18 May 2013
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Perspective
World News
- Pentagon tells US Senate wars will continue for decades
- Pew report shows decline in retirement security for most Americans
- FBI director continues cover-up of contacts with Boston bombing suspects
- China challenges Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa
- Canada’s NDP denounces China, signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”
- Chicago Teachers Union files lawsuit alleging school closings are racist
- Federal judge rejects lawsuit opposing Washington DC school closures
- Seattle: Hundreds condemn Metro Transit service cuts
- Four children and two adults killed in Pennsylvania house fire
- Spanish government rejects unions’ pleas for anti-crisis pact
- Sao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal
- German unions agree on engineering industry contract
- Philippines man killed by store security for alleged theft of sandals
Support D'Artagnan Collier for Detroit Mayor
- SEP mayoral candidate outlines socialist program at Detroit election forum
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier on ballot for Detroit mayor race
Commentary
- The NSU neo-Nazi gang and the German intelligence service
- The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy
- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby versus Prince Harry and his polo-playing American friends
- South African miners mount new wave of wildcat strikes
- The criminalization of political dissent in America
- The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria
- Benghazi and the deepening crisis of the Obama administration
Socialist Equality Party
- 15 years of the WSWS: Public meeting in Zurich
- David North speaks in Berlin on the 15th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site
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SEP (Germany) election statement
A socialist program against social cuts and unemployment in Europe
SEP (Australia) Election 2013
- Gillard Labor’s budget: The class issues
- SEP Election 2013 campaign meetings: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
- SEP announces candidates for 2013 Australian election
- Socialist Equality Party to contest Australian federal election: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
Workers Struggles
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Unions sabotage Irish bus workers strike
- Union seeks sellout deal at South Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
Arts Review
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San Francisco International Film Festival 2013—Part one
The Kill Team: The murderous reality of the US war in Afghanistan - A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Mehring Books