Новости за 20.05.2016

Raids conducted by the police have been denounced as “extraordinary and unprecedented” in an election campaign.

Residents of Flint spoke out in anger during a board meeting of the KWA pipeline authority.

Some not very good new films—and better old ones.

Richard Di Natale’s foreign policy speech was edited to remove anything that could have been interpreted as a challenge to the Australian ruling elite’s preparations for war against China.

The five-week strike by 40,000 Verizon workers can only be taken forward by mobilizing the strength of the entire working class.

Junior doctors have reacted angrily to a proposed contract that is even worse than the one they previously rejected by an overwhelming margin.

Many conservatives are backing Green candidate Van der Bellen because they see him as best able to carry out austerity measures.

The violence deployed against helpless and desperate refugees fleeing wars most clearly exposes the class character of the current government in Greece.

Police fired nine shots at a busy intersection Wednesday morning, killing one and injuring another.

The typical Fortune 500 CEO took in $12.4 million last year, 355 times the pay of an average non-supervisory worker.

The expansion of eligibility for overtime pay has many loopholes and will only affect a small portion of the workforce.

Verizon strikers from throughout the East Coast of the United States discussed and debated the way forward during a two-hour call hosted by the WSWS Verizon Strike Newsletter.

After telling workers they would not accede to Verizon’s demands for a federal mediator, the CWA and the IBEW agreed to mediation as talks restarted Tuesday.

The bogus claims of violence and harassment have now reached the front page of the New York Times and the editorial page of the Washington Post.

Disaster victims have blamed the government and other authorities for not providing adequate relief or moving residents to safe places.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton demanded an escalation of the war in Iraq and Syria in response to the destruction of the Cairo-bound jetliner.

Allegations that Chinese aircraft “unsafely” intercepted a US surveillance plane underscore Pentagon calls for a “trigger” for conflict with China.

The priority of the ruling class and its political representatives is not the protection and wellbeing of the vast majority of Americans, but funding the gigantic US military apparatus.

The protest and strikes are mounting against the unpopular labor law, imposed by the Socialist Party government without a parliamentary vote

Contrary to official claims, the state of emergency is not aimed at Islamist terrorism, but at growing opposition in the working class to social austerity and military and police violence.