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The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man
November 10, 2009
Mehring Books is pleased to make available to readers of the World Socialist Web Site Frederick Engels’ important essay, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man.
Review of Robert Service’s Trotsky to be published Wednesday
November 10, 2009
On Wednesday, the World Socialist Web Site will publish a review by David North of Robert Service’s new biography of Leon Trotsky.
Video: Thousands line up for Swine Flu vaccine in Michigan
November 9, 2009
The WSWS interviewed residents lining up to get a Swine Flu vaccine in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Honduras: Republicans praise Obama for “reversing” policy
By Bill Van Auken, November 9, 2009
Republican lawmakers who openly back the coup regime in Honduras have voiced satisfaction that the Obama administration has “reversed” its policy on the return to office of the country’s ousted ...
Tamil asylum-seekers reject Australian government demands
By Richard Phillips, November 9, 2009
The Rudd government is intensifying its pressure on 78 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking to disembark and enter Indonesian immigration detention centers.
Canada: Chaotic response to swine flu pandemic highlights government indifference
By Carl Bronski, November 9, 2009
Federal and provincial health officials are backtracking on earlier commitments to help both high-risk groups and members of the general population seeking vaccination.
Obama will send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, November 9, 2009
According to US press reports Sunday, President Barack Obama has decided to send tens of thousands of additional US troops to further escalate the war in Afghanistan.
US House passes health care bill
Democrats agree to broad anti-abortion amendment
By Kate Randall, November 9, 2009
The US House of Representatives narrowly passed legislation on Saturday to overhaul the nation’s health care system, with the inclusion of an amendment that imposes strict bans on the use of federal...
Sri Lanka’s top general emerges as possible presidential candidate
By Sarath Kumara and K. Ratnayake, November 9, 2009
With the prospect of a presidential election early next year, General Sarath Fonseka is increasingly likely to become the opposition candidate to challenge President Mahinda Rajapakse.
Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
The Christian Democrats celebrate Kohl, Bush and Gorbachev
By Peter Schwarz, November 7, 2009
At the end of October, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) organized a ceremony in Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Opel workers in Germany protest threatened mass redundancies
By our reporters, November 7, 2009
On Wednesday, thousands of Opel workers took part in protests throughout Germany directed against the massive job cuts to be implemented following General Motors’ decision earlier this week not to s...
France: The affairs the Clearstream trial aims to suppress
By Alex Lantier, November 7, 2009
A decades-long series of corruption scandals, bound up with oil and arms deals, constitute the essential legal background to the Clearstream Affair.
