Archive: 07/2015
2015-07-01
- Turkey, Jordan discuss moves to seize territory in Syria
- Former Spanish defence minister admits “pre-coup situation” in 2006
- The economic nationalism of Bernie Sanders
- Obama proposes rules to expand overtime pay for salaried workers
- Global parasitism creates conditions for a new financial meltdown
- Germany: IG Metall union suppresses opposition at ThyssenKrupp
- Workers speak out against austerity in Greece
- Greece defaults on debt as Syriza offers alternative austerity package
- Support grows for victimised Sri Lankan tea estate workers
- Thousands rally in pro-austerity demonstration in Athens
- Chicago teachers’ union blocks fight against layoffs, offers to impose pay freeze
- Budget bipartisanship in Australia: Labor backs more Abbott government cuts
- Alberta NDP government asks ex-Bank of Canada head to draft budget plan
- Backlash mounts against government attack on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2015-07-02
- Russia suspends natural gas shipments to Ukraine
- Trial of Auschwitz guard continues in Germany
- Podemos party takes its place in Spain’s government machinery
- US income inequality continued to soar in 2014
- Detention centre staff defy Australian government’s refugee censorship laws
- US military strategy for world domination targets Russia and China
- Milwaukee transit workers strike
- Illinois begins fiscal year without budget as austerity package is drawn up
- Voodoo, a Harlem Renaissance opera, revived in New York
- Tsipras’s surrender rejected as Berlin pushes for regime-change in Greece
- FISA court reinstates bulk surveillance of US communications
- US and Cuba announce resumption of diplomatic relations
- The manhunt for Richard Matt and David Sweat: High Sierra in upstate New York
- Protests grow as Greek referendum nears
- Ongoing tensions in South China Sea as Chinese-led investment bank formally launched
2015-07-03
- The Wolfpack, Dope: American experiences, oddities
- Atmospheric temperatures rise to record levels as glaciers disintegrate
- Bernie Sanders holds rally of 10,000 in Madison, Wisconsin
- Quebec unions seek to smother opposition to austerity
- The political fraud of Syriza’s referendum on EU austerity in Greece
- Murdoch’s Australian media put Zaky Mallah “up in lights”
- US Justice Department finds that police provoked unrest in Ferguson
- US labor force participation rate hits lowest level in nearly four decades
- Drought-fed fire hits California’s San Bernardino Mountains
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Victimised Sri Lankan plantation workers speak to the WSWS
- Egyptian air force bombs Sinai after heavy clashes with ISIS affiliate
- Chinese stocks continue to fall despite attempted counter-measures
- UK seeks leading role in military campaign against Russia
- Oil giant BP reaches sweetheart settlement over 2010 Gulf disaster
- Inequality in Australia rising at one of world’s fastest rates
2015-07-04
- Video report: Workers speak out against austerity at mass demonstration in Athens
- Silicon Valley: HBO’s satire of American tech culture
- Australian pseudo-left hails Syriza’s fraudulent referendum in Greece
- World medical body denounces Australia’s refugee detention censorship law
- UK child poverty rising as government seeks cuts to tax credits
- Australia Post to axe another 1,900 jobs in preparation for privatisation
- Prosecutors release documents from Washington police shooting investigation
- Rumbles of military coup as Greek workers demand end to EU austerity
- Public housing crisis intensifies in Syracuse, New York
- Aetna, Humana announce biggest-ever merger of health insurers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mass demonstration opposes austerity in Greece
- German train drivers’ union agrees to strike ban effective until 2020
- Persistence of Ebola epidemic exposes global health failure
- Colombo’s “fastest growing tourism” status obtained at the poor’s expense
- Top bankers’ pay rose 17 percent in 2014
- French president rejects bid to assist WikiLeaks founder
2015-07-06
- Ver.di ends strike at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- Far-right marches in Kiev as report documents crimes by Ukraine’s paramilitary forces
- This week in history: July 6-12
- Republican candidates split over racist remarks by Donald Trump
- Manhattan real estate prices hit record high
- US health insurers seek huge rate increases for 2016
- A landslide “no” to EU austerity in Greece
- Operation Nemesis: Danger of state repression against protests in Greece
- Iran nuclear talks approaching make-or-break deadline
- Mass demonstrations in Greece follow vote against EU austerity
- Greek workers speak out at referendum polling stations
- Unemployed forced to “work for the dole” in Australia
- Pittsburgh energy company cuts health care for 4,400 retired workers
- Chinese government desperate to halt market slide
- UAW vs. autoworkers: Who are the freeloaders?
- NBC’s American Odyssey: Mercenaries, jihadists and Machiavellian US corporations
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation censures “Q&A” producer
2015-07-07
- Dozens of civilians killed in US-backed airstrikes on markets in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Japan joins US-Australian rehearsal for conflict with China
- Puerto Rico spirals towards bankruptcy amid mass poverty and increasing inequality
- As EU denounces “no” vote, Tsipras moves to the right
- Democrats, Republicans attack municipal pensions in Pennsylvania
- Obama at the Pentagon: No end to ISIS war
- Netherlands: Crackdown after police kill immigrant worker
- The Nazi past of Germany’s post-war political elite
- Australian workers and youth speak about the danger of war
- SEP meetings oppose US-Australian war drive against China
- China’s share plunge casts lengthening shadow over global markets
- Michigan governor outlines plan to dissolve Detroit public school system
- Canada’s participation in US military-strategic offensives grows
- Brooklyn real estate developer assails building workers and tenants
2015-07-08
- Life without water in Detroit
- Terminator Genisys and the trajectory of American “independent” filmmaking
- Summer joblessness for US teens remains near record levels
- Pentagon chief outlines plans for space war versus China and Russia
- Australia: The political fraud of constitutional “recognition” for Aborigines
- The significance of the Chinese stock market rout
- New Horizons spacecraft prepares for Pluto flyby
- Canada’s NDP defends leader’s talks on joining Harper government
- Greek workers speak out after “no” vote on austerity
- Euro zone summit rejects emergency funds for Greece, issues austerity ultimatum
- German government further restricts right to asylum
- Students at Berlin’s Free University pass motion criticising right-wing Humboldt University professors
- Glenn Ford: An American tragedy
- Settlement in Mexican farmworkers struggle leaves families mired in poverty
- Factional rival Turnbull publicly condemns policies of Australian prime minister
2015-07-09
- German Ver.di trade union sells out postal workers strike
- Trump redoubles racist invective against Mexican immigrants
- Tsipras petitions EU for new austerity deal
- US lawyers argue Manila’s case against China in The Hague
- Australian prison riot highlights spiralling detention rates
- A summer without jobs for America’s youth
- New York Stock Exchange halts operations for nearly four hours
- Microsoft announces 7,800 layoffs
- China share rout hits global markets
- UK government slashes non-EU migrant worker numbers
- Iraq-Syria war could fragment both countries, top US general says
- Hillary Clinton joins right-wing attack on “sanctuary cities”
- UK Conservative budget heralds ever deeper austerity
2015-07-10
- Obama welcomes Vietnam’s Communist Party head
- UN report: Syria faces worst refugee crisis in recent history
- German SPD’s new program: Racism and law and order
- Hypocrisy all round as Australian Labor leader testifies at royal commission
- Military officials declare Russia the “greatest threat” to US interests
- London trains shut down in rail worker strike
- IMF report: Global growth lowest since 2009
- Germany: Outokumpu steel plant closes in Bochum
- Illinois governor proposes deep pension cuts
- The significance of Greece
- Greek government approves brutal austerity measures in proposal to EU
- Labor leader pledges support for further privatisations
- South Carolina legislature ends display of Confederate flag
- Mass evacuations in western Canada due to forest fires
- The Face of an Angel and Danny Collins: A notorious murder trial and an aging musician
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian state government to slash hundreds of electricity jobs
2015-07-11
- Pew report: 84 percent of world population subsists on under $20 per day
- Video shows Philadelphia police ruthlessly beat unarmed youth
- Syriza’s betrayal of the Greek working class
- Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, Season 3: Life goes on in a women’s prison
- New Zealand First Party attacks Pacific Island immigrants
- Malaysian prime minister engulfed in corruption scandal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iran talks continue into the weekend
- Eric Holder returns to law firm that represents Wall Street banks
- Scottish National Party’s Nicola Sturgeon in talks over fracking
- Oklahoma sets execution dates for three death row prisoners
- Record campaign fundraising for Republicans, Democrats
- UK: Poorest children lag behind on language skills
- Major US airlines investigated for collusion and price-gouging
2015-07-13
- This week in history: July 13-19
- The American Psychological Association, torture and the Nuremberg doctors’ trial
- SEP (Australia) meetings: The pseudo-left in power: Lessons of Syriza’s betrayal in Greece
- South Africa: ANC’s anti-immigrant measures impact tourism
- The consequences of Syriza’s betrayal: From terms of surrender to terms of occupation
- Manchester protesters face eviction as UK rough sleeping rises
- WikiLeaks email release reveals hacking by governments worldwide
- Ford threatens mass layoffs at Michigan truck plant
- Two Detroit firefighters injured fighting blaze with low water pressure
- Tensions erupt in Europe as Berlin threatens to expel Greece from the euro
- EPA study whitewashes the effects of fracking
- FBI Director Comey demands “backdoor” access to encrypted data
- SEP to stand in Sri Lankan general election
- Manglehorn and The Cobbler: The influence of social-gravitational forces
- Baltimore, Maryland police chief fired under pressure from police union
- Contract talks set to begin for 140,000 US autoworkers
- New Zealand: Thousands forced to live in accommodation “outside the norm”
2015-07-14
- Saudi-led assault on Yemen continues despite ceasefire
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The historical background of California’s water crisis
- Puerto Rican plan to make workers pay for the island’s debt crisis
- Defend the Greek workers! Oppose the diktat of Schäuble and Merkel!
- More attacks on public education in Louisiana
- Washington’s hypocritical denunciations of Chinese “land reclamation” in the South China Sea
- Berlin: Angry reaction to Syriza betrayal of Greek workers
- Greek bailout deal highlights monumental scale of Syriza’s betrayal
- Surge in prices boosts drug industry profits
- US preparing new drone deployments to North Africa
- Hillary Clinton outlines right-wing economic policies in New York City speech
- Behind New York’s Cuomo-de Blasio feud
- UAW-GM talks open in Detroit
- Report urges closer US-Australian military collaboration against China
2015-07-15
- Alabama officers repeatedly use Taser on teenager having seizures
- New Horizons spacecraft completes Pluto flyby
- Lessons from Greece: The pseudo-left in power
- Documentary examines unanswered questions about the National Socialist Underground
- OECD report: 39 million unemployed young people in industrialized nations
- Missouri carries out first execution since Supreme Court lethal injection ruling
- Australian Greens senator talks of war with China
- A letter from Athens
- British Labour backs Conservatives’ welfare cuts
- Obama promotes “historic” nuclear deal with Iran
- Australian police, spy agencies flocked to Italian hacking company
- Syriza government campaigns for Greek parliament to pass EU austerity package
- Family of Eric Garner demands criminal prosecution after New York City announces $5.9 million settlement
- Workers face 1930s-type exploitation at Chicago Ford plants
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting defends victimised plantation workers
- UK Socialist Workers Party and Left Platform debate: Joint apologists for Syriza
- Wages for California workers continue to decline
- Socialist Equality Party launches digital WSWS Autoworker Newsletter
2015-07-16
- Wisconsin governor Walker implements draconian state budget
- Australian economic summit to plan new attacks on wages and social conditions
- Is Bernie Sanders a socialist?
- The battle ahead for US autoworkers
- Mary Ellen Mark: Photographer and humanist
- South Korea’s intelligence agency purchased spyware from Hacking Team
- US military launches Jade Helm domestic training operations
- US political infighting begins over Iran nuclear deal
- German academics, generals promote military build-up and war
- Greek parliament endorses EU-dictated austerity programme
- Syrian refugees speak about their protest in Dortmund, Germany
- Fiat Chrysler, CNH sign performance-based deal with Italian trade unions
- Socialist Equality Party fields 43 candidates in Sri Lankan general elections
- Pennsylvania budget impasse threatens schools, social programs
2015-07-17
- UK Conservative government curtails right to strike
- Murky death of Sandra Bland points to possible police lynching
- Pluto and Earth
- Voter suppression laws on trial in North Carolina
- USA Network’s Mr. Robot: A provocative start, but where will it go?
- Unsafe conditions common at Fiat Chrysler Jefferson plant where two workers died
- Japanese government pushes militarist legislation amid mass protests
- US seeks to placate Mideast allies angered by Iran nuclear deal
- German auto workers condemn austerity deal imposed on Greece
- Australian banking system vulnerable to global economic shocks
- White House official in charge of Obamacare rollout hired as health insurance lobbyist
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Campaign fundraising in 2016 US election cycle soars to new records
- Canada boosts Kiev regime with free trade pact
- Pentagon ramping up US military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan
2015-07-18
- Conservative government concealed UK participation in Syria air strikes
- Sri Lankan president pledges to block rival
- Scottish National Party’s anti-austerity hypocrisy exposed
- Release of grand jury transcript points again to frameup of the Rosenbergs
- Right Sector threatens violence throughout Ukraine
- Texas prison death highlights police violence in America
- German parliament supports attacks on Greek workers
- France’s Left Party applauds Syriza’s imposition of EU austerity
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iran signals closer collaboration with West
- Tsipras expels critics of EU austerity deal from Greek cabinet
- Racism and arrogance: Anti-Greek agitation in the German media
- New Zealand Labour Party scapegoats Chinese over housing crisis
- Gunman kills four marines at Chattanooga Naval Reserve Center
- Auschwitz bookkeeper Gröning sentenced to four years in prison
2015-07-20
- Saudi-backed militias capture key Yemen port city
- The confessions of Yanis Varoufakis: The pseudo-left as a social type
- This week in history: July 20-26
- Sebastian Kempkens in Uni Spiegel: Gutter journalism in the service of German imperialism
- Large police mobilisation at right-wing Reclaim Australia rallies
- Buckingham Palace orders inquiry, threatens legal action over Nazi salute film
- President Obama postures as prison reformer
- The US presidency for sale
- Pew report: US unfunded public pension liabilities hit $1 trillion
- Artist Shepard Fairey arrested on felony charges for Detroit graffiti
- Coal and gas layoffs mount as prices continue to fall
- Chinese state banks commit $200 billion to stem market selloff
- Bank of Canada announces second interest rate cut in six months
- Brooklyn Library locations sold to real estate developers
- American Federation of Teachers endorses Clinton
2015-07-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK defence secretary admits flouting parliamentary ban on military involvement in Syrian war
- The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
- Canadian police fatally shoot man outside meeting on controversial dam project
- The Iran nuclear pact and US imperialism’s drive for global hegemony
- Veteran filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki denounces government plans to remilitarise Japan
- One year since the crash of MH17
- Autoworkers denounce UAW lies about ending two-tier system at Indiana plant
- UN Security Council approves pact on Iranian nuclear programs
- Student initiatives in Germany oppose media witch-hunt against IYSSE and “Münkler-Watch”
- US heroin deaths triple in four years
- GM officials unlikely to face criminal charges for coverup of deadly defects
- French ruling elite debates how to deal with Germany
- Frankfurt university winds down research on National Socialism
- Federal Reserve documents stagnant state of US economy
- Foreword to The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
- US and Cuba reopen embassies after 54 years
- General Wesley Clark calls for putting “disloyal” Americans in internment camps
2015-07-22
- UK: Labour capitulates on Conservative welfare cuts bill
- Contract deadline approaches for Verizon and AT&T workers
- Death of Sandra Bland being “treated like a murder investigation”
- Wesley Clark’s internment proposal: The specter of military dictatorship
- What Happened, Miss Simone?: The life of African-American singer, pianist and civil rights activist Nina Simone
- Former Nigerian military dictator meets with Obama, Kerry in Washington
- The Queen’s Nazi salute: Historical revisionism in the service of state censorship
- Kids Count report: 22 percent of US children live in poverty
- Seven US states to arm National Guard following Tennessee shooting
- A letter from Athens: Taking stock of Syriza’s capitulation
- Troika representatives return to Athens
- The return of the “German question”
- Police attacks on migrants intensify as Calais ferry strike enters fourth week
- Atrocity sparks calls for Turkish intervention in Syria
- Japan competes with China over port investment in Bangladesh
- Workers in Australia condemn Syriza and austerity in Greece
2015-07-23
- Who’s who on the UAW negotiating team?
- Tata Steel to sack 720 workers in England
- US federal disability insurance trust to be depleted next year
- Former Sri Lankan president makes bid for power
- The police murder of Sandra Bland
- Obama promotes militarism and murder
- Michigan legislature defies popular vote against road tax hike
- Dramatic drop in profits for largest corporations in Latin America
- Australian Labor leader insists on turning back refugee boats
- Japanese government ramps up tensions with China
- Greek parliament rubber-stamps new EU austerity plan
- German politicians agitate against immigrants
- R.W. Fassbinder at 70: the German filmmaker’s life on display in Berlin
- Global commodity prices in sharp decline
- Canada: Unions join Liberals, NDP in “Anybody but Conservative” campaign
- UK announces “anti-extremism” plan sanctioning domestic repression and war
2015-07-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Michigan governor declares financial emergency in Wayne County
- Donald Trump: The ugly face of capitalist politics
- French police arrest four youths, citing terror plot against military base
- Sri Lankan plantation workers must oppose wage struggle betrayal
- Bipartisan agreement on austerity at Australian premiers’ summit
- The pseudo-left covers up for Syriza’s betrayal
- US and NATO engage in unprecedented military exercises in Europe
- The German Left Party defends Syriza’s betrayal
- US defense secretary visits Iraq as Pentagon prepares new offensive in Anbar
- Growing income inequality in Germany
- California’s immigration program: A smokescreen for the interests of big business
- Chilean judge orders arrest of army officers who burned youths alive under Pinochet
- Pitched battles between miners and police in Bolivia’s capital
- Selective release of autopsy findings continues whitewash of Sandra Bland killing
- Tony Blair warns against “radical leftism” in Labour leadership race
- UAW keeps sellout plans concealed as talks open with Ford
- New York City airport workers’ job action called off by union
2015-07-25
- Widespread solidarity in Berlin with Greek workers
- Turkey joins US war in Syria
- Canadian terrorism trials reveal use of entrapment by police and intelligence agencies
- Sri Lankan SEP holds inaugural election meeting in Colombo
- Hungarian government takes action against refugees
- Discovery of the most Earth-like planet to date
- How to make $7 billion in 45 minutes
- Anthem to buy Cigna, creating biggest US health insurer
- France’s Lutte Ouvrière group covers for Syriza’s betrayal in Greece
- Theater shooting leaves 3 dead, 9 wounded in Louisiana
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Further revelations in South Korean hacking scandal
- Obama begins East Africa tour with economic and military talks in Nairobi
- Samuel Kassow’s Who Will Write Our History?
- UK government uses demand for weekend work to attack National Health Service
- Australian Labor leader delivers pitch to big business at party conference
- US Justice Department considers investigation into Clinton email use
2015-07-27
- US-backed Saudi strikes in Yemen kill 120 civilians
- This week in history: July 27-August 2
- Socialist Equality Party campaigners win support in Sri Lanka’s plantation district
- Siemens boss Joe Kaeser calls for strong “leadership” and glorifies a dictator
- South African Communist Party and COSATU hold emergency national congresses
- San Diego-based Qualcomm announces 4,700 layoffs
- Mining job cuts: The destructive anarchy of the capitalist market
- Australian Labor Party conference shores up party leader
- Amid ongoing protests, Japan’s upper house to discuss military bills
- German economics minister rushes to exploit business opportunities in Iran
- California judge bars Obama administration’s policy of detaining immigrant children
- US deportation case against Honduran toddler put on hold
- E. L. Doctorow, 1931-2015: A novelist who tackled American history
- Chicago pension cuts struck down by court
- Hundreds attend funeral of Sandra Bland
2015-07-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Cleveland officer pepper sprays crowd of protesters
- Conflicts erupt over Syriza’s contingency planning for Greek euro exit
- With US backing, Turkey prepares to seize buffer zones inside Syria
- Australian SEP meetings discuss political issues posed by Syriza’s betrayal in Greece
- Youth and workers in Australia speak about the Greek crisis
- How the New York Times distorted its own poll on race relations
- The international significance of the Sri Lankan general election
- Australia: Sydney’s median house price tops $1 million
- US Department of Homeland Security spied on Black Lives Matter protesters
- Finland establishes rapid response units to patrol Russian border
- Obama hails Ethiopian regime as US proxy in “war on terror”
- Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) and the phenomenon of American film noir
- German financial supervisor implicates Deutsche Bank in Libor manipulation
- Obama administration issues wrist-slap fine for Fiat Chrysler’s deadly recall delays
- Chinese stock market suffers biggest one-day sell-off since 2007
- UK: Green Party presides over homeless crisis in Bristol
- Petrobras scandal deepens with arrest of top Brazilian businessmen
2015-07-29
- Layoffs mount in West Virginia
- Verizon workers rally in New York, authorize strike action
- Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left USP willing to ally with any capitalist party
- NATO backs Turkish/US regime-change offensive in Syria
- The dark side of American politics
- Syriza’s austerity policies expose the reactionary role of France’s NPA
- Libyan kangaroo court sentences Gaddafi’s son and others to die
- Indonesian President Widodo under pressure as economy slides
- France’s Constitutional Council approves draconian surveillance law
- Ford and GM announce huge quarterly profits
- UK Labour Party descends into crisis over leadership contest
- Failure of Iran nuclear pact will lead to war, Kerry warns
- UK Conservatives plan war and domestic repression
- Workers in Berlin speak out on the crisis in Greece
- Mitsubishi announces closure of central Illinois auto plant
2015-07-30
- US, Turkey prepare to escalate Syrian intervention
- Chris Squire, founding member of Yes, dead at 67
- White House rejects petition for Snowden pardon signed by 168,000
- Witch-hunt continues against Sri Lankan tea estate workers
- Sri Lankan SEP General Secretary Wije Dias interviewed on national election channel
- Bernie Sanders pits US workers against immigrants in Vox interview
- Television programme shows how German companies benefit from privatisation in Greece
- Creditor group calls for slashing education and social spending in Puerto Rico
- Socialist Equality Party holds meeting in Berlin on Syriza and the crisis in Greece
- Cincinnati cop who killed Samuel Dubose charged with murder
- Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback promotes trade unions and NDP
- What is the pseudo-left?
- UK government whips up anti-immigrant hysteria over Eurotunnel security at Calais
- Russia vetoes MH17 tribunal push by US allies
- Former Greek finance minister Varoufakis facing calls for criminal prosecution
- The Dodd-Frank banking law five years on
2015-07-31
- German union manipulates balloting in child care worker strike
- Turkey put on a war footing
- Australia: Two highly-politicised arrests of “foreign fighters”
- Sri Lanka: SEP campaigns against evictions in Colombo
- Fifty years on: Medicare under assault
- German pilots’ union capitulates to Lufthansa
- Royal Dutch Shell to slash 6,500 jobs
- Right-wing Israeli fanatic stabs six at gay rights parade
- Immigrant family detention centers scrutinized at US Congressional forum
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US homeownership rate hits lowest level since 1967
- New York joins other cities and states in lifting minimum wage
- Hillary Clinton and secret Swiss bank accounts
- Fiat Chrysler reports sharp rise in second-quarter profits
- Fourth body recovered from UK factory explosion
- Congressional Republicans move to defund Planned Parenthood
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