Today on the WSWS

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.

After capitalising on widespread hostility to the major parties and their right-wing agendas, and winning a record vote for a minor party in the August 21 election, the Greens are now determined to demonstrate their credentials to the ruling elite as a “responsible” force for “stability”.

Socialist Party leaders have called for a vast increase of the repressive powers of the state against workers and youth.

For the past two years the right wing opposition Popular Party (PP) in Spain has been embroiled in the “Gürtel” corruption scandal, which has implicated many of the party’s top officials and leading businessmen.

The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up.

The following is a republication of a series on the fifth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, originally published in three parts on August 28-31, 2010.

Niger in Western Africa has been hit by double disaster. According to the United Nations, more than 110,000 people have been affected by the severe rains in the second week of August and the flooding that followed.

The national election was only the second to be held under the watch of the Australian-dominated neo-colonial intervention force, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).