Archive: May 2013
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 May 2013 (front page)
- US pledges to arm Syrian opposition as new terror bombing hits Damascus
- What the CIA’s cash has bought for Afghanistan
- US think tank report weighs up “grim future” of nuclear war
- Bangladeshi government ends rescue operations in collapsed building
- Detroit residents speak out against mass evictions
- Massachusetts budget debate: More economic distress for workers
- UK teaching unions stage token protest in North West
- One million schoolchildren in England to be vaccinated as measles threat grows
- Latest disclosures link German state with neo-Nazi terrorists
- Global slump drives new South Korean stimulus package
- Mexico faces political and economic turmoil on the eve of Obama visit
- Con Ed lavishes bonuses on top executives
- South Milwaukee Caterpillar workers reject sellout contract
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Crome Carlos
Why I read the WSWS - Public meeting in Portland: American democracy in shambles
2 May 2013 (front page)
- Euro zone unemployment hits record high for 23rd consecutive month
- International law and the US war drive in Syria
- No retreat from austerity in Italy
- Greek unions hold one-day general strike
- Obama hails police lockdown, covers up state role in Boston bombings
- Guantanamo hunger strike, force feedings continue
- UAW chief stabs German Opel workers in the back
- Quebec unions mount nationalist campaign against savage cuts to jobless benefits
1 May 2013 (front page)
2 May 2013 (front page)
- Letters from our readers
- Australia’s Anzac Day and the glorification of militarism
- Free health screening in Detroit draws thousands
- American GM worker supports German Opel workers
- New Zealand: Pike River Coal found guilty of causing mine disaster
- Oceanside, California exhibition of painter Arun Prem
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Maryam
Why I read the WSWS - Tyler, the Creator’s Wolf: Hiding from reality behind a mask of cynicism
3 May 2013 (front page)
- US defense secretary says Washington weighs arming of Syrian insurgency
- The failure of capitalism
- Libya wracked by protests targeting government and French forces
- Seventeen arrested at May Day protests in Seattle, Washington
- California community put on police lockdown
- Two die in northeast Detroit house fire
- 350 Ypsilanti, Michigan school workers receive layoff notices
- Canada adopts “anti-terrorism” law that tramples basic rights
- Argentine court sentences rail union officials in the murder of Mariano Ferreyra
- South Korea protests against Japanese shrine visits
- German Left Party, Marx 21 group praise “Icelandic Model”
- Australian warship to join US fleet off Korean peninsula
- Australia: The fraud of Labor’s NDIS and Gonski “reforms”
- French military White Paper plans escalating wars
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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Thomas Gaist
Why I read the WSWS - Stop the mass evictions in Detroit!
4 May 2013 (front page)
- Low-wage, part-time jobs dominate tepid rise in US payrolls
- The social crisis in America
- Athens mayor bans fascist demonstration
- Tensions rise in India-China border stand-off
- Pakistan staggers toward elections amid civil war and impending economic collapse
- Australia: Queensland government offensive against public sector
- Iraq war resister, a pregnant mother of four, sentenced to 10 months in prison
- Police buildup in Pittsburgh in lead-up to marathon
- Obama administration appeals ruling on emergency contraceptives
- German Green Party congress adopts election programme
- Election marks seismic shift in Malaysian politics
- Netherlands unemployment at record level
- Violence in the Philippines as election approaches
- A crass apology for imperialist intervention in Syria
- France: What is Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s May 5 protest?
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David Byrne
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America’s revolutionary founding document
For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence - US Steel locks out 1,000 workers in Nanticoke, Ontario
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- HBO’s Phil Spector: David Mamet’s mythological tale
- Letters from our readers
6 May 2013 (front page)
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Eight US-NATO troops killed in one day
Crisis deepens for US occupation in Afghanistan - The Israeli strikes on Syria
- Obama visits Mexico and Central America to push for economic integration
- Austerity policies heighten national divisions in Europe
- Australian Defence White Paper commits to US “pivot”
- Obama nominates billionaire backer as commerce secretary
- Wildfires break out in Southern California
- Caterpillar announces more layoffs in Illinois and Canada
- California governor Brown travels to China
- Japanese retail giant introduces Third World wages
- Malaysian opposition leader refuses to concede election defeat
- German defence and interior ministers visit the US
- Campaign teams for D’Artagnan Collier exceed signature goal in Detroit mayoral race
- This week in history: May 6-12
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SS
Why I read the WSWS
7 May 2013 (front page)
- UN says US-backed opposition, not Syrian regime, used poison gas
- Europe on the eve of mass working class struggles
- US concerns about Japanese nuclear reprocessing
- Obama warns against “cynicism” at Ohio State commencement address
- US preexisting conditions health plan closed for enrollment
- Guatemala imposes state of siege against mine protests
- Bangladesh building disaster death toll nears 700
- Obama education secretary, Michigan governor promote school “reform”
- Youth and workers comment on the SEP election campaign
- Australia: Opposition steps up pro-austerity campaign
- Germany: Verdi union accepts cuts to real wages at Lufthansa
- Australian SEP launches 2013 election campaign
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Charlie
Why I read the WSWS - French unions back closure of PSA Aulnay auto factory
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A decade of infrared space astronomy comes to a close
The end of the Herschel Space Observatory mission - Workers Struggles: The Americas
8 May 2013 (front page)
- US shrugs off Syrian opposition’s chemical weapons use, presses for war
- Global corporations and the Bangladesh building collapse
- Worldwide outrage as Guantanamo hunger strike enters fourth month
- Trial of neo-Nazi terrorist group begins in Munich
- Australian military stages “anti-terrorist” exercise in Sydney
- Seniors face eviction in Detroit gentrification plan
- Mississippi death row prisoner granted reprieve, another executed in Texas
- Detention of ex-dictator Musharraf adds to tensions in Pakistan
- Patriot Coal bankruptcy threatens thousands of US miners, retirees
- Australian central bank cuts base interest rate to record low
- Australian Education Union convenes delegates’ meeting to ram through sell-out agreement
- British imperialism’s return to “East of Suez”
- Russian authorities put opposition blogger Alexei Navalny on trial
- David North addresses London meeting on the 15th anniversary of the WSWS
- Steelworkers union exposes workers to lockout threat as talks resume at South Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
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I.V.Edirisinghe
Why I read the WSWS - Left Front’s offer to serve in France’s pro-austerity government unnerves NPA
9 May 2013 (front page)
- Obama administration to back wiretap law for social media
- The 15,000 Dow
- US surpasses other industrialized countries in infant death rate
- Pentagon accuses China of cyber attacks
- Large opposition rally against Malaysian election result
- Michigan school district shuts down for lack of funds
- Contractors, Bloomberg step up attack on New York City school bus workers
- Walled Lake, Michigan school bus drivers hold sickout
- New York City workers speak out on conditions six months after hurricane
- Six months since Superstorm Sandy
- Obama’s budget calls for restrictions on public housing recipients
- Sri Lankan SEP holds May Day meeting
- Thousands of job cuts in UK financial sector
- Left Unity: Director Ken Loach fronts initiative of Britain’s pseudo-left groups
- New pamphlet on 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
- Lufthansa: Verdi union agrees to 30 percent pay cut for airline workers
- Letters from our readers
10 May 2013 (front page)
- US prepares war with Syria as pro-US opposition loses ground
- Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia
- Death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse reaches 950
- IMF demands further austerity in Greece
- White House seeks to shorten sentence of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling
- Detroit’s emergency manager prepares anti-working class financial plan
- Top Indian official threatens Pakistan with nuclear annihilation
- Growing signs of a financial crisis in China
- Australian government rejects damning media report on refugee camps
- Two Michigan school districts consolidate, shed 187 teachers
- Washington, DC schools chancellor unveils new scheme to defund public schools
- Minnesota: Sequester cuts hit education and state’s most vulnerable
- Romanian pseudo-lefts praise Hungary’s right-wing government
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DB
Why I read the WSWS - HBO’s production of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones unfolds a violent, complex tale
- New revelations about filmmakers’ collaboration with CIA on Zero Dark Thirty
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 May 2013 (front page)
- Karzai reveals US plan for permanent Afghanistan bases
- The political fraud of the Pakistani elections
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Congressional hearing confirms
FBI, Homeland Security withheld information on Boston bombing suspects from local, state police - Germany: Opel Bochum workers denounce union sellout
- Britain’s Queen’s speech: Anti-immigrant rhetoric in support of austerity
- Irish Labour Party in deep crisis
- Sri Lankan police detain Muslim leader under terrorism laws
- Ontario: NDP preparing to support another Liberal austerity budget
- Australian PM defends stripping refugees of welfare payments
- D’Artagnan Collier turns in petitions for Detroit mayoral campaign
- The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria
- German Left Party’s Oskar Lafontaine calls for return to national currencies
- Marx 21 Congress: Anti-Marxists meet in Berlin
- Contract talks break down at S. Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
- Unions, ministers organize protest in Detroit over fast-food worker pay
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John H
Why I read the WSWS - Video: Detroit tenants denounce mass evictions
- Massachusetts high school student charged as terrorist for Facebook post
- Seattle transit agency proposes deep cuts in service
- SEP announces candidates for 2013 Australian election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP Election 2013 campaign meetings: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
13 May 2013 (front page)
- Bombings rock Turkish-Syrian border
- Capitalism and the crisis facing young people
- Pakistani voters trounce parties that waged Washington’s AfPak war, imposed austerity
- Divisions between major powers dominate G-7 meeting
- Greek government outlaws teachers strike
- Spending on medicine dips in 2012 as Americans cut back on health care
- Millions of BP settlement funds go to tourism industry
- US Supreme Court attacks right to a speedy trial
- New York City: Students protest Cooper Union’s plan to charge tuition
- Thousands protest over migrant worker’s death in Beijing
- British Columbia NDP courts big business in run-up to provincial vote
- Australian PM presses for closer military, police ties with Papua New Guinea
- The political issues in the fight to defend education
- UK holds international conference as major powers deepen intrigues in Somalia
- SEP Detroit mayoral campaign wins support from workers
- This week in history: May 13-19
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach new heights
14 May 2013 (front page)
- Obama, Cameron hold Syria war summit in Washington
- The criminalization of political dissent in America
- Reports suggest Syrian opposition involvement in Turkish bombings
- Greek protests against ban on strikes
- Detroit’s emergency manager outlines slash and burn “restructuring” plan
- Mother’s Day shooting in New Orleans injures 19 people
- Anger mounts as death toll exceeds 1,100 in Bangladesh building collapse
- Letters from our readers
- A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- India: We Tamils Party promotes communalism in Tamil Nadu
- Malaysian opposition stages more mass protest rallies
- Pontiac, Michigan school crisis provokes outcry from parents, teachers
- Philippine coast guard kills Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters
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Thomas Scripps
Why I read the WSWS - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Philadelphia mayor threatens elimination of school programs, staff
- Twenty-four dead in Mexican truck explosion
- California hospital workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
15 May 2013 (front page)
- Obama Justice Department secretly seized Associated Press telephone records
- Detroit’s emergency manager throws down the gauntlet
- Attacks on Greek teachers intensify
- South African Marikana miners stage wildcat strike
- Australian Labor budget sets up permanent cuts to social spending
- New revelations of torture and murder of Afghan civilians by US Special Forces
- Health and Human Services secretary solicits corporate funds to implement Obama health care plan
- At least 40 killed in two coal mine explosions in China
- New South Korean president commits to Obama’s “pivot to Asia”
- Australia: University students and staff demonstrate against Labor’s education cuts
- The rotten foundations of the Italian coalition government
- Former guard in Nazi concentration camp arrested in Germany
- Rival factions of ruling class fight it out over Scottish independence referendum
- Ontario teachers to face pension cuts under union-promoted deal
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SEP (Germany) election statement
A socialist program against social cuts and unemployment in Europe - Stephen Hawking and the academic boycott of Israel
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Dave Tate
Why I read the WSWS
16 May 2013 (front page)
- Greek teachers defy military mobilisation orders
- Euro zone contracts for sixth consecutive quarter
- Video shows US-backed opposition fighter cannibalizing Syrian soldier
- House hearing whitewashes US government seizure of AP phone records
- US Defense Department to furlough 650,000 civilian workers
- Nationwide protests against austerity in Israel
- Incoming Pakistani prime minister pledges loyalty to Washington
- David North speaks in Berlin on the 15th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site
- Gillard Labor’s budget: The class issues
- Lawsuit in California targets workers’ rights
- Letters from our readers
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier on ballot for Detroit mayor race
- Indian minister visits China after patch-up of border dispute
- Japanese government promotes “Sovereignty Restoration Day”
- Union seeks sellout deal at South Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
- Benghazi and the deepening crisis of the Obama administration
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part one
The Kill Team: The murderous reality of the US war in Afghanistan - Russia: Deputy Prime Minister Surkov resigns
- Schools in Buena Vista, Michigan may reopen after board approves cuts
- France: Three die in fire at Roma squat
17 May 2013 (front page)
- Sharp increase in US jobless benefit claims
- The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy
- South African miners mount new wave of wildcat strikes
- OECD reports growing inequality worldwide
- UK Conservatives shaken by revolt over European Union referendum
- Unions sabotage Irish bus workers strike
- Austrian Social Democrats suffer massive losses in local elections
- Hundreds of New York City Access-a-Ride workers lose their jobs
- Tornadoes rip through northern Texas
- Australian opposition leader adopts Labor’s social spending cuts
- President Aquino’s Liberal Party coalition consolidates power in Philippine election
- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby versus Prince Harry and his polo-playing American friends
- Taiwan stages naval drills as tensions mount with Manila
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
18 May 2013 (front page)
- Pentagon tells US Senate wars will continue for decades
- The betrayal of the Greek teachers’ strike
- Pew report shows decline in retirement security for most Americans
- FBI director continues cover-up of contacts with Boston bombing suspects
- China challenges Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa
- Canada’s NDP denounces China, signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”
- Chicago Teachers Union files lawsuit alleging school closings are racist
- Federal judge rejects lawsuit opposing Washington DC school closures
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Seattle: Hundreds condemn Metro Transit service cuts
- Philippines man killed by store security for alleged theft of sandals
- Four children and two adults killed in Pennsylvania house fire
- Spanish government rejects unions’ pleas for anti-crisis pact
- Sao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal
- German unions agree on engineering industry contract
- SEP mayoral candidate outlines socialist program at Detroit election forum
- The NSU neo-Nazi gang and the German intelligence service
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Osman
Why I read the WSWS - 15 years of the WSWS: Public meeting in Zurich
20 May 2013 (front page)
- European powers fund Al Qaeda looting of Syrian oil
- The decomposition of American democracy
- Tens of thousands march in Rome against austerity
- US Supreme Court rules for agribusiness giant Monsanto
- More Michigan schools on the brink of insolvency
- Buffalo, New York students and teachers face attack
- Stalemate after elections in Bulgaria
- Big business demands lower wages in South Korea
- Washington endorses Malaysian ruling party’s election “victory”
- On network news show, Nation editor rushes to the defense of Obama
- Why the SEP does not endorse the WikiLeaks Party
- Thousands of mining jobs in Scotland in danger
- UK: Rotherham Hospital spends £3 million on consultants advising on cuts
- Connecticut commuter rail collision injures 72
- Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier campaigns at Eastern Market
- Workers must reject emergency manager’s plan for Detroit
- The Left Party: A party of German imperialism
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Andy
Why I read the WSWS - This week in history: May 20-26
- Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A clash of rival “fundamentalisms”
- Ontario elevator technicians continue strike action
21 May 2013 (front page)
- Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest
- Financial bubbles creating conditions for new crash
- Devastating tornado kills dozens in Oklahoma City
- Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
- New revelations of US government spying on the press
- Employers to offer bare-bones coverage under health care law
- Hedge funds eye Detroit for “hostile takeover”
- Obama to college graduates: “No room for excuses”
- US seeks defence agreement with Maldives
- Germany: Parliamentary inquiry into neo-Nazi murders concludes
- New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific
- Guatemala’s high court overturns dictator Rios Montt’s genocide conviction
- Tsar to Lenin to be shown at UK’s National Media Museum and at Cornerhouse cinema
- The crisis of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian” revolution and the political independence of the working class
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spain’s Popular Party faces wave of strikes and demonstrations
- Slovenian government adopts another austerity programme
- Union limits UC Medical workers to two-day strike
- Letters from our readers
22 May 2013 (front page)
- Lack of shelters a factor in Oklahoma tornado death toll
- Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”
- Israel, US threaten war with Syria as sectarian fighting spreads across region
- Hundreds killed in upsurge of terror bombings, sectarian attacks in Iraq
- Apple CEO defends multi-billion-dollar tax dodge
- ThyssenKrupp to slash 3,000 jobs
- Protest opposes London-wide National Health Service cuts
- Six million suffer fuel poverty in UK
- Australian Education Union pushes sell out through delegates’ meetings
- Britain’s victims during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising expect compensation
- Canada: NDP suffers debacle in British Columbia election
- Emergency Meeting: A workers program to answer the crisis in Detroit
- Beppe Grillo agitates against immigrants
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part two
Let the Fire Burn and The East: The MOVE bombing in 1985 and present-day anarchism
23 May 2013 (front page)
- Behind Syria peace talks proposal, US prepares regional war
- The social disaster in Tornado Alley
- Iran blocks presidential campaign of pro-US candidate Rafsanjani
- Witness tied to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI
- Chicago officials release final list of 49 school closures
- DC mayor to offer closed schools to charter operators
- Poverty skyrockets in US suburbs
- Australian budget reports pave way for deeper austerity offensive
- Far-right Japan Restoration Party defends wartime abuse of “comfort women”
- Low turnout in Sri Lankan strike reflects no confidence in the unions and opposition
- Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87
- Popular Party government honours Spanish fascists in Hitler’s army
- The European Commission, French President Hollande accelerate austerity
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The “Ecosocialist” conference in New York
A fraudulent campaign for “climate justice” - The SPD celebrates its 150th anniversary
- Emergency manager to decide on Detroit bankruptcy within six weeks
- UAW and Fiat battle over union’s multi-billion dollar stake in Chrysler
- California nurses go on weeklong strike
- Milestone Films’ Mary Pickford: Rags and Riches Collection: The inventor of movie acting
24 May 2013 (front page)
- Obama offers tortured defense of targeted killings
- Apple’s tax dodge: The case for public ownership
- More revelations of Justice Department crackdown on the press
- UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars
- Libya’s General National Council passes Political Isolation Law
- Security forces fire rubber bullets at striking South African miners
- Global stock markets fall after 7 percent collapse in Japan’s Nikkei index
- White House welcomes Burmese president as new ally in “pivot to Asia”
- Ford Australia announces shut down of car production
- Reports on Australian “terrorism” laws call for streamlined police powers
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“I tell my people…we can never make enough profit”
Caterpillar CEO defends wage-cutting - US housing distress deepens for renters
- Los Angeles: Newly-elected mayor promises more cuts and privatization
- SEP campaigners oppose Detroit home evictions
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part three
Museum Hours and The Artist and the Model: In defense of art and the artistic personality -
San Francisco Film Festival 2013
An interview with Jem Cohen, director of Museum Hours: “Art is something people do like breathing.” - University of California medical workers strike
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Works council in Bochum seeks to stifle opposition to GM-Opel plant closing
25 May 2013 (front page)
- US and allies step up war preparations against Syria, Lebanon, Iran
- Government of, by, and for the banks
- Rioting hits Stockholm after police shoot Portuguese immigrant
- Sequester cuts shut down four government agencies for one day
- The Skagit River Bridge collapse: Another example of decaying infrastructure
- Chinese Premier Li signals new pro-market reforms before European tour
- Traumatic brain injuries increase risk of veteran suicides
- Mental disorders increasing among US children
- An international political strategy for Ford Australia workers
- Japanese officials secretly visit North Korea
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Quebec unions silence criticism of PQ welfare cuts
- Amazon workers strike in Germany
- Split on gay marriage and Europe, UK Tories rescued by Labour Party
- Far-right figure commits suicide in Paris’ Notre Dame to protest gay marriage
- Emergency manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection
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Ben
Why I read the WSWS - Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, dead at 74
- German Socialist Equality Party campaign wins support among Opel workers in Rüsselsheim
- Letters from our readers
27 May 2013 (front page)
- Taliban mounts “spring offensive” in Afghanistan
- Japanese share sell-off a sign of growing financial instability
- US, EU poised to escalate intervention as Syrian war spreads to Lebanon
- Senators forgive Penny Pritzker’s $80 million “mistake”
- Muskegon Heights charter schools fail to meet state standards
- Federal, state officials stonewall investigation of West, Texas plant explosion
- Washington, DC health firm buyout leaves thousands without medical coverage
- US farm bill proposals include huge cuts to food assistance
- IMF to have power over Irish healthcare spending
- SEP candidate speaks to workers about Ford closure
- New Zealand budget drives deepening austerity
- This week in history: May 27-June 2
- Twin bomb attacks in Niger signal wider conflict in West Africa
- Mali donors’ conference finances imperialist scramble for Africa
- Indian business whets Hindu communalist’s prime ministerial ambitions
- Germany: The NSU investigation committee and the Left Party
- MI5 and the Woolwich killers
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part four
The plight of African boat people in The Pirogue, and other films - Workers, students speak on plans to sell Detroit Institute of Art masterpieces
28 May 2013 (front page)
- European powers lift embargo, move to arm Syrian opposition
- The war on terror and the fate of US democracy
- Settlements authorised as Kerry tries to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks
- China tells North Korea to resume talks on nuclear program
- Victimized Illinois teacher denounces attack on education in YouTube video
- California: Police confiscate cellphones of witnesses after beating man to death
- Toronto elite seeking to jettison right-wing populist mayor
- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown leads Labour’s intervention in Scottish independence referendum
- Soldier attacked while on security patrol in Paris
- German city gives municipal clinic away to private operator
- Socialist Equality Party holds election campaign meetings in three states
- PSG campaigns in Berlin to stand in federal elections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 May 2013 (front page)
- Syria escalation poses growing risk of regional war
- The threat to sell off the works in the Detroit Institute of Arts
- More questions about MI5’s relations with Woolwich killers
- Visiting Europe, Chinese premier demands Japan return “stolen” territories
- Washington steps up hacking allegations against China
- Armed stand-off, mounting tensions, in the South China Sea
- Indian state to intensify counter-insurgency war after Maoist ambush
- Thousands of New York City school bus workers face job cuts in June
- Job seekers camp out for applications in New York
- Australian coal loader workers strike to defend conditions
- US military bases in Australia: The role of Pine Gap
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Train derails, explodes outside Baltimore, Maryland
Third transportation disaster this month underscores US infrastructure crisis - Deadly fungal disease outbreak in California prisons
- UK’s “Bedroom Tax” drives grandmother to suicide
- Trade unions in alliance with management against Berlin transport workers
30 May 2013 (front page)
- First US drone strike in Pakistan since Obama’s drone speech kills seven
- The Chicago school closings and the way forward to defend public education
- US banks post record profits in first quarter
- Sham “safety” deal on Bangladesh garment factories
- Guatemalan high court upholds overturning of Rios Montt conviction
- Greek government divided over “anti-racist” law
- Germany’s Left Party supports austerity in Bulgaria
- Spanish government imposes more austerity measures
- Top UK universities call for cuts to funding for poorer students
- Kenyan president moves to slash wages, continue war in Somalia
- Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part five
La Sirga and In the Fog: When will the “fog of war” settle? - Trillions hidden in tax havens by super-rich, corporations
- Nine of Louisiana’s ten public hospitals to be privatized
- US officials cover up evidence of radioactive leak in Washington
- Defend the DIA! Culture is a social right!
- Letters from our readers
31 May 2013 (front page)
- Obama’s attorney general admits approving search warrant for news reporter
- Imperialism, Syria, and the threat of world war
- The FBI murder of Ibragim Todashev—the man who knew too much?
- Furloughs of civilian defense department workers begin in the US
- Imperialist powers threaten to escalate intervention as Assad beats back opposition
- Britain illegally detained Afghans at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan
- Health care overhaul will leave millions of poor Americans uninsured
- Florida moves to speed up execution process
- Obama official who oversaw BP oil spill hired as Apple’s environmental fixer
- Malaysian government arrests opposition protest leaders
- Buena Vista, Michigan teachers still without pay
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
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