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Archive: September 2017

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

1 September 2017 (front page)

• Death toll expected to rise as chemical explosions add to devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey
• “I grew to call the oil industry the rape, pillage and plunder industry”
  Former Shell Oil civil engineer and Berkeley Professor Emeritus Robert Bea speaks on Hurricane Harvey
• More than 80 percent of homeowners impacted by Harvey lack flood insurance
• Government indifference leads to vast death toll in South Asian floods
• Pakistan boycotts talks with US, rejects role for India in Afghanistan
• French President Macron unveils decrees to destroy Labour Code
• Earthquake on Italian island of Ischia: Grief is mixed with anger
• Social Democratic chancellor candidate Schulz calls for well-equipped German army
• Anti-immigrant Texas bill SB4 implemented despite suspension of some key provisions
• Trump begins campaign for huge tax cut for business and the wealthy
• “The working class has to stand together against this”
  After five months on strike, Spectrum workers in New York-New Jersey must break union-imposed isolation
• Venezuela nears default after US imposes sanctions on economy
• Australian government urges universities to tear up staff conditions
• UN says 27 dying each day in US-led siege of Raqqa
• Over three thousand sign WSWS petition against Google censorship
• Channel Four News anchor Jon Snow: From mea culpas over Grenfell Tower to demands for censorship
• Leaders of the Russian Revolution: Ivar Tenisovich Smilga (1892-1937)
  Part two
• Single mother in Pittsburgh fired by Amazon for not working forced overtime

2 September 2017 (front page)

• Washington is preparing for nuclear war in Europe
• Fetid floodwaters in the “chemical coast” carry toxins and disease
  The incalculable human health consequences of Hurricane Harvey
• A Hurricane Harvey diary
  Part one
• Notes on Police Violence
  Salt Lake City nurse arrested after refusing demand to draw blood from unconscious patient
• Bannon realigns Breitbart political strategy after removal from Trump administration
• Boston area transit privatization plan goes forward amid allegations of corruption/mismanagement
• Israel visit by Jared Kushner confirms demise of Middle East peace process
• Canada toes Trump administration’s provocative line on North Korea
• The rise of “edu-business” in Australian public schools
• University of Sydney union branch stages protest strike over wages and conditions
• Who will pay for the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey?
• Antimonopoly researchers say Google CEO pressured leading think tank to fire them
• Inherited genetic disorder corrected in human embryos
• From the archives of the Russian Revolution
  On Slogans
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
  Portuguese Volkswagen workers rebel against Workers Commission collaboration

4 September 2017 (front page)

• Hurricane Harvey to be costliest US natural disaster
• Trump, North Korea and the danger of world war
• “The working class has organized to save the working class”
  A Hurricane Harvey diary: Part 2
• German federal police illegally collect data to blacklist journalists and activists
• German SGP election candidate speaks at student protest against deportations
• “Whatever happens to us is going to happen to everybody else”
  Toronto airport strikers speak out
• Britain’s pseudo-left promote Labour councils enforcing savage cuts
• Kenyan Supreme Court voids presidential election, ordering new poll
• Australian government strips asylum seekers of all housing and welfare payments
• Australia: National Tertiary Education Union attempts to suppress struggle against job cuts at Western Sydney University
• This week in the Russian Revolution
  September 4 – 10: The Kornilov affair

5 September 2017 (front page)

• The US faces off against China and Russia over North Korea
• Media and political establishment begin to move on as Houston residents return to devastated city
• Immigrant community braces for Trump’s decision on DACA
• Candidates denounce refugees, demand state build-up at German election debate
• No progress in UK- European Union talks over Brexit
• As school year starts teachers, parents and students face political struggle to defend public education
• San Diego declares public health emergency after death toll from Hepatitis A outbreak rises to 14
• Los Angeles County wildfires prompt California governor to declare state of emergency
• “We don’t know what kind of deal they’ve struck with the breakaway dealerships”
  IAM isolates striking Chicago car mechanics, seeks separate agreements
• Brazil’s ruling circles fear international “isolation”
• Israeli electricity shutoff deepens social crisis in Gaza
• Sri Lankan university workers defeat union attempts to victimise SEP member
• Australia: Socialist Alternative conference seeks new political trap for rising discontent
• Macron’s labor decrees in France: A new stage in the international social counter-revolution
• Cynthia Brust Moore (1944-2017): A steadfast supporter of the Trotskyist movement
• Sri Lankan students oppose Google’s censorship of the World Socialist Web Site
• Oppose the militarist high school graduation policy of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel!
• One-day strike set by public workers in Uruguay
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

6 September 2017 (front page)

• Trump rescinds DACA, putting 800,000 youth at risk of deportation
• The logic of imperialist aggression:
  Will US threats against North Korea yield a global catastrophe?
• Protesters denounce Trump’s repeal of DACA program
• Danger of global war over Korea shakes Europe
• Australian parliament overshadowed by Korean war crisis and disqualification of MPs
• Civil engineers’ reports on US flood preparedness: Lessons of Katrina and Sandy ignored
• Rank-and-file committees needed to take forward UK rail workers' safety fight
• London residents speak on Grenfell Tower fire
• Study highlights health epidemic: More than one in four US adults is obese
• Trump administration halts study on health impact of surface mining
• Trump and DeVos deepen the assault on public higher education
• What is behind the 57-hour San Diego/Tijuana border closure and renovation?
• Deaths of children in government care skyrocket in Canada
• The dual citizenship furore in the Australian parliament: What is at stake for the working class?
• Australian governments knew about the dangers of airforce fire-fighting foam for decades
• Documenta 14 exhibition in Kassel, Germany: The censorship and defaming of art
• German Left Party and Greens demand expansion of police powers

7 September 2017 (front page)

• Hurricane Irma slams into Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands
• Unite all workers against the attack on immigrants! For a socialist policy of open borders!
• UN head warns Korean crisis could spiral into world war
• Yemen’s cholera outbreak surpasses 600,000
• San Diego protests against Trump’s repeal of DACA program
• Miles of devastation along Braes Bayou in Houston
  A Hurricane Harvey diary: Part 3
• Long-term threats to public health follow in Hurricane Harvey’s wake
• US Fed confronts dilemmas over monetary policy
• The National Football League’s blacklisting of quarterback Colin Kaepernick
• Burmese military steps up ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
• Macron announces cuts to French social programs
• British soldiers arrested for membership in banned fascist group
• Labour will seek to block Brexit bill
• Germany: 60,000 people evacuated as WWII bomb is defused in Frankfurt
• Australian state government and health union shut down pathology strike
• US Fed confronts dilemmas over monetary policy
• Mélenchon sets nationalist trap for opposition to austerity in France
• Child deaths at Gorakhpur hospital highlight grim reality behind “rising India” hype

8 September 2017 (front page)

• Trump, Democrats reach deal on debt ceiling, budget
• Hurricane Irma heads towards Florida after tearing through the Caribbean
• US completes anti-missile deployment in South Korea amid heightened war danger
• Worker killed at Kansas oil refinery as OSHA conceals data on workplace deaths
• Quebec Liberals expand chauvinist bill targeting Muslims
• German conservative parties embrace the language of dictatorship
• Royal College of Nursing union holds rally in London
  No answers to attacks on public health care
• UK: Refuse workers resume strike after Birmingham Council imposes redundancies
• Australian High Court permits bogus postal vote on marriage equality
• Suicide attempt by Renault Nissan worker reveals brutal conditions in India’s free trade zones
• US and India use Indian Ocean Conference to reinforce their strategic interests
• Mass demonstrations in Togo threaten to topple ruling government
• UN chief warns against the march to world war
• Forbes writer says Google censored report on manipulation of search traffic
• Price gouging at Amazon and the case for public ownership
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
  Kenyan nurses in 13th week of strike

9 September 2017 (front page)

• Hurricanes Irma and Harvey: Natural disaster and political breakdown
• As US threatens war against North Korea, China appeals to European powers
• Why aren’t trains evacuating people from the path of Hurricane Irma?
• Strong earthquake shakes Mexico and Central America, killing at least 61
• Germany’s federal election campaign and the danger of global nuclear war
• UK: May government finalises Grenfell Tower Inquiry cover-up
• ECB makes first move to wind back quantitative easing
• United Airlines dodges government discipline for brutalizing passenger
• Detroit Police stonewall investigation into Taser death of 15-year-old
• Toronto Airport Authority imposes injunctions on striking ground crew
• Journalist who exposed Hindu right assassinated in Bangalore
• India, Bangladesh support Burmese military repression of Rohingya
• New Zealand: The right-wing politics of the Opportunities Party
• “If the Internet shuts down, we wouldn’t know anything. The union isn’t going to tell us”
  Autoworkers in Detroit support campaign against Google Internet censorship
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

11 September 2017 (front page)

• Millions face devastation from Hurricane Irma in southwest Florida, Tampa metro area
• Caribbean islands devastated by storm surge, winds, rain
• As US threatens North Korea, NATO chief warns of “more dangerous world”
• Protests throughout the US held against attack on immigrant rights
• Personal data of 143 million US consumers compromised in massive Equifax server hack
• IAM pushes sellout deal on striking Chicago car mechanics
• Australian High Court sanctions deportations of Sri Lankan refugees
• Thai Supreme Court protects key figures in 2010 military crackdown
• UK: Labour Mayor in Salford rubber stamps closure of disabled children’s school
• British Columbia NDP government abandons $15 minimum wage pledge
• Why was American capitalism unable to prepare for Hurricane Irma?
• This week in the Russian Revolution
  September 11-17: After the Kornilov Affair—Kerensky attempts to form dictatorial regime, Trotsky released from prison
• Poet Ben Okri on London’s Grenfell Tower fire: “It has revealed the undercurrents of our age”
• Sri Lankan SEP Jaffna meeting discusses political bankruptcy of Tamil parties

12 September 2017 (front page)

• UN Security Council imposes severe sanctions on North Korea
• Thirteen million without power, seven dead after Hurricane Irma wreaks havoc in Florida
• Petrochemical giants dumped deadly carcinogens during Hurricane Harvey
• New York Times stokes anti-Russia campaign to promote Facebook, Twitter censorship
• Worker exposes deadly conditions at Detroit area US Steel mill
• Hundreds of thousands march in Catalonia as Madrid aims to block independence referendum
• Macron goes to Greece: “Radical left” Tsipras welcomes ex-banker turned French president
• UK: Tony Blair calls for anti-immigration policies to stop Brexit
• Plans for major military build-up after Germany’s federal election
• India, China attempt to reset relations after border crisis
• More Australian troops to be sent to the Philippines
• Sri Lankan president desperately tries to rally support
• Australia: Turnbull government expands “cashless welfare card”
• Sixteen years after 9/11: lies, hypocrisy and militarism
• A remembrance of my sister, Cynthia Brust Moore
• Riverside, California county workers stage two-day strike
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

13 September 2017 (front page)

• NATO launches war games in advance of Russian exercise
• From hurricanes to tax cuts: The ruling class gets down to business
• Hundreds of thousands march against Macron’s austerity measures in France
• Officials estimate one quarter of homes in Florida Keys destroyed by Hurricane Irma
• In “60 Minutes” interview, Bannon elaborates plans for American fascist movement
• Israel bombs Syrian government positions as anti-Assad opposition forces lose ground
• UK parliament approves sweeping executive powers under Brexit bill
• Germany: Left Party leader ready to cooperate with far-right AfD
• Chicago area auto mechanics reject dealers’ “last, best and final offer”
• Virginia gubernatorial race offers “choice” of right-wing candidates
• Large wildfires continue to spread in US Northwest
• Boston area transit riders and workers imperiled by inadequate maintenance funding
• South Asian floods: Death toll climbs to 1,300
• Western Australian budget slashes thousands of public sector jobs
• The Last Tycoon: Hollywood in the 1930s
• New York Times surveys the results of 35 years of affirmative action
• Socialist Equality Party holds election meeting in Berlin

14 September 2017 (front page)

• A social crime: Eight elderly dead in Florida nursing home after days without air conditioning
• Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi and the fraud of human rights imperialism
• Evacuees, volunteers describe inadequate services, police harassment at Houston convention center
• After Irma, Wall Street pushes for austerity and privatization in Puerto Rico
• As official Grenfell Tower inquiry opens, UK fire safety provisions under attack
• Australian television program highlights flammable cladding crisis
• Juncker’s State of the EU speech: Europe readies for war with the world
• Trump administration threatens further clampdown on refugees
• Sanders health care bill: A cover for Democratic Party deals with Trump
• Notes on Police Violence
  Department of Justice clears officers in death of Freddie Gray
• UK: Pay cap for majority of public sector workers to continue, despite government defeat
• Corruption crisis engulfs all major parties in Peru
• More warnings of Australian property market crash
• Germany’s Left Party: A party of militarism and war

15 September 2017 (front page)

• Small median income gain offset by debt and living costs
  US Census report shows increasing social inequality
• New details highlight criminal neglect in death of Florida nursing home residents
• Jacksonville area staggered by flooding, power outages from Hurricane Irma
• Trump administration preparing to escalate provocations against Iran
• Growing warnings of a stock market bubble
• Spain suspends Catalan independence law, escalating conflict with separatists
• Ohio’s second execution of the year: Condemned man writhed in pain as he was killed
• Charges dropped against Amtrak engineer in Philadelphia derailment
• Anger mounts over consumer credit data hack
  What is Equifax and why does it have personal information on half the American population?
• Teachers strike in Burlington, Vermont over health care cuts, working conditions
• Canadian auto union moves to ram through concessions deal on GM CAMI workers
• Anti-Chinese witch-hunt against New Zealand MP
• Democrats seek to prop up Trump’s crisis-ridden government
• The Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the case for socialism
• Why is Amazon deleting negative reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book?
• Australia: Socialist Alternative supports nationalist witch-hunt over dual citizenship
• Socialist Equality Group public meeting in Wellington
  After the New Zealand election: The way forward in the fight against war
• University staff strike across Nigeria as health care and state media workers consider action
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• North Korea tests missile in response to sanctions

16 September 2017 (front page)

• Police crackdown on hundreds protesting acquittal of killer cop in St. Louis
• Bomb attack on London Underground sets stage for further state repression
• Trump threatens North Korea with “effective and overwhelming” military force
• India: Unions suspend Tamil Nadu government workers’ strike
• German conservative newspaper threatens Poland with territorial demands
• Two million in Florida still without power nearly a week after Hurricane Irma
• Pittsburgh Boilermakers Union official admits theft of funds
• New York governor postures at bridge dedication while transportation infrastructure crumbles
• Truckers announce strike against attack on Labour Code in France
• Germany: Trial of neo-Nazi terror group whitewashes role of intelligence services
• Water contamination widespread across regional Australia
• CIA vetoes Chelsea Manning’s Harvard fellowship
• The legacy of the Cassini spacecraft
• Why is Canada’s pseudo-left rallying behind NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton?
• The “People’s Convergence”: The pseudo-left entreats Bernie Sanders to lead “People’s Party”
• Lakanal House: Prelude to the Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

18 September 2017 (front page)

• World hunger increasing for first time since turn of the century
• UK government officials back Trump demands for Internet censorship following London bombing
• Over forty arrested in St. Louis as demonstrations continue against acquittal of killer cop
• Inhabitants of Irma-ravaged Saint Martin gain nothing from French President Macron’s visit
• Spain threatens potential military takeover of Catalonia as referendum looms
• GM CAMI workers strike in Canada
• Pentagon to fortify Kabul for unending Afghanistan war
• South Korea assassination squad to target Pyongyang leadership
• “You can't depend on our government anymore to help”
  Watch: Hurricane Harvey victims applying for federal aid encounter government indifference
• India and Japan strengthen their anti-China “strategic partnership”
• Mexico earthquake death toll climbs to 98
• NSA documents expose secret US spying program in Ethiopia
• Australia launches three-month naval tour, directed against China
• Australia: New “learning precinct” ties public schools to business
• Greece: Syriza touts for investors and fêtes Macron
• The 150th anniversary of the publication of Capital
• This week in the Russian Revolution
  September 18 – 24: Bolsheviks obtain majorities in Moscow and Petrograd soviets
• Lakanal House: Prelude to the Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 2
• Burlington, Vermont teachers strike continues as officials refuse to budge on concession demands
• IAM ends Chicago area mechanics strike
• World Socialist Web Site readers in Britain oppose Google’s censorship campaign
• New pamphlet: Fifty Years since the Detroit Rebellion

19 September 2017 (front page)

• Protests continue in St. Louis as police kill eight more in US
• CNN claims FBI wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman
• Facebook turns over information on Russia-linked accounts to Special Counsel Mueller
• Undocumented protesters drive Nancy Pelosi out of her own press conference
• French unions try to strangle workers’ opposition to Macron
• German Greens’ pro-war policy on display at think tank forum
• Survivors and local residents speak out on Grenfell Tower Inquiry opening
• Millions of the UK’s poorest families driven into deeper poverty
• For an international strategy to win the CAMI workers strike
• Bank for International Settlements voices concern over finance markets
• Alleged Nashville shooting brings social relations into relief
• California: SEIU sabotages San Diego County workers’ strike
• Sri Lankan power workers on strike
• UN General Assembly convenes under shadow of war
• Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites
• 2017 Emmy Awards: Sean Spicer, self-congratulations and identity politics
• No to war and social inequality! For world socialism!
  Statement of the Socialist Equality Group on the New Zealand election
• Protests against passage of anti-working class budget in Haiti
  Workers Struggles: the Americas

20 September 2017 (front page)

• St. Louis Police declare “We’re in control” as crackdown on protests enters fifth day
• Senate overwhelmingly approves record $700 billion military budget
• CAMI autoworkers locked in fight against GM Canada over jobs and wages
• Catastrophic Hurricane María heads for Puerto Rico
• More than 140 dead and counting as a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks Mexico City
• Senate Republicans push for another Obamacare “repair and repeal” bill
• Change that he can believe in: Obama cashes in on Wall Street
• Japanese PM backs US “military option” against North Korea
• Top Canadian general stokes fears over North Korea to justify joining US ballistic-missile defence
• Portuguese nurses strike against an 11-year pay freeze
• Australian government’s “media reform” boosts conglomerates
• Documentary exposes the fraud of New Zealand “peacekeeping” in Afghanistan
• Bus crash in New York City kills three and leaves others injured
• Rural New York schools grapple with declining population, increasing poverty
• Trump’s “Mein Kampf” tirade at the United Nations
• Hillary Clinton’s What Happened: A conspiracy theory of the 2016 election
• Grenfell Tower fire eyewitnesses: “It’s because of our class—we are the lowest socioeconomic class on the food chain”
• David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return—Living inside a dream?
• Oppose the NTEU sellout at University of Sydney! For a unified struggle of all university workers across Australia!

21 September 2017 (front page)

• Fears of nuclear war grow after Trump’s threat to annihilate North Korea
• Obama adviser Samantha Power calls for crackdown on social media
  Internet censorship and government war plans
• Australian establishment endorses Trump’s fascistic UN speech
• US initiates plan to blow-up Iran nuclear deal
• Hundreds of riot police descend on peaceful protesters in St. Louis
• Spanish police raid Catalan government buildings, arrest officials
• Death toll rises in Mexico City earthquake
• Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico
• “What these companies are doing is a new form of slavery”
  CAMI strikers determined to resist GM Canada job and wage cuts
• UAW officials laundered Fiat Chrysler bribes through fake charities
• Working men have no country
  Interviews from the San Diego/Tijuana San Ysidro border crossing as closure looms
• Dangerous developments in Germany: AfD leader praises the Nazi Wehrmacht
• Markets hail “gradual” moves by Federal Reserve
• Burma’s “democracy icon” Aung San Suu Kyi defends ethnic cleansing of Rohingya
• Australia: Two Ipswich meatworks to close, destroying hundreds of jobs
• New Zealand election: The fraud of Labour’s “free education” policy
• US media response to Trump’s fascistic UN tirade ranges from complacency to concurrence
• The war danger and the significance of the election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party of Germany
• Sri Lankan free trade zone and harbour workers denounce Google censorship
• Sidemen: Long Road to Glory—A heartfelt tribute to three bluesmen
• University of Sydney union conceals political issues in one-day strike

22 September 2017 (front page)

• Trump announces aggressive sanctions against trade with North Korea
• Pseudo-left groups push identity politics on seventh day of St. Louis protests
• Oklahoma City police shoot and kill deaf man
• Special counsel seeks White House documents on Flynn, Comey, Manafort
• Barcelona dockworkers boycott Spanish police ships sent against Catalan referendum
• Puerto Rico devastated by Hurricane Maria
• Trump outlines Washington’s “scramble for Africa” during UN luncheon with African heads of state
• Workers and youth mobilize in second protest against French labor reform
• UK wields military and security cooperation as a weapon in Brexit negotiations
• How Germany is supporting Burma’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya
• Anti-Chinese witch-hunt launched days before New Zealand election
• Cambodian government arrests opposition leader on treason charges
• Sri Lankan government passes IMF-backed tax bill
• Trump’s UN tirade and the logic of imperialism
• GM Canada strike in danger
  Why is Unifor trying to gag CAMI strikers?
• Toronto International Film Festival 2017: Part 1
  Trouble in paradise: A comment on the economics and politics of the Toronto International Film Festival
• Socialist Equality Party/International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK) public meetings
  Stop Internet Censorship! Stop Google’s political blacklisting of the World Socialist Web Site
• Birmingham refuse workers’ strike suspended; Kenyan state governors begin filling the jobs of striking nurses
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

23 September 2017 (front page)

• Trump provokes North Korean counter-threats and heightens war danger
• Dam collapse threatens to kill thousands in Puerto Rico
• Death toll in Mexico City earthquake reaches 286
• Sigmar Gabriel’s UN address: German great power ambitions in pacifist garb
• Spanish government dispatches police reinforcements to Catalonia
• Canadian union seeks to shut down CAMI strike by offering concessions to GM
• General Motors and Ford announce thousands of US layoffs
• Study: Flint’s poisoned water caused drop in number of healthy pregnancies and births
• French President Macron signs labor decrees, trampling on social opposition
• May’s overtures to European Union on Brexit terms falls flat
• New Zealand election: Bipartisan agreement on war and austerity
• Australian media targets universities in new anti-China campaign
• Sri Lankan plantation workers protest job cuts and new productivity demands
• The St. Louis police riot
• “Committee to Investigate Russia:” Rob Reiner and Morgan Freeman’s warmongering video
• Legal appeals of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers expose travesty of justice
• FDA recommends approval of new leukemia treatment
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• “That verdict was a travesty”
  Watch: St. Louis workers denounce acquittal of killer cop, crackdown on protests

25 September 2017 (front page)

• As Trump threatens North Korea, most Americans oppose war
• The rise of the AfD and the rightward lurch of official politics in Germany
• In defiance of Trump threats, US athletes protest police repression
• Interview with attorney for family of Anthony Lamar Smith:
  Authorities withheld DNA evidence in St. Louis police killing
• Brutal video depicts Huntington Beach, California officer killing Navy veteran
• Iraqi Kurdish referendum stokes Mideast war tensions
• Turkey threatens war over Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum
• In Paris, Mélenchon calls on trade unions to control opposition to austerity
• Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale quits
• No clear winner in New Zealand election
• Social anger grows after Mexico earthquakes
• US autoworkers express support for CAMI strikers in Canada
  “We should be out on strike with them”
• San Diego death toll from hepatitis A outbreak rises to 16
• Immigrants arrested by plain-clothes ICE agents outside Brooklyn courthouse
• Sri Lanka: JVP leader assures business that it defends capitalism
• This week in the Russian Revolution
  September 25 – October 1: Lenin urges Bolshevik leaders to prepare for the seizure of power
• When Will the Wretched Slaughter End?
• Puerto Rico confronts the devastation wrought by hurricanes and Wall Street
• New York Times, Democrats lead push for Facebook censorship
• The Fed’s quantitative easing: A class assessment
• The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
  The “disease” of social inequality sends thousands to a premature death
• David North to address Annandale, Virginia meeting Tuesday
  The Russian Revolution Centenary: The event that changed world history

26 September 2017 (front page)

• North Korea warns that Trump’s threats are a declaration of war
• Behind Trump’s attack on the NFL football players
• South Korea backs Trump’s threats to “totally destroy” North Korea
• German parties move further to the right after AfD’s electoral success
• US-Russian tensions flare in Syria
• Trudeau government bans Chelsea Manning from entering Canada
• Trump implements new indefinite travel ban
• Stephen Bannon’s Southern strategy and the Alabama Republican primary
• “Dad, mom, the police are here”
  ICE rounds up farmworkers applying for work in Michigan
• CAMI autoworkers strike against GM Canada at the crossroads
• Former football star Aaron Hernandez had advanced brain damage
• Poverty, inequality on the rise in Spain as independence vote looms
• Millions of European workers in precarious employment
• Australian government plans anti-democratic laws on pretext of Chinese “sub-espionage”
• New Zealand: Workers and youth speak on election, social crisis and war
• Nova Scotia Liberals slash public sector workers’ wages
• At site of Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
  Sanders declares his allegiance to US imperialism
• Toronto International Film Festival 2017: Part 2
  Directions, Disappearance, A Drowning Man: Realistic about harsh conditions
• Toronto International Film Festival 2017
  An interview with Stephan Komandarev, director of Directions: “The first step is to have a clear picture of what’s happening. I don’t see any other way.”
• Spectrum strike approaches half year mark
• Strike by Colombian pilots continues, negotiations restart
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

27 September 2017 (front page)

• Trump makes another reckless threat against North Korea
• Trump to devastated Puerto Rico: Wall Street must be paid!
• Bannon-backed Senate candidate Roy Moore wins Alabama Republican primary
• As Republican Obamacare repeal collapses, Democrats push pro-corporate “compromise”
• Japanese prime minister calls snap election
• As Unifor plots to end CAMI strike, corporate press hails union head
• Turkey threatens Iraqi Kurdish government with war
• UK government moves to prop up super-rich tax haven operations in British Virgin Islands
• French truckers take strike action against Macron’s labor decrees
• Row over Brexit punctures myth of unity behind Corbyn at Labour Party conference
• New Zealand military mobilised during Auckland Airport fuel outage
• One week in the media’s McCarthyite witch-hunt against Russia
• SGP election rally: International meeting in Berlin calls for stepped-up struggle against capitalism and war
• SGP election meeting: “War and inequality mutually reinforce one another”
• Darren Aronofsky’s mother!: Entirely misconceived

28 September 2017 (front page)

• Puerto Rican people still without aid a week after Hurricane Maria
• More than 52 million Americans live in economically distressed communities
• A step toward trade war:
  Trump’s Commerce Department imposes huge tariff on Canada’s Bombardier
• Trump’s tax plan provides massive windfall to the rich
• Intensifying his attack on NFL players, Trump continues to incite the ultra-right
• After German elections, France’s Macron proposes European deal to Berlin
• Binational workers speak out during the San Diego-Tijuana border closure
• Two New York construction workers die at separate job sites
• Australian Labor leaders endorse Trump’s war drive against North Korea
• More disturbances in UK prisons as conditions worsen
• Sri Lankan unions betray power workers’ strike
• Australia: Senate committee calls for flammable cladding ban
• Why is the far-right benefiting from the crisis of capitalism?
• Behind the electoral success of the AfD in the German election
• “Health care is a human right”
  IYSSE speaks at health care rally at University of Illinois Chicago
• Toronto International Film Festival: Part 3
  The Current War—about Edison, electricity and the 1880s—and Alexander Payne’s Downsizing—about “downsizing”

29 September 2017 (front page)

• As popular anger builds, US sends military to Puerto Rico
• US Department of Homeland Security to track all immigrants’ social media accounts
• Taliban attack greets US Defense Secretary Mattis in Afghanistan
• After German elections establishment parties call for further military build-up
• German election: Where the far-right AfD won—and why
• Unifor leaders plot with GM to beat back resistance of CAMI strikers
• Dozens of cleanup workers dying of cancer after 2008 Tennessee coal ash spill
• Catalan secession crisis: Alongside Rajoy, Trump calls for a united Spain
• Spain’s crackdown on the Catalan secessionist referendum: Podemos looks for its “Syriza moment”
• Few refugees leave Australian detention camps under US “swap” deal
• A reply to the RMTU on the anti-working class record of the New Zealand rail unions
• Sri Lankan president presents rosy picture at UN General Assembly
• Peru cabinet shakeup exposes crisis of rule
• The new McCarthyism and the suppression of political dissent
• David North delivers address on Russian Revolution to large audience at Northern Virginia Community College
• The Labour Party’s Annual Conference 2017
  Corbyn prepares for government: At what price?
• A tax plan by and for the US oligarchy
• “The contract should be null and void”
  Fiat Chrysler workers react to UAW corruption investigation
• SAG-AFTRA ends 11-month video game industry strike, making major concessions
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Attend the Grenfell Fire Forum hosted by the Socialist Equality Party (UK)

30 September 2017 (front page)

• US Justice Department demands Facebook turn over information on anti-administration activists
• ICE arrests nearly 500 immigrants in raids on “sanctuary cities” across US
• Trump adds Chad to renewed travel ban
• Democratic New Jersey senator on trial for official corruption
• German army build-up follows federal election
• Parsons Green bomb seized on to call for greater internet censorship
• Modi government blocks Rohingya refugees entering India
• Japan’s main opposition party dissolves itself ahead of general election
• Australian university union pushes sellout deals across the country
• NTEU betrays staff at University of Sydney
• Trump to Puerto Rico: Your lives don’t matter
• Oppose the state crackdown on the Catalan independence referendum!
  For working class unity! No to separatism in Spain!
• Toronto International Film Festival: Part 4
  The Death of Stalin, The Other Side of Everything, Insyriated—The filmmakers’ inability to deal with complex questions, or worse
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific