Archive: 11/2012
2012-11-01
- How to vote for SEP candidates Jerry White and Phyllis Scherrer
- South African miners shot dead by security
- Hurricane Sandy and capitalist “free enterprise”
- US orchestra musicians face wave of concessions
- The socialist alternative to unemployment, austerity and war
- New York City public housing without lights, heat or water after storm
- Likud/Israel Beiteinu bloc prepares ground for war and savage austerity measures
- Hurricane leaves devastation in its wake
- France: Socialist Party government bows to business demands for social cuts
- Fire safety problems in Australia’s tallest apartment block
- Former finance minister confirms France considered leaving euro zone
- Record unemployment and indebtedness in Europe
- Letters from our readers
- Corruption allegations hit Chinese premier on eve of Communist Party congress
- The dead-end of Catalan independence
- German Ku Klux Klan founded by state’s intelligence agency
2012-11-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington seeks new Syrian puppets in war for regime-change
- Growing popular anger as Hurricane Sandy death toll rises to 90
- Defend the Greek working class!
- Nurses in California go on one-day strike
- Protests in Chinese city halt multi-billion chemical project
- Australia: Job cuts mount amid signs of stalling growth
- German public services trade union Verdi agrees to wage cuts
- UK High Court hears Pakistan drone killing case
- Cloud Atlas: Six stories in search of a genuine connection
- The dead-end of Catalan independence
- A socialist policy for the victims of Hurricane Sandy
- Food shortages in Brooklyn public housing in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
- Labor steps up Australian commitment to Afghan war
2012-11-03
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- SEP candidate Jerry White speaks to Chrysler workers in Detroit
- Anger boils over at lack of US storm relief
- Drilling company fined negligible sum for safety breaches in New Zealand mine disaster
- A new turn in the euro zone financial crisis
- Clinton visit to Algeria prepares war in Mali
- Hurricane Sandy reveals deepening health, political crises in Caribbean countries
- Greek journalist acquitted for leaking list of wealthy potential tax dodgers
- UK Conservative coalition suffers defeat on European Union funding
- Report shows tepid jobs growth, falling wages in US
- Letters from our readers
- In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: Aid for Coney Island too little and too late
- Wave of infections hits neonatal unit at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- New ethnic violence in Burma’s Rakhine state
2012-11-05
- This week in history: November 5-11
- New York’s Staten Island hit with death and destruction
- Lecture on Sri Lankan SEP’s historical and international foundations
- Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
- Unions collude in repression as South Africa’s strike wave ebbs
- Build the Socialist Equality Party!
- Australian detainees in hunger strike on Nauru
- SEP candidate Phyllis Scherrer campaigns among NYC workers in aftermath of hurricane
- Philippine government implements two-tier wages
- China’s leadership change
- Germany: Opel auto plant on brink of closure
- Rochester, N.Y.: Kodak cutting health benefits for 56,000 retirees
- Italy’s ex-premier Berlusconi convicted of tax fraud
- French conservatives propose right-wing protests against social-democratic government
- US presidential campaign comes to an end
2012-11-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US-backed Syrian “rebels” in disarray at Qatar conference
- Sri Lankan government moves to impeach chief justice
- Death penalty and three-strikes law on California ballot
- SEP candidate Phyllis Scherrer campaigns among Brooklyn College students
- Philippine anti-mining activist arrested for Facebook posting
- The class issues in the 2012 elections
- The future study of hurricanes at risk
- Murdoch’s Australian holds conference promoting austerity and pro-business “reform”
- WSWS to provide live commentary on US elections
- International Socialist Organization promotes Clinton’s new strategy against Syria
- One week after Hurricane Sandy, human crisis and class tensions grow
- Dutch grand coalition agrees on austerity programme
- London Fire Brigade proposes closing a quarter of its stations
- Letters from our readers
- A comment from Robert Connolly, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story
- SEP Midwest regional conference advances socialist alternative in 2012 elections
- “The two parties are both beholden to Wall Street”
- Job cuts deepen throughout Australian auto industry
2012-11-07
- Tuition rises in Washington state
- Peruvian government crushes riots in Lima market
- Hillary Clinton’s “democracy” for Syria
- Oddisee’s Traveling Man: Globalized society through the lens of a hip hop artist
- Lithuanian voters punish conservative government for austerity measures
- Iceland holds referendum on new constitution
- Anti-austerity strike brings Greece to a halt
- French social democrats adopt new cuts after accepting pro-austerity Gallois report
- Obama wins reelection
- En Lucha’s Andy Durgan: Historical distortions to justify political betrayal of Spanish workers
- Obama administration asserts unchecked powers
- California: Pension fund brings lawsuit against Compton
- Chinese Communist Party congress preceded by expulsions
- SEP campaigns on US Election Day
- Australian government critics express fears of an Asian war
2012-11-08
- Another fatal train crash in Australia
- New storm hits US Northeast as misery from Sandy deepens
- UK: Rotherham the scene of second state-organised provocation
- The disillusioned and dissatisfied electorate
- Ontario teachers’ unions seek concessions deal
- France’s Merah affair: New questions emerge on Toulouse killings
- Massive cuts to emergency health care in northwest London
- Greens enter government in Australian Capital Territory
- Greek parliament approves drastic austerity plan amid mass strikes
- After election, Obama moves to slash social spending
- En Lucha’s Andy Durgan: Historical distortions to justify political betrayal of Spanish workers
- Chinese Communist Party congress: An oligarchic gathering
2012-11-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spokane Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike
- The historical and contemporary political significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution
- Qantas Australia sacks another 500 maintenance engineers
- What way forward for workers in Greece?
- The Nation magazine and Obama’s reelection
- UK backs down on accused hacker Gary McKinnon’s extradition to US
- L’Aquila, Italy earthquake: Long sentences for seismologists
- Obama champions “grand bargain” to slash entitlement programs
- Growth forecasts slashed as Europe sinks deeper into crisis
- En Lucha’s Andy Durgan: Historical distortions to justify political betrayal of Spanish workers
- French CGT union chooses new leader
- Chinese president’s speech points to uncertainty and crises ahead
- Asia Europe Meeting in Laos marked by economic and strategic tensions
2012-11-10
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Defence of the National Health Service demands a new socialist strategy
- Man detained in Somalia is stripped of UK citizenship for refusing to spy on Muslims
- SEP publishes 2012 perspectives resolution in Spanish
- Hunger strike continues in Australian refugee detention centre on Nauru
- New Zealand mine disaster inquiry whitewashes government
- A major shift in the global economy
- Obama intensifies “pivot” to Asia
- French NPA offers “anti-imperialist” rationale for imperialist intervention in Syria
- Massachusetts official fired for ignoring complaints against meningitis-linked pharmacy
- Australia’s worsening housing affordability crisis
- Strikes continue in Greece
- Flight: A pilot saves the day, but not himself
- Obama spells out austerity agenda for second term
- Letters from our readers
- US elections leave House and Senate balance nearly unchanged
- US Army hearing begins into March 2012 Afghan atrocity
2012-11-12
- US Supreme Court to consider challenge to 1965 Voting Rights Act
- This week in history: November 12-18
- Israel launches missile strike against Syria
- Sri Lankan security forces kill dozens of prison inmates
- Anger erupts over continuing power outages two weeks after Hurricane Sandy
- Charges of evidence tampering at South African mine massacre inquiry
- The Petraeus affair
- Obama’s post-election pivot to austerity and war
- Mau-Mau verdict exposes crimes of British imperialism in Kenya
- Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and the historical drama of the Civil War
- US claims Iran tried to shoot down drone
- Infrastructure Australia calls for privatisation of public assets
- Thousands line up at Chicago job fair for less than 60 positions
2012-11-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US criticises Sri Lanka at UN Human Rights Council
- Scandal forces UK Labour MP Denis MacShane to resign
- Australian government prepares “transition” for Solomon Islands intervention
- Philippine “left” quarrels over election
- After the US election, Syria war threats mount
- Obama loan repayment scheme maintains crushing debt burden on students
- Philippine “left” quarrels over election
- “Many could have been tortured to death,” charges lawyer for jailed Maruti Suzuki India workers
- Belgium: 20,000 protest against closure of Ford plant in Genk
- Euro zone finance ministers demand deeper cuts in Greece, Europe
- Letters from our readers
- Urban Shield exercises in Boston test police-state tactics
2012-11-14
- SYRIZA leader Tsipras offers his services to the troika
- India: Thousands protest victimization of Maruti Suzuki workers
- The political lessons of the Sri Lankan university teachers’ strike
- The way forward in the struggle against austerity in Europe
- Union leaders meet with Obama, back austerity drive against workers
- Unemployment surges in New Zealand
- Australian government asks High Court to curb free speech rights
- French Greens, Stalinists staggered by President Hollande’s unpopularity
- What is the “fiscal cliff”?
- Ohio carries out third execution since lifting of moratorium
- Concessions imposed on Chicago-area teachers
- Beijing’s phony campaign for social equality
- Top US commander in Afghanistan implicated in Petraeus probe
2012-11-15
- Sri Lankan government unveils charges against chief justice
- Two weeks after Hurricane Sandy: Hoboken, New Jersey residents seek aid
- Deepening economic crisis in Japan
- Survivors describe bloodbath in Afghan atrocity
- US: Hostess to close three plants as strikes continue
- Israel launches offensive against Gaza
- Free Land: American dreams and realities
- Mass demonstrations in Spain, Portugal, Italy against austerity and unemployment
- Letters from our readers
- Additional education cuts on horizon after passage of California tax proposition
- Leaked “grand bargain” document details Obama's plan for cuts in entitlement programs
- US-Australian ministerial talks boost military ties
- Army pre-trial hearing into March 2012 Afghan massacre concludes
2012-11-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The SEP vote in the 2012 elections
- Spanish unions abandon miners prosecuted during 2010 strikes
- German-based Siemens announces austerity programme
- Parti Québecois to deliver austerity budget
- Nearly 50 million living in poverty in US
- Labour MP blames workers for New Zealand mine disaster
- The class issues in the “fiscal cliff”
- Japanese prime minister calls snap election
- Where the International Socialist Organization stands on the 2012 election results
- Israel masses troops on Gaza border as bombardment intensifies
- South African farm workers’ strikes inspired by events at Marikana
- Chinese Communist Party unveils new leadership
2012-11-17
- BP settles for $4.5 billion in federal criminal charges
- Rent strike threat after deaths at storm-ravaged New York housing complex
- Poverty and the American two-party system
- West African states prepare intervention in Mali
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Hostess to liquidate in wake of strike by US bakery union
- Strike, protests belie Haitian government’s free education claims
- The troika calls for further cuts in Greece
- Israel calls up 75,000 troops as bombing continues in Gaza
- Ford Australia sacks 210 workers
- Obama begins bipartisan talks on spending cuts
- Financial elite demands deeper spending cuts in Australia
- Letters from our readers
- Residents voice concerns about fire safety at Bankstown apartment
- French Socialist Party’s Aubry charged over asbestos poisoning
2012-11-19
- This week in history: November 19-25
- Germany’s long-standing thalidomide scandal
- Scotland’s health inequality worst in Europe
- Nauru refugee hunger striker taken to hospital
- Petraeus resignation fuels political warfare over Benghazi attack
- China’s new leadership—a regime of crisis
- Deadly oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
- New York Times acknowledges conspiracy of silence over “fiscal cliff”
- Michigan voters reject union-backed constitutional amendment
- SEP holds post-election meeting in New York
- Death toll mounts from Israeli air strikes in Gaza
- Washington, DC chancellor announces closures of dozens of public schools
- Canadian government proposing draconian criminal sanctions for masked protesters
- For a European-wide struggle to defend auto jobs
- Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation
- Australian government announces inquiry into institutional child sex abuse
2012-11-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: Coroner criticises police over Brazilian student’s death
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- In advance of Hurricane Sandy, New York warned on vulnerable infrastructure
- Philippine mayor calls for extrajudicial killing
- Stop the massacre in Gaza!
- Obama’s trip intensifies US push into South East Asia
- German federal prosecutor brings charges against neo-Nazi terrorist
- Murray Energy lays off 160 miners in response to Obama’s reelection
- University of Illinois graduate assistants authorize strike
- Drone squadron planned for Niagara Falls Air Force base
- Letters from our readers
- Thousands line up for winter coat distribution in Detroit
- Australian government proposes new “Accord” between business and unions
2012-11-21
- California state police to deploy in Stockton
- Sri Lankan president presents austerity budget
- China’s new leaders: Profiles of oligarchs
- Hostess bankruptcy: The brutal face of American capitalism
- Thousands of miners to lose health care, pensions in Patriot Coal bankruptcy
- The Law in These Parts: Israeli military justice in the Occupied Territories
- Israel continues blitz against Gaza amid truce talks
- Elderly couple dies in Detroit fire
- South African farm workers’ strike spreads
- SEC announces settlement with JPMorgan over mortgage fraud
- Tensions at ASEAN summit over South China Sea
2012-11-22
- The “Black Friday” protests at WalMart
- Australia: Students and staff protest University of Western Sydney cuts
- France’s conservative UMP faces split after leadership race
- Sicily elects new regional president
- Australian government intensifies anti-refugee policy
- Greece in the grip of the EU
- LTTE officials work with Sri Lankan government after civil war
- Nurses in California go on two-day strike
- Former leading member of Tamil nationalist LTTE assassinated in Paris
- Striking Hostess workers speak
- Judge approves Hostess liquidation, eliminating 15,000 jobs
- French President Hollande’s prime-time speech promises austerity, war
- US and Egypt announce ceasefire in Israeli assault on Gaza
- Clinton outlines global US economic offensive
2012-11-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- An exercise in myth-making
- Sorry at New York’s Public Theater: American liberals on Election Day
- IMF steps up pressure on Romanian government prior to election
- Big business applauds Quebec budget
- Australian government pushes for energy privatisation
- Bombardment of Gaza portends further criminal wars in Middle East
- Nurses in California go on two-day strike
- UK: NHS Trust quits South West Pay Consortium after unions agree cuts
- Egypt’s President Mursi claims vast new executive powers
- Moody’s downgrades French debt rating, presses for austerity in Europe
- Holiday savings from Mehring Books
- European Union budget talks deadlock
- A significant report on the global economy
- Push for pro-market reform after Chinese Communist Party congress
2012-11-24
- UK unions and Socialist Party isolate striking Mid Yorkshire NHS workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- An exercise in myth-making
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on Historical and International Foundations document
- The social crisis in the US
- Ontario high school teachers union accepts concessions
- Japan’s election dominated by right-wing nationalism
- Germany’s Green Party backs the European Union
- Israeli forces break Gaza ceasefire as Netanyahu outlines his political calculations
- Mass protests erupt in Egypt against Mursi’s antidemocratic decrees
- Chicago Transit Authority proposes large fare hike
- China: Homeless children found dead in rubbish bin
- US spy agencies edited Benghazi “talking points”
2012-11-26
- Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History by Jenny Hocking
- Protests hit Walmart stores
- This week in history: November 26-December 2
- SYRIZA leader visits Barcelona to prop up Greens and Stalinists
- The way forward in Egypt
- Massive job losses in UK’s National Health Service
- The New York Times continues its campaign: Breast cancer screenings cause more harm than good
- German defence minister promotes militarism
- The Man with the Iron Fists: Reactionary Kung-Fu
- South African farmworkers speak on issues in strike
- Obama administration pushes ahead with drone killings
- Twenty years since Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern tour”
- Worst factory fire in Bangladeshi history
2012-11-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Protest against austerity measures in Slovenia
- Under threat of bankruptcy, Detroit escalates assault on working class
- The “fiscal cliff” fraud
- Mass protest against Mursi set for Egypt’s Tahrir Square
- Hurricane Sandy and the criminal failure of the utility companies
- Report to the Second National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party
- Letters from our readers
- Rebel soldiers advance in Congo
- The growing impact and dangers of global warming
- China’s leadership announces new anti-corruption campaign
- ISO paves way for Chicago school closures
- Separatist parties dominate Catalan election results
- Australia: Safety experts discuss Bankstown apartment fire
- Garment workers protest after Bangladeshi fire
2012-11-28
- Portland, Oregon port union accepts concessions contract
- The brutal face of global capitalism
- Bradley Manning hearing focuses on unlawful pre-trial punishment
- Irish unions make show of opposition to new austerity measures
- No debt reduction for Greece
- Australian prime minister defeated on UN vote
- Britain: Soup kitchens become part of mainstream welfare provision
- Mass protests against Egyptian President Mursi
- Chinese journalist arrested for reporting homeless children’s deaths
- Union corruption scandal plagues Australian PM
2012-11-29
- Judge orders dismissal of Toronto's right-wing populist mayor
- National Union of Students organises token London protest
- Report highlights UN “failure” in Sri Lanka
- Silver Linings Playbook: It’s the little things in life …
- Rotherham by-election in Britain
- German Pirate Party sets sail to the right
- Austerity without end
- OECD warns of lower growth, increased unemployment
- Now available from Mehring Books: Russian Revolutionary Posters by David King
- Hostess unions line up with Wall Street asset strippers
- Illinois graduate assistants’ union attempts to force through sellout contract
- Germany: Fire at workshop for the disabled kills 14
- Australia: High-rise crane collapses on building site
- Letters from our readers
- US fiscal cliff talks target the working class
- Australia: Victorian teachers’ union abandons wage claim
2012-11-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Washington, D.C. parents and teachers oppose school closings, charter schools
- UAW sanctions “alternative” work schedule at Chrysler
- Psychiatrists testify on military mistreatment of Bradley Manning
- After the elections: Obama escalates war drive in the Middle East
- Bradley Manning testifies on his detention
- New Japanese party formed to capitalise on anti-nuclear sentiment
- Egypt’s proposed constitution enshrines dictatorial powers and military rule
- Detroit bankruptcy threats escalate as bonds are downgraded
- Comet failure highlights UK retail jobs crisis
- Brandenburg teachers protest state education policies
- Australian opposition leader under pressure after accusing PM of criminality
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