Archive: November 2018
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 November 2018 (front page)
- GM makes record quarterly profit as US corporations accelerate cost-cutting
- Fiat Chrysler workers hit with temporary layoffs across North America
- Trump may send 15,000 troops to US-Mexico border
- Sri Lankan crisis: UNP rally demands reconvening of parliament
- A major escalation in the US economic war against China
- Japanese PM visits China in bid to improve relations
- Australia declares China a threat to military-related university research and infrastructure
- BlackRock boss Merz applies to head Germany’s ruling CDU
- Protests and strikes signal mounting hostility toward Italian government
- UK budget: Labour makes clear big business will dictate Corbyn government policies
- Ukraine’s depopulation crisis
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All men are not created equal
The American oligarchy’s attack on birthright citizenship -
Child detainees speak out: “I just wanted a hug from someone”
The view from inside America’s child immigrant detention shelters - SEP candidate Niles Niemuth speaks with students and workers in Lincoln Park, Michigan
- What do Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life and Jesse Peretz’s Juliet, Naked have in common?
- World vertebrate populations have fallen 60 percent since 1970
2 November 2018 (front page)
- Washington calls for Yemen ceasefire as Saudis escalate siege of Hodeidah
- What is to be done about the plutocrats?
- As sanctions tighten, Washington threatens Iran with “military might”
- Falling growth rate sparks concern in China’s ruling circles
- Thousands attend funerals for victims of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
- Chicago Teamsters local announces end to UPS contract extension
- Abigail Spanberger: CIA Democrat for Virginia’s 7th District
- Canada Post workers’ rotating strike briefly extended to Montreal
- France to send aircraft carrier to South China Sea to threaten China
- Ecuador’s government cuts off all access to Julian Assange
- Trump calls for “massive cities of tents” and indefinite detention of immigrants
- Turkish ruling parties break planned election alliance
- 100,000 people living in unsafe UK tower blocks
- The JVP’s fraudulent attempt to capitalise on Sri Lanka’s political crisis
- Australian Labor Party leader outlines militarist foreign policy
- New York Times tries to shame “disillusioned young voters” into supporting the Democrats
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An open letter to WDIV Local 4 News in Detroit
Stop the censorship of the Socialist Equality Party campaign! - Who are Gary Walkowicz and the Working Class Party?
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Against the right-wing attacks of university administrators and the far-right
Successful solidarity event for the student union of Humboldt University -
Italian and Portuguese public sector workers strike; UK rail strikes continue
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
3 November 2018 (front page)
- Washington imposes new sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba
- US expands illegal, unilateral sanctions against Iran
- As workers’ opposition grows to Teamsters contract, UPS Freight prepares for strike
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128 years after the first US electrocution
Tennessee revives “Old Smokey,” the electric chair, for an execution -
“They are trying to outsource to cut costs and pit us against each other”
Allison Transmission workers speak out on UAW-management collaboration - As US Steel and ArcelorMittal announce booming profits, the United Steelworkers pushes sellout deals
- Trump manoeuvres in lead-up to talks with Chinese President Xi
- Sri Lankan crisis: Washington intervenes to maintain its political influence
- Massive increase in police violence across UK
- Ireland votes to remove blasphemy from the constitution and re-elects Michael D. Higgins as president
- New Zealand: Bus union ends Wellington strike
- Immigrant tent cities and right-wing terror: The new normal in America
- Christine Assange, mother of persecuted WikiLeaks publisher, endorses Niles Niemuth, SEP candidate for Congress
- Letters protest censorship of Niles Niemuth election campaign by WDIV
- The Wife: A Nobel Prize winner exposed
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Mass strikes by transport workers and government employees in India
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 November 2018 (front page)
- Europe and America clash over Washington’s economic war on Iran
- Democratic candidates praise Trump’s attacks on immigrants as troops arrive at the border
- Two workers killed as wall collapses at Baltimore Amazon facility
- Former CIA Director Brennan endorses Democrat Beto O’Rourke
- Israeli government defends Trump in aftermath of Pittsburgh massacre
- The Little Rock Education Association stalls on strike action in Arkansas
- Chicago charter school teachers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- Sri Lankan political crisis: Pseudo-left NSSP promotes UNP campaign
- German Social Democrats demand right-wing replacement for Merkel
- UK: Police launch investigation into alleged anti-Semitism in Labour Party
- Catalan separatists indicted for rebellion, facing jail for up to 25 years
- Inviting Trump to Paris, Macron evokes the specter of fascism and the 1930s
- Australia: Morrison-Turnbull clash points to sharp foreign policy tensions
- Anwar Ibrahim wins seat and returns to Malaysian parliament
- On the eve of the US midterm elections: The political issues facing the working class
- Democratic Party mailer removes SEP candidate Niles Niemuth from sample ballot
- Illinois governor’s race the most expensive in US history
- HBO’s The Night Of: An intelligent, gripping legal drama
- This week in history: November 5-11
6 November 2018 (front page)
- Trump steps up anti-immigrant campaign on eve of US election
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White House report on socialism
The specter of Marx haunts the American ruling class - US escalates illegal economic war on the people of Iran
- New York Times ramps up smear campaign against Julian Assange
- Sri Lankan crisis: SLFP holds rally to defend political coup
- Judge rejects push by Daily Telegraph to amend its defence in Geoffrey Rush defamation suit
- School support workers vote to strike in rural district in Washington state
- Homelessness in London: Rough sleeping increases, removal of families from the city doubles
- Spanish media promotes far-right VOX party
- Chinese president denounces “law of the jungle” on trade
- The way forward for young people: Not Democratic Party politics, but the fight for socialism!
- Indian Trotskyists to hold meeting on 80 years of the Fourth International
- Wigneswaran’s Tamil People’s Alliance: A trap for Sri Lankan workers
- New Caledonia referendum rejects independence from France
- Australian union officials use Newcastle rally to whitewash their betrayals
- Australian workers at union rally oppose attacks on conditions, criticise Labor Party
- Vote Niles Niemuth, Socialist Equality Party, for US House of Representatives in Michigan’s 12th district!
- ISO covers up Workers Party role in Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil
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Work stoppages by Argentine air cabin crew members lead to flight cancellations
Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 November 2018 (front page)
- US midterm vote: Democrats win control of House of Representatives
- Billionaires, corporate money swing toward Democrats
- Hans-Georg Maassen: A right-wing extremist at the head of the German secret service
- UPS Freight, Teamsters to workers: Vote “yes” or face lockout and lose your health care
- Prosecutor points to UAW “culture of corruption” as union officials face sentencing
- Canada to dramatically hike, expedite deportations to “secure” borders
- Worker injured in explosion at ArcelorMittal steel mill in Indiana
- Plantation unions move to shut down wage struggle amid Sri Lankan political crisis
- 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
- 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
- Venom: Childish science fiction and superheroes abound
8 November 2018 (front page)
- At White House press conference, Trump calls reporter an “enemy of the people”
- After midterm elections, Democrats call for bipartisan unity with Trump
- EU responds to US midterm elections with calls for military build-up
- Facebook and Twitter intensify censorship in 2018 elections
- Australian prime minister dismisses renewed calls to defend Julian Assange
- Sri Lankan political coup: Rajapakse makes bogus promises to ease social crisis
- After new Mexico City airport is canceled, López Obrador rushes to reassure finance capital
- US, Turkey risk direct military clash as they escalate war in Syria
- Quebec’s new CAQ government to prioritize its chauvinist anti-immigrant agenda
- Residents oppose official cover-up of Grenfell fire toxic contamination
- Increase in self-harm and suicides in UK immigration detention centres
- Government declares child refugees will not remain in Australia
- Significant vote for SEP candidate Niles Niemuth in Michigan’s 12th district
- Citing war in Syria, ISO withdraws endorsement of Green Party gubernatorial candidate in New York
- The case of Hans-Georg Maassen and the struggle against police-state repression in Germany
- Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind: A film 48 years in the making
9 November 2018 (front page)
- Afghanistan war veteran kills 12 at a southern California dance club
- Asylum ban: Trump eliminates right to asylum for immigrants crossing without documentation
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“The Teamsters union is with the company”
UPS workers oppose Teamsters isolation of freight division, call for united struggle - Democrats rally to defend fired Attorney General Sessions, Special Counsel Mueller
- US-North Korean talks called off
- Amazon reportedly locates new headquarters in New York and metropolitan Washington
- Merrimack Valley disaster, National Grid lockout highlights dangers of profit-driven gas system
- Tube workers’ strike brings much of London to a halt
- Factional conflict in Sri Lankan elite underscores dangers facing working class
- Pakistan’s government bows to Islamist right, victimises anew woman in blasphemy case
- Safety questions emerge after 189 people die in Indonesian plane crash
- Ousted Australian prime minister denounces right-wing “coup”
- One hundred years since the November Revolution in Germany
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David North lecture tour
More than 100 attend meeting at MIT on anniversary of the Fourth International -
David North in conversation with Nick Beams
Book launch of The Heritage We Defend in Sydney, Australia - The Fires that Foretold Grenfell—Documentary reveals how UK governments ignored lessons of previous fire tragedies
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Nigerian unions call off general strike over minimum wage
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
10 November 2018 (front page)
- California wildfires kill nine, drive 150,000 from their homes
- US multinationals dodge $180 billion in taxes on foreign profits per year
- Tensions mount over US election contests in Florida, Georgia, Arizona
- Fort Wayne GM worker alleges UAW-management collusion in unjust termination
- Ian David Long, the Thousand Oaks, California shooter, likely suffered from PTSD
- In another anti-democratic act, Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament
- IBM’s purchase of Red Hat highlights growing power of technology giants
- Tamil nationalists support US-backed factions in Sri Lankan political crisis
- The kiss of death: Stalinists seek to tie Tamil Nadu auto strikes to right-wing parties
- UK: SEP assistant national secretary Julie Hyland addresses social sciences conference on fake news, censorship and war
- UK government’s crocodile tears over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy backfire
- US, Japan conclude massive war games targeting China
- New Zealand rail union enforces another pro-company pay deal
- Trudeau threatens to criminalize Canada Post strike
- French President Macron hails fascist dictator Philippe Pétain
- House of Cards Season 6: The King is dead, long live the Queen!
- “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!
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Thousands of Indian contract workers remain on strike; 29,000 New Zealand primary school teachers to take national strike action
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 November 2018 (front page)
- California wildfire deadliest and most destructive in state history
- Bitter US-European tensions mark centenary of World War I armistice in Paris
- After campaign of threats and intimidation, Teamsters announces “yes” vote on sellout UPS Freight contract
- Fire at workers’ apartment in South Korea leaves seven dead
- Workers killed in New York state helicopter crash and zinc mine accidents
- UK: SNP-led Glasgow City Council uses gender politics and threats of blacklisting to isolate equal pay struggle
- Sheffield Labour Students cancels anti-war meeting, citing police investigation of anti-Semitism allegations
- Ukrainian politician dies after fascist acid attack
- Imelda Marcos convicted on seven counts of graft in the Philippines
- US-China talks signal worsening confrontation
- Australia: Alleged terror attacker “known to police and intelligence agencies”
- The armistice of November 11, 1918 and the lessons for today
- The Hate U Give: Police brutality in America and its consequences
- This week in history: November 12-18
13 November 2018 (front page)
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As lame duck Congress convenes
Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration - Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one
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“Someone is getting paid millions to provoke racism and hatred”
US autoworkers oppose anti-immigrant campaign - New York teachers union pushes through concessions contract
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Following state election defeats
Germany’s grand coalition closes ranks and steps up right-wing offensive - Thousands protest Trump’s visit to Paris for centenary of World War I armistice
- Polish government officials march with the far-right
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“It’s about safety but the train operating companies want to save money”
UK rail worker speaks to the WSWS about dispute over Driver Only Operated trains -
“The UFT says there is no giveback but there is plenty giveback”
New York teachers angry as union hides givebacks in new contract - Australian Socialist Equality Party National Secretary James Cogan addresses Grenfell Fire Forum
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro prepares most right-wing government since end of US-backed dictatorship
- Fujimori’s new detention sets reconfiguration of Peruvian politics
- Quebec: Talks to resume in ABI lockout under threat of state-imposed concessions contract
- Sri Lankan political crisis deepens: Prime minister splits from president
- Ex-Australian Labor Party leader joins far-right anti-immigrant One Nation
- Australia: Welfare cut leaves asylum seekers facing destitution
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David North lecture tour
Nearly 100 attend meeting in New York City on the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International - Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 November 2018 (front page)
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Washington’s censorship regime goes global
Facebook deletes WSWS post on Sri Lanka - German president defends alliance against November 1918 Revolution between Social Democrats and right-wing reaction
- Sri Lanka crisis escalates as Supreme Court overturns Sirisena’s dissolution of parliament
- Kansas City health officials, police destroy food meant for homeless
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As death toll rises to 48
Evacuees in California wildfire share their stories - Israeli terror raid provokes new clashes in Gaza
- Chinese regime cracks down on student labour activists
- Court battles over ballot counts in Georgia, Florida
- Amazon worker dies of heart attack at facility in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Macron and Facebook announce joint social media censorship plan in France
- Amazon announces new headquarters in metropolitan New York City and Washington D.C.
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“It’s honestly scary going to work because you’re not safe any more”
Kentucky Ford worker describes hazardous working conditions - Albanian immigrant worker, forced to hide in Detroit church for 10 months, fights deportation
- British prime minister tries to minimise cabinet rebellion against draft Brexit agreement
- Canada Post union silent on Trudeau’s threat to outlaw strike
- The origins and findings of the Security and the Fourth International investigation
- Growing interest in socialism at Chicago meeting on 80th anniversary of Fourth International
- David Hare’s political thriller Collateral: “War has entered the blood”
15 November 2018 (front page)
- Investigations point to energy corporation’s negligence in California wildfire
- Trump demands end to Florida recount in new attack on voting rights
- At least 200 soldiers in German Army neo-Nazi terror network
- Sri Lankan parliament rejects Rajapakse as prime minister
- Pentagon chief heads to border as first refugees from caravan arrive
- Kidnapping, rape and murder by US border patrol agents
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US threats dominate Indo-Pacific summits
Trump’s envoys issue ultimatums to China and other Asian countries - SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold meetings on the socialist solution to the political crisis
- French teachers mobilize against Macron’s attacks on education
- Geoffrey Rush’s lawyer slams “gutter journalism” in Sydney defamation trial
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry hears harrowing witness statements
- DSA calls US midterm elections the “rebirth of the American socialist movement”
- Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old: A devastating depiction of the horrors of war
16 November 2018 (front page)
- Bipartisan panel: US must prepare for “horrendous,” “devastating” war with Russia and China
- World Socialist Web Site speaks with California wildfire evacuees
- Brexit deal threatens survival of May government
- Some of the main provisions of the draft EU-UK proposed Brexit deal
- German chancellor calls for a “real European army”
- Civilian death toll mounts as US escalates offensive in Syria
- US imposes limited sanctions on Saudi officials over Khashoggi’s murder
- Facebook hires former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
- French “Yellow Vest” protesters prepare road blockades against fuel tax hike
- Fiji First Party retains power in sham election
- Australian teacher unions’ phoney campaign against NAPLAN
- The political crisis in Sri Lanka: Its lessons for the international working class
- Ocasio-Cortez holds climate change stunt to boost Pelosi
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Spanish Amazon strike threat, Strikes spread in Iran
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 November 2018 (front page)
- Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating California wildfires
- Sri Lanka: Second no-confidence motion passed as violent clashes erupt in parliament
- US has spent almost $6 trillion on wars since 2001
- As Canada Post steps up provocations, union silent on back-to-work law threat
- Israel: Netanyahu’s coalition government collapses, forcing early elections
- Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats
- Britain: Reading University flags article on “ethics of revolution” under anti-terror policy
- Migrant caravan reaches US border as Latin American governments discuss austerity and repression
- UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers
- US teacher unions’ “Remember in November” fizzles
- Trump manoeuvres ahead of US-China trade talks
- Anti-Chinese campaign escalates in New Zealand
- Netherlands: 10,000 protest pro-corporate government policies
- French riot police attack protests against deadly Marseille building collapse
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Scotland: Michelin plans closure of Dundee plant with loss of 845 jobs
Rank-and file organisations needed to organise fight-back - Defend Julian Assange against US charges!
- A terrorist network inside the German Army
- DSA-backed “progressive Democrats” drop phony opposition to Trump’s attacks on immigrants
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The government’s $4.6 billion handout to Amazon
Why Amazon should be expropriated - “Eighty Years of the Fourth International” series continues with meetings in California and Oregon
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Web television series Homecoming: Everything about America’s wars, corporate elite is “rotten” …
… And two much weaker series, Maniac and Wanderlust -
Indian chrome miners strike over safety; Western Australian mine workers walkout over “wage theft”
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 November 2018 (front page)
- Death toll from California fires likely to soar, with nearly 1,300 people still missing
- France shaken by mass protests
- US vice president steps up confrontation with China at APEC summit
- Congressional Democrats push Russia probe, censorship
- Little Rock, Arkansas teachers’ union relinquishes due process rights
- Amidst talk of US auto industry consolidation UAW pushes economic nationalism ahead of 2019 contracts
- Thousands attend anti-fascist protest in London
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“Capitalism is causing the problem with refugees and making them the scapegoat”
London demonstrators speak out against racism and fascism - Sri Lankan president’s “all party conference” fails to overcome political crisis
- Anti-stall feature in new Boeing planes may have contributed to Indonesian aviation disaster
- Australian Greens pursue right-wing coalition government with Labor in Victoria
- The only answer to Brexit is the United Socialist States of Europe
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The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
Part one of a two-part series - This week in history: November 19-25
20 November 2018 (front page)
- Amid mass protests, France announces return to universal military service
- US vice president beats war drums in Asia
- “Macron is the president of the rich”: “Yellow Vest” protesters speak out
19 November 2018 (front page)
20 November 2018 (front page)
- White House backpedals on stripping CNN reporter of press pass
- USW pushes through US Steel sellout, prepares the same for ArcelorMittal workers
- Australian establishment collaborates in US vendetta against Julian Assange
- Canada Post and Trudeau government conspire to break postal strike
- US-China trade conflict leads to Wall Street sell-off
- Charges dropped against falsely accused Texas man
- Sri Lankan parliament adjourned amid ongoing political crisis
- Argentine Senate approves “zero deficit budget”
- Australian pseudo-left group Victorian Socialists promote Greens, Labor
- UK: Left groups targeted for decades-long police infiltration
- Showtime’s Kidding with Jim Carrey: Everyone has a breaking point
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Strike call in Dominican Republic over fuel price rise, crumbling infrastructure while nurses press demands
Workers Struggles: The Americas -
The centenary of the “Spanish Flu”—Lessons for today
Part two
21 November 2018 (front page)
- The fire in Paradise, California: From natural disaster to social catastrophe
- Thousands of GM salaried workers to lose jobs in 2019
- Ocasio-Cortez to support Pelosi as top Democrat and House Speaker
- Trump rules out further action against Saudi regime over Khashoggi’s murder
- Sri Lanka: UNP demands Facebook protect identity of party supporters
- Amazon dictates terms to New York over second headquarters
- Thousands of Austrian metal workers on strike
- At APEC, PM puts Australia on frontline of US confrontation with China
- UN says millions in Britain deliberately plunged into “great misery”
- Protests over PetroCaribe continue as Haitian president seeks imperialist support
- City of London Corporation reneges on its social housing pledge
- Pakistan prime minister visits Beijing amid heightened US-China tensions
- Bipartisan push to ramp up police powers after Australia’s latest “terror” attack
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold lecture on “Lessons of History and the Fight for Socialism Today”
22 November 2018 (front page)
- Trump lashes out at judiciary over immigration ruling
- Arrest of Nissan chairman Ghosn roils global auto industry
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“Those of us who speak out are being blackballed”
UAW carries out campaign of intimidation against Lear auto parts workers - Chinese president visits the Philippines
- Global conditions fuel Wall Street sell-off
- US and Mexican officials stoke up nationalist backlash against immigrants
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As Mexican-president elect prepares to take office
López Obrador backtracks campaign promises, creates new National Guard - Spain’s Socialist Party government junks “anti-austerity” budget agreed with Podemos
- Fascist group exposed in youth wing of Australia’s National Party
- Budget dispute between Italy and EU escalates
- America’s Thanksgivings
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds successful public meeting on political crisis
- To stem climate change, capitalism must be ended
- Sri Lankan political crisis exposes bankruptcy of Tamil nationalist parties
23 November 2018 (front page)
- Rainstorm ends California wildfires, but threatens to cause flash flooding
- At least 85,000 child deaths in Yemen highlight Saudi-US war crimes
- France sends military against protesters on Réunion Island
- French government spokesman explains Macron’s policies by quoting anti-Semite Maurras
- New head of German intelligence intends to strengthen the powers of the agency
- Corbyn auditions for government before big business and intelligence agencies
- Tens of thousands of retail jobs lost in UK
- Trudeau government introduces bill to outlaw Canada Post strike
- Australian parliament to pass expanded laws to call out the military to suppress domestic unrest
- Australia: Riot police tear-gas youth at Don Dale juvenile prison
- No to the draft in France and Europe!
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European elections 2019
No to the EU, social inequality, fascism and war! For socialism and the unity of the European working class! - Indian Trotskyists celebrate 80 years of the Fourth International
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Mehring Books launches holiday sale
Most titles 10 to 50 percent off! - The political fraud of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”
- Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide at the University of Michigan
- Scottish teachers overwhelmingly reject pay offer
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Public sector general strike in Tunisia; Plastics workers and goldminers continue stoppages in South Africa
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 November 2018 (front page)
- In Thanksgiving teleconference, Trump appeals to military against courts, political opponents
- French president bans fuel tax protest in Paris as strikes expand
- World Trade Organisation warns of rising protectionism ahead of G20 summit
- Left Party in Germany supports the French president’s call for a European army
- Political turmoil in Sri Lanka intensifies as opposition takes control of parliament
- Black Friday strikes hit Amazon in Europe
- 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
- Sandra Parks, 13-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin writer, killed in home by stray bullet
- Illinois EPA conceals environmental health hazards from thousands
- Canada Post workers need socialist strategy to defy and defeat Liberals’ back-to-work law
- Australia: Youth speak out against environmental destruction, poverty and war
- SEP (Canada) to hold Montreal meeting on “Leon Trotsky, the Lessons of History, and the Struggle for Socialism Today”
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Ten thousand taxi drivers end protests in India; 1,600 rubber plantation workers strike in Bangladesh; New Zealand secondary teachers vote to strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 November 2018 (front page)
- French riot police assault mass protests in Paris
- Russia fires on and captures Ukrainian Navy ships
- Hundreds rally in San Diego in defense of migrant caravan
- EU summit backs Brexit withdrawal declaration
- UAW negotiates secret deal with Columbia University to block strike action by graduate students
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In run-up to contract vote
UAW intensifies campaign of intimidation against Indiana Lear workers - US military, border police attack asylum seekers at US-Mexico border
- Iranian steelworkers strike for back-wages, safety, and jobs
- UK: Vauxhall and Cammell Laird workers strike against mass job cuts
- UAE pardons British PhD student Matthew Hedges on spying charges
- Protests erupt after Thanksgiving police shooting of innocent man in Birmingham, Alabama
- New York Governor Cuomo proposes band-aid for student hunger
- New York transit chief resigns as transit authority proposes more fare and toll hikes
- Labor re-elected with increased majority in Australian state of Victoria
- Australian government accelerates anti-democratic “foreign influence” register
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Climate change, capitalism and socialism
New climate change report: Impact of global warming “already being felt” - Australia: World War I centenary “celebrations” end with stepped-up militaristic propaganda
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: Only a fool “expects better” from humanity
- This week in history: November 26-December 2
27 November 2018 (front page)
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GM to close five plants in US and Canada, slash 14,700 jobs
For an industrial counteroffensive against job cuts! -
The military-police assault at San Ysidro
Defend immigrant workers from state violence! -
“Workers in the US, Mexico and Korea should all stand up”
Lordstown GM autoworkers oppose shutdown and mass layoffs - Russia-Ukraine stand-off over Azov Sea continues as Poroshenko declares martial law
- Trump campaigns for Mississippi Senate candidate Hyde-Smith as Democratic challenger shifts to the right
- German grand coalition government passes war budget
- Greek workers protest social attacks by Syriza government
- Trudeau government illegalizes Canada Post strike
- Australian parliamentary inquiry discusses intensifying internet censorship
- Amid Sri Lanka’s political crisis, the USP sets “left” trap for the working class
- US immigrants go hungry for fear using food stamps will lead to deportation
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At Chicago Mayoral Forum
Unions promote corporate Democrats to succeed Rahm Emanuel - Falling building debris causes injuries and deaths while profits mount for UK developers
- World economic slowdown hits Peruvian exports
- No to Macron’s maneuvers to strangle the Yellow Vest protests in France
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Chilean port workers strike over working conditions
Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 November 2018 (front page)
- Rejecting Macron’s speech, fuel tax protesters call new demonstrations in France
- Slanders depicting “Yellow Vest” protesters as violent neo-fascists collapse
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General Motors worker on job cuts: “This is all about corporate greed”
Detroit-Hamtramck autoworkers want to fight against plant closures - Unifor union pushes nationalist poison over GM Oshawa closure plan
- Guardian newspaper spearheads new accusations against Assange and WikiLeaks
- Taliban attack kills three US soldiers in Afghanistan
- Plead for charity or die: A blunt message from the American health care system
- Thousands remain homeless after Columbia Gas disaster in Massachusetts
- From the Nazis to the AfD: Big business finances the far-right
- British PM May attacked from all sides ahead of parliament Brexit vote
- Rajapakse-aligned MPs boycott Sri Lankan parliament
- US-South Korean tensions over stance towards North Korea
- Australian government announces early budget
- Australian prime minister denounces students’ climate-change protests
- A call to action to fight the GM plant closings and mass layoffs
- SEP meeting and livestream on December 16: What next in the fight to free Julian Assange?
- Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77
- NASA InSight mission successfully lands on Mars
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Form rank-and-file committees
Reject the UAW-Lear sellout contract! Unite with GM and other autoworkers in a common fight!
29 November 2018 (front page)
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“Everybody—Ford, Chrysler, GM—needs to strike right now”
Autoworkers’ outrage grows over GM plant closings - Ukraine’s provocation in the Azov Sea
- US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan
- US administration signals unconditional backing for Saudi regime as Senate votes on Yemen war
- Democrats nominate Pelosi as House speaker, reelect top aides
- Mississippi runoff election ends with Republican victory
- Transgender asylum seeker beaten in US custody before her death, according to autopsy
- Trump escalates tariff threats against China on eve of G20 summit
- US Fed chairman’s speech boosts Wall Street
- Chinese consulate in Pakistan attacked by Balochi separatists
- Intensifying US pressure on New Zealand government over China
- Combustible cladding doomed Grenfell Tower within 10 minutes of initial fire
- New “Corbyn council” in Haringey, London demands more cuts
- Greyhound axes bus service across Western Canada
- Baby’s death on Australia’s Gold Coast points to worsening social conditions
- New York Times: Our crime was telling the truth
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After Trump fires tear gas at immigrant children
Sanders declares caravan members lack a “credible” claim to asylum - Green Book and At Eternity’s Gate: Overcoming racism and painter Vincent van Gogh’s final years
30 November 2018 (front page)
- The US mortality crisis: CDC reports extraordinary drop in life expectancy
- Democrats re-elect a right-wing leadership
- Trump cancels G20 meeting with Putin amid rising tensions
- Industry publication boasts: GM plant closures aimed at extorting more concessions from autoworkers
- Founder of Kansas City group whose food for homeless was destroyed by health department speaks out
- UK Intelligence and Security Committee admits Manchester bomb attack should have been prevented
- Left Party publications denounce protest movement in France
- Bolton visits Bolsonaro: a US meeting of the minds with Brazil’s fascistic president-elect
- Faculty protest hits NYU’s coverup for UAE in Matthew Hedges case
- 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
- Thousands forced to flee “catastrophic” fire event in Australia
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