Archive: December 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 December 2015 (front page)
- Trial begins for police officer in Freddie Gray murder
- Corbyn opens door to Labour backing for British bombing of Syria
- Germany to send 1,200 troops to Syria
- NATO and Turkey defend shoot-down of Russian jet
- Government attempts to avoid court hearing into UK complicity in rendition
- COP21 ecological summit opens amid war tensions, with Paris in lockdown
- Tens of thousands attend climate change rallies in Australia
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“This is a great agreement for our company”
Ford execs, Wall Street investors gloat over new UAW contract - Quebec public sector unions cancel three-day strike
- Top Workers Party senator arrested in Brazil’s corruption scandal
- Constitutional coup in Poland
- IMF lifts Chinese currency to reserve status
- Sri Lankan plantation workers sacked for demanding wage rise
- US: More than 3,000 laid off in closure of Fresh & Easy grocery stores
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 December 2015 (front page)
- US announces expeditionary force for combat in Syria
- Parasitism and the slump in US manufacturing
- After Paris attacks, neo-fascists surge in polls for French regional elections
- UK prepares military action against Syria after Corbyn clears the path
- UAW reaches sellout deal with Nexteer Automotive
- US: 2,200 locked-out steelworkers lose health care
- Chicago police chief fired as anger mounts over cover-up of police killings
- Top Democrat in New York legislature convicted of corruption on all counts
- Entergy to shutter two nuclear plants in US, laying off 1,200
- EU-Turkey conference reaches deal at refugees’ expense
- Polish government cracks down on culture
- British Medical Association calls off UK junior doctors strikes
- Australia: Reserve Bank leaves rates on hold despite plunge in investment
- New York Times covers up US responsibility for ISIS surge in Libya
- The 33: A drama of the 2010 Chilean mine disaster
- A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan plantation workers
3 December 2015 (front page)
- UK parliament sanctions Syria bombing as Labour right blocks with government
- Chicago police brutality and the Democratic Party
- German government agrees to participate in Syrian war
- Israel’s covert involvement in Syria conflict to escalate
- Australian workers and youth voice concerns over downing of Russian jet
- Behind the UAW-IG Metall transnational partnership
- Jury seated in first Freddie Gray police murder trial
- After four months, no contract for Verizon telecom workers
- Brazil’s President Rousseff faces impeachment
- Upgrades transforming US military bases on Guam
- Trudeau pledges Canada’s support for French military interventions
- Spotlight: A telling exposé of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
- Seventy years since the Nuremberg Trials
4 December 2015 (front page)
- UK stages bombing raid on Syria hours after parliamentary vote
- Second one-day protest strike hits pro-austerity Syriza government in Greece
- One Belt, One Road: China’s response to the US “pivot”
- Fed chair signals rate hike as ECB expands stimulus
- Former Massey CEO escapes most serious charges for role in mine disaster
- Resistance grows as UAW seeks to ram through Nexteer sellout
- Video shows murder by San Francisco police firing squad
- California State University faculty union votes to authorize strike
- Berlin: Hundreds demonstrate against ill treatment of refugees
- NATO incorporates Montenegro, escalating anti-Russian front in Balkans
- Mass job losses loom in Scotland
- Open University staff in Britain protest regional centre closures
- Australian government pushes through bill to revoke citizenships
- The mass killing in San Bernardino, California
- Germany on a war footing
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Woodrow Wilson and Black Lives Matter
The political consequences of the racial evaluation of history - Behind the struggle for affordable housing in New York City
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 December 2015 (front page)
- German parliament votes for military intervention in Syria
- The significance of the elevation of the Chinese renminbi
- FBI calls San Bernardino mass shooting a terrorist attack
- Number of US investable wealth millionaires grew by 8.6 percent in 2014
- US jobs report shows continued stagnation in manufacturing, rise in low-paid jobs
- US Congress passes corporate-backed highway construction bill
- Paris climate talks accomplish nothing to curb global warming
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Ahead of legislative elections
Support for ruling Chavistas evaporates as living standards collapse in Venezuela - EU Council president wants to seal off Europe from refugees
- Portugal’s Left Bloc backs pro-austerity Socialist Party government
- Poland: New government moves quickly to disempower constitutional court
- Labour’s Oldham by-election victory and Corbyn’s refusal to fight the right wing
- Postal strike ends in Finland
- India: Hundreds die in Tamil Nadu floods
- China bails out embattled Malaysian prime minister
- Sri Lankan housemaid faces execution in Saudi Arabia
- Report makes case for prosecuting US war criminals
- The European refugee crisis and international law
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Vote “no” on UAW-Nexteer sellout
Build a rank-and-file factory committee to fight the auto companies! -
Interview with Denny Tedesco, director of The Wrecking Crew
“Everybody loves this music around the world” - Janis: Little Girl Blue–Amy Berg’s valuable documentary about singer Janis Joplin
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 December 2015 (front page)
- The new imperialist carve-up of the Middle East
- Obama’s crisis speech on San Bernardino attack
- Neo-fascist National Front leads first round of French regional elections
- Polish government signals interest in hosting US nuclear weapons
- After Syria vote, British pseudo-left pledge loyalty to Corbyn and Labour
- Chinese president seeks to shore up relations with Africa
- Canada: Liberals mask right-wing program with “real change” rhetoric
- Massive “no” vote by Nexteer workers rejects UAW sellout
- US: Lockout of 2,200 steelworkers nears end of fourth month
- US Senate report details high prices of Hepatitis C drugs
- Deadly fire destroys three apartments in Lynn, Massachusetts
- US border agents cleared of charges in murder of immigrant Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas
- Ex-minister’s defection highlights fragility of Australian government
- Nexteer workers denounce UAW-company alliance following overwhelming “no” vote
- UK private care homes facing closure
- Pacific Island nations “bearing the brunt” of climate change
- Australian state government sells power generator for next to nothing
- Interview with Indian filmmaker Rahul Roy, director of The Factory
- 100 years of General Relativity—Part One
- This week in history: December 7-13
8 December 2015 (front page)
- Calls grow for deployment of German ground troops in Syria
- Syria claims US airstrikes targeted government forces
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Over 3,300 auto parts workers strike in Saginaw, Michigan
The way forward for Nexteer workers - After the “no” vote at Nexteer: A message from a Ford worker
- Maduro government suffers steep electoral losses to Venezuelan right
- Global warming compounds Atlantic cod fishing industry problems
- Greek parliament approves austerity budget for 2016
- BIS warns of sudden end to “uneasy” financial calm
- Chilean military exercises fuel tensions with Bolivia and Peru
- Notes on London’s housing crisis
- US pressures Australian government to toe the line on China
- Australian union officials arrested on blackmail charges for imposing bans
- South Korean workers and farmers denounce Park government
- Obama’s San Bernardino speech and the rightward lurch of US politics
- 100 years of General Relativity—Part Two
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150 years since ratification of the 13th Amendment
The end of chattel slavery in American history - Mark Zuckerberg, philanthrocapitalism and parasitism
- Five years since the arrest of Julian Assange
- The Heritage We Defend is now available in e-pub format
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 December 2015 (front page)
- After less than 24 hours, UAW shuts down Nexteer strike
- Imperialism, the “war on terror” and anti-Muslim hysteria
- Nexteer autoworkers on strike denounce UAW-Nexteer contract
- Amid terror scare, US House passes new restrictions on visa-free visits
- US air strike kills 36 Syrian civilians, including 20 children
- UK Labour right wing tries to silence opposition to war
- US to base spy planes in Singapore
- Mining giant Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs
- Illinois state attorney not pressing charges in Ronald Johnson killing
- Expansion of Russian-German Nord Stream pipeline exacerbates tensions within the European Union
- OECD finds UK pensions amongst lowest in world
- Tamil party complicit in detention of Sri Lankan political prisoners
- Haitian government reinstates the army
- Child poverty increases across Canada
- Scores of Australian workers killed in workplace incidents
- The forced resignation of Erika Christakis at Yale University
- 100 years of General Relativity—Part Three
- An interview with Ted Dawe, author of Into the River
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Public meeting in Chicago
The way forward in the fight against police violence -
Public meetings in Detroit and New York
The roots and political implications of the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino
10 December 2015 (front page)
- US defense secretary outlines general military escalation in Middle East
- Trump: The ugly reality of American politics
- The Scottish National Party’s tactical opposition to bombing Syria
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“If we as workers were to stand up, what kind of a statement would that make worldwide?”
Nexteer workers’ anger grows as UAW prepares to ram through new sellout deal - Video: Nexteer workers speak on the picket line
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“Your resolve to stand up… is something to be admired”
Ford workers call for joint struggle with Nexteer workers - US: Georgia carries out fifth execution of 2015
- New video released in 2012 Chicago police killing of Philip Coleman
- Dozens of refugees drowned last week in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas
- Brazilian students occupy Sao Paulo schools against “restructuring” plan
- Court case begins in Japan over Okinawa base relocation
- Suu Kyi holds transition talks with Burmese military
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An open letter
Socialist Equality Party (UK) demands the Undercover Police Inquiry release the names of all police agents and spies - Brooklyn: Irish immigration through rose-colored glasses
- A new tipping point in the global economic crisis
- Germany’s Left Party and the war in Syria
- The 2012 and 2015 Quebec student strikes and the bankruptcy of anarchism: Part 1
11 December 2015 (front page)
- The hourglass society: Middle-income households no longer the majority in the US
- Pentagon announces worldwide expansion of US military bases
- Nexteer victimizes dozens of workers as UAW prepares new sellout
- Celebrating the sellout: UAW sends negotiators on paid vacation at exclusive Miami resort
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“If you don’t put a stop to it now, it will never stop”
Kohler strike in fourth week - Event commemorating one year anniversary of Detroit bankruptcy breaks up in debacle
- Chemical giants DuPont and Dow in “advanced talks” about merger
- US Senate holds hearing on rising generic drug prices
- Efforts collapse to form “Republican front” to block neo-fascists in French regional elections
- Latvian government resigns under pressure from pro-austerity right
- Report highlights gap between executive and workers’ pay in UK
- UN report documents death of over 9,000 Ukrainians
- Indonesian government discusses offering Australia an island to detain refugees
- Australia: Productivity Commission proposes further major cutbacks to pensions
- The Venezuelan elections and the dead end of Latin America’s “turn to the left”
- The New York Times, fascism and Donald Trump
- German academics Münkler and Baberowski promote imperialist foreign policy
- After Paris attacks, New Anti-capitalist Party backs police state rule and war
- The 2012 and 2015 Quebec student strikes and the bankruptcy of anarchism: Part 2
- Network of former Nazis in German Interior Ministry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 December 2015 (front page)
- Stocks plunge amid fears of global slump and credit meltdown
- Social inequality and the disintegration of the American middle class
- Violent attacks on refugees increase in Germany
- Saudi-orchestrated gathering of Syrian “rebels” ends in disarray
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As details of new tentative agreement emerge
Workers oppose UAW-Nexteer divide-and-conquer tactics - Republican Party crisis deepens over Trump anti-Muslim statements
- US Supreme Court justice argues black students should attend inferior schools
- Defense rests in trial of first police officer charged in killing of Freddie Gray
- Two police officers indicted for murder of six-year-old
- Quebec: Wave of walkouts against Liberals’ austerity agenda
- Australian PM unveils plan for indefinite detention of “terrorists”
- As court bans racist rally, Australian media promotes far-right
- Opel Bochum: Few new jobs a year after plant closure
- UK and Ireland devastated by floods
- UN report says Sri Lankan government terrorising families of the disappeared
- A balance sheet of Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party
- Spain: Podemos seeks to demobilise popular opposition to war
- Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts takes aim at guards’ jobs and working conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 December 2015 (front page)
- Junk bond panic signals new stage in crisis of world capitalism
- Paris agreement papers over failure to act on climate change
- New defeat for ruling Socialist Party in French regional elections
- Shots fired amid Russian-Turkish naval standoff in Aegean
- Letter from Indiana autoworker to Nexteer workers: Contract is a bad deal for skilled trades
- Ten facts autoworkers need to know about the Nexteer tentative agreement
- Weakening currency and economic slowdown in China
- California mosque firebombed amid record spike in anti-Muslim violence
- Notes on police violence: Los Angeles police fatally shoot man 33 times
- Election polls point to breakdown of two-party system in Spain
- Small turnout at Stop the War Coalition rally in London, England
- London anti-war demonstration participants speak out against war
- Russian truckers protest massive fee hike
- Testimony of German neo-Nazi covers up state involvement
- Sri Lankan corporate giant sues environmental activist
- US: As winter approaches increasing numbers killed in home fires
- A reply to discussion on the Venezuelan elections
- Sri Lanka: A socialist program to fight budget cuts
- The fate of Zuckerberg’s “gift” to Newark schools
- Chi-Raq: A satire of social life in Chicago
- Now in eBook format: The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
- This week in history: December 14-20
15 December 2015 (front page)
- Obama vows expanded war in Syria
- “Left” propagandists for escalation of imperialist war
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“Everyone’s eyes are opening up now that they are reading the contract”
Nexteer workers express anger and opposition to new contract deal - US Army charges Bowe Bergdahl with desertion
- Junk bond crisis brings “stress” warning
- Chicago teachers vote to authorize strike action
- US Supreme Court considering end to “one person, one vote” principle
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Notes on police violence in America
Chicago police officer accused of jamming gun down throat of suspect acquitted - Pennsylvania budget impasse nears possible resolution
- Trudeau’s refugee “welcome” and the real agenda of Canada’s new government
- UK spy agency admits hacking phones and computers without warrants
- Government conspiracy against 1972 UK builders’ strike exposed
- India: Government negligence responsible for flood disaster
- UAW official pushing Nexteer sellout lashes out at Autoworker Newsletter
- Killing Them Safely: The big business of police tasers
- IYSSE meeting in Berlin discusses the Syrian war and the aims of German imperialism in the Middle East
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Boston “ghost train” incident exposes decay of public infrastructure
16 December 2015 (front page)
- Obamacare enrollment deadline: Fines mount for failure to buy costly, barebones insurance
- The climate crisis and imperialism
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Republican “debate” in Las Vegas
A two-hour commercial for militarism and fear-mongering - Los Angeles shuts down entire school district after email terror threat
- Syriza government sends Greek riot police to attack refugee camp
- What is the BBC doing in the South China Sea?
- Nexteer workers challenge UAW officials at contract information meetings
- Volvo truck plant lays off 734 workers ahead of contract deadline
- After the contract at Fiat Chrysler: UAW and company cheat workers of pay
- Tens of thousands march in Warsaw against constitutional coup
- State of emergency declared in Flint, Michigan over poisoned water supply
- Tennessee woman arrested after attempting self-induced abortion
- Scotland: Sturgeon and Corbyn share platform against Trade Union Bill
- Australian budget position worsens as cuts deepen
- The International Socialist Organization, police violence and the Democratic Party
- Who would celebrate Hitler today?: The German satirical film Look Who’s Back
17 December 2015 (front page)
- Federal Reserve begins “dovish tightening” with first rate hike in nine years
- The French regional elections and the threat of dictatorship
- EU plans further crackdown on refugees
- US administration approves $1.8 billion arms sale to Taiwan
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Low-wage America
Detroit auto parts worker endures homelessness, surrenders custody of children - Senior UK Labourites Darling and Brown join the gravy train
- UAW shuts down Kohler strike, rams through contract in snap vote
- Low-wage America: Detroit auto parts worker endures homelessness, surrenders custody of children
- Thousands forced to live without water in Detroit
- Metro Detroit residents sell plasma to support families
- Hung jury in first trial for police killing of Freddie Gray
- Brazil hit with new credit downgrade as impeachment crisis deepens
- Cases of malnutrition surge in UK
- Sri Lankan trade unions call off one-day stoppage
- Warning of unrest in New Caledonia over Australian nickel smelter closure
- Angela Merkel’s party congress speech: Anti-immigrant chauvinism and right-wing nationalism
- Pennsylvania school bans teaching of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
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Vote “No” on UAW-Nexteer sellout deal!
Build factory committees to mobilize all autoworkers in a common struggle - Legend and Room: Once again, celebrating the underworld—and a peculiar film about captives
18 December 2015 (front page)
- Conflicts over refugee policy dominate EU summit
- Weapon used in November 13 Paris attacks came from CIA-linked arms dealer
- No further prosecutions in UK phone hacking scandal
- Widespread opposition as voting begins on second UAW-Nexteer deal
- Family of San Diego man killed by police disputes official story of his death
- Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud
- Alberta NDP government’s climate change plan hailed by Big Oil
- Job losses mount throughout Australian mining sector
- Corporate elite demands deeper budget cuts from Australian government
- Saudi Arabia and the “war on terror”
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Canada’s role in Afghanistan
Hyena Road: Neither pro- nor anti-war? Not so fast, Mr. Gross…! - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 December 2015 (front page)
- Australia, Japan “strongly support” US, amid rising tensions with China
- After Fed rate hike, global economic fault lines deepen
- Japanese premier forges ties with India to counter China
- UN resolution papers over deep divisions on Syria
- Obama responds to terror scare over San Bernardino attack
- German army begins military intervention in Syria
- American Nazi web site acclaims Humboldt Professor Jörg Baberowski
- Turkey escalates war drive against Kurds at home and across the region
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“They want this contract shoved down our throats”
UAW claims ratification of Nexteer sellout as lies exposed - US Congress passes $1.8 trillion spending and tax package
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After isolating locked-out ATI workers
Steelworkers union prepares to push through concessions contract at US Steel - European Union summit seeks to avert British exit from the EU
- Spanish political establishment shifts to right in run-up to general election
- Report reveals torture and murder of Afghan civilians by Navy SEALs
- Inhumane conditions in privately run New Zealand prison
- Report reveals Australian disability scheme’s cost-cutting agenda
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“Bloody instructions ... return to plague the instructor”
A new film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth -
After isolating locked-out ATI workers
Steelworkers union prepares to push through concessions contract at US Steel - Montreal suspends 2,400 workers for participating in an “illegal” meeting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 December 2015 (front page)
- US, European powers prepare new air and ground operations against Libya
- The US terror scare
- Hung parliament emerges from Spanish elections as traditional parties collapse
- Putin news conference highlights Russian crisis
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Notes on police violence in America
Four recent police shootings spark outrage - Fear-mongering and war dominate third Democratic presidential debate
- United Steelworkers announces deal with US Steel
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After the Big Three contracts
Auto companies cheat retirees while posting record sales - German parliament approves expansion of military mission in Afghanistan
- Canadian Special Forces battle ISIS militants as calls grow for expanded war
- Slavery “pervasive” in global seafood supply
- Israel: No prosecutions for firebombing of Palestinian family
- Split looms in South Korea’s opposition party
- Pamphlet on Syriza’s betrayal in Greece now available from Mehring Books
- This week in history: December 21-27
22 December 2015 (front page)
- US cops killed more people this year than in 2014
- WTO buries Doha Round: Another rupture in the post-war order
- Six US soldiers killed as Taliban overruns Helmand district in Afghanistan
- Chinese industrial zone engulfed by waste landslide
- Nexteer workers denounce UAW after ratification of sellout deal
- Chicago area Coca-Cola workers enter fourth week of strike, face isolation by Teamsters
- Poland: Anti-government rallies continue as Lech Wałęsa warns of civil war
- Kellingley Colliery—last remaining deep coal mine in Britain—closes
- Haiti’s political crisis deepens in wake of fraudulent elections
- Australian report calls for cutting penalty wage rates
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens: No real awakening
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 December 2015 (front page)
- One million people fled to Europe in 2015
- Political issues in the Spanish election crisis
- Germany doubles number of deportations
- US air strike kills 12 Iraqi civilians
- NZ Labour leader calls for “troops on the ground” to fight ISIS
- Spanish political system in turmoil over hung parliament
- Mass police raids in French state of emergency find no terror networks
- Amid French state of emergency, Sodexo sacks 19 workers for striking
- Illinois coal miner killed on the job
- Co-defendant Ralf Wohlleben testifies in German neo-Nazi trial
- Scotland: Victims demand removal of former police spy from St. Andrew’s University
- Ethiopian government kills students in protests over latest land grab
- An interview with performer, educator and archivist of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein
- Walter Reuther and the rise and fall of the UAW
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Second election meeting of IYSSE at Humboldt University
Herfried Münkler: An academic in the service of German imperialism - Public meetings in Australia mark 75th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s murder
- Workers and youth speak on Trotsky’s life and death
24 December 2015 (front page)
- French government proposes constitutional amendment on state of emergency, deprivation of citizenship
- No “peace on Earth” in 2015
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Notes on police violence in America
Texas grand jury refuses to indict police officers involved in the death of Sandra Bland - Idaho food service worker fired for giving hungry student free food worth $1.70
- US-backed Nigerian military massacres hundreds in Shia minority
- UK Labour leader urges party not to defy Conservative spending cuts
- UK: Employment practises of Sports Direct retail giant exposed
- German government creates new “Anti-Terror Unit”
- Sri Lankan farmers protest against budget cuts
- Quebec: Common Front unions promote sell-out agreement
- Socialist Alternative forms group to support Sanders campaign
- Notes on a visit to Łódź, Poland
- Western Australia suffers “greatest revenue shock since Great Depression”
28 December 2015 (front page)
- Obama administration prepares raids on Central American immigrants
- The fracturing of the European Union
- Three shot, two killed by Chicago police in one day
- Police suppress protest at Mall of America over recent police killing in Minneapolis
- Locked out ATI workers in US left isolated by United Steelworkers union
- FDA capitulates to pharmaceutical company on drug claims
- Puerto Rico faces default on its debts
- Refugees confront misery in Berlin
- Police operations against protest groups extended into Scotland
- Prince Charles and William granted access to top secret UK documents
- Australia: One year after the Sydney siege, the cover-up continues
- Sri Lankan government lifts suspension on China-funded Port City project
- German weekly Die Zeit calls for a “strong state”
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John Heartfield: Laughter Is A Devastating Weapon
David King on the famed German photomontage artist - This week in history: December 28-January 3
29 December 2015 (front page)
- Cleveland cop who killed twelve-year-old exonerated
- US military to expand global operations in 2016
- Criminal investigation launched into police killing of unarmed man in London
- US-backed Iraqi forces recapture Ramadi from ISIS
- India’s Modi makes surprise visit to Pakistan
- Winter storms kill dozens across US South and Midwest
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Dictatorship conditions at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant: Part One
Autoworker crushed to death in conveyer belt catastrophe - George Washington University apologizes for censorship of Palestinian flag
- Ruthless cuts in West Virginia public employee health care
- Canada’s central bank expresses trepidation over economic downturn
- German trade union chief agrees to €1 an hour jobs for refugees
- Portugal’s new Socialist Party government bails out another bank
- Dozens of Chinese miners killed in three accidents
- Tamil People's Forum sets a new nationalist trap for Sri Lankan workers
- Widespread abstention in New Zealand flag referendum
- In Jackson Heights: Documentarian Frederick Wiseman on life in a New York City neighborhood
30 December 2015 (front page)
- A New Year’s sense of foreboding over the global economy
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After grand jury whitewash in Tamir Rice killing
More police murders across the US - Federal agency prepares new crackdown on US travelers
- As fighting in Turkey mounts, Kurdish nationalists escalate independence drive
- Japan and South Korea reach agreement over comfort women
- Seven confirmed dead in industrial landslide in Shenzhen, China
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Dictatorship conditions at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant: Part Two
With UAW complicity, Ford fires workers for voicing opposition - New York City intensifies assault on the homeless
- UK floods bring further destruction to thousands
- Wedding video shows Israeli far-right gathering celebrating arson attack on Palestinians
- After Paris attacks, anti-Muslim riot erupts in Corsica
- Drug company boss is new head of Croatian government
- Obama, Trump and the working class
- The New York Times celebrates “retaking Ramadi”
- SEP (Sri Lanka) holds public meeting on 75th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s assassination
- The year in popular music
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
31 December 2015 (front page)
- IMF head warns of slow growth and economic “shocks” in 2016
- On the threshold of the New Year
- US commander prepared to seek more troops for Afghanistan
- NATO to station AWACS radar aircraft in Turkey
- Police officer escapes indictment for shooting unarmed man in Colorado
- Massive police buildup planned in cities throughout the US for New Year’s Eve
- Analyst says US auto contracts will not increase labor costs
- Top Michigan environmental safety officials resign amidst ongoing Flint water crisis
- US: Mississippi River flooding threatens millions
- Post-elections negotiations fail to produce new Spanish government
- EU renegotiation talks open up “civil war” in UK Tory government
- Lifetime council tenancies in UK to be scrapped
- President Humala declares state of emergency in Peru’s port of Callao
- Indonesian foreign policy tilts towards the US and its allies
- Private operator to run New Zealand capital’s rail service
- The Big Short: The criminality of Wall Street and the crash of 2008
- Best films of 2015
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