20 May 2013
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Perspective

• The decomposition of American democracy

World News

• European powers fund Al Qaeda looting of Syrian oil
• Tens of thousands march in Rome against austerity
• US Supreme Court rules for agribusiness giant Monsanto
• More Michigan schools on the brink of insolvency
• Buffalo, New York students and teachers face attack
• Washington endorses Malaysian ruling party’s election “victory”
• Big business demands lower wages in South Korea
• Stalemate after elections in Bulgaria
• Thousands of mining jobs in Scotland in danger
• UK: Rotherham Hospital spends £3 million on consultants advising on cuts
• Connecticut commuter rail collision injures 72

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 mayoral candidate outlines socialist program at Detroit election forum
• SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier on ballot for Detroit mayor race

Commentary

• 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 NSU neo-Nazi gang and the German intelligence service
• The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy
• The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria
• 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
• Benghazi and the deepening crisis of the Obama administration

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
• This week in history: May 20-26

Arts Review

• 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
• A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Workers Struggles

• Ontario elevator technicians continue strike action
• Unions sabotage Irish bus workers strike

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
• SEP (Germany) election statement
  A socialist program against social cuts and unemployment in Europe

Mehring Books

• New pamphlet on 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation