Archive: 10/2015
2015-10-01
- Autoworkers hail “no” vote at Fiat Chrysler
- THE PEOPLE vs. FRITZ BAUER, Colonia, Desierto: Criminals and their crimes
- The US-Russian clash in Syria and the threat of war
- New Zealand Maori leaders embrace charter schools
- Global recessionary trends intensify
- South Korean government pushes casualization of workforce
- UK Labour delegates speak on Corbyn’s leadership
- Fifty years since the Indonesian coup
- The fall of Kunduz: A debacle for German imperialism
- German court clears the way for military deployments without parliamentary approval
- Oklahoma governor stays Richard Glossip execution for 37 days
- US drug makers blocking generic competition to inflate prices
- Deere workers face fight against UAW and farm equipment giant
- UK Labour conference ends with attacks on Corbyn over nuclear weapons and Syria
- After workers defeat Fiat Chrysler deal, UAW and auto bosses plot counter-attack
2015-10-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Canada’s top general discussed fully integrating its armed forces with US military
- Threat of wider war mounts as Russia continues airstrikes in Syria
- Australian PM’s summit displays union-business “consensus”
- São Paulo rally for Ayotzinapa: “The resistance has got to be shared... it has to be international.”
- Surge of small donations helps Sanders match Clinton fund-raising
- The significance of the “no” vote at Fiat Chrysler
- Ten killed in mass shooting at Oregon community college
- Global protests mark anniversary of Mexican massacre
- LA unions hail pension “reform” to legitimize attack on working class
- UAW working with Ford to ensure minimal impact of possible strike in Kansas City
- German parliament prepares crackdown on refugees
- UK: PCS union isolates National Gallery strikers
- Michigan governor grudgingly admits Flint water danger
- Sri Lanka: Seven killed in central hills tea estate landslide
- Consent decree calls for state oversight at New York’s Cooper Union
- After the “no” vote: The way forward for autoworkers
2015-10-03
- Former Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis denounces working class, praises British Tories
- Why and How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky: Part I
- I Saw the Light (Hank Williams) and Janis: Little Girl Blue (Janis Joplin)—Popular music and its discontents
- US, allies blast Russia for attacking Al Qaeda in Syria
- Reject UAW effort to ram through sellout deal!
- Wealth of America’s super-rich grows to $2.34 trillion
- The Oregon school shooting and America’s brutal society
- The New York Times discovers a problem: Too many political parties
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Major strike by Indian plantation workers for better pay
- German union IG Metall holds one-day protests against short-term contracts
- Australia: Ausgrid plans far-reaching restructure ahead of privatisation
- Virginia executes prisoner despite claim of intellectual disability
- US jobs data underscore downbeat IMF assessment of world economy
- UAW tells John Deere workers nothing in run-up to vote on Sunday
- New Zealand: Solid Energy privatisation threatens hundreds of jobs
- US Steel Canada issues ultimatum to end pension payments and health benefits
- Brazil’s PT government reshuffles cabinet to push through austerity program
- German academic Jörg Baberowski stirs up hatred against refugees
- After landslide “no” vote on Fiat Chrysler contract, UAW declares no better deal possible
- UK to send troops to Somalia and South Sudan
- US Special Forces fight Taliban militants in Kunduz, Afghanistan
2015-10-05
- This week in history: October 5-11
- Time Out of Mind: Richard Gere as a homeless man in New York City
- Six immigrants die in Texas police chase crash
- Washington divided over Syrian debacle
- Refugee crisis exposes Scottish National Party’s human rights hypocrisy
- Bodies of at least 95 refugees found on Libyan shores
- Quebec public sector workers outraged by Liberal concession demands
- Sri Lankan president boasts at UN of “new era of democracy”
- Twenty-five years since the reunification of Germany
- SEP/IYSSE meeting in Colombo: Why is the US whitewashing Sri Lankan war crimes?
- UK Labour: A party of militarism and nuclear war
- Japan creates new agency to boost arms exports
- Australian police kill 15-year-old in purported “terror” incident
- World Socialist Web Site online interview commemorates 75 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Deere workers denounce sellout contract
- New report shows how immigration has transformed US in past half century
- UAW claims John Deere contract ratified despite widespread opposition
- Unions renew attempt to sell out German childcare workers
- Canada’s military to “weaponize” its public affairs branch
- US: Trial begins for Massey CEO in Upper Big Branch disaster
- UAW to meet with Fiat Chrysler executives in bid to push through new sellout deal
- Allegheny Technologies claims most production restarted at locked out mills
- US repeatedly bombs hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
2015-10-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US: Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ price-gouging strategy
- Why are Canada’s politicians mute about the Canada-US military integration plans?
- US-dominated Pacific trade pact agreed
- US ratchets up war rhetoric against Moscow following Turkish intercept of Russian jet
- Britain’s second largest steelworks at Redcar faces closure
- Tens of thousands protest austerity outside UK Conservative Party conference
- Washington’s war crime in Afghanistan
- UAW president denounces “outside groups” for defeat of Fiat Chrysler deal
- New report shows how immigration has transformed US in past half century
- Syriza budget implements dictates of European banks
- Thirty-three crew members presumed dead after sinking of cargo ship during Hurricane Joaquin
- Far Right FPÖ doubles vote in Austrian regional election
- Markets “celebrate” poor US jobs data
- Death in custody highlights Australia’s brutal deportation of New Zealand citizens
- Growing suspicion among workers after UAW claims Deere contract was ratified
- Far-right German National Party promotes Professors Münkler and Baberowski
- Workers revolt against mass layoffs at Air France
2015-10-07
- John Deere workers denounce vote and demand recount
- Video: Ferguson, Missouri residents speak on social conditions, autoworkers struggle
- US, NATO step up threats to Russia over Syria
- Germany: Works council and union agree to job cuts at Siemens Power & Gas
- US Pacific Fleet commander threatens China over South China Sea
- Historic flooding in South Carolina leaves fourteen dead
- Bernie Sanders backs Obama on Syria war
- Mass disaffection in Portuguese elections
- The flooding in South Carolina and the decay of social infrastructure
- The Martian: A modern Robinson Crusoe
- Police target Muslim youth after alleged “terror” shooting in Sydney
- Corbyn victory used to boost illusions in UK Labour Party and trade unions
- India joins trilateral “dialogue” with US and Japan
- Australian maritime union moves to sell out Hutchison dispute
- Fiat Chrysler workers speak on possible walkout
- Texas executes 11th inmate of 2015
- Sri Lankan president moves to implement death penalty
- As autoworker militancy mounts, UAW issues “strike notice” to Fiat Chrysler
2015-10-08
- A dirty deal in Brussels: EU to stop refugees with Erdogan’s support
- The TPP: A step on the road to war
- Guantanamo’s Child, Thank You for Bombing, The Hard Stop: Filmmakers take on the global “war on terror” and police violence at home
- EU intensifies anti-refugee military operations in the Mediterranean
- Planned Parenthood fights congressional witch-hunt
- French autoworkers support US workers’ rejection of Fiat-Chrysler contract
- Syria and the drumbeat of world war
- Canada’s trade union-backed NDP mounts “Harper lite” campaign
- A reply to redbaiting by the general counsel of the Detroit AFL-CIO
- German political establishment lines up against refugees
- Tsipras wins confidence vote in Greek parliament
- New York mayor promotes gentrification of Brooklyn neighborhood
- French Interior Ministry blocks probe of Charlie Hebdo-Hyper Cacher attacks
- France, US back purge of leaders of failed Burkina Faso coup
- Actor Matt Damon repudiates criticisms, embraces Obama
- UK Conservatives pledge deeper austerity
- UAW announces last-minute agreement with Fiat Chrysler, canceling strike
- Locked out Allegheny Technologies workers to lose health care November 30
- US officials seek to contain fallout from hospital massacre in Afghanistan
2015-10-09
- Volkswagen uses emissions crisis to impose deep cuts
- Sydney teenager detained for 100 hours questioning over alleged “terrorist” killing
- Extensive damage left in wake of historic South Carolina flood
- A crisis of global dimensions
- Teamsters pension fund to slash benefits for 400,000 retirees
- New constitution triggers political turmoil in Nepal
- Financial Times reports US plans to send warships into waters claimed by China
- NATO vows biggest buildup against Russia since Cold War
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Nobody can live like this”: A young refugee in Hamburg speaks out
- IMF-World Bank meeting confronts lowest global growth since 2009
- Drugs cost up to 10 times more in US
- McCarthy withdrawal highlights deepening Republican Party crisis
- Canada’s ruling elite increasingly rallying behind prospect of a Liberal government
- BP, US government finalize $20 billion settlement over 2010 oil spill
- Grace Lee Boggs dies at 100 years old
- Unions push sweeping cuts to Australian steel workers’ jobs and conditions
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution: No lessons learned
- UAW pushes through Blue Cross contract on revote
- Fiat Chrysler workers denounce second sellout, demand united fight
2015-10-10
- The struggle against the TTIP is a class question
- Why and How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky: Part II
- US to give arms, air support to Islamist militias in Syria
- Supreme Court hears oral arguments in death penalty cases
- New York City joins Strong Cities “anti-terror” network, stepping up police surveillance
- Papua New Guinea trial obscures Australian responsibility for refugee’s death
- New study documents California’s “Hidden Poor”
- Right-wing parties monopolize Polish parliamentary election
- The government-union conspiracy to raid US workers’ pensions
- Black Mass: The story of Whitey Bulger, gangster and FBI informant
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israeli forces step up repression in Jerusalem, West Bank
- Hungary expedites deportation of refugees
- UAW releases “highlighter” of new pro-company agreement with Fiat Chrysler
- Michigan governor belatedly orders change in Flint’s water supply
- Sri Lankan estate workers face government-company-union conspiracy on wages
- Canada’s Conservatives stoke anti-Muslim bigotry
- Oppose the destruction of the car industry in Australia! Launch a struggle in defence of jobs!
2015-10-12
- Volkswagen systematically cheated on emissions tests in Europe
- This week in history: October 12-18
- Angry protests follow terror bombings in Turkey
- Organizers promote economic nationalism at Berlin demonstration against transatlantic trade agreement
- Australian Toyota workers support US auto workers’ struggle
- US-Russian proxy war in Syria intensifies
- South Africa: Unite Against Corruption marches seek to exploit working-class anger at ANC
- Sanders backs US aggression in the Middle East
- Government forces junior doctors in England to accept new contracts
- Abe reshuffles Japanese cabinet to try to boost economy
- Workers and young people speak out against the demonization of Muslim youth in Australia
- Perplexity and gloom dominate IMF-World Bank meeting
- Growing demands from John Deere workers for recount on sell-out contract
- Conservative government intervened to halt Syrian refugees entering Canada
- UAW begins campaign to beat back opposition to second sellout at Fiat Chrysler
2015-10-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
- Witness to New Zealand police shooting: “It was not necessary to kill that man”
- Turkey gripped by protests against Erdogan government
- Australia: Union keeps tram workers in dark over new agreement
- US airdrops arms in Syria as Russia escalates bombing campaign
- Federal court arraigns Arizona Border Patrol agent for murder of Mexican teenager
- The whitewash of Tamir Rice’s killing and the fight against police violence
- GM-Opel workers in Germany support struggle of US autoworkers
- Obama’s “60 Minutes” interview and the crisis of US policy in Syria
- Vote “no” on second UAW-FCA sellout contract! Build rank-and-file action committees in every plant!
- US Supreme Court dismisses challenge to ruling undermining insider trading prosecutions
- Murder conviction, coerced by New York City police, overturned after 25 years
- Murder trial implicates leadership of fascist Golden Dawn in Greece
- German childcare workers’ wage dispute: Vote “no”!
- French government assassinates six of its own citizens in bombing raid in Syria
- UAW hires public relations firm to sell Fiat Chrysler deal
- Unifor demands NDP keep silent on Canada-Saudi Arabia arms deal
- Australian dock, engineering workers express solidarity with US autoworkers
2015-10-14
- Top 1 percent own more than half of world’s wealth
- Eight films from Africa, the Middle East, China, Latin America and Eastern Europe: Contemporary social realism
- New Australian “terrorism” laws to target 14-year-olds
- BBC’s Panorama attacks Edward Snowden
- US navy planning provocative “patrols” in South China Sea
- Scottish Socialist Party takes its nationalist stand against Jeremy Corbyn
- Volunteer for refugees in Hamburg: “If we do not do the work, no one will”
- The strange death of the antiwar movement
- Dutch investigation into MH17 shoot-down fails to substantiate accusations against Russia
- Amid moves to sell-out Hutchison workers, Maritime Union of Australia threatens WSWS
- Recovery efforts continue after South Carolina flooding
- Democratic presidential debate: Nervousness and demagogy
- Canada’s NDP to prop up big business Liberal government
- Scholarship not war propaganda at Humboldt University!
- Autoworkers’ struggle at the crossroads
- UAW caught covering up plan to double temporary workers in new Fiat Chrysler agreement
- Police arrest Air France strikers who confronted bosses over mass layoffs
2015-10-15
- Turkish government tries to repress a growing wave of protests
- Lawsuit charges US psychologists involved in CIA torture program with war crimes
- Prosecutor in Cleveland police killing hired “independent” investigators who favor law enforcement
- US, Russian military meet amid warnings over war threat
- Amnesty report: US-backed Kurdish militias forcibly displaced thousands in northern Syria
- ATI remains intransigent against steelworkers despite financial losses
- Sri Lankan and Japanese prime ministers declare “comprehensive partnership”
- Sicario: A Zero Dark Thirty for the “war on drugs”?
- Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Party and socialism
- Israeli army-police crackdown seals off East Jerusalem
- The way forward for autoworkers: An online interview with Jerry White
- Walmart downgrade reflects depth of social crisis facing US workers
- China slowdown continues as imports fall
- Quebec Solidaire’s disingenuous role in Canada’s reactionary niqab debate
- German conservative parties plan concentration camps for refugees
- US, Australia talks portend military provocation against China
- Fiat Chrysler workers in Detroit denounce second UAW sellout
- UK: Metropolitan Police threaten “covert” measures to arrest Julian Assange
2015-10-16
- The emissions scandal at Volkswagen widens
- Two young Australian Muslims arrested as “extremism” summit prepares surveillance of youth
- Social Security benefit freeze for 65 million in US
- New Zealand union collaborates in cuts to mining and steel jobs
- The conflict over refugee policy in Germany
- New York Times renews propaganda campaign against Russia over MH17
- Federal lawsuit alleges beating and torture of 20 inmates in Sonoma County jail
- Obama extends unending US war in Afghanistan
- David North to speak at public meetings in US: Why and How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Labour right wing blocks with Tories in UK austerity vote
- Hospital bombing in Afghanistan was premeditated, AP reports
- Behind the UAW “health care co-op” scam
- Ontario court allows U.S. Steel to halt retiree health benefits, suspend pension contributions
- Canada’s Greens shill for “Anybody but Harper” fraud
- Upper Big Branch mine disaster: Opening statements in trial of former Massey Energy CEO
- UAW propaganda videos: An exercise in psychological warfare
2015-10-17
- Turkish government had prior knowledge of Ankara suicide bombing
- Bernie Sanders backs the prosecution of Edward Snowden
- Refugees arriving in German capital face disastrous conditions
- Tamil political prisoners in Sri Lanka launch hunger strike
- Politicians stoke racism against refugees in run-up to Polish elections
- Social conflicts erupt in Peru following bloody mine clash
- The Afghan hospital bombing: An imperialist war crime
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama backs Israeli crackdown in Jerusalem
- Right-wing academic Jörg Baberowski agitates against refugees at Christian Social Union event in Germany
- Syriza launches drastic attack on pensions under terms of EU bailout of Greece
- EU summit moves to seal Europe’s borders against refugees
- Leaked documents: vast majority of those killed in US drone strikes not intended target
- Detroit transit workers face poverty wages under new contract
- Australian public sector union in closed-door talks with government
- Canada’s elections: “Progressive” bluster, war and reaction
- Obama deploys hundreds of US troops to Cameroon
- Army chief warns that Brazil’s crisis is threat to “stability”
- Secret details emerging from UAW-FCA contract as opposition grows
2015-10-19
- This week in history: October 19-25
- Bernie Sanders endorses Obama’s decision to keep troops in Afghanistan
- Eight refugees killed by European border guards
- UK Labour Party paves way for Syria intervention
- Germany: Cover-up of Oktoberfest bombing continues
- German Army plans combat mission in Mali
- US military chief pledges increased support as Israel steps up attacks on Palestinians
- Deadly haze from forest fires engulfs South East Asia
- French airstrike on Syria was targeted killing of a French citizen
- Flint workers speak out against lead poisoning of water supply
- London: Evictions at Sweets Way estate
- Harper’s “Victims of Communism” monument and the revival of bellicose Canadian nationalism
- SEP statement on Canadian election: To oppose war and austerity, workers need their own party
- New details from FCA-UAW contract reveal plan to create casual labor workforce
- Australian government seeks to block High Court case on offshore detention centres
2015-10-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Massive US-Japanese display of naval force
- Anti-immigration party wins election in Switzerland
- Contradiction between pro-business policies and leftist rhetoric defines Scottish National Party conference
- Russia summons French ambassador over near-miss in European air space
- As temperatures drop, thousands of refugees left stranded on Europe’s borders
- The significance of the Fiat Chrysler workers’ fight
- Pennsylvania budget impasse adversely affects social services, schools
- Neo-Nazi attacks mayoral candidate in Cologne
- Vote “no” on second UAW-FCA sellout contract! Build rank-and-file action committees in every plant!
- Australia: Human rights abuses in Northern Territory juvenile detention centres
- Detroit water system layoffs signal pro-corporate transformation
- Coming Home: A small, sincere film about big, complex times
- Chinese economy continues to slow
- Canada’s Liberals sweep to power on phony anti-austerity vow
- Fiat Chrysler workers denounce sell-out contract ahead of second vote
2015-10-21
- Amidst mass coal mine layoffs, West Virginia takes blunt ax to budget
- NATO begins dress rehearsal for Europe-wide war
- Tennessee GM autoworker expresses solidarity with Fiat Chrysler workers
- Suburban Chicago teachers conduct seven-day strike
- Pseudo-lefts back Washington hardliners on Syria and Russia
- Thousands of job losses in UK steel industry
- The refugee crisis, war and socialism
- US, South Korean leaders hold summit
- David North to speak at public meetings in UK and US: Why and How the GPU Murdered Leon Trotsky
- Congressional deal unlikely to avert Medicare premium spikes
- Israel: Racist mob lynches migrant as violence intensifies
- Haiti: UN Security Council votes to extend by a year its military presence
- US grocery workers speak out against store closures
- Mining giant Glencore cuts global output and jobs
- Kentucky row house fire kills five, including three children
- Demonstrators condemn brutal treatment of refugees in Berlin, Germany
- UK woos China during Xi visit
- “Team Trudeau”: Tried and trusted representatives of big business
- Canada’s incoming Liberals will pursue austerity and war
- Fiat Chrysler workers vote as UAW and media push second sellout deal
- Letter from Ohio GM worker on UAW betrayal of Kmart struggle
2015-10-22
- US, Russia in talks on Syria following Assad’s trip to Moscow
- Tribunal rules British MPs not exempt from state surveillance
- Record suicide toll in New Zealand
- Florida musician Corey Jones killed by plainclothes officer
- The Canadian election and the intensification of class conflict
- What is the Jeremy Corbyn Momentum?
- German chancellor strikes sordid deal with Turkish government to block refugees
- Dismissed teachers file class action lawsuit against Los Angeles Unified School District
- Ten years since Hurricane Katrina: Part one
- Catastrophic conditions for refugees in Hamburg
- GM posts record operating profits from cost-cutting, corporate restructuring
- John Deere workers in US demand recount, full release of contract
- Former Chicago Schools head pleads guilty to federal fraud charge
- Major shareholder predicts closure of Australian steel plant
- US Vice President Biden declines to run for president
- UAW claims early returns point to ratification of Fiat Chrysler sellout contract
- Air France postpones job cuts as anger rises among workers
2015-10-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- South Africa: University students storm parliamentary precincts
- Germany to deport refugees in military cargo planes
- Two Chinese diplomats killed in the Philippines
- Netanyahu’s apology for Hitler
- State and media active in building up a far-right movement in Germany
- American Cancer Society adds its voice in campaign against early breast cancer screenings
- The New York Times peddles excuses for Kunduz hospital slaughter
- Ten years since Hurricane Katrina: Part two
- Australian ex-treasurer spells out corporate elite’s agenda
- New genetic data show “Back to Africa” migration in Neolithic times
- Voters shun Socialist Party’s left unity referendum before French regional elections
- The global significance of China’s economic slowdown
- Clinton testifies before House Benghazi committee
- Widespread anger and opposition in wake of ratification of Fiat Chrysler sellout
- Allegheny Technologies lockout enters third month
- Alabama judge to poor defendants: Give blood or go to jail
2015-10-24
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US, Russia hold tense talks on Syria
- Germany’s IG Metall agrees to job and wage cuts at Siemens Power & Gas
- Pseudo-left groups step up promotion of Sanders and the Democrats
- Socialist Party’s bid to form government unleashes political crisis in Portugal
- Polish ruling class divided over foreign policy in run-up to general election
- After the Fiat-Chrysler ratification: The way forward for autoworkers
- Strongest hurricane ever recorded makes landfall in Mexico
- Australian government sends alleged rape victim back to detention on Nauru
- US takes first Iraq war combat fatality since 2011
- Ten years since Hurricane Katrina: Part three
- Pediatricians group calls for screening all US children for hunger
- Tragic bus accident in France claims 43 lives
- UK Labour leader Corbyn’s “cordial” meeting with China’s President Xi
- Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau pledges “responsible” approach to Mideast war
- Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies: An episode from the Cold War
- Ahead of contract agreement, GM to lay off 500 at Lake Orion assembly plant
- UK pressured Sweden not to question Julian Assange in London
- The Argentine general elections and the Workers’ Left Front
2015-10-26
- Collapse of West Virginia coal industry spurs growing inequality
- Australian government plans to repackage university cuts
- This week in history: October 26-November 1
- New York City mayor falsely hails sale of Stuyvesant Town complex as advance for affordable housing
- General elections called in Spain
- Republican ultra-right faction backs Ryan as US House leader
- Central banks boost stocks as world economy sinks deeper into slump
- Ten years since Hurricane Katrina: Part four
- US signals military escalation in Iraq and Syria
- French president applauds Syriza’s austerity measures before Greek parliament
- Hamburg: Social Democrats and Greens promote brutal policy towards refugees
- Ontario government gave teachers’ unions millions for “negotiating expenses”
- UAW announces last-minute sellout agreement with GM
- Germany: IG Metall congress backs government in refugee crisis
- FBI director admits use of spy planes over Ferguson and Baltimore
- Australian PM refuses to halt deportations of New Zealanders
- UK’s courting of China sours relations with Washington
2015-10-27
- West Virginia counties, school districts make drastic cuts as coal industry contracts
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Fraud, cancellations, mass abstention mark Ukrainian local elections
- Hundreds dead in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 7.5 magnitude earthquake
- Postal workers strike in Belgium
- EU-Balkan summit seals off refugee escape routes
- Appeals Court allows lawsuit against NYPD’s spying on Muslims to proceed
- Mehring Verlag publishing house presents new book, Scholarship or War Propaganda? at Frankfurt Book Fair
- New evidence that US Army deliberately targeted hospital in Kunduz
- Indian trade unions shut down Kerala plantation workers’ strike
- ISO-led Chicago Teachers Union aligns itself with mayor against teachers
- GM workers react to contract agreement
- Ford third-quarter profits double
- Australian electricity unions go to industrial tribunal to assist job shedding
- Detroit Water and Sewerage workers express anger over layoffs
- US launches South China Sea military provocation against China
- WikiLeaks publishes documents from CIA director’s private email account
- Tony Blair uses CNN interview to cover for his lies on Iraq
2015-10-28
- Obama issues hypocritical criticism of standardized testing in US schools
- British government loses vote on cuts to tax credits in House of Lords
- Tensions soar internationally following US deployment in South China Sea
- Berlin security guards assault refugees
- Right-wing nationalist party wins Polish parliamentary elections
- Washington’s South China Sea provocation and the spectre of World War III
- No charges for South Carolina police officer who killed Zachary Hammond
- Actress Maureen O’Hara dead at 95
- The tale of two tax returns: 1988 and 2010
- Pentagon preparing for new ground combat operations in Iraq and Syria
- EU and Syriza prepare mass evictions in Greece
- FBI director says “viral videos” intimidating police in US
- Obama reaches right-wing budget, debt deal with Republicans
- Tony Blair, imperialist war and the Labour Party
- UAW prepares snap vote as local union officials meet to rubber stamp GM sellout
- Argentine election goes to run-off in blow to ruling Peronist faction
2015-10-29
- Saudi strikes destroy Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen
- Turkish police storm opposition media in run-up to Sunday’s election
- Pseudo-left CUP props up pro-austerity separatist government in Catalonia
- Half of US workers make less than $30,000 per year
- The shift to the right in Poland and the crisis of the EU
- Dangerous developments in Germany
- NSSP leader backs US cover-up of Sri Lankan war crimes
- US mulls deploying Special Forces, attack helicopters as Iran joins Syria talks
- Irish military was on stand-by during financial crisis in 2011
- Autoworkers react to GM-UAW contract details
- Thousands “disappeared” at Chicago Police Homan Square black site
- Landslide in Guatemala leaves hundreds dead and missing
- Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
- Railroads lay off hundreds and close routes in Appalachia
- US military cabal organised South China Sea provocation
- Canada’s NDP rallies behind Mulcair after election debacle
- Holding rates near zero, Fed keeps option of a hike in December
- Opposition to UAW-GM sellout mounts as details surface
- Mounting humanitarian crisis in wake of Pakistan-Afghanistan quake
2015-10-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Switzerland after the National Council elections
- UK: Jeremy Corbyn and unions demand turn to economic protectionism
- Vote “no” on UAW-GM sellout contract!
- Dozens of refugees drown in the Aegean Sea as Fortress Europe is expanded
- The mergers boom, the financial oligarchy and imperialism
- F.W. Murnau’s classic, groundbreaking Nosferatu in US theaters …
- NATO reveals plan for deploying 4,000 troops on Russia’s borders
- Lordstown GM worker speaks on UAW-GM contract
- Michigan GM workers denounce UAW sellout deal
- Britain: Government’s general practitioner surgeries plan paves way for further privatisation
- German intelligence agencies criticise government’s refugee policy
- Florida leads nation in blocking unemployment claims
- French state quashes discussion of safety issues after 43 die in bus crash
- The third Republican debate: The myth of “big government”
- Chinese military warns against continued US operations in South China Sea
- Sri Lankan government boosts spending on security forces
- Australian unions peddle anti-Chinese chauvinism as they enforce job destruction
2015-10-31
- The class issues in the Turkish elections
- Obama orders Special Forces troops into Syria
- EU Parliament votes nonbinding resolution to protect Edward Snowden
- Former French President Sarkozy in Moscow proposes closer ties to Russia
- Socialist Alternative proposes electoral alliance with Seattle Democrats
- More austerity for Puerto Rico
- Poland will not extradite Roman Polanski to the US
- Sri Lankan plantation companies to tear up workers’ rights
- UN Tribunal to adjudicate South China Sea legal dispute
- FBI Director James Comey’s apology for police murder
- US-Pakistan summit fails to paper over growing strategic rift
- Berlin: Bureaucratic treatment of refugees leads to death of 4-year-old
- Royal Marines stage protest in London to defend war criminal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Chevron to lay off 7,000 workers
- Opposition mounts as GM vote begins
- US judge orders release of Guantanamo torture videos
- GM Components Holding workers: The “third tier” in the GM-UAW contract
- Internal tensions mount despite facade of Chinese leadership unity
- UK: Addenbrooke’s Hospital placed in “special measures” over quality concerns
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