Новости за 27.05.2016

Everything depends on the initiative of rank-and-file workers if this heroic fight is not to end up in another betrayal like 2011.

WSWS reporters spoke to workers during Thursday’s demonstrations in Paris against the “El Khomri” labor reforms.

Like the novel, the film—set in the mid-1970s—begins with its central character calmly sitting on the balcony of his 25th floor apartment eating roast dog.

All around the world, governments are seeking to dismantle welfare entitlements, minimum wages, retirement pensions, and access to education and healthcare.

Many autoworkers expressed anger that the United Auto Workers is endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton for US president.

Canada is deeply implicated in the US-led “pivot” to Asia, and is determined to deepen economic and security ties with Japan.

President Barack Obama visits Hiroshima today, but will make no apology for the US dropping of the atomic bomb on the city. The WSWS is republishing an essay that first appeared on the 60th anniversary of that horrible crime.

The budget does nothing to address the crisis in health, education and housing, while significantly increasing spending to prepare the country for war.

Police were called in to suppress month-long protests by students over Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s refusal to step down from office.

An amendment to the Queen’s Speech expressed regret that the government did not include a bill that would protect the NHS from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

A hundred-strong force of the Berlin police conducted a brutal raid on Roma families protesting against their threatened deportation.

The cuts are an intensification of anti-working class policies already implemented by the so-called “pink tide” governments.

New Orleans remains the center of the drive for the privatization of education, with a new state law making charter schools permanent under the guise of “local control.”

The union executives’ collusion in the information blackout demanded by the Obama administration is a telltale sign that they are preparing a sellout of the embattled Verizon workers.

The WSWS interviewed attendees at a San Diego rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders about the political issues in the 2016 election.

The UAW’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton underscores the immense chasm between the corporatist organization and the workers it claims to represent.

The MTS strike follows industrial action by 1,700 San Diego AT&T telecommunications workers.

Rail workers began an indefinite strike Wednesday evening in Belgium, paralysing mass transit and creating traffic jams in Brussels.

Eurogroup finance minister have made clear they will accept no way of dealing with the Greek debt crisis other than continuing attacks on the working class.

The latest tragedies underscore the criminal character of the efforts to seal Europe’s borders to refugees.

The G7 nations are seeking to ramp up military pressure against China, amid a deepening economic slump and divisions within their own ranks.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched throughout France Thursday in the eighth nationwide protest against the anti-worker law implemented earlier this month.

There’s a war going on in America, and it’s a class war. Detroit is a central battleground. Unite all workers in a fight back!