Archive: 04/2017
2017-04-01
- Australian government withholds report on death of unemployed teenager
- David North to introduce documentary of Russian Revolution April 4 in Detroit
- Trump steps up trade war agenda
- The UK’s Great Repeal Bill: A bonfire of workers’ rights
- Trump expected to sign anti-privacy measure into law
- Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE hold picket to demand freedom of Maruti Suzuki workers
- As toll from Peru’s storms mount, capitalists see new source of profits
- Senate committee hearing blames Russian “information warfare” for social discontent in the US
- India: Stalinist-led unions call token protest against frame up of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s ruling party calls for military to have offensive weapons
- More than 52,000 in the US died from drug overdoses in 2015
- Six months after Hurricane Matthew, hunger and desperation grip Haiti’s south
- Greek Syriza government and European Union finalise more brutal austerity
- German air force provides target coordinates for massacre of civilians in Syria
- IYSSE member Mitch Abrams wins student senate seat at Eastern Michigan University
- UK: Southern GTR train drivers speak in opposition to rail union sell-out deal
- Pseudo-left cover for dockworkers’ defeat in Spain
- Trump’s education chief touts Uber as model for “school choice”
- UK: Health workers denounce attacks on Bournemouth Intermediate Care Service
- Highway bridge collapses after fire in Atlanta, affecting over 200,000 commuters
2017-04-03
- Organizers win lawsuit against United Farm Workers for nearly $1 million in stolen wages
- April 3-9: US declares war on Germany
- Trump’s White House stuffed with multimillionaires
- Trump administration plans economic and military offensive against Africa
- Former UK Conservative Party leader Howard threatens war with Spain over Gibraltar
- Films on social life, past and present, in Mexico, the US and Peru
- New York Times column compares Trump probe to hunt for Soviet “atomic spies”
- Washington rolls out red carpet for the butcher of Cairo
- French presidential candidate Mélenchon calls for bringing back the draft
- Sri Lankan university students condemn Maruti Suzuki frame-up
- UK: Demonstration in Leeds opposes attacks on the National Health Service
- Online lecture TODAY: “World War and Revolution: 1914-1917”
- Children in California show elevated lead levels at rates higher than Flint, Michigan
- Behind the Guardian’s “Laundromat” money laundering exposure
- Former South Korean president arrested
- UK: Protesters at Leeds demonstration denounce attacks on National Health Service
- An interview with Jose Ramon Pedroza, director of Los Jinetes Del Tiempo (Time Riders)
- East coast of Australia hit by catastrophic floods
- Australian opposition parties block extradition treaty with China
- Caterpillar confirms plans to close Aurora, Illinois plant, lay off 800
- Angry protests against the Berlin senate’s refugee policies
2017-04-04
- Anti-austerity protests hit Argentina, Brazil and Puerto Rico
- Portrait of the Suzuki corporation, a ruthless transnational employer
- After Park’s ouster, South Korean pseudo-left orients to pro-US opposition
- Egyptian dictator el-Sisi welcomed to the White House
- Explosion in St. Petersburg kills at least 10
- Trump threatens China with war on North Korea
- Maldives opposition intensifies campaign to destabilise government
- Thousands protest police murder of Liu Shaoyo in Paris
- French Guiana strikers reject PS government’s offer
- UK Prime Minister May silent on war threats against Spain over Gibraltar
- Germany clashes with US over NATO funding
- Colombian government ignores warnings, mudslide kills hundreds
- Three dead, four injured in boiler explosion at St. Louis factory
- Black Lives Matter cashes in on black capitalism
- Alberta’s NDP government freezes wages, gambles on oil price rise in budget
2017-04-05
- The Zookeeper’s Wife: Life and heroism in wartime Warsaw
- Vote “no” on Turkey’s constitutional referendum! For the United Socialist States of Europe and the Middle East!
- US seizes on dubious gas attack to push for expanded Syrian war
- Serbia: Right-wing nationalist wins presidential election
- US justice department signals rollback of even limited police oversight
- World teeters on the brink of war
- Trump official warns “the clock has run out” on North Korea
- The frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers—Part 1: A travesty of justice
- A reply to a reader’s comment on a WSWS article on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
- Southern Illinois meatpacking workers enter third week of strike
- Book details killing of Afghan civilians in New Zealand SAS raid
- Australia: Labor and unions facilitate Hazelwood power station closure
- Democrats posture as US Senate begins debate on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
- German auto workers oppose Maruti Suzuki frame-up
- Irish bus workers defy unions and continue strike
- Britain’s pseudo-left promotes Kurdish YPG militia volunteer Brace Belden as University of Glasgow Rector
- Civil engineers’ report details decrepit state of US infrastructure
2017-04-06
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting demands release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Conditions in Latin America, treated concretely…and more abstractly
- Syria’s alleged gas attack: An imperialist provocation
- Settlement reached in lawsuits against NYPD’s illegal surveillance of Muslims
- Mexican president calls criticism of military “inadmissible and unacceptable” in speech before 32,000 soldiers
- UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins right-wing campaign against Ken Livingstone
- US security chief defends police-state measures against immigrants, visitors and citizens
- Oppose Humboldt University’s attack on freedom of speech and historical truth!
- Aggressive claims by Spain helped provoke Gibraltar flare-up with Britain
- Australian flood crisis continues as questions mount over government preparations
- Australian teachers’ agreement: The reality behind union “victory” claims
- Southern GTR train drivers in UK vote down union sell-out again
- French presidential candidates feign opposition in 11-party debate
- Berlin student center halts German army advertising campaign
- National strike in Argentina as opposition to austerity grows
2017-04-07
- David North introduces Tsar to Lenin film screening in Detroit
- US unions deepen ties to Trump administration
- US launches cruise missile attack against Syrian government
- Papua New Guinea government intensifies military operations at ExxonMobil plant
- The bombing of Syria: A new chapter in the US drive for global hegemony
- Mexican and American workers speak about Trump and the US-Mexico border
- Trump approves limit on OSHA’s ability to track workplace injuries and deaths
- The frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers—Part 2: The factory fire and the death of Avineesh Dev
- Workers across India condemn Maruti Suzuki frame-up
- UK Labour MPs and media demand expulsion of Ken Livingstone
- The Legacy of 1905 and the Strategy of the Russian Revolution
- Civil engineers report on US infrastructure neglects danger of lead drinking water pipes
- Senate Republicans change rules to force final vote on Supreme Court nominee
- German politicians and media push for war with Damascus
- Strike threats against Budapest public transit, Algerian state-owned energy and the Ghanaian media
- Canada’s Conservatives join with far-right in opposing “anti-Islamophobia” motion
- Rohingya killings expose fraud of Burmese “democracy”
- Demotion of Bannon brings White House crisis into the open
- The significance of Trump’s proposed elimination of arts, humanities spending
2017-04-08
- Bob White, trade union bureaucrat who led Canadian split from UAW, dies aged 81
- UK mounts trade offensive in defiance of European Union
- US threatens more strikes after cruise missiles hit Syria
- Majority of students cannot afford 95 percent of US colleges
- Four killed, a dozen injured in Stockholm attack
- The US attack on Syria: A prelude to wider war
- Final demolition of Pittsburgh housing complex makes way for up-scale development
- France: Libération makes “humanitarian” case for imperialist war in Syria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sharp fall in US jobs growth in March
- Mounting concerns over Australian housing bubble
- Detroit woman faces 15 years in prison over graffiti incident
- European governments support Trump’s attack on Syria
- Germany activates new cyber warfare unit
- US strikes on Syria dominate Trump-Xi talks
- Lies and hypocrisy over Syrian “gas attack”
- Anti-communist foundation backs extreme right-wing professor Baberowski
- US intensifies military training operations across Africa
2017-04-10
- April 10-16: Lenin arrives at Finland Station
- Trump’s budget cuts likely to have dire impact on US transit projects
- Spanish ruling class closes ranks behind Washington’s attack on Syria
- On the assassination of Leon Trotsky, Latin American death squads and pictures of immigration
- Russian truckers’ strike enters third week amid police crackdown
- The airstrikes in Syria and the war drive of American imperialism
- German trade unions at GM Opel hold secret talks with French auto boss
- German autoworkers support Maruti Suzuki workers
- War and Revolution: 1914–1917
- UK: Corbyn issues mealy-mouthed personal protest as Labour Party lines up behind Syria war drive
- US aircraft carrier deployed in direct threat to North Korea
- Florida anti-war protesters attacked, arrested in police provocation
- Striking conductors in UK denounce attacks on rail network safety
- An interview with Rodrigo Reyes, director of Lupe Bajo el Sol (Lupe Under the Sun)
- East Chicago mayor refuses to reveal plan for lead-poisoned housing complex
- Number of Americans defaulting on student loans reaches 4.2 million
- Canadian PM gives full-throated support to US missile strike on Syria
- Under US instruction, UK foreign secretary abandons visit to Russia
- Australian establishment backs US strike on Syria
- Australian workers and youth speak out against US strike on Syria
2017-04-11
- Mexican autoworkers strike, protests against IMF-dictated price hikes hit Suriname
- Australian government revokes Palestinian activist’s visa
- No to San Diego school layoffs! Defend the right to high quality public education!
- Video showing police dragging passenger from United Airlines flight sparks outrage
- White House threatens more strikes on Syria
- Indian railway and transport workers denounce Maruti Suzuki frame-up
- Three dead in San Bernardino, California school shooting
- Small turnouts for Podemos-led demonstrations in Spain
- Pseudo-left endorses imperialist onslaught against Syria
- French NPA candidate Philippe Poutou defends Trump’s bombing of Syria
- China fears US military attack on North Korea
- The frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers—Part 3: The prosecution’s untenable “mob attack” narrative
- Mélenchon gains in French presidential polls after Trump’s strike on Syria
- Art and Revolution: Should art be judged on the basis of race and gender?
- Subprime auto loans threaten new crisis
- Super-rich in America live 15 years longer than the poorest 1 percent
- Occupational therapist and service user condemn attack on Bournemouth Intermediate Care Team
- Gorsuch restores ultra-right majority on US Supreme Court
- What is behind the German drive to war with Syria?
- Egyptian junta imposes state of emergency after attacks on Coptic churches
- China offers plan to ease trade tensions with US
- Eleven percent of Chile marches against for-profit pension scheme
- Chicago Teachers Union calls off one-day strike vote
- UK: Oppose health care cuts, redundancies and privatisation of the National Health Service
2017-04-12
- The United Airlines beating of David Dao and the case for public ownership of the airline industry
- Australian PM accused of interfering in Papua New Guinea election
- Turkish government presses for military escalation in Syria
- Tensions “highest since Cold War” as US secretary of state arrives in Moscow
- White House Press Secretary: Hitler didn’t “sink to using chemical weapons”
- South Korean presidential candidates line up behind US war drive
- Germany: Increased suicide rates among refugees
- Australian pseudo-left groups back teachers’ union after sell-out deal
- Indian ICFI supporters to picket for release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Deaths from US bombings triple in Syria, Iraq
- Trump threatens North Korea, issues ultimatum to China
- “Nothing is entirely serious”—least of all Pablo Larraín’s Neruda
- What the Maruti Suzuki workers were fighting for
- No to war in Syria!
- IMF documents labour’s declining share of global income
- Workers in UK “gig economy” charged hundreds of pounds for taking sick leave
- Despite G7 endorsement of Syria airstrike, US-Europe divisions grow
- US retail stores closing at record rate
- UK CEO pay skyrockets as workers’ wages continue to plummet
- Australia’s role in US plans for war on North Korea
2017-04-13
- Australian pseudo-left promotes fraudulent posturing of new union head
- Trump administration orders federal agencies to begin cutting jobs and programs
- Australia: Victorian teachers denounce union-backed agreement
- Talks in Moscow fail to dispel rising US-Russian tensions
- What would a US-European-Russian war look like?
- Two more US coal miners killed
- Support grows for Maruti Suzuki workers
- BBC documentary exposes Bank of England’s role at centre of Libor-fixing scandal
- Narrow Republican victory in Kansas special election
- Trump’s attorney general threatens immigrants in speech at US-Mexico border
- US claims of Syria nerve gas attack: The anatomy of a lie
- Canada joins Washington in charging Russia with complicity in “war crimes”
- Billions of pounds more in welfare cuts are enforced in Britain
- Australian prime minister visits India to boost strategic ties
- Der Spiegel columnist adopts slogans of the far right
- Spectrum of anti-hydrogen observed
2017-04-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Steel plant in Indiana spills contaminated wastewater into Lake Michigan
- Fallout continues from beating of United Airlines passenger David Dao
- UAW executives get pay raises as worker pay tumbles
- Sri Lankan artists express solidarity with the framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- The Coming War on China: A pacifist appeal
- US drops largest non-nuclear weapon on Afghanistan: A crime against humanity
- New Zealand government and opposition back US war in Syria
- Video shows Sacramento police beating man for allegedly “jaywalking”
- US media reports Trump preparing “preemptive strike” on North Korea
- Trump plans detention force and network of camps for immigrants
- Hundreds of jailed immigrants join hunger strike in Tacoma, Washington
- Britain’s Guardian cynically poses as opponent of war in Syria
- Fire hits Grande-Synthe refugee camp in France
- Right-wing media mobilizes in support of Humboldt University Professor Jörg Baberowski
- Lawyers race to save seven Arkansas death row inmates from “execution by assembly line”
- Australian academics witch-hunted for challenging US lies on Syria attack
2017-04-15
- Turkey to vote on constitutional referendum Sunday
- Russia and Iran issue warning against further US attack on Syria
- CIA Director calls WikiLeaks an “enemy,” says Assange has “no First Amendment freedoms”
- Trump’s new federal law blocks state funding for Planned Parenthood
- Media, political establishment treat dropping of biggest bomb since Hiroshima as nonevent
- Sri Lankan government sponsors a sham celebration of the Russian Revolution
- New Zealand meat union pushes through pro-company deal at Taylor Preston
- Nuclear experts speak on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
- China appeals to US to back down from war with North Korea
- UK: The anti-union laws and the trade union bureaucracy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump makes pro-insurance company changes to Obamacare
- Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
- On the Freedom Highway with Rhiannon Giddens
- The domination of finance capital: Who rules the world?
- German football team coach bus hit by roadside bombs
- Australian worker challenges union-company wage-cutting deal
2017-04-17
- The German weekly Die Zeit, Jörg Baberowski and the Historians Dispute
- April 17-23: Lenin issues April Theses
- Ballot dispute erupts as Erdogan declares a “Yes” victory in Turkish constitutional referendum
- Tesla’s market valuation pushes past Ford and GM
- Syrian rebels massacre at least 126 civilians in suicide bomb blast
- Trump administration recklessly escalating the conflict with Korea
- US threats of war against North Korea continue
- US media warns of “Russian meddling” in Latin America
- German military historian calls for army leadership to assume more political power
- At least 26 dead in garbage dump collapse in Sri Lanka
- US autoworkers denounce drive to World War III, demand freedom for Maruti Suzuki workers
- Democrats push anti-Russian campaign at “tax day” protests
- Without evidence, UK parliamentary report accuses Russia of interference in Brexit referendum vote
- Judge temporarily blocks Arkansas execution spree
- Argentine teachers launch protest strike
- Amazon workers denounce working conditions
- How the AEU is attempting to push through a sell-out of Victorian teachers
2017-04-18
- Strikes hit mines in Peru and Mexico as retired US coal miners face health care cutoff
- Mounting political tensions in aftermath of Turkish referendum
- Edward Yang’s Taipei Story (1985) depicts a city of sadness and alienation
- Sri Lankan plantation and railway workers condemn Maruti Suzuki frame-up
- Trump administration announces new military operation in Somalia
- Trade spat precedes IMF meeting
- Papua New Guinea soldiers attack refugees in Australian-run prison camp
- Washington pushes world to brink of nuclear war
- Obama lives it up in the lap of luxury
- Ultra-right libertarian to run the US Education Office of Civil Rights
- Latest cuts plan at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe threatens 4,000 jobs
- Severe humanitarian crisis in Iraq with 800,000 going to bed hungry
- Immigrant arrests up 33 percent since Trump inauguration
- BP oil well blowout in North Alaska
- Behind the Sun’s diatribe against footballer Ross Barkley
- India strengthens defence ties with Bangladesh
2017-04-19
- Trump pushes reactionary “Buy American, Hire American” plan
- New York governor implements phony free tuition program for public higher education
- India: ICFI supporters protest to demand release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Snap UK general election called amid continuing Brexit crisis
- US continues dangerous brinkmanship with North Korea
- Backdrop to Trump’s speech: The social disaster in Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Indian bus workers strike against privatisation
- Berlin’s Humboldt University attempts to suppress student criticism of Jörg Baberowski
- Parti de l’égalité socialiste statement on the French presidential election
- Suspect in Cleveland Facebook murder kills himself as police close in
- Irish unions scuttle Bus Eireann strike
- White House divided on future of Paris climate agreement
- BMW autoworkers strike in Britain against decimation of pensions
- Arkansas determined to execute five death row inmates by end of April
- America’s longest war drags on in Afghanistan
2017-04-20
- Forty percent of Michigan households struggle to make ends meet
- Sanders begins nationwide tour to promote Democratic Party
- The silence of the pseudo-left on the danger of war
- Science and Socialism
- US vice president warns North Korea “the sword is ready”
- Online lecture Saturday: The February Revolution
- US secretary of state issues war threat against Iran
- Incumbent Jakarta governor defeated in bitter electoral contest
- First reported deportation of “DREAMer” immigrant protected under Obama-era program
- Burqa ban included in German union contract
- Special election for House seat in Georgia heads to June runoff
- France announces major military deployment on presidential election day
- Flint mayor proposes to stay with Detroit water
- Small uptick in growth but major downside risks remain, says IMF
- Bulgaria: New government to include fascist parties
- UK parliament votes for snap June 8 general election
- British autoworkers strike BMW to defend pensions
- Turnbull government announces anti-immigrant “Australia first” policies
2017-04-21
- Detroit resumes mass water shutoffs with nearly 18,000 households at risk
- Three dead as millions demonstrate across Venezuela
- Unions collaborate with Trump to push trade war and militarism
- New York-New Jersey cable workers strike against Spectrum
- Panorama’s “A Spy in the IRA” reveals British collusion in Irish Republican Army internal discipline murders
- Washington threatens war against Iran
- NPA candidate Philippe Poutou holds pro-war campaign meeting in Paris
- US government and media ratchet up threats to North Korea
- Indian elite hails US bombings in Syria and Afghanistan
- Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez found dead in his prison cell
- Australia: After ABC program, Labor calls for investigation into One Nation
- Growing opposition to Verdi trade union at Berlin airports
- Sections of Paris on lockdown after pre-election shooting
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The political issues in the fight to reject the Victorian teachers’ EBA
- Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reverses Obama-era decision on student loan debt
- US preparing to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- Private ward opened in UK National Health Service in Bournemouth Hospital
2017-04-22
- Twelve dead as food riots spread in working class districts of Caracas, Venezuela
- Media and politicians agitate against Turks living in Germany
- US defense secretary targets Syria with chemical weapons allegation
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna residents demand release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh speaks at San Diego State University on art and identity politics
- A response from a scientist to “Science and socialism”
- France’s election at gunpoint
- Hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners
- UK nurses in online vote over strike in protest at low pay
- Tense standoff continues on Korean peninsula
- A surge in Minnesota of homeless elderly
- Stop the drive to world war! For peace, equality and socialism!
- Hundreds of thousands to participate in worldwide “March for Science”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Homeland Security chief defends deportation of DREAMer immigrant
- Open letter from the IYSSE to the president of Humboldt University in Berlin
- More warnings about the Australian housing market
- Over 8.3 million American adults suffer from severe psychological distress
- Fujitsu strikers in the UK speak out in defence of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Police provocation at Flint Town Hall results in six arrests
- Arkansas carries out first of five “assembly line” executions
- Leading ministers outline war agenda behind UK’s snap general election
- Latest economic data dampen US growth prospects
- Canadian government seeks to placate Trump following NAFTA comments
- ICFI supporters in India call meeting on “World War and the Russian Revolution”
- US steps up campaign against Julian Assange
2017-04-24
- April 24-30: Trotsky released from British prison camp in Canada
- Hundreds of thousands march worldwide to defend science
- IMF meeting signals descent into global trade war
- Pence’s Asian tour reinforces US threats to North Korea
- Maine to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients
- Macron and neo-fascist Le Pen advance to run-off in French presidential elections
- Hawaii to modernize nuclear fallout shelters
- Germany: Thousands participate in protests in defence of science
- US prepares military response to world-historic famine in sub-Saharan Africa, Arabian Peninsula
- UK Labour right calls for cross-party pro-EU alliances in general election
- Science protests held across Canada
- Red-red-green Berlin state Senate continues deportations
- Thousands join March for Science demonstrations in Australia
- Arkansas double-execution planned tonight as part of unprecedented killing spree
- Hundreds of Afghan soldiers die in Taliban attack
- Thousands march in London in defence of science
2017-04-25
- Australian senator warns of war with China
- Brazilian general strike set for Friday
- Sri Lankan government seeks to suppress garbage disaster protests
- Rail companies Bombardier and Siemens plan merger
- Sanders campaigns for anti-abortion Democrat in Nebraska
- The double-execution horror in Arkansas
- Obama returns to Chicago to promote “civic engagement”
- US naval “armada” menaces North Korea
- Voices of the March for Science
- Modi’s “Make in India” campaign and the battle of the Maruti Suzuki workers
- French ruling elite rallies around Macron
- Detroit father deported after 19 years in the US
- Ann Arbor, Michigan father of two faces deportation
- Attack on UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over nuclear first strike
- UK adult social care system on verge of collapse
- US defense secretary makes crisis trip to Afghanistan
2017-04-26
- Writers’ Guild of America members authorize strike
- Spain: Architect of 1936 Franco uprising reinterred with full military honours
- South Korean presidential candidates move further to the right on North Korea
- San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 1
- More voices of the March for Science
- Australian Socialist Alternative conference: In the service of imperialism
- Trump summons the Senate to the White House
- Wall Street to cut Obama his first six-figure check
- New Zealand fast food workers hold nationwide stoppage
- US tests missile in Pacific as it escalates threats to North Korea
- The frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers—Part 4: The police and company conspire against the workers
- Life expectancy on the rise in US, but only for the rich
- What lies behind the German elite’s celebration of Macron?
- Hollande invites Le Pen, Macron to funeral of slain Champs-Élysées officer
- Flint residents march on third anniversary of lead poisoning
- Spontaneity and Consciousness in The February Revolution
- Demonstrators in Cologne support IYSSE fight for freedom of expression at Humboldt University
- 22,600 retired US coal miners face loss of health benefits on May 1
- Behind funding deadline theatrics, Democrats back Trump’s war on immigrants, increased military spending
- Labour outlines pro-business “soft Brexit” policy for June 8 vote
- Flint residents denounce arrests at town hall meeting
- Alternative for Germany moves further to the right
2017-04-27
- Turkish warplanes hit Washington’s Kurdish proxy forces in Syria
- Trump tax cuts: A bonanza for corporations and the wealthy
- Should art be judged on the basis of race and gender?
- Scottish college lecturers walk out over pay and conditions
- No to Macron and Le Pen! For an active boycott of the French election!
- Anti-immigrant campaign intensifies in New Zealand
- White House briefing signals escalating war preparations against North Korea
- Climate scientist Michael Mills describes the devastation of a nuclear detonation
- British ruling elite regard Macron victory in France as a “mixed blessing”
- Tamil workers in northern Sri Lanka support Maruti Suzuki workers
- Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
- Attack on German football club allegedly motivated by greed
- Fiji Times publisher, editors charged with sedition
- Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
- Bournemouth health workers attend NHS FightBack meeting against redundancies and cuts
- Australian Anzac Day celebrations promote militarism and war
2017-04-28
- Trump steps up trade war over NAFTA
- Blairites declare UK Labour party unelectable
- Sri Lankan president calls on former army commander to “discipline the country”
- Spectrum workers in New York express anger after a month on strike
- California judge issues injunction against executive order to defund sanctuary cities
- The Trump tax plan: More money for the oligarchs
- Trump threatens “major conflict” with North Korea
- Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910–1950—a significant exhibition
- Sri Lanka SEP holds picket in Jaffna to free Maruti Suzuki workers
- French youth protest Le Pen-Macron second round in presidential elections
- Trump prepares to gut Federal land protections
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- German-Israeli relations in crisis
- Fourth Arkansas execution ends gruesome eight-day state killing spree
- Two US troops killed in same Afghanistan valley where massive bomb was dropped
2017-04-29
- A new stage in the repudiation of international law
- Australia: Growing opposition to sell-out agreement among Victorian teachers and support staff
- Muhi—Generally Temporary, or, a real concern for human suffering
- Striking college lecturers protest outside of Scottish parliament
- Obama’s $400,000 speeches: Unabashed. Shameless. Provocative.
- US warns of “catastrophic consequences” if North Korea is not brought to heel
- Inquest continues into death of mentally ill Milwaukee County Jail inmate denied water for seven days
- Ahead of EU Brexit summit, Merkel takes tough stance on UK
- Mélenchon refuses to take a position in French presidential runoff
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Student parliament demands Humboldt University rescind support of Baberowski
- Trump’s FCC chairman issues plan to overturn 2015 “net neutrality” rules
- War rhetoric dominates UK snap general election
- US economic growth slumps to slowest pace in three years
- Canada planning for war with North Korea
- Police arrest five, carry out arbitrary searches at UC Berkeley
- New Zealand: Anzac Day glorifies imperialist war
- French youth speak to the WSWS in Amiens: “I’m looking for a movement that wants neither Le Pen nor Macron”
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