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  • Les Blough. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Javier Solana's meeting with Hajj Hassan today was pregnant with significance. Solana, EU's Foreign Policy Chief, was not only meeting with a Lebanese MP, he was also meeting with a "terrorist", by definition of the Obama regime in Washington. Hassan is one of 11 Hezbollah MPs who won seats in Lebanon's... » read this article
  • Afua Hirsch , The Guardian

    Retailers including UK supermarkets may be at risk of prosecution for misleading consumers by selling goods from the Palestinian Territories  under the label "West Bank", lawyers have warned. Fruit, wine and cosmetics originating from illegal Israeli settlements are among the goods that lawyers representing Palestinian interests argue are regularly being wrongly... » read this article
  • G. Dunkel and John Catalinotto , Workers World

    General strike shuts southern Basque Country Thousands of workers took to the streets May 21 in the Basque Country, the most industrialized part of the Spanish state, under the slogan “Against the bosses’ extortion.” They not only took to the streets but they walked off the job. Nearly 53 percent... » read this article
  • Eric Walberg , Axis of Logic

    Bringing the threat of war to Russia’s borders is having wide-ranging repercussions, argues Eric Walberg As Russian troops marched to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany 8 May, NATO troops — 1,300 of them from 10 member countries and six “partners” — were beginning their month-long Cooperative Longbow/Lancer war “games”... » read this article
  • Julie Hyland , WSWS

    9 May 2009 The government’s Equality Bill has been condemned as “socialism in one clause” by Britain’s right wing and a “landmark” in overcoming inequalities by the liberal media and the trade unions. It is neither. Far from promoting equality in any meaningful sense, the bill continues Labour’s reactionary advocacy... » read this article
  • Mike Celik , Global Research

    There is a saying in Canada that most reasonable people will agree with. It says: “Don’t blame the messenger (for bad news).”   When Canada Post, a Canadian Government corporation, listed Serbia’s northern province of Vojvodina as a separate country, it must have been just delivering a message from the Canadian... » read this article
  • Bernie Sanders , OpEdNews

    Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows. I'm certainly the only one the congressman from Birmingham could name after darkly claiming that there are 17 socialists lurking in the House of Representatives. I doubt that there... » read this article
  • Paul Stuart , WSWS

    18 April 2009 Earlier this month, in response to mounting criticism over his handling of the economic crisis, Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero carried out a sudden cabinet restructuring. The most significant casualty was finance minister Pedro Solbes, whom Zapatero appointed shortly after the PSOE’s election... » read this article
  • Julie Hyland , WSWS

    18 April 2009 “From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the state execution of innocent Brazilian worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, by plainclothes policemen on a London subway train on July 22, 2005. Events have tragically confirmed that warning. In the years since... » read this article
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    NATO backs US escalation of war in Central Asia By Chris Marsden 6 April 2009   The NATO 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, ended with a headline commitment for Europe to provide “up to” 5,000 additional troops for Afghanistan. This was the smallest commitment the European... » read this article
  • Eric Walberg , Axis of Logic

    The only voices expressing the will of Europeans and showing a way out of the current crises are in the madding crowds outside the G20, affirms Eric Walberg  Recall the self-satisfied EU celebrations of recent years – the inauguration of the euro and the famous blue Euro passport, the accession... » read this article
  • Eric Walberg. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Editor's Note: Eric Walberg's whipping analysis of the mounting storm in Europe casts adumbrations of widespread revolution. The rumblings have turned to open riot against entrenched governments and the entire capitalist system. Walberg's "voice crying in the wilderness" would have sounded to most like a deranged street prophet 5 years... » read this article
  • Editorial , WSWS

    Support the European election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party! Statement of Socialist Equality Party (Germany) 20 February 2009 The Socialist Equality Party (Partei für Soziale Gleichheit, PSG) is participating with its own candidates in the European election on June 7. Based on the following statement, in the coming weeks... » read this article
  • Ian Traynor, Europe editor , The Guardian (UK)

    Saturday 31 January 2009 Arcellor Mittal workers demonstrate during a protest march in Marseille. Photograph: Jean-paul Pelissier/Reuters France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises.... » read this article
  • Paul Mitchell , WSWS

    12 January 2009 WSWS  A section of the demonstration in Hyde Park, London In London, tens of thousands of demonstrators, including families and young children, marched in freezing weather from Hyde Park to the Israeli embassy. The BBC put the number of protestors at 50,000, while organizers claimed 100,000 in... » read this article
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World News
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
  • Finding Fish, But Israelis Too
    "They told us 'go west or we will shoot you'," says Ashraf Sadallah. "Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat." At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother...
  • Hondurans Marching for Zelaya
     Tens of thousands of Hondurans are marching towards the capital to support the return of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya after a coup three days ago, informed grassroots leaders.   Representatives of the teachers union told...
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