Archive: September 2015
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 September 2015 (front page)
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In wake of bloody factory bombing
Saudi Arabia and UAE prepare for major US-backed ground offensive in Yemen - The 2016 US election and the scapegoating of immigrants
- German defence minister exploits refugee crisis to strengthen military
- US military continues build-up in North East Asia
- Mass anti-government rallies in Malaysia
- Mass protests against failing infrastructure shake Lebanon
- UK Labour Party steps up purge of suspected Corbyn supporters
- US shift on Sri Lankan war crimes probe exposes Tamil nationalists
- Indian unions to hold one-day national strike
- Unions keep Verizon and AT&T workers on job without contracts
- A&P supermarket chain asks bankruptcy court to overturn labor agreements
- Haggen grocery chain announces store closures throughout the US
- Neo-fascist rally exposes Finnish government’s ties to extreme right
- Australian royal commissioner refuses to quit
- Autoworkers speak out: Louisville, Kentucky Ford worker denounces UAW-company alliance
- Water shutoff moratorium in Flint as water crisis continues
- University of Melbourne student union imposes third ban on IYSSE club
- New York Times paints Obama as “champion” of working people
- Detroit Federation of Teachers president ousted by union executive board
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 September 2015 (front page)
- More signs of global downturn send stocks plunging again
- Abe accelerates the remilitarisation of Japan
- Refugee crisis deepens across central Europe
- UK government pursuing vicious anti-immigrant response to migrant crisis
- German Left Party leader proposes separating refugees according to ethnicity
- Two California killings used as pretext for attack on immigrants
- As contract expires, USW orders steelworkers to stay on the job
- 31,000 public schoolchildren in Kentucky are homeless
- US imperialism and the new race to the Arctic
- Ultra-right Maidan forces riot in Kiev over eastern Ukrainian autonomy law
- UK psychologists campaign against cuts and social inequality
- Brazil’s economy falls sharply amid deepening political crisis
- Sri Lankan president announces “national unity government”
- Australian mining giant replaces Blackwater workers with contractors
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Autoworkers speak out
GM workers: “If we can’t gain when they’re making profits, we’ll never get anything” - Indian workers need a socialist strategy
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Author of books on Orson Welles, film noir, Vincente Minnelli and more
An interview with film historian and critic James Naremore
3 September 2015 (front page)
- Thousands of refugees held at Budapest train station
- For a united struggle of US steel, auto and telecommunications workers!
- German chancellor feigns sympathy for refugees
- Washington launches new drone assassination program in Syria
- Trident Juncture 2015: NATO’s biggest manoeuvre since 2002
- BlueScope Steel workers speak with the WSWS
- IYSSE supporters protest ban on IYSSE at University of Melbourne
- Millions of Indian workers strike against Modi government’s pro-market reforms
- Northern Illinois town on lockdown as police manhunt continues
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Notes on police violence in America
Man shot to death by police in San Antonio, Texas while trying to surrender - Wildfires in US Pacific Northwest continue to burn
- Summer schools of France’s Socialist and Left Parties prepare swing to the right
- Spain increases its presence in Africa
- Australian economy slides towards recession
- Australian steel unions enforce destruction of jobs and conditions
- Outpouring of support for WSWS Autoworker Newsletter among US autoworkers
- RISE: The “Scottish Syriza” that dare not speak its name
- Phoenix: After WWII in Germany, a woman rises from the ashes
4 September 2015 (front page)
- Wages for low-income workers collapsed under Obama
- Who is responsible for the refugee crisis in Europe?
- Upwards of 100,000 people held in solitary confinement in the US
- EU powers treat refugees as pawns
- China holds military parade to mark anniversary of victory over Japan
- Disaffection with Syriza mounts in Greece ahead of election
- Top aides to Hillary Clinton testify before Benghazi committee
- Anti-gay Kentucky county clerk jailed for contempt of court
- Power sharing in Northern Ireland threatened with collapse
- UK government to override local consultation in drive for fracking
- Germany’s middle class shrinks
- Maritime Union of Australia thanks pseudo-lefts for “unity” as it foreshadows acceptance of port sackings
- South Australian government and private corporations axe thousands of jobs
- Fiat Chrysler to move Jeep Cherokee production out of Toledo
- Australian IYSSE members protest ban at University of Melbourne
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 September 2015 (front page)
- As Yemen assault continues, US announces billion-dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia
- European governments treat refugees as a hostile invasion force
- US markets fall after release of jobs report
- Death of Syrian infant exposes Canadian complicity in refugee crisis
- India invites Japan for naval exercises with US
- Sri Lankan prime minister appoints huge cabinet
- Guatemalan president jailed after being forced out
- California Democrat urges court to reinstate death penalty
- Global economic crisis leads to job cuts in South Africa
- Australian 7-Eleven workers under-paid and super-exploited
- New Zealand: Substandard repairs to earthquake-damaged homes in Christchurch
- Autoworkers speak out from Bedford, Indiana
- German professor Herfried Münkler agitates against refugees
- Britain’s pseudo-left line up behind Corbyn Labour leadership bid
- International letters protest IYSSE censorship at University of Melbourne
- Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947): The weight of history
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 September 2015 (front page)
- Austria plans to close border as migrants surge across Europe
- The G20 summit: A spectacle of political bankruptcy
- NATO powers move to exploit refugee crisis to intensify bombing of Syria
- Australian government refuses to lift refugee intake
- Australian senate inquiry masks responsibility for Nauru refugee camp abuses
- Allegheny Technologies Inc. lockout enters fourth week
- Obamacare health insurers seek double-digit rate hikes for 2016
- Six Republican presidential candidates back defiance of gay marriage ruling
- Newark, New Jersey’s “progressive” mayor Ras Baraka wins big business praise
- Report documents rising cost of living in California
- Japan: Continuing protests against Abe government’s security bills
- Obama secures votes to override congressional opposition to Iran deal
- UK Terrorism Act used to prevent British Library obtaining unique historic archive
- Depth of UK welfare cuts revealed in Sheffield case study
- Britain: The plight of patients and workers in the Adult Social Care service
- Australia: State Labor government attacks striking train staff
- After Detroit bankruptcy: Tax foreclosures threaten 30,000 residents
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Autoworkers speak out
Young autoworker earns too little to keep car on the road - PSG campaigns throughout Germany for public meetings on the crisis in Greece
- Syriza betrayal exposes role of Irish pseudo-left
- IYSSE campaigns against University of Melbourne affiliation ban
- This week in history: September 7-13
8 September 2015 (front page)
- Amid refugee crisis in Europe, NATO powers prepare war escalation in Syria
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Labor Day in America
Union sellouts promote Democratic wage-cutters - Prime Minister Cameron confirms Royal Air Force killed two British citizens in Syria
- German government tightens measures against refugees
- Refugees greeted in Germany with a wave of solidarity
- Australia: Thousands rally in defense of refugees at nationwide vigils
- Hollande turns to French trade unions to undermine the Labor Code
- US unions promote Democrats and corporatism on Labor Day
- Chester, Pennsylvania teachers unanimously vote to work for free
- Report documents rising cost of living in California
- Chinese slowdown impacts Asian economies
- Letters oppose refusal to affiliate IYSSE at University of Melbourne
- US probes former Sri Lanka president’s alleged assets
- Harper government making pro forma complaints over jailing of Egyptian-Canadian journalist
- The plight of patients and workers in Britain's Adult Social Care service
- Fiji PM threatens “severe punishment” for 70 people charged with sedition
- Mass layoffs provoke strikes by Brazilian autoworkers
- Exploiting refugee crisis, NY Times’ Kristof calls for escalation of war in Syria
- IYSSE
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 September 2015 (front page)
- Washington threatens confrontation with Russia over Syria
- Refugee crisis in Europe: Popular support for migrants confronts official inhumanity
- Cameron government justifies targeted assassinations of UK citizens
- Turkish government escalates war against Kurdish PKK
- Desperate refugees storm registration office in Berlin
- New Zealand political leaders feign sympathy for refugees
- Stalinist mayor orders the dismantling of Roma camp near Paris
- Syriza prepares right-wing government coalition
- New York Mayor de Blasio’s tale of two cities: Homeless routed out of encampments
- Interviews with residents of Pamoja House Homeless Shelter in Brooklyn
- Baltimore to pay family of Freddie Gray $6.4 million to avoid civil lawsuit
- Pennsylvania Democrats call for elimination of pensions for new-hires
- Union ends Washington state paper strike, orders workers back without a contract
- Children in England unhappier in school than their peers elsewhere
- UAW emails autoworkers: We won’t tell you anything
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The French Republic as killing machine
The Killers of the Republic, by Vincent Nouzille - Mobilize workers and youth to stop the attack on Northern Virginia schools!
- PBS documentary Putin’s Way: Half-truths and lies in the service of US warmongering against Russia
- Woman: The confessions of R&B singer Jill Scott
- Australian waterside workers “in the dark” as union negotiates job cuts with Hutchison
10 September 2015 (front page)
- EU prepares plan to turn away masses of refugees from Europe
- The end of democracy in Britain
- Deported Kosovo refugees left with nothing
- Five thousand teachers in Seattle, Washington go on strike
- Thousands of Saudi-led coalition troops invade Yemen
- Australian government commits to air strikes inside Syria
- The reactionary campaign around Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis
- Hundreds arrested in California anti-immigrant sweep
- International probe exposes Mexican government in case of 43 missing students
- German court declares pilots strike illegal, forcing return to work
- IYSSE in Sri Lanka, US, condemn University of Melbourne ban
- Thai junta rejects draft constitution, delays election
- UK: Thousands of sick and disabled people die after being forced into employment
- Tamil nationalist appointed opposition leader in Sri Lankan parliament
- Who would benefit from the health care co-op proposed by the UAW?
- Bernie Sanders: A “socialist” promoted by the US government
- Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America offers some hints of humanity
11 September 2015 (front page)
- Market turbulence linked to conflicts over ruling class policy
- Drumbeat grows for escalating war against Syria
- China confronts continuing economic turmoil
- European powers prepare to sink refugee vessels in Mediterranean
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”You get hired here and they pretty much own your soul”
Locked out Allegheny Technologies workers speak out - No charges for police officers who killed unarmed immigrant in Pasco, Washington
- Maryland court rules volunteered DNA can be used in other cases
- UK Prime Minister Cameron calls for “hard military force” in Syria
- Puerto Rican government unveils anti-worker austerity plan
- Massachusetts governor begins privatization of public transportation
- Sri Lankan defence seminar reflects pro-US foreign policy shift
- The crimes of the Nazis in Greece: Part one
- UGL workers face deepening job cuts in Australia and Asia
- What is the UAW?
- Why is Québec Solidaire silent about the betrayal of its “cousin” Syriza?
- German pilots struggle: The right to strike requires a socialist perspective
- IYSSE in Germany protests against University of Melbourne ban
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 September 2015 (front page)
- Obama administration suppresses account of CIA torture
- A world convulsed by crises
- Refugees in Europe confront catastrophic conditions
- New Zealand vigils demand increased refugee intake
- German newspaper close to the Left Party slanders refugees
- Clinton pledges to outdo Obama in militarism
- US Steel maintaining hard line in contract talks with steelworkers
- Locked out Allegheny Technologies steelworkers speak about working conditions
- Strike by Seattle teachers continues through third day
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Notes on police violence
Fresno, California police shoot three people in five days - Major US cities report increased murder rates after years of decline
- India and Pakistan exchange war threats
- Rupert Murdoch rehabilitates disgraced CEO Rebekah Brooks
- Australian wages growing at slowest rate in two decades
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On eve of Big Three contract expiration
Louisville workers and youth support the fight of autoworkers -
Behind the UAW news blackout
What is taking place in the US auto contract negotiations? - The crimes of the Nazis in Greece: Part two
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Exhibition in London
Shirley Baker: A compassionate photographer of 1960s working class life - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 September 2015 (front page)
- Contracts to expire at midnight for 141,000 US autoworkers
- The political issues posed by Corbyn’s election as UK Labour Party leader
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As Allegheny Technologies lockout enters fifth week
ArcelorMittal walks out of negotiations with USW - Saudi-led coalition pours troops into Yemen
- A week before election, Greek conservatives neck and neck with Syriza
- Rallies in Europe and Australia in defence of refugees
- Rumours of leadership spill resurface around Australian government
- Australian tram drivers strike over jobs and conditions
- Another wave of job cuts in New Zealand
- Sri Lankan president warns against “toppling” the government
- Doctors protest high prices of cancer drugs in US
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As the Big Three contracts expire
The way forward for US autoworkers -
Diego Rivera murals in San Francisco—Mostly hidden and obscured
Change the World or Go Home by Alejandro Almanza Pereda - The crimes of the Nazis in Greece: Part 3
- Remains of a new species of early human discovered in South African cave
- IYSSE in Sri Lanka, India condemn ban at University of Melbourne
- This week in history: September 14-20
15 September 2015 (front page)
- Germany closes its borders to refugees
- Malcolm Turnbull installed as Australian prime minister in inner-party coup
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As contract deadline passes
Autoworkers denounce UAW sabotage of wages fight - UK Labour leader Corbyn includes pro-austerity, pro-war Blairites in shadow cabinet
- Tsipras defends record of austerity in Greek election debate
- US presidential campaign: Sanders opens up lead in Iowa, New Hampshire polls
- Canada’s NDP attacks Liberal deficit spending plan from the right
- Seattle teachers continue strike
- Obamacare coverage terminated for 430,000 immigrants
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New update in the contract fight
US autoworkers’ outrage mounts over UAW news blackout - Study shows Flint, Michigan has “very serious lead in water problem”
- Barcelona: Mass pro-independence demonstration on Catalonia’s national day
- Australia, New Zealand reject stronger climate measures at Pacific Islands Forum
- Seven years since the Wall Street crash
- Why the UAW picked Fiat Chrysler
- Obama’s war crimes in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 September 2015 (front page)
- Fiat Chrysler, UAW tentative contract: A corporatist conspiracy against US autoworkers
- Another palace coup in Australia
- UAW used threats to stop walkout at Detroit Fiat Chrysler plant
- Hungary closes its border with Serbia
- UK Labour leader Corbyn, addressing Trades Union Congress, makes first policy speech
- German ruling elite reacts nervously to Corbyn election in UK
- UK Conservatives’ Trade Union bill criminalises strikes and protests
- Australian business chiefs hail Turnbull as prime minister
- Egyptian gunships attack tourist convoy, killing at least 12
- Australian police fatally shoot 51-year-old postal worker
- India: Over 80 killed in Madhya Pradesh explosion
- Seattle teachers union calls off strike
- Uncontrolled wildfires burn hundreds of homes in California
- Minimum-wage workers cannot afford apartments in New York City
- Refugee crisis reveals human cost of French NPA’s “humanitarian” wars
- General Petraeus calls for recruiting Al Qaeda
- How Wall Street took over the auto industry
17 September 2015 (front page)
- Hungarian border police fire tear gas and water cannon at refugees
- The UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal: A conspiracy against autoworkers
- US-Russian tensions rise over Syria
- German politicians and media promote military intervention in Syria
- UK National Youth Theatre cancels play on Syria after consulting police
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“They are using smoke and mirrors to fool the people”
Auto workers denounce UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal - Syriza attempts to rewrite history in futile effort to stem collapse in support
- Business warns new Australian PM over promises to National Party
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A reply to the University of Melbourne’s Clubs and Societies Committee
Overturn the ban on the IYSSE! - Hewlett-Packard to cut 33,000 jobs
- Oklahoma court issues stay of execution just hours before planned lethal injection
- Japanese demonstrators denounce government ahead of vote on military legislation
- Japanese protest organisations promote illusions in opposition parties
- UN releases war crimes report on Sri Lanka
- European allies of Syriza issue a reactionary “Plan B in Europe”
- The Socialist Equality Party of Germany reviews the lessons of Greece
- An internationalist strategy to oppose the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement
- Kamasi Washington’s The Epic: A bold statement in jazz
18 September 2015 (front page)
- GM ignition defect settlement: A wrist-slap for corporate criminals
- The resurrection of borders in Europe
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Family of GM accident victim speaks
“I believe GM murdered my daughter” -
New update in the contract fight
Fiat Chrysler autoworkers demand time to study contract before vote - Kokomo Transmission workers denounce UAW-Fiat Chrysler sellout
- Citing global economy, Fed keeps rates near zero
- France to close borders, Germany to cut benefits as refugee crisis escalates
- Massive earthquake hits Chile
- UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the national anthem row
- Poll shows 81 percent of Syrians believe US created ISIS
- Northern Ireland power sharing agreement threatened after First Minister resigns
- Bloc Quebecois hails Canada’s role in Mideast war
- Foreign policy dilemmas over China confront new Australian PM
- Japan’s credit rating cut as economy contracts
- Spate of killings by New Zealand police
- Northern Virginia school officials hold meetings on cuts to public education
- Election program of Greece’s Popular Unity is a political fraud
- Republican presidential debate: A reactionary political system in decay
- “Late Show” debut: After Colbert drops the satire, what’s left?
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 September 2015 (front page)
- UAW “highlights” of Fiat Chrysler deal expose corporate-union conspiracy against autoworkers
- The GM ignition defect settlement and capitalist “justice”
- German government adopts drastic measures to deter refugees
- Widespread disillusionment in Greece ahead of Sunday’s election
- Locked out Allegheny Technologies steelworkers continue fight
- Contract worker killed at US Steel mill in Pittsburgh
- US poverty rate and income growth stagnated in 2014
- Seattle teachers face sellout contract
- Thousands more jobs to go across all sectors in UK
- Spain: Corruption charges and police raids ahead of key Catalan elections
- Malcolm Turnbull: Australia’s wealthiest prime minister
- Outrage over banning of New Zealand novel Into the River
- Sri Lankan prime minister visits India
- Socialist Project’s Panitch and Gindin defend Syriza’s betrayal of the Greek working class
- New York Times again mocks concerns over Jade Helm domestic military exercise
- Withdraw all Australian military forces from Syria and the Middle East!
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 September 2015 (front page)
- Syriza voted back into office amid mass abstention in Greek election
- Yemen: A war crime made in America
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Autoworker outrage erupts over UAW-Fiat Chrysler sellout deal
Campaign for “no” vote grows -
“The UAW is corporate now. They’re the police of the company.”
Autoworkers across the US outraged over UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal - Anger erupts at UAW meeting in Sterling Heights, Michigan
- Lockout of US steelworkers at ATI enters sixth week
- More bigotry from Republican presidential candidates
- Japanese government pushes military bills through upper house
- US, Russia discuss possible coordination, political settlement in Syria
- Burkina Faso pressured to reinstate interim government after coup
- Turnbull’s cabinet to deepen attacks on Australian working class
- New Turnbull government suffers loss of support in Australian by-election
- Sri Lankan currency falls sharply
- Germany expands its military intervention in the Mediterranean Sea
- UK government welcomes the world’s despots and war criminals to arms fair
- Reject UAW sellout! Build rank-and-file committees to fight the union-company conspiracy against autoworkers!
- Obama’s hypocrisy over Ahmed Mohamed, the boy who brought a clock to school
- This week in history: September 21-27
- Copper mine strike signals growing class struggle in Chile
- Australian UGL workers condemn union’s role in retrenchments
22 September 2015 (front page)
- Syriza’s Tsipras and Independent Greeks finalise new austerity coalition
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Autoworkers denounce UAW efforts to force through deal with Fiat Chrysler
Many warn of ballot rigging to ensure “yes” vote - UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal is a warning to John Deere workers
- German interior minister plans abolition of right to asylum
- Fed decision fails to calm markets
- Seattle teachers union pushes through sellout contract
- Detroit teachers union removes local president despite majority vote by membership
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Notes on police violence
Family sues over death of inmate in Fishkill, New York prison - Canada’s party leaders tout rival right-wing programs in election debate
- New subway station in New York cannot hide the growing crisis of public transit and housing
- UN report on Sri Lanka details atrocities during the civil war
- French army launches large-scale recruitment drive
- Poor hit hardest by UK Conservatives’ July budget
- Australian coroner: Chinese student killed in building fire because laws violated
- The political issues in the autoworkers’ struggle
- The UAW and the Democratic Party
- IYSSE (Australia) lectures discuss significance of Zimmerwald anti-war conference
- Students discuss lessons of history at IYSSE lectures
- Unions push protectionism while pledging to impose steel job cuts at Wollongong rally
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 September 2015 (front page)
- Video: Fiat Chrysler workers speak out against UAW sellout contract
- The Volkswagen emissions scandal
- Voting begins as UAW seeks to push through deal with Fiat Chrysler
- Serving UK general threatens mutiny against a future Corbyn government
- Canadian troops begin mission to train Ukrainian Army and National Guard
- Pope Francis to Cubans: “avoid ideology”…or else!
- Australian tax summit sees an emerging “consensus”
- German Left Party leaders welcome Syriza election victory
- Nominee for FDA commissioner has close ties to drug industry
- Third tier created for Mopar workers, axle operators in UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal
- Video: Fiat Chrysler workers speak out against UAW sellout contract
- New Zealand: Socialist Aotearoa supports US-led war in Syria
- Pope arrives in US amid heaviest security ever
- Mercedes-Daimler imposes unpaid work at French Smart car plant
24 September 2015 (front page)
- EU adopts plan to keep out refugees
- The Pope in America
- Autoworkers defy UAW bid to ram through Fiat Chrysler contract
- Healthcare cuts planned as part of UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal
- Greek Prime Minister Tsipras selects pro-austerity cabinet
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Auto news update
Mopar workers in Michigan vote to reject UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal as anger grows - Chinese president seeks to blunt Obama administration’s criticisms
- Australian Prime Minister Turnbull gets US backing
- China, emerging economies and commodities roil financial markets
- Scott Walker quits Republican presidential race
- Following Detroit bankruptcy, billionaires snap up prime real estate
- New York housing crisis impacts Brooklyn building workers and tenants
- A thousand jobs to go at UK Tata Steel
- Political crisis in Moldova
- The UAW-company productivity plan: A recipe for speedup and injuries
- US pharmaceutical industry price-gouging and the case of Martin Shkreli
- 99 Homes’ director Ramin Bahrani: “The villain is the system”
25 September 2015 (front page)
- Fiat Chrysler workers reject UAW contract at Michigan and Indiana plants
- Tipton, Indiana Fiat Chrysler worker: Company punished workers for getting injured on the job
- EU summit reinforces Fortress Europe
- Caterpillar announces plans to lay off 10,000 workers
- Volkswagen prepares to carry out restructuring at workers’ expense
- Fed chief points to rate rise this year
- A reactionary Congress applauds the Pope
- Quebec Common Front seeks limited rotating-strike mandate
- French-backed deal reinstates transitional government after Burkina Faso coup
- Australian public sector workers reject government pay offer
- France sells Mistral warships designed for Russia to Egyptian dictatorship
- US health insurance deductibles rise sharply, far outpacing wage gains
- Bangladeshi government confronts rising popular discontent
- Catastrophe in Saudi Arabia, pillar of Washington’s Middle East policy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 September 2015 (front page)
- Autoworkers in major plants vote overwhelmingly against UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal
- The political issues in the Volkswagen scandal
- Allegheny Technologies lockout of 2,200 steelworkers enters seventh week
- A tense visit by Chinese president to the White House
- Hungary deploys army against refugees
- US House Speaker John Boehner announces resignation
- Minister from Independent Greeks appointed by Tsipras forced to resign from Syriza-led coalition
- Spain: Pro-secession parties expected to win in Catalan regional election
- Obama, Putin to meet at UN talks on Syria, Ukraine
- Canada’s parties united in urging military spending hike
- Colombia and FARC commit to peace deal in six months
- US stations new nuclear weapons in Germany
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Notes on police violence in the US
Delaware police shoot wheelchair-bound man a dozen times - Flint, Michigan residents fight lead poisoning of water supply
- Reports forecast worsening economic conditions for Australia
- Tamil parties embrace UN report on Sri Lankan war crimes
- Steelworkers in Detroit call for common fight with autoworkers
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Toronto International Film Festival 2015: Part one
The physical and emotional toll that capitalist society takes - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
27 September 2015 (front page)
28 September 2015 (front page)
- Fiat Chrysler workers sending UAW-backed deal to defeat
- War clouds loom over UN General Assembly
- UAW’s Norwood Jewell denounces autoworkers at Toledo meeting
- France launches bombing campaign in Syria
- UK Labour Party conference begins under leadership of Corbyn
- German federal and state governments agree on hardline approach to refugees
- Agonising suicide in Australian refugee detention centre
- Behind the resignation of US House Speaker Boehner
- US coal giant seeks to eliminate health care for retirees
- Los Angeles officials declare “state of emergency” over homelessness
- Pakistan expresses alarm over ever-expanding US-India strategic partnership
- US probe into 1MDB scandal deepens Malaysian political turmoil
- French railways guilty of discrimination against Moroccan workers
- New Zealand suspends aid to Nauru
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“Conditions are verging on an explosion”
Bowling Green, Kentucky autoworker speaks out - This week in history: September 28-October 4
29 September 2015 (front page)
- Life expectancy plunges for low-income Americans
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Obama at the United Nations
Washington prepares heightened aggression against Damascus and Moscow - Fiat Chrysler workers challenge UAW vote count at Warren Truck
- A revealing clash between Toledo Jeep workers and UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell
- Hyundai autoworkers in South Korea strike for better wages
- German government and EU Commission complicit in Volkswagen scandal
- New Labour Party shadow chancellor seeks to reassure big business at party conference
- Catalan separatists secure majority in regional elections
- Teachers strike in Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Germany: Ver.di union delegates re-elect chairman despite sellouts
- Social cleansing escalates in Inner London boroughs
- Canada: NDP leader defends Manitoba government’s childcare record
- US-Sri Lankan resolution to UN human rights body to cover up war crimes
- Australian PM calls summit with union and business leaders
- Australia: Union shuts down industrial action by public transport workers
- UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal expands network of anti-worker joint programs
- Strong evidence for liquid water flows on present-day Mars
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 September 2015 (front page)
- Obama-Putin meeting highlights crisis of US policy in Syria
- Seventy-five years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Two more plants overwhelmingly reject UAW-Fiat Chrysler deal, ensuring its defeat
- Georgia executes first woman in 70 years
- Major city in Afghanistan falls to Taliban attack
- Corbyn speech to UK Labour conference criticises austerity but offers no viable alternative
- Saudi-led air strike on wedding party in Yemen kills at least 131
- Tsipras returns to US to offer up Greece for capitalist exploitation
- German president stirs up public opinion against refugees
- German ruling party lauds Hungarian Premier Orban
- Canadian election: Militarism and reaction dominate foreign policy debate
- Allegheny Technologies resumes limited production with scab workforce
- Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Tom Wolf proposes deeper cuts to pensions
- US bankruptcy judge overturns A&P; supermarket labor agreements
- Australia: Union imposes job cuts at UGL, defying workers’ votes
- As opposition to UAW sellout grows, union hack denounces WSWS Autoworker Newsletter
- Thirty years since the Canadian split from the UAW: Lessons for today
- Re-released after 40 years: The strengths and weaknesses of Robert Altman’s Nashville
- Fiat Chrysler workers challenge UAW vote count at Warren Truck
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