Archive: August 2015
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 August 2015 (front page)
- Clashes erupt on West Bank after child is murdered by Zionist settlers
- The political bankruptcy of Syriza’s Left Platform
- NATO scrambles jets against Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea
- Prosecutor declines to bring charges against Cincinnati cops who lied to protect killer of Samuel DuBose
- Sanders talks “left” and moves right
- German federal prosecutor investigates blog for treason
- Unidentified gunmen fire on Sri Lankan election rally
- Australian unions promote anti-Chinese nationalism
- Tensions between India and Pakistan escalate despite Modi-Sharif meeting
- Airplane debris may be from missing flight MH370
- Economic slowdown in Peru ignites social tensions
- Glasgow homeless caseworkers’ strike ended
- Socialist Equality Party holds first election meeting in Sri Lanka’s north
- Trainwreck: The latest from Judd Apatow
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
3 August 2015 (front page)
- Washington stunned by attack on US mercenaries in Syria
- The oligarchs’ election
- German-US tensions intensify following Turkish attack on Kurdish minority
- Amnesty International report details Israeli war crimes in 2014 bombing of Rafah
- Harper formally launches Canada’s federal election campaign
- US-led Pacific trade pact talks break down
- TPP investor-state dispute settlement clauses allow corporations to sue governments
- After Syriza’s capitulation, Troika demands brutal austerity programme
- French Foreign Minister Fabius visits Iran to boost ties after nuclear deal
- One in four Michigan children live in poverty
- Chicago police investigator fired for not covering up police killings
- Australian parliamentary speaker resigns amid scandal over helicopter ride
- Union calls off District line action prior to London Underground strike
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Manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) for the 2015 general election
Against war and austerity! Fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government and a socialist program! - Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman: More of a moneymaking than a literary event?
- This week in history: August 3-9
4 August 2015 (front page)
- Obama authorizes escalation of US war against Syria
- The rot at the heart of the American economy
- International Viewpoint, Syriza and the fraud of Greece’s “Truth Committee” on debt
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Notes on police violence in America
Dallas man dies after telling deputies he cannot breathe - Detroit City Council imposes new 7.5 percent water rate hike
- Germany takes over military training operations in Mali
- How Greece was looted by its creditors
- US has spied on Japanese government for a decade
- Calls for deployment of German army to deal with refugees
- London Underground workers set to hold second 24-hour strike
- Australian job cuts mount
- Sri Lanka: JVP election manifesto woos big business
- Syriza’s austerity policies pave way for far right in Greece
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
5 August 2015 (front page)
- Second-largest US coal producer files for bankruptcy
- One year of Obama’s Iraq-Syria war
- Imperialist powers prepare another military intervention in Libya
- Over 450 civilians killed by US-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria
- German government fires prosecutor over treason charge against Internet blog
- Media fans speculation over possible Biden presidential bid
- Australian government announces $89 billion naval expansion
- US telecom unions order Verizon workers to stay on job as contract expires
- Washington, DC: Government officials prepare whitewash of fatal Metro accident
- France cancels Mistral helicopter-carrier sales to Russia
- UK government rips up restrictions on fracking
- New Zealand: Mana Party supports Labour’s anti-Chinese campaign
- Tamil National Alliance presents pro-imperialist manifesto in Sri Lankan elections
6 August 2015 (front page)
- Obama speech on Iran: Collapse of nuclear deal will mean war
- The 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
- US uses ASEAN summit to escalate confrontation with Beijing
- Thousands protest torture-murder of Mexican photojournalist and four women
- Obama administration finalizes climate rules
- ACLU files lawsuit over handcuffing of Kentucky school children
- Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in the Bronx exposes safety issues
- German army peddles propaganda at heavy metal concert
- Surge in homelessness among young people across the UK
- Flooding across South Asia affects millions of people
- Sri Lankan irrigation department residents discuss SEP policies
- Mr. Holmes: Old age, the perils of science, a minor mystery solved …
- IYSSE, SEP (Australia) lectures: 100 years since the Zimmerwald conference
7 August 2015 (front page)
- Hundreds dead as refugee boat sinks in Mediterranean
- Obama on Iran: The specter of World War III
- The sacking of the German attorney general and the assault on press freedom
- International scholars call on Japanese PM to issue apology
- Obamacare enrollees highly dissatisfied with health coverage
- Buffalo, New York: Opioid overdosing reaches epidemic proportions
- Wildfires spread in Northern California
- Canada’s NDP promises “change” and continued austerity
- UK teachers leave profession in record numbers
- Australian business demands deeper cuts to wages and conditions
- Australian state Labor government wracked by factional turmoil
- Former Sri Lankan president mounts chauvinist election campaign
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
8 August 2015 (front page)
- One year since the death of Michael Brown
- Report shows continuing stagnation in US jobs, wages
- Syracuse, New York ravaged by unemployment, poverty and low wages
- US, Russia reach deal for chemical weapons inspections in Syria
- Israel’s Netanyahu government widens use of anti-democratic detention orders
- London Tube workers carry out 24-hour strike
- London Tube worker describes issues in struggle
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Background to the government attack on Netzpolitik.org
German court in 1992 upheld 1931 treason conviction of Carl von Ossietzky - Higher rates approved for California utilities
- Plane debris likely to be from missing flight MH370
- Chauvinist Quebec bill targets Muslim minority
- Hutchison Ports axes half its Australian workforce
- Australian waterfront workers denounce job cuts
- New Zealand government digs in after breakdown of US-led trade talks
- Republican presidential debate: The freak show at Quicken Loans Arena
- Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left NSSP prepares to support US-backed “colour revolution”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
10 August 2015 (front page)
- Conflict within US political establishment over Iran nuclear accord intensifies
- Police murder and class rule in America
- Ukrainian government blacklists Russian actors and musicians
- Puerto Rico on rations
- Australian Federal Police aid Sri Lankan unit implicated in torture
- US psychologists’ convention bans participation in torture
- Federal agents sent to Baltimore to bolster local police
- Sacked Hutchison workers speak out
- Windows 10: An operating system that gathers data on everything you do
- UK: Kirkby residents lose class action case against Sonae Indústria
- Volkswagen and IG Metall union plan massive job cuts
- Hutchison Australia waterfront workers continue strike action
- Australian government budgets target working class suburbs
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New from Mehring Verlag
Scholarship or War Propaganda? The Return of German Militarism and the Dispute at Berlin’s Humboldt University - Foreword to Scholarship or War Propaganda? The Return of German Militarism and the Dispute at Berlin's Humboldt University
- Video: The battle facing US autoworkers
- SEP campaign receives support in northern Sri Lanka
- “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart steps down
- On the death of German multi-billionairess Johanna Quandt
- This week in history: August 10-16
11 August 2015 (front page)
- St. Louis County declares state of emergency in crackdown against police violence protests
- Abadi announces reforms aimed at “decentralization” of Iraq
- German economy minister celebrates the expansion of the Suez Canal
- US presidential candidate Bobby Jindal calls for prosecution of “sanctuary city” mayors
- Northern Virginia schools face major budget cuts
- Port Botany and Brisbane workers oppose Hutchison’s mass sackings
- Italian pseudo-left supports Syriza’s betrayal
- Spain: New National Security Law to come into force before Catalan elections
- UK: Manchester City Council bans homeless protesters from city centre
- Protesters denounce military legislation as Japan marks anniversary of nuclear bombings
- Economic downturn intensifies Australian political crisis
- Hutchison workers continue strike as Australian union calls for “negotiated” job cuts
- Pentagon manual justifies war crimes and press censorship
- Sri Lankan election: Pro-US UNP appeals to big business
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The covert “selling” of anticommunism
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
Part 1 - Workers Struggles: The Americas
12 August 2015 (front page)
- Syriza agrees to full list of EU austerity demands in new bailout plan
- Turkish government steps up repression of political opponents
- Ferguson protests continue in defiance of state of emergency
- Journalists arrested during Ferguson protests last year face charges
- Sanders’ appeal to anger over inequality continues to draw crowds
- Hutchison Ports’ sackings in Australia and the global restructuring of the docks
- New Zealand Meat Workers Union calls off two-day strike
- Who is the new German Attorney General Peter Frank?
- Germany: Layoffs at gourmet chain Karstadt/Perfetto
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Oppose the political censorship of the IYSSE at Australian universities!
Oppose war and austerity! Defend democratic rights! - New York governor implicated in torture by state prison officials
- Wisconsin judge rules youths must be tried as adults for attempted murder
- Three million gallons of hazardous mine waste released into Colorado river
- Chinese currency devaluation underscores global instability
- US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers face common fight
- Sri Lankan election: 110 unions and NGOs back right-wing, pro-US UNP
- Amy, a documentary film about the British singer Amy Winehouse
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The covert “selling” of anticommunism
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
Part 2
13 August 2015 (front page)
- China devaluation fuels market turmoil
- Hillary Clinton forced to surrender email server to FBI
- White House defends imprisonment of immigrant children
- Syriza government steps up repression of refugees
- Explosion wreaks destruction in Chinese city of Tianjin
- German news anchor’s anti-racist comments conceal the real issues
- Two types of visitors: Germany applies different standards to dictators and their victims
- Canada-US frictions flare over Trans Pacific Partnership
- Australian dock union goes to court to seek deal on Hutchison sackings
- Australian warehouse workers defy court order to end strike
- Danger mounts of US/NATO war with Russia
- Sri Lanka: Big business parties issue false pledges on unemployment
- Democratic Party moves to drop “Jefferson-Jackson” name from fundraisers
- Scottish Socialist Party defends Syriza
- UAW officials pledge no push for big gains in contract talks
14 August 2015 (front page)
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Greek parliament votes for new round of austerity measures
Syriza’s Tsipras set to call vote of confidence - An international strategy for autoworkers
- China: More than 50 dead in Tianjin factory explosion
- Australian waterfront union betrays Hutchison strike
- Sweden drops some allegations against Julian Assange but US-backed persecution continues
- Major powers intensify diplomatic maneuvering over fate of Assad regime
- Kentucky county official defies court order on gay marriage
- Texas carries out its tenth execution of 2015
- Chicago Public Schools announces hundreds of teacher layoffs, spending and pension cuts
- First round of Haitian legislative elections held amidst immigration and political crises
- UK Conservative government escalates attacks on asylum seekers
- German companies profit from the new “refugee industry”
- German government supports ThyssenKrupp in fight to secure submarine contract in Australia
- Woody Allen’s Irrational Man: The familiar flatness and lack of conviction
- The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) replies to the United Socialist Party
- Sri Lankan election: UNP uses murder scandal to smear opponents
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
15 August 2015 (front page)
- Mass layoffs worldwide as corporate mergers near new record
- The Tianjin explosions and the discrediting of capitalism
- Eurogroup approves austerity deal with Syriza-led Greek government
- Kerry travels to Cuba to raise flag at American embassy
- Large demonstrations in Ecuador against Correa government
- Chelsea Manning facing indefinite solitary confinement
- Connecticut high court rules state death penalty unconstitutional
- Sacked Hutchison workers barred entry after Australian union sells out strike
- Australia: Union officials force SEP supporters off Sydney dock picket
- Melbourne transport workers vote for industrial action
- What does the “Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon” represent?
- Australian government in turmoil as economic pressures intensify
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Sri Lankan general election 2015
Vote for the Socialist Equality Party!
For a socialist program against war, austerity and to defend democratic rights! For a workers and peasants government! - Tamil nationalist groups adopt pro-imperialist policy in Sri Lankan elections
- Sri Lankan president to block Rajapakse as prime minister
- New York Times uses rape allegations to promote a wider war in the Middle East
- The curious career of Cheryl Gwyn, New Zealand’s inspector-general of intelligence and security
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
17 August 2015 (front page)
- AT&T collaboration with the NSA reveals US corporate-intelligence nexus
- Pittsburgh-based steel manufacturer locks out 2,200 workers
- Japanese PM’s speech on World War II riddled with duplicity
- Fiat-Chrysler workers overwhelmingly support strike action
- Republican candidate Trump backs deportation of millions
- Austrian government intensifies crackdown on refugees
- Australian wharfies voice concerns about MUA sellout of Hutchison strike
- Canadian prime minister proposes ban on travel to areas under “terrorist” control
- This week in history: August 17-23
- Corruption and bankruptcy at the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Germany: No confidence vote against Ver.di union in day care dispute
- UK government to cut number of cancer drugs available on the NHS
- “Ferocious” slump in dairy prices rocks New Zealand economy
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US contract deadlines in auto and steel
For a united offensive of autoworkers and steelworkers against the corporate-government assault - Sri Lankan general election signals deepening political instability
- Paris public meeting discusses world significance of Sri Lankan elections
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The covert “selling” of anticommunism
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
18 August 2015 (front page)
- The cover-up of torture in America’s prisons
- Sri Lankan election results foreshadow political upheavals
- Japan contracts as world economy lurches toward depression
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As contract deadline nears
US Steel to close blast furnace, cut 1,100 jobs at Alabama mill - Autoworkers vote for strike as UAW continues silence on talks
- Chinese regime seeks to censor outrage over Tianjin disaster
- Scores of refugees die brutally in the Mediterranean
- Refugees confront appalling conditions in the Balkans
- Pentagon to expand drone killing program
- Hugo Pinell, last of the “San Quentin Six,” murdered in prison
- Alabama budget proposals threaten state Medicaid program
- Pennsylvania budget stalemate in seventh week
- Egyptian military regime adopts draconian “anti-terrorism” legislation
- UK’s Kids Co charity folds after government withdraws backing
- Australian maritime union in talks with Hutchison to impose cost-cutting
- New Zealand: Thousands protest Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
- Sri Lanka: SEP’s final election meeting warns of sharp struggles ahead
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Book review
The Devil is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and their Battle for Freedom, by James Green - Workers Struggles: The Americas
19 August 2015 (front page)
- Pro-US United National Party to form government in Sri Lanka
- European parliaments move to back austerity measures for Greece
- Chinese official, company managers under investigation after Tianjin disaster
- Thai junta exploits Bangkok bombing
- Albuquerque police officers who killed homeless man to stand trial for murder
- US states move to cut Planned Parenthood funding
- French presidency has “kill list” of people targeted for assassination
- Mass protests demand release of Palestinian hunger striker
- Demand grows for closure of UK’s Yarl’s Wood detention centre
- Canada’s New Democrats seek to bolster right-wing economic credentials
- Australian union sells out Woolworths warehouse strikers
- World capitalism “toboggans toward catastrophe”
- Payment for services rendered: Obama prepares to cash in on presidency
- Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant appears with Sanders at Democratic Party rally in Seattle
- Julian Bond, veteran of early civil rights struggle and pillar of establishment, dies at 75
20 August 2015 (front page)
- US steelworkers, autoworkers demand wage hikes in new contracts
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Notes on Police Violence in America
St. Louis police kill 18-year-old, send SWAT teams against demonstrators - US police expanding use of potentially warrantless cellphone trackers
- Amazon office workers subjected to brutal exploitation
- Yemen faces humanitarian crisis as US-backed assault continues
- German Army and NATO begin major military exercises against Russia
- German parliament votes by a large majority for Greek austerity plan
- Need for food assistance rising in US despite claims of recovery
- Royal Commission debacle compounds Australian government crisis
- Australian transport union calls off Melbourne train and tram strike
- Seventy-five years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- The significance of the SEP’s vote in Sri Lankan elections
- Jeremy Corbyn’s economic plan to rescue British capitalism
21 August 2015 (front page)
- Global markets plunge amid signs of deepening slump
- In bid to ram through austerity package, Tsipras calls snap elections in Greece
- Locked out Allegheny Technology steelworkers determined to fight
- Brutal crackdown on protest against police violence in St. Louis, Missouri
- North and South Korea exchange artillery fire across border
- War-mongering against Russia by the German parliament’s official newspaper
- China: Details emerge of safety violations and corruption in Tianjin
- “Lay us off now,” Chicago Teachers Union official says
- Chelsea Manning found guilty of violating prison rules
- Escalating heroin epidemic in Huntington, West Virginia
- Canada’s NDP leader applauds Thatcher’s legacy
- Dispute over coal mine highlights Australian political turmoil
- Capitalism and the global refugee crisis
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75 years since the assassination of Trotsky: 1940-2015
Leon Trotsky’s place in history - Sri Lanka: “National unity government” to implement harsh austerity measures
- German “democrat” Heribert Prantl lauds vote on austerity for Greece
- The Good Fight: the latest from Washington DC-based hip hop artist Oddisee
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
22 August 2015 (front page)
- EU backs Greece’s Tsipras as Left Platform splits from Syriza
- Panic sell-off on world financial markets
- Troops fire on refugees trying to enter Macedonia
- Tensions deepen on the Korean Peninsula following ultimatum by Pyongyang
- Thousands of US steelworkers rally in advance of contract expiration
- Autopsy reveals St. Louis police shot teenager Mansur Ball-Bey in the back
- German parliamentary committee demands increase in military budget
- New York City lawyers suggest health care provider committed a crime in death of Rikers Island inmate
- Britain: Labour leadership beset by talk of splits, coups and legal challenges
- Turkey before the elections: Political instability, economic crisis and war
- Pro-US UNP leader sworn in as new Sri Lankan prime minister
- Australia called on to join illegal US military operations in Syria
- New Zealand rail company prepares further job cuts
- WSWS campaigns for unity of US and Canadian autoworkers
- Hillary Clinton and Black Lives Matter: A revealing confrontation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Xavier Dolan’s Mommy: The story of a troubled youth
24 August 2015 (front page)
- Nearly 14 million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme poverty
- Varoufakis documents Syriza's political treachery
- Tensions remain high on Korean Peninsula
- Sri Lankan corporate elite demands “tough” economic decisions from new government
- Republican candidates attack the Fourteenth Amendment
- Lockout of 2,200 workers at Pittsburgh-based steel manufacturer enters second week
- Passengers foil shooting plot in Amsterdam-Paris train
- Poland rearms against Russia
- Protests continue against Ecuadorean President Correa’s policies
- St. Petersburg, Florida: Millions of gallons of untreated sewage pumped into bayou
- UK Tube strike: Conservative transport spokesman calls for scab force
- Global Ponzi scheme threatens to implode
- Strong support from Canadian Fiat Chrysler workers for an international struggle
- German Left Party leader backs sellout by Ver.di trade union
- This week in history: August 24-30
25 August 2015 (front page)
- As global selloff deepens, US stock market teeters on edge of collapse
- The corporate-union assault on autoworker health care
- German and French leaders meet in Berlin summit on refugee crisis
- Macedonian government cracks down on refugees
- Economic turmoil heightens infighting in Chinese regime
- Worker killed in another Chinese factory explosion
- Right-wing Ukrainian government celebrates Independence Day
- California insurance rates rise under Obamacare
- Pennsylvania: Democrats move to cut state worker and teacher pensions
- France’s neo-fascist National Front expels its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Australian by-election becomes test of Abbott’s leadership
- Indiana autoworkers welcome WSWS campaign team
- German Left Party declares its support for Syriza’s Alexis Tsipras
- Straight Outta Compton: an uncritical picture of the rise of American “gangster rap”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
26 August 2015 (front page)
- US stock rally collapses amid fears of global slump
- The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide
- Biden, White House spur media discussion of presidential bid
- Japanese PM snubs China’s World War II victory ceremony
- North and South Korea agree to ease tensions following high-level talks
- After the Sri Lankan elections: Tamil nationalists support US-backed parties
- Attacks on refugee camp encouraged by German government’s right-wing policies
- Seven million Americans in default on student loans
- The New York City housing crisis and the $100 million penthouse
- Peru faces Wall Street downgrade
- Australia: BlueScope Steel demands mass job cuts under threat of plant closure
- “Reform summit” to discuss stepped up class war in Australia
- Scotland: Sheku Bayoh likely died of asphyxiation by police, lawyer says
- Autoworkers speak out: GM worker in Wentzville, Missouri calls for international unity
- Greece’s Popular Unity: An attempt to create Syriza 2.0
- Britain’s Financial Times hails Sri Lankan election result
- Dismaland, Banksy’s parody theme park: A despairing response to a complex world
27 August 2015 (front page)
- Fifty refugees die in ship’s hold in new Mediterranean migrant tragedy
- Ten years since Hurricane Katrina
- Fed acts to push US stocks higher
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“They want to take away what generations struggled to achieve”
2,200 steelworkers still locked out by Allegheny Technologies - Bernie Sanders: Silent partner of American militarism
- US announces shift on Sri Lankan war crimes investigation
- India reaches into the South Pacific to counter China
- German politicians and the media push for new wars in Africa
- Former Virginia news reporter kills one-time colleagues on live television, then shoots himself
- Judge reaffirms order to release imprisoned immigrant children
- Half a million California children are homeless
- Canada’s NDP pledges balanced budget, signals support for bigger military
- Australian “reform summit” highlights economic and political fragility
- NHS hospitals face massive deficits and demands for further cuts
- Available from Mehring Books: Hurricane Katrina, social consequences and political lessons
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A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt
Part One - Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and the Flash and American Ultra: Tired or clueless filmmaking
28 August 2015 (front page)
- China’s economic downturn raises concerns about political instability
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On 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Obama hails “entrepreneurial” transformation of New Orleans - Syriza, pseudo-left maneuver ahead of Greek elections
- One year since the war on Gaza
- The devastation of Gaza
- India-Pakistan talks abruptly cancelled
- Sri Lankan unions promise to protect new pro-US administration
- State agents to face no penalties for assault on Virginia student
- Reports detail massive leaks from natural gas pipes in US
- Australian “Anzac Day terror plot” charge dropped
- Business groups, French government prepare to eviscerate labor laws
- The refugee crisis and the inhuman face of European capitalism
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A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt: Part Two
Part Two - The social and historical dimensions of the Virginia on-air murders
- Herfried Münkler declares Germany to be Europe’s “hegemon”
- The British Library’s Magna Carta exhibition: A vital though flawed presentation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
29 August 2015 (front page)
- Casualties of “Fortress Europe”: Refugees dead on land and sea
- A judicial victory for illegal NSA spying
- Chinese officials, company executives detained over Tianjin explosion
- Locked-out ATI steelworker injured by van carrying scab workers
- UAW begins contract talks with farm machinery maker John Deere
- New York cops spied on activists against police violence
- Report documents pervasive shortcomings in US mental health insurance
- London Underground unions call off strikes
- Disciplinary hearing finds Toronto police officer culpable in G-20 repression
- Venezuela-Colombia tensions rise following foreign ministers’ meeting
- Dominican Republic deportations increase tensions with Haiti
- Union collaborates in attacks on New Zealand Steel workers
- Australia: Melbourne tram drivers strike over wages and conditions
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A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt: Part Three
Part Three - Is Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy socialist?
- Australia: Hutchison Ports dispute at the crossroads
- David G. Spielman’s The Katrina Decade—An unsentimental look at how things are now
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
31 August 2015 (front page)
- Central banks step in to prop up global financial bubble
- US steelworkers union blocks fight against wage and benefit cuts
- Allegheny Technologies lockout enters third week
- Egyptian junta hands down three-year jail terms to Al Jazeera journalists
- Mass protests in Japan oppose “collective self-defence” laws
- Sanders pledges his campaign to save Democratic Party
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Notes on police violence in America
Black youth dies in Virginia jail cell after being held four months for alleged $5 theft - North Dakota authorizes police to use weaponized drones
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On 10-year anniversary of Katrina
Former presidents Bush and Clinton celebrate transformation of New Orleans - Broad Foundation spearheads expansion of Los Angeles charter schools
- Sri Lankan political parties hail US shift on war crimes probe
- Public outcry halts Australian Border Force blitz in Melbourne
- Polls show fall in support for Syriza ahead of Greek general election
- German interior minister plans further attacks on refugees
- Political crisis deepens over delays to UK Iraq War inquiry report
- After failed Thalys attack, Europe prepares further security clampdown
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Eighty years after founding of UAW
Homeless American autoworker speaks out - Stalinism in Greece
- The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the pseudo-left, and the “Anybody but Harper” campaign
- Young Euro Classic: A music festival in Berlin opposing war and nationalism
- This week in history: August 31-September 6
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