Archive: 05/2017
2017-05-01
- May 1-7: April Crisis breaks out in Petrograd
- What the Australian Education Union is suppressing
- Floods, tornadoes kill 13 across US South as Trump plans major cuts to disaster relief
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna picket demands release of framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Amnesty report highlights companies profiting from Australia’s refugee camps
- Nationalists storm Macedonia's parliament
- May Day 2017: Lessons of history and the fight for socialism
- Each day 150 workers die in the US due to hazardous work conditions
- Trump again warns North Korea against nuclear testing
- Health care for 22,600 retired coal miners extended for one week
- Washington, D.C. public transit authority proposes major offensive against workers
- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art considers mandatory admission charge for out-of-state visitors
- Poverty among Michigan children greater in 2015 than during “Great Recession”
- Massive enrolment decline at Illinois public colleges and universities due to state budget impasse
- French right splits as sections back neo-fascist Le Pen
- People’s Climate March protests Trump attacks on environment
- Researchers claim evidence that humans were in the Americas 130,000 years ago
- European Union issues hard-line Brexit negotiating strategy
- Health workers and residents in Bournemouth speak out against health service cuts
2017-05-02
- The fight for international socialism in South Asia
- Death toll rises to 18 as floods and tornadoes devastate impoverished US South
- South Korean election candidates back US war preparations
- Brazilian demonstrators speak out during first general strike in 21 years
- May Day in France: Trade union calls to support Macron fall flat
- Trump invites Philippine President Duterte to the White House
- A political appraisal of the ICFI’s 2017 International May Day Online Rally
- National Guard, Pentagon hold drills testing preparations for nuclear attack on the US
- Trump suggests talks while preparing for war with North Korea
- The rise of economic nationalism and protectionism
- Parti de l'égalité socialiste holds first public meeting on May Day in Paris
- International May Day 2017: Mass marches and police repression
- May Day marchers speak out in defense of immigrant rights
- Democrats agree to increase military and border spending while cutting food stamps
- UK: Fujitsu workers must reject Unite’s nationalist strategy
- German army officer arrested for planning terror attack
- Australian budget to slash welfare and education
- Largest general strike since 1989 hits 185 cities in Brazil
- The perspective for the working class in the French presidential election
2017-05-03
- The Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017) and the fate of the ‘60s generation
- Writers’ Guild of America reaches deal with major studios
- The New York Times worries about the high political cost of Obama’s $400,000 speeches
- Leadership contest begins in Spain’s Socialist Party
- Washington budgets an extra $120 million for guarding the Trumps
- Mass casualties in latest refugee tragedy off Libyan coast
- The danger of nuclear war in North East Asia
- Call by Labour right for a “progressive alliance” in UK election falls flat
- Balch Springs, Texas police kill unarmed 15-year-old boy
- PES public meeting in Paris calls for active boycott of French elections
- Why did Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party lose the 2016 election?
- New Zealand: Gender pay deal used to promote unions, government
- US sends B-1 strategic bombers over South Korea
- In online poll, Mélenchon supporters reject both candidates in French runoff election
- Defend the 13 framed-up Indian Maruti Suzuki workers
- Oppose the persecution of immigrants and refugees
- Indian military given green light to strike Pakistan
- Teachers oppose Australian Education Union sell-out deal at Victorian delegates meeting
- Brazil’s science march and the role of nationalism and the military
- Socialist Alternative joins pro-war witch-hunt of Australian academic
- Anger grows among US telecom workers
- House Republicans scramble for votes to pass draconian health care bill
2017-05-04
- FBI director threatens WikiLeaks and Assange
- Faculty strike at University of Illinois-Springfield
- Trump on Jackson and the Civil War: Historical ignorance and the decline of the American presidency
- New study details correlation between tornado deaths and social inequality
- Australia: Victorian teachers speak out against agreement after union delegate meeting
- US and Russia discuss “safe zones” in Syria
- War (The Stopover), scientific progress (Marie Curie), the police (The Force) and other issues
- The Crisis of the European Union
- Trump Justice Department: No charges in police murder of Alton Sterling
- Neo-Nazi network in German army exposed
- Paris youth speak to WSWS: “I don’t want to vote for the right just because I’m afraid of Le Pen”
- German state election in North-Rhine Westphalia: The devastating balance sheet of the SPD-Green government
- A conversation with Professor Immanuel Ness on the Maruti Suzuki workers
- SEP Sri Lankan May Day meeting discusses threat of world war and lessons of Russian Revolution
- Online lecture Saturday: Lenin’s Return to Russia and the April Theses
- The Growth of German Militarism and the Rewriting of History
- French election debate: Macron, Le Pen promote militarism, attacks on immigrants
- Militarism, social reaction, and authoritarianism in the United States
- At least 23 dead, dozens trapped in Iranian coal mine disaster
- French warship joins US-UK-Japanese fleet threatening North Korea
- Why Emmanuel Macron is no lesser evil compared to Marine Le Pen
- Australian Fairfax journalists strike for a week over job destruction
- Prime Minister May accuses EU of meddling in UK election
- UK: Behind the release of former soldier and war criminal Alexander Blackman
- Australia: Anzac Day and the official silence about anti-war opposition in WWI
2017-05-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkish government launches crackdown on Internet, opposition parties
- Pentagon in talks with Baghdad on permanent US occupation of Iraq
- Woman faces year in jail after laughing at US attorney general confirmation hearing
- Puerto Rican bankruptcy: A prelude to savage austerity and pension cuts
- Sri Lankan workers and students oppose Maruti Suzuki frame-up
- The human cost of the US-Mexico border: More than 6,000 bodies found since 2000
- US show of force intensifies pressure on North Korea and China
- Higher education and upward mobility increasingly inaccessible to poor in the US
- Ahead of May 7 runoff, French right-wing Les Républicains on verge of split
- 8,000 Flint residents face foreclosure for failing to pay for poisoned water
- Workers’ struggles: The Americas
- Senate hearing gives a glimpse of political warfare within the FBI
- The class issues in the British election
- The fight for socialist internationalism in Latin America
- National Bird, about drone warfare, currently available on PBS “Independent Lens”
- Woman jailed in Britain for six months for begging for 50 pence
- Apple’s $257 billion cash hoard and parasitic accumulation
- Alitalia bankruptcy exacerbates social tensions in Italy
- House Republicans pass draconian health care legislation
2017-05-06
- Death toll rises to 37 amid continuing clashes in Venezuela
- Trump and Australian PM Turnbull stage mutual embrace in New York
- Media pundits, pseudo-left back Sri Lankan president’s call for authoritarian rule
- Dziga Vertov’s The Man with a Movie Camera: One of the films you must see!
- Maryland prosecutors drop false rape charges against immigrant boys witch-hunted by Trump
- On the eve of the French presidential election
- NPA tacitly backs the French ruling elite’s campaign for Macron vote
- North Korea under siege
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New report documents pervasive hunger in America
- Greece’s Syriza government agrees to further savage austerity measures
- Australia: Fairfax journalists strike, but union appeals to corporate investors
- Conservatives win UK local elections, as Labour and UKIP vote declines
- How the German Army covers up for neo-Nazi terrorist networks
- British Columbia NDP wages right-wing, nationalist election campaign
- Amazon CEO makes $3.3 billion in a few hours
- Republican health care bill targets millions with preexisting conditions
2017-05-08
- May 8-14: Bolsheviks convene all-Russian conference amid government crisis
- South Korean presidential frontrunner stresses agreement with Trump
- The destruction of the National Health Service and the role of NHS FightBack
- Fifteen-year-old high school freshman with BB gun killed by police in San Diego
- A new stage in the US health care counterrevolution
- New Zealand: Peace Action Wellington endorses Anzac Day
- European Council endorses Irish unification in hardline negotiations over Brexit
- Students and workers in Pittsburgh and western New York support framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Macron wins French presidency
- Defence Minister Von der Leyen apologises for criticizing the German army
- Lenin’s Return to Russia and the April Theses
- Japanese PM plans to remove constitutional shackles on the military by 2020
- Honeywell Aerospace cuts retiree health care benefits
- German interior minister proposes anti-immigrant and racist “defining German culture”
- Federal agency to investigate talk show host Stephen Colbert over anti-Trump joke
- Afghanistan-Pakistan border clash erupts amid seething regional tensions
2017-05-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New evidence of UAW vote-rigging in 2015 Ford contract
- Young “gig economy” worker hounded to his death over debt repayment
- SEP (Sri Lanka) calls for workers’ inquiry into Meethotamulla garbage dump disaster
- New York Democrats announce plans to shut Rikers Island prison in a decade
- Hypocrisy and lies: Barack Obama accepts “Profile in Courage” award in Boston
- What way forward in the struggle against Macron?
- Australian rail union responds to Pacific National lockout by resuming talks
- New Zealand: Taylor Preston meat workers condemn union pay deal
- Hundreds of migrants drown in Mediterranean
- Hunger affecting millions of children in UK
- Nazi traditions of Germany’s Armed Forces come to the fore
- US corporate profits up 13.9 percent on cost-cutting and low wages
- Czech government resigns amidst intensifying political crisis
- The pseudo-left’s appraisal of the “pink tide”: A recipe for further betrayals
2017-05-10
- Senate hearing revives Democratic campaign over alleged Trump-Russia connections
- Detroit water shutoff crisis intensifies under bill repayment scheme
- More than half of young people in Europe would join a “large-scale uprising”
- Living standards plunge in UK
- Democrat Moon Jae-in wins South Korean presidential election
- SPD vote plummets in Schleswig-Holstein state election in Germany
- 13 Reasons Why: The unhappiness of youth
- Puerto Rico to shut down 179 public schools
- Podemos no-confidence vote in Rajoy aimed at preserving bourgeois rule in Spain
- Three years after the lead poisoning of Flint, residents face water shutoffs, home foreclosures
- Life expectancy study shows 20-year gap between richest and poorest US counties
- Sister of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner pitches investment-for-visa scheme in China
- Further arrests of German army personnel in neo-Nazi terror plot
- Australian media union shuts down week-long Fairfax journalists’ strike
- Trump firing of FBI director touches off political storm
- Australian budget set to heighten social and political antagonisms
- Washington prepares to send up to 5,000 more troops into Afghanistan
2017-05-11
- Sri Lankan prime minister strengthens ties with US allies
- New York City officials red-bait public school faculty
- New evidence of UAW vote-rigging in 2015 Ford contract
- US children’s suicide-related hospital admissions double in last decade
- NATO requests UK troops for US-led surge in Afghanistan
- Risk: Laura Poitras’ confused, superficial documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
- Trump’s firing of Comey: A new stage in the crisis of class rule
- As war tensions continue, signs emerge of talks with North Korea
- Ten dead in confrontation between civilians and the military in Puebla, Mexico
- Mélenchon-Communist Party alliance for French legislative elections collapses
- US-Turkish tensions mount over plan to arm Syrian Kurdish militia
- Trump administration threatens to deport tens of thousands of Haitian refugees
- The political issues facing Fairfax workers
- Republicans reject Democratic demands for special prosecutor
- Canadian defence minister vows to build stronger military
- US auto profits soar as sales slowdown threatens more layoffs
- West Virginia journalist arrested after questioning Secretary of Health and Human Services
2017-05-12
- Australian budget: Drug-testing intensifies war on welfare
- US bombs kill 11 civilians in Syria
- Stranger Things, Season One: Government spying and the supernatural in the 1980s
- As anger grows against US carriers, Spirit Airlines scapegoats pilots
- Washington’s political crisis over the Comey firing: A harbinger of revolutionary upheavals
- No to war and militarism! Oppose political censorship at NYU! For equality and socialism!
- Berkshire Hathaway billionaire: “The amount of waste from overtreatment of the dying is just disgusting”
- India: ICFI supporters hold May Day meeting in Bangalore
- Guardian journalist Paul Mason calls for a “left” alliance with “free market elite”
- India’s finance minister meets with Maruti Suzuki chairman
- French President-elect Macron’s legislative slate: Social reaction bares its teeth
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Berlin’s “Red-Red-Green” Senate steps up deportations
- Defence Minister Von der Leyen downplays size of right-wing terrorist cell in German army
- Once again on race and the 2016 elections
- US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos booed by students at Florida college
- Mounting contradictions as Trump, aides defend firing of FBI director
- Chicago school district moves to fire activist teacher
- Washington seeks greater crackdown on the Central American working class
- Thousands evacuated following floods in Quebec and Ontario
- Apple valuation surges to over $800 billion
2017-05-13
- Veterans Affairs to close more than 1,110 facilities
- Australian Labor’s budget reply and the fear of political unrest
- Worldwide ransomware attack linked to hacked NSA cyberwarfare arsenal
- The political and social roots of the Democratic Party’s anti-Russia hysteria
- Library jobs cut in New Zealand’s biggest city
- UK Labour Party adopts pro-business, militarist election manifesto
- What is in the UK Labour Party’s manifesto?
- British ruling elite celebrates falling life expectancy as boon for pension fund deficits
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hundreds of US citizens arrested in joint immigration-police roundup
- Germany resurrects conscription
- Jonathan Demme (1944-2017): A talented filmmaker and a victim of stagnant times
- Trump threatens Comey over leaked account of White House dinner
- Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship released from prison
- BC Liberals cling to power after election ends in dead heat
2017-05-15
- May 15-21: Trotsky arrives in Petrograd
- UK: Tate workers asked to “put money towards a sailing boat” for museum director
- US, South Korea emphasise alliance after North Korean missile test
- Report documents record levels of social inequality in Russia
- As workers’ wages stagnated, UK super-rich “carried on making billions”
- Trump’s firing of Comey: A breakdown of constitutional government
- US hepatitis C infections triple amid opioid epidemic
- Waste plant polluting southwest Detroit neighborhoods
- German enthusiasm for Macron begins to wane
- US Federal student loan interest rates set to rise in July
- The global cyberattack, the NSA and Washington’s war propaganda against Russia
- Season 6 of HBO’s Girls: Ending with a whimper
- Neo-Nazi network in German army larger than previously thought
- Emmanuel Macron inaugurated as president of France
- US education chief Betsy DeVos plots school privatization with venture capitalists
- Burmese government rejects international inquiry into anti-Rohingya pogrom
- Seventh All-Russian Bolshevik Conference: Resolution on the war
2017-05-16
- Yemenis dying of cholera as Trump meets with UAE ruler
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Trump establishes commission to attack the right to vote
- University of Puerto Rico students protest austerity measures
- UK National Union of Teachers sabotages struggle against funding cuts
- White supremacists hold rallies defending Confederate monuments in Virginia
- The London Conference on Somalia: Imperialists plan military buildup in Horn of Africa
- Australia: SEP meetings discuss international socialist program required to prevent war
- Media claims Trump revealed classified information to Russian visitors
- Australian Education Union pushes through industrial agreement at delegates’ meetings
- The global ransomware attack and the crimes of the US spy agencies
- No to militarism and surveillance! NYU must reveal all ties to military and spy agencies!
- French President Macron names right-wing PM, meets Merkel to plan austerity and war
- Liesl Tommy’s Macbeth: An “updated” version, with pluses and minuses, of Shakespeare's tragedy
- India intensifies repression in Kashmir
- French auto parts workers at GM&S threaten to blow up plant to block closure
- Australia: Tribunal to hear challenge to union-company wage-cutting deal
- China hosts international launch of One Belt, One Road initiative
- Jörg Baberowski insists that Hitler was “not vicious”
- Palace coup in the Austrian People’s Party
- Trump administration seizes on Aetna pullout from ACA to push Republicans’ health plan
2017-05-17
- A socialist perspective to fight the government assault on education and the drive to war
- Erdogan’s White House visit papers over US-Turkish tensions
- Trump White House in disarray amidst charges it sought to block FBI investigation into Flynn
- Teachers criticise anti-democratic character of AEU delegates’ meetings
- UK: Labour’s shadow foreign secretary spells out Corbyn’s pro-war “journey”
- Sánchez aims to save Spain’s Socialist Party from collapse
- Los Angeles International Airport launches private terminal for the ultra-wealthy
- The working class must intervene with its own program in the political crisis in Washington
- New Zealand: Police suppressed video recorded in Pike River mine
- Mélenchon repeats offer to serve as the prime minister of France under Macron
- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning to be released from prison today
- Macron delays announcement of French ministerial cabinet
- International Socialist Organization lines up behind Democrats’ anti-Russian campaign against Trump
- VW trade union boss pockets €750,000 per year
- Ford to cut as many as 20,000 jobs worldwide
- Water bill deadline looms for 8,000 Flint households
- Georgia carries out its first execution of 2017
- Sri Lanka: IMF orders government to speed up austerity measures
2017-05-18
- Human rights propaganda in support of imperialist war
- Justice Department appoints special counsel to investigate Trump-Russia claims
- Australian teachers support campaign against AEU-government deal
- Washington levels new allegations against Syria on eve of Geneva talks
- The strange rebirth of the Conservative Party in Scotland
- Chelsea Manning released amid growing attacks on democratic rights in the US
- Agreement terms expose New Zealand meat union’s sellout at Taylor Preston
- The politics of New York University’s Board of Trustees: The case of Laurence Fink and John Paulson
- Lessons from the North Rhein-Westphalia state election
- North Korea accused of cyber attacks in mounting demonisation campaign
- The frame-up of the Maruti Suzuki workers—Part 5: Judge Goyal mangles the law to sustain the legal vendetta
- Macron names government to implement social counterrevolution in France
- Musician-singer Valerie June’s The Order Of Time: A warm album, but …
- Iran holds presidential election amid mounting geopolitical turbulence
- More than 10,000 immigrants detained each year in California are parents of US citizens
- Fund managers earned billions in 2016 even as hedge funds underperformed
- Greek workers mount one-day strike against EU austerity package
- US autoworkers discuss Ford job cuts, Washington political crisis
- Flint workers denounce foreclosure threat over water bills
2017-05-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Falling wages fuel social crisis in Australia
- Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer acquitted in 2016 killing of Terence Crutcher
- Trump lashes out at investigation of alleged Russia ties
- US airstrike targets pro-Assad forces in Syria
- Sydney bus drivers strike against privatisation
- The class issues in Britain’s snap election: Austerity, dictatorship and war
- WikiLeaks’ lawyers sharply criticize Laura Poitras’ documentary Risk
- Obama presidential center in Chicago could cost $1.5 billion
- Democrats appeal to military in campaign against Trump
- New dating of Homo naledi fossil alters its position in the human evolutionary tree
- Indian prime minister visits Sri Lanka to strengthen ties
- UK: Labour’s manifesto amended to stress commitment to militarism and war
- Speech at a session of the Petrograd Soviet
- Professor Mario Kessler publishes comment criticizing views of right-wing professor Jörg Baberowski
- French government prepared coup if Le Pen won presidential election
- Flint residents speak out on water crisis
- Productivity figures and job cuts expose Trump’s growth fraud
- Trump administration education budget proposes $10.6 billion in cuts
- Brazil’s markets plummet amid corruption charges against president
- CWA threatens weekend strike at AT&T as US telecom workers press for real fight
- Amazon warehouse worker in Manchester UK “enterprise zone” speaks of intolerable working conditions
2017-05-20
- The political issues in the fight against the AEU-Labor government EBA
- New report: Current Trump official a “person of interest” in FBI probe of White House-Russia ties
- Trump approves new Pentagon strategy to “annihilate” ISIS
- Australia: Contract teacher voices opposition to the AEU-government agreement
- Germany: SPD reacts to election defeat with authoritarian state measures
- California: San Diego to cut $2.3 million from city arts budget
- Veteran drives through crowd in Times Square: The war comes home
- Québec Solidaire congress prepares alliance with Parti Québécois
- Sweden’s investigation into Julian Assange was a political frame-up from the outset
- Student protests in Australia promote Labor and the Greens
- The political issues behind the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans
- Sri Lankan plantation workers support campaign to release framed-up Maruti Suzuki workers
- Speech on Comrade Uritsky’s report on the attitude to the Provisional Government
- French media, political parties hush up PS government’s coup plan
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese government exploits Korean crisis to whip up war scares
- Three dead in US immigration custody in one week, two from suicide
- UK government seeks additional surveillance powers, including overriding encryption
- Michigan partnership agreements only a temporary reprieve in statewide school closure threats
- ABC’s Designated Survivor: The US government in crisis, onscreen and off
- Australian budget fallout deepens political crisis
- CWA begins three-day strike at AT&T as US telecom workers press for real fight
- Sweden drops bogus investigation, but Julian Assange threatened with extradition to US
2017-05-22
- May 22-28: Global class struggle intensifies
- UK Conservative manifesto outlines stepped up austerity and militarism
- Australia: Teachers explain why the AEU-government deal should be rejected
- Trump’s speech in Riyadh signals US escalation against Iran
- Vulture capitalists fight over pickings from bankrupt Puerto Rico
- Washington Post and New York Times urge pullback on calls for Trump impeachment
- Report accuses Pentagon of running multi-billion dollar slush fund for military operations
- UN Security Council to meet again after North Korea missile test
- Trump triggers renegotiation of NAFTA
- West Virginia coal miner killed at pit run by environmental fund
- Visiting Mali, French President Macron appeals for army’s support
- Iran’s president wins reelection
- Informant Claude Hermant implicates French state in Charlie Hebdo attacks
- Haymarket Books’ #Resist: The International Socialist Organization props up the Democratic Party in Chicago
- The class issues in the UK snap election
- Union conceals district’s takeaway demands from Detroit teachers
- Singer-musician Chris Cornell (1964-2017) dies at 52
- Another undercover report of super-exploitation in China’s iPhone factories
- AT&T workers call for broader fight as CWA ends weekend strike
- Trade splits emerge at APEC meeting
- Political tensions in Albania destabilise the Balkans
2017-05-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK wage performance “worst in over 200 years”
- What accounts for the success of the WannaCrypt ransomware attack on Britain’s National Health Service?
- Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia intensifies tensions with Europe
- San Diego, California school district pushes forward with layoffs and cuts
- Massacre of 17 prison escapees highlights deep social crisis in Papua New Guinea
- Sri Lankan plantation unions embrace Indian prime minister
- Trump calls for $1.7 trillion in social cuts
- International Youth and Students for Social Equality member wins student senate seat at New York University
- Notre Dame graduates walk out to protest Vice President Pence’s graduation speech
- Explosion kills, wounds dozens at pop concert in Manchester
- Macron prepares enabling act to slash contracts, labor rights in France
- Charter advocates take over Los Angeles school board
- In visit to Israel, Trump escalates attacks on Iran
- Wall Street engineers ouster of top Ford executives
- Former Trump national security adviser invokes Fifth Amendment
- Australian building workers hit by construction company collapse
- Links established between neo-Nazi network and “Identity Movement” in the German army
- Artists, writers, musicians detained and bullied by US customs and border officers
2017-05-24
- US launches raid in Yemen as Trump concludes Middle East trip
- 32-year-old worker dies at Detroit area US Steel mill
- UK Prime Minister Theresa May forced to backpedal on “dementia tax”
- Australian government demonises “fake refugees”
- Planned Parenthood to close 10 clinics in Iowa and the mountain West
- UK government deploys military following Manchester suicide bombing
- Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina redistricting
- Indian establishment lauds military’s use of Kashmiri youth as “human shield”
- S&P downgrades small banks amid warnings of Australian housing slowdown
- Netflix series Dear White People: Self-pity in the service of social climbing
- Chicago police keep nearly 400,000 on a secret watch list
- New South Korean government pushes sham “chaebol” reform
- Caterpillar, Butterball to close factories in Montgomery, Illinois, laying off 1,400 workers
- Trump’s scorched-earth budget: $1.7 trillion in cuts to vital social programs
- Ex-CIA director’s testimony fuels new round of anti-Russian agitation
- Brazil crisis threatens second impeachment in less than a year
- Socialist Equality Party launches International Amazon Workers Voice newsletter
2017-05-25
- The 2017 Whitney Biennial—a survey of contemporary American art: What does it show?
- German Social Democratic election programme: More police, more surveillance, faster deportations
- Australian inquest into Sydney siege whitewashes unanswered questions
- Mounting massacres against rural workers and indigenous groups in Brazil
- Quebec construction strike rattles Canada’s ruling elite
- Progressive Alliance rally in London calls for support for “globalist” elite
- Duterte declares martial law on Philippine island of Mindanao
- Official account of Manchester suicide bombing unravels
- Sri Lanka in a balancing act over China’s One Belt, One Road project
- Activists’ tribunal into neo-Nazi murders plans to name those responsible
- Prominent analyst predicts “imminent” US war on North Korea
- Trump to press for increased defence spending at NATO summit
- After Manchester attack, France prolongs state of emergency
- Half of US Fortune 500 companies pay next to nothing in state taxes
- Eastern Michigan University part-time lecturers face 25 percent pay cut
- Crisis at Canadian subprime mortgage lender
- Trump budget aims to fatally cripple Medicaid
2017-05-26
- Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: Poverty in the coal fields
- Trump’s budget proposal to slash $192 billion from food assistance programs
- New Zealand: Ashburton meat works closure threatens 370 jobs
- ICE agents raid immigrant kitchen staff after dining at Ann Arbor, Michigan restaurant
- Quebec premier amplifies threat to outlaw 175,000-strong construction strike
- Conflict between Europe and America dominates NATO summit
- American public overwhelmingly accepting of interracial marriage
- US warship carries out “freedom of navigation” exercise in Chinese-claimed waters
- Auto parts workers fired after “Day Without Immigrants” protest
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US CEO compensation rose by 8.5 percent in 2016
- Rampant safety hazards, wage theft on Nashville construction sites
- Moody’s downgrades China’s debt rating
- Brazil’s president forced to rescind order calling out the army against protesters
- An inside look at Bernie Sanders’s role in the Democratic Party primaries
- British Columbia Greens prepare for government role by pledging loyalty to corporate elite
- Appeals court upholds injunction on Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban
- Manchester’s dead: Victims of British regime-change operations in the Middle East
- Amazon workers worldwide denounce dictatorial working conditions
- Republican health plan would leave 23 million uninsured, budget office says
2017-05-27
- Transatlantic tensions dominate G7 summit
- A German Life: A glimpse into the Nazi inner circle
- Royal Bank of Scotland seeks to avoid High Court action by shareholders
- War clouds over South Asia
- Republican who attacked reporter wins congressional by-election in Montana
- Speech at a Session of the Petrograd Soviet on reports by the socialist ministers
- A rare media examination of the US saturation bombing of Laos
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner under investigation in probe of Russia ties
- Political tensions in Indonesia after jailing of Jakarta governor
- Sri Lanka: SEP holds meeting and picket in Hatton for release of Maruti Suzuki workers
- Thomas Arthur dies by lethal injection in Alabama
- Corbyn makes his appeal to become Britain’s next prime minister
- One thousand staff stood-down after private college collapses in Australia
- Talks stall on third day of Quebec construction strike
- The Democratic Convention, anti-Russian hysteria, and Clinton’s concession
- Striking Amazon workers in Germany support call for international cooperation
2017-05-29
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of the catastrophe in Afghanistan, dead at 89
- Mass water shutoffs continue for Detroit households
- May 29 – June 4: Lenin and Trotsky move toward unity as calls for Soviet power spread
- Australia’s billionaires celebrate a “wealth boom”
- Quebec construction strike: Defeat strikebreaking laws and concessions! Defend public services!
- Two men stabbed to death in Portland, Oregon anti-Muslim incident
- The rift between Germany and America: A “watershed” moment
- North Korea tests missile as US deploys third aircraft carrier
- British intelligence received warnings that Manchester bomber was plotting attacks
- As Labour rises in UK polls, Blairite breakaway party plans gather pace
- New eruption of political warfare in Washington focuses on Jared Kushner’s meetings with Russians
- India’s boycott of China’s Belt and Road summit highlights deepening tensions
- Trump administration grants brief extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants
- Over 150 dead and half a million displaced in Sri Lankan floods
- Trump education budget calls for dismantling core programs, promotes vouchers and charter schools
- Artists who were harassed at the US border speak out
- Ex-worker: I was close to heatstroke and Amazon forced me to keep working
2017-05-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Massive tuition increase at Oregon public universities
- Texas state representative calls ICE on pro-immigrant protesters
- School privatization critic Diane Ravitch offers advice to the Democrats
- Quebec introduces “emergency” bill outlawing construction strike
- Behind the US war drive against North Korea
- German Social Democrats, Left Party back Merkel’s anti-US stance
- UK and US mount damage control operation over Manchester bombing
- In meeting with Putin, Macron distances France from Washington’s anti-Russia policy
- Netflix’s War Machine: A hard-hitting attack on America’s military madness
- Japanese government pushes “anti-conspiracy” laws through lower house
- US-backed Iraqi forces carry out “annihilation tactics” in Mosul
- ICE arrested 190 immigrants in Southern California “public safety” operation
- Gasoline and chemical truck drivers strike in France
- Amazon ordered employee to work despite heatstroke risk, sought to cover up incident
2017-05-31
- Investigation of White House-Russia ties expands to Trump’s personal lawyer
- Quebec government adopts law to break construction workers’ strike
- Manuel Noriega and US militarism
- Senator John McCain visits Australia to reinforce US alliance
- Left Party campaigns for German imperialism
- German Amazon worker denounces company’s collective punishment tactics
- US anti-missile test sends warning to North Korea
- UK: Green Party stands aside for pro-European Union candidates
- Thousands of workers on strike at Freeport mine in Papua
- French media hail Macron’s moves away from US anti-Russian policies
- As Tories slip in the polls, British media goes on the offensive against Corbyn
- Kenyan doctors union threatens strike over stalled March agreement
- Why did the New York Times hire neoconservative columnist Bret Stephens?
- German Professor Baberowski explains his far-right agenda
- Inhuman conditions on US airlines driven by Wall Street pressure
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