Archive: 11/2018
2018-11-01
- World vertebrate populations have fallen 60 percent since 1970
- A major escalation in the US economic war against China
- Ukraine’s depopulation crisis
- Sri Lankan crisis: UNP rally demands reconvening of parliament
- What do Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life and Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked have in common?
- The American oligarchy’s attack on birthright citizenship
- BlackRock boss Merz applies to head Germany’s ruling CDU
- SEP candidate Niles Niemuth speaks with students and workers in Lincoln Park, Michigan
- GM makes record quarterly profit as US corporations accelerate cost-cutting
- Protests and strikes signal mounting hostility toward Italian government
- Trump may send 15,000 troops to US-Mexico border
- Fiat Chrysler workers hit with temporary layoffs across North America
- Japanese PM visits China in bid to improve relations
- The view from inside America’s child immigrant detention shelters
- UK budget: Labour makes clear big business will dictate Corbyn government policies
- Australia declares China a threat to military-related university research and infrastructure
2018-11-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- An open letter to WDIV Local 4 News in Detroit
- Who are Gary Walkowicz and the Working Class Party?
- Chicago Teamsters local announces end to UPS contract extension
- Turkish ruling parties break planned election alliance
- 100,000 people living in unsafe UK tower blocks
- New York Times tries to shame “disillusioned young voters” into supporting the Democrats
- Abigail Spanberger: CIA Democrat for Virginia’s 7th District
- Australian Labor Party leader outlines militarist foreign policy
- Washington calls for Yemen ceasefire as Saudis escalate siege of Hodeidah
- Thousands attend funerals for victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
- What is to be done about the plutocrats?
- The JVP’s fraudulent attempt to capitalise on Sri Lanka’s political crisis
- As sanctions tighten, Washington threatens Iran with “military might”
- Trump calls for “massive cities of tents” and indefinite detention of immigrants
- Successful solidarity event for the student union of Humboldt University
- France to send aircraft carrier to South China Sea to threaten China
- Canada Post workers’ rotating strike briefly extended to Montreal
- Falling growth rate sparks concern in China’s ruling circles
- Ecuador’s government cuts off all access to Julian Assange
2018-11-03
- The Wife: A Nobel Prize winner exposed
- As workers’ opposition grows to Teamsters contract, UPS Freight prepares for strike
- Sri Lankan crisis: Washington intervenes to maintain its political influence
- Massive increase in police violence across UK
- Immigrant tent cities and right-wing terror: The new normal in America
- New Zealand: Bus union ends Wellington strike
- Letters protest censorship of Niles Niemuth election campaign by WDIV
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US expands illegal, unilateral sanctions against Iran
- Ireland votes to remove blasphemy from the constitution and re-elects Michael D. Higgins as president
- As US Steel and ArcelorMittal announce booming profits, the United Steelworkers pushes sellout deals
- Tennessee revives “Old Smokey,” the electric chair, for an execution
- Christine Assange, mother of persecuted WikiLeaks publisher, endorses Niles Niemuth, SEP candidate for Congress
- Trump manoeuvres in lead-up to talks with Chinese President Xi
- Washington imposes new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba
- Allison Transmission workers speak out on UAW-management collaboration
2018-11-05
- Democratic Party mailer removes SEP candidate Niles Niemuth from sample ballot
- This week in history: November 5-11
- Former CIA Director Brennan endorses Democrat Beto O’Rourke
- On the eve of the US midterm elections: The political issues facing the working class
- Sri Lankan political crisis: Pseudo-left NSSP promotes UNP campaign
- HBO’s The Night Of: An intelligent, gripping legal drama
- Australia: Morrison-Turnbull clash points to sharp foreign policy tensions
- Anwar Ibrahim wins seat and returns to Malaysian parliament
- Inviting Trump to Paris, Macron evokes the specter of fascism and the 1930s
- Israeli government defends Trump in aftermath of Pittsburgh massacre
- Europe and America clash over Washington’s economic war on Iran
- UK: Police launch investigation into alleged anti-Semitism in Labour Party
- Democratic candidates praise Trump’s attacks on immigrants as troops arrive at the border
- Illinois governor’s race the most expensive in US history
- German Social Democrats demand right-wing replacement for Merkel
- Chicago charter school teachers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- Catalan separatists indicted for rebellion, facing jail for up to 25 years
- The Little Rock Education Association stalls on strike action in Arkansas
- Two workers killed as wall collapses at Baltimore Amazon facility
2018-11-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Wigneswaran’s Tamil People’s Alliance: A trap for Sri Lankan workers
- Vote Niles Niemuth, Socialist Equality Party, for US House of Representatives in Michigan’s 12th district!
- Sri Lankan crisis: SLFP holds rally to defend political coup
- Spanish media promotes far-right VOX party
- Judge rejects push by Daily Telegraph to amend its defence in Geoffrey Rush defamation suit
- The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class
- School support workers vote to strike in rural district in Washington state
- New Caledonia referendum rejects independence from France
- Indian Trotskyists to hold meeting on 80 years of the Fourth International
- The way forward for young people: Not Democratic Party politics, but the fight for socialism!
- US escalates illegal economic war on the people of Iran
- Australian workers at union rally oppose attacks on conditions, criticise Labor Party
- Homelessness in London: Rough sleeping increases, removal of families from the city doubles
- Trump steps up anti-immigrant campaign on eve of US election
- Chinese president denounces “law of the jungle” on trade
- ISO covers up Workers Party role in Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil
- New York Times ramps up smear campaign against Julian Assange
- Australian union officials use Newcastle rally to whitewash their betrayals
2018-11-07
- Venom: Childish science fiction and superheroes abound
- Plantation unions move to shut down wage struggle amid Sri Lankan political crisis
- Canada to dramatically hike, expedite deportations to “secure” borders
- Papua New Guinea: Thousands strike over extravagant APEC spending
- The siege of Hodeidah: Washington doubles down on its war crime in Yemen
- Final campaign meeting for Niles Niemuth reviews experiences from campaigning
- Hans-Georg Maassen: A right-wing extremist at the head of the German secret service
- Germany: Der Spiegel idealises far-right leader Björn Höcke
- Royal College of Nursing leadership in UK seeks re-election in defiance of no confidence vote
- UK students face rising debts, poor wages and further marketisation of higher education
- Billionaires, corporate money swing toward Democrats
- UPS Freight, Teamsters to workers: Vote “yes” or face lockout and lose your health care
- US midterm vote: Democrats win control of House of Representatives
- Prosecutor points to UAW “culture of corruption” as union officials face sentencing
- Worker injured in explosion at ArcelorMittal steel mill in Indiana
2018-11-08
- Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind: A film 48 years in the making
- US, Turkey risk direct military clash as they escalate war in Syria
- At White House press conference, Trump calls reporter an “enemy of the people”
- Government declares child refugees will not remain in Australia
- After midterm elections, Democrats call for bipartisan unity with Trump
- Significant vote for SEP candidate Niles Niemuth in Michigan’s 12th district
- After new Mexico City airport is canceled, López Obrador rushes to reassure finance capital
- The case of Hans-Georg Maassen and the struggle against police-state repression in Germany
- Citing war in Syria, ISO withdraws endorsement of Green Party gubernatorial candidate in New York
- Increase in self-harm and suicides in UK immigration detention centres
- Facebook and Twitter intensify censorship in 2018 elections
- EU responds to US midterm elections with calls for military build-up
- Sri Lankan political coup: Rajapakse makes bogus promises to ease social crisis
- Residents oppose official cover-up of Grenfell fire toxic contamination
- Quebec’s new CAQ government to prioritize its chauvinist anti-immigrant agenda
- Australian prime minister dismisses renewed calls to defend Julian Assange
2018-11-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ousted Australian prime minister denounces right-wing “coup”
- Afghanistan war veteran kills 12 at a southern California dance club
- Factional conflict in Sri Lankan elite underscores dangers facing working class
- Democrats rally to defend fired Attorney General Sessions, Special Counsel Mueller
- One hundred years since the November Revolution in Germany
- Pakistan’s government bows to Islamist right, victimises anew woman in blasphemy case
- US-North Korean talks called off
- More than 100 attend meeting at MIT on anniversary of the Fourth International
- Tube workers’ strike brings much of London to a halt
- Safety questions emerge after 189 people die in Indonesian plane crash
- Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants crossing without documentation
- Book launch of The Heritage We Defend in Sydney, Australia
- Merrimack Valley disaster, National Grid lockout highlights dangers of profit-driven gas system
- UPS workers oppose Teamsters isolation of freight division, call for united struggle
- The Fires that Foretold Grenfell—Documentary reveals how UK governments ignored lessons of previous fire tragedies
- Amazon reportedly locates new headquarters in New York and metropolitan Washington
2018-11-10
- The kiss of death: Stalinists seek to tie Tamil Nadu auto strikes to right-wing parties
- Tamil nationalists support US-backed factions in Sri Lankan political crisis
- In another anti-democratic act, Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament
- IBM’s purchase of Red Hat highlights growing power of technology giants
- French President Macron hails fascist dictator Philippe Pétain
- New Zealand rail union enforces another pro-company pay deal
- US, Japan conclude massive war games targeting China
- UK: SEP assistant national secretary Julie Hyland addresses social sciences conference on fake news, censorship and war
- Ian David Long, the Thousand Oaks, California shooter, likely suffered from PTSD
- US multinationals dodge $180 billion in taxes on foreign profits per year
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- House of Cards Season 6: The King is dead, long live the Queen!
- UK government’s crocodile tears over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy backfire
- “100 years of social partnership”—a sinister celebration of trade unions, employers’ associations and the state in Germany
- Break the isolation of UPS Freight workers! Form rank-and-file committees to unite workers against the company!
- California wildfires kill nine, drive 150,000 from their homes
- Tensions mount over US election contests in Florida, Georgia, Arizona
- Trudeau threatens to criminalize Canada Post strike
- Fort Wayne GM worker alleges UAW-management collusion in unjust termination
2018-11-12
- US-China talks signal worsening confrontation
- Ukrainian politician dies after fascist acid attack
- This week in history: November 12-18
- Fire at workers’ apartment in South Korea leaves seven dead
- Sheffield Labour Students cancels anti-war meeting, citing police investigation of anti-Semitism allegations
- The armistice of November 11, 1918 and the lessons for today
- Bitter US-European tensions mark centenary of World War I armistice in Paris
- Workers killed in New York state helicopter crash and zinc mine accidents
- Imelda Marcos convicted on seven counts of graft in the Philippines
- Australia: Alleged terror attacker “known to police and intelligence agencies”
- The Hate U Give: Police brutality in America and its consequences
- UK: SNP-led Glasgow City Council uses gender politics and threats of blacklisting to isolate equal pay struggle
- After campaign of threats and intimidation, Teamsters announces “yes” vote on sellout UPS Freight contract
- California wildfire deadliest and most destructive in state history
2018-11-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan political crisis deepens: Prime minister splits from president
- Australia: Welfare cut leaves asylum seekers facing destitution
- Polish government officials march with the far-right
- Fujimori’s new detention sets reconfiguration of Peruvian politics
- Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one
- Thousands protest Trump’s visit to Paris for centenary of World War I armistice
- Nearly 100 attend meeting in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
- New York teachers union pushes through concessions contract
- New York teachers angry as union hides givebacks in new contract
- Ex-Australian Labor Party leader joins far-right anti-immigrant One Nation
- UK rail worker speaks to the WSWS about dispute over Driver Only Operated trains
- Australian Socialist Equality Party National Secretary James Cogan addresses Grenfell Fire Forum
- Germany’s grand coalition closes ranks and steps up right-wing offensive
- Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro prepares most right-wing government since end of US-backed dictatorship
- US autoworkers oppose anti-immigrant campaign
- Quebec: Talks to resume in ABI lockout under threat of state-imposed concessions contract
2018-11-14
- Sri Lanka crisis escalates as Supreme Court overturns Sirisena’s dissolution of parliament
- The origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
- Facebook deletes WSWS post on Sri Lanka
- Amazon announces new headquarters in metropolitan New York City and Washington D.C.
- Macron and Facebook announce joint social media censorship plan in France
- Kentucky Ford worker describes hazardous working conditions
- Kansas City health officials, police destroy food meant for homeless
- German president defends alliance against November 1918 Revolution between Social Democrats and right-wing reaction
- Israeli terror raid provokes new clashes in Gaza
- Evacuees in California wildfire share their stories
- Court battles over ballot counts in Georgia, Florida
- Canada Post union silent on Trudeau’s threat to outlaw strike
- David Hare’s political thriller Collateral: “War has entered the blood”
- Chinese regime cracks down on student labour activists
- Growing interest in socialism at Chicago meeting on 80th anniversary of Fourth International
- British prime minister tries to minimise cabinet rebellion against draft Brexit agreement
- Amazon worker dies of heart attack at facility in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Albanian immigrant worker, forced to hide in Detroit church for 10 months, fights deportation
2018-11-15
- French teachers mobilize against Macron’s attacks on education
- Sri Lankan parliament rejects Rajapakse as prime minister
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold meetings on the socialist solution to the political crisis
- Geoffrey Rush’s lawyer slams “gutter journalism” in Sydney defamation trial
- Trump demands end to Florida recount in new attack on voting rights
- Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old: A devastating depiction of the horrors of war
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry hears harrowing witness statements
- At least 200 soldiers in German Army neo-Nazi terror network
- Investigations point to energy corporation’s negligence in California wildfire
- DSA calls US midterm elections the “rebirth of the American socialist movement”
- Pentagon chief heads to border as first refugees from caravan arrive
- Trump’s envoys issue ultimatums to China and other Asian countries
- Kidnapping, rape and murder by US border patrol agents
2018-11-16
- Civilian death toll mounts as US escalates offensive in Syria
- Some of the main provisions of the draft EU-UK proposed Brexit deal
- US imposes limited sanctions on Saudi officials over Khashoggi’s murder
- The political crisis in Sri Lanka: Its lessons for the international working class
- Australian teacher unions’ phoney campaign against NAPLAN
- Bipartisan panel: US must prepare for “horrendous,” “devastating” war with Russia and China
- German chancellor calls for a “real European army”
- French “Yellow Vest” protesters prepare road blockades against fuel tax hike
- Fiji First Party retains power in sham election
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ocasio-Cortez holds climate change stunt to boost Pelosi
- Facebook hires former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
- World Socialist Web Site speaks with California wildfire evacuees
- Brexit deal threatens survival of May government
2018-11-17
- Trump manoeuvres ahead of US-China trade talks
- Sri Lanka: Second no-confidence motion passed as violent clashes erupt in parliament
- As Canada Post steps up provocations, union silent on back-to-work law threat
- Defend Julian Assange against US charges!
- Anti-Chinese campaign escalates in New Zealand
- Netherlands: 10,000 protest pro-corporate government policies
- Migrant caravan reaches US border as Latin American governments discuss austerity and repression
- Scotland: Michelin plans closure of Dundee plant with loss of 845 jobs
- French riot police attack protests against deadly Marseille building collapse
- UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel: Netanyahu’s coalition government collapses, forcing early elections
- Web television series Homecoming: Everything about America’s wars, corporate elite is “rotten” …
- A terrorist network inside the German Army
- Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating California wildfires
- US teacher unions’ “Remember in November” fizzles
- DSA-backed “progressive Democrats” drop phony opposition to Trump’s attacks on immigrants
- “Eighty Years of the Fourth International” series continues with meetings in California and Oregon
- Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats
- US has spent almost $6 trillion on wars since 2001
- Britain: Reading University flags article on “ethics of revolution” under anti-terror policy
- The government’s $4.6 billion handout to Amazon
2018-11-19
- US vice president steps up confrontation with China at APEC summit
- Amidst talk of US auto industry consolidation UAW pushes economic nationalism ahead of 2019 contracts
- This week in history: November 19-25
- Thousands attend anti-fascist protest in London
- Sri Lankan president’s “all party conference” fails to overcome political crisis
- Little Rock, Arkansas teachers’ union relinquishes due process rights
- France shaken by mass protests
- Anti-stall feature in new Boeing planes may have contributed to Indonesian aviation disaster
- London demonstrators speak out against racism and fascism
- Australian Greens pursue right-wing coalition government with Labor in Victoria
- The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
- Death toll from California fires likely to soar, with nearly 1,300 people still missing
- Congressional Democrats push Russia probe, censorship
- The only answer to Brexit is the United Socialist States of Europe
2018-11-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian pseudo-left group Victorian Socialists promote Greens, Labor
- UK: Left groups targeted for decades-long police infiltration
- USW pushes through US Steel sellout, prepares the same for ArcelorMittal workers
- Sri Lankan parliament adjourned amid ongoing political crisis
- Charges dropped against falsely accused Texas man
- US vice president beats war drums in Asia
- US-China trade conflict leads to Wall Street sell-off
- Showtime’s Kidding with Jim Carrey: Everyone has a breaking point
- Photo Essay: The social cost of the Camp Fire
- “Macron is the president of the rich”: “Yellow Vest” protesters speak out
- Amid mass protests, France announces return to universal military service
- The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
- Canada Post and Trudeau government conspire to break postal strike
- Australian establishment collaborates in US vendetta against Julian Assange
- Argentine Senate approves “zero deficit budget”
- White House backpedals on stripping CNN reporter of press pass
2018-11-21
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold lecture on “Lessons of History and the Fight for Socialism Today”
- Bipartisan push to ramp up police powers after Australia’s latest “terror” attack
- UN says millions in Britain deliberately plunged into “great misery”
- The fire in Paradise, California: From natural disaster to social catastrophe
- Ocasio-Cortez to support Pelosi as top Democrat and House Speaker
- Pakistan prime minister visits Beijing amid heightened US-China tensions
- Trump rules out further action against Saudi regime over Khashoggi’s murder
- Protests over PetroCaribe continue as Haitian president seeks imperialist support
- Sri Lanka: UNP demands Facebook protect identity of party supporters
- City of London Corporation reneges on its social housing pledge
- Thousands of GM salaried workers to lose jobs in 2019
- Thousands of Austrian metal workers on strike
- At APEC, PM puts Australia on frontline of US confrontation with China
- Amazon dictates terms to New York over second headquarters
2018-11-22
- Trump lashes out at judiciary over immigration ruling
- Sri Lankan political crisis exposes bankruptcy of Tamil nationalist parties
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds successful public meeting on political crisis
- Spain’s Socialist Party government junks “anti-austerity” budget agreed with Podemos
- Chinese president visits the Philippines
- Arrest of Nissan chairman Ghosn roils global auto industry
- Fascist group exposed in youth wing of Australia’s National Party
- López Obrador backtracks campaign promises, creates new National Guard
- Global conditions fuel Wall Street sell-off
- UAW carries out campaign of intimidation against Lear auto parts workers
- Budget dispute between Italy and EU escalates
- To stem climate change, capitalism must be ended
- US and Mexican officials stoke up nationalist backlash against immigrants
- America’s Thanksgivings
2018-11-23
- At least 85,000 child deaths in Yemen highlight Saudi-US war crimes
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Scottish teachers overwhelmingly reject pay offer
- Mehring Books launches holiday sale
- France sends military against protesters on Réunion Island
- Tens of thousands of retail jobs lost in UK
- No to the draft in France and Europe!
- Australian parliament to pass expanded laws to call out the military to suppress domestic unrest
- Indian Trotskyists celebrate 80 years of the Fourth International
- New head of German intelligence intends to strengthen the powers of the agency
- French government spokesman explains Macron’s policies by quoting anti-Semite Maurras
- Rainstorm ends California wildfires, but threatens to cause flash flooding
- No to the EU, social inequality, fascism and war! For socialism and the unity of the European working class!
- Australia: Riot police tear-gas youth at Don Dale juvenile prison
- Trudeau government introduces bill to outlaw Canada Post strike
- The political fraud of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”
- Corbyn auditions for government before big business and intelligence agencies
- Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide at the University of Michigan
2018-11-24
- World Trade Organisation warns of rising protectionism ahead of G20 summit
- Political turmoil in Sri Lanka intensifies as opposition takes control of parliament
- European Jewish Association slanders left and urges dialogue with far-right
- No to driver only operated services at West Midland Trains! For a national mobilisation of rail workers
- In Thanksgiving teleconference, Trump appeals to military against courts, political opponents
- Sandra Parks, 13-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin writer, killed in home by stray bullet
- SEP (Canada) to hold Montreal meeting on “Leon Trotsky, the Lessons of History, and the Struggle for Socialism Today”
- French president bans fuel tax protest in Paris as strikes expand
- Left Party in Germany supports the French president’s call for a European army
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Youth speak out against environmental destruction, poverty and war
- Canada Post workers need socialist strategy to defy and defeat Liberals’ back-to-work law
- Illinois EPA conceals environmental health hazards from thousands
- Black Friday strikes hit Amazon in Europe
2018-11-26
- Labor re-elected with increased majority in Australian state of Victoria
- Russia fires on and captures Ukrainian Navy ships
- UAE pardons British PhD student Matthew Hedges on spying charges
- This week in history: November 26-December 2
- EU summit backs Brexit withdrawal declaration
- UK: Vauxhall and Cammell Laird workers strike against mass job cuts
- Australia: World War I centenary “celebrations” end with stepped-up militaristic propaganda
- Hundreds rally in San Diego in defense of migrant caravan
- New climate change report: Impact of global warming “already being felt”
- New York transit chief resigns as transit authority proposes more fare and toll hikes
- UAW intensifies campaign of intimidation against Indiana Lear workers
- Iranian steelworkers strike for back-wages, safety, and jobs
- Australian government accelerates anti-democratic “foreign influence” register
- US military, border police attack asylum seekers at US-Mexico border
- New York Governor Cuomo proposes band-aid for student hunger
- UAW negotiates secret deal with Columbia University to block strike action by graduate students
- French riot police assault mass protests in Paris
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: Only a fool “expects better” from humanity
- Protests erupt after Thanksgiving police shooting of innocent man in Birmingham, Alabama
2018-11-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Amid Sri Lanka’s political crisis, the USP sets “left” trap for the working class
- World economic slowdown hits Peruvian exports
- Defend immigrant workers from state violence!
- Trump campaigns for Mississippi Senate candidate Hyde-Smith as Democratic challenger shifts to the right
- Lordstown GM autoworkers oppose shutdown and mass layoffs
- Falling building debris causes injuries and deaths while profits mount for UK developers
- Greek workers protest social attacks by Syriza government
- German grand coalition government passes war budget
- No to Macron’s maneuvers to strangle the Yellow Vest protests in France
- US immigrants go hungry for fear using food stamps will lead to deportation
- Trudeau government illegalizes Canada Post strike
- Unions promote corporate Democrats to succeed Rahm Emanuel
- Australian parliamentary inquiry discusses intensifying internet censorship
- Russia-Ukraine stand-off over Azov Sea continues as Poroshenko declares martial law
- GM to close five plants in US and Canada, slash 14,700 jobs
2018-11-28
- Australian prime minister denounces students’ climate-change protests
- Rajapakse-aligned MPs boycott Sri Lankan parliament
- A call to action to fight the GM plant closings and mass layoffs
- Australian government announces early budget
- Thousands remain homeless after Columbia Gas disaster in Massachusetts
- NASA InSight mission successfully lands on Mars
- Guardian newspaper spearheads new accusations against Assange and WikiLeaks
- Rejecting Macron’s speech, fuel tax protesters call new demonstrations in France
- Reject the UAW-Lear sellout contract! Unite with GM and other autoworkers in a common fight!
- US-South Korean tensions over stance towards North Korea
- General Motors worker on job cuts: “This is all about corporate greed”
- Slanders depicting “Yellow Vest” protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse
- From the Nazis to the AfD: Big business finances the far-right
- Plead for charity or die: A blunt message from the American health care system
- Unifor union pushes nationalist poison over GM Oshawa closure plan
- British PM May attacked from all sides ahead of parliament Brexit vote
- Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77
- SEP meeting and livestream on December 16: What next in the fight to free Julian Assange?
- Taliban attack kills three US soldiers in Afghanistan
2018-11-29
- US administration signals unconditional backing for Saudi regime as Senate votes on Yemen war
- Sanders declares caravan members lack a “credible” claim to asylum
- Ukraine’s provocation in the Azov Sea
- Intensifying US pressure on New Zealand government over China
- Mississippi runoff election ends with Republican victory
- US Fed chairman’s speech boosts Wall Street
- Transgender asylum seeker beaten in US custody before her death, according to autopsy
- New “Corbyn council” in Haringey, London demands more cuts
- Combustible cladding doomed Grenfell Tower within 10 minutes of initial fire
- Green Book and At Eternity’s Gate: Overcoming racism and painter Vincent van Gogh’s final years
- Trump escalates tariff threats against China on eve of G20 summit
- Greyhound axes bus service across Western Canada
- Democrats nominate Pelosi as House speaker, reelect top aides
- New York Times: Our crime was telling the truth
- Chinese consulate in Pakistan attacked by Balochi separatists
- Baby’s death on Australia’s Gold Coast points to worsening social conditions
- Autoworkers’ outrage grows over GM plant closings
- US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan
2018-11-30
- Taiwan elections reveal widespread hostility to the ruling DPP
- Colombo court detains Sri Lankan defence chief over civil war crimes
- Around 100,000 Sri Lankan plantation workers walk out again for pay rise
- Democrats re-elect a right-wing leadership
- Faculty protest hits NYU’s coverup for UAE in Matthew Hedges case
- Founder of Kansas City group whose food for homeless was destroyed by health department speaks out
- Left Party publications denounce protest movement in France
- Trump cancels G20 meeting with Putin amid rising tensions
- Thousands forced to flee “catastrophic” fire event in Australia
- The US mortality crisis: CDC reports extraordinary drop in life expectancy
- Bolton visits Bolsonaro: a US meeting of the minds with Brazil’s fascistic president-elect
- Industry publication boasts: GM plant closures aimed at extorting more concessions from autoworkers
- UK Intelligence and Security Committee admits Manchester bomb attack should have been prevented
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