20 November 2009
Karzai inaugurated amid state of siege in Kabul
By Bill Van Auken, 20 November 2009
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated Thursday amid a state of siege in Kabul. Western officials who were present issued hypocritical demands that Karzai fight corruption.
Obama warns of new sanctions against Iran
By Peter Symonds, 20 November 2009
The Obama administration is preparing for new sanctions against Iran after Tehran called for modifications to an agreement reached last month over its stockpile of low-enriched uranium.
US home foreclosures at record high as jobs crisis deepens
By Andre Damon, 20 November 2009
The continued increase in home foreclosures is now driven largely by the sharp rise in unemployment.
US prepares contingency plans to seize Pakistani nuclear triggers
By James Cogan, 20 November 2009
According to veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, US officials have pushed for an “understanding” that American forces can enter Pakistan to secure its nuclear arsenal in the event of a direct threat, particularly a mutiny by anti-American Islamist tendencies inside the Pakistani armed forces.
Saudi Arabia bombards Yemeni rebels in policing role for US imperialism
By Brian Smith, 20 November 2009
Saudi Arabia is now openly bombing Huthi rebel positions on either side of its border with Yemen in support of the Yemeni government’s “Operation Scorched Earth.” Saudi Deputy Defence Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan said that his forces “are not going to stop the bombing until the Huthis retreat tens of kilometres inside their border.”
Canada complicit in torture of hundreds of Afghan detainees
By Keith Jones, 20 November 2009
“We detained, and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people,” a Canadian diplomat has told a parliamentary committee on the Canadian Armed Forces’ Afghan mission
Australia: Defiant stand by Oceanic Viking refugees triggers political crisis
By Mike Head, 20 November 2009
The refusal by Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to disembark in Indonesia from an Australian Customs vessel, the Oceanic Viking, has triggered an extraordinary political crisis for the Australian Labor government.
Germany: Union agrees to wage cuts and store closures at Karstadt
By Dietmar Henning, 20 November 2009
The German public service union representing workers at the Karstadt store chain has agreed to the closure of a number of branches as well as savings of some €150 million at the expense of the staff.
California students protest massive fee hike
By Jack Cody and Josue Olmos, 20 November 2009
Students at the University of California, Los Angles and other California campuses protested massive fee hikes on Wedneday and Thursday. Police responded violently.
Michigan job seekers speak to WSWS
By Naomi Spencer, 20 November 2009
Several hundred Detroit area residents attended a jobs fair Wednesday in nearby Livonia, Michigan, the latest of several similar events held in the area that have drawn unemployed residents seeking any kind of work.
New in German
Krebs und Klassengesellschaft
Von Kate Randall und Barry Grey, 20. November 2009
Ein staatliches Gremiums in den USA empfiehlt, dass Frauen unter fünfzig kein regelmäßiges Mammographie-Screening mehr machen sollten. Das ist eine Warnung, in welche Richtung die amerikanische Gesundheitsversorgung geht.
Schwarz-Gelb nimmt Kurs auf sozialen Kahlschlag
Von Peter Schwarz, 20. November 2009
Die Bundesregierung hat in Merseburg die finanzpolitischen Weichen für einen bespiellosen sozialen Kahlschlag gestellt. Unter Hinweis auf das explodierende Defizit wird sie öffentliche Ausgaben in bisher nicht vorstellbarem Ausmaß zusammenstreichen.
New in French
La chute du Mur de Berlin
Par Peter Schwarz, 20 novembre 2009
La contradiction entre les festivités officielles et le manque d’enthousiasme de la population pour le 20e anniversaire de la chute du Mur de Berlin en dit long sur la signification réelle des événements de novembre 1989.
Perspective
Obama’s China trip
20 November 2009
At the beginning of his eight-day tour of Asia, President Obama declared himself the “first Pacific president” and announced that his trip would reassert American leadership in the region.
Arts Review
Aesthetic choices: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun
By Stefan Steinberg, 20 November 2009
Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun presents a snapshot picture of the Japanese emperor Hirohito and is one of a series of films Sokurov has devoted to leading political figures.
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist
By David Walsh, 20 November 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be assessed.
Socialist Equality Party
Public meeting in Leipzig, Germany
Twenty years since the fall of the wall—from Stalinism to capitalism
20 November 2009
The Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany) is holding a public meeting in Leipzig on November 29 to draw the lessons of the events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Nick Beams delivers lecture in Sydney and Melbourne
World War Two: Lessons and Warnings
By Nick Beams, 18 November 2009
Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, delivered a lecture on “World War Two: Lessons and Warnings” to audiences in Sydney and Melbourne in November, 2009.
Commentary
Cancer and class
19 November 2009
Monday’s recommendation by a US government panel that women under the age of 50 not undergo annual mammogram screenings should serve as a warning on the future of health care in America.
This Week in History: November 16-22
Stephanie Fae Beauclair, known to the world as "Baby Fae," dies on November 16, 1984, two weeks after an initially successful operation to replace her failing heart with that of a baboon.
Algeria's Tunisia-based rebel government on November 20, 1959 names five prisoners of France, including Mohammed Ben Bella, as envoys for peace discussions. French President Charles de Gaulle rejects the request.
With unemployment in the US at nearly 22 percent in 1934, the Roosevelt administration indicates its intention to expand major public works projects in order to provide jobs.
On November 18, 1909 the US administration of William Howard Taft sends war ships to the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua as it prepares to depose the regime of President José Santos Zelaya.
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
20 November 2009
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Videos and Images
Handful of jobs offered at Detroit jobs fair
Thousands line up for Swine Flu vaccine in Michigan
Ford workers speak on contract rejection
Ford workers speak out against concessions contract
50,000 line up for housing assistance in Detroit
ISSE members speak on education cuts at rally
Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis
Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike has student support
Detroit teachers denounce pay cuts
Detroit city workers oppose concessions, layoffs
Interviews at Los Angeles health care clinic
Workers continue Vestas occupation on Isle of Wight
A conversation with Windsor municipal workers
NYC workers speak against cuts in social services
Flint, Michigan and the bankruptcy of General Motors
GM workers on bankruptcy and plant closings
Michigan auto workers and families speak on plant closures
GM workers speak out on concessions contract
Protesting students and parents speak to the WSWS
Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan
WSWS interviews G20 protesters in London
Pontiac residents speak on schools crisis
Workers interviewed at Detroit jobs fair
Ford workers: “Now the fight is with our own union.”
GM workers denounce concession demands 
Chrysler workers oppose pay cuts, concession demands
Over 100,000 demonstrate in London against Sri Lankan war
Funeral for Michigan man frozen following utility shut-off
Exposing Franco's mass graves
Bay City, Michigan residents speak on death from utility shut-off
WSWS interviews London protesters
London demonstrators protest Israeli assault on Gaza
Chrysler workers denounce pay cuts
The Writer and Revolution: A conversation with Trevor Griffiths
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- Deutsch
- Krebs und Klassengesellschaft (20.11.2009)
- Schwarz-Gelb nimmt Kurs auf sozialen Kahlschlag (20.11.2009)
- Der amerikanisch-chinesische Gipfel beleuchtet scharfe Gegensätze (19.11.2009)
- Großbritannien: Der Cambridge-Report (19.11.2009)
Eine vernichtende Widerlegung der Lügen Labours über den Zustand des Bildungswesens - PSG-Veranstaltung in Leipzig
Zwanzig Jahre seit dem Mauerfall (19.11.2009) - Schüler und Studenten protestieren in ganz Deutschland (18.11.2009)
- BBC-Umfrage enthüllt weit verbreitete Unzufriedenheit mit dem Kapitalismus (18.11.2009)
- China verstärkt seinen aggressiven Griff nach afrikanischen Rohstoffen (18.11.2009)
- Rumänien: Präsidentschaftswahl im Zeichen der Krise (18.11.2009)
- Karstadt: Gewerkschaft Verdi vereinbart Lohnkürzung und Schließung von Kaufhäusern (17.11.2009)
- Français
- La chute du Mur de Berlin (20.11.2009)
- France : les affaires que le procès Clearstream tente de passer sous silence (19.11.2009)
- Le procès Clearstream : un conflit au sein de la bourgeoisie française (18.11.2009)
- Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 Troisième partie (18.11.2009) - Deuxième Conférence de l’université d’été 2007 du SEP (USA)
« Le socialisme dans un seul pays » et les débats sur l'économie soviétique des années 1920 — Deuxième partie (17.11.2009) - Deuxième conférence de l’université d’été 2007 du SEP (USA)
« Le socialisme dans un seul pays » et les débats sur l'économie soviétique des années 1920 — Première partie (16.11.2009) - Un sondage de la BBC révèle une désaffection généralisée à l’égard du capitalisme (14.11.2009)
- Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 – Deuxième partie (14.11.2009) - Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 – Première partie (13.11.2009)
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- La respuesta socialista al desempleo y la pobreza (26.10.2009)
- Capitalism: A Love Story, de Michael Moore (22.10.2009)
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- La devaluación del dólar y la clase trabajadora (19.10.2009)
- El Premio Nobel de la Guerra (17.10.2009)
- A un año del colapso de Lehman Brothers (12.10.2009)
- Se le niega fianza a Roman Polanski mientras la prensa sigue con la histeria (09.10.2009)
- Únanse a los Estudiantes Internacionales por la Igualdad Social (EIIS)
Establecer clubes del EIIS en las universidades y las escuelas o liceos (07.10.2009) - Lecciones para la clase trabajadora sesenta años después de la Revolución China (06.10.2009)
- Sindicatos españoles y el gobierno del PSOE preparan medidas de austeridad (06.10.2009)
- El director Roman Polanski enfrenta meses de cárcel en Suiza (02.10.2009)
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- Нобелевская премия войны (14.10.2009)
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- Историческое поражение социал-демократов на всеобщих выборах в Германии (29.09.2009)
- В защиту исторической правды: Партия расстрелянных Вадима Роговина (18.09.2009)
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- Документы учредительного съезда ПСР: Заявление о принципах (26.08.2009)
- Português
- Recuperação especulativa prepara catástrofe econômica ainda maior (17.11.2009)
- Seção pablista da Austrália prepara dissolução similar à da LCR (17.11.2009)
- Após trabalhadores derrotarem sindicato conciliador
Ford dos EUA relata US$ 1 bilhão em lucros no terceiro trimestre (11.11.2009) - Um ano desde a eleição de Barack Obama (10.11.2009)
- Taxa oficial de desemprego nos EUA atinge o maior nível em 26 anos (10.11.2009)
- A reforma financeira (burguesa) de Obama (05.11.2009)
- Carteiros britânicos realizam greve nacional (05.11.2009)
- Washington pressiona por acordo com golpistas em Honduras (03.11.2009)
- Irã faz concessão significativa para desarmar acordo nuclear (03.11.2009)
- Honduras: estariam os EUA apoiando a eleição do "estado de sítio"? (28.10.2009)
- Pressão dos EUA cresce nas negociações com o Irã em Viena (20.10.2009)
- A Desvalorização do dólar e a classe trabalhadora (20.10.2009)
- Türkçe
- SEP (Almanya) yürütmekte olduğu seçim kampanyası için uluslararası destek çağrısı yapıyor (17.09.2009)
- Alman parlamento seçimlerinde oyunu Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’ne ver
Kapitalist krize sosyalist bir yanıt için (28.08.2009) - Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi’nin Tarihsel ve Uluslararası Temelleri (19.08.2009)
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- Obama’nın ziyareti Türkiye’nin oynadığı rolün artacağının ve daha büyük gerilimlerin sinyalini verdi (26.06.2009)
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