities
- Denver teachers vote on new contract as opposition mounts to union concessions
- President Sheinbaum minimizes growing US threats to bomb Mexico
- Clairton workers expose conditions behind fatal blast as USW officials defend US Steel
- Separatist Parti Quebecois wins third by-election in a row as crisis of right-wing CAQ government deepens
- Australian workers and youth denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza at mass protests
- Famine and mass murder in Gaza: A crime of Zionism and world imperialism
- Philadelphia teachers union announces tentative agreement with no details a week before contract expires for 14,000 educators
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Federal court strikes down Texas “Ten Commandments” law
- Worker deaths at Enaex and Bridgestone expose brutal working conditions in Brazil
- How teachers can fight to defend public education
- Reform UK leader Farage unveils mass migrant deportations plan
- France summons US Ambassador Kushner over claim its call for Palestinian state is antisemitic
- Festival censorship of Mary Wallopers over Gaza protest backfires
- Germany’s warmongering Greens demand more weapons for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians
- Trump administration re-imprisons Abrego García, initiates plans to deport him to Uganda
- Chinese scientist at University of Michigan enters “no contest” plea despite Fifth Amendment violations
- The gerrymandering wars and the breakdown of American democracy
- Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested
- Australia: Western Sydney University announces deep job cuts after deal with unions
- Artificial Intelligence in the entertainment industry and the necessary socialist response
2025-08-27
- With the Lisa Cook sacking Trump steps up drive to take over Federal Reserve
- Australian government provocatively accuses Iran of antisemitic attacks
- France’s Bayrou government set to fall in September vote, as strikes against austerity loom
- Chancellor Merz declares Germany “can no longer afford the welfare state”
- Nikolaev appeals court rules to prolong detention of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
- GE Aerospace workers in Ohio and Kentucky face midnight strike deadline
- The corporate-financial interests behind Trump’s executive orders to deploy the National Guard in US cities
- Australian higher education providers exploit childcare staffing crisis
- Volkswagen: Opposition to layoffs and cuts is growing
- Plant explosion in Roseland, Louisiana threatens local air and water quality
- With Finance Minister's Ukraine visit, Germany escalates war with Russia and austerity at home
- Australia: IYSSE at Western Sydney University presents a socialist perspective to fight Gaza genocide
- Terence Stamp (1938-2025): A supremely intelligent actor
- Contract expires for over 60,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers at the end of September
- Zarah Sultana’s bid for leadership of Britain’s new left party: “Corbynism capitulated”
- Minority Leader Jeffries refuses to endorse NY mayoral candidate Mamdani amid deepening Democratic Party crisis
- ICE arrests at Southern California schools terrorize students and parents at start of school year
2025-08-28
- Australian pseudo-left conference: Protest politics and reformist electoral fronts to trap anti-capitalist sentiment
- Continents are drying at an accelerating rate, severely impacting the supply of fresh water
- The 1619 Project revisited: A retrospective evaluation in light of Trump’s assault on democracy
- Sri Lankan union leaders shut down postal strike
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ response to Air Canada flight attendants’ defiance of government strikebreaking: silence
- Democratic National Committee silent on Trump’s military takeover of Washington and plans for troops to US cities
- Oklahoma to impose “America First” loyalty test for teachers from New York and California
- What teachers need to know about the sellout contract in Philadelphia
- Qantas fined $90 million over illegal sacking of 1,800 workers
- Tariffs will pay for tax cuts for the wealthy
- Trump’s 50% tariffs on India take force
- “Plastics crisis” endangers humanity and all aspects of the environment, concludes Lancet study
- Japanese American National Museum rally reveals rising opposition to Trump’s drive toward dictatorship
- 2 children killed and 17 wounded in Minneapolis Catholic school mass shooting
- Genoa dockworkers confront Bahri Logistics over weapons shipments amid Middle East wars
- Death toll from Gaza mass starvation hits 313
- A coup against science: Kennedy tries to push out CDC director, four other public health officials resign
- The economic strategy of Leon Trotsky
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2025-08-29
- Former Fed chair warns Trump’s sacking of Fed governor “profoundly dangerous” for US credibility
- New Zealand intelligence report accuses China of “foreign interference”
- The growing wave of workplace deaths in Italy and the need to build Rank-and-File Committees
- German cabinet agrees to new Military Service Law and installs National War Council
- Guards riot, beat immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp in Florida Everglades
- Boeing strike at the crossroads: IAM officials appeal for Trump intervention while starving workers out on the picket line
- Sri Lanka: SEP holds online public meeting on postal workers’ strike
- US rail companies refuse to adopt improved safety policies, prompting FRA to dissolve safety working group formed after East Palestine disaster
- Kiev attack and NATO escalation threaten direct war between Russia and Europe
- Carney’s European tour deepens Canada’s war drive and sets the stage for austerity at home
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kennedy’s firing of CDC director: A coup against science and public health
- GE Aerospace workers walk out as defense industry strikes spread
- Australian defence minister visits Washington to desperately seek Trump-Albanese meeting
- CWU rams through pro-company agreements at Royal Mail off historic low voter turnout
- UK Court of Appeal overturns High Court Epping hotel asylum seeker ban
- How Australia’s pseudo-left Socialist Alternative covers for the union bureaucracy
- 1,400 University of Minnesota workers ready to strike as Teamsters bureaucracy holds them back
- 100 years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
2025-08-30
- Republicans, fascists, Musk exploit Minneapolis school massacre to escalate anti-trans campaign
- 1,400 school workers strike Evergreen Public Schools in Washington state
- Israel moves into the ground phase of the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza City
- Australian government moves to axe legal rights for mass deportations to Nauru
- 20 years since Hurricane Katrina
- Trump administration launches bigoted assault on education and democratic rights in Northern Virginia
- South Korean president holds first summit with Trump
- Alleged ambush of police by “sovereign citizen” highlights danger of Australian far right
- Prepare a general strike, bring down Macron, halt the war escalation in Europe!
- Philadelphia teachers union rams through contract in sham vote
- Kennedy’s COVID vaccine restrictions and CDC purge endanger millions amid new pandemic wave
- Global Sumud Flotilla to set sail from European and Tunisian ports against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
- A week of protests in Indonesia fuelled by glaring social inequality
- 3 Texas workers killed by toxic gas at sewer plant
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