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These letters were sent to the WSWS in response to the ongoing struggle by workers in Indianapolis, Indiana to corporate and UAW-backed demands for a 50 percent wage cut.

A selection of letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.

With another 26 soldiers killed since last Saturday, 2010 has already become the most deadly year for US troops since the US launched the Afghanistan war nearly nine years ago.

Statistics released over the past month have revealed a slowing economy, with working people bearing the brunt both of job losses and the government’s austerity measures.

Independent MP, Andrew Wilkie, yesterday signed an agreement with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, giving his support to the establishment of a minority Labor government.

Another offshore oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday morning off the shore of Louisiana, just more than four months since the April 20 blowout of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig.

Profits reported by the 7,830 banks overseen by the FDIC totaled $21.6 billion for the three months to June, compared to a $4.4 billion loss in the second quarter of 2009.

Chief executive officers responsible for the biggest mass layoffs of 2009 pulled in $12 million for the year on average, 42 percent higher than other CEOs at major companies and hundreds of times more than the average US worker.

The recent shooting of a Roma family in Slovakia is a product of the racial prejudice sanctioned by the Slovak state.

With 33 Chilean miners nearing one month trapped 2,300 feet underground, the human drama of what could prove a four-month ordeal before they are rescued has riveted attention worldwide.

Thilo Sarrazin’s new book is a tirade of abuse against Muslim immigrants, spiced with the type of social Darwinist prejudices and racist theories associated with the criminals of the Nazi Third Reich.

The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The document is being published in three parts.

In an effort to circumvent the overwhelming vote by Indianapolis GM stamping plant workers against his demand for a 50 percent wage cut, JD Norman is stepping up pressure on workers to revote.

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

Food Inc., now out in DVD, is a damning indictment of the inability of the profit system to provide safe and healthy food for everyone. Its political conclusions are terribly weak.

Over the past four months, checkpoints have been established at all the main routes into the city, and thousands of tall concrete blast walls have been installed around police stations and government buildings.

The formation of the next government may now be determined on the basis of treasury’s assessment of the respective budget forecasts of the Labor and Liberal parties—demonstrating that the overriding priority of the corporate and financial elite throughout the election period has been to fashion an admin

Today’s talks in Washington between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are a means through which the United States is seeking to further its interests in the Middle East.

Pacific Brands management paid tribute to the trade unions last week when it announced a profit based on the closure of 11 plants in 12 months, and the destruction of hundreds of jobs.

With its extraordinary reference to troops as “the steel in our ship of state,” President Obama’s Oval Office speech reflected an administration that cowers before the ever-expanding power of the US military.