Archive: August 2016
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 2016 (front page)
- Erdogan accuses US of supporting failed coup in Turkey
- Democratic Party’s anti-Putin rhetoric prepares escalation of Syrian War
- Clinton campaign appeals to Republicans and the military
- UK Labour Party coup plotters make public their split preparations
- Slowdown in US, global economy
- Farm equipment giant John Deere lays off 120 workers as sales plummet
- Canadian police “manufactured” terror plot to ensnare couple
- Growing opposition in Berlin to exorbitant rents and evictions
- Protests denounce violent abuses in Australian juvenile jails
- Australian youth and workers speak out against torture of juvenile prisoners
- New Zealand’s Maori nationalist parties discuss bloc for 2017 election
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Berlin state election 2016
Vote against war! Vote PSG!
Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party - Elvis, Scotty and Bill: In memory of guitar legend Scotty Moore
- SEP candidate for West Virginia House District 16 files petitions
- This week in history: August 1-7
2 August 2016 (front page)
- Russian helicopter shot down in Syria as battle rages over Aleppo
- After Democrats’ celebration of militarism, US warplanes bomb Libya
- Manufacturing slows in Europe and Japan
- Democrats seize on Khan-Trump conflict to woo right-wing support
- First cases of mosquito-contracted Zika on US mainland reported in Florida
- China issues warning to Australia over South China Sea
- UK delays nuclear plant deal signed with France and China
- Adama Traoré’s autopsy undermines French police’s account of his death
- German Labour Court declares air traffic controllers strike illegal
- Israel adopts powers to suspend members of parliament
- Australian government appoints indigenous bureaucrat to juvenile detention inquiry
- HBO’s Veep: Lots of profanity, but not enough of what’s truly ugly
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 August 2016 (front page)
- More airstrikes in new US war in Libya
- After the conventions, Democrats attack Trump from the right
- New chemical weapons claims pose threat of US escalation of Syrian war
- US homeownership rate falls to lowest level in 51 years
- Michigan Obamacare insurers request 17 percent premium hikes
- US courts strike down “Voter ID” laws in four states
- State of emergency declared in Maryland suburb after record-breaking flooding kills two
- Massive police operation for pro-Erdogan demonstration in Cologne
- Spain: Catalan regional parliament votes next steps to independence
- UK: Weymouth and Bridport bus drivers escalate strike action
- Australian Workers Union pushes pay cuts for Arrium employees
- New Zealand rail union pushes pro-company collective agreement
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From WikiLeaks’ Clinton Email Archive
The New York Times’ chief military correspondent met secretly with State Department in 2010 to bury Iraq War Logs - The anti-scientific character of “race” as a concept
4 August 2016 (front page)
- US Republican presidential campaign in crisis
- Kerry backs Duterte’s murderous anti-drug campaign: “Placing a cheapness on the lives of Orientals”
- Baltimore County police shoot, kill young mother
- Whistle-blower Chelsea Manning: “I became very, very sad” during torture
- British RAF carry out airstrikes in Mosul, Iraq
- UK law firm boasts blocking support to disadvantaged children
- India ships food after mass protests by starving Indian workers in Saudi Arabia
- Sri Lankan opposition intensifies anti-government campaign
- New Zealand ‘Rich List’ dominated by property speculators
- Stop the war drive in Syria and Libya! Workers of the world unite against war!
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns for ballot status in Louisiana
- The Green Party platform: Reformist politics in the service of imperialism
- Systemic abuses in Australia’s juvenile prisons: The class issues
- A comment on the recent San Diego Comic-Con International
5 August 2016 (front page)
- Clinton steps up right-wing appeal to Republicans and billionaires
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“Thinking Through the Unthinkable”
RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China - Knife attack in London prompts massive police operation
- British government to escalate its Middle East intervention
- What is behind the campaign against Erdogan?
- Bank of England announces record rate cut in windfall for financial markets
- Rio Olympics overshadowed by social crisis
- Amnesty report denounces Australia’s “cruel” refugee regime on Nauru
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As strike enters second month
Owners announce plan to close Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort next month - New powers for secret services in Bavaria
- Hardship grows in Alberta as oil industry contracts
- New York Times covers up Obama administration’s role in Turkish coup
- All Quiet on the Western Front: A generation haunted by war
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
6 August 2016 (front page)
- Chicago police warn of unrest after murder of teen
- Why the CIA is for Hillary Clinton
- German defence minister announces domestic use of Armed Forces
- Refugees confront inhumane conditions at mass accommodation centres in Berlin
- UK: Labour leader Corbyn calls debate with coup plotter Owen Smith “comradely”
- One million Indian bank workers strike against privatisation
- Clinton, Obama tout tepid US jobs report
- Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic
- Japan’s new cabinet line-up to promote remilitarisation
- Senate result underscores Australian government’s instability
- India and US deepen strategic collaboration in Africa
- International Socialist Organization calls for Greens to support US-backed “revolution” in Syria
- Lady Dynamite and other Netflix comedies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 August 2016 (front page)
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White House releases “guidance” for targeted killings
Obama’s drone-missile machinery of murder - Rio 2016: The “Olympic ideal” and the reality of capitalism
- Anti-Corbyn plotters make second Brexit vote centre of UK Labour leadership contest
- UK National Health Service forced to the brink of financial collapse
- More than 500 UK employers and charities benefited from use of free forced labour
- German “left” journalist Jakob Augstein comes out as a right-winger
- A year in the plight of Berlin’s refugees
- Report documents human rights violations in Australian refugee camps
- Low-income retirees in the Detroit-area face abysmal housing conditions
- New York City police commissioner Bratton resigns
- South Korean Democrats posture as opponents of US anti-ballistic missile system
- US government lawsuit undermines Malaysian prime minister
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After the Paul O’Neal murder
Stop the police killings! Unite workers and youth of every race and nationality! - Global economic stagnation fuels financial instability
- As Clinton seeks support from Republicans, Sanders hails her role in the “political revolution”
- Turkish regime imprisons and harasses artists, journalists and academics after coup attempt
- This week in history: August 8-14
9 August 2016 (front page)
- The national security state and the US elections
- Washington escalates covert backing for Al Qaeda militias in Aleppo
- Millions demonstrate throughout Turkey against July 15 coup attempt
- Rio Olympics: Reviving the methods of dictatorship
- UK High Court rejects ban on 130,000 Labour members voting in leadership contest
- Southern rail conductors begin longest UK rail strike in 50 years
- UK inquiry refuses to investigate police spying on Workers Revolutionary Party
- Massive Delta Airlines computer failure creates worldwide havoc
- Police seek to cover up murder of 20-year-old man in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Louisiana sheriff initiates witch-hunt against author of anti-corruption blog
- West Virginia coal miner killed in explosion
- Thai constitutional referendum entrenches military dictatorship
- Australia: Top police claim no operational role in Sydney siege
- Green Party convention: Left rhetoric in the service of pro-capitalist politics
10 August 2016 (front page)
- US maternal death rate soars by 27 percent since 2000
- The battle for Aleppo and the hypocrisy of US war propaganda
- Trump speech in Detroit: Tax cuts for the wealthy combined with nationalist demagogy
- Erdogan and Putin meet in St. Petersburg
- Japanese emperor cautiously resists constitutional change
- Atlantic Council proposes to develop Poland as a stronghold for war with Russia
- Growing poverty leads to vast increase in UK food bank demand
- Peru: Kuczynksi takes office along with right wing pro-business cabinet
- Australian government faces “test” over Chinese bid for electricity grid
- Tragic death of baby in Australian hospital
- Canada: Refugees mount hunger strike to protest indefinite detention
- Unsafe levels of carcinogenic chemicals found in drinking water of 6 million Americans
- Unions seek to block struggle against education cuts in Boone County, West Virginia
- Ten-year-old boy killed, three girls injured in separate US amusement park accidents
- Once again on Owen Jones and the coup against UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
- The United Steelworkers, economic nationalism and the US drive to war
- Suicide Squad: The latest comic book film
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
11 August 2016 (front page)
- The slump in US productivity: Another symptom of capitalist crisis
- Democrats, media seize on Trump pro-gun comment to step up right-wing campaign
- What CIA Director Michael Hayden told President-Elect Barack Obama
- New emails shed further light on Hillary Clinton’s corruption as secretary of state
- Justice Department investigation of Baltimore police finds rampant abuse
- US sells battle tanks to Saudi Arabia as it renews assault on Yemen
- Vietnam bases long-range rocket launchers in South China Sea
- Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos travels to China to conduct negotiations
- UK: Hinkley Point nuclear plant delay provokes angry response from China
- German Social Democratic Party leader calls for strengthening of federal police
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Amid surging refugee crisis in East Africa
US backs deployment of UN military unit for offensive operations in South Sudan - Australia’s “education revolution” sends university staff casualisation soaring
- Chicago Public Schools announces 1,000 layoffs, threatens new cuts
- BBC propagandises in favour of pro-European Union, anti-Corbyn putsch
- Sleeping Giant: Deception and lies about the “new” working class
12 August 2016 (front page)
- Tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine after terrorist provocation
- The Justice Department’s whitewash of police violence in Baltimore, Maryland
- Wall Street celebrates mass layoffs by Macy’s
- US military prepares new offensives in Syria and Iraq
- WikiLeaks offers $20,000 reward over murder of DNC staffer linked to email leak
- UK Court of Appeal to rule on exclusion of Labour Party members from leadership ballot
- Brazilian Senate votes to proceed with trial of Workers Party president
- German deportations rise sharply in the first half of 2016
- Union calls off UK rail strikes
- Police violence in Los Angeles continues unabated
- Mosquitoes infect pregnant Florida woman with Zika
- US price of EpiPen for allergic reactions skyrockets
- Illinois officials prepare all-out assault on state workers
- Australian central bank chief insists on “difficult” budget cuts
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After the Sanders debacle
“Socialist Convergence” meets to prepare a new trap for the working class - Café Society: Woody Allen’s love letter to the wealthy and famous
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 August 2016 (front page)
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The impact of financial parasitism
Record US share prices amid economic slump and social decay - The provocation in Crimea and the threat of world war
- Signs of slowdown in US auto industry
- UK Court of Appeal sanctions mass disenfranchisement of Labour Party members
- Tax return places Clintons in the top 0.02 percent of Americans
- Warnings from Australian political establishment about Donald Trump
- German interior minister announces tightening of security and asylum laws
- BHS scandal in the UK: The real face of capitalism
- US Special Forces coordinating operations in Libya
- As Canadian auto talks begin, Unifor promotes nationalism and corporatism
- Illinois community college drops racially segregated courses after public criticism
- Gas explosion at Maryland apartment complex kills two, injures dozens
- Terror suspect killed in Canadian police-military operation
- Australian government blocks Chinese bids for electricity grid
- Sri Lankan government imposes IMF privatisation demands
- How Germany’s pseudo-lefts support the Left Party’s right-wing politics
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 August 2016 (front page)
- Wisconsin governor mobilizes National Guard after eruption of protests over police killing
- The real issues in the 2016 US elections
- Chinese-South Korean tensions rise over THAAD anti-missile deployment
- International bond markets turn “surreal” as speculation grows
- UK Labour leader Corbyn refuses to oppose denial of vote to party members
- Swedish prosecutors to question Julian Assange in Ecuador’s London embassy
- Chinese power plant explosion kills 21
- Border and immigration workers strike at Australian airports and ports
- Families of New Zealand mine disaster victims seek justice
- White House seeks to cover up Central American migrant crisis
- At least four dead, 18,000 rescued in historic flooding in Louisiana
- UFCW agrees to meager “pay raise” for Southern California grocery workers
- New York Times “human rights” warrior Nicholas Kristof demands military escalation in Syria
- Astronomers reveal most detailed map of galaxy distribution
- Season 3 of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman: Hollywoo(d) and mental illness
- This week in history: August 15-21
16 August 2016 (front page)
- Saudi coalition airstrike on hospital in Yemen kills at least 11
- South Sudan government approves 4,000-strong UN force
- Canada’s defence minister tours Africa to lay groundwork for military intervention
- British Special Forces operating inside Syria
- Trump and Democrats compete on militarism and war
- As growth prospects fall, US markets hit record high
- Louisiana: Seven dead, tens of thousands forced to flee as region braces for more flooding
- Federal report slams Washington DC Metrorail maintenance program
- Leaked files reveal brutal regime in Australia’s Nauru refugee camp
- Latest Australian “terrorism” arrests set dangerous precedents
- UK: Dorset health services to be slashed to reduce deficit
- Lufthansa sets a course for confrontation with pilots
- Thai junta exploits bombings to clamp down on opposition
- The social roots of unrest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- An interview with David Williams, author of Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
17 August 2016 (front page)
- The Louisiana flooding—a failure of American capitalism
- Aetna pullout highlights pro-corporate, anti-working class character of Obamacare
- German media steps up anti-Russian agitation
- Japan prepares to expand military role abroad
- Australia becoming “geopolitical flashpoint” amid sharpening US-China rivalry
- Former UK professional soccer player Dalian Atkinson dies after being hit with Taser
- UK inquest reveals brutality of immigrant detainee’s death
- India: Kerala’s Stalinist-led government pursuing pro-business agenda
- Pacific island economies hit by global slump
- Residents speak on the impact of education cuts in Boone County, West Virginia
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“If something doesn’t happen, Boone County will cease to exist”
Resident of West Virginia coal mining community speaks on economic crisis - The New York Times whitewashes US imperialism in Middle East and contemplates ethnic cleansing
- Cohen of the Times on Rio Olympics: “I’m tired of reading about anger in the slums”
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Facebook livestream
SEP US vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth discusses the police killing in Milwaukee - The Score of War: A haunting documentary film on Ukraine
18 August 2016 (front page)
- The 2016 elections and the crisis of American democracy
- Growing disquiet in Washington over Russian-Iranian actions in Syria
- Hacker group releases malware codes attributed to National Security Agency
- Huntington, West Virginia sees 26 heroin overdoses in four hours
- Motive unclear after arrest in killing of imam and assistant in New York
- Blue Cut fire quickly engulfs tens of thousands of acres in Southern California
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Critical turning point as nurses vote on concessions
Mobilize Minnesota workers behind Allina nurses - Affordable housing shortage in Detroit creates dire conditions for seniors
- After brawl in town of Sisco, France launches campaign to ban burkini
- Kremlin chief of staff dismissed amid continuing political turmoil in Russia
- Thyssen-Krupp Steel works council meeting prepares job cuts in Germany
- Spain faces third general election in one year
- Egyptian dictator el-Sisi secures IMF loan and prepares onslaught against working class
- Australia: Greens select former military intelligence officer as parliamentarian
- Australian university releases plans on arts college closure
- ATI workers speak to SEP campaigners
- SEP campaigns in Leechburg and Brackenridge, Pennsylvania
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“War is never the solution”
Report on the SEP’s election campaign in Berlin
19 August 2016 (front page)
- Japan plans missile deployment in East China Sea
- “Human rights” propaganda campaign paves way for military escalation in Syria
- German report criticizing Turkey highlights growing tensions within NATO
- Green Party candidates at CNN town hall: Promoting illusions in the capitalist system
- Fed divided on policy amid warnings over state of global bond markets
- Cisco to cut 5,500 jobs, adding to wave of US tech layoffs
- Immigrant mothers stage hunger strike in Pennsylvania
- Sexual assault accusations used to oust leader at Tor Project
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“The union signed away their rights”
Verizon strikers remain victimized 12 weeks after end of strike - West coast dockworkers’ union to discuss contract extension
- Lopez Obrador reaches out to Mexican ruling elite
- UN admits role in 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti
- Research highlights continued immiseration of British workers
- Australian prime minister appeals for bipartisan budget cuts
- The pseudo-left and identity politics: RIO solidarizes itself with “Gina-Lisa” and promotes law and order
- Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth condemns US-backed war in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 August 2016 (front page)
- American jets scramble against Syrian aircraft bombing Kurdish rebels
- The ruling class and the spectre of Leon Trotsky
- Government indifference in the midst of historic Louisiana flooding
- Putin visits Crimea amid rising tensions with Ukraine
- Trump chairman Paul Manafort resigns amidst campaign shift to the right
- UK media denounces Corbyn’s refusal to support war with Russia
- Britain’s Financial Times calls on anti-Corbyn plotters to prepare Labour split
- Spain: Pseudo-left concedes to right wing over street name changes
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Berlin Election 2016
Socialist Equality Party campaigners speak with Turkish workers in Berlin - Venezuela opens border with Colombia in order to alleviate growing social tensions
- Indian PM Modi “plays Balochistan card” against Pakistan
- Mounting evidence Canadian police summarily executed terror suspect
- Decades-long cover-up of “black lung” among Australian miners
- Full-time jobs and wages falling in Australia
- On the death of German historian Ernst Nolte
- A portrait of photographer Robert Frank
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting advances socialist program to fight government attacks
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 August 2016 (front page)
- Suicide bombing kills 51 at wedding in Turkey
- Media, Democrats cover up Trump’s fascistic politics
- UK Labour leader Corbyn silent on right-wing coup attempt at Sheffield rally
- Syriza government oversees clampdown on refugee shelters in Greece
- Workers and youth speak on Corbyn and the British Labour Party
- Mosquito-borne Zika virus spreads to Miami Beach, Florida
- New video shows Los Angeles Police Department officers kill 56-year-old man in jail
- In bid to quash anger, Chicago cops face firing over Laquan McDonald murder
- Minnesota nurses authorize open-ended strike against Allina
- Massive job cuts planned in South Korean shipbuilding industry
- Australian government seizes on NAPLAN test scores to justify budget cuts
- The Obamacare counterrevolution six years on
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War Porn by Roy Scranton
The anti-war novel re-emerges in American literature - SEP election meeting in Berlin discusses war, nationalism after Brexit vote
- New Zealand: WWI Home Front exhibition buries mass opposition to war
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“Obama has only helped the wealthy”
SEP campaigners speak to residents in Washington, DC about social crisis and the US elections - This week in history: August 22-28
23 August 2016 (front page)
- US-South Korean war games inflame Asian tensions
- Divisions rise inside EU at summit between Germany, France and Italy
- Over 1,800 extra-judicial killings under new Philippine government
- Britain: Labour’s anti-Corbyn plotters plan rival parliamentary grouping
- Clinton campaigns among the millionaires and billionaires
- Majority of New York City residents cannot afford to buy their own homes
- UK: Strike action at historic low, and unions work to keep it that way
- Trade unions work to suppress German hospital strikes
- Appalling conditions in Greek refugee camps
- Mounting calls for Australian universities to slash enrolments
- North Korean official defects as US pressure on Pyongyang intensifies
- British Columbia Liberals impose anti-Chinese property transfer tax
- Twenty years since Clinton’s welfare “reform”
- More anti-Russian propaganda from the New York Times
- International Socialist Organization promotes Jill Stein, Green Party as “anti-capitalist”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 August 2016 (front page)
- New flashpoint in escalating war: Turkey shells ISIS and Kurdish forces in Syria
- Obama offers pittance to flood victims in Louisiana
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“I don’t expect the government to do a damn thing”
Louisiana flood victims speak out - Haiti: What the Clinton e-mails reveal about US election-rigging
- Britain: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outlines policies for “wealth creation”
- UK junior doctors defiance of government contract curtailed by BMA
- German interior minister supports partial ban on the burqa
- German population told to stockpile food in case of war
- Volkswagen production halt affects almost 30,000 workers
- New York politicians maneuver to support charter schools
- Mining giant’s record loss highlights Australian economy’s reversal
- Hanoi scales back Australian attempt to commemorate Vietnam War battle
- Nepal’s Maoist prime minister walks a tightrope between India and China
- Biden’s blank check to the Baltic states: US will wage war on Russia in your defense
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Socialist Equality Party (US) 2016 Congress Resolutions
Perspectives and Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party - SEP presidential candidate Jerry White on impact of “Welfare Reform”
- Twenty years since the Clintons gutted the federal welfare system
25 August 2016 (front page)
- Biden meets with Erdogan, backs Turkish invasion of Syria
- Stop the German government’s preparations for war!
- Devastating earthquake hits Italy
- North Korea tests submarine-launched missile
- French shipbuilder DCNS hit by massive data leak on Scorpene submarine
- Newly released emails reveal Clinton ties to CEOs, Persian Gulf despots
- Mass water shutoffs continue in Detroit, Michigan
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As federal emergency funding ends:
Flint residents describe conditions of ongoing water crisis - Pfizer gobbles up cancer drug maker in $14 billion deal
- Judge tosses out Detroit Public Schools lawsuit against teacher “sickouts”
- Russian athletes barred from Paralympic Games
- Finland announces defence agreement with the US
- Deutsche Bank whistleblower rejects reward, cites collusion between bank and regulators
- Spain: Pseudo-left Barcelona mayor persecutes migrant street vendors
- Papua New Guinean landowners end blockade of major gas project
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Socialist Equality Party (US) 2016 Congress Resolutions
The fight for socialism and the tasks of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality - Pseudo-left line up behind efforts to fashion Labour as Britain’s “Syriza”
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Toots Thielemans: 1922-2016
“That little space between a smile and a tear”
26 August 2016 (front page)
- Turkey expands invasion of Syria
- Clinton highlights Trump’s ultra-right ties to curry favor with establishment Republicans
- Death toll in Italian earthquake climbs to more than 250
- Chakrabarti report refutes claims of rampant anti-Semitism in British Labour Party
- EpiPen maker Mylan’s other drug price hikes
- State trooper kills unarmed deaf man in North Carolina
- Indiana study finds high rate of opiate addiction in newborns
- Brazilian students return to the streets over classroom censorship laws
- Bipartisan bidding war on budget cuts in Australia
- Australian “Heart Maps” reveal class divide
- Cross-party support for sweeping spy powers in New Zealand
- Ethiopian government kills 100 civilians as protests sweep country
- Air of crisis overhangs central bankers’ meeting
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“There is going to be a civil war in this country”
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns at Detroit auto factory - Anthropoid: A film looks at 1942 assassination of Nazi chief Reinhard Heydrich
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 August 2016 (front page)
- ILO report: Global youth unemployment to rise for first time in three years
- “Godfather” Biden visits Turkey
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No end to central bank subsidies for financial markets
Fed chair lays out long-term scenario of economic stagnation - Britain: Labour’s National Executive extends purge of party membership
- German chancellor demands loyalty from Turkish citizens in Germany
- Military prosecutor clears Israeli forces in 2014 Gaza war
- Closure of Appleton, Wisconsin abortion clinic leaves state with two centers
- Investigation accuses Mexican federal police of summary executions in May 2015 raid
- Trudeau given hero’s welcome by Unifor bureaucrats
- Sri Lanka: JVP leader expresses support for privatisation
- New Zealand: Thousands infected by contaminated water in Havelock North
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Socialist Equality Party (US) 2016 Congress Resolutions
For the unity of the working class in the United States and Latin America -
Join the IYSSE! Join the fight against war, inequality and the danger of dictatorship! Join the fight for socialism!
Statement of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality -
West Virginia Supreme Court to weigh independent ballot access
Ruling to impact independent candidates statewide - Merkel seeks to reorganise Europe
- Potentially Earth-like planet found in habitable zone of nearest star
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 August 2016 (front page)
- Turkish air strikes kill civilians in US-backed invasion of Syria
- Nothing revolutionary about Sanders’ “Our Revolution”
- Sarkozy launches French presidential bid based on anti-Muslim hysteria
- French woman arrested, fined for wearing Muslim headscarf on Cannes beach
- Polish PiS government encourages anti-Semitism
- US torture victim Abu Zubaydah given “hearing” at Guantanamo
- Boston teachers face contract fight over job security, working conditions
- Cleveland teachers threaten walkout as school year begins
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Notes on London's housing crisis
London landlords renting out dangerous "floating shacks" - Government of Finland imposes further austerity
- Australia: Arrium steelworkers reject 10 percent pay cut
- Former detention centre workers condemn Australia’s brutal refugee regime
- Labour Party makes empty promises to New Zealand students
- “Political art” in New York City this summer
- This week in history: August 29-September 4
30 August 2016 (front page)
- US pressures Turkey to curb attacks on Syrian Kurds
- One-third of US counties will have only one Obamacare plan in 2017
- German vice chancellor says talks on US-EU free trade agreement have failed
- Divisions grow over British withdrawal from the European Union
- Growing perplexity as central bankers confront permanent stagnation
- UK household debt, excluding mortgages, tops a third of a trillion pounds
- Libya’s Tobruk parliament refuses to recognize Western-backed government
- Professional football quarterback Colin Kaepernick protests US police killings
- Despite Canada Post’s provocations, postal union opposes strike action
- Ruling party wiped out in Australia’s Northern Territory election
- New Zealand unions intensify anti-immigrant campaign
- The socioeconomic basis of identity politics: Inequality and the rise of an African American elite
- The New York Times and “disinformation”
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The class essence of the Confederacy in the American Civil War
A further comment on Free State of Jones - Workers Struggles: the Americas
31 August 2016 (front page)
- France demands end to trade talks with US amid rising US-EU tensions
- US war planes and battleships to start using Indian bases
- Tens of millions of Indian workers to join one-day protest strike
- US deepens military ties with Sri Lanka
- Taliban captures key Afghan district in fierce fighting
- Obama success story: Third biggest stock market boom since 1900
- Millennium Tower: Boston’s latest playground for the filthy rich
- Union blocks teachers’ strike as Clinton comes to Cleveland
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“It’s our turn to reap some of the rewards of record profits”
Canadian autoworkers overwhelmingly approve strike action - Italian soldiers fighting in Libya
- Spain’s public debt reaches record levels
- New Australian government seeks to impose deep cuts
- EpiPen price gouging: Capitalism and the US health care crisis
- Brazil’s impeachment crisis provokes split in Morenoite PSTU
- UK: Corbyn, Brexit and the so-called progressive alliance
- Southside With You: An insufferable account of the Obamas’ first date
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“I don’t think there’s a whole lot we can do unless some type of revolution kicks off”
Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Aurora, Illinois - PSG election campaign: Anger at the government’s new civil defence guidelines
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