Archive: February 2019
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 February 2019 (front page)
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February 9 demonstration against auto plant closures in Detroit
The program and strategy to defend jobs - Immigrants in US subjected to nasal force-feeding at ICE detention center
- US “Worldwide Threat Assessment” takes aim at China
- US escalates threats against Venezuela
- Extreme cold spell wreaks havoc across United States
- Worker in Mexico fired, beaten, censored, and falsely charged for protesting corporate abuses
- India: Unions betray Tamil Nadu teachers’ and government workers’ strike
- West Virginia teachers angered over renewed attack on public education
- Foxconn drastically scales back Wisconsin investment
- Housekeeper trapped in billionaire’s New York townhouse elevator for days
- Class, not Brexit, is Britain’s great divide
- Australia’s financial press promotes Labor’s shadow treasurer
- Footage shows police pointing assault rifles at child detainees in Australia
- Halil Celik, a fighter for socialism (1961-2018)
- The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century published in Tamil
- Vanity Fair: A new television adaptation of the great 19th century novel
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Sibanye gold miners’ strike joined by platinum miners; Public worker strikes spread in Kosovo
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2 February 2019 (front page)
- GM to lay off 4,250 salaried workers in North America starting Monday
- Matamoros strike grows as Mexican ruling class warns of national strike wave
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The economics of the North American auto industry
How global auto parts corporations profit by exploiting Mexican workers - European Parliament backs US-led coup in Venezuela
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“We are just another package that can be replaced”
FedEx, UPS workers outraged after Illinois truck driver dies on the job in extreme cold weather - Lawsuit alleges Amazon caused worker’s death
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As Trump threatens national emergency
Democrats offer increased spending for border policing - No deal reached at US-China trade meeting
- John Pilger to speak at March 3 Sydney rally to defend Julian Assange
- Facebook’s censor Nick Clegg outlines plans for European elections
- German defence report sparks hysterical campaign for increased military spending
- Portugal’s strike wave intensifies
- United Steelworkers announces concessions contract agreement with Shell Oil
- Florida education commissioner advocates widespread privatization
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Biloela resident: “It is really important that we stand up”
Australian rural town continues to fight deportation of Tamil refugee family - The US scraps the INF treaty: Another step toward nuclear war
- The Fed’s interest rate U-turn: Some economic and political conclusions
- Leyla McCalla’s Capitalist Blues: Keeping one’s eyes open
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Bangladesh garment workers demonstrate for unpaid wages; New Caledonia nickel miners’ strike enters second month
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 February 2019 (front page)
- US issues new threats of war for oil against Venezuela
- The Governor Ralph Northam affair
- Spanish Socialist Party government backs US-led coup in Venezuela
- Union shuts down Audi strike in Hungary
- Twelfth “yellow vest” protest marches against police repression in France
- Over a thousand federal inmates in New York City jail held for more than a week in dark, frigid conditions
- Private contract workers left without pay following federal government shutdown
- More US drug price hikes in 2019
- Florida schools to allow real-time video monitoring by the police
- Britain’s secret propaganda “Integrity Initiative” targets Russia
- Brexit, Free Ports and the super-exploitation of the working class
- Australia: Telstra workers vote on industrial action amid mass sackings
- Sri Lanka: 16 families homeless after fire at Bogawantalawa tea plantation
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“We need to understand we all face the same struggle”
Broad support for February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings - The US pseudo-left’s conspiracy of silence on the Matamoros workers’ rebellion
- This week in history: February 4-10
5 February 2019 (front page)
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Jobs bloodbath at Ford and GM
Ford announces 1,000 job cuts as GM begins mass layoffs - Australian workers and youth support March rallies in defence of Julian Assange
- Boston jury hears testimony of how Insys Therapeutics pushed opioid painkiller and killed hundreds
- Newport, Rhode Island: Enbridge natural gas pipeline failure put thousands at risk
- Integrity Initiative: UK interference in Norway
- FBI conducted surveillance of BAMN in the name of combating “domestic terrorism”
- US “border security”: Troops, torture, barbaric prisons
- Hands off Venezuela!
- UK’s largest supermarket Tesco to shed 9,000 jobs
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Reject the anti-Mexican campaign of the UAW and Unifor
Unite US, Canadian and Mexican workers against GM plant closings! - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- West Virginia teachers battle legislative “education reform”
- Lack of teachers, work overload undermine Dutch education system
- India and the Maldives strengthen military ties
- Australia: 2,000 homes submerged in Townsville as floodgates open
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“Yellow vest” assemblies meet in Commercy
The pseudo-left parties seek to intervene in France’s “yellow vest” movement - The Land of Steady Habits: Postcrash American disillusionment
6 February 2019 (front page)
- State of Fear: Trump unleashes tirade against socialism
- Paris steps up calls for coup in Venezuela
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As Unifor escalates racist anti-Mexico campaign
Canadian union leader postures as supporter of Matamoros strikers - Teachers at four Chicago charter school campuses walk out
- 48-year-old teacher perishes in house fire on Chicago’s southwest side
- Oakland, California teachers overwhelmingly vote to strike
- FDA advisor criticizes agency’s response to opioid epidemic
- Strike wave hits Kosovo
- UK: Employment growth at the expense of pay and job security
- Australia: Bank shares soar after release of report into financial “misconduct”
- New Zealand health unions suppress struggles against Labour government
- Press conference in front of GM world headquarters promotes March to Fight Plant Closures
- Mexican auto parts workers support February 9 demonstration in Detroit
- One hundred years since the death of Franz Mehring
- Another flammable cladding fire in Australia highlights government failure
- Fire in my mouth: New York Philharmonic premieres oratorio on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
7 February 2019 (front page)
- Washington issues ultimatum to Venezuela over “humanitarian aid” ploy
- Wave of walkouts in Matamoros, Mexico builds toward general strike
- French National Assembly passes police state “anti-riot” law targeting protests
- US-backed campaign for UN inquiry into China’s treatment of Uyghurs
- Protests erupt in Birmingham, Alabama after Thanksgiving Day police shooting of innocent man declared “justified”
- Dearborn, Michigan mayor suppresses historical article on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism
- US military conducting urban warfare training exercises in Los Angeles
- Berlin-based airline files for bankruptcy
- Election of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador signals further shift to US imperialism
- Stansted 15 anti-deportation protesters go free
- NHS 10-year plan: Recipe for further attacks on services and privatisation in UK
- Chinese billionaire stripped of Australian residency as “foreign interference” campaign ramps up
- Australian Labor Party outbids Coalition in big business tax handouts
- Australian actor Craig McLachlan’s defamation case postponed following police charges
- The reality of capitalism: GM makes $11.8 billion in profits while closing plants, eliminating 14,000 jobs
- Lordstown GM plant closing: Another blow to northeastern Ohio
- Sri Lankan tea plantation workers committee supports call for February 9 demonstration in Detroit
- AfD deputy denounces a Holocaust commemoration in German parliament
- Sri Lankan SEP public meetings to launch Tamil edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Stanley Hill, who presided over wholesale corruption in NYC unions, dead at 82
8 February 2019 (front page)
- Opposition mounts to GM plant closings
- US commander says Pentagon prepared to intervene to defend Venezuela embassy
- Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela
- US-China trade talks to resume as deadline nears
- Over 7,000 Bangladesh garment workers sacked after wage protests
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After US withdrawal from INF nuclear treaty with Russia
France conducts dry-run simulation of nuclear weapon strike - Corporate tax cuts in UK save big business billions of pounds
- Germany is preparing for economic war
- New York City school-bus workers’ union ignores strike vote, accepts sellout deal
- Behind Kia’s patronizing Super Bowl ad, auto company makes billions off low wage labor in US South
- Australia: Tigerair pilots locked in dispute over wages and conditions
- France recalls its ambassador to Italy
- Murdoch newspaper approves chief Nazi lawyer’s legal defence of dictatorship
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Cold War: Many unstated assumptions about politics and history
Also, Capernaum and Stan and Ollie… -
UK Arriva North rail sell-out deal, Scottish lecturers’ strike, Sibanye miners’ stoppage continues in South Africa
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 February 2019 (front page)
- Strike action in the US hits a 32-year high
- Brazil’s Workers Party praises imperialist officials and Brazilian military involved in Venezuela regime change operation
- The CGT’s “national strike”: French unions seek to strangle the “yellow vest” protests
- Corbyn leadership bows before Blairite’s anti-Semitism witch-hunt
- UK rail worker sends solidarity to Detroit auto workers protest
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Cascade of plant closings in New York state
Social costs mount - Wright State University administration issues call for scabs in bid to intimidate striking faculty
- US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Muslim inmate without imam in death chamber
- Sri Lankan president’s Independence Day speech exposes deep crisis of rule
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“Lawyer X” cover-up starts to unravel
Australian police used multiple lawyers as informants - The working class and socialism
- New York Times admission of Afghanistan fiasco provokes “human rights imperialist” backlash
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“People are tired of not being able to pay their bills while the rich eat filet mignon”
As global jobs massacre continues, workers around the world voice support for fight against plant closures - German workers support rally against mass layoffs in Detroit
- Woody Allen sues Amazon for failing to distribute his latest film and other breaches of contract
- Committee for Public Education (Australia): Support the fight against GM layoffs!
- IYSSE calls on students in Australia to join the demonstrations in defence of Julian Assange
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Over 200,000 Uttar Pradesh government employees strike; Bangladesh garment workers occupy factory; New Caledonia miners still on strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 February 2019 (front page)
- In their first strike in 25 years, Denver, Colorado teachers walk out
- Oppose the Democrats’ #MeToo witch-hunt against Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax
- West Virginia teachers, school staff vote “overwhelmingly” to authorize work action
- Oakland students walk out as school board prepares major cuts
- Acclaimed musician Roger Waters calls on people to demonstrate in Australia to defend Julian Assange
- Chinese authorities extract forced confessions from student activists
- Workers at ExxonMobil in Billings, Montana reject USW-company sellout contract
- French “yellow vests” hold 13th protest against social inequality, police brutality
- Thousands attend right-wing, anti-Catalan protest in Madrid
- Bankruptcy judge approves sale of Sears to former CEO Edward Lampert for $5.2 billion
- Study links abuse-deterrent OxyContin with rise in hepatitis C infections
- Australia: Northern Queensland flood causes widespread destruction
- UK rail workers demand reinstatement of conductor sacked for opposing Driver Only Operated trains
- Autoworkers, supporters demonstrate in Detroit to oppose GM closures and layoffs
- One hundred years since the Seattle General Strike
- This week in history: February 11-17
- Eighty-two years since the victory of the Flint sit-down strike
- Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage detained by ICE agents in “targeted operation”
12 February 2019 (front page)
- Democrats capitulate to Trump, agree to wall funding
- The international upsurge of working class struggle in 2019
- Denver teachers strike backed by student walkouts
- Chicago charter teachers strike enters second week
- Mexican union apparatus, government scramble to suppress growing strike across Mexico
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Democratic leaders join attack on Democratic congresswoman
Bogus charges of anti-Semitism fuel right-wing campaign against Ilhan Omar - UK: Anti-Semitism witch-hunt provokes backlash in Labour Party
- Michigan steelworker dies after falling into vat of sulfuric acid
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As China-US trade deadline nears
Global economic war intensifies - US navy challenges China in the South China Sea
- German army initiates military cooperation with Deutsche Bahn railway company
- Steve McDowell, campaigner for Australian paramedic rights, speaks with WSWS
- Australian government claims credit for release of detained Bahraini footballer, but refuses to assist Julian Assange
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From the arsenal of Trotskyism
The Political Report by David North to the International Committee of the Fourth International—February 11, 1984 - Attend March 17 London Book Launch of Why Are They Back?
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“It is necessary to base our struggle not on one company or on one nation, but by mobilizing the workers of the world”
Maruti Suzuki workers in India send greetings to February 9 protest -
“We have to stand up and learn how to be strong on our own”
Workers at February 9 protest discuss fight against GM closings -
The way forward to win wages and social rights
Workers Action Committee in Sri Lanka calls plantation workers’ conference -
Injured flight attendants speak to the WSWS
The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part one - 100 years since the Seattle General Strike—Part 2
- Velvet Buzzsaw: The horror of the art world
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Series of regional strikes hit Argentina
Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 February 2019 (front page)
- The Iranian Revolution—Forty Years On
- Denver teachers battle merit-pay system that is backed by unions, Democratic Party
- Striking Denver teachers speak out
- National 24-hour strike goes forward in Belgium
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Following Democrats' capitulation on border wall
Trump pushes for more anti-immigrant concessions from the Democrats - Five killed, 22 feared trapped in South African mine explosion
- Germany: Social Democrats modernise austerity
- UK defence minister demands greater military “reach and lethality” post-Brexit
- British government’s “Project After” plan for post-Brexit economic crisis
- British troops given free hand to shoot civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Week-long military exercises in Los Angeles raise serious questions
- New Zealand doctors, midwives strike
12 February 2019 (front page)
13 February 2019 (front page)
12 February 2019 (front page)
13 February 2019 (front page)
- Trump to hold second summit with North Korean leader
- Sri Lankan plantation companies rule out further wage increases after union sellout
- Worsening slump and inequality fuel social tensions in Australia
- Australia: Expert warns of poor construction after Opal Tower evacuation and Melbourne cladding fire
- Daniel Freeman, a founding member of the Workers League, dies at the age of 84
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At St. Ann’s Warehouse Theater in Brooklyn
The Jungle: A makeshift society within the global refugee crisis
14 February 2019 (front page)
- Tens of thousands strike in Berlin against poor working conditions
- One-day national strike paralyzes Belgium
- Uncertainty hangs over US border deal as shutdown deadline nears
- Mexican President López Obrador cracks down on Central American migrants
- Union federation stages national strike in South Africa
- Union rushing to end Denver teachers strike
- Heavy snow storm exposes depth of social crisis in US Pacific Northwest
- Australian students endorse rallies to free Julian Assange
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Flight attendant paralyzed after Delta ordered flight through tropical storm
The workers’ compensation nightmare at Delta Airlines: Part three - Washington escalates military threats as Venezuela regime change falters
- Italy: Mass demonstration in Rome against right-wing government
- “Turning Point UK:” A far-right offensive on British campuses
- New study reveals more details on deadly flammable cladding used on Grenfell Tower
- Mass protests shut down Haiti
- Sri Lanka: SEP and Abbotsleigh workers’ committee organise picket to oppose witch hunt in plantations
- Australian government loses vote on refugee medical evacuation legislation
- New Zealand government expands police training in schools
- The show trial of the Catalan nationalists and the far-right danger in Spain
- Autoworkers must prepare fight as UAW plans new givebacks in 2019 contracts
- One year since the Parkland high school massacre: A political balance sheet
- The 2019 Grammy Awards: The music industry’s love affair with itself
15 February 2019 (front page)
- War summit in Warsaw
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As Congress enacts huge “border security” bill
Trump to declare national emergency to build wall - Munich Security Conference overshadowed by rising great power conflicts
- Wealth concentration increases in US and globally
- Union shuts down Denver teachers strike
- Wright State University reaches tentative agreement with faculty enshrining health and pay cuts
- SEP (Australia) national secretary James Cogan to speak tomorrow on Unity4J online vigil
- OSHA fines XPO $10,347 for the deaths of two workers
- GM and union use shutdown threat to slash wages of Brazilian autoworkers
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The Last Survivors: A testament to the Holocaust
A documentary film by Arthur Cary, first shown on BBC Two - Sri Lankan president denounces opponents of the death penalty
- New Zealand housing crisis intensifies under Labour government
- ISO and DSA bar Socialist Equality Party panel on the fight against fascism from upcoming Historical Materialism conference
- Opportunity rover completes 15 years of Martian exploration
- Sydney meeting opposes persecution of Julian Assange
- Human rights advocate Professor Stuart Rees supports rallies for the freedom of Julian Assange
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69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 1
Between identity politics and opposition against the far right - Climate change and the fight for socialism
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UK rail strike at South Western Railway, Sibanye gold and platinum miners’ strike continues
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
16 February 2019 (front page)
- Indian government seizes on Kashmir attack to ratchet up tensions with Pakistan
- Spanish government falls amid Catalan crisis
- Germany: Public transport strike paralyzes Berlin
- Nationwide public sector strike hits Portugal
- Union thugs assault striking Matamoros workers
- Former FBI deputy director confirms FBI, Justice officials discussed removing Trump
- No agreement on US-China trade with talks to continue
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Munich Security Conference
German defence minister advocates German-European war policy - Laid-off worker opens fire and kills at least five in Aurora, Illinois manufacturing plant
- No More Deaths volunteers prosecuted for providing humanitarian aid to migrants
- Brexit divisions lead to intensified discussions on Conservative and Labour Party splits
- Australian university sacks academic critical of Israeli and US wars
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Trump’s state of emergency
A step towards presidential dictatorship - A reply to Britain’s Community Security Trust
- SEP national secretary James Cogan participates in Unity4J discussion on the defence of Julian Assange
- Award-winning journalist Chris Hedges endorses Free Assange demonstrations in Australia
- The State, Business and Education: How rapacious corporations are dismantling public education globally
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Bangladesh steel workers demand wage rise; Australian coal haulage workers continue strike action; New Zealand bus drivers hold wildcat strikes
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - 999 Amazon pulls out of NYC
- 999 Feb 9 video
18 February 2019 (front page)
- Two hundred thousand protest in Barcelona against show trial of Catalan separatists
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Following national emergency declaration
White House pushes for rapid border wall construction - Signs of rising levels of workers’ struggles in China
- After months of courtship, Amazon calls off New York HQ2 deal
- Oakland, California teachers set to strike this week
- Anger grows among Denver teachers, as union gloats about closed-door negotiations
- Connections exposed between far-right group and police in Portland, Oregon
- ICE raids terrorize immigrants across the US Southwest
- UK school pupils and students protest climate change
- Veteran Trotskyist Barbara Slaughter addresses Leeds climate change demo
- New attacks on pensions imposed by UK Tory government
- Nigeria election commission abruptly postpones presidential poll
- Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa government clamps down on popular opposition
- Trump adviser John Bolton to conduct pre-election visit to Australia
- Imperialist conflicts dominate Munich Security Conference
- New York Times places songwriter Ryan Adams in the crosshairs of its #MeToo witch hunt
- Karl Marx’s grave desecrated by fascists
- Prazdnik (Holiday): Film about social inequality in Russia attracts mass audience
- John Pilger calls for participation in demonstrations to demand the freedom of Julian Assange
- This week in history: February 18-24
19 February 2019 (front page)
- Trump declares global war on socialism
- The desecration of Marx’s grave: A warning
- Trump threatens Alec Baldwin, calls for “retribution” against NBC
- Eleven-year-old Florida student arrested after refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance
- NFL settles Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid’s collusion grievance
- GM worker in Mexico speaks in support of fight against plant closures in the US and Canada
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A year since statewide strike
West Virginia teachers walk out to oppose charter schools - Indian government intensifies retaliatory threats against Pakistan
- Sri Lankan tea plantation workers protest victimisations
- French media slanders “yellow vests” and Muslims as anti-Semites
- Seven Blairite MPs resign from UK Labour Party
- German government to tighten up deportations
- Russia: University building collapses in St. Petersburg
- "Precision Scheduled Railroading” brings layoffs and cuts to US railroads
- Father and four young daughters perish in Watertown, New York, house fire
- Chinese community in Australia voices concern over xenophobic “foreign interference” campaign
- Updated: Letters oppose barring of SEP panel on the fight against fascism from Historical Materialism conference
- Support for Assange and SEP Australia demonstrations evokes strong international response
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Build rank-and-file strike committees! Prepare to expand the strike!
A fighting program for Oakland teachers - The International Socialist Organization covers up for the unions, AMLO in Matamoros, Mexico maquiladora strike
- CIA out of Northern Virginia Community College!
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Colombian teachers in 24-hour national strike over attacks on public education
Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 February 2019 (front page)
- West Virginia educators remain defiant in second day of statewide strike
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“They’ll tell you one thing and turn around and do another”
West Virginia teachers denounce attack on public education - Chicago Teachers Union shuts down strike at CICS charter schools
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“My story belongs to every single human being who has sacrificed and risked their life in search of a better life”
Mexican migrant details harrowing journey across the Sonoran desert following deportation - Forty-five-year-old migrant dies in US Border Patrol custody
- US anti-Huawei campaign suffers a blow
- Honda announces 3,500 job losses at Swindon, England
- Irish nurses’ union seeks to impose settlement after calling off strike
- Alleging “Russian influence,” Facebook bans left-wing pages
- 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund makes deep cuts to benefits
- Alleged hacking of Australian parliament feeds anti-China frenzy
- Striking midwives rally outside New Zealand parliament
- Bernie Sanders announces 2020 presidential campaign
- US media passes over in silence Trump’s fascistic diatribe in Miami
- Australian youth defend WikiLeaks and support demonstrations to free Julian Assange
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The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India
Modern Indian art at the Asia Society Museum in New York
21 February 2019 (front page)
- Oakland, California teachers walk out as unions sabotage West Virginia strike
- Thousands of teachers attacked by riot police in Morocco
- US missile treaty withdrawal sparks global nuclear arms race
- French ruling elite attacks “yellow vests” while claiming to fight anti-Semitism
- Anti-Semitic and far-right violence on the rise in Germany
- Sixteen Democratic-led states file lawsuit against Trump’s national emergency
- Feds arrest fascist Coast Guard officer who plotted to kill socialists and Democrats
- Trump receives “national security” report on auto imports
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“There’s been a blackout from the union”
Teamsters locals use anti-democratic loopholes and deceit to impose sellout agreements - Florida state senator calls for National Guard to be deployed on the streets of Jacksonville in response to recent spate of violence
- Flooding of mines in Zimbabwe leaves 24 dead, dozens more missing
- German Left Party backs European Union
- NSW universities increasingly integrated into Australian military build-up
- Frontline Socialist Party prepares political trap for Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Callous government policies lead to freezing death of homeless man in Edmonton, Alberta
- Trump regime targets “loser teachers” in red-baiting tirade
22 February 2019 (front page)
- Another devastating fire kills at least 80 in Bangladesh capital
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Egypt hangs nine prisoners
State murder backed by imperialism - Support Oakland teachers! For a general strike to defend education!
- Powerful support for Oakland teachers’ strike
- House Education and Labor Committee: US schools are in shambles
- Authorities confirm Assange’s Australian passport was renewed last October
- Macron threatens to criminalize opposition to Zionism in France
- New revelations of right-wing terrorist network in German army
- UK parliament committee demands sweeping social media censorship
- State and corporate attacks escalate against workers in Matamoros, Mexico
- Marathon workers in Galveston Bay, Texas reject USW-company sellout contract
- Mercenaries flown back to US after their arrest in Haitian capital
- China retaliates over New Zealand government’s Huawei ban
- Australia: Royal commission finds that Murray-Darling Basin Authority acted unlawfully
- The Jussie Smollett controversy: Must all accusations be believed?
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69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 2
Midnight Traveler—“Sometimes life takes you through hell” - MIT refuses to cut ties to Saudi regime
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How the ruling elite sought to suppress revolution
Renewal: Life after the First World War in Photographs -
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
South African gold miners’ strike at Sibanye in third month, Kenyan striking nurses defy back to work order
23 February 2019 (front page)
- The working class and the fight to free Julian Assange
- Oakland, California teachers press for expansion of strike as union seeks to contain struggle
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“Everybody needs to go on strike”
Charleston, West Virginia residents support teachers fighting to defend public education -
Vote “No” on sell-out contract!
As voting takes place, Denver teachers angry over tentative agreement -
On eve of US-orchestrated border confrontation
Washington’s “aid” provocation reportedly claims first victims in Venezuela - Further blows to US anti-Huawei campaign
- North Carolina election board orders new vote
- New York University students angry over police “cleanup” of homeless on campus
- 050 Illinois/NJ minimum wage
- Students speak out against closure of Oregon College of Art and Craft
- Canada’s Liberal government rocked by high-profile resignations
- Labour right and Tories unite in new parliamentary group
- More lawyers could be police informants in Australia
- Elizabeth Vos, editor-in-chief of Disobedient Media, urges support for Free Assange demonstrations in Australia
- For a unified struggle of Oakland students and teachers to defend public education!
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Indian telecommunication workers strike; Bangladesh teachers and education workers protest pay cuts; New Zealand anaesthetic technicians strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 February 2019 (front page)
- US imperialism stages provocation on Venezuela’s borders
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After arrest of fascist Coast Guard officer
Report documents rise of ultra-right hate groups since Trump’s election - Growing calls for nation-wide struggle as unions work to shut down Oakland teachers strike
- Sao Paulo teachers, public workers strike against attack on pensions in Brazil
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Amid US provocation at Venezuelan border
Brazilian media promotes generals against Bolsonaro - Trump announces delay in China tariff deadline
- German aviation security workers reject union contract
- GM to keep Detroit-Hamtramck plant open until January 2020
- Chicago municipal primary elections to take place Tuesday
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“Everyone in the mine is very mad and concerned”
Miner warns of safety danger at United States’ largest underground coal mine - Illinois and New Jersey governors sign $15 minimum wage into law
- Australia: Victorian Labor government’s bogus healthcare promises
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A reply to a commenter
Jussie Smollett, #MeToo and the presumption of innocence - SEP national secretary James Cogan calls for maximum participation in rallies to free Julian Assange
- Attend March 10 Solidarity Vigil in London for Julian Assange
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Shoplifters: The family you choose, and the ones you don’t
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film - IYSSE meeting opposes eugenics promotion at Cambridge University
- This week in history: February 25-March 3
- Resolution: Oppose the promotion of eugenics and pseudo-science at Cambridge University!
- Why is there no strike pay for Oakland teachers?
26 February 2019 (front page)
- Pence threatens war in Venezuela at Colombia summit: “There is no turning back”
- The global struggle of teachers
- Unions, Democrats rush to end strike as Oakland teachers resist attack on public education
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“We need a national strike!”
Oakland teachers and students speak on third day of strike - In wake of January teachers strike, further attacks on public schools planned in Los Angeles
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Despite talk of “progress” in trade negotiations
Deep divisions remain between US and China - Reports disclose super-exploitation of Chinese technology workers
- French-Italian proxy war in Libya
- Poverty in the UK: 100 “baby banks” spring up to assist parents with basic supplies
- Dozens killed in Nigeria amid election chaos
- Trump administration bars US-born woman from re-entering the country
25 February 2019 (front page)
26 February 2019 (front page)
- Immigrants endure inhuman conditions at ICE prison in New Jersey
- Australian port workers threaten strikes against DP World’s cuts to wages and conditions
- Sanders throws his support behind US propaganda campaign over Venezuela
- Behind the racist backlash against Green Book
- Terry Hicks, father of former Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks, speaks on the defence of Julian Assange
26 February 2018 (front page)
26 February 2019 (front page)
- Union rejects strike action as locomotive maker Wabtec imposes two-tier contract
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Argentina: Patagonian teachers vote to strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas - Australian teachers pass workplace motion endorsing Free Assange rallies
27 February 2019 (front page)
- India bombs Pakistan, Islamabad vows military retaliation
- Socialism and the case for expropriation
- Three children dead, four others injured in Imlay City, Michigan mobile home fire
- Oakland teachers form rank-and-file strike committee as union keeps educators in the dark
26 February 2018 (front page)
27 February 2019 (front page)
- Fremont, California teachers stage sick-out
- Ford production crippled by Mexican workers’ strike
- UK Labour leader Corbyn endorses Blairite call for second Brexit referendum
- New Cuban constitution recognizes private property
- US House rejects Trump’s national emergency
- Fiat Chrysler announces elimination of shift at Illinois plant, axing nearly 1,400 jobs
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Flint water crisis claims its youngest Legionnaires’ victim to date
“Her failing health was due to the government failing her” - Rise in drug abuse among women and heterosexual men diagnosed with syphilis
- Sri Lankan plantation companies reap huge profits while attacking workers’ wages and conditions
- Australian media union complicit in the persecution of Julian Assange
- Oppose the attacks by company thugs against Mexican worker Luis Daniel Prieto!
- Police announce “investigation closed” into desecration of Marx’s grave
28 February 2019 (front page)
- Nuclear-armed India, Pakistan on brink of all-out war
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Trump’s ex-lawyer testifies before Congress
Michael Cohen hearing: A criminal administration, a reactionary opposition - Cohen assertions are not evidence of WikiLeaks “collusion” with Trump or Russia
- Oakland teachers continue strike as Kentucky teachers launch statewide sickout
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“We always have money for wars but not for public education”
Oakland teachers and students speak as strike reaches critical juncture - Mexico: Metalworkers, universities join strike wave as 90,000 Walmart workers threaten to walk out
- Locomotive builders strike Wabtec in Erie, Pennsylvania
- France’s ruling parties launch anti-Muslim campaign against sports veil
- UK home secretary revokes Shamima Begum’s citizenship, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment
- Measles outbreak in Ukraine claims eight lives
- Heavy rains and avalanches kill dozens in Peru
- Zimbabwe-South Africa summit: The Butcher of Marikana meets the Crocodile
- US naval chief denounces China and calls for stronger military partnership with Sri Lanka
- Reports document sexual abuse of immigrant children detained in US
- Australian filmmaker Curtis Levy demands freedom for Julian Assange
- Australian workers and youth support March 3 and March 10 rallies demanding freedom for Assange
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69th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3
Israeli films, Mr. Jones and Marighella
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