Archive: 06/2009
2009-06-01
- UN report issues dire forecast for world economy
- UN-based estimates put Sri Lankan civilian death toll at 20,000
- Part 4: The ongoing impact of the USSR’s collapse and other facts of modern life
- Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR
- The GM bankruptcy
- AfPak war depopulates and devastates north-west Pakistan
- Millions in Europe sink into unemployment and poverty
- Kansas doctor, target of anti-abortion fanatics, gunned down in Wichita
- Rising levels of financial stress in Australia
- Britain: Cameron outlines Conservative’s “reform” agenda
2009-06-02
- US: Growing impact of the health care crisis on women
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Indian university students protest racist attacks
- Sri Lanka: Tamil detainees kept in appalling conditions
- What’s good for GM…
- British newspapers reveal Tamil Tigers’ desperate appeal to imperialist powers
- US issues threat to North Korea
- India: Hyundai Motors victimizes workers
- GM bankruptcy will devastate communities
- US treasury secretary touts Obama austerity policies in China visit
- Letters from our readers
2009-06-03
- 1967 police murder of West German student was committed by a Stasi agent
- Spanish judge calls for extradition of US soldiers
- Part 5: Personal anxiety, but social complacency
- The assassination of Dr. George Tiller
- British newspapers expose cold-blooded killing of LTTE leaders in Sri Lanka
- Suharto-era figures dominate Indonesian presidential poll
- Obama offers nothing to states, cities devastated by GM plant closures
- Climate bill a giveaway to big business
- New York Mayor Bloomberg defends the Obamas’ night on the town
2009-06-04
- Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
- Australian union congress seeks government-business partnership
- Origins and consequences of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre
- Wall Street, Obama administration conspire to block financial regulation
- Sri Lanka and India seek to patch up relations
- Twenty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
- Iranian presidential election: candidates debate strategic shift
- Britain: Income inequality at record high
- UN warns global jobs crisis may last eight years
- Questions abound in aftermath of Air France crash
- US Fed Chairman demands plan to cut social programs
- Vote for the SEP (Germany) in the European elections
- Letters on the General Motors bankruptcy
- New York Times on the UAW’s corporatism: a rewriting of history
2009-06-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Video: Michigan GM workers speak on bankruptcy and plant closings
- Sri Lankan president’s speech: another warning to working people
- France: Sarkozy pushes law-and-order in European election campaign
- Sweden: Saab granted three-month extension in bankruptcy protection
- Obama in Cairo: a new face for imperialism
- US proxy war continues in north-west Pakistan
- OAS vote on Cuba exposes waning US power in Latin America
- Game Over, or, Where shall we look?
- European politicians stand reality on its head at Vienna gathering
- Canada’s Conservative government continuing persecution of Abousfian Abdelrazik
- Public education devastated by California budget cuts
2009-06-06
- Stella D’Oro strikers rally as New York unions continue to isolate strike
- Sri Lankan journalist brutally beaten
- Montreal: Community boycott forces suspension of inquest into police murder of immigrant youth
- What lies behind the tensions with the US?
- Opel: Magna deal means layoffs, wage cuts and splitting of the European workforce
- French New Anti-Capitalist Party promotes Keynesian reformism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Official jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in US
- India’s Supreme Court orders expedited trials for perpetrators of Gujarat pogrom
- Greece: Police, far-right thugs attack Muslim immigrants
- Boston Globe threatens 23% pay cut if pact is defeated
- Election platform of the “European Left”: Pious wishes and right-wing policies
- Detroit Public Schools financial manager dismisses pleas at public meeting
- Letters on the assassination of Dr. George Tiller
- Brazil, China deals challenge US position in Latin America
2009-06-08
- Wall Street on the offensive
- Somalia: Conflict rages in Mogadishu
- Sri Lanka: Inside the Manik Farm detention centre
- Peruvian massacre aimed at opening Amazon to transnationals
- Obama chooses private profit over healthcare needs
- Citizen of the world: a brief survey of the life and times of Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- GM plant closures devastate Detroit suburbs
- Ireland creates “bad bank” to rescue finance and property speculators
2009-06-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan workers comment on victory celebrations
- A derisory answer to the jobs disaster
- New York Times on Guantánamo: A willing conduit for the military-intelligence apparatus
- Malaysian government crackdown on political opponents
- Germany: Arcandor retail group faces bankruptcy
- Capitalism’s deadly toll: 44 children dead in Mexican day care fire
- Social democratic parties suffer historic defeat in European Union elections
- Prominent academic offers modest proposal for reorganizing universities
- Letters from our readers
- White House had long planned GM and Chrysler bankruptcies
- Australian government claims “good news” despite soaring unemployment
2009-06-10
- London Underground workers strike against assault on jobs and wages
- Obama administration allows big banks to repay TARP funds
- Indian student protests spread to Sydney: “We came here to study, not to fight”
- UN chief calls for inquiry into Sri Lankan war crimes
- Israel to expand its settlements
- The decline of social democracy
- Stop the shutdown of Detroit! A socialist response to the economic crisis
- Lebanon: US-backed coalition retains narrow majority
- Obama moves aggressively against North Korea
- India’s government lurches further right
- Boston Globe to impose 23 percent wage cut
- Berlin meeting concludes SEP election campaign
- California fiscal crisis threatens millions with ruin
2009-06-11
- Slain doctor’s family announces closure of Kansas clinic
- Sri Lanka: JVP vehemently opposes any concessions to Tamils
- US: Screen Actors Guild membership ratifies contract
- The crisis of British Labour
- Explosion at North Carolina plant leaves 3 dead, 41 injured
- German government forces retail group Arcandor into bankruptcy
- Obama administration rejects limits on bankers’ pay
- Australia: Rudd Labor’s NAPLAN school “league tables”
- Employees speak on Chrysler dealership closure
- Letters from our readers
- US reinforcements in place in southern Afghanistan
2009-06-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Britain: RMT Tube workers face union busting and organised scabbing by drivers’ union ASLEF
- Sri Lankan Chief Justice questions legality of Tamil detention camps
- Obama administration spearheads assault on workers in California
- New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins
- Iranians voting in presidential poll
- American Nazi kills guard in attack on Holocaust Museum
- Germany: The Greens declare their allegiance to the bourgeoisie
- Germany: The significance of the Socialist Equality Party campaign
- Australia: “Quality” teaching and the Labor/union assault on public education
- Obama administration’s new moves to block release of torture documents
- Canada: Federal Court orders repatriation of torture victim Abousfian Abdelrazik
2009-06-13
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan police interrogate doctors who witnessed war crimes
- Peru: Massive protests against García government over Amazon massacre
- Violence against Indian students in Australia: the class issues
- New York billionaire engineers legislative “coup”
- The reality of life in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum
- Germany’s Left Party and the European elections
- US opposes Iraqi popular vote on troop withdrawal
- The primate fossil “Ida”: the science and the hype
- Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
- USA Today report: Workers face worst conditions since the Great Depression
- Britain: Tories and Labour plan spending cuts of at least 10 percent
- Letters from our readers
2009-06-15
- Striking city workers hold rally in Windsor, Ontario
- Obama smoothes passage of war spending bill by pledging to suppress torture photos
- US Supreme Court limits Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna residents speak out over increasing military repression
- The New York Times and the Iranian election
- Protests erupt after Iranian election
- Mass Hong Kong vigil marks Tiananmen massacre
- Sharp conflicts at G8 finance ministers meeting
- France opens first permanent military base in the Persian Gulf
- Baltic economic instability threatens to spread to Sweden
2009-06-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan government threatens Tamil parliamentarians
- Obama calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
- Israel: Netanyahu rejects compromise with Palestinians
- The Nation magazine and the Iranian election
- Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 1
- LDV workers: “80 percent of the lads here think the union is a waste of time”
- Britain: Van maker LDV sacks more than 800 workers
- Germany: European elections pave way for department store bankruptcy
- Iran: Election clashes mount as West escalates pressure
- Letters from our readers
- Mounting Canada-US frictions over “Buy American” provisions of stimulus package
- Labor government heavy-weights attack Australia’s peak union body
2009-06-17
- Sri Lankan government hands greater powers to Chief of Defence Staff
- For workers’ power and a socialist Iran
- Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 2
- Canada: Liberals wage “phony” war on Conservative government
- Hungary: What accounts for the success of the extreme right?
- Democratic health bill would leave 37 million uninsured in 2019
- China relations behind Australian defence minister’s downfall
- Marx and Darwin: Two great revolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century
- US Supreme Court refuses to take up case of the “Cuban 5”
- Kindergarten staff strike in Germany: 30,000 demonstrate in Cologne
- Britain: Brown’s pledge to “clean up” Parliament masks austerity drive
- Major banks made whole in GM bankruptcy
2009-06-18
- Further signs of Sri Lanka’s shift into China’s orbit
- Obama’s bank regulation plan: A free pass for Wall Street
- Michigan Democratic governor imposes emergency budget cuts
- Australia: Youth jobless rate soars in working class suburbs
- Obama: US “meddling” in Iran should not be seen
- Germany: Thousands demonstrate against run-down of the education system
- SEP candidate speaks at Detroit meeting
- Marx and Darwin: Two great revolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century
- Britain: Labour’s Compass group plans its efforts to save capitalism
- Obama administration rejects aid to California
- Angels & Demons: Now, in the service of the Catholic Church
2009-06-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Construction unions’ Westgate Bridge deal sets dangerous new benchmark
- Michigan: Autopsy confirms police taser responsible for teenager’s death
- Two legal cases challenge Sri Lanka’s mass detention of Tamil civilians
- Ruined: Congo is setting for prize-winning play on wartime violence against women
- Britain: Postal workers strike against job losses
- The New York Times and Iran: Journalism as state provocation
- NSA monitors millions of American e-mails
- North Korean nuclear crisis enters a new stage
- Factional struggle deepens within Iranian ruling elite
- France offers the United Arab Emirates nuclear protection
- Marx and Darwin: Two great revolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century
- Letters on the elections in Iran
- Back in the fold: Comic Stephen Colbert in Baghdad
- Germany: Child care workers fight for better pay and conditions
- Los Angeles students and teachers protest school cuts
2009-06-20
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Young people bear brunt of rising unemployment
- Sri Lankan Tamil detainees still held in terrible conditions
- Britain: For a war crimes trial over Iraq invasion
- Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for confrontation
- More than 1 billion people hungry worldwide in 2009
- Letters on Orson Welles
- Canada: RCMP tried to suppress video of fatal tasering of Dziekanski
- Canada: Cover-up of RCMP murder of immigrant worker unravels
- California residents speak on the economic crisis
- Obama, Harper force bankruptcy on auto parts industry
- US Congress approves another $80 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan wars
2009-06-22
- Australia: Car dealer “scandal” engulfs parliament
- Unemployment crisis grips US states
- US Supreme Court promotes wrongful imprisonment and age discrimination
- Sri Lankan president dissolves human rights investigations
- Britain: Total Oil sacks 647 striking workers at Lindsey Oil Refinery
- For a socialist, not a “color” revolution in Iran
- New York City workers forced to pay for crisis
- New York City workers speak against cuts in healthcare and social services
- The GM bankruptcy and the middle-class “left” organizations
- Six pre-Production Code films from William Wellman: an uneven but welcome collection
- The Nation’s man in Tehran: Who is Robert Dreyfuss?
- British Airways workers urged to work for nothing
- Two summits in Russia: A cautious challenge to the US
2009-06-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Opposition Liberal Party in crisis over fake email furore
- Document points to alleged military plot against Turkish government
- Toronto city workers strike against sweeping concession demands
- Sri Lankan president seeks extended term without elections
- Rio Tinto-Chinalco deal collapses
- Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees
- Take the profit out of health care
- Pakistani military begins offensive in Waziristan
- Omagh verdict leaves questions of state collusion unanswered
- Besancenot and the NPA support Sarkozy’s policy on Iran elections
- Iran: Protests wane as conflict within regime continues
- Hubble Space Telescope receives final upgrade
- Letters from our readers
- Afghan Star: Eyes not opened wide enough
2009-06-24
- US Supreme Court issues first ruling to limit Voting Rights Act
- University of California faces scandal over chancellors
- The Twilight Saga: Shimmering vampires who drive Volvos
- Spain: Immigrant worker claims boss threw his severed arm in bin
- Sri Lankan Tamil detainees give eye-witness accounts
- Washington DC: Nine killed, scores injured in subway accident
- The propaganda war against Iran
- The tasks of the Iranian working class
- Coal mine blast in Indonesia kills at least 32
- Detroit City Council member under investigation for corruption
- How France’s petty-bourgeois “left” betrays workers
- Australia: Rudd reshuffles cabinet in response to economic crisis
- New York: Behind the tragic death of a social worker
- World Bank cuts forecast for 2009 growth
2009-06-25
- Municipal workers resist concession demands in Windsor, Ontario
- UK Conservatives form new rightist bloc in European parliament
- Striking Toronto city workers: management is “after everything”
- Canada: Dziekanski inquiry derailed by new evidence of police wrongdoing
- International issues in the Iranian crisis
- US drone strike kills 80 Pakistanis
- New Zealand budget imposes austerity measures as recession deepens
- Stop the shutdown of Detroit! A socialist response to the economic crisis
- Britain: Nationwide strike continues in defence of sacked refinery workers
- German Left Party leader promotes reformist politics
- Britain: Barnsley College lecturers protest threat of redundancies
- An interview with He Jianjun, director of River People
- Australia: Former treasurer Peter Costello quits parliament
- Letters from our readers
- China’s exports plunge further
- Rejection of California budget sets stage for even larger spending cuts
- US: State budget crises trigger layoffs, cuts in social programs
- Record bonuses at bailed-out US banks
2009-06-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
- Australia: Early election threatened over fake email affair
- US Supreme Court rules school strip search unconstitutional
- Sri Lankan government stages sham local elections
- Obama administration seeks to quash suit by 9/11 families
- Iran, the media and the World Socialist Web Site
- India bans CPI (Maoist) under draconian “anti-terror” law
- Unemployment and poverty in California’s Imperial Valley
- White House health care forum: Obama’s plan for “evidence-based” medical cuts
- PJ Harvey and John Parish in concert
- European heads of government bow to banks
- Memo confirms Bush and Blair knew claims Iraq had WMDs were lies
2009-06-27
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The tragic journey of a displaced Tamil family in Sri Lanka
- Iran and public opinion
- US warship shadows North Korean cargo vessel
- LA School Board votes to slash school budget
- Michael Jackson’s death
- Britain: Labour government forces one million disabled workers to find work
- Government parties plan drastic austerity measures
- US states’ budget crisis sets stage for new attack on the working class
- Letters on Iran and the US media
- US: Arizona government prepares new attacks on women’s reproductive health rights
- Australia: Labor moves to shut down remote Aboriginal settlements
2009-06-29
- Sudan: Humanitarian crisis in south as Comprehensive Peace Agreement unravels
- Sri Lankan military maintains fishing restrictions in the north
- Sweden: Luxury automaker Koenigsegg announces purchase of Saab
- A revealing picture of the American presidency
- Denials of US interference in Iran not credible
- Obama administration preparing order for indefinite detentions
- Honduran military ousts president in coup
- US House passes Obama administration’s carbon trading legislation
- Away We Go: Parent trap
- US war games signal intensifying tension over Arctic
- Australia: Coroner attacks as a “disgrace” Aboriginal man’s death in prison van
2009-06-30
- The Honduran coup: another US destabilization operation
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Dispensable people
- Dramatic decline in Turkish wages
- What is behind the media’s venomous attack on striking Toronto city workers
- Thai mosque shootings point to government/military rift
- US Supreme Court declines to hear case of 9/11 families
- Supreme Court upholds white firefighters’ discrimination claims
- Sri Lanka: Dengue epidemic claims scores of lives
- Oil and the Iraq “withdrawal”
- Britain: Lindsey oil refinery workers win reinstatement
- German parliament opens way for Internet censorship
- Bachelot law accelerates destruction of the French health system
- Southwest Detroit residents speak to D’Artagnan Collier campaign
- Letters on Iran and public opinion
- Letters on the death of Michael Jackson
- Organize rank-and-file committees to stop plant closings and overturn UAW concessions!
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