Archive: 02/2013
2013-02-01
- Study exposes global recession’s heavy toll on girls and women
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Israel’s bombing of Syria escalates threat of wider war
- Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet: Aging and the artist
- The stock market bubble
- Massachusetts governor releases budget proposal
- US health care “individual mandate” will leave 30 million uninsured
- UN sanctions prompt North Korea to threaten nuclear test
- Deadly human cost of Ireland’s austerity measures
- Interview with a striking New York school bus driver: “We want an answer about what’s been going on”
- Greek workers strike against austerity measures
- UK economy on edge of triple dip recession
- Czech president-elect calls for new parliamentary elections
- UK: Unite union appeals to Labour to save the National Health Service
- Bangladesh: Factory fire kills seven workers
- Mass protests in Azerbaijan against oligarchs
- Australian opposition leader commits to austerity election campaign
2013-02-02
- UFCW disavows aim of organizing Walmart workers
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts and the impeachment crisis
- Profit bonanza for US auto companies
- Eighty years since Hitler’s coming to power
- Explosion at Mexico City PEMEX headquarters kills 33
- New Zealand government announces new austerity measures
- New York mayor steps up attack on school bus workers
- Increasing mental health problems among Britain’s young people
- India: Victimized Maruti Suzuki workers continue to protest
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Dismal jobs report sparks Wall Street surge
- US Defense nominee Hagel bows to right on Israel, Iran and militarism
- Letters from our readers
- Germany’s Commerzbank to cut up to 6,000 jobs
- Alabama school bus driver shot and killed while defending schoolchildren
- Britain makes its own military push into Africa
2013-02-04
- This week in history: February 4-10
- UK Conservatives and Lib Dems open for business
- The way forward for the New York City school bus strikers
- Record unemployment adds to Spain’s social crisis
- White House zeros in on Medicare
- Detroit to close 51 parks
- Murder charges dropped in Pakistani factory fire
- Germany: A new capitulation by the IG Metall union to Opel management
- Striking New York City school bus workers speak out
- Munich Security Conference endorses US call for expansion of neo-colonial wars
- UK prime minister boasts of “busting open” state education
- Further cave-in by Obama on contraceptives
- Australian union ramps up nationalist campaign against guest workers
2013-02-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Closure plans for Trafford General Hospital’s Accident & Emergency unit approved
- Thai court jails journalist for 11 years for lese majeste
- New England supermarket workers face contract battle
- Biden in Munich: The ugly face of imperialism
- Letter from a New York City school bus driver
- New York City cops aid strike-breakers
- New York City school bus drivers should reject union moves to end strike
- South Korean president-elect moves to abandon welfare promises
- UK youth face bleak job prospects in 2013
- Greek government threatens striking ferry workers with martial law
- Australian Labor government crisis deepens as unofficial election campaign begins
- Alabama standoff ends with death of hostage-taker
- Obama administration claims power to authorize pre-emptive cyberwar strikes
- Letters from our readers
2013-02-06
- West Chicago teachers strike
- Video: Striking New York City bus workers speak on their struggle
- Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy implicated in corruption scandal
- All party support for local authority cuts in Scotland
- S&P charged with fraud in mortgage ratings
- Obama’s contraception climb-down and the separation of church and state
- Justice Department memo sanctions state assassinations of US citizens
- Ed Koch: The right-wing trajectory of a Democratic politician
- Iranian president publicly accuses rivals of corruption
- Goodyear France announces closure of its Amiens-Nord site
- Girl on Fire—Alicia Keys closes her eyes to the world
2013-02-07
- US Postal Service announces plan to end Saturday mail delivery
- Kremlin responds to slowdown in economic growth with deeper social cuts
- Dead children used to provide identification for UK undercover police
- The police state implications of Obama’s assassination program
- Democrats join bid to strangle New York City bus drivers strike
- Tsar to Lenin to be screened Wednesday in Montreal
- UN report details brutal conditions in Australian government’s Pacific refugee camps
- Tokyo accuses Chinese navy of “locking onto” Japanese targets
- Ireland’s United Left Alliance collapses
- Greek government imposes martial law on ferry strikers
- Letters from our readers
- Bloomberg presses attack on striking New York City school bus drivers
- Firms make billions as middlemen in government cover-up of Wall Street crimes
2013-02-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Murder of secular politician sparks mass protests in Tunisia
- A reply to a defender of SYRIZA
- Sri Lankan army report denies war crime accusations
- Ten killed in Solomon Islands tsunami
- Bank scandals and the case for public ownership
- Ontario teachers’ union funded Liberal leadership candidates
- UK: Honda slashes nearly one third of jobs at Swindon
- Media covered up US assassination base in Saudi Arabia
- Senate hearing on John Brennan whitewashes US assassination program
- Bowling Green, Ohio university to lay off 12 percent of faculty
- Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi praises Mussolini
- School bus workers fight for job security and wages: 1979 and today
2013-02-09
- General strike, mass protests shake US-backed Islamist regime in Tunisia
- Qatar plays key role in US Middle East/North Africa plans
- Philadelphia charter administrators mired in corruption charges
- Philippine performance artist jailed for “offending religious feelings”
- The US drone assassination program and the threat of dictatorship
- Photographer Alessandro Penso, chronicler of “Fortress Europe,” speaks on the plight of migrant youth
- Mobilize the working class to defend New York school bus strike
- WSWS publishes New York school bus strike newsletter
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US imposes new sanctions on Iran prior to international talks
- Netflix’s US remake of House of Cards stands up despite weaknesses
- French government prepares repression against workers
- US government requests for Internet communications soar
- Letters from our readers
- Australian economy faces “painful” adjustment
2013-02-11
- A reply to a defender of the UK’s RMT rail union
- This week in history: February 11-17
- US sponsors new UN resolution on Sri Lankan human rights
- Australian media furore over sport “drug cheats”
- Australia: Pacific National provokes coal train drivers’ strike
- Germany: Prinovis print works to close in Itzehoe
- UK postal workers at Whitstable abandoned by Communication Workers Union
- Class tensions in Europe at the breaking point
- Cuts in education, health care and state jobs in Pennsylvania budget
- School bus strikers in New York City discuss their struggle
- Striking New York City bus drivers march in defense of jobs
- LA police shoot paper carriers during Southern California manhunt
- European Union summit agrees on austerity budget
- Harper government using “humanitarian” aid to boost Canada’s global mining companies
- Donald Byrd, extraordinary jazz trumpeter, dies at 80
- Blizzard claims at least 14 lives in US Northeast and Canada
- Australia’s Socialist Alternative hails betrayal of Chicago teachers strike as a victory
2013-02-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tunisian government begins to unravel
- Pentagon chiefs reveal divisions over Syria
- US food assistance benefits face cut in November
- In the Italian elections, Rifondazione Comunista emerges as a bourgeois party
- The New York City school bus strike and the for-profit student transportation industry
- The danger of war in Asia
- Why the unions refuse to mobilize support for striking New York City bus drivers
- Australian mining tax debacle intensifies pressure for deep budget cuts
- Bus collision kills 22 migrant workers in United Arab Emirates
- The role of Germany in the war in Mali
- UK government implements cuts in South East London Healthcare Trust
- UK horsemeat scandal spreads to Europe
- Cuts in fire protection leading to deaths in Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Obama pushes austerity in the guise of defending the “middle class”
- A legal lynching: Indian government executes Afzal Guru
2013-02-13
- Two West Virginia coal miners killed
- Australia: Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality!
- Stafford Hospital report points to decimation of Britain’s National Health Service
- Obama defends drone assassinations in State of the Union address
- Australia: Victorian teachers prepare for mass meeting and third one-day strike
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) resolution to AEU mass meeting
- Pope resigns amid deepening crisis for Catholic Church
- The New York bus strike and the defense of public education
- The Nation magazine and Obama’s assassination program
- North Korea tests third nuclear device
- Irish debt deal means decades of austerity to cover bank bailout
- Los Angeles/Long Beach longshore clerks vote down sell-out contract
- Foxconn stages union elections: A trap for Chinese workers
- Los Angeles manhunt ends in shoot-out, inferno
- Unpaid furlough days dictated for 600 Detroit city workers
- Chevron fined for “willful violations” in California refinery fire
- Canadian Auto Workers union reopens CAMI-GM contract
- City takes bids stripping school bus drivers of job protections
2013-02-14
- “I was impressed by the inclusion of the party’s own history and the availability of its vast archive of articles and documents related to the history of the Fourth International”
- “The WSWS was the only media outlet that provided spot-on analysis of the Obama administration’s punitive education policies”
- “I discovered that no media source anywhere offered the precise analysis and revolutionary perspective of the WSWS”
- “Recognizing the historic tasks to be carried out could not but make a forceful impact on my political consciousness”
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party descends into factional warfare
- New York City workers and students express support for school bus strikers
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting marks 25th anniversary of Keerthi Balasuriya’s death
- Roma in Germany forced into abject poverty
- New charges in Spain’s Popular Party corruption scandal
- Fifteen Years of the World Socialist Web Site: 1998-2013
- New Zealand unions collaborate in Summit Wool Spinners redundancies
- After the bids: New York School bus strike at the crossroads
- California governor’s budget foreshadows new assaults on health care
- 600 children living in Washington, DC homeless shelter
- French Goodyear workers protest against closure of Amiens Nord plant
- Unions suppress opposition to closure of Belgian Ford plant
- Letters from our readers
- Socialism and the defense of public education in Chicago
- As Obama touts end of Afghan war, US strike kills 10 civilians
- Australian Crime Commission’s police-state powers revealed in sports “doping” affair
2013-02-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK conservative think tank uses child poverty to further its agenda
- ThyssenKrupp to cut 3,800 jobs in the steel sector
- “The WSWS functions for me as an antidote”
- Syrian civil war creates worsening humanitarian crisis
- Steven Soderbergh to retire after Side Effects?: Problems of independent filmmaking
- On New York City picket lines school bus strikers discuss struggle
- Currency wars hang over G20 meeting
- Parents speak out in support of New York City school bus strike
- American, US Airways approve $11 billion merger
- Australian Education Union uses mass meeting to prepare sell-out agreement
- Australian PM’s phony job creation claim
- India: Cash transfer scheme aims to slash subsidies to India’s poor
- Euro zone economy posts worst contraction since 2009
- Pro-charter school organization attempts public school takeovers in Los Angeles
- California’s 2013 budget promotes the privatization of education
- Teenager shot dead in Bahrain protest against US-backed monarchy
2013-02-16
- Australian government complicit in “Prisoner X’s” death in Israel
- “The war was always in the back of my mind; I wanted to know what happened”
- France: Unemployed worker sets himself on fire outside job centre
- Romanian auto workers face wage cuts and layoffs
- Inequality and American democracy
- Union calls off New York school bus strike, telling workers to rely on Democrats
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Senate handles Obama’s treasury pick with kid gloves
- The increasingly right-wing, pro-Democratic Party ISO
- Greek strikes continue as unemployment, poverty hit record levels
- Massive police mobilization ends in killing of Christopher Dorner
- Letters from our readers
- Local government debts expose China’s financial instability
- Disabled cruise liner arrives in Alabama after days at sea
- Bloomberg boasts of breaking New York bus strike as part of assault on public education
- Detroit Mayor Bing defends layoffs, pay cuts
2013-02-18
- This week in history: February 18-24
- “Quality in journalism is no simple matter, and you deliver”
- “The truth never hurt anyone, provided he was on the level”
- “It helps to keep me sane in an insane world”
- Sri Lankan journalist shot by gunmen
- Spanish unions collude in mass unemployment and wage cuts
- Majority of working Americans have no retirement savings
- Lessons of the New York City school bus strike
- New Zealand government to take refugees from Australia’s detention camps
- New York City school bus workers express anger over conduct of strike
- Science, society and the Chelyabinsk meteor
- G20 issues empty declaration against currency wars
- Mass opposition to school closures in Chicago, Illinois
- Syria’s civil war destabilising the Caucasus
- Reader contributions: Why I read the WSWS
- American Federation of Teachers’ journal slanders historian Howard Zinn
- US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan unravelling
2013-02-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: Chicago teachers, parents speak out on school closures
- SEIU union leader convicted on federal charges
- The anti-working class agenda promoted by the Scottish Socialist Party
- Deteriorating conditions in Illinois prisons lead to hunger strike
- Brennan refuses to rule out drone assassinations within the US
- German Socialist Alternative group aids union sellout at Opel
- India: Thousands join protests to support victimised Maruti Suzuki workers
- China presses Burma for Kachin peace deal
- Draconian White House immigration reform leaked to press
- Australian prime minister announces bogus jobs plan
- French President Hollande presses for major arms deals in India
- Mass strikes and protests shut down Port Said in Egypt
- Letters from our readers
- Two more US coal miners killed
2013-02-20
- Western Australia election campaign paves way for spending cuts
- Why I read the WSWS: February 20
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- Sam, Maryland, USA
- Dylan, Canada
- Diana
- Australia: Union sells out NSW public sector workers
- The health care crisis in the US prison system
- Ten years since the global protests against war in Iraq
- Death of pensioner highlights crisis of UK care for elderly
- Iberia airline strikers clash with Spanish police
- Indian workers need a socialist program
- Australian Greens “break” with Labor, but pledge “stability”
- German industry, government planning for resource wars
- Not Fade Away: “Oh! Pleasant exercise of hope and joy”
- Rafael Correa wins third presidential term in Ecuador
- US coal companies shed 7,700 jobs in 2012
- UK gay marriage bill: An undemocratic fraud
- Teachers demonstrate in Berlin
2013-02-21
- SYRIZA censures deputy for questioning Greek claims of disputed islands
- The return of German imperialism
- Obama calls for more spending cuts to prevent “sequestration”
- Fresh arrests in UK’s News International phone-hacking scandal
- Another West Virginia coal miner killed
- Indonesian government threatens mass layoffs over minimum wage rises
- US uses hacking allegations to escalate threats against China
- Workers mount 24-hour national strike against social attacks in Greece
- Mayor of London pushes ahead with fire station closures
- Review panel paves way for emergency manager in Detroit
- Australia: Bipartisan fraud on “closing the gap” of Aboriginal poverty
- Huge police operation to evict Berlin tenants
- Unresolved issues in today’s filmmaking
- Tens of millions of Indian workers join general strike
2013-02-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Nearly 100 perish in latest Australian refugee disaster
- Philippine reproductive health bill continues to illegalize abortion
- The corporate buyout surge and economic parasitism
- Returning New York City school bus drivers, escorts face retribution after union betrayal
- Study finds mammals diversified only after the extinction of dinosaurs
- German government decides on long-term military deployment in Mali
- Billionaires pour cash into campaign to dismantle public education in Los Angeles
- Spain’s Popular Party makes U-turn on eviction petition
- Obama administration denies Congress drone assassination memos
- The intellectually bankrupt defenders of Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty
- Massive car bomb hits Syrian capital, killing 53 and wounding 235
- Protests erupt over lack of emergency medical care in Chicago
- Prime Minister Cameron’s India tour highlights UK’s weakening global position
- Boeing professional workers split on contract
2013-02-23
- US blocks UN resolution condemning Damascus terror bombings
- String of police shootings in San Diego, California
- Unrest breaks out again in South Africa’s mining sector
- US preparations for cyber war against China
- Ontario NDP and unions support Liberal austerity policies
- Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange
- US deploys troops, drones to Niger
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. pleads guilty to misuse of campaign funds
- Italy before the elections
- Indian general strike ends with no demands met
- Forecasting more recession and unemployment, the EU demands more austerity
- New York school bus workers form rank-and-file committee
- Mass protests bring down Bulgarian government
- Leadership speculation surrounds Australian prime minister
2013-02-25
- German government report threatens cuts to welfare benefits
- A comment from a reader in Uruguay on Lincoln, Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty
- This week in history: February 25-March 3
- New prime minister in Tunisia
- Seattle anarchists imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury
- Quebec’s education summit: A cover for university tuition fee hikes
- Sequester to spearhead historic assault on US social programs
- Mexican government prepares a dirty war
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master: The limits of making it up as you go along
- Los Angeles mayoral candidates offer no choice for the working class
- US auto union chief addresses Australian union conference
- Social counterrevolution in Greece
- Germany arms the Persian Gulf monarchies
- Australia: Still no inquest into student deaths in Melbourne fire
- Share sell-off points to further instability in global financial markets
- Camden Council plans to move out 761 families
- Afghan regime accuses US forces of torturing, murdering civilians
2013-02-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- American NGOs pull out of Russia
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Over four billion people worldwide lack adequate sanitation
- UK: Rotherham Hospital workers face further attacks on jobs and conditions
- US troops to Niger: A new stage in the scramble for Africa
- Union scuttles strike against New Zealand school closures
- Japanese premier signals military buildup during US visit
- Initial results indicate stalemate in Italian election
- New York City homelessness continues to set new records
- Pakistan transfers strategic Gwadar port to China
- Cyprus poses danger for euro zone stability
- Letters from our readers
- Australian court upholds patent for breast cancer gene
- The way forward in the fight against the closure of GM-Opel’s Bochum plant
- Australian corporate chief calls for major welfare cuts
- The 2013 Academy Awards: Mediocrities by and large, and at their worst
2013-02-27
- Toronto homeless advocates protest budget cuts
- Why I read the WSWS
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- Strikes and demonstrations rock Spain
- IMF demands deeper austerity measures in Sri Lanka
- Obama combines sequester cuts with demagogy
- Twin Cities security guards slated for one-day strike
- Workers rebel against right-wing unions
- Set for Life: The effects of recession on an older generation
- JPMorgan Chase to cut 4,000 jobs
- Italian voters reject the European Union’s austerity measures
- CEO of US tire firm denounces French Goodyear workers
- Former top Obama official warns of “powder keg” in Asia
- Bulgaria: Protests continue after government’s resignation
- Moody’s credit downgrade heightens UK economic crisis
- BP civil trial opens
- The Plague: The “loneliness, strength, humanity and beauty” of ordinary people
2013-02-28
- Union calls off Western Australian nurses’ strike
- Right-wing Supreme Court justices attack US Voting Rights Act
- Why I read the WSWS
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- US moves towards open arming of Syrian opposition
- Pope ends reign amid rising scandals
- Quebec: PQ imposes annual hikes in university tuition fees
- The Italian election: A political watershed
- Letters on the Academy Awards
- Talks on Iran’s nuclear program reach no agreement
- France-Qatar tensions rise over Mali war, Tunisia
- US Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit challenging secret wiretaps
- Four perish in Maryland house fire
- The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall
- Letters from our readers
- Fed chairman reassures markets on dollar-printing “quantitative easing” program
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