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– A working class program to fight inflation
– Sri Lankan prime minister delivers menacing speech against working class
– Pakistan’s new prime minister promises “paradise” for investors, as mass anger over price hikes, joblessness grows
– EU and Germany supply heavy weaponry to Kiev to “force a defeat of Russia”
– A socialist program of action for the working class to oppose war and fight COVID-19 and austerity
– Why did Mélenchon retire after nearly reaching the French presidential runoff?
– Stalinist PCF wiped out after lackluster French presidential campaign
– The reactionary hate campaign in Germany against Russia
– Scottish National Party joins anti-Russia war chorus and embraces NATO
– US orders non-emergency staff out of Shanghai consulate as a provocation against Zero-COVID policy
– UK Tories say “not the moment” for Johnson’s resignation after PM is fined for lockdown breach
– Subway shooting in Brooklyn seized on by New York mayor to boost law-and-order campaign
– Sibelius Violin Competition expels Russian performers
– NATO Secretary-general calls for “transformation” of NATO into a fighting force against Russia and China
– US-NATO arming Ukraine for military offensive against Russia signals a massive and dangerous escalation
– Unanswered questions about the Kramatorsk missile strike
– Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North
– A letter to a friend on the historical and political background to the war in Ukraine
– Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war
– The New York Times, war crimes and the Nuremberg precedent
– The Bucha atrocity allegations: A pretext for escalating NATO’s war against Russia
– No to Macron and Le Pen! For an active boycott of the 2022 French elections!
– Race versus class at Howard University: $20 million for Hannah-Jones’ racialist journalism center
– The political issues in the Governor Whitmer kidnap plot verdict
– Oppose Twitter’s act of censorship against George Galloway!
– Spanish Morenoite CRT covers for Podemos’ war drive against Russia
– In warmongering speech, Biden lines up trade unions for US-NATO proxy war against Russia
– Bring down Sri Lanka’s Rajapakse government! Abolish the executive presidency! No to austerity and starvation! Form action committees to fight for a socialist program of action to secure food, fuel and medicines for all!
– Family of 14-year-old boy who died at Orlando, Florida amusement park plans to file lawsuit as evidence of recklessness, endangerment surface
– German press seizes upon claims of Russian atrocities to demand military escalation
– Health care expert Gregory Travis speaks on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, misinformation and the cover-up of data
– Video: David Berger, a remote area general practioner in northern Australia, endorses Global Inquest into COVID-19 pandemic
– Australian junior doctor speaks to the Global Inquest on the conditions in ICU
– New Zealand student with Long COVID denounces abandonment of public health measures
– English language instructor in China speaks to the Global Workers Inquest about the Zero COVID program
– Australian respiratory scientist speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest
– Michigan health care worker shares experiences with the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
– Medical student at UK’s Cardiff University speaks to the Global Workers’ Inquest
– Disability patient testifies to Global Workers’ Inquest into COVID-19: “The pandemic is a mass-disabling event”
– Police launch criminal investigation into kickback scandal involving Unifor ex-president Jerry Dias
– Howard University Hospital health care workers hold day-long strike against wage cuts, unsafe staffing
– Oil refinery workers in Southampton, UK mount one day strike at ExxonMobil
– Southern California and Texas grocery workers outraged over being denied time to study full contract details before voting
– Unifor bullies 900 Ontario grocery warehouse workers into accepting sellout contract
– Australia: New South Wales bus drivers strike for 24 hours
– Sweden: Only 11 individual working days lost to strikes and lockouts in 2021
– Los Angeles County workers at crossroads as union pushes concessions contract
– Workers Struggles: The Americas
– International Monetary Fund agrees minimal loan for Lebanon amid potential social and political meltdown
– Tunisian president assumes dictatorial powers amid deepening social unrest
– Prime Minister Naftali Bennett puts Israel on a war footing against the Palestinians
– Blinken moves to bring Middle East allies behind US/NATO war on Russia
– Iran’s attack on Irbil confirms widening of US/Russia conflict to the Middle East
– Saudi monarchy executes 81 men in one day: Medieval barbarism from top US ally in Mideast
– US steals billions in Afghan bank funds
– War threat escalates as Israel strikes Syrian army targets
– US claims assassination of ISIS leader in Syria
– Buffalo police officers who assaulted 75-year-old during 2020 George Floyd protest reinstated
– New York state budget—millions for the rich, lengthy jail time for the poor
– Texas District Attorney reverses on indictment of woman arrested for “fetal homicide”
– Autoworkers furious over Stellantis plan to lay off hundreds in Detroit
– Family of 14-year-old boy who died at Orlando, Florida amusement park plans to file lawsuit as evidence of recklessness, endangerment surface
– Teamsters to do nothing after inquiry documents Canadian Pacific’s responsibility for fatal Field, B.C., derailment
– No charges for Minneapolis police officer who killed Amir Locke during no-knock raid
– Billionaire Elon Musk buys his way onto Twitter’s board of directors
– Canada commits to purchase F-35 fighter jets, vows massive defence spending hike in April 7 budget
– The Worst Person in the World: A young woman in Oslo finds herself
– Sibelius Violin Competition expels Russian performers
– For the Many—The Vienna Chamber of Labour: The situation facing Austrian workers
– The Eyes of Tammy Faye: A far cry from Elmer Gantry
– Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes: New poems by Nicky Beer
– Ukraine’s Zelensky at the Grammy awards and the promotion of US war aims
– Flee: The animated portrait of an Afghan refugee
– IDLES’ Crawler: Intriguing musical effort at odds with its own imagery
– The Silent Forest—Ghosts from the past
– Media charlatan Ashish Jha takes the helm of Biden’s COVID-19 response team
– Union helps university managements reopen Australian campuses as COVID-19 resurges
– Activision Blizzard workers walk out over vaccine mandate rollback
– Chinese health officials seem to make progress in the struggle against BA.2 in Shanghai
– Thailand risks 50,000 daily cases after Songkran Festival super-spreader
– Australian governments plan to scrap COVID-19 mitigations as cases pass five million
– Sixth wave of pandemic underway in Canada as governments dismantle COVID reporting and last protective measures
– UK doctors surgeries forced to close doors to all but urgent care needs
– New Zealand’s leading health officials resign as COVID deaths mount
– Exploding food and energy prices in Germany: “It’s a disaster”
– UK: Martin Lewis and Sir Michael Marmot warn of “humanitarian calamity” and “civil unrest”
– Macron, neo-fascist Le Pen advance to runoff in French presidential election
– UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson stakes his claim as Europe’s top warmonger
– Victor Orbán wins fourth election victory, remains Hungarian prime minister
– German coalition government adopts far-right AfD’s coronavirus policy
– German government and IG Metall celebrate opening of Tesla factory in Grünheide
– Germany’s war of retribution against Russia
– Record inflation is driving mass poverty in Germany
– New Zealand challenges Solomon Islands’ sovereignty over agreement with China
– Nation-wide strike of Sri Lankan public employees demands president’s resignation
– Sri Lankans demonstrate in Australia to demand President Rajapakse resigns
– Australian prime minister begins election campaign with a big lie on COVID
– Crisis election begins in Australia as major parties suppress discussion of key issues facing working class
– Sri Lankans in New Zealand join global protests against Rajapakse government
– Budget cuts to deepen in Australian universities
– Australia pushes for stepped-up NATO confrontation with China
– Sri Lanka still has no finance minister amid continuing anti-government protests
– University of Kansas professor Franklin Tao convicted on concocted evidence
– In warmongering speech, Biden lines up trade unions for US-NATO proxy war against Russia
– The political issues in the Governor Whitmer kidnap plot verdict
– Trump endorses “America First” politicians at North Carolina rally
– Grand Rapids police officer killed Congolese refugee Patrick Lyoya, 26
– Oklahoma legislature passes bill banning almost all abortions, makes performing one a felony
– Senate confirms Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson with only three Republican votes
– Trump-appointed federal judge acquits January 6 insurrectionist on all counts
– Trump hosts Republican politicians, financiers, co-conspirators at premiere of election conspiracy film
– This week in history: April 11-17
– Forty years after the Malvinas/Falklands War: How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism
– How the Democratic Party prepared the war in Ukraine
– Exhibition at the German-Russian Museum in Berlin: “Postscript—‘Eastern Workers’ in the German Reich”
– Russian court rejects appeal by historian Yuri Dmitriev, upholds 15-year prison sentence
– An unoriginal hagiography of the Democratic Party: Michael Kazin’s What it Took to Win
– Historians capitulate to war propaganda over Ukraine
– This week in history: April 4-10
– Chilean court sentences military personnel for burning alive student protesters in 1986
– Bank of International Settlements chief says new era of inflation has begun
– Profiting off of the pandemic, CEO pay increased to record levels in 2021 while workers’ wages fell
– US corporate profits, CEO pay surged in 2021 while inflation slashed real wages
– Conflict over Russian demand for payments in roubles
– Wall Street bonuses surge to record high
– Commodity markets in turmoil
– US Fed targets wage demands as it lifts interest rate
– Nickel crisis points to fragility of global finance
– European Central Bank moves to tighten monetary policy
– Labor-Greens bury Assange’s plight ahead of Australian federal election
– Julian Assange marries Stella Moris in London’s Belmarsh prison
– Assange supporters speak outside his Belmarsh prison wedding
– Australian establishment responds to latest UK judicial travesty against Assange with a stony silence
– UK Supreme Court refuses Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to US
– Sri Lankan action committee holds a successful online meeting in defence of Julian Assange
– UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer speaks on book, The Trial of Julian Assange
– Sri Lankan action committee to hold a public meeting in defence of Julian Assange
– Assange granted leave to appeal to UK Supreme Court against extradition
– Workers and youth condemn Facebook censorship of Socialist Equality Party’s anti-war video
– Socialist Equality Party discusses building an anti-war movement with UK workers
– Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE holds well attended online meeting against US-NATO war drive and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
– Sri Lanka: SEP/IYSSE meeting participants denounce US-NATO war and Russian invasion of Ukraine
– Terry Telfer, educator and socialist (1947–2022)
– Reactions in Germany to the webinar: “Fight Covid! Save Lives! Stop the Drive to World War III!”
– SEP (Australia) meeting on NSW nurses strike provokes lively discussion on role of unions, fight against pandemic
– Interview with late American Trotskyist autoworker Jim Lawrence
– Jim Lawrence, American autoworker and longtime Trotskyist, dies at age 83: A life dedicated to the fight for socialism
– Peruvian government deploys army, locks down Lima, then rescinds order as cost-of-living protests swell
– Chilean court sentences military personnel for burning alive student protesters in 1986
– Strikes sweep Brazil as prices soar
– Peru imposes mandatory school attendance as COVID risks rise
– Peruvian transport carriers end road blockages as giant copper mines remain shut down
– Bolsonaro’s Russia trip highlights rising geopolitical tensions in South America
– Brazil’s return to classrooms fills pediatric ICUs
– Victoria Nuland in Colombia: Is Washington plotting another coup?
– Strikes, protests engulf Haitian capital as workers demand higher wages, better conditions
– Education workers outraged by hard-right Ford government’s removal of mask mandate in Ontario’s schools
– UK schools in crisis as COVID surges, with cases highest among youngest and unvaccinated
– Seattle students walk out in protest over dropping of mask requirements
– West Coast schools remove mask mandates as US child deaths from COVID-19 continue to mount
– San Mateo County Community College District students and faculty speak out against unsafe return to campus
– Germany: What next in the fight against the herd immunity policy?
– Increasing COVID cases on UK university campuses as all restrictions lifted
– Parents and teachers in Germany support students protesting mass infection pandemic policy
– Australian teacher speaks out against reckless reopening of schools
– Stop censoring the opponents of war!
– Six years of Chris Hedges’ On Contact program erased by YouTube
– Whistleblower testimony launches bipartisan campaign for Facebook censorship
– US seizes PressTV.com and 32 other Iranian media website domains
– Why is the World Socialist Web Site still blacklisted on the Reddit r/coronavirus and r/politics forums?
– Stop the censorship of COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones!
– Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones granted whistleblower status
– “Badass Teachers” Facebook group administrators uphold ban on WSWS writer Evan Blake
– The New York Times 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: History as the emanation of race
– An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
– Historian Jack Rakove on American history writing and the falsifications of the 1619 Project and its defenders
– The New York Times’ Jake Silverstein concocts “a new origin story” for the 1619 Project
– Woody Holton retreats from Dunmore Proclamation claims in “historians’ debate” with Gordon Wood
– Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer to take position at Howard University, backed by millions in foundation funding
– 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones granted tenure after weeks of media furor
– A letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education on the World Socialist Web Site, Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project
– Introduction to The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
– To end climate change, war and the pandemic, take up the fight for world socialism!
– Australian high school students denounce major parties at climate rallies
– IYSSE (Australia) meeting against war provokes lively discussion
– Seattle students walk out in protest over dropping of mask requirements
– University of Michigan social work students strike to win pay for internships
– Over 600 students at Australian National University test COVID-positive one week after return to campus
– “The US has been at war the entirety of our lives”—Students in the US denounce warmongering against Russia
– IYSSE wins support at Australian university orientations from students opposed to war, “herd immunity” policies
– Young workers in Australia speak on dire working conditions amid pandemic
– Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
– Climate change is triggering a humanitarian crisis, UN report finds
– James Webb Space Telescope completes second month of commissioning, accomplishing many key steps
– Fossilized dinosaur egg discovered to have fully-intact remains of oviraptor embryo
– E.O. Wilson, groundbreaking figure in evolutionary biology, dead at 92
– James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches
– A comparative analysis of COVID-19 and the flu highlights the immense dangers of the pandemic
– COP26 climate summit ends in failure
– The Glasgow summit, climate change, and the case for socialism
– War in Ukraine and Russia sanctions threaten food supplies in Middle East and North Africa
– Macron announces withdrawal of French troops from Mali
– Death of boy trapped in well highlights Morocco’s social catastrophe
– Sudan’s prime minister resigns amid lethal military crackdown on protests
– World leaders mourn Archbishop Desmond Tutu in acknowledgement of services rendered to imperialism
– Spring by the Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quintet: A remarkable “lost” 1968 debut jazz album is now available to a global audience
– French troops fire on growing protests against French presence in Africa
– African National Congress rejects new measures to counter South Africa’s Omicron variant surge
– Omicron variant threatens to unleash new global surge of COVID-19 pandemic
– SEP (Australia) files objection to party deregistration
– Australian SEP electoral members discuss Omicron surge and Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
– The historic assault on university education and Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
– SEP Australia electoral members discuss worsening coronavirus infections and the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
– Australia’s housing crisis and the new anti-democratic electoral laws
– Australia’s two ruling parties rush to use new electoral laws to deregister rivals
– “These laws aim to keep us in the dark”—Australian SEP electoral members denounce new anti-democratic laws
– Socialist Equality Party to continue campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
– Australian Labor Party helps government ram through another anti-democratic electoral law
– The politically driven campaign against Harvard anthropologist John Comaroff
– The concerted, cowardly #MeToo attack on Harvard professor John Comaroff
– Campus opposition at University of Michigan mounts to victimization of Bright Sheng
– Australian High Court sets precedent for sacking dissenting academics
– University of Michigan faculty open letter supports witch-hunt, rejects letter signed by hundreds defending victimized professor Bright Sheng
– Over 700 University of Michigan faculty sign open letter protesting administration witch hunt against composer and Professor Bright Sheng
– Jefferson and Shakespeare: Miseducation and class struggle in America
– University of Michigan officials defend their right-wing attack on composer Bright Sheng
– Statements of support for composer Bright Sheng
– US boosts arms shipments to Ukraine, admits to training Ukrainian fighters
– Cold Response 2022: NATO concludes war rehearsal on Russia’s northern flank
– AUKUS pact expanded to base hypersonic missiles in Australia
– Canada commits to purchase F-35 fighter jets, vows massive defence spending hike in April 7 budget
– Crossing the psychological Rubicon: US-NATO risks nuclear war
– Biden arrives in Europe to press for military escalation against Russia
– Climate scientist Michael Mills describes the devastation of a nuclear detonation
– Regarding war crimes, Russian and American
– Ukraine becomes an international rallying point for neo-Nazis and mercenaries
– Berlin Administrative Court declares criticism of capitalism unconstitutional
– UK Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee denounces court ruling upholding designation of Germany’s Socialist Equality Party as “left wing extremists”
– Berlin Administrative Court rules socialist ideas are “anti-constitutional”
– In speech before the court, Trotskyist leader indicts German state’s revival of Nazi-style anti-socialist laws
– Video: No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP!
– Thousands support SGP’s lawsuit against the German secret service
– Defend the daily newspaper junge Welt against attack by Germany’s secret service
– New laws legalize police state operations in Germany
– Right-wing extremist Hans-Georg Maassen runs for the Christian Democrats in German general election
– Three international studies into the origins of coronavirus refute the fabricated Wuhan “lab leak” claim
– Promoters of “Wuhan lab” conspiracy theory fume as their claims fall apart
– A disgraced liar accuses scientists: Matt Ridley’s Viral
– Washington Post calls for a COVID-19 cover-up
– Scientist Peter Daszak refutes false media allegations about Wuhan research
– Stop the witch-hunt against scientist Peter Daszak!
– The Wuhan lab libel: The Washington Post teaches America to hate
– Scientists hone in on “missing link” in the natural origins of COVID-19
– New Zealand pseudo-left Daily Blog promotes Wuhan lab lie
– A working class program to fight inflation
– No to Macron and Le Pen! For an active boycott of the 2022 French elections!
– US-NATO arming Ukraine for military offensive against Russia signals a massive and dangerous escalation
– Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war
– COVID-19 cuts a swath through official Washington
– Global life expectancy drops two years since the start of the pandemic
– The Bucha atrocity allegations: A pretext for escalating NATO’s war against Russia
– The end of COVID-19 testing for the uninsured: The American ruling class doubles down on mass infection
– Massive social protests erupt in Sri Lanka: A critical development in the global class struggle
– Trump endorses “America First” politicians at North Carolina rally
– Trump-appointed federal judge acquits January 6 insurrectionist on all counts
– Trump hosts Republican politicians, financiers, co-conspirators at premiere of election conspiracy film
– Stumping for “America First” Republicans, Trump holds campaign rally in Macomb County, Michigan
– Democrats reject calls to impeach far-right Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
– Prosecution rests in the trial of men charged with plot against the governor of Michigan
– White House logs omit nearly eight hours of Trump calls during January 6 coup
– Federal judge declares Trump illegally conspired to overthrow the Constitution
– Text messages reveal leading role of Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife in facilitating Trump coup plot
– Socialist Equality Party summer school prepares membership for growth of class struggle
– The historical background and initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
– January 6, 2021: Donald Trump’s plot against America
– The lessons of the 2021 Volvo strike
– The ideological foundations of Critical Race Theory
– From PATCO to Volvo: The resurgence of the class struggle and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
– The 1619 Project and the attack on the American Revolution
– The Wuhan Lab lie: Who is to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic?
– From the US presidential election to Trump’s coup
– Son of New Zealand mine disaster victim denounces lack of accountability
– Brother of New Zealand mine disaster victim denounces abandonment of underground investigation
– New Zealand police end borehole drilling at Pike River mine after finding more human remains
– New Zealand: More bodies photographed after sealing of Pike River mine
– New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine
– Recovery 29 whitewashes New Zealand government’s cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
– Public anger over cover-up of Pike River mine disaster
– New Zealand government installing final seal at Pike River mine
– The way forward against the Labour government’s sealing of Pike River mine
– Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes: New poems by Nicky Beer
– A comment on American author Joan Didion (1934-2021)
– Customs: Poet Solmaz Sharif examines imperialism and exile
– An unoriginal hagiography of the Democratic Party: Michael Kazin’s What it Took to Win
– Storming Heaven (1987): Meeting the responsibilities of historical fiction
– The New York Times 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: History as the emanation of race
– The Best American Short Stories 2021: A good deal of talent but little to say
– An interview with Mark Kruger, author of The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
– Historical falsification and the struggle for socialism |