NATO's pledge, at its Chicago summit, to turn over the lead in combat operations to the Afghan National Security Forces by the middle of next year, and end the alliance's combat mission by the close...
It's long been clear that the super rich often believe that the law is just a minor annoyance that expensive lawyers can find away around, especially if it involves off-shore tax havens. Now, apparent...
A recent study by the Sunlight Foundation found that Congress is a lot like Benjamin Button. But instead of reverse-aging, members of Congress are regressing in their ability to form complex sentences...
A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site.
Screenings of Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) were highlights of the 2012 an Francisco film festival.
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A report issued by the ACLU of Georgia details widespread abuse of immigrants held at four detention centers in the state.
This statement has been issued by SEP presidential candidate Jerry White.
The petty-bourgeois “left” New Anti-capitalist Party has applauded the election of President of François Hollande, the big-business Socialist Party’s candidate.
More than twenty Hazaras were killed and some thirty others wounded in a series of ambushes last month in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
In a recent statement the petty-bourgeois Revolutionary Socialists group cynically embraced the Egyptian military junta’s elections as a way to fight the “old regime.”...
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has died in Tripoli. He was the sole person convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. His co-accused, Llamen Fhimah, was acquitted at...
The most politically revealing feature was the absence of any serious criticism of the Obama administration by the protest organizers.
Protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago have denounced the police state methods employed to crack down on political dissent.
This is the second part of a two-part interview with German historian Professor Mario Kessler on the 2009 biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service. Part one was posted on Monday, May 21. Professor...
At a press conference at the end of the NATO summit, President Obama praised Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago police.
Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), visited Paris yesterday to meet with Left Front officials.
The NATO summit concluded Monday with a formal ratification of US plans for a phased drawdown of forces from Afghanistan over the next two and a half years, while laying the groundwork for an open-end...
While the immediate danger appears to have been averted, none of the underlying issues have been resolved.
Craig Thomson’s hour-long address to parliament yesterday, defending himself against corruption allegations, has only further fuelled the crisis confronting the minority Labor government.
The assault on WSWS supporters, who were distributing a leaflet exposing the role of the government and the unions, is a clear sign that a betrayal is being prepared.
The ongoing job destruction undermines government claims that “more Australians were at work than ever before.”...
CLEVELAND - In a unanimous vote May 21 the Cleveland City Council passed a resolution supporting the strike by 400 blood collection workers at Northern Ohio Red Cross. The action followed similar reso...
Cory Booker's not alone. A number of other Democrats are criticizing the Obama campaign's decision to attack Mitt Romney for his work at the private equity firm Bain Capital. Here's former Tennes...
With President Barack Obama on a tear in recent weeks to keep interest rates on college loans low—an issue that plays well with young voters—Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee, on Tu...
Early in the evening of June 21, 2007, the Warrens were driving in Brooklyn, when they saw police chasing a young man into a McDonald's parking lot. The cops tackled the youth, handcuffed him, threw...
CHICAGO - U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars threw their medals towards the site of the NATO Summit May 20 in what was called the most dramatic antiwar action by ex-GIs since Vietnam. One-...
Public Citizen strongly supports a measure proposed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would more effectively curb fraudulent activity committed by the pharmaceutical industry against the federa...
More than 50 cities and towns in Massachusetts have now called on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election C...
On the third anniversary of President Obama’s signing the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act) into law, a new national survey from policy cente...
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for the agency’s failure to decide whether to give Endangered Species Act prot...
Buzzfeed's McKay* Coppins published a story on Sunday about the Obama-inspired race war being waged against whites by legions of uppity Negroes. In paragraph 23, Coppins explains it's all a myth:...
As the old saying goes, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as the Republican Party of Iowa. Via Felicia Sonmez, it looks like the Iowa GOP has gone birther. On Monday, Don Racheter, chairm...
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in February seeking records pertaining to the legal basis for the Central Intelligence Agency use of its deadly flyin...
The Eurozone needs strategic investments in R&D, job training, state investment banks that create "patient" finance, and greening the economy.
Azerbaijan sent an ominous message about the government’s commitment to fundamental freedoms as the police violently dispersed two peaceful protests on May 21, 2012, Human Rights Watch said toda...
Nearly a month after the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, something unusual happened: The shooting of a black teenager became the subject of national attention. When 911 recordings of the incident...
Prepare for an incoming transmission: Flickr/Steven HegerLate last Friday, Buzzfeed reporter and Rolling Stone contributor Michael Hastings broke what looked like a big scoop: Congress was quietly pl...
Last Thursday, Apple announced that it would meet the energy demands of its massive Maiden, North Carolina, data center—one of the sites providing virtual space for our ever-increasing piles of...
David Corn joined Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball to discuss Cory Booker's recent comments criticizing the Obama campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital. David Corn is Mot...
Following the defeat of Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana's GOP primary, the Tea Party Patriots were quick to claim partial credit for taking down the long-serving moderate. To underscore the group's clou...
Around midnight on June 5, 2011, a 23-year-old African American transgender woman named Crishaun "CeCe" McDonald was walking with four friends past Schooner Tavern in Minneapolis. A group of at least...
It has become an exclusive, expensive elite networking experience. Strip away the hype and you're left with a reasonably good video podcast with delusions of grandeur.
New corporate models focus on ownership, governance, sustainability and social benefit.
In an effort to appear objective in a political climate anything but, talking heads now feel the need to utter a Democratic offense in the same breath as a Republican offense.
The last time things got this bad was about 150 years ago -- and we needed a Civil War to resolve it.
Oregon AG candidate Ellen Rosenblum promises to make marijuana enforcement a low priority, but will it affect medical marijuana policy on a national level?
Christian-nationalist zealots are rewriting US history, airbrushing slavery and enshrining creationism in Texas schools.
You can track the arc of modern American journalism from its apex at the Pentagon Papers and Watergate curving downward to Iran-Contra before the nadir of Bush’s war in Iraq.
Citgroup's outgoing chairman Dick Parsons' career is the perfect example of how 1 percenters reward utter failure at the expense of the rest of us.
Republican politicians are rolling back women's reproductive rights based on the norms of animal husbandry.
The Strindberg & Cinema Festival in Los Angeles featured two films that Ingmar Bergman made for Swedish television: his version of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play (1963) and his portrait of a theat...
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
Nearly 800 workers at a Caterpillar plant near Joliet, Illinois have been on strike since May 1 fighting company demands for a six-year contract that would sharply reduce their pay and erode working c...
Workers have been on strike at the TRW automotive plant in Auburn, New York since May 7. The company is demanding that workers work 10- and 12-hour shifts and that they be allowed to hire temporary wo...
Workers on strike at the Auburn, New York TRW automotive plant spoke with the WSWS on their grievances.
As in Quebec, capitalist governments the world over are responding to mounting resistance to their class-war program with state repression, trampling on democratic rights and criminalizing working-cla...
This is the first part of a two-part interview with German historian Professor Mario Kessler on the 2009 biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service. Professor Kessler is a co-signatory of a letter se...
California’s unemployment rate has declined from 11 percent in March to 10.9 percent in April because many workers have simply stopped looking for work, according to figures released from the Bureau...
The current pace represents an 11 percent increase from 2011and an eightfold rise from 2002, when billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg began his first term in office.