Archive: 08/2015
2015-08-01
- Trainwreck: The latest from Judd Apatow
- Unidentified gunmen fire on Sri Lankan election rally
- Glasgow homeless caseworkers’ strike ended
- Sanders talks “left” and moves right
- Prosecutor declines to bring charges against Cincinnati cops who lied to protect killer of Samuel DuBose
- Economic slowdown in Peru ignites social tensions
- The political bankruptcy of Syriza’s Left Platform
- German federal prosecutor investigates blog for treason
- NATO scrambles jets against Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea
- Airplane debris may be from missing flight MH370
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Socialist Equality Party holds first election meeting in Sri Lanka’s north
- Clashes erupt on West Bank after child is murdered by Zionist settlers
- Tensions between India and Pakistan escalate despite Modi-Sharif meeting
- Australian unions promote anti-Chinese nationalism
2015-08-03
- Union calls off District line action prior to London Underground strike
- This week in history: August 3-9
- German-US tensions intensify following Turkish attack on Kurdish minority
- US-led Pacific trade pact talks break down
- Manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) for the 2015 general election
- The oligarchs’ election
- Washington stunned by attack on US mercenaries in Syria
- One in four Michigan children live in poverty
- TPP investor-state dispute settlement clauses allow corporations to sue governments
- Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman: More of a moneymaking than a literary event?
- After Syriza’s capitulation, Troika demands brutal austerity programme
- French Foreign Minister Fabius visits Iran to boost ties after nuclear deal
- Chicago police investigator fired for not covering up police killings
- Harper formally launches Canada’s federal election campaign
- Australian parliamentary speaker resigns amid scandal over helicopter ride
- Amnesty International report details Israeli war crimes in 2014 bombing of Rafah
2015-08-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit City Council imposes new 7.5 percent water rate hike
- Obama authorizes escalation of US war against Syria
- Calls for deployment of German army to deal with refugees
- Dallas man dies after telling deputies he cannot breathe
- The rot at the heart of the American economy
- London Underground workers set to hold second 24-hour strike
- Sri Lanka: JVP election manifesto woos big business
- Australian job cuts mount
- US has spied on Japanese government for a decade
- International Viewpoint, Syriza and the fraud of Greece’s “Truth Committee” on debt
- Syriza’s austerity policies pave way for far right in Greece
- Germany takes over military training operations in Mali
- How Greece was looted by its creditors
2015-08-05
- US telecom unions order Verizon workers to stay on job as contract expires
- Tamil National Alliance presents pro-imperialist manifesto in Sri Lankan elections
- Over 450 civilians killed by US-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria
- One year of Obama’s Iraq-Syria war
- Washington, DC: Government officials prepare whitewash of fatal Metro accident
- France cancels Mistral helicopter-carrier sales to Russia
- New Zealand: Mana Party supports Labour’s anti-Chinese campaign
- Imperialist powers prepare another military intervention in Libya
- UK government rips up restrictions on fracking
- Second-largest US coal producer files for bankruptcy
- German government fires prosecutor over treason charge against Internet blog
- Media fans speculation over possible Biden presidential bid
- Australian government announces $89 billion naval expansion
2015-08-06
- IYSSE, SEP (Australia) lectures: 100 years since the Zimmerwald conference
- Surge in homelessness among young people across the UK
- Sri Lankan irrigation department residents discuss SEP policies
- The 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
- Thousands protest torture-murder of Mexican photojournalist and four women
- Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in the Bronx exposes safety issues
- Obama speech on Iran: Collapse of nuclear deal will mean war
- Mr. Holmes: Old age, the perils of science, a minor mystery solved …
- Flooding across South Asia affects millions of people
- Obama administration finalizes climate rules
- German army peddles propaganda at heavy metal concert
- US uses ASEAN summit to escalate confrontation with Beijing
- ACLU files lawsuit over handcuffing of Kentucky school children
2015-08-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian state Labor government wracked by factional turmoil
- Former Sri Lankan president mounts chauvinist election campaign
- The sacking of the German attorney general and the assault on press freedom
- Australian business demands deeper cuts to wages and conditions
- Obama on Iran: The specter of World War III
- Canada’s NDP promises “change” and continued austerity
- International scholars call on Japanese PM to issue apology
- Hundreds dead as refugee boat sinks in Mediterranean
- Wildfires spread in Northern California
- UK teachers leave profession in record numbers
- Buffalo, New York: Opioid overdosing reaches epidemic proportions
- Obamacare enrollees highly dissatisfied with health coverage
2015-08-08
- US, Russia reach deal for chemical weapons inspections in Syria
- London Tube workers carry out 24-hour strike
- Syracuse, New York ravaged by unemployment, poverty and low wages
- Chauvinist Quebec bill targets Muslim minority
- One year since the death of Michael Brown
- German court in 1992 upheld 1931 treason conviction of Carl von Ossietzky
- New Zealand government digs in after breakdown of US-led trade talks
- Sri Lanka: Pseudo-left NSSP prepares to support US-backed “colour revolution”
- Plane debris likely to be from missing flight MH370
- London Tube worker describes issues in struggle
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Report shows continuing stagnation in US jobs, wages
- Israel’s Netanyahu government widens use of anti-democratic detention orders
- Hutchison Ports axes half its Australian workforce
- Australian waterfront workers denounce job cuts
- Republican presidential debate: The freak show at Quicken Loans Arena
- Higher rates approved for California utilities
2015-08-10
- Windows 10: An operating system that gathers data on everything you do
- Volkswagen and IG Metall union plan massive job cuts
- Ukrainian government blacklists Russian actors and musicians
- This week in history: August 10-16
- “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart steps down
- UK: Kirkby residents lose class action case against Sonae Indústria
- On the death of German multi-billionairess Johanna Quandt
- Puerto Rico on rations
- Police murder and class rule in America
- Australian government budgets target working class suburbs
- SEP campaign receives support in northern Sri Lanka
- Conflict within US political establishment over Iran nuclear accord intensifies
- Hutchison Australia waterfront workers continue strike action
- Scholarship or War Propaganda? The Return of German Militarism and the Dispute at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- Sacked Hutchison workers speak out
- Foreword to Scholarship or War Propaganda? The Return of German Militarism and the Dispute at Berlin's Humboldt University
- Federal agents sent to Baltimore to bolster local police
- Video: The battle facing US autoworkers
- Australian Federal Police aid Sri Lankan unit implicated in torture
- US psychologists’ convention bans participation in torture
2015-08-11
- The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spain: New National Security Law to come into force before Catalan elections
- Sri Lankan election: Pro-US UNP appeals to big business
- Pentagon manual justifies war crimes and press censorship
- UK: Manchester City Council bans homeless protesters from city centre
- US presidential candidate Bobby Jindal calls for prosecution of “sanctuary city” mayors
- Protesters denounce military legislation as Japan marks anniversary of nuclear bombings
- Italian pseudo-left supports Syriza’s betrayal
- Abadi announces reforms aimed at “decentralization” of Iraq
- Hutchison workers continue strike as Australian union calls for “negotiated” job cuts
- Port Botany and Brisbane workers oppose Hutchison’s mass sackings
- St. Louis County declares state of emergency in crackdown against police violence protests
- Northern Virginia schools face major budget cuts
- German economy minister celebrates the expansion of the Suez Canal
- Economic downturn intensifies Australian political crisis
2015-08-12
- The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
- Wisconsin judge rules youths must be tried as adults for attempted murder
- Turkish government steps up repression of political opponents
- Sri Lankan election: 110 unions and NGOs back right-wing, pro-US UNP
- Sanders’ appeal to anger over inequality continues to draw crowds
- Journalists arrested during Ferguson protests last year face charges
- New York governor implicated in torture by state prison officials
- Chinese currency devaluation underscores global instability
- New Zealand Meat Workers Union calls off two-day strike
- Who is the new German Attorney General Peter Frank?
- US, Mexican and Canadian autoworkers face common fight
- Germany: Layoffs at gourmet chain Karstadt/Perfetto
- Oppose the political censorship of the IYSSE at Australian universities!
- Hutchison Ports’ sackings in Australia and the global restructuring of the docks
- Syriza agrees to full list of EU austerity demands in new bailout plan
- Ferguson protests continue in defiance of state of emergency
- Three million gallons of hazardous mine waste released into Colorado river
- Amy, a documentary film about the British singer Amy Winehouse
2015-08-13
- Australian warehouse workers defy court order to end strike
- Scottish Socialist Party defends Syriza
- Sri Lanka: Big business parties issue false pledges on unemployment
- Danger mounts of US/NATO war with Russia
- Democratic Party moves to drop “Jefferson-Jackson” name from fundraisers
- White House defends imprisonment of immigrant children
- Australian dock union goes to court to seek deal on Hutchison sackings
- Syriza government steps up repression of refugees
- Two types of visitors: Germany applies different standards to dictators and their victims
- China devaluation fuels market turmoil
- Hillary Clinton forced to surrender email server to FBI
- Explosion wreaks destruction in Chinese city of Tianjin
- Canada-US frictions flare over Trans Pacific Partnership
- UAW officials pledge no push for big gains in contract talks
- German news anchor’s anti-racist comments conceal the real issues
2015-08-14
- German government supports ThyssenKrupp in fight to secure submarine contract in Australia
- Sri Lankan election: UNP uses murder scandal to smear opponents
- Major powers intensify diplomatic maneuvering over fate of Assad regime
- The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) replies to the United Socialist Party
- German companies profit from the new “refugee industry”
- An international strategy for autoworkers
- Woody Allen’s Irrational Man: The familiar flatness and lack of conviction
- UK Conservative government escalates attacks on asylum seekers
- Australian waterfront union betrays Hutchison strike
- First round of Haitian legislative elections held amidst immigration and political crises
- Greek parliament votes for new round of austerity measures
- Kentucky county official defies court order on gay marriage
- Texas carries out its tenth execution of 2015
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- China: More than 50 dead in Tianjin factory explosion
- Chicago Public Schools announces hundreds of teacher layoffs, spending and pension cuts
- Sweden drops some allegations against Julian Assange but US-backed persecution continues
2015-08-15
- Australia: Union officials force SEP supporters off Sydney dock picket
- Tamil nationalist groups adopt pro-imperialist policy in Sri Lankan elections
- Sri Lankan president to block Rajapakse as prime minister
- Vote for the Socialist Equality Party!
- New York Times uses rape allegations to promote a wider war in the Middle East
- Melbourne transport workers vote for industrial action
- The Tianjin explosions and the discrediting of capitalism
- Chelsea Manning facing indefinite solitary confinement
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mass layoffs worldwide as corporate mergers near new record
- Sacked Hutchison workers barred entry after Australian union sells out strike
- The curious career of Cheryl Gwyn, New Zealand’s inspector-general of intelligence and security
- Eurogroup approves austerity deal with Syriza-led Greek government
- Large demonstrations in Ecuador against Correa government
- Kerry travels to Cuba to raise flag at American embassy
- What does the “Jeremy Corbyn phenomenon” represent?
- Connecticut high court rules state death penalty unconstitutional
- Australian government in turmoil as economic pressures intensify
2015-08-17
- The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
- Germany: No confidence vote against Ver.di union in day care dispute
- This week in history: August 17-23
- Pittsburgh-based steel manufacturer locks out 2,200 workers
- Sri Lankan general election signals deepening political instability
- For a united offensive of autoworkers and steelworkers against the corporate-government assault
- “Ferocious” slump in dairy prices rocks New Zealand economy
- Paris public meeting discusses world significance of Sri Lankan elections
- Japanese PM’s speech on World War II riddled with duplicity
- Republican candidate Trump backs deportation of millions
- Australian wharfies voice concerns about MUA sellout of Hutchison strike
- Fiat-Chrysler workers overwhelmingly support strike action
- UK government to cut number of cancer drugs available on the NHS
- Canadian prime minister proposes ban on travel to areas under “terrorist” control
- Corruption and bankruptcy at the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Austrian government intensifies crackdown on refugees
- AT&T collaboration with the NSA reveals US corporate-intelligence nexus
2015-08-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Chinese regime seeks to censor outrage over Tianjin disaster
- US Steel to close blast furnace, cut 1,100 jobs at Alabama mill
- Sri Lanka: SEP’s final election meeting warns of sharp struggles ahead
- Sri Lankan election results foreshadow political upheavals
- The cover-up of torture in America’s prisons
- New Zealand: Thousands protest Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
- The Devil is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and their Battle for Freedom, by James Green
- Scores of refugees die brutally in the Mediterranean
- UK’s Kids Co charity folds after government withdraws backing
- Hugo Pinell, last of the “San Quentin Six,” murdered in prison
- Egyptian military regime adopts draconian “anti-terrorism” legislation
- Japan contracts as world economy lurches toward depression
- Pentagon to expand drone killing program
- Australian maritime union in talks with Hutchison to impose cost-cutting
- Pennsylvania budget stalemate in seventh week
- Refugees confront appalling conditions in the Balkans
- Autoworkers vote for strike as UAW continues silence on talks
- Alabama budget proposals threaten state Medicaid program
2015-08-19
- Demand grows for closure of UK’s Yarl’s Wood detention centre
- Australian union sells out Woolworths warehouse strikers
- Chinese official, company managers under investigation after Tianjin disaster
- Thai junta exploits Bangkok bombing
- Pro-US United National Party to form government in Sri Lanka
- Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant appears with Sanders at Democratic Party rally in Seattle
- US states move to cut Planned Parenthood funding
- World capitalism “toboggans toward catastrophe”
- Mass protests demand release of Palestinian hunger striker
- Payment for services rendered: Obama prepares to cash in on presidency
- European parliaments move to back austerity measures for Greece
- French presidency has “kill list” of people targeted for assassination
- Canada’s New Democrats seek to bolster right-wing economic credentials
- Albuquerque police officers who killed homeless man to stand trial for murder
- Julian Bond, veteran of early civil rights struggle and pillar of establishment, dies at 75
2015-08-20
- Yemen faces humanitarian crisis as US-backed assault continues
- US steelworkers, autoworkers demand wage hikes in new contracts
- The significance of the SEP’s vote in Sri Lankan elections
- Australian transport union calls off Melbourne train and tram strike
- St. Louis police kill 18-year-old, send SWAT teams against demonstrators
- US police expanding use of potentially warrantless cellphone trackers
- Seventy-five years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- German parliament votes by a large majority for Greek austerity plan
- German Army and NATO begin major military exercises against Russia
- Need for food assistance rising in US despite claims of recovery
- Jeremy Corbyn’s economic plan to rescue British capitalism
- Amazon office workers subjected to brutal exploitation
- Royal Commission debacle compounds Australian government crisis
2015-08-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- China: Details emerge of safety violations and corruption in Tianjin
- Brutal crackdown on protest against police violence in St. Louis, Missouri
- Locked out Allegheny Technology steelworkers determined to fight
- Sri Lanka: “National unity government” to implement harsh austerity measures
- Leon Trotsky’s place in history
- Capitalism and the global refugee crisis
- Canada’s NDP leader applauds Thatcher’s legacy
- Dispute over coal mine highlights Australian political turmoil
- Chelsea Manning found guilty of violating prison rules
- North and South Korea exchange artillery fire across border
- Escalating heroin epidemic in Huntington, West Virginia
- German “democrat” Heribert Prantl lauds vote on austerity for Greece
- In bid to ram through austerity package, Tsipras calls snap elections in Greece
- The Good Fight: the latest from Washington DC-based hip hop artist Oddisee
- War-mongering against Russia by the German parliament’s official newspaper
- Global markets plunge amid signs of deepening slump
- “Lay us off now,” Chicago Teachers Union official says
2015-08-22
- Turkey before the elections: Political instability, economic crisis and war
- Thousands of US steelworkers rally in advance of contract expiration
- Pro-US UNP leader sworn in as new Sri Lankan prime minister
- New York City lawyers suggest health care provider committed a crime in death of Rikers Island inmate
- Xavier Dolan’s Mommy: The story of a troubled youth
- Autopsy reveals St. Louis police shot teenager Mansur Ball-Bey in the back
- Panic sell-off on world financial markets
- New Zealand rail company prepares further job cuts
- Troops fire on refugees trying to enter Macedonia
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Tensions deepen on the Korean Peninsula following ultimatum by Pyongyang
- EU backs Greece’s Tsipras as Left Platform splits from Syriza
- German parliamentary committee demands increase in military budget
- Britain: Labour leadership beset by talk of splits, coups and legal challenges
- Hillary Clinton and Black Lives Matter: A revealing confrontation
- WSWS campaigns for unity of US and Canadian autoworkers
- Australia called on to join illegal US military operations in Syria
2015-08-24
- Varoufakis documents Syriza's political treachery
- This week in history: August 24-30
- UK Tube strike: Conservative transport spokesman calls for scab force
- St. Petersburg, Florida: Millions of gallons of untreated sewage pumped into bayou
- Lockout of 2,200 workers at Pittsburgh-based steel manufacturer enters second week
- Sri Lankan corporate elite demands “tough” economic decisions from new government
- Passengers foil shooting plot in Amsterdam-Paris train
- Nearly 14 million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme poverty
- Poland rearms against Russia
- Global Ponzi scheme threatens to implode
- Tensions remain high on Korean Peninsula
- Republican candidates attack the Fourteenth Amendment
- German Left Party leader backs sellout by Ver.di trade union
- Protests continue against Ecuadorean President Correa’s policies
- Strong support from Canadian Fiat Chrysler workers for an international struggle
2015-08-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Right-wing Ukrainian government celebrates Independence Day
- The corporate-union assault on autoworker health care
- Pennsylvania: Democrats move to cut state worker and teacher pensions
- German and French leaders meet in Berlin summit on refugee crisis
- Macedonian government cracks down on refugees
- German Left Party declares its support for Syriza’s Alexis Tsipras
- California insurance rates rise under Obamacare
- France’s neo-fascist National Front expels its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Economic turmoil heightens infighting in Chinese regime
- As global selloff deepens, US stock market teeters on edge of collapse
- Straight Outta Compton: an uncritical picture of the rise of American “gangster rap”
- Worker killed in another Chinese factory explosion
- Indiana autoworkers welcome WSWS campaign team
- Australian by-election becomes test of Abbott’s leadership
2015-08-26
- After the Sri Lankan elections: Tamil nationalists support US-backed parties
- Scotland: Sheku Bayoh likely died of asphyxiation by police, lawyer says
- Greece’s Popular Unity: An attempt to create Syriza 2.0
- Peru faces Wall Street downgrade
- The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide
- The New York City housing crisis and the $100 million penthouse
- North and South Korea agree to ease tensions following high-level talks
- Japanese PM snubs China’s World War II victory ceremony
- Autoworkers speak out: GM worker in Wentzville, Missouri calls for international unity
- Attacks on refugee camp encouraged by German government’s right-wing policies
- Britain’s Financial Times hails Sri Lankan election result
- US stock rally collapses amid fears of global slump
- Seven million Americans in default on student loans
- “Reform summit” to discuss stepped up class war in Australia
- Australia: BlueScope Steel demands mass job cuts under threat of plant closure
- Biden, White House spur media discussion of presidential bid
- Dismaland, Banksy’s parody theme park: A despairing response to a complex world
2015-08-27
- Former Virginia news reporter kills one-time colleagues on live television, then shoots himself
- Australian “reform summit” highlights economic and political fragility
- 2,200 steelworkers still locked out by Allegheny Technologies
- US announces shift on Sri Lankan war crimes investigation
- Bernie Sanders: Silent partner of American militarism
- Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and the Flash and American Ultra: Tired or clueless filmmaking
- Ten years since Hurricane Katrina
- India reaches into the South Pacific to counter China
- Fifty refugees die in ship’s hold in new Mediterranean migrant tragedy
- Available from Mehring Books: Hurricane Katrina, social consequences and political lessons
- A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt
- Judge reaffirms order to release imprisoned immigrant children
- NHS hospitals face massive deficits and demands for further cuts
- Fed acts to push US stocks higher
- Half a million California children are homeless
- Canada’s NDP pledges balanced budget, signals support for bigger military
- German politicians and the media push for new wars in Africa
2015-08-28
- State agents to face no penalties for assault on Virginia student
- Sri Lankan unions promise to protect new pro-US administration
- Australian “Anzac Day terror plot” charge dropped
- The devastation of Gaza
- The social and historical dimensions of the Virginia on-air murders
- The refugee crisis and the inhuman face of European capitalism
- Obama hails “entrepreneurial” transformation of New Orleans
- Business groups, French government prepare to eviscerate labor laws
- The British Library’s Magna Carta exhibition: A vital though flawed presentation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- India-Pakistan talks abruptly cancelled
- A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt: Part Two
- Syriza, pseudo-left maneuver ahead of Greek elections
- One year since the war on Gaza
- Reports detail massive leaks from natural gas pipes in US
- Herfried Münkler declares Germany to be Europe’s “hegemon”
- China’s economic downturn raises concerns about political instability
2015-08-29
- Venezuela-Colombia tensions rise following foreign ministers’ meeting
- Australia: Melbourne tram drivers strike over wages and conditions
- Disciplinary hearing finds Toronto police officer culpable in G-20 repression
- Chinese officials, company executives detained over Tianjin explosion
- Casualties of “Fortress Europe”: Refugees dead on land and sea
- New York cops spied on activists against police violence
- A judicial victory for illegal NSA spying
- Report documents pervasive shortcomings in US mental health insurance
- London Underground unions call off strikes
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- David G. Spielman’s The Katrina Decade—An unsentimental look at how things are now
- A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt: Part Three
- Australia: Hutchison Ports dispute at the crossroads
- Dominican Republic deportations increase tensions with Haiti
- UAW begins contract talks with farm machinery maker John Deere
- Is Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy socialist?
- Union collaborates in attacks on New Zealand Steel workers
- Locked-out ATI steelworker injured by van carrying scab workers
2015-08-31
- Homeless American autoworker speaks out
- This week in history: August 31-September 6
- US steelworkers union blocks fight against wage and benefit cuts
- Sri Lankan political parties hail US shift on war crimes probe
- Sanders pledges his campaign to save Democratic Party
- Black youth dies in Virginia jail cell after being held four months for alleged $5 theft
- Central banks step in to prop up global financial bubble
- Former presidents Bush and Clinton celebrate transformation of New Orleans
- Broad Foundation spearheads expansion of Los Angeles charter schools
- Mass protests in Japan oppose “collective self-defence” laws
- Polls show fall in support for Syriza ahead of Greek general election
- German interior minister plans further attacks on refugees
- After failed Thalys attack, Europe prepares further security clampdown
- Young Euro Classic: A music festival in Berlin opposing war and nationalism
- North Dakota authorizes police to use weaponized drones
- The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the pseudo-left, and the “Anybody but Harper” campaign
- Stalinism in Greece
- Political crisis deepens over delays to UK Iraq War inquiry report
- Public outcry halts Australian Border Force blitz in Melbourne
- Allegheny Technologies lockout enters third week
- Egyptian junta hands down three-year jail terms to Al Jazeera journalists
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