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22 June 2016

On eve of Brexit referendum, mounting warnings of global trade war

By Andre Damon, 22 June 2016

The World Trade Organization warned that protectionist measures by leading economies has hit the highest level on records dating back to 2009.

The return of “secular stagnation”

Galloway and pseudo-left defend alliance with UKIP and Tory right at Brexit referendum meeting

By a reporter, 22 June 2016

The meeting organized by the "Left Leave" campaign exposed the line-up of the pseudo-left with right-wing nationalist and fascistic forces.

The EU referendum and the murder of British MP Jo Cox

More on the UK Brexit referendum »

Landmark Supreme Court ruling backs illegal police searches

By Tom Hall, 22 June 2016

The 5-3 ruling removes penalties for illegal searches, effectively gutting the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, a core element of the Bill of Rights.

Nochixtlán massacre witnesses: Mexican police fired automatic weapons at demonstrators

By Neil Hardt, 22 June 2016

The death toll has risen to 11 in Sunday’s police massacre of striking teachers and their supporters in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Police kill eight striking Mexican teachers in Oaxaca massacre

UN agency reports 65 million people are refugees worldwide

By Martin Kreickenbaum, 21 June 2016

The number of people around the globe displaced by war, armed conflict and persecution set a new record at the end of 2015.

Grillo’s Five Star Movement wins mayoral elections in Rome and Turin

By Marianne Arens, 22 June 2016

The electoral victory of the nationalist Five Star Movement in two Italian cities is a resounding defeat for the government of Matteo Renzi.

German interior minister advocates auxiliary police force

By Dietmar Henning, 22 June 2016

As in the 1930s, the ruling elite in Germany is responding to growing class conflict with the increased arming of the state and police forces.

“We’re fighting for nurses and other workers everywhere”
Twin Cities nurses fight cost-cutting plans

By Anthony Bertolt and Matt Rigel, 22 June 2016

Nearly 5,000 nurses are fighting the demands of Allina Health to gut their medical benefits and increase workloads.

Twin Cities nurses face battle over health benefits, staffing

Canadian autoworkers face fight against threatened plant closings

By Carl Bronski, 22 June 2016

As in the US, the Detroit automakers and the Canadian unions are using the threat of plant closings to ram through concessionary contracts.

Deadly heatwave hits US Southwest

By Genevieve Leigh, 22 June 2016

Five people have died, thousands are without power and wildfires continue to spread amid record temperatures in the southwestern United States.

Record heat wave fuels wildfire in southern California

UK: Bakers union suspends strike action against 2 Sisters Food Group

By Tony Robson, 22 June 2016

The principle of equal pay for equal work has become a thing of the past and is not peculiar to the 2 Sisters Food Group or the low-paid food and drink industry.

Australia: Katter video depicts him killing Labor and Coalition opponents

By Richard Phillips, 22 June 2016

The vile election ad, which is pitched to extreme right-wing elements, is an incitement to violence against anyone who opposes Katter’s nationalist demagogy.

New Zealand: Family denounces “cold-blooded execution” by police

By Chris Ross, 22 June 2016

As New Zealand’s social crisis worsens, the police are increasingly resorting to deadly force.

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Le « second âge nucléaire » de Washington

Par Andre Damon, 22 juin 2016

Le programme de modernisation nucléaire de mille milliards de dollars mis en œuvre par le gouvernement Obama ouvre la voie à l’utilisation d’armes nucléaires dans les combats.

Allemagne: les « correspondances berlinoises » ou l’université Humboldt au service du militarisme

Par Johannes Stern, 22 juin 2016

L’apparition du ministre allemand des Affaires étrangères Steinmeier et du professeur de l’Université Humboldt, Herfried Münkler, sur un même plateau témoigne de la transformation de l’université en boite à idée de l’impérialisme allemand.

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Das britische EU-Referendum und der Mord an Jo Cox

Von Julie Hyland, 21. Juni 2016

Der Mord an der Labour-Abgeordneten Cox zeigt, welch faschistoide Kräfte im Zusammenhang mit dem Brexit-Referendum aufgepeitscht werden.

Steinmeier geht auf Distanz zu den USA

Von Peter Schwarz, 21. Juni 2016

Der deutscher Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier hat sich in den vergangenen Tagen deutlich von den USA distanziert und gleichzeitig den Anspruch Deutschlands unterstrichen, wieder eine globale Großmacht zu werden.

US-Diplomaten fordern Ausweitung des Syrienkriegs

Von Bill Van Auken, 21. Juni 2016

Das Dokument aus dem State Department verschärft die Spannungen mit Russland und gibt einen Vorgeschmack dessen, was nach den Präsidentschaftswahlen kommen könnte.

UNHCR: 65 Millionen Menschen weltweit auf der Flucht

Von Martin Kreickenbaum, 21. Juni 2016

Dem aktuellen Weltbericht des UNHCR zufolge ist die Zahl der Flüchtlinge im vergangenen Jahr auf über 65 Millionen Menschen gestiegen. Verantwortlich sind die imperialistischen Kriege.

Frankreich:
Massenbewegung gegen Arbeitsmarktreform droht Ausverkauf

Von Alex Lantier, 21. Juni 2016

Die Gewerkschaft CGT zeigt Bereitschaft, das Unterlaufen von Branchentarifverträgen auf Unternehmensebene mit zu organisieren.

Grillos Protestbewegung stellt Bürgermeister in Rom und Turin

Von Marianne Arens, 21. Juni 2016

Der Wahlsieg der Fünf-Sterne-Bewegung in zwei italienischen Metropolen stellt für Matteo Renzis Regierungspolitik eine herbe Niederlage dar.

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