Archive: March 2014
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 March 2014 (front page)
- Ukraine alleges Russian “invasion” of Crimea as Obama warns of “costs”
- Obama and Kerry lecture Russia on Ukraine
- US economy slows as companies announce thousands of layoffs
- NSA listens in on the German chancellor’s contacts
- Documents confirm US military spying on antiwar groups
- Homelessness on the rise in Boston
- Scottish independence referendum campaign dominated by currency dispute
- Germany: Union plays key role in job losses at ThyssenKrupp
- FBI, CIA lied to 9/11 Commission on bin Laden ties
- Australian trade unions move to enforce Qantas layoffs, wage cuts
- Québec Solidaire gives PQ friendly advice on its chauvinist Charter
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After release of Detroit bankruptcy plan
Calls for pension cuts spread across US - Australian regional brewery closure announced
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 March 2014 (front page)
- US-backed Ukrainian regime mobilizes reserves, threatening war with Russia
- The crisis in Ukraine
- UK facing housing costs time bomb
- Socialist Party uses opposition to bedroom tax to promote Scottish nationalism
- Residents speak on continued water problems in West Virginia
- Company responsible for West Virginia chemical spill plans to liquidate
- Kazakhstan devalues national currency
- Mining corporations pressure Indonesian government over mineral export law
- New Zealand: Sordid deal to avoid prosecution over Pike River mine disaster
- Australia: Aurizon coal train drivers locked out
- AFSCME cancels strike, accepts concessions at University of California
- The political fraud of International Viewpoint’s statement on Ukraine
- Emergency manager steps up blackmail of Detroit pensioners
- This week in history: March 3-9
4 March 2014 (front page)
- US steps up pressure on Russia amid growing risk of war over Ukraine
- US media escalates propaganda offensive on Ukraine
- Canada supports Ukraine coup, threats to Russia
- China: Uighur separatists blamed for railway station killings
- US Justice Department protocols include sweeping attacks on press freedom
- Rome at risk of Detroit-style bankruptcy
- Germany’s Angela Merkel feted by the UK to little effect
- UK: Families of Hillsborough disaster victims placed under police surveillance
- What the 2008 Federal Reserve transcripts reveal
- New report documents Sri Lankan military’s killing of surrendering LTTE leaders
- Unarmed man dies in custody of Oklahoma police
- California Democrats attack pension protections
- 2014 Academy Awards: Life versus the film industry
- Detroit emergency manager targets bus riders, transit workers
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Defend public education
Vote “no” on St. Paul Federation of Teachers sellout contract! - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Letters from our readers
5 March 2014 (front page)
- US threatens Russia as Ukraine crisis escalates
- US imperialism, Ukraine and the danger of World War III
- China treads cautiously after pro-US coup in Ukraine
- Australian government backs Washington’s anti-Russian confrontation
- Obama budget: Populist demagogy and empty promises
- Forbes list of world’s richest people highlights growth of social inequality
- RadioShack to close up to 1,100 stores
- Eurozone social inequality most extreme in Germany
- Erdogan crisis destabilises Turkey
- India’s government lies about 2012 military coup fears
- Australian government signals breakup of Qantas airline
- Chronic kidney disease spreads in rural Sri Lanka
- Thirteen workers exposed to radiation at New Mexico nuclear waste site
- “Emergency Town Hall meeting” in Detroit promotes Obama
- New deal would pay $85 million to banks that swindled Detroit
- 100 years since Ford’s five dollar day
- Cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014): A political career dedicated to opposing Marxism
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64th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 5
Age of Cannibals and Amma and Appa: Two sides of globalisation - The Past from Iran’s Asghar Farhadi: Something of a disappointment
- Irish government preparing army to break strike by airport workers
6 March 2014 (front page)
- Amid Ukraine crisis, US launches military escalation in Eastern Europe
- The fascist danger in Ukraine
- Leaked phone call suggests opposition snipers killed Maidan protesters
- Number of US long-term jobless who lost benefits hits 2 million
- Crisis at General Motors over safety recall
- Former German President Wulff acquitted on bribery charge
- British Labour Party ends block union membership
- Thai political standoff continues
- International court permits Australian seizure of Timor’s documents
- South Korean unions hold token “people’s strike”
- Artists boycott Sydney biennale over Australia’s asylum seeker regime
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Socialist Equality Party public meeting in Melbourne
A global political strategy to defend car industry jobs - Sri Lankan SEP election campaign receives wide hearing
- California Democrat sponsors bill to expedite teacher removal
- New York governor proposes $4 million cut to public libraries
- Former state treasurer gets job at firm cashing in from Detroit bankruptcy.
- Submission to Workers Inquiry: Social conditions facing workers in California
7 March 2014 (front page)
- US, European Union impose sanctions against Russia
- The crisis in Ukraine and the historical consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union
- German media campaigns for war in Ukraine
- Japan’s diplomacy in shambles over Ukraine crisis
- CIA spied on US Senate oversight committee
- China: IBM workers strike against sale of business to Lenovo
- Obama administration again extends life of “skinny” health plans
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in police killing of unarmed driver and passenger
- British government cuts funding for poorest university students
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64th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 6
Art and commerce: Austrian documentary The Great Museum - Vergara v. California: A smokescreen to hide the attack on education
- Australian economy heads for slump and deepening inequality
- The assault on Qantas workers and the global airline crisis
- José Padilha’s new RoboCop: Largely missing the point
- Australia: Strong response to IYSSE campaign at University of Newcastle
- Detroit unions seek protection from retiree lawsuits
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
8 March 2014 (front page)
- US, Europe step up pressure as Ukrainian crisis intensifies
- Five years of Obama’s “recovery”
- New Zealand parliament unanimously backs US in Ukraine crisis
- Sexual assault case against US Army general begins
- Anemic US jobs report shows growth in long-term unemployed
- Senate Democrats reject Justice Department nominee over Abu-Jamal case
- UK High Court backs government imposition of fees for workers’ claims
- US presents new UNHRC resolution on Sri Lankan human rights
- Germany: Workers protest Johnson Controls closure in Bochum
- Why is Ron Bloom representing Detroit’s retirees?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: More health services face privatisation
- More evidence of Australian government responsibility for refugee camp assault
- Latino immigrants robbed by police during traffic stops in suburban New York
- Marx 21’s Christine Buchholz visits German troops in Africa
- Tim’s Vermeer: Art and technology
- Over 4,000 signatures support German Socialist Equality Party for European elections
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UK public meetings
Ukraine: The danger of fascism and war - SEP (Canada) meeting to oppose PQ’s chauvinist Charter, unite workers on socialist program
- Ford Australia refuses to guarantee production until 2016
- Letter on growing social polarization and class conflict in Alberta
10 March 2014 (front page)
- US builds up military forces, threatens end to diplomacy over Ukraine
- CIA caught spying on US Senate
- Germany: The Süddeutsche Zeitung and the poison of militarism
- Snowden’s testimony to European Parliament: “Billions of innocents” unlawfully spied upon
- Many questions unanswered about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Japanese government signals restart of nuclear power plants
- Boeing to freeze US salaried workers’ pensions
- US immigration detainees begin hunger strike
- Tesoro refinery barred inspectors from site of accident in California
- Australian youth unemployment reaches “crisis point”
- New attacks on Boston Public School workers, students
- Probes continue in scandal involving New Jersey governor
- This week in history: March 10-16
- Drive-by Truckers release new album, English Oceans
11 March 2014 (front page)
- Denouncing Crimea referendum, US and EU step up pressure on Russia
- Ukraine, the United States and international law
- Snowden denounces global mass surveillance at SXSW festival
- The US media returns to the mysterious death of Ibragim Todashev
- Searches fail to locate Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- German President Gauck visits Greece
- Twenty-six died from the cold in Chicago area this winter
- US grocery chain takeover threatens workers’ jobs
- Malaysian court overturns acquittal of opposition leader Anwar
- Maryland politicians plan wave of business tax cuts
- New Zealand Labour leader appoints new chief of staff
- Students sue British government over ban on loans and grants
- Spike Lee, gentrification and the crisis of affordable housing
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 March 2014 (front page)
- Senate Intelligence head accuses CIA of undermining US “constitutional framework”
- What is behind the warmongering of the German media?
- Kiev to build new army, impose austerity as civil war threatens Ukraine
- What the European Union said in 2012 about its current fascist allies in Ukraine
- Oligarchs to the fore once again in Ukraine
- War propaganda in the German media
- US highway safety agency abetted GM cover-up of defect linked to fatal crashes
- Iron ore price slump points to mounting Chinese economic problems
- India’s election campaign goes into high gear
- French unions sign Socialist Party’s “Responsibility Pact”
- German trade union advises workers to invest redundancy money with Thyssen Krupp
- South African police attack naked assault victim
- Australian government defies UN call to release refugee detainees
- Number of British hospitals in debt doubles in one year
- Barclays loan deal would use Detroit income tax revenue, city assets as collateral
- Alain Resnais (1922-2014), a major figure in postwar filmmaking
13 March 2014 (front page)
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After White House meeting with Ukrainian prime minister
Obama issues new threats against Russia - The CIA, the Senate and the breakdown of American democracy
- Conflicting accounts of vanished Malaysia Airline Flight 370
- At least three dead in Manhattan explosion blamed on gas leak
- Obama peddles private health care to young people in web interview
- Greek students face prosecution for protests
- Spanish government abolishes prosecutions under universal jurisdiction laws
- Japanese government seeks to whitewash crimes against “comfort women”
- Quebec: PQ welcomes right-wing billionaire as star candidate
- Republican wins special election in Florida
- Detroit emergency manager examines privatizing the water department
- Mehring Books and SEP (Germany) hold two meetings at Leipzig Book Fair
14 March 2014 (front page)
- Germany threatens “massive damage” to Russia ahead of Crimea referendum
- Obama’s “high crimes and misdemeanors”
- Alex Callinicos: An imperialist apologist writes on Ukraine
- Leaked NSA documents expose agency’s sophisticated malware arsenal
- New York City gas explosion likely caused by 127-year-old pipes
- Wall Street bonuses up by 15 percent last year
- State officials seek pension cuts in Pennsylvania
- Boston parents, students oppose public school budget cuts
- Sri Lanka: JVP pledges to defend big business interests
- Investigations into Lac-Mégantic rail disaster show government culpability
- Final two Australian state Labor governments face defeat
- Top British universities exclude poorer students
- Australian refugee camp atrocity: The class issues
- Ex-German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and international law
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
15 March 2014 (front page)
- US-Russia talks on Ukraine collapse ahead of Crimean independence referendum
- What the Western-backed regime is planning for Ukrainian workers
- White House withholding documents from CIA torture probe
- Senate Armed Services Committee hearing promotes cyberwarfare and illegal spying
- Senate negotiators reach deal to extend jobless benefits by cutting pension funding
- Scandals grow in wiretapping of ex-French President Sarkozy
- Protests in Turkey threaten Erdogan government
- Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 may have veered off course
- Ukraine coup intensifies conflicts within Iran’s elite
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian unions assist Qantas airways to sack workers
- Sri Lanka: SEP election campaign explains danger of war
- Thai government faces threat of judicial coup
- Veteran Labour “left” Tony Benn dead at 88
17 March 2014 (front page)
- US, EU threaten retaliation as Crimea votes to join Russia
- Imperialist hypocrisy on Crimea
- The New York Times deploys C.J. Chivers to Ukraine
- Malaysian PM declares missing aircraft deliberately diverted
- Concerns mount over Chinese growth and financial stability
- South African union bureaucrats seek to break strike by platinum miners
- The New York City gas explosion and the neglect of infrastructure
- Evidence mounts of cover-up of deaths related to GM ignition defect
- Ireland: Letters promising immunity for IRA fugitives revealed in Downey prosecution
- New evidence in murder of German police officer by far-right
- US Environmental Protection Agency lifts ban on federal contracts for BP
- Australian government threatens arts funding following Sydney Biennale protest over refugees
- Minnesota: Worker denied restroom break sues Electrolux
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As retiree letters flood the bankruptcy court…
Detroit attorney says pension cuts actually close to 50 percent - Socialist Equality Party (Germany) officially on ballot for European election
- This week in history: March 17-23
18 March 2014 (front page)
- The US media and the CIA’s spying on Congress
- Israel backs far-right coup in Ukraine
- Ukrainian putsch creates economic and political turmoil in Russia
- Irish high court outlaws strike by airport workers
- Washington, DC workers speak on budget cuts and inequality
- Louisiana inmate exonerated after 30 years on death row
- US continues to militarize space
- Sri Lanka: Police attack Hanwella villagers protesting against water pollution
- SEP holds meeting to oppose Australian car industry shutdown
- Obamacare short of enrollment target ahead of March 31 deadline
- Australian state elections point to deep discontent
- US-EU sanctions against Russia: A barely veiled threat of war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Facing destitution, Detroit retirees denounce pension cuts in letters to court
- Australian feminists campaign to promote ex-PM Julia Gillard
19 March 2014 (front page)
- US/European military provocations greet Russian annexation of Crimea
- War threats against Russia and the social crisis in the United States
- US hypocrisy on Crimean independence referendum
- The NSA records “every single” phone call in a targeted country
- New Zealand media bury fresh Snowden revelations
- Police and ANC fire on protesting South African schoolchildren
- March 18 protest against social cuts in France: A political dead end
- Polls predict victory for right-wing Fidesz in Hungarian elections
- Australia: Ex-Labor minister urges sweeping attack on workers’ conditions
- Sri Lankan government detains human rights activists under anti-terror law
- US Army general avoids charges of sexual assault in plea deal
- Novelis workers reject steelworkers union in upstate New York
- Financial backer of Washington, DC mayor pleads guilty to illegal contributions
- One hundred people killed in New York house fires this winter
- David North speaks on “The Philosophy and Politics of Historical Falsification” at The New School in New York City
- Meetings at Leipzig Book Fair: The relevance of Trotsky’s Europe at War
- Joe Louis Arena facing closure, demolition as part of stadium deal with Ilitch
- India: Demanding pay rise, 200,000 power-loom operators continue strike
- Moscow weighs the fate of historic Shukhov radio tower
20 March 2014 (front page)
- US, EU escalate war threats against Russia over Crimea annexation
- The CIA spying scandal, Watergate and the decay of American democracy
- Svoboda thugs attack head of Ukrainian national television
- German media campaigns for economic sanctions against Russia
- Lack of international cooperation mars search for Malaysia Airlines plane
- Federal Reserve reaffirms commitment to cheap money for Wall Street
- Israel air strikes on Syrian military raise Mideast tensions
- US Navy SEALs seize tanker carrying Libyan oil
- Chinese real estate developer on brink of collapse
- Cyprus parliament passes privatisation programme
- South Korean doctors walk out over medical privatization
- SEP/IYSSE to hold final election meeting in Colombo
- Indian security forces gun down coal mine worker
- Newark, New Jersey school official threatens to fire one third of district’s teachers
- New York mayor offers empty words to besieged school bus workers
- New York school bus workers defiant in face of attacks
- The “left” posturing of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters
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“The city wants to never have to fund pensions again”
An interview with Detroit retiree attorney
21 March 2014 (front page)
- US court ruling upholds state efforts to disenfranchise voters
- Anti-Russia propaganda and the fabrication of a new pro-war consensus
- US judge slams surveillance requests as “repugnant to the Fourth Amendment”
- Australian government joins US sanctions against Russia
- German Left Party promotes government propaganda against Russia
- Provocative remarks by US Pacific fleet commander fuel disputes with China
- Toyota pays $1.2 billion to escape prosecution for defect deaths and injuries
- Republican house speaker rejects US Senate deal to restore long-term unemployment benefits
- US Army general charged in sexual assault case let off with small fine
- More than 100 immigrants found locked in Houston, Texas house
20 March 2014 (front page)
21 March 2014 (front page)
- Australia: Massive fire at Sydney’s Barangaroo building site
- Family of murdered Indian mine worker speak out
- WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh speaks at Wayne State University in Detroit
- Argentina: Tens of thousands of striking teachers protest in La Plata
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
22 March 2014 (front page)
- Constitutional conflict escalates between US Senate and CIA
- Sexual violence and abuse in the US military
- EU-Ukraine trade pact paves way for brutal austerity
- German Green Party campaigns for war
- Time Warner CEO to receive $80 million payout after six weeks of work
- Search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane enters third week
- Massive budget cuts and labour reforms to follow Serbian election
- Duke Energy illegally pumps millions of gallons of contaminated water into North Carolina river
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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David North to speak at Midwest meetings
The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Philosophy and Politics of Historical Falsification - Australia: Mounting anger over coal mine fire health crisis
- Puerto Rico’s pensions in the crosshairs
- German media seeks to paint Putin as new “Hitler”
- Detroit water department preparing mass utility shutoffs
- The pseudo-left and the plenums in Bosnia
24 March 2014 (front page)
- US and NATO use Ukrainian crisis to advance military build-up in Eastern Europe
- The OECD’s “Society at A Glance” report: A portrait of a failed system
- Canada’s Harper visits Kiev to laud coup, threaten Russia
- FBI agent to be cleared in killing of Ibragim Todashev
- Edward Snowden exposes NSA spying against Chinese telecom firm Huawei
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Christopher Boyce: “Snowden is a very brave man”
Former US intelligence contractor speaks on 1975 Australian coup - Political crisis deepens as Thai court annuls election
- Spain: One million march in Madrid against austerity
- Greece’s “The River” party: A populist fraud
- Scottish Socialist Party pronounces on the currency question
- Sri Lankan SEP speaks to Colombo residents about austerity and war
- Germany: 24-hour warning strikes in public sector
- New Jersey motel fire kills Hurricane Sandy evacuees
- This week in history: March 24-30
- Imprint of primordial gravitational waves detected
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As retired city workers are forced onto private exchanges
Half of Detroit’s residents too poor to afford Obamacare - Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush comes to Lexington, Kentucky
- Toyota locks out auto workers in India
25 March 2014 (front page)
- US-backed military junta in Egypt sentences 529 Brotherhood members to death
- What accounts for the electoral victories of France’s neo-fascist National Front?
- G7 powers exploit Ukraine crisis to isolate Russia
- Leading US-backed Ukrainian politician calls for annihilation of Russia
- Malaysian PM: Missing plane crashed in southern Indian Ocean
- German foreign minister Steinmeier woos Ukrainian oligarchs
- Obama’s 2015 budget continues attack on public education
- Fourteen dead, over 100 missing in Washington state landslide
- More signs of a weakening Chinese economy
- Canada: Truckers and rail workers face antistrike laws
- UK parliament approves assault on National Health Service
- The International Socialist Organization’s silence on CIA spying
- The Grand Budapest Hotel from Wes Anderson
- Three Detroit metro hospitals planning mega-merger
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 March 2014 (front page)
- Obama “reform” seeks new framework for illegal NSA spying
- Stop Egypt’s Pinochet from murdering 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters!
- Former President Jimmy Carter says NSA likely spying on his communications
- US, EU press Russia to recognize Ukraine’s putschist regime
- Leader of US-backed Ukrainian fascist Right Sector militia killed in police shootout
- Egypt on the verge of a social explosion
- US Supreme Court hears corporate challenge to Obamacare contraception provision
- Search continues for survivors in massive Washington State mudslide
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“No section of public housing is safe”
Inner-Sydney tenants denounce government’s privatisation -
As BP receives new contracts for Gulf Coast
Oil spill threatens Houston-area wildlife - Australian government minister steps aside: A revealing episode
- Australia: State government to sell off Sydney Harbour public housing
- Turkey shoots down Syrian fighter jet
- Thousands of refugees intercepted off the coast of Sicily
- What was US teachers union president Randi Weingarten doing in Kiev?
- The US State Department’s “labor man” in Ukraine
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Detroit emergency manager at the University of Michigan
Kevyn Orr justifies pension cuts, attack on DIA
25 March 2014 (front page)
27 March 2014 (front page)
- Obama’s speech on Ukraine: Propaganda and lies
- The fraud of Obama’s NSA “reform”
- New Zealand joins Washington’s sanctions against Russia
- California police departments capture cellphone data
- Florida prosecutor’s report whitewashes FBI killing of Ibragim Todashev
- Following death of workers, report indicts safety at New York Metro-North rail system
- One in three people in the US live “hand-to-mouth”
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Five more convicted in Madoff Ponzi scheme
Jamie Dimon continues to escape prosecution - UK Labour Party proposes compulsory cheap-labour scheme
26 March 2014 (front page)
27 March 2014 (front page)
- Sri Lankan government revives terror campaign against Tamils
- Quebec elections: The issues facing the working class
- Sri Lankan pseudo-lefts justify front with right-wing UNP
- AFSCME cancels University of California strike
- The Detroit News endorses mass water shutoffs
- Divergent: A different sort of dystopia
28 March 2014 (front page)
- Egyptian coup leader al-Sisi announces presidential candidacy
- What way forward for workers in Ukraine?
- The real face of Ukraine’s Maidan “democrats”
- India attempts precarious balancing act in Ukraine crisis
- Obama administration submits formal plan for NSA “reforms”
- Search continues for Malaysia Airlines plane
- Venezuelan generals arrested in alleged coup plot
- Area of Washington mudslide long known and documented as unstable
27 March 2014 (front page)
28 March 2014 (front page)
- Britain seeks to make up lost ground with US over Ukraine
- Australian government instigates moves to quash PNG judge’s refugee inquiry
- Sri Lanka: SEP campaigns among villagers protesting water pollution
- 74-year-old woman, wrongly imprisoned, released after 32 years
- Finding Vivian Maier: A brief comment …
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No to Detroit water shutoffs!
Utilities are a basic social right! - Nationwide strike by UK teachers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
29 March 2014 (front page)
- In talks with Saudi monarch, Obama prepares escalation of US-backed war in Syria
- The Detroit water cutoffs and the social counterrevolution in America
- Turkish officials plan false-flag attacks to create pretext for war with Syria
- Obama demands Russia withdraw troops from Ukraine border
- German magazine Die Zeit calls for reintroduction of compulsory military service
- Ukraine conflict exacerbates tensions in the Caucasus
- Canada’s Harper stokes imperialism’s drive against Russia
- UN report details US human rights abuses
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Following execution in Texas
Mississippi court delays state killing of mentally incompetent woman - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Defeat in French municipal elections staggers ruling Socialist Party
- Iceland’s government seeks to abandon EU membership negotiations
- Malaysian government deepens crackdown on opposition
- Australian student union’s “Day of Action” promotes Labor and the Greens
- Battles between drug cartels and vigilante groups destabilize Mexico
- French elections: Rising neo-fascist vote exposes bankruptcy of pseudo-left NPA
- Detroit meeting called by SEP endorses fight against water shutoffs
- UK National Union of Teachers stage one-day strike
- The growing danger of dictatorship in Thailand
31 March 2014 (front page)
- NATO steps up military pressure on Russia
- White House ally reveals anti-working class agenda behind Obamacare
- New Snowden documents detail political and corporate espionage by US, UK
- At least 18 dead in Washington mudslide, dozens still missing
- New evidence of US intelligence links to Boston Marathon bomber
- Obama administration urges Supreme Court to dismiss First Amendment suit brought by anti-Bush demonstrators
- US appeals court upholds reactionary Texas anti-abortion law
- UN body call for international probe into Sri Lankan human rights violations
- UK benefits claimants victimised and driven into destitution
- Australian government reintroduces imperial honours system
- Spokane, Washington police kill man as he surrenders
- Boston School Committee approves austerity budget
- Chicago Transit Authority wreck raises questions of safety equipment and operator fatigue
- Socialist Equality Party in Britain joins German Partei für Soziale Gleichheit in European election campaign
- This week in history: March 31-April 6
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