21 January 2013
Obama to approve drone assassination manual
By Patrick Martin, 21 January 2013
The Obama administration is institutionalizing the process of White House-sanctioned remote killings.
Algeria hostage crisis ends in bloodbath
By Alex Lantier, 21 January 2013
On Saturday, Algerian troops stormed the Tinguentourine natural gas facility in Amenas, where over 30 Al Qaeda-linked fighters were holding hostages.
Further strikes in China as economy slows
By John Chan, 21 January 2013
China’s growth rate slowed to 7.8 percent in 2012, putting pressure on employers to cut costs.
UK: Parents and staff demonstrate against closure of Sheffield children’s centres
By Liz Smith, 21 January 2013
Up to 19 of the city’s 36 Sure Start centres are to close, with the loss of up to 150 fully trained staff.
European Union demands further attacks on Ireland’s public sector
By Jordan Shilton, 21 January 2013
The European Commission has issued a stark warning to the government on its implementation of austerity measures.
Air Berlin cuts 900 jobs
By our correspondents, 21 January 2013
Chief Executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer has demanded that the workforce accept pay cuts.
US attorney downplays vendetta against Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz
By Eric London, 21 January 2013
The US attorney whose office led the prosecution against Internet activist Aaron Swartz has issued the government’s first official response to the young man’s suicide.
Report documents mass poverty in California
By Thomas Gaist and Marc Wells, 21 January 2013
The social situation of working people in California is even worse than the picture painted in a recent report.
Boeing rejects engineering union contract extension amidst 787 crisis
By Angelo Bosworth, 21 January 2013
Boeing’s professional union offers support to Boeing while its new Dreamliner jet is grounded.
Australian mining giant ramps up pressure on PNG
By Mike Head, 21 January 2013
The PNG prime minister accused BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, of having a “colonial era mentality”.
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L'impasse se poursuit au sujet de la crise des otages en Algérie
Par Alex Lantier, 21 janvier 2013
L’impasse sur le site de traitement de gaz naturel de Tinguentourine en Algérie se poursuit au milieu d’une escalade des tensions internationales concernant la guerre menée par la France au Mali.
Le parti allemand Die Linke défend son soutien pour la guerre contre la Syrie
Par Johannes Stern, 21 janvier 2013
Le journal du parti allemand Die Linke, Neues Deutschland, a publié un commentaire défendant la déclaration du parti: « Syrie: la liberté a besoin d’aide, » et qui réclame l’intervention de l’Occident en Syrie.
New in Romanian
Aspecte politice din lupta împotriva mişcării fasciste Golden Dawn
De Chris Marsden, 21 ianuarie 2013
Zeci de mii de oameni se vor întoarce astăzi în Piaţa Syntagma din Atena pentru a-şi exprima opoziţia faţă de organizaţia fascistă Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi).
New in German
Opel-Bochum: Die Arbeitsplätze können nur im Kampf gegen Betriebsrat, IG Metall und Linkspartei verteidigt werden
Von der Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, 21. Januar 2013
Anstatt von der Regierung Merkel Unterstützung und Almosen zu erbetteln, ist es notwendig, die Verteidigung der Arbeitsplätze bei Opel Bochum zum Ausgangspunkt für ein breite politische Bewegung der Arbeiterklasse zu machen.
New in Greek
Πολιτικά ζητήματα στον αγώνα ενάντια στη φασιστική Χρυσή Αυγή
Συντακτική Επιτροπή του Παγκόσμιου Σοσιαλιστικού Ιστότοπου, 19 Ιανουαρίου 2013
Δεκάδες χιλιάδες θα συγκεντρωθούν σήμερα στην Πλατεία Συντάγματος στην Αθήνα για να εκδηλώσουν την αντίθεση τους στη φασιστική Χρυσή Αυγή και τις επιθέσεις της ενάντια στους μετανάστες, τους αριστερούς και τους ομοφυλόφιλους.
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- El ingreso nacional Australiano disminuye a medida que se intensifica la recesión mundial (20.12.2012)
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- Германия: Издательство "Зуркамп" публикует клеветническую работу Роберта Сервиса о Льве Троцком (14.08.2012)
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- EUA ampliam vigilância militar secreta na África (06.08.2012)
- Devastadora seca nos EUA anuncia alta generalizada dos preços dos alimentos no mundo (06.08.2012)
- Fundador da WikiLeaks Julian Assange fala com o WSWS (27.04.2012)
- As origens da crise do Euro: Parte 2 (01.03.2012)
- As origens da crise do Euro: Parte 1 (25.02.2012)
- Grécia a caminho de uma explosão revolucionária (25.02.2012)
- Pentágono planeja Guerra contra a Síria (25.02.2012)
- Partidos gregos negociam, bancos cobram cortes de salários e dos gastos sociais (16.02.2012)
- Demissões atingem trabalhadores da GM, Nokia e Pepsico (15.02.2012)
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- 'SOPA' e 'PIPA' — As leis antipirataria e a liberdade da Internet (25.01.2012)
- Operários da Foxconn ameaçam protesto suicida na China (20.01.2012)
- Construindo a Revolução: arte e arquitetura soviética entre 1915 e 1935 (20.01.2012)
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Perspective
Obama’s second inauguration
21 January 2013
The second inauguration is an appropriate occasion to consider what Obama’s first term reveals about the office of US president in the 21st century, as well as the man who currently occupies it.
This Week in History: January 21-27
25 years ago: Results of Haitian “gunpoint election” released
On January 25, 1988, one week after rescheduled Haitian presidential elections, Leslie F. Manigat was named the winner by the Provisional Electoral Council.
75 years ago: Romanian regime persecutes Jewish population
This week in 1938, the Romanian government stepped up its repression and propaganda campaign against the nation’s large Jewish population.
100 years ago: Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs arrested
On January 24, 1913, Eugene V. Debs was arrested in his hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana.
Workers Struggles
Threat of federal intervention to break New York City school bus drivers strike
By Rosa Shahnazarian and Jerry White, 21 January 2013
Private school bus companies, with behind-the-scenes support from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are appealing to the National Labor Relations Board to order an end to the six-day strike by nearly 9,000 drivers, attendants and mechanics.
Unions abruptly shut down “indefinite” public sector strike in Kerala
By Arun Kumar and Kranti Kumara, 19 January 2013
NHS Fightback
Fightback needed to defend the UK’s National Health Service
21 January 2013
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) has taken the initiative in launching a national campaign to defend the National Health Service.
Arts Review
Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables: Social misery, with a vengeance
By Hiram Lee, 21 January 2013
Director Tom Hooper returns with a film version of the well-known musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic 1862 novel.
Director Kathryn Bigelow defends her indefensible Zero Dark Thirty
By David Walsh, 18 January 2013
Commentary
Political issues in the fight against the fascist Golden Dawn
By Chris Marsden, 19 January 2013
The Australian pseudo-left and the NSW public sector union
By Peter Symonds, 19 January 2013
Bradley Manning denied whistleblower defense
By Naomi Spencer, 19 January 2013
Mehring Books
New from Mehring Books
The theoretical and historical origins of the pseudo-left
18 January 2013
This report by David North was delivered at the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party.
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