21 May 2013
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Perspective
World News
- Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest
- Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
- New revelations of US government spying on the press
- Devastating tornado kills at least 91 in Oklahoma City
- Employers to offer bare-bones coverage under health care law
- Hedge funds eye Detroit for “hostile takeover”
- Obama to college graduates: “No room for excuses”
- Guatemala’s US-backed dictator Rios Montt convicted of genocide
- Germany: Parliamentary inquiry into neo-Nazi murders concludes
- Spain’s Popular Party faces wave of strikes and demonstrations
- New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific
- Slovenian government adopts another austerity programme
- US seeks defence agreement with Maldives
Commentary
- The crisis of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian” revolution and the political independence of the working class
- The decomposition of American democracy
- The Left Party: A party of German imperialism
- On network news show, Nation editor rushes to the defense of Obama
- The betrayal of the Greek teachers’ strike
- The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy
- The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria
- The criminalization of political dissent in America
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
Support D'Artagnan Collier for Detroit Mayor
- 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
Workers Struggles
- Union limits UC Medical workers to two-day strike
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ontario elevator technicians continue strike action
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
- 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
Arts Review
- Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A clash of rival “fundamentalisms”
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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
- This week in history: May 20-26
Correspondence