Archive: 04/2026
2026-04-01
- Germany’s chemical industry: Union agrees to a cut in real wages
- Dolores Huerta’s allegations against Cesar Chavez and the political bankruptcy of the United Farm Workers
- Australian government distances itself from illegal war on Iran that it supports
- Palestine Solidarity Duisburg: Ahmad Othman wins again in court against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Bath Iron Works naval shipyard strike betrayed as UAW subordinates workers to the war effort
- Joint statement by 11 parties in Türkiye: The “peace and democracy” deception amid the imperialist war of aggression in the Middle East
- Australia: What has happened to the enterprise agreement at Western Sydney University?
- US begins B-52 bombing flights over Iran after Trump threatens to “completely obliterate” civilian infrastructure
- Hegseth’s insider war investments and the character of the American ruling class
- Zionist assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani is a warning to the working class
- The Iran war and the erosion of international law
- Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026): The philosopher who chose the state
- “Americans don’t want this war”: Protesters at “No Kings” rallies speak out
- Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights: Is this all that we can expect?
- Workers strike auto parts manufacturer in Findlay, Ohio
- Gino Paoli, leading voice of postwar Italian popular music, dies at 91
- Ash Field School support staff vote for strikes to oppose victimization of Unison rep Tom Barker
2026-04-02
- Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan reject UAW sellout deal in near unanimous vote
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- GM hits Factory Zero workers with another layoff as UAW maintains silence over escalating job cuts
- Conviction of UK Palestine Coalition leaders Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham criminalises anti-genocide protest
- Asian economies taking a double hit from US war on Iran
- Teamsters block DHL strike with tentative agreement one day before deadline
- Italy restricts US military access as crisis deepens within NATO and Meloni government amid rising opposition
- In genocidal rant, Trump vows to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”
- Pseudo-lefts work to chain Mexico’s strike wave to US-trained union apparatus
- Violent arrests follow police rampage at Sydney anti-genocide protest
- Britain hosts Strait of Hormuz crisis summit amid breakdown of relations with US
- The unspoken target of Trump’s war on Iran—China
- Trump attacks citizenship and voting rights
- Oracle reported to lay off up to 30,000 workers globally via email
- Crimes against peace: The Nuremberg Trials precedent and the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran
- Israel adopts the death penalty only for Palestinians
2026-04-03
- NASA’s Artemis II launches crew to the Moon for first time in 54 years
- The war against Iran and the normalisation of war crimes
- The disinterest of Australian pseudo-left Socialist Alternative in the war on Iran
- “In 4 years I’ll be making the exact same amount I was making 20 years ago”: Nexteer Automotive workers in Michigan denounce UAW sellout, Trump's war in Iran
- Germany: Government commission on the future of health insurance funds declares war on the working class
- Dismissal of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons provokes uproar
- Spain’s Workers’ Revolutionary Current channels anti-war sentiment behind social democrats, pseudo-left parties and union bureaucracy
- End the politically motivated prosecution of Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan!
- “Four Corners” covers up Labor and union role in Australian university restructuring
- The American Hitler and the morality of the ruling class
- Trump says workers must pay for imperialist war with cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and daycare
- University of Michigan Chinese researcher takes his own life after interrogation by federal agents
- New Zealand government, media discourage vaccination amid COVID wave
- Australia: Labor government targets the elderly in public housing tower demolition
- Trump fires Bondi as US Attorney General
- Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
2026-04-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Wave of job cuts in New Zealand
- Australian Labor government secretly sends SAS to join the war against Iran
- UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman calls for support for Nexteer workers
- “Left populist” Avi Lewis wins race to lead Canada’s social-democratic NDP
- Sri Lankan Tamil bourgeois parties support US-Israeli war on Iran
- US special forces launch rescue operation inside Iran after downing of US fighter jet
- South Korean factory fire investigation exposes indifference to safety
- Armed ICE officers remain at airports
- Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health
- Where is America Going? Lively interest in book presentations with David North in Leipzig, Berlin and Nuremberg
- Berlinale Retrospective: A look back at the fall of the Berlin Wall—“Lost in the 90s”
- Trump’s plan to fund world war through social counter-revolution
2026-04-05
- UCLA reports expose explosive growth of student homelessness in Los Angeles County
- Book review: American Midnight: The Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
- Resident doctor appeals for a unified fightback against Starmer government threats
- Danish pseudo-left lines up with European imperialism against US over Greenland
2026-04-06
- Sri Lankan workers and students discuss the US-Israel war on Iran and how to stop it
- This week in history: April 6-12
- Writers Guild of America suddenly announces new contract with studios
- Trump’s threats to destroy Iran and the breakdown of American democracy
- UK: Labour’s Universal Credit Act set to throw hundreds of thousands into deeper poverty
- ICE presence increasing at Michigan healthcare facilities
- The Wuhan “lab leak” fraud and the institutionalization of anti-science: An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak
- UFCW preparing to sell out 3-week strike by JBS meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado
- Australia: Labor government conducts police raids against anti-genocide protesters in Melbourne
- US, Israel wreak further damage on Iran’s cultural heritage
- Union pushes through pay cut for New Zealand primary teachers
2026-04-07
- One year since the death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr.: Family demands answers as MIOSHA investigation blocked
- Germany’s ultra-right culture minister Weimer continues his rampage against freedom of art and expression
- NASA’s Artemis II completes lunar flyby
- Trump sets Tuesday night deadline for the massive war crime against Iran
- Fortress Europe claims 70 more migrant lives in mass drowning in the Mediterranean
- Poll underscores crisis of Australia’s two-party system, rise of One Nation
- Teamsters announce last‑minute agreement for 17,000 First Student school bus drivers
- Union leaders smear resident doctors in Guardian hit piece
- Historical issues in Supreme Court argument on birthright citizenship
- Trump administration unveils plans for “Greater North America” as Iran war roils Latin American economies
- National resident doctors strike in England over pay and jobs
- Concerns over private credit deepen as war on Iran intensifies
- Minneapolis shooting video exposes ICE lies, frame-up of Venezuelan immigrants
- Cover-up of British nuclear testing in the Pacific exposed
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The working class must oppose Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran!
- After our contract rejection we must strike Nexteer to win our demands!
2026-04-08
- New Zealand signs neo-colonial defence deal with Cook Islands
- Suicide of U-M researcher: Stop the persecution of Chinese scientists!
- Reject the Australian Education Union sellout in Tasmania, unify with educators in Victoria, form rank-and file committees!
- Trump follows genocidal threat against Iran with 2-week “ceasefire”
- 3 workers killed in industrial accident at Turkish steel giant
- Italy’s far-right prime minister Meloni makes emergency visit to Persian Gulf amid Iran war
- BP Whiting lockout enters 4th week, as 1,700 Northern Indiana utility workers are locked out
- Court proceedings begin in Greece over 2023 Tempi rail crash deaths
- French government refuses to denounce US threat of genocidal attack on Iran as a war crime
- Pentagon’s fascist revamping of military training program
- JBS meatpacking workers return to work at Greeley, Colorado plant after UFCW sellout of strike
- Liberal government demands jobs bloodbath at Canada Post, as workers prepare to vote on concession-filled contracts
- Scenario (Szenario): A documentary normalises German militarism
- “He needs to be arrested”: US workers denounce Trump’s genocidal threats against Iran
- IMF delegation praises Sri Lankan government’s austerity measures
2026-04-09
- Immigrant senior stripped of Medicare under Trump bill exposes bipartisan assault on social programs
- Armed clash erupts near Israeli consulate in Istanbul
- As Los Angeles educators prepare strike, administrators and union officials meet for emergency talks
- Hungary elections: US Vice President Vance throws his weight behind Orbán
- Project Hail Mary—a hopeful (but somewhat wishful) adventure
- “We do not defend these actions of war and aggression”: US workers denounce Trump’s threats against Iran, demand end to war
- Iran war shock causes IMF to revise down global growth forecast
- Israel bombards Lebanon with 160 missiles within hours of Trump’s ceasefire announcement
- Amid deep divisions over ceasefire agreement, Israel launches massive attack on Lebanon
- As election losses mount, White House pursues ballot-rigging plans
- David North calls for building the anti-war movement in interview with Turkish channel TV5
- Australian special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith charged with war crimes against Afghan civilians
- Japan deploys long-range missiles for the first time
- Nationwide roadblocks by truckers and farmers in Mexico face repression
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) announces public meeting series on 1926 general strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2026-04-10
- Firefighters hold more strikes across New Zealand
- Far-right Alberta premier announces anti-immigrant referendum
- Australian university chiefs back Labor’s corporate agenda while pleading for funding relief
- Idaho constructs remote-controlled firing squad chamber: A method of state killing with a merciless history
- UAW issues statement of phony support for Mexican tire workers shot on picket line
- Jacobin and the DSA sow complacency to demobilize opposition to war against Iran
- Turkish independent union leader Başaran Aksu arrested
- BNP government in Bangladesh imposes economic impact of Iran war on working people
- German reactions to the “ceasefire” in the Iran war: Berlin sticks to its war aims
- Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, as US media demands renewed onslaught against Iran
- Medical neglect and preventable deaths spread across ICE detention centers
- Trades Union Congress offers Iran war partnership with Starmer government
- New York City Mayor Mamdani reneges on promise of free bus service
- Trump’s selective service filing prepares for activation of US military draft
- Detroit autoworkers denounce US-Israeli war on Iran: “This is for Big Oil”
- Starmer visits Gulf states amid fracturing “special relationship” with US
- Turkish municipal workers support Will Lehman’s UAW presidential campaign
2026-04-11
- Australia: Key issues buried at Brisbane rally against arrest of anti-genocide protester
- Oppose the draft! Build a working class movement against imperialist war!
- Australia: UWU boss posturing as “rank-and-file” candidate in union election
- Artemis II mission concludes after astronauts travel to the Moon and safely return to Earth
- Teamsters and UPS reach settlement over driver buyouts, while company continues plans to slash 30,000 more jobs
- Pseudo-leftist union leadership undermines Argentine tire plant occupation with appeals to nationalism
- Protests and strikes erupt in Brazil in turbulent run-up to presidential election
- USPS moves to suspend pension payments amid deepening financial crisis
- Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die–The solution to the world’s problems? Infect everyone with anti-technology allergy
- IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses socialist strategy to stop the war against Iran
- Trump says the US is “loading up the ships” with weapons during ceasefire talks
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Indiana University postdoctoral fellow Youhuang Xiang sentenced to time served and ordered deported
- The International Bolshevik Tendency: Pseudo-left apologists for the union bureaucracy and Stalinism
- Fuel shock sends inflation soaring while the oligarchy grows richer
- “Progressive” Democrats seek collaboration with fascist critics of Iran war
2026-04-12
2026-04-13
- US-EU tensions erupt over Iran war as France holds back-channel talks with China
- Freedom for Başaran Aksu and all working-class prisoners in Türkiye!
- Democrat Eric Swalwell ends campaign for California governor over sexual misconduct charges
- New Zealand protests against war on Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
- Los Angeles teachers unions announce sellout in bid to sabotage district-wide strike
- United Auto Workers financial report shows 2025 another bumper year for union apparatus as assets rise to $1.25 billion
- SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Sri Lanka: Stop the US–Israel War Against Iran!
- US deploys warships to Strait of Hormuz, announces Iran blockade
- This week in history: April 13-19
- The consequences of extreme exploitation – Enjoy Your Stay and I Understand Your Displeasure
- The New York Times, the Democratic Party and the preparation of Phase 2 of the war against Iran
- EU adopts far-right agenda in migration policy
- University of Washington graduate student and his son deported, as immigration arrests surge statewide
- War-driven fuel crisis threatens recession in Australia
- Romania approves US military surge for war against Iran amid deepening domestic crisis
- Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president, calls for support for Harvard academic workers’ strike
- New strikes at German airline Lufthansa: “We’re seen as nothing but a cost factor”
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