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Congressional Democrats back expanded war in Afghanistan
In the face of growing popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan, the US House of Representatives voted by overwhelming majorities of both Democrats and Republicans to continue the war, which the O...
No letup in attack on jobs
A rash of new layoff announcements and government reports on job losses give the lie to the claims of the Obama administration and the media that the employment situation is “stabilizing.”
Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry to hold press conference Thursday in Detroit
The Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire is holding a press conference on Thursday, as opposition to utility shutoffs and house fires grows throughout the Detroit-area.
Opposition deepens to austerity programme in Greece
Opposition to the austerity measures being imposed by the Greek government has hardened in the run-up to today’s general strike.
US banks and corporations announce huge pay packages for 2009
US corporations are beginning to release figures on CEO pay for last year. Multi-million dollar packages are the norm in a year that saw the continued deterioration in the living conditions of the vas...
Sri Lankan government boasts about low level of strikes
An ILO workshop in Colombo last week underlined the degree to which the government and corporate elite depend on the unions to suppress growing anger among workers over falling living standards.
US arms sale compounds political tensions in Taiwan
The Obama administration’s approval of a $US6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan in January has deepened the dilemmas facing the island’s ruling elites.
New Obama administration program: no aid for distressed homeowners
A new Obama administration program will provide incentives for banks to enter into “short sale” agreements with struggling homeowners. While allowing banks to forego the process of foreclosure, it...
Britain: Murdoch’s News of the World censured for bugging on an “industrial scale”
A report by the Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee has exposed the contempt that the mass circulation Sunday newspaper, News of the World (NoW), part of Rupert Murdoch’s media giant News Int...
The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony was a spectacle of banality and cowardice. The most highly rewarded films, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Inglourious Basterds, embody something retrograde and fou...
Acquittal in East Timor marks collapse of official “coup” story
A court last week acquitted dual East Timorese-Australian citizen Angelita Pires of all charges relating to an alleged assassination plot in 2008, in which President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot.
Britain: Six University of Sussex students suspended following occupation
Six University of Sussex students have been suspended by Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing for allegedly taking part in a peaceful occupation in Sussex House on March 3. Farthing informed the students ...
Germany: Prominent feminist Alice Schwarzer agitates against Clara Zetkin
In a hysterical rant on International Women’s Day Alice Schwarzer, Germany’s best-known representative of bourgeois feminism and editor of Emma, called for the abolition of the day dedicated to eq...
Elderly woman dies in Detroit house fire
An elderly woman died in a Detroit house fire on Tuesday evening. While the cause of the fire is still under investigation, the woman had lived without gas and electricity since 2006.
Dexter Avenue fire victim's son speaks to the WSWS
Marvin Allen Jr., whose father was killed in the January 5 Detroit house fire, speaks with Lawrence Porter of the WSWS about the circumstances of the fatal fire. The shutoff and subsequent refusal of ...
Romania, Bosnia, and the problems of immigrants
Romanian cinema has won a reputation in the last few years with a series of films by younger directors attempting to come to grips with the consequences of the introduction of the capitalist free mark...
Letters on the Academy Awards
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site in response to “The 82nd Annual Academy Awards: Hollywood celebrates itself, undeservedly“
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 11
The World Socialist Web Site continues publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia). The document was adopted unanimously at the party’s fo...
Obama stumps for his cost-cutting health care overhaul
Obama spoke in Pennsylvania Monday as part of a last-ditch push to gain passage of his health care overhaul. His remarks were a cynical effort to conceal the right-wing character of the legislation.
