Today on the WSWS

Craig Thomson’s hour-long address to parliament yesterday, defending himself against corruption allegations, has only further fuelled the crisis confronting the minority Labor government.

The ongoing job destruction undermines government claims that “more Australians were at work than ever before.”

The assault on WSWS supporters, who were distributing a leaflet exposing the role of the government and the unions, is a clear sign that a betrayal is being prepared.

The NATO summit concluded Monday with a formal ratification of US plans for a phased drawdown of forces from Afghanistan over the next two and a half years, while laying the groundwork for an open-ended military presence in the country.

While the immediate danger appears to have been averted, none of the underlying issues have been resolved.

This is the second part of a two-part interview with German historian Professor Mario Kessler on the 2009 biography of Leon Trotsky by Robert Service. Part one was posted on Monday, May 21. Professor Kessler is a co-signatory of a letter sent by 14 European sociologists and political scientists to the Suhrkamp Verlag publishing house raising grave reservations about its plan to bring out a German edition of Service’s book.

At a press conference at the end of the NATO summit, President Obama praised Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago police.

Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), visited Paris yesterday to meet with Left Front officials.

The most politically revealing feature was the absence of any serious criticism of the Obama administration by the protest organizers.

Protesters at the NATO summit in Chicago have denounced the police state methods employed to crack down on political dissent.

In a recent statement the petty-bourgeois Revolutionary Socialists group cynically embraced the Egyptian military junta’s elections as a way to fight the “old regime.”

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has died in Tripoli. He was the sole person convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. His co-accused, Llamen Fhimah, was acquitted at their 2001 trial.

The petty-bourgeois “left” New Anti-capitalist Party has applauded the election of President of François Hollande, the big-business Socialist Party’s candidate.

More than twenty Hazaras were killed and some thirty others wounded in a series of ambushes last month in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

A report issued by the ACLU of Georgia details widespread abuse of immigrants held at four detention centers in the state.

This statement has been issued by SEP presidential candidate Jerry White.

Screenings of Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) were highlights of the 2012 an Francisco film festival.

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

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

The sackings at the University of New South Wales are the latest in a series of cuts occurring at universities across Australia.