Новости за 26.05.2016

The fortunes accrued by 120 billionaires account for 60 percent of the wealth of the 1,000 richest people in Britain and Northern Ireland.

The greatest expenditure on hardware for the Australian military since World War II is being cynically portrayed as a public works program.

A Pew report released on the share of young people living with their parents sheds new light on the difficulties facing millions who are barely scraping by.

At this meeting on May 31, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White and vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth will speak about the critical issues facing workers and youth.

The Socialist Equality Party is holding a series of public meetings in cities across the UK in May and June as part of its campaign for an active boycott of the June 23 referendum.

The following is a speech delivered to public meetings by Julie Hyland, assistant national secretary of the SEP, on the Party’s campaign for an active boycott of the referendum on the UK’s membership in the European Union.

The most powerful ally of workers struggling against pro-austerity governments in France, Belgium and Greece is the European and international working class.

The sharp tensions between New Delhi and Kathmandu are a result of the intensifying geo-political rivalry between India and China.

The Stockholm Court rejected the conclusion of a United Nations working group that Assange has been arbitrarily detained in violation of international human rights conventions.

The mouthpiece of the Frankfurt banks has provided a platform for former general Wolf Poulet to advocate an aggressive German war policy.

Angela Merkel traveled to Turkey last week in an attempt to shore up the deal stuck between Turkey and the EU to block refugees from entering Europe.

The various military officials and spy chiefs backing either side in the Brexit campaign are all committed to defending British and US imperialism, particularly in the conflict with Russia.

The candidates will explain the socialist and internationalist program for which the SEP is fighting in opposition to Labor, the Liberals, the Greens and every other capitalist party.

The proposal, based on a 20- to 30-year bond, does not address the root causes of homelessness.

The World Socialist Web Site spoke to participants in the Albuquerque protest.

The Communications Workers of America shut down the strike by AT&T West on Monday in an effort to block a wider strike by telecom workers on both coasts.

The offensives launched by US-backed forces on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border threaten to deepen the region’s crisis.

The far-right party can only profit from the Socialist Party’s ruthless austerity policy due to the reactionary role of the pseudo-left organisations.

Police repression of anti-austerity protests in France and Belgium is enraging workers and driving broader layers of the working class into struggle.