Archive: 05/2026
2026-05-01
- Senate Democrats voice support for major surge in military spending at Hegseth briefing
- Germany’s Morenoite RIO joins Left Party in support of war, attacks on the working class
- German government passes war budget, agrees sharp attacks on healthcare
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Amid massive government-employer assault on workplace safety, US unions sow complacency on Workers Memorial Day
- South Africa’s ruling class incites pogroms against migrants
- Anti-genocide activist denounces imperialist violence in the Middle East in statement supporting International May Day Online Rally
- Golders Green attack used to launch ferocious right-wing campaign against democratic rights and anti-genocide protests
- Join the May Day Online Rally! For socialism! Against war, genocide and fascism!
- Venezuela’s interim president paints Trump as defender of “peace” after Washington shooting
- Sri Lankan government blocks release of Tamil writer’s books
- Australia: 4 workers killed on the job in southeast Queensland in recent weeks
- Campaign begins for meetings on 100 years since British General Strike
2026-05-02
- Executions in Florida and Texas: Condemned prisoners maintain their innocence
- Australian Labor government’s assault on disability services to be based on brutal “functional assessments”
- PSTU leader Zé Maria sentenced to two years prison in Brazil for criticizing Israel: a grave attack on democratic rights
- Australian inflation soars as economic effects of Iran war bite
- Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle
- Australia: Victorian Labor leaks pay offer while teacher union prepares another sellout
- UIC graduate workers launch third strike in seven years against poverty wages
- Democrats pave way for $70 billion infusion to ICE and Border Patrol
- Disney announces full deployment of facial recognition at Disneyland Resort
- Homelessness among young people in Germany has almost tripled since 2022
- Stop the war against Iran!
- World Bank details Iran war global commodity shock
- Vote “no” on the SEIU sellout agreement for Los Angeles school workers!
- US national debt surpasses size of the economy, as Trump administration demands surge in military spending
- Swedish government commits to coalition with fascist Sweden Democrats after upcoming parliamentary election
- Inside Amir: Tehran, before US and Israeli bombs rained down...
2026-05-03
- Socialist Equality Party intervenes at Unite event in Barnsley marking centenary of 1926 General Strike
- Unite uses Barnsley May Day and 1926 General Strike centenary to proclaim “rebirth of the trade unions”
- Israel violently and illegally intercepts Gaza flotilla, kidnaps organisers
- This week in history: May 4-10
2026-05-04
- “May Day Strong” in Chicago: Labor bureaucracy, Democrats seek to smother growing resistance to war and Trump dictatorship
- The new code of silence: Texas Tech University bans gender and sexuality teaching and research
- The 2026 International May Day Online Rally and the tasks of the international working class
- UK Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood targets children for brutal treatment in asylum seeker crackdown
- Strike of Little Lake teachers in California shut down after 10 days
- Break the isolation: Harvard graduate students’ strike must be expanded
- Trump says US Navy will begin escorting ships out of the Strait of Hormuz
- Spirit Airlines collapses: 17,000 workers pay for Wall Street’s war on Iran
- Australia: Interim report provides no answers on Bondi terrorist attack
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE meeting against US-Israeli war on Iran
- Ypsilanti utility board halts University of Michigan nuclear weapons data center
- From Port Huron to postmodernism: The class politics of the “New” Students for a Democratic Society
- Labor blocks return of Australian citizens interned in Syria
- The Revolutionary Communist Party abandons Corbyn only to embrace Zack Polanski’s Green Party
- Two Prosecutors: A stubborn young lawyer confronts the criminal methods of the Stalinist bureaucracy
- Federal appeals court issues nationwide ban on telemedicine and mail access to abortion pill mifepristone
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2026-05-05
- Brazil’s unions isolate São Paulo education strikes
- “All this money for bombs but no money for education”: May Day protesters in US denounce war and dictatorship
- Graham Platner: A bogus “pro-worker” face for the Democratic Party in Maine
- New sanctions, threats and military exercises set stage for US assault on Cuba
- Australian Labor government axing public sector jobs to deepen budget cuts
- Islamist offensive tacitly backed by Paris shakes Mali
- Union presents pay-cutting offer to New Zealand nurses
- Trump withdraws 5,000 US troops from Germany as Berlin steps up rearmament
- Trump’s deployment of warships to Strait of Hormuz escalates Iran war
- Stalin, Trotsky and the 1926 British General Strike
- Further light shed on criminal US torpedoing of Iranian ship
- Spirit workers lose paychecks and benefits as executives seek $10.7 million in “retention” bonuses
2026-05-06
- Australian Education Union cancels strikes in Victoria to impose Labor’s austerity agenda
- Mass protests in Japan against war and remilitarisation
- Balikatan 2026: US turns Philippines into forward base for war against China
- Royal Mail workers call for No vote against CWU negotiators' agreement with Kretinsky
- Australian central bank hikes rates again as stagflation threat grows
- Lessons of the Turkish miners’ struggle in Ankara
- The collapse of Spirit Airlines: The latest in a decades-long war on the working class
- UK to lead European “Northern Navies” force against Russia
- Facing mounting crisis, Trump reverses course on escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz
- Louisiana governor suspends primary election to enforce new congressional gerrymandering
- Mehring Yayıncılık holds first cinema screening of Tsar to Lenin in Türkiye
- UAW holding strike vote at Sterling Heights Assembly over outsourcing, as Stellantis gears for more cost cutting
- Scottish National Party heads for victory, amid continued Labour collapse, rise of Reform UK and Greens
- Nexteer workers: Prepare now to defeat another UAW sellout contract!
- El Gamal lawyers detail ICE kidnapping operation, as Congress prepares $53 billion for ICE and CBP
2026-05-07
- Australia and Japan boost military ties against China
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship exposes the continuing threat of zoonotic spillover
- The Trump regime, oligarchy and the fight for socialism
- What is it about the Met fashion gala that leads one to think fondly of the guillotine?
- 1 year of the Merz government: War, militarism and social devastation
- Trump administration attacks Costa Rican media to silence opposition to fascistic puppet regime
- For rank-and-file control of the National Steel Car contract struggle! International class unity, not a nationalist corporate/union partnership!
- Higher oil prices to come as reserves fall at record pace
- Conviction of Palestine Action activists escalates Labour’s historic assault on democratic rights
- Australia: 6 months since the fatal Endeavor mine explosion in Cobar
- Crisis in New Zealand government over Iran war
2026-05-08
- School District of Philadelphia announces 17 school closures, in latest onslaught against public education
- Australia: Victorian budget cuts services amid war and cost-of-living crisis
- US resumes strikes on Iran, as Trump threatens further escalation
- Turkish independent union leader Mehmet Türkmen placed in solitary confinement
- A revealing report on the rise and rise of private credit
- Springfield, Massachusetts postal workers describe asbestos, Legionnaires’ disease and complicit union officials at major distribution center
- University of Michigan president attacks Faculty Senate chair for opposing Israel’s war on Gaza
- The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak and the threat of another pandemic
- US war on Iran drives up cost of living in Sri Lanka as government prepares new taxes
- Australian Labor government persecutes women and children returning from Syria
- “Hondurasgate” exposes living legacy of Operation Condor across the Americas
- United Flight 169 strikes highway vehicle on landing at Newark: The latest incident in crisis-ridden US aviation system
- Judge forces unsealing of alleged Epstein “suicide note”
- US construction of a second southern border wall disturbs important archaeological sites
- National strike in Bolivia fueled by gas costs sees growing calls for president to resign
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Nexteer workers: Vote “No” on the new sellout contract! Join the Rank-and-File Committee to prepare strike action!
- European war flotilla en route to the Strait of Hormuz
- Chavín de Huántar: The Rescue of the Century: A film of reactionary propaganda for Peru’s military
- Royal Mail workers at Mount Pleasant speak on CWU-Royal Mail “negotiators agreement”
- No cannon fodder for war plans of the German ruling class!
- Iran war wreaks havoc in Africa
- Nearly half of California teachers may quit within a decade, survey finds
- Trump’s “America First” Counterterrorism Strategy: A blueprint for dictatorship
- Canada’s universities and colleges to serve as cogs in war machine under Liberal government’s Defence Industrial Strategy
- Record low western US snowpack threatens water supplies for millions
- Jörg Baberowski’s Bypassing the People: Fascism as a revitalisation of democracy
2026-05-09
- US attacks two Iranian-flagged tankers as Trump escalates war ahead of China summit
- Far-right Reform UK benefits from the electoral collapse of Britain’s Labour Party—what way forward for the working class?
- Trump dismisses hantavirus threat as outbreak spreads
- Mass opposition among Nexteer workers to second sellout tentative agreement
- United flight attendants vote on second contract, as Spirit collapse signals industry-wide crisis
- Ukraine’s Defense Minister implicated in corruption scandal
- Brazil’s Lula comes to White House, whitewashing Trump’s imperialist crimes
- Australia: Earthquake near Newmont’s Cadia Valley mine trapped workers underground for 10 hours
- Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee decries Israel’s “genocidal campaign in Gaza” while declining to attend Jerusalem literature festival
- Sri Lanka: Government May Day rallies promote lies, austerity and autocratic rule
- Australia: Coal mine company handed small fine for “alarming” death of worker
2026-05-10
2026-05-11
- Australia: Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee opposes Labor’s attack on disability services
- Major confrontation looming against Hochul and Mamdani: New York transit and LIRR workers should build rank-and-file committees to prepare a united strike!
- Sri Lanka: 12 men sentenced to death over killing of MP prepare to appeal
- New Zealand government ramps up anti-immigrant measures
- War, genocide and the weaponization of healthcare: An interview with Bilal Irfan
- Farrer by-election deepens existential crisis of Australia’s Liberal Party
- Türkiye, the war on Iran and the resurgence of the class struggle
- Reckless disembarkation of hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius exposes collapse of public health
- Starmer’s “survival speech” only postpones his downfall amid Labour’s collapse
- New expert opinion deepens debacle for prosecution of Bogdan Syrotiuk
- India’s ruling far-right BJP makes gains in state elections amid wave of anti-government working class protests
- Trump calls Iranian response to negotiations “unacceptable,” as Israel continues Lebanon bloodbath
- How workers can fight the wave of AI layoffs
- Paterson, Camden and other New Jersey school districts lay off over 1,000 teachers and support staff
- UMass Boston academic worker backs Harvard grad student strikers: “I have classmates on food stamps"
- After Greeley betrayal, UFCW blocks new strike action by Denver, Colorado meatpacking workers
- A Sad and Beautiful World: “When things get better, we’ll come back to Beirut”
- US Steel contests OSHA fines for deadly Clairton Coke Works explosion
- Defend every job at VW!
- Rank-and-file rebellion and the unity of the working class
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