25 May 2012
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Perspective
World News
- Quebec police mount mass arrests in bid to break student strike
- US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria
- Low turnout in Egyptian presidential elections
- Hewlett-Packard announces 27,000 job cuts
- Iranian nuclear talks on brink of collapse
- US steps up drone war on Pakistan
- Greece: French Left Front backs SYRIZA’s appeal to the banks
- French election: The Left Front’s Mélenchon stands against neo-fascist Marine Le Pen
- Papua New Guinea government arrests chief justice
Socialist Equality Party (US) Election Campaign
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White demands release of jailed Quebec students
- The criminalization of dissent in Chicago and Quebec
Statement by Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president - SEP vice presidential candidate wins support in Pittsburgh
Socialist Equality Party
Commentary
- Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow offered access to US military death squad
- Harry Belafonte provides an historical insight into the civil rights movement’s decay
- A revealing look at Murdoch’s influence on British politics
- The pseudo-left unmasked in Greece
- Obama hails police state methods in Chicago
Arts Review
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of the great vocal artists of the 20th century, dies at 86
- Survey of contemporary art
The 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York City - Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power
Workers Struggles
- Australia: New South Wales teachers stop-work against devolution agenda
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Canadian Pacific railway workers strike
- Ireland: Unions shut down five-month occupation at Vita Cortex
- Australia: Bowen Basin coal miners resume strike action
- India: WSWS team attacked as NLC strike enters second month
History