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The World Socialist Web Site interviewed workers and
professionals in Detroit about the worsening social conditions as gas
prices and food prices skyrocket. The WSWS spoke with Lon Rubenstein
who is living on a disability payment of just $600.00 per month. He
cannot afford to put gas in his car.
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Pakistan’s new coalition government has delivered a big business budget that slashes subsidies for food, fuel oil, electricity, and fertilizer by more than one-quarter—112.2 billion Pakistani Rupees, or US $1.6 billion. The Pakistan People’s Party-led government has also pledged to gradually do away with all price subsidies, except possibly on food.
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By David Walsh
5 June 2008
Written and directed by Michael Patrick King
Sex and the City, based on the cable television series,
is a largely pointless exercise that appeals to the most uncritical
side of its intended audience.
Media comparisons with the devastating 2004 tsunami, which
claimed at least 220,000 lives in a dozen countries, including
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, have been one-sided
and politically motivated. A collective amnesia pervades the coverage:
no one wants to recall how Bush and other world leaders ignored
the tragedy for days, or the pitiful amounts of aid that were
After six years of imprisonment without charge, a well-known
cameraman for Al Jazeera news was released May 1 by the US military.
The reporter, Sami al-Hajj, was captured in 2001 while covering
the US invasion of Afghanistan and subjected to the torture and
abuse that is routine at US military-run prison camps.
The Indian government is refusing to investigate credible reports
that up to a thousand unmarked graves have been found in the north
Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
The decision handed down Friday morning by a New York judge
in the police slaying of Sean Bell was as shocking as it was predictable.
A 23-year-old, unarmed man was cut down in a hail of 50 bullets
on the morning of what was to be his wedding, and no one is held
accountable.
The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) was the clear winner
after provisional results in the country’s April 10 election
for a Constituent Assembly were announced yesterday. As well as
gaining 120 of the 240 directly-elected seats, the Maoists secured
97 of the 335 seats elected on a proportionate base. The overall
national vote for the CPN-M was 29.27 percent.
By Keith Jones on the World Socialist Web Site wsws.org
19 April 2008
The industrial city of Multan, Pakistan’s sixth largest,
was convulsed by protests of textile workers, Monday and Tuesday,
angered by repeated power outages that have resulted in pay and
job cuts for tens of thousands.
By the World Socialist Web Site editorial board 19 March 2008
Five years after Washington inaugurated its “shock and
awe” campaign, striking Baghdad with cruise missiles and
precision-guided bombs, it has become abundantly clear that the
war of aggression against Iraq has produced the greatest geo-political
disaster in American history.
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Pakistani regime ban of YouTube highlights threat to free
Internet
By John Grais
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Washington deploys warships off the coast of Lebanon
By Bill Van Auken
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Pakistan’s leading opposition parties to form national
coalition government
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
ISSE demonstrates in New York to demand release of jailed
Iranian students
By Bill Van Auken
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Pakistan’s military regime stages sham election
By Keith Jones
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
Mounting calls from Pakistan’s military and judicial establishments for Musharraf to quit
By K. Ratnayake and Keith Jones
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