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
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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.
New in French
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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Perspective
Seventy-five years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
22 June 2016
The war against the Soviet Union expressed the essence of the Nazi regime, which had been brought to power by the German bourgeoisie to destroy the workers movement and end the threat of socialist revolution.
The UK Brexit Referendum
Chris Marsden speaks at the Humboldt University in Berlin
The Brexit referendum and the struggle for socialism
22 June 2016
Chris Marsden, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) explained why the party is calling for an active boycott of Thursday’s referendum.
Ahead of vote on UK membership in EU
Corbyn and Cameron use killing of Cox to cement their alliance against Brexit
By Robert Stevens, 21 June 2016
MP’s murder exposes role of neo-fascists in British Leave campaign
The significance of the Brexit referendum for the European working class
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SEP 2016 US Election Campaign
Socialist Equality Party election campaign: Naomi Spencer for West Virginia House of Delegates, 16th District!
22 June 2016
The Socialist Equality Party (US) is running Spencer for West Virginia House of Delegates to provide workers with a socialist program to oppose the Depression-like conditions in the coal mining state.
Video: The demise of Sanders’ “political revolution”
By Jerry White—Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president, 21 June 2016
People’s Summit in Chicago: Preparing the switch from Sanders to Clinton
By Patrick Martin, 20 June 2016
Political lessons of the Sanders campaign
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SEP (Australia) Election Campaign
SEP candidates condemn worsening assault on legal aid
By Mike Head and Erin Cooke—SEP Senate candidates for Queensland, 22 June 2016
Cuts to legal assistance in Australia are part of a wider austerity offensive against the working class, while billions of dollars are being spent on the military in preparation for war.
Australian election rally promotes Greens’ bogus refugee “solution”
By John Braddock, 22 June 2016
The Sydney Town Hall meeting was a thinly-veiled election rally for the Greens.
Australian Labor Party vows “freedom of navigation” provocations against China
By James Cogan, 21 June 2016
Socialist Equality Party final election rallies
International class struggle returns: A socialist program against war and austerity
More on the Australian federal election »
Arts Review
Censored Voices: A snapshot in time reveals war crimes
By Fred Mazelis, 22 June 2016
An Israeli filmmaker has brought 50-year-old tape recordings about the Six-Day War and their implications to life on the screen.
Issues raised by the “Labor Relations” exhibition at the Wrocław Contemporary Museum
By Dorota Niemitz, 21 June 2016
“All the terrifying things all really happened”
Toyen: A film about the Czech surrealist painter and her times
Commentary
Washington’s “second nuclear age”
By Andre Damon, 21 June 2016
Two US aircraft carriers in war games in western Pacific
German foreign minister distances himself from the United States
By Peter Schwarz, 21 June 2016
FBI tried to ensnare Orlando shooter in fake terror plot
By Bill Van Auken, 21 June 2016
Questions mount over FBI handling of Orlando gunman
Featured series on Australian unions
What the Royal Commission into Australia’s trade unions revealed
Part One: Workers need new organisations of struggle!
By Will Fulgenzi—SEP candidate for Wills, 2 June 2016
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SEP (Germany) Election Campaign
The Socialist Equality Party (Germany) stands candidates for the Berlin state elections
By Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, 31 May 2016
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