Archive: October 2018
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 October 2018 (front page)
- More than eight hundred dead after earthquakes and tsunami strike Indonesia
- Democrats, media press Kavanaugh sexual assault campaign
- Dozens injured as Catalan separatists and regional police clash in Barcelona
- Julian Assange appoints new WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief
- Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp
- World Bank warns Gaza faces economic collapse
- López Obrador promises Truth Commission in disappearance of Ayotzinapa students
- Brazil’s Workers Party leader covers up far-right threats to next government
- Beijing university threatens Marxist student society
- Senior management implodes after exposure of government interference at Australia’s state-funded media
- Hundreds of thousands demand strike action in the US
- Macron whitewashes French state murder of Maurice Audin
- This week in history: October 1-7
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Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 2
Capernaum, Screwdriver, Rosie, The Public and Black 47: Socially critical films from the Middle East, Ireland and the US
2 October 2018 (front page)
- Iran fires missiles at Islamist “rebels” as US vows to remain in Syria
- Child concentration camps in America
- German neo-Nazi group arrested after far-right riot in Chemnitz
- Trump touts tariffs and trade war following NAFTA renegotiation
- Indonesian tsunami relief grossly inadequate as death toll tops 1,200
- IMF chief warns of rising risks facing global economy
- House fire at vacant property kills two in Hamtramck, Michigan
- Los Angeles harbor drivers hold three-day strike
- Nashville, Tennessee, police officer charged in shooting death
- Campaign grows inside Podemos for alliance with Spanish right
- Armed police used in illegal evictions in Dublin, Ireland
- Pakistani premier Imran Khan imposes austerity mini-budget
- Australia: “Terror case” against university employee falls apart
- New Zealand education riven by class inequality
- Text of David North's remarks to Sri Lankan press conference on Trotskyism
- Sri Lankan students discuss upcoming anniversary meetings on the history of the Trotskyist movement
- Niles Niemuth brings Socialist Equality Party congressional campaign to US Steel workers in suburban Detroit
- Mobilize the working class to defend nurses and secure the right to health care!
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Protest march on October 2 in the Netherlands
The fight against public sector cutbacks requires a socialist perspective -
Costa Rican public workers’ strike enters its fourth week
Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 October 2018 (front page)
- Washington threatens preemptive strike against Russian missiles
- UK nurses vote to remove Royal College of Nursing leadership after pay deal sellout
- US and Chinese warships narrowly avoid collision in South China Sea
- After North America trade deal, Trump to escalate trade war against China
- CIA Democrats call for aggression against Russia, run pro-war campaigns in 2018 congressional races
- German neo-Nazi group arrested after far-right riot in Chemnitz
- Quebec: Right-wing populist CAQ exploits mass disaffection to win office
- What’s behind Amazon’s plan to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour?
- Widespread opposition to sellout UPS contract in run-up to Friday vote deadline
- United Steelworkers union pushes concessions at US iron ore producer Cleveland Cliffs
- New York City affordable housing crisis continues to worsen
- Ten years since the 2008 bank bailout
- David North outlines contemporary relevance of Trotskyism at Colombo media briefing
- The Kavanaugh nomination, #MeToo and the politics of petty-bourgeois rage
- Australian academics union tries to impose another sellout agreement at University of Melbourne
4 October 2018 (front page)
- International Court of Justice strikes down US sanctions against Iran
- The fraud of Amazon’s $15 wage
- Brexit and growing social divide dominate crisis-ridden Tory conference
6 October 2018 (front page)
4 October 2018 (front page)
- Horrors at ICE prison in California: nooses found hanging in majority of cells
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Forbes 400 List
Wealth of 400 richest Americans hits record $2.9 trillion -
As voting for drivers, warehouse workers concludes
UPS aircraft mechanics reject Teamsters contract proposal - Anger grows as Indonesian tsunami disaster worsens
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“We are just new slaves”
1,500 Boston hotel workers walk out as UNITE HERE seeks to end Chicago strike - Mass graves in Mannar point to further war crimes in Sri Lanka
- Demolition of Bedouin village highlights Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” plan
- New Zealand: Wellington bus drivers vote for indefinite strike
- German government celebrates “unity day” under the shadow of renewed neo-fascist movement
- The International Socialist Organization mobilizes behind Democrats’ right-wing diversion on Kavanaugh
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Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 3
Icebox and Twin Flower: The US government locks up children—and, in Italy, an African refugee finds a kindred spirit -
Toronto International Film Festival 2018
An interview with director Daniel Sawka and actors from Icebox: “As inequality grows, there’s always scapegoating of immigrants” - SEP (Australia) meeting outlines political issues behind coup against Malcolm Turnbull
5 October 2018 (front page)
- US vice president issues bellicose diatribe against China
- US, UK and NATO allies ramp up anti-Russia offensive over “cyber spying” and Skripals
- US Senate sets first vote on Kavanaugh nomination
- Teamsters head threatens to impose UPS contract even if workers reject it
- Risk of no-deal Brexit staggers European companies and economy
- 50 million user accounts hacked in Facebook data breach
- 3,000 Dutch public service workers protest in The Hague
- German parliament president Schäuble advocates militarism and stepped-up state repression in “Unity Day” speech
- Workers strike at Marriott hotels in Boston and San Francisco
- Fiat Chrysler Kokomo workers angered by UAW obstruction to fight over health and safety
- Australian banks downgraded as concerns mount over falling property prices
- The US military’s vision for state censorship
- David North’s lecture at Peradeniya University in Kandy attracts significant support from students and workers
- The #MeToo campaign versus the presumption of innocence
- FEMA and Trump send out mass “Presidential Alert”
- Socialist Equality Party candidate Niles Niemuth speaks in Ann Arbor on the right to universal health care
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Workers strike in Finland, UK rail strikes continue, Nigerian unions call off general strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
6 October 2018 (front page)
- Teamsters union defies “no” vote, declares UPS contract ratified
- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh clears crucial hurdle to confirmation
- Bernie Sanders covers for Jeff Bezos as fraud of $15 pay raise at Amazon is exposed
- Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder in 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald
- Los Angeles teachers union continues to delay strike action as negotiations proceed
- Federal judge issues injunction against Trump administration refugee order
- Kremlin suffers defeats in regional elections
- 40,000 people protest in Munich, Germany against racism and police state laws
- The destruction of Germany’s Thyssenkrupp and the role of the IG Metall union
- UK: No to Driver Only Trains in any form, mobilise against rail union sellout
- Mexico: Fifty years since the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre
- Australian government hands private schools another $4.6 billion
- Indonesia’s earthquake catastrophe
- Socialist Equality Party candidate for Congress Niles Niemuth speaks at televised forum
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NY Times exposé on Trump fortune: An empire built on tax evasion and fraud
“Behind every great fortune there is a great crime” – Honoré de Balzac -
Teamsters union defies “no” vote, declares UPS contract ratified
Organize independent rank-and-file committees to prepare strike action! -
Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 1: The significance of Harris’ “Common Sense Revolution” - “I am a poet who has the ability to sing his poems” – Charles Aznavour (1924-2018)
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Indian police arrest 600 striking Yamaha workers; Pakistan teachers, municipal employees and other workers demonstrate for unpaid wages
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 October 2018 (front page)
- US Senate elevates right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
- Fascistic candidate Jair Bolsonaro places first in Brazilian presidential election
- Detroit Westin Book Cadillac workers join hotel walkouts
- Obama endorses DSA’s Ocasio-Cortez, along with CIA Democrats
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Deadliest US transportation incident since 2009
Limo crash in upstate New York kills 20 -
The fifth death in two years
Eighteen-year-old found hanged in northern Wisconsin jail - Israeli mass murder of Gazans targets children
- French government staggered by Interior Minister Collomb’s resignation
- Labour Party-run councils escalate austerity in UK
- Sharp rise in child protection interventions in Australia
- US envoy to Australia reveals joint bid to block Huawei in Papua New Guinea
- After “no” vote by UPS workers, Teamsters bureaucracy declares contract ratified
- Socialist Alternative on New York primaries: Burrowing further into the Democratic Party
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Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995–97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 2: Unions work to diffuse swelling working-class opposition -
Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 4
Damien Chazelle’s First Man: Reduced in space—and opera singer Maria Callas, the Afghanistan war, small-town America - This week in history: October 8-14
9 October 2018 (front page)
- The Kavanaugh confirmation and the US midterm elections
- UPS workers’ opposition grows to Teamsters’ defiance of contract vote
- Marriott hotel workers strike spreads to Hawaii
- Key provision of USMCA trade deal aimed at China
- Brutal conditions at Greek refugee camps condemned
- Journalist reported tortured and slain in Saudi consulate in Istanbul
- Chemnitz: German Neo-Nazi terrorist group relied on extremist network
- German government organises mass deportations of refugees to Kabul
- French government on verge of collapse after interior minister resigns
- Relations deteriorate between Hungary and Ukraine
- Ford announces plans for more layoffs amid new restructuring efforts
- Detroit Medical Center doctors fired after speaking out for patient safety
- Australian union prepares sellout after ending Alcoa strike
- Eighty Years of the Fourth International: The Lessons of History and the Struggle for Socialism Today
- Large Colombo audience hears David North’s lecture on the history of the Fourth International
- Canada: Workers need a socialist program to fight the right-wing populist danger
- Debbie Dingell: A candidate of wealth and privilege
- Build rank-and-file committees to unify struggles against austerity in France!
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Chilean teachers in two-day national strike; BC forestry workers set to walk out
Workers Struggles: The Americas - New Zealand prime minister’s false facade of “hope” and “kindness”
10 October 2018 (front page)
- UN report warns of catastrophic consequences of climate change within 20 years
- Pompeo visit heightens US-China rift
- Workers and retirees rally against French government’s austerity policies
- Striking workers rally at Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit
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“It proves they aren’t fighting for us but against us”
UPS workers speak out against Teamsters’ defiance of their vote - Injured US Amazon workers face “workers compensation” regime rigged in favor of employers
- TDU, Teamsters United capitulate to Hoffa’s override of UPS workers’ “no” vote
- #MeToo-style allegations used to oust popular University of Michigan professor
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Deadliest US transportation incident since 2009
Limo in crash that killed 20 owned by FBI terror “sting” operative - Turkish government steps up attack on jailed airport construction workers
- Italy: Arrest of Riace mayor sparks protests
- Trial of “Stansted 15” anti-deportation protesters begins in UK
- Australian encryption bill becomes a global test case for surveillance
- The far-right threat in Brazil and the role of the Workers Party
- Watch: David North interviewed on Sri Lanka’s English-language Channel Eye TV
- Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born: It’s true, the artist must have “something to say”
- The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the hypocrisy of the New York Times
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Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995-97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 3: The 1997 Ontario teachers’ strike
11 October 2018 (front page)
- US government may put separated immigrant children up for adoption
- Pentagon report points to US preparations for total war
- Major fall on Wall Street as interest rates rise
- Hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida as category four storm
- Leaked Google document: Tech firms have shifted away from “free speech and towards censorship”
- IMF revises down global growth projection
- Musicians at Chicago’s Lyric Opera strike for the first time in 50 years
- Ongoing opposition to Teamsters ramming through UPS contract despite workers’ vote
- Tamil Nadu police arrest hundreds of striking Indian autoworkers
- Britain’s pseudo-left oppose worker rebellion against Royal College of Nurses leadership
- Calls grow in Madrid to ban Catalan nationalist parties
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Kilometres from the ashes of Grenfell Tower
British royals spend millions on palace improvements - New Zealand government bans “foreigners” from buying houses
- Murder in Istanbul
- The New York Times laments the exit of Nikki Haley
10 October 2018 (front page)
11 October 2018 (front page)
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The case of Sydney Schanberg
How the NY Times shielded Trump and the Manhattan real estate mafia - Students denounce CIA partnership with University of Illinois Chicago
- NYU’s Washington DC campus: Academia aligns with the Department of Defense
- Mack the Knife—Brecht’s Threepenny Film: The famed “play with music,” and the controversies surrounding it, brought to life
12 October 2018 (front page)
- Facebook carries out massive purge of oppositional pages
- US places alleged “Chinese spy” on public trial
- Hurricane Michael leaves trail of death and destruction in southeastern US
- Wall Street fall continues in day of swings
- Billionaire Bloomberg rejoins Democratic Party
- US student critical of Israel detained at Tel Aviv airport for more than a week
- Polls in German state elections forecast massive rejection of Grand Coalition
- Argentine teachers facing massive pay cuts strike for 48 hours
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As union ignores strike authorization votes
Tubing company locks out steelworkers in Trenton, Georgia -
As APWU keeps workers on the job
US Postal Service workers protest Trump’s privatization plans - Lead at some Detroit schools 50 times the allowable federal level
- Another train derailment in New York strands thousands
- US ambassador to New Zealand continues public attacks on China
- Hitler’s resurrection in Germany
- The struggle for socialism and the importance of history: David North interviewed on Radio Sri Lanka
11 October 2018 (front page)
12 October 2018 (front page)
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Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 5
Errol Morris provides Steven Bannon a platform (American Dharma), Werner Herzog celebrates Mikhail Gorbachev (Meeting Gorbachev) and other appalling developments - Carl Cooley: 1927-2018
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Canada: The unions’ suppression of the 1995-97 anti-Harris movement: Political lessons for today
Part 4: The SEP, the unions and the pseudo-left - The New York Times’ Alexis Grenell denounces white women for upholding the “patriarchy”
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Further UK rail strikes; Nigerian unions sell out minimum wage dispute
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 October 2018 (front page)
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As evidence mounts of Khashoggi’s murder
Trump rejects calls for US to end arms sales to Saudi monarchy - Pages purged by Facebook were on blacklist promoted by Washington Post
- Bonus removal cancels out Amazon’s UK pay rise
- US hotel workers continue strikes in eight cities
- Sri Lankan tea estate workers step up demands for higher pay
- Hurricane Michael brings death, devastation to US Southeast
- Liberal newsweekly Die Zeit defends far-right publishers at Frankfurt Book Fair
- Macron fails to name new French government
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Grenfell Tower Inquiry:
Survivors and bereaved give evidence—“We will not be silenced anymore” - Russia: Putin ally Kudrin pushes for rapprochement with the imperialist powers
- Australian government flags forcing new immigrants to live in designated zones
- Australian “edu-business” set to profit under Gonski 2.0
- The “Grievance Studies” hoax exposes postmodernist charlatans
- France’s Mélenchon tacitly backs Wagenknecht’s xenophobic Aufstehen group
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Indian sanitation workers union shuts down month-long strike; Western Australian bus drivers strike over pay
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine: A prescient warning of the danger of nuclear war
15 October 2018 (front page)
- Facebook’s purge of left-wing media: A frontal assault on freedom of speech
- A quarter-million protest in Berlin against the grand coalition and the return of fascism
- Ecuador to partially restore Julian Assange’s access to communications and visitors
- Bavaria state election delivers major blow to Germany’s grand coalition
- US, European powers threaten Saudi crown prince after Khashoggi murder
- Widespread opposition to Teamsters’ override of UPS workers’ contract rejection
- Death toll from Hurricane Michael continues to climb
- Trump considers reinstating family separations at the border
- Brexit crisis leaves fate of May government in balance
- New York judge dismisses a sexual assault charge against producer Harvey Weinstein
- Washington presses Central America to militarize and turn away from China
- Scottish National Party proposes pact with Labour for second Brexit referendum
- Chicago cop cleared in the 2012 killing of 15-year-old Dakota Bright
- In Rome, Salvini and Le Pen launch campaign for a neo-fascist Europe
- Unions to “work with” Quebec’s new right-wing populist government
- Massachusetts: National Grid joins roster of companies risking customers’ lives
- New Zealand to fine travellers who refuse to unlock electronic devices at border
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SEP holds campaign rally at FCA Warren Stamping plant
Autoworkers welcome SEP candidate Niles Niemuth - Another financial earthquake in the making
- This week in history: October 15-21
16 October 2018 (front page)
- Dozens missing in Hurricane Michael as death toll rises
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Striking hotel workers starved on meager or no strike pay
The multi-billion-dollar business of American trade unions - Trump backs Saudi Arabia, suggesting “rogue killers” murdered Khashoggi
- Amazon whistleblower Shannon Allen: Celebrated $15 base pay represents pay cut for some workers
- Washington state Supreme Court strikes down death penalty as “arbitrary and racially biased”
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“We voted to go on strike, then they presented us with a BS contract”
Indiana Lear auto parts workers overwhelmingly reject UAW-backed contract proposal - United Steelworkers announces tentative deal with US Steel
- Slashing of welfare spending forces millions into poverty in UK
- “National crisis” facing UK National Health Service as deficits grow
- As Pakistan seeks IMF bailout, US intensifies pressure on Islamabad
- Australian Labor Party leader vows to cut taxes for the rich
- Australia: Hutchison pushes cuts to waterfront workers’ wages and conditions
- Former first lady Michelle Obama declares George W. Bush “my partner in crime”
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Toronto International Film Festival 2018: Part 6
The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz—An early Stalinist frame-up on film and the Nuremberg tribunal against the Nazis - Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 October 2018 (front page)
- The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the internet
- Amid furor over Khashoggi murder, UN warns millions more face starvation in Yemen
- Police raid on Mélenchon: The state attacks the Unsubmissive France party
- Australia backs Trump as US ramps up anti-China drive
- Striking Tamil Nadu auto workers face dismissal
- Amnesty International: Immigrants separated from family members for alleged “fraud”
- Bay area hotel workers determined to fight as union, Democrats try to derail strike
16 October 2018 (front page)
17 October 2018 (front page)
- British PM addresses EU summit as “no deal” Brexit threatened
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Survivor’s statement reveals disdain for residents by the political and corporate elites
- Fascistic candidate Bolsonaro widens lead in Brazilian polls
- Australian housing market slumps toward potential crash
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A reply to French daily Libération
Is the WSWS exaggerating the threat of war?
18 October 2018 (front page)
- Leading US House Democrat demands that Ecuador’s president “hand over” Julian Assange
- Record flood of cash to buy US midterm elections
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After 250,000 people march in Berlin
The way forward in the struggle against the far-right danger in Germany - Florida gubernatorial election: Suddenly “socialism” becomes the issue
- US, Mexican and Guatemalan governments harass caravan of Honduran refugees
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”We are beginning to see the same thing in France”
Refugee who fled Chile’s dictatorship denounces police raids against Unsubmissive France - After police raids on LFI, French courts and media denounce Mélenchon
- Macron organises French cabinet reshuffle to pursue austerity and militarism
- UAW faces growing opposition from Indiana Lear workers following contract rejection
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union to UPS workers: “Whatever you do, don’t fight!”
- Seventh New York taxi industry driver commits suicide
- Peru: Fujimori and other right-wing politicians detained for links to Odebrecht scandal
- Australia: Horse-racing lobby forces Sydney Opera House to advertise $13 million horse race
- A discussion with Helen Pluckrose, co-author of “Grievance Studies” hoax article
- Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime
- UCU recall conference seeks to silence opposition to sell-out of UK lecturers’ strike
- Socialist Equality Party Congressional candidate Niles Niemuth visits Detroit hotel workers’ picket line
- San Diego State University and the military-university complex
- Paul Greengrass’s 22 July: Neo-fascist mass murder in Norway
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DSA covers for unions and Democrats in new book on walkout by West Virginia teachers
55 Strong, Inside the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
19 October 2018 (front page)
- Trump threatens to deploy military to close US-Mexico border
- Trump scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts
- Wall Street volatile as global economy becomes “fragile”
- The Harvard case on racial preferences and the antidemocratic character of affirmative action
18 October 2018 (front page)
19 October 2018 (front page)
- Anti-Kissinger protest at New York University
- New York City teachers union attempts to rush through sellout contract
- Layoffs at Fiat Chrysler's Kokomo transmission operations heighten concerns over outsourcing
- Brexit impasse at European Union summit
- Italian Interior Minister Salvini orders removal of migrants from Riace
- Australian government backs far-right “OK to be white” motion in Senate
- New Zealand rail union promotes sellout at Wellington meeting
- The raid on Unsubmissive France and the global rise of state repression
- One year of the #MeToo movement
- Trump administration accelerates war drive against China
- Genuine socialism vs. the Democratic Party politics of Bernie Sanders
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Why are they back?
New title from Mehring Books explains resurgence of fascism in Germany - Meetings in Australia and New Zealand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
South African plastics workers in national strike; Capetown transport workers wildcat
20 October 2018 (front page)
- Who is responsible for the rise of the fascistic Bolsonaro in Brazil?
- Pompeo meets with Mexican government as its police attack Honduran migrants
- Saudi regime admits Khashoggi was killed in its Istanbul consulate
- Record high income in 2017 for top one percent of wage earners in US
- Death toll from Hurricane Michael reaches 36 as residents struggle to recover
- Trump demands five percent budget cut from each Cabinet department
- Historian seeks release of Israel’s secret papers on Kfar Qasem massacre
- UC healthcare and service workers to begin three-day strike
- European Union and Rome fight over Italian budget
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As Trump administration prepares to withdraw from nuclear missile treaty
US charges new Russian conspiracy to interfere in midterm elections - “McStrike”: UK unions police anger of young workers
- India seizes “shadow bank” to avert potential “catastrophic” impact on financial system
- Quebec: Nine-month lockout continues, as talks at Alcoa’s ABI smelter collapse
- New Zealand opposition in crisis over links to Chinese businessman
- Nauru expels another doctor amid growing protests over Australia’s refugee detention centres
- Divisions erupt within Sri Lankan government
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Still no investigation into death of young autoworker
One year since the death of Jacoby Hennings -
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Police attack striking workers in India and Bangladesh
22 October 2018 (front page)
- War, censorship, and the invention of “fake news”
- Central American caravan reaches Mexico chanting “We are international workers!”
- Detroit's reality: Infant corpses found piled up in funeral home
- Trump says US will withdraw from Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty
- Julian Assange takes legal action against Ecuadorian government
- People’s Vote campaign ups ante against hard Brexit with large London protest
- China growth slows to lowest level since financial crisis
- A color revolution in the making: Vladimir Kara-Murza and Keith Gessen at Columbia University
- Bernie Sanders tours Michigan to prop up the Democratic Party
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“The union rammed all these things down our throats”
UPS prepares to impose contract after Teamsters defy workers ‘no’ vote - New York’s Metropolitan Republican Club hosts leader of fascistic street gang
20 October 2018 (front page)
22 October 2018 (front page)
- Australian government suffers major defeat in Wentworth by-election
- Socialist Alternative and Democratic Socialists of America hold election rally for Democrats in Chicago
- Vote “no” on the USW-US Steel concessions contract!
- The political issues posed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ “Change the Rules” campaign
- This week in history: October 22-28
23 October 2018 (front page)
- Republicans and Democrats prepare bipartisan agenda of social cuts and war
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“Migrants are not criminals, we are international workers!”
The migrant caravan and the fight to unite the international working class - Trump’s threat to tear up nuclear pact with Russia met with alarm in Europe, silence from Democrats
- Europe makes delayed criticism of Saudis over Khashoggi murder
- Gavin Newsom: A California governor groomed by the financial aristocracy
- Indian court dismisses Maruti Suzuki workers’ bail application
- Lear auto parts workers speak out against UAW-backed sellout contract proposal
- Chicago Lyric Opera musicians’ strike ends with concessions deal
- Another US provocation against China: Two warships sail through Taiwan Strait
- Thousands of workers in Glasgow plan strike for equal pay
- Thousands mourn victims of school shooting in Crimea
- Sharp decline in numbers in latest China Rich List
- New Zealand military covered up killing of Afghan children
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Amid crisis over Khashoggi murder
US State Department “socialists” discover the war in Yemen - Canada: Postal union launches rotating walkout campaign
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Mexican professors strike, Argentine teachers to hold one-day national strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas - The Waldheim Waltz: A timely film about the World War II role of the former right-wing Austrian president
24 October 2018 (front page)
- In racist, anti-immigrant diatribe, Trump declares, “I am a nationalist”
- US missile treaty withdrawal: “Prepare for nuclear war”
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As refugee caravan heads north
Trump administration prepares draconian new anti-immigrant measures - Turkish president brands Khashoggi killing a premeditated murder
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One year since the death of Jacoby Hennings
Woodhaven Stamping worker describes brutal atmosphere under UAW-Ford regime
“Temporary part-timers are treated like slaves” - Nearly 150,000 New York City public school students are homeless
- Brazil’s pseudo-left pushes for social media censorship ahead of presidential run-off
- Australia: Over 150,000 workers protest against assault on wages and conditions
- Frankfurt, Germany: Thousands protest against housing shortage and high rents
- Australian workers at mass rallies speak on growing inequality, denounce Labor
- European Commission rejects Italy’s 2019 budget
- UK: Report reveals widespread soil contamination after Grenfell Tower fire
- Swiss building workers strike in Ticino and Geneva
- PSOE and Podemos jointly present Spanish budget to the European Union
- Australia: Victorian Labor government makes election pitch to big business
- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Season in France: The human cost of the refugee crisis
25 October 2018 (front page)
- After Teamsters overrule “no” vote on contract, UPS earnings up 20 percent
- Bombs mailed to prominent Democrats and Trump critics
- Indian police detain thousands of striking Tamil Nadu auto workers
- Fall in hi-tech shares wipes out Wall Street’s 2018 gains
- “Trident Juncture” manoeuvres begin: NATO rehearses for war against Russia
- French flooding deaths expose legacy of austerity
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Thousands strike in Glasgow for equal pay
“The council seem to think they can do what they want and get away with it” - Polish regional elections point to growing political instability
- Comptroller’s report details crisis of New York’s decaying transit system
- Tensions continues to wrack Australian government after by-election defeat
- In the face of mounting threats, the working class must defend Julian Assange
- David North begins US speaking tour in Michigan to mark 80 years of the Fourth International
- Oppose Trump’s attacks on immigrants! Defend the migrant caravan!
- New York Times celebrates downfall of 201 “powerful men:” The ugly face of the #MeToo campaign
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Build rank and file strike committees
For a nationwide hotel walkout! -
$1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot
Lottery fever: A symptom of social desperation
26 October 2018 (front page)
- Trump to deploy hundreds of troops to the border against Central American migrants
- Former Fed chair warns of new financial crisis
- CIA director briefs Trump on Khashoggi torture tape
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“We should all be fighting together”
Teamsters union isolates 8,500 Chicago UPS workers -
The UAW is “letting the company get away with anything”
Growing opposition among autoworkers to brutal treatment of temporary workers - Union, Democrats use “fact-finding” ploy to block Los Angeles teachers’ strike
- Canadian postal workers criticize ineffectual rotating walkouts
- Australia: Tasmanian public sector workers strike over wages and conditions
- Ford worker dies of apparent workplace injury at Chicago Heights stamping plant
- European Union steps up Internet censorship in the name of opposing “disinformation”
- UK: May fends off challenge by hard-Brexiteers
- New Zealand opposition tries to shut down scandal over alleged links to Chinese businessman
- What the mail bomb uproar says about American politics
- Obama stumps for Democrats in Michigan: A legacy of social devastation
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Interview with photographer Tom Kiefer: “This work is part of the historical documentation of our country’s response to migration”
El Sueño Americano: Exhibition of migrants’ items seized and discarded by US border patrol -
Growing strikes in South Africa; more UK rail strikes
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
28 October 2018 (front page)
27 October 2018 (front page)
- Arrest of bomb scare suspect heightens political warfare in Washington
- Saudi airstrike kills 21 civilians in Yemen
- Funeral to be held today for UPS worker Andy Schanding, killed on the job in Lexington, Kentucky
- Thousands of youth demonstrate in Sri Lanka to support plantation workers’ wage struggle
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AFSCME officials attempt to suppress WSWS reporting team
Union shuts down three-day strike by California health care and service workers
28 October 2018 (front page)
27 October 2018 (front page)
- Hundreds of bodies and other remains hidden in Detroit funeral homes
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As federal judge orders Georgia to count tossed-out ballots
Voter suppression looms large in 2018 US elections - Geoffrey Rush defamation trial against Murdoch media begins in Sydney
- Argentine workers and students march against “hunger budget”
- Tamil family fight UK plans to deport their seriously ill father
- Defend immigrant workers against Trump’s military crackdown
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Strikes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan - Pakistan caught up in intensifying US-China rivalry
29 October 2018 (front page)
- Far-right candidate Bolsonaro elected as Brazil’s president
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Mass shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue
Anti-Semitic violence erupts in America - US armed forces deployed to Mexico border in preparation for expected closure
- Thousands attend memorial for victims of mass shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue
- Sri Lankan president’s cynical justifications for his political coup
- Under US pressure, Maldives president accepts election defeat
- Indian state government arrests at least 14 union leaders
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“This union is taking food out of my kid’s mouth”
Lear Portage autoworker denounces UAW collusion with management - UAW building luxury “cottage” for ex-president Dennis Williams
- Tens of thousands of teachers demonstrate in Glasgow for better pay
- Canada upholds $15 billion Saudi arms deal after Khashoggi murder
- Spy and police chiefs demand passage of Australian encryption access law
- This week in history: October 29-November 4
- Two short films: The Overcoat, based on the Nikolai Gogol story, and Detainment, about the Jamie Bulger murder case
30 October 2018 (front page)
- Chinese president tells military to prepare for war
- Trump deploys military to confront “immigrant invasion”
- Infighting deepens between rival factions of Sri Lankan elite
- State elections in Hesse mark further defeat for Germany’s grand coalition
- Vigils for victims of Pittsburgh shooting express anger over Trump’s racist incitements
- Killings at Kentucky store were hate crime, police say
- Julian Assange warns that Ecuador is moving to end his political asylum
- Mexican police shoot and kill 26-year-old immigrant as repression intensifies along Mexico-Guatemala border
- Wall Street falls as US-China trade tensions rise
- Teamsters forces UPS Freight workers to vote again on rejected sellout contract
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“Conditions are worse today than they were 40 years ago”
Pittsburgh-area workers speak out on USW sellout deal with US Steel - The Unexplained Wealth Order legislation and London’s financial aristocracy
- Australia: Victorian Labor government promotes bogus community contest
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Participants in vigils for Pittsburgh shooting victims speak to the WSWS
“I don’t think the Democrats are doing anything to oppose Trump’s message” - After Pittsburgh massacre: New York Times covers up Trump’s role in instigating fascist violence
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
Public workers protest in Venezuela; Canada Post workers continue rotating strikes
31 October 2018 (front page)
- Trump threatens to abolish birthright citizenship
- Thousands protest Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh synagogue following mass shooting
- With Merkel’s withdrawal, German grand coalition accelerates lurch to the right
- UK: NHS subsidiary companies—tools for tax exemption and privatisation
- Underground worker killed in collapse at Nevada gold mine
- A wolf in wolf’s clothing: West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda
- Nearly 40 percent of New Jersey households struggle to make ends meet
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To cheers from big business
Ontario slashes minimum wage, guts labour standards - Chilean police attack pensioners’ protest in Santiago
- New Zealand teachers’ union moves to call off strikes
- Bolsonaro’s victory and the debacle of Brazil’s Workers Party
- Fight for a socialist solution to the political crisis in Sri Lanka
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“It is like a pyramid scheme and we’re the worker ants at the bottom”
Amazon workers in Downriver Michigan speak to SEP candidate Niles Niemuth - Watch: Two Hundred Years Since the Birth of Karl Marx
- Nick Beams delivers successful lectures on the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx at Australian universities
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