28 December 2012
On the eve of the “fiscal cliff”
Democrats, Republicans prepare major cuts in workers’ wages, benefits
By Patrick Martin, 28 December 2012
Both the Obama administration and Republican leaders are whipping up a crisis atmosphere to justify policies that would otherwise be politically impossible to enact.
Longshoremen strike may shut down US East Coast ports
By Ed Hightower, 28 December 2012
A strike by 15,000 dock workers in the US, from 14 ports on the eastern seaboard, could begin as early as this weekend.
Iraq arrests spark mass protests
By Bill Van Auken, 28 December 2012
The rounding up of bodyguards and aides of leading Iraqi Sunni politicians sparked protests that blocked the main trade route to neighboring Syria and Jordan.
Spanish Popular Party government launches assault on public education
By Alejandro López, 28 December 2012
Last Friday, the Spanish Popular Party government approved a new draft education law that slashes funding for public education.
Rape of Delhi woman sparks protests in India
By Deepal Jayasekera, 28 December 2012
Thousands of people, mainly students, protested last week in the Indian capital, New Delhi, against the gang rape of a young woman on December 16.
South Korean companies plan sweeping job cuts
By Ben McGrath, 28 December 2012
Major South Korean companies are planning to cut thousands of jobs as the economy is battered by deepening world economic turmoil.
US walks out of World Conference on Information Technology
Global split over telecom treaty
By Kevin Reed, 28 December 2012
The breakdown of talks at the IT summit signals intensified national conflicts in an increasingly interdependent world.
UK police frame up Conservative MP
By Paul Bond, 28 December 2012
Three months after Andrew Mitchell MP resigned over allegations that he had abused police officers, it is clear that much of the evidence against him was fabricated.
More than 400,000 Californians could lose unemployment benefits
By Kevin Martinez and Norisa Diaz, 28 December 2012
If federal unemployment benefits are not extended at the end of the year, some 2 million people throughout the US will immediately lose this limited form of cash assistance.
Social crisis intensifies in New Zealand
By John Braddock, 28 December 2012
In the week before Christmas, people on low incomes queued in record numbers for food parcels and donated gifts.
New in German
Bombenangriff auf palästinensisches
Flüchtlingslager
Die USA und ihre arabischen Verbündeten
fordern eine Intervention in Syrien
Von Jean Shaoul, 28. Dezember 2012
In sämtlichen Medienberichten über die Bombardierung von Yarmouk wird betont, dass die syrische Regierung ein Verbrechen begangen hat und dafür bezahlen muss.
Andrew Marr’s History of the World: Eine Verunglimpfung der Revolution
Von Thomas Scripps, 28. Dezember 2012
Man ist es gewohnt, dass der Sozialismus in den Medien verunglimpft wird, aber es geschieht selten so scharf und so voll von Geschichtsverdrehungen wie in dieser BBC-Dokureihe.
New in French
Les bouchers de Marikana consacrés par le Congrès national africain
Par Chris Marsden, 28 décembre 2012
En élisant Zuma et Ramaphosa, l’ANC a donné son approbation au massacre des mineurs ainsi qu’à l’assaut subséquent lancé contre eux
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Perspective
Currency wars to intensify in 2013
28 December 2012
The monetary policies of the world’s major central banks threaten to repeat, in another form, the conflicts of the Great Depression.
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Socialist Equality Party
25 years since Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
South Asia’s foremost Marxist of the second half of the 20th century
Part two
By Wije Dias, 28 December 2012
The second part of a two-part series about the political struggle waged for proletarian internationalism by the Sri Lankan RCL’s founding general secretary.
The enduring significance of the life and work of Comrade Keerthi Balasuriya
18 December 2012
In Memory of Keerthi Balasuriya
By David North, 18 December 2012
Sri Lankan SEP marks 25th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
By our correspondent, 19 December 2012
Arts Review
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Growing up in the early 1990s
By David Walsh, 28 December 2012
In Stephen Chbosky’s film, based on his 1999 novel, the central character, Charlie, a 15-year-old high school student, narrates the story in the form of letters to an anonymous “friend.”
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey—not so unexpected as all that
By Christine Schofelt, 27 December 2012
A new film version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (and Sean Baker’s Starlet )
By Joanne Laurier, 22 December 2012
Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood embraces the “dark side”
By Bill Van Auken, 20 December 2012
Commentary
US retools terror war in scramble for Africa
By Bill Van Auken, 27 December 2012
Occupy protests targeted by FBI counterterror units
By Barry Grey, 27 December 2012
African National Congress anoints the butchers of Marikana
By Chris Marsden, 24 December 2012
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood claims constitutional referendum victory amid mass abstention
By Johannes Stern, 24 December 2012
Workers Struggles
Unions isolate Portuguese dockworkers’ struggle against European port restructuring
By Paul Mitchell, 27 December 2012
West Coast longshoremen overwhelmingly reject grain handlers’ contract offer
By Hector Cordon, 27 December 2012
Obituary
Robert Bork (1927-2012): Reactionary jurist and opponent of equality
By Patrick Martin, 24 December 2012
This Week in History: December 24-30
25 years ago: Mass arrests in first Palestinian intifada
One thousand Palestinians, mostly youth, arrested during two weeks of violent protest in the Occupied Territories were put on trial by an Israeli military court on December 27, 1987.
50 years ago: US warns Europe on balance of payments
On December 27, 1962, a US congressional panel demanded that European nations reduce their tariffs and take other measures to help the US reduce its balance of payments deficit.
75 years ago: Parisian workers clash with Popular Front government
The French Popular Front government reacted with fury to an unofficial transport and municipal services strike by Parisian workers on December 29, 1937.
100 years ago: Arkansas governor moves to end convict leasing
On December 27, 1912, the outgoing governor of Arkansas, George Washington Donaghey, pardoned 360 convicts, freeing them from convict leasing.
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