United States
Harry Belafonte provides an historical insight into the civil rights movement’s decay
By Fred Mazelis, May 25, 2012
Belafonte’s memoir describes in some detail his last meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr. in March 1968, exactly a week before the civil rights leader was assassinated.
US prepares multi-front proxy war against Syria
By Chris Marsden, May 25, 2012
Since the Washington Post’s May 16 report on an influx of arms to Syrian opposition forces, the Obama administration’s plans for a proxy war against Syria have become clearer still.
US steps up drone war on Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, May 25, 2012
US drone attacks in northwest Pakistan killed at least 14 people in little more than 24 hours, including 10 dying in a Thursday morning missile strike on a mosque.
Hewlett-Packard announces 27,000 job cuts
By David Brown, May 25, 2012
In a move aimed at boosting profits, Hewlett-Packard announced the elimination of 27,000 jobs internationally on Wednesday.
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White demands release of jailed Quebec students
May 25, 2012
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White denounces Wednesday's mass arrests of students in Quebec and calls for the building of a socialist movement to defend the social and democratic rights of all working people.
Quebec police mount mass arrests in bid to break student strike
By Keith Jones, May 25, 2012
Following this week’s mass protests backing Quebec’s striking students, the state has intensified its repression.
The Democrats and the Bain Capital affair
By Patrick Martin, May 25, 2012
The Obama campaign’s criticism of Mitt Romney’s role at Bain Capital is a cynical fraud, since the Democrats no less than the Republicans serve Wall Street interests.
Notes on the social crisis in America
By Naomi Spencer, May 24, 2012
This week, we report on a prison riot in Mississippi; the razing of multiple homeless tent cities; mass job lineups in the Pacific Northwest; and Tennessee’s growing dental health disaster.
Facebook IPO engulfed by insider trading scandal
By Barry Grey, May 24, 2012
Multiple investigations and lawsuits have been announced following reports of deceptive practices and insider trading in connection with last Friday’s $16 billion initial public offering of Facebook stock.
Quebec student strike:
Police begin to apply draconian Bill 78
By Keith Jones, May 24, 2012
Quebec authorities have begun to make use of the sweeping repressive powers contained in Bill 78—the emergency legislation the provincial Liberal government rushed through the National Assembly late last week to suppress the province-wide student strike
Canadian Pacific railway workers strike
By Carl Bronski, May 24, 2012
Within hours of the walkout by 4,800 railway workers, Conservative Labour Minister Lisa Raitt gave notice that she intended to table back-to-work legislation.
The criminalization of dissent in Chicago and Quebec
By Jerry White, SEP candidate for US president, May 24, 2012
In US and Canada, government intimidation and violence were employed against anti-NATO protesters and students fighting tuition increases.
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