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Archive: June 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 June 2016 (front page)

• US-backed offensive against Fallujah threatens “human catastrophe”
• The return of the “grand narrative”
• Belgian public sector goes on strike in run-up to French rail walkout
• Union of Concerned Scientists warns of US-China nuclear war
• Opposition continues as CWA orders Verizon strikers back to work
• International Socialist Organization covers for CWA sabotage of Verizon strike
• California governor backs Clinton in Democratic primary
• Sanders supporters discuss issues outside California rallies
• Bus workers strike in San Diego, California
  First Transit employees speak about social conditions
• Argentine court sentences Plan Condor defendants
• UK population poorer and hungrier
• Australia: Jobs losses continue to mount amid collapsing wage levels
• German Green Party leader confronts Jörg Baberowski with his war propaganda
• A talk given in San Diego, Berkeley and Ann Arbor
  Art, war and social revolution—Part 2
• Ninety years since the coup of Piłsudski
  The Strategy of the Intermarium—Part 2
  The Intermarium from 1921 to 1989
• El Niño and the acceleration of global warming
• Australia: “Q&A” segment reveals a yawning social divide
• SEP candidate challenges Labor, Greens, pseudo-left on climate change, war

2 June 2016 (front page)

• US death rate rose in 2015
• Lessons of the Verizon strike
• Deepening crisis in Democratic Party ahead of California primary
• More than 2,500 refugees drowned in Mediterranean so far this year
• Strike wave against labor law spreads in France
• Returning Verizon workers face consequences of CWA betrayal
• UK firms use new regulations to cut pay and conditions
• Turkey seeks increased presidential powers amid rising social tension
• A wave of summary executions following the Philippine election
• India: Congress Party and Stalinists suffer debacle in state elections
• New Zealand government, opposition housing policies grossly inadequate
• French strike movement exposes bankruptcy of New Anti-capitalist Party
• US media witch-hunts parents of boy nearly killed by gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo
• Ninety Years Since the Coup of Piłsudski
  The Strategy of the Intermarium—Part 3
  The Intermarium and Poland’s integration into the US war alliance against Russia
• What the Royal Commission into Australia’s trade unions revealed
  Part One: Workers need new organisations of struggle!
• Sydney University’s US Studies Centre: A bastion of pro-war strategy and propaganda

3 June 2016 (front page)

• The US elections and the criminalization of American politics
• Economic conflicts threaten global trade war
• CWA-Verizon “agreement in principle” facilitates victimization of workers
• Police carry out militarized lockdown of UCLA after murder-suicide
• Notes on police violence in America
  DOJ rules out charges against Minneapolis police officers who killed Jamar Clark
• Strikes in France elicit support from German workers
• German Left Party congress carries out further shift to the right
• Sri Lankan president attends G7 “outreach meeting”
• Anti-migrant propaganda dominates UK Brexit referendum
• New TamilNet slanders against WSWS: an admission of political bankruptcy
• What the Royal Commission into Australia’s trade unions revealed
  Part Two: Companies pay union “membership fees”
• Ninety years since the coup of Piłsudski
  The Strategy of the Intermarium—Part 4
  NATO’s preparations for war with Russia
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• The dismantling of public education and Obama's education legacy
  Part 1
• HBO’s “Girls”: What should the voice of this generation say?

4 June 2016 (front page)

• US economy adds fewest jobs in five years
• As her poll numbers decline, Clinton appeals to military in San Diego speech
• The assassination of Mullah Akhtar Mansour: Washington plays with fire in Eurasia’s geopolitical tinderbox—Part 1
• What is behind the Armenian resolution passed by the German parliament?
• A dozen dead, tens of thousands displaced as floods hit Germany and France
• For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!—Socialism versus left nationalism:
  Peter Schwarz, secretary of the ICFI, to speak at London public meeting on June 14
• Sri Lankan government exploits flood disaster to evict Colombo’s poor
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Scotland’s RISE electoral coalition descends into crisis
• Portrait of the social crisis in America: Rockford, Illinois
• British pensioners over 75 increasingly likely to live in poverty
• Canadian court rejects indefinite detention of man under anti-democratic Security Certificate
• Tamil nationalists hail government on Sri Lankan civil war victims’ Memorial Day
• Australia’s Nick Xenophon: An “anti-politician” with a nationalist and militarist program
• School closed in remote Australian indigenous community
• Economic nationalism and the growing danger of war
• What the Royal Commission into Australia’s trade unions revealed
  Part Three: The trade unions as insurance brokers

6 January 2016 (front page)

• Arabic translation of May Day 2016 report by David North

6 June 2016 (front page)

• Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore
  Washington and Beijing draw battle lines over South China Sea
• Hundreds more refugees die in the Mediterranean
• UK Labour leader Corbyn stakes his future on vote to remain in EU
• Anohni speaks on war, inequality and Obama
• Zika virus causes first mainland US case of microcephaly
• Australian economic growth data masks slump and inequality
• Investigation reveals signs of nationwide US water crisis
• The dismantling of public education and Obama’s education legacy
  Part 2
• Australia: Melbourne homeless continue city protest
• German government tightens anti-terror laws
• “Why should CEOs get double and triple raises and we get health care cuts?
  Verizon workers discuss CWA contract betrayal
• Who will follow the example of Muhammad Ali’s principled stand in our day?
• Striking rail workers speak out on movement against French labor law
• This week in history: June 6-12
• What the Royal Commission into Australia’s trade unions revealed
  Part Four: The CFMEU’s “training organisations” and “charities”
• Anohni’s Hopelessness: A protest against war, drone bombings and more
  “If I killed your mother with a drone bomb, how would you feel?”—Crisis

7 June 2016 (front page)

• With frontrunner’s poll numbers falling in California
  Clinton campaign, media rush to declare Clinton the Democratic nominee
• US confronts China over trade, investment in Beijing talks
• Canada’s ruling elite uses diplomatic flap to caution Trudeau over China
• The assassination of Mullah Akhtar Mansour: Washington plays with fire in Eurasia’s geopolitical tinderbox—Part Two
• Sri Lankan armoury explosion forces thousands to flee
• Two UAW officials injured in shooting near Ford Chicago Assembly Plant
• Maoists take cabinet positions in Philippine government
• One in seven children in Germany relies on social welfare
• Mental health crisis mounts in Illinois amid budget impasse
• The case for an active boycott of the Brexit referendum
• UK: The political fraud of the Another Europe is Possible campaign
• SEP holds election meetings in Sydney and Melbourne
• Night without end: Don DeLillo’s Zero K
• What the Royal Commission into Australia’s trade unions revealed
  Part Five: The TWU and MUA “training funds” and the CFMEU’s “drug and alcohol committee”
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• NATO launches largest anti-Russian war game since Cold War

8 June 2016 (front page)

• Clinton claims Democratic nomination after winning four of six final states
• California primary voters speak on social inequality, war
• Markets applaud speech by Fed Chair Yellen signaling delay in rate hikes
• UK: Tata Steel completes sale of Long Division plant to Greybull
• Left Party defends austerity in Berlin
• Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines supports state burial for Ferdinand Marcos
• Papua New Guinea police shoot protesting students, killing four
• Australia’s increasing suicide rate linked to social crisis
• Minnesota nurses reject health care concessions, authorize strike
• Fallujah: A symbol of US war crimes
• The media drive to shut down the Sanders campaign
• UK: Why are the Socialist Workers Party and the Greens debating the merits of the European Union?
• Love & Friendship: An early Jane Austen work adapted
• Australia: The promotion of Senator Jacqui Lambie
• Mexico state and municipal elections deal blow to ruling party
• New Panama Papers revelations highlight use of tax havens by wealthy US clients

9 June 2016 (front page)

• Massive NATO war game risks conflict with Russia
• Hillary Clinton’s Democratic primary victory
• Former US generals, diplomats clamor for renewal of Afghan war
• Modi declares enhanced Indo-US military alliance “need of the hour”
• US and Chinese military aircraft in second close encounter in East Asia
• Mass voter disenfranchisement in US elections
• As voting continues, CWA officials pressure Verizon workers to accept sellout
• Strikes against austerity in France and Belgium defy union pressure for sellout
• Cameron/Farage debate on EU dominated by anti-immigrant rhetoric
• Cuts plunge UK National Health Service further into deficit
• Setback for ruling Democratic Party in Italian municipal elections
• Tensions mount in Poland in run-up to NATO summit
• Australia: Right-wing witch-hunt against La Trobe University academic
• Vicious media campaign in New Zealand over child abuse
• New York Times columnist Roger Cohen defends war criminal Kerrey
• France’s New Anti-capitalist Party hails CWA sellout of Verizon strike
• Dr. Coley P. O’Doherty
  June 6, 1969 - May 29, 2016
• Right-wing Polish government revives effort to extradite Roman Polanski
• SEP Senate candidate Peter Byrne calls for anti-war movement at election forum

10 June 2016 (front page)

• As Obama endorses Clinton, Sanders signals readiness to back campaign
• Hurtling toward the precipice of war, Modi cements Indo-US alliance
• After Tel Aviv attacks, Israel launches police-state crackdown
• British rail workers facing state repression
• All parties in Spain general election committed to austerity
• Five New York City Rikers Island prison guards found guilty in beating
• New York court allows police to cover up mass surveillance operations
• Wrongfully convicted Detroit teenager released after eight years in prison
• New data exposes widespread lead poisoning of Michigan children
• Australia power union calls off New South Wales strike
• Sri Lankan plantation unions conspire with government and employers
• Brazil’s pseudo-left in crisis after ouster of PT government
• HBO’s All the Way: Lyndon B. Johnson and the civil rights movement
• SEP vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth visits scene of fatal fire in Manchester, New Hampshire
• Australian elections: Workers and young people speak on mounting social divide
• Socialist Equality Party final election rallies
  International class struggle returns: A socialist program against war and austerity
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

11 June 2016 (front page)

• Obama green-lights escalation of Afghanistan war
• The return of German militarism to Eastern Europe
• Bond yields fall as fears rise over global economic growth
• French government threatens to crush strikes as Euro 2016 football cup starts
• Turkey’s Erdogan uses terror attack to escalate repression of opposition
• UK trade union federation calls for Britain to remain in EU
• Croatian government collapses after four months
• Hillary Clinton signed off on drone assassinations, emails reveal
• Michigan legislature approves attack on public education in Detroit
• Tampa, Florida teachers speak out against proposed layoffs and expanding class sizes
• Widening unrest in Papua New Guinea following police shooting of student protesters
• Australia: Labor unveils “tough, unpopular” budget cuts
• UK: Pro-Corbyn Momentum Youth and Students hold founding conference
• Canadian economy faces sharpest quarterly contraction since financial crisis
• The right-wing campaign over the Stanford University sexual assault case
• Jerry White speaks on the next stage of the US presidential elections
• The Lobster: Relationships forced on—or forbidden—people
• Defend the rights of New Zealanders in Australia! Support the Socialist Equality Party!
• Public meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin
  The referendum on Brexit: Why the SEP rejects both camps
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 June 2016 (front page)

• Worst-ever US mass shooting
  Gunman massacres 50 in Orlando nightclub
• Race, gender and the US presidential campaign
• ASPI think tank warns of war with China and attacks on Australia
• French unions boost pressure to end strike movement against labor law
• Belgian unions try to suppress country’s growing strike wave
• North Sea oil workers must wage unified struggle
• Papua New Guinea authorities clamp down on student protests
• Congress, Obama call for a Financial Control Board for Puerto Rico
• Arrest of New York prison guards’ union chief highlights broader nexus of corruption
• New York City de Blasio administration upholds firing of teacher for class on Central Park Five
• In the shadow of the Republican National Convention
  Historic East Cleveland, Ohio: A city in decline faces bankruptcy
• Sports Direct and BHS: The real face of British capitalism
• Mounting working class and student protests deepen Chile’s political crisis
• Australia’s east coast hit by devastating storms
• For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!
  Peter Schwarz, secretary of the ICFI, at June 14 London public meeting to be live streamed
• For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum: Socialist internationalism versus left nationalism
• The Brexit referendum from a European perspective
• As more details emerge ISO continues defense of CWA sellout of Verizon strike
• Left Party advocates joint candidate with SPD and Greens for German presidency
• Again on Don DeLillo’s Zero K: How does a novel turn toward social life?
• This week in history: June 13-19

14 June 2016 (front page)

• NATO orders four additional battalions to Russian border
• IMF issues warning over growing Chinese debt problems
• Questions mount over FBI handling of Orlando gunman
• As voting on Verizon sellout winds down workers express concerns over jobs, healthcare
• Behind the shooting of Papua New Guinea student protesters
• Austria’s far-right Freedom Party challenges presidential election result
• Strikes and demonstrations spread in Venezuela amid deepening food crisis
• The financial skulduggery behind the collapse of UK retailer BHS
• Debt soars for students in England
• Pennsylvania school district prepares to end public education past the eighth grade
• The Orlando massacre and the 2016 US election
• Pseudo-lefts appointed to leadership of Germany’s Left Party
• SEP election meetings outline alternative to war and austerity
• Were Neanderthals architects?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 June 2016 (front page)

• Opposition mounts to French labor law in new national day of action
• ISIS-linked operative murders police commander and his wife near Paris
• Britain’s Labour Party helps Conservative government pass Snoopers’ Charter
• German general calls for new tanks against Russia
• Pakistan “reassessing” relations with US following Modi visit, Mansour assassination
• New Zealand: Labour, Greens sign Memorandum of Understanding
• Duterte government opens peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines
• “They are not accomplishing anything with these stupid maneuvers.”
  CWA calls diversionary “grievance strikes” against AT&T West in California
• Massachusetts: Nurses at Brigham and Women’s hospital authorize one-day strike
• Hunger strike at Wisconsin’s Waupun State Prison against conditions of a “living hell”
• Canada: Unifor prepares to cede further concessions to Detroit Three automakers
• The social roots of the mass shooting in Orlando
• The International Socialist Organization embraces the Green Party’s “left” capitalism
• The lies surrounding the Sydney siege unravel

16 June 2016 (front page)

• French government threatens ban on protests against labor law
• The Venezuelan working class at a crossroads
• Fed holds interest rates amid mounting global turmoil
• US-China tensions rise amid major naval exercises
• Sanders meets with Clinton to discuss support for her presidential campaign
• Political crisis deepens in Australia’s “double dissolution” election
• Papua New Guinea student protests continue
• European Court of Justice upholds UK ban on migrant benefits
• Canada’s elite urges Liberal government to deploy troops to Eastern Europe
• European Union seeks agreements with African dictators to deter refugees
• German unions call for steel trade war against China
• Chinese defence minister seeks to boost ties with Bangladesh
• Wall Street’s candidate wins elections in Peru with support from pseudo-left
• Mexico’s national teachers strike enters second month
• 12,000 Caltrans workers offered effective pay decrease in new contract
• ICFI Secretary Peter Schwarz speaks in London on Brexit referendum
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns in Rockford, Illinois

17 June 2016 (front page)

• UK Labour MP Jo Cox murdered in midst of Brexit referendum campaign
• The return of “secular stagnation”
• Fears of UK exit from the EU fuel global panic
• After Orlando massacre
  Democrats take the lead in attack on democratic rights
• US Senate votes to include women in the draft
• Individual claims responsibility for hacking the Democratic National Committee
• US steelworkers continue voting on ArcelorMittal contract
• NATO commits to Afghan war through 2020, prepares Eurasian-wide escalation
• Greece’s Syriza government presses ahead with privatisations
• Brazil’s interim president Temer named in Petrobras kickback scandal
• Clampdown worsens in Israel following Tel Aviv shooting
• New Zealand Defence White Paper prepares for war
• Sri Lanka: JVP calls for state of emergency in response to flood disaster
• The “Peoples’ Summit” in Chicago: Democrats, pseudo-left groups prepare new trap for workers and youth
• The Nice Guys: Something, but not very much
  (And, briefly, Terence Davies’ Sunset Song and Hany Abu-Assad’s The Idol.)
• Hillary Clinton and the “Spirit of 9/12”
• Blaxland: A microcosm of Australia’s social crisis
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

18 June 2016 (front page)

• State Department “dissent” memo backs escalation of regime-change war in Syria
• Doping allegations cited to ban Russian track and field team from Rio Olympics
• US Navy to continue Black Sea incursions, brushing aside Russian demands
• Unidos Podemos pulls ahead of Socialist Party in Spanish election campaign
• Eleven workers hospitalized after chemical leak at Nestlé plant in Illinois
• Leeds bus workers strike over pay
• Report reveals millions living under modern day slavery
• US insurers seek 10 percent Obamacare premium increase for 2017
• Teachers’ union sanctions destruction of Detroit Public Schools district
• Abe sets date for Japan’s upper house election
• Indian Stalinists at loggerheads in wake of electoral debacle
• Sri Lankan residents demand removal of military armouries following explosion
• The EU referendum and the murder of British MP Jo Cox
• Sanders calls for supporters to back Clinton, “transform” Democratic Party
• Unite US and Mexican workers!
  The working class must stop the Carrier factory closures!
• SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks to workers in Chicago, Illinois
• The significance of the Brexit referendum for the European working class
• “All the terrifying things all really happened”
  Toyen: A film about the Czech surrealist painter and her times
• Australian election: Murdoch paper excludes “minor parties” from candidates’ forum
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 June 2016 (front page)

• MP’s murder exposes role of neo-fascists in British Leave campaign
• Political lessons of the Sanders campaign
• Reports of sectarian massacres as Fallujah falls to Iraqi government
• People’s Summit in Chicago: Preparing the switch from Sanders to Clinton
• Youth at People’s Summit discuss war, Sanders, Clinton
• Twin Cities nurses strike against gutting of health care benefits
• Despite mounting opposition, French unions signal concessions on labor law
• Belgian authorities mount large-scale anti-terror raid
• Opposition grows to US military bases on Okinawa
• Australian Labor’s campaign launch features lies and duplicity
• UN Security Council agrees to military intervention off Libyan coast
• Nicaragua’s President Ortega to run unopposed for third term
• Canadian government tables bill for parliamentary “oversight” of spy agencies
• Thousands of Australian households cut off electricity
• New Zealand First demonises Muslim immigrants
• Billionaire former BHS boss faces down UK parliamentary committee
• St. Petersburg, Florida: Wastewater workers under sustained attack by city officials in storm’s wake
• “Berlin correspondence:” Germany’s Humboldt University in the service of militarism
• The way forward after the PNG police shootings
• SEP senate candidate speaks with Melbourne tram drivers
• This week in history: June 20-26

21 June 2016 (front page)

• Two US aircraft carriers in war games in western Pacific
• Washington’s “second nuclear age”
• Police kill eight striking Mexican teachers in Oaxaca massacre
• German foreign minister distances himself from the United States
• Ahead of vote on UK membership in EU
  Corbyn and Cameron use killing of Cox to cement their alliance against Brexit
• FBI tried to ensnare Orlando shooter in fake terror plot
• Australian Labor Party vows “freedom of navigation” provocations against China
• Australian jobs figures show expansion of part-time work
• Twin Cities nurses face battle over health benefits, staffing
• Record heat wave fuels wildfire in southern California
• California legislature and governor reach agreement on 2016-2017 budget
• Northern Ireland: Police collusion established in 1994 Loughinisland massacre
• New Zealand PM’s diplomatic debacle in Fiji
• Fort McMurray residents return to badly damaged city
• Video: The demise of Sanders’ “political revolution”
• At the People’s Summit: An opportunist debate over Clinton vs. the Green Party’s Stein
• SEP election campaign team visits lead-affected suburb
• Socialist Equality Party candidate interviewed by community radio station
• Issues raised by the “Labor Relations” exhibition at the Wrocław Contemporary Museum
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 June 2016 (front page)

• On eve of Brexit referendum, mounting warnings of global trade war
• Seventy-five years since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
• Galloway and pseudo-left defend alliance with UKIP and Tory right at Brexit referendum meeting
• Landmark Supreme Court ruling backs illegal police searches
• Nochixtlán massacre witnesses: Mexican police fired automatic weapons at demonstrators
• UN agency reports 65 million people are refugees worldwide
• Grillo’s Five Star Movement wins mayoral elections in Rome and Turin
• German interior minister advocates auxiliary police force
• “We’re fighting for nurses and other workers everywhere”
  Twin Cities nurses fight cost-cutting plans
• Canadian autoworkers face fight against threatened plant closings
• Deadly heatwave hits US Southwest
• UK: Bakers union suspends strike action against 2 Sisters Food Group
• Australia: Katter video depicts him killing Labor and Coalition opponents
• New Zealand: Family denounces “cold-blooded execution” by police
• Chris Marsden speaks at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  The Brexit referendum and the struggle for socialism
• Socialist Equality Party election campaign: Naomi Spencer for West Virginia House of Delegates, 16th District!
• Australian election rally promotes Greens’ bogus refugee “solution”
• SEP candidates condemn worsening assault on legal aid
• Censored Voices: A snapshot in time reveals war crimes

23 June 2016 (front page)

• Reports document social crisis
  US wages and jobs decline, inequality rises
• The Brexit referendum: A turning point in European politics
• French government backs down from ban on protest against labor law
• South Asian ruling elites rattled by Brexit campaign
• Teacher protests, barricades continue after massacre in México
• Man claiming to be lover of Orlando shooter casts further doubt on “terror” claims
• US Republican presidential campaign sinking into crisis
• “We were out on strike for 50 days for nothing”
  Verizon executives gloat in wake of ratification of CWA contract sellout
• IMF cuts estimates for US economic growth and points to worsening long-term trends
• New report discusses gentrification and its impact on New York City neighborhoods
• Berlin plans mass deportations and more police
• Australian poultry processor Ingham to close Cardiff plant
• Canada Post preparing to lock out 50,000 workers
• Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition make nationalist case for Brexit
• Twin Cities nurses discuss political issues in strike
• SEP challenges Labor, Greens over war policies at Sydney election forum
• SEP candidate discusses war and the Russian Revolution at Melbourne high schools
• Alf Sjöberg’s Miss Julie (1951) and G. W. Pabst’s The Threepenny Opera (1931): Films worth noting … and seeing
• Flint mayor announces city will continue pipeline deal at center of lead water crisis

24 June 2016 (front page)

• UK vote to leave the European Union triggers economic and political crisis
• State Department Syria memo: Setting the stage for war with Russia
• Mass protests follow failed attempt to ban opposition to French labor law
• Mideast war architects back Clinton over Trump
• Third Baltimore cop let off in Freddie Gray murder case
• US Supreme Court deadlock leaves right-wing lower court immigration ruling in effect
• Fascist killer of Labour MP Jo Cox to stand trial for murder
• Merkel announces massive military buildup
• Germany: The Left Party’s fraudulent refugee policy
• German court sentences former SS Auschwitz guard to five years imprisonment
• Indonesian naval vessels clash with Chinese fishing boats
• SEP election rally in Sydney on June 26 to be streamed live on Facebook
• Video: The Australian election and the fight against the danger of world war
• Sri Lankan plantation workers demand higher wages
• India throws door open to international capital
• Minnesota and Los Angeles nurses fight cost-cutting measures
• Clinton’s right-wing economic agenda and the fight for socialism
• Australian federal election
  Grayndler candidate Jim Casey and the fake-left wing of the Greens
• SEP candidates in Victoria interviewed by SBS Radio
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Recent developments in science: Particle physics, climate science, galactic astronomy
  Evidence hints at existence of fourth neutrino

25 June 2016 (front page)

• Brexit vote intensifies conflicts within European Union
• UK vote to Leave the European Union triggers economic and political crisis
• UK “leave” vote batters financial markets
• Spain’s elections intensify crisis of bourgeois rule
• Bernie Sanders confirms he will vote for Clinton
• Congressional Democrats stage “sit-in” stunt on gun control
• Flash floods kill dozens, prompt state of emergency in West Virginia
• Egyptian military regime steps up repression as food becomes unaffordable
• Papua New Guinea student leaders invoke “reconciliation” to shut down protests
• The Oaxaca massacre and the eruption of class struggle in Mexico
• Australian election forum
  SEP candidate opposes Greens and Labor on refugees and war
• Queensland SEP candidate discusses socialism and war on 4ZZZ radio
• 25 April: Animated documentary on New Zealand’s role in the Gallipoli invasion
• Kaiser Permanente nurses in Los Angeles on strike again
• Delta Airlines pilots hold protest over stalled contract talks
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

27 June 2016 (front page)

• After Brexit, mounting warnings of global slump and financial panic
• The way forward after the Brexit referendum
• Clinton seizes on Brexit vote to tout her credentials as defender of Washington’s global interests
• Amid mass abstention, right-wing PP wins Spanish elections
• Taiwanese airline cabin crews strike
• Divided Supreme Court rejects challenge to affirmative action
• Southern West Virginia communities devastated by flash floods
• Michigan governor signs Detroit Public Schools dissolution measures
  Judge Rhodes, Democrats try to pacify Detroit teachers
• “Public education is not a business, it is a right”
  Detroit teachers and parents speak out against public school reorganization
• Michigan public school teacher messages of solidarity with Mexican teachers
• Half of ArcelorMittal workers abstain as USW pushes through concessions deal
• Australian youth face historic social reversal
• New Zealand extends military deployment in Iraq
• World Wealth Report 2016: The number of German millionaires increases
• Socialist Alternative promotes Labor and the Greens as “lesser evil”
• The Australian election’s “save Medicare” fraud
• Nurses unions shut down emerging strike wave
• Minnesota nurses union ends strike without new contract
• This week in history: June 27-July 3

28 June 2016 (front page)

• EU leaders call for rapid British exit and European military buildup
• Financial market turmoil continues in wake of Brexit vote
• Australian politicians appeal for “strong government” after Brexit vote
• Russian president seeks closer economic and strategic ties in Beijing
• Massive rally in Mexico City condemns massacre of Oaxaca teachers
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• US Supreme Court strikes down Texas anti-abortion law
• Elizabeth Warren campaigns with Clinton as possible running mate
• Violent confrontation at Sacramento racist demonstration leaves 10 injured
• UAW exposes secret 2014 deal with Volkswagen to recognize union
• IG Metall trade union backs Volkswagen board
• Government’s “plan for safe El Salvador” fuels death squads
• Indian Stalinists try to paper over deep rift over tie-up with Congress Party
• Australian Labor’s fraudulent apprenticeship scheme
• Oppose the coup plot against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn
• Free State of Jones: Three cheers!
• SEP rallies present socialist answer to war and austerity
• US presidential candidate Jerry White addresses SEP election rallies in Australia
• Participants at SEP rallies speak about war, Brexit, the social crisis
• Social roots of the West Virginia floods
• Grocery workers vote to strike in Southern California
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

29 June 2016 (front page)

• Tensions erupt at Brussels summit on British exit from EU
• The West Virginia floods and America's class divide
• In right-wing putsch, UK Labour MPs deliver overwhelming anti-Corbyn vote
• Brexit crisis poses disintegration of United Kingdom
• Workers at two UK rail companies strike against threat to jobs and safety
• After Brexit: Berlin calls for German-European military union
• Dozens killed in bomb attacks at Istanbul airport
• Teachers union reaches agreement with Mexican government as blockades spread
• Obama’s war in Iraq and the third battle of Fallujah
• US Congressional report on Benghazi leaves roots of attack in the dark
• Illinois public sector devastated as budget impasse approaches one-year mark
• Pennsylvania school districts face catastrophic funding crisis
• Trudeau blocks inquiry into Canada’s role in torture of Afghan detainees
• One in six Australians experience food insecurity
• Australian election
  Socialist Alliance: A pseudo-left ally of the Greens
• Glen Lazarus Team promotes nationalism and xenophobia
• Video: SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White discusses US elections, lessons of Sanders campaign
• Further steps in finding an Earth-like planet outside the solar system

30 June 2016 (front page)

• Death toll in Istanbul airport attack rises to 41
• Sanders’ “political revolution” revealed: Nationalist reaction and support for Clinton
• EU maintains hard line toward UK over Brexit
• Candidates line up in UK Conservative leadership contest
• Brexit vote highlights deepening crisis in global economy
• UK Labour right wing mounts leadership challenge against Corbyn
• Thousands turn up for cancelled “Remain in EU” rallies throughout the UK
• Spanish interior minister used state apparatus to topple opponents
• The Australian Labor Party and the “Gonski” school funding fraud
• Law-and-order campaign follows sentencing in Stanford sexual assault case
• North American summit dominated by Brexit fallout and geopolitical rivalries
• Dow Chemical slashes 2,500 jobs ahead of DuPont merger
• Australian artists and industry professionals oppose funding cuts
• Charles Blow of the New York Times
  The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
• The international significance of the Australian election
• The Greens’ Adam Bandt promotes a ruling coalition with Labor