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Archive: December 2018

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

1 December 2018 (front page)

• As G20 summit opens, US political establishment brays for trade war and military escalation
• Central American migrants facing horror on US border
• Special counsel, Democrats step up pressure on Trump over Russia, Assange
• Police repression in Buenos Aires for G20: a dress-rehearsal for dictatorship
• Three killed, eight injured in high speed US Border Patrol chase in southern California
• Video: Attend the December 9 meeting in Detroit to oppose the GM plant closures!
• CNN fires contributor accused of “anti-Semitism” for defending Palestinian rights
• Ukraine: Poroshenko declares martial law to crack down on political and social opposition
• Mexico’s Lopez Obrador embraces military on eve of presidential inauguration
• Merkel backs Ukrainian provocations against Russia
• Strikes and demonstrations shake France
• Catalonia rocked by a week of strikes against austerity

2 December 2018 (front page)

• “The union and Lear must think we are stupid”
  Indiana Lear auto parts workers vote down UAW sellout contract second time

1 December 2018 (front page)

• Locked-out ABI aluminum workers demonstrate in downtown Montreal
• At ABI workers’ protest, USW officials accost and threaten WSWS supporters
• Australian Labor Party helps disintegrating government impose repressive laws
• Thousands of Australian high school students join climate change strike
• New Zealand teachers’ struggle at a crossroads
• One million dead from suicide, drug overdoses since 2007
  Casualties of the social counterrevolution in America
• Attentive audience at David North’s Sydney launch of The Heritage We Defend
• I object—Ian Hislop’s search for dissent: An exhibition that eradicates socialist ideas and revolutionary action
  At the British Museum, London
• Last light for the Kepler space telescope
• India: Contract health workers remain on strike in Bihar; South Australian teachers strike over pay and conditions
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• UK: Cammell Laird shipyard workers strike against redundancies, Iran sugar and steel strike continues against pay arrears, South Africa’s Sibanye gold miners reject company/union pay deal
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Canadian and US autoworkers call for a united struggle against GM’s assault on jobs

3 December 2018 (front page)

• Support grows for December 9 Detroit meeting
  Autoworkers say fight necessary to stop GM plant closings, UAW betrayal
• The mass protests in France: A new stage in the international class struggle
• “The union and Lear must think we are stupid”
  Indiana Lear auto parts workers vote down UAW sellout contract second time
• G20 papers over differences as economic conflicts intensify
• Third “yellow vest” protest in France defies government crackdown
• Sri Lanka: Factional deadlock remains in lead up to Supreme Court ruling
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated as new president of Mexico
• United Steelworkers push through sellout contract at ArcelorMittal
• Public health expert speaks on the crisis of American healthcare
  Cases like Hedda Martin’s heart transplant denial “will continue to happen”
• Former Dallas cop indicted for murder of neighbor
• Electrical problems likely cause of Indiana house fire that killed six
• Bank of England warns “no-deal” Brexit would be worse than 2008 crash
  Labour pledges to rescue British capitalism
• German prosecutor’s office raids Deutsche Bank
• German trade union federation defends Hartz IV
• Australia: Newcastle participants in high school climate strike speak out
• A “kinder, gentler” imperialist butcher, dead at 94
  Media, political establishment laud George H. W. Bush
• Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren glorify the late President Bush
• Resolution of the SEP (UK) Fourth National Congress
  The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK): Part One
• “Well-paid journalists have become gormless cyphers of the propaganda of war”
  John Pilger discusses his “The Power of the Documentary” film festival
• This week in history: December 3-9

4 December 2018 (front page)

• High school students and ambulance drivers join ‘Yellow Vest’ protests in France
• López Obrador’s rise in Mexico sets stage for explosive class struggles
• Sri Lankan court blocks functioning of Rajapakse cabinet
• As industry analysts point to 25,000 Ford job cuts
  Ford workers denounce GM plant closings and layoffs
• Chicago charter teachers strike for increased pay, lower class sizes
• In wake of GM closure announcement, UAW and Democrats stoke nationalism
• Police and courts enforce Trudeau’s law criminalizing Canada Post strike
• San Diego workers and youth speak out in defense of refugees at US-Mexico border
• US and China put divergent spin on outcome of trade talks
• Oakland, California public schools face $60 million in cuts, state takeover
• Eighth New York City taxi driver suicide of 2018
• Fascist Vox party makes substantial gains in Andalusia elections
• While Modi touts India’s growth rate,
  Four jobless youths commit suicide
• Australia’s governing Liberal Party wracked by factional conflicts
• A serious response at Sydney meeting to mark 80 years of the Fourth International
• Resolution of the SEP (U K ) Fourth National Congress
  The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK): Part Two
• Submission: A college professor undone by sexual harassment allegations

5 December 2018 (front page)

• GM, Ford, Bayer, Bombardier
  Global investors demand escalation of class war on workers’ jobs and wages
• Mobilize the working class against Macron!
• Trade and recession fears hit Wall Street
• Republican senators say “zero question” Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi assassination
• Five years since Detroit bankruptcy
  Moody’s warns investors about Detroit’s mounting debt
• More people with mental illnesses seeking treatment from US emergency rooms
• Peru’s president prepares to attack workers’ living standards
• Britain’s highest paid CEO built fortune on online gambling
• The Maldives: Pro-US President Solih sworn in
• Australian government censors university research funding
• The Holocaust and the Bush family fortune
• French protests spark media demands for Facebook censorship
• Resolution of the SEP (UK) Fourth National Congress
  The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK): Part Three

6 December 2018 (front page)

• Washington’s ultimatum on INF treaty heightens threat of nuclear war
• The state funeral for George H. W. Bush and the ritual of oligarchy
• Sri Lankan plantation workers launch indefinite strike for 100 percent pay rise
• Ohio autoworkers back fight against plant closures
• “We stand with you because all of us are in the same fight”
  US autoworkers express class solidarity with French workers
• 1937: When Canadian and US autoworkers fought together
• Democrats, union tops seek to isolate Chicago charter teachers’ strike
• German chemical giant Bayer slashes 12,000 jobs
• Special Counsel sentencing memo on Flynn increases pressure on Trump
• The Guardian attack on Assange exposed as politically-motivated fabrication
• Parliamentary debate on Brexit deal begins after three defeats for May government
• Jaffna (Sri Lanka) meeting celebrates 80th anniversary of the Fourth International
• Hackers reveal British government’s interference in Spanish politics
• Mexico’s new president to grant amnesty to those who profited from corruption
• Australian government to impose encryption-cracking bill with Labor’s support
• Sully at George H.W. Bush’s funeral: Washington goes to the dogs
• France's “yellow vest” protests expose Jean-Luc Mélenchon's pro-capitalist populism
• Socialist Equality Party opposes RMT rail union sellout at Liverpool meeting
• The Front Runner: An American political scandal
  And Widows, Bohemian Rhapsody
• Resolution of the SEP (UK) Fourth National Congress
  The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (UK)

7 December 2018 (front page)

• At Washington’s behest
  Canada arrests top Chinese executive for “sanctions busting”
• Huawei executive Meng’s arrest sparks market turbulence
• Lordstown, Ohio workers condemn GM’s planned factory closures
• Sri Lankan president uses executive powers to run government
• Former US State and Defense Department officials discuss prospects for nuclear war
• Ecuadorian president hints again at moves to renege on Julian Assange’s asylum
• Japanese police detain Zengakuren activists for nearly three weeks
• The German Christian Democrats elect a new leader
• Chicago charter teacher strike continues, as unions announce backing for Democratic machine politician
• “Multiple families have been displaced and the city and government, no one has done a damn thing for them”
  Three months after Chicago house fire that killed ten children
• Hundreds of thousands of low-income New Yorkers excluded from mayor’s affordable housing plan
• UK: Labour Students leadership and Zionists extend witch-hunt of Chris Williamson MP
• National Health Service workers among increasing users of food banks in Britain
• More warnings of an Australian property market crash
• The demonstrations in France and the global class struggle
• A quarter-century since the release of Steven Spielberg’s film
  The achievement of Schindler’s List
• German Left Party denounces “Yellow Vest” protests
• 15,000 South African miners at Sybanye Stillwater still out; UK rail and shipbuilders strike; Turkish cosmetic workers strike passes 200 days
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

8 December 2018 (front page)

• French government threatens bloody crackdown on “yellow vest” protest
• As Dow drops another 560 points
  Wall Street Journal warns of stock “stampede”
• “A serious fightback will only develop through action initiated by the rank-and-file workers”
  GM Oshawa workers speak out against plant closure
• “The fight against plant closures should be seen as a fight of all workers”
  Students across the US declare their support for autoworkers
• Sri Lankan plantation strike: Abbotsleigh workers march to demand action committees and socialist policies
• Teachers strike in South Australia and Tasmania
• In another shot across the White House’s bow
  Mueller lauds former Trump lawyer Cohen for providing “useful and relevant” information
• Sudden closure of for-profit Education Corporation of America leaves 20,000 students without an education
• New York University faculty defends academic freedom against NYU’s ties to UAE
• Still no justice as phase one of Grenfell Tower fire inquiry closes
• UK: University and College Union seeks to demobilise pay dispute
• The kidnapping of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou
• 80th anniversary of the Fourth International celebrated in Melbourne with public lecture
• Jacobin urges readers to “log off” social media
• Debra Ann Washington Miller–A fighter for the working class
  January 18, 1952–December 1, 2018
• Maria by Callas: A documentary on the life of the famed opera singer
• Pakistan municipal workers protest for outstanding wages; Sri Lankan housing workers fight layoffs; New Zealand teachers reject new pay offer
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

9 December 2018 (front page)

• France’s “yellow vest” protesters brave repression and mass arrests

10 December 2018 (front page)

• China summons American ambassador over detention of Huawei executive
• Which way forward for France’s “yellow vest” protests?
• The “yellow vests”: A movement of workers against social inequality
• No to the persecution of Eric Drouet
• German workers express solidarity with “yellow vest” protests in France
• Canada-China relations sour after Ottawa kidnaps Huawei executive
• Another house fire erupts in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood
• Spain: Rightist parties mull government role for fascist Vox in Andalusia
• Australia: Thousands protest climate change and new Adani coal mine
• White House turmoil deepens after Kelly firing
• Neo-Nazi convicted for murdering antiracist protester in Charlottesville, Virginia
• Oakland, California teachers hold wildcat “sickout”
• Jeffrey Epstein case exposes how US justice works for the rich
• German Christian Democrats select Merkel’s favoured candidate as party leader
• Huffington Post renews smear campaign against UK Professor Piers Robinson
• Indian workers face slave-like conditions in Sri Lanka
• Detroit public meeting resolves to organize fight against General Motors plant closures
• In name of fighting fascism, ISO promotes class collaboration and Democratic Party
• Protest at Whitney Museum in New York calls for ouster of trustee who owns tear gas firm
• This week in history: December 10-16

11 December 2018 (front page)

• Another day, another horror in America: Five children killed in Youngstown, Ohio, house fire
• Egypt bans yellow vest sales as French protesters reject Macron’s concessions
• UK workers, young people defend Yellow Vest protests in France: “I only wish that we could do it here as well!”
• Turmoil on Wall Street continues
• Democrats begin open discussion of impeachment
• Outrage spreads over video showing police ripping child from mother’s arms at Brooklyn food stamp office
• May delays Brexit vote while Corbyn refuses to move no confidence motion
• UK government’s role in anti-Corbyn campaign exposed
• Sri Lankan plantation companies reject workers’ wage demand
• Brazilian auto workers denounce union blackout of GM’s planned factory closures
• Chicago teacher union shuts down charter school strike, holds rally for Democratic candidates
• “Our action is part of a broader fight for education”
  Teachers in Oakland, California speak out at wildcat demonstrations
• Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko tours Washington to garner support for presidential bid
• Demonstrations in Bolivia hit court decision allowing Evo Morales to run for fourth term
• Japanese government rams through new immigration law
• Australian university moves to sack academic critical of Israeli and US wars
• David North addresses New Zealand meeting celebrating 80 years of the Fourth International
• Autoworkers at Detroit public meeting: “Rank-and-file committees of the working class are the answer”
• Oklahoma Republicans demand the abolition of public schools
• Icebox: The US government locks up children
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
  Chilean public workers and airline workers strike

12 December 2018 (front page)

• General Motors could shut more plants in US, threatening more than 6,000 jobs
• Political warfare in Washington escalates to crisis of capitalist rule
• Mass layoffs threatened at European GM and Ford plants
• Hyundai, Kia workers strike in South Korea in opposition to attacks on wages
• High school students protest in Paris against French government’s education reforms
• UK: May faces possible leadership contest after seeking concessions from EU on Brexit
• US-Russia tensions mount over warplanes in Venezuela
• World leaders converge on Poland for climate summit
• Trump threatens to use military to fund border wall
• Canada subjects Huawei executive to onerous bail terms pending outcome of US extradition case
• Four years after Eric Garner’s death, killer cop faces NYPD disciplinary hearing
• UK unions call off strikes against redundancies at Cammell Laird shipyard
• Witch hunt in Australia against Chinese-born parliamentarian
• Resolution to the Detroit meeting against GM plant closures
  No to GM plant closings! Mobilize the working class to stop layoffs and concessions!

13 December 2018 (front page)

• Mass shooting in Strasbourg kills 3, wounds 12 before “yellow vest” protest
• UK: May staggers on as more than a third of Tory MPs oppose her
• Democrats downplay Google censorship at congressional hearing
• German daily accuses Macron of surrender to “yellow mob”
• German army to acquire new tank battalion
• Sri Lankan plantation workers defy union and continue to strike
• Ford executives in Argentina convicted on 1970s torture charges
• Caterpillar to close plant in Joliet, Illinois
• Limited movement in US-China trade talks
• Huawei executive’s arrest provokes anti-US protests in China
• Russian workers strike against social misery and austerity
• Australian Amazon worker alleges unfair dismissal
• Hundreds of residential tower blocks around UK still clad in flammable material
• Peruvian voters approve referendum proposals touted as answer to corruption
• A significant step forward: Detroit meeting of autoworkers resolves to form rank-and-file committees
• “This meeting is a powerful expression of the growing opposition of the working class”
  Report to Detroit meeting to fight GM plant closings
• Time magazine honors journalists facing repression—but snubs Julian Assange
• The Australian Labor Party and the persecution of Julian Assange
• Wildlife: American dreams and discouragement
  And Can You Ever Forgive Me?

14 December 2018 (front page)

• Trump’s war on immigrants
  Nearly 15,000 children held in detention camps across the US
• Legal noose tightens around Trump
• “Five Eyes” intelligence agencies behind drive against Chinese telecom giant Huawei
• Sri Lankan Supreme Court rules against President Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament
• Germany: Ford announces massive job cuts at its Saarlouis plant
• Nightmare odyssey of an American autoworker
  A Chrysler worker’s 15-year fight to win her job back
• North Carolina state election board alleges fraud by Republican campaign aide
• Over 4,000 Kaiser Permanente mental health workers on limited strike in California
• Julian Assange denounces his illegal detention in Ecuadorian embassy
• After 89 days, trade unions sell out historic strike in Costa Rica
• Unions call off general strike in Catalonia
• Second phase of Grenfell inquiry delayed for a year
• Britain's NHS denies life-saving treatment to migrants
• Indian state elections show mounting social anger against ruling Hindu-supremacist BJP
• Australian Labor Party prepares for government amid political and economic turmoil
• Israel rolls out the welcome mat for Europe’s neo-fascists
• Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 1
• Ex-1968 student leader Cohn-Bendit denounces French “yellow vest” protests
• The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
• Greenland ice sheet melting at an accelerating rate due to global warming
• Los Angeles teachers and the fight for social equality
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

15 December 2018 (front page)

• The death of Jackeline Caal: A seven-year-old victim of Trump’s war on immigrants
• French state prepares crackdown for fifth Saturday of “yellow vest” protests
• Sri Lankan plantation workers end strike action under protest
• Fighting reported in Yemeni port, despite cease-fire
• Australian workers and youth speak out in defence of Julian Assange
• Form rank-and-file committees to advance the fight!
  UAW attempts third sellout contract at northwest Indiana Lear auto parts plants
• US Navistar workers to vote again on contract after 98 percent “no” vote
• Union isolates Cambria hotel workers in Chicago as British Columbia and Los Angeles hotel employees protest
• Number of UK households in energy debt increases by 300,000, owing nearly £400 million
• “Lefts” ensure stage-managed Australian Labor Party conference
• Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
• China’s economic slowdown: The political issues confronting the working class
• Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 2
• In Defense of Leon Trotsky presented at Moscow Book Fair
• Bodyguard: A political thriller in six episodes from the UK
• Pakistan police attack dock workers’ march; Sri Lanka Telecom workers demonstrate over poor conditions; Tigerair pilots vote to strike in Australia
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

17 December 2018 (front page)

• Mass demonstration by Los Angeles teachers
• Sri Lankan president reinstates sacked prime minister
• Fifth French “yellow vest” protest opposes Macron government
• Democrats, media silent on child’s death at US border
• Federal judge in Texas rules Affordable Care Act unconstitutional
• Trump appoints budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting White House chief of staff
• New York City school therapists protest for changes to union-backed contract
• The international significance of the Sri Lankan plantation workers’ strike
• West Virginia: Task force concludes without a “fix” for public workers’ insurance
• Coal mine rescue brings to light desperate social conditions in West Virginia
• Hundreds attend vigil for victims of Youngstown, Ohio house fire
• UK: “Stansted 15” anti-deportation protesters found guilty of terrorism charges
• Grenfell fire: Local resident and Grenfell Action Group member, Joe Delaney, gives harrowing account to inquiry of night of fire
• MSF reveals “mental health suffering” in Australia’s Nauru refugee detention camp
• Australian Labor Party leaders warn of rising popular discontent
• The global crisis of capitalist rule and the strategy of socialist revolution
• Student parliament condemns right-wing attack on IYSSE meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin
• Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 3
• Corbyn, Brexit and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Europe
• Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma: Art and struggle
• This week in history: December 17-23

18 December 2018 (front page)

• Financial market fall accelerates on global growth fears
• The disinformation campaign behind the allegations of Russian “disinformation”
• Bombings kill 62 in Somalia amid escalating US scramble for Africa
• Los Angeles teachers and supporters speak out at mass rally
  “We don’t want the wars, we don’t want the prisons, we want that money to go to students who need it”
• Sri Lanka: Action committee of Abbotsleigh Estate workers holds inaugural meeting
• Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court refuses to hear SEP’s legal action against May Day meeting ban
• “My union president acts as if he owns us. Like we’re his property.”
  Indiana Lear worker denounces UAW effort to push through sellout deal on third vote
• “I think the whole shipping business is a little corrupt”
  Amazon worker wrongfully fired for theft reveals company’s dead-end appeal system
• Rohini Hensman’s Indefensible: The ISO discovers its muse—the CIA—Part 4
• Protests against new labour law in Hungary
• SEP meeting attendees speak out in defence of Julian Assange
• Massive collapse of UK housing built for “social rent” in last decade
• Australian Labor Party to boost police-military operations to block refugees
• Parti de l’égalité socialiste holds Paris meeting on “yellow vest” protests
• SEP (Australia) meeting announces rallies in defence of Julian Assange
• Ontario Tories to block power workers strike; Mexican teachers strike to demand bonus
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

19 December 2018 (front page)

• Rising homelessness: The reality of life for workers in a “booming” US economy
• The working class and the environmental crisis
• Central American asylum seekers forced to wait for months at US-Mexico border
• Woman convicted for climbing Statue of Liberty to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant policies
• Over massive opposition
  UAW announces contract ratification at northwest Indiana Lear auto parts plants
• UPS workers describe company reign of terror in wake of Teamsters sellout
• Police break up Amazon workers’ protest over oppressive conditions
• Brazilian GM workers discuss call for rank-and-file committees
• Fascist cell uncovered in German police force
• Troops to be deployed in case of no-deal Brexit
• General practitioners abandoning Britain’s National Health Service
• Canada’s media foments anti-China campaign after Meng arrest
• Australian Labor Party steps up commitment to US alliance in “disrupted world”
• Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees on remote island
• Actor Geoffrey Rush denies new #MeToo-inspired claims of “inappropriate” behaviour
• Nancy Wilson (1937-2018), an extraordinary singer who will be missed
• Russian television’s Trotsky serial: A degraded spectacle of historical falsification and anti-Semitism

20 December 2018 (front page)

• Trump’s Syrian withdrawal order sparks political firestorm in Washington
• Turkey threatens to invade Syria amid tensions with Washington
• US media demands stepped-up domestic spying over Russian “meddling”
  New York Times: Back to the good days before Edward Snowden!
• Sharp fall on Wall Street in response to Fed interest rate decision
• The New York Times targets McKinsey for doing business with China and Russia
• Brutal crackdown on West Bank as Netanyahu pledges stepped-up land grab
• At meeting on GM plant closings, DSA covers for UAW and Democrats
• The US hails Wickremesinghe’s reinstatement as Sri Lankan prime minister
• UK workers’ wages slashed by as much as a third in last decade
• Trump intervenes on behalf of confessed war criminal Mathew Golsteyn
• US Senate passes bipartisan criminal justice bill
• Steelworker killed at plant in Granite City, Illinois
• Columbia College faculty union convenes secret tribunal to discipline members
• Ontario Conservatives ban impending power workers’ strike
• Australian union leader warns of eruption of working class struggle
• A closer look at American “democracy”
• Neo-Nazi network in the German police force
• Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
  Part one
• The bicentenary of Frederick Douglass
  A leading figure of the anti-slavery struggle
• French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

21 December 2018 (front page)

• Defense Secretary Mattis resigns amid Washington backlash over Syria troop withdrawal
• Trump administration to immediately deport new Central American asylum seekers to Mexico
• US steps up offensive against China with more “hacking charges”
• UAW official sentenced in bribery scheme as noose tightens on top union leaders
• Workers in South Australian city devastated by GM plant closure support US autoworkers’ struggle
• “We had two people die on the line this year”
  Faurecia auto parts worker in Saline, Michigan describes appalling work regime
• Sri Lanka: Abbotsleigh tea plantation workers speak out against harsh living and working conditions
• UK government announces draconian Brexit immigration policy and deployment of troops
• Trump administration to immediately deport new Central American asylum seekers to Mexico
• Anti-government protests continue in Hungary
• Spain: Socialist Party government mounts a provocation in Catalonia
• US and Mexican governments agree on new Central American “Marshall Plan”
• ICAC raids Labor Party office in major escalation of anti-China campaign in Australia
• Australia: Understaffing and equipment shortages at new Sydney public-private hospital
• Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
  Part two
• South Africa Sibanye miners’ strike made illegal
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

22 December 2018 (front page)

• 800,000 US federal workers hit by partial government shutdown
• The resignation of General Mattis and America’s crisis of class rule
• Trump administration tightens work requirements for food stamps
• Fed attempt at calming markets fails
  Wall Street plunge continues
• Malaysia files charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB scandal
• Demands surge for Britain to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
• “Amazon ruined my life”
  Amazon hired private detectives to spy on injured worker
• Echoing Trump, Unifor pleads for GM to cut Mexican auto jobs
• UPS worker dies of heart attack; UPS Freight lays off part-timers over holidays
  Workplace nightmare after Teamsters sellout
• Protests in Portugal and Catalonia met with police repression amid rising wave of strikes
• UK: Half of Royal College of Nursing leadership re-elected after being forced out
• Frente Amplio and Piñera government in Chile suppress 36-day dockworkers’ strike
• Factional acrimony continues as Sri Lankan president appoints new cabinet
• Australian Labor Party rejects demands to increase unemployment benefits

23 December 2018 (front page)

• Holiday schedule announcement

22 December 2018 (front page)

• Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
  Part three
• Her photos shed light on history: The outstanding work of photographer Maria Austria (1915-75)
• Land record officers strike in Indian state of Punjab; Bangladesh garment workers strike continues; Australian ferry drivers walkout again in Brisbane.
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

24 December 2018 (front page)

• At least 280 dead as tsunami hits Indonesian settlements
• US government shutdown may extend into January
• European powers condemn Trump’s withdrawal from Syria
• French “yellow vest” protesters mount pre-Christmas protest against Macron
• Commercy “yellow vest” protesters hold second Popular Assembly
• Autoworkers at JLR and Vauxhalls UK face thousands of job losses
• Nissan to lay off 1,000 Mexican autoworkers
• Virginia teachers plan statewide protest to demand school funding
• January 10 strike date set for 33,000 Los Angeles teachers
• Meeting on Oakland school closure expresses hostility to attacks on public education
• Blackwater mercenary convicted of first-degree murder in Iraq massacre
• Union shuts down manufacturing workers strike in Wisconsin
• A tale of two cities: Grenfell Tower and the “ultra-luxury” lives of the super-rich
• RMT union cancels three strikes on London Underground
• As Australian government unravels, Labor prepares to take office
• New Zealand government calls for greater US military presence in the Pacific
• Trump administration in question as political warfare in Washington intensifies
• Yet another murder that wasn’t: The Perepilichny case and the anti-Russia campaign
• Mary Queen of Scots and The Favourite: The unimpressive recent results of “women in film”
• This week in history: December 24-30

27 December 2018 (front page)

• Trump stages visit to Iraq amid mounting crisis over Syria troop withdrawal
• Wild swings on Wall Street
• Federal workers thrown into crisis by US government shutdown
• Federal worker: “Democrats are just as eager as Republicans to victimize immigrants”
• Israel’s Netanyahu calls early election amid corruption charges
• Israeli premier demands German government stop funding Jewish Museum Berlin
• Death toll rises from Indonesian tsunami
• “I decided that something was wrong with the world and not me”
  College loan debt and the life of an adjunct professor
• Residents defend immigrant workers after ICE raids Indiana restaurants, arrests five
• Germany’s Der Spiegel spreads fake news
• UK: Denial of access to justice following Legal Aid cuts
• Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan plans to demolish 8,000 council homes
• NSW Ambulance makes stunning reversal of allegation against Australian paramedic Tony Jenkins
• The death of Felipe Alonzo-Gómez: A crime of US imperialism
• The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
  The RCL/SEP’s political struggle against the LSSP’s betrayal
• Moon targeted for further exploration, orbiting space stations and militarization
• New postings in Urdu on capitalist breakdown and war, France’s Yellow Vest protests

28 December 2018 (front page)

• Protests erupt in Tunisia after self-immolation of journalist Abderrazak Zorgui
• Federal agents release more than 1,000 immigrants in El Paso, Texas
• Right-wing rampage in Michigan, Wisconsin lame duck sessions
• UAW, Democrats seek to block struggle by workers against GM plant shutdowns
• Teamsters union releases new sellout contracts for 15,000 Midwest UPS workers
• Australian Greens riven by factional conflicts as MP resigns
• Social crisis worsens under New Zealand Labour Party-led government
• Trump’s visit to Iraq and Washington’s never-ending war in the Middle East
• Actor Kevin Spacey releases defiant video: “It’s never that simple, not in politics and not in life”
• The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
  The RCL/SEP’s struggle against the anti-Tamil civil war
• Remembering the Kindertransport: 80 years since 10,000 mainly Jewish children were allowed in to Britain
  Until February 10, 2019 at the Jewish Museum London
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
  Fight by rail guards at UK rail franchises continues

29 December 2018 (front page)

• Impact on workers, services spreads as US shutdown enters second week
• Dozens killed in protests against austerity and repression in Sudan
• University authorities suppress student protest in China
• Syrian government troops deployed to flashpoint city of Manbij
• Japan plans for massive military build-up aimed at China
• A wild week on Wall Street
• Thousands face loss of mental health coverage in the US
• Chicago ZF chassis plant to close, lay off 261 workers
• Government-named arbitrator to dictate Canada Post workers’ contract
• UK: Investigation into Grenfell fire will “take years, not months,” police say
• Facebook: The global censor
• Academics and students oppose Cambridge University appointment of eugenicist Noah Carl—Part 1
• France’s “yellow vest” protests and the fraud of Mélenchon’s “citizens revolution”
• Vice: A portrait of an American corporate-military gangster
• The 50th anniversary of the founding of the SEP (Sri Lanka)
  Victory of the Trotskyists in the 1985–1986 split in the ICFI
• One million Indian bank workers strike; tens of thousands of Korean taxi drivers protest
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

31 December 2018 (front page)

• Opioid overdose deaths triple among US teens and young children
• Trump orders freeze in federal salaries as shutdown reaches ten days
• Strike looms in Los Angeles as struggles by educators set to continue in 2019
• Teacher unions in Washington state back Democrats’ regressive school taxes
• “That place is a death trap”
  Faurecia workers respond to exposure of conditions at US auto parts plant
• India: Stalinist unions suppress Tamil Nadu auto strikes, promise “industrial peace”
• US intelligence think tank conducted “false flag” operation impersonating Russian election interference
• One year since Trump’s tax cuts: a balance sheet
  Stock buybacks reach $1 trillion
• 5,147 workers died at work in the United States in 2017
• Facing possible liquidation, Sears to close 80 more stores in March
• FCC to launch investigation of CenturyLink following US-wide 911 outage
• UK: Cross-party moves escalate to prevent Brexit and secure second referendum
• German AfD parliamentarian joins weapons drill of far-right group in South Africa
• Amid widespread violence, Bangladesh’s ruling party re-elected
• South Australian university partners with US defense contractor Lockheed Martin
• Amid global crackdown on refugees
  One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countries
• Der Spiegel’s counterfeit journalism and the campaign against “fake news”
• French “yellow vest” protests expose anti-worker role of New Anticapitalist Party
• Academics and students oppose Cambridge University appointment of eugenicist Noah Carl—Part 2
• Ten years since Canada’s constitutional coup
• Best film and television of 2018
• Musical highlights of 2018
• This week in history: December 31-January 6