11 July 2016
Hundreds arrested in US protests against police killings
By Shannon Jones, 11 July 2016
Thousands took to the streets across the United States to voice their outrage over two recent police killings of unarmed black men.
“I am against something wrong, regardless of what the color of someone’s skin is”
Protesters speak out on police killings
By Nick Barrickman and Matthew Taylor, 11 July 2016
Afghan war veteran guns down five Dallas police
New video shows off-duty New York cop murdering motorist
By Sandy English, 11 July 2016
A store surveillance video has surfaced that shows the killing of Delrawn Small by off-duty New York Police Department officer Wayne Isaacs at a traffic altercation.
Video exposes Fresno police lies in shooting death of Dylan Noble
By John Burton, 11 July 2016
Noble, an unarmed 19-year-old white youth, was killed by two police officers from Fresno, an impoverished city of about one-half million located in the heart of California’s Central Valley.
The police killings in Louisiana and Minnesota: The class issues
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NATO summit plans escalation against Russia in Eastern Europe, Middle East
By Alex Lantier, 11 July 2016
NATO is planning a major military escalation, based on plans for a perpetual state of war in the Middle East and preparations for all-out war with Russia in Europe.
NATO’s war summit in Warsaw
Merkel calls for German rearmament ahead of NATO summit
Leadership contest launched, raising prospect of split in UK Labour Party
By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden, 11 July 2016
Nothing is being ruled out by the Parliamentary Labour Party, including the possibility that Labour leader Corbyn will not be allowed to stand in a leadership contest.
UK: Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn refuses to call Tony Blair a war criminal
Coalition parties to form unstable government in Australia
By James Cogan, 11 July 2016
After the political and media establishment did everything possible during the election to prevent any debate on the rising danger of war, that issue is set to erupt.
Australian election outcome heightens divisions within the Greens
The political issues posed by the Australian election crisis
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UN court to deliver decision on South China Sea disputes
By Peter Symonds, 11 July 2016
With a ruling imminent, the US has cranked up its propaganda apparatus and military activity in the South China Sea, setting the stage for a dangerous confrontation with China.
US and South Korea agree on THAAD anti-missile system
By Ben McGrath, 11 July 2016
The installation will likely inflame tensions while continuing to stoke an arms race in East Asia.
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Five agency workers crushed to death in British scrapyard
By Danny Richardson, 11 July 2016
Three serious incidents have occurred at the Hawkeswood Metal recycling plant in the Nechells area of Birmingham in the last few years.
Prison spending rises three times faster than education funding in US
By Nancy Hanover, 11 July 2016
Government policy—of both Democrats and Republicans—is to jettison the funding of public education while transferring vast sums to militarize the police and build prisons.
Erie, Pennsylvania school district passes austerity budget with emergency funding
New York City takes major step in privatization of public housing
By Philip Guelpa, 11 July 2016
The de Blasio administration is moving forward with its NextGen program, which will lease open space within public housing complexes to private developers.
European Union working with African despots to deter refugees
By Martin Kreickenbaum, 11 July 2016
At their latest meeting in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, EU interior ministers agreed on speedier deportation of refugees and closer cooperation with African dictatorships.
New in Russian
Саммит НАТО в Варшаве проводится для подготовки войны против России
Иоганнес Штерн, 10 июля 2016 г.
Меры, намеченные для одобрения военным альянсом Запада в польской столице, еще больше усилят угрозу войны в Европе.
Партия Социалистического Равенства Германии выдвигает кандидатов на выборах в Берлине
Партия Социалистического Равенства, 10 июля 2016 г.
Партия Социалистического Равенства, немецкая секция Четвертого Интернационала, выставляет семь кандидатов на сентябрьских региональных выборах в Берлине.
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Barack Obama y 25 años de guerra estadounidense
Por David North, 11 julio 2016
El gobierno de Obama personifica la institucionalización de la guerra como la fundación de la política exterior estadounidense.
Muere Michael Cimino, 77, director del Francotirador, y de La puerta del cielo
Por David Walsh, 11 julio 2016
Cimino es famoso por haber dirigido El cazador (1978) que obtuvo muchos premios, y La puerta del cielo (1980) que fue rechazada por los críticos.
La detección de ondas gravitacionales: Un conquista científica
Por Bryan Dyne, 11 julio 2016
La detección directa de ondas gravitacionales, pronosticadas por Albert Einstein hace casi un siglo, es una gran conquista para el conocimiento científico y el dominio técnico del mundo natural.
New in Turkish
NATO'nun Varşova'daki savaş zirvesi
Alex Lantier, 11 Temmuz 2016
Zirvenin başlıca askeri amacı, Rusya'yı, Rusya sınırlarındaki NATO güçlerinin varlığını büyük ölçüde arttırarak tehdit etmektir.
İstanbul terör saldırısı, Boston Maratonu bombalamaları ve Çeçen bağlantısı
Nick Barrickman, 11 Temmuz 2016
Saldırganlar Avrupa polis ve istihbarat örgütlerince tanınan ancak Suriye’deki Batılı rejim değişikliği operasyonunun parçası olarak Ortadoğu ile Avrupa arasında engelsiz bir şekilde dolaşmalarına izin verilenler gibi, ABD istihbaratının korumasından yararlanıyordu.
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Perspective
Race, class and police murder in America
11 July 2016
The campaign to portray the United States as riven by racial hatred serves definite and reactionary social and political aims.
Mehring Books
New book by David North
A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990–2016
By David North, 11 July 2016
We publish here the preface to A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016 by David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site. The book is available for preorder today at Mehring Books.
Commentary
Axel Honneth at Humboldt University: A socialism that is nothing of the sort
By Peter Schwarz, 11 July 2016
At Berlin’s Humboldt University, philosophy professors Axel Honneth and Christoph Menke, SPD politician Gesine Schwan and Left Party leader Sahra Wagenknecht spoke about the “relevance of socialism today.”
Australian parliamentarian calls for Iraqi war crimes trial
By James Cogan, 9 July 2016
Canada’s elite rattled by Brexit vote
By Roger Jordan and Keith Jones, 9 July 2016
The New York Times on the Chilcot report on Iraq war: “Nothing new here”
IMF chief points to war danger
Two hundred forty years since the Declaration of Independence
Arts Review
“Cinema has the potential to make us richer in spirit”—filmmaker Paul Cox (1940–2016)
By Richard Phillips, 11 July 2016
Cox directed over 40 dramatic features and documentaries—the overwhelming majority on paper-thin budgets—during his more than forty-year career.
Toward a socialist future: Children’s picture books after the Bolshevik Revolution
By Thomas Scripps, 9 July 2016
Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, dead at 77
By David Walsh, 7 July 2016
Charles Blow of the New York Times
The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
By David Walsh, 30 June 2016
Free State of Jones: Three cheers!
The UK Brexit crisis
The anti-working class politics of the pseudo-left
Left Unity endorses pro-EU offensive to overturn Brexit referendum
By Chris Marsden, 9 July 2016
Signs of post-Brexit financial crisis mount
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SEP 2016 US Election Campaign
Video: West Virginia coal miners discuss social crisis with SEP presidential candidate Jerry White
By Jerry White and Zac Corrigan, 9 July 2016
Video: SEP presidential candidate visits flood-ravaged West Virginia town
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Socialist Equality Party election campaign: Naomi Spencer for West Virginia House of Delegates, 16th District!
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Video discussion from West Virginia: SEP candidates Jerry White and Naomi Spencer
The West Virginia floods and America's class divide
The Fort Bragg baseball game, American militarism and the Fourth of July
By Niles Niemuth—SEP candidate for vice president, 5 July 2016
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Socialist Equality Party
SEP public meetings: The Australian election crisis and the way forward for the working class
9 July 2016
Workers Struggles
UK junior doctors vote to reject contract
By Paul Mitchell, 7 July 2016
Canada Post moves to lock out 50,000 workers
By Roger Jordan, 7 July 2016
Obituary
Oversaw 1979 Chrysler concessions
Former UAW official Marc Stepp dies
By Shannon Jones, 7 July 2016
The 2016 US Elections
Elizabeth Warren campaigns with Clinton as possible running mate
By Josh Varlin, 28 June 2016
Science
Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter
By Bryan Dyne, 5 July 2016
Further steps in finding an Earth-like planet outside the solar system
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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