Archive: 03/2016
2016-03-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Swiss voters reject xenophobic anti-refugee initiative
- United Steelworkers tries to ram sellout deal past ATI workers
- The Australian Defence White Paper and the drive to war
- Eighty-eighth Academy Awards: Hopeful signs amidst reactionary “diversity” campaign
- Poor evicted under nuisance laws by New York City police
- US, China agree to new UN sanctions on North Korea
- Renowned photojournalist assaulted by US Secret Service at Trump rally
- SEP (Sri Lanka) public meeting: A socialist program to defend plantation workers
- Boston: MBTA seeks to pit transit riders against workers as infrastructure crumbles
- Iranian elections strengthen Rouhani’s hand
- New information emerges about Flint’s decision to switch to untreated water
- California inmate firefighter, 22, crushed to death protecting Malibu mansions
- On eve of “Super Tuesday” primaries in US: A political system in crisis
- New York Times on Clinton and Libya: Portrait of a war criminal
- New Zealand: Five years after the Christchurch earthquake
- Bombardier adds to Northern Ireland manufacturing jobs massacre
- Macedonian police tear-gas refugees trying to cross Greek border
- Autoworkers support challenge to UAW-Ford 2015 contract vote
2016-03-02
- Australian Greens back government’s Senate voting “reforms”
- Primary election results highlight US political crisis
- Imperialism intensifies pressure on Russia and China
- Fatal police shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina provokes protests
- German Chancellor Merkel’s refugee policy and the call for a European army
- Mine disaster in Russia kills 36
- Medical neglect caused deaths of detained immigrants in the US
- FBI director, Apple lawyer testify before Congress on encryption dispute
- The way forward for UK junior doctors
- Judge Rhodes appointed “transitional manager” over Detroit public schools
- An exchange on the SEP’s call for an active boycott of the Brexit referendum
- Chinese slowdown continues amid plans for major job cuts
- Ontario report: Inequality at levels “not seen since the Great Depression”
- France attacks refugees, launches destruction of Calais camp
- German parliament adopts anti-democratic “Asylum Package II”
- Ex-Australian PM calls for “freedom of navigation” challenge to China
2016-03-03
- Spain: Podemos supports sale of warships to Saudi Arabia
- What political conclusions must be drawn from Trump’s Super Tuesday?
- New York City transit upgrade aids developers
- Notes on London’s housing crisis
- German Left Party strives for coalition with Social Democrats and Greens in Berlin
- Questions raised about police role in violent KKK rally in California
- Left and anti-austerity sentiment produces political earthquake in Ireland
- India: Stalinists to ally with Congress Party in West Bengal election
- Australian Greens cover up Defence White Paper plans for war on China
- Deadpool: An anti-superhero?
- Chinese government prepares to sack millions of workers
- Caltrans workers rally in Sacramento for better pay and benefits
- NATO commander calls refugees a weapon of ISIS, Russia and Syria
- Former Detroit mayor warns that city is “one incident” from a social explosion
2016-03-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Detroit autoworkers discuss Trump, US election campaign
- US Republican Party in crisis as Romney denounces Trump
- China and Brazil: Two expressions of the deepening capitalist breakdown
- UK immigration policy inflicts more damage on National Health Service
- Australia: Job cuts threaten Sydney water safety
- German Constitutional Court considers banning neo-fascist NPD
- UN Security Council imposes harsh US-sponsored sanctions on North Korea
- Obama stumps for Affordable Care Act in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- German chancellor demands end to “waving refugees through the borders”
- European Union threatens summary mass deportations of refugees
- Sri Lankan government prepares to sign economic pact with India
- Chicago students and faculty oppose potential school closure, layoffs
- US admiral claims Russia’s intervention in Syria has implications for Arctic
- Albuquerque, New Mexico residents protest fatal shooting by US Marshals
- Widening social inequality exacerbates housing crisis in California
2016-03-05
- Two poor films on the Afghanistan war—Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and A War—and Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto
- Flint resident files lawsuit against corporations, officials
- US sends aircraft carrier to challenge China in South China Sea
- Australia: Qantas reaps record profits by slashing jobs and wages
- Report on German poverty refutes propaganda of social recovery
- TVA pension cuts: A new stage in the assault on American workers
- Police arrest and interrogate Brazil’s ex-President Lula
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US employment report: Payrolls rise, wages fall
- IYSSE campaigns against war at universities in Australia and New Zealand
- US presses India to join anti-China alliance
- Australian university students denounce the drive to war and austerity
- German parties shift to the right ahead of state elections
- Jeremy Corbyn: Labour Party and Britain’s bosses are “natural allies”
- Cameron and Hollande beat anti-immigrant drum to oppose Brexit
- Indian power deal with Bangladesh highlights geo-political rivalry
- Leading tech firms join Apple suit over iPhone encryption
2016-03-07
- Two years since the Kiev coup
- This week in history: March 7-13
- Tensions rise at Franco-British and Franco-German summits
- United Steelworkers rams through sellout contract at ATI
- USW-ATI contract imposes health care and pension cuts, casualized labor
- Attempt to form PSOE-Citizens government coalition in Spain collapses
- Brexit vote sparks crisis for Scottish National Party
- Latest presidential primary contests intensify crisis of US two-party system
- US police killings update: Veteran with PTSD shot and killed
- The Flint water crisis and the US elections
- Leaked Australian document reveals plans for mass surveillance of immigrants
- Refugees face disastrous conditions in Greece
- The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
- Chinese premier outlines plans for accelerated pro-market restructuring
- Canada deploying fighter jets to Romania in training mission
- Alone in Berlin—a working class couple opposes the Nazis
2016-03-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US airstrike massacres 150 at al-Shabaab training camp in Somalia
- American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson: An indictment of American celebrity culture
- UK: Metropolitan Police demand Pitchford Inquiry take evidence in secret
- Philippines impounds suspected North Korean ship
- US moves to harness India to anti-China “pivot”
- Review board: New York police routinely conduct aggressive and illegal home searches
- US-South Korean militaries rehearse pre-emptive strikes on North Korea
- Peña Nieto joins Mexican ex-presidents in denouncing Trump
- Two years since the Kiev coup
- Campaign for UK exit from the EU dominated by nationalism and big business interests
- Fiji cyclone: Australian and New Zealand military mobilised for “humanitarian” relief
- EU countries and Turkey move to seal refugee routes
- Detroit Public Schools emergency managers cash in
- “Left” demagogy and nationalism dominate Democratic debate in Flint
- Three men sentenced for petty crimes at New Year’s event in Cologne, Germany
- Bank for International Settlements warns of build-up of global debt
2016-03-09
- Slovakian parliamentary elections marked by rightward shift
- The death of Nancy Reagan
- Sanders, Trump win presidential primaries in Michigan
- The arrest of former President Lula and the crisis of rule in Brazil
- Poor mental health care in England is “ruining lives,” report finds
- ICFI statement “Socialism and the Fight Against War” now available from Mehring Books
- Western powers prepare military operations in Libya
- The New York Times ’ Nicholas Kristof warns of “Donald the Dangerous”
- Nearly one-third of US food stamp recipients rely on food pantries
- Democrats cover up role of Obama administration in Flint water crisis
- SEP and IYSSE meeting: The political and social roots of the Flint water crisis
- UK energy firms rake in profits as “fuel poverty” escalates
- Australia: Labor Party, teacher unions prepare further assault on public education
- Cuba denounces continued US enforcement of embargo
- Boston Public Schools students walk out over proposed budget cuts
- US Air Force to boost presence in northern Australian bases
- Australian government wracked by rifts over US military demands and austerity
2016-03-10
- Flint residents call out government’s failure to act on water poisoning
- US steel union hails Obama trade war measures
- Brexit referendum: Remain camp backs European Union of austerity and militarism
- Race: Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Sanders’ upset win in the Michigan primary
- New Zealand: Anti-TPP protests promote Maori nationalism
- Steel workers strike in Mexico
- US generals push for more troops in Iraq, Syria
- Fires at Detroit wastewater plant underscore danger of job cuts
- Five years after Japan’s nuclear disaster, TEPCO executives charged
- IMF issues new warning on global economy
- Chinese finance minister calls for easier dismissals under labour laws
- Striking cashiers and dockers interrogated under French state of emergency
- Canada’s parliament endorses expanded role in Mideast war
- Photo essay: Volunteer at French refugee camp speaks to the WSWS
- Mass layoffs at Bombardier hit Germany
- Baltimore school police officers face felony charges for assaulting student
2016-03-11
- Europe’s attack on refugees produces humanitarian catastrophe
- Women inmates file lawsuit against New York state prisons for sexual abuse
- The refugee crisis and the polarization of Europe
- Newark, New Jersey schools shut off lead-poisoned drinking water
- Sri Lankan government to convert Western province into investment hub
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Minnesota’s Iron Range hammered by steel industry layoffs
- Washington steps up threats over Iran missile tests
- What do the electoral gains of the right-wing Alternative for Germany signify?
- Growing concerns about Australia’s housing bubble
- European Central Bank cuts rates and pours more money into financial markets
- Sanders and Clinton posture as defenders of immigrants in Miami debate
- Spanish unions, Podemos-backed mayor defeat Barcelona Metro strike
2016-03-12
- Turkish government intensifies crackdown on media, opposition parties
- Donald Trump rally in Chicago cancelled amidst mass protests
- New Jersey Transit strike deadline approaches
- Violence, racism and the Trump campaign
- A Perfect Day: 24 hours in the Bosnian War
- Teachers take strike action against Palestinian Authority
- Medicare to test cost-cutting plan for Part B prescription drugs
- Brazil’s president rejects resignation as prosecutors demand Lula’s arrest
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The International Socialist Organization agitates for war with Russia over Syria
- New York City’s housing crisis deepens under “progressive” Mayor de Blasio
- German state elections: The repackaging of right-wing politics
- Flint meeting examines background of city’s water crisis
- Sri Lankan government announces tax hikes before IMF loan talks
- Pentagon deploying drone aircraft within the US
- Junior doctors in England mount 48-hour strike
- US reignites controversy over Chinese lease of Australian port
- The conspiracy against the Chicago teachers
- Trudeau pledges strengthened Canada-US partnership in White House visit
- Arrium demands Australian mine workers take pay cuts
2016-03-14
- Die Zeit campaigns for military intervention in Libya
- US-trained Chechen ISIS commander Abu Omar al-Shishani survives US assassination strike
- This week in history: March 14-20
- Republican frontrunner Trump steps up attacks on demonstrators
- Judge Rhodes threatens shutdown of Detroit Public Schools
- UK bill hands vast surveillance powers to police and intelligence agencies
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold Jaffna public meeting on imperialist war and Tamil nationalism
- Australian primary teachers resign in protest at standardised, assessment-based education
- The Trump campaign: A new stage in the crisis of American democracy
- Obama backs attack on encrypted communication
- Australia: Despite deaths, no youth mental facility in Brisbane
- The return of German militarism and the threat of World War III
- Workers, students march against French labor law reform
- Detroit teacher: “Children are made into dollar signs”
- UAW sanctions mass layoffs by farm equipment giant John Deere
- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn deletes criticisms of EU from his web site
- China: Thousands of coal miners protest over unpaid wages
- California Faculty Association prepares to sell out CSU workers
- Flight and persecution—yesterday and today (The Diary of Anne Frank and Meteorstraße)
2016-03-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump peddles nationalist poison at Ohio rally
- South Korea imposes extra sanctions on North Korea
- Sri Lankan government refuses to release Tamil political prisoners
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
- Economic nationalism, war and the fight for international socialism
- English National Opera chorus to strike
- Study: Worsening conditions for young people throughout the developed world
- Shadow Chancellor McDonnell pledges UK Labour Party to austerity
- Beatles producer George Martin dies at 90
- Hundreds of millions in cuts on the horizon in Louisiana
- German state elections: Far-right Alternative for Germany gains double-digit support
- Millions join protests in Brazil demanding ouster of Workers Party government
- Central banks confront unintended consequences
- Slumping car sales lead to extended layoff of Fiat Chrysler Sterling Heights workers
- Second terrorist attack in a month in Turkish capital kills at least 37
2016-03-16
- Tsipras acts as gatekeeper for Fortress Europe
- Indian Stalinists ally with US-backed parties in Tamil Nadu
- Russia announces partial withdrawal from Syria
- Clinton, Trump take major steps toward US presidential nominations
- What is behind the electoral success of the Alternative for Germany?
- Ohio voters discuss elections and social crisis
- Australian media whips up fear campaign against African youth
- SEP meetings in the US: Socialism and the fight against war
- A socialist program to fight the Coalition-Labor-Greens assault on education in Australia
- India: BJP presses forward with frame-up of JNU students on sedition charges
- Overcrowding in New York City Housing Authority fueled by lack of jobs and affordable apartments
- Rough-sleeping on the rise in England
- UK: Families of missing demolition workers campaign for their rescue
2016-03-17
- Australian Greens join government in ramming through Senate voting changes
- Trump threatens violence at Republican National Convention
- Novelist Jonathan Franzen’s Purity
- Constitutional crisis in Poland continues
- After the March 15 US primaries: The political role of the Sanders campaign
- Mexican union leaders paid over $30 million for imposing cuts on oil workers
- New Jersey Transit contract includes major concessions in health care costs
- Refugees face death and despair on Greek-Macedonian border
- Flint emergency manager, EPA continue to dodge responsibility for water crisis
- Glasgow City Council workers strike against cuts and poverty wages
- Obama’s choice to replace Scalia on Supreme Court had won Republican praise
- French government, trade unions rework reactionary labor reform
- Second test of Flint water being performed by Virginia Tech
- US Federal Reserve aligns itself closer to market demands
- New Burmese president installed amid tensions with the military
- UK Budget: Austerity for workers pays for tax breaks for corporations and the rich
- Argentina sinks Chinese fishing vessel
2016-03-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: Siemens cuts another 2,500 jobs
- Living standards fall and discontent rises in Russia
- Scientists use gravity to map Earth’s ocean floor
- Anti-protest laws attack democratic rights in Australia
- Two US prosecutors who covered up police killings lose primary elections
- Podemos enters government talks with Spain’s social democrats, conservatives
- Syrian war enters sixth year with graver dangers still ahead
- Washington DC forced to suspend all metro service due to electrical fires
- The pseudo-left’s nationalist “Leave” campaign in the UK Brexit referendum
- Australian journalists condemn the axing of more Fairfax jobs
- Michigan governor, EPA head testify on Flint water crisis
- Australia: Fairfax journalists strike over job cuts
- European Union chiefs determined to reach deal with Turkey to deter refugees
- Video: Lead poisoning discussed at Flint water event
- US drug prices doubled since 2011
- Manitoba aboriginal youth suicides exemplify systemic crisis
- UAW pushes local deals past opposition at GM Lordstown plant
2016-03-19
- UK teacher shortages on the rise
- Sanders under pressure to quit from Democratic leaders, media
- European Union and Turkey reach deal to seal borders and expel refugees
- The crimes behind the US lead water crisis
- After first failed attempt, court grants Ohio another chance to execute death row inmate
- Kaiser Permanente nurses in Los Angeles on one-week strike
- UAW discussing lower pay rate at Lear in Detroit
- The pseudo-left’s nationalist Leave campaign in the UK Brexit referendum
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups: It is impossible to learn anything from this
- Justice Department refuses to prosecute New York police killer of Ramarley Graham
- India: Intensifying BJP witch-hunt, JNU to punish “anti-national” students
- Hungarian government declares “state of crisis” over refugees
- Honduran Government covers up involvement in murders of indigenous rights leaders
- New Zealand government plans further expansion of spy powers
- NFL admits connection between concussions and degenerative brain disease
- Faculty and students protest budget cuts proposed for City University of New York
- Impeachment drive accelerates amid expanding political crisis in Brazil
2016-03-21
- UAW seeks to ram through contract at Volvo
- French Socialist Party whips up law-and-order hysteria after Abdeslam arrest
- US Steel layoffs hit another 770 workers
- This week in history: March 21-27
- More attacks on anti-Trump protesters at Tucson, Arizona campaign rally
- Sri Lankan parliament to draft new constitution to shore up capitalist rule
- Spanish youth protest education reforms
- Berlin senate speeds up deportations of refugees
- Trump and the Democratic Party
- Australian nickel refinery workers sacked without entitlements
- Australian youth and workers denounce media and government racist hysteria
- Chief proponent of Flint water supply switch hosts public meeting
- Ten years since the death of hip hop artist James “J Dilla” Yancey
- New study says entire regions of US will remain in slump until the 2020s
- Castro government welcomes Obama, US corporate heads to Cuba
- Argentina: President Macri’s first 100 days
- Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam arrested in Brussels
2016-03-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US accelerating military encirclement of China
- Australian government threatens a “double dissolution” election
- Colombo meeting launches Sinhala translation of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- David North addresses Sri Lankan SEP launch of Sinhala edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Peru’s electoral board bars two presidential candidates before first round of elections
- Obama in Cuba
- Coal giant Peabody Energy on verge of bankruptcy
- Spanish officer corps hears lecture justifying Franco coup and dictatorship
- UK super-rich seize 26 percent of all new wealth since 2000
- Hundreds attend meetings in Leipzig, Germany on the danger of war and the politics of the pseudo-left
- Hunger stalks US campuses
- New York City affordable housing programs designed to benefit developers
- European Union-Turkey deal to expel refugees comes into force
- Resignation of UK work and pensions secretary divides Conservative government
- Boston-area mass transit: Fare increases, service reductions and attacks on pensions
- US presidential candidates give warmongering speeches backing Israel at AIPAC conference
2016-03-23
- West Virginia budget gap widens, economy worsens
- Arson attack on witness to murders in Palestinian village of Duma
- Michigan governor’s Flint “action plan”: A cover for criminality
- India: Tata workers end strike after being isolated by the unions
- IYSSE campaigns against war at San Diego State University
- Hundreds of refugees in Australia face return to offshore camps
- Québec Solidaire welcomes suppression of anti-austerity struggle
- The terror bombings in Brussels
- Northwestern University faculty oppose selection of US general to head global studies institute
- Seven-day nurses strike ends at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles
- Germany’s Left Party favours coalition with conservative CDU
- Attacks on Marine firebase reveal secret US escalation in Iraq
- Indonesia accuses China of encroaching on its territory
- St. Louis autoworkers bar UAW vice president from their Facebook page
- With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man
- Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See: All the history the novelist cannot see
- Obama’s Cuba speech: “Democratic” veneer for US capitalist invasion
- Opposition grows to Boston Public Schools budget cuts
- US government delays hearing in Apple iPhone encryption case
2016-03-24
- US airstrike kills 40 in Yemen
- University of California installs secret spyware system
- Australian PM treads a fine line on foreign policy
- Slovakia: Fico forms unstable right-wing government
- Corbyn’s six months as UK Labour leader: A record of capitulation and betrayal
- Obama hails Macri’s attacks on Argentine workers
- 200,000 jobs threatened by Norway oil industry crisis
- IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand—Build an International Movement of the Working Class and Youth Against Imperialism!
- US presidential candidates call for stepped-up war and police measures
- Legislative attack on Detroit Public Schools taking shape
- Public sector union cancels strike action at Australian airports
- “We make the terror:” Season four of House of Cards
- Canada’s Liberal government tables first budget amid mounting economic turmoil
- After Brussels attack, EU officials plan vast escalation of police spying
- Belgian authorities had “precise intelligence warnings” of Brussels bombings
- Electoral success of AfD strengthens far-right forces in Germany
2016-03-25
- German Left Party leader’s plea for nationalism and the free market economy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Socialist Alternative and the US “pivot to Asia”
- Atom Egoyan’s Remember: A Nazi criminal hunted…
- The Belgium bombing: Why the dots are not connected
- University of California president proposes privatization of pension fund
- Hundreds of US Marines provide combat support as Iraqi forces advance toward Mosul
- Indian analyst urges US to use secret diplomacy in harnessing Delhi to anti-China “pivot”
- French students speak out against austerity and state of emergency
- Fundraising for US presidential campaign surpasses $1 billion
- UK dockers strike suspended by Unite union
- Chinese government’s phony anti-poverty plan
- Canada’s establishment “canonizes” former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
- Corporate elites maintain pressure on Australian prime minister
2016-03-26
- Vast majority of Yemen population without reliable food, water and sanitation
- Large protests in East Timor over ongoing Australian oil theft
- Why the New York Times is pushing racial politics in Flint
- Greece’s Syriza government detains refugees
- Tube drivers shut down London Piccadilly Line
- Obama’s pivot to Latin America
- Escalating crisis hits New Zealand dairy industry
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- I Saw the Light: A biography of country singer Hank Williams
- Indian auto workers fight to defend wages and conditions
- After Brussels attacks, German politicians and media demand increased state powers
- Flint water task force report leaves Snyder off the hook
- Researchers and scientists subpoenaed in anti-abortion witch-hunt
- One hundred years since Ireland’s Easter Rising—Part One
- Arrests follow call for Chinese President Xi’s resignation
- Chicago Teachers Union approves one-day stunt “strike” on April 1
- Meeting at Toronto’s York University: Socialism and the Fight Against War
- Scandal mounts over failure by Belgian police to halt Brussels attacks
2016-03-28
- This week in history: March 28-April 3
- Historic city of Palmyra falls to Syrian government forces
- Films from Argentina, Spain and Guatemala: El Movimiento, Hablar, Ixcanul and Tras Nazarin
- Ex-President Francisco Flores (1959–2016) and the decimation of El Salvador
- Clinton primary contest losses intensify Democratic Party crisis
- Terrorist attack hits crowded children’s park in Pakistan
- Global oil industry job losses continue to mount
- New Zealand Labour Party leader attacks Asian immigrants
- New York prosecutor urges no jail time for killer cop
- Michigan Kids Count report shows drastic rise in child poverty over last decade
- German government increases defence budget and plans massive rearmament
- Obama high court pick Merrick Garland: A record of support for police powers
- One hundred years since Ireland’s Easter Rising—Part two
- Canadian Liberal government to implement military spending hikes
- The US-NATO war in Syria and the Brussels terror attacks
- Indiana and Florida pass new anti-abortion laws
2016-03-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York City Rikers Island prison guards on trial for viciously beating inmate
- Rapper Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest dead at 45
- Japan’s security laws: Another milestone in the drive to world war
- UK Junior doctors dispute at a crossroads
- Australia: Socialist Alternative hails downing of Russian jet in Syria
- Japanese economy continues to show signs of faltering
- Military chiefs seize on Brussels attacks to send more US troops to Iraq
- Illinois public higher education hit with more cuts
- Michigan will not sanction GM attorneys involved in cover-up of ignition defect
- Obama administration to cut off Flint emergency aid
- US federal appeals court ruling could speed up executions
- One hundred years since Ireland’s Easter Rising—Part three
- Germany’s Deutsche Bahn to slash 2,100 rail freight transport jobs
- Officials stoke anti-Muslim hatred following Brussels attack
- As Brazil’s impeachment crisis deepens, economists advocate “Asian model”
2016-03-30
- Australia: Pacific Islanders suffer slave-like conditions in fruit industry
- The human cost of the drug war in Mexico and a drama from Venezuela: Retratos de una búsqueda and Dauna. Lo que lleva el río
- Warnings of global arms race ahead of Nuclear Security Summit
- German interior minister seeks to further restrict rights of immigrants
- French government seeks delay in order to impose unpopular labour reform
- Newly-released email details complicity of Obama’s EPA in Flint poisoning
- Dramatic fall in Employment Tribunal cases in UK
- Clinton, media step up pressure for Sanders to withdraw
- Supreme Court ruling favors unions in agency shop dues case
- California Democrats, unions announce deal on $15 minimum wage
- Intelligence accounts raise more questions on origins of Brussels, Paris attacks
- Impeachment looms in Brazil as PT’s largest coalition partner deserts government
- Australian Labor leader makes a cynical populist pitch
- FBI claims successful hack of Apple iPhone security systems
- Professors’ group charges Obama administration with undermining academic freedom and due process
2016-03-31
- Australian prime minister lurches from one crisis to the next
- Forty thousand jobs threatened as Tata Steel announces end of UK operations
- Costa Rica closes its borders to Cuban migrants
- Republican Party crisis deepens as candidates renege on “loyalty” pledge
- After the Brussels attack, Podemos defends “war on terror”
- War: The great unmentionable in the 2016 US elections
- New layoffs in New Zealand meat processing
- Detroit newspaper workers protest contract takeaways
- European Court rubber-stamps police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Immigrant farmworker sentenced to 25 years to life for leaving her newborn in California strawberry field
- Hungary strengthens state security powers after Brussels attacks
- Nearly 750 dead in US house fires in 2016
- Eye in the Sky: The liberal war on terror
- Boeing to slash 4,000-8,000 jobs
- The political economy of endless austerity
- Politicians and media promote far-right Alternative for Germany
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