Archive: May 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 May 2019 (front page)
- Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for bail violation in vindictive political ruling
- Guaidó launches abortive military coup in Venezuela
- May Day 2019: The resurgence of the class struggle and the fight for socialism
- Protester at Assange jail sentencing: “That was a declaration of an outlaw state”
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In violation of international law
Trump orders new attacks on rights of refugees, asylum seekers - Mass protests intensify against Algerian regime
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“He should never have been found fit to work in a million years!”
UK advice worker Terry Craven speaks on the terrible death of Stephen Smith - US threatens UK over Huawei involvement in 5G network
- Tea plantation workers need a global strategy
- General Motors reports $2.1 billion first-quarter profits as job cuts take their toll
- New York pre-K teachers demand pay parity, as union seeks to sabotage strike
- The teachers’ revolt and the fight for social equality
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“The Teamsters is a company-controlled union”
UPS national contract imposed after supplemental fights - San Diego mayor pushes for crackdown on vehicular homelessness
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As class struggle sharpens,
Indian Stalinists stump for right-wing bourgeois government - Chauvinist “We Tamil” party seeks to divide working class in Indian elections
- Liberal and Labor compete in stoking anti-refugee scare-mongering
- Michigan State University performs stirring rendition of Babi Yar, Dmitri Shostakovich’s anti-fascist symphony
2 May 2019 (front page)
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“We would benefit greatly if budgets were spent on minds instead of mines”
30,000 march for public education in North and South Carolina - US escalates threat of military intervention in Venezuela
- US attorney general refuses to testify before House Judiciary Committee
- May Day 2019 in Germany: Trade unions call for support for the European Union
- Up to 400,000 jobs threatened as US sanctions deepen crisis of Russian auto industry
- Newly elected Ukrainian President Zelensky backs anti-Russia campaign
- Honduras cracks down on teachers, doctors and students protesting privatization drive
- Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering Justine Damond
- Trump’s labor department moves to designate gig economy workers as “independent contractors”
- De Blasio’s solution to New York’s public housing crisis: Tear it down
- The sentencing of Julian Assange: A legal travesty
- Sri Lankan SEP denounces political parties’ support for President Sirisena’s police state measures
- Victorian Socialists’ fake-left election campaign
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Join the fight for international socialism!
To halt climate change, capitalism must be abolished -
Some films from the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 2
Kabul, City in the Wind, Midnight Traveler and What We Left Unfinished: The catastrophe of US intervention in Afghanistan - May Day: Police rampage in Paris as hundreds of thousands march in France
3 May 2019 (front page)
- Protesters oppose US extradition proceedings against Julian Assange
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“Today’s protest is a symbol of the fight for freedom”
French Yellow Vests join Assange extradition protest in London - Call to free Julian Assange raised in Taiwan on Labor Day
- German government backs attempted right-wing coup in Venezuela
- After Spanish elections, Podemos pushes for pro-austerity PSOE government
- Guatemalan boy detained by US Border Patrol dies after succumbing to illness
- Another school shooting claims two lives at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- The manufactured case of Long Beach “terrorist” Marc Steven Domingo
- UK rail union calls off strikes against driver-only-operated trains
- Austrian government ties welfare payments to German language skills
- Brazilian unions defend reactionary pension “reform” at May Day rally
- Media lies in service of war for regime change in Venezuela
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds successful May Day meeting in Colombo, despite government efforts to bar celebrations
- SEP (Sri Lanka) May Day meeting demands freedom for Assange and Manning
- The Labor Party tries to “save capitalism”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
4 May 2019 (front page)
- Washington political warfare intensifies with lawsuits, looming contempt charges
- Bernie Sanders attacks Biden from the right on China trade
- Neo-Nazi networks exposed across US military
- Polls show growing sentiment for teachers strike in Mississippi
- San Diego Sweetwater Teachers Union begins bargaining as false financial situation reported by district
- Macron government fabrication of “yellow vest” hospital attack in Paris collapses
- UK: Defence minister’s sacking escalates Tory crisis amid rising UK/US tensions
- Fuel tanker drivers threaten new strike in Portugal
- US-China trade talks enter final phase
- Japan’s emperor abdicates throne
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The imperialist “lie in the soul”
Politicians celebrate “World Press Freedom Day” as Julian Assange languishes in prison - Berlin: Meeting held at Humboldt University to defend Julian Assange
- French Yellow vest protesters travel to London to defend Julian Assange
- One hundred years since the May 4 movement in China
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Documentary about the brutal 2014 disappearance of teachers’ college students
The 43: A state massacre and cover-up in Mexico -
Workers march and protest across Asia on May Day
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
6 May 2019 (front page)
- Israel pounds Gaza, stoking fears of invasion
- The nationalist “socialism” of Bernie Sanders
- Assange’s father tells demonstrators Australian government must secure son’s release
4 May 2019 (front page)
6 May 2019 (front page)
- Teachers at three Chicago charter schools strike as union blocks common fight with public school educators
- Sickout by teachers and school support staff in Nashville, Tennessee
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On eve of trade talks in Washington
Trump threatens new tariffs against China -
As contract deadline approaches
Faurecia auto parts workers in Michigan speak out on sweatshop conditions - Horrific plant explosion kills at least three workers in northern Chicago suburb
- Initial Grenfell fire inquiry report to make “withering criticism” of London Fire Brigade
- Australian youth speak out against climate change
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Opening report to Online International May Day Rally
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism - The German ruling class fears the spectre of socialism
- One hundred years since the May 4 movement in China—Part Two
- Red Joan: A British spy story skirts some issues
- This week in history: May 6-12
7 May 2019 (front page)
- White House to push ahead on new tariff threats against China
- US threatens Iran with war
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Betraying my principles is “a much worse prison than the government can construct”
After nearly two months in jail, Chelsea Manning submits powerful appeal for release -
Democrats line up behind Trump’s war on immigrants
NY Times demands: “Give Trump his border money” - In wake of Venezuela coup fiasco, US military threats mount
- Conflicts flare between Trump and House Democrats
- UK: Renewed Brexit talks deepen splits in both Conservatives and Labour
- Germany: FDP Congress tacks to the right
- Video: At Sydney rally Assange’s father demands Australian government secure son’s release
- Thousands of jobs threatened at Bombardier plants in Belfast and Casablanca
- UK: Renewed Brexit talks deepen splits in both Conservatives and Labour
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“The UAW sold us down the river”
Fiat Chrysler uses robocall to announce more layoffs at Belvidere, Illinois, plant - Britain: National Union of Journalists World Press Freedom Day event ignores Julian Assange
- After Matamoros strikes, Mexican government enacts bill for “democratic unions”
- In wake of Venezuela coup fiasco, US military threats mount
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Workers at Airbus’ Montreal facility repudiate union-backed, concessionary contract
Workers Struggles: The Americas - New Orleans Times-Picayune lays off its entire staff
- Labor leader makes phony populist pitch at Australian election launch
- The persecution of Assange and Manning is an attack on the working class
- Greetings to Chinese workers and youth on the centenary of the May 4 movement
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SEP election meetings in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, Brisbane
Vote Socialist Equality Party! No to War and Austerity! For Socialism and Internationalism!
8 May 2019 (front page)
- Two thousand nurses and support staff strike at Toledo, Ohio hospital
- Trump floats proposal to cancel 2020 elections
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“We need to save his life. That’s how serious it is”
Pamela Anderson and WikiLeaks editor-in-chief visit Julian Assange in prison - South African elections held amid rising social discontent and alienation from ANC
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“We want him to come to graduation!”
Arizona students demand release of classmate detained by immigration agents - Uber drivers to participate in global strike
- Teachers walking out statewide today in Oregon
- Boeing continues to whitewash 737 crashes
- Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly joins board of migrant detention firm
- Georgia governor signs “heartbeat” anti-abortion legislation
- One dead, seven injured in Denver, Colorado suburb school shooting
- Workers and youth defend Assange and democratic rights at SEP (Australia) meetings
- Canada’s Liberal government abets US-sponsored coup attempt in Venezuela
- The extreme right in the European elections
- UK government seeks to deny legal aid to Shamima Begum
- Panama election a distorted expression of growing opposition to austerity
- Anti-Muslim witch-hunt after terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka
- Australian fascist group tried to recruit Christchurch terrorist
- India’s election and the revolutionary program to oppose austerity, war and communal reaction
- The Christchurch terror attack and the promotion of fascism by the ruling elite
- A socialist perspective against the return of fascism in Europe
- Clergy: An uncompromising film about the hypocrisy and corruption of the Catholic Church in Poland
- Former Australian PM denounces anti-China witch-hunt of intelligence agencies
- SEP candidates address election meetings in Australia to defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
9 May 2019 (front page)
- House committee votes contempt charge against Trump’s attorney general William Barr
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“We need to fight capitalism and change the whole system”
Uber and Lyft drivers conduct international strike -
“I am ready to stay out and not going back in until we get everything we need”
More than 20,000 participate in Oregon walkouts for public education - Pompeo lays down the law during UK visit
- China to hit back if new US tariff threat goes ahead
- Trump issues full pardon to former lieutenant who executed prisoner in Iraq
- Insys Therapeutics executives, makers of oral fentanyl spray, convicted of racketeering
- Video: Workers at SEP rally in Parramatta denounce persecution of Julian Assange
- French pseudo-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for alliance with Socialist Party
- Local authority funding cuts worsen poverty and social inequality in Scotland
- Ontario government slashes post-secondary education funding and student aid
- Papua New Guinea government faces no-confidence vote
- The social crisis and the global eruption of US imperialism
- The New York Times and its Uyghur “activist”
- France’s “yellow vest” protests and the global resurgence of the class struggle
- The defence of Assange and Manning is the spearhead of the struggle against imperialism
- Financial parasitism and the stock market surge
- Removal of white educator from African American history class in Michigan sparks widespread outrage
- ICFI supporters in India to hold picket to free Assange
- Greens offer bogus climate pledges while pleading for another partnership with Labor
10 May 2019 (front page)
- Trump rally roars approval for call to “shoot” immigrants
- US seizes North Korean ship
- US tariff hike against China goes ahead
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“They depend on us for their wealth and power”
Uber and Lyft drivers in Chicago, New York and California speak out against exploitation of gig economy workers - GM workers denounce deals to “save” token jobs in Lordstown and Oshawa
- Venezuela tensions mount after arrest of coup leader
- Netanyahu agrees a ceasefire with Hamas—for now
- Corporate murder: Trial opens of France Télécom executives over worker suicides
- Germany’s far-right AfD exploits famous artwork to promote Islamophobia
- “Unequal Germany”—new study examines regional differences
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Acceding to Erdoğan’s demand
Turkish election authorities order re-vote in Istanbul - Cell phone video from Sandra Bland’s 2015 traffic stop made public
- Changing poverty formula, Trump administration to make millions ineligible for social programs
- Fiji authorities suppress May Day protests, arrest locked-out workers
- Chelsea Manning released, faces new imprisonment for refusing to testify against Assange
- Imperialist war, the working-class upsurge in the Mideast and North Africa, and the strategy of Permanent Revolution
- The defense of Venezuela and the struggle for socialism in Latin America
- The Australian election and the fraud of the NDIS
- Wild Nights with Emily: American poet Emily Dickinson undone by gender politics
- IYSSE in US holds successful meetings on postmodernism and identity politics
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South African municipal strikers defy unions; strike continues by South African workers at Cell C phones
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 May 2019 (front page)
- With B-52s, carrier battle group in place, US war against Iran on a hair trigger
- Iran conflict intensifies transatlantic tensions
- No agreement at US-China trade talks as positions harden
- As protests grow, Algerian army arrests Workers Party leader
- US indicts whistleblower who exposed Obama’s drone assassination program
- French public sector workers strike against Macron government attacks
- Washington uses terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka to strengthen ties with Colombo
- Spain: No “red lines” in talks for a Socialist Party-Podemos coalition government
- Two former Australian prime ministers tout Labor’s pro-business record
- New York City public housing fire kills six
- Low-paid South Carolina teachers recruited for factory work
- The Uber IPO: Billions for investors, increased exploitation for workers
- The ICFI’s program intersects with a new wave of working-class struggle
- German Young Socialist leader unleashes storm of debate about socialism
- Eugenics advocate Noah Carl dismissed from Cambridge University fellowship
- Free Assange NZ denounces hypocrisy at World Press Freedom Day event
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Thousands of powerloom workers strike in Tamil Nadu; Migrant workers strike and protest in Taiwan; New Zealand teachers voting on national walkout
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
13 May 2019 (front page)
- Strikes by US workers outpacing rate in 2018
- The working class and the threat of dictatorship in the US
- Toledo, Ohio workers complete first week of strike vs. Mercy Health St. Vincent
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South African elections
Ramaphosa elected to full term as president amid record low ANC vote -
“This administration clearly wants to go after journalists”
Chelsea Manning restates her refusal to testify against Julian Assange as new grand jury subpoena looms - “Act now” on trade or it will get worse, Trump threatens China
- Lebanon: Workers take to the streets to denounce government austerity measures
- Trump administration to evict 55,000 children of immigrants from public housing
- Faculty at Chicago’s DePaul University condemn professor’s anti-democratic, militarist comments on Middle East
- Illinois passes bill criminalizing infrastructure-related protests
- New Zealand Labour government rules out capital gains tax
- Australian Labor Party’s fraudulent cancer care pledge
- London public meeting demands the freedom of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Australia: GetUp’s silence over the persecution of Julian Assange
- The future lies in socialism
- The class struggle in the United States and the fight against war
- San Francisco Board of Education to decide on the fate of historic murals said to be “offensive”
- This week in history: May 13–19
14 May 2019 (front page)
- Washington pushes to brink of war against Iran
- Students in Berlin support this Saturday’s rally to defend Julian Assange
- Trump welcomes Hungarian far-right prime minister Orbán to the White House
- Republicans launch “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against Representative Rashida Tlaib
- Trump says he reported $1.17 billion in losses over 10 years to evade paying taxes
- Former Boeing engineers say safety compromised by cost-cutting drive
- More than one million Americans lost health insurance in 2018
- Questcor Pharmaceuticals and Mallinckrodt: Financial parasitism and the US pharmaceutical industry
- IG Metall and Thyssenkrupp collaborate in handing over company to finance sharks
- Sri Lankan government imposes island-wide curfew amid anti-Muslim violence
- A new stage in the US-China trade war
- “The Socialist Equality Party views the defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning as the spearhead of an emerging global struggle against imperialism.”
- Australia: Rally to defend Julian Assange held in Broadmeadows, Melbourne
- Sweden reopens “preliminary investigation” and seeks extradition of Julian Assange
- A million species threatened with extinction, UN-backed report warns
- Five years since the poisoning of Flint’s water supply: Part one
- German president calls for clampdown on freedom of speech, internet censorship at Berlin conference
- Factory fire symptomatic of social devastation in Calwell electorate
- A socialist program needed to halt assault on university students and staff
- The teachers’ revolt and the fight for social equality
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
Brazilian university workers, students to strike over cuts; series of strikes hit Argentina
15 May 2019 (front page)
- Trump planning nationwide military round-up of 10,000 immigrants
- No to war against Iran!
- Strong support for Toledo hospital workers as UAW isolates strike
- After shouting “I’m pregnant,” woman fatally shot by Texas police officer
- Duterte consolidates hold on Philippine politics in midterm election
- UK Tory government maintains benefit sanctions as misery and deaths continue
- Germany: Siemens hives off energy and power plant division
- Sri Lankan austerity measures to deepen after terrorist attack
- Australia’s central bank slashes growth forecasts
- “The IYSSE will redouble its efforts to build a mass movement of young people in Assange’s defence”
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“He’s not just a journalist, he’s one of the most significant journalists of all time”
Attendees at London meeting to free Assange and Manning speak out - Hunter “Meet the Candidates” Forum exposes major parties
- Five years since the poisoning of Flint’s water supply: Part two
- How Québec Solidaire abetted the rise of anti-Muslim chauvinism
- Doris Day, prominent postwar American actress and singer, dies at 97
16 May 2019 (front page)
- Washington orders US personnel out of Iraq amid war buildup against Iran
- Pentagon threatens Europe over EU army plans
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In another escalation of trade war against China
Trump issues executive order directed at Huawei - Protesters occupying Venezuela embassy in Washington DC speak out
- ICE conducts armed raid on student pastor’s home in Chicago, abducts three
- Detroit teachers demand action on pay, class sizes and testing
- Indian elections: Congress combines populist rhetoric with jingoism and communalism
- France hosts “Christchurch call” summit to intensify internet censorship
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Censorship in the guise of opposition to monopoly control
Co-founder Chris Hughes calls for government break-up of Facebook - Torture report reveals German authorities’ brutal methods during deportations
- Right-wing outcry over student protest against anti-Muslim “headscarf conference” at German university
- Sudanese military kills protesters demanding return to full civilian rule
- New Zealand government’s promises to combat child poverty exposed
- Alabama abortion ban: Back to barbarism
- Audience members at London meeting discuss way forward in fight for Assange and Manning’s freedom
- ICFI supporters hold rally in India to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
- Australia’s housing crisis to worsen whichever party wins election
- Labor and the unions responsible for social crisis in western Sydney
17 May 2019 (front page)
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“I would rather starve to death than change my opinion”
Chelsea Manning jailed again after refusing to testify against WikiLeaks - More migrant deaths as Trump unveils class-based immigration quota
- Saudi bombs kill Yemeni civilians, raising war tensions in Persian Gulf
- US security forces storm Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C.
- Muslim victims of violence in Sri Lanka speak to the WSWS
- University of California unions wear down workers with fifth one-day strike
- With contract deadline approaching, Michigan auto parts workers vote by 97 percent to strike global parts maker
- Students for Justice in Palestine at New York University smeared as anti-Semitic
- Rising US health insurance costs take toll on workers
- Canada’s government uses bogus “foreign interference” claims to expand censorship ahead of federal election
- Spain’s ruling elite mourns former Socialist Party leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
- Labor’s promise on childcare wages—another cynical deception
- The US war drive against Iran and the conflict with Europe
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The Eyes of Orson Welles: A markedly political approach to the American filmmaker …
… and John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (about John Lennon’s 1971 album Imagine ) - Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party! Take up the fight for socialist internationalism!
- Mass unemployment, climate change and a toxic dump in Oxley
- Strong response to SEP’s socialist program at final election meetings
- Workers and youth discuss Julian Assange, social conditions and war at SEP election meetings
- Socialist Equality Party in Germany to hold central meeting of European election campaign in Berlin
- George Galloway tried to become Brexit Party candidate—and failed
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Speech by Oscar Grenfell
Millions in Australia “view Assange as a hero who is being attacked for revealing the truth.” -
Clara Campos of the Julian Assange Defence Committee:
“We must act now in mobilising to free him. He is one of us.” -
Defeat the government’s police-military dictatorial plans
SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo on Sri Lankan emergency declaration -
Workers in France march against government labour laws; Sudan hit by strikes; unions betray South African Cell C strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
18 May 2019 (front page)
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Dominated by communalist appeals and threats
India’s multi-phase election concludes - The assault on the Venezuelan embassy
- Amid declining real wages, strikes in US escalate
- Video: Mass layoffs hit Illinois Fiat Chrysler plant
- One million take to the streets against education cuts, austerity in Brazil
- Conservative Party implodes over Brexit crisis as May agrees to stand down next month
- Russia: 98 arrested in opposition-led protests in Yekaterinburg
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Bavarian State Regiment
German government prepares troops for domestic missions - New Zealand PM leads global Internet censorship campaign
- Democrats back trade war with China
- New Jersey education budget reallocation threatens hundreds of jobs
- As New York City transit contract expires, governor launches vindictive attack on workers
- Massive flooding in New Orleans as five pumps go offline
- Only socialist policies can resolve the Australian public education crisis
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Bob Hawke, former Australian Labor prime minister, 1929-2019
Ruling elites pay tribute to a favourite servant -
Columnist urges more female involvement in “building, deployment, targeting and use of nuclear weapons”
New York Times promotes a woman’s right to annihilate millions -
Speech by Niles Niemuth to London meeting
“What is it that Manning and Assange are being persecuted for? Revealing the truth” -
London meeting to free Assange and Manning
Attendees from Scotland speak out: “Workers have to make their voices heard” -
Hundreds of Indian workers strike over unpaid wages; Bangladesh jute mill workers continue protests; Auckland rail workers locked out in New Zealand
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
20 May 2019 (front page)
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Kicking off his presidential campaign
Biden makes right-wing plea for “unity” with Republicans - The Australian Labor Party’s election debacle and the fight against the far-right
- Trump manoeuvres in economic war against China
- Missouri becomes the latest state to pass punitive anti-abortion legislation
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As UAW starts closed-door talks with management
Toledo hospital strikers call for broader mobilization - Teachers rally in Nashville, Tennessee to demand pay raises
- Death of a Los Angeles dockworker
- Ethiopian Airlines tells Boeing, FAA to stop blaming dead pilots for 737 crashes
- Supreme Court justices battle over execution delays
- Police escort workers out of closed plant in Central Pennsylvania
- Socialist Equality Party holds rally in Berlin to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
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Speech by Ulrich Rippert to London meeting
“Defending Julian Assange requires the mobilisation of the working class in a struggle against capitalism” - SEP campaign teams in UK win support for Assange and Manning
- Avengers: Endgame: A waste of time, money and talent
- Far-right Alternative for Germany sets the tone for German Grand Coalition government
- This week in history: May 20-26
21 May 2019 (front page)
- Ford slashing 7,000 white collar jobs
- White House and Google launch technology war against China
- Persian Gulf tensions rise as Trump threatens “end” of Iran
- Protests erupt across US over barbaric anti-abortion ban in Alabama
- Trump administration shipping immigrants to sanctuary cities as fifth child dies in ICE custody
- Austrian government falls over video exposing corruption of far-right politician Christian Strache
- On the spot report: Ecuador’s government colludes with Washington to seize Julian Assange’s possessions
- Former Ecuadorian consul Fidel Narváez denounces search and confiscation of Assange’s possessions
- Brazilian youth speak out during São Paulo demonstration against Bolsonaro’s attacks on education
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Australian voters speak out
Mass support for Assange as workers and youth oppose militarism and war - Right-wing Australian government re-elected as voters turn against Labor
- US warships provocatively challenge China’s claims in South China Sea
- 27th weekly “yellow vest” rally in France: Protesters defend Assange, denounce war
- Le Pen’s neo-fascist National Rally leads European election polls in France
- Mobilize the working class in defense of abortion rights
- US media silent on re-jailing of Chelsea Manning
- A socialist perspective against fascism and war: Successful SGP election meeting in Berlin
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Three-day strike by Mexican teachers against “education reforms”
Workers Struggles: the Americas
22 May 2019 (front page)
- Washington threatens new attack on Syria amid US war buildup in Persian Gulf
- Swedish hearing to extradite Julian Assange delayed until June 3
- Collapse of British Steel threatens 25,000 jobs
- Banks and multinationals announce mass layoffs in Spain
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As more Democrats call for impeachment inquiry
Former White House counsel refuses to testify before House committee - Thousands rally across the US to defend abortion rights
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“This is a horrible feeling”
Ford workers in Michigan respond to job cuts - Teachers strike in New Haven School District, Northern California
- Over 240,000 people back Chinese tech worker protest
- Australian Labor Party in crisis after election debacle
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Indian Elections:
Stalinist CPM faces debacle in its West Bengal “bastion” - Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against nationalism
- Canada’s Conservative leader lays out right-wing economic and foreign policy agenda
- Australia: Tasmanian paramedic protests ambulance ramping
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Ford escalates jobs massacre
The global socialist strategy to fight auto layoffs - Ten years after civil war ends, Sri Lankan ruling elites prepare for class war
- Socialist Equality Group to hold public meeting in Turkey to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
- The author asks: Is America unredeemable? Rachel Kushner’s novel The Mars Room
21 May 2019 (front page)
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“The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It”
Video: Christoph Vandreier’s full lecture at Wayne State
23 May 2019 (front page)
- Washington revives Syria chemical weapons propaganda as pretext for war
- British Steel collapse threatens 25,000 jobs
- Macron’s Labor Law in France: Unions organize 3,000 layoffs at Carrefour supermarket chain
- Trump, Democrats clash over investigations
- The Indian elections and the fight to free the Maruti Suzuki class war prisoners
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After sixth death of a migrant child
Flu outbreak leads to quarantine at Texas immigrant detention center -
As secret negotiations resume between unions and school district
New Haven teachers strike enters fourth day - New Zealand media to censor coverage of Christchurch terrorist’s trial
- German government steps up military intervention in Mali
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Australian voters speak out
Workers and young people warn about the mounting social crisis - Amnesty International declares Julian Assange “not a prisoner of conscience”
- The rise of the Brexit Party and how to fight it
- The Huawei shock
24 May 2019 (front page)
- New charges against Julian Assange under the Espionage Act criminalize journalism
- Indian big business propels Modi and his Hindu supremacist BJP to a second term
- Six immigrant children dead in US custody since September
- Amid worsening trade war, Chinese president calls for new “Long March”
- Markets fall on trade war and global growth fears
- Fearmongering accompanies release of John Walker Lindh after 17 years in prison
- Incoming Ukrainian president moves to dissolves parliament
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“All schools aren’t created equal in Chicago”
Chicago teachers speak on inequality, attacks on public education at downtown rally -
“They spit on our solidarity”
Lyft cuts drivers’ rates in weeks following global rideshare strike - Tamil nationalists support anti-Muslim witch-hunt in Sri Lanka
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Australian voters speak out
Workers and youth condemn major parliamentary parties - The millennial generation in the US: Life on the brink
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An appeal to young people
Defend the right to tell the truth! Defend Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning! -
“Identity politics has created a prison of the mind…while Julian rots in one which is far more real”
Oxford University student calls for defence of Julian Assange - Austria’s “Ibiza Affair” and the rightward shift of the political establishment
- Leading Mélenchon supporter backs Le Pen’s neo-fascist National Rally
- Israeli writer Amos Oz (1939-2018): A critical appreciation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 May 2019 (front page)
- “Truth ultimately is all we have:” Julian Assange appeals for public support
- UK Prime Minister May to quit as Conservative leader June 7
- Actor Geoffrey Rush awarded record payout in defamation damages
- Police and military crack down on spontaneous taxi strike in Matamoros, Mexico
- German Social Democrats and “The Left” strengthen domestic security agency
- Nationalism, militarism dominate final European election debate in France
- Financial Times hails four years of Syriza rule in Greece
- UK climate change protests: Students speak out against treatment of Assange and Manning
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UAW continues to isolate workers
Mercy Health workers continue strike as management digs in - Chicago Teachers Union prepares to back new Democratic mayor’s austerity demands
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A further step towards war with Iran
Trump deploys 1,500 troops to Middle East, sells weapons to Gulf allies -
Management demands cuts to healthcare and pensions
United Steelworkers forcing 6,100 Alcoa and Arconic workers to work without a contract - Germany continues deportations to Afghanistan
- Grenfell fire inquiry delayed for another six months
- Socialist Equality Party wins important support in Australian federal election
- The class issues in the fight to free Julian Assange
- Knock Down the House and the Democratic Party politics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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SGP European election candidate Andreas Niklaus speaks to Berlin bus drivers
“A war must be prevented at all costs” - The bankruptcy of Lutte ouvrière’s European election campaign
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Chowel India auto-parts workers arrested; Chinese teachers protest over pay; Fast food workers strike in New Zealand
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 May 2019 (front page)
25 May 2019 (front page)
27 May 2019 (front page)
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“Many of us are a shell of who we were before”
Memorial Day 2019: US Army tweet prompts outpouring of antiwar sentiment - US federal prisoner dies after more than 35 years in solitary confinement
- “Yellow vest” protesters pay tribute at the Communards’ Wall in Paris
- Rumored deal between Fiat-Chrysler and Renault foreshadows mass layoffs
- Ford workers in Germany discuss impending job cuts with SGP candidate
- German Fridays for Future protesters discuss overthrowing capitalism
- Australian youth speak out at climate change rallies
25 May 2019 (front page)
27 May 2019 (front page)
- Stalinist CPM and CPI suffer meltdown in India’s national election
- Dressbarn to close all its stores as US “retail apocalypse” exceeds 2018 closures
- As Assange faces 170-year sentence, Trump proposes pardoning US war criminals
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Free Julian Assange! Free Chelsea Manning!
Attend UK public meetings to demand freedom of Assange and Manning! -
UK workers, youth and students demand the freedom of Assange and Manning
“It’s a political imprisonment and completely unjust, so please support, donate and spread the message” -
“It feels like your whole life is a constant crisis”
US millennials describe life on the brink - The end of Game of Thrones: Spectacle versus art
- Aftermath of terrorist attack: Sri Lankan SEP public meeting warns about threat of dictatorship
- This week in history: May 27-June 2
28 May 2019 (front page)
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“It’s been hell for the world”
US Army tweet provokes outpouring of antiwar sentiment - Fiat-Chrysler announces merger, threatens jobs bloodbath
- New Zealand teachers’ strike: Break from Labour and the unions! Unite the working class against austerity!
- New Haven, California teacher strike enters second week
- San Diego Sweetwater High School District to lay off 82 educators and staff amid investigation of budgetary fraud
- Longshore union sabotages strike by 2,000 dockworkers in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Leaked OPCW engineering report concludes alleged 2018 chemical attack in Syria was staged
- “Yellow Vest” Facebook group with 350,000 members frozen on European election day
- European election debacle for Conservatives and Labour
- Podemos collapses in European, regional and municipal elections in Spain
- Netanyahu—unable to form a government—threatens new Israeli elections
- Brazilian media, Workers Party and pseudo-lefts attempt to derail opposition to Bolsonaro
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Kalamazoo, Michigan: “I don’t like the idea of selling my blood plasma for money, but I have to do what I’ve got to do”
US blood plasma industry targets poor and working class - Chicago police kill bipolar man inside his home
- Australian Labor Party’s new leader signals further pro-business shift
- Australian government, Labor opposition silent on espionage charges against Assange
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Chilean professors call for strike, teachers in Honduras begin nationwide walkout
Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 May 2019 (front page)
- Honduran government cracks down on strike by teachers, doctors and nurses
- Despite Assange’s ill health, Swedish court rejects delay to hearing
- European elections: German voters register strong opposition to grand coalition
- Le Pen’s far-right National Rally wins European election vote in France
- Widespread damage in Dayton, Ohio area after series of tornadoes
- University of Chicago graduate student union authorizes strike action
- Police intimidation and violence used against UK fracking protestors
- UK ambulance staff quitting in record numbers
- Venezuelan refugees face desperate conditions in Colombia
- Why ISIS launched a terror attack on Sri Lanka
- Tens of thousands join climate strike in New Zealand
- Why is the Democratic Socialists of America silent on the persecution of Julian Assange?
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Director of Boyz n the Hood, Higher Learning and other films focusing on the African-American working class and poor
Film director John Singleton dead at age 51
30 May 2019 (front page)
- The hangman of the Middle East: US-backed regime in Egypt hands down nearly 2,500 death sentences
- Amid grave concerns for his health, Assange transferred to Belmarsh Prison medical wing
- Julian Assange and the degraded spectacle of Britain’s Guardian
- Letter to Guardian demands retraction of false claim that Julian Assange faces “rape charge”
- 52,000 teachers strike in New Zealand
- French government threatens “national security” charges against journalists who revealed Yemen war arms sales
- China considering “rare earths” retaliation in conflict with the US
- Tensions with China to escalate following Trump’s visit to Japan
- Austrian Chancellor Kurz toppled following vote of no confidence
- Ford layoffs provoke widespread anger
- Class action lawsuit brought in US against generic-drug makers for colluding to fix prices
- New prime minister installed in Papua New Guinea
- Mueller encourages drive to remove Trump
- The European elections and the resurgence of the class struggle
- Istanbul public meeting calls for the defence of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
- Successful book presentation of Why Are They Back? at the Heinrich Böll Library in Berlin
31 May 2019 (front page)
- Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara makes a fool of himself
- Democratic governor signs Louisiana fetal “heartbeat” abortion ban
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After the Mueller statement
Trump to impose tariff on Mexico in attack on immigrants as Democrats denounce Russia - US escalates threat of force against Iran
- The German government prepares military intervention in Syria
- Fresh Israeli elections after Netanyahu fails to form a government
- Following European elections: EU summit haggles over top jobs
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As teachers union abandons demands and calls in Democrats
New Haven, California teachers strike at a crossroads -
“All the companies should go on strike together”
Faurecia auto parts workers await contract expiration in Saline, Michigan - Russian health care workers protest over wages and staffing
- Pakistan government prepares savage austerity following IMF “bailout”
- Australia: Children detained in adult watch houses in Queensland
- On the spot report: Protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court demands freedom for gravely ill Julian Assange
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John Pilger speaks out:
“Today it’s Julian Assange, tomorrow it could be you” - WikiLeaks ambassador Joseph Farrell: “Going into prison is a big, ominous, oppressive feeling”
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“We are told that we live in a democratic society, but this proves it’s not the case”
Protesters speak out in defence of Assange - The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Terry Gilliam’s latest tribute to non-conformism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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