Today on wsws.org
The World Socialist Web Site features daily news and analysis written from a socialist perspective, and commentary on the arts, culture, history, and politics. It is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International.
URL: http://www.wsws.org/
Updated: 18 min 27 sec ago
Australia-East Timor conflict intensifies over Greater Sunrise gas project
A bitter dispute between Australia and East Timor over a giant gas and oil project in the Timor Sea has worsened.
The Nation, Jonathan Israel and the Enlightenment
On 12 May this year, the Nation magazine published an article entitled “Mind the Enlightenment.” It is an intellectually unprincipled and vindictive attack on Professor Jonathan Israel’s multi-v...
Helen Thomas ousted over anti-Zionist comments
The ouster of veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, after an anti-Israeli comment, is yet another demonstration of the politically foul and utterly conformist milieu of official Washington.
Britain: The middle class politics of POWER2010 and Take Back Parliament
POWER2010 is an organisation claiming that if enough pressure is placed on Parliament, progressive changes can be made to state institutions and electoral voting procedures.
Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood: an outlaw hero that even the rich can love
In their new version of the Robin Hood legend, director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Brian Helgeland eviscerate the character’s subversive content, leaving a dry husk filled with their own nasty co...
Australia: Minimum pay ruling deepens social inequality
The $26 a week rise in the minimum wage awarded by the Rudd government’s Fair Work Australia tribunal last week amounts to a further real wage cut, after a two-year freeze.
The way forward for a defense of education in Germany
Nationwide demonstrations to defend education are planned for June 9 in Germany.
France votes credits for European Financial Stability Fund
France’s National Assembly voted €111 billion for the planned €750 European bailout fund aimed to rescue banks hit by the sovereign debt crisis, amid rising tensions among European financial aut...
Report: DTE used spy planes to spot unauthorized hookups
A report indicates DTE used high-tech aerial surveillance to spot unauthorized hookups as it ramped up its campaign of utility shutoffs.
Frank Rich on Obama: Liberal fears and illusions
In a column published Sunday, New York Times commentator Frank Rich expresses the mounting frustration and concern of Obama’s liberal supporters over the president’s response to the BP oil spill
Letters from our readers
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
BP and White House continue cover-up of oil spill
The US Department of the Interior intentionally misrepresented the findings of a recent study by federal scientists of the oil spill in order to minimize the true scope of the disaster.
The Gulf oil spill and the case for socialism
The ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the US government’s complicity and impotence in relation to energy giant BP reveals in the most striking manner the irrationality and socially destruc...
Israel steps up operations in Gaza
Israeli naval commandos killed four Palestinian militants off the coast of Gaza yesterday morning in an operation designed to send a signal to the Palestinian people and the world—that its illegal b...
New Japanese prime minister installed
Naoto Kan faces the task of trying to revive the government’s fortunes before next month’s upper house elections, but confronts the same basic dilemma as his predecessor—how to implement policie...
Union backs attacks on teachers in Washington, D.C.
With the backing of teachers’ unions, the government of Washington, D.C., has pushed through a new contract for teachers that will destroy workplace rights and allow further private encroachment int...
Sri Lankan government plans extensive slum clearance evictions
Thousands of shanty dwellers in Colombo face losing their homes and livelihoods as the government implements its city development plan.
This week in history: June 7-June 13
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
G-20 orders U-turn: from stimulus to austerity
Finance ministers from the world’s leading economies have responded to the intensification of the global financial crisis over the past two months by making a U-turn on fiscal policy.
