30 August 2010

Evidence that Afghan leaders are on CIA payroll

By James Cogan, 30 August 2010

Leaks over the past week have revealed that members of the Afghan government headed by President Hamid Karzai are paid agents of the CIA.

72 immigrants massacred in Mexico

By Kevin Martinez and Rafael Azul, 30 August 2010

The bodies of 72 undocumented immigrants were found in a ranch in northern Mexico by Mexican marines after a gun battle with drug traffickers on August 25.

Glenn Beck in Washington: Preaching the gospel of Mammon and militarism

By Bill Van Auken, 30 August 2010

The Washington rally organized by right-wing Fox News TV personality Glenn Beck offered a twisted mix of religion, potted American history and the glorification of militarism under the banner of “restoring honor” to the USA.

Australian election crisis

Australian media voice concerns over “courtship” of independents

By Nick Beams, 30 August 2010

Negotiations between three key independents and the Liberal and Labor Party leaderships on the composition of the government begin today, with the outcome expected to be decided by the end of the week, after the poll is declared.

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Five years since Hurricane Katrina
Part 2: Ongoing social dispossession

By Naomi Spencer, 30 August 2010

For the poor and working class of New Orleans, the immense destruction Hurricane Katrina inflicted on the city turned out to be only the beginning.

US soldiers punished for not attending Christian rock concert

By Ed Hightower, 30 August 2010

The revelation that US soldiers were punished for refusing to attend a religious rock concert on their base is the latest evidence that Christian fundamentalism is supplanting the Constitution in the American military.

Russia to partially privatize major industries

By Niall Green, 30 August 2010

The Russian government announced last month that it would sell minority stakes in 11 state-owned companies.

US ramps up pressure on Burmese junta over war crimes

By John Roberts, 30 August 2010

Washington’s move has nothing to do with bringing the Burmese generals to justice for their oppressive rule, but is to pressure the junta for concessions, and undercut Chinese influence in Burma.

British Royal Mail plans mail centre closures and job cuts

By Tony Robson, 30 August 2010

Royal Mail (RM) has outlined plans to axe mail centres up and down the country.

New in French

France: Déportations en masse de Roms

Par Antoine Lerougetel, 30 août 2010

Lors d'une attaque fort médiatisée contre la communauté Rom, le gouvernement français a déporté 93 Roms vers la Roumanie jeudi 19 août.

Au soixante-dixième anniversaire de l’assassinat de Léon Trotsky

Résolution du congrès du Socialist Equality Party

Cette résolution sur l’anniversaire de l’assassinat de Léon Trotsky a été adoptée à l’unanimité par le premier congrès national régulier du Socialist Equality Party (USA) qui s’est tenu du 11 au 15 août 2010.

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Perspective

Pakistan’s floods, partition and imperialist oppression

30 August 2010

The floods in Pakistan are a calamity of monumental dimensions. Yet for the rival national bourgeoisies of Pakistan and India, it is business as usual.

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Socialist Equality Party

Resolution of the Socialist Equality Party Congress
Twenty-Five Years Since the Split with the Workers Revolutionary Party

30 August 2010

This resolution on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the split between the International Committee of the Fourth International and the British Workers Revolutionary Party was passed unanimously by the first regular National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 11-15, 2010.

Resolution of the Socialist Equality Party Congress
On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Assassination of Leon Trotsky

20 August 2010

This resolution on the anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky was passed unanimously by the first regular National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010.

This week in history: August 30-September 5

25 years ago: Unions pave way for sale of TWA to corporate raider Icahn

An investigative report by the New York Times, published on August 31, 1985, revealed that unions representing pilots and mechanics at TWA airlines had played the crucial role in the sale of the corporation to Carl Icahn earlier in the month.


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50 years ago: Labor Day in Detroit, 1960

John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee for the presidential election of 1960, addressed a crowd of 60,000 workers during Detroit’s Labor Day parade.

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75 years ago: Massive hurricane kills hundreds in Florida

On September 2, 1935, a powerful hurricane made landfall in the Florida Keys, killing 400. Among those killed by the “Labor Day Hurricane,” one of only three category 5 storms to ever strike the US, were 250 veterans of World War I employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to help build a major Florida highway.

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100 years ago: Marie Curie isolates pure radium

In an address to the French Academy of Sciences September 5, 1910, physicist and chemist Marie Curie announced that she had finally succeeded in isolating pure radium from its salt forms.

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Commentary

Obama to escalate slaughter in Yemen

28 August 2010

With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is expanding the role played by both the agency and US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated.

UAW, Jesse Jackson push illusions in Democrats with phony “jobs march”

By Tom Eley, 28 August 2010

The August 28 “March for Jobs, Justice and Peace” is a fraud perpetrated against the people of Detroit, aimed at channeling growing anger over the social and economic crisis behind those chiefly responsible for the devastation of the city.

India to conduct caste census

By Arun Kumar and Keith Jones, 28 August 2010

Whatever form India’s caste census ultimately takes, the mounting of a caste-based census is a retrograde and reactionary step. It will contribute to the further caste-ization of Indian politics and life, serving to split the working class and oppressed toilers on caste lines.

Workers Struggles

Struggle by Indianapolis GM workers raises crucial issues

By Jerry White, 27 August 2010

In discussions with GM stamping plant workers in Indianapolis, a series of questions have arisen on how to take forward their fight and whether new organizations of struggle are needed to replace the UAW.

Committee Against Utility Shutoffs (CAUS)

Another utility worker killed in Detroit

By Lawrence Porter, 27 August 2010

Veteran utility worker Michael Parks was electrocuted and killed while repairing a power line August 24.

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Arts Review

HeineGermany: Heinrich Heine in the “Marble Galgotha”

By Sybille Fuchs, 26 August 2010

In the last week of July, the celebrated German poet Heinrich Heine was bestowed a very dubious honour, as his bust was placed in the “Teutonic” Hall of Fame built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, which Heine had himself ridiculed.

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