Archive: 12/2009
2009-12-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- London: Metropolitan Police caught out extending armed patrols
- Philippine political massacre foreshadows widespread election violence
- Obama issues order for escalation in Afghanistan
- Australian court condemns police and prosecutors over child sex case
- Australia: Liberal party divisions deepen as leader ousted over carbon trading system
- Honduran vote held amid repression, mass abstention
- Letters from our readers
- UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report
- Michigan community colleges face drastic funding cuts
- Torture continues at US prisons in Afghanistan
2009-12-02
- UNICEF details growth of child poverty in Britain
- US Supreme Court suppresses torture photos
- US military suicides reach new high
- Sri Lanka’s ex-military chief announces presidential candidacy
- California: College faculty suspended for protesting budget cuts
- Oppose Obama’s escalation of the Afghan-Pakistan war! Withdraw all troops now!
- Germany: What the selection of Left Party candidates in North Rhine-Westphalia reveals
- Mehring Books announces holiday sale!
- US Senate begins debate on health care overhaul
- Canada’s Conservatives respond to Afghan torture charges with lies and slurs
- What were the 1960s about?: An Education and Pirate Radio
- Thousands of jobs threatened in British Airways-Iberia merger
2009-12-03
- Switzerland bans minarets
- US states move to make cuts permanent
- Obama’s speech on Afghanistan: A compendium of lies
- Obama administration backtracks on Afghanistan withdrawal date
- The Economics and Politics of the ETS: Socialism and Climate Change
- Britain: Post union president resigns from Socialist Workers Party
- White House holds photo-op “jobs summit”
- Irish unions call off general strike, offer €1.3 billion public service cuts
- The bursting of the Dubai debt bubble
- US: Hundreds of thousands of jobless to lose health insurance subsidy
- Scores die in Bangladeshi ferry disaster
- German military pushes to overturn post-war constraints
- Australia: Senate rejection of carbon trading legislation draws rebukes from big business
2009-12-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Australia: Labor governments launch major assault on TAFE teachers
- Britain: Iraq inquiry hears the testimony of guilty men
- Britain: Prospect of hung parliament raises fear of “Canadian” scenario
- The pro-war Nation and Obama’s Afghan escalation
- Boston mass transit system report exposes widespread safety dangers
- Human rights report exposes US abuse of immigrant detainees
- EU-China tensions on display at joint summit
- Trial against John Demjanjuk opens in Munich
- One year since Canada’s constitutional coup
- 150 years since the execution of John Brown
- Fed Chief Bernanke testifies at confirmation hearing
2009-12-05
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US economy remains devastated despite improved jobs figures
- Detroit Federation of Teachers agrees to new concessions contract
- Sri Lankan unions shut down pay campaign
- The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man: a suburban Job
- European states fall into line behind Obama’s Afghanistan surge
- Afghanistan war: SPD, Green Party and Left Party challenged by representatives of the Socialist Equality Party
- Obama jobs summit: “No money for jobs”
- Chicago journalism students targeted for Innocence Project work
- French government threatens to shut firms employing illegal immigrants
- Letters from our readers
- Former Spanish prime minister lays out his right-wing agenda
- US prepares Fallujah-style offensive in Afghanistan
2009-12-07
- Australian Labor government unveils historic welfare-cutting plan
- This Week in History: December 7-December 13
- Britain: Sussex students protest cuts
- How many Afghans will die in Obama’s war?
- The NPA pursues right-wing alliances for France’s regional elections
- Coverup of the German army’s role in the Kunduz massacre continues
- Britain: Leaked document reveals escalating attack on higher and further education
- Copenhagen Climate Summit: The gulf between rhetoric and reality
- Global climate diagnosis worsening
2009-12-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: Detroit teachers speak out against DFT Contract
- US Senate Democrats block efforts to bar Medicare cuts
- Precious: A view of Harlem through a very narrow lens
- US in Afghanistan to stay
- Obama to extend US attacks in Pakistan
- Ireland suffers widespread flooding
- Indian Stalinists provide “left” cover for government’s anti-Maoist counterinsurgency war
- Police attack protesters in Greece
- The danger of Bonapartist rule in Sri Lanka
- Teachers speak to WSWS on concessions contract
- Detroit teachers denounce sellout deal at mass meeting
- Letters from our readers
- Bolivia: Morales wins landslide re-election
2009-12-09
- The way forward for Detroit teachers
- Germany: The dispute over Erika Steinbach
- Sri Lankan SEP announces presidential candidate
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting to launch presidential campaign
- Russia proposes new organization of European states
- A conversation with Austin Chu, co-director of The Recess Ends
- Obama expands war into Pakistan
- At least 118 killed in Russian nightclub fire
- Report documents widespread frustration, alienation of Pakistan’s youth
- Obama calls for austerity in Washington jobs speech
- Congressional hearings set stage for escalation of Afghanistan war
- Twenty members of the LTTE convicted in France
- Hacked climate emails used to attack scientists
2009-12-10
- Australia: Union prepares sell-out of TAFE teachers struggle
- Sri Lanka: Free movement of Tamil detainees—a cynical election ploy
- Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
- US prison population at record high
- German Green leader Joschka Fischer bangs the drum for Afghanistan war
- Recession drives up hunger, homelessness in US cities
- Bombings ravage Baghdad as election campaign begins
- Hollywood on Trial: a timely reminder
- Ohio death row inmate executed by one-drug lethal injection
- Letters from our readers
- Quebec’s Villanueva inquest: Whitewashing a police killing
- Britain: Bailed out banks still set to pay billions to top execs and traders
- German Socialist Equality Party holds meeting on 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall
- Afghanistan massacre on eve of Obama’s surge
2009-12-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US jobless claims rise, job openings decline
- Corporate media denounces resistance by Detroit teachers
- Right-wing Sri Lankan leader thanks ex-lefts for services rendered
- French government supports Obama’s Afghan escalation
- Accepting peace prize, Obama makes case for unending war
- Opel works council chairman praises GM leadership
- Amid new recessionary signs, Japan unveils major stimulus package
- Signs of mounting crisis within Iranian regime
- Greece: A warning for European workers
- US takes hard line against poor nations, China
- Britain’s ruling elite express fear of “class war”
- US banks move to repay bailout loans
2009-12-12
- Election result intensifies Romania’s domestic crisis
- Philippine president declares martial law in Maguindanao province
- The Nation and the Obama Doctrine
- The Messenger and Brothers: The elephant in the room
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Padilla v. Yoo: Obama administration backs appeal of Bush torture memo author
- Greece verges on default
- Germany: Daimler shifts production to US
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s social democrats embrace big business from coast to coast
- Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war”
2009-12-14
- This week in history: December 14-December 20
- Sri Lankan unions rally behind presidential candidates of ruling elite
- US House passes pro-Wall Street banking bill
- Martial law in the Philippines
- Report on Senate health bill: Medicare cuts jeopardize access to care
- British High Court rules that Liberia must pay debt
- New Feature: Automatic PDF printing
- Obama administration reaches $3.4 billion settlement with Native American landowners
- Kunduz massacre: What is the German government hiding?
- US firms lose out in bidding for Iraq oil fields
- Danish police arrest nearly 1,000 protesters at climate conference
- Police crack down on California student protests
- British inquiry underscores Australian complicity in Iraqi war crimes
2009-12-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit teachers union launches intimidation campaign to push sellout deal
- Britain: Young mother commits suicide and kills her son after months of poverty
- Economic difficulties force more students out of college in US
- Historians in the Service of the “Big Lie”: An Examination of Professor Robert Service’s Biography of Trotsky
- Sri Lanka: Election meeting participants speak to the WSWS
- Sri Lankan SEP launches presidential election campaign
- Mass arrests in Copenhagen
- New York Governor Paterson defends Wall Street bonuses
- New Zealand: Public sector workers protest government wage freeze
- India: Soaring food prices place tens of millions at risk
- Letters on Obama’s Nobel Prize speech
- Violence escalates in Russia’s North Caucasus republics
- Obama holds stage-managed meeting with Wall Street bankers
2009-12-16
- New poll reveals human cost of US unemployment
- Turkish Constitutional Court bans Kurdish party
- The Tiger Woods episode: Money, the media, and the “path to redemption”
- Sri Lankan presidential candidates accuse each other of war crimes
- Australian government threatens Pluto construction workers
- Obama’s Afghan escalation and the decay of democracy
- Reports demonstrate Israel’s efforts to alter demography of East Jerusalem
- Irish government imposes austerity budget
2009-12-17
- German Home Office agrees temporary reprieve for a handful of refugees
- The international league of war criminals
- Australian government frame-up of Julian Moti collapses as court throws out charges
- School districts in Michigan vote on cuts
- Kunduz: Is the German army empowered to carry out targeted killings?
- Obama seeks Guantánamo-style prison on US soil
- Shock therapy for Greece
- British CEO pay 81 times that of workers
- Letters from our readers
- World climate conference: Conflict outside and inside Copenhagen meeting
- Millions of eligible Californians do not receive government food assistance
- Chinese conference underlines mounting economic problems
2009-12-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Germany: Leading SPD member Thilo Sarrazin (SPD) rallies the right wing
- Sweden: GM threatens Saab shutdown by year’s end
- Australia: Rudd government backs moves to outlaw national postal workers walkouts
- Polls reveal disappointment, dissatisfaction with Obama
- Banks repay TARP funds, government bailout of Wall Street continues
- Pakistan Supreme Court ruling further undermines beleaguered president
- New York City: Police shooting of vendor underscores deep social tensions
- US House passes $636 billion military spending bill
- State of California ends free mammograms for women under 50
- US jobless claims rise for second week in a row
- US threatens Iran with harsh sanctions
- Chile: Right-wing presidential candidate wins first round
2009-12-19
- India: Move to create new state in Telangana provokes political crisis
- Britain: City attacks Labour’s bank bonus tax
- The murderous face of Obama’s surge
- New York: payments to cities, schools cut as Wall Street profits soar
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- White House escalates push for Senate health bill passage
- Strikes and demonstrations in Greece against austerity measures
- Richmond, California, teachers union pushes through concessions contract
- Letters from our readers
- Copenhagen climate summit ends in bitter disagreements
- Australian SEP meetings discuss socialism, climate change and emissions trading schemes
- 25 years after world’s worst industrial disaster, Bhopal victims languish in neglect
2009-12-21
- Obama ordered US air strikes on Yemen
- Film critic Robin Wood dies at 78
- This week in history: December 21-December 27
- France: Sarkozy’s national identity campaign boosts the National Front
- China opens a major gas pipeline from Central Asia
- Great powers sacrifice climate on the altar of profit
- New York transit agency to impose drastic service cuts on workers and students
- Climate change, emissions trading schemes and the profit system
- Concessions contract ratified by Detroit teachers after campaign of intimidation
- Chicago homeless crisis worsens with budget cuts, mass foreclosures
- British Airways strike ruling a major attack on workers’ rights
- An appeal to support the World Socialist Web Site
2009-12-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Senate report proposes a more “robust” policy toward Sri Lanka
- The Power of Yes: A serious indictment of capitalism
- Tony Blair, the Iraq war and the international league of war criminals
- Health care profiteers: A billion-dollar lobby
- UAW installs Bob King as new president
- Afghanistan: Karzai picks cabinet of US stooges and warlord cronies
- Iran: Mass opposition protest at funeral for dissident cleric
- Hedge fund manager makes $2.5 billion betting on US bailout of Wall Street
- US Senate clears way for passage of Obama-backed health care bill
- Marxism, socialism and climate change
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Union cuts short NSW bus drivers’ strike
- Massive bank scandal: Austrian right-winger Jörg Haider’s legacy
2009-12-23
- Survey shows sharp rise in US households seeking utility assistance
- Sri Lankan students face lack of university places
- California appeals court refuses to dismiss case against Roman Polanski
- Political lessons of the Julian Moti affair
- New York City students protest scrapping of free transit fares
- Great power rivalries inflame Nagorno-Karabakh dispute
- German government plans massive spending cuts
- US home foreclosures top one million mark
- Scotland: Diageo unions end campaign against plant closures
- Obama names former Bush adviser as cybersecurity chief
- Why are the critics lauding Avatar?
2009-12-24
- Britain still in recession
- US Senate bill advance sparks health care stock rally
- Romania: Twenty years after the overthrow of Ceausescu
- Australian postal unions call off industrial action
- Australia Post workers voice growing discontent
- Socialism and the defense of public education
- US ground attacks reported in Pakistan
- Australian Labor government extends Aboriginal intervention, ignoring widespread opposition
- Nepali Maoists hold protests to demand a place in government
- 250,000 jute workers continue indefinite strike in West Bengal
- Letters from our readers
- On Canada’s bank bonuses and ruling class hypocrisy
- Obama pay czar OKs $4 million raise for AIG executive
- India’s almond workers mount militant strike
2009-12-28
- Five years since Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution”
- This week in history: December 28-January 3
- Eurostar breakdowns: Thousands imperilled by corporate indifference
- Disturbing questions in thwarted US plane bombing
- The massacre at Kunduz and the policy of targeted killings
- French NPA covers for military escalation in Afghanistan
- Malaysian government continues persecution of opposition leader
- Jennifer Jones, prominent figure in postwar Hollywood, dies at 90
- US steps up drone attacks, assassinations in AfPak “surge”
2009-12-29
- In wake of airline incident: Drumbeat for US war in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: Victims still live in misery five years after tsunami
- The crisis of the Islamic Republic and the tasks of the Iranian working class
- Grayson Perry’s “The Walthamstow Tapestry”: A sensitive depiction of the journey through life
- Lithuanian parliamentary commission confirms presence of CIA prisons
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian government pushes ahead with internet censorship
- Aid report details social devastation in Gaza
- Gaza report finds major powers complicit in Israel’s collective punishment
- Letters on film and film criticism
- US military kills ten civilians in Afghanistan raid
2009-12-30
- Obama answers failed airline bombing with threat of new wars
- GM confirms closure of Saab
- British transport union accedes to anti-union laws, suspends strike ballot
- Thirty years since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- Australian report canvasses nuclear weapons option
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meetings
- American Greetings to close Michigan plant
- Greece: Social democratic government passes austerity budget
- Billions more for bailout of US mortgage giants
- In praise of George Eliot’s Adam Bede on its 150th anniversary
2009-12-31
- Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen
- Britain’s pension provision threatened with collapse
- Britain: Record fall in pay levels
- US state and local tax revenues plummet
- The Northwest Flight 253 intelligence failure: Negligence or conspiracy?
- Canada’s Conservatives shut down parliament, again
- Obama-backed health bill: “Cadillac” tax to target one in five plans
- Germany: Five years since the Hartz IV labour “reforms”
- In praise of George Eliot’s Adam Bede on its 150th anniversary
- Letters from our readers
- Best films of 2009 and the decade
- Latest articles
- Browse by month: