Archive: 08/2011
2011-08-01
- Why is the Spanish media promoting Esther Vivas of the Anti-Capitalist Left?
- This week in history: August 1-August 7
- Sri Lankan ruling party fails to win local elections in war-torn north
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 5: A classic novel intelligently reworked, a light comedy and some less impressive efforts
- Record level of strikes in South Africa
- Qantas management threatens “ruthless” restructure
- The US debt ceiling deal
- Massive cuts to education in Pennsylvania budget
- Germany: The Left Party’s new programme
- Jewish, Arab workers and youth protest against social conditions in Israel
- Pseudo-left parties end Cairo sit-in after Islamist protest
- Strike hits world’s largest copper mine in Chile
2011-08-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Syrian regime cracks down on protests
- The debt limit deal and the social counterrevolution in America
- Kenyans win right to sue UK government for colonial torture
- Letters from our readers
- Jefferson County, Alabama verges on largest ever US municipal bankruptcy
- Lucian Freud: “A life of uncertainty and loneliness” … and enduring insights
- Egyptian military junta attacks sit-in on Tahrir Square
- Letters on the Oslo killings
- Australian government suppresses mounting unrest in refugee detention centres
- Report paints devastating portrait of conditions of US children
- US House approves record budget cuts
- Belgian burqa ban comes into force
- Australian firefighter cleared of arson charges in 2009 Victorian bushfire
2011-08-03
- Australian employers demand changes to industrial relations laws
- The calling of early elections in Spain
- California police shootings prompt popular outrage
- Swedish Saab workers go unpaid for second month
- The US budget cuts and the fight for socialism
- Thirty years since the PATCO strike
- Infant malnutrition at staggering levels in Massachusetts
- Israeli protest movement sparks mass strikes
- The way forward for California grocery workers
- France announces partial troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Sharp fall in consumer spending, manufacturing in US
- Some cinematic landmarks of the 1960s in Stalinist East Germany
- High profile assassinations continue in southern Afghanistan
2011-08-04
- Protests held against police eviction of “indignados” from Madrid’s Puerta del Sol
- Notes on the US social crisis
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 6: Douglas Sirk’s elegant imitations of life
- Australian government prepares to forcibly deport refugees
- The Egyptian revolution at a crossroads
- Thirty years since the PATCO strike
- Unlawful Australian government action alleged in Julian Moti case
- NATO facing military stalemate in Libya
- The American “left” and the debt ceiling deal
- US job cuts hit 16-month high in July
- US budget deal a “down payment” on spending cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Evidence grows of Norwegian mass murderer Breivik’s ties to British far-right
- Funding deadlock cripples US aviation agency
2011-08-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US government targets open access activist
- Spain: Major attack on living standards will follow November election
- Brutal assault on senior journalist in northern Sri Lanka
- Herschel telescope discovered twisted ring of gas and dust at the centre of our galaxy
- The bankers’ budget
- Thirty years since the PATCO strike
- Australian High Court concludes hearing into Julian Moti appeal
- Michigan workers denounce cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- Kentucky to privatize management of Medicaid program
- German Labour Court bans air traffic controllers’ strike
- Financial markets plunge on fears of renewed recession
- Further signs of economic downturn in Australia
- Central Falls, Rhode Island files for bankruptcy
2011-08-06
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK rail union seeks imposition of speed-ups and job losses
- US prepares for military intervention in Somalia
- Thirty years since the PATCO strike
- Two more US coal miners die on the job
- Charges mount of NATO war crimes in Libya
- US jobs crisis worsened in July
- Japanese PM sacks three top nuclear officials
- Talks begin on extending US occupation of Iraq
- Stock market panic deepens euro crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Union violates own bylaws to force revote by Connecticut workers
- UAW president shares private jet with Ford CEO
2011-08-08
- 43,000 strike telecommunications giant Verizon in Northeast US
- This week in history: August 8-August 14
- Fatal police shooting sparks riot in north London
- Thai parliament endorses Yingluck as new PM
- A socialist program for public sector workers in Sri Lanka
- Inquiry hears damning evidence of unsafe conditions at New Zealand mine
- The US credit downgrade
- New Orleans police found guilty in post-Katrina killings
- Italy prepares new cuts after stock market panic
- Largest-ever social protests in Israel
- Protests continue as the police leave Madrid’s Puerta del Sol
- Central Falls, RI residents denounce social cuts following city’s bankruptcy filing
- Helicopter shootdown in Afghanistan hits Navy SEALs
- Robert Motherwell and the Abstract Expressionists
2011-08-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US House Judiciary Committee approves bill to abolish visa lottery
- Verizon workers denounce demands for massive concessions
- Mobilize the working class behind Verizon strikers!
- Major police clampdown as riots spread across London and other UK cities
- Québec Solidaire: An ally of the ruling elite
- The Israeli protests and the reemergence of the working class
- CIA, US military operating inside Mexico’s “drug war”
- Tensions remain high after clashes on Kosovo-Serbia border
- German army commences recruitment in schools
- New York City workers speak out against budget cuts
- Biggest global stock market plunge since 2008
- Letters from our readers
- China lectures Washington on S&P downgrade
- Australian shares plunge along with Asian, world markets
2011-08-10
- Video: Detroit area workers, retired people speak out on social spending cuts
- Verizon workers determined to defend living standards
- Low voter registration for the Tunisian Constituent Assembly elections
- Sri Lankan ex-left justifies betrayal of university pay campaign
- Letters show Scottish National Party leader’s wooing of Rupert Murdoch
- 16,000 police deployed in London to put down youth revolt
- Australian government vows to deport refugees to Malaysia despite legal challenge
- The stock market panic and the call for strong government
- NATO airstrike kills dozens of civilians east of Tripoli
- Australian university announces 70 redundancies
- Protests over social conditions continue in Israel
- Thousands of Michigan students lose food stamp eligibility
- US stocks soar on Fed pledge to keep interest rates near zero
- “Order and Annihilation” exhibition reveals link between Germany’s police force and the Nazi regime
- An open letter to Professor Juan Cole: A reply to a slander
- Opening meeting of the SEP election campaign in Berlin
2011-08-11
- Democrats routed in Wisconsin recall elections
- Britain: Westminster council ban SEP public meeting in attack on democratic rights
- The way forward for Verizon workers
- Verizon workers speak out as strike enters day five
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Oppose state repression of British youth
- A turning point in the crisis of world capitalism
- Pakistan: Report lifts veil on military and intelligence apparatus’ repression in Balochistan
- Marseille mayor orders mass expulsion of Roma camp
- Letters on Juan Cole
- Authoritarian regime takes shape in Hungary
- One in ten US employers to cut health insurance by 2014
- Australian government moves to cut thousands off disability pensions
- Letters from our readers
- China’s train crash evolves into a political crisis
- Berlin state election: The offensive of the extreme right
- US retaliation in Afghanistan in wake of helicopter downing
2011-08-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Verizon strikers speak out
- Secret interrogation policy confirms UK government’s complicity in war crimes
- US edges toward demand for ouster of Assad in Syria
- Parliament demands violent repression of British youth riots
- Australia: Queensland floods report covers up government responsibility
- A further advance in quantum computing
- CAUS holds successful picnic in Detroit
- The Wisconsin recall election
- Lebanon intercepts covert arms shipments bound for Syria
- Latin stock markets hit hardest by US credit downgrade
- Profit drive behind German family tragedy
- China unable to rescue global economy
2011-08-13
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Verizon workers speak as first week of strike ends
- Unions prepared to end Verizon strike without a contract
- Media demand mass arrests, reprisals against UK rioters
- US Postal Service plans to cut 220,000 jobs
- NATO’s puppet regime in Libya falls apart
- Thirty years since the PATCO strike
- Once again: Why Obama won’t—and can’t—be Roosevelt
- NATO allows Libyan refugees to drown in the Mediterranean
- Oppose state repression against youth in Britain
- Israel’s foreign policy linked to its growing social inequality
- Indian government under renewed pressure for pro-market reforms
- Austerity measures spell social catastrophe in Greece
- French bank shares crash as European debt panic spreads to France
- Record levels of unemployment for Europe’s youth
- Letters from our readers
- The Failure of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism Today
- Ex-White House counter-terror chief charges CIA shielded 9/11 hijackers
- Central Falls, Rhode Island, in bankruptcy
- Captain America returns to battle
2011-08-15
- Government strike-breaking against Verizon workers
- This week in history: August 15-August 21
- New Thai government seeks to appease factional rivals
- Turkey issues ultimatum to Syria
- Australian state premier removed in backroom coup
- Police Complaints Commission lied about police shooting that sparked British riots
- When the US defaulted: 40 years since the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement
- Protest marches, tent city protests continue in Israel
- Iowa debate, straw poll mark further rightward shift by Republicans
- Verizon workers denounce corporate-police intimidation
- Draconian cuts to Michigan utility assistance programs
- Federal appeals court rules Obama health care plan unconstitutional
- Stage collapse kills five at Indiana state fair
- SEP launches web site for Berlin campaign
- The legacy of 10 years of SPD-Left Party rule in Berlin
2011-08-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan defence report whitewashes war crimes
- Humala packs Peruvian cabinet with pro-business figures
- The political issues in the Verizon strike
- Colorado mother sues over son’s death after Medicaid denial
- Pervasive unemployment and poverty in London areas hit by riots
- Irish premier attacks Vatican after new evidence of child abuse
- Verizon strikers honor Gerry Horgan, killed at a picket in 1989
- Australian court freezes former Guantánamo Bay prisoner’s bank accounts
- Stock market panic deepens euro crisis
- Obama opens up delicate Alaska ecosystem for drilling
- Letters from our readers
- Professor Cole “answers” WSWS on Libya: An admission of intellectual and political bankruptcy
- Mass protest forces Chinese authorities to shut petrochemical plant
2011-08-17
- Verizon workers denounce company charges of “sabotage”
- Spanish mayor desecrates mausoleum of fascist victims
- Qantas to destroy 1,000 jobs as part of shift to Asia
- The stench of a police state
- Obama’s bus tour—a right-wing political stunt
- South Korean government deploys police against shipyard protest
- Japanese prime minister set to step down
- After wave of attacks, US signals troops could stay in Iraq
- German GDP figures highlight downward trajectory of global economy
- Fire forces Detroit family to leap from fourth floor apartment
- SEP holds first Berlin campaign rally
- California transit agency cuts cell phone service to silence protests
2011-08-18
- Video: On the Verizon picket lines in Pittsburgh
- Verizon strikers denounce health care cut-off, court injunctions
- Merkel and Sarkozy propose financial dictatorship
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Sri Lankan talks for a “political solution” reach dead-end
- A socialist perspective for Sri Lankan workers
- Youth sentenced to years in jail for posting Facebook notices during British riots
- Obama’s bloody “endgame” in Afghanistan
- Devastating cuts to museum funding across the UK
- “One banker’s bonus could keep a museum going for years”
- Letters on Juan Cole
- Congressional Black Caucus sponsors fraudulent jobs fair in Detroit
- One million Indian bank workers take strike action
- Historic heat wave and drought in southwestern US
- Australian “health reform” plan to slash spending
- Detroit workers speak on jobs crisis
- India’s government uses authoritarian measures against self-styled anti-corruption crusade
- Letters from our readers
- Unions call symbolic protest as debt crisis spreads to France
- Berlin election: Socialist Alternative group supports the Left Party
2011-08-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Injunctions attack democratic rights of Verizon strikers
- The end of the US space shuttle program
- US child poverty rate soars to 20 percent
- The Democrats and the US jobs crisis
- New York Verizon workers rally against city schools contract
- In wake of British riots, New York police prepare for unrest
- Four killed in New Caledonia airport blockade
- Eon announces the elimination of 11,000 jobs
- Global markets plunge on US data and European bank fears
- Detroit teachers rally against attack on public education
- Chilean students demand a national referendum on education rights
- Bristol riots in Britain—A Tale of Two Cities
- Workers speak out on British riots: “The system is not viable”
- German Left Party and British Socialist Party slander British youth
- Australian treasurer declares economy can “ride out global turbulence”
2011-08-20
- Two striking Verizon workers could face 18 months in jail
- Police repress Ugandan protests
- US, European powers demand resignation of Syria’s Assad
- Reject CWA-IBEW betrayal! Continue and expand the strike!
- Government considers curfew powers following UK riots
- The magical allegory of Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
- Europe’s economic crisis spins out of control
- Japanese government seeks to defuse opposition to nuclear industry
- New evidence in UK phone hacking scandal implicates the Murdochs
- Australian government to reopen PNG refugee detention centre
- Western-backed rebel forces encircle Libyan capital
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bank of America prepares to slash 10,000 jobs
- California grocery workers speak ahead of strike vote
- Berlin state election: Greens want more cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Billionaire throws party on Long Island—other billionaires (and hangers-on) attend
- Australian PM affirms US alliance as tensions with China escalate
2011-08-22
- Workers denounce union shutdown of Verizon strike
- This week in history: August 22-August 28
- Australian steel producer sacks 1,300 workers
- The betrayal of the Verizon strike
- Nepali prime minister resigns amid sharp political crisis
- Two more US coal miners killed on the job
- NATO-backed forces move into Tripoli
- UK unemployment rises, with youth badly hit
- Israel launches bloody reprisals in Egypt and Gaza
- Ireland: New round of cuts in preparation
- Foreign exchange students at Pennsylvania Hershey factory walk out over abuse
- Los Angeles grocery workers speak on strike vote
- Who is behind the arson attacks in Berlin?
- Australia: Report recommends “user pays” for aged care
2011-08-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- ISO covers for unions’ betrayal of Verizon strike
- Australian steel industry sackings highlight national jobs crisis
- Pope steps up right-wing crusade in Spain
- Fed secretly loaned trillions to big banks
- Australia: Residents condemn chemical company Orica over toxic leaks
- Fierce fighting continues in Tripoli
- Letters on the Wall Street billionaire’s party
- The Left Party’s campaign in the Berlin state election
- Indian government seeks compromise with anti-corruption campaigner
- Public employee unions in New York and Connecticut force through takeaway contracts
- Letters from our readers
- Court grants injunction against Central Michigan University faculty strike
- Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
- Staggering levels of youth unemployment in the Balkans
- Multiple deaths in attack on British Council compound in Kabul
2011-08-24
- Libya as a model for redividing the Middle East
- CWA and IBEW abandon workers victimized by Verizon
- British police kill unarmed man with Taser
- Oppose the BlueScope sackings! Fight for a socialist strategy to defend steel and manufacturing jobs
- Slovenia government on verge of collapse
- Germany: SEP rally calls for defence of British youth
- Biden’s visit to China underscores America’s decline
- Karachi torn by mounting political-ethnic violence
- Fighting continues in Tripoli after Gaddafi compound is overrun
- France: Trade unions and bourgeois left parties pledge support for capitalist policies
- Four dead in Pennsylvania flooding
- Manhattan district attorney drops case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Australia: Liberal-National opposition tries to capitalise on carbon tax anger
- Canada: How the NDP facilitates Imperialist War
- Obama administration moves to quash state investigations of Wall Street banks
2011-08-25
- Yemeni political crisis set to escalate
- Obama’s health care “reform” and the Verizon strike
- Tunisian interim government faces widespread opposition
- Credit card affair threatens survival of Australian government
- Death at UK Sonae factory highlights appalling safety record
- Scottish government aided suppression of youth riots
- The ex-left and the British riots
- Randy Newman at the Sydney Opera House: an evening with a unique musical story-teller
- US, NATO plan Libyan “stabilization” as fighting continues
- A letter from an auto worker to Verizon workers
- Fullerton, California authorities attempt to cover up police murder of innocent homeless man
- Kentucky food bank faces rising social need, deep budget cuts
- The Australian Workers Union, steel sackings and anti-China chauvinism
- German imperialism seeks a share in Libyan war spoils
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: How the NDP facilitates imperialist war
2011-08-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US government preparing new attacks against WikiLeaks
- Metropolitan Police deny due process to British youth
- Martin Luther King and the fate of the civil rights movement
- New Zealand government imposes punitive welfare measures for teenagers
- New York City police, CIA in massive spying operation among Muslims
- Michigan legislature requires cities and schools to cut health care payments
- The rape of Libya
- Australian Labor “left” Doug Cameron, the mining companies and the steel layoffs
- One in ten US employers to cut health insurance by 2014
- The fight against the right requires a struggle against the SPD-Left Party government
- Economic growth stalls amidst debt crisis, austerity
- Video: Australian steel workers face deep job cuts
- CERN experiment weighs antimatter to unprecedented precision
2011-08-27
- A right-wing rant against British youth from Slavoj Zizek
- WikiLeaks cables expose Washington’s close ties to Gaddafi
- Turkey’s assault on Kurds in Iraq presages regional conflicts
- Steel unions appeal for deal to impose BlueScope sackings
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- South Carolina jobless up 10,000 in one month
- Libya: The criminal face of imperialism
- Norway’s Labour Party mounts political whitewash of establishment in mass shootings
- Bomb blast in Nigerian capital kills at least 18
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Moody’s credit downgrade sends warning to Japan’s next leader
- Stand-off continues over Indian anti-corruption bill
- The Help: A civil rights era film that ignores the civil rights movement
- Australia: Eleven die in Queensland house fire
- Lockout continues at American Crystal Sugar Company
- Letters from our readers
- Teenager killed by police in mass demonstrations in Chile
- US Fed chief Bernanke offers no measures to ease jobs crisis
2011-08-29
- US government intervenes against faculty at Youngstown State University
- Australia: Wollongong residents denounce BlueScope sackings
- Verizon workers denounce union agreement to end strike
- Spain’s opportunist United Left forms “broad front”
- This week in history: August 29-September 4
- Italian ex-leftists and the new austerity measures
- Evidence mounts of atrocities by Libyan “rebels”
- IMF chief warns of new financial meltdown
- Uneasy truce between Indian government and anti-corruption campaigner
- Hurricane Irene leaves millions without power on US East Coast
- Hungary: Fidesz government presents draft of new labour law
- A letter: Some thoughts on author Stan Barstow (1928-2011) and postwar British social realism
2011-08-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Outsourcing education: The rise of virtual schools
- Gulf slick matches oil from BP spill
- Conferences on the Fight for Socialism Today held in Sydney and Melbourne
- Municipal Workers join South African strike wave
- Hurricane Irene and the decay of US infrastructure
- New York State workers speak out against concessions contracts
- The failure of capitalism and the fight for socialism today
- Gene McDaniels, soul singer and songwriter, dead at 76
- Australian government, unions, business collaborate in job destruction
- Tripoli faces humanitarian crisis
- Canada: The death of Jack Layton and the myth of national solidarity
- New Japanese PM pledges austerity measures
- Germany: Foreign Minister Westerwelle under fire for abstention in Libya war
- More than one in five British households suffers fuel poverty
- Letters from our readers
2011-08-31
- Outsourcing education: The rise of virtual schools
- More deaths at the hands of UK police
- Social inequality proved to impact educational performance in UK
- The capitalist crisis and the conditions facing the youth
- Nick Beams addresses SEP conferences in Sydney and Melbourne
- Fight axing of BlueScope steel jobs!
- Divisions emerge among Libya’s NATO-led “rebels”
- Young people speak at Fight for Socialism Today conference in Sydney
- Corruption scandal rattles Indonesian government
- Hurricane Irene death toll at 42 as flooding continues
- US consumer confidence plunges to two-year low
- Ban on Central Michigan University faculty strike extended
- Berlin election: SEP rally calls for nationalization of the banks
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