22 May 2013
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Perspective

• Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”

World News

• Lack of shelters a factor in Oklahoma tornado death toll
• Israel, US threaten war with Syria as sectarian fighting spreads across region
• Hundreds killed in upsurge of terror bombings, sectarian attacks in Iraq
• Apple CEO defends multi-billion-dollar tax dodge
• ThyssenKrupp to slash 3,000 jobs
• Protest opposes London-wide National Health Service cuts
• Six million suffer fuel poverty in UK
• Britain’s victims during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising expect compensation
• Canada: NDP suffers debacle in British Columbia election

Support D'Artagnan Collier for Detroit Mayor

• Emergency Meeting: A workers program to answer the crisis in Detroit
• Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier campaigns at Eastern Market
• Workers must reject emergency manager’s plan for Detroit
• SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier on ballot for Detroit mayor race

Commentary

• Beppe Grillo agitates against immigrants
• Financial bubbles creating conditions for new crash
• New revelations of US government spying on the press
• The crisis of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian” revolution and the political independence of the working class
• Guatemala’s high court overturns dictator Rios Montt’s genocide conviction
• The decomposition of American democracy
• The Left Party: A party of German imperialism
• The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria

Workers Struggles

• Australian Education Union pushes sell out through delegates’ meetings
• Union limits UC Medical workers to two-day strike
• Ontario elevator technicians continue strike action

Arts Review

• San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part two
  Let the Fire Burn and The East: The MOVE bombing in 1985 and present-day anarchism
• Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A clash of rival “fundamentalisms”
• San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part one
  The Kill Team: The murderous reality of the US war in Afghanistan

SEP (Australia) Election 2013

• Why the SEP does not endorse the WikiLeaks Party
• SEP Election 2013 campaign meetings: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
• Gillard Labor’s budget: The class issues
• SEP announces candidates for 2013 Australian election

Socialist Equality Party

• Tsar to Lenin to be shown at UK’s National Media Museum and at Cornerhouse cinema
• 15 years of the WSWS: Public meeting in Zurich
• SEP (Germany) election statement
  A socialist program against social cuts and unemployment in Europe
• This week in history: May 20-26