Archive: 09/2016
2016-09-01
- Comic actor Gene Wilder: 1933–2016
- Tamil Nationalists hail US “Operation Pacific Angel” in Sri Lanka
- Spurning Washington’s appeals, Turkey vows to expand assault on US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria
- An interview with Roy Scranton, author of War Porn
- Australia: Students occupy Sydney College of the Arts
- Third election looms as Spanish right fails to form a government
- Eighty years since the first Moscow Trial
- War clouds overhang Obama’s Asian trip
- Minnesota nurses union calls open-ended strike for Labor Day
- Fiat Chrysler CEO issues threat to Detroit jeep workers
- Students denounce Sydney College of the Arts merger
- Indian workers need a socialist strategy to oppose pro-investor “reform,” austerity and war
- Kafkaesque conditions facing homeless families in New York City
- Detroit professor advances “structural racism” theory of Flint water crisis
- Mexican government prepares crackdown against striking teachers
- Australian establishment discusses prospect of US-China war
- Brazilian Senate votes to remove President Rousseff of Workers Party
- Irish government crisis over Apple’s €13 billion tax dodge
2016-09-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New York Times launches McCarthyite witch-hunt against Julian Assange
- Australian government shaken by defeats in parliament
- Trump outlines ten-point plan for mass deportations and martial law
- Berlin police to be armed with potentially lethal tasers
- Refugee numbers decline as deaths rise in the Mediterranean
- Chicago police shoot someone every five days
- Clinton’s “American exceptionalism” speech: A bipartisan policy of militarism and war
- Ongoing job cutting in New Zealand
- New York police continue to violate court safeguards in surveillance of Muslims
- A film version of Philip Roth’s Indignation: Young lives overshadowed by war
- IMF issues warning on global growth to G20 summit
- China completes majority purchase of Greece Piraeus port
- Germany: Parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania elections focus attacks on refugees
- France pushes for regime change after contested elections in Gabon
- Australian Labor senator branded a “Manchurian candidate”
2016-09-03
- Syria war escalates in run-up to G20 summit meetings
- As Clinton escalates war threats, Sanders begins campaigning for Democratic nominee
- The ouster of Brazil’s Workers Party government
- UK: Further National Health Service hospital closures and cuts to be imposed
- Warmongers united: Germany’s Left Party welcomes former top army general
- More than 1,000 to be displaced by demolition of low-income housing development in Indiana
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK doctors struggle escalates with announcement of 20 days of strikes
- US lost 14,000 manufacturing jobs in August
- Tens of millions strike against Indian government’s right-wing economic policies
- Hurricane Hermine causes massive flooding and power outages in Florida
- State of Michigan reduces revenue sharing payments to city of Flint
- Warming of Earth proceeding at unprecedented pace
- California legislature votes to expand mandatory sentences for sexual assault
- German armed forces prepare for domestic operations
- New Zealand defence minister blames Beijing for South China Sea tension
- Rana Plaza disaster case postponed in Bangladesh
2016-09-05
- Australian supermarket chain sheds hardware stores and jobs
- SEP West Virginia candidate Naomi Spencer speaks on heroin epidemic
- This week in history: September 5-11
- Philippine president declares “state of lawlessness” after bomb blast
- The most unpopular candidates in American history
- Rising global tensions surface at G20 summit
- German Luftwaffe begin NATO patrols over the Baltic
- Polish and Ukrainian governments use World War II war crimes to promote nationalism
- Socialist Equality Party campaign launches fall election meetings
- Intelligence agencies reportedly question Australian PM’s “stance” on China
- Mass layoff at Harley-Davidson in York, Pennsylvania
- Green Party presidential candidate seeks to corral antiwar sentiment
- German military desperate for new recruits
- FBI director says agency preparing attack on data encryption after the elections
- War Dogs: Cry havoc? Or what exactly?
- Private security forces attack Native American protesters with dogs, pepper spray
- US and Japan attack plans for post-Brexit Britain
- Irish government to appeal European Commission ruling on Apple’s tax bill
- Defend the striking Allina nurses!
2016-09-06
- Fears of rising social opposition hung over G20 summit
- Portugal’s response to forest fires undermined by austerity
- Obama cancels meeting with Philippine President Duterte
- Obama and the US secret war in Laos
- Allina nurses strike reveals gulf between workers and union
- Opposition plots regime change in Maldives
- As Minneapolis nurses strike, unions join arms with Democratic officials in Labor Day events
- German states try to offload refugees on each other
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks to workers at Detroit Labor Day event
- Michigan officials press to close “failing schools”
- Teachers, students in US face battle to defend public education
- Corbyn offers olive branch to right wing as purge of British Labour Party escalates
- Canada’s Liberals launch inquiry into “missing and murdered indigenous women”
- California Assembly passes Secure Choice pension bill
- Brazilian military police attack mass protest against Temer
- Jason Bourne again
- SEP US presidential candidates denounce war drive at Humboldt University meeting in Berlin
- Australia: Opponents of war with China labelled “rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows”
2016-09-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Knives out for Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull
- Syrian war threatens to escalate as Obama-Putin talks fail
- New Zealand unions campaign against Chinese steel imports
- SPD right-wing politician Thilo Sarrazin praises Left Party budget cuts
- Thousands of teachers strike as Costa Rican unions suppress struggle
- White House to maintain nuclear “first strike” policy
- Minnesota nurses strike highlights militant mood of US workers
- Mehring Books announces two new SEP pamphlets
- Left Front promotes French regime-change operation in oil-rich Gabon
- Massachusetts: MBTA janitors to be laid off as cuts continue
- The right-wing threat in Germany and the need for a socialist party
- Colombian peace deal paves way for fiscal austerity
- Milwaukee Democrats propose to dramatically increase size of police force following Sherman Park protests
- Deteriorating Australian economy adds to pressure on Turnbull
- Clinton denounces Russian “interference” in US elections, calls for escalation in Syria
- UK: Review of Investigatory Powers Bill gives all-clear to mass surveillance
- UK Conservative divisions over Brexit go public once again
2016-09-08
- Unifor selects General Motors Canada as pattern bargaining target
- Turkey prepares joint action with US in Syria
- Australian government dismisses international law in The Hague over Timorese oil theft
- Mounting evidence of British “boots on the ground” in Syria
- Tens of thousands of Australian public sector workers set to strike
- Minneapolis students express support for striking Allina nurses
- ITT Tech shuts down after federal government withholds student funding
- Separatist candidates win seats in Hong Kong election
- Clinton and Trump bow to the military
- British Medical Association calls off junior doctors strikes
- Detroit teachers angered by contract deal
- Trudeau attempts balancing act in eight-day China visit
- “Stand Up against Racism”: A right-wing alliance in support of an SPD/Left Party/Green coalition government
2016-09-09
- On the 75th birthday of Sri Lankan Trotskyist leader Wije Dias
- Wells Fargo bank fined for account and credit card fraud
- German army steps up military intervention in Middle East
- Greek PM Tsipras promotes nationalism, austerity at Southern European conference
- Spanish economic recovery through savaging workers’ living standards
- Tensions between Washington and Moscow rise as Russia intercepts US spy planes over Black Sea
- Two months until the US elections: The political issues facing the working class
- New Zealand: Daily Blog opposes jury trials in rape cases
- Long Island University faculty and students oppose lockout
- Long Island University-Brooklyn locks out 400 professors
- South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy has global impact
- Australian Greens signal pro-business agenda in portfolio appointments
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- ECB keeps monetary policy on hold as tensions grow
- The repulsive spectacle of the Berlin Senate election television debate
- Australian senator falls victim to anti-China witch-hunt
- Chicago mayor plans to boost size of police force in response to social crisis
- Canada’s pseudo-left Socialist Project propagandizes for US imperialism in Iraq
- Obama heightens antagonisms with China at East Asia Summit
- Arbitration results in concessionary contract for US postal workers
- Appeal by Berlin Senate candidate Andy Niklaus: Workers need their own party!
2016-09-10
- Protest leaders barred from University of Papua New Guinea
- Armed protesters threaten former Stanford student Brock Turner with violence
- The reasons behind the failure to form a government in Spain
- Few Syrian refugees yet to arrive in Australia
- Media misinformation and the US election’s war agenda
- New York City surpasses London, Tokyo for highest rents
- Allina Health, media, join forces to break Twin Cities nurses as union isolates strike
- North Korea carries out fifth nuclear test
- Lead poisoning in Milwaukee provokes political crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Earthquake disaster aggravates social crisis in Italy
- India and Pakistan exchange threats and accusations
- Working conditions worsen in Germany
- Dublin, Ireland bus workers start series of strikes
- Clinton steps up appeals to Republicans, military
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White kicks off fall campaign with meeting in Chicago
- Report reveals Pennsylvania charter schools pocket cash meant for student spending
- UK political crisis deepens over Brexit
- Baltimore police conducted privately-funded aerial surveillance of city for nine months
2016-09-12
- Zika virus spreads in Puerto Rico and Florida
- Drone Valley: The University of California and the business of high-tech slaughter
- This week in history: September 12-18
- Australian government exploits attack by mentally-ill man to whip up terrorism scare
- Fighting rages on in Syria in wake of US-Russia brokered agreement
- Opposition grows to skilled trades reorganization at Fiat Chrysler
- Obama pledges to veto legislation allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi government
- PSG candidate in Berlin election speaks on German television
- Fifteen years since the 9/11 attacks
- Twenty-year-old Muslim recruit killed by officers at Marine boot camp
- Sri Lanka: NSSP leader campaigns for IMF austerity agenda
- Miss Sharon Jones! Barbara Kopple’s documentary
- SEP presidential candidate discusses elections with striking Minnesota nurses
- Turnbull government expands Australian military powers at home and abroad
- US and allies threaten North Korea with sanctions and military attack
- Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov dies
- Vote “No” on Detroit Federation of Teachers’ contract!
- Australian public sector union holds farcical protests amid one-day strike
- Political prisoner Chelsea Manning begins hunger strike
- French unions join far-right movement against refugees in Calais
- Alberta government backs decision not to charge cop who killed unarmed man
2016-09-13
- German weekly Die Zeit defends Al Qaeda
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German government plans massive expansion of spy services
- After the impeachment: Brazil’s pseudo lefts shift further rightward
- Murrieta, California police caught on video savagely beating unarmed man
- Pittsburgh nurses express support for striking Allina nurses in Minnesota
- Hunger and the social catastrophe facing America’s youth
- New Zealand: Anti-TPP protests promote economic protectionism
- Minnesota nurses strike at critical juncture
- Obama administration buys time to defuse Native American protests
- Australia: Juvenile prison abuse exposed in Queensland
- UK: North Manchester National Health Service Trust struggling to cope
- Akron, Ohio sees dozens of heroin overdoses over the weekend
- UK government pledge to expand grammar schools signals escalation of selective education
- Germany, France propose EU military alliance before post-Brexit summit
- Turbulence returns to financial markets
- Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Calls for Canada to develop cyberwar capabilities
2016-09-14
- US has spent nearly $5 trillion on wars since 9/11
- American B-1 bombers send menacing warning to North Korea
- European Council president backs demands for EU military buildup
- Spain: Pseudo-left CUP reverses opposition to Catalan austerity government
- Polish and British governments exploit attacks on Polish immigrants
- The witch-hunt against Chinese influence in Australia
- BHP Billiton demands Australian coal miners accept three-year wage freeze
- US federal court rejects challenge to Michigan emergency manager law
- US triples special operations deployment to Latin America
- Wage crisis for youth in US labor market
- Hell or High Water: A remarkable snapshot
- Australia: Labor Party helps government slash welfare
- Despite increase in 2015, US household income still lags behind pre-recession levels
- Brooklyn workers and young people speak to Socialist Equality Party election campaign
- PSG election meeting in Berlin-Wedding
2016-09-15
- West Virginia Supreme Court rules against independent petitioner
- Pentagon openly challenges US-Russia ceasefire deal in Syria
- Salvadoran ex-president flees corruption charges for Nicaragua
- Berlin election: Pseudo-left supports right-wing election campaign of the Left Party
- Polish and British governments exploit attacks on Polish immigrants
- Papua New Guinea nurses union calls off nationwide strike
- Philippine president calls for US special forces to leave Mindanao
- Socialism vs. Capitalism and War
- Online meeting with SEP presidential candidates to begin at 7:00 pm US Eastern Time
- The 2008 crisis and the lessons of history
- European Commission President Juncker calls for state-build up and war
- Further considerations on the household income report: Poverty and inequality in America
- For a counteroffensive against the auto bosses!
- A remembrance of veteran Trotskyist Bill Brust, twenty-five years after his death
- The Life and Times of Bill Brust
- Republican governor threatens violence if Hillary Clinton is elected
- UAW balks at solidarity action as Canadian auto talks continue
- US ambassador backs campaign against “Chinese influence” in Australia
2016-09-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Immigrant workers in Los Angeles speak on war and social conditions
- Right-wing campaign after anti-terror operation in Germany
- Columbus, Ohio 13-year-old gunned down by police
- Clinton’s fall in the polls and the crisis of the Democratic Party
- Pacific forum reveals regional geo-strategic tensions
- Many UK museums face closure due to funding cuts
- Sanders covers for union isolation of Minnesota nurses’ strike
- Brazilian prosecutors charge ex-president Lula as “commander” of Petrobras bribery racket
- Protesters continue to defy Indian state violence in Kashmir
- Australian political establishment embraces Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
- Child poverty continues to grow in Germany
- Hundreds of thousands march in new protest against French labour law
- The true cost of the American gulag: $1 trillion a year
- Death toll rises in Bangladesh factory fire
2016-09-17
- Clinton campaign in crisis over plunging support among younger voters
- UN chief praises pro-US Sri Lankan government
- UK reneges on its promise to take in Syrian refugees
- US special forces flee “moderate” rebels in Syria
- Edward Snowden speaks live in 800 theaters across North America
- Russian elections take place amid deepening economic and geopolitical crisis
- Lively discussion after final PSG election meeting
- PSG holds successful final election meeting in Berlin
- The international significance of the Berlin election
- New Zealand: Maori king cuts ties with Labour Party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US prisons ration expensive hepatitis C drugs
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White denounces war, advances socialist program at third party forum
- Wells Fargo executive overseeing fraud receives $124.6 million retirement
- Canada’s Liberals defend “war on terror,” spy agencies in Bill C-51 consultation
- Divisions erupt at post-Brexit Bratislava summit as EU calls for military-police build-up
- SEP candidate prevented from speaking at tenants’ meeting in Berlin
- One year since 2015 US auto contract battle
2016-09-19
- Young Euro Classic: International music festival in shadow of European Union crisis
- SEP candidate Naomi Spencer denounces “decertification” by West Virginia Secretary of State
- This week in history: September 19-25
- Japan to conduct South China Sea patrols with US
- Bernie Sanders campaigns for Clinton at Ohio campuses
- Philippine foreign secretary says Manila will no longer be US “little brown brother”
- The threat of world war: The great unmentionable in the 2016 campaign
- Long Island University lockout ends with contract extension and no issues resolved
- War danger surges as India blames Pakistan for attack on Kashmir base
- India-China tensions rise, as New Delhi aligns with Washington
- Berlin election results show growing anger towards establishment parties
- Detroit Federation of Teachers pushes through sellout contract
- 62 dead, 100 wounded as US bombs Syrian army near Deir ez-Zor
- SEP candidate denounces exclusion of Libertarians, Greens from debates
- Strike deadline looms at GM Canada
- Governor deploys National Guard and state police after bombing in New York
- Retiring British general urges preparations for war with Russia
2016-09-20
- SEP candidate files lawsuit to restore ballot status in West Virginia
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- SEP vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth campaigns in Pennsylvania
- Australia, Japan press US congress to ratify TPP
- Oliver Stone’s Snowden: The NSA is “running a dragnet on the whole world”
- New York Times peddles alibi for US bombing in Syria
- NATO sends 4,000 combat troops to Poland and Baltic states
- Bellicose campaign in India against Pakistan after attack on Kashmiri base
- UK steps up repression of migrant workers
- New offensive against National Health Service after cancellation of junior doctors’ strike
- What is the significance of a red-red-green coalition in Berlin?
- NFL football players spread protests over police violence, racism
- Regional dispute erupts over arrest of Fijian opposition leaders
- Markets too dependent on central banks, BIS warns
- Clinton’s speech at Temple University: A desperate appeal to young voters
- Unifor blocks strike at GM Canada
- SEP presidential candidate speaks with Canadian autoworkers about contract battle
- Massive police-military mobilization after New York City bombing
- Germany: Right-wing mob hounds refugees in Bautzen, Saxony
2016-09-21
- SEP candidate files motion for restraining order against West Virginia Secretary of State
- Australian government launches far-reaching assault on welfare
- Tulsa, Oklahoma police release videos of slaying of unarmed man
- Contract “framework” at GM Canada continues attack on autoworkers
- US intensifies campaign against Russia following attack on aid convoy in Syria
- Kremlin party wins parliamentary elections amid low voter turnout
- Polish government strengthens the far right
- UN General Assembly convenes amid global military escalation
- Public meeting in Chennai, India: Oppose the imperialist war drive! Fight for socialist program!
- UK parliamentary report criticises Libya war but conceals its geo-strategic aims
- International Socialist Organization backs NATO escalation in Syria
- India and Pakistan teeter on the precipice of war
- More than a million Australians live in poor housing
- German government steps up anti-refugee agitation
- Allina nurses’ strike and the union’s fraudulent “corporate campaign”
- Questions mount over government contacts with NYC bomb suspect
2016-09-22
- US pushes for “no fly” zone as Syrian conflict escalates
- Australia: Socialist Alternative conference promotes racial politics and the unions
- Pittsburgh students and workers discuss war and the 2016 elections
- The significance of the PSG’s election campaign in Berlin
- The police murder in Charlotte, North Carolina
- US SEP Presidential Candidate Jerry White to speak in Montreal this Saturday
- German supermarket chain to be broken up with thousands of jobs lost
- Neo-fascist Marine Le Pen launches 2017 French presidential election bid
- Michigan governor secretly abolished Flint’s right to sue
- NASDAQ hits record after US and Japanese central banks signal continued stimulus
- Clinton courts wealthy donors
- UC Berkeley reinstates class on Palestine after protests
- Australian aircraft involved in provocative US-led airstrike in Syria
- Sweden upholds Assange arrest warrant
- American playwright Edward Albee: The character of his opposition to the status quo
2016-09-23
- SEP candidate restored to ballot in West Virginia
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Unifor refuses to release “contract” before Sunday vote
- New Australian “anti-terror” laws overturn basic legal rights
- The New York bombings: Feeding the “war on terror”
- Leonardo da Vinci–The Genius in Milan: The marketing of genius
- India’s Defence Minister reaffirms vow to “punish” Pakistan
- German foreign minister calls for no-fly zone over Syria
- Germany and France press ahead with a European military union
- Toronto International Film Festival 2016: How well does filmmaking reflect present-day life?
- CEO of EpiPen maker testifies before US Congress
- Hundreds feared drowned as migrant boat capsizes off Egypt
- ECB signals more austerity amid mounting economic divisions in Europe
- Blairite coup to continue despite UK Labour leadership vote outcome
- Protests continue in Charlotte, North Carolina as police refuse to release video of fatal shooting
- Unifor touts collaboration with big business Liberals after blocking strike at GM Canada
- New Zealand: Labour Party MP leads Auckland mayoral race
2016-09-24
- Yahoo reports 500 million user accounts were hacked in 2014
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Build rank-and-file committees to resist Unifor sellout!
- Top US general warns Syrian “no-fly” zone means war with Russia
- Puerto Rico hit by nationwide blackout
- Police violence and the social crisis in America
- SEP presidential candidate warns of war dangers
- Jeremy Corbyn re-elected leader of UK Labour Party
- Australia: Thousands more jobs being destroyed
- Mobilise workers against Sri Lanka’s Sirisena-Wickremesinghe-Sampanthan regime!
- Biden meets with Central American leaders on refugee crackdown
- Germany: Green-conservative coalition in Baden-Württemberg backs domestic army operations
- Greater Manchester, England: Labour-controlled authority threatens all firefighters’ jobs
- Financial parasitism and the rising war danger
- Australian brewery still operating as unions isolate sacked workers
- Lessons of Labour’s leadership contest
- Unrest in the Congo: Political turmoil rocks Kinshasa
- Clinton steps up anti-Russian campaign against Trump
- SPD continues talks with the Left Party, Greens about next Berlin Senate
2016-09-26
- Obama vetoes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi government
- GM autoworkers denounce Unifor at ratification meeting
- GM Canada workers narrowly approve sellout deal
- This week in history: September 26-October 2
- US accuses Russia of “war crimes” as danger of clash in Syria mounts
- Australian government claims refugee policy “best in the world”
- On the eve of the US election debate: The politics of the grotesque
- Pennsylvania workers’ wages decline while rich become richer
- Police kill 23-year-old man in Louisville, Nebraska
- Number of London homeless sleeping on the streets tops 8,000 nightly
- UK Labour right views Corbyn’s compromises as chance to resume offensive
- Japan scrambles fighter to intercept Chinese military aircraft
- Students at Wayne State and San Diego State universities speak on war and the 2016 elections
- Sri Lanka government raises VAT following IMF demands
- Croatian parliamentary election fails to resolve political crisis
- Charlotte police release videos showing Keith Scott with arms down as he was shot
- SEP presidential candidates to be on the ballot in Louisiana
- Two years since the kidnapping of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in Mexico
- US autoworkers speak out on war, inequality and the 2016 elections
- French right-wing candidate Alain Juppé warns of rising anti-Muslim hysteria
2016-09-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ontario Liberal government reveals GM investments are not finalized
- How well does filmmaking reflect present-day life?
- Syria and the pro-imperialist pseudo-left
- New Zealand public meetings: The US Navy visit and the drive to war
- Negotiations resume as Minneapolis nurses’ strike enters fourth week
- Top Workers Party former minister arrested in Brazil
- German Left Party on a war footing for participation in federal government
- Workers and youth at Jaffna protest speak out against US-backed Sri Lankan regime
- Pakistan replies with belligerence to Indian threats
- US to deport thousands of Haitian workers
- Lesbos fire highlights tragic situation of refugees in Greece
- New fossil discovery may date origin of life on Earth earlier than previously known
- New Zealand: Ex-Green Party MP launches pseudo-left think tank
- Deutsche Bank plunge sparks talk of “Lehman moment”
- Clinton-Trump debate: A degrading spectacle
- New York and New Jersey scandals highlight corruption across political establishment
- Bosnian Serb referendum inflames tensions in the Balkans
2016-09-28
- International court dismisses Australian challenge over Timor Sea border dispute
- Clint Eastwood’s Sully: The “Miracle on the Hudson” dramatized
- Polish Parliament approves ban on abortion
- Papua New Guinea: Air Niugini sacks pilots over protest action
- The US presidential debate and the war plans of the ruling class
- Pentagon chief outlines preparations for nuclear war with Russia
- Britain attacks plans for European military union at Bratislava summit
- Indian workers and students speak out against US war drive
- WSWS interview with David North: A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016
- India launches campaign to “punish” Pakistan
- Nine wounded in mass shooting by a Houston, Texas lawyer
- Economist magazine warns of revolutionary consequences of unprecedented corporate power
- UK Labour Party conference: Corbyn again prostrate before right wing
- Bill to fund US government stalls in Congress
- Anti-China witch-hunt targets former Australian foreign minister
- Liberals’ Canada Post review lays basis for massive assault on postal workers
- US national anthem protests at sporting events continue to spread
2016-09-29
- Walmart to cut 7,000 back-office jobs in the US
- After Kashmir attack, US media threaten to support India in war with Pakistan
- Ex-Australian Labor minister calls for deregulation of university fees
- The Chosen, on Trotsky, and other political subjects
- US threatens Russia with end to cooperation in Syria as fighting rages in Aleppo
- Sanders stumps for Clinton at University of New Hampshire
- Vienna refugee conference reaffirms Europe’s closed-border policy
- Police kill 30-year-old mentally ill man in El Cajon, California
- Pittsburgh residents demand their water be tested for lead
- Corbyn’s capitulation to the right wing and the lessons of the UK Labour leadership contest
- Canadian autoworkers denounce contract sellout
- New Zealand Labour Party marks its centenary
- Large audience for interview with David North, author of A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016
- Workers’ strikes spreading throughout South Korea
- Slowdown in growth of trade highlights global economic stagnation
- British Medical Association sells out struggle of UK junior doctors
- SPD, Left Party and Greens commence coalition talks after Berlin election
2016-09-30
- Congress overrides Obama veto of bill allowing 9/11 lawsuits
- Push to install right-wing Spanish government splits Socialist Party
- New York Times brands Russia an “outlaw state”
- Louisiana police release video of officers killing six-year-old Jeremy Mardis in 2015
- New Jersey commuter train crash kills one and injures more than 100
- More US troops sent to Iraq ahead of assault on Mosul
- JIT investigation blames Russia for MH17 crash in Ukraine
- The Verdi union’s despicable role in the breakup of Germany’s Kaiser’s Tengelmann retail group
- India launches military attacks against Pakistan
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Infrastructure breakdown plunges Australian state into darkness
- Irish unions call off Dublin bus strike
- Chicago teachers set strike date
- Australia: Immigration employees take industrial action in public sector dispute
- Berlin police shoot Iraqi refugee
- Crisis at Germany’s Deutsche Bank intensifies
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