Archive: 06/2010
2010-06-01
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Public meetings in Australia discuss new stage of global crisis
- Largest protest in Romania in 20 years
- The socialist response to the Gulf oil crisis
- Escalating violence in Afghanistan as Kandahar offensive nears
- Israel steps up its warmongering
- Israeli massacre of Gaza convoy supporters provokes outrage
- Indian air disaster kills 158
- Australia: Surging house prices built on a debt time-bomb
- Australia: Rising debt stress among homebuyers
- China: Honda strike sends shudder through financial circles
- Boron struggle betrayed
- Air India unions call off “flash” strike in face of state repression
2010-06-02
- US public transit systems cutting service and raising fares
- French establishment promotes IMF director as presidential candidate
- WSWS reporters visit the devastated Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi
- Obama signals no end to deep-sea oil drilling
- New York City to shutter 50 senior centers
- Europe’s media warn of global social unrest
- Australian court hears prosecution appeal against Julian Moti verdict
- Washington comes to aid of Israel over Gaza convoy massacre
- New Hungarian citizenship law creates tensions with Slovakia
- An appeal to DTE workers
- Trial begins against ex-Chicago police commander accused of torture
- Australia: Bushfire inquiry submissions criticise government policy
- Sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies at 98
- Hewlett-Packard slashes 9,000 jobs
2010-06-03
- DTE Energy workers authorize strike
- White House seeks to contain popular anger over BP oil disaster
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 6: Luchino Visconti’s Senso—drama and history
- Israel’s massacre at sea
- Tobacco companies profit from child labour in Malawi
- German government crisis intensified by president’s resignation
- Latest edition of Perspectives now available
- Japanese prime minister resigns after just nine months
- An interview with Woo Ming-jin, director of Woman on Fire Looks for Water, and a comment
- Arrests follow publication of report on Iceland banking collapse
- Foxconn suicides highlight China’s sweatshop conditions
- Protests against Israel’s flotilla massacre held across US, Canada
- Major Czech parties suffer massive election losses
- Letters from our readers
- Australian government expels Israeli diplomat over forged passports
2010-06-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Western Australian budget imposes massive utility charge increases
- US Supreme Court weakens “Miranda” rights of criminal suspects
- Sri Lanka gets US support on bogus human rights inquiry
- One year since the GM bankruptcy
- Mexican immigrant beaten to death by US Border Patrol
- Israel defends murderous assault on Gaza aid flotilla
- US turns up heat on Iran
- Heart tests ignored at New York City’s Harlem Hospital
- BP oil spill enters new regions of Gulf Coast
- Fraudulent study used to sell Obama health plan
2010-06-05
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sabotage of West Bengal train leads to 148 deaths, sparks reactionary political furor
- Thai prime minister survives no-confidence vote
- Obama sharply increases secret military operations
- Spain: government imposes austerity and pay cuts
- Russian-EU summit produces few agreements
- The Chinese working class emerges
- BP cleanup workers report serious health problems
- BP spill washes ashore in Florida
- May job figures underscore deepening economic crisis in US
- BP likely to proceed with dividend payout
- Letters from our readers
- Bangladesh fire kills more than 120 people
- Berlin court bans Islamic prayer in schools
2010-06-07
- Washtenaw County, Michigan school bus drivers face deep wage cuts
- This week in history: June 7-June 13
- Sri Lankan government plans extensive slum clearance evictions
- More Colombo families targetted for eviction
- Behind the Gulf oil crisis: Big Oil extends its political influence
- The jobs crisis and socialist policies
- Italy on the eve of new class battles
- Further evidence emerges of Israel’s criminal attack on Gaza aid flotilla
- China: Honda workers return to work
- Greece: Antarsya offers no alternative to PASOK and the official “left”
- G-20 orders U-turn: from stimulus to austerity
- Ecological effects of Gulf oil eruption will last for years
- Thousands oppose Gaza flotilla attack in London
- An interview with OKDE-Spartakos of Greece’s Antarsya coalition
2010-06-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Minimum pay ruling deepens social inequality
- Union backs attacks on teachers in Washington, D.C.
- BP and White House continue cover-up of oil spill
- The Gulf oil spill and the case for socialism
- New Japanese prime minister installed
- Report: DTE used spy planes to spot unauthorized hookups
- The way forward for a defense of education in Germany
- Israel steps up operations in Gaza
- Frank Rich on Obama: Liberal fears and illusions
- France votes credits for European Financial Stability Fund
- Letters from our readers
2010-06-09
- Australia-East Timor conflict intensifies over Greater Sunrise gas project
- Helen Thomas ousted over anti-Zionist comments
- Colorado leads state government attacks on US teachers
- White House clears way for more offshore drilling
- South Carolina budget cuts target education and health care
- Public sector strike against austerity in Romania
- Spill rate far worse than latest estimate, scientist says
- Britain: The middle class politics of POWER2010 and Take Back Parliament
- US consolidates occupation of Iraq
- Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood: an outlaw hero that even the rich can love
- The Nation, Jonathan Israel and the Enlightenment
- France: Thousands protest against Israeli assault of Gaza-bound flotilla
- Internet discussion in China on the exploitation of workers
- Israel steps up repression against its Arab citizens
- NATO casualties rise in Afghanistan before Kandahar offensive
- British government introduces plans for market-driven school system
2010-06-10
- Spain: Strikes and protests greet PSOE austerity measures
- Sri Lanka: Widespread malnutrition among women and children
- More doubts over spill rate
- German chancellor’s austerity measures recall the Weimar Republic
- US Border Patrol murders Mexican teenager
- UN Security Council tightens sanctions on Iran
- Honda rocked by further strikes in China
- Government scientists confirm massive oil plumes
- Glasgow University principal proposes cuts and rationalisations
- Date Night and City Island: One comedy that knows where it’s going, another that can’t seem to decide
- Deep-water drilling proceeds without backup rigs
- British prime minister outlines drastic cuts in public spending
- US cable television host slanders socialism
- Obama, Democrats abandon stimulus for austerity
2010-06-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US-Turkish tensions and the Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla
- Oil spill reaches Alabama, Florida inland waterway
- The BP oil spill and the tyranny of private ownership
- One-day strike by Minnesota nurses to defend patient care
- Obama defends Israel as tactical shift prepared on Gaza blockade
- Unions push through wage cutting deal at Ford Australia
- SEP to run D’Artagnan Collier for Michigan State House of Representatives
- BP and government authorities collude to suppress reality of oil spill
- Canada’s social democrats ally with right-wingers in BC anti-tax campaign
- Warning of famine in West Africa
2010-06-12
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ypsilanti, Michigan school board approves 17 percent pay cut for bus workers
- Australia: Unemployment statistics mask job crisis
- Ukraine abandons NATO candidacy
- For public ownership of DTE Energy
- Billionaires and crackpots: US primaries select right-wing candidates for November election
- One year after Iran’s presidential election
- Right-wing shift in Dutch elections
- Police break-up occupation at Hyundai complex in southern India
- Honda Lock strike in China continues as industrial unrest spreads
- US pushes for readmission of Honduras to Organization of American States
- New evidence undermines latest BP-White House estimate of spill size
- Doctors “calibrated” pain for CIA interrogations
- BP seeks to limit liabilities in “truce” with White House
- Britain: How should the Cumbria massacre be understood?
- Letters from our readers
- A comment: Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010
2010-06-14
- This week in history: June 14-June 20
- Australia: Labor and the superannuation industry
- Sri Lankan government prepares for austerity measures
- US pilots strike shuts down Spirit Airlines
- Hands off WikiLeaks!
- University of California nurses hold protest rallies
- Donald McCullin: An artist “shaped by war”
- Massachusetts Senate attaches anti-immigrant measure to state budget
- German unions and employers unite against the right to strike
- UK government spending cuts threaten over 700,000 jobs
- After weeks of delay, BP deploys sensors to measure size of spill
- US “surge” in Afghanistan in disarray
2010-06-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spirit Airlines pilots strike enters fourth day
- Democrats silent on possible ballot tampering in South Carolina primaries
- Fortunes mount for the wealthy in wake of the finance crisis
- Gulf oil disaster: a trillion-dollar corporate crime
- Minnesota nurses denounce understaffing
- Hundreds killed and wounded in ethnic pogroms in Kyrgyzstan
- US backs Israeli inquiry into aid flotilla massacre
- Filmmaker releases smuggled footage from Israeli assault
- British government turns to regional administrations to impose austerity
- Letters on Glenn Beck, socialism and anti-Semitism
- Letters on “The Nation, Jonathan Israel and the Enlightenment”
- China: Honda Lock strike continues
- Obama plan for BP payments is far below cost of Gulf disaster
- India: Bhopal verdict provokes public outrage
- Washington “discovers” Afghanistan’s mineral wealth
2010-06-16
- South Africa: Riot police attack World Cup stewards pay protests
- Australia: Polling shows collapse in voter support for Labor government
- European trade union head backs austerity measures
- Austerity measures unveiled in Pakistan’s budget
- Obama’s Oval Office speech: A cowardly cover-up of BP’s crimes
- New York City students protest threat to free transit passes
- Obama administration’s “escrow” account will shelter BP
- German government crisis intensifies
- Scientists raise estimate of spill rate once again
- British Telecom workers to ballot for strike
- Arkansas flash flood claims lives of 20 campers
2010-06-17
- Gulf crisis stokes Washington-London tensions
- UAW convention endorses policy of wage cuts, layoffs
- Sri Lankan president visits India to improve relations
- Obama cuts deal to shield BP assets
- Demonstration in Rome protests austerity measures
- Chinese workers revolt against the unions
- France: Investigation of 2002 Karachi bombing implicates Sarkozy
- New York enacts sweeping cuts amid threats of state shutdown
- Protests in Stuttgart and Berlin hit government cutbacks
- Letters on the Gulf oil disaster
- Australia: Construction worker threatened with jail
2010-06-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- India: Stalinist Left Front routed in West Bengal municipal elections
- Nearly one million US workers cut off unemployment benefits
- Thai government continues crackdown on opposition
- Australia: Tasmanian Labor-Green government delivers big business budget
- The presence of Tariq Ali at the “Socialism 2010” conference
- Pilots union ends Spirit Airlines strike
- Romania’s health service on brink of collapse
- What is driving the crisis of the German government?
- New York public schools under siege
- Hurricane Katrina: Social Consequences and Political Lessons
- “Socialism 2010”: The politics of the International Socialist Organization
- Trotskyism and the Bloody Sunday massacre: a record of principled opposition to British imperialism
- BP’s Hayward stonewalls, Congressmen posture at spill hearing
- French government witch-hunts partner of niqab-wearing woman
- Evidence emerges of Australian oil spill coverup
- As Chinese premier urges “respect” for workers, police prepare crackdown
- Britain: Saville Inquiry continues cover-up of Bloody Sunday massacre
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear Arar case
2010-06-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan union bureaucrats prevent SEP member speaking
- Five US soldiers charged with murdering civilians in Afghanistan
- Obama seeks “inflection point” on Gulf oil disaster
- French government announces plan for pension cut
- The Left party and German foreign policy
- Right-wing agenda dominates Labour Party leadership contest in Britain
- “Socialism 2010”: The politics of the International Socialist Organization Part 2: The ISO and Barack Obama
- US and EU impose extra sanctions on Iran
- Hungary: New government presents radical austerity package
- The Secret in Their Eyes: Does “fear” help explain anything?
- An execution by firing squad in Utah
- Letters on “Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010”
- Over 50 miners trapped in a Colombian coal mine
- No US military exit from Afghanistan
2010-06-21
- This week in history: June 21-June 27
- Saudi Arabia backs US campaign against Iran
- Obama celebrates jobless “recovery”
- Australian Labor Party suffers record loss in NSW state by-election
- Public Meetings: The Gulf oil crisis and the profit system
- Japanese government announces pro-business agenda
- Greece trade unions intensify collaboration with austerity measures
- EU nations divided in run up to G20 summit
- Gulf states’ economies devastated by BP spill
- British government imposes £2 billion cuts
- Dr. Richard Cooper, critic of Dartmouth health study, speaks to the WSWS
- More strikes erupt in China’s auto industry
- California: Unions work with governor to cut state worker retirement benefits
- Louisiana residents report oil-spill related illnesses
2010-06-22
- US-British tensions over Afghan occupation
- Sri Lankan government holds victory celebrations
- Supreme Court backs use of terrorism law against free speech
- Australia: Labor government crisis deepens
- More refugees drown trying to reach Australia
- The US Social Forum in Detroit
- Thousands of New York City workers demonstrate against threatened layoffs
- Kyrgyz ethnic pogroms leave 2,000 dead, 400,000 homeless
- Letters to Juliet: A mushy bon-bon
- Further evidence of criminal negligence by BP and US government in Gulf disaster
- Middle-income layers shrinking in Germany
- Gulf species face unprecedented disaster
- Letters from our readers
2010-06-23
- The folly of a youth: The Trotsky
- UN report reveals deep social divide in Thailand
- Beyond BP
- US commander recalled from Afghanistan after mocking Obama
- Labour’s Diane Abbott: Britain’s Obama?
- Kentucky coal miner killed
- For revolutionary socialist opposition to Sarkozy’s austerity
- Australian government targets diabetes sufferers to cut health costs
- Train derails in Republic of the Congo, killing at least 60
- British budget hits workers and poor
- Spill cleanup workers face labor-camp conditions
2010-06-24
- Sri Lankan government prepares major constitutional changes
- Australian prime minister Rudd ousted in political coup
- Divisions in G-20 open on summit eve
- Cover-up of Palm Island Aboriginal death continues
- Militarism and democracy: the implications of the McChrystal affair
- Senate bill would authorize US president to seize control of Internet
- An exchange on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Israeli government shores up Gaza blockade
- Judge strikes down moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
- The political struggle to defend public education
- DTE Energy forces strike by tree trimmers
- Dresden protest hits Saxony state government cuts
- When You’re Strange: A Film about the Doors—what was it about the 1960s?
- Letters on the Gulf oil crisis
- Police tasered Dziekanski to death
- New benefit system in Britain forces sick and disabled into work
2010-06-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US Supreme Court ruling favors convicted corporate swindlers
- Michigan school districts to undertake drastic cuts for federal grant aid
- Why was General McChrystal fired?
- Nevada highest in foreclosures, bankruptcies, now tops US in unemployment
- Minnesota nurses vote to authorize open-ended strike
- Australia: Top mental health adviser resigns
- A letter on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Gulf Coast residents outraged at BP, government response
- Australia: Big business and mining companies issue diktats to new prime minister
- China responds to US pressure on the yuan
- BP containment effort set back as government acknowledges undersea oil plumes
- New Australian PM pledges ongoing commitment to Afghan war and US alliance
- Claims of African economic growth hide stark divisions of rich and poor
2010-06-26
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Massive police build-up for Toronto G20 summit
- Oil spill cleanup worker commits suicide
- After almost ten weeks: no end to BP oil spill devastation
- Spain: Socialist Party government seeks to impose “labour reforms”
- The World Cup and South Africa
- The role of the Left Party in North Rhine-Westphalia
- China: Explosion at coal mine kills 48
- More letters on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Another Kentucky coal mining fatality
- Senate Democrats and Obama abandon the jobless
- Hyundai workers in India speak out against reprisals and poor working conditions
- Two million protest in France against government austerity policies
- Australian government to deport cleric as “national security threat”
- Letters from our readers
- More strikes hit auto plants in China
- Bangladesh attempts to woo foreign investment
2010-06-28
- Labor government extends welfare quarantine powers across Australia
- This week in history: June 28-July 4
- UN sets up limited inquiry into human rights in Sri Lanka
- The Australian Labor Party coup: a warning to the working class
- Toronto police violently suppress G20 protests, arrest over 600
- One year since the Honduran coup
- Further correspondence on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Irish unions agree to four-year strike ban
- The Story of Us on History channel—an attempt to revive the myths of American capitalism
- First storm of Gulf hurricane season highlights threat to oil spill operations
- G20 summit: Leaders try to paper over differences
- New Hampshire woman dies after electricity cutoff
- Rescue crews find no survivors in Colombian coal mine
- Sylvia Young visits DTE contractors’ picket line
- Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II
- House, Senate Democrats agree on pro-Wall Street bank “reform”
2010-06-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- An Ozark noir: Winter’s Bone
- Video series: The Gulf oil spill
- Sri Lankan authorities ban student group from Jaffna campus
- Opposition grows to police repression in Toronto
- The “Hitler” option in Afghanistan
- Obama and Cameron pledge to defend BP profits
- Australia: Mining giants dictate terms to new prime minister
- New today--Two letters on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Inequality, lead poisoning, and children
- ISSE meetings in Germany: “Education is a class issue”
- Letters from our readers
- Compensation paid by British military for Afghan deaths trebled in 2009
2010-06-30
- Video series: The Gulf oil spill
- Madrid subway shut down by mass strike
- The mass repression at the G20 summit in Toronto
- The New York Times and pacemaker “overtreatment”
- The oil spill and the food web
- Thousands of Michigan teachers rally against education cuts
- More letters on the International Socialist Organization
- Johnson & Johnson recalls more over-the-counter medicines
- Correspondence on “‘Socialism 2010’: The politics of the International Socialist Organization”
- Fuel price hike hits India’s poor
- Greek workers in fifth 24-hour strike against austerity measures
- The German presidential election: What does Joachim Gauck stand for?
- Australia: Mining magnates ramp up demands on Gillard government
- Petraeus signals escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan
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