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The resolution of the first hung parliament in Australia since 1940, 17 days after the August 21 election, marks the culmination of a series of behind closed doors discussions involving the most powerful representatives of the corporate and financial elite.

A selection of letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.

The decision by a German district court to agree an insolvency plan for Germany’s biggest chain of stores brings no relief for Karstadt workers.

In a legal argument with far-reaching implication for basic democratic rights, Australia’s caretaker Labor government last month strenuously defended in the High Court the denial of legal and constitutional rights to detained refugees.

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BP has warned Congress that new legislation placing limits on offshore drilling would prevent it from settling claims through the $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Economic growth rates remain minimal for most European countries and are negative for many others. This will inevitably generate political and social tensions.

In a speech marking Labor Day in the US, President Obama made clear that there will be no significant measures to address the most severe jobs crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

July’s week-long rationing of water highlighted the reality: millions of people are denied the basic right to potable water and sanitation while private firms rake in profits at their expense.

Young people’s services are being closed down across Britain as spending cuts dictated by the Conservative Party/Liberal Democrat coalition and their Labour predecessors take effect.

Hundreds of people have been left homeless by Saturday’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, but the National government has not committed to assisting those without insurance.

The Obama administration has filed criminal charges against Hakimullah Mehsud, who is alleged to have organised the suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan in December 2009.

It is with a great sense of loss that we report the untimely death of comrade Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha, a member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), the Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). Piyaseeli was a lifelong Trotskyist, a Marxist scholar, and fighte

The Socialist Equality Party (US) held its First National Congress on August 11-15, 2010. The meeting was a milestone in the fight waged by the SEP and the International Committee of the Fourth International for a socialist movement of the working class

Some 100,000 people joined demonstrations Saturday in 140 French towns to protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s anti-immigrant and repressive policies and his crackdown on Roma communities.

On August 28, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, UAW President Bob King and a host of other union leaders and Democratic Party politicians addressed a crowd of several thousand people in Detroit. The Nation has turned the event into something it wasn’t.

Any effective opposition to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension cuts will depend on new forms of working class mobilization and a revival of the revolutionary socialist politics associated with the figure of Leon Trotsky.

Last week, Dr Freddy Patel, the pathologist who carried out the first post-mortem examination of London G20 victim Ian Tomlinson, was found guilty of misconduct by the General Medical Council.

Nurses at Quebec City’s premier hospital have linked a rash of suicides among their colleagues to the psychological toll taken by a heavy workload. While management disputes the claim, it is common knowledge that across Quebec nurses must contend with inadequate resources, short-staffing and forced overti

The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.