Archive: December 2017
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 December 2017 (front page)
- Senate races to pass Trump tax cut for corporate America
- Trump administration escalates threat to “utterly destroy” North Korea
- Graduate students protest Republican tax bill
- Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi demands Representative John Conyers resign over harassment claims
- US initiates trade war investigation into Chinese aluminium imports
- Xenophobic attack on mayor of German city
- German court releases far-right army officer
- French campaign on violence against women intensifies police repression
- UK Labour staffer death is second linked to unproved allegations of sexual harassment
- Undocumented workers in Houston face hazardous conditions and unpaid wages
- Brooklyn College students oppose NYPD spying on campus
- Australian banking inquiry backflip intensifies political crisis
- Choreographed media fawning over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
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Oppose Trudeau and Trump, the Canada-US alliance, and imperialist war!
For a working class counter-offensive based on socialist internationalism!|Part two -
An interview with Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari, co-director of The Silence and Disappearance
“The subjects that interest us are connected with social issues and the lack of equality” -
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
One day strike hits German and Italian Amazon distribution centres
2 December 2017 (front page)
- The US Senate tax bill: The financial oligarchy on the rampage
- Guilty plea by Trump’s former national security adviser Flynn intensifies US political crisis
- UK government rocked by Trump’s fascistic twitter postings
- At Abidjan summit, EU and France intensify neo-colonial scramble for Africa
- Canada to co-host meeting with US to prepare for war with North Korea
- US federal prosecutors rely on ultra-right propagandist group’s recordings in trial of inauguration day protesters
- One in 25 people homeless in some areas of England
- Acclaimed Australian actor Geoffrey Rush becomes the latest witch-hunt victim
- Intelligence agency involved in latest Australian “terror” scare
- Campaign builds for grand coalition in Germany
- IYSSE mounts campaign against university police censorship at University of California, Berkeley
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WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor on December 5
Public meeting: What the Russian Revolution meant for modern art and culture -
Hyundai auto workers end strike, Sri Lankan bankworkers begin national protests
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - Roman J. Israel, Esq.: Rebel with a cause
4 December 2017 (front page)
- In wake of Flynn guilty plea, anti-Russia campaign intensifies against Trump
- Following passage of Senate tax bill, US ruling class takes aim at Social Security and Medicare
- Top US official warns “not much time” to prevent Korean war
- Trump denounces acquittal of California immigrant
- Brooklyn defense attorneys protest courthouse immigration arrests
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“Part-time work in the auto plants is modern day slavery”
Six weeks since the tragic death of US autoworker Jacoby Hennings - German military leadership calls for massive rearmament program
- Betrayal of UK rail workers’ fight against driver only operations reveals treacherous role of unions
- Canada: Federal and provincial governments underfund indigenous childcare
- “Hostage” incident highlights political tensions in Indonesian Papua
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This week in the Russian Revolution
December 4-10: Guns fall silent on the Eastern Front - Bernie Sanders promotes illusions in the Democrats in speaking tour of Midwest
- Oppose Trudeau and Trump, the Canada-US alliance, and imperialist war!
5 December 2017 (front page)
- US Supreme Court puts Trump travel ban into effect
- The public humiliation and destruction of Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine
- Warnings of financial crash as stock markets continue to surge
- Thousands demonstrate against Alternative for Germany party congress
- Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's former dictator, killed in Sana’a
- Amid mass protests, Honduran government and Trump administration seek to impose fraudulent re-election
- Grenfell fire families challenge government inquiry cover-up
- Capitol Hill journalists revoke RT America’s news credentials
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Behind the FCC plan to abolish net neutrality
Broadband monopolies to censor Internet content -
“Management tells the UAW what to do and they say, ‘Okay!’”
Chicago Ford workers speak out on death of Coby Hennings - Trudeau slams door on desperate Haitian refugees
- Australian foreign policy White Paper underscores danger of war
- Anti-China witch-hunt against Australian senator reveals extensive US-backed surveillance
- Mark Mazower’s What You Did Not Tell: The fate of a 20th century family from Russia
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Workers Struggles: the Americas
Halifax Shipyard workers vote 99 percent in favor of strike
6 December 2017 (front page)
- Trump tax cut plan will devastate public education
- The extreme right and the turn toward militarism in Germany
- International Olympic Committee bans Russia from 2018 Olympics in political provocation
- Proposed Brexit deal blocked by Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party
- Foreign minister Gabriel promotes German big power politics
- Catalan election campaign begins amid Popular Party government repression
- John Conyers forced to resign from Congress as sex witch-hunt escalates
- Worker killed at ExxonMobil refinery in Beaumont, Texas
- Brazil, US and 20 other countries carry out military exercise in the Amazon
- US indicts Turkish banker Mehmet Atilla amid mounting US-Turkish tensions
- Australian government foreshadows draconian anti-foreign interference laws
- New Zealand: Labour-led government to expand police
- German Historical Museum exhibition presents the October Revolution as an event of world-historical significance
7 December 2017 (front page)
- Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital sparks anger, protests
- China condemns Australian “anti-China hysteria and paranoia”
- Massive wildfires grow across Southern California
- US Supreme Court hears oral argument on cake shop anti-gay discrimination case
- UK terror report confirms Manchester and London terror attackers known to MI5
- Germany: Nationwide raids on G20 protesters
- Trump slashes national monuments in Utah: “I’m a real estate developer”
- Near walkout at Detroit auto plant over unsafe conditions
- Growing numbers of US teachers abandon unions
- CVS to purchase Aetna for $69 billion, in move expected to disrupt health care industry
- Underpayment of international students and backpackers commonplace in Australia
- Conflicts within US ruling class intensify following Flynn guilty plea
- Former UK minister indicates Brexit referendum “deal” between Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron
- Russian federal investigators review anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about murder of the Tsarist family
- Australia: Socialist Equality Party holds successful meetings on Russian Revolution
- Workers and youth discuss the Russian Revolution at SEP meetings
8 December 2017 (front page)
- Democrats force resignation of US Senator Al Franken
- US homeless total increases for the first time in seven years
- Homeless rate among Seattle public school students rises by 55 percent
- Southern California wildfires continue to rage for third day
- German Social Democratic Party congress paves way for grand coalition
- British “aid” diverted to jihadi forces in Syria
- Trudeau fails to launch free trade talks with China as divisions rage within Canadian ruling elite
- Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content
- Puerto Rican unions propose to partner with the Wall Street’s financial control board
- Tesla management imposes brutal workplace regime as it ramps up production
- Australia: Lowest consumer spending since global financial crisis
- Right-wing attack on New Zealand Green MP
- Trump and Jerusalem: The end of the Mideast “peace” charade
- The Man Who Invented Christmas: Charles Dickens and the writing of A Christmas Carol
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 December 2017 (front page)
- Two Palestinians killed, hundreds wounded in clashes following Trump announcement on Jerusalem
- America’s latest “Scarlet Letter” moment
- Brexit talks with EU to proceed after climbdown by UK prime minister
- Further signs of looming US war with North Korea
- Fires rage across Southern California for fifth day
- Trump nominates business ally to head Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Video released as cop who killed unarmed Daniel Shaver found not guilty
- South Carolina cop sentenced to 20 years for murder of Walter Scott
- Canada: Alberta’s “united right” elects key Harper aide to lead new party
- Germany: Protests against the deportation of refugees
- Thai junta uses arms find to justify political repression
- Australian maritime union maintains picket at Victorian port
- Australian actor Geoffrey Rush fights back, suing Daily Telegraph for defamation
- Stephen Sewell denounces media witch-hunt against Geoffrey Rush
- Amazon workers ask “$100 billion man” Jeff Bezos: where’s my cut?
- UK government accelerates plans to ration and privatise National Health Service
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Health workers strike in India, Cambodian garment workers walkout over wages
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 December 2017 (front page)
- Amid “full employment,” no recovery in US wages
- US-Russia tensions mount after ISIS’s defeat in Syria
- Alabama Senate election pits corporate Democrat vs. fascistic Republican
- Electrician, 41, killed at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant on Saturday
- Nevada and Nebraska move to use powerful opioid in state executions
- Anti-China witch-hunt in Australia escalates
- UK “Magnitsky bill” escalates US-led anti-Russia offensive
- Mexico’s Interior Security Law: The ruling class prepares for mass uprisings
- Spanish ruling elite lays out imperialist ambitions in new National Security Strategy
- Mass eviction of rural migrant workers from Chinese capital
- Rebels attack UN base in Congo, killing 20 soldiers
- Is the United States on the brink of nuclear war?
- Australian workers, actors, filmmakers oppose the “trial by media” of Geoffrey Rush
- Patricia Noonan Jukovsky (1947-2017)
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This week in the Russian Revolution
December 11-17: White forces capture Rostov - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017), one of opera’s greatest baritones
12 December 2017 (front page)
- Trump White House preparing sweeping attack on the poor
- Putin stages “mission accomplished” visit to Syria
- While Southern California burns, governor declares fire devastation to be “new normal”
- Police mobilize in New York City after bomb detonated in subway system
- EU rejects Trump’s call to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
- “We need to talk about Jeremy”: The City of London discusses its attitude to a Labour government
- General Electric follows Siemens in announcing mass layoffs
- Virginia charging commuters up to $40 a trip for use of interstate highway
- Reports highlight the crisis of New York mass transit
- Oakland, California school board set to enact mid-year budget cuts
- Gruesome murder case in Japan reflects social alienation and despair
- Sri Lankan railway workers defy government ban on strike
- The death toll behind corporate America’s record profits
- Why has Time magazine endorsed the #MeToo “revolution”?
- Grenfell Fire forum discusses upcoming six month anniversary
- The roots of intelligence: What the study of whales and dolphins can reveal about the basis of human intelligence
- Art historian Linda Nochlin (1931-2017)
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Oakland, California city workers strike reaches one-week mark
Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 December 2017 (front page)
- Corporate Democrat Doug Jones defeats far-right evangelical Roy Moore in Alabama Senate race
- UN rapporteur reports extreme poverty “unseen in the first world” in Alabama
- Bitcoin frenzy: The fever chart of a deepening crisis
- German Left Party supports SPD foreign minister’s great power politics
- Grenfell fire inquiry opens: No one faces police questioning until autumn 2018
- Millions of the poorest in the UK eat an unhealthy diet
- Amnesty International report exposes EU role in mass torture of refugees in Libya
- Details of Kentucky Ford worker’s death still not revealed
- Nearly three-quarters of Millennials in the US want a new party
- Panel calls for cost-cutting to stabilize New Jersey pension fund
- Canada avoids criticizing Trump over Jerusalem provocation
- Australian Labor senator resigns amid anti-China witch-hunt
- Australian union imposes cost-cutting deal on Hunter Valley miners
- Washington’s secret wars
- National Public Radio’s This American Life promotes anti-immigrant propaganda
- WSWS publishes Urdu translation of Trotsky’s Lessons of October
- Preface to the Urdu edition of Lessons of October
- Cancellation of exhibition about Jewish art collector in Germany raises issue of Nazi-confiscated art
14 December 2017 (front page)
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On-the-spot report
Over a million in Puerto Rico living without the necessities of modern life
“The island has been turned upside down since the storm” - Lessons of the Alabama election
- Congressional Republicans reach deal to pass tax cuts before Christmas
- Alabama Senate result shows collapse of support for Trump
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“Ford and big companies don’t care if you live or not”
Ford workers speak out on Kentucky Truck worker’s death - Trump administration scotches suggestion of talks with North Korea
- Germany: SPD and Christian Democrats initiate exploratory talks on new government
- Italy’s “Black Wave” of neo-fascist attacks
- Outgoing Fed chair Yellen brushes off financial warning signs
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal by gay woman in employment discrimination case
- Portland billionaire attacks city’s homeless
- BJP and Congress Party stoke reaction in Gujarat state election
- Top Peruvian businessmen arrested in Odebrecht bribery scandal
- Sri Lankan unions betray railway workers’ strike
- Six months since the Grenfell Tower fire
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Film Review
“Grenfell changed everything”—Failed by the State: The Struggle in the Shadow of Grenfell
15 December 2017 (front page)
- The end of net neutrality and the fight to defend the free internet
- World’s richest one percent capture twice as much income growth as the bottom half
- Pentagon claims confrontation with Russian warplanes over Syria
- PBS cancels “Tavis Smiley” show as sex witch-hunt expands
- Investigation reveals employer impunity in Canadian workplace deaths
- Construction worker killed in horrific incident at Australian gas project
- Beijing warns against Australia’s anti-China campaign
- Militarism and crackdown on refugees dominate EU summit
- Brexit crisis deepens after Tory revolt on eve of EU summit
- Autopsy report refutes claims young Ford worker was on drugs at time of factory shooting
- Amid escalating corruption scandal, top UAW operatives step down
- After ten days, largest of Southern California wildfires continues to rage
- UN special rapporteur on poverty visits LA’s Skid Row
- Greek unions hold one-day general strike to protest Syriza’s brutal austerity measures
- Ron Chernow’s Grant: An able and compelling new biography
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Mudbound and life in post-World War II Mississippi: Dreaming “in brown”
… and a word on James Franco’s The Disaster Artist -
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
One-day walkout by Italian doctors
16 December 2017 (front page)
- Republicans release final bill to slash taxes for US corporations and the rich
- Opposition mounts to sexual harassment witch-hunt
- US secretary of state issues new ultimatum to North Korea
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“The rich people are not going to do anything for us”
University of Puerto Rico students speak on inequality and the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria - West Virginia governor orders National Guard to Huntington after drug-related killings
- Government report details human rights violations at US immigration detention centers
- Build a committee to oppose Oakland school cuts! For a socialist program to expand public education!
- Oakland, California board of education approves mid-year budget cuts despite growing opposition
- EU summit agrees talks will move forward, but Brexit crisis continues
- German parliament extends foreign military missions with support of the far-right AfD
- Amazon conducts total surveillance of workers in new German plant
- French conservative leadership election signals move towards far right
- AFRICOM envisions two years of open-ended warfare in Somalia
- Australia high court ruling imposes greater restrictions on industrial action
- Jens Stoltenberg and Angelina Jolie call for NATO intervention to promote “gender equality”
- Indian Trotskyists hold meeting for release of Maruti Suzuki workers
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Indian state government sacks 500 striking health workers, South Australian cash delivery guards locked out
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 December 2017 (front page)
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Horrific death at Ohio meatpacking plant
Industrial carnage continues in US workplaces - UPS worker killed at Atlanta hub
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“The poverty is no longer hidden by the trees”
Hurricane Maria exposes the conditions of life for the working class in Caguas, Puerto Rico - UN rapporteur “shocked” by deep poverty in US
- More sexual harassment allegations hit congressmen, media and entertainment figures
- Families and survivors hold six-month commemoration of Grenfell Tower fire
- UN condemns Iraq’s mass hanging of accused ISIS fighters
- Trade conflicts deepen at WTO meeting
- Right-wing extremists enter government in Austria
- Peru’s President Kuczynski facing impeachment
- Democrat Bottoms wins Atlanta mayoralty after recount
- The United States of Inequality
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This week in the Russian Revolution
December 18-24: Peace negotiations begin at Brest-Litovsk - Oppose media witch-hunt against “the left” over Grenfell fire
- Dover Quartet recital offers unusual program, including works by “forgotten composers” Viktor Ullmann and Szymon Laks
19 December 2017 (front page)
- Trump unveils “America First” national security strategy
- Far-right party enters Austrian government
- Puerto Rico governor orders review of official hurricane death toll
- Political warfare escalates over Mueller investigation into Trump-Russia claims
- At least three dead as Amtrak train derails over Interstate 5 in Washington
- Few facts in horrific death of Canton, Ohio meat packing worker Samuel Martinez
- Verdict looms in first round of trials for 194 charged in anti-Trump inauguration day protests
- House fire in Brooklyn kills four
- MSF survey provides clear evidence of the Burmese military’s mass murder
- Washington and Honduras seek to crush opposition to fraudulent re-election
- Hepatitis A outbreaks hit Southeast Michigan and San Diego
- Homeless man found dead in donation bin in San Diego, California
- Record numbers of Detroit children chronically absent from school
- Australian government returns refugees to Sri Lanka
- Australian by-election underscores ongoing political instability
- On the 30th anniversary of the death of Comrade Keerthi Balasuriya
- Why is Canada’s Liberal government endorsing the #MeToo witch-hunt?
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi—The further business of the Disney franchise
- The Falsification of David King’s work—Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905-55 at the Tate Modern in London
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SEIU calls off week-long Oakland city strike without contract
Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 December 2017 (front page)
- US workplace fatalities rose 7 percent in 2016
- Trump’s National Security Strategy: The return of “great power” military conflict
- OSHA dragging its feet investigating death of Pennsylvania Amazon worker Devan Shoemaker
- US Congress set for Wednesday passage of multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the rich
- Actor Matt Damon comes under attack for his criticisms of the sexual misconduct campaign
- Lafarge affair exposes French ruling elite’s funding of Islamic State terrorists
- Germany: SPD leadership officially explores entering coalition with the Christian Democrats
- Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital deepens crisis of Arab leaders
- Pentagon faces outrage for declaring Guantanamo art will burn
- Disney to purchase 21st Century Fox for $66.1 billion, creating new mega-conglomerate
- Argentina’s Congress passes social security “reform” after violent crackdown on protesters
- Australian government ends year with more austerity cuts
- SEP in Sri Lanka pays tribute to Keerthi Balasuriya
- Australian and New Zealand Trotskyists hold powerful Russian Revolution centenary meetings
- SEP meeting attendees speak about the Russian Revolution
- One hundred years since the birth of Romanian pianist and composer Dinu Lipatti
21 December 2017 (front page)
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Over token Democratic opposition
US Congress passes tax windfall for corporations and the rich - Alabama announces freeze on children’s health program
- US will “compel” North Korea to denuclearise
- South Korean and Chinese leaders meet over North Korea, economic ties
- South Africa’s ANC taps multi-millionaire ex-union chief Cyril Ramaphosa as leader
- US Congress targets Green Party candidate Jill Stein over allegations of collusion with Russia
- Polls shows mass opposition to net neutrality repeal
- US law enforcement cracks down on opioid users, lets drug companies off the hook
- Australian cabinet reshuffle highlights underlying political turmoil
- German Social Democratic Party follows the path of far-right Alternative for Germany
- UK report singles out schools with “high levels of disadvantage” for attack
- Report finds steady increase in UK child and pensioner poverty
- Haitian audit report on PetroCaribe corruption deepens crisis of Moïse goverment
- Southern California wildfires continue into third week
- Former Massey CEO Don Blankenship announces run for US Senate
20 December 2017 (front page)
21 December 2017 (front page)
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Crisis election in Catalonia
No to dictatorship and national separatism! For the Unity of Catalan and Spanish workers! - Bitcoin speculation continues to surge
- Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck: “Small” films at a time of big crisis
22 December 2017 (front page)
- Jury acquits all six defendants in first trial of Inauguration Day protesters
- Catalan nationalists win narrow majority in crisis elections
- UN General Assembly repudiates Trump over Jerusalem announcement
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“They are going to cover-up everything like they always do”
Ford, UAW downplay finding of Legionella bacteria at Kansas City assembly plant - DACA deal put off to 2018 leaving 800,000 under deportation threat
- UK: Deputy Conservative leader Damian Green forced to resign by manufactured sex scandal
- German police publicly name and shame G20 protesters
- Court ruling allows Canadian spies to conduct mass surveillance of cellphones
- Maldives and China sign free trade agreement
- Mentally ill man drives vehicle into crowd in Melbourne, Australia
- Australian university overturns student union election result
- Continuing attacks on New Zealand public transport workers’ jobs and wages
- Power outage at Atlanta airport causes chaos
- Drug deaths drive down US life expectancy for second year
- UK: Pro-Corbyn councillors sabotage fight against Labour’s social cleansing
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London hospital workers protest low pay and poor working conditions
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 December 2017 (front page)
- Pentagon admits presence of US troops in Yemen as cholera cases top one million
- Democratic Party witch-hunters target Green Party candidate Jill Stein
- US considers splitting immigrant children from parents in immigration jails
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As AT&T announces holiday layoff of hundreds of workers
Corporate America begins campaign to sell Trump tax bonanza -
Notes on police violence
Bexar County, Texas police shoot and kill six-year-old boy - Political turmoil in Spain following Catalan election
- UN imposes harsh new sanctions on North Korea
- Japan’s cabinet approves draft budget that boosts the military
- Trump authorizes $41.5 million sale of lethal US weaponry to Ukraine
- Amazon worker dies after vomiting blood at Sacramento, California fulfillment center
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“If finding out what happened could save another life at least something good would come from our son’s death”
Family, co-workers want truth about Kentucky Ford worker’s death - Trump administration congratulates “re-election” of police-state regime in Honduras
- Massive job cuts at Opel and Vauxhall
- Virgin Care: A case study in how private corporations loot the UK’s National Health Service
- Nashville, Tennessee: Homelessness at record levels despite pledges from politicians and business leaders
- US fire death toll in 2017 reaches 2,152
- First “foreign fighter” arrest in Australia
- Engineering workers occupy three BiFab yards in Scotland
- Wildcat strike stops production as workers eject union leaders at Ford Romania
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Indian telecommunication workers strike, Australian coal terminal workers impose bans
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - Downsizing: Alexander Payne’s take on climate change, overpopulation, social inequality … and more
- Social inequality and Germany’s government crisis
- The contradictions of the bitcoin-blockchain frenzy
- Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) stands for local government elections
27 December 2017 (front page)
- Health care threatened for nine million low-income US children
- The US government and the Russian election
- UK steps up provocations against Russia
- Romanian Ford worker speaks to WSWS about wildcat strike at Craiova plant
- Holidays painful for family of young Ford worker killed in Detroit area plant
- European Union threatens to impose sanctions on Poland
- UK Conservatives seek closer economic ties with China
- US police kill over a thousand for fourth year in a row
- Court quashes subpoena of reporter who uncovered Chicago police murder coverup
- South Korea’s deadliest fire in a decade leaves 29 dead
- Australian retail union reportedly signs another wage-cutting deal with Woolworths
- Left Alliance wins Nepal’s elections
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This week in the Russian Revolution
December 25-31: Soviet government nationalizes the banks - How former Nazi official Reinhard Gehlen erected a state within a state in post-war Germany
28 December 2017 (front page)
- Russia charges Pentagon with training ex-ISIS fighters
- The oligarchy versus society
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“The government has done nothing”
Months after hurricane, Puerto Rican workers face worsening jobs crisis - Up to three times more immigrants die crossing US-Mexico border than previously reported
- VW colluded in torture of militant workers during military dictatorship in Brazil
- Was the 2016 terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market an “intelligence operation with deadly collateral damage?”
- Profiteering by insulation industry central to Grenfell Tower fire in London
- UK: Thousands to see in the New Year sleeping rough on the streets
- No decline in Michigan poverty since the Great Recession
- Typhoon ravages southern Philippines
- Amazon begins operations in Australia
- Anti-Chinese witch-hunt against New Zealand MP intensifies
- The petition against Matt Damon and the “erasing” of Kevin Spacey: The fiercely antidemocratic character of the sexual misconduct campaign
29 December 2017 (front page)
- Cold wave, house fires prove lethal for US homeless, poor
- Macron turns France’s labor decrees on auto workers
- Over 700 Yemeni civilians killed and wounded by US-backed Saudi airstrikes in December
- Zimbabwe government and opposition compete for imperialist backing
- Australian dramatic arts workers defend Geoffrey Rush, denounce #MeToo witch-hunt
- Canada: Former CUPE chief steward caught in cash-for-jobs scandal
- Indian ICFI supporters call public meeting in Kolkata to mark Russian Revolution centenary
- Australian car attack highlights mental healthcare crisis
27 December 2017 (front page)
29 December 2017 (front page)
- Erie, Pennsylvania buried by more than five feet of snow
- Hepatitis A outbreak continues to impact Southeast Michigan
- Massachusetts public transportation workers’ wages, benefits, and safety under attack
- US Ford worker supports autoworker strike in Romania: “They need to hook up with us”
- Romanian Ford workers must make international appeal!
- Remarkable collection of early Soviet films on DVD: The New Man—Awakening and Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia
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Israeli workers protest job cuts
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
30 December 2017 (front page)
- Deadly Bronx fire: A tragic product of inequality and social crisis in America
- Final reflections on the centennial year of the October Revolution
- New York prepares military-style occupation for New Year’s celebration in Times Square
- Protests erupt in Morocco after two die working in abandoned mine
- US president accuses China of illegal oil transfer to North Korea
- Drexel University professor resigns amid death threats from right-wing forces
- Trump administration rolls back fines against nursing homes as violations mount
- It’s the most exhausting time of the year: Amazon, UPS workers denounce grueling holiday conditions
- Germany: Demands grow for Merkel’s resignation
- Italian election campaign officially opens
- Alberta’s NDP government imposes wage and hiring freezes on public sector
- Peru’s President Kuczynski pardons Fujimori after surviving impeachment
- US and India pressure Sri Lanka over port deal with China
- Australian police handed more military weaponry
- New Zealand government offers false promises to reduce poverty
- The ruling class’s Christmas message to Grenfell survivors: You will get nothing from us
- Best films of 2017, and other matters
- Pop and jazz in 2017
- Insights into a new class of HIV retroviral drugs
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Hyundai autoworkers rejected pay deal; Taiwan workers protest industrial laws
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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