Archive: April 2014
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 April 2014 (front page)
- Hollande names right-wing interior minister as new premier after defeat in French municipal elections
- The GM ignition scandal and the case for public ownership
- Tense standoff after North Korean-South Korean artillery exchange
- Erdogan’s AKP wins Turkish municipal elections
- Medvedev visits Crimea, as Putin announces partial troop withdrawal from Ukraine border
- Ukraine: Right Sector militias besiege Ukrainian parliament
- Congressional report whitewashes government’s role in Boston Marathon bombing
- New Mexico: SWAT teams and police shut down police brutality protest
- Port Authority chairman resigns as George Washington Bridge traffic scandal drags on
- India: Books withdrawn from circulation after threat from Hindu right
- No wreckage of Malaysian Airline plane recovered
- Report: Thousands of Polish children go hungry
- Greek parliament approves new attacks on workers
- Detroit workers denounce water shutoffs
- The Chicago Teachers Union’s “opt-out” campaign and the defense of public education
- David Walsh continues book tour at Cornell University
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 April 2014 (front page)
- CIA scandal: Leaks reveal brutal torture methods and government lies
- The Wall Street settlements and the new aristocracy
- US intelligence director confirms that NSA runs warrantless searches of Americans’ communications
- General Motors CEO stonewalls House committee on ignition scandal
- Eastern European states demand stronger action against Russia
- Joschka Fischer advocates aggressive foreign policy against Russia
- Brazil marks 50 years since US-backed coup
- Chinese President Xi Jinping visits France
- Obama brings South Korean president and Japanese PM together
- NATO summit ends cooperation with Russia and announces further troop build-up
- Sri Lanka: Provincial elections show growing opposition to government
- Indian government abets repression of workers in Saudi Arabia
- Republican presidential hopefuls begin the “money primary”
- Mississippi throws out murder conviction of death row inmate Michelle Byrom
- New York State budget: Tax breaks for the rich, continued attacks on basic services
- German trade union Verdi seeks quick end of public sector strikes
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party backs fascist-led putsch in Ukraine
- The Eternal Zero: Propaganda in the service of present day militarism
3 April 2014 (front page)
- US Supreme Court strikes down limits on political contributions
- CIA torture and the threat of dictatorship
- NATO maneuvers with Georgia, Ukraine threaten war with Russia
- French government vows deep attacks on the working class
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As victims’ families call for criminal prosecution
Senate hearing sets stage for cover-up of GM, government role in fatal crashes - Australian Treasury chief calls for “hard policy decisions” on spending cuts
- Rival right-wing appeals dominate Quebec election campaign
- Rajapakse government bans Sri Lankan Tamil groups operating abroad
- ANC and its competitors stir up racialism in advance of South African elections
- Manila files legal case against Beijing’s South China Sea claim
- Mexico captures drug cartel head
- Minnesota Orchestra president resigns in aftermath of bitter musicians’ lockout
- Amtrak CEO tells employees to expect pay cuts
- The crisis in Ukraine and the sea change in German foreign policy
- Germany: Warmongering against Russia by Die Zeit editor Josef Joffe
- Socialist Equality Party stands in UK’s North West constituency in European Elections
- Detroit emergency manager revises restructuring plan
- How Fed Chair Yellen packaged her commitment to Wall Street
- National Union of Mineworkers presses for end of 10-week platinum strike in South Africa
- Jason Bateman’s Bad Words: An inauspicious debut
4 April 2014 (front page)
- Russia warns NATO over military build-up in eastern Europe
- The Supreme Court ruling on campaign donations: Government of, by and for the rich
- Popular discontent grows with German media lies in Ukraine crisis
- Ft. Hood shooting highlights mental illness crisis in US military
- US Republican Paul Ryan’s budget plan revives voucher system for Medicare
- Growing danger of Chinese credit collapse
- Strong earthquake shakes Chile
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One year after Rana Plaza collapse
Bangladesh garment workers still face dangerous conditions -
Oppose the use of SSAF to attack student political clubs!
Defend the democratic rights of Griffith University students! - South African police evidence in tatters as Marikana Commission enters phase two
- NDP’s Olivia Chow challenges Rob Ford in Toronto mayoralty race
- California State Senate suspends three Democratic lawmakers under indictment
- Eastern Michigan University axes non-tenured faculty
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Growing opposition to the Michigan EAA
Students and faculty protest EMU partnership with Education Achievement Authority - Beautification: An exhibition by Sri Lankan artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara
- Detroit bankruptcy judge considers $85 million payment to global banks
- German pilots conduct largest strike in Lufthansa history
- Senate panel votes to declassify part of report on CIA torture
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- California: Graduate student workers union stages two-day strike on UC campuses
5 April 2014 (front page)
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While wages, jobs stagnate
Median CEO pay in US tops $10 million - France’s new government: A political turning point for Europe
- Another mediocre US jobs report
- EU and Ukrainian regime seek to discipline fascist Right Sector
- “Cuban twitter” affair exposes USAID as instrument of regime-change
- Slovakian presidential election won by non-aligned millionaire
- Indian Stalinists promote fraud of “secular,” “pro-people” Third Front
- Texas carries out lethal injection with drug from unidentified source
- Court ruling escalates campaign to oust Thai government
- Worker killed at US Steel facility in Ecorse, Michigan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Former US baseball pitcher alleges police brutality ended his career
- The rightward gallop of the Bosnian pseudo-left
- Four years since the Upper Big Branch mine disaster
7 April 2014 (front page)
- Bipartisan assault on health care intensifies in US
- NATO’s aggression against Russia and the danger of war in Europe
- Afghan election prepares way for new puppet government
- New exposé by Seymour Hersh: Turkey staged gas attack to provoke US war on Syria
- EU discusses further Russia sanctions as US steps up war rhetoric
- Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging drone assassinations of US citizens
- Harvard University report endorses police state measures in Boston Marathon lockdown
- UN climate change report spells out growing dangers
- More artworks discovered in Salzburg: Second Act in the Gurlitt case
- Western Australian government cuts hospital beds and jobs
- San Diego Opera closure announcement meets with widespread opposition
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Two-year-old killed in Pittsburgh-area fire
Deplorable housing for workers and poor leads to tragedy - This week in history: April 7-13
- Quebec “left” hails media mogul Péladeau’s entry into the PQ
8 April 2014 (front page)
- Pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine demand Crimean-style referendum
- IMF report: No end to economic breakdown
- Japan gives green light to shoot down North Korean missiles
- US defense secretary threatens China during Japan visit
- Top Greek state official resigns over collusion with fascist Golden Dawn
- Media blacks out Seymour Hersh exposé of US lies on Syrian gas attack
- Syria, Russia and Ukraine
- Officials rejected plan to relocate homeowners years before Washington state mudslide
- Australian Senate vote points to acute political disaffection
- Hungarian fascists win over 20 percent of the vote
- US conducting drone war from Germany
- Cuban government passes new law on foreign investment
- US targets Syria for stepped-up aggression
- French pseudo-left falls in line with Valls’ attacks on the working class
- Mickey Rooney, popular film star of the 1930s and 1940s, dies
- Privatization of Detroit’s water moving forward at “lightning pace”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 April 2014 (front page)
- US threatens to “re-examine force posture” over Ukraine
- Police killings in America
- Incoming French Prime Minister Valls pledges austerity, appeals to far right
- Repair of defective GM ignitions may take until October
- Families of GM crash victims speak out
- Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald address Amnesty International event in Chicago
- Australia and Japan extend military ties
- European automakers outsource production to eastern Europe and China
- Indonesians go to the polls amid growing social tensions
- PQ suffers debacle in Quebec election
- UPS fires 250 workers in Queens, New York over drivers’ walkout
- US Senate passes token bill to restore long-term jobless benefits
- US defence secretary clashes with Chinese counterpart
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at The New School in New York City
- Possible black box signals detected in search for Malaysia Airlines plane
- Video: Retired city workers denounce Detroit pension cuts
- Nokia India workers protest to defend jobs
- Nokia India workers speak on job threats and low wages
- A Permanent Member of the Family: Responses to trying and frustrating times—short stories by Russell Banks
- BBC debates between Clegg and Farage: A political fraud
10 April 2014 (front page)
- On eve of Merkel visit, massive anti-austerity strike in Greece
- Imperialist hypocrisy and lies on eastern Ukraine protests
- Ukrainian regime announces utility price hikes
- German Left Party MPs vote for military deployments
- Venezuela’s Maduro charges US with fomenting Ukraine-style coup
- Obama’s empty eulogy for Fort Hood shooting victims
- More attacks on right to vote in US states
- Democrats’ plan to gut pensions approved by Illinois legislature
- Israeli-Palestinian talks collapse
- US assistant secretary of state visits Thailand amid push to overthrow government
- New Zealand: Mana Party seeks alliance with pro-business Internet Party
- Young workers super-exploited in Australian meat industry
- German secret service paid undercover agent “Hitler’s birthday” premium
- South Africa’s platinum strike in its 10th week
- Detroit Emergency Manager offers 78 cents on the dollar to major creditors
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Artistic resistance to the US-backed juntas
Losing the Human Form: A seismic image of the 1980s in Latin America
11 April 2014 (front page)
- Civil war looms as pro-US regime threatens massacre of east Ukraine protesters
- Fifty years since the US Civil Rights Act
- German government planning major military build-up
- Prime Minister Tusk calls for more NATO troops in Poland
- India stages national election amid mounting social crisis
- Snowden says NSA spying on civil rights organizations
- New York Times whitewashes FBI’s handling of Boston Marathon bomber
- Apartheid-era coup leader Bantu Holomisa calls for South African electoral commission head to resign
- Australian treasurer calls for “a global age of responsibility”
- Irish government rocked by exposure of secret police wire-tapping
- Texas executes Mexican citizen in defiance of international law
- Heartbleed security bug compromises vast portion of Internet traffic
- State of Maryland drops health exchange software
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As savage cuts to pensions and benefits loom
Detroit Workers’ Inquiry speaks to city retirees at club luncheon - Police attack locked-out Toyota workers in India
- Oppose the government crackdown on Sri Lankan Tamils
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A concert of twentieth century masterworks by Britten, Bartók and Shostakovich
12 April 2014 (front page)
- US-backed regime drops deadline against east Ukraine protesters, but threat of war remains
- No to imperialist war! Reclaim the revolutionary traditions of May Day!
- German chancellor visits Greece to prop up right-wing regime
- Sebelius out at US Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Justice reports Albuquerque police engaged in “excessive force”
- GM expands ignition recall to include another defect it concealed
- Mass stabbing at Pittsburgh-area school injures 21 students and security guard
- US retailer Family Dollar to close 370 stores
- General strike in Argentina
- UK campaigners against police killings hold demonstration and rally
- Scotland: Demolition to open Commonwealth Games provokes anger
- Australia: Socialist Alliance holds bogus “defend Geelong jobs” rally
- Detroit to pay millions to banks that swindled city
- Creditors, unions renew effort to loot Detroit Institute of Arts
- US defence secretary’s provocative tour of Asia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 April 2014 (front page)
- UN Security Council holds emergency meeting over Ukraine
- European Union: From economic community to alliance of warmongers
- German television report indicates Ukrainian opposition responsible for lethal shootings
- Syrian regime, “rebels” trade poison gas charges
- NSA exploited Heartbleed bug
- Australian government to target pensions in budget
- Gunman kills three people at Jewish facilities in Kansas
- Tens of thousands in France, Italy protest austerity measures
- Indonesian election produces fractured parliament
- Police state measures intensified in run-up to 2014 Boston Marathon
- Mayor De Blasio rebuffs New York school bus workers
- Ex-Australian foreign minister voices concern about unconditional support for Israel and the US
- Violent fire hits Valparaiso, Chile
- German Left Party delegates vote for military deployment
- Britain’s Left Unity lays out its right-wing policies
- This week in history: April 14-20
- Teamsters officials agree to pay UPS and accept ten-day suspensions to end revolt against firings
- New York City radio drive collects 2,500 musical instruments for public school students
- Cosmos reboot falls short of the mark
- SEP and Detroit Workers Inquiry to hold meeting April 23 to oppose water shutoffs
15 April 2014 (front page)
- CIA director in Ukraine as Washington steps up threats against Russia
- The crisis in Ukraine and the return of German militarism
- Employee pensions under attack in the US
- Pulitzer Prize awarded for Snowden exposures of NSA spying
- Spanish government attacks democratic rights
- Cuts to legal aid in UK will deny thousands the right to a fair trial
- Governor Cuomo spearheads attack on New York City public schools
- Killer at Kansas Jewish centers a prominent right-wing extremist
- Autopsy report reveals Capitol Hill police shot woman five times
- Australian PM pushes for free trade deal with China
- Australia: Rejected Tamil asylum seeker sets himself on fire
- Major floods devastate Solomon Islands
- Sinn Fein’s McGuinness joins Irish president in toasting Queen
- Los Angeles, a city of poverty and unemployment
- One year since the Boston Marathon bombing
- Al Sharpton: FBI informer and proud of it
- Moratorium Now protest in Detroit: A cover-up for bureaucrats, Democrats
- A discussion with Detroit retirees
- Captain America—The Winter Soldier: So much noise and action you almost fall asleep
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 April 2014 (front page)
- US-backed crackdown threatens civil war in Ukraine
- Inequality and the drive to war
- Detroit pension deal sets stage for unions to push through bankruptcy plan
- Empty platitudes, jingoism mark Boston bombings anniversary
- FBI infiltrates Guantanamo detainee’s defense team
- Police violence in Minneapolis after university hockey game
- German government seeks to prevent parliamentary committee from questioning Edward Snowden
- Looming job cuts in South African platinum strike
- Military junta implements reign of terror in Egypt
- Sri Lankan military kills alleged “LTTE suspects”
- New Zealand: Mana Party AGM endorses talks with Internet Party
- The International Socialist Organization and the Ukraine crisis
- Detroit water retiree speaks on health care, pension cuts
17 April 2014 (front page)
- Obama, NATO escalate anti-Russian campaign over Ukraine
- The social counterrevolution accelerates in Detroit
- Ukrainian troops reject orders from US puppet regime in Kiev
- GM seeks to squelch lawsuits stemming from ignition defect
- Hundreds still missing after South Korean ferry sinks
- Australian, New Zealand citizens killed by US drone strike in Yemen
- Venezuela arrests 30 more military officers in coup plot
- Impact of fire in Valparaiso, Chile, fueled by poverty, inequality
- Letter from “Valinferno”
- French intelligence collects all data of France Telecom/Orange
- More than a bottle of wine involved in ousting of Australian state premier
- SEP holds first European election meeting in North West England constituency
- EU Africa summit plans increased European military intervention in Africa
- Munich Greens demand cancellation of Russian orchestra conductor’s contract
- New wave of tuition hikes proposed for California universities
- The New York Times’ propaganda campaign against Russia over Ukraine
- Guardian’s Zoe Williams tries to rehabilitate Tony Blair
- Public meeting April 23 in Detroit: No to water shutoffs!
- Manchester meeting: “It’s like a blindfold being taken off”
- Baltimore hospital workers go on three-day strike
- Bioshock Infinite and the video game phenomenon
18 April 2014 (front page)
- Despite Geneva talks on Ukraine, Washington escalates standoff with Russia
- The Snowden Pulitzer
- German right-wing press calls for demolition of Soviet memorial
- Brazilian government sends troops to Bahia state
- Former Yahoo executive to collect nearly $110 million for 15 months of work
- Occupy Wall Street activist on trial for assaulting New York City cop
- Libyan kangaroo court trials begin against Gaddafi’s sons
- Australia: Industry watchdog seizes construction workers’ property
- India: New evidence of BJP role, Congress complicity in razing of Babri Masjid
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Worldwide support grows for online May Day rally
Register today at internationalmayday.org -
"The system is set up for those in poverty to stay in poverty"
The face of food stamp cuts
Jennifer - Portland, Oregon -
No to war! Vote PSG!
European election statement of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany) - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 April 2014 (front page)
- One in five US children do not have enough to eat
- More lies from Obama on Obamacare
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As eastern Ukrainian protesters dismiss calls to end occupations
US prepares to send troops to Poland - US imperialism and the anti-Semitic leaflet in Donetsk
- German media demand a NATO war against Russia
- Forty thousand workers strike at shoe manufacturer in southern China
- 268 still missing after South Korean ferry disaster
- One year since the West, Texas chemical blast
- Albuquerque, New Mexico civilian board members resign, citing fraud of police oversight
- Judge denies suit seeking to force GM to ground recalled cars
- Australian government scraps refugees’ rights to legal aid
- Canada joins NATO build-up against Russia
- Detroit workers speak out against revised bankruptcy plan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The right-wing nationalism of the United Kingdom Independence Party
21 April 2014 (front page)
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Missile strikes in Yemen, weapons to Syria
US steps up Mideast military interventions - America’s hungry 21st Century
- Western powers, Ukrainian regime call for military buildup against Russia
- Donetsk rabbi, protesters reject anti-Semitic leaflet as “provocation”
- German government supports NATO rearmament
- France’s incoming government launches historic attack on working class
- Anger of victims’ families mounts over South Korean ferry disaster
- Massive police presence in place for Boston Marathon
- Anger builds among New York transit workers against sellout contract
- Bay Area Rapid Transit fined in death of two workers
- Search crew finds location but not source of leak at New Mexico nuclear waste storage site
- Turkish parliament adopts law strengthening secret service
- UK poor hit by double tax whammy
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“A campaign to revive the May Day traditions and socialist consciousness is much needed”
Workers speak on importance of International May Day Online Rally - SEP European Election campaign: Oppose the assault on immigrants and asylum seekers
- This week in history: April 21-27
- Earth-sized planet in a star’s habitable zone confirmed
- Detroit workers speak out against water shutoffs
22 April 2014 (front page)
- Obama’s tour to reinforce “pivot to Asia”
- Attend the International May Day Online Rally!
- US vice president arrives in Ukraine amid violent provocations
- The New York Times finds Russian spies in eastern Ukraine
- US appeals court orders release of legal memo on drone killings
- As safety complaints mounted, GM avoided recalls that could cut into profits
- Portrait of a modern-day plutocrat: Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle
- Flouting international law, US bars Iran’s UN ambassador
- Washington, DC region has worst year of jobs growth since 2008 crash
- Spanish Congress rejects Catalan independence referendum
- Valparaiso mayor declares Chilean city bankrupt
- Australian government plans sweeping privatisation of higher education
- Labour and UK Independence Party debate in Manchester
- French TV documentary: “Shoah by Shooting—SS Death Squads in Ukraine”
- Rubin “Hurricane” Carter: 1937-2014
- The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit’s creditors, the investment bankers, the unions, academia and identity politics
- Your Inner Fish … An engaging look at our vertebrate ancestry
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 April 2014 (front page)
- Kiev regime orders crackdown as US steps up threats against Moscow
- The Boston Marathon and the militarization of America
- New York Times propaganda photos on Ukraine exposed
- German magazine Der Spiegel campaigns for war and rearmament
- Japan to erect new radar base close to China
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GM autoworker: “They say ‘safety first’ but it’s really profit that’s first”
GM safety violations linked to cost-cutting attacks on workers - General Motors uses bankruptcy to deflect safety responsibility
- South Korean government accused of inaction after ferry disaster
- UK Labour Party hires Obama adviser David Axelrod
- Bouteflika wins fourth term as Algerian president
- US intensifies pressure on Sri Lanka via UN human rights inquiry
- New from Mehring Books: The Truth Behind the Bankruptcy of Detroit
- Detroit workers denounce water shutoffs on eve of SEP meeting
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) speaks to workers about attacks on welfare in Manchester
24 April 2014 (front page)
- Obama affirms US backing for Japan in any conflict with China
- Does Washington want war with Russia?
- New York Times tries to whitewash publication of faked Ukraine photos
- Supreme Court reinstates Michigan ban on affirmative action
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Parents of crash victim speak on GM recall
“There wasn’t anyone in senior management who didn’t know about this” - Twitter campaign backfires on New York Police Department
- Germany: The political bankruptcy of the peace movement
- Sri Lanka police attack railway workers
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Less than two weeks after scathing Department of Justice report
Albuquerque police kill fleeing 19-year-old woman - Family doctor services “under severe threat of extinction” in Britain
- Australian treasurer to target age pensioners and the poor
- SEP (Australia) Second National Congress: Greetings by David North
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds Second National Congress
- Australia to purchase more US fighter jets
- US lenders force students to pay off loans in full on death of co-signers
- Minnesota renewable energy law overturned by North Dakota coal company lawsuit
- SEP meeting in Colombo to campaign for International May Day online rally
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Government-produced book describes WWI as “successful and profitable”
New Zealand and the First World War 1914–1919 - Oppose the fracking operation at Barton Moss
25 April 2014 (front page)
- Ukrainian regime launches fascist-led crackdown
- Detroit bankruptcy spearheads nationwide attack on pensions
- German news site Spiegel Online interviews Ukrainian fascist Yarosh
- RAF fighters intercept Russian planes in international air space
- US sends Apache attack helicopters to Egyptian junta
- Lawsuit accuses FBI of using no-fly list to recruit American Muslim informants
- New proposed Internet rules would strengthen corporate control, end “net neutrality”
- US Supreme Court chips away at habeas corpus and right against self incrimination
- India: Modi tries to distance himself from incendiary communalist remarks
- Nepal: Sherpa strike following fatal Mt Everest avalanche
- Thailand’s political crisis continues
- Scottish National Party leader Salmond pledges fealty to US imperialism
- Australia: Constitutional challenge to Queensland anti-association laws
- Partei für Soziale Gleichheit greetings to SEP (Australia) Second National Congress
- Detroit media call for permanent financial dictatorship
- SEP holds meeting of Detroit workers to oppose water shutoffs
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“They want us to look somewhere else for the source of our problems, when they are robbing us right here”
International support grows for May Day Online Rally - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 April 2014 (front page)
- US and Europe push confrontation with Russia toward war
- The danger of war in Asia
- New York Times attempts to whitewash its role in publishing faked Ukraine photos
- Amid rising working class anger, Maduro woos Venezuelan capitalists
- Executions in Missouri and Florida
- West, Texas explosion and deaths called “preventable”
- Questions raised about latest fatal police shooting in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Anzac Day 2014: A glorification of Australian imperialism
- Kerry’s statement on Ukraine: A lying brief for war
- Behind Shorten’s plans to “rebuild” the Australian Labor Party
- Australia’s Anzac Day—the gap between official rhetoric and popular sentiments
- UK student debt crisis intensifies
- Indian workers speak in solidarity with International May Day
- Sri Lankan workers and youth express support for online May Day Rally
- European elections: PSG campaign against war evokes great interest in Stuttgart
- Treasury Secretary visits Detroit to reaffirm Obama’s “commitment” to city’s bankruptcy
- The Long Way Home: Sydney Theatre Company signs up with the Australian military
- One million years of the human story in Britain
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- British Trotskyist leader addresses Australian SEP congress
28 April 2014 (front page)
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Detention of OSCE mission provides pretext for US escalation
US, European Union, G7 set to impose new sanctions on Russia - The Ukraine crisis and the political lies of the media
- The US to sign major military pact with the Philippines
- South Korean prime minister resigns over ferry disaster
- FISA court rejects Verizon suit vs. NSA telephone metadata surveillance
- Panel discussion on NSA surveillance covers for government spy programs
- 63,000 US bridges deemed structurally deficient
- Former Australian prime minister warns of US-provoked war danger
- Anzac Day in New Zealand glorifies imperialism, past and present
- Exploitative practices exposed at McDonald’s restaurants
- Greetings to Australian congress from the Canadian SEP
- Oppose political censorship at the University of Melbourne!
- UK Independence Party launches racist poster campaign
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“America is broken”
SEP campaigns for May Day Online Rally in historic coal mining region of Pennyslvania - German PSG releases European election broadcast
- This week in history: April 28-May 4
29 April 2014 (front page)
- Washington, EU impose new sanctions on Russia
- US-backed Egyptian regime sentences 683 more to die
- White House cynicism on the Holocaust
- US economic “recovery” dominated by low-wage jobs
- Anti-NATO protesters in Chicago sentenced to years in prison
- Nevada standoff highlights role of the ultra-right in US politics
- Tornadoes cut a path of destruction across Southeast US
- Israel halts peace talks over Palestinian reconciliation deal
- As Obama visits Manila: US signs agreement for basing forces in the Philippines
- Greetings to Australian congress from Sri Lankan SEP
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts give green light for Mana-Internet Party alliance
- Australian prime minister outlines budget attacks on welfare and health
- Australia: Two miners crushed to death in underground wall collapse
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“The most important thing a person can do for a movement of the working class”
Worldwide support for International May Day Online Rally - Partei für Soziale Gleichheit launches European election campaign in Berlin
- AFSCME and other city unions sign onto Detroit bankruptcy plan
- Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution: Part one
30 April 2014 (front page)
- After new sanctions on Russia, Ukraine moves closer to civil war
- Low-wage labor in America
- Kerry warns of “hot confrontation” with Russia
- Spiegel magazine agitates against the Germans’ “fear of war”
- Wall Street Journal outlines US military options against China
- Oklahoma: Botched lethal injection forces postponement of second planned execution
- Report documents growth of poverty in Detroit suburbs
- Interview with John Ziraldo, CEO of Lighthouse of Oakland County, on Detroit suburban poverty
- French unions use May Day marches to cover for Hollande government
- Pointing to rise of neo-fascists, banks demand austerity in France
- World economy: Conditions for another crash taking shape
- As Australian government draws up budget, Murdoch lays down the law
- Tony Blair calls for stepped up intervention in Middle East
- Sri Lankan president creates religious police unit
- Hungarian government moves further to the right
- Compton, California subjected to massive secret aerial surveillance
- PSG campaigns in Cologne: “It is unacceptable that fascists are in power in Kiev”
- Spain’s new Podemos party a political fraud—Part one
- London Underground workers in 48-hour walkout
- Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution: Part two
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