Today on wsws.org

The desperate protests in Darwin highlight the barbaric character of the Labor government’s mandatory detention regime, which imprisons refugees and their boat crews, without trial, in violation of elementary legal and democratic rights.

This documentary tells the story of the “friendly fire” killing of US soldier Pat Tillman—covered up and mythologized by the military and the Bush administration—and his family’s struggle to uncover the truth.

The SEP and ISSE will hold a series of public meetings in Sri Lanka on the historic legacy of Leon Trotsky and its relevance to today’s fight for world socialist revolution.

Socialist Equality Party (Australia) national secretary Nick Beams has been invited by the University of Western Sydney Schools of Law and Economics and Finance to deliver a guest lecture on the global financial crisis.

Caretaker prime minister Julia Gillard had two objectives in her address to the National Press Club today: to secure the support of independents for a minority Labor government and to reassure the Australian corporate elites.

The Socialist Equality Party is holding public meetings in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Newcastle to discuss the unprecedented crisis that has resulted from the August 21 federal election and the political issues now confronting the working class.

An asylum seeker held at the Curtin detention centre in the remote north-west of Western Australia died on August 22 at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

Over the last two weeks, two Detroit-area residents have been killed by police using Tasers.

The “Rebuild America: Jobs, Justice and Peace” march held Saturday in Detroit provided a campaign platform for Democrats and the very policies that have devastated the city.

Five years after the destruction of New Orleans, Louisiana, critical infrastructure remains crippled and many working poor residents are in want of basic social services.

Investor JD Norman held a meeting with a small group of Indianapolis GM workers and their families on Sunday in an effort to undermine widespread opposition to his demand for a 50 percent wage cut.

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

Hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh over the past few days as flood waters threatened cities and towns.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has issued a report documenting the severe impact of the global economic crisis on employment prospects for the world’s youth.

With Obama’s Afghanistan surge now up to full strength, casualties among both US troops and Afghan civilians are rising sharply. New revelations of corruption and CIA payoffs raise the inescapable question: What are they dying for?

A large-scale US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation resulted in the arrest of 370 immigrants in ten Midwestern states last week.

The French government is seeking to win support from official European institutions for its racist policy of rounding up and deporting members of the Roma community.

Washington’s move has nothing to do with bringing the Burmese generals to justice for their oppressive rule, but is to pressure the junta for concessions, and undercut Chinese influence in Burma.

For the poor and working class of New Orleans, the immense destruction Hurricane Katrina inflicted on the city turned out to be only the beginning.

The revelation that US soldiers were punished for refusing to attend a religious rock concert on their base is the latest evidence that Christian fundamentalism is supplanting the Constitution in the American military.