21 May 2016
US prepares troop deployment to Libya amid fight for oil fields
By Bill Van Auken, 21 May 2016
The Pentagon’s top general said troops could be sent “any day” once there was a formal request from the Western-backed regime in Tripoli.
While cause of Egypt Air crash remains unknown, terror scare mounts
By Thomas Gaist, 21 May 2016
The US and Europe are are seizing on the incident to justify an escalation of their military operations.
Retired British general predicts war with Russia, denounces Cameron government as “semi-pacifist”
By Harvey Thompson, 21 May 2016
Shirreff urges class war at home and public spending cuts to fund massive increases in military spending.
WSWS reporters visit landslide victims in Sri Lanka
By our correspondents, 21 May 2016
Survivors expressed no confidence in the government’s ability to solve the problem of landslides.
Clinton calls Trump “unqualified” to be commander-in-chief
By Patrick Martin, 21 May 2016
The Democratic frontrunner is appealing to Republican warhawks and neo-conservatives to support her against her likely Republican opponent.
US media steps up witch-hunt over claims of Sanders “violence” in Nevada
Democratic Party establishment witch-hunts Sanders’ supporters
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Congressional Democrats call for end to Verizon strike
By Shannon Jones, 21 May 2016
President Obama, Congressional Democrats and the unions are intent on wrapping up the Verizon strike before it becomes the catalyst for a broader movement of the working class.
Verizon strikers denounce federal mediation, CWA news blackout
By Steve Light and Alan Whyte, 21 May 2016
As CWA prepares sellout, Verizon strikers discuss way forward on WSWS online call
San Francisco police chief resigns after cops kill unarmed woman
By David Brown, 21 May 2016
Amid repeated killings and scandals, the city administration looks to make a cosmetic change to its police force.
New York police gun down mentally unstable man in midtown Manhattan
More on police violence in America »
Sports Authority to close all stores, lay off 16,000
By George Gallanis, 21 May 2016
The announcement by Sports Authority (SA) follows a wave of recent closures from other retail companies.
Thousands of oil workers evacuated as Alberta wildfire spreads
By Roger Jordan, 21 May 2016
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley presented a timeline for residents to return to Fort McMurray, but the flare-up of the fire again this week could push this back.
Canadian capitalism and the Fort McMurray wildfire
German Social Democratic Party in free-fall
By Ulrich Rippert, 21 May 2016
The SPD’s collapse in the polls is the product of the right-wing, anti-social and militarist policies the party has pursued for years.
Local campuses disaffiliate from British National Union of Students
By Thomas Scripps, 21 May 2016
The ahistorical, irrational and racialised policies of the pseudo-left have opened the way for an assault on the NUS from the right.
Australia: NSW government accelerates privatisation of prisons
By Robert Morgan, 21 May 2016
The state’s prison policy is part of a global process of higher imprisonment rates and commercial exploitation of public facilities.
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ABD ve müttefikleri Suriye savaşını tırmandırmakla tehdit ediyor
Bill Van Auken, 21 Mayıs 2016
Suudi ve Türk yönetimlerinin, ABD egemen çevreleri ve ordu-istihbarat aygıtı içindeki güçlü kesimlerin desteklediği bir politikayı açıkça savunuyor olduğuna kuşku yok.
1 Mayıs 2016: Uluslararası işçi sınıfı muazzam bir toplumsal güçtür
Joseph Kishore, 21 Mayıs 2016
Aşağıdaki konuşma, 1 Mayıs 2016’daki Uluslararası Çevrimiçi 1 Mayıs Toplantısı’nın kapanışında, Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’nin (ABD) ulusal sekreteri Joseph Kishore tarafından yapıldı.
New in French
Devant la montée des protestations en France, le parlement prolonge l'état d'urgence
Par Alex Lantier, 21 mai 2016
Contrairement aux affirmations officielles, l'état d'urgence ne vise pas le terrorisme islamiste mais une opposition croissante de la classe ouvrière à l'austérité sociale et à la violence policière et militaire.
Etats-Unis et OTAN affirment que le vol EgyptAir 804 a été attaqué et veulent réagir militairement
Par Thomas Gaist, 21 mai 2016
Hillary Clinton, la candidate démocrate à la présidentielle a demandé une intensification de la guerre en Irak et en Syrie en réponse à la destruction de l’avion de ligne à destination du Caire
Le gouvernement Syriza se sert de gaz lacrymogènes et de grenades assourdissantes contre les réfugiés
Par Christoph Vandreier, 21 mai 2016
La violence déployée contre des réfugiés sans défense et désespérés qui fuient la guerre montre on ne peut plus clairement le caractère de classe de l’actuel gouvernement grec.
L’«interception» d’un avion-espion montre à quel point les États-Unis cherchent la confrontation en mer de Chine méridionale
Par Mike Head, 21 mai 2016
Les allégations selon lesquelles des avions chinois ont intercepté «imprudemment» un avion de surveillance américain montrent que le Pentagone cherche un «élément déclencheur» de conflit avec la Chine.
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Perspective
A resurgence of class struggle
21 May 2016
The revival of the class struggle is finding political expression in the turn by workers against all of the parties of the official “left” that are backed by the trade unions.
SEP 2016 US Election Campaign
Race and class in American history: A reply to a false explanation of the Trump phenomenon
By Niles Niemuth—SEP candidate for US vice president, 21 May 2016
An op-ed published this week in the New York Times provides an opportunity to consider the history of class struggle in America and the role of identity politics in dividing the working class.
Break the CWA’s isolation of the Verizon strike!
By Jerry White—SEP candidate for US president, 20 May 2016
Obama to American youth: Stop complaining, things have never been better!
Oppose Obama’s assault on immigrants!
After sickouts, what is the way forward for Detroit teachers?
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Commentary
A pittance for Zika, $600 billion for the Pentagon
By Kate Randall, 20 May 2016
Why the South China Sea tensions were removed from Australian Greens’ speech
By Oscar Grenfell, 20 May 2016
Spy plane “intercept” highlights US push for South China Sea confrontation
French parliament extends state of emergency amid rising protests
Syriza government uses tear gas and stun grenades against refugees
The controversy in the US over transgender access to public bathrooms
Arts Review
San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 4
Maggie’s Plan, Frank & Lola, along with Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932)
By Joanne Laurier, 20 May 2016
A further comment on the death of David King, socialist and artist
By David Walsh, 19 May 2016
King was a brilliant graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, archivist, researcher, editor, historian and art collector.
David King 1943-2016: Revolutionary socialist, artist and defender of historical truth
By David North, 14 May 2016
David King, who devoted his extraordinary gifts as an artist to salvaging the historical truth of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath from beneath the vast edifice of Stalinist crimes and lies, died suddenly in London on May 11.
The Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan
Outrage erupts at Flint meeting of pipeline board
By James Brewer, 20 May 2016
New evidence reveals state of Michigan helped to push Flint into pipeline deal
Video: Flint, Michigan resident speaks on lack of services for poisoned residents
By Tim Rivers, 17 May 2016
Obama in Flint: Let them drink lead
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Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 May 2016
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Socialist Equality Party
Paris meeting addresses war danger in Asia, bankruptcy of Tamil nationalism
By Kumaran Ira, 16 May 2016
Meeting May 21 in Glasgow
For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum! For the United Socialist States of Europe!
International May Day 2016
May Day 2016: Introductory report by David North
By David North, 2 May 2016
May Day 2016 and the future of socialism
By Joseph Kishore, 4 May 2016
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IYSSE
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
For a socialist program against Labor, the Liberals and the Greens
By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia), 11 May 2016
Committee minutes reveal anti-democratic discrimination against IYSSE at University of Melbourne
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Berlin elections: Workers and students speak out against war
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