23 July 2011

Bombing, mass shooting kill at least 87 in Norway

By Mike Head, 23 July 2011

A right-wing anti-Islamic extremist is being held over a terror bombing in downtown Oslo and an automatic weapons attack on youth at a Norwegian Labour Party camp.

Obama steps up campaign for “tough choices” on Medicare, Social Security

By Patrick Martin, 23 July 2011

Negotiations continue between the White House and House Republicans on a plan to raise the federal debt ceiling tied to $3 trillion in cuts in social spending.

Profits soar amid mass layoffs

By Andre Damon, 23 July 2011

As dozens of major corporations announced increased second-quarter profits this week, the US working class was hit with a disastrous new round of mass layoffs.

British media quick to dismiss death in Murdoch phone hacking case

By Robert Stevens, 23 July 2011

The Independent published an article Wednesday dismissing any notion that the death of Murdoch whistleblower Sean Hoare was suspicious.

Murdoch’s News Corporation scrambles to defend its media interests in Australia

By Patrick O’Connor, 23 July 2011

Murdoch is attempting to secure permission to take over rival pay-television network Austar, and is pressuring the Labor government to approve its bid for control of the publicly-funded Australian Network that airs in Asia and the South Pacific.

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US heat wave preys on poor

By Gary Joad, 23 July 2011

The heat wave that has spread across the central and eastern part of the US is disproportionately hurting the poor.

Connecticut governor, unions to make state workers revote on concessions deal

By Dorian Griscom, 23 July 2011

Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and state employee unions are preparing to force a re-vote.

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Malaysian government cracks down on opposition protesters

By John Roberts, 23 July 2011

The fact that the government has whipped up a communist scare campaign reflects deeper fears in Malaysia’s ruling circles of growing social tensions and the potential for unrest.

Executions this week in Arizona, Texas and Georgia

By Kate Randall, 23 July 2011

Three men were executed this week in the US, one each in the states of Arizona, Texas and Georgia.

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Die Krise Europas

Von Peter Schwarz, 23. Juli 2011

Die Ergebnisse des Brüsseler Eurogipfels haben die Krise nicht gelöst, sondern lediglich hinausgeschoben. Sie verschärfen sogar die zugrunde liegenden Probleme.

Der Murdoch-Skandal

Von Chris Marsden und Julie Hyland, 23. Juli 2011

Im Murdoch-Skandal wird der britischen Öffentlichkeit weisgemacht, das Parlament habe seine Autorität wieder hergestellt. Doch der Abhörskandal ist kein Auftakt für die Rückkehr der Demokratie, sondern Vorbote neuer Klassenexplosionen.

Ägyptisches Militär vertagt Wahlen angesichts wachsenden Widerstandes

Von Patrick Martin, 23. Juli 2011

Der oberste Rat der Streitkräfte versucht die ägyptische Regierung unter seiner Kontrolle zu halten.

Ein Jahr nach der Loveparade-Katastrophe

Von Dietmar Henning, 23. Juli 2011

Die Tragödie von Duisburg und die Reaktion der Verantwortlichen darauf widerspiegeln den Zustand der gesamten Gesellschaft.

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David Brooks du New York Times sur « La mort et le budget »
La voix de la classe dirigeant

Par Kate Randall, 23 juillet 2011

Selon Brooks, les gens vivent trop longtemps et trop d'argent est dépensé pour le prolongement de la vie.

Québec solidaire, un allié de l'élite dirigeante

Par Éric Marquis et Louis Girard, 23 juillet 2011

Par une série de positions politiques prises sur les questions de la crise dans le mouvement souverainiste et de l'intervention impérialiste du Canada en Libye,Québec solidaire, montre qu'il cherche à se tailler une place parmi les organisations politiques respectées de l'élite dirigeante du Québec et du Canada.

New in Arabic

تقارب بين طبقات البرجوازية المصرية والأمريكية بينما كفاح العمال لا يزال مستمر

بقلم جوناثان أسوان 20 يونيو /حزيران

شهدت الأيام والأسابيع الماضية انتفاضة جديدة للكفاح والنضال الثوري للطبقة العاملة المصرية. و عقب الاحتجاجات الجماعية في 27 مايو التي طالبت ب "ثورة ثانية"، ذهب آلاف العمال في اضراب مفتوح وصعّدوا من احتجاجاتهم في جميع أنحاء البلاد.

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Perspective

Europe’s crisis

23 July 2011

The Brussels euro summit has not solved the crisis, but merely postponed it and even exacerbated the underlying problems.

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Commentary

The Philippine ex-left and the South China Sea

By Joseph Santolan, 23 July 2011

As tensions between China and the United States mount over the disputed South China Sea, the various parties of the Philippine 'left' have been thoroughly exposed as lackeys of different sections of the local bourgeoisie.

The Murdoch scandal

By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, 22 July 2011

Egyptian military delays election as opposition mounts

By Patrick Martin, 22 July 2011

Tunisian police attack anti-government protests

By Kumaran Ira, 22 July 2011

Arts Review

Heartbreak HouseThe Shaw Festival’s 50th Season: George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House

By Joanne Laurier, 23 July 2011

Heartbreak House is the featured work this year at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011.

NewtonAn interview with Christopher Newton, director of the Shaw Festival’s Heartbreak House

By Joanne Laurier, 23 July 2011

The director of the current production of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, speaks to Joanne Laurier of the WSWS.

Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 1: Social complexity versus the trivial

By Richard Phillips, 22 July 2011

Socialist Equality Party

Reject appeals to government ministers:
Saving Bombardier jobs means mobilising against Britain’s Tory-Lib Dem government

Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 23 July 2011

Almost 1,500 jobs are set to go at the Bombardier factory in Derby, England.

SEP (Australia) public meeting in Sydney
The crisis of the Murdoch empire and its implications for the working class

What has been exposed by the Murdoch scandal is the putrefaction of an entire social and political system.

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles:
Asia, Australia and the Pacific

23 July 2011

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

CAUS

Deaths mount in US heat wave

By Shannon Jones, 22 July 2011

Cooling ctrFerndale, Michigan residents speak on power outages

By Shannon Jones, 22 July 2011

Science

orbDawn spacecraft reaches the asteroid Vesta

By Patrick Martin, 20 July 2011

The NASA mission will study the two largest asteroids, first Vesta, then Ceres.

This week in history: July 18 - July 24

25 years ago: Contra land mines kill Nicaraguan civilians

Land mines laid across northern Nicaragua by US-armed Contra rebels were responsible for killing dozens of civilians, a report in the July 18, 1986 New York Times revealed. The Contras served as a US proxy in a six-year-long dirty war aimed at toppling the nationalist Sandinista government.


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50 years ago: Iraq walks out of Arab League over Kuwaiti entrance

On July 20, 1961, the Arab League approved the admittance of Kuwait as a member state. The move was a major blow to the Iraqi regime of Abd al-Karim Qasim, which held that Kuwait—only recently granted nominal independence by the United Kingdom—was rightfully part of Iraq. .

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75 years ago: Spanish workers revolt in Barcelona and Madrid

On July 19, 1936, workers in Barcelona seized army barracks in response to the mutiny two days earlier of Gen. Francisco Franco and the Spanish generals in Spanish-held territory in Morocco. The workers' revolt took place simultaneously in Madrid and soon spread throughout the territory under Republican control.

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100 years ago: Lloyd George says UK ready for war with Germany

The threat of war among the Great Powers continued to gather this week in 1911, with negotiations between France and Germany at a stalemate over the Agadir crisis, precipitated by Berlin's sending of the warship the Panther to Morocco's coastal waters.

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