Archive: October 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.
2 October 2017 (front page)
- Millions defy brutal crackdown by Spanish police to vote in Catalan referendum
- Puerto Rico faces health catastrophe as Trump tweets “We have done a great job”
- New York City workers collecting aid express anger at Trump’s response to Puerto Rico disaster
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“We need help and the politicians are ignoring us”
Puerto Rican survivors describe dire conditions after hurricane - Trump rules out negotiations with North Korea
- Trudeau rushes to declare Edmonton attack a “terrorist” act
- Unifor president at CAMI picket line: A declaration of bankruptcy
- Protests over police violence enter third week in St. Louis
- Chicago launches new fig leaf police oversight agency
- Tom Price resignation highlights corruption in Trump’s cabinet
- CDC report finds large increase in sexually transmitted disease across the US
- UK public sector employment at record low
- Bailed out in 2008 crash, AIG now out of government oversight
- Australian job figures cloak reality
- Trump’s tax plan: The wish list of the American oligarchy
- The contradictions of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War
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This week in the Russian Revolution
October 2 - 8: Trotsky elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet - The New York Times reports World Socialist Web Site charge of Google censorship and blacklisting
- The AfD enters the Bundestag: a far right party of the ruling establishment in Germany
- Trump’s secretary of education rolls back Obama-era regulations on campus sexual misconduct
- Workers denounce Amazon for speed-ups after two die on the job
3 October 2017 (front page)
- EU hands Spain blank check for stepped-up police repression in Catalonia
- The social pathology of the Las Vegas Massacre
- Trump visits Puerto Rico as anger grows over government response
- Germany’s Social Democrats prepare to suppress popular opposition
- Washington condemns Kurdish referendum as Iraq mobilizes its army
- CAMI workers challenge further de-industrialization of southwestern Ontario
- US Congress fails to reauthorize insurance program covering 9 million children
- Access to obstetric services in rural US communities continues to decline
- UC Berkeley mobilizes police for “Free Speech Week”
- Monarch Airlines collapse causes air travel chaos
- People’s Assembly stage tame protest outside Conservative Party conference
- Manchester demonstrators: “People are dying under these austerity measures.”
- US pushes for closer Sri Lankan involvement into war drive against China
- New Zealand First to dictate make-up of next government
- International Youth and Students for Social Equality wins club status at New York University
- Race, class and the protests against police violence in St. Louis, Missouri
- Indian workers and students in Chennai support campaign against Google censorship
- Grenfell Fire Forum: Wide-ranging discussion and resolution passed opposing Google censorship
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Baggage-handlers’ strike at Toronto airport enters third month
Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 October 2017 (front page)
- Trump’s photo-op in Puerto Rico
- Defenders of imperialist “human rights” hail Spanish government’s crackdown in Catalonia
- Hundreds of thousands protest Madrid’s repression in Catalonia
- Spanish king demands new crackdown in Catalonia
- The Las Vegas massacre the day after
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In the wake of Hurricane Harvey flooding
“Chemical coast” residents to be tested for toxic exposures in Houston, Texas - Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded for discoveries on the circadian rhythm
- US confronts critical teacher shortage
- German Left Party’s Lafontaine launches AfD-style tirade against refugees
- German Green Party opts for coalition with conservative and neo-liberal parties
- Director of British rights group Cage convicted for refusing to reveal mobile phone and laptop pass codes
- New presidential election in Kenya overshadowed by political crisis
- Tamil refugee dies in Australian detention on Manus Island
- Australia: Ipswich workers denounce elimination of hundreds of jobs
- Unifor, the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter and the politics of the CAMI strike
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Toronto International Film Festival: Part 5
African American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, a revolution betrayed in Portugal and other matters - Is $12 an hour a fair wage for Amazon workers?
5 October 2017 (front page)
- Wall Street demands Puerto Rico pay up
- Spanish government sends troops to Catalonia
- Trump administration crisis worsens amid war drive against North Korea
- New Zealand workers and youth discuss the growing danger of global war
- Germany’s Network Enforcement Act: Legal framework for censorship of the Internet
- Germany’s Social Democratic president calls for tougher refugee policy and adaptation to AfD
- As CAMI strike continues, Unifor sheds crocodile tears for Mexican workers
- SEP Australia verifies “registered party” status once again
- Australian Greens demand disqualification of all “foreign” MPs
- Toyota ends car production in Australia
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After Madrid’s violent crackdown:
An independent class strategy for the Spanish and Catalan working class! -
Leaders of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky on Yakov Sverdlov (March 1925) - On the loss of Tom Petty
- UK: Corbyn ally John McDonnell declares Labour’s mission is to “stabilise capitalism”
- Socialist Equality Group holds public meeting following New Zealand election
6 October 2017 (front page)
- Spain prepares military crackdown in Catalonia
- Amid Catalan crisis, Madrid prepares military rule across Spain
- For one in four US women: Nearest abortion facility over 30 miles away
- As Detroit mayoral election approaches, water shutoffs continue amidst pervasive poverty
- Burma’s anti-Rohingya pogrom fuels regional tensions
- Japan’s Democrats found new party to posture as opponents of remilitarization
- Australian governments unveil sweeping new police powers
- Siemens and Alstom rail train units merge as corporations prepare for trade war
- Huge increase in UK firefighters with mental health problems
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Inequality and the American oligarchy
The social and economic roots of the attack on democratic rights - The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges
- Senate witch-hunters expand on their anti-Russia horror story
- Observation of gravitational waves wins Nobel Prize in physics
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
7 October 2017 (front page)
- Surrounded by generals, Trump remarks on “the calm before the storm”
- Madrid prepares to deploy troops in Catalonia
- German government backs Spain’s violent crackdown on Catalonia
- As CAMI strike ends third week, Unifor peddles Canadian nationalism at rally
- Puerto Rico continues to languish as tropical storm Nate threatens US Gulf Coast
- US Supreme Court begins new term
- Killings of four elite soldiers in Niger highlight vast scale of American military operations in Africa
- Trump administration limits access to birth control under ACA
- Democrats push for deal with Trump on DACA as ICE threatens mass raids
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A week on America’s death row
A lethal injection in Florida, stay of execution in Alabama - Tory party on verge of leadership contest after disastrous conference performance by May
- What would a “Jamaica” coalition in Germany represent?
- “Love and courage”—Canada’s NDP elects Obama-style pitchman as leader
- Thailand’s junta leader welcomed at the White House
- Australian economy “going into a hole”
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Inequality and the American oligarchy
Identity politics and the growth of inequality within racial minorities - Sri Lankan academics oppose Google censorship
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 October 2017 (front page)
- Trump administration threatens widespread ICE raids in California
- As crackdown looms in Catalonia, Spain’s Popular Party calls protest in Barcelona
- Court testimony exposes governor’s lies about Flint water crisis
- WSWS reader describes ongoing human catastrophe in Puerto Rico
- Unifor operative assaults WSWS reporter at CAMI strike rally
- Trump administration expels two-thirds of Cuban embassy staff from US
- London’s Garden Bridge project abandoned at massive cost
- UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson reveals predatory agenda of NATO’s war on Libya
- Disinformation campaign scandal shakes Austrian Social Democrats
- US railroad union coalition agrees to contract with health givebacks
- Washington, DC holds worker in jail for months after charges dropped
- Japan’s new Party of Hope releases right-wing populist election platform
- New Zealand First pushes anti-China witch-hunt in coalition negotiations
- Australia: Questions emerge over another Aboriginal death in custody
- Trump’s threats against North Korea signify real danger of war
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This week in the Russian Revolution
October 9 - 15: Lenin steps up campaign for insurrection - Rapper Cardi B (“Bodak Yellow”) celebrated as a feminist icon
10 October 2017 (front page)
- US defence secretary calls on military to be ready for war against North Korea
- UK draws up plans to back US military attack on North Korea
- Spain's Popular Party threatens repression if Catalan authorities declare independence
- US, Turkey suspend visa services in diplomatic row
- Ten dead, thousands displaced as wildfires rip through northern California
- Trump, local officials lie about real extent of Puerto Rico disaster
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Notes on police violence
Killing of fleeing man by Salt Lake City police officers ruled “justified” - Trump and Pence orchestrate national anthem provocation at NFL game
- Canadian autoworkers warn CAMI strikers on role of Unifor, condemn attack on WSWS
- British government prepares further draconian legislation to censor Internet
- Outgoing German finance minister warns of financial bubbles
- Canada integrating universities into its militarist foreign policy
- New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families make Supreme Court appeal
- Trump White House declares war on immigrants
- As Spanish crackdown looms, France’s New Anti-capitalist Party promotes Catalan nationalism
- Amazon workers force company to rehire unjustly fired worker after IAWV exposure
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General strike by Argentine public employees, Colombian pilots defy strikebreaking order, walkouts in Kentucky and Ohio
Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 October 2017 (front page)
- Catalan premier affirms right to independence from Spain, but delays formal declaration
- US army chief urges greater “combat readiness” for war with North Korea
- Australia deploys for war with North Korea and confrontation with China
- Trump to light fuse under Iran nuclear deal, as part of more aggressive anti-Iran strategy
- Northern California wildfires leave at least 15 dead, 200 missing
- White House prepares executive order undercutting Obamacare
- Trump administration axes Obama-era climate regulations
- Germany’s conservative parties shift further to the right
- Attack in 2016 on Munich shopping centre was an act of right-wing terrorism
- British Clinical Commissioning Group to slash health services in Dorset
- Indian economy in a downward spiral
- Students oppose Indian government’s new university entrance exam
- The New York Times and the criminalization of dissent
- Democratic Party donors funnel millions to protest groups
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Toronto International Film Festival: Part 6
A Season in France, Catch the Wind, Arrhythmia, Sweet Country: The refugee crisis, social disintegration in Russia…
12 October 2017 (front page)
- Spain moves toward military rule in Catalonia
- The US on the brink of war with North Korea
- Podemos’ call for dialogue on Catalonia: A political trap with deadly consequences
- Mounting political crisis in Washington amidst talk of removal of Trump
- At least 23 dead as reports point to electrical infrastructure as possible cause of California fires
- NFL commissioner announces plans against anthem protests
- African American man attacked by white supremacists in Charlottesville charged with felony
- Schäuble calls for the continuation of austerity policies in Germany and Europe
- Growth to rise but wages continue to fall, says IMF
- Saudi Arabia pivots to Russia
- Populist senator to resign from Australian parliament and contest state election
- Burma: Pogroms continue against Rohingya Muslims
- Mass demonstrations rock Kenya as Odinga withdraws from election re-run
- The politics of the Harvey Weinstein scandal
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Canadian Fiat Chrysler worker: “Stay strong, workers, and demand answers to your questions”
Talks resume in CAMI strike as Unifor continues to isolate embattled workers
13 October 2017 (front page)
- President Trump threatens to pull the plug on Puerto Rico
- Robert Pruett, first imprisoned at age 16, executed in Texas despite questions about evidence
- Threatening crackdown in Catalonia, Madrid whips up nationalism at military parade
- Temporary shutdown of GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant signals new threat to auto jobs
- Trump threatens to jettison NAFTA, as trade disputes intensify
- Evacuees speak about devastating California fires
- UK government refuses funds for unsafe tower blocks post-Grenfell
- Germany: Public prosecutor drops investigation into NSA spying
- Australian government snubs Indonesian lawsuit over teenagers jailed as “people smugglers”
- New Zealand rail union blocks struggle against attacks on conditions
- Washington seethes with rumors of an anti-Trump “palace coup”
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Build rank-and-file committees! Unite Canadian, US and Mexican workers against job cuts!
GM threatens CAMI plant, demands Unifor end month-long strike - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 October 2017 (front page)
- Denouncing Iran as a terrorist state, Trump refuses to recertify nuclear accord
- Trump’s threats against Iran aggravate German-American tensions
- Why is the US at war in West Africa?
- Thousands of undocumented immigrants among those affected by Northern California wild fires
- IMF report points to financial dangers lurking beneath global growth
- New York City mayor de Blasio virtually unopposed for reelection
- Germany: The significance of the election in Lower Saxony
- French president Macron and ex-left Cohn-Bendit advocate a militarily strong Europe at Frankfurt Book Fair
- Youth suicides at a record high in the UK
- Sri Lankan government enforces UN sanctions against North Korea
- UK school funding crisis worsens
- New Zealand First delays decision on forming a new government
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A new stage in the bipartisan health care counterrevolution
Following Trump executive orders, Democrats offer Obamacare “fix” - How the Internet keeps us safe from people like Thomas Friedman
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50 years since the murder of Che Guevara
Including a republication of Castroism and the Politics of Petty-Bourgeois Nationalism - Rap artist Eminem and his popular tirade against Donald Trump
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Unifor announces deal to end CAMI strike
Reject Unifor-GM blackmail! No vote until CAMI workers have full contract and time to study it! -
Public servants, teachers strike in Pakistan
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
16 October 2017 (front page)
- Behind the opioid crisis: Republicans and Obama cleared the way for corporate murder
- Trump, Iran and the US drive for world hegemony
- Far-right poised to enter government following Austrian election
- Transatlantic antagonisms deepen after Trump threatens withdrawal from Iran deal
- Deadline looms for Catalonia to confirm or deny independence declaration
- Why weren't residents warned about the Northern California fires?
- Deaths caused by Leptospirosis reported in Puerto Rico
- “Extreme emergency” declared for New Orleans’ drainage system
- Right-wing Zionist campaign against new director of Center for Jewish History in New York City
- Kaepernick seeks arbitration over NFL blacklisting
- US open to diplomacy with North Korea “until the first bomb drops”
- Hamas reaches agreement with Fatah
- China’s billionaires rapidly expand their fortunes
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Forty years since the assassination of Tom Henehan (1951-1977)
Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life - Online lecture: “Lenin’s The State and Revolution”
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This week in the Russian Revolution
October 16-22: Trotsky leads Bolsheviks out of Pre-Parliament -
No to Unifor-GM blackmail!
Before any ratification vote, CAMI workers must see the full contract and have time to study it
17 October 2017 (front page)
- Iraqi seizure of oil-rich Kirkuk from Kurds risks broader war
- Madrid rejects Puigdemont’s call for talks in Catalan referendum crisis
- Bombings kill hundreds in Somali capital
- Trump appeals to fundamentalists and fascists
- Afghanistan prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion
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Unifor imposes new round of concessions
CAMI strike in Canada ends
“We struck for a month and got nothing” - Floridians line up for food assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma
- New club procedures at UC Berkeley give police effective veto power over campus events
- New York employers, insurers seek to gut workers’ compensation system
- Chinese Communist Party congress meets amid gathering crises
- Hurricane Ophelia’s tail hits Ireland and UK
- Australian bank hearing reveals growing danger of interest-only housing loans
- Australia: Ipswich workers condemn hundreds of job losses
- In latest victory for the far right, neo-fascists gain in Austrian election
- From the July Days to the Kornilov coup: Lenin’s The State and Revolution
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: Bertolt Brecht’s parable play about the rise of Hitler
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12,000 professors and instructors strike Ontario colleges
Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 October 2017 (front page)
- US admiral must “imagine the unimagined:” All-out war with North Korea
- Iraqi forces seize back more Kurdish-held territory
- Jailing of separatist leaders sparks protest demonstrations in Catalonia
- Trump’s pick for drug czar forced to step down after expose
- Florida Governor declares state of emergency ahead of speech by white supremacist
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An educational Walmart
Ontario-wide community college teachers on strike - Thousands continue to suffer in the wake of Mexico’s earthquakes
- Washington threatens to escalate sanctions in wake of Venezuelan regional elections
- Kenyan government bans demonstrations ahead of October 26 election re-run
- US ambassador intervenes in New Zealand’s political crisis
- Australian university unions divide opposition to sell-out deals
- The conspiracy to censor the Internet
- Far-right Trump ally Thomas Barrack negotiating to buy Weinstein Company
- Star Trek: Discovery—The latest incarnation of the popular science fiction series
- Neutron star merger observed through gravitational waves and light
19 October 2017 (front page)
- 200,000 protest jailing of Catalonian nationalist leaders in Barcelona
- Rift deepens between Britain and European Union as talks reach no agreement
- Power struggle in leadership of Germany’s Left Party
- German Social Democrats take first place in Lower Saxony election but lose their Green coalition partner
- Trump rejects bipartisan health care plan a day after endorsing it
- Military industry stocks soar amid growing threat of war
- California declares state of emergency over Hepatitis A outbreak as death toll rises to 19
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As Trump presses owners to fire protesting athletes
NFL commissioner says football players should stand for national anthem - Court orders striking staff at suburban Chicago school district back to work
- Australian military covered up dangers of toxic fire-fighting foam
- Greek Prime Minister Tsipras embraces Trump
- Merchants of Death: The pharmaceuticals, Congress and the US opioid epidemic
- The Australian marriage equality survey: An exercise in political division and diversion
- The genuine achievement of Loving Vincent, and its limitations
- An interview with a Loving Vincent painter-animator
- Thirty years since Wall Street’s “Black Monday”
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“Google is censoring websites to block dissident views critical of the US establishment”
India: Students and workers in Kolkata oppose Google censorship - Attend meeting of Grenfell Fire Forum in London on Saturday October 21
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WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh in Chicago on October 24
Public meeting: What the Russian Revolution meant for modern art and culture
20 October 2017 (front page)
- Google escalates blacklisting of left-wing web sites and journalists
- Spanish government vows to impose military-backed regime in Catalonia
- Estimated death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria rises to 450
- US and European military operations in West Africa set the stage for broader war
- Post-Grenfell: More than £400 million needed to make London residential buildings safe
- Talks on forming German coalition government begin
- Right-wing nationalists hand power to New Zealand Labour
- Australia: Glencore steps up provocations against locked-out miners
- Trump, John Kelly and the media firestorm over “disrespecting” the troops
- Political lessons of the Australian car industry closure
- The Canadian split from the UAW—Lessons for today
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Exhibition at American Jewish Historical Society in New York
“1917—How One Year Changed the World”
21 October 2017 (front page)
- EU summit endorses Spain’s threat of police-military occupation of Catalonia
- Spanish Socialist Party demands new elections in Catalonia
- Detroit area Ford worker dies in apparent suicide at stamping factory
- Senate passes resolution setting stage for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich
- Pompeo vows that the CIA will become a “much more vicious agency”
- White supremacist met by mass protest at University of Florida
- Alabama man raises arms, grimaces as state puts him to death by lethal injection
- Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia murdered in Malta
- Right-wing, four-party government formed in the Netherlands
- German Air Force involved in war crimes in Syria
- US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to Congress: Pass tax cuts or markets will tank
- Trudeau exploits Edmonton attack to lay groundwork for anti-refugee measures
- Japan’s Stalinists seek to head off anti-war movement ahead of election
- Australian university union blocks debate at WSU stopwork rally
- Western Sydney University workers denounce cuts to jobs and conditions
- Chinese leader calls for “strong nation” and “strong military”
- David North delivers address on Russian Revolution at University of St Andrews, Scotland
- Gen. Kelly’s tirade and the threat of dictatorship
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South Korean media workers continue strike
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 October 2017 (front page)
- Spain annuls Catalan self-government, prepares military rule from Madrid
- US threatens Iran after fall of ISIS “capital” of Raqqa
- Ruling LDP maintains two-thirds majority in Japanese election
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“I think the government is trying to kill us off”
Hundreds line up for free medical care in West Virginia - Bannon attacks Bush and McCain, highlighting crisis within Republican Party
- Democrats signal shift to the right for 2018 campaign
- Trump’s Department of Justice attempts to block 17-year-old immigrant from getting abortion
- Right-wing opponent of European Union wins Czech parliamentary election
- Referendums on autonomy take place in northern Italy
- Far-right nationalist groups march in Kiev
- UK: BAE Systems and Vauxhall to impose mass job losses
- Discovery of dead youth’s body raises specter of forced disappearances in Argentina
- New Zealand: Official silence over Taylor Preston meatworks death
- The US lurches toward military dictatorship
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This week in the Russian Revolution
October 23-29: Bolshevik Central Committee votes for armed insurrection - Australian Senate formally denounces commemorations of the Russian Revolution
- “This anti-Russian campaign is horrible”: An interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
- Over 5,000 sign WSWS petition against Google blacklisting
- Northern California fire survivors: “It’s shameful they didn’t warn us”
24 October 2017 (front page)
- US prepares to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert
- New reports document declining life expectancy and worsening health of US workers
- Trump, Pentagon shaken by mounting crisis over Niger deaths
- Catalan government in turmoil over Spain’s suppression of autonomy
- Puerto Rico power blackout the biggest in US history
- Weeks after hurricanes in Texas and Florida: Government aid scarce, tens of thousands still displaced
- China faces growing debt problems, says central bank governor
- Tillerson calls for “dramatic deepening” of Indo-US alliance
- Thousands demonstrate in Berlin against ultra-right Alternative for Germany
- Airbnb and eBay paying virtually no tax in the UK
- Australian spy agency promotes anti-China witch-hunt
- Sri Lanka: Phony moves toward democratic constitutional change
- Australian government tries to force refugees from one prison camp to another
- US public meeting series: Why Study the Russian Revolution?
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Thomas Mackaman’s New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924
Immigration and socialist strategy in America, past and present - Behind the New York Times’ concern about Washington’s “forever wars”: Plans for new war authorization and conscription
- Move to Spanish military rule in Catalonia exposes bankruptcy of Podemos
- The six-day rise and fall of “democratic socialist” Ramirez-Rosa for Illinois lieutenant governor
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Public meetings in Michigan, California and New York
Google: The new face of Internet censorship - Mississippi school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird from curriculum
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Ontario community college staff continue strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 October 2017 (front page)
- US Republican senator calls Trump “dangerous to a democracy”
- Slain US special forces troops on apparent assassination mission in Niger
- Montana company with ties to Trump cashes in from Puerto Rico disaster
- Xi Jinping consolidates grip over Chinese Communist Party apparatus
- Documents show US participation in 1965-66 massacres in Indonesia
- Autoworkers speak on suicide of young Ford worker at Detroit area plant
- Los Angeles Police Department set to deploy drones
- Review of Tennessee’s bail bond system exposes inequalities in US justice system
- Road death of UK pensioner the result of tragic circumstances
- Trade war in the aerospace industry: Airbus takes over shares in Bombardier
- After electoral victory, Argentine president promises “most austere policies”
- Labour Party details coalition agreement with New Zealand First
- Australian flu epidemic inundates public health services
- The American oligarchy prepares a new tax windfall for the rich
- Tsar to Lenin screens to sold out audiences in London and Manchester
- Season 4 of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman: Social and individual psychology
26 October 2017 (front page)
- Trump: US “totally prepared” for war with North Korea
- The crisis in the Republican Party and the fracturing of the American two-party system
- Catalonia announces plan for independence as Madrid threatens military rule
- New York Times and Wall Street Journal demand censorship of YouTube
- US Senate votes to protect financial giants from consumer lawsuits
- Worker killed in Indiana auto parts plant
- Quebec “clarifies” application of anti-Muslim law
- Did an undercover agent incite the Berlin Christmas Market attack?
- Australian government orders police raids on union offices
- Australia: Social devastation looms over Latrobe Valley
- Latrobe Valley residents: “The government is failing very badly”
- Kenyan election re-run exposed as a farce
- The far-right Alternative for Germany enters parliament
- Grenfell Fire Forum launches Facebook page
27 October 2017 (front page)
- As US moves to abolish estate tax, world’s billionaires pile up another $1 trillion
- Washington exploiting Green Beret deaths to escalate Africa intervention
- “I have no choice”: Trump bows to CIA pressure to withhold documents related to Kennedy assassination
- Madrid's talks with Catalan premier collapse as Spain threatens military rule
- European Central Bank to continue bond-buying program
- US immigration officials arrest 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy after surgery
- Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE calls public meetings to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution
- Trump declares opioid epidemic “will get worse before it gets better”
- AFL-CIO leaders offer demagogy, nationalism at convention in St. Louis
- Trump administration silences government environmental scientists
- Some Detroit-area residents left homeless after eviction from condemned low-income motel
- Trudeau courts Amazon CEO to locate its second headquarters in Canada
- Germany’s “Jamaica” coalition parties agree on debt brake, tax cuts and privatisation
- London: Public-private housing partnership to enforce social cleansing in Haringey Borough
- Australian troops sent to the Philippines despite end of Marawi siege
- Australian statistics show collapse in manufacturing, mounting jobs crisis
- On the eve of revolution: The Bolshevik Party, factory committees, and the mass movement of the working class
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Flint: How much of the social crime does the film present?
Lifetime movie on the water disaster will air October 28 - Free, high quality public education is a social right! Join the Committee For Public Education!
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
28 October 2017 (front page)
- America’s oligarchy: No money for opioid crisis, endless funds for corporate tax cuts
- Spain imposes military rule in Catalonia to preempt independence bid
- As protests mount against Madrid, Catalan parliament declares independence
- Newly released documents point to state cover-up and complicity in assassination of John F. Kennedy
- High Court disqualifies five MPs, demanding “single-minded loyalty” to Australia
- Memorial in Detroit for young autoworker who died in Ford plant
- Twitter bans RT and Sputnik from advertising
- Trump administration’s CMS head leads assault on Medicaid
- UN Ambassador Haley visits Africa amid US military escalation, social catastrophe
- Tillerson delivers stern warning to Pakistan
- Survey of UK nurses exposes staff crisis in National Health Service
- The Sri Lankan garbage disaster: A crime of capitalism
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Meeting in Sydney on December 17
100 years on: The significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution for today - Lessons of the CAMI autoworkers’ strike in Canada
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Apple iPhone workers protest in China
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 October 2017 (front page)
- Catalan Premier Puigdemont flees to Belgium as Spain asserts direct rule over Catalonia
- US masses ships and aircraft outside North Korea
- First indictment reported in Mueller probe of alleged Russian interference in 2016 election
- Hundreds mourn death of young Ford worker in Detroit
- With Amazon stock surge, Jeff Bezos becomes richest person in the world overnight
- Whitefish Energy profits in Puerto Rico from Trump administration connection
- US Appeals Court denies second hearing for US citizen falsely imprisoned by ICE officials
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With medical and health benefits cut
Palatine, Illinois school district support staff return to picket lines - Seven-month Spectrum strike in New York and New Jersey highlights assault on pensions
- Denim mill in Greensboro, North Carolina closes after 112 years
- German military builds training ground for civil war
- US, India push anti-China campaign at Sri Lankan maritime conference
- Cambodian government expels opposition party from parliament
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This week in the Russian Revolution
October 30-November 5: Bolsheviks marshal forces for the revolution - The US media and the Kennedy assassination documents: “Move along, nothing to see here”
- Art auction for Grenfell fire survivors raises £2 million
- Memories… Do Not Open by The Chainsmokers
31 October 2017 (front page)
- Three former Trump aides indicted as Washington political warfare intensifies
- EU backs Madrid’s imposition of authoritarian regime in Catalonia
- US congressional hearings on “extremist content” prepare assault on free speech
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Mattis, Tillerson testify before Senate committee
Bipartisan push for new US force resolution to rubber-stamp expanded war - CVS and Aetna reportedly in talks for $60 billion merger
- California: Car plows through immigration protesters outside US congressman’s office
- Burmese government continues persecution of Rohingya minority
- Nepali Stalinist parties form a new alliance
- Kenyan president declared winner in election re-run amid low turnout
- Haitian government in crisis as protests spread
- Early Queensland election points to political instability in Australia
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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test at the Art Institute of Chicago—an introductory comment
Russian Revolutionary art exhibition opened October 29 - US auto profits beat expectations despite softening sales
- Autoworkers take to social media to defend young Ford worker killed in apparent suicide
- Australia: Possible Woolworths strikes spark warnings of a broader wages movement
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Ontario college teachers hit by vehicles as strike continues
Workers Struggles: The Americas
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