Archive: 06/2020
2020-06-01
- Autoworkers denounce police murder of George Floyd, express support for protesters
- US universities and colleges appeal for legal immunity from coronavirus lawsuits as campuses plan to reopen in fall
- This week in history: June 1-7
- UK Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill deepens attack on fundamental civil liberties
- US telecoms see opportunity to cut jobs, boost profits in pandemic
- Sharp rise in right-wing extremist and anti-Semitic violence in Germany
- Video: Police on nationwide rampage
- Thousands of Canadian medical workers infected with COVID-19 due to lack of PPE
- Nationwide protests continue over police murder as state violence mounts
- Trump incites violent police rampage against protesters
- Australian university union pushes through pay-cutting deal at Western Sydney
- AFL-CIO, pseudo-left groups seek to derail opposition of Mexican workers to COVID-19 pandemic
- Explosion at Indian thermal power plant kills four workers
- Discredited policy of coronavirus “herd immunity” placed in stark relief
- The History Channel’s Grant
- COVID-19: Organise rank-and-file health and safety committees for bus and transport workers!
- Protests internationally against police murder of George Floyd
- New COVID-19 infections worldwide hit record levels
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Impressive raw material, but a non-committal approach - COVID-19 fatalities in Europe’s care homes far higher than official counts
- Germany’s right-wing Bild tabloid agitates against leading virologist Christian Drosten
- Major League Baseball plans to open season in midst of pandemic
- As full operations resume, North American auto companies keep silent on spreading COVID-19 cases
- Administrative hearing in Julian Assange’s extradition case to be held today
- Workers sickened after Amazon sprays industrial strength chemicals to disinfect warehouse
2020-06-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington, DC area begins reopening as coronavirus infections top 100,000
- Trump administration deploys military to the capital as nationwide protests continue
- Tennessee government to stop sharing information on known COVID-19 infections
- Thousands of retail jobs eliminated in Sprint and T-Mobile telecom merger
- UK: Allowing mass-attended sporting events to go ahead led to COVID-19 deaths
- SpaceX launch of astronauts marks new stage of the privatization of space exploration
- SEP (Sri Lanka) calls for action committees to counter COVID-19 and defend jobs
- More than half of parents defy UK school reopening:Education unions seek to demobilise popular opposition
- Trudeau government exploits pandemic to renew $14 billion arms deal with despotic Saudi regime
- Australia’s richest “Top 20” soar further in wealth during pandemic
- Coup d’état in Washington: Trump declares war on the Constitution
- Protests across New Zealand over US police murder of George Floyd
- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio defends police violence against protesters
- Nurses at HCA Healthcare across the US protest job cuts and lack of PPE
- COVID-19 outbreaks continue surge in meatpacking plants following forced reopenings
- Protests in Louisville continue day after local restaurant owner killed
- Indian government abandons lockdown measures as coronavirus infections soar
- Flooding in central Michigan exposes decades of Dow Chemical’s environmental crimes
- Nearly half of all teachers in Brookline, Massachusetts receive pink slips
- COVID-19 pandemic exposes a rapidly developing global health crisis
- Australian bushfire inquiry examines the terrible impact of smoke inhalation
- Brazilian Trotskyists issue call for working-class action against pandemic
- Impact of COVID-19 and George Floyd killing on artistic life: An interview with a young artist-actor in Brooklyn, New York
- Thousands rally in Perth, Australia against police violence
- Julian Assange unable to attend court hearing due to illness as legal travesty continues
- Germany and EU expand military deployment in Africa
2020-06-03
- Unorthodox: Netflix series tells story of young woman’s flight from Hasidic community in New York
- Canadian farm and industrial worksites become new coronavirus hotspots
- Australian police officers assault Aboriginal boy in Sydney
- Oppose the premature lifting of COVID-19 safety restrictions!
- Australian schools affected by new coronavirus clusters
- Canada’s governments ignored 2006 pandemic preparedness report
- Sweeping attacks on migrant workers in Russia amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Protesters defy Trump’s threats, expand nationwide movement against police killings
- Democrats cover for Trump’s coup d’état
- Microsoft to replace MSN news production workers with artificial intelligence
- Democratic Governor Whitmer lifts major COVID-19 restrictions in Michigan
- Anxiety, depression, loneliness grip millions of youth during pandemic
- Woman pinned down by police officers in London: “I can’t breathe”
- White House Coronavirus Task Force effectively ended by Trump
- Egypt: el-Sisi approves legal framework for military dictatorship
- Brazilian youth join international wave of protests against police violence
- UK police dismiss spitting case in COVID-19 death of rail worker Belly Mujinga
2020-06-04
- American workers voice support for mass protests against police brutality
- Tamil nationalists exploit remembrance of war victims to advance pro-imperialist agenda
- Use of tear gas by US police may exacerbate COVID-19 pandemic
- Sri Lankan health workers protest wage and transport cuts during pandemic
- US Federal Bureau of Prisons implements full lockdown amid mass protests across the country
- White supremacist congressman Steve King defeated in Republican primary
- A call to the working class! Stop Trump’s coup d’état!
- Anger grows over refusal to bring charges in killing at Omaha protest
- European media outlets fear bitter class struggles in the US
- Thousands protest in London against police killing of George Floyd
- Irish government plans full return to work by August
- Union supports ditching temporary workers at Meyer shipyard in Germany
- Writer on Law & Order: SVU spinoff threatens to kill “looters”
- After more than a week of nationwide protests, new charges announced against George Floyd’s murderers
- Economic effects of pandemic to last a decade
- Nearly 65,000 COVID-19 deaths in UK according to Financial Times
- As protests grow, corporate CEOs hypocritically declare opposition to “racism and injustice”
- Nearly half a million health care workers worldwide infected with coronavirus
- US nurses speak on dangers of COVID-19 exposure at their workplaces
- Canadian establishment shrugs off Trump’s authoritarian power grab, voices “horror” over mass protests
- Survey exposes COVID-19 dangers facing call centre workers
- Disgraced former UAW President Gary Jones pleads guilty to corruption charges
- Anger over US police assault on Australian journalists in Washington DC
- Georgia police officers charged after brutal assault on college students returning from protest
- Australian inquest says “grossly deficient” safety caused death of Anglo American mine worker
2020-06-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Zambia’s bid for IMF rescue deal thwarted by Washington’s anti-China campaign
- Australia: NSW government pushes public sector wage freeze
- New US weekly unemployment claims near 2 million as foreclosures, hunger loom
- Opposition builds to re-opening of UK schools
- Turkish Trotskyists call for independent working-class action against the pandemic
- Swedish health officials admit “herd immunity” policy led to “too many” deaths
- Philippines begins lifting lockdown despite rising infection rates
- Trump intensifies campaign to brand domestic opposition as terrorism
- Protests erupt in France against police violence and Trump’s coup d’état
- NTEU helps Australian universities escalate job and wage cuts
- Nissan confirms job cuts as strike against Spanish plant closures continues
- Hundreds of jobs axed as News Corp Australia shuts regional and suburban newspapers
- SEP (Australia) holding online lecture on the history of the Left Opposition this Tuesday
- Alberta’s hard-right premier dismisses coronavirus as “influenza”
- Thousands of US medical workers join protests against police violence
- Trump administration deploys unmarked paramilitary units in Washington, D.C.
- German protests in solidarity with George Floyd and against police violence
- UAW withholds information six days after Louisville Ford worker tests positive for COVID-19
- The Eddy: Struggling musicians in Paris—how unprepared artists are for the present situation!
- European Central Banks boosts support for financial markets
- Ten thousand people have been arrested across the US as protests against police violence continue to expand
- Mass reopenings worldwide have accelerated the coronavirus pandemic
- US colleges prepare full opening of campuses in the name of football
- Protests spread in Chile as hospitals reach saturation point
- London bus drivers face COVID-19 disaster: Build rank-and-file safety committees!
- Inmate dies after being pepper sprayed by guards at Brooklyn federal detention center
- Austin, Texas police critically injure young protesters with “less lethal” beanbag rounds
- New details emerge in hearing for three charged in murder of Ahmaud Arbery
2020-06-06
- As the world approaches 7 million cases of COVID-19, the pandemic casts a broader net
- Encouraged by Trump, police rampage leaves protesters dead and wounded across the US
- Trump hails dubious May jobless report to boost stock market, back-to-work drive
- Uncut Gems: How to win bets and alienate people
- UK: Prime Minister’s Questions reveals Labour’s complicity in Tory back-to-school campaign
- Police kill unarmed 22-year-old man in Vallejo, California
- The police murder of George Floyd sparks mass protests throughout the world
- New York Times in crisis over op-ed backing military takeover
- Nissan confirms job cuts as strike against Spanish plant closures continues
- Workers in Detroit and across Michigan support anti-police violence protests
- Four Tacoma, Washington police officers put on administrative leave three months after killing Manuel Ellis
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- US colleges and universities continue jobs bloodbath as they press to open in the fall
- Collaborations with Grenfell Tower Inquiry must end after corporate witnesses granted legal immunity
- Australian government hands more cash to big business as recession deepens
- Plummeting vaccinations in the US and globally put millions of children at risk
- UK: After the clapping stops—The way forward for NHS workers
- Mass protests erupt across Canada against police brutality and Trump
- Protester explains how he was brutally assaulted by Secret Service officials in Washington, D.C.
- Brazil’s President Bolsonaro calls demonstrators “terrorists,” threatens military repression
- US autoworkers denounce police violence, Trump’s moves to impose military dictatorship
- Australian governments try to block demonstrations against police violence
- Over 20,000 tons of diesel spilled in Russian Arctic river
- More Australian war crimes exposed in Afghanistan
2020-06-08
- The purveyors of death cough up loose change for Yemen
- This week in history: June 8-14
- Turkish government arrests opposition and Kurdish deputies
- Tens of thousands continue UK protests against racism and police brutality
- Buffalo, New York mayor protects police in attack on 75-year-old
- The global protests and the fight against capitalism
- New Zealand government introduces internet censorship legislation
- Reopening of New York City threatens a new surge in transit worker deaths
- New Jersey health department whistleblowers’ letter highlights criminality of state’s pandemic response
- Quebec unions and government conspire behind the backs of health and education workers
- Police killing of Giovanni López sparks protests, political crisis in Mexico
- The Malthusian underpinnings of Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy
- Trump confers with Modi over explosive India-China border dispute
- India and Australia sign military pact amid tense border conflict with China
- German government’s stimulus package: €50 billion for automakers, €1 billion for childcare
- Hundreds of thousands join protests against police violence across Europe
- Millions march in cities and towns in every part of the US to oppose racism and police violence
- German corporations seize on pandemic to implement mass layoffs and welfare cuts
- Bolsonaro government attempted to censor Brazil’s coronavirus case count and death toll
- Trump, Barr continue threat to deploy military against nationwide protests
- Defying government threats, thousands join Australian protests against police violence
- Australian protesters speak out: “The class systems need to be abolished”
- Amazon workers declare support for mass protests as management imposes pay cut
- All Day and a Night: Life in prison to look forward to
2020-06-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The World Health Organization comes under new US attack for its relationship to China
- UK protesters speak on George Floyd demonstrations
- UK: Virus infection rate increases as Johnson government continues ending lockdown
- Sri Lankan president establishes military taskforce: Another step toward dictatorship
- UK: Postal workers at Bridgewater walk out as six COVID-19 cases confirmed at Wellingborough
- 35,000 sign petition to provide full funding to Randolph schools in Massachusetts
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette censors accurate reporting of protests against police brutality
- A reality check on the ongoing spread of the coronavirus pandemic
- New York Times editor James Bennet resigns over fascist op-ed
- Health care workers join mass protests against racism and police violence, and explain why
- Johnson government falls in behind Washington’s economic war with China
- Thousands pay respects to George Floyd as Minneapolis cop is arraigned on murder charges
- Health care worker layoffs surge in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota
- Democrats announce toothless police reform bill
- Protests erupt in Germany against police violence, racism and fascism
- Chinese doctor’s death rekindles anger over health system
- Australian government ending COVID-19 childcare scheme
- Across Canada tens of thousands join protests against police violence
- Italian actress Lucia Bosè (1931-2020), Rome 11:00 and the social dimensions of a tragedy
2020-06-10
- US Postal Service covers up COVID-19 death toll in New York City
- Protests erupt in Syria as the economy collapses
- The fate of international students in the US in the era of COVID-19
- UK: Setback for Johnson’s school reopening plan due to popular opposition
- COVID-19 cases rise rapidly after South Asia’s governments abandon lockdowns
- Russia’s ruling class nervous over spreading global protests
- Proponents of racial politics react with hostility to multi-racial protests against police murder of George Floyd
- UK: Johnson government demands police repression of George Floyd protests
- Australia Post restructure threatens over 2,000 jobs
- Papua New Guinea: Ex-PM O’Neill charged with corruption
- The paradox of the Wall Street surge
- Forced disappearances of protesters against police violence in Guadalajara
- George Floyd laid to rest as nationwide protests over police violence continue
- Bridgestone tire defends safety “playbook” as infections rise at Iowa plant
- COVID-19 eruptions increasing in US meatpacking plants, logistics centers
- Canadian government threatens fines and jail time to force workers back to work
- Youth protests and worker strikes show mounting social opposition in Brazil
- Bakersfield, California protester dies after being run over by neo-Nazi
- Baghdad Central on Hulu: Where is the outrage?
- COVID-19 spreads in US auto plants as officials hide information from workers
2020-06-11
- German Left Party leader Sahra Wagenknecht calls for de-globalisation
- Fed to keep interest rates near zero indefinitely
- Arizona reactivates hospital emergency plans as COVID-19 infections rise in 19 states
- Millions of Ukrainian migrant workers forced to search for employment in Europe under unsafe conditions
- Six Tesla workers test positive for coronavirus at Bay Area factories
- Anticapitalistas leave Spain’s Podemos-Socialist Party government
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting against murder of George Floyd in the US
- More cases of US police brutality emerge as protests continue against murder of George Floyd
- Social class, capitalism and the murder of George Floyd
- Pandemic intensifies growing mental health crisis in Australia
- Police shoot dead mentally ill man in Melbourne, Australia
- Young maquiladora factory workers dying in droves in US/Mexico border towns
- Transport for London refuses FOI requests into bus and transport COVID-19 deaths
- The founding of the Fourth International
- Growing anger among US workers as COVID-19 rips through workplaces
- Massachusetts teacher denounces cuts to Randolph and Brookline schools
- A timeline of abuse by the New York Police Department
- Homeless thrown back onto the streets as UK lockdown ends
- German virologist Hendrik Streeck advocates “herd immunity”
- Debacle in Georgia primary casts doubt on US elections
- Sri Lankan workers and youth denounce police murder of George Floyd
- Report finds European lockdowns saved millions of lives, ending it threatens millions
- Trump asserts emergency powers to gut environmental protections
- Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
- Canadian Court of Appeal rules against White Birch Paper retirees
2020-06-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mass layoffs continue as 1.5 million file new US unemployment claims
- Biggest fall on Wall Street since March meltdown
- Would-be führer Trump steps up coup plotting
- New Zealand Police ends armed units after widespread opposition
- Washington steps up strategic bomber flights threatening Russia, China
- UK: Police refer decision not to prosecute over death of Belly Mujinga to Crown Prosecution Service
- National Guard fired the shot that killed David McAtee in Louisville during protest against police violence
- Libyan civil war intensifies amid growing international negotiations
- Homecoming, Season 2: The menacing “giant” that is the US military-industrial complex
- Sri Lankan police violently suppress protest against the killing of George Floyd
- UAW threatens job losses at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant over COVID-19-related absences
- Detroit Flex-N-Gate workers denounce sweatshop conditions
- UK: Indian cruise ship crew members still awaiting repatriation
- COVID-19 cases spike across the United States
- How Canada’s unions and NDP paved way for bill enforcing return to work amid pandemic
- Brazilian delivery workers strike in defense of their lives
- Australian PM calls for mass arrests at protests against police violence
2020-06-13
- US Navy deploys three aircraft carriers to Pacific against China
- Trump steps up provocations and threats of military force
- Claiming sympathy for protesters, US tech giants aid police militarization and surveillance
- Sanders opposes “defunding” police, calls for increased pay for cops
- Philadelphia public workers protest poor working conditions and police violence
- As pandemic surges, White House presses ahead with back-to-work campaign
- Decades-long cover-up continues of assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
- Ontario calls military into another for-profit long-term care facility ravaged by COVID-19
- Mauritian government and cruise companies hold stranded crew for ransom
- French daily Le Figaro reports that Macron considering early resignation
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- True History of the Kelly Gang: Little resemblance to the real story
- Service Prosecuting Authority drops all but one investigation into British war crimes in Iraq
- UK Health and Safety Executive provides cover for Johnson government’s back-to-work drive
- India: A massive explosion in Gujarat chemical plant kills 10 workers
- As US withdraws troops, German politicians, media step up militarist campaign
- Scottish government moves to end lockdown as COVID-19 deaths hit 4,000
- Brazil registers world’s second-highest COVID-19 toll as stock market soars
- Teacher arrested during protests speaks on social conditions in New York City
- VW leadership dispute prepares way for massive job cuts and austerity
- Massive police display of force against Australian protests
2020-06-15
- Reject Australian universities-NTEU job and pay cuts!
- This week in history: June 15-21
- 140 Trump admin sanctions ICC officials
- East Timorese government realignment shuts Xanana Gusmão out of power
- Tens of thousands protest in Paris against police killings of George Floyd and Adama Traoré
- Fascistic candidates gain in Republican Party
- UK government encourages fascist provocation to justify police crackdown
- The protests against police murder: The way forward
- Protests against police violence and racism continue in New Zealand
- Striking Spanish Nissan workers boo unions and Podemos mayor of Barcelona
- Maquiladora workers demand release of labor lawyer arrested in Matamoros, Mexico
- German unions compete to offer greater cuts at Lufthansa
- Thousands protest over suspicious hanging deaths of two black men in southern California
- Residents protest after woman dies in police custody in Harper Woods, Michigan
- Germany’s Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party organise police violence against peaceful demonstrators
- Three years since the Grenfell fire: Collaboration with Grenfell Tower Inquiry must end!
- Classical musicians face unprecedented challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Over 1.4 million US education jobs slashed in April and May
- Facing anger over budget cuts and early reopening, Detroit school officials promote racial politics
- Detroit literacy case ends with no legal precedent for the right to an education
- New cases of COVID-19 reach 8 million with Latin America still to peak
- 191 Chicago grad students break with AFT
- Protests erupt in Atlanta, Georgia after police fatally shoot fleeing man
- Washington, DC’s Democratic mayor renames city street “Black Lives Matter Plaza”
- Over 1,170 COVID-19 deaths as pandemic surges in Bangladesh
- Workers’ anger grows as auto companies continue coverup of COVID-19 in the factories
- Journalists expose CIA spying on Assange and demand his freedom
2020-06-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Virginia and Maryland ease COVID-19 restrictions
- Nearly 24,000 Ohioans told to return unemployment payments
- Parents speak out against rushed re-opening of schools in Australia
- Australian police allegedly threatened Sydney protesters with sound weapon
- Coronavirus pandemic in Poland: Silesian miners sacrificed for profit
- White House demands end to $600 per week emergency unemployment pay
- OECD report points to pandemic’s long-term impact
- New Zealand government lifts all COVID-19 restrictions
- Meatpacking workers oppose forced return to work through protests and mass absenteeism
- Macron announces mass bankruptcies and layoffs as coronavirus restrictions are ended
- Supreme Court rules that employers cannot fire workers because of sexual orientation or self-identity
- UK disability campaigners speak out on coronavirus pandemic
- With its hospitals overwhelmed, Delhi emerging as India’s coronavirus epicentre
- Nurses outraged over US hospital chain bailouts, layoffs and bloated CEO pay
- Studies on COVID-19 antibody response undermine US “herd immunity” policy
- Germany: Schools and child daycare centres open despite the high risk of infection
- Family demands answers after Missouri cop kills 25-year-old convenience store worker
- Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich reviews life, crimes and death of financier
- UK: Legal action highlights social-Darwinist policies against the disabled during COVID-19 pandemic
- Indian cruise ship crew stage second protest in three days
- Thousands of educators laid off across California as state Democrats plan austerity budget
- Atlanta police killing of Rayshard Brooks ruled a homicide as Democrats posture as reformers
- Canadian oil refinery boss lauds George Floyd protests while employing state violence against locked-out workers
- UK: Johnson opens the economy and guarantees fresh COVID-19 outbreak
- US auto companies pushing for more production as COVID-19 cases rise in factories
2020-06-17
- The BBC’s Sitting in Limbo: Compelling dramatization of the anti-migrant Windrush scandal
- Voices of young protesters: Police violence, COVID-19 and the 2020 elections
- More than 40 percent of all US deaths from COVID-19 are in nursing homes
- UK: 600,000 workers already kicked off payrolls during COVID-19 lockdown
- UAW, federal prosecutors announce talks over corruption scandal
- Washington Post op-ed calls for news media to censor videos of police brutality
- Police violence and class rule
- North Korea blows up liaison office to send message to Trump
- Massachusetts educators protest layoffs and sweeping cuts to public education
- French state hands €15 billion bailout to Airbus and Air France
- Aboriginal professor awarded an “Order of Australia” promotion
- Dozens die in India-China border clash
- Canada’s grocery chains slash wages as pandemic continues to rage
- Macron unleashes riot police against French health care protests
- Fed boosts support for stock market by expanding corporate debt purchases
- Faurecia workers denounce unsafe return to work
- An interview with Dr. Mona Masood, founder of the Physician Support Line
- Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Brazil’s meat processing plants and mines
- SEP launches petition to appear on the presidential ballot in Illinois
- Australian PM outlines bipartisan austerity offensive
- New Mexico protester wounded by far-right shooter
2020-06-18
- Moscow court sentences ex-US Marine to 16 years for espionage
- Trump rolls back prohibitions on discrimination against transgender patients
- Abel Ferrara’s Tommaso: The only clouds on the horizon are personal ones
- UK: Marcus Rashford campaign forces Johnson government climbdown over summer free school meals
- Far-right US Air Force sergeant charged in slaying of federal officer and local police
- California utility pleads guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for wildfire deaths
- Canadian nurse denounces budget cuts, government neglect and reckless back-to-work drive
- German Navy prepares for worldwide military missions
- Mexican autoworkers say General Motors is covering up COVID-19 outbreak at Silao plant
- Australian pseudo-left groups protect university union from revolt against pay-cutting plans
- Membership-rigging exposes Australian Labor Party’s rot
- The India-China border clash and the inflammable state of world geopolitics
- Fascist network uncovered in German Army’s Special Forces unit
- COVID-19 killing the working class in Britain at more than twice the rate of the wealthiest
- UK: Pandemic produces surge in household debt, accelerates child poverty
- Sharp rise in new coronavirus cases in US south and west
- New signs of New York City police revolt, as Democratic mayor and governor announce “reforms”
- Atlanta cop who killed Rayshard Brooks charged with felony murder, could face death penalty
2020-06-19
- CIA acknowledges its trove of cyber warfare tools was exposed by WikiLeaks in 2017
- US jobless disaster intensifies as 1.5 million filed for unemployment last week
- The UAW’s Juneteenth stunt
- Risking COVID-19 spread, the state makes Turkish students take mass exams
- Turkish army launches ground attacks into Iraqi Kurdistan to target PKK
- US escalates trade and economic conflicts
- Supreme Court blocks Trump administration’s plan to “immediately end” DACA
- SEP candidates Kishore and Santa Cruz file federal lawsuit challenging ballot access laws in Michigan
- Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant promotes local police reform, Democratic Party politics
- Mass protests against police violence expand in advance of Juneteenth rallies across the US
- COVID-19 infections skyrocket in American prisons
- UK nurses from overseas demand permanent residence after battling COVID-19
- Anatomy of a Massachusetts nursing home catastrophe in the COVID-19 pandemic
- New wave of protests in Lebanon amid escalating economic crisis
- Introduction to The Fourth International and the Perspective of World Socialist Revolution: 1986–1995
- Sharp spike of coronavirus deaths in India
- India and China remain on knife edge as war tensions continue
- Johnson government reneges on waiving health surcharges on NHS workers from overseas
- Pandemic’s negative impact on Australian scientific research future could last decades
- Frontier Communications executives receive bonuses with firm in bankruptcy
- Top French general announces preparations for “state against state” wars
- Hundreds rally outside sheriff’s office demanding justice for Missouri woman killed by police
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- One month after the reopening: COVID-19 rips through US states and workplaces
- Chile’s health minister resigns as disastrous policies lead to explosion in coronavirus infections and deaths
- Bolton account of Trump White House: Another volley in the conflict within the US ruling elite
- British Airways workers in limbo as deadline for mass redundancies passes
- Pandemic’s negative impact on Australian scientific research future could last decades
- Australian government alleges cyber-attack to ramp-up provocations against China
- Seven Days in May (1964): When American filmmaking envisioned a military coup
2020-06-20
- US stokes India-China conflict, blames Chinese “aggression” for border clash
- Doctors head legal challenge to UK government on health care deaths and PPE
- More provocations, threats from Trump ahead of Tulsa rally
- ANC imposes back to work drive amid sharp rise in South Africa’s coronavirus cases
- Financier of 1994 Rwandan genocide Félicien Kabuga arrested in Paris
- Richmond, Virginia police chief ousted following days of violent attacks on protesters
- Canada: Unifor urges acceptance of historic concessions in oil refinery lockout
- Johnson government mounts offensive against mass opposition to police violence and racism
- Millions across the US mark twenty-fifth day of mass demonstrations against police violence
- Quebec film distributors censor Roman Polanski’s J’accuse
- Socialist Equality Party challenges undemocratic ballot access laws in Michigan
- Oklahoma teachers oppose Trump and his Tulsa rally
- OECD warns of deep recession in Britain and Europe due to pandemic
- Hundreds of new COVID-19 infections in German meat industry
- Death of two workers sparks wildcat strike by 3,200 workers at auto parts plant in Matamoros, Mexico
- The ICFI and the war against Pabloism
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Amy Klobuchar ends bid to become Biden’s running mate in favor of a “woman of color”
- Joblessness reaches Great Depression levels in Australia
- Capitalist counterrevolution and the rise of fascism in southeastern Europe since 1989
- Global outrage over violent police arrest of 50-year-old French nurse Farida
- 130,000 jobs at risk in the German auto industry
- Australian COVID-19 cases increase as governments ease restrictions
- WHO warns coronavirus pandemic entering a “dangerous phase”
- Around 250 workers infected with COVID-19 in three UK food processing plants
- Canada’s political establishment inject racialist narrative into protests against police violence
- Brazilian police arrest key ally of Bolsonaro
- Aviation industry workers face deep cuts to pay and hours worldwide
- Companies vow no more shutdowns for COVID-19 as US auto plants resume full production
- Air France-KLM prepares to slash at least 6,000 jobs
2020-06-22
- Sri Lankan SEP holds online meeting on global protests against police murders
- Further evidence of the criminality of the New York Democratic administration response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian university lecturers voice concerns about their conditions and the role of the NTEU
- Australian government steps up attack on university students and workers
- NATO grants Ukraine enhanced status as US steps up military aid
- This week in history: June 22-28
- Trump in Tulsa: Fascist ranting and political debacle
- Corporations continue to slash workforces in Britain
- Suspected assailant in Reading terrorist attack was known to UK intelligence agencies
- Western Massachusetts psychiatric units facing imminent closure
- US school districts posture as opponents of militarized schools
- Hands off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant!
- Tens of thousands rally in French-occupied Mali for resignation of president
- Germany: Trial begins in murder of CDU politician Walter Lübcke
- Rapper Lil Baby’s new single begins to address “The Bigger Picture”
- Responding to mass protests against police brutality, Germany’s Left Party appeals for a police state
- Nationwide protests against police violence continue as LA County sheriffs kill two more
- India and China rush troops, weaponry to disputed border region
- University of Chicago grad students disaffiliate from the American Federation of Teachers
- Coronavirus spreading among agriculture and seafood workers in the US
- New York Governor Cuomo reopens economy as COVID-19 infection rate rises across US
- World coronavirus cases rocket past 9 million as pandemic accelerates
- Quebec Solidaire backs Canadian elites’ disastrous handling of COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 flares again in China
- Julian Assange’s fiancé calls on the Australian government to secure his freedom
- Former Amazon worker Jana Jumpp says the nearly 1,600 COVID-19 cases she has counted in warehouses are “just the tip of the iceberg”
2020-06-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK students in precarious situation during the pandemic
- Germany seeks to tighten European asylum law
- Reading terror suspect fought in US-British proxy war to overthrow Libya’s Gaddafi
- India-China conflict threatens to undermine Russian foreign policy
- Walkout by sorting office workers at Barnsley Royal Mail after coronavirus outbreak
- Canada presses ahead with final phase of back-to-work drive
- For international working class action against the COVID-19 pandemic!
- Quarantine bungles in New Zealand threaten new COVID-19 outbreak
- US-owned auto parts maker fires dozens of workers in Matamoros, Mexico for demanding truth about COVID-19 outbreak
- COVID-19 rages through food processing plants, warehouses and manufacturing facilities
- Sri Lankan soldiers kill Tamil youth in Jaffna
- The Strokes’ The New Abnormal and Hamilton Leithauser’s The Loves Of Your Life: Two decades on from the rise of “indie rock”
- The fight to put the SEP on the ballot continues as Illinois court denies challenge to relaxed ballot access rules
- Ford workers express health concerns as COVID-19 pandemic spreads
- Oppose all public education budget cuts, layoffs and the unsafe reopening of schools! For a socialist program to fully fund and vastly expand public education!
- Australian High Court rules tear-gassed youth detainees entitled to damages
- Bolton appeals for right-wing Republicans to break with Trump on foreign policy
- The scandal surrounding German MP Philipp Amthor: What is Augustus Intelligence?
2020-06-24
- Pandemic intensifies unemployment and poverty among Turkish workers
- Tennessee legislature passes anti-abortion “heartbeat” bill
- All schools in England to open in September
- US police received over $760 million of military gear in the past two years
- Johnson used pandemic to step up privatisation of UK public sector
- Australian police assault Aboriginal man with taser
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the global plight of refugees and migrant workers
- Canada’s New Democrats prop up pro-austerity, pro-war Liberals
- Fascist US Army soldier faces terrorism-related charges
- Boris Johnson reinforces imperialist agenda of Britain’s overseas aid
- Australia: Coronavirus infections spike in Melbourne’s working class suburbs
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold first election rally online on June 28
- More than 1,500 COVID-19 infections at pork processing plant in Germany
- Trump signs reactionary proclamation expanding immigration restrictions
- France backs Egypt’s threat to intervene against Turkey in Libyan war
- As the pandemic spirals out of control, Trump attacks testing, holds indoor rally in Phoenix
- Ten years since the US-backed coup against Australian Labor PM
- Siberian Arctic records temperature above 100 degrees Fahrenheit
- US: Bath shipyard workers strike over subcontracting and job cuts
- Antigone from Canada recounts the struggle of an immigrant youth to defend her brother against state violence
2020-06-25
- The United States nears a new one-day high of COVID-19 infections
- COVID-19 cases rapidly surge in Texas
- German media and politicians stoke massive campaign for a police state
- California Democrats collaborate with state employees union to cut workers’ wages by 11 percent
- Beset by crisis, Kremlin holds “victory parade”
- Johnson announces end of UK’s lockdown
- New COVID-19 outbreaks in Germany and Berlin’s inhumane quarantine conditions
- Tuesday primaries show rising popular discontent with Democratic Party establishment
- Racial-communalist politics and the second assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- NSSP leader contests Sri Lankan elections on United National Party slate
- Unite union facilitates cover-up of COVID-19 outbreak in UK meat processing plants
- London bus drivers’ lives threatened by union collusion on inadequate COVID-19 measures
- India rapidly emerging as epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- IMF downgrades forecast for global economy
- Hundreds of thousands of Illinois workers forced to risk health for profits under “Phase 4” of economic reopening
- The coronavirus crisis, the government’s aid package and the attempt to strangle German art
- Canada: Media report says Ford may target Oakville assembly plant for closure
- US Appeals Court orders case against Michael Flynn dismissed
- Escalating economic and political crisis hits Fiji
- Amazon worker’s job in limbo after seeking to take time off for injury
- New York Times column: Pandemic shows need to curtail “unnecessary” and “wasteful” doctor’s visits
- Detroit nurses’ lawsuit exposes horrific conditions at Sinai-Grace Hospital as COVID-19 deaths spiked
- Brazilian government hides scale of COVID-19 pandemic to promote criminal reopening
- US indictment of Assange based on testimony of FBI assets, convicted child molester
2020-06-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Wirecard: The German economy sinks into criminality
- Twenty-five years since the death of Ed Winn
- Australian unions support Queensland Labor government’s public sector wage freeze
- Coronavirus spreads across US, surging to highest single-day count of new cases
- COVID-19 ravages southeastern United States
- US Supreme Court rules recent asylum seekers have no right to habeas corpus or due process
- San Diego city council approves $27 million increase in police budget, pledges millions for an Office of Race and Equity
- As COVID-19 cases triple in a month, Latin American elites press ahead with back-to-work campaign
- New Zealand Police brutally attack young man in Auckland
- Veteran curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum latest to come under racialist attack
- Germany’s Verdi trade union supports jobs massacre at department store chain
- Another 1.5 million US workers file for jobless benefits
- Production stoppage continues Friday at Fiat Chrysler Jefferson North auto plant in Detroit over COVID-19
- Nurses and support staff at HCA Healthcare set to strike California hospital over cuts and PPE shortages
- Parliamentary report exposes widespread fire-safety failings three years on from Grenfell Tower inferno
- General Motors lays off 680 workers and eliminates third shift at its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant
- Australian military deployed in Melbourne as COVID-19 infection rate surges
- Five cruise ships detained by UK revealing atrocious conditions of seafarers
- The Room Where it Happened: John Bolton’s account of the “palace coup” opposition to Trump
- New York City mayor de Blasio threatens 22,000 municipal worker layoffs
- No talks as Bath shipyard strike in Maine enters day five
- Quebec court acquits fascist who led mob in threatening journalists
- In letter to the Lancet, doctors condemn torture of Assange and demand his release
- Ahmaud Arbery’s killers indicted on murder charges in Georgia
- Coronavirus accelerating in Africa as cases top 300,000
2020-06-27
- YDSA develops ties with SYRIZA youth, Greek party of austerity and police repression
- 999 UM Flint fires close to half of lecturers
- UK Labour leader Keir Starmer uses bogus anti-Semitism accusation to sack Rebecca Long-Bailey
- Back-to-work policy accelerates spread of COVID-19 in Turkey
- Global trade unions issue empty calls for cruise and shipping seafarer action
- Work stoppages against COVID-19 spread to FCA Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
- The Salisbury Poisonings: Skripal drama framed as anti-Russian propaganda
- Against public opposition, Michigan Democrats and Republicans push for unsafe reopening of schools
- Australia’s US-backed anti-China witch hunt escalates with raid on MP’s home
- “Back to work” campaign in the US has led to surge in COVID-19
- As pandemic rages, Trump administration calls on Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare
- New York City police commissioner defends vehicular assault on protesters
- Riverside Community Hospital nurses strike in California
- UK government refuses support to unemployed migrant workers facing destitution during pandemic
- Why the rush to end the Canadian military’s deployment in coronavirus-ravaged nursing homes?
- COVID-19 cases rise in Louisiana but governor refuses to reverse economic reopening
- The 1985–86 split with the WRP and the renaissance of Marxism
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Detroit Fiat Chrysler workers halt production for second day to demand COVID-19 protection
- Indonesia passes 50,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases
- New York City officials accused of undercounting and mismanagement after dozens of homeless COVID-19 deaths reported
- British actor Ian Holm (1931–2020): Classical performance adapted for the screen
- 999 Farm workers strike in California
- WHO warns of “very significant” coronavirus resurgence in Europe
- Dole Foods in Ohio hit by 230 COVID-19 cases as food processing plants globally are ravaged by infections
- British government suppressed daily pandemic death toll by thousands
- Contact tracing and capitalism’s response to the pandemic
- CIA releases TV recruiting ad for streaming video services
- British Airways workers denounce company “offer” to slash pay and conditions
- Brazilian health care workers strike for PPE and risk bonus
- US professional sports confront an opponent that may be unbeatable: COVID-19
- Expand autoworkers’ struggle to stop the coronavirus and save lives! Form rank-and-file safety committees!
2020-06-29
- Warnings of a second coronavirus wave in Germany
- This week in history: June 29-July 5
- Trump retweets video of supporter shouting, “White Power”
- Australian Labor Party intent on ousting MP from parliament over “Chinese agent” claims
- Polish president fails to secure absolute majority in first round of elections
- Legal settlement lets Australian military off the hook over PFAS pollution
- Autoworkers initiate new wave of struggles in fight against COVID-19 pandemic
- Pandemic surpasses 10 million COVID-19 cases and over 500,000 deaths globally
- Ontario accelerates “reopening” of the economy as COVID-19 cases rise
- Germany: Lufthansa and the bankruptcy of the unions
- Australian paper mill workers locked out as company moves to slash wages
- One person killed in attack on anti-police violence protest in Louisville, Kentucky
- Netanyahu prepares Israel’s annexation of large slice of West Bank
- Sudanese asylum seeker shot dead in Glasgow
- COVID-19 cases surging rapidly in Florida
- University of Michigan Flint cuts 41 percent of lecturers
- Citing COVID-19 spread, EU denies US citizens entry to Europe
- Republicans introduce Senate bill to abolish strong encryption on consumer devices
- Onslaught on jobs and conditions at British Telecom
- World Bank pushes privatized distance learning in Brazil
- Health care collapses in Bolivia after coup regime reopens economy
- UK government ends lockdown: Feigned official outrage over beaches, raves, and football celebrations
- Arkansas continues to be ravaged by COVID-19
- Another anti-Russian smear from the New York Times
2020-06-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian court backs secret trial on East Timor bugging exposure
- Germany: Police powers stepped up after “Stuttgart’s Night of Violence”
- South Carolina emerges as new COVID-19 hot spot
- SEP demands military stops harassing its election candidates in Jaffna
- Broader reopening of UK schools leads to spread of COVID-19 infections
- Royal Mail workers in the UK face jobs massacre
- The poor in Germany have a higher risk of falling sick from COVID-19
- Reopening in the Philippines causes coronavirus surge
- Worker opposition grows as coronavirus spirals out of control
- Australian COVID-19 surge continues in Victoria
- Dutch government exposed by disastrous handling of COVID-19 pandemic
- Merkel, Macron promote EU militarism amid growing conflicts with Washington
- “Street medics” provide emergency care to US protesters injured by police
- Aurora, Colorado, police attack protesters after investigation reopened into 2019 death of Elijah McClain
- The Kominsky Method: The mostly comic challenges of aging
- A revealing comment from a finance chief
- New report exposes staggering level of social inequality in Canada
- India’s opposition parties back Modi’s bellicose stand in border conflict with China
- Italy hands Fiat Chrysler a multi-billion-euro bailout
- Michigan Governor Whitmer argues SEP candidates should have petitioned for ballot status during the peak of the pandemic
- UK disability campaigner Doug Paulley speaks on coronavirus pandemic
- Detroit Police SUV plows through protesters, several injured
- US Supreme Court upholds abortion access, eliminates executive watchdog and opens federal death chambers
- US Supreme Court rejects environmental groups’ appeal to halt border wall construction
- US regulator approves re-certification flights for Boeing’s deadly 737 Max
- Newly released body camera footage shows Baltimore police shooting man in the back
- Fiat Chrysler threatens to fire workers who stop production over COVID-19 concerns
- New US indictment of Julian Assange not served in UK courts
- Amazon workers in Germany strike against lack of coronavirus protection
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