Archive: September 2014
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 September 2014 (front page)
- US and Europe escalate provocations against Russia
- Seventy-five years since the outbreak of World War II
- UK announces new NATO military force, declares terror alert
- US steps up Mideast military intervention
- Netanyahu indicates Gaza ceasefire paves way for wider war
- India-Pakistan relations rapidly deteriorating
- Lawsuit exposes conditions at New Mexico immigrant detention center
- Algerian immigrant killed by French police while being deported
- Protesting workers and youth denounce Australian budget
- Australian military aircraft to supply arms to Iraqi Kurds
- Another homicide at hands of New York City cops
- German media seeks to whip up public opinion against pilots and train drivers
- Australia: National protests against budget cuts
- New reports of inmate deaths from beatings at New York’s Rikers Island prison
- Sri Lankan government deports asylum-seekers
- Labor Day report details huge decline in wages for Michigan workers
- This week in history: September 1-7
2 September 2014 (front page)
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Labor Day 2014
Temp labor at record levels in US - Ukraine and the militarization of Europe
- GM moving production from Mexico to Tennessee
- French unions open for business with new pro-austerity government
- Germany: ThyssenKrupp announces more job cuts
- Venezuela announces plan to sell US oil operations
- New protest in Ferguson, Missouri over police murder
- Homelessness increasing rapidly in Colorado
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The human toll of slump and part-time employment
New Jersey woman dies while napping between jobs - Suicides highlight harsh conditions in Australia’s mining industry
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A call to action
Emergency meeting to oppose water shutoffs in Detroit - Willie Nelson’s Band of Brothers: A songwriter returns
- NSA surveillance targets Turkish political and military leadership
- Economic downturn shifts New Zealand election campaign further right
- Anti-government protests deepen Pakistan’s political crisis
- The class issues in the Scottish referendum
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold antiwar meetings in Jaffna and Kandy
- Oppose the new imperialist war in Iraq!
- Australia: Tasmanian budget cuts public sector jobs, wages
- Union seeks to ram through grocery worker contract in Southern California
- Poorest in the UK less healthy and dying younger
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
3 September 2014 (front page)
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On eve of NATO summit
US and NATO step up military preparations against Russia - The Obama administration and American labor
- German President Gauck threatens Russia with war
- ISIS murders another US journalist, Steven Sotloff
- Court hearings resume for Detroit’s “plan of adjustment”
- German parliament approves shipment of weapons to Kurdish forces in Iraq
- Economic data show gathering global slump
- US drone strikes in Somalia part of drive to control Horn of Africa
- Britain outlines new “anti-terror” laws
- US election campaign: Two right-wing parties offer no solution to social crisis
- Hong Kong protests denounce Beijing’s anti-democratic plans
- Police lock down Maryland school after suspension of teacher
- UK: The Rotherham child sex abuse scandal
- Germany: Social Democrats, Left Party responsible for growth of right in Saxony elections
- Safety Board confirms Canadian government culpability in Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
- What is behind the New Zealand justice minister’s resignation?
4 September 2014 (front page)
- NATO summit begins as anti-Russian measures heighten war danger
- ISIS atrocities and US imperialism
- Polish Prime Minister Tusk to become new EU Council president
- Australia to provide military backing for Ukraine regime
- After Socialist Party government reshuffle, neo-fascists offer to rule France
- Detroit bond insurers press for sale of art and other city assets
- US insurers discourage the sick from enrolling in health plans
- Caltex Australia’s restructuring cuts hundreds more jobs
- Bankruptcy judge lets Detroit water shutoffs continue
- India and Japan proclaim “special strategic, global partnership”
- US insurers discourage the sick from enrolling in health plans
- Obama administration approves Pennsylvania plan to privatize and eliminate Medicaid as an entitlement
- Contractor electrocuted at Detroit area auto parts facility
- New York mayor reneges on pledge to school bus drivers
- After police killing in Ferguson, ISO calls for a “Black agenda”
- Scottish National Party arms police in preparation for rising social opposition
5 September 2014 (front page)
- At NATO summit, US and Europe threaten Russia, plan military action against ISIS
- Obama and the financial aristocracy
- Obama assures Baltic states of NATO’s “eternal” assistance
- European sanctions complement military aggression against Russia
- France stops deal to deliver Mistral helicopter carrier ships to Russia
- Detroit chief financial officer outlines program of permanent austerity
- European Central Bank cuts rates and announces asset purchasing program
- North Carolina frame-up: Two innocent men jailed for 30 years
- Alleged suicide of Louisiana man in police custody prompts federal investigation
- Haitian immigrants face desperate conditions
- Fifty years since the Rochester, New York riots
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Cuts to World Health Organization budget intensify Ebola epidemic
- Australian mining tax deal to slash benefits for low-paid
- New Zealand government celebrates centenary of seizure of German Samoa
- Quebec business, political elite, and union bureaucrats—all complicit in corruption
- Veteran Scottish nationalist Jim Sillars denounces fight for socialism
6 September 2014 (front page)
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New Federal Reserve report
US median income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery” - Capitalist breakdown and the drive to war
- Year-low US job growth in August
- NATO steps up anti-Russian moves as ceasefire begins in Ukraine
- German government discusses massive increase in military spending
- German media steps up its warmongering
- Department of Justice launches investigation into Ferguson police
- US forms ten-nation coalition to escalate war in Iraq, Syria
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Day four of the confirmation hearings
Financial advisor details social cuts, increased policing in Detroit bankruptcy plan - Hundreds arrested at union-organized fast-food protests across the US
- France: Calais mayor demands crackdown on migrants, threatens to block port
- Australia-India uranium deal strengthens economic and strategic ties
- India: NLC contract workers launch indefinite strike
- National income falls sharply in Australia
- Australia’s asylum-seeker policies claim another victim
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World War I remembered through British art
Truth and Memory at the Imperial War Museum, London, until March 2015 - The police-military crackdown in Ferguson, the assault on democratic rights, and the record of the World Socialist Web Site
- Meeting at University of Michigan connects police violence to imperialist war
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
8 September 2014 (front page)
- Obama prepares to escalate war in the Middle East
- Obama commits US to war against Russia in defense of Baltic states
- Fighting flares in eastern Ukraine despite ceasefire
- Savage cuts in Israel follow Gaza war
- Australian government poised to commit fighter jets to Iraq war
- Court rules BP acted with “gross negligence” in 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- Wall Street firm hires former Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for $3.4 million
- German train drivers union to hold warning strike Tuesday
- Workers and youth in Australia oppose new Iraq war
- New Zealand election debates underscore bipartisan austerity agenda
- The New Anti-capitalist Party and the political crisis in France
- Teachers strike in three Pennsylvania school districts
- Report exposes impact of tax hikes on London poor
- Germany: Official backing for Zionist crimes at pro-Israel rally in Frankfurt
- Missouri set to execute inmate despite evidence state lied about lethal injection drugs
- Third televised debate in Scottish referendum: No one speaks for working people
- This week in history: September 8-14
- Support grows for SEP meeting Tuesday against Detroit water shutoffs
9 September 2014 (front page)
- CIA employed “medieval” torture that brought prisoners “to the point of death”
- The collapse of household income in the US
- American imperialism and the rise of Islamic extremism in Syria and Iraq
- Atlanta Symphony locks out its musicians
- Canada: BC government escalates attack on striking teachers
- Chicago apartment fire kills four children
- The beginning of modern physics
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The human cost of deportations
What happens to Obama’s deported children and youth? - Vote on Iraqi government sets stage for expanded US war
- Japanese prime minister reshuffles cabinet
- 2004 Bush administration memos advocate unlimited presidential powers
- Social welfare workers killed in New Zealand shooting
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Bowing to Senate Democrats
Obama reneges on pledge to ease deportations - Military maneuvers and sanctions: NATO, EU escalate threats against Russia
- New school year starts with educational funding crisis in US
- Possible “yes” vote in Scotland referendum provokes split in UK Conservative Party
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
10 September 2014 (front page)
- Obama’s war in Iraq and Syria
- American Airlines contract worker killed at Detroit Metro Airport
- LAPD suppresses autopsy reports in police killings
- France’s new government shaken by early ministerial resignation
- Germany: Official report speaks of “deliberate sabotage” by secret service in NSU case
- Former governor of Virginia found guilty on corruption charges
- Dutch report into Ukraine jetliner disaster continues cover-up
- Pennsylvania mother sentenced to jail for giving daughter abortion pill
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New Jersey, New York part of a national trend
Northeastern US states seek to cut public worker pensions - Food and water deprivation, abuse and overcrowding in Michigan’s women’s prison
- The Ray Rice case and the violence of American football
- As budget impasse continues, scandals return to threaten Australian PM
- Australian government signals purchase of Japanese submarines
- Toronto’s mayoralty candidates ignore growing poverty
- US, EU intensify military threats against Russia
11 September 2014 (front page)
- Obama announces open-ended war in Iraq and Syria
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Thirteen years after the September 11 attacks
CIA torture and the “war on terror” - Amnesty International documents war crimes by pro-Kiev militia
- Report to G20 outlines jobs and wages disaster
- Ferguson residents denounce police violence at City Council meeting
- Verizon cashes in on sale of former operations centers in New York
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South African trade union federation promotes illusions in Castroism
Part one - City-owned assets hived off in Detroit bankruptcy deals
- Germany: Union leader condemns train drivers’ strike
- Detroit Workers Action Committee meeting opposes water shutoffs, bankruptcy
- New Zealand Greens: A party of big business and militarism
- UK party leaders in emergency visit to Scotland as official No campaign offers more regional powers
- Sri Lankan provincial election: Oppose the drive to war and austerity
12 September 2014 (front page)
- US to rapidly expand war in Iraq and Syria
- Obama’s speech on ISIS: Perpetual war in Iraq, Syria and beyond
- Senate hearing whitewashes militarization of American police
- New witnesses describe police murder of Michael Brown
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Executions in Missouri and Texas
Courts reject condemned inmates’ appeals on lethal injection drugs - Spain: Catalan separatist leader declares Scottish vote “an example for us”
- Beppe Grillo’s M5S promotes European imperialism
- Australian government lifts “terror alert” level
- German government adopts tighter laws on economic immigration
- German federal court upholds whitewash of death of refugee
- Pakistani talks to end anti-government protests collapse
- British Columbia teachers’ union seeks to scuttle strike
- Railroad workers in US reject concessions contract
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South African trade union federation promotes illusions in Castroism
Part Two - Regional authority a prelude for privatization of Detroit water system
- SEP (Sri Lanka) to hold antiwar meetings in Kandy, Galle and Gampaha
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 September 2014 (front page)
- US and EU expand economic sanctions against Russia
- The war for regime-change in Syria
- Obama administration asserts unlimited powers for new war in Iraq, Syria
- Canada signs up for Washington’s new Mideast war
- New documents detail NSA surveillance of Yahoo
- Torture victim Jose Padilla sentenced to 21 years
- Potential RadioShack bankruptcy threatens 27,000 employees
- Public education under attack in Buffalo, New York
- Ebola outbreak grows
- Troika demands further austerity in Greece
- Scandalous conditions in German refugee centres
- Bipartisan unity on Australia’s “terror alert”
- Political witch-hunt against Socialist Alternative on Australian campuses
- Bala Tampoe (1922–2014): Socialist revolutionary turned class traitor
- Video: Detroit resumes water shutoffs
- IMF chief economist’s revealing expression of theoretical bankruptcy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
15 September 2014 (front page)
- Obama’s “coalition of the willing” against Syria, Iran
- Six years since the Wall Street crash
- US Congress to vote to fund Syrian “rebels”
- Families of journalists murdered by ISIS threatened with prosecution by US government
- Australian government commits warplanes, troops to Iraq war
- Demonstration of two million organised by Catalan National Assembly
- Peña Nieto pushes oil privatization in Mexico
- Rhode Island pension-cutter wins Democratic primary
- San Jose, California police acquire a drone
- California Governor Brown signs sick leave bill
- Honolulu city officials vote to transfer homeless to former WWII internment camp
- Sand mining in Wisconsin and Minnesota threatens access to safe water and clean air
- French government threatens another war against Libya
- Counterfire attacks socialist opposition to Scottish nationalism
- Who Owns Germany? Documenting the widening gulf between rich and poor
- This week in history: September 15-21
16 September 2014 (front page)
- Mediterranean shipwrecks leave over 700 refugees dead, many fleeing Mideast wars
- The impact on Europe of the Scottish independence referendum
- UK prepares for full military action in Syria and Iraq
- US and NATO hold military exercises in western Ukraine, as ceasefire begins to fray in east
- Swedish elections: Support declines for establishment parties
- Ahead of election, Snowden reveals mass spying on New Zealanders
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area teachers in third week of strike
- NSA developing real time map of all Internet-connected devices
- Common’s Nobody’s Smiling: A murky offering by the Chicago rapper
- California residents speak out against militarization of Davis police department
- UAW holds one-day strike at Indiana auto parts plant
- Workers and youth support Socialist Equality Party campaign in opposition to Scottish nationalism
- New Zealand government, opposition support US war in Middle East
- Paris conference gives green light to new Middle East war
- Malaysia offers its military facilities for US spy planes
29 September 2014 (front page)
16 September 2014 (front page)
- White House threatens to cut off Obamacare subsidies to 360,000
- San Diego school district acquires a military assault vehicle
- Chicago residents speak about the causes of gang violence
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The social crisis behind the rise in Chicago street violence
17 September 2014 (front page)
- Detroit bankruptcy conspiracy enters its final stage
- US prepares for “generational” war in the Middle East
- OECD points to falling world economic growth
- Japanese PM pressures Sri Lanka to weaken ties with China
- Obama uses Ebola crisis to “surge” 3,000 troops into West Africa
- Forty five million in poverty in the US
- Valls government narrowly wins confidence vote in French National Assembly
- Germany: Voters reject establishment parties in state elections
- Victorian-era diseases return to Britain
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The social counterrevolution in New Orleans schools
Recovery School District fires 84 percent of staff - Gas billionaire purchases Buffalo NFL Franchise for record $1.2 billion
- UK trade union bureaucracy split on Scottish independence
- The Scottish referendum: Lessons from Quebec
- Detroit charged $126 million by law firms and consultants in bankruptcy case
- WMO report: Greenhouse gas levels accelerating at record pace
18 September 2014 (front page)
- US House approves Obama plan for military intervention in Syria
- Vote No in the Scottish referendum: Fight for a Socialist Britain!
- Australian police carry out largest-ever “anti-terror” operation
- US Federal Reserve reaffirms commitment to near-zero interest rates
- Yale chaplain forced out by Zionist attacks
- BC teachers union endorses austerity contract
- Brazil’s Workers Party faces tightest election in over a decade
- Spain: Catalan pseudo-left intensify pro-independence agitation
- Floods in South Asia kill hundreds
- New Indonesian government faces slowing economy, rising social tensions
- Israeli security service reservists refuse to conspire against Palestinians
- Public meetings in Scotland: After the independence referendum, lessons for the working class
- Brain damage affects 3 in 10 former National Football League players
- US safety regulators aided GM in cover-up of deadly defects
- FBI arrests Rochester man in fabricated ISIS “terror plot”
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Toronto International Film Festival 2014—Part 1
Something different in filmmaking - Ukrainian and European parliaments adopt EU Association Agreement
- US appeals court approves Wisconsin voter ID law for November election
20 September 2014 (front page)
19 September 2014 (front page)
- Wealth of world’s billionaires: $7.3 trillion
- Ukrainian president delivers bellicose speech to the US Congress
- US lays new chemical weapon allegations against Syria
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“War means the people are losing”
Wayne State University students and workers speak out against war - Australia: Protestors denounce police raids and anti-Muslim hysteria
- Australian “beheading” plot based on dubious evidence
- “Dying in America” report: Latest volley in campaign to slash heath care costs
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Notes on police violence in America
US police kill 104 people in August - Texas executes ninth inmate of 2014
- For-profit immigrant family detention center planned in Texas
- IMF points to dangers of stagnation and financial turbulence
- European Union responsible for drowning of refugees in Mediterranean
- Working class disenfranchised in New Zealand election
- UK: National Health Service staff ballot for strike action over pay
- The NFL’s Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson—and the moral high ground of American corporations
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 September 2014 (front page)
- Australian anti-terror raids part of US war drive
- US generals challenge Obama on ground troops in Iraq, Syria
- Detroit Chrysler workers speak out against war
- France bombs ISIS targets in Iraq
- Poland announces formation of joint military unit with Ukraine and Lithuania
- Air France pilots strike against low wages
- Google report documents surge in electronic surveillance requests by governments worldwide
- Microsoft cuts 2,100 jobs, closes Silicon Valley research lab
- Ferguson officer Darren Wilson testifies before grand jury
- Virginia officials announce massive state budget cuts
- New Zealand parties express sham concern for the poor
- Chinese president visits Sri Lanka to strengthen strategic ties
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The return of German militarism and the tasks of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany)
Resolution of the Special Conference Against War of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit - Climate change and the capitalist system
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party orients to Socialist Party critics of Hollande
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
22 September 2014 (front page)
- Obama marshals allies for war on Syria and Iraq
- The Alibaba IPO frenzy: Symptom of a diseased economic order
- Australian terror raids provide pretext for police-state laws
- Australia: Youth and workers express disbelief over anti-terror raids
- New Zealand election: Labour’s worst defeat in 92 years
- Workers and youth voice disgust over New Zealand election
- Spain’s most powerful banker warned of “radicalisation”
- Climate change marches draw large crowds
- New Anti-capitalist Party tries to whitewash France’s scramble for Africa
- Grave of the Fireflies: Two children fighting for survival in wartime Japan
- The “Detroit Homecoming”: City planning by and for the billionaires
- Socialist Equality Party campaigns against war in Detroit and Minneapolis
- The impact of climate change—“This is a great injustice”
- Detroit teachers union president retires
- Pentagon supplies grenade launchers and armored vehicles to schools
- University of Illinois victimizes professor critical of Israel’s policies
- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy returns to politics
- Britain’s fake-left groups seek permanent nationalist alliance in Scotland
- Western powers intensify military pressure on Russia
- This week in history: September 22-28
23 September 2014 (front page)
- US plans to invest $1 trillion in nuclear weapons arsenal
- The witch-hunting of Steven Salaita and the new McCarthyism
- Afghan factions form power-sharing government
- One in five US workers laid off during the recession still unemployed
- North Korea sentences American prisoner, pushes for talks with US
- US launches air strikes inside Syria
- Struggle against ISIS shields US oil grab
- Air France management threatens pilots as strike enters second week
- Quebec: Mass protest against gutting of municipal workers’ pensions
- US prison population increases for first time since 2009
- Explosion kills worker at US Steel mill in Alabama
- Teachers strike in Reynoldsburg, Ohio
- More than 3,000 flee King fire in California
- Former Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy Sheridan declares for Scottish National Party
- Meetings of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK): For a new socialist anti-war movement!
- Detroit bankruptcy judge holds hearing on water shutoffs
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
24 September 2014 (front page)
- US air strikes in Syria, just the beginning
- The bombing of Syria and unending US war
- Australian police kill teenager amid anti-Muslim “terrorism” hysteria
- Air France delays outsourcing of jobs amid pilots strike
- Australian bipartisan unity on war extended to budget austerity
- Over 100 arrested in “Flood Wall Street” demonstration
- Proposals to further restrict access to White House follow security breach
- Hong Kong students protest Beijing’s decision on 2017 election
- Germany: IG Metall leaders plead for “constructive dialogue” to secure company profits
- US peanut executives responsible for salmonella outbreak found guilty
- Press freedom under attack in Slovenia
- China’s president visits India in bid to counter US “pivot”
- Brutal police provocation at Greek protest over fascist murder of rapper
- Appeal filed in California of court ruling against teacher tenure
- Video: Detroit residents speak out against war
- An attempt to rehabilitate Hitler
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Toronto International Film Festival 2014—Part 2
Phoenix and Labyrinth of Lies: German history and other complex questions -
No to the Quebec Liberals’ Bill 3!
For a working class counteroffensive to defend pensions and public services!
25 September 2014 (front page)
- UN Security Council resolution on “foreign terrorist fighters” targets democratic rights
- Deceit and delusion at the United Nations
- Atlanta Symphony lockout enters third week
- Australian economy caught in global downdraft
- Unending austerity pledged by UK Conservatives and Labour alike
- Australian “foreign fighter” bill extends police powers
- Colorado high school students protest “patriotism” indoctrination
- Detroit officials defend water shutoffs
- Video: WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh speaks on the 2014 Toronto Film Festival
- Ebola outbreak grows exponentially
- Police crack down on renewed protests in Ferguson, Missouri
- French Prime Minister Valls travels to Berlin
- UN envoy: Destruction in Gaza “truly shocking”
- UAW creates new class of low-paid workers in deal at Indiana Lear plant
- South Korea backs Washington’s war in Syria and Iraq
- New York Public Library exhibition on US entry into World War I
- Sri Lanka: Government support plunges in provincial election
- Australian terrorist laws a cover for anti-democratic measures
- Germany’s Die Zeit: Publishing war propaganda in weekly installments
- Once again, UN climate meeting comes up empty
- Robert Poli, blacklisted leader of PATCO union, dies at 78
- US and Indian probes successfully reach Mars orbit
26 September 2014 (front page)
- Britain prepares to join US-led war in Iraq and Syria
- Imperialism and the Ebola catastrophe
- In wake of Obama speech, UN debate dominated by “terror,” war
- Australia: Questions over police killing of young Muslim “terrorist”
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Notes on police violence in America
Police kill at least 20 people in the past week - Killings at UPS Alabama facility the latest workplace shooting in US
- Immigrant detainees in New Mexico denied release on bond
- Massive police manhunt in Pennsylvania
- Air France pilots’ strike hardens despite government climbdown
- Lufthansa insists on pension cuts for pilots
- German committee criticises television news coverage of Ukraine
- Job cuts mounting in Australia as mining slump intensifies
- India strengthens strategic ties with Vietnam
- Canada’s NDP makes left feint in bid to stanch electoral reversals
- Share buybacks: Symptom of a decaying economic order
- Danish Socialist Workers Party supports imperialist war in the Middle East
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Toronto International Film Festival 2014—Part 3
Drone warfare in Good Kill
and a roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke - Testimony reveals public health danger and suffering caused by Detroit water shutoffs
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 September 2014 (front page)
- The escalating US war in Iraq and Syria
- Obama’s “best of all possible worlds”
- Britain’s parliament votes for war in Iraq, and also Syria
- German government sends arms to Iraq and backs US air strikes in Syria
- The discovery of the “Khorasan Group” in Syria
- French Prime Minister Valls denounces striking Air France pilots
- Detroit political establishment reaches deal to extend financial dictatorship
- Widening inequality intensifies New York City housing crisis
- German Greens state premier votes for tougher asylum laws
- Australian government celebrates WWI seizure of German colonies
- Australia to offload refugees in Cambodia
- Canadian spy agency creates global hacking network
- SYRIZA grooms itself for government power in Greece
- A million people hit by drought in rural Sri Lanka
- “Why I Hope to Die at 75”: Ezekiel Emanuel’s sinister argument against prolonging life
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
29 September 2014 (front page)
- US plans massive military escalation in Syria and Iraq
- The model for America: Ruling elites dispense with democracy in Detroit
- German media and politicians promote rearmament
- Germany’s new war minister and Stern magazine
- French government exploits Islamist murder of Hervé Gourdel to expand Iraq war
- Pilots union pushes for sell-out of Air France pilots strike
- Black lung disease hits highest levels in four decades
- Spain’s government denounces Catalan referendum
- More arrests in Ferguson, Missouri after police chief “apologizes”
- Australia: Workers condemn police killing of alleged “terrorist” Abdul Numan Haider
- The legacy of US Attorney General Eric Holder
- Hong Kong police crackdown on protests
- Sri Lanka: Leading Tamil party gives ultimatum for power-sharing deal
- Mississippi prison inmates indefinitely detained and subject to “barbaric” conditions
- Washington Post slashes retirement benefits
- Shia insurgency sets stage for expanded US military intervention in Yemen
- This week in history: September 29-October 5
- Michael Banda, former leader of the British WRP, dies at age 84
30 September 2014 (front page)
- New Afghan puppet regime accepts deal to keep 10,000 US troops
- The midterm elections and the political crisis in the US
- Federal judge rules Detroit residents have no “fundamental right” to water
- US ramps up war in Syria
- Protests in Hong Kong continue after riot police withdraw
- Le Monde promotes French government war propaganda on Iraq
- Turkey lines up for military role in Syria–Part 1
- Mass graves reveal torture and executions in eastern Ukraine
- Voter ID laws to keep millions from voting in November elections
- Los Angeles police kill about one person per week
- US elite rolls out red carpet for Indian PM Modi
- Australian paramilitary police kill man in Brisbane siege
- Top Australian firms avoid billions in tax
- UK pilots union agrees mass layoffs/pay cuts at Monarch
- What way forward for the Air France pilots’ strike?
- An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
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