Archive: August 2014
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 August 2014 (front page)
- Israel calls up more troops to join Gaza slaughter
- A law unto themselves: The CIA and the torture cover-up
- Charges of anti-Semitism used to intimidate and criminalise opponents of war in Germany
- Ukrainian parliament approves deployment of foreign armed forces to crash site
- UK parliamentary panel demands NATO prepare for confrontation with Russia
- Australian pseudo-lefts line up behind US war preparations against Russia
- US court forces Argentina into default
- Maine governor met repeatedly with violent ultra-right group
- US boosts missile sales to Iraq
- Wisconsin high court rules public workers have no constitutional right to organize
- Hundreds of undocumented migrants begin hunger strike at Tacoma, Washington detention facility
- Ebola epidemic highlights poverty in Africa
- Los Angeles water main break points to failing national infrastructure
- Less than 40 percent of Canadian jobless eligible for benefits
- Foreword to The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Detroit kindergartens “experiment” with 100-student class sizes
- German drug company covered-up deadly side effects of anticoagulant Pradaxa
- John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man brought to the screen
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meeting August 4: Oppose the bombardment of Gaza!
2 August 2014 (front page)
- Israel intensifies Gaza slaughter after ceasefire collapses
- Obama defends CIA torturers
- Video blog on Gaza devastation by British Channel 4 News presenter attracts wide audience
- European Union’s confrontation with Russia raises tensions in Moldova
- Influential Washington think tank pushes US war drive in the South China Sea
- State Department acknowledges widespread torture in leaked memo
- Mediocre US jobs report points to ongoing unemployment crisis
- Vigilante groups patrol the US-Mexico border
- California: Immigrants eligible for Medicaid may not receive coverage
- Guy Charron, 1962-2014: Canadian fighter for Trotskyism
- Wave of traffic fatalities in Detroit highlights disrepair of infrastructure
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
4 August 2014 (front page)
- Eastern Ukraine faces humanitarian crisis as Kiev steps up attack
- The slaughter in Gaza: A warning to the international working class
- Anti-conscription protests grow in Ukraine
- Protesters denounce UK and US support for Israeli military massacres
- Third week of protests in New Zealand over Gaza invasion
- Deadly auto parts plant explosion in China
- Contamination leaves 400,000 Ohioans without tap water
- House of Representatives authorizes constitutional lawsuit against Obama
- US immigration attorney: “I deal with great numbers of children and young adults fleeing violence and poverty”
- The lessons of August 4, 1914
- US markets in biggest fall for six months
- New York judge upholds US efforts to seize emails from Microsoft
- Death of Eric Garner at hands of New York police ruled a homicide
- German expenditure for weapons research has more than doubled since 2010
- Thai junta installs military-dominated assembly
- This week in history: August 4-10
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, or Yawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Low turnout at Detroit “Water Affordability” stunt
5 August 2014 (front page)
- Gaza death toll climbs over 1,800
- One hundred years since the outbreak of World War I
- Demonstration against Gaza massacre in Berlin: “Enough is enough!”
- Anti-Gaza war demo in Manchester, UK
- Protests in France against Israeli war on Gaza
- Obama hosts Africa summit amid deepening global crises
- EU, US intensify confrontation with Russia
- Earthquake in southern China leaves nearly 400 dead
- US researcher victimized over article opposing nuclear weapons
- Canada’s telecoms aid state surveillance by handing over personal data
- Sri Lankan president appoints advisory panel to head off UN human rights inquiry
- Bogus agrarian reform ends in the Philippines
- Lloyds Bank admits fixing repo rate
- The return of German Great Power politics and the attacks on the historian Fritz Fischer
6 August 2014 (front page)
- US terror list ensnares hundreds of thousands
- Washington plans for world war
- Israel Defense Forces soldiers condemn destruction of Gaza
- New Snowden leak highlights collaboration between NSA and Israeli intelligence
- Ukrainian government forces deploy heavy weaponry as they encircle Donetsk
- US spy plane incident raises more questions over MH17 crash
- Release of Senate report on torture stalled by CIA redactions
- European leaders use World War I commemoration to press for new wars
- Australia: A barrage of pro-war propaganda to mark World War I centenary
- US major general killed in insider Afghan army attack
- Australian government unveils sweeping new “terror” powers
- Federal report exposes “culture of violence” in New York City’s Rikers Island prison
- Greek court frees men charged with attacking migrant workers
- Frictions over trade at US-India Strategic Dialogue
- Deadly gas explosion in Taiwanese city kills dozens
- August 1914 and the myth of general enthusiasm for war in the German working class
- Sage Francis’s Copper Gone: A critic, but frustrated
- Detroit water workers denounce shutoffs
- Australia: SEP and IYSSE meetings discuss dangers of new world war
7 August 2014 (front page)
- Ukrainian offensive against Donetsk raises threat of war with Russia
- The international significance of Australia’s World War I “celebrations”
- Washington Post accuses Snowden of aiding Al Qaeda
- Shaky truce holds in the Gaza Strip
- Missouri carries out seventh execution of 2014
- Special operations commander to head University of Texas
- Business leader selected as new chair of UK schools inspectorate
- First televised debate on Scottish independence referendum exposes fraud of “Yes” and “No” campaigns
- Austrian court delivers draconian verdict against student protester
- Political crisis intensifies over Australian austerity budget
- Australian government moves to cut public sector pay and conditions
- Fifty years since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
8 August 2014 (front page)
- Obama authorises a new air war in Iraq
- Alarm bells sound louder over danger of financial collapse
- Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE demonstrate against Israeli assault on Gaza
- US, NATO support the Ukrainian army’s bloody offensive
- What lies behind the warmongering by Der Spiegel?
- University of Illinois blocks appointment of professor critical of Israeli crimes in Gaza
- Florida courts prepare fast-track hearings for immigrant children
- California’s 2014-2015 budget attacks education
- Turkey to hold first popular election for president
- Australian unemployment rate rises to highest level in 12 years
- London mayor threatens to dock pay of striking firefighters
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A historic first in solar system exploration
Rosetta spacecraft becomes first manmade probe to orbit a comet -
Bruce Weber’s Detroit: “Projection” as truth?
“I was really thinking just of my picture, instead of what life is really like” - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 August 2014 (front page)
- Israel resumes indiscriminate killings in Gaza
- ISIS in Iraq: A disaster made in the USA
- Germany’s Left Party suppresses opposition to militarism
- Malaysian press charges Ukraine government shot down MH 17
- Australian PM backs NATO threats against Russia
- Fed Report: Most US families can't raise $400
- Snowden permitted to stay in Russia for three more years
- Japan’s defence white paper targets China
- German commission undermines parliametary approval requirement for military operations
- UK government attempts to conceal its involvement in rendition and torture
- Bank of America reaches $16 billion mortgage fraud settlement
- New Zealand: Internet-Mana parties wage bogus anti-establishment campaign
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold public meeting in Colombo on world war threats
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Oppose the Israeli assault on Gaza!
Resolution of the SEP Third National Congress - A key moment in the prehistory of the Enlightenment
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds meeting in Bradford against war in Gaza
- Bradford meeting: “What Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide—there is no other word for it”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
11 August 2014 (front page)
- Anger erupts after police killing of unarmed teen in St. Louis, Missouri
- The war cabal in Washington
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As political crisis erupts over police killing
New York police arrest man who taped Eric Garner’s death - Baltimore enacts law fining parents whose children violate curfew
- No end date for US military intervention in Iraq
- France backs renewed US war in Iraq
- Assault on Donetsk risks war with Russia
- Tensions grow in Germany over threat of war with Russia
- Canada providing military aid to Ukrainian regime as it wages war
- 150,000 protest in London against Israel’s siege of Gaza
- SEP and IYSSE speak-outs at Australian universities on danger of new world war
- London: Protesters denounce mass murder in Gaza and biased BBC media coverage
- Continuing protests against Gaza massacre in Australia
- Over 100,000 protest in defence of Gaza in South Africa
- International emergency declared in Ebola outbreak
- Fourth major party formed as Mexican Congress passes oil legislation
- US stokes South China Sea tensions at ASEAN summit
- Pakistan: Opposition protests demand government’s resignation
- Canada’s Harper marks World War I with bellicose address
- This week in history: August 11-17
12 August 2014 (front page)
- Political crisis grips Baghdad as US escalates intervention
- Obama’s “recovery” and the social crisis in America
- Australian government backs renewed US war in Iraq
- US-backed Ukrainian regime shells civilians in Donetsk, Luhansk
- Israel rejects calls to lift Gaza blockade
- Kiev deploys fascist militias against Donetsk
- Police fire tear gas at protests in St. Louis suburb over police killing of unarmed teen
- A “lost year” for Washington, DC economy
- War threat grows as Russia prepares to intervene in east Ukraine
- The political issues facing Los Angeles teachers
- 100,000 Bay County, Michigan residents threatened with water crisis
- Germany: Osram cuts 7,800 jobs worldwide
- Automaker Fiat shifts headquarters out of Italy
- UK rail union’s “Listen to London” conference a fiasco
- Japanese PM tours Latin America
- Condolences on the death of Guy Charron
- Delaware Art Museum sells masterworks to pay construction debts
- Socialist Workers Party’s Alex Callinicos backs Scottish nationalism
- Judge Rhodes and his royal entourage tour Detroit
13 August 2014 (front page)
- Kiev pledges to block Russian aid convoy to eastern Ukraine
- The police murder in St. Louis and the militarization of American society
- Scores arrested in three days of protests over Missouri police shooting
- Human Rights Watch: Egyptian regime guilty of crimes against humanity
- Venezuelan National Guard guns down protesting steelworkers
- AUSMIN talks deepen Australian integration into US war plans
- The Australian media and the severed-head photo
- Financial meltdown threatened by bankruptcy of any Wall Street bank
- The crisis in American mental health care
- Louisiana procured death penalty drug through deception
- Luxury goods sales soar amid global economic slump
- London mayor Boris Johnson to return as Tory MP on anti-European Union platform
- Australia: NAIDOC glorifies Aboriginal involvement in World War I
- Comic actor and performer Robin Williams, dead at 63
- Detroit mayor employs damage control as city prepares to resume water shutoffs
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 August 2014 (front page)
- US combat troops return to Iraq
- Gaza, Ukraine and US preparations for urban warfare
- Russian aid convoy prompts Ukraine war threats with US backing
- The fascist atrocities in east Ukraine and the fraud of “humanitarian” war
- Bulgarian government commits itself to more aggressive policy against Moscow
- Social inequality fuels anger over police killing of St. Louis youth
- Los Angeles police shoot and kill unarmed man
- Turkey: Erdoğan’s presidential win presages deepening social, political conflicts
- Gaza truce extended but Israel refuses to end blockade
- India and US to further expand military-strategic ties
- Lockout deadline at New York’s Metropolitan Opera extended
- Australia: Sydney university staff and students oppose job cuts
- Atlanta school cheating trial scapegoats teachers
- UFCW in Southern California continues talks with Food 4 Less in wake of strike vote
- No significant recovery in world economy, says US Fed official
- Italy’s Northern League backs Scottish independence
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Defend the rights of immigrant workers! Unite the working class of North, Central and South America!
Resolution of the SEP (US) Third National Congress - Storm brings widespread flooding to southeast Michigan
- Get On Up: The James Brown story
- Bangladesh’s government mobilises police to attack striking garment workers
- The use of archaeology in Jerusalem as a political weapon
15 August 2014 (front page)
- Kiev regime blocks humanitarian aid as fighting spreads in eastern Ukraine
- Ferguson, Missouri: War comes home
- Missouri governor shifts tactics against Ferguson protests
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“I believe they are trying to move toward martial law”
Protesters denounce police killing of Michael Brown - Dropping initial pretext, Obama vows to continue Iraq intervention
- Snowden discusses US surveillance and cyber-warfare programs in interview with Wired
- German economy contracts as Europe slides closer to recession
- Signs of serious problems in Chinese and Japanese economies
- Pakistani opposition parties launch anti-government protest
- NZ Internet-Mana Party meeting promotes nationalist, pro-business agenda
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US: Market Basket workers protest ousting of CEO, threat to jobs and benefits
- Actress Lauren Bacall, Hollywood star at 19, dies in New York
- Scottish workers speak for a “no” vote in independence referendum
16 August 2014 (front page)
- Kiev’s blocking of Russian aid convoy to east Ukraine escalates risk of war
- US war drive in Asia continues apace
- Police, media smear victim of Missouri police shooting
- Federal government programs in the US have turned police into military force
- Evidence of Israeli war crimes mounts as Gaza cease-fire continues
- Amnesty International report: Widespread killings of Afghan civilians under Obama administration
- Texas National Guard deploys to US-Mexico border
- Executive order 12333 authorizes NSA to collect vast quantities of US data
- Candidate’s death in plane crash reconfigures Brazil’s presidential race
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Court in Cambodia convicts two former Khmer Rouge leaders
- New Zealand opposition parties campaign on anti-Chinese xenophobia
- French government staggered by mounting economic crisis
- German secret service implicated in fascist murders
- German Left Party calls for military intervention in Iraq
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts support Washington’s war preparations against China
- Tommy Sheridan’s nationalist diatribe in service of Scottish big business
- Lucy: A little knowledge is apparently a dangerous thing
18 August 2014 (front page)
- Missouri governor deploys National Guard to Ferguson
- The state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri
- Video: Ferguson, Missouri residents determined to fight police violence
- Democratic Party operatives seek to stifle opposition, facilitate police crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri
- Police refuse to release video after Dayton-area killing
- US expands air war in Iraq
- German army intervenes in Iraq
- Fighting continues in east Ukraine, as Kiev regime moves on Luhansk
- Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?
- Canada’s callous indifference to human suffering in Gaza
- Australia’s pseudo-left covers up for US imperialism in Iraq
- Leaders of pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine resign
- Dozens of immigrants discovered trapped, one dead, in British shipping container
- US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
- Australian budget impasse continues
- Political interference alleged in Australian sports doping investigation
- Mass graves from Spain’s civil war uncovered
- This week in history: August 18-24
19 August 2014 (front page)
- National Guard, police tighten grip on Ferguson, Missouri
- Capitalism and the police-military mobilization in Ferguson, Missouri
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“They invaded Ferguson like they invaded Iraq”
Video: Ferguson residents say police crackdown turns city into war zone - Autopsy confirms execution-style killing of Michael Brown
- Workers and youth across US speak on police murder of Michael Brown
- EU advisors advocate use of military against strikes and protests
- Still no evidence of Russia’s alleged military incursion into Ukraine
- Ukrainian army steps up offensive in the east
- Obama claims “progress” in Iraq intervention
- Journalist James Risen denounces President Obama as the “greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation”
- New report details depth of hunger crisis in the United States
- Fight cuts to education and the drive to war!
- Tankers, barge collide on Mississippi River, spilling oil
- Japanese lawmakers visit notorious Yasukuni war shrine
- Australian journalist targeted under Racial Discrimination Act over Israel war coverage
- Australian government “celebrates” first WWI military action
- Rising British self-employment used to obscure worsening job situation
- Two years on, Marikana massacre continues to radicalise South African workers
- Richard Linklater’s Boyhood: American lives over the course of a dozen years
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
20 August 2014 (front page)
- Another police killing in St. Louis, Missouri as assault on protesters continues
- De facto martial law in Ferguson, Missouri
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“We have the right to protest. We have the right to assemble”
Anger mounts in Ferguson, Missouri over police repression - Israel resumes assault on Gaza
- German journalists arrested in Ferguson
- UK joins US military offensive in Iraq
- Unemployment up in most US states
- Assange says he may soon leave Ecuadorian embassy
- The political fraud of the Canadian Peoples’ Social Forum
- Detroit Public Schools announces 10 percent wage cut, new round of school closures
- Germany expands its intervention in Iraq
- New Met Opera contract sets precedent for further givebacks
- Rich Hill: A story that “could be told in hundreds of towns”
- Western powers talk “peace” while eastern Ukraine is decimated
- Major dip in China’s property market
- Australian mining magnate’s outburst against “Chinese mongrels”
- Australia: Deaths of young homeless couple highlight social crisis
- Toxic wastewater from copper mine spills into river in northern Mexico
- Further plant closures at Germany’s Heidelberg Press
- Sri Lankan Central Bank chief covers up debt crisis warnings
21 August 2014 (front page)
- More US troops and air strikes in Iraq
- Class, race and the police killing in Ferguson, Missouri
- Attorney General Holder backs police-military siege in visit to Ferguson, Missouri
- Federal judge refuses to halt “keep moving” order in Ferguson
- Workers and youth in Berlin: “What is taking place in Ferguson is war”
- Cleveland, Ohio residents denounce repression in Ferguson
- Israeli airstrike kills wife and baby son of Hamas leader
- ISIS murders US journalist James Foley
- Fight over Common Core testing roils Louisiana state government
- Obamacare threatens immigrants with loss of health coverage
- Australia: Student “day of action” over education cutbacks
- Australia: Real wages cut as corporate profits soar
- Political tensions escalate in Pakistan as protests demand PM’s resignation
- Spain: United Left and Podemos seek to join forces
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SEP (UK) public meetings
Vote “No” in the Scottish referendum—Fight for a socialist Britain - SEP campaigners oppose Scottish separatism, call for class unity
22 August 2014 (front page)
- Second St. Louis area police shooting highlights unrestrained police violence in the US
- Who is responsible for the murder of James Foley?
- Workers and young people speak on Ferguson, Missouri, police violence
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More Israeli crimes against Palestinians
Killings in Gaza, arrests on West Bank - German government to deliver weapons to Kurds in northern Iraq
- Australian government switches message on budget “crisis”
- Philippine Supreme Court controversy: A revealing glimpse into Washington’s machinations
- Bank of America agrees to sweetheart settlement with US Department of Justice
- Wave of layoffs sweeps North American coal industry
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight: Keeping life at a distance
- “Poor Door” for lower-income tenants underscores class divide in New York
- Sri Lankan unions call off health workers’ strike
- War and social attacks spread throughout Ukraine
- One-third of the US population has no retirement savings
- Scottish National Party issues its hollow “Declaration of Opportunity”
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Anzac’s Long Shadow: The Cost of Our National Obsession
A right-wing critique of Australia’s World War I centenary celebrations - Clashes in Monrovia, Liberia as West African Ebola epidemic grows
23 August 2014 (front page)
- US and NATO threaten Moscow as Russian aid convoy crosses into Ukraine
- The Bank of America settlement and the “justice” of capitalism
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Kiev
- South Bronx residents say Ferguson unrest is about class
- Military helicopters descend on Twin Cities, Minnesota in unannounced “urban warfare” exercises
- Sectarian massacre in Iraq as US escalates intervention
- Thai coup leader installed as prime minister
- US Fed chair Yellen seeks to “buy time” on monetary policy
- US condemns China over close aerial encounter
- Media turns against New Zealand government ahead of election
- New York Mayor de Blasio’s mantle of “progressivism” wears thin
- The homeless “problem” in Florida
- Meeting Wednesday in Detroit: Police Violence in Ferguson and the Detroit Bankruptcy—the class issues
- UK minister signals further welfare cuts ahead of 2015 general election
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
25 August 2014 (front page)
- Thousands attend “affordability fair” as Detroit prepares to resume water shutoffs
- Imperialist war in search of a pretext
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“They treat us like savages!”
Detroit workers, retirees denounce water shutoffs - Australia: Workers and youth speak on Ferguson, Missouri and police violence
- Australian government weighs up joining US air war in Iraq
- Foley execution used to call for UK military action in Iraq
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“Eric Garner was murdered for selling cigarettes”
Thousands march in New York City against police violence - Italian government sends weapons to northern Iraq
- Germany: Convicted real estate speculator takes over store chain
- Scottish Socialist Party seeks to divide the working class
- LAPD officers ignored pleas from dying asthmatic arrestee
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon quits leadership of France’s Left Party
- Obama administration “review” aimed at systematizing transfer of military arms to police
- Quebec’s Bill 3 targets municipal worker pensions
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The Fight Against War and the Political Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
Resolution of the SEP (US) Third National Congress - Sri Lankan SEP holds public meeting on world war threat
- Australia: Clive Palmer advised on the civil way to demonise China
- Top US general suggests lifting ban on arms sales to Vietnam
- This week in history: August 25-August 31
26 August 2014 (front page)
- US military to initiate operations in Syria
- Holocaust survivors indict Israel’s massacre in Gaza
- Thousands gather in St. Louis for Michael Brown’s funeral
- Class and race in US police killings: A further comment
- Compton, California, school police to carry assault rifles
- French government collapses amid mounting anger over austerity policies
- Ukrainian economy in free fall
- German chancellor Merkel visits Kiev and backs regime
- Fears of “a new cold war” and conflict in Asia
- UK undercover police escape prosecution for abusing women
- How Scotland’s Radical Independence Campaign sells nationalism to the working class
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“Folks just can’t afford water, rent, lights, gas and food”
Detroit “water affordability fair” attendees denounce shutoffs - Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Companies sell mobile phone spying tools to governments worldwide
- South Korean auto unions hold token strikes
27 August 2014 (front page)
- Obama vows protracted military campaign in Iraq, Syria
- The official cover-up of social and political issues in the police murder of Michael Brown
- France admits it directly supplied arms to Syrian “rebels”
- Harper to escalate Canadian military intervention in Iraq
- Indefinite ceasefire commences in Gaza
- Egypt, UAE conducted joint air strikes in Libya
- Video: Interviews with workers at the funeral of Michael Brown in St. Louis
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“The cops don’t respect anyone”
Attendees at Michael Brown’s funeral denounce inequality, police repression - German workers, youth speak on Ferguson: “This is not a democracy any more”
- Bangladesh Tuba garment workers confronted by plant closures
- Australian government moves to outsource key social services
27 August 2013 (front page)
27 August 2014 (front page)
- New York transit workers discuss political lessons of Ferguson, Missouri
- Three more US police killings
- Former head CIA lawyer defends torture in Der Spiegel interview
- Obama administration denies FEMA assistance to Washington State fire victims
- US backs new French offensive in Mali
- The Newburgh Sting: A case of entrapment
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SEP/IYSSE public meetings
Military-police violence in Ferguson, Missouri: The war comes home
28 August 2014 (front page)
- Gaza truce sets stage for deepening of crisis in Israel
- The German intervention in Iraq
- NATO steps up military preparations against Russia
- Thousands face loss of service as water shutoffs resume in Detroit
- Residents of Bell, California mobilize in support of immigrants
- Boston workers denounce militarization of police
- India: Four workers killed in Tamil Nadu plastic depot blaze
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More pro-war propaganda from NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
US “errors” and the debacle in the Middle East - Ground water is depleting in the Colorado River Basin
- Florida Democrats nominate former Republican governor
- Australian government ready to join US air war in Middle East
- Audio recording sheds light on the murder of Michael Brown
- New Orleans mayor announces semi-private police force
- Ohio charter schools seek to strip public education of constitutional protection
- Income inequality rises sharply in Britain
- HBO’s True Detective: Gruesome doings and deep-going pessimism
- Australian government pushes ahead with university restructuring
29 August 2014 (front page)
- White House threatens Russia over alleged incursion into eastern Ukraine
- The collapse of the French government: A crisis of capitalist rule in Europe
- Continuing media silence on the fate of flight MH17
- Phoenix police shoot 50-year-old woman during mental health call
- French government moves to prosecute NPA organiser of Gaza protests
- Argentine general strike hits rising prices and job cuts
- Australian spy chief defends new “terror” laws
- New facts revealed on 2010 ousting of Australian PM
- Slovenia’s new government prepares sharp attacks
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As Washington mulls bombing campaign
Syria fighting spills into Golan Heights - Tokyo holds talks with North Korea over Japanese abductees
- GM ignition defect death claims continue to mount
- Obama administration launches new attack on teachers
- Photo gallery: Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Scottish independence referendum
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“We have a war going on in our own country”
Detroit meeting discusses city’s bankruptcy and police violence in Ferguson - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
30 August 2014 (front page)
- Western threats against Russia increase danger of nuclear war
- From Detroit to Ferguson: The brutal face of American capitalism
- The New York Times and Flight MH17
- Syria refugee total nears ten million
- Germany sends troops to Iraq
- Der Spiegel calls for military build-up in Germany
- Pakistani military intervenes in political crisis
- US government-funded database created to track “subversive propaganda” online
- Suicidal teen shot sixteen times by Kansas police
- US military planning to suppress domestic unrest
- British Columbia teachers’ strike in danger
- US west coast dockers union forces through another concessions contract
- Tony Blair offered advice to Kazakhstan dictator
- Australian budget protests: A political balance sheet
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
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