18 November 2009

US government mammogram recommendations
Denial of breast cancer screenings will have deadly consequences

By Joanne Laurier, 18 November 2009

A US government panel’s recommendation that women under the age of 50 not undergo annual mammogram screenings has provoked outrage from oncologists and other health care professionals, as well as breast cancer patients and survivors.

The US-China summit highlights sharp schisms

By John Chan, 18 November 2009

The grand summit between Hu and Obama was mostly show and no substance. The formulations in the joint statement about the need for peace, economic cooperation and strategic trust were a rather threadbare attempt to paper over deepening tensions fuelled by the continuing global economic crisis.

UN abandons hunger reduction target

By Barry Mason, 18 November 2009

The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation abandoned its hunger reduction targets in advance of the World Food Summit on Food Security that opened in Rome on November 16. Instead, it will now aim “to take action towards sustainably eradicating hunger at the earliest possible date.”

Sri Lankan president invokes emergency powers against workers

By Saman Gunadasa, 18 November 2009

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse imposed an Essential Services Order on ports, petroleum, electricity and water workers, banning any industrial action in support of pay demands.

US-occupied Iraq, Afghanistan among world’s most corrupt countries

By Bill Van Auken, 18 November 2009

US-occupied Afghanistan is the world’s second most corrupt country—after Somalia, where no government has functioned for two decades—while Iraq is the fourth worst, according to a report released by an international watchdog group.

Student protests continue in Austria

By Marius Heuser, 18 November 2009

Austrian students have occupied lecture halls at universities throughout the country to protest against deteriorating conditions and increasing commercialism in the country’s education system.

US workplace injuries underreported, study shows

By Tom Eley, 18 November 2009

The number of workplace accidents and illnesses in the US is vastly underreported, according to a survey by the Government Accountability Office.

Indonesian police shoot two refugees trying to reach Australia

By Mike Head, 18 November 2009

The real face of the Rudd government’s hoped-for “Indonesian solution” for asylum seekers began to emerge last week. Indonesian police shot and seriously wounded two men trying to reach Australia aboard an Afghan asylum seekers’ boat.

US bailout inspector general faults windfall for AIG’s creditors

By Barry Grey, 18 November 2009

A report released Tuesday by Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), criticizes Bush administration bank regulators and officials for agreeing to pay in full the bad debts owed to major banks and investment houses by American International Group (AIG) as part of last year’s government bailout of the insurance giant.

Single mother arrested for refusing deployment to Afghanistan

By Hiram Lee, 18 November 2009

A 21-year-old single mother serving in the US Army will likely face charges for refusing deployment to Afghanistan when she could not find care for her infant son.

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Schüler und Studenten protestieren in ganz Deutschland

Von unseren Korrespondenten, 18. November 2009

Nahezu hunderttausend Studenten, Schüler, Lehrer und Eltern beteiligten sich am Dienstag an den Protesten gegen den Bildungsnotstand. Damit hat diese Bewegung eine neue Dimension erreicht.

BBC-Umfrage enthüllt weit verbreitete Unzufriedenheit mit dem Kapitalismus

Von Julie Hyland, 18. November 2009

Eine weltweite Umfrage des World Service der BBC hat eine weit verbreitete Unzufriedenheit mit der kapitalistischen freien Marktwirtschaft enthüllt, die auch eine beträchtliche Ablehnung des Kapitalismus an sich beinhaltet.

China verstärkt seinen aggressiven Griff nach afrikanischen Rohstoffen

Von Brian Smith und Ann Talbot, 18. November 2009

Das interministerielle Forum für chinesisch-afrikanische Zusammenarbeit traf sich vergangene Woche im ägyptischen Scharm El Scheich. Anwesend war auch der chinesische Premierminister Wen Jiabao. Er sagte afrikanischen Ländern günstige Kredite in Höhe von zehn Mrd. Dollar in den nächsten drei Jahren zu. Sein Angebot wurde von afrikanischen Ministern wärmstens begrüßt. Die Spannungen zwischen China und den USA haben sich umgehend verschärft.

Rumänien: Präsidentschaftswahl im Zeichen der Krise

Von Diana Toma und Markus Salzmann, 18. November 2009

Wenige Tage vor der Präsidentschaftswahl am 22. November toben in Rumänien erbitterte Kämpfe zwischen rivalisierenden Cliquen der herrschenden Elite um Macht, Einfluss und nicht zuletzt finanzielle Mittel.

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Le procès Clearstream : un conflit au sein de la bourgeoisie française

Par Alex Lantier, 18 novembre 2009

Un mois durant, le procès Clearstream, dont les audiences se sont terminées le 23 octobre, aura été cyniquement utilisé comme une façade juridique cachant les luttes politiciennes acharnées qui se jouent à l'intérieur de l'Etat.

Vingt ans depuis la chute du Mur de Berlin
Déclaration du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, 18 octobre 1989 – Troisième partie

18 novembre 2009

Cette déclaration du Comité central du Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, le prédécesseur du Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Parti de l’égalité sociale d’Allemagne), fut publiée le 18 octobre 1989. Aujourd’hui nous en affichons la troisième et dernière partie.

Perspective

Obama blocks climate change agreement

18 November 2009

Last Sunday, Obama gave his consent to a plan worked out at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore which effectively blocks any decision on concrete steps to combat global warming at the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Conference.

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Socialist Equality Party

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.

Myths and legends about World War II exposed at Australian SEP public meetings

By our correspondents, 18 November 2009

The Socialist Equality Party in Australia held public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne this month on “Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings”.

Arts Review

PolanskiAn evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 1

By David Walsh, 18 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.

“Baby Fae,” who received baboon heart transplant, dies

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.


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Algerian rebel government names prisoners peace envoys

AlgeriaAlgeria'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.

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Roosevelt administration plans works programs to create jobs

WPAWith 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.

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United States moves to depose Zelaya

ZelayaOn 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.

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Chrysler workers speak on concessions vote
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UK Visteon workers speak on occupation
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GM and Chrysler workers oppose more concessions
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Chrysler workers oppose Obama auto plan

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Detroit jobs fair
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