9 March 2010
Papandreou in Paris
Sarkozy echos Germany’s hard line on Greek debt crisis
By Antoine Lerougetel, 9 March 2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou at the Elysée Palace on Sunday and echoed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in insisting that Greece deal with its debt crisis by imposing a brutal austerity program on the working class.
Gates visits Afghanistan to prepare US offensive against Kandahar
By Joe Kishore, 9 March 2010
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned of “hard fighting” in the next round of the US offensive in the south, targeting Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city.
Iceland: Overwhelming rejection of Icesave bill in national referendum
By Jordan Shilton, 9 March 2010
Saturday’s referendum in Iceland on whether to accept a deal to pay back nearly €4 billion to Britain and the Netherlands resulted in a massive “no” vote.
US-Turkey tensions mount over resolution on Armenian genocide
By Justus Leicht, 9 March 2010
While newspapers in Germany and other European countries have interpreted the adoption of the Armenian resolution by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee as a setback for Obama, the Turkish media see it more as an American-Israeli attempt to exert pressure on Turkey.
Germany: The significance of the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections
By Ulrich Rippert, 9 March 2010
The upcoming elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will not only decide upon the composition of the state parliament, but will also have decisive implications for the German federal government.
Canada: Conservatives initiate anti-working class austerity drive
By Keith Jones, 9 March 2010
In the federal budget tabled March 4, Canada’s minority Conservative government proclaimed its commitment to at least five years of spending restraint, freezes, and cuts.
Hong Kong: Two social worlds in one city
By our reporter, 9 March 2010
Behind Hong Kong’s glitz and glamour lies one of the most grotesquely unequal societies in Asia and the world.
Indonesian parliament debates bank bailout findings
By John Braddock, 9 March 2010
A vote in Indonesia’s parliament last Wednesday on the findings of a probe into the bailout of PT Bank Century has widened the rift in the government coalition.
Los Angeles sends layoff notices to 5,200 teachers
By D. Lencho, Kevin Martinez and Dan Conway, 9 March 2010
The Los Angeles Unified School District voted to send out 5,200 layoff notices to school employees, even as the teachers’ union was given control of 22 campuses in the city.
US: Georgia legislators prepare deep budget cuts
By Kranti Kumara, 9 March 2010
Faced with a more than $1 billion budget deficit, Georgia state legislators are preparing to impose widespread cuts in education, transportation and health care.
New in French
Grèce : Papandreou annonce des coupes budgétaires encore plus sévères
Par Stefan Steinberg, 9 mars 2010
Le programme de coupes budgétaires annoncé mercredi par le gouvernement grec aura des conséquences considérables pour les revenus et le niveau de vie de la vaste majorité de la population.
Grèce : Dans le contexte de manifestations vibrantes de
colère contre l'austérité
Papandreou promet à Berlin d'imposer un plan d'austérité
Par Ulrich Rippert, 9 mars 2010
Vendredi, le premier ministre grec Georges Papandreou a rencontré à Berlin la chancelière allemande, Angela Merkel, pour lui assurer que son gouvernement imposerait les mesures d’austérité exigées par les banques européennes et l’Union européenne.
New in German
Finanzkapital und griechische Schuldenkrise
Von Stefan Steinberg, 9. März 2010
Die Bankenspekulation destabilisiert nicht nur Währungen und Länder, sondern schafft neue Finanzblasen und zukünftige Krisen, die den Crash von 2008 leicht in den Schatten stellen könnten.
Spannungen zwischen USA und Türkei über US-Resolution zum Völkermord an Armeniern
Von Justus Leicht, 9. März 2010
Die Resolution des US-Repräsentantenhauses ist Ausdruck der Spannungen zwischen den USA und Israel auf der einen und der Türkei auf der anderen Seite.
Der Mord in Dubai und der "Krieg gegen den Terror"
Von Patrick O'Connor, 9. März 2010
Die Reaktion der Regierungen in der ganzen Welt auf die Ermordung des Hamas-Mitglieds Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai im vergangenen Monat unterstreicht das Ausmaß, in dem im Rahmen des "Kriegs gegen den Terror" auf den Grundregeln des Völkerrechts herumgetrampelt wird.
Der Bolschewismus und die Künstler der Avantgarde - Teil 3
Von David Walsh, 9. März 2010
Die Große Utopie: Die russische und sowjetische Avantgarde, 1915-1932 im Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Frankfurt/M und anderen Großstädten der Welt war ein bedeutsames Ereignis. David Walsh schrieb darüber eine Artikelserie im Bulletin, einer Vorgängerpublikation der WSWS, die wir neu veröffentlichen.
New in Spanish
Terremoto expone abismo social en Chile
Por Rafael Azul, 9 Marzo 2010
El malestar crece en Chile por la indiferencia y falta de eficiencia que han caracterizado la respuesta del gobierno al terremoto del 27 de febrero.
Una Comisión del Congreso revela que los Servicios de EE.UU. protegieron al terrorista del vuelo 253
Por Alex Lantier, 9 Marzo 2010
El 27 de enero, durante las comparecencias ante el Comité de Seguridad Nacional de la Cámara de Representantes, quedó claro que los servicios de espionaje estadounidenses evitaron que el departamento de Estado revocara el visado a Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab.
New in Portuguese
Milhares em ato em San Diego (Califórnia) contra cortes na educação
Por equipe de reportagem do wsws.org, 9 de março de 2010
Cerca de 1.000 alunos e professores reuniram-se em um ato no dia 4 de março contra os cortes da educação na Universidade Estadual de San Diego, na Califórnia (SDSU).
Ocupação militar de região devastada pelo terremoto é ampliada no Chile
Por Alex Lantier, 9 Marzo 2010
Até agora, cerca de 800 corpos foram recuperados daqueles que foram mortos pelo terremoto e tsunamis iniciais no Chile.
Perspective
The liberals’ lament: What’s wrong with Obama?
9 March 2010
The first week of March has seen a number of commentaries in the American media, mainly from liberal pundits, worrying over the declining public standing of President Obama and the growing signs of disarray in the Democratic Party.
Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry
As death toll from fatal house fires increases
Mayor plans to relocate poor residents to “downsize” Detroit
By Jerry White, 9 March 2010
A series of fatal house fires have occurred in Detroit as the mayor of the city prepares to force residents out of poor neighborhoods and bulldoze their homes in order to eliminate public services to whole swaths of the city.
From the catalog of Mehring Books
The Truth Behind the Mack Avenue Fire
9 March 2010
In connection with the Citizens Inquiry sponsored by the Socialist Equality Party into the recent fire on Dexter Avenue in Detroit and the social conditions that gave rise to it, Mehring Books is recommending to readers The Truth Behind the Mack Avenue Fire.
Authorities, media launch witch-hunt against Sylvia Young
Who are the real criminals behind the Detroit house fires?
By Tom Eley, 8 March 2010
THAW, United Way: No help for utility shutoffs
By Nancy Hanover, 8 March 2010
Socialist Equality Party
Australia: The Rudd government and the new stage of the economic crisis
By the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), 9 March 2010
In response to the deepening global economic crisis, a shift in political relations in Australia has rapidly emerged since the beginning of 2010 that has far reaching consequences for the working class.
SEP (Australia) Founding Congress
Documents of the SEP Founding Congress
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 9
9 March 2010
The World Socialist Web Site continues publication of The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia). The document was adopted unanimously at the party’s founding congress in Sydney on January 21–25.
Sri Lankan SEP Election Campaign
Sri Lankan SEP launches election campaign
By our correspondents, 8 March 2010
The Sri Lankan SEP launched its campaign for the April 8 general elections with a public meeting in Colombo on March 5.
Arts Review
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards: Hollywood celebrates itself, undeservedly
By Hiram Lee and David Walsh, 9 March 2010
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony has come and gone. The broadcast Sunday night from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, at three hours and 32 minutes, was a long and dull affair in which relatively little of real life found its way into the proceedings.
Commentary
After the March 4 protests against education cuts
8 March 2010
The demonstrations against education cuts on March 4 are an important step forward in the fight to defend public education, and raise important questions of political perspective.
Mehring Books
Winter Recommended Reading Series
Patrick Martin: “A deeply rewarding intellectual journey”
The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
By Patrick Martin, 8 March 2010
Mehring Books is continuing its Winter Recommended Reading Series with a comment by Patrick Martin about Leon Trotsky’s The History of the Russian Revolution.
This Week in History: March 8 - March 14
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was installed as General Secretary of the Comumunist Party of the Soviet Union. He was selected by the ruling Politburo, three hours after the death of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko. Gorbachev was the youngest man to hold the position and the first born after 1917. A “reformer,” his appointment was a turning point in the ruling bureaucracy’s attack on the property relations established by the October Revolution.
50 years ago: Pioneer V launched into space
The US space program NASA launched the probe Pioneer V on March 11, 1960, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with its primary mission to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.
75 years ago: Göring announces creation of Luftwaffe
General Hermann Göring, Germany’s Minister of Aviation, announced this week that the Nazis had begun the process of developing an air force. This action was in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which prohibited the armed forces of Germany from including a “military or naval air force.”
On March 12, 1910, Canadian actress Florence Lawrence became the first motion picture star widely known by her name, after an enterprising film entrepreneur, Carl Laemmle, won her away from legendary director D.W. Griffith and the film monopoly of Thomas Edison. Edison responded by blacklisting Lawrence.
Workers Struggles
Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 March 2010
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Correspondence
Letters from our readers
9 March 2010
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
Videos and Images
Interviews with neighbors of Bangor Street fire victims
Sister of fire victims speaks on utility shutoffs
NUMMI auto workers denounce UAW intimidation
Locked-out California Borax workers oppose concessions
Boron, California mine workers denounce company lock-out
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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