Europe's right-wing media gloats, while liberals fear discrediting of US...
There is a growing recognition within Europe's media that what they often glibly, and indeed smugly, dismissed as America's “election farce” has serious political import. The Republican political coup...
View ArticleRomania after the election
Eleven years after the fall of the Stalinist Ceausescu regime, the stench of fascism today hangs threateningly over Romania.
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Indian court demands action against postal strike
View ArticleDetroit house fire claims three more lives
Three Detroit residents, including two children ages 10 and 13, died in a house fire December 13 in the second deadly blaze to hit the city in the space of two weeks. As in the earlier tragedy, which...
View ArticleDrug resistant pathogen kills patients in Sri Lanka's leading public hospital
Three patients are dead and others have been affected after a multi-drug resistant bacteria struck the Cardio Thoracic Unit (CTU) at the National Hospital, Sri Lanka's leading public hospital. By...
View ArticleArt and working class life, an attempt
Billy Elliot is the latest in a series of comic or quasi-comic social realist films about working class life in the north of England. Written by Lee Hall, the film is the directorial feature film debut...
View ArticleReport details history of Switzerland's anti-Gypsy policies
A recent report shows that Gypsies were systematically refused entry into Switzerland during the Second World War, even though the authorities knew they faced extermination in Nazi Germany. The report...
View ArticleAustralia: New evidence that gambling industry profits from the poorest suburbs
Recent statistics from the Australian state of New South Wales underline the extent to which the gambling industry preys upon the poorest and most oppressed layers of the working class. Quarterly...
View ArticleBush prepares a government of reaction and militarism
The political contours of the incoming administration of President-elect George W. Bush are already becoming visible: it will be a government committed to a far-reaching program of social reaction at...
View ArticleThe American media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic...
The world of television news analysis in the US is composed of individuals with pro-establishment and essentially right-wing views and connections, or liberals and “moderates” who continuously...
View ArticleNorway's extreme right Progress Party wracked by internal feuding
In a venomous and highly public dispute, Norway's extreme right wing Progress Party (PP) has expelled 16 of its leading members from the Oslo area. Those kicked out are supporters of the party's...
View ArticleFiji's military government wins more explicit backing from Australia and New...
The Australian and New Zealand governments have strengthened their support for the military-installed interim government in Fiji by making it plain that they are not calling for the reinstatement of...
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: The Americas
Argentine trade unions to protest against austerity measures
View ArticleElectoral College votes for Bush, sealing an anti-democratic election
Completing the anti-democratic travesty of the 2000 US presidential election, the 538 members of the Electoral College met December 18 in 50 states and the District of Columbia, handing the presidency...
View ArticlePakistani regime allows jailed prime minister Sharif to go into exile
In a suddenly announced move on December 10, Pakistan's military regime released the ousted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from jail and sent him into exile in Saudi Arabia. As part of the deal,...
View ArticleLetters on the post-election crisis in the US
The following is a selection of letters on the WSWS coverage of the post-election crisis in the US.
View ArticleInterviews from David North's lecture in Sydney, Australia
We are publishing here a series of interviews with workers, students and youth who attended a lecture delivered by David North, chairman of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board and national...
View ArticleAs Bush comes to Washington, US economy heads towards recession
There are increasing signs that the US economy is heading towards a recession as major corporations—from the auto industry, to banking, to technology, to consumer goods—have announced far weaker than...
View ArticleSpain imposes new anti-immigrant legislation
The right wing Popular Party government is implementing new anti-immigration legislation that will trample on the basic democratic rights of foreign workers.
View ArticleEuropean Court of Justice allows complaint against death sentence by Kurdish...
On December 15 the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg accepted a complaint filed by the lawyers of Abdullah Ocalan. Last year a Turkish court passed a death sentence on the leader of the...
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