General Labor News

Iraq election entrenches communalist divisions

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Initial reports indicate that none of the major political coalitions won an outright majority in Iraq’s March 7 election. The results highlight the ethno-communal divisions that the US occupation ha...

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Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns at irrigation workers’ quarters

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Many people voiced concerns about President Mahinda Rajapakse’s dictatorial agenda when an SEP team visited an irrigation workers’ housing scheme during the party’s campaign for the April 8 gene...

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Obama education plan to push competitive funding

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

The administration plan would change the funding mechanism established in the bedrock Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), one of the last major progressive reforms enacted in the Un...

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New Chilean president to continue military occupation of earthquake ravaged regions

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Shortly after his March 11 inauguration, President Sebast’an Pi–era extended the state of emergency in central Chile and re-imposed the curfew in the Concepción region.

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Britain: ISSE addresses rally in support of six suspended Sussex University students

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Over 500 students held a rally at Sussex University March 11, following a week of protests against education cuts and in support of students suspended for taking part in an occupation that was attacke...

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Sussex University students protest police attacks

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

ISSE speaks to Sussex University protesting police attacks and budget cuts

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German trade union boss to celebrate birthday in the chancellery

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

On March 17, Berthold Huber, the chairman of Europe’s biggest trade union, IG Metall, will celebrate his 60th birthday in the German chancellery following a personal invitation by the head of govern...

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Australia: Parental leave plan provokes outrage in business circles

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Big business and the media reacted with fury last week to a proposal by opposition leader Tony Abbott for a parental leave scheme to be funded by a tax on large corporations.

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Boston cuts target community centers, libraries

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Boston residents face new threats to city services, as the Boston Public Library system, along with community centers and public swimming pools are targeted for cutbacks.

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Lehman bankruptcy report exposes Wall Street criminality

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

A report issued by a bankruptcy court-appointed examiner details accounting fraud on a massive scale by Lehman Brothers in the months leading up to its September 2008 collapse.

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Funeral held for Detroit children killed in Bangor Street fire

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

Hundreds of people on Saturday attended a funeral in Detroit for three small children who were killed in a March 2 house fire, which occurred hours after DTE Energy cut off gas and electricity to the ...

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The 1993 Mack Avenue fire inquiry

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

In 1993 The Workers League, the forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party, intervened to defend a working class couple unjustly prosecuted for the deaths of their seven children in a tragic house fir...

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An exchange on “The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war”

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

An exchange with a reader on Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, which won the Best Picture prize at the most recent Academy Awards.

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This week in history: March 15-March 21

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

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WSWS posts founding document of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish

World Socialist Web Site - 25 min 40 sec ago

The World Socialist Web Site today begins the publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party in Spanish—Las bases históricas e internacionales del Parti...

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