Sep 3, 2024

1. Hospitality workers launch limited Labor Day holiday strike across the US

2. Pretending to care about workers' rights: At tightly controlled events, Democratic Party politicians campaign alongside union bureaucrats and functionaries

3. In official Labor Day message, a top rail union official ignores recent history and the fact that class warfare is the policy of both Democrats and Republicans

4. Lessons to learn after the United Auto Workers bureaucracy rammed through its sellout contract on Dakkota auto parts workers

5. The German chapter of the Socialist Equality Party calls for an alliance of Stellantis and Opel auto workers to defend all jobs and unite all workers

6. British train driver strike averted so as not to rumple the UK Labour government's pro-business agenda

7. Falling enrollments due to demographic changes, student debt, and COVID has US universities squeezing more from faculty and staff:  a potential strike looms at two universities in Michigan

8. Mass protests in Israel reveals broad popular opposition to the Netanyahu government and the dead end of Zionist politics

9. Factional conflict and repressive measures expected to grow after Thailand forms a new coalition government

10. The claim that there is “no money” is a lie: New Zealand’s public health system facing a crisis as government imposes cuts to jobs, wages, and vital public services

11. The role of trade unions as tools of big business: agreements that will impose cuts to public pension system, public services and working conditions were made behind Spanish workers' backs

12. Preparation for future imperialist wars: Chile, Argentina and the United States begin joint military exercises

13. Chinese policymakers appear to be “paralyzed” and to lack a coherent strategy toward achieving targeted 5% economic growth rate

14. Safety problems were previously known: shocking video emerges of last week’s fire at a residential building in Dagenham, east London

15. Contemporary lessons to draw from reading Erik Larson’s new book, The Demon of Unrest and the antebellum plot to overthrow the 1860 US presidential election 

16. Jerry White's report to the the Eighth Congress of the US Socialist Equality Party: a review of the Socialist Equality Party’s intervention in the United Auto Workers election in 2022–23, and the ongoing struggle among autoworkers

17. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!