Students are seeking ways to fight the sacking of educators and the shutting down of courses, and to break through the stifling of opposition by the student and staff unions.
Many local governments implemented “demolition first, then resettlement” policies, causing villagers to lose their homes.
The trade union has signalled its willingness to enforce sweeping job destruction, in line with its role an industrial police force of management.
“People are worried that on top of the hardship they have already gone through, they would face more unknown, long-term, and negative consequences from the pandemic.”
University workers, in partnership with students, need to construct new rank-and-file organisations that are totally independent of the NTEU apparatus.
Wuhan City Central Hospital’s website published nothing about Hu Weifeng’s death from COVID-19 and his colleagues were barred from being interviewed by the media.
“The working class has made huge sacrifices in the fight against the epidemic. The epidemic has increased the pressure on their lives, and made workers want a more resolute voice for labour rights.”
The Free Assange Group explained to Taiwan workers that WikiLeaks served as a deterrent to war and was a tool for peace.
The United Steelworkers and the Democratic Party have responded with nationalist demagogy, blaming China for “illegal dumping” of steel products on the US market.
Some 900 teachers and support staff are striking against cuts to health care and increased class sizes.
Bus drivers recruited from China struck against Singapore’s second largest transport operator, prompting arrest and repression by government authorities.
The reluctance of the public prosecutor to proceed against Envio Recycling Ltd suggests that state regulators have been complicit in allowing the company to pollute the environment with carcinogenic PCBs.
On August 10 police in Masaka, Uganda assaulted a demonstration called against the rising cost of living.
At a meeting in Berlin last Saturday the chairman of the German Socialist Equality Party described the threat of the default by Greece as an expression of the global crisis of capitalism.
The demonstrators who ousted President Hosni Mubarak now realise that the trust they had in the Egyptian army was misplaced and that their revolution is far from over.
A WSWS correspondent spoke to supporters outside South Korea’s Ssangyong Motor assembly plant, which workers have occupied for eight weeks.
Millions of Indonesian workers face being laid-off this year because of the impact of the global economic breakdown.
The Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (PSG—Socialist Equality Party) is participating in the January 27 Hesse state elections with its own regional slate of two candidates. The PSG candidates are Helmut Arens, 59, a chemical worker and chairman of the Hesse regional PSG, and Achim Heppding, 53, a social insurance worker and former PSG candidate for the European parliament.
A new report published by Amnesty International on July 5, entitled “Turkey: The entrenched culture of impunity must end,” clearly demonstrates that torture, ill-treatment and killings continue to be practiced with impunity by the security forces in Turkey.
On the evening of Wednesday, January 24, workers at the Volkswagen Forest factory in Brussels resumed their strike.
