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Archive: January 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.

3 January 2018 (front page)

• The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle
• Mass protests against austerity and social inequality shake Iranian regime
• Strikes against austerity throughout Israel’s public and private sector
• North and South Korea propose to hold talks
• Tensions between South Korea and Japan reemerge over “comfort women”
• As US Congress reconvenes
  Democrats looking for deal with Trump on social cuts, increased military spending
• Record low temperatures kill at least nine people in US
• Second Bronx fire in less than a week injures 23
• Kansas police kill unarmed man after false emergency call
• More low-income Michigan workers set to lose food assistance
• Incoming German government plans massive military rearmament
• Head of Britain’s NHS demands national roll-out of drunk tanks
• India: Fourteen die in Mumbai fire
• Seattle councilperson Kshama Sawant targeted by defamation lawsuit for calling police “murderers”
• Short films considered for Academy Award nominations: Emmett Till, a Jack London story and an isolated child

4 January 2018 (front page)

• Trump threatens North Korea with nuclear war
• Working class opposition erupts in Iran: A harbinger for the world in 2018
• Romanian Ford workers defiant as company seeks to impose blackmail contract
• Facebook deleted accounts at the behest of US, Israeli and German governments
• Germany’s “Network Enforcement Law” goes into effect: A move to censor the Internet
• More Britons than ever forced into homelessness due to rent increases
• Deaths continue to mount amid freezing temperatures across much of the US
• Australian Council of Trade Unions launches cynical campaign against casual employment
• New Zealand government prepares attack on foreign students
• President-elect George Weah opens Liberia for plunder
• Director of A World Not Ours, A Man Returned and A Drowning Man
  An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel: “A film is like a historical document, it should be solid enough to endure”
• As teachers face new battles against Trump
  Lessons of the fight against Obama’s “school reform”—Part 1

5 January 2018 (front page)

• America’s poor and homeless freeze in winter storm
• The Dow at 25,000: The bonanza for the oligarchy continues
• British National Health Service faces escalating crisis due to chronic underfunding
• Bannon attack on Trump White House fuels Washington political warfare
• Chinese president orders troops to be “ready to fight”
• Russia: Siberian shoe factory fire kills 10 workers
• Berlin Senate authorises brutal deportation of refugee family before Christmas
• UC Berkeley student arrested by border patrol
• “The government got to do whatever it wanted to do”
  An interview with Mark Flessner, attorney for Davino Watson, US citizen illegally imprisoned by ICE for more than three years
• Trump administration to roll back regulations on offshore drilling
• AT&T and other US telecoms begin wave of layoffs
• Australian government promotes racist diversion over so-called “African gangs”
• Australia continues punitive treatment of refugees on Manus Island
• Sulzbergers pass gilded baton at the New York Times
• All the Money in the World—above all, the “expunging” of Kevin Spacey—and The Shape of Water
• Regional transport workers strike in Netherlands
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

6 January 2018 (front page)

• US suspends security aid to Pakistan as part of Afghan War push
• Governments and corporations escalate Internet censorship and attacks on free speech
• Tell-all book on Trump White House intensifies US political crisis
• Talks between North and South Korea to proceed
• Trump threatens Palestinian aid cut-off
• Britain’s National Health Service is being deliberately brought to the brink of collapse
• Gentrification fueling eviction crisis in New York City
• Over 20 dead in winter storm as US cold wave continues
• December US jobs report reveals weaker than expected growth
• Foxconn tax subsidies to build Wisconsin plant reach over $4 billion
• Australia: Ex-general agitates for stepped-up war preparations
• New Zealand government seeks to contain outrage over Pike River mine disaster
• The working class unrest in Iran: The WSWS replies to an apologist of the Iranian regime
• German conservatives and Social Democrats prepare formation of far-right government
• Daphne Merkin’s “Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings”
  The New York Times’ reactionary sexual harassment campaign runs into opposition
• As teachers face new battles against Trump
  Lessons of the fight against Obama’s “school reform”—Part 2
• Thousands of private health care doctors strike in India
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

8 January 2018 (front page)

• French chemical industry unions back contract violating minimum wage laws
• The campaign over the “unfitness” of Donald Trump
• Iran: Anti-government protests abate in face of mass repression
• Puerto Rico, more than 100 days after Hurricane Maria: The class issues
• US President Trump backs meeting between two Koreas
• German foreign minister demands aggressive assertion of great power interests
• Volkswagen plans to dismiss all temporary contract workers in German plants
• UK rail workers continue strikes against Driver Only Operated train plans
• UK workers confront rising job losses in 2018
• Zimbabwe graphite miners strike at former German-owned mine
• Bangladeshi teachers end “fast-unto-death”
• Motel 6 sued for passing on guest information to ICE immigration officials
• Rising rents put low income US renters in severe jeopardy
• Australian rail union collaborating with Pacific National to impose sell-out agreement
• South Australian Labor government slashes public sector jobs
• Trump “defends” the right to protest in Iran, criminalizes protest in Washington
• The decline and fall of Russian protest art—“Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism”

9 January 2018 (front page)

• As workers seek higher wages
  Billionaire warns of growing class conflict in US
• A crime against humanity
  US to deport 262,000 Salvadoran immigrants
• Deadly influenza outbreak spreads throughout US, most severe in California
• San Diego homelessness crisis remains after hepatitis A outbreak
• Ten-year-old child among the victims
  American Civil Liberties Union sues DC police for attacking inauguration protests
• Notes on police violence
  US police kill 29 during first week of 2018
• Britain's Guardian newspaper registers concern at collapse of high-profile rape cases
• UK: Social media giants face sanctions if they fail to provide “proof” of Russian interference
• New Zealand police refuse to prosecute over Christchurch building collapse
• Australian aged care workers confront worsening conditions
• And the Golden Globe award goes to … Witch hunting!
• Local government election in Sri Lanka: Support SEP campaign against austerity and war! Fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government!
• The havoc at New York’s JFK Airport and the decay of US infrastructure
• What does Russian “opposition leader” Alexei Navalny represent?
• NLRB rejects UAW appeal of Honeywell lockout
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

10 January 2018 (front page)

• Mass protests against austerity, unemployment shake Tunisia
• Workers must demand new elections in Germany!
• Democrats grovel as Trump pledges anti-immigrant attacks in White House meeting
• Louisiana teacher jailed for speaking out at school board meeting
• Two Koreas hold talks amid continuing acute tensions
• An interview with Javier Luengo-Garrido, Coordinator at ACLU-Massachusetts’ Immigrant Protection Project
• French artists rebuff #MeToo witch-hunt
• At least 13 dead as rainfall in Southern California triggers mudslides and flooding
• Canada: Ontario Liberals impose two-tier employment on autoworkers
• Right-wing wins Chile election as “left” Broad Front joins the establishment
• French automaker PSA colludes with unions to prepare mass job cuts
• Twitter censors German satirical magazine
• Spanish PM Rajoy seeks to prevent Catalan nationalists from forming government
• Fuel tanker collision in East China Sea
• Australia: Port Kembla Coal Terminal locks out workers
• India: Bus strike cripples Tamil Nadu transport services
• Striking Tamil Nadu bus workers speak out
• Robert Mann (1920-2018), founder of the Juilliard String Quartet

11 January 2018 (front page)

• 160,000 industrial workers strike in Germany
• Democrats bray for immigration deal with Trump as judge halts DACA rescission
• El Salvador’s government bows to Washington over threat to deport 262,000
• Death toll in Southern California mudslides rises to 17
• UK: Cabinet reshuffle leaves May’s government impotent and divided
• Upturn in global economy will not last, says World Bank
• US Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi’s discriminatory “religious freedom” law
• Rental costs rising beyond reach in Nashville
• Australian minister lashes out at China over Pacific aid
• Prolonged fall in average Australian living standards
• Freedom for Julian Assange!
• “The matter is urgent; voices must be raised!”
  Documentarian John Pilger issues statement of support for January 16 webinar, “Organizing resistance to Internet censorship”
• France’s Socialist Party attacks Catherine Deneuve for opposing #MeToo witch-hunt
• “Sexual misconduct” witch-hunt targets conductor Charles Dutoit, director Max Stafford-Clarke and actor Ed Westwick
• The policies and atmosphere of the second Gilded Age
  Metropolitan Museum of Art implements mandatory admission charge for non-New Yorkers
• The crisis of dental care under American capitalism
• The tragic and needless death of Deamonte Driver, a victim of dental disease

12 January 2018 (front page)

• Trump’s racist diatribe against “shithole countries” exposes bipartisan conspiracy against immigrants
• Teacher’s arrest in Louisiana: Another day, another outrage
• Mass protests against unemployment shake Tunisian regime
• German Ford workers express solidarity with their Romanian co-workers
• Washington prepares to deploy “usable” nuclear weapons
• Activist detained and 18 arrested at Manhattan immigrant rights protest
• German politician proposes “final solution” of the refugee question
• “This is an outrage! The marshal should be arrested for assault”
  Massive outpouring of support for victimized Louisiana teacher
• Trump officials say states can impose Medicaid work requirements
• US coal mining fatalities nearly doubled in 2017
• Huntsville, Alabama Toyota-Mazda plant announcement highlights shift in auto production to southeastern US
• UK government refuses to pay for essential safety improvements six months after Grenfell fire
• Research teams confirm “Meltdown” and “Spectre” attacks
  Computer systems worldwide exposed to data theft due to CPU design flaws
• Trump gives green light for Israeli repression of Palestinians
• Australian government spent $4 billion last year repelling or detaining refugees
• Australia: Sydney’s train system in a shambles
• Diego Rivera in the Soviet Union: An exhibition in Mexico City
• New publication by Mehring Books (UK)
  The falsification of David King’s work
• Nigerian teachers strike to defend colleagues’ jobs
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

13 January 2018 (front page)

• Trump’s racist comments trigger international condemnation
• Facebook announces major plan to censor news content
• German conservatives and Social Democrats agree to coalition talks
• German industrial workers continue strikes
• Greek workers stop work in opposition to Syriza anti-strike and austerity measures
• Trump vows to renew all-out economic war on Iran
• Aluminum giants lock out one thousand ABI workers in Quebec
• India: Workers defend WSWS supporters against attack by union leaders
• Indian unions betray Tamil Nadu bus strike
• The deadly impact of Hurricane María extends to US hospitals
  Power outages set off IV bag shortages
• House Democrats supply votes to block limits on NSA spying
• Walmart closes 63 Sam’s Club locations, lays off thousands of employees
• Deadly mudslides in Southern California expose inadequate infrastructure
• Fraud of official inquiry into Grenfell fire exposed by forced withdrawal of project management adviser
• Members and supporters of 20 groups banned from entering Israel
• Court suspends Christmas pardon as Brazil’s jail population reaches world’s third highest
• Australian workers, youth speak out against witch-hunt over “African gangs”
• Washington Post columnist goes after Woody Allen’s “lechery”
• A significant tremor in the bond markets
• Sri Lankan nurses strike over fingerprint attendance system; Australian power workers vote for industrial action
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

15 January 2018 (front page)

• Thousands march to mark anniversary of Ben Ali’s overthrow in Tunisia
• The missile alert in Hawaii
  Thirty-eight minutes of chaos
• After Trump’s racist outburst, Democrats plead for anti-immigrant “compromise” with White House
• Kentucky water crisis outrage: Another US worker arrested for criticizing government officials
• “Keep fighting, we have to come together”
  Educators denounce attack on Louisiana school teacher Deyshia Hargrave
• Cold-related deaths in Wisconsin expose abysmal social conditions
• Trump emphasises hostile stance on North Korea
• Surat terbuka untuk Google: Berhentikan penyensoran Internet! Berhentikan blacklisting politik terhadap World Socialist Web Site!
• UK National Archives: Key government files “missing,” and documents on Europe withheld
• Homeless deaths skyrocket in major Canadian cities
• US AFRICOM blacklists reporter Nick Turse as “not a legitimate journalist”
• Malaysian opposition chooses autocratic Mahathir as top candidate
• New Zealand spy agency illegally accessed immigration data
• Facebook blocks sharing of WSWS anti-censorship video
• For new elections and a socialist offensive against the grand coalition in Germany
• This week in history: January 15-21
• Virgin Care and other private companies seize another £3.1 billion of NHS contracts

16 January 2018 (front page)

• Greek workers strike against Syriza’s imposition of EU austerity “multi-bill”
• Hawaii’s “false alarm” and the advanced preparations for war against North Korea
• US to set up 30,000-strong “border force” in Syria
• Democrats, Republicans resume talks on right-wing budget deal
• Death toll in Southern California mudslides rises to 20
• Threat of trade war looming larger
• UK: Election of pro-Corbyn slate to Labour’s National Executive Committee underscores left shift in working class
• UK: Carillion collapse threatens jobs and pensions, exposing plunder of social assets
• Mass protests in Peru over pardoning of Fujimori
• Australian media promotes fascists amid growing racist hysteria over “African gangs”
• Australia: Continuing chaos on Sydney’s trains
• Statement by Julian Assange opposing Internet censorship will be read at WSWS “Organizing Resistance” Webinar
• Martin Luther King Day marked with an open racist in the White House
• #MeToo allegations against 95-year-old Marvel comics legend Stan Lee backfire
• The merger of Germany’s Thyssen with Tata Steel
  Vote “No” on union-backed steel contract! Defend all jobs!
• Mexican auto parts workers set to strike if wage demand is not met
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

17 January 2018 (front page)

• False alarm of incoming missile in Japan
• Bernie Sanders seeks to derail growing working class opposition to capitalism
• “If we can’t support patients coming in emergency rooms…more people are going to die”
  Flu epidemic exposes scandalous state of US health care system
• “The state trooper choked me because I was telling the truth”
  Former coal miner in Eastern Kentucky speaks about police assault at public meeting
• Deportation of 30-year US resident from Detroit sparks outrage
• Families and survivors hold seven-month commemoration of Grenfell Tower fire
• UK: The political lessons of Carillion’s collapse
• German trade unions beat the drums for another grand coalition
• Direct Spanish rule to continue if exiled Catalan leader tries to govern from Belgium
• Cost of hookworm treatment beyond reach of many Alabama residents
• Trump administration escalates attack on data encryption
• After Ontario minimum wage hike
  Canadian businesses claw back wages from low-paid workers
• Romanian prime minister resigns amid rising social tensions
• Stricken Iranian tanker sinks, causing major oil spill in East China Sea
• Australian government continues deportations of New Zealanders
• Steven Spielberg’s The Post: To reveal government secrets and lies or not?

18 January 2018 (front page)

• Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing
• “Fractures, Fears and Failures:” World’s ruling elites stare into the abyss
• Canada joins US in stepping up threats against North Korea at Vancouver summit
• As US government shutdown looms, Democrats push punitive immigration deal
• Two key players in UAW corruption scandal to enter guilty pleas
• Kentucky becomes first state to impose Medicaid work requirements
• Statement to the World Socialist Web Site webinar
  Julian Assange calls effort of corporations to control Internet discourse “an existential threat to humanity”
• Twelve arrested outside San Diego for feeding the homeless
• Budget cuts lead to teacher and student injuries at Massachusetts school
• Boston Transit: Control Board fiddles while the Red Line burns
• Carillion’s collapse in UK and the East Coast bailout: What would ending the “Private Financial Initiative rip-off” entail?
• Another bonanza year for highest paid UK CEOs
• Australia: New South Wales rail workers to strike for 24 hours
• World Socialist Web Site calls for international coalition of socialist and anti-war websites to counter Internet censorship
• Indian Trotskyists hold Russian Revolution centenary meeting in Kolkata
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A vengeful mother stands up to the local “patriarchy”
• Japan’s working poor

19 January 2018 (front page)

• Massive raids threatened against immigrants in California
• US announces indefinite deployment of military forces in Syria
• US House passes short-term budget bill, but federal shutdown looms
• Turkish attack on Syrian Kurds marks major escalation in Middle East
• Sharp fall in bitcoin price a sign of growing financial turbulence
• “It’s all about putting money over our lives”
  Flint residents speak out on Kentucky water crisis
• Texas carries out first US execution of 2018
• Deadly flu season likely to worsen internationally
• UK: Labour’s John McDonnell pledges to buy out PFI contracts after Carillion collapse
• UK: Southwark Labour Council’s gentrification plans meet widespread opposition
• ”You cannot disperse communities and expect people to be fine with that”
  Protesters denounce social cleansing by Southwark Labour council
• Germany: SPD leadership steps up pressure for coalition with Merkel
• Macron prepares draconian new French anti-immigrant law
• With Indo-Pacific tensions rising, Japan and Australia strengthen military ties
• Australia: NSW state government axes longstanding reading program from public schools
• The working class moves against Greece’s Syriza government
• German newspaper Die Zeit and SPD back #MeToo witch-hunt
• One hundred and fifty attend IYSSE event at Humboldt University on Karl Marx bicentenary
• Sri Lanka: SEP holds first local election meeting in plantation area
• Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of Irish rock band The Cranberries, dead at age 46
• Further strikes by German engineering workers
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

20 January 2018 (front page)

• US budget charade causes government shutdown
• Pentagon unveils strategy for military confrontation with Russia and China
• UK, France boost military, intelligence ties at Sandhurst summit
• Extension of warrantless NSA spying, with bipartisan support, heads to Trump for signature
• Immigration agents destroy humanitarian water supplies along US-Mexico border
• Federal agency promotes religious “exceptions” to health care
• US house fires kill 320 since Christmas, up 50 percent from last year
• DC Metro train derails, passengers stranded for 90 minutes
• Australia: Union officials desperately trying to prevent NSW rail strike
• Australian power workers vote for industrial action
• Students and staff to bear brunt of latest Australian university funding cut
• One year of Democratic sabotage of opposition to Trump
• IYSSE secures re-election to student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University
• The Heritage We Defend and other important books by David North and the ICFI published in Turkish
• UK: Office for Students spearheads privatisation and policing of universities
• Striking cleaners occupy Korean university; Australian Paper plant workers strike indefinitely
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

22 January 2018 (front page)

• Turkey invades Syria to attack US-backed Kurdish forces
• The class issues in the US federal shutdown
• Twitter warns users: We’re watching you
• Women’s March promotes Democratic Party, sabotages opposition to Trump
• “The water is milky white and smells like bleach”
  Kentucky residents told it may take a decade to get clean, safe water
• German SPD congress agrees to initiate coalition talks with conservatives
• Germany: Sharp conflicts inside the Left Party
• #MeToo censors French filmmaker Brigitte Sy for signing Le Monde appeal
• Craig McLachlan accused as Australian media steps up #MeToo witch-hunt
• Carillion collapse in UK leaves pension scheme deficit of £2.6 billion
• US destroyer intrudes into waters around Chinese-controlled islet
• Ohio police kill 16-year-old in courthouse
• Jeep workers demonstrate at Detroit auto show against job cuts
• Republicans and Democrats co-sponsor bill to dismantle Dodd-Frank bank regulations
• US takes aim at China over trade
• Australian rail workers, bus drivers and commuters support NSW train strike
• This week in history: January 22-28
• Explore the complexities and beauty of Earth’s oceans in Blue Planet II

23 January 2018 (front page)

• Federal shutdown ends as Democrats cave in to Trump
• For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
  An open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site to socialist, anti-war, left-wing and progressive websites, organizations and activists
• Oxfam: Bottom half of world’s population received none of the wealth created in 2017
• Fighting rages as Turkey advances on Syrian Kurdish enclave
• Indian Prime Minister Modi to tout pro-business record at World Economic Forum
• Officials begin clearing out homeless encampment in Anaheim, California
• Five missing after Oklahoma drilling rig explosion
• Wave of immigrant arrests, deportations in Michigan
• UK: Private landlords refusing to remedy Grenfell-style flammable cladding
• Germany: IG Metall greets far-right AfD participants at union protest
• Russia’s presidential election campaign unfolds amid rising social discontent
• “There’s a pattern here that NYU doesn’t want to acknowledge”
  Interview with Mohamad Bazzi, NYU professor barred from the UAE
• Seattle school bus drivers reject second contract proposal by First Student
• Amazon narrows rat race for second HQ to 20 cities
• Opioid overdoses killed over 4000 Canadians in 2017
• Sri Lankan president threatens to end ruling coalition
• Australian rail accident causes 16 injuries
• Celebrated author Margaret Atwood challenges #MeToo’s lynch mob justice
• Union in India organises hunger strike to block industrial action by Volkswagen workers
• Brazilian metro workers hold one-day strike over privatization plans
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

24 January 2018 (front page)

• World Economic Forum meets in Davos under shadow of crisis and war
• Bodies of five workers recovered at site of Oklahoma gas well blast
• IMF upgrades global growth forecast amid warnings of “fracture points”
• Ankara cracks down on opposition to Turkish invasion of Syria
• Volunteer arrested for giving food and water to immigrants along US-Mexico border
• Fifty-nine defendants await trial for protesting against Trump’s inauguration
• Four months after Hurricane Maria
  Continuing crisis used to justify sell-off of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid
• Australia: Workers reject union-government attempts to cancel NSW rail strike
• Indian factory fire kills 17 workers
• Germany: IG Metall seeks to impose new contract
• Hundreds more jobs being cut at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant in UK
• “Fake news” hysteria set to take center stage in Brazil’s October elections
• Political lessons from the sham US government shutdown
• The 2018 Academy Award Nominations: A few worthy films, and others to fill quotas
• Facebook details plans to censor news feeds and manipulate public opinion

25 January 2018 (front page)

• As special counsel zeros in on Trump, political warfare in Washington heats up
• US escalates war for annexation of Syria
• Democrats demand Facebook and Twitter release information on campaign over spying on Trump
• In plea deal with prosecutors
  Former Fiat Chrysler negotiator says FCA bribed the UAW to secure passage of 2009, 2015 contracts
• British Armed Forces chief prepares for war with Russia
• Asia-Pacific trade bloc reshaped, without the US
• German, French parliaments prepare new alliance, 55 years after Elysée treaty
• Catalan nationalists struggle to form government
• Detroit protest against planned deportation of Albanian immigrant
• Police in Racine, Wisconsin fatally shoot 26-year-old man during traffic stop
• Strike by Northern Illinois Bay Valley Foods workers enters ninth week
• BlackRock’s Laurence Fink urges CEOs to serve a “social purpose”
• Ontario unions hold bogus “day of action” over wage clawbacks at Tim Hortons
• Media frenzy over New Zealand PM’s pregnancy distracts attention from inequality
• Australia: Fair Work Commission bans Monday’s NSW rail strike
• Australian Paper workers strike over wages and conditions
• Full transcript: “Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship”
• Another American mass shooting, this time in western Kentucky
• For new elections and a socialist alternative to Germany’s grand coalition
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra terminates employment of Charles Dutoit over allegations of sexual misconduct
• Toys “R” Us, Kimberly-Clark add to job cuts in 2018

26 January 2018 (front page)

• Will there be a US nuclear sneak attack on North Korea?
• German Chancellor promotes militarism and great-power politics at World Economic Forum
• Far-right Alternative for Germany receives cross-party support
• Amid state censorship campaign, French media denounce “conspiracy theories”
• In budget talks, Senate Democrats abandon immigrant Dreamers threatened with deportation
• Nine “No More Deaths” volunteers face prosecution for attempting to aid immigrants
• Supreme Court issues last-minute stay of execution of Alabama inmate
• Lockout of Quebec aluminium workers at ABI plant enters third week
• Syriza mounts savage assault on living standards and democratic rights in Greece
• UK Independence Party on brink of collapse
• Fiji airport workers return after month-long lockout
• Australia’s Manus Island refugees blockaded after sewage leaks
• The UAW corruption scandal: The case for workers’ committees
• 70 years since the release of John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• B. Traven, the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• SEP forum rallies opposition against racist “African gangs” campaign in Australia
• Over 10,000 Slovenian public sector workers strike
  Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

27 January 2018 (front page)

• Conflict in Washington escalates with report Trump sought to fire special prosecutor
• The “fractured world”: Plutocrats convene in Davos amid war and great-power conflict
• UK Defence Secretary accuses Russia of planning to kill “thousands and thousands and thousands” of Britons
• Julian Assange challenges warrant for his arrest as doctors confirm worsening of his health
• Thousands of students stranded as Ohio cyber charter school suddenly shuts down
• Nashville mayor tight-lipped on plans to gut services at General Hospital
• Notes on police violence
  Unarmed 25-year-old shot nine times at close range by US Park Police
• Ontario Tory leader felled by unsubstantiated sexual misconduct allegations
• India: First-ever visit by an Israeli PM used to strengthen strategic ties
• New evidence of mistreatment in Western Australian juvenile prison
• Southeast Australian heatwaves signal a horror fire season
• New York Times cashes in on Facebook’s news censorship
• A socialist strategy is needed to defend immigrants!
• Chinese workers protest over “black lung” disease; Indian auto-parts workers demonstrate
  Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

29 January 2018 (front page)

• German industrial workers poised to launch massive strikes
• 2018 begins with US police reign of terror
• Senate Democratic leader seeks to protect Special Counsel Mueller, not DACA immigrants
• “This could be anyone tomorrow”
  Anaheim, California: Homeless encampment residents speak on their conditions
• Cape Town, South Africa to become first city in the developed world to run out of water
• US involvement in enslavement and rape of Afghan children
• UK Labour: Corbyn seeks accommodation with Blairites and big business
• Spain’s Constitutional Court attempts to block Catalan premier’s investiture
• Accelerating concentration of wealth in Australia
• Australia: Lack of safety system contributed to injuries in rail crash
• This week in history: January 29-February 4
• Contracts signed by corrupt UAW should be nullified: A reply to Dennis Williams
• US autoworkers express outrage over latest revelations of UAW bribery
• The media’s guilty silence on Hawaii nuclear war alert
• Actress Dorothy Malone (1924-2018)
• WSWS Chairperson David North interviewed on Chris Hedges’ “On Contact”

30 January 2018 (front page)

• Trump unveils sweeping attack on immigrants in reform proposal
• The Economist: Humanity teeters on the brink of world war
• As Trump, Republicans move to derail Russia probe, Democrats rush to defend FBI
• “Everybody wants to walk at our plant”
  US autoworkers want to overturn contracts UAW signed after corporate bribes
• Questions remain one month after death of auto parts worker in Western Michigan
• Polish government seeks to criminalize mention of Polish crimes during the Holocaust
• Germany: Why is the SPD youth wing campaigning against a grand coalition?
• UK NHS faces further attacks with introduction of “accountable care organisations”
• Notes from Puerto Rico
  Four months of life in the dark after Hurricane Maria
• Flint, Michigan court hearings highlight widespread collusion in water crisis cover-up
• San Diego mayor outlines impending crackdown on homeless
• Renewed push for Australia to build nuclear weapons

30 January 2017 (front page)

• Bangladesh government opens apparel factory in prison

30 January 2018 (front page)

• Another rapid rise in Australia’s prison population
• Netflix: The Crown Season Two—Apologetics for the monarchy as sun sets on British Empire
• Halifax shipyard workers stage wildcat walkout
  Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 January 2018 (front page)

• Trump’s State of the Union address: A spectacle of reaction and militarism
• Investigators now claim Hawaii employee who sent false alert thought attack was real
• Corporate giants announce partnership to cut employer health care costs
• Fiat Chrysler workers file class action against UAW demanding return of union dues
• Harley-Davidson to close Kansas City plant, lay off 800
• Puerto Rican Governor calls for the closing of a quarter of the island’s public schools
• Currency conflicts deepen between US and Europe
• A series of attacks at Russian schools
• Indian-Pakistani clashes in Kashmir put South Asia on knife’s edge
• Australian government unveils draconian “foreign interference” bills
  Part 1: Preparing for war against China
• Over 100 feared dead in Kiribati ferry disaster
• Hundreds of thousands of industrial workers strike in Germany
• In letter to Congress, social media companies outline plans for mass censorship
• “Scoundrel Time” returns: The neo-Puritan #MeToo censors and their predecessors
• London Conference on Intelligence exposes link between academic promotion of eugenics and Conservative right
• Fifty years since the Tet Offensive