Archive: March 2016
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 2016 (front page)
- Macedonian police tear-gas refugees trying to cross Greek border
- The Australian Defence White Paper and the drive to war
- Swiss voters reject xenophobic anti-refugee initiative
- Iranian elections strengthen Rouhani’s hand
- US, China agree to new UN sanctions on North Korea
- Autoworkers support challenge to UAW-Ford 2015 contract vote
- New information emerges about Flint’s decision to switch to untreated water
- United Steelworkers tries to ram sellout deal past ATI workers
- On eve of “Super Tuesday” primaries in US: A political system in crisis
- Poor evicted under nuisance laws by New York City police
- California inmate firefighter, 22, crushed to death protecting Malibu mansions
- Boston: MBTA seeks to pit transit riders against workers as infrastructure crumbles
- Bombardier adds to Northern Ireland manufacturing jobs massacre
- New Zealand: Five years after the Christchurch earthquake
- New York Times on Clinton and Libya: Portrait of a war criminal
- Renowned photojournalist assaulted by US Secret Service at Trump rally
- Eighty-eighth Academy Awards: Hopeful signs amidst reactionary “diversity” campaign
- SEP (Sri Lanka) public meeting: A socialist program to defend plantation workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 March 2016 (front page)
- Primary election results highlight US political crisis
- Imperialism intensifies pressure on Russia and China
- Ex-Australian PM calls for “freedom of navigation” challenge to China
- FBI director, Apple lawyer testify before Congress on encryption dispute
- France attacks refugees, launches destruction of Calais camp
- German parliament adopts anti-democratic “Asylum Package II”
- German Chancellor Merkel’s refugee policy and the call for a European army
- Fatal police shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina provokes protests
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”Why did they bring in the judge now? Because he is bought”
Judge Rhodes appointed “transitional manager” over Detroit public schools - Medical neglect caused deaths of detained immigrants in the US
- Mine disaster in Russia kills 36
- Chinese slowdown continues amid plans for major job cuts
- Ontario report: Inequality at levels “not seen since the Great Depression”
- Australian Greens back government’s Senate voting “reforms”
- An exchange on the SEP’s call for an active boycott of the Brexit referendum
- The way forward for UK junior doctors
3 March 2016 (front page)
- Chinese government prepares to sack millions of workers
- What political conclusions must be drawn from Trump’s Super Tuesday?
- NATO commander calls refugees a weapon of ISIS, Russia and Syria
- Former Detroit mayor warns that city is “one incident” from a social explosion
- Questions raised about police role in violent KKK rally in California
- Caltrans workers rally in Sacramento for better pay and benefits
- New York City transit upgrade aids developers
- German Left Party strives for coalition with Social Democrats and Greens in Berlin
- Spain: Podemos supports sale of warships to Saudi Arabia
- Left and anti-austerity sentiment produces political earthquake in Ireland
- Notes on London’s housing crisis
- Australian Greens cover up Defence White Paper plans for war on China
- India: Stalinists to ally with Congress Party in West Bengal election
- Deadpool: An anti-superhero?
4 March 2016 (front page)
- China and Brazil: Two expressions of the deepening capitalist breakdown
- US Republican Party in crisis as Romney denounces Trump
- European Union threatens summary mass deportations of refugees
- UN Security Council imposes harsh US-sponsored sanctions on North Korea
- US admiral claims Russia’s intervention in Syria has implications for Arctic
- Obama stumps for Affordable Care Act in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Detroit autoworkers discuss Trump, US election campaign
- Albuquerque, New Mexico residents protest fatal shooting by US Marshals
- Widening social inequality exacerbates housing crisis in California
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“Education should be a right”
Chicago students and faculty oppose potential school closure, layoffs - German Constitutional Court considers banning neo-fascist NPD
- UK immigration policy inflicts more damage on National Health Service
- Sri Lankan government prepares to sign economic pact with India
- Australia: Job cuts threaten Sydney water safety
- German chancellor demands end to “waving refugees through the borders”
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 March 2016 (front page)
- US sends aircraft carrier to challenge China in South China Sea
- TVA pension cuts: A new stage in the assault on American workers
- US presses India to join anti-China alliance
- Police arrest and interrogate Brazil’s ex-President Lula
- Flint resident files lawsuit against corporations, officials
- US employment report: Payrolls rise, wages fall
- Leading tech firms join Apple suit over iPhone encryption
- Cameron and Hollande beat anti-immigrant drum to oppose Brexit
- Jeremy Corbyn: Labour Party and Britain’s bosses are “natural allies”
- German parties shift to the right ahead of state elections
- Report on German poverty refutes propaganda of social recovery
- Australia: Qantas reaps record profits by slashing jobs and wages
- Indian power deal with Bangladesh highlights geo-political rivalry
- Two poor films on the Afghanistan war—Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and A War—and Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto
- IYSSE campaigns against war at universities in Australia and New Zealand
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian university students denounce the drive to war and austerity
7 March 2016 (front page)
- Latest presidential primary contests intensify crisis of US two-party system
- Tensions rise at Franco-British and Franco-German summits
- Refugees face disastrous conditions in Greece
- Chinese premier outlines plans for accelerated pro-market restructuring
- Canada deploying fighter jets to Romania in training mission
- The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
- US police killings update: Veteran with PTSD shot and killed
- United Steelworkers rams through sellout contract at ATI
- USW-ATI contract imposes health care and pension cuts, casualized labor
- Leaked Australian document reveals plans for mass surveillance of immigrants
- Attempt to form PSOE-Citizens government coalition in Spain collapses
- The Flint water crisis and the US elections
- Brexit vote sparks crisis for Scottish National Party
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Two years since the Kiev coup
Part one -
66th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3:
Alone in Berlin—a working class couple opposes the Nazis - This week in history: March 7-13
8 March 2016 (front page)
- US-South Korean militaries rehearse pre-emptive strikes on North Korea
- Philippines impounds suspected North Korean ship
- US airstrike massacres 150 at al-Shabaab training camp in Somalia
- Bank for International Settlements warns of build-up of global debt
- EU countries and Turkey move to seal refugee routes
- Three men sentenced for petty crimes at New Year’s event in Cologne, Germany
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Sanders pushes trade war policies
“Left” demagogy and nationalism dominate Democratic debate in Flint - Campaign for UK exit from the EU dominated by nationalism and big business interests
- UK: Metropolitan Police demand Pitchford Inquiry take evidence in secret
- Peña Nieto joins Mexican ex-presidents in denouncing Trump
- Review board: New York police routinely conduct aggressive and illegal home searches
- Detroit Public Schools emergency managers cash in
- Fiji cyclone: Australian and New Zealand military mobilised for “humanitarian” relief
- US moves to harness India to anti-China “pivot”
- American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson: An indictment of American celebrity culture
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Two years since the Kiev coup
Part two - Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 March 2016 (front page)
- Sanders, Trump win presidential primaries in Michigan
- The arrest of former President Lula and the crisis of rule in Brazil
- Western powers prepare military operations in Libya
- US Air Force to boost presence in northern Australian bases
- Australian government wracked by rifts over US military demands and austerity
- Boston Public Schools students walk out over proposed budget cuts
- Democrats cover up role of Obama administration in Flint water crisis
- Nearly one-third of US food stamp recipients rely on food pantries
- Cuba denounces continued US enforcement of embargo
- Slovakian parliamentary elections marked by rightward shift
- Poor mental health care in England is “ruining lives,” report finds
- UK energy firms rake in profits as “fuel poverty” escalates
- Australia: Labor Party, teacher unions prepare further assault on public education
- ICFI statement “Socialism and the Fight Against War” now available from Mehring Books
- SEP and IYSSE meeting: The political and social roots of the Flint water crisis
- The New York Times ’ Nicholas Kristof warns of “Donald the Dangerous”
- The death of Nancy Reagan
10 March 2016 (front page)
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As Chinese exports plunge
IMF issues new warning on global economy - Sanders’ upset win in the Michigan primary
- Chinese finance minister calls for easier dismissals under labour laws
- US generals push for more troops in Iraq, Syria
- Canada’s parliament endorses expanded role in Mideast war
- Photo essay: Volunteer at French refugee camp speaks to the WSWS
- Striking cashiers and dockers interrogated under French state of emergency
- Mass layoffs at Bombardier hit Germany
- Steel workers strike in Mexico
- Five years after Japan’s nuclear disaster, TEPCO executives charged
- US steel union hails Obama trade war measures
- Fires at Detroit wastewater plant underscore danger of job cuts
- Baltimore school police officers face felony charges for assaulting student
- Flint residents call out government’s failure to act on water poisoning
- Brexit referendum: Remain camp backs European Union of austerity and militarism
- New Zealand: Anti-TPP protests promote Maori nationalism
- Race: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
11 March 2016 (front page)
- European Central Bank cuts rates and pours more money into financial markets
- Sanders and Clinton posture as defenders of immigrants in Miami debate
- Europe’s attack on refugees produces humanitarian catastrophe
- What do the electoral gains of the right-wing Alternative for Germany signify?
- Washington steps up threats over Iran missile tests
- Minnesota’s Iron Range hammered by steel industry layoffs
- Newark, New Jersey schools shut off lead-poisoned drinking water
- Women inmates file lawsuit against New York state prisons for sexual abuse
- Spanish unions, Podemos-backed mayor defeat Barcelona Metro strike
- Growing concerns about Australia’s housing bubble
- Sri Lankan government to convert Western province into investment hub
- The refugee crisis and the polarization of Europe
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 March 2016 (front page)
- Pentagon deploying drone aircraft within the US
- Violence, racism and the Trump campaign
- Donald Trump rally in Chicago cancelled amidst mass protests
- Brazil’s president rejects resignation as prosecutors demand Lula’s arrest
- Trudeau pledges strengthened Canada-US partnership in White House visit
- Teachers take strike action against Palestinian Authority
- Turkish government intensifies crackdown on media, opposition parties
- Junior doctors in England mount 48-hour strike
- US reignites controversy over Chinese lease of Australian port
- German state elections: The repackaging of right-wing politics
- New Jersey Transit strike deadline approaches
- Medicare to test cost-cutting plan for Part B prescription drugs
- New York City’s housing crisis deepens under “progressive” Mayor de Blasio
- Sri Lankan government announces tax hikes before IMF loan talks
- Arrium demands Australian mine workers take pay cuts
- The International Socialist Organization agitates for war with Russia over Syria
- The conspiracy against the Chicago teachers
- Flint meeting examines background of city’s water crisis
- A Perfect Day: 24 hours in the Bosnian War
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 March 2016 (front page)
- Republican frontrunner Trump steps up attacks on demonstrators
- The Trump campaign: A new stage in the crisis of American democracy
- Obama backs attack on encrypted communication
- UK bill hands vast surveillance powers to police and intelligence agencies
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn deletes criticisms of EU from his web site
- Workers, students march against French labor law reform
- Die Zeit campaigns for military intervention in Libya
- US-trained Chechen ISIS commander Abu Omar al-Shishani survives US assassination strike
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As April 8 fiscal deadline approaches
Judge Rhodes threatens shutdown of Detroit Public Schools - Detroit teacher: “Children are made into dollar signs”
- California Faculty Association prepares to sell out CSU workers
- UAW sanctions mass layoffs by farm equipment giant John Deere
- China: Thousands of coal miners protest over unpaid wages
- Australian primary teachers resign in protest at standardised, assessment-based education
- Australia: Despite deaths, no youth mental facility in Brisbane
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Public meeting at Leipzig Book Fair
The return of German militarism and the threat of World War III -
66th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 4:
Flight and persecution—yesterday and today (The Diary of Anne Frank and Meteorstraße) - Sri Lankan SEP to hold Jaffna public meeting on imperialist war and Tamil nationalism
- This week in history: March 14-20
15 March 2016 (front page)
- German state elections: Far-right Alternative for Germany gains double-digit support
- Economic nationalism, war and the fight for international socialism
- Second terrorist attack in a month in Turkish capital kills at least 37
- Trump peddles nationalist poison at Ohio rally
- Millions join protests in Brazil demanding ouster of Workers Party government
- South Korea imposes extra sanctions on North Korea
- Shadow Chancellor McDonnell pledges UK Labour Party to austerity
- English National Opera chorus to strike
- Slumping car sales lead to extended layoff of Fiat Chrysler Sterling Heights workers
- Study: Worsening conditions for young people throughout the developed world
- Hundreds of millions in cuts on the horizon in Louisiana
- Central banks confront unintended consequences
- Sri Lankan government refuses to release Tamil political prisoners
- Beatles producer George Martin dies at 90
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Book Review
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America - Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 March 2016 (front page)
- Clinton, Trump take major steps toward US presidential nominations
- Ohio voters discuss elections and social crisis
- Russia announces partial withdrawal from Syria
- Tsipras acts as gatekeeper for Fortress Europe
- UK: Families of missing demolition workers campaign for their rescue
- Rough-sleeping on the rise in England
- Australian media whips up fear campaign against African youth
- Indian Stalinists ally with US-backed parties in Tamil Nadu
- India: BJP presses forward with frame-up of JNU students on sedition charges
- Overcrowding in New York City Housing Authority fueled by lack of jobs and affordable apartments
- What is behind the electoral success of the Alternative for Germany?
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Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
A socialist program to fight the Coalition-Labor-Greens assault on education in Australia -
Upcoming events in Cambridge, Mass. and Albuquerque, New Mexico
SEP meetings in the US: Socialism and the fight against war
17 March 2016 (front page)
- After the March 15 US primaries: The political role of the Sanders campaign
- Trump threatens violence at Republican National Convention
- Obama’s choice to replace Scalia on Supreme Court had won Republican praise
- US Federal Reserve aligns itself closer to market demands
- Flint emergency manager, EPA continue to dodge responsibility for water crisis
- Second test of Flint water being performed by Virginia Tech
- New Jersey Transit contract includes major concessions in health care costs
- Argentina sinks Chinese fishing vessel
- Refugees face death and despair on Greek-Macedonian border
- French government, trade unions rework reactionary labor reform
- UK Budget: Austerity for workers pays for tax breaks for corporations and the rich
- Constitutional crisis in Poland continues
- Glasgow City Council workers strike against cuts and poverty wages
- Australian Greens join government in ramming through Senate voting changes
- New Burmese president installed amid tensions with the military
- Mexican union leaders paid over $30 million for imposing cuts on oil workers
- Novelist Jonathan Franzen’s Purity
18 March 2016 (front page)
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As reports point to nationwide epidemic of lead contamination
Michigan governor, EPA head testify on Flint water crisis - Two US prosecutors who covered up police killings lose primary elections
- UAW pushes local deals past opposition at GM Lordstown plant
- Washington DC forced to suspend all metro service due to electrical fires
- US drug prices doubled since 2011
- European Union chiefs determined to reach deal with Turkey to deter refugees
- Podemos enters government talks with Spain’s social democrats, conservatives
- Living standards fall and discontent rises in Russia
- Germany: Siemens cuts another 2,500 jobs
- Australia: Fairfax journalists strike over job cuts
- Australian journalists condemn the axing of more Fairfax jobs
- Anti-protest laws attack democratic rights in Australia
- Manitoba aboriginal youth suicides exemplify systemic crisis
- Syrian war enters sixth year with graver dangers still ahead
- Video: Lead poisoning discussed at Flint water event
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The pseudo-left’s nationalist “Leave” campaign in the UK Brexit referendum
Part one -
Recent developments in science: oceanography, neuroscience, planetary astronomy
Scientists use gravity to map Earth’s ocean floor - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 March 2016 (front page)
- The crimes behind the US lead water crisis
- European Union and Turkey reach deal to seal borders and expel refugees
- Hungarian government declares “state of crisis” over refugees
- Impeachment drive accelerates amid expanding political crisis in Brazil
- Sanders under pressure to quit from Democratic leaders, media
- UAW discussing lower pay rate at Lear in Detroit
- After first failed attempt, court grants Ohio another chance to execute death row inmate
- Faculty and students protest budget cuts proposed for City University of New York
- Justice Department refuses to prosecute New York police killer of Ramarley Graham
- Kaiser Permanente nurses in Los Angeles on one-week strike
- NFL admits connection between concussions and degenerative brain disease
- India: Intensifying BJP witch-hunt, JNU to punish “anti-national” students
- Honduran Government covers up involvement in murders of indigenous rights leaders
- UK teacher shortages on the rise
- New Zealand government plans further expansion of spy powers
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The pseudo-left’s nationalist Leave campaign in the UK Brexit referendum
Part Two - Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups: It is impossible to learn anything from this
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 March 2016 (front page)
- Trump and the Democratic Party
- New study says entire regions of US will remain in slump until the 2020s
- US Steel layoffs hit another 770 workers
- Castro government welcomes Obama, US corporate heads to Cuba
- Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam arrested in Brussels
- French Socialist Party whips up law-and-order hysteria after Abdeslam arrest
- Berlin senate speeds up deportations of refugees
- Australian nickel refinery workers sacked without entitlements
- Spanish youth protest education reforms
- More attacks on anti-Trump protesters at Tucson, Arizona campaign rally
- Chief proponent of Flint water supply switch hosts public meeting
- UAW seeks to ram through contract at Volvo
19 March 2016 (front page)
21 March 2016 (front page)
- Sri Lankan parliament to draft new constitution to shore up capitalist rule
- Australian youth and workers denounce media and government racist hysteria
- Ten years since the death of hip hop artist James “J Dilla” Yancey
- This week in history: March 21-27
22 March 2016 (front page)
- European Union-Turkey deal to expel refugees comes into force
- Obama in Cuba
- Australian government threatens a “double dissolution” election
- US accelerating military encirclement of China
- US presidential candidates give warmongering speeches backing Israel at AIPAC conference
- Resignation of UK work and pensions secretary divides Conservative government
- UK super-rich seize 26 percent of all new wealth since 2000
- Spanish officer corps hears lecture justifying Franco coup and dictatorship
- Hunger stalks US campuses
- Coal giant Peabody Energy on verge of bankruptcy
- New York City affordable housing programs designed to benefit developers
- Boston-area mass transit: Fare increases, service reductions and attacks on pensions
- Peru’s electoral board bars two presidential candidates before first round of elections
- Hundreds attend meetings in Leipzig, Germany on the danger of war and the politics of the pseudo-left
- David North addresses Sri Lankan SEP launch of Sinhala edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Colombo meeting launches Sinhala translation of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
23 March 2016 (front page)
- Attacks on Marine firebase reveal secret US escalation in Iraq
- Obama’s Cuba speech: “Democratic” veneer for US capitalist invasion
- Indonesia accuses China of encroaching on its territory
- With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man
- US government delays hearing in Apple iPhone encryption case
- St. Louis autoworkers bar UAW vice president from their Facebook page
- Northwestern University faculty oppose selection of US general to head global studies institute
- Opposition grows to Boston Public Schools budget cuts
- West Virginia budget gap widens, economy worsens
- Germany’s Left Party favours coalition with conservative CDU
- Arson attack on witness to murders in Palestinian village of Duma
- Hundreds of refugees in Australia face return to offshore camps
- The terror bombings in Brussels
- IYSSE campaigns against war at San Diego State University
- Québec Solidaire welcomes suppression of anti-austerity struggle
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Book Review
Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See: All the history the novelist cannot see - Michigan governor’s Flint “action plan”: A cover for criminality
- India: Tata workers end strike after being isolated by the unions
- Seven-day nurses strike ends at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles
24 March 2016 (front page)
- Belgian authorities had “precise intelligence warnings” of Brussels bombings
- Corbyn’s six months as UK Labour leader: A record of capitulation and betrayal
- After Brussels attack, EU officials plan vast escalation of police spying
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Following terror attacks in Brussels
US presidential candidates call for stepped-up war and police measures - Obama hails Macri’s attacks on Argentine workers
- Australian PM treads a fine line on foreign policy
- Electoral success of AfD strengthens far-right forces in Germany
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Socialism and the Fight Against War
IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand—Build an International Movement of the Working Class and Youth Against Imperialism! - Slovakia: Fico forms unstable right-wing government
- 200,000 jobs threatened by Norway oil industry crisis
- US airstrike kills 40 in Yemen
- Public sector union cancels strike action at Australian airports
- Canada’s Liberal government tables first budget amid mounting economic turmoil
- Legislative attack on Detroit Public Schools taking shape
- University of California installs secret spyware system
- “We make the terror:” Season four of House of Cards
25 March 2016 (front page)
- Fundraising for US presidential campaign surpasses $1 billion
- Hundreds of US Marines provide combat support as Iraqi forces advance toward Mosul
- French students speak out against austerity and state of emergency
- University of California president proposes privatization of pension fund
- Chinese government’s phony anti-poverty plan
- Corporate elites maintain pressure on Australian prime minister
- Canada’s establishment “canonizes” former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
- UK dockers strike suspended by Unite union
- The Belgium bombing: Why the dots are not connected
- Australia: Socialist Alternative and the US “pivot to Asia”
- Indian analyst urges US to use secret diplomacy in harnessing Delhi to anti-China “pivot”
- German Left Party leader’s plea for nationalism and the free market economy
- Atom Egoyan’s Remember: A Nazi criminal hunted…
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 March 2016 (front page)
- Scandal mounts over failure by Belgian police to halt Brussels attacks
- Obama’s pivot to Latin America
- After Brussels attacks, German politicians and media demand increased state powers
- Arrests follow call for Chinese President Xi’s resignation
- Indian auto workers fight to defend wages and conditions
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One year since the launch of the US-backed war
Vast majority of Yemen population without reliable food, water and sanitation - Researchers and scientists subpoenaed in anti-abortion witch-hunt
- Chicago Teachers Union approves one-day stunt “strike” on April 1
- Greece’s Syriza government detains refugees
- Tube drivers shut down London Piccadilly Line
- Large protests in East Timor over ongoing Australian oil theft
- Escalating crisis hits New Zealand dairy industry
- Flint water task force report leaves Snyder off the hook
- Why the New York Times is pushing racial politics in Flint
- I Saw the Light: A biography of country singer Hank Williams
- One hundred years since Ireland’s Easter Rising—Part One
- Meeting at Toronto’s York University: Socialism and the Fight Against War
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
28 March 2016 (front page)
- The US-NATO war in Syria and the Brussels terror attacks
- Clinton primary contest losses intensify Democratic Party crisis
- Historic city of Palmyra falls to Syrian government forces
- Terrorist attack hits crowded children’s park in Pakistan
- German government increases defence budget and plans massive rearmament
- Canadian Liberal government to implement military spending hikes
- Global oil industry job losses continue to mount
- Michigan Kids Count report shows drastic rise in child poverty over last decade
- Indiana and Florida pass new anti-abortion laws
- New York prosecutor urges no jail time for killer cop
- Obama high court pick Merrick Garland: A record of support for police powers
- New Zealand Labour Party leader attacks Asian immigrants
- Ex-President Francisco Flores (1959–2016) and the decimation of El Salvador
- One hundred years since Ireland’s Easter Rising—Part two
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San Diego Latino Film Festival 2016—Part 1
Films from Argentina, Spain and Guatemala: El Movimiento, Hablar, Ixcanul and Tras Nazarin - This week in history: March 28-April 3
29 March 2016 (front page)
- Military chiefs seize on Brussels attacks to send more US troops to Iraq
- Japan’s security laws: Another milestone in the drive to world war
- Officials stoke anti-Muslim hatred following Brussels attack
- As Brazil’s impeachment crisis deepens, economists advocate “Asian model”
- Japanese economy continues to show signs of faltering
- Obama administration to cut off Flint emergency aid
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“They got away with murder for profit”
Michigan will not sanction GM attorneys involved in cover-up of ignition defect - US federal appeals court ruling could speed up executions
- New York City Rikers Island prison guards on trial for viciously beating inmate
- Illinois public higher education hit with more cuts
- Germany’s Deutsche Bahn to slash 2,100 rail freight transport jobs
- Australia: Socialist Alternative hails downing of Russian jet in Syria
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UK Junior doctors dispute at a crossroads
Statement by NHS Fightback - Rapper Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest dead at 45
- One hundred years since Ireland’s Easter Rising—Part three
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
30 March 2016 (front page)
- Newly-released email details complicity of Obama’s EPA in Flint poisoning
- Intelligence accounts raise more questions on origins of Brussels, Paris attacks
- Impeachment looms in Brazil as PT’s largest coalition partner deserts government
- Clinton, media step up pressure for Sanders to withdraw
- Supreme Court ruling favors unions in agency shop dues case
- FBI claims successful hack of Apple iPhone security systems
- California Democrats, unions announce deal on $15 minimum wage
- German interior minister seeks to further restrict rights of immigrants
- French government seeks delay in order to impose unpopular labour reform
- Australian Labor leader makes a cynical populist pitch
- Australia: Pacific Islanders suffer slave-like conditions in fruit industry
- Dramatic fall in Employment Tribunal cases in UK
- Warnings of global arms race ahead of Nuclear Security Summit
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On sexual harassment policy
Professors’ group charges Obama administration with undermining academic freedom and due process -
San Diego Latino Film Festival 2016—Part 2
The human cost of the drug war in Mexico and a drama from Venezuela: Retratos de una búsqueda and Dauna. Lo que lleva el río
31 March 2016 (front page)
- Forty thousand jobs threatened as Tata Steel announces end of UK operations
- War: The great unmentionable in the 2016 US elections
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Following Machinists union betrayal
Boeing to slash 4,000-8,000 jobs - Australian prime minister lurches from one crisis to the next
- Republican Party crisis deepens as candidates renege on “loyalty” pledge
- Politicians and media promote far-right Alternative for Germany
- Hungary strengthens state security powers after Brussels attacks
- European Court rubber-stamps police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- After the Brussels attack, Podemos defends “war on terror”
- Costa Rica closes its borders to Cuban migrants
- Immigrant farmworker sentenced to 25 years to life for leaving her newborn in California strawberry field
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“What’s happening here is emblematic of what’s going on across the country”
Detroit newspaper workers protest contract takeaways - Nearly 750 dead in US house fires in 2016
- New layoffs in New Zealand meat processing
- The political economy of endless austerity
- Eye in the Sky: The liberal war on terror
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