Archive: May 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.
2 May 2016 (front page)
- Iraqi regime shaken by storming of Baghdad’s Green Zone
- Oppose the witch-hunt of Ken Livingstone!
- Political prisoner Gary Tyler freed from Angola prison after 41 years
- Eighty-four migrants missing in new sinking off Libyan coast
- Austria abolishes right to asylum
- Australian government defies PNG refugee ruling
- US senators demand escalation of military confrontation with China
- Verizon steps up strikebreaking after “last, best and final” offer
- Poverty has become more concentrated under Obama
- First Zika death on US territory as Congress delays funding
- London mayoral elections: A contest between two right-wing candidates
- German army prepares for cyberwar
- Volkswagen works council and IG Metall back executive bonuses
- May Day 2016: Introductory report by David North
- Third International May Day Online Rally evokes powerful response
- White House correspondents dinner: A degrading spectacle of conformism
- Songs My Brothers Taught Me: The plight of a Lakota youth
- This week in history: May 2-8
3 May 2016 (front page)
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“Our money is literally being stolen”
Teacher sickout shuts Detroit Public Schools - The 9/11 cover-up continues
- Video: Detroit teachers denounce attacks on public education
- Detroit, Michigan resumes mass water shutoffs
- German labour minister cuts social assistance to EU immigrants
- British government refuses asylum for refugee children
- Australia: Pseudo-lefts promote the Greens’ posturing on refugees
- Scandal deepens over Hillsborough disaster cover-up
- Lech Wałęsa: A Stalinist agent in the Solidarity movement
- May Day protest in Seattle results in nine arrests
- Forty thousand public sector workers strike against Costa Rican government
- Deflation spreads to Australia
- Malaysian investment fund default intensifies political instability
- May Day 2016: The political tasks facing the workers and toilers of the Indian sub-continent
- Socialist Alternative: Charlatanry and lies in support of Sanders’ “political revolution”
- David Walsh speaks on “Art, War and Social Revolution” at meetings in California
- The Communications Workers of America, corporatism and the Verizon strike
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Meeting in Paris May 15
The socialist struggle against war and the bankruptcy of Tamil nationalism - Workers Struggles: The Americas
4 May 2016 (front page)
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In midst of water shutoffs, Flint water crisis
Detroit teachers shut schools for second day to protest non-payment of wages - May Day 2016 and the future of socialism
- Trump, Sanders win primary contests in Indiana
- UK Labour mounts purge of party based on accusations of anti-Semitism
- Poverty grows, health declines among UK children
- US Navy Seal killed in Iraq combat
- Far-right Alternative for Germany adopts party programme
- May Day 2016: The glorification of war and the preparation for future conflicts
- Two refugees set themselves alight in Australia’s Nauru detention centre
- Belgian state report points to links between police services, Brussels attacks
- Puerto Rico declares moratorium on $367 million debt payment
- Canada preparing to join US ballistic missile defense
- Maoist-backed, fascistic candidate leads Philippine presidential race
- Australian government budget sets stage for volatile federal election
- Video: Detroit teachers speak on the struggle to defend education
- Support the struggle of Detroit teachers! Unite the working class in a fight back!
- May Day 2016: Oppose the drive to war in the Asia-Pacific
- Papa: Hemingway in Cuba—The banalization of the novelist and his art
5 May 2016 (front page)
- Obama to Flint: Shut up and drink the water
- Trump’s victory: A dangerous turning point in American politics
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“He wants to sweep this under the rug”
Flint residents respond to Obama’s speech on water crisis - Detroit Public School teachers end sickouts, face new legislative attacks
- Deepening contradictions within the global economy
- US change of command in Europe signals escalation of anti-Russia threats
- French government presents labour law to the National Assembly
- Leading member of far-right AfD named chief prosecutor in Berlin
- Verizon strike enters fourth week
- Two New Jersey Transit unions reject contract agreement
- Alberta wildfire forces 88,000 to evacuate Fort McMurray
- More than a million people living in destitution in UK
- Sri Lankan government begins implementing IMF austerity demands
- Australian Workers Union to enforce cost-cutting at Arrium steel
- May Day 2016: The US-China conflict and the political crisis in Latin America
6 May 2016 (front page)
- Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu resigns amid mounting government crisis
- Obama in Flint: Let them drink lead
- Clinton launches appeal for right-wing Republican support
- Alberta wildfire continues to spread, forcing further evacuations
- Fort McMurray teacher describes chaotic evacuation
- Michigan state House passes draconian attack on public education
- US intelligence agencies expand electronic surveillance worldwide
- North Carolina Sheriff’s Office concealed killing, ignored repeated allegations of brutality
- US-backed Chinese separatists, dissidents meet in Dharamsala, India
- Leader of Brazil impeachment drive sacked over corruption
- Labour “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt dominates media in run-up to UK polls
- Australia: Labor Party spells out election campaign of populism and lies
- New Zealand Labour Party leader visits Iraq
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Angry reaction to Obama’s speech in Flint
An interview with LeeAnne Walters - New York Verizon strikers seek to break isolation of struggle
- May Day 2016: Once again, German militarism is rearing its ugly head
- May Day 2016: The crisis of the European Union and the drive towards war
- Elvis & Nixon, A Hologram for the King: Trivializing culture, history
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 May 2016 (front page)
- UK elections intensify crisis in Labour Party
- What accounts for Trump’s support among West Virginia miners?
- Baghdad on military lockdown over fear of protests
- Trump names hedge fund boss as finance chairman
- Growing anxiety in Europe over Donald Trump
- Slowest US job growth in seven months
- Another expanded recall of airbags prone to deadly explosions
- Islamophobic provocations on California campuses
- Three hundred workers laid off at Chicago State University
- Alabama inmates strike against deplorable prison conditions
- US official stokes border tension between India and China in the Himalayas
- India opens talks with US on waging war on Chinese submarines
- Australian government boasts of helping US kill its own citizens in Middle East
- Young worker dies on Australian “work for the dole” scheme
- Forty million Russians in debt
- Many UK accident and emergency units closed or downgraded
- A philosophy professor muses about eliminating the right to vote
- Who’s who in the Flint water crisis: Part one
- May Day 2016: The Brexit referendum and the struggle against nationalism and war
- May Day 2016: The refugee crisis and the age of perpetual war
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Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Are the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet a genuine alternative to contemporary filmmaking? - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
9 May 2016 (front page)
- Australian PM announces “double-dissolution” election for July 2
- Greek workers strike against Syriza’s austerity policies
- Republican split deepens over Trump nomination
- Trump’s rise causes disquiet in Australian ruling circles
- Mass repression being prepared for Cleveland Republican convention
- US Defense Department announces deployment of troops in Yemen
- Devastation from Alberta wildfire continues to spread
- Second general election called in Spain
- Video: SEP presidential candidate Jerry White—Obama says Flint crisis is no big deal
- Army captain’s lawsuit challenges legality of Obama’s war against ISIS
- Detroit Federation of Teachers backs right-wing attack on public education
- Working to impose concessions, Chicago Teachers Union calls off strike date
- Drastic increase in far-right crimes in Germany
- UK unions collude in the passing of anti-strike legislation
- Committee minutes reveal anti-democratic discrimination against IYSSE at University of Melbourne
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“Workers in the Philippines and Mexico are not our enemies”
New York Verizon striker explains need for international strategy - Looking for Grace—a strangely cold story about a teenager leaving home
- May Day 2016: War and the 2016 US elections
- May Day 2016: The international working class is an immense social force
- This week in history: May 9-15
10 May 2016 (front page)
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After Syriza imposes billions in new cuts
EU plans decades of austerity for Greece - A further eruption of US militarism in the Middle East
- UK prime minister invokes militarism and war to argue for EU membership
- Brazil’s post-Rousseff cabinet to include advocate of police repression
- Verizon striker run down as New York cops protect scabs
- Clinton campaign lurches to the right
- US Treasury rejects plan for slashing Teamsters pensions, calling for deeper cuts
- Fascistic candidate Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippine presidential election
- Austrian Chancellor Faymann resigns
- IDF major general compares Israel with pre-Holocaust Germany
- Volkswagen board pockets €63 million in 2015
- The Berlin Senate’s inhuman deportation policy
- Venezuela on the knife’s edge as economy collapses
- Thousands of jobs cut in Australia as slump deepens
- Everybody Wants Some!!—Richard Linklater goes to college
- UN Ambassador Samantha Power hails Sri Lanka as human rights champion
- Canadian capitalism and the Fort McMurray wildfire
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
11 May 2016 (front page)
- War danger grows following new US provocation in South China Sea
- The rise of Duterte in the Philippines: A warning to the international working class
- Highest-earning US hedge fund managers raked in $13 billion last year
- French Socialist Party uses special powers to impose unpopular labour law reform
- UK: Corbyn launches Labour’s effort to cover for right-wing Remain campaign
- UK prisoners “potential assets to be harnessed” for profit
- Trump backs end to the federal minimum wage
- Sanders defeats Clinton in West Virginia primary by large margin
- CWA silent after Verizon worker run down by New York City cop
- Honeywell locks out workers in New York and Indiana
- Brazil’s Senate set to vote on impeachment of Rousseff
- Australian Labor shadow treasurer foreshadows post-election spending cuts
- Hundreds die in Indian heat wave
- Sri Lankan police arrest scores of Tamil youth
- Who’s who in the Flint water crisis: Part two
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San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 1
Look at today’s filmmaking … then look at the world -
Build the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
For a socialist program against Labor, the Liberals and the Greens - Murdoch tabloid appeals to voters to “save” Labor candidate in Australian elections
12 May 2016 (front page)
- Brazil Senate vote ousts Workers Party President Dilma Rousseff
- Protests erupt in France against regressive labor law
- Australian Greens offer to enter future coalition with Labor
- Australian state government imposes draconian “public safety” laws
- Australian “Anzac Day plot” boy entrapped by police
- Obama’s labor board intervenes on behalf of Verizon strikebreakers
- The financialization of the telecom industry and the Verizon strike
- Growing bankruptcy crisis in global oil and gas industry
- New York Police Commissioner defends NYPD’s use of nuisance laws
- Thousands lose their homes in Alberta wildfire
- German defence minister announces military expansion
- Tens of thousands demonstrate against Polish government
- Russia creates National Guard to protect capitalist oligarchy
- Why Sanders won in West Virginia
- UK Brexit referendum campaign dominated by xenophobia and war rhetoric
- How #UpAllNight seeks to block opposition to French labour law
- Video: SEP candidate Niles Niemuth: Top 25 hedge fund managers made $13 billion last year
- Sri Lankan SEP holds successful May Day meeting in Colombo
13 May 2016 (front page)
- Obama and the bombing of Hiroshima
- With Rousseff ousted, vice president assembles right-wing government in Brazil
- US-NATO officials unveil Romania-based missile system
- Trump signals backing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- French police attack demonstrations against regressive labor law
- Saudi Arabian regime gripped by factional infighting amid mounting economic crisis
- New picket line assault on Verizon strikers in Massachusetts
- Wall Street presses for Detroit school restructuring deal
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Notes on police violence
Trial begins for second Baltimore police officer charged in death of Freddie Gray - Missouri carries out first execution of 2016, Alabama execution stayed
- Leader’s resignation sparks crisis in the Parti Québécois
- Patrick Stevedores threatens to lock out Australian port workers
- New Zealand’s housing affordability crisis worsens
- After sickouts, what is the way forward for Detroit teachers?
- A new strategy is needed to fight French labor law
- Corporate-backed charities come up with teaspoon of help for Flint
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San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 2
The Return, about released prisoners, and other social dramas (or comedies) - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 May 2016 (front page)
- US Special Forces have been operating secretly in Libya for months
- Brazil’s impeachment and the fall of the Workers Party
- FBI holds 80,000 pages of secret documents on Saudi-9/11 links
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America in the 21st century
Reports document growing income inequality, declining manufacturing pay - New doping allegations against Russia ahead of summer Olympics
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“It will come to us next”
Auto and transit workers support Verizon strikers - IMF warns against British exit from EU
- Podemos, United Left form alliance for June elections
- Austrian Social Democrats name former rail executive to head party and government
- Air France announces pay cuts for pilots
- Hedge fund buy-in heralds massive assault on Volkswagen workers
- Poland adopts new anti-communist law
- Sri Lankan refugees imprisoned after removal from Australia
- Submarine project no solution for South Australia’s employment crisis
- David King 1943-2016: Revolutionary socialist, artist and defender of historical truth
- Oppose Obama’s assault on immigrants!
- Video: Workers speak about families divided by borders
- Hillsborough: A powerful and moving account of Britain’s worst sporting disaster
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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World Socialist Web Site Verizon Strike Newsletter Online Forum
One month on strike: The way forward for Verizon workers
16 May 2016 (front page)
- NATO-Russia war tensions laid bare at Washington summit
- Barack Obama and a quarter-century of US wars
- Sheriff’s deputies called to Nevada Democratic Convention to preserve Clinton victory
- Verizon strike: CWA officials call New York cops against WSWS reporters
- Obama’s labor department intervenes in Verizon strike
- East Cleveland, Ohio seeks bankruptcy protection
- Tampa, Florida area police operate as guardians of Walmart’s profits
- Postal workers union hails Liberal government’s Canada Post review
- Zika virus threatens 2016 Olympics
- India: Tamil Nadu chief minister tries to exploit issue of Sri Lankan Tamils
- US refuses to finance F-16 fighter jets for Pakistan
- The queen’s China “gaffe”
- Ireland’s Fine Gael forms minority government after pact with Fianna Fail
- Wage deal in Germany: IG Metall agrees to end industry-wide contracts
- Singapore expands military training in Australia
- Young Australian girl forced to go to Supreme Court to seek abortion
- One month on strike: The way forward for Verizon workers
- Paris meeting addresses war danger in Asia, bankruptcy of Tamil nationalism
- This week in history: May 16-22
17 May 2016 (front page)
- Maduro government imposes state of emergency in Venezuela
- The political struggle facing Verizon workers
- Duterte offers cabinet posts to Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines
- NATO build-up in Romania and Moldova directed against Russia
- Obama to American youth: Stop complaining, things have never been better!
- US department store sales plunge, jobless claims rise
- Talks resume as Obama administration collaborates with CWA to shut down Verizon strike
- Jeremy Corbyn appeals to UK Labour’s Blairite wing for unity
- UK: Manchester United ground evacuated in false terror scare
- French government escalates repression of protests against labor law
- Refugees shot by Turkish border guards
- Australian rate cut warnings point to economic slump
- Video: Flint, Michigan resident speaks on lack of services for poisoned residents
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San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 3
Radio Dreams, about Iranian Americans—and the problem of images without insight - An interview with Babak Jalali, director of Radio Dreams
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
18 May 2016 (front page)
- US and its allies threaten escalation of Syrian war
- The controversy in the US over transgender access to public bathrooms
- US forces in combat in Somalia as AFRICOM plans for war across continent
- Defying police repression, protests continue against French labour law
- Sanders’ strong showing in Oregon, Kentucky extends Democratic presidential contest
- Canadian ruling elite divided over prospect of Trump presidency
- Growing warnings over Chinese debt
- CWA agrees to federal mediator, prepares sellout of Verizon strike
- Boston Public Schools students walk out over budget cuts
- UK: Gap in life expectancy between rich and poor widens for first time since 1870
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Notes on the London housing crisis
One third of London renters sinking into debt - UN officials say torture is “common practice” in Sri Lanka
- Australian Greens leader criticises the US alliance—without mentioning China
- Germany: How the pseudo-left justify the Left Party’s shift to the right
- Money Monster: Who are the criminals?
- Who’s who in the Flint water crisis: Part three
19 May 2016 (front page)
- French government backs neo-fascist protest against opposition to labor law
- Democratic Party establishment witch-hunts Sanders’ supporters
- NATO rearmament in Eastern Europe increases danger of world war
- German government steps up military intervention in Africa
- Queen’s Speech 2016: UK Conservatives continue agenda of austerity and repression
- CWA, Verizon impose blackout on contract talks
- Many dead or missing after landslides in Sri Lanka
- New evidence reveals state of Michigan helped to push Flint into pipeline deal
- Venezuela’s right appeals to military amid mounting tensions
- Teachers in widespread walkouts in Mexico
- Panama Papers: Further revelations about New Zealand’s role as a tax haven
- Australia: Fairfax Media imposes forced redundancies
- A further comment on the death of David King, socialist and artist
20 May 2016 (front page)
- French parliament extends state of emergency amid rising protests
- Strikes and protests mount against French labour law
- A pittance for Zika, $600 billion for the Pentagon
- Spy plane “intercept” highlights US push for South China Sea confrontation
- US and NATO leaders say EgyptAir Flight 804 was bombed, vow military response
- Hundreds feared dead in Sri Lankan landslides and floods
- US media steps up witch-hunt over claims of Sanders “violence” in Nevada
- Growing anger among Verizon strikers as CWA and IBEW prepare sellout
- As CWA prepares sellout, Verizon strikers discuss way forward on WSWS online call
- Obama overtime rule to go in effect this December
- AFL-CIO report points to continued social polarization
- New York police gun down mentally unstable man in midtown Manhattan
- Syriza government uses tear gas and stun grenades against refugees
- Austrian presidential run-off offers no alternative
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian Federal Police raid Labor Party frontbencher
- UK: BMA agrees sell-out contract to end junior doctors dispute
- Break the CWA’s isolation of the Verizon strike!
- Why the South China Sea tensions were removed from Australian Greens’ speech
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San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 4
Maggie’s Plan, Frank & Lola, along with Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932) - Outrage erupts at Flint meeting of pipeline board
21 May 2016 (front page)
- While cause of Egypt Air crash remains unknown, terror scare mounts
- US prepares troop deployment to Libya amid fight for oil fields
- Retired British general predicts war with Russia, denounces Cameron government as “semi-pacifist”
- WSWS reporters visit landslide victims in Sri Lanka
- Clinton calls Trump “unqualified” to be commander-in-chief
- Congressional Democrats call for end to Verizon strike
- Verizon strikers denounce federal mediation, CWA news blackout
- San Francisco police chief resigns after cops kill unarmed woman
- Sports Authority to close all stores, lay off 16,000
- Thousands of oil workers evacuated as Alberta wildfire spreads
- German Social Democratic Party in free-fall
- Australia: NSW government accelerates privatisation of prisons
- Local campuses disaffiliate from British National Union of Students
- A resurgence of class struggle
- Race and class in American history: A reply to a false explanation of the Trump phenomenon
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 May 2016 (front page)
- AT&T West strike in San Diego begins to break CWA isolation of Verizon struggle
- The capitalist crisis and the defense of democratic rights
- AT&T West strike in San Diego begins to break CWA isolation of Verizon struggle
- Close race in Austrian presidential election
- Oil workers mobilise against French labour law
- Syriza government pushes through new austerity package in Greece
- Obama seeks Vietnam military ties amid rising tensions with China
- Bernie Sanders campaigns in San Diego, California
- George Galloway backs “Left Leave” and urges alliance with UK Independence Party
- Currency conflicts surface at G-7 meeting
- German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung demands military deterrence against Russia
- Oklahoma governor vetoes bill that would make performing abortions a felony
- US Supreme Court avoids ruling on corporate religious objections to birth control
- Minnesota nurses demonstrate against health care cuts
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Leaked video shows police assault on student
Detroit's Cass Technical High School students oppose police brutality, support teachers struggle -
Support the Socialist Equality Party 2016 election campaign!
Vote against war and budget cuts! For internationalism and socialism! - The SEP candidates in the 2016 Australian election
- Captain America: Civil War—A waste of resources, technology and human skill
- SEP presidential candidate visits locked-out Honeywell workers in Indiana
- This week in history: May 23-29
24 May 2016 (front page)
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Telecom, airlines, retail, manufacturing workers entering battles
Growing signs of a resurgence of class conflict in the US - US military returns to Vietnam
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“What they are fighting for, we are fighting for”
Striking AT&T West workers declare support for Verizon struggle - Nurses at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s prepare strike vote
- Baltimore police officer on trial for the death of Freddie Gray found not guilty
- US assassination of Taliban leader signals escalation of Afghanistan-Pakistan war
- US-backed offensive to seize Iraqi city of Fallujah
- Canadian ruling elite applauds Liberal government for securing seat at Syria peace talks
- Lessons of the Austrian presidential election
- Sanders backs ouster of Democratic Party chair
23 May 2016 (front page)
24 May 2016 (front page)
- Dormitory fire kills 17 children in Thailand
- Spate of deaths in New Zealand’s forestry industry
- Lack of safety technology contributed to 2015 Amtrak crash in Philadelphia
- Australian government’s “internship” program: An attack on young people
- Julian Assange challenges anti-democratic “no platform” campaign
- The Venezuelan pseudo-left and the debacle of Chavismo
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
25 May 2016 (front page)
- French government seeks to crush strikes against labor law
- International finance capital and the strikes in France
- Workers speak on police crackdown against oil protest in France
- With Verizon sticking to demands, workers look to break CWA isolation of strike
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“The bottom line is money”
Video: AT&T workers in San Diego on strike - Clinton refuses to debate Sanders ahead of California primary
- Sanders softens criticism of Clinton at Los Angeles-area rallies
- Obama appeals for closer US-Vietnamese ties
- Netanyahu seeks to shore up Israeli government with far-right alliance
- Greek Syriza government orders clearing of Idomeni refugee camp
- Australian Treasury issues a blunt demand for austerity offensive
- Sri Lankan flood and landslide deaths continue to climb
- Colombo flood victims speak to the WSWS
- Further evidence of ties between German neo-Nazi group and domestic intelligence agency
- 1980 Oktoberfest bombing: German government and secret service still withholding information
- Belgian prison wardens strike met with government repression
- UK: Left Leave campaign lays out its nationalist agenda in Brexit referendum
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks with locked out Honeywell workers in Indiana
- Cash Only: What interests contemporary filmmakers and what doesn’t
26 May 2016 (front page)
- Strike wave against austerity spreads in France, Belgium
- French Socialist Party’s labor reform boosts far-right National Front
- Thousands of civilians in danger as US-backed forces mount offensives in Iraq and Syria
- CWA ends San Diego AT&T strike to further isolate Verizon fight
- Over 1,000 protest outside Trump rally in Albuquerque
- California Governor Jerry Brown backs $2 billion plan to deal with the state’s homeless
6 June 2016 (front page)
26 May 2016 (front page)
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Public meetings on the Australian election
Support the SEP in 2016! No to war and budget cuts! For socialism and internationalism! - Military and security figures take opposing sides in UK referendum on European Union
- German chancellor boosts anti-refugee deal in visit to Turkey
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung lobbies for militarism and war
- Swedish court refuses to drop arrest warrant for Julian Assange
- Nepal accuses India of attempting regime change in Kathmandu
- Mobilize European workers to defend French strikers!
- The Brexit referendum, socialism and the European working class
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Meeting in Sheffield on June 7
For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!—Socialism versus left nationalism - SEP election meeting: Detroit is a battlefield in a war on the working class
- Young people in America: A lost generation stuck at home
- Australian election: Military spending is war preparation, not “industry policy”
27 May 2016 (front page)
- As strikes spread, mass protests demand withdrawal of French labor law
- Deepening national antagonisms dominate G7 summit
- Over a hundred feared dead as refugee boats sink in Mediterranean
- Greece's Syriza government imposes harsh austerity measures
- Rail strike hits Belgium
26 May 2016 (front page)
27 May 2016 (front page)
- French workers speak out against labor law
- San Diego transit workers in third day of walkout over pay and benefits
- UAW endorses Clinton, “Wall Street’s presidential darling”
- Workers and students speak on inequality, war at Sanders rally
- CWA, IBEW maintain silence on talks, continue to isolate Verizon strike
- Louisiana law institutionalizes charter schools
- Wave of budget cuts throughout Latin America
- Major police operation against Roma in Berlin
- UK government retreats on including NHS in free trade deal
- University of Papua New Guinea closed down over student protests
26 May 2016 (front page)
27 May 2016 (front page)
- New Zealand budget: Cuts to basic services, billions for the military
- The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Canadian prime minister endorses Japanese position on South China Sea ahead of G7 summit
- Socialist Equality Party candidates campaign at Fiat Chrysler Warren Truck plant
- Why is there “no money” for basic social needs?
- High-Rise: A film version of J.G. Ballard’s novel
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
28 May 2016 (front page)
- Warnings of slump in US economy
- Clinton campaign in crisis over email controversy, declining poll numbers
- Amid strikes, French President Hollande pledges to impose labor law
- The El Khomri law in France and the Schröder-Blair Paper
- Indian warships enter South China Sea
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Stop the CWA's Memorial Day sabotage!
Emergency Verizon strike call-in informational meeting: Monday, May 30, 7 p.m. - Anti-migrant rhetoric dominates debate on UK membership in the EU
- UK university lecturers strike against pay cuts and casualisation
- UK White Paper escalates privatisation of higher education
- Terrorist arrests injected into Australian election
- Obama in Hiroshima
27 May 2016 (front page)
28 May 2016 (front page)
- Australian dairy farmers protest over milk price cuts
- Australian media vendetta against worker who questioned tax breaks for wealthy
- Sing Street from Ireland, A Bigger Splash from Italy: Neglected realities
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
30 May 2016 (front page)
- Over 700 refugees drown in Mediterranean shipwrecks
- The danger of nuclear war between the US and China
- After clearing the camp in Idomeni, Greece: Syriza government continues its attacks on refugees
- Video: Striking oil workers speak out against anti-worker French labor law
- CGT union tries to block general strike against French labor law
- Opposition grows to CWA effort to shut down Verizon strike
- As Clinton crisis intensfies, Sanders pledges to back Democratic Party nominee
- Senior Left Party politician calls for participation in government
- Verizon workers circulate petition opposing CWA end of strike order
- US uses gas deliveries to pressure Russia
- National Health Service bosses report calls for a flexible workforce
- Myanmar mine landslide leaves 14 dead, 200 missing
- Socialist Alternative, ISO work to channel opposition into the Democratic Party
- Author Steven Brust replies to petition of writers against Trump
- The politics and origins of Britain’s Spiked-Online—Part 1
- SEP election meeting in Detroit on May 31 to be streamed live on Facebook
- Banality and lies mark Australian election “debate”
- This week in history: May 30—June 5
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Stop the CWA's Memorial Day sabotage!
Emergency Verizon strike call-in informational meeting: Monday, May 30, 7 p.m.
31 May 2016 (front page)
- Anger builds against CWA conspiracy to end Verizon strike
- Who is responsible for the massacre in the Mediterranean?
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No contract, No work!
Stop the CWA-IBEW sabotage of Verizon strike! - Chicago's homeless speak on poverty, inequality and budget cuts
- China prepares to send nuclear submarines into Pacific Ocean
- Korean survivors concerned about Obama’s visit to Hiroshima
- Divisions over Europe tear through UK Conservative Party
- California Primary highlights political crisis in Democratic Party
- Nearly 5,000 Macy’s workers set to go on strike
- Indian Stalinists abet US war plans against China
- Financial parasitism and the global housing crisis
- Record Illinois budget impasse deepens social crisis and increases homelessness
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A talk given in San Diego, Berkeley, and Ann Arbor
Art, war and social revolution - The politics and origins of Britain’s Spiked-Online—Part Two
- Right-wing German academic Jörg Baberowski demands more repression against refugees
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Ninety years since the coup of Piłsudski
The Strategy of the Intermarium—Part 1
The Intermarium and the Russian Revolution - Australian election: SEP candidates campaign against war
- Australia’s wealthy soar while millions face destitution
- The Socialist Equality Party (Germany) stands candidates for the Berlin state elections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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