Archive: 10/2019
2019-10-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump threatens “civil war” as Democrats escalate impeachment campaign
- The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley
- Thousands of children under age ten arrested every year in the United States
- Draw the political lessons from the bankruptcy of Maoism
- Greek workers strike to oppose New Democracy government’s anti-union legislation
- How giant tea companies exploit Kenyan plantation workers
- A visit to the workers’ quarters at a Unilever tea plantation in Kenya
- Why students and youth should support striking GM workers
- Pentagon shifts Mideast command center to US in preparation for war on Iran
- Protests after death in fire at Greece’s Moria concentration camp
- Eighty-two years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike
- Capitalism and the climate disaster: The issues posed by the worldwide protests
- Germany: Bus drivers strike in Hesse and Saarland
- Conrad Black decries Trudeau’s “weak” leadership, “evil campaign”
- New industrial “integrity” laws seek to head off working class eruption in Australia
- Hunter Biden made $850,000 on board of Ukraine gas company
- GM workers livid over $250 strike pay, as UAW uses economic pressure to break resistance to concessions
- Austrian far-right FPÖ loses massively in parliamentary elections
2019-10-02
- Detroit college students support striking GM workers
- Ukrainian oligarchy in crisis over Zelensky-Trump call
- After the Turkish elections: How the pseudo-left rallied behind the CHP
- Trump, Democrats dig in as impeachment drive escalates
- Youth in revolt: Les Misérables—and other films: Made in Bangladesh, Mariam, Rocks, Desert One
- One year after Khashoggi murder, US CEOs flock to Saudi Arabia
- Former Dallas police officer found guilty in off-duty shooting of neighbor
- As Wall Street bankrolls GM, UAW tries to starve strikers into submission
- Study predicts significant outbreaks of measles in Texas due to low vaccination rates
- An interview with Ladj Ly, director of Les Misérables: “Victor Hugo described the social misery perfectly”
- Crisis of unmet need in New Zealand’s health system
- GM Mexico fires another Silao worker backing US strike and shuts down the plant
- Corbyn holds pro-Remain party discussions over leading “caretaker” administration or stepping aside to allow “government of national unity”
- Chinese 70th anniversary parade testifies to a crisis-stricken regime
- General Motors presses demands as UAW leaves workers in the dark, isolates strike
- Indian Trotskyists hold public meetings in defence of Assange and Manning
- Assange judge blocks extradition to Azerbaijan of ‘McMafia’ wife
2019-10-03
- Workers protest closure of Wrightbus in Northern Ireland
- Markets plunge as US enters manufacturing recession
- Ukraine government announces large-scale privatizations, threatening mass layoffs
- Left Party Minister President Bodo Ramelow lauds the right-wing CDU
- Australia: Melbourne tram drivers take further strike action
- Democrats exclude Trump’s fascist anti-immigrant policies from impeachment inquiry
- The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives
- Introduction to the 1951 report to the Fourth International by Chinese Trotskyist Peng Shuzhi
- New Zealand: Unexplained death at university hall of residence
- UK Prime Minister Johnson outlines Brexit proposals and Thatcherite agenda at Tory conference
- Iraqi protesters gunned down as demonstrations and strikes spread across Middle East
- Impeachment crisis: Trump, Democrats exchange threats and warnings
- Mississippi city attorney argues immigrant killed by police had no rights under US Constitution
- Australian central bank cuts interest rates to record low
- Quebec prosecuting nearly 100 crane operators for “illegal” 2018 strike
- After the Turkish elections: How the pseudo-left rallied behind the CHP
- UAW prepares to sell out GM strike, as new corruption revelations emerge
- Jeff Bezos’ Whole Foods slashes medical benefits for nearly 2,000 part-time workers
- Algerian regime jails top generals, Workers Party leader Louisa Hanoune
2019-10-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- After the Turkish elections: How the pseudo-left rallied behind the CHP
- Theatres in Germany take a stand against the far right
- UAW preparing sell-out contract as workers fight to expand the struggle
- GM shuts down Silao complex in Mexico as workers’ rebellion brews
- Bernie Sanders halts campaign activities over health crisis
- UK Royal Mail workers wildcat strike over racist insult by management
- Placido Domingo resigns from LA Opera, as #MeToo campaign continues
- New US tariffs escalate trade war with Europe
- Australia: Another “super union” merger—a bigger industrial policeman
- Trump announces plan to further privatize Medicare
- UAW orders workers to stay on job past contract expiration at Volvo-Mack trucks
- Indonesia: Student unrest continues as tens of thousands of workers set to strike
- John Deere announces layoffs at plants in Illinois and Iowa
- Silicon Valley public service workers complete day two of “rolling” strike
- Chicago teachers, schools staff and parks district workers set joint October 17 strike date
2019-10-05
- Trump continues to defy Democrats’ impeachment inquiry
- Tolkien: Biopic of author J.R.R. Tolkien rings false
- Redundant Thomas Cook workers speak out at Manchester jobs fair
- Illinois steelworker killed on the job, police launch investigation
- “Julian has reached a point where he may die”—Assange’s father John Shipton speaks with the WSWS
- Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka to contest the November presidential election
- Iraq in flames
- Ontario education workers set to strike Monday against Ford’s savage cuts
- Soprano Jessye Norman dies at the age of 74
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Johnson faces possible legal action as he plots to ensure UK leaves EU on October 31
- Hong Kong’s chief executive invokes emergency law against protest movement
- Behind the GM strike: Wall Street wants temps for hi-tech vehicles and the UAW agrees
- Ecuadorian government arrests hundreds and deploys military against nationwide strike
- 20,000 jobs and six plants threatened at German tire maker Continental
- White supremacist Coast Guard officer pleads guilty to drug and weapons charges
- GM strike in danger of union-enforced defeat as UAW announces ‘good progress’ on temps, health care
- New York City transit workers exposed to toxic asbestos for decades
2019-10-07
- As US vaping-related lung illnesses soar, FDA found negligent in enforcing e-cig regulations
- This week in history: October 7-13
- US impeachment campaign escalates with claim of second whistleblower
- UK: Inquest adjourned into death of Port Talbot steelworks contractor Justin Day
- Canada: Five thousand public sector workers strike in Saskatchewan
- Pompeo signs US-Greek military alliance and threatens Iran, Russia, China
- Julian Assange’s life is in danger!
- Bone-crushing labor prevails across the American meatpacking industry
- Australia: Important response to first IYSSE lectures on the 1949 Chinese Revolution
- Death toll in Iraq protests tops 105
- ICE arrests nearly 600 immigrants in enforcement surge, targeting “uncooperative” local jurisdictions
- As strike enters fourth week, UAW says talks with GM have “taken turn for the worse”
- “Capitalism is the core of the problem:” Striking GM workers call for global struggle against auto companies
- Where’s My Roy Cohn?: A documentary on McCarthy’s right-hand man, mentor to Trump
- Disgraced academic Noah Carl spearheads far-right campaign on UK campuses
- Australian Labor Party courts big business
2019-10-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Little prospect of agreement as US-China trade talks set to resume
- “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd grills senator: “You don’t trust the FBI and CIA?”
- The GM strike is a fight against the entire ruling class
- “Defender 2020”: NATO powers threaten war against Russia
- Australian PM aligns with Trump administration against “globalism” and China
- Washington green lights Turkish attack on Kurdish forces in Syria
- Trump issues proclamation to deny immigration visas to workers lacking health insurance
- General Electric freezes pension benefits for over 20,000 employees
- Growing call for industrywide strike to back GM workers
- CUPE torpedoes Ontario school support-staff strike, accepts Ford’s wage and budget cuts
- European Union set to reject Johnson’s Brexit proposal
- Key witness in trial and conviction of police officer Amber Guyger murdered in Dallas
- Australia’s prisoner swap with Iran contrasts with persecution of Julian Assange
2019-10-09
- Why do the CIA assassins and coup-plotters love this “whistleblower”?
- SWP resolution: The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath
- Workers in stone fabrication industry worldwide at high risk of deadly lung disease, CDC finds
- Sri Lankan railway unions end strike, after “promises” from President Sirisena
- President Vizcarra dissolves Congress in response to conflict within Peruvian state
- Trump White House declares it will not cooperate with impeachment inquiry
- Student protests in Indonesian Papua suppressed by police violence
- India: Motherson autoworkers strike at cross roads
- Sri Lankan SEP announces presidential election campaign public meetings
- Joker: An unenlightening approach to serious problems
- Introduction to the 1955 SWP resolution “The Third Chinese Revolution and its Aftermath”
- US protects NSA spy’s wife wanted in UK over teenager’s death
- Mass protests against endemic poverty, government corruption convulse Haiti
- Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested in central London
- Ecuador’s president retreats from capital in face of growing mass protests
- Brazilian unions push “green and yellow” chauvinism in education strike against austerity, political interference
- UAW keeps GM contract proposal secret from workers at company’s request
- Amazon workers in California win job back for fired co-workers
2019-10-10
- GM tightens screws on UAW with threat to close joint training center
- Turkey launches US-backed offensive targeting Kurdish forces in Syria
- FISA court documents expose illegal FBI mass surveillance
- Richest 400 Americans paid lower taxes than everyone else in 2018
- PG&E imposes blackout for over two million residents in Northern California
- The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for research in cellular responses to oxygen
- US-North Korean nuclear talks stall again
- Mexico: 100,000 university workers strike as López Obrador’s vows deeper austerity
- India’s state of siege in Kashmir continues
- Trump admits US killed millions in war based on lies
- Trump asserts unchecked presidential powers
- German Nazi murders two in Yom Kippur Synagogue attack
- US Fed announces return to asset purchases
- UK: Bootle Royal Mail workers’ strike sold out by Communication Workers Union
- Australian cyber conference “disinvites” US whistleblower and Assange supporter
- UK ruling class considers whether to entrust Corbyn with overcoming Brexit crisis
- UAW promoting anti-Mexican nationalism to isolate and defeat GM strike
2019-10-11
- Who is UAW Vice President Terry Dittes?
- Australian government ministers call for protesters to be cut off welfare
- Roger Waters “Us + Them” concert film takes on global issues
- Trump makes fascistic appeal to police and military at Minneapolis rally
- New York City transit authority adds 500 police officers
- Video: SEP presidential candidate Pani Wijesiriwardena addresses nationally-televised meeting in Sri Lanka
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for research in cosmology and exoplanets
- The irrationality of capitalism: Millions cut off from electricity, lives endangered by California utility PG&E
- Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America
- Prosecutors in Illinois charge nine-year-old with murder after mobile home fire claims the lives of five family members
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Crisis mounts over Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's “Just Society”: Palliatives that will never be implemented
- Immigrants shut down Matamoros-Brownsville border crossing in protest over US-Mexico asylum ban
- WikiLeaks source Jeremy Hammond held in contempt by grand jury
- Right-wing extremist network behind fascist synagogue attack in Germany
- As UAW keeps Mack-Volvo workers on job past contract deadline, Daimler’s Freightliner Trucks cuts 900 jobs
- Spanish Supreme Court approves exhumation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco
- CIA spied on Assange’s lawyers, visitors in Ecuadorian embassy
- After secret meeting with CEO Mary Barra, UAW moving to shut down GM strike
2019-10-12
- US and China reach limited trade deal
- Edward Snowden: The man who exposed the electronic surveillance of everyone by US intelligence
- Canada’s NDP spouts “progressive” rhetoric while planning to prop up minority Liberal government
- Seattle Democrats endorse Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant
- Six months since the brutal arrest of WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange
- New Anti-capitalist Party demands military escalation against Turkey in Syria
- Dortmund, Germany withdraws prestigious award from the author Kamila Shamsie over support for BDS
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Official cover-up continues of Australian paramedic’s suicide
- US sends 3,000 more troops to defend Saudi monarchy
- US immigration policies sending thousands of children, including babies, back to Mexico
- Right-wing extremist network behind fascist synagogue attack in Germany
- As wildfires, power outages spread throughout California, tens of thousands ordered to evacuate
- Five dead and almost 1,000 arrested as repression mounts in Ecuador
- Catalan nationalists, Spanish unions and pseudo-left demobilize opposition
- European Union continues talks with Johnson government over possible Brexit deal
- Auto strike in peril: UAW, GM prepare to end strike and impose contract betrayal
2019-10-14
- This week in history: October 14- 20
- Oppose the Turkish military offensive in Syria!
- Syrian army, Iran threaten counterattack against Turkish invasion of Syria
- Germany: The election of the SPD leader and the decline of social democracy
- Wildfires and forced blackouts lead to multiple deaths in California
- No to American fascism! Build a mass movement to force Trump out!
- Protest in New Zealand six months after Assange’s arrest
- Two dead, one missing after hotel worksite collapses in New Orleans
- NDP advocates spending tens of billions on Canada’s military
- As GM strike enters fifth week, Mack Truck-Volvo workers launch first strike in more than 35 years
- Nationalists win parliamentary elections in Kosovo
- Prominent Australian parliamentarian declares extradition of Julian Assange to US “totally unreasonable”
- US impeachment inquiry: State Department official testifies in defiance of Trump ban
- Trump backs China’s handling of Hong Kong protests
- Four homeless men murdered in New York City’s Chinatown
- “It’s like the UAW is management:” GM strikers speak out as union moves towards sellout
- Thousands protest in Germany against right-wing violence following fascist Yom Kippur attack
- Mass arrests continue in London and other cities in global Extinction Rebellion protests
- Conflict erupts over European Central Bank’s return to “quantitative easing”
- Chicago Teachers Union announces “path” to block strike and impose austerity settlement
- Large Berlin solidarity protests against anti-Semitism and right-wing terrorism.
- M.I.A. visits Julian Assange in prison: “It’s about truth—and that’s something people have to uphold and fight for”
- Spreading strike wave shows potential for GM workers to expand struggle to Ford and Fiat-Chrysler
2019-10-15
- Australian governments trial police-state measures against climate protesters
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump conference video incites violence against opponents
- Quebec Federation of Labour’s Solidarity Fund sponsors speech by Conservative Party leader Scheer
- Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate holds press conference
- Mack Truck, copper strikes show potential to spread GM walkout to Ford, Fiat Chrysler
- French President Macron launches Islamophobic campaign after Paris police office attack
- Germany’s IG Metall union calls for alliance with government and corporations against workers
- IMF meeting confronts “synchronized” global economic slowdown
- Halt the jobs massacre in the UK auto industry: For a joint struggle at Honda, Nissan, Ford and Vauxhall
- Homeless deaths rise more than 20 percent in England and Wales
- Fort Worth, Texas police officer charged with murder after shooting woman in her home
- US Supreme Court term begins with new threats to democratic rights
- UK: Factional warfare in Corbyn leadership after McDonnell allies with Blairites over Brexit
- Spanish police attack mass protests against prison terms for Catalan nationalists
- European Union declares little chance of Brexit deal by Thursday summit
- International review denounces FAA certification of Boeing 737 Max 8
- 2,000 Asarco mineworkers go on strike in Arizona and Texas
2019-10-16
- Government has no solution to Australia’s water crisis
- New York City exhibit examines the creation of Verdi’s last two operas
- Testimony highlights key role of Bolton in impeachment inquiry against Trump
- UAW announces tentative agreement with GM, keeping strikers in the dark on contract terms
- India: Telangana Chief Minister fires 48,000 striking transport workers
- After overwhelming strike vote at Royal Mail Group rank-and-file postal workers need a socialist strategy
- Poland: Law and Justice Party wins second term in office, loses majority in the Senate
- “PG&E should be nationalized”: Berkeley students and residents denounce forced blackout in California
- The Democrats support the “Forever War”
- New Zealand housing crisis worsens under Labour government
- California Governor vetoes $2 billion affordable housing bill
- Metropolitan Police impose London-wide ban on Extinction Rebellion protests as arrests top 1,600
- Mass strikes and protests force Ecuador’s president to cancel austerity decree
- Chicago teachers expected to strike Thursday, as union pledges to limit it to a “short-term” walkout
- Communication Workers Union defies strike mandate, pledges to continue talks with Royal Mail
- Opinion polls indicate Canada’s elections to end in hung parliament
- Germany: Thousands of job cuts at Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank
- As strike wave grows, UAW scrambles to shut down GM walkout and impose sellout contract
2019-10-17
- Ukrainian President Zelensky adopts Steinmeier formula amid mass far-right protests
- Trump defends US pullback in Syria
- Continued rise in STDs highlights bipartisan attack on American healthcare system
- Pacific Gas and Electric utility confronts mass outrage a week after Northern California power shutoffs
- The jailing of Catalan nationalists: Spanish government builds a police state
- UN special rapporteur on torture warns: “Assange will not get a fair trial in Virginia”
- German defence minister visits Niger and Mali in preparation for massive combat operation in the Sahel
- Spanish government threatens broader crackdown as mass protests escalate in Catalonia
- UAW isolates Mack Truck strike as it moves towards sellout at GM
- British family “emotionally and psychologically destroyed” by detention in US immigration prison
- IMF cuts growth forecast and points to rising financial risks
- A rare moment of truth on the US support for Al Qaeda
- Democratic debate shows cross-party support for imperialist intervention in Syria
- Australia: “Four Corners” program promotes anti-China witch-hunt
- 32,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers and staff strike
- Canada’s involvement in US-led war drive against China: An election non-issue
- Brexit deal agreed after Johnson sidelines Democratic Unionist Party
- UAW sanctions plant closings, expansion of temps in new GM deal
2019-10-18
- US claims “ceasefire” deal in Turkey’s invasion of Syria
- Suicide rates and suicidal behavior rise sharply among American youth
- Video report: Britain's postal union suppresses overwhelming vote for strike at Royal Mail
- No to the sellout contract! Take the GM strike out of the hands of the UAW!
- Teachers in rural Colorado strike over low pay
- UN official’s briefing on torture of Assange boycotted by US media
- Following terrorist attack in Germany, Jewish community strongly criticises police intervention in Halle
- More than 30,000 teachers and staff strike in Chicago, Illinois
- Johnson’s Brexit deal faces UK parliamentary vote Saturday
- Right-wing networks in the German state exposed
- Canadian elections: Bloc Québécois champions Quebec chauvinism, law targeting religious minorities
- Autoworkers denounce UAW deal with GM
- United Steelworkers, unions keep striking Asarco mineworkers in the dark
- Sexual assault scandal shakes New Zealand government
2019-10-19
- Canada’s unions spending millions to re-elect Trudeau’s pro-war, pro-austerity Liberals
- Fighting continues in wake of US-Turkish agreement on northern Syria
- Democrats link Trump impeachment drive to dissent in military over Syria pullback
- Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE hold successful meeting on India’s Kashmir lockdown
- UK police gain access to details of thousands of men, women and children through government’s Prevent database
- US Federal Reserve starts “quantitative easing forever”
- Mack-Volvo Truck strike to idle 3,000 at Volvo’s New River Valley factory in Virginia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Stop the shift to the right at the universities!
- Autoworkers denounce UAW-GM tentative agreement
- What autoworkers need to know about the sellout UAW-GM contract
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Julian Assange to appear Monday at Westminster Magistrates Court
- Hillary Clinton slanders Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Green Party candidate Jill Stein as Russian spies
- Childhood and adolescent obesity worldwide expected to increase 70 percent by 2030
- As Chicago teachers strike completes second day, union and Democratic Party working together to shut it down
- General strike paralyzes Catalonia as over half-a-million demonstrate in Barcelona
- Labour leads effort to vote down Johnson’s Brexit deal
- Vote no! Reject UAW misinformation! Elect rank-and-file committees to expand the strike!
- Growing calls for Australian government to defend Julian Assange
- Algerian junta to slash energy subsidies amid mass protests
2019-10-21
- This week in history: October 21-27
- Chicago teachers’ strike in danger as CTU maneuvers to shut it down
- At Tennessee “informational meeting” UAW calls cops on workers campaigning against GM contract
- Australia: Inspections reveal dangerous conditions on NSW construction sites
- Draconian verdict against Catalan politicians exposes bankruptcy of Podemos
- The GM strike and the global class struggle
- Newark and New Jersey officials continue to dissemble about statewide lead poisoning crisis
- Military brass denounce Trump’s withdrawal of troops from Syria
- Michigan’s Democratic governor takes lead in cutting 2020 state budget
- Striking Mack Truck-Volvo workers struggle enters second week
- Inquiry whitewashes Kiribati government over ferry disaster
- World economy “sleepwalking” to another financial crisis, warns former Bank of England chief
- Sons of convicted UAW bribe taker Norwood Jewell were co-signers of GM sellout deal
- Sealed Lips: Dramatizing the Stalinist origins of the former East Germany
- Canadian workers must prepare for convulsive struggles
- Pro-European Union demonstration mobilises hundreds of thousands in London
- The death of Elijah Cummings: Democrats, media glorify a mediocrity
- Two years since the death of temporary autoworker Jacoby Hennings
- Chilean military deployed against protests for the first time since Pinochet
- UK Prime Minister Johnson forced to send request for Brexit extension after “Super Saturday” parliamentary setback
- Why haven’t Boeing’s executives been arrested?
- Opposition to GM deal grows as UAW rushes vote on sellout contract
2019-10-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Lightfoot administration ratchets up pressure on Chicago teachers to end the walkout
- US troops withdraw across Syrian border into Iraq
- Wildcat strike erupts at French National Railways over understaffing, austerity
- Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez use “left” demagogy to channel opposition to Trump behind Democrats
- Russia: At least 15 dead, five missing after illegal dam breaks in Siberia
- The New York Times, China, and the specter of the “Yellow Peril”
- New Zealand government introduces class-based immigration restrictions
- Australian media companies protest government attacks on press freedom
- Madrid steps up repression of protests against Catalan crackdown
- Workers in Lebanon reject tax hikes, demand the government’s resignation
- Workers and students speak at Sanders rally in New York
- Right-wing terror in Germany: the responsibility of the Grand Coalition
- Canada’s Liberals cling to power, to form minority government with one-third of votes cast
- Dockworkers, miners initiate national strike as military kills 11 in Chile
- Spring Hill, Tennessee workers reject deal, as UAW pushes GM sellout contract
- UK judge rejects delay in Assange extradition case
- United Steelworkers prepare betrayal of Asarco strike
2019-10-23
- Video: Indiana GM workers denounce UAW sellout, express solidarity with Mexican workers
- Top US diplomat in Ukraine tells impeachment inquiry Trump tied military aid to Biden probe
- Germany, US threaten war amid Russia-Turkey summit on Syria
- GM worker dies after being struck by vehicle near picket line at Spring Hill, Tennessee
- Mass protests continue in defiance of military crackdown in Chile
- Major distributors and manufacturers of opioids avert trial by reaching $260 million wrist-slap settlement in Ohio
- Illegal forest fires send another lethal haze over parts of Indonesia
- Major write down of Australian growth forecast as global contradictions intensify
- Injured Honduran worker detained by US border agents after speaking out about deadly New Orleans hotel collapse
- Solomon Islands deal with Chinese developer highlights Pacific tensions
- Teachers’ union calls on Elizabeth Warren in bid to strangle strike against Chicago’s Democratic machine
- Striking Chicago educators speak on their demands
- Johnson wins vote on Brexit deal but MPs back further delay
- Who is counting the ballots for the UAW-GM contract?
- Hundreds protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court to demand freedom for Julian Assange
2019-10-24
- WeWork CEO walks away with $1.7 billion as mass layoffs planned at failing office rental company
- More GM workers reject deal as UAW tries to suppress “no” votes
- Trump urges congressional Republicans to “take the gloves off” in impeachment crisis
- Tens of thousands of Chicago teachers and staff rally as Lightfoot administration announces austerity budget
- No to the German-European security zone in Syria!
- Youth suicide rate skyrockets in the US: A symptom of a rotting social order
- Video shows Fresno police officer shooting unarmed 10th grade boy in the head
- Julian Assange’s court hearing in London: Britain stages a lawless show-trial
- Canada: NDP, unions eager to prop up Trudeau Liberal government
- Police in Washington state seize cache of firearms from suspected Neo-Nazi leader
- Reports highlight rising methamphetamine health crisis across US Midwest
- Thirty-nine migrants found dead in lorry trailer in UK
- Opposition to UAW-GM contract mounts at shuttered Lordstown, Ohio plant
- 70 years after the Chinese Revolution: How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
- Chicago Public Schools teachers, staff and students oppose concessions
- Newly-inaugurated Indonesian president appoints notorious ex-general as defence minister
- British Columbia: IATSE suppresses opposition to union malfeasance
- “GM paid for this vote”: Autoworkers denounce sellout contract as opposition grows
- Cézanne and I (Cézanne et moi): The relationship of painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola
- European Union leaders consider three-month Brexit delay, as UK general election looms
- Recriminations within Brazilian ruling classes over Trump’s OECD snub
- New Zealand: Fire engulfs $800 million Auckland construction site
2019-10-25
- Typhoon wreaks havoc in Japan
- Socialist Equality Party holds series of public meetings on “The Socialist Answer to Brexit: For the United Socialist States of Europe”
- Trump proposal denies free school meals to half a million children
- Build a socialist movement against imperialist war, austerity and dictatorship
- California utility PG&E imposes mass blackouts for second time this month
- From Chile to Lebanon: Working class offensive sweeps the globe
- NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels to call for new Middle East wars
- Maoist union leaders continue to isolate Motherson autoworkers’ strike in India
- UAW shuts down Mack-Volvo Truck strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: Humboldt University student parliament supports lawsuit against far-right Professor Baberowski
- Striking Chicago teachers confront Democratic Party machine and union’s effort to isolate their struggle
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backs internet censorship
- Indian Stalinists got huge “donations” from right-wing party to fund election campaign
- US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border
- Mass protests spread to Bolivia after a disruption in electoral broadcasts
- UAW rams through sellout, shuts down strike at General Motors
- GM workers denounce UAW moves to end strike on management’s terms
- As Asarco copper workers continue their fight, unions isolate their struggle
2019-10-26
- Eightieth birthday tribute to Sri Lankan Trotskyist Nanda Wickremasinghe
- Over two million to be without power over weekend as wildfires sweep through California
- Workers question legitimacy of UAW’s claims on GM contract ratification
- The defense of public education and the fight for socialism
- Trump shifts from ending “forever wars” to sending tanks into Syria’s oil fields
- Britain obstructs Spanish investigation into CIA spying on Julian Assange
- Sri Lankan SEP holds inaugural presidential election meeting
- Google announces a new breakthrough for quantum computing
- George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in triumphant return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera
- The police murder of Isiah Murrietta-Golding
- Lebanese protesters keep up demands for the government’s resignation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Justice Department probe of Russia-Trump inquiry has become a “criminal investigation”
- Euro area heads for slump as Draghi steps down as central bank chief
- Millions march for social equality across Chile
- Chicago Teachers Union and Democratic Party conspire to end Chicago teachers strike
- European Union delays Brexit extension decision as Corbyn tries to avoid general election
- More evidence of cover-up of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
2019-10-28
- This week in history: October 28-November 3
- Lessons of the GM autoworkers strike
- The murder of Baghdadi and Washington’s crisis in the Middle East
- New Zealand defence chief admits Afghan civilian death
- Chinese president visits Nepal as tensions with the US sharpen
- Washington DC: Private metro contract workers launch first transit strike in over 40 years
- German media gripped by war fever
- Court ruling declares House impeachment inquiry to be legal
- State of emergency as California wildfires force 200,000 to evacuate
- The Current War: Director’s Cut—About Thomas Edison, electricity and the 1880s
- Many of 39 found dead in UK lorry were Vietnamese victims of people traffickers
- Chicago school staff union breaks ranks with teachers, signs tentative deal
- Mass rally against jailing of Catalan nationalists in Barcelona
- After UAW sellout of strike, GM fires workers for social media posts
- Meeting defending Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning in Melbourne this Sunday
2019-10-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Right-wing politics in a “left” wrapper: Elizabeth Warren’s plan for education
- Trump makes fascist appeal to police in Chicago
- German state election: the Left Party’s policies open the way for the fascistic AfD
- GM refuses to rehire victimized Mexican workers who supported US strike
- Seventy percent of US Millennials say they are likely to vote socialist
- Alexander Reznik’s Trotsky and Comrades: A false account of the emergence and politics of the Left Opposition
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the forgotten history of Iraq
- New York University’s new mental health initiative cheats students in need of counseling
- Striking Chicago teachers and staff determined to defend public education
- As protests continue, Hong Kong’s economy lurches into recession
- Retiring Australian ambassador to US points to war danger in Trump trade policies
- Arlington GM temp worker with cancer speaks out on his firing four days before strike
- Hundreds of thousands evacuated, more than two million without power as fires continue in California
- GM fires Flint workers over social media posts during strike
- Workers and students from Chile speak out at protest in Sydney, Australia
- Democrats, union leaders intensify pressure on striking Chicago teachers to accept austerity contract
- UK: Johnson set to win new vote to hold December general election
- Trump booed at World Series game
- One year since the first Boeing 737 Max 8 crash
2019-10-30
- Ukrainian prime minister attends neo-Nazi rock concert
- Sri Lanka: SEP presidential candidate addresses meetings in war-ravaged north
- Australian state Labor government spearheads anti-protest laws
- New York City police kill five in less than a month
- The global youth radicalization and the fight for socialism
- New York City transit workers and the fight for social equality
- Mehring Yayıncılık publishes new ICFI books for İstanbul Book Fair
- Netflix’ Living with Yourself with Paul Rudd: The divided self … from A to B
- Stop the censorship of socialist views by the University of Leipzig student council
- Democrats to hold House vote to authorize impeachment inquiry
- Germany: How Hesse authorities covered up the NSU and Lübcke murderers
- Iraqi regime responds to mass protests with brutal crackdown
- GM execs gloat over new UAW contract in call with Wall Street investors
- Growing outrage over PG&E role in California fire disaster
- Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback supports wage cuts for Ontario education workers
- Detroit Democrat John Conyers, long-standing fixture in Congress, dies at 90
- Chicago Teachers Union preparing the betrayal of teachers' strike
- Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project
- Britain set for December 12 general election
- Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested in Washington DC
- Australian parliamentarians form cross-party group in defence of Julian Assange
2019-10-31
- Trump’s booing at the World Series makes Democrats and the media nervous
- Washington threatens to fight Syria and Russia for oil
- New wildcat strike paralyzes French rail network
- Fed guarantees more money for Wall Street as attacks on workers intensify
- The Boeing crashes and the criminalization of American capitalism
- Ford Canada announces more job cuts as GM prepares final shutdown in Oshawa
- Australian police violently attack climate change protestors
- US detains record number of child migrants at the southwestern border
- Inquiry issues cover-up report on Grenfell Tower fire disaster
- After announcing agreement with Ford, UAW seeking to force through sellout deal
- Independent pathologist says evidence shows Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a homicide
- Video: 70 years after the Chinese Revolution—How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
- Australian and New Zealand students speak after lecture on 70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution
- Chicago Teachers Union attempting to ram through tentative agreement over widespread opposition
- CTU moves to shut down strike without giving teachers right to vote on sellout contract
- Peronism returns to power in Argentina amid simmering social anger
- Alberta’s Conservative government tables class-war budget
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