World Socialist Web Site

15 June 2009

Protests erupt after Iranian election

By Peter Symonds, 15 June 2009

Clashes between police and supporters of defeated candidate Mousavi erupted over the weekend after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in last Friday’s presidential election.

Sharp conflicts at G8 finance ministers meeting

By Peter Schwarz, 15 June 2009

The meeting of finance ministers of leading industrial countries (G8) held last Friday and Saturday was characterised by sharp conflicts over economic policy, with especially pronounced and growing differences between Germany and the US.

Sri Lanka: Jaffna residents speak out over increasing military repression

By our correspondents, 15 June 2009

While the Sri Lankan government celebrates its defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Tamils in Jaffna face continuing military repression.

Obama smoothes passage of war spending bill by pledging to suppress torture photos

By Tom Eley, 15 June 2009

House and Senate negotiators Friday reached agreement on a $106 billion bill funding the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan through September after President Obama vowed to continue suppressing photos of US personnel torturing Iraqi prisoners.

France opens first permanent military base in the Persian Gulf

By Kumaran Ira, 15 June 2009

The inauguration of a French military base in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, demonstrates that French capitalism is eager to achieve its interests in the Persian Gulf and has ambitions to be a global player.

Baltic economic instability threatens to spread to Sweden

By Jordan Shilton, 15 June 2009

Deepening economic problems in Latvia are threatening to spread throughout the region.

Mass Hong Kong vigil marks Tiananmen massacre

By John Chan, 15 June 2009

An estimated 150,000 people turned out at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to commemorate the anti-government protestors who were killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.

US Supreme Court limits Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel

By Michael Stapleton, 15 June 2009

On May 26, the US Supreme Court handed down an anti-democratic ruling in the case Montejo v. Louisiana which weakens the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of the right to legal counsel.

New in French

Elections européennes
Allemagne : la signification de la campagne du Parti de l’égalité sociale

Par Ulrich Rippert, 15 juin 2009

Le Parti de l’égalité sociale d’Allemagne a été le seul parti à participer aux élections européennes dans le but d’expliquer l’étendue véritable de la crise capitaliste et de proposer une transformation socialiste de la société.

France : Sarkozy promeut la Loi et l’Ordre dans la campagne pour l’élection européenne

Par Francis Dubois, 15 juin 2009

Le président français Nicolas Sarkozy a utilisé la campagne de l’élection européenne pour tenter de faire passer de nouvelles mesures sécuritaires, orientant entièrement l'UMP sur les questions de sécurité dans la dernière semaine de mai.

New in Spanish

Para California, el gobierno de Obama es punta de lanza en los ataques contra los trabajadores

Por Joe Kishore, 15 Junio 2009

El gobernador Republicano del estado de California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, en colaboración con los Demócratas que controlan la legislatura, se están aprovechando de la oportunidad que ofrece la crisis económica que azota al estado para destruir programas sociales fundamentales de los que dependen millones de personas.