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Workers & Labor
  • Tom Eley , WSWS

    6 June 2009 The US unemployment rate climbed to 9.4 percent in May, the highest level in more than a quarter century, according to statistics released by the Department of Labor on Friday. The jobless rate jumped by a half a percentage point over April, as employers shed 345,000 positions... » read this article
  • Michael Moore , Michael Moore Website

    Monday, June 1st, 2009 Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled. As I sit here... » 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
  • Federico Fuentes. Green Left Weekly , Green Left Weekly

    Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: “I can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.” “When the working class roars,... » read this article
  • Jerry White , WSWS

    29 May 2009 The events of the past few days have demonstrated the naked class interests behind the Obama administration’s “restructuring” of the auto industry and its plan to throw General Motors into bankruptcy. On Thursday a group of major bondholders, including some of the largest financial institutions in America,... » read this article
  • Martha Grevatt , Workers World

    May 16, 2009 Following are excerpts from a talk given at New York City’s Workers World Party meeting on May 8 by Martha Grevatt, a 21-year Chrysler worker. Go to www.workers.org to hear the entire talk. Our late founder and chairperson Sam Marcy was fond of a saying, “Socialism is... » read this article
  • Marianne Arens and Dietmar Henning , WSWS

    12 May 2009 Last week, the Italian car company Fiat presented its plans for taking over General Motors’ German auto division Opel as part of its acquisition of the insolvent Chrysler company. The plan it presented to the German government, as well as to the Opel betriebsrat (works council), includes... » 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
  • WSWS Reporters , WSWS

    2 May 2009 Millions of workers marched in May Day demonstrations around the world Friday, celebrating international proletarian solidarity. In Greece, 6,000 people marched in a peaceful demonstration in Athens. In central Athens, 4,000 policemen were deployed, as authorities feared a possible replay of the December riots that followed the... » read this article
  • Tom Eley and Barry Grey , WSWS

    2 May 2009 On Thursday, President Obama told a news conference that Chrysler, the third largest US automaker, would enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Obama said that this step would “save jobs” and that the process would be quick and painless. Within hours, these words were exposed as lies. All Chrysler... » read this article
  • Teresa Gutierrez , Workers World

    Immigrant, worker unity can combat layoffs, cutbacks and racism Once more, just as every year since 2006, there will be May Day demonstrations around the United States on May 1. May Day actions, large and small, already signal an enormous political and social development. Large ones will have more impact,... » read this article
  • Joe Kishore , WSWS

    1 May 2009 May Day 2009 takes place against the background of a historic crisis of the capitalist system. Everywhere, the impact of the crisis is being felt. Tens of millions are being thrown out of work around the world, including millions in the heart of world capitalism, the United... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • 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...
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