Новости за 16.05.2016

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) assistant secretary Deepal Jayasekera explained the necessity for an internationally-unified socialist movement to stop war.

The strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon workers is at a crossroads. Jerry White, the SEP’s candidate for US president, will host a call to discuss the way forward for striking workers.

A teenager’s plight shows that the right to abortion is still denied for many working-class girls and women in Australia’s public hospitals.

The intensified military cooperation between Singapore and Australia is another part of the escalating US “pivot” against China.

Industry heads are enthusiastic about the deal that allows individual corporations to be released from wage contracts when profits are lower than desired.

After weeks of negotiations, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has been elected prime minister.

The state visit by China’s Xi Jinping to Britain last year proceeded despite trenchant complaints from sections of the military and intelligence apparatuses.

As tensions with Washington escalate, Pakistan has indicated it is looking for alternative jets from China and Russia.

Jayalalithaa’s promises have nothing to do with any concern about the oppression of Sri Lankan Tamils.

Plans to hold the Olympics in the middle of Brazil’s Zika epidemic threaten to greatly increase the global reach of the virus.

The CUPW accepts that Canada Post be run as a profit-making business and have sought to prevent a broader struggle in defence of public services.

A recent investigation provides details on the extent to which police departments in the Tampa Bay area have become a virtual private security force for the retail giant.

East Cleveland, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, is seeking permission to file for bankruptcy.

The US Labor Department announced that Verizon, the Communications Workers of American and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers would resume negotiations Tuesday.

Union officials in Brooklyn called the police to stop strikers from speaking to the WSWS, just days after an NYPD cop, driving a van load of scabs, ran down a striking worker.

The meeting erupted in fistfights and catcalls after dozens of Sanders delegates were disqualified by the party leadership.

The Obama administration embodies the institutionalization of war as the foundation of US foreign policy.

The past week has seen the American-dominated Western alliance markedly intensify its preparations for aggressive war along Russia’s eastern and southern borders.