Today on the WSWS

Over the past four months, checkpoints have been established at all the main routes into the city, and thousands of tall concrete blast walls have been installed around police stations and government buildings.

The formation of the next government may now be determined on the basis of treasury’s assessment of the respective budget forecasts of the Labor and Liberal parties—demonstrating that the overriding priority of the corporate and financial elite throughout the election period has been to fashion an admin

Today’s talks in Washington between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are a means through which the United States is seeking to further its interests in the Middle East.

Pacific Brands management paid tribute to the trade unions last week when it announced a profit based on the closure of 11 plants in 12 months, and the destruction of hundreds of jobs.

With its extraordinary reference to troops as “the steel in our ship of state,” President Obama’s Oval Office speech reflected an administration that cowers before the ever-expanding power of the US military.

The decision by a senior Swedish prosecutor to reopen the rape charges against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is a transparently political decision. There is every reason to believe this is part of a “dirty tricks” operation.

A report released in July reveals that homelessness among public school students in the US increased by 40 percent from the 2006-2007 school year to 956,914 in 2008-2009.

The UN World Food Programme and UN Children’s Fund have warned that the floods ravaging Pakistan will exacerbate child hunger and malnutrition. This is in a country where millions of children already suffered from acute malnutrition or stunting.

The Obama administration in recent weeks has launched a campaign against public school teachers, blaming them for the failure of the US education system.

France has seized upon reports of the execution of a French aid worker by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in July to escalate its military intervention in its former colonies in the strategic Sahel region of Western Africa.

The trial of two youth for the murder of a 50-year-old businessman has revealed a more socially nuanced picture than presented originally by the investigating authorities.

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. The document is being published in three parts.

Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg Büchner, follows the conflict which took place in March and April 1794 within the “Mountain”—the most revolutionary wing of the French National Convention.

D’Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality Party candidate for state representative in Michigan’s 9th District, issued the following statement after a state-appointed fact-finder backed the Detroit mayor’s demand for a 10 percent wage cut for city workers.

With his speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night, President Obama fully embraced the criminal war waged by the US against Iraq.

The response of the Obama administration and the entire political establishment to the collapse of the so-called “recovery” is to reject out of hand any significant spending to generate jobs and address the social crisis in the US.

The paper purports to be an objective assessment. In reality, it is a part of the Obama administration’s increasingly aggressive campaign to undercut Chinese influence, particularly in Asia.

Government inspectors have found deplorable conditions at the two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened thousands in the US in recent months.