Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy
The order issued Saturday afternoon by the US Supreme Court, halting the hand tabulation of uncounted Florida ballots in the presidential election, is a frontal assault on the most fundamental of...
View ArticleAnother fatal Indian rail crash highlights decades of official neglect
At least 44 people are dead and 140 injured, many critically, after a rail collision at Sarai Banjara, 200 km north of the Indian capital New Delhi in the early morning of December 2. The accident...
View ArticleBritain: Chinook helicopter crash inquiry prompts allegations of government...
The British government stands accused of a cover-up, after Prime Minister Tony Blair vetoed a fresh inquiry into the Chinook helicopter crash that claimed the lives of 29 top security personnel on June...
View ArticleBritain: Labour's proposed urban regeneration plans highlight the growing...
Last month, Britain's Labour government released a paper on urban development entitled Our Towns and Cities: The Future. This comes 18 months after the Urban Task Force, chaired by the prominent...
View ArticleLessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new "irrepressible conflict"
The following lecture was given by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board and national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of the US, at a public meeting of the SEP...
View ArticleGerman radicals defend Israeli state brutality in the West Bank-Part 2
This is the conclusion of a two-part article. The first part was posted on December 9.
View ArticleDemocrats prostrate before Supreme Court assault on democratic rights
The most significant aspect of the arguments before the US Supreme Court on Monday was the failure of the lawyer for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, as well as the liberal members of the...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court embraces a century-old legacy of racism and reaction
Editor's note: The following article was written before the Supreme Court halted the counting of votes in Florida. That development, in our view, has only underscored the correctness of the analysis...
View ArticleThousands of manufacturing jobs lost in Australian state of Victoria
More than 2,000 manufacturing jobs were destroyed in Victoria, one of Australia's major industrial centres, during November. Long-established companies made most of the cuts, including 640 jobs from...
View ArticleA renewed diplomatic push for negotiations over Kashmir
Moves are once again being made to initiate talks to end the armed conflict in Kashmir and find a settlement to the disputes that have triggered two of the three wars between Pakistan and India since...
View ArticleLetters on Supreme Court intervention in US elections
A friend of mine sent me the editorial about the Supreme Court granting a stay of the recount in Florida, and I must tell you that I don't remember when I last read such a well-written, clear and...
View ArticleIsrael: Prime Minister Barak resigns in bid to neutralise his opponents
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced his resignation December 9. He said he had made the sudden decision in order to seek a fresh electoral mandate to negotiate an agreement with the...
View ArticleAustralian Labor Party votes for Bill to boost wealthy private schools
Just before the federal parliament shut down for the year in the early hours of December 8, the Australian Labor Party voted with the Howard government to pass an education funding Bill that showers...
View ArticleChilean court overturns Pinochet arrest order
Ten days after a Chilean judge ordered the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in connection with death squad murders carried out in the aftermath of the CIA-backed military coup 27 years ago, an appeals court...
View ArticleThe reform of France's unemployment benefits scheme
The recent agreement sanctioned by the French government concerning the reform of the Unedic system of unemployment insurance, administered jointly by the employers and the unions, heralds a...
View ArticleGM to phase out Oldsmobile brand and cut 16,000 jobs in the US and Europe
General Motors announced Tuesday that it is phasing out its Oldsmobile division—the oldest car brand in America—and restructuring the car company to eliminate more than 16,000 jobs in North America and...
View ArticleSharp conflicts at the French Socialist Party congress
Sharp factional fights marked the recent congress of the French Socialist Party. At the gathering, held on November 25-26 in Grenoble, the majority grouping around Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was...
View ArticleLessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new "irrepressible...
We are publishing here the discussion from the question and answer period that followed a lecture by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board and national secretary of the...
View ArticleJacksonville voters describe Election Day fraud and intimidation
Information continues to come to light about the systematic disenfranchisement of working class voters in Florida, particularly in minority and immigrant neighborhoods. The National Association for the...
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