Archive: 02/2026
2026-02-01
- Lecture at the University of Michigan on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra
- Third “Megapicket” held in Birmingham refuse workers strike as union bureaucracy appeals to Starmer
- Birmingham bin workers defiant on the picket line
- Measles outbreak rips through Dilley child detention center, as nationwide epidemic deepens
2026-02-02
- Europe’s imperialist powers line up behind regime change in Iran
- Major financial oligarchs helped Kevin Warsh secure Trump’s nomination for Fed chair
- Epstein files reveal criminality of American oligarchy
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani praises NYPD shooting of emotionally distressed 22-year-old
- Senate Democratic leadership votes to fund Trump’s wars abroad and at home
- “Obey now. Grieve later”: Teachers unions suppress resistance to fascism
- Australian PM invites Canadian leader to visit
- This week in history: February 2-8
- Australia: Writers Victoria to close as state Labor government slashes arts funding
- Venezuela privatizes oil at US gunpoint: The dead end of “21st Century Socialism”
- Five workers killed because Greek biscuit factory was a death trap following years of safety violations
- Deadly landslide in West Java exposes consequences of government neglect
- Workers and young people in the UK speak on Gaza and Minneapolis
- New York nurses: Expand the strike to defeat mass firing threats from management!
- 2 months after Cyclone Ditwah: Sri Lanka’s humanitarian catastrophe continues
2026-02-03
- The new Dutch coalition government: A minority war cabinet in the service of capital
- ICE arrests man in raid of Amazon facility in Hazel Park, Michigan
- Australian Labor government policy drives up housing prices
- Hailing Stalin, Kenyan Stalinists defend Venezuelan regime’s growing ties to Trump
- As the US prepares war against Iran, NATO ally Türkiye attempts to mediate
- Sri Lankan government imposes “essential services” laws
- Indonesian stock market plunge indicates deepening economic turmoil
- Oil companies demand surrender, but USW keeps 30,000 refinery workers on the job after contract expires
- The mass surveillance infrastructure of Trump’s assault on immigrants and protesters
- Trump SNAP cuts take effect: 2.4 million people at risk of losing food assistance by 2034
- Trump-aligned candidate wins Costa Rican presidency exposing bankruptcy of Pink Tide
- Despite overwhelming strike vote, union keeps 650 nurses on the job at Boston Medical Center Brighton
- Coalition break-up expresses crisis of Australia’s two-party system
- Journalists identify Alex Pretti’s killers as immigration Gestapo continues nationwide terror campaign
- Striking workers speak from picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum for England:
- Deepening poverty in the UK under Starmer Labour government says major charity
- Measles outbreak at Dilley concentration camp: An indictment of Trump’s war on immigrants and public health
- Mediterranean dockworkers prepare International Day of Protest against escalating global war
- Warning strikes in Germany’s public transport: Break the control of the Verdi union bureaucracy! Build independent action committees!
- Music and recording artists denounce ICE and defend immigrants at 2026 Grammys
- Ferry sinks in Philippines killing 42, dozens more missing
- Kaiser healthcare strike enters second week as new walkouts loom nationwide
- How to carry out the rebellion against the IG Metall trade union in Germany
2026-02-04
- Canada’s Unifor union urges conversion of auto plant to war production
- 71-year-old subcontractor killed after falling into industrial vat at New Jersey chemical plant
- Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for Israeli president
- University of Sheffield lock-out of staff adhering to action short of striking
- Students, faculty protest against academic censorship at Texas A&M University
- Strikes and protests on the rise as Germany’s hospital sector faces growing crisis
- Protests erupt in Italy against ICE presence at Winter Olympics in Milan
- The US nurses’ strikes and the call for a general strike against Trump: How workers must prepare
- Trump calls for federal seizure of elections while directing FBI agents in Fulton County, Georgia
- The European Film Awards favour films celebrating family (Sentimental) values and “dancing in the face of oblivion”
- Sri Lankan court hearing on violent 2023 assault on SEP members
- Australian interest rate hike hits working-class households
- National Education Union ends Midlands, England teachers’ strike following agreement with Trust
- NYSNA seeks to undermine nurses strike as hospitals move to replace workers
- Epstein scandal engulfs Labour’s Peter Mandelson and former Prince Andrew, threatening Starmer
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- House Democrats ensure funding of Trump’s global military rampage and domestic dictatorship
- Washington escalates aggression against Mexico in bid to impose rule over the Americas
- Switzerland: Fire disaster in Crans-Montana claims 41st victim
2026-02-05
- Jury acquits Palestine Action’s Filton 6, dealing blow to Labour’s “terrorism” narrative
- Trump welcomes Colombian President Petro at the White House after military threats
- Build rank-and-file committees at Australian universities to fight job destruction and pro-war restructuring
- Washington Post slashes one-third of its newsroom, as 2026 jobs bloodbath continues
- Kaiser Permanente pays $556 million for Medicare fraud while claiming there is no money for striking workers
- Communication Worker Union’s Martin Walsh opposes call for rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: National Cabinet agrees on plan to drive tens of thousands of children off NDIS disability support
- Greek Coast Guard rams refugee boat, killing and injuring dozens
- IG Metall boss calls for protectionism and trade war
- Trump prepares to rig—or cancel—the 2026 elections
2026-02-06
- Trump calls for country to “move on” from Epstein files, as scale and scope of criminality, cover-up expand
- No Other Choice from South Korea: Doesn’t “necessity knows no law” cut both ways?
- Layoffs by US firms tripled in January, as mass job cuts accelerate to Great Recession levels
- Washington pressures Mexico to halt supply of oil to Cuba
- Resident doctors in England renew strike mandate for pay restoration and to end employment crisis
- Trump falsifies the history of the Mexican-American War
- New York City nurses arrested as Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul escalate pressure to end 4-week strike
- Hundreds of ABP meat packers in Dungannon, Northern Ireland facing redundancy
- Turkish CHP holds “Social Peace and Democracy Conference”
- Australia: Labor government pressing ahead with demolition of Melbourne public housing towers
- Trump’s “critical minerals” conference aimed against China
- Mamdani caps one month of betrayal with endorsement of right-wing Democrat Kathy Hochul
- California worker killed in US Foods distribution facility
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- 1,200 autoworkers in Canada lose their jobs as GM ends third shift at Oshawa Assembly Plant
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