Archive: May 2015
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 May 2015 (front page)
- Capitalism, the working class and the fight against police violence
- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio defends mass arrests of demonstrators
- American Psychological Association played critical role in CIA torture program
- Protests continue as Baltimore police conclude investigation into death of Freddie Gray
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Notes on police violence in America
Victoria, Texas police kill 25-year-old father with PTSD outside his home - Military police attack Brazilian teachers, leaving over 200 injured
- Bernie Sanders to seek Democratic presidential nomination
- US appeals court grants immunity to border patrol agent who killed Mexican teenager
- Department of Justice sues Detroit-based Quicken Loans for mortgage fraud
- Former IG Metall union leader heads Volkswagen supervisory board
- Sri Lankan parliament passes amendment to restrict presidential powers
- The new global arms race
- Students and young workers in Australia register for international May Day event
- SEP campaigns in Sri Lanka, India for International May Day Online Rally
- Mehring Books launches May Day sale
- The lessons of the capitulation of Syriza
- Class issues behind Sun columnist Katie Hopkins’ attacks on migrants
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
2 May 2015 (front page)
- Violent arrests of protesters follow charges against Baltimore cops in murder of Freddie Gray
- Parasitism, plutocracy and economic depression
- US sends warships to Strait of Hormuz, claiming Iran threat
- The role of the Maryland’s “Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights”
- Sentencing phase of Boston Marathon bombing trial underway
- Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks and 143 other writers protest free speech award for Charlie Hebdo
- Anger mounts among Greek retirees as Syriza threatens to withhold pensions
- US “Grand Strategy” for war against China laid out
- European Union steps up repressive measures against refugees
- Russia, China announce joint naval exercises in the Mediterranean
- Canada hikes military spending
- Strike of California nurses ends
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“Part 2” of the Detroit bankruptcy
Michigan governor releases plan for assault on public education - Youth and workers in Australia denounce war and join international May Day
- Workers in Britain sign up for International May Day Online Rally
- Pseudo-left to lay foundations for Syriza-type alliance at upcoming Chicago conference
- New York Times lies, falsifies history to promote neo-fascist Kiev regime
- SEP UK candidate David O’Sullivan addresses Primrose Hill hustings
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4 May 2015 (front page)
- US warplanes kill dozens of civilians in Syria
- Socialism and the struggle against war
- Baltimore rally against police brutality encourages illusions in Democrats
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“It is a war zone”
Baltimore workers and youth speak out - German press demands more effective tanks for war against Russia
- France to spend billions on military rearmament program
- Muslim girl expelled from French high school for wearing long skirt
- Murdoch’s Scottish Sun backs the Scottish National Party
- US sends hundreds of troops to quake-stricken Nepal
- US federal court rules against White House immigrant detention policy
- Los Angeles teachers face political fight to defend public education
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Six years into “economic recovery”
York, Pennsylvania: Mass unemployment and temporary jobs - Finance houses warn of loss of Australia’s AAA credit rating
- International Online May Day Rally draws worldwide audience
- Glasgow Care Crisis hustings: Pseudo-left make overtures to the Scottish National Party
- This week in history: May 4-10
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Pro-capitalist “anti-capitalism”
A review of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, by Naomi Klein - Fracking linked to earthquakes and increased levels of radon in homes
5 May 2015 (front page)
- The 2015 May Day Online Rally and the fight against imperialist war
- US-backed Saudi forces dropped cluster bombs on Yemeni villages
- Police attack demonstration against police violence in Israel
- Police quickly suppress spontaneous protests after arrest in Baltimore
- Two gunmen killed outside anti-Islam provocation in Texas
- Re-sentencing leaves Atlanta educators still facing years in prison
- BP and Steelworkers union reach sellout deal to end three-month Indiana refinery strike
- Wayne County, Michigan “Recovery Plan” guts public worker pensions, health benefits
- German foreign intelligence service aided NSA spying in Europe
- Spain: Rebound in employment based on wage cuts and increased job insecurity
- Two years since the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
- Australian Federal Police defend decision to expose “Bali 9” to Indonesian death penalty
- The world capitalist crisis and the drive to world war
- South Asia, the US “pivot” and the perspective of permanent revolution
- German participants respond to International May Day Online Rally
- University of Sydney meeting discusses attacks on democratic rights
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
6 May 2015 (front page)
- Massive payout for US hedge fund chiefs in 2014
- US-Jordan war games prepare wider Mideast conflict
- NATO begins largest anti-submarine exercises ever in the North Sea
- Kerry visits Somalia as US prepares expanded intervention in East Africa
- Harper visits Iraq to laud Canada’s role in Mideast war
- Fiat-Chrysler worker crushed to death at Detroit assembly plant
- York, Pennsylvania: Social service and education cuts hit workers and students
- French soldiers sexually abused children in Central African Republic
- Thailand’s draft constitution enshrines dictatorship
- Green Party calls for modernisation of British armed forces
- Australian central bank cuts interest rate to record low
- The European Union and the return of European militarism
- The fight against militarism, war and the falsification of history
- Workers in Britain speak on May Day rally
- The “Fight of the Century”: An orgy of wealth and profit
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A second open letter to the vice chancellor
Further on political censorship at the University of Sydney - London’s housing crisis demands a socialist solution
- Co-director Wim Wenders’ The Salt of the Earth: The photographs of Sebastião Salgado
7 May 2015 (front page)
- French National Assembly passes draconian electronic surveillance law
- Britain’s general election: The need for a socialist alternative
- Record number of internally displaced people globally in 2014
- FBI spy planes used in police-military operation against Baltimore protests
- Three more Republican candidates join US presidential race
- Chicago mayor demands wage, benefit cuts from teachers
- Alberta: NDP election sweep ends 44 years of Tory rule
- Kerry visits Colombo to deepen US ties with Sri Lanka
- Leading Australian journalist advocates confrontation with China
- The British election as seen from Europe
- The rotten record of the UK Green Party
- The UK general election and the growth of class antagonisms
- The crisis in Latin America and the fight for revolutionary leadership
- Russell Brand performs volte face and urges Labour vote
- Statues of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning unveiled in Berlin
- The political issues in the German train drivers strike
- Public Meetings: The way forward after Britain’s general election
8 May 2015 (front page)
- Bond market sell-off signals mounting financial crisis
- Kerry in Riyadh: A meeting of war criminals
- General election produces political earthquake in Britain
- US Court of Appeals finds NSA phone data collection is illegal
- NSA conducts real-time analysis of spoken communications
- Canada’s parliament adopts bill to greatly expand intelligence agencies’ powers
- Obama administration moves to bolster police in Baltimore
- Skelos latest veteran New York State politician indicted for corruption
- Netanyahu forms far-right coalition government in Israel
- German train drivers’ strike: “This is about our basic right to strike”
- Irish bus workers strike for 48 hours
- Italian parliament adopts new election law
- China’s Xi meets head of Taiwan’s Kuomintang
- Australian Greens execute abrupt leadership change
- The US “pivot to Asia” and the drive to war against China
- The fight for the political independence of the working class in China
- The cost of military domination
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Art Gallery of Ontario: Graffiti, fame and the art market
9 May 2015 (front page)
- US begins training new “rebel” army for operations in Syria
- Seventy years since the defeat of Hitler’s Third Reich
- General election produces political earthquake in Britain
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Video: “It’s about the defense of the right to strike”
Train drivers demonstrate in Berlin - Detroit to resume water shutoffs this month
- April employment report masks extent of US jobs crisis
- PEN Gala pays homage to Charlie Hebdo
- Police, far right linked to attack on kosher grocery during Charlie Hebdo shooting
- Syriza government endorses “war on terror” to divert opposition to austerity
- German court rejects claims of Kunduz victims
- Polish presidential election expresses growing hostility towards Russia
- Unifor bows to latest GM Canada layoffs
- Sri Lanka: Evicted Colombo shanty dwellers face desperate situation
- New Australian police “terror” raids used to ramp up crisis atmosphere
- The tragedy of Mediterranean migrants and the crimes of imperialism
- War in the Middle East, imperialism and the lessons of the Egyptian Revolution
- Workers, students and youth in Australia discuss May Day rally
- VE Day in Germany: War commemoration and war propaganda
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 May 2015 (front page)
- European powers seek to bomb Libya to stop migrants
- The death of British Labourism
- Yemen rebels announce support for Saudi cease-fire plan
- Illinois Supreme Court strikes down state pension cuts
- Los Angeles police shoot unarmed homeless man
- HIV epidemic in rural Indiana exposes social crisis in US
- Historians condemn Japan’s whitewashing of war crimes
- SEP in Germany participates in panel discussion on train drivers strike
- Italy: Expo 2015, May Day reveal deep class antagonisms
- Venezuelan economy continues to deteriorate
- Australian “Rental Affordability” report highlights housing crisis
- The crisis of capitalism and the reemergence of class struggle in the United States
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75 years since the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands
The Westerbork transit camp and the destruction of Dutch Jewry - This week in history: May 11-17
12 May 2015 (front page)
- Enthusiastic response in Sri Lanka to online May Day rally
- Seymour Hersh exposes official lies about Bin Laden killing
- The Baltimore upheaval: On race and class in America
- Detroit begins new round of water shutoffs
- Ex-CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to three years in prison
- Ex-Guantanamo child detainee Omar Khadr released on bail
- Greece pledges to repay IMF loans early in EU talks on bailout deals
- Fire erupts at nuclear power plant outside of New York City
- Massachusetts governor deepens austerity drive with early retirement legislation
- Siemens announces massive job cuts worldwide
- Germany: Auschwitz survivors testify against former SS officer
- Spain lines up behind US-led destabilization campaign against Venezuela
- Twenty two killed during Albanian terror group border post attack in Macedonia
- Australian government shifts tactics in pursuit of budget austerity
- New Zealand: State-owned mining company announces job cuts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
13 May 2015 (front page)
- UAW ready to sanction new subclass of low-paid US auto workers
- The bin Laden assassination and the lies of the “war on terror”
- Official death toll from GM ignition defect reaches 100
- No charges in Madison, Wisconsin police killing of unarmed youth
- China’s central bank cuts rate amid further signs of slowdown
- White House authorizes Shell to resume drilling in the Arctic
- Swedish Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange’s appeal of arrest warrant
- Texas executes mentally incompetent death row prisoner
- US judge throws out gag law directed against prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Australian budget: A fraudulent bid for political survival
- Australian unemployment levels continue to rise
- Sinn Fein loses ground in UK elections in Northern Ireland
- German SPD achieves worst result in Bremen state elections since World War II
- Berlin police powers strengthened
- SEP’s Lawrence Porter discusses socialism, Detroit bankruptcy on public radio program
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Drone warfare in Good Kill
And a roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke
14 May 2015 (front page)
- US threatens military confrontation with China in South China Sea
- The worldwide persecution of refugees
- Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia, killing at least seven
- State funding for higher education in US slashed by 20 percent since 2008
- US Senate reaches bipartisan deal to push trade pacts
- At least 45 workers die in Manila factory fire
- Yemen war rages on through first day of humanitarian “cease-fire”
- UK: Cameron strikes post-election anti-European pose
- Soldiers reveal Israeli war crimes in 2014 Gaza assault
- Nationwide strike by child care workers in Germany
- Police shift their line on Australia’s latest terrorism “plot”
- Former Sri Lankan president warns of government financial bankruptcy
- Unions reaffirm ties to Parti Québécois as it prepares to anoint arch-right winger
- ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore: Playwright John Ford’s lurid classic receives Off-Broadway revival
- Scientists reveal the history and analysis of Kennewick Man
15 May 2015 (front page)
- Five major banks to plead guilty to rigging currency markets
- The growing danger of a US war against China
- Obama hosts Camp David summit for Gulf oil monarchies
- US House passes surveillance “reforms” aimed at codifying illegal spying
- Existing safety equipment would have prevented Philadelphia Amtrak disaster
- Many questions remain in death of Detroit Fiat-Chrysler worker
- Lawyers detail horrific and illegal conditions of Baltimore arrest victims
- US prisons rife with violence and torture against mentally disabled prisoners
- Attempted military coup in Burundi
- Closer Chinese-Russian ties on display in Moscow
- Russian finance minister proposes raising retirement age: “The faster, the better”
- Australian Labor leader calls for bipartisanship with Abbott government
- India’s BJP government presses forward with big business “reforms”
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Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s Zero Dark Thirty
CIA-embedded Hollywood liars and their lies - The right-wing political record of Bernie Sanders
- French NPA seeks to strangle opposition to draconian surveillance law
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
16 May 2015 (front page)
- Controversy erupts over American B1 bomber deployments to Australia
- The Amtrak disaster and America’s crumbling infrastructure
- Japanese cabinet approves new military legislation
- Federal court sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death
- Thai military sends boat carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees “out to sea”
- Jeb Bush’s “gaffe”: A revealing comment on the Iraq war
- New torture allegations from Chicago “black site”
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Notes on police violence in America
Nineteen-year-old Indiana man dies while in police custody - USW pushes through sellout contracts at Indiana and Texas oil refineries
- Crisis envelops UK Labour leadership contest
- Two killed during mass protest by Chilean students
- Alberta’s NDP pledges to “partner” with big business
- Detroit residents speak on the resumption of water shutoffs
- “Marx Is Muss” congress: Germany’s pseudo-left discusses war policy and austerity
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 May 2015 (front page)
- US special forces stage raid into Syria
- UK government counter-terrorism bill would criminalize speech, political activity
- Is the US planning a “Gulf of Tonkin” incident in the South China Sea?
- Iraqi officials report the fall of Ramadi
- Egyptian regime hangs six after ex-president Mursi sentenced to death
- No charges for police officer who shot Illinois teen twice in the back
- Chicago residents speak on police torture at Homan Square “black site”
- Thousands of auto workers strike in Turkey against Renault and union
- US panel’s screening guidelines threaten mammograms for 17 million women
- Second major quake in Nepal deepens political crisis
- Hollande, the Clintons and imperialism in Haiti
- French Rafale fighter sales stoke arms race in Middle East, Asia
- Christie’s $1 billion week: Art market heads for the stratosphere
- Blues musician B.B. King, 1925-2015
- This week in history: May 18-24
19 May 2015 (front page)
- US air strikes, Shia militia deployment follow Iraqi military’s rout in Ramadi
- Obama’s paramilitary police
- Saudi-led coalition resume air strikes in Yemen
- Conditions worsen for refugees trapped on boats in South East Asia
- Rating agencies downgrade Chicago debt after Supreme Court ruling blocks state pension cuts
- Nine killed, 170 arrested in Texas biker gang shootout
- US House of Representatives passes anti-abortion bill
- Seattle teachers hold one-day strike
- Albuquerque, New Mexico: Family charges SWAT team drove son to suicide
- UK Network Rail workers vote for national strike
- Ontario Liberals move to criminalize teachers’ strikes
- Australian government undermines arts funding body
- Defend student free speech at Humboldt University! Stop state-sponsored censorship!
- Is it a dangerous precedent?: Detroit Institute of Arts tests out art market with van Gogh
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 May 2015 (front page)
- Only one in four workers worldwide has a stable job
- The fall of Ramadi and the criminality of US imperialism
- Greece edges towards collapse as troika demands new austerity plan
- Surprise move by European Central Bank to speed up debt purchases
- The Clintons peddle populism while raking in corporate cash
- US secretary of state berates North Korea
- Saudi Arabian monarchy calls for more executioners
- San Bernardino, California officials to vote on bankruptcy plan
- Michigan legislation would cut off welfare for families with truant children
- German postal service threatens to lay off strikers while deploying strike-breakers
- Spanish elections: Support for Podemos declines amid predicted losses for main parties
- The deindustrialization of Baltimore
- Australia sets precedent for worldwide assault on refugees
- Alex Garland’s Ex Machina: Will artificial intelligence replace human efforts?
21 May 2015 (front page)
- Token fines for banks caught rigging foreign exchange markets
- Poroshenko says Ukraine is at war with Russia
- EU approves military operation against Mediterranean refugees
- German police officer accused of torturing refugees
- Online video exposes French police violence against migrants in Calais
- Greek health workers, journalists, pensioners strike against austerity
- US brings charges of economic espionage against six Chinese engineers and businessmen
- Supreme Court sides with San Francisco police officers who shot mentally ill woman
- New details undermine police account of deadly shootout in Waco, Texas
- Los Angeles City Council moves to raise minimum wage
- German train drivers launch new strikes
- Macedonia conflict threatens to destabilise whole of Balkans
- US prepares to challenge China in the South China Sea
- Australian budget boosts spending on war and surveillance
- India’s Modi woos and warns China
- Britain’s anti-terror law and the global assault on democratic rights
- Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton, Inc. and the rape of Libya
- “Frontline” broadcast documents CIA torture program
22 May 2015 (front page)
- Massive military escalation looms as ISIS advances in Iraq
- US intelligence and media fail to debunk Seymour Hersh on bin Laden
- Federal court blocks release of CIA torture report
- Maryland grand jury announces charges against six cops in killing of Freddie Gray
- Defying USW, striking US oil workers continue to resist company demands
- Pipeline rupture causes oil spill in California
- New York City mayor de Blasio’s housing plan will do little or nothing for the working class
- UK Conservatives plan to scrap Human Rights Act
- German train drivers’ union calls off strike and agrees to arbitration
- Police crackdown on protest in western China
- Growing danger of landslides in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan landslide victims still in makeshift accommodation
- Why aren’t the banksters in prison?
- “Münkler-Watch” and the reproach of anonymity: A red herring
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 May 2015 (front page)
- US prepares new military provocations in South China Sea
- European Union’s “migrant mission”: War plans in a humanitarian cloak
- OECD report: Global social inequality hits new record
- Agreement signed on China-backed investment bank
- Ten years after riots, French police cleared in deaths of Clichy-sous-Bois youths
- France boosts military spending, recruits more youth into the army
- New York mayor de Blasio’s housing plan: An assault on the working class
- Hundreds of unemployed workers apply for jobs in Pittsburgh
- Despite surplus, California governor releases austerity budget
- UK rail unions call off strike action
- Murder of Tamil student sparks protests in northern Sri Lanka
- “Münkler-Watch” and the dictatorship of the elites
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 May 2015 (front page)
- Judge clears killer cop in 2012 Cleveland, Ohio shooting
- Hundreds dead in refugee graves in Malaysia
- Pentagon chief hints at shift in US policy in war with ISIS
- Australia deeply embedded in US military build-up in Asia
- Thousands of Ukrainians protest Kiev regime’s draconian utility price hikes
- Riga talks fail to produce Greek loan deal
- Moves for a “left alliance” government accelerate in Portugal
- NSA spying bill stalls in US Senate
- This week in history: May 25-31
- US CEO pay hits record high
- Quebec criminalizing working-class struggle
- Mexican president deploys military in Jalisco state
- The escalation of global financial parasitism
- Herfried Münkler’s interview in Die Zeit: State-imposed conformism like 1933
26 May 2015 (front page)
- Turkey says US agrees to provide air cover for anti-Assad “rebels” in Syria
- NATO begins anti-Russian air drill in Arctic
- Cop used military “rules of engagement” in 2012 Cleveland killing
- Flash flooding forces thousands to flee in Texas, Oklahoma
- Obama Justice Department reaches settlement with Cleveland, Ohio over police brutality
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Pipeline in Santa Barbara oil spill lacked key safety feature
- Union imposes another concession deal on West Coast dockworkers
- Spanish regional elections mark further break-up of two main parties
- Most Turkish auto workers end strike
- Sri Lankan president pledges to strengthen the military
- Australian budget targets working-class households
- China warns of war with US in South China Sea
- New discoveries illuminate early human physical and technological evolution
27 May 2015 (front page)
- US-China tensions escalate over South China Sea
- US establishment shields killer cops
- Protests in Japan denounce US military presence
- Historic flooding in Texas and Oklahoma
- Crisis in Burundi heightens danger of regional war in Africa
- New York City public libraries face continued assault under de Blasio administration
- Union collaborates with Liberals in Ontario Hydro privatization
- France claims killing of Al Qaeda leaders in Northern Mali
- Irish voters overwhelmingly support legalisation of same-sex marriage
- NSA affair creates tensions between Berlin and Washington
- Conservative wins presidential election in Poland
- Australia: Labor backs move to sack thousands of electricity workers
- Another austerity budget in New Zealand
- The New York Times calls for blood in Iraq-Syria war
28 May 2015 (front page)
- Global tensions surge as NATO, Russia hold rival military exercises
- US defence secretary sets stage for confrontation with China
- Officials signal Australia will join US provocation in South China Sea
- Left Platform: Syriza’s last line of defence
- Queen’s Speech 2015: UK Conservatives lay out agenda of austerity and repression
- Alabama bought execution drugs on the black market
- Los Angeles County backs Obama’s anti-immigrant agenda
- Canada: Ontario Liberals orchestrate outlawing of teacher strikes
- Philippine state visit to Canada escalates anti-China “pivot”
- The assault on health care in Russia
- Works council elections at Germany’s ThyssenKrupp: What way forward?
- Australian government moves to revoke citizenship rights
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ANC whips up racism amid xenophobic attacks in South Africa
Part 1 - Behind the recriminations over the fall of Ramadi
29 May 2015 (front page)
- US seizes on FIFA corruption to pursue campaign against Russia
- Federal court upholds block on Obama immigration plan
- Why did the US Army ship live anthrax?
- Rohingya refugees abused and killed in camps in Malaysia/Thailand
- Life inside a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
- Australian economy heading for recession
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Notes on police violence in America
Judge orders release of photo showing Chicago cops posing as hunters with “suspect” wearing antlers - Nebraska abolishes death penalty
- UAW, Fiat Chrysler maintain silence on death of skilled trades worker
- Canada’s NDP pledges to “partner” with business as its poll numbers jump
- French Prime Minister Valls imposes unpopular school reforms by decree
- Sri Lankan president postpones parliamentary election
- Austerity budget deepens Puerto Rico’s economic crisis
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ANC whips up racism amid xenophobic attacks in South Africa
Part 2 - Wall Street buybacks: Another expression of parasitism
- Münkler receives support from the far right in Germany
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Help the WSWS expose the US-led drive to war in Asia!
An appeal by James Cogan, national secretary of the SEP (Australia) - The contract unity law and the return of German militarism
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
30 May 2015 (front page)
- US economy contracted in first quarter
- The fraudulent debate over NSA reform
- US defence secretary challenges China at Singapore security forum
- Chinese premier concludes four-country tour of South America
- European Union squabbles over refugee quotas
- Record storms, flooding continue to ravage Texas and Oklahoma
- US preparing direct military intervention in Nigeria
- Former Republican speaker indicted on felony charges
- Insurance companies apply for rate hikes for Obamacare plans
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India: One year of the Modi-led, BJP government
- Humboldt University professor Herfried Münkler calls for German leadership in Europe
- Colombian peace talks continue amid renewed combat
- UK Prime Minister Cameron tours Europe lobbying for EU reforms
- Meetings on UK general elections: “We were alone in telling workers and young people the truth”
- Spanish telecom workers strike against “precariousness and slave labour”
- Spanish telecom strikers: “We have to resist until we achieve something”
- Sri Lankan plantation companies reject wage increase
- Sydney’s Mount Druitt: A microcosm of Australia’s social crisis
- The Divergent Series: Insurgent—More talent and resources squandered
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