Sexual and physical abuse in Australia's refugee detention camps
Nurses and other former staff members have begun to break through the Australian government's coverup of the conditions imposed on asylum seekers in the country's immigration detention camps. People...
View ArticleFlorida legislature moves to override vote and name pro-Bush electors
The move by the Republican-controlled Florida legislature to name its own slate of presidential electors marks an escalation of the drive by George W. Bush to capture the White House by means of...
View ArticleRepublican witch-hunt over military ballots incites anti-Gore comments from...
Right-wing demagogy over the disputed presidential election results in Florida has found considerable support within the US officer corps. Two major US military units recently warned their commanding...
View ArticleGovernment cover-up over South African factory fire
The South African Labour Department is trying to refute allegations of government negligence; after it emerged it had been alerted to the dangerous conditions at the Esschem factory in Lenasia. The...
View ArticleGovernment leaves thousands of flood victims in eastern Sri Lanka without...
More than 100,000 families, or nearly half a million people, have been affected by severe flooding that began on November 19 in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Three people died—one was washed away...
View ArticleWilliam Blake: A radical visionary
The biggest ever exhibition of the works of the British artist, poet and radical William Blake (1757-1827) is currently being held at the Tate Gallery in London....
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: Europe & Africa
Greek workers protest against government labour reforms
View ArticleUN climate summit fails amid bitter recriminations between US and Europe
The United Nation's climate summit broke down at the weekend amid bitter exchanges between developed and developing countries, and between the major powers themselves.
View ArticleMicrosoft appeal against break-up, claiming judge was biased
US software giant Microsoft filed a 150-page brief with a court of appeals this week, in an attempt to halt a planned break-up of the company.
View ArticleSenate removes obstacle to a speedy impeachment trial for Filipino president
The impeachment trial of Philippine President Joseph Estrada is due to proceed on December 7 after Supreme Court chief justice Hilario Davide sitting in the Senate on Tuesday rejected an appeal by...
View ArticleSouth Korean union agrees to implement mass layoffs at Daewoo
In a complete about face, South Korea's Daewoo Motor Company labour union dropped its campaign against job cuts and agreed on November 27 to accept the mass layoffs demanded by management, the...
View ArticleThe death of six-year-old Joseph Abdulla reveals dominance of extreme right...
The death of six-year-old Joseph Abdulla in the small East German town of Sebnitz is a warning. Regardless of what the final circumstances of his death prove to be, this case shows how far the...
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Indonesian workers demonstrate for a wage increase
View ArticleNew Jersey internal records document widespread racial profiling of black and...
The release of 91,000 pages of internal records by the state of New Jersey reveal that a systematic policy of searching cars driven by blacks or Hispanics has been carried out for at least a decade....
View ArticleUS Supreme Court hearing highlights state conspiracy against democratic rights
Friday's proceedings before the US Supreme Court demonstrated the extent to which a major section of the American ruling elite, and its agents at the highest levels of the state, have broken with the...
View ArticleGrowing signs of US economic downturn—job cuts hit auto and technology sectors
The assault on jobs in the US is continuing at a record pace as economists openly worry that the slowdown, now widely recognized, could lead to a recession.
View ArticleUnited Nations AIDS report confirms worst epidemic in history
An estimated three million people will have died of AIDS in 2000, the highest annual figure yet recorded. 500,000 of these were children. Although 2.4 million of the total deaths were in sub-Saharan...
View ArticleAn exchange with a reader on postmodernism
We received the following letter on the article “The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont” [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jul2000/post-j01.shtml]...
View ArticleSplit in Sri Lanka's Sinhala extremists signals emergence of a fascist...
In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan general elections in October, a bitter faction fight opened up in the extreme rightwing grouping, Sihala Urumaya (SU) or Sinhala Heritage, over who was going to take...
View ArticleBritain's air traffic control service to be privatised
The Labour government is to press ahead with the part-privatisation of Britain's National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats).
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