Archive: 06/2012
2012-06-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Video: SEP candidate Jerry White speaks at site of Memorial Day massacre
- SYRIZA leader Tsipras backs the Greek military
- US steps up pressure for intervention in Syria
- Quebec government scuttles talks to end 16-week student strike
- Obama’s role in the selection of drone missile targets
- New Zealand budget deepens austerity measures
- Newspaper staff strike in Australia against job losses
- One-third of elderly Americans die in medical debt
- Obama bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom on singer Bob Dylan
- Remembering the Ludlow Massacre
- Result of Ireland’s referendum on EU fiscal treaty due today
- Australia: Unions oversee the axing of Hastie Group jobs
- Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists endorse Islamist presidential candidate
- “The Labor government just wants to shut Assange up”
- Australian protests demand release of WikiLeaks founder
- Defend the Greek working class
2012-06-02
- Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
- Video: SEP candidate speaks to striking Caterpillar workers in Joliet, Illinois
- The Quebec student strike and the need for a socialist program
- Further political turmoil in Papua New Guinea
- Political turmoil in Nepal as interim parliament dissolved
- Muskegon Heights, Michigan to convert entire school district to charters
- Defend WikiLeaks’ editor Julian Assange
- Earthquakes shake northern Italy
- Ireland votes “Yes” to fiscal treaty amid deepening economic crisis
- Indian workers, youth, rural poor join bandh against fuel price hikes
- Greece: SYRIZA presents its economic programme
- US jobs report points to renewed global crisis
- Chicago mayor Emanuel plans attack on firefighters
- Uncertainties mount over Chinese economy
- Australian government backs US campaign against Syria
2012-06-04
- SEP campaigners in Michigan discuss Obama’s drone assassinations
- New book confirms US-Australia plans for war on China
- This week in history: June 4 - June 10
- Spanish banking crisis threatens euro collapse
- Thousands join protest in defiance of Quebec’s Bill 78
- A new stage in the global crisis
- US launches new drone attacks on Pakistan
- US to shift bulk of Navy ships to Asia-Pacific
- Mass protests erupt after Mubarak verdict in Egypt
- Conflict over Syria threatens Lebanon’s stability
- Obama oversees cyber warfare against Iran
- Singh promotes Indian interests in Burma
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania schools eliminate kindergarten
- Germany: The bitter end of the Schlecker drugstore chain
- Former UK prime minister’s aide Andy Coulson charged with perjury
2012-06-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US defence secretary increases military ties with Vietnam
- The 2012 transit of Venus
- Syrian army casualties rise as West inflames civil war
- New York City high school students speak on school closings
- Thousands of UK rail jobs threatened
- “Casserole” protests in support of Quebec students spread across Canada
- The Mubarak verdict
- New York City teachers’ union collaborates in assault on education
- India: NLC contract workers oppose union sell-out
- Muskegon Heights, Michigan residents speak on conversion of public schools to charters
- Aluminium producer closes smelter in regional Australia
- Paul Krugman shills for Obama and capitalism
- Accepting the monarchy: The jubilee and conformity
- Obama’s “kill list” and the decay of democracy in America
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese workers storm local government office
- Catastrophic conditions in the Bulgarian health system
- Growing tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan
2012-06-06
- Republican governor wins recall election in Wisconsin
- Video: SEP candidate discusses experiences of election campaign
- Australia: School teachers to strike in Victoria
- SYRIZA leader Tsipras lays out right-wing policies for Greek crisis
- Opposition grows to school privatization scheme in Detroit
- SEP meeting on Quebec student strike: Socialism and the defence of public education
- Pablo Picasso at the Art Gallery of Ontario: An artist apart
- Peruvian government imposes state of emergency to quell mine protests
- US “pivot” to Asia threatens war with China
- New York school budget votes deepen attack on public education
- UK: Brent Council conducts night-time raid to force library closure
- German Left Party congress exposes divisions and crisis
- Private health management company slashes Kentucky Medicaid services
- The Diamond Jubilee: A glorification of wealth and privilege
- G7 holds emergency meeting amid deepening European banking crisis
- Australia: New disability scheme to cut long-term costs
- AIG chief executive complains: Workers are living too long
2012-06-07
- Jerry White campaigns at Wayne State University in Detroit
- Warsi scandal shows Britain’s Conservatives rent by factional conflicts
- Non-academic university staff strike in Sri Lanka
- Half of Americans in households receiving government aid
- Remembering Maurice Sendak
- Russian president in talks with Berlin and Paris on Syria
- Australian state government axes 750 rail jobs
- Quebec legislator arrested as state repression of student strike continues
- The lessons of Wisconsin
- Libyan elections postponed amid mounting violence
- Letters on Obama’s Medal of Freedom and Bob Dylan
- Australian broadcaster promotes anti-refugee hysteria
- Senior Chinese official detained over spy allegations
- Buffalo, New York teachers oppose state evaluation plan
- US airstrike kills 18 Afghan civilians
2012-06-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Guitar and folk music great Doc Watson dead at 89
- Australia: Victorian teachers strike over pay and conditions
- Socialist Party leads in French parliamentary elections
- Sri Lanka: Plantation workers oppose tea factory closure
- Political lessons of the break-up of the Schlecker drugstore chain
- Germany: Creditors decide to break up Schlecker drugstore chain
- Police raid Quebec Solidaire leader’s home
- The euro crisis and the role of SYRIZA
- US Defense Secretary Panetta threatens ground intervention into Pakistan
- New Zealand police attack protest against education budget cuts
- Safety concerns after Lagos plane crash kills 170
- UK National Health Service workers suffer 21 percent wage cut
- Tensions mount as European leaders scramble to avert Spanish banking collapse
- Bill Clinton: Extend Bush tax cuts
- Second week of Canada-wide “casserole” protests
- SEIU trade union supports California budget cuts
- Burmese opposition leader visits Thailand
2012-06-09
- The Wisconsin election: The political lessons
- US military lobbies for war with Syria
- Young people in US face bleak job prospects
- Putin’s visit to China signals sharpening global tensions
- Defend Julian Assange
- Obama hails record corporate profits at press conference on the economy
- Democrats, Republicans criticize leaks, not drone murders
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hemingway and Gellhorn on HBO: A lost opportunity
- Athens court declares two strikes illegal
- Calls for deployment of German navy against Syria
- German chancellor rejects US-British demands for “immediate response” to the euro crisis
- Widening social inequality in US capital
- Letters from our readers
- Indian government prepares mass sacking of Air India pilots
2012-06-11
- This week in history: June 11-17
- Fighting intensifies in Syria as US pushes for expanded intervention
- More US military suicides than combat deaths in 2012
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- US-backed Syrian opposition appoints new leader
- The Spanish bailout and the specter of the 1930s
- New York City workers discuss American militarism and Obama’s role in drone attacks
- Bradley Manning’s motions to dismiss charges rejected
- Japan’s South Pacific summit directed against China
- Deepening euro crisis increases fears over Ireland
- IAEA talks on Iran’s nuclear program collapse
- Bourgeois “left” wins plurality in first round of French legislative elections
- Entergy locks outs nuclear power plant workers in Massachusetts
- For Greater Glory and the falsification of Mexican history
- Pregnant Chicago woman tasered by police
- Stop state suppression of Quebec student strike!
- Philippine President Aquino in Washington boosts military ties
2012-06-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- British journalist “set up to be shot” by Syrian rebels
- Bailout of Spanish banks will “tighten the austerity thumbscrew”
- Russia prepares army for Syrian deployment
- Increasing number of strikes in Russia
- Romney, Obama trade charges of being “out of touch”
- Australian military plans for invasion of Fiji and PNG
- New Anti-capitalist Party presses for Socialist Party government in France
- US: Life-threatening violations rampant in Alpha coal mines
- Southern California public education unions agree to attacks on membership
- US declares India a “lynchpin” in its Asian strategy
- Greek crisis exposes bankruptcy of petty-bourgeois ex-left
- Nazi war criminal Klaas Carel Faber dies unpunished
- State of Michigan threatens cutoff of funds to Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- In lead-up to climate summit, scientists issue warning of biosphere collapse
- Caterpillar steps up strike-breaking effort in Illinois
- SEP campaigns in Ypsilanti, Michigan for meeting on US elections
- SEP public meetings pass resolutions defending Assange
- Workers and youth denounce government attacks on Julian Assange
2012-06-13
- Houla massacre carried out by Free Syrian Army, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Mary Shelley—A new play about her remarkable life and times
- Schlecker drug store worker: “It is like organizing one’s own funeral”
- Union mouthpiece denounces Quebec student strike
- Philippine government presides over schools in crisis
- Crisis has thrown back US families 20 years
- The closing of Charles F. Kettering High School on Detroit’s east side
- ISO silent on Obama’s kill list
- US excludes China from Iran sanctions waiver
- Greece: Fascists step up assaults on political opponents and migrants
- German finance minister threatens Greek voters
- An interview with Helen Edmundson, author of Mary Shelley
- Cyprus prepares for euro bailout
- US Supreme Court rejects appeals by Guantanamo detainees and Jose Padilla
- Workers speak on California unemployment crisis
2012-06-14
- Sydney rally against workers’ compensation cuts
- SYRIZA’s Tsipras pledges to save Greek and European capitalism
- Miners strike escalates in Spain
- Quebec artists denounce governments’ smear campaign against student strike
- Imperialism and the Houla massacre
- South Korean university students fined over fees protest
- New wave of sectarian violence in Iraq kills more than 70
- Greece: University of Athens students speak to WSWS
- US Attorney General Holder faces contempt of Congress vote
- Egyptian presidential elections expose bourgeois ex-left
- Global crisis deepens after Spanish bailout
- JPMorgan CEO uses Senate hearing to denounce bank regulations
- For a struggle against the bankers’ dictatorship in Detroit
- Chicago teachers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
- Three anti-NATO protesters brought to Chicago court in chains
- JPMorgan’s investment in the Senate Banking Committee
- Australia: NSW state budget axes thousands of public sector jobs
- Science fiction writer Steven Brust on the death of Ray Bradbury
- Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury: 1920-2012
2012-06-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Australian government’s culpability in refugee boat disaster—Part 1
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) launches Melbourne by-election campaign
- The Chicago frame-up: The “war on terror” comes home
- How the NDP helps suppress the Quebec student strike and strengthens Harper
- Egyptian junta stages coup against parliament
- Obama, Romney spell out right-wing economic programs in Ohio
- E-mails detail Obama White House collusion with drug industry
- Delaware Symphony Orchestra suspends 2012-2013 season
- Threat of war grows in the Caucasus
- SEP campaign wins strong support in western New York
- BBC world news editor: Houla massacre coverage based on opposition propaganda
- Australia: GDP growth obscures economic contradictions
- British court rejects WikiLeaks editor’s final extradition appeal
2012-06-16
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SYRIZA’s final election rally in Athens
- Australian government’s culpability in refugee boat disaster—Part 2
- Quebec: Protests continue against Bill 78 and the attack on education
- Protests in Russia: Liberals, pseudo-left march alongside far right
- The Egyptian coup
- North Carolina legislature moves to gut Racial Justice Act, resume executions
- SEP candidate Jerry White holds “meet and greet” in Detroit
- Ireland: Unions complicit in job cuts at Pfizer
- Bleak prospects for talks on Iran’s nuclear program
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung confirms: Houla massacre committed by Syrian “rebels”
- The political issues in the Greek elections
- Oppose the Ford Australia shutdown
- Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists’ reaction to army coup: Complacency and tacit support
- The bankers rule: Jamie Dimon at the US Senate
- Letters from our readers
- Greece: WSWS interviews Athens workers and youth
- US expands covert military surveillance in Africa
2012-06-18
- This week in history: June 18-24
- Stockton, California moves closer to bankruptcy
- Ratings agency warns of Sri Lanka’s exposure to European crisis
- Obama’s cynical gesture to immigrant youth
- UK Prime Minister Cameron given kid gloves treatment at Leveson inquiry
- SEP campaigns at Melbourne’s Victoria Markets
- SEP campaigners win support in Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Major powers demand release of ICC lawyer from Libya
- Greek Communist Party holds final election rally
- Greek workers, students discuss election with WSWS in Athens
- Conservatives narrowly win Greek election
- Socialist Party wins absolute majority in French legislative elections
- Egyptian presidential elections marked by mass abstention and fraud
- Thousands of military drones to be deployed over US mainland
- Communal clashes in Burma
2012-06-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tatlin’s “new art for a new world”
- UN suspends Syria mission amid escalating civil war
- Gloom, recriminations at G20 summit in Mexico
- No end in sight for Sudan/South Sudan conflict
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- San Jose, California, leads assault on public pensions
- Québec Solidaire open to an electoral alliance with the Parti Québécois
- What way forward in Greece?
- Patrick O’Connor speaks with WSWS about key issues in by-election
- Yakhot’s history of early Soviet philosophy
- Japanese PM orders restart of nuclear reactors
- Athens workers and youth discuss Greek election result
- Australian newspaper chain unveils job-cutting restructuring
- Egyptian junta proclaims a military dictatorship
- SEP campaigns in California
- EU steps up internal border controls
2012-06-20
- An interview with Roland Wetzel, director of the Museum Tinguely
- March protests New York City police “stop-and-frisk” policy
- Massive support for June 18 general strike in Spain’s mining regions
- Quebec student associations make appeal for fresh talks
- The G20 debacle in Mexico
- US SEP presidential candidate Jerry White to address Montreal meeting
- Negotiations planned in nine-week Lockheed Martin strike
- WikiLeaks founder Assange seeks asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London
- Washington’s “democratic” hypocrisy: The cases of Egypt and Iran
- Illinois governor signs bills approving savage Medicaid cuts
- French President Hollande prepares assault on the working class
- Prospective coalition parties in Greece pledged to impose deeper cuts
- Australian unions block fight against media job destruction
- Background to Entergy’s lockout at Massachusetts nuclear power plant
- Mass protests in Egypt against military rule
- The human cost of Greece’s austerity measures
- Jerry White campaigns in Montreal
- Opposition to GM plan to dump white collar pensions
2012-06-21
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh on Vladimir Tatlin and the October Revolution
- Sheffield UK recycling workers strike to go indefinite
- Drones over America
- IG Metall union backs rationalization plans for Opel
- Obama's economic “vision”
- Murdoch’s News Ltd intensifies media restructuring in Australia
- The Australian Labor government—a key accomplice in the vendetta against Julian Assange
- Rodney King: An individual and social tragedy
- State and local cutbacks add to US joblessness and suffering
- WikiLeaks’ editor Julian Assange threatened with arrest
- Ireland: Disgraced property developer Mick Wallace and the United Left Alliance
- International talks on Iran’s nuclear program fail
- Illinois foreclosures skyrocket
- New Democracy heads austerity coalition in Greece
- Despite bleak report on US economy, Fed makes minimal moves to avert deflation
- Egyptian military threatens crackdown over disputed presidential elections
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese leaders brace for European crisis
- Caterpillar strikers face isolation and danger of defeat
- Jerry White talks to Montreal students and workers
2012-06-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Oppose the exploitation of international students
- CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebels”
- The way forward for the Quebec student strike
- Billionaire Oracle CEO buys Hawaiian island
- A global slide into depression
- Pakistan Supreme Court ousts prime minister
- New Zealand signs NATO partnership deal
- France’s New Anti-capitalist Party backs pro-imperialist guerrillas in Syria
- German trade unions do the dirty work for Manroland management
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from Ecuadorian embassy
- House Republicans back contempt charges against US Attorney General
- Massachusetts: Locked-out nuclear power plant workers reject contract
- A modest proposal for indentured servitude
2012-06-23
- Sri Lanka tilts toward the US
- Many feared dead in Australian refugee disaster
- Massive demonstrations in support of Quebec’s striking students
- Japan’s nuclear restart
- Nokia dismisses 10,000 employees
- Rally against police killing of Anthony Grainger in Manchester, UK
- Assault on Louisiana schools escalates
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Washington’s hypocrisy over Russian arms in Syria
- University of Kentucky cuts workforce, hikes tuition
- Greek crisis stokes geopolitical rivalries
- Protests continue in Cairo amid threats of crackdown by military junta
- Letters from our readers
- Thirty years since the murder of Vincent Chin
- SEP candidate speaks at Quebec meeting on student strike
- California budget agreement imposes huge cuts in welfare and health care
- Credit rating agency downgrades 15 global banks
2012-06-25
- This week in history: June 25-July 1
- US escalates war threats against Syria in response to downed plane
- Interview with Dmitrii Dimakov, expert on Tatlin’s work
- Anti-regime “rebels” accused of massacre in northern Syria
- “This is not only against the students, it is against the working population”
- Preface to Yakhot’s history of early Soviet philosophy
- UK government seeks to justify child poverty and welfare cuts
- US states carry out European-style attacks on jobs and services
- The Liberal-Labor-Greens austerity consensus
- Jerry White speaks in New York on the crisis of American democracy
- Mexican presidential candidates have no answers to social crisis
- Paraguay’s president ousted in parliamentary coup
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky published in French
- Tens of thousands die in the US due to lack of health insurance
- Greek government haggles over terms of debt repayment
- Egyptian junta installs Islamist Mursi as figurehead president
- Christine Assange, mother of WikiLeaks’ founder, speaks with the WSWS
- A brutal abortion calls into question China’s “one child” policy
- Obama administration lauds coal giant Alpha after deadly conditions exposed
2012-06-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Downed Turkish jet pretext for new provocations against Syria
- Protests in Sudan against austerity
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold meeting on fishermen’s struggle
- James Shimoura, attorney for the mother of Vincent Chin, speaks to WSWS
- Germany: IhrPlatz and SchleckerXL drugstores face closure
- Andrew Sarris and American filmmaking
- An interview with film critic Andrew Sarris
- The Egyptian election
- New Zealand: Labour, Greens continue “Keep Our Assets” diversion
- Public housing residents speak with Patrick O’Connor
- Kentucky health departments make severe cuts to services, staff
- White House strikes deal to expand school vouchers in nation’s capital
- US: Locked-out sugar workers reject concessions contract for the third time
- Letters from our readers
- Michigan meeting marks 30th anniversary of murder of Vincent Chin
- SEP campaigns against budget cuts in California
- Supreme Court unanimously upholds antidemocratic attack on immigrant workers
2012-06-27
- Tunisian ruling seeks to exonerate Ben Ali police officials
- Fighting breaks out in Syrian capital as Turkey, NATO threaten war
- German finance minister publicly rebuffs US president
- Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Shutting Pandora’s box?
- Ex-US president indicts Obama as assassin
- Kentucky coal miner killed
- Britain’s Labour Party leader Ed Miliband fuels anti-immigrant prejudice
- Australian editors quit as media restructuring continues
- New evidence of US operation against Julian Assange
- Israeli police arrest social protest movement leader and break up demonstrations
- Conflicts emerge in formation of new Greek government
- Detroit to lay off 164 firefighters
- Europe at loggerheads as crisis spreads
- No to school privatization!
2012-06-28
- An interview with Gian Casper Bott, curator of the Tatlin exhibition
- US-backed gunmen stage massacre at Syrian TV station
- Stockton, California slashes workers’ health benefits ahead of bankruptcy filing
- Vietnam’s maritime claim provokes standoff with China
- Rio+20 climate conference: “An epic failure”
- At least four dead in latest Australian refugee disaster
- Quebec union head condemns “social strike” against Charest government
- The new aristocracy
- Air France announces 5,000 job cuts
- Blair blocked legal advice on invasion of Iraq
- A barbarous dissent: The US Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama
- Letters from our readers
- The reactionary politics of Australian “border protection”
- US-backed Bahrain regime upholds jail sentences for doctors and nurses
2012-06-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US Supreme Court upholds Obama’s health care law
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs kill two JVP supporters
- Sacramento meeting reviews socialist perspective against California budget cuts
- Former Romanian PM suffers gunshot wound hours after prison sentencing
- Australian ex-military chief to advise parliament on new anti-refugee laws
- Igniting the Syrian powder keg
- New Zealand government drops school class size increases
- Teachers strike across Australia’s largest state
- Judge orders prosecution to explain stonewalling in Bradley Manning case
- Billionaires bid for “trophy homes” in New York while homelessness rises
- Colorado battered by devastating wildfires
- Germany takes hard line in advance of EU summit
- The Crucible: Arthur Miller’s classic still scalds
- Britain: Thomas Cook announces closure of Bradford-based operations centre
- Destitute asylum seekers face eviction in Glasgow, Scotland
2012-06-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK prime minister outlines massive cuts in welfare benefits
- An interview with Anna Szech, art historian at the Museum Tinguely
- The Stockton, California bankruptcy: A warning to all workers
- Court refuses to suspend Quebec’s Bill 78
- The Supreme Court ruling on Obama’s health care overhaul
- New Pakistani prime minister appointed
- New York Times lauds Supreme Court’s “exquisite delicacy” in health care decision
- Michigan House of Representatives passes anti-abortion bill
- SEP candidate speaks with high school teachers
- Britain’s Leveson Inquiry hit by allegations of political interference
- Canadian imperialism’s intervention in the Russian Civil War
- Calls for debt restructuring grow as Ireland faces recession
- US House votes contempt citation for attorney general
- EU summit averts split with deal to bail out Spanish, Italian banks
- Egypt: Islamist president takes symbolic oath of office in Tahrir Square
- Deep budget cuts in Los Angeles, California court system
- Letters from our readers
- Police lock down Chinese factory town to suppress protests
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