5 February 2010
Sovereign debt fears trigger plunge in global markets
By Patrick O’Connor, 5 February 2010
Stock markets in the US, Europe and other regions plunged yesterday in response to growing fears over several countries’ sovereign debt.
US intelligence chief claims right to assassinate Americans overseas
By Joe Kishore, 5 February 2010
The unprecedented statement by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair comes amidst increased warnings from government officials of planned terrorist attacks in the US.
US jury convicts Aafia Siddiqui
Protests erupt across Pakistan over torture victim’s frame-up
By Bill Van Auken, 5 February 2010
Thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets in angry protests Thursday after a New York jury convicted Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a neuroscientist subjected to rendition and torture, on frame-up charges of shooting at US soldiers.
New details on Kunduz massacre disprove German government claims
By Ulrich Rippert, 5 February 2010
New details about the massacre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, at the beginning of September last year, which costs the lives of 142 people, disprove the statements and declarations made by the German government.
US and EU powers greet Iranian offer with threats and bullying
By Keith Jones, 5 February 2010
The US and its European allies have given a decidedly chilly response to a very public attempt on the part of Iran to revive an International Atomic Energy Agency-brokered deal that would allow Teheran to keep the country’s only nuclear research reactor in operation.
Sri Lankan opposition parties protest over election results
By our correspondent, 5 February 2010
Sri Lankan opposition parties held a rally in Colombo on Wednesday to demand the annulment of the January 26 presidential election results.
Britain: Labour government cuts deny university access to 200,000
By Robert Stevens, 5 February 2010
Over 200,000 young people are to be denied a place at English universities in the next academic year due to huge funding cuts imposed by the Labour Party government.
Kansas jury convicts murderer of abortion doctor George Tiller
By a reporter, 5 February 2010
A Kansas jury took only 37 minutes to find an antiabortion fanatic Scott Roeder guilty of murder in the execution-style shooting of Dr. George Tiller, who operated one of a handful of clinics in the US that performs late-term abortions.
New in German
Bankiers auf Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos dreist wie nie
Von Stefan Steinberg, 5. Februar 2010
Zwei Jahre nach der größten Finanzkrise des Weltkapitalismus seit den 1930er Jahren machten führende internationale Bankiers beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos in der Schweiz klar, dass sie sich gegen jeden Versuch wehren werden, ihren spekulativen Praktiken Grenzen zu setzen.
Hetzkampagne gegen Hartz-IV-Empfänger
Von Dietmar Henning, 5. Februar 2010
Je mehr die Arbeitslosigkeit steigt, desto heftiger entwickelt sich die Kampagne gegen die Arbeitslosen.
Berlin - Armenhaus Deutschlands
Von Emma Bode, 5. Februar 2010
Ganz gleich welche Studie zu Armut, Arbeitslosigkeit oder sozialer Ungleichheit veröffentlicht wird; das von der SPD und Linkspartei seit acht Jahren regierte Berlin schneidet stets am schlechtesten ab.
Streiks gegen Kürzungsprogramm in Griechenland
Von John Vassilopoulos, 5. Februar 2010
Die Kürzungsmaßnahmen der griechischen Regierung rufen eine Welle von Streiks hervor.
New in French
France : le gouvernement soutient l'occupation américaine de Haïti dévasté par un tremblement de terre
Par Antoine Lerougetel, 5 février 2010
Après le tremblement de terre du 12 janvier qui a dévasté Haïti, le gouvernement français prend des mesures pour faire cesser en Europe l'opposition politique à l'occupation militaire américaine de Haïti.
La démission d’Oskar Lafontaine et la crise du parti La Gauche
Par Ulrich Ripert, 5 février 2010
La décision d’Oskar Lafontaine de démissionner de son poste de président du parti allemand La Gauche et de renoncer à son siège de député au parlement a plongé le parti dans une crise profonde.
Perspective
A dangerous rise in US-China tensions
5 February 2010
In the rift over US arms sales to Taiwan, the determination of both the US and China to take a tougher stance, regardless of the consequences, raises the spectre of an open rift in diplomatic and political relations.
Emergency Conference
An Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis and War
As the second decade of the 21st Century begins, humanity is confronted with the worst economic and social crisis since the 1930s and unending war that threatens to spark a new global conflict. The SEP, WSWS and ISSE are calling this critical public conference April 17-18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to discuss the political basis to organize the working class to fight back.
Socialist Equality Party
Sri Lankan SEP establishes trilingual web site
5 February 2010
The SEP has converted its presidential election web site into a permanent party site in the country’s three main languages—English, Sinhala and Tamil.
Successful launch of In Defence of Leon Trotsky at Sydney’s Gleebooks
By our correspondent, 4 February 2010
An appreciative audience of 150 filled the upstairs auditorium of Sydney’s Gleebooks bookstore last night to hear David North launch his In Defence of Leon Trotsky: A Reply to the Falsifications of Robert Service.
WSWS chairman David North addresses Sydney book launch
In defence of Trotsky’s “immense and enduring historical significance”
4 February 2010
David North, the chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) spoke at the launching of his book, In Defence of Leon Trotsky: A Reply to the Falsifications of Robert Service, at Sydney’s Gleebooks bookstore last night.
Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2010
By David North and Joseph Kishore, 1 February 2010
The following is an amended version of a report submitted to a national aggregate meeting of the Socialist Equality Party in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 9, 2010.
Arts Review
Academy Award nominations: Hollywood plods on
By David Walsh, 5 February 2010
The decision to increase the number of films considered for Best Picture is unfortunate in light of the generally poor quality of the movies released in 2009. It is difficult to think of five major studio releases deserving acclaim, let alone ten.
Commentary
Bankers defiant at Davos World Economic Forum
4 February 2010
Two years on from the biggest financial crisis to strike world capitalism since the 1930s, leading international bankers made clear at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that they will resist any attempts to reign in their speculative practices.
Sri Lankan SEP replies to the United Socialist Party
By Wije Dias, 4 February 2010
While the USP boasts that its “united front” with the right-wing UNP defended democratic rights, the SEP insists that the USP’s class collaboration undermined the ability of workers to defend their rights through independent action.
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 February 2010
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Mehring Books
Newly available at Mehring Books
Pamphlet on Haitian history available in French
4 February 2010
Mehring Books is pleased to announce the availability in French of a pamphlet that reviews the record of imperialist oppression in Haiti.
This Week in History: February 1 - February 7
Responding to mass popular hostility toward the Reagan administration's rapid nuclear build-up, the governments of Australia and New Zealand this week in 1985 delivered separate rebukes to US military planning, rattling the South Pacific military alliance—the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty, or ANZUS.
50 years ago: African-American students stage Woolworth’s sit-in
On February 1, 1960, four students of the all-black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina staged a sit-in at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Woolworth's many stores, like most public spaces in the US South, were segregated, providing no seats for black customers at their service counters.
The Mexican government on February 4 repudiated all concessions to the Eagle Oil Company, a British firm, on the grounds that they were illegal and against national interests.
The French cabinet on February 7, 1910 announced plans for a major naval expansion. France would appropriate $28,000,000 over the next decade to establish a fleet numbering nearly 200 vessels.
Videos and Images
Family members denounce deaths in Detroit fire
Detroit teachers speak out against DFT Contract
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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