Archive: 06/2011
2011-06-01
- Yemeni regime kills dozens in Taiz and Sana’a, bombs southern city
- HBO’s Too Big to Fail: Propaganda aimed at the US population
- Sri Lankan police fire on protesting free trade zone workers
- Defend Sri Lankan free trade zone workers
- “The October Revolution was the most important event of the 20th century”
- Union betrays nine-week Australian PPG paint workers’ strike
- The conspiracy against Medicare
- New York Democrats, Republicans push tax cap amid school cuts
- Mladic extradited to the Hague
- The war in Libya and the crisis of the European Union
- Berlusconi suffers defeat in Italian elections
- Ireland may need second bailout as state default looms
- Bomb blasts in Fuzhou, China
- Double-dip plunge in US home prices
- Greens and Social Democrats back German government’s military reform
- Australian government expands spy agency’s powers
- After latest massacre, NATO to continue attacks on Afghan civilians
2011-06-02
- The assault on the Greek working class
- Inquiry findings continue cover-up of 1999 Rosemary Nelson assassination
- Mexican teachers vote to end strike
- Support the election campaign of the Socialist Equality Party in Berlin! For a socialist answer to welfare cuts, racism and war!
- NATO extends authorisation for Libya bombardment to September
- Growing death toll among former Ssangyong workers in South Korea
- US Supreme Court protects abuse of material witness warrants
- Further Israeli provocations on Jerusalem Day
- Indiana enacts most expansive school voucher program in the US
- Australian unions hail “equal pay” ruling for community workers
- French pseudo-lefts attempt to strangle “los indignados” solidarity movement
- Canadian postal workers approach strike deadline
- Letters from our readers
- Obama, Republicans discuss massive cuts in social spending
- Socialist Equality Party to stand in Berlin elections
2011-06-03
- Heavy fighting in capital of Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Video: Dearborn, Michigan residents protest pool closings
- Spain’s 15-M protests and the politics of “autonomy”
- Sri Lankan worker dies of police-inflicted wounds
- Obama touts US auto industry “turnaround”
- The New York Times and the Joplin tornado’s “silver lining”
- Australia: NSW government seeks direct power to cut public sector wages
- Heavy Chinese police presence after Mongolian protests
- Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris: No style, no substance
- Massachusetts tornadoes kill at least three, injure dozens
- Irish unions work to sell out pilots at Aer Lingus
- Greek government to announce billions more in austerity measures
- Egyptian doctors threaten to renew strike
- Global commission brands “drug war” a failure
2011-06-04
- Yemen fighting wounds president and prime minister
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- State Supreme Court set to review challenge to Wisconsin anti-worker legislation
- Texas legislature approves “Texas-sized” attack on the working class
- Socialist Alternative group defends union sell-out of German health worker strike
- Four dead, one injured in Wales refinery explosion
- Portugal’s ruling elite plans social offensive after election
- Aymara protesters seize Peruvian city of Puno
- Obama, Pentagon stall on Afghanistan troop withdrawal
- Australian prime minister in love fest with mining moguls
- Disastrous US jobs report points to deepening slump
- Japanese prime minister survives no-confidence motion
- European Union, IMF move toward second bailout of Greece
- IAEA whitewashes worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl
- Letters from our readers
- Obama praises auto “resurgence” in the face of dismal jobs report
2011-06-06
- President of Yemen flees to Saudi Arabia
- Serbian government threatens protesting farmers and armament workers
- This week in history: June 6-June 12
- Thousands attend funeral of slain Sri Lankan FTZ worker
- Wes Craven’s Scream 4: How badly did we need another one?
- Extra-solar planet could sustain Earth-like life
- The US jobs report
- Helicopter attacks mark further escalation of US-NATO war in Libya
- The ex-left and the British Airways-Unite agreement
- Young people have the right to a job!
- Israeli troops murder Palestinian and Syrian protesters
- Investiture of French-backed president in Ivory Coast
- Illinois and Indiana CEO pay rises sharply in 2010
- German Chancellor Merkel’s nuclear about-face—an invitation to the Greens
- Record carbon dioxide emissions highlight climate change risks
- US House leaders block resolution against Libya war
- Two more Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
2011-06-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Chasm widens between UK workers and financial elite
- Behind NATO’s war drive
- Gates outlines aggressive agenda for US imperialism in Asia
- Australian government defies growing outcry over deporting refugees to Malaysia
- Socialist Party routed in Portuguese general election
- Humala beats Fujimori in Peru’s presidential vote
- Sri Lankan FTZ strikes: a harbinger of the class struggle
- Detroit Symphony renews contract of Anne Parsons
- New York Times decries “squandering” of Medicare funds
- Five US soldiers killed amid wave of violence in Iraq
- US gas industry refuses to release crucial data on hydrofracking
- Rising economic toll from US flooding, storms
- Thousands demonstrate against New York Mayor Bloomberg’s plans to close 20 fire companies
- Letters from our readers
- Socialist Equality Party receives approval to participate in Berlin Senate election
2011-06-08
- Imperialist powers step up intervention in Yemen
- Medicaid cuts in Washington state highlight bipartisan attack on health care
- US and Britain seek accommodation with Taliban
- Syrian regime intensifies repression as protests mount
- The Sri Lankan ex-lefts and the FTZ workers
- The Failure of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism Today
- Scottish police break up anti-cuts protest at Strathclyde University
- Australian government denies responsibility to rescue refugees
- Canadian postal union limits worker resistance to isolated walkouts
- Obama’s illegal war against Libya
- Obama ignores worsening jobs crisis
- European Union officials demand brutal austerity in Greece
- School officials order closure of Detroit's Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Canada to expand its role in imperialist assault on Libya
2011-06-09
- German university lecturers face poverty wages
- Sri Lankan government to reintroduce amended pension bill
- Australian community sector workers demand pay increases
- NATO’s terror bombing of Libya
- Letter from nurse on restructuring of Florida Medicaid system
- World Bank forecasts slowdown in global economic growth
- French bourgeois “left” calls for army occupation of Paris suburb
- Sharp GDP downturn reveals fragility of Australian economy
- “We are fighting for everyone to be equal”
- Letters from our readers
- Mounting concerns about China’s slowing growth
- British business secretary appeals for ongoing alliance between government, trade unions
- Austria: Poll shows far-right FP as strongest party
2011-06-10
- Washington exploits uprising to escalate secret war in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Anthony Weiner affair
- Portugal and the collapse of European social democracy
- US: Oregon foreclosure filings skyrocket
- California transit workers reject union-backed contract
- Michigan teachers rally against school cuts
- Julian Schnabel’s Miral: A Palestinian girl’s personal and political awakening
- Mexican drug gang’s guns traced to US operation
- German Chancellor Merkel visits the US
- Western powers fashion a puppet regime for Libya
- International food crisis due to agribusinesses and speculation
- Defend Catherine Ferguson Academy!
- Egyptian bourgeoisie and pseudo-left oppose a “second revolution”
- Thousands sickened, dozens dead in E. coli outbreak in Germany
- The Australian Labor Party and the live cattle export furore
- Amid savage crackdown on protest, Obama welcomes Bahrain prince
- New research sheds light on cognitive abilities of animals
- Australian union chief pledges to help drive up mining profits
2011-06-11
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Video: No recovery for Toledo workers
- Syria slides toward civil war
- Sri Lankan plantation unions sign poverty-level pay deal
- South China Sea disputes intensify
- Unanswered questions as Australian flood inquiry ends first stage
- Britain: Private college accelerates drive to make education a preserve of the rich
- Peru’s president-elect Humala bows to bankers
- Washington’s endless wars
- More US employers to drop coverage under Obama health care overhaul
- Musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62
- Mass resignations hit Gingrich campaign for Republican presidential nomination
- After brutal police shooting, Miami officers attempted to destroy video evidence
- Capitalism and the climate change crisis
- Threatened collapse of Southern Cross highlights crisis of Britain’s care homes
- German troops intensify attacks on civilians in Afghanistan
2011-06-13
- Yemen: US continues military campaign as talks fail
- Within the Whirlwind: Stalin’s Great Terror and a big question mark
- California teachers’ unions collaborate with state officials to impose cuts
- Behind NATO’s war drive
- This week in history: June 13-June 19
- Scottish National Party government plays up legal tensions with London
- “Reclaim EIS” offers no alternative to union sell-out of Scottish teachers
- Police attack protesting refugees at Australia’s Christmas Island
- Gates reads the riot act to Europe
- New York’s Democratic governor demands mass layoffs, pension cutbacks
- Espionage case against US government whistleblower collapses
- Japanese nuclear crisis worse than previously conceded
- Deadly heat wave exposes decaying US infrastructure
- Greek government announces new cuts amid mass opposition
- Bob Gould 1937-2011: A political assessment
- Worst drought in decades hits France
- Canada Post imposes partial lockout on 48,000 workers
- Alabama adopts extreme anti-immigrant legislation
2011-06-14
- Only one in four US teenagers will find summer jobs
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan wins third term
- Syrian crackdown deepens as fighting threatens to spread
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on Middle East uprisings
- Canada Post workers walk out in Windsor
- Washington releases Pentagon Papers 40 years after publication
- Oxford dons vote “no confidence” in British education policy
- The political issues facing NSW (Australia) workers
- China reveals construction of aircraft carrier
- Eastern Michigan University to cut staff, raise tuition
- Obama promotes corporate profits in the name of job creation
- Australian hospital waiting times worsen under “health reform”
- Detroit students speak out against closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Letters from our readers
- Berlin sees big rent increases
2011-06-15
- Video: Canada Post strikers in Windsor speak on their struggle
- Letter of solidarity from US mail carrier to Canada Post strikers
- South China Sea disputes heighten danger of conflict
- The plight of the Roma in Romania
- Mining boom boosts Australia’s ultra-wealthy
- Historian Alexander Rabinowitch speaks in Vienna on the Russian Revolution
- Which way forward for the working class in Greece?
- GM threatens to sell off Opel
- Barack Obama intervenes in the Weiner affair
- Arbitrator imposes concessions on California transit workers
- Germany recognises Libyan opposition after US ultimatum
- Budget cuts threaten New York City hospitals’ laundry with shutdown
- Republican presidential candidates debate in New Hampshire
- Angry protests erupt among Chinese workers
- What does Britain’s “Blue Labour” represent?
- US-backed Bahrain regime stages military trial of doctors and nurses
- Wildfires rage in Arizona
- Canada’s Conservative government to adopt law illegalizing airline workers’ strike
2011-06-16
- Election campaign heightens Thai political tensions
- US talks peace and prepares for war in Sudan
- Defend Sri Lankan university teachers
- Australia: Thousands rally against attack on NSW public sector workers
- Court sanctions Wisconsin anti-worker law
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party continues support for war on Libya
- Life expectancy declining in many parts of US
- Obama defends Libya war, rejects need for Congress vote
- US students test poorly in history
- Greek prime minister proposes government of national unity as protests spread
- SEP/ISSE holds meeting to oppose closure of Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Lockheed Martin to cut 1,200 jobs
- Letters from our readers
- Australian government touts carbon tax “free market” credentials
- Canada’s Conservative government to criminalize postal strike
2011-06-17
- US steps up air strikes as conflict deepens in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Protests continue against budget cuts by Catalán parliament in Spain
- French lawyers sue Sarkozy over crimes against humanity in Libya
- The return of the “enemies list”
- New York workers speak out against attacks on jobs and services
- Thousands protest in New York City against budget cuts, layoffs
- Oil companies prepare for post-Gaddafi Libya
- Global markets plummet as Greek political crisis deepens
- Australian government defies parliament to pursue Malaysian refugee scheme
- Egypt’s military regime prepares clampdown on strike wave
- The ISO and the betrayal of the Chicago teachers
- Clashes highlight the plight of migrant workers in China
- Canada Post workers speak out on strike-lockout and Conservative-backed concessions drive
- Biden, Republicans will agree on cuts “beyond $1 trillion”
2011-06-18
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Rep. Anthony Weiner resigns under pressure from media and Democrats
- Australia: Tasmanian budget slashes jobs and services
- Ex-left seek alliances with Scottish National Party
- Poor Kids: A devastating indictment of Britain’s Labour government
- World economy slides deeper into slump
- Thousands of New Jersey state workers protest savage concessions
- The Fukushima nuclear disaster—three months on
- India uses UN report on Sri Lanka to assert its interests
- Germany: IG Metall accepts job cuts at KBA Frankenthal
- Social disaster deepens after third New Zealand earthquake
- US used Strauss-Kahn ouster to dictate terms of Greek bailout
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian unions move to suppress strikes and impose concessions
- Pentagon demands continuation of US surge in Afghanistan
2011-06-20
- This week in history: June 20-June 26
- Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life: A world of confusion
- Obama flouts legal deadline on Libya war
- Despite “listening exercise”, Britain’s National Health Service still faces privatisation
- NATO bombs kill Libyan civilians in Tripoli
- “Left” figurehead of German Left Party praises meritocracy and the market
- US and Egyptian bourgeoisie close ranks as workers’ struggles continue
- Most US states lost jobs in May
- Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy to become for-profit charter school
- California Governor Brown vetoes budget, demanding more cuts
- Massachusetts Democrats scrap “bed holds” for seniors, the disabled
- More evidence of provocations, repression of Barcelona protests
- New Zealand worker killed in water pipe blast
2011-06-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Head of US teachers’ union decries danger of “revolution”
- Australian pay tribunal awards token rise to low-paid workers
- Mounting attacks on voting rights in US
- US Supreme Court undermines class action lawsuits in Wal-Mart ruling
- Sri Lankan government condemns Channel 4 war crimes documentary
- Mass protests against government cuts in Spain
- The Socialist Party adopts an anti-working class program in France
- Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) holds founding congress
- Behind Obama’s Afghan withdrawal decision
- Greece faces new austerity package
- What is Evans Solutions, Inc.?
- Connecticut Democrats, media and unions push state workers to accept concessions
- Berlin: Broad support for SEP election campaign
2011-06-22
- Savage cuts in Wisconsin budget
- Syria repression stepped up after Assad speech
- British television documents Sri Lankan war crimes
- SCO summit points to deepening global tensions
- Kerry, McCain push Senate resolution to sanction war in Libya
- Greece: The dictatorship of finance capital
- NATO attack kills 19, including women and children
- Forty six major US cities face two "lost decades" of job growth
- Italian referendums inflict another defeat on Berlusconi
- Grocery workers march and rally in Los Angeles over contract impasse
- US Supreme Court denies reprieve for mentally retarded Texas death row inmate
- The death of saxophonist Clarence Clemons
- Chicago school officials rescind pay raises for teachers
- Surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
- Canadian postal union to bow before strike-breaking law
2011-06-23
- X-Men: First Class: Super-epic and social life
- James Watt and Our World, an exhibition at the Science Museum, London
- The role of the ex-left in Spain’s los indignados protests
- Sri Lankan court examines police shooting of FTZ worker
- Quebec: Resignations of prominent legislators rocks Parti Québécois
- The land of unlimited inequality
- Obama’s Afghanistan speech: An exercise in political duplicity
- Report reveals majority of US nuclear plants are leaking radioactivity
- Irish government, employers and unions prepare new attacks on working class
- Papandreou wins confidence vote in Greece
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: The political background to the nuclear disaster in Japan
- Huge turnout for viewing of Emancipation Proclamation in Michigan
- Bi-partisan assault on public education in Detroit
- One year since the Australian Labor Party coup
- Bahrain: Show trial sentences critics of regime
2011-06-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Postal Service halts payments to retirement fund
- Britain: The fraud of the upcoming “mass strike” in Britain
- Mounting US-China rivalry over South China Sea
- All US troops out of Afghanistan now!
- Canada's NDP stampedes to the right
- The New Zealand budget and the fight against austerity
- Revolution and Counterrevolution in Spain by Felix Morrow
- WikiLeaks exposes US profiteering after Haiti earthquake
- Greece: The Syntagma Square movement—no real democracy
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: The political background to the nuclear disaster in Japan
- Fed downgrades forecast for US economic growth
- More flooding triggers emergency evacuations in North Dakota
- Washington budget talks: Pressure mounts for trillions in spending cuts
- Australia: Working people paying for Queensland’s mining “boom”
- US auto workers union to abandon hourly wage increases
2011-06-25
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Victorian government threatens to slash wages of construction workers
- Bin Laden killing roils US ties with Pakistani army
- Wealth of world’s richest rose nearly 10 percent in 2010
- US House defeats measure to reduce funding for Libya war
- Worker unrest in China sends tremors through world capitalism
- Britain and France insist bombing of Libya must continue
- Letters in response to “Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life: A world of confusion”
- US detains thousands as states pass new anti-immigrant laws
- German Green Party moves toward coalition with Christian Democrats
- Detroit Public Schools announces 10 percent pay cuts, massive layoffs
- Letters from our readers
- Changes to Obama health care program limit patient appeals
2011-06-27
- This week in history: June 27 - July 3
- Australian tribunal allows greater exploitation of student labour
- Twenty years after the dissolution of Yugoslavia: Slovenia’s government in crisis
- The Democratic Party and the assault on public workers
- The Nation’s Tom Hayden falsifies Obama’s Afghanistan plan
- Journalist Robert Fisk faces libel action for pointing out Bahrain-Saudi alliance
- The Supreme Court and corporate America
- Connecticut state workers reject union-backed concessions
- Police crack down on two strikes in China
- California moves to increase charter schools
- Carmaker Citroën-Peugeot to close plants in France and Spain
- Trade union-based NDP facilitates passage of striking-breaking law
- Obama joins talks on massive US budget cuts
2011-06-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Political unrest looms after Thai elections
- Providence, Rhode Island budget includes mass layoffs, spending cuts
- Arthur Ransome and the Bolshevik Revolution
- The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky
- Montenegro: Five years after independence
- ICC orders arrest of Gaddafi as NATO bombings reach 100th day
- Letter from US Postal Service worker
- Incendies: Trauma and tragedy in the Middle East
- French welfare payments under attack
- Finnish ex-left joins right-wing coalition government
- Floodwaters devastate North Dakota city
- Letters from our readers
- Warnings from the central bankers’ bank
- White House anticipates “significant” deal with Republicans to slash social spending
2011-06-29
- US strives to engineer post-Saleh regime in Yemen
- Tunisian interim government delays Constituent Assembly elections
- “Putting mothers and babies under grossly unfair pressure”
- Australian government to stop welfare payments to teenage mothers
- SEP calls on Sri Lankan plantation workers to reject pay deal
- Rival powers scramble for seabed mineral rights in South Pacific
- Richard Nixon as Obama’s role model
- Obama’s Katrina
- Germany contemplates “nuclear option” for Greece
- West Virginia coal miner killed
- New Jersey residents denounce bipartisan anti-worker law
- Greek parliament discusses new austerity in face of mass opposition
- Israel threatens violence against Gaza aid convoy
- Finnish ex-left joins right-wing coalition government
- No recovery for young workers and students in Canada
- Berlin state elections: Lively debate at PSG election meeting
2011-06-30
- Trade unions offer no way forward in fight against British government assault on pensions
- Spanish unions, “left” parties facilitate anti-worker reform of collective bargaining
- Washington continues to escalate tensions in South China Sea
- Greek austerity package: Social counterrevolution in Europe
- ICC prosecutor clarifies purpose behind charges against Libya’s Gaddafi
- Corporate discontent triggers dispute in Australian opposition party
- Letters on “The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky”
- Germany and China agree to huge expansion of trade
- Austerity measures threaten legal aid for New Yorkers facing foreclosure
- Egyptian military carries out bloody crackdown on protests
- Letters from our readers
- One thousand teachers to be fired in Chicago
- Obama backs trillions in “painful spending cuts”
- Birmingham, Michigan teachers denounce education cuts
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