Archive: 05/2016
2016-05-02
- First Zika death on US territory as Congress delays funding
- White House correspondents dinner: A degrading spectacle of conformism
- Volkswagen works council and IG Metall back executive bonuses
- Verizon steps up strikebreaking after “last, best and final” offer
- US senators demand escalation of military confrontation with China
- Political prisoner Gary Tyler freed from Angola prison after 41 years
- This week in history: May 2-8
- Songs My Brothers Taught Me: The plight of a Lakota youth
- Poverty has become more concentrated under Obama
- Oppose the witch-hunt of Ken Livingstone!
- May Day 2016: Introductory report by David North
- London mayoral elections: A contest between two right-wing candidates
- Third International May Day Online Rally evokes powerful response
- Australian government defies PNG refugee ruling
- Eighty-four migrants missing in new sinking off Libyan coast
- Iraqi regime shaken by storming of Baghdad’s Green Zone
- German army prepares for cyberwar
- Austria abolishes right to asylum
2016-05-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Lech Wałęsa: A Stalinist agent in the Solidarity movement
- Video: Detroit teachers denounce attacks on public education
- Teacher sickout shuts Detroit Public Schools
- Socialist Alternative: Charlatanry and lies in support of Sanders’ “political revolution”
- Detroit, Michigan resumes mass water shutoffs
- May Day protest in Seattle results in nine arrests
- Forty thousand public sector workers strike against Costa Rican government
- Australia: Pseudo-lefts promote the Greens’ posturing on refugees
- The 9/11 cover-up continues
- The socialist struggle against war and the bankruptcy of Tamil nationalism
- May Day 2016: The political tasks facing the workers and toilers of the Indian sub-continent
- Malaysian investment fund default intensifies political instability
- Scandal deepens over Hillsborough disaster cover-up
- German labour minister cuts social assistance to EU immigrants
- Deflation spreads to Australia
- The Communications Workers of America, corporatism and the Verizon strike
- British government refuses asylum for refugee children
- David Walsh speaks on “Art, War and Social Revolution” at meetings in California
2016-05-04
- Poverty grows, health declines among UK children
- Support the struggle of Detroit teachers! Unite the working class in a fight back!
- Puerto Rico declares moratorium on $367 million debt payment
- Two refugees set themselves alight in Australia’s Nauru detention centre
- Maoist-backed, fascistic candidate leads Philippine presidential race
- May Day 2016 and the future of socialism
- Papa: Hemingway in Cuba—The banalization of the novelist and his art
- May Day 2016: Oppose the drive to war in the Asia-Pacific
- May Day 2016: The glorification of war and the preparation for future conflicts
- UK Labour mounts purge of party based on accusations of anti-Semitism
- US Navy Seal killed in Iraq combat
- Trump, Sanders win primary contests in Indiana
- Detroit teachers shut schools for second day to protest non-payment of wages
- Video: Detroit teachers speak on the struggle to defend education
- Canada preparing to join US ballistic missile defense
- Australian government budget sets stage for volatile federal election
- Belgian state report points to links between police services, Brussels attacks
- Far-right Alternative for Germany adopts party programme
2016-05-05
- Verizon strike enters fourth week
- Two New Jersey Transit unions reject contract agreement
- Sri Lankan government begins implementing IMF austerity demands
- Trump’s victory: A dangerous turning point in American politics
- US change of command in Europe signals escalation of anti-Russia threats
- May Day 2016: The US-China conflict and the political crisis in Latin America
- Flint residents respond to Obama’s speech on water crisis
- Leading member of far-right AfD named chief prosecutor in Berlin
- French government presents labour law to the National Assembly
- Obama to Flint: Shut up and drink the water
- Alberta wildfire forces 88,000 to evacuate Fort McMurray
- Deepening contradictions within the global economy
- Detroit Public School teachers end sickouts, face new legislative attacks
- More than a million people living in destitution in UK
- Australian Workers Union to enforce cost-cutting at Arrium steel
2016-05-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Angry reaction to Obama’s speech in Flint
- New York Verizon strikers seek to break isolation of struggle
- Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu resigns amid mounting government crisis
- Michigan state House passes draconian attack on public education
- Australia: Labor Party spells out election campaign of populism and lies
- North Carolina Sheriff’s Office concealed killing, ignored repeated allegations of brutality
- Obama in Flint: Let them drink lead
- US intelligence agencies expand electronic surveillance worldwide
- May Day 2016: Once again, German militarism is rearing its ugly head
- May Day 2016: The crisis of the European Union and the drive towards war
- Labour “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt dominates media in run-up to UK polls
- New Zealand Labour Party leader visits Iraq
- Alberta wildfire continues to spread, forcing further evacuations
- Fort McMurray teacher describes chaotic evacuation
- Elvis & Nixon, A Hologram for the King: Trivializing culture, history
- US-backed Chinese separatists, dissidents meet in Dharamsala, India
- Clinton launches appeal for right-wing Republican support
- Leader of Brazil impeachment drive sacked over corruption
2016-05-07
- Islamophobic provocations on California campuses
- India opens talks with US on waging war on Chinese submarines
- Trump names hedge fund boss as finance chairman
- Another expanded recall of airbags prone to deadly explosions
- Forty million Russians in debt
- Alabama inmates strike against deplorable prison conditions
- What accounts for Trump’s support among West Virginia miners?
- Are the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet a genuine alternative to contemporary filmmaking?
- May Day 2016: The refugee crisis and the age of perpetual war
- May Day 2016: The Brexit referendum and the struggle against nationalism and war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Slowest US job growth in seven months
- Australian government boasts of helping US kill its own citizens in Middle East
- Baghdad on military lockdown over fear of protests
- US official stokes border tension between India and China in the Himalayas
- Three hundred workers laid off at Chicago State University
- Many UK accident and emergency units closed or downgraded
- A philosophy professor muses about eliminating the right to vote
- Who’s who in the Flint water crisis: Part one
- Growing anxiety in Europe over Donald Trump
- UK elections intensify crisis in Labour Party
- Young worker dies on Australian “work for the dole” scheme
2016-05-09
- US Defense Department announces deployment of troops in Yemen
- Video: SEP presidential candidate Jerry White—Obama says Flint crisis is no big deal
- New York Verizon striker explains need for international strategy
- This week in history: May 9-15
- Trump’s rise causes disquiet in Australian ruling circles
- Republican split deepens over Trump nomination
- UK unions collude in the passing of anti-strike legislation
- Army captain’s lawsuit challenges legality of Obama’s war against ISIS
- Second general election called in Spain
- Greek workers strike against Syriza’s austerity policies
- Committee minutes reveal anti-democratic discrimination against IYSSE at University of Melbourne
- May Day 2016: War and the 2016 US elections
- May Day 2016: The international working class is an immense social force
- Looking for Grace—a strangely cold story about a teenager leaving home
- Drastic increase in far-right crimes in Germany
- Devastation from Alberta wildfire continues to spread
- Detroit Federation of Teachers backs right-wing attack on public education
- Mass repression being prepared for Cleveland Republican convention
- Working to impose concessions, Chicago Teachers Union calls off strike date
- Australian PM announces “double-dissolution” election for July 2
2016-05-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Verizon striker run down as New York cops protect scabs
- Volkswagen board pockets €63 million in 2015
- Venezuela on the knife’s edge as economy collapses
- UN Ambassador Samantha Power hails Sri Lanka as human rights champion
- Fascistic candidate Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippine presidential election
- A further eruption of US militarism in the Middle East
- US Treasury rejects plan for slashing Teamsters pensions, calling for deeper cuts
- Thousands of jobs cut in Australia as slump deepens
- IDF major general compares Israel with pre-Holocaust Germany
- EU plans decades of austerity for Greece
- Everybody Wants Some!!—Richard Linklater goes to college
- Austrian Chancellor Faymann resigns
- Clinton campaign lurches to the right
- UK prime minister invokes militarism and war to argue for EU membership
- Brazil’s post-Rousseff cabinet to include advocate of police repression
- The Berlin Senate’s inhuman deportation policy
- Canadian capitalism and the Fort McMurray wildfire
2016-05-11
- Sanders defeats Clinton in West Virginia primary by large margin
- Who’s who in the Flint water crisis: Part two
- CWA silent after Verizon worker run down by New York City cop
- Trump backs end to the federal minimum wage
- Sri Lankan police arrest scores of Tamil youth
- Look at today’s filmmaking … then look at the world
- UK prisoners “potential assets to be harnessed” for profit
- The rise of Duterte in the Philippines: A warning to the international working class
- For a socialist program against Labor, the Liberals and the Greens
- Honeywell locks out workers in New York and Indiana
- Highest-earning US hedge fund managers raked in $13 billion last year
- Hundreds die in Indian heat wave
- French Socialist Party uses special powers to impose unpopular labour law reform
- War danger grows following new US provocation in South China Sea
- UK: Corbyn launches Labour’s effort to cover for right-wing Remain campaign
- Brazil’s Senate set to vote on impeachment of Rousseff
- Australian Labor shadow treasurer foreshadows post-election spending cuts
- Murdoch tabloid appeals to voters to “save” Labor candidate in Australian elections
2016-05-12
- Obama’s labor board intervenes on behalf of Verizon strikebreakers
- How #UpAllNight seeks to block opposition to French labour law
- Australian “Anzac Day plot” boy entrapped by police
- Sri Lankan SEP holds successful May Day meeting in Colombo
- Russia creates National Guard to protect capitalist oligarchy
- Why Sanders won in West Virginia
- Growing bankruptcy crisis in global oil and gas industry
- Video: SEP candidate Niles Niemuth: Top 25 hedge fund managers made $13 billion last year
- Australian state government imposes draconian “public safety” laws
- Australian Greens offer to enter future coalition with Labor
- Protests erupt in France against regressive labor law
- Thousands lose their homes in Alberta wildfire
- The financialization of the telecom industry and the Verizon strike
- Tens of thousands demonstrate against Polish government
- German defence minister announces military expansion
- UK Brexit referendum campaign dominated by xenophobia and war rhetoric
- Brazil Senate vote ousts Workers Party President Dilma Rousseff
- New York Police Commissioner defends NYPD’s use of nuisance laws
2016-05-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- New picket line assault on Verizon strikers in Massachusetts
- Trump signals backing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- After sickouts, what is the way forward for Detroit teachers?
- The Return, about released prisoners, and other social dramas (or comedies)
- Saudi Arabian regime gripped by factional infighting amid mounting economic crisis
- Leader’s resignation sparks crisis in the Parti Québécois
- Obama and the bombing of Hiroshima
- Trial begins for second Baltimore police officer charged in death of Freddie Gray
- US-NATO officials unveil Romania-based missile system
- New Zealand’s housing affordability crisis worsens
- French police attack demonstrations against regressive labor law
- A new strategy is needed to fight French labor law
- Corporate-backed charities come up with teaspoon of help for Flint
- Missouri carries out first execution of 2016, Alabama execution stayed
- Patrick Stevedores threatens to lock out Australian port workers
- Wall Street presses for Detroit school restructuring deal
- With Rousseff ousted, vice president assembles right-wing government in Brazil
2016-05-14
- Hedge fund buy-in heralds massive assault on Volkswagen workers
- Video: Workers speak about families divided by borders
- Auto and transit workers support Verizon strikers
- Submarine project no solution for South Australia’s employment crisis
- FBI holds 80,000 pages of secret documents on Saudi-9/11 links
- Sri Lankan refugees imprisoned after removal from Australia
- Poland adopts new anti-communist law
- Podemos, United Left form alliance for June elections
- Reports document growing income inequality, declining manufacturing pay
- Brazil’s impeachment and the fall of the Workers Party
- US Special Forces have been operating secretly in Libya for months
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- David King 1943-2016: Revolutionary socialist, artist and defender of historical truth
- IMF warns against British exit from EU
- Oppose Obama’s assault on immigrants!
- Hillsborough: A powerful and moving account of Britain’s worst sporting disaster
- New doping allegations against Russia ahead of summer Olympics
- One month on strike: The way forward for Verizon workers
- Austrian Social Democrats name former rail executive to head party and government
- Air France announces pay cuts for pilots
2016-05-16
- Zika virus threatens 2016 Olympics
- Tampa, Florida area police operate as guardians of Walmart’s profits
- Wage deal in Germany: IG Metall agrees to end industry-wide contracts
- One month on strike: The way forward for Verizon workers
- Obama’s labor department intervenes in Verizon strike
- This week in history: May 16-22
- India: Tamil Nadu chief minister tries to exploit issue of Sri Lankan Tamils
- The queen’s China “gaffe”
- Barack Obama and a quarter-century of US wars
- Paris meeting addresses war danger in Asia, bankruptcy of Tamil nationalism
- US refuses to finance F-16 fighter jets for Pakistan
- NATO-Russia war tensions laid bare at Washington summit
- Ireland’s Fine Gael forms minority government after pact with Fianna Fail
- Sheriff’s deputies called to Nevada Democratic Convention to preserve Clinton victory
- Verizon strike: CWA officials call New York cops against WSWS reporters
- East Cleveland, Ohio seeks bankruptcy protection
- Postal workers union hails Liberal government’s Canada Post review
- Singapore expands military training in Australia
- Young Australian girl forced to go to Supreme Court to seek abortion
2016-05-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: Flint, Michigan resident speaks on lack of services for poisoned residents
- Talks resume as Obama administration collaborates with CWA to shut down Verizon strike
- Maduro government imposes state of emergency in Venezuela
- Refugees shot by Turkish border guards
- Radio Dreams, about Iranian Americans—and the problem of images without insight
- French government escalates repression of protests against labor law
- Duterte offers cabinet posts to Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines
- The political struggle facing Verizon workers
- Obama to American youth: Stop complaining, things have never been better!
- NATO build-up in Romania and Moldova directed against Russia
- UK: Manchester United ground evacuated in false terror scare
- An interview with Babak Jalali, director of Radio Dreams
- US department store sales plunge, jobless claims rise
- Jeremy Corbyn appeals to UK Labour’s Blairite wing for unity
- Australian rate cut warnings point to economic slump
2016-05-18
- Who’s who in the Flint water crisis: Part three
- CWA agrees to federal mediator, prepares sellout of Verizon strike
- UN officials say torture is “common practice” in Sri Lanka
- US and its allies threaten escalation of Syrian war
- The controversy in the US over transgender access to public bathrooms
- Money Monster: Who are the criminals?
- Australian Greens leader criticises the US alliance—without mentioning China
- Germany: How the pseudo-left justify the Left Party’s shift to the right
- UK: Gap in life expectancy between rich and poor widens for first time since 1870
- One third of London renters sinking into debt
- Defying police repression, protests continue against French labour law
- Growing warnings over Chinese debt
- Sanders’ strong showing in Oregon, Kentucky extends Democratic presidential contest
- Canadian ruling elite divided over prospect of Trump presidency
- Boston Public Schools students walk out over budget cuts
- US forces in combat in Somalia as AFRICOM plans for war across continent
2016-05-19
- CWA, Verizon impose blackout on contract talks
- Venezuela’s right appeals to military amid mounting tensions
- Many dead or missing after landslides in Sri Lanka
- Queen’s Speech 2016: UK Conservatives continue agenda of austerity and repression
- French government backs neo-fascist protest against opposition to labor law
- Democratic Party establishment witch-hunts Sanders’ supporters
- Panama Papers: Further revelations about New Zealand’s role as a tax haven
- NATO rearmament in Eastern Europe increases danger of world war
- Teachers in widespread walkouts in Mexico
- German government steps up military intervention in Africa
- New evidence reveals state of Michigan helped to push Flint into pipeline deal
- Australia: Fairfax Media imposes forced redundancies
- A further comment on the death of David King, socialist and artist
2016-05-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Break the CWA’s isolation of the Verizon strike!
- Growing anger among Verizon strikers as CWA and IBEW prepare sellout
- As CWA prepares sellout, Verizon strikers discuss way forward on WSWS online call
- French parliament extends state of emergency amid rising protests
- Maggie’s Plan, Frank & Lola, along with Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932)
- Spy plane “intercept” highlights US push for South China Sea confrontation
- US media steps up witch-hunt over claims of Sanders “violence” in Nevada
- Australian Federal Police raid Labor Party frontbencher
- Strikes and protests mount against French labour law
- A pittance for Zika, $600 billion for the Pentagon
- Obama overtime rule to go in effect this December
- New York police gun down mentally unstable man in midtown Manhattan
- Outrage erupts at Flint meeting of pipeline board
- Hundreds feared dead in Sri Lankan landslides and floods
- US and NATO leaders say EgyptAir Flight 804 was bombed, vow military response
- UK: BMA agrees sell-out contract to end junior doctors dispute
- Why the South China Sea tensions were removed from Australian Greens’ speech
- AFL-CIO report points to continued social polarization
- Austrian presidential run-off offers no alternative
- Syriza government uses tear gas and stun grenades against refugees
2016-05-21
- Thousands of oil workers evacuated as Alberta wildfire spreads
- Congressional Democrats call for end to Verizon strike
- Local campuses disaffiliate from British National Union of Students
- Sports Authority to close all stores, lay off 16,000
- San Francisco police chief resigns after cops kill unarmed woman
- Retired British general predicts war with Russia, denounces Cameron government as “semi-pacifist”
- Race and class in American history: A reply to a false explanation of the Trump phenomenon
- A resurgence of class struggle
- Australia: NSW government accelerates privatisation of prisons
- US prepares troop deployment to Libya amid fight for oil fields
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Verizon strikers denounce federal mediation, CWA news blackout
- German Social Democratic Party in free-fall
- WSWS reporters visit landslide victims in Sri Lanka
- While cause of Egypt Air crash remains unknown, terror scare mounts
- Clinton calls Trump “unqualified” to be commander-in-chief
2016-05-23
- Obama seeks Vietnam military ties amid rising tensions with China
- Currency conflicts surface at G-7 meeting
- This week in history: May 23-29
- Syriza government pushes through new austerity package in Greece
- Oil workers mobilise against French labour law
- Support the Socialist Equality Party 2016 election campaign!
- Bernie Sanders campaigns in San Diego, California
- The capitalist crisis and the defense of democratic rights
- Oklahoma governor vetoes bill that would make performing abortions a felony
- Minnesota nurses demonstrate against health care cuts
- German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung demands military deterrence against Russia
- SEP presidential candidate visits locked-out Honeywell workers in Indiana
- George Galloway backs “Left Leave” and urges alliance with UK Independence Party
- US Supreme Court avoids ruling on corporate religious objections to birth control
- Detroit's Cass Technical High School students oppose police brutality, support teachers struggle
- Captain America: Civil War—A waste of resources, technology and human skill
- The SEP candidates in the 2016 Australian election
- Close race in Austrian presidential election
- AT&T West strike in San Diego begins to break CWA isolation of Verizon struggle
- AT&T West strike in San Diego begins to break CWA isolation of Verizon struggle
2016-05-24
- Growing signs of a resurgence of class conflict in the US
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Venezuelan pseudo-left and the debacle of Chavismo
- Dormitory fire kills 17 children in Thailand
- Sanders backs ouster of Democratic Party chair
- US house approves new austerity program for Puerto Rico
- US military returns to Vietnam
- Australian government’s “internship” program: An attack on young people
- Spate of deaths in New Zealand’s forestry industry
- US-backed offensive to seize Iraqi city of Fallujah
- Lack of safety technology contributed to 2015 Amtrak crash in Philadelphia
- Canadian ruling elite applauds Liberal government for securing seat at Syria peace talks
- Nurses at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s prepare strike vote
- Baltimore police officer on trial for the death of Freddie Gray found not guilty
- Lessons of the Austrian presidential election
- Striking AT&T West workers declare support for Verizon struggle
- Julian Assange challenges anti-democratic “no platform” campaign
- US assassination of Taliban leader signals escalation of Afghanistan-Pakistan war
2016-05-25
- Obama appeals for closer US-Vietnamese ties
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White speaks with locked out Honeywell workers in Indiana
- With Verizon sticking to demands, workers look to break CWA isolation of strike
- Sanders softens criticism of Clinton at Los Angeles-area rallies
- Belgian prison wardens strike met with government repression
- International finance capital and the strikes in France
- Australian Treasury issues a blunt demand for austerity offensive
- 1980 Oktoberfest bombing: German government and secret service still withholding information
- Further evidence of ties between German neo-Nazi group and domestic intelligence agency
- UK: Left Leave campaign lays out its nationalist agenda in Brexit referendum
- Netanyahu seeks to shore up Israeli government with far-right alliance
- Greek Syriza government orders clearing of Idomeni refugee camp
- Workers speak on police crackdown against oil protest in France
- French government seeks to crush strikes against labor law
- Sri Lankan flood and landslide deaths continue to climb
- Colombo flood victims speak to the WSWS
- Clinton refuses to debate Sanders ahead of California primary
- Cash Only: What interests contemporary filmmakers and what doesn’t
- Video: AT&T workers in San Diego on strike
2016-05-26
- Young people in America: A lost generation stuck at home
- For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!—Socialism versus left nationalism
- Public meetings on the Australian election
- Mobilize European workers to defend French strikers!
- Nepal accuses India of attempting regime change in Kathmandu
- French Socialist Party’s labor reform boosts far-right National Front
- San Diego transit strike called off after agreement announced
- Military and security figures take opposing sides in UK referendum on European Union
- German chancellor boosts anti-refugee deal in visit to Turkey
- The Brexit referendum, socialism and the European working class
- Thousands of civilians in danger as US-backed forces mount offensives in Iraq and Syria
- California Governor Jerry Brown backs $2 billion plan to deal with the state’s homeless
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung lobbies for militarism and war
- Strike wave against austerity spreads in France, Belgium
- SEP election meeting: Detroit is a battlefield in a war on the working class
- Australian election: Military spending is war preparation, not “industry policy”
- CWA ends San Diego AT&T strike to further isolate Verizon fight
- Swedish court refuses to drop arrest warrant for Julian Assange
- Over 1,000 protest outside Trump rally in Albuquerque
2016-05-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Socialist Equality Party candidates campaign at Fiat Chrysler Warren Truck plant
- CWA, IBEW maintain silence on talks, continue to isolate Verizon strike
- San Diego transit workers in third day of walkout over pay and benefits
- UK government retreats on including NHS in free trade deal
- Workers and students speak on inequality, war at Sanders rally
- Major police operation against Roma in Berlin
- UK rich just keep getting richer
- Over a hundred feared dead as refugee boats sink in Mediterranean
- University of Papua New Guinea closed down over student protests
- Deepening national antagonisms dominate G7 summit
- Louisiana law institutionalizes charter schools
- Why is there “no money” for basic social needs?
- Wave of budget cuts throughout Latin America
- The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- High-Rise: A film version of J.G. Ballard’s novel
- Greece's Syriza government imposes harsh austerity measures
- As strikes spread, mass protests demand withdrawal of French labor law
- French workers speak out against labor law
- Attend the May 31 SEP election meeting: “Battlefield Detroit”
- UAW endorses Clinton, “Wall Street’s presidential darling”
- Canadian prime minister endorses Japanese position on South China Sea ahead of G7 summit
- New Zealand budget: Cuts to basic services, billions for the military
- Rail strike hits Belgium
2016-05-28
- Stop the CWA betrayal of the Verizon strike!
- Terrorist arrests injected into Australian election
- Australian media vendetta against worker who questioned tax breaks for wealthy
- Sing Street from Ireland, A Bigger Splash from Italy: Neglected realities
- Obama in Hiroshima
- UK university lecturers strike against pay cuts and casualisation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The El Khomri law in France and the Schröder-Blair Paper
- Indian warships enter South China Sea
- Anti-migrant rhetoric dominates debate on UK membership in the EU
- Amid strikes, French President Hollande pledges to impose labor law
- UK White Paper escalates privatisation of higher education
- Warnings of slump in US economy
- Australian dairy farmers protest over milk price cuts
- Clinton campaign in crisis over email controversy, declining poll numbers
- Emergency Verizon strike call-in informational meeting: Monday, May 30, 7 p.m.
2016-05-30
- Opposition grows to CWA effort to shut down Verizon strike
- This week in history: May 30—June 5
- After clearing the camp in Idomeni, Greece: Syriza government continues its attacks on refugees
- The politics and origins of Britain’s Spiked-Online—Part 1
- US uses gas deliveries to pressure Russia
- Over 700 refugees drown in Mediterranean shipwrecks
- Socialist Alternative, ISO work to channel opposition into the Democratic Party
- Verizon workers circulate petition opposing CWA end of strike order
- The danger of nuclear war between the US and China
- Video: Striking oil workers speak out against anti-worker French labor law
- National Health Service bosses report calls for a flexible workforce
- Myanmar mine landslide leaves 14 dead, 200 missing
- Senior Left Party politician calls for participation in government
- SEP election meeting in Detroit on May 31 to be streamed live on Facebook
- As Clinton crisis intensfies, Sanders pledges to back Democratic Party nominee
- Banality and lies mark Australian election “debate”
- CGT union tries to block general strike against French labor law
- Emergency Verizon strike call-in informational meeting: Monday, May 30, 7 p.m.
- Author Steven Brust replies to petition of writers against Trump
2016-05-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Anger builds against CWA conspiracy to end Verizon strike
- The politics and origins of Britain’s Spiked-Online—Part Two
- Australian election: SEP candidates campaign against war
- Australia’s wealthy soar while millions face destitution
- Financial parasitism and the global housing crisis
- The Socialist Equality Party (Germany) stands candidates for the Berlin state elections
- The Strategy of the Intermarium—Part 1
- Who is responsible for the massacre in the Mediterranean?
- Nearly 5,000 Macy’s workers set to go on strike
- Stop the CWA-IBEW sabotage of Verizon strike!
- Korean survivors concerned about Obama’s visit to Hiroshima
- Record Illinois budget impasse deepens social crisis and increases homelessness
- Chicago's homeless speak on poverty, inequality and budget cuts
- Indian Stalinists abet US war plans against China
- China prepares to send nuclear submarines into Pacific Ocean
- California Primary highlights political crisis in Democratic Party
- Divisions over Europe tear through UK Conservative Party
- Right-wing German academic Jörg Baberowski demands more repression against refugees
- Art, war and social revolution
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