Archive: 09/2009
2009-09-01
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Unemployment and charity requests soar in Australia
- Post-mortems for Ted Kennedy: Burying the remains of American liberalism
- Toyota announces closure of manufacturing plant in California
- German Left Party ready to work with right-wing CDU
- Canada: Vale Inco unveils strikebreaking operation
- Obama formalizes Bush policy on digital searches and seizures
- Detroit teachers’ union agrees to work with Democrats to cut jobs, wages
- Letters from our readers
- CIA secret prisons organized from Germany
- Gordon Brown reaffirms UK commitment to Afghan war
- Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino goes to war
2009-09-02
- Tamil journalist sentenced to 20 years jail by Sri Lankan court
- Australia: Workers protest against Labor government assault on safety laws
- German Socialist Equality Party election video
- SEP (Germany) appeals for international support for its election campaign
- Japan’s new government: Promise and reality
- Evidence backs Julian Moti’s allegation of “politically-motivated” charges
- Lockerbie: More evidence of cynical machinations behind Megrahi’s release
- Britain: ServisAir staff end nine-day strike at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport
- Germany: Big losses for the conservative CDU in state elections
- Canada’s Conservative government names NDP Premier its US ambassador
- Detroit residents protest cuts in bus service
- Wildfires ravage central and southern California
- US commander’s report paves way for military escalation in Afghanistan
2009-09-03
- Australian companies write down $47 billion
- Obama’s poll numbers plummet
- UK helped protect wealth of former Chilean dictator Pinochet
- Seventy years since the beginning of World War II
- Afghanistan war escalation: The Nation seeks to “protect” the Obama administration from itself
- US: Government study finds widespread mercury contamination
- Deepening crisis surrounds Middle East talks
- Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung dies
- Germany: Federal Grand Coalition parties lose support in North Rhine-Westphalia local elections
- Obama cuts pay raise for federal workers
- Letters from our readers
- Letters on Inglourious Basterds
2009-09-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Democrats hold town hall meetings on Obama health care overhaul
- Australia: International students protest lack of access to student concession cards
- Australia: Bushfire investigation report a whitewash
- CIA doctors, psychologists participated in torture of prisoners
- For the mobilization of the working class to end the war in Afghanistan
- Michigan: Oakland University professors walk out
- New Jersey’s largest city cuts water to working class households
- For a unified struggle of Detroit workers!
- Why the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party of Germany) opposes an SPD-Left Party government
- Iraq: Political factions manoeuvre for next election
- US, Europe step up pressure on Iran
2009-09-05
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- France: What is behind the Socialist Party’s plans for a presidential primary?
- Sri Lankan SEP stands in the Southern Provincial Council election
- Big banks grow more powerful under Obama
- Negotiations over future of carmaker Opel face collapse
- Study exposes sweatshop conditions in US workplaces
- Britain: Eric Joyce MP resigns over UK policy in Afghanistan
- Earthquake devastates Indonesia’s West Java province
- GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra—yet another celebration of militarism and war
- US unemployment rate at 9.7 percent
- Bill Cosby endorses attack on public education in Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Gabonese President Omar Bongo (1935-2009)
- US airstrike incinerates scores of civilians
2009-09-07
- Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to launch election campaign
- What does the Pirate Party stand for?
- The dismissal of Van Jones
- Former Israeli premier faces corruption charges
- Australian government downplays huge oil slick
- Japan’s election: Divided Democrats prepare for office
- Strikes and occupations spread across Ireland
- Obama administration seeks right-wing consensus on health care
- California: Hardships mount for state workers facing furloughs
- CEOs at bailed out banks got $13.8 million apiece last year
- Australia: Specialist paramedics threatened with punitive sanctions
2009-09-08
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan police detain three JVP journalists
- Australia: New details about “SIEV 36” refugee deaths expose official lies
- Against European calls for UN conference on Afghanistan
- France: What is the significance of the falling-out between the NPA and the trade unions?
- Obama on Labor Day: Hollow promises of economic recovery
- Los Angeles Board of Education approves expansion of charter schools
- Germany: IG Metall boosts SPD at Frankfurt election rally
- G20 finance ministers: empty pledges in face of deepening antagonisms
- Letters from our readers
- Afghanistan: Further evidence of massive electoral fraud
- Australian car parts maker goes into administration
2009-09-09
- Britain: Government proposes cuts in public sector pensions
- Transatlantic airline plot: The case that “couldn’t be allowed to fail”
- A socialist program for Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Obama addresses public school students
- Defending historical truth
- German SEP posts video statement against war in Afghanistan
- Massacre in Kunduz bares real nature of Afghanistan war
- The historic decline of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party
- Michigan: Oakland University seeks court order to break professors’ strike
- California: Kaiser Permanente workers protest reductions in force
- UN-backed panel denounces fraud in Afghan election
2009-09-10
- Vale Inco strike: Labour bureaucrats promote nationalism
- European powers seek UN cover for war in Afghanistan
- Filmmakers, writers protest Toronto festival spotlight on Tel Aviv
- Sri Lankan government opens up captured territory for investors
- Profiting on death
- Michigan’s Oakland University faculty strike in seventh day
- Obama seeks to reassure insurance companies, Republicans in speech to Congress on health care
- Michigan: Students rally for striking Oakland University professors
- Study reports worst of US mortgage crisis still to come
- Australia: Ambulance union sells out MICA paramedics campaign
- Interview with striking Vale Inco workers
- Letters from our readers
- Ethnic tensions flare again in China’s Xinjiang region
- England: Two reports reveal the crisis in social care
- California State University student fees jump 33 percent
- Britain: The strengths and limitations of Banksy’s “guerrilla” art
2009-09-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Britain: Train crews resist attempt to slash Sunday pay
- Australia: Bail denial in terrorism case sets dangerous new precedent
- Sri Lankan government expels UNICEF spokesman
- Germany: State Premier of North Rhine Westphalia slanders Romanian workers
- German SEP statement opposing an SPD-Left Party government
- US poverty rate hits 11-year high
- The pretext for a historic shift in world politics
- The real agenda behind Obama’s health care “reform”
- Obama’s health care speech and the lies of the Nation
- Japan: Democrats prepare to slash public spending
2009-09-12
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Supreme Court set to ease rules on corporate campaign cash
- Hundreds die in disease outbreaks in Papua New Guinea
- Left Party comes to the aid of German government
- Michigan: Oakland University professors end strike
- Economic crisis devastates museums across the US
- Israel: 200,000 families need help to survive
- Democrats pledge more cuts in Medicare to fund Obama’s health care overhaul
- Greece: Karamanlis calls for early elections
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Union, courts and media team up against bus drivers’ strike
- More cuts to social services in Michigan
- Times columnist David Brooks exposes “left” supporters of Obama health plan
2009-09-14
- Gillard’s “Teach for Australia”: a corporate-backed assault on teaching
- France’s “national subscription” prepares massive handout to big business
- Right-wing march in Washington against Obama health care plan
- German auto union offers further concessions to Opel
- Mexico: President Calderon calls for “doing more with less”
- “Teachers need a depth of theoretical understanding”
- Demands to curtail war reporting after raid to free New York Times journalist
- Join the International Students for Social Equality
- Threat of US-led sanctions against Iran
- Israel understated civilian death toll in Gaza
- Fighting rages across Afghanistan as US military buildup continues
2009-09-15
- Workers struggles: The Americas
- Venezuela, Russia in $2.2 billion arms deal
- Britain’s union leaders warn of riots and social unrest
- Sri Lanka: Reject wage sell-out by plantation unions
- Red Star Over Russia
- One year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers
- US: Pennsylvania still without a budget
- Obama goes cap in hand to Wall Street
- Obama advisor champions rationed health care
- Paltry GDP growth promoted as proof of Australian “recovery”
- Letters on the Obama administration and healthcare
- Canada’s social democrats offer lifeline to Conservative government
- Brazil: Evangelical leader tied to Lula government charged with wholesale fraud
- Afghan presidential candidate demands “caretaker government”
2009-09-16
- The Porsche and Piëch clans pillage Volkswagen
- US-China trade tensions sharply escalate
- Protest against Toronto film festival collusion with Israeli regime continues
- Sri Lanka: Plantation workers oppose wage sell-out
- Republic Windows & Doors CEO arrested for theft
- Death squads, disappearances and torture in Pakistan
- Obama turns to AFL-CIO to defend health care cuts
- Australia: UN envoy denounced after he describes Northern Territory “intervention” as racist
- Michigan lawmakers prepare austerity budget
- Merkel and Steinmeier promote the grand coalition
- OECD report cites higher education crisis in Britain
- Britain: Postal workers discuss disaffiliation from Labour, ballot for national strike
2009-09-17
- Who is Richard Trumka?
- Australia: University staff strike for “day of action”
- Sri Lankan SEP holds first meeting for Southern Provincial Council election
- German metal workers’ union backs government in geostrategic power struggle
- Obama administration to seek extension of Patriot Act spy powers
- Australian court hears Julian Moti’s challenge to “politically motivated” prosecution
- Democrat government installed in Japan
- Israel: Mitchell’s diplomacy stalls over settlement freeze
- A reply to a critic on Obama’s health care overhaul
- France: Socialist Party, “far left” signal support for right-wing alliance
- District 9, an attempt at serious science fiction
- Letters from our readers
- Rudd’s Education Revolution “a disaster for universities”
- US: Senate Finance Committee chair releases health care proposal
- Washington elaborates AfPak strategy amid calls for US troop buildup
2009-09-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sri Lankan plantation unions sign sell-out pay deal
- 75 years since the San Francisco general strike
- Poland: Government escalates privatisation drive
- What is the AFL-CIO?
- A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths
- Australian court told witnesses were threatened in Julian Moti case
- US suspends eastern European missile shield plan
- The German army steps up its deployment in Afghanistan
- Biden in Baghdad to uphold occupation, speed access to oil
- UN reports 1 billion of the world’s people going hungry
- World Economic Forum: False hopes in a China-led recovery
- Preliminary results in Afghan election show Karzai victory
2009-09-19
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian academics’strike at UNSW: a few observations from the ISSE
- British Labour government declares for spending cuts at Trades Union Congress
- SEP campaigns among Free Trade Zone workers
- The global jobs crisis
- German Left Party retreats from its demand for a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan
- Britain: Leeds refuse workers strike against pay cuts
- Australian adviser to US military provides chilling insight into neo-colonial mentality
- Clinton takes hard line on Iran in run-up to talks
- Obama accelerates push for cost-cutting health care plan
- Letters from our readers
- France: parliamentary mission against burqa promotes anti-Muslim prejudice
2009-09-21
- Anti-government rally on third anniversary of Thai coup
- US assassination in Somalia
- Judge strikes down SEC settlement with Bank Of America over bonuses
- Britain: Asset stripping followed government bailout of MG Rover
- Unemployment in California reaches 70-year high
- Obama seeks to defuse opposition on healthcare, Afghanistan
- Iranian opposition demonstrates under pro-imperialist slogans
- Canada’s social democrats prop up Harper Conservative government
- US voter registration group under attack
2009-09-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
- Sri Lankan provincial election: SEP campaigns in fishing villages
- World War II: The essential lessons
- Obama administration shields CIA torturers
- Open letter to Opel and Vauxhall auto workers from German SEP candidate
- Behind the “day of action”: Australian university union enforces government agenda
- Los Angeles unions back Democrats’ assault on city workers
- Seventy years since World War II
- Spain: Judge Garzón faces prosecution for investigating Franco-era crimes
- Scotland: Diageo presses on with 900 job cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian Auto Workers offers concessions to Ford
- US, Europe reject bank pay limits ahead of G20 meeting
- US commander pushes for rapid escalation of Afghanistan war
2009-09-23
- Economic crisis, geopolitical rivalries overshadow Ukrainian election campaign
- Former Taiwanese president jailed for life
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on the struggle of plantation workers
- On eve of G20 summit: Economic danger signs
- Lessons of the Oakland University professors’ strike
- US: 2008 census figures show severe impact of recession on workers
- Labour government in Britain increases state control of the Internet
- Newly repaired Hubble telescope releases first images
- Honduran regime meets Zelaya’s return with “state of siege”
- German election to usher in government of austerity and confrontation
- Britain: Three major parties pledge to slash public spending
- No agreement between major powers on carbon emissions
- For a fight against education cuts in California!
2009-09-24
- Sri Lankan unions collaborate in police witch-hunt of plantation workers
- Scottish National Party prepares deep spending cuts
- Massive police buildup for Pittsburgh G20 summit
- US troops out of Afghanistan
- At UN general assembly, Obama urges international support for US wars
- The Australian media and the Julian Moti case
- Obama gives Israel carte blanche on settlement construction
- Germany: SEP holds election campaign meetings in four cities
- Great power conflicts overhang G20 summit in Pittsburgh
- France: Petty-bourgeois “lefts” unite with CGT to derail fight for jobs
- Letters from our readers
- France: Opportunist “lefts” unite with CGT to derail fight for jobs
- Appeasing right wing, US Justice Department launches ACORN probe
2009-09-25
- Detroit residents speak on utility bills, social crisis
- Britain: Nationalist campaign by Unite union bureaucracy over Vauxhall-Opel takeover
- Stella D’Oro workers face shutdown in hedge fund deal
- Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka: “Almost living in hell”
- The significance of the German elections
- Opel workers demonstrate in Antwerp in defence of jobs
- Obama asserts power to detain suspects without trial
- US heightens threats against Iran
- US Senate Finance Committee deliberates Baucus healthcare proposal
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Thousands line up for utility bill assistance in Detroit
- California students and faculty denounce education cuts
2009-09-26
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- G20 summit sets stage for sharpening of international tensions
- Sri Lankan plantation workers speak out against pay sell-out
- ISSE members speak on education cuts at rally
- Revolt and “dialogue” in Honduras
- Video: German SEP candidate calls for defence of jobs at Opel
- “Fair Work Australia”: A union-enforced straitjacket on workers
- ISSE holds rally in San Diego in defense of public education
- Obama comes to aid of Israel over UN war crimes charges
- US and European powers threaten Iran
- Police attack protesters at G20 summit in Pittsburgh
- France: Brutal eviction of migrants from Calais encampment
- Austria: Collapse for Social Democrats in Vorarlberg state election
- Five more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- Britain: Businesses to control more state schools as government-backed academies fail
2009-09-28
- Britain: Behind the disciplinary action in the Unison trade union
- United States halts food aid for Somali women and children
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in southern rural villages
- International protests against arrest of film director Roman Polanski
- Obama follows Bush’s modus operandi on Iran
- ISSE meeting: Health care–the socialist response
- The PSG and the German Left Party: An exchange of letters
- US: Thousands line up for free health care in Texas
- Historic defeat for Social Democrats in German federal election
- UN: Record number of Afghan civilian deaths in 2009
2009-09-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US Army abandons effort to court-martial Iraq war resister
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Galle
- The political significance of the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
- Australian government lawyers demand Guantánamo compensation case be stopped to protect US alliance
- A dramatic account of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes
- 70 years since World War II: Origins & consequences of a historical catastrophe
- Once again, on the ex-left and Iran
- Honduran regime imposes state of siege
- German election: The collapse of the Social Democratic Party
- Severe dust storm hits Australian coastal cities
- Letters from our readers
- What does reality require from fiction?
- US, NATO reach “consensus” to sanction rigged election in Afghanistan
2009-09-30
- Obama: The Class Issues
- Polarization and protest
- Spain: Unions and PSOE government prepare austerity measures
- Sri Lankan army fires on Tamil detainees
- US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty
- GM shuts down assembly plant in Pontiac, Michigan
- Director Roman Polanski faces months in Swiss prison
- Typhoon causes widespread destruction in the Philippines
- “Cheats and Deceivers”
- Israeli Arabs to launch strike against discriminatory policies
- German Interior Ministry plans to expand the powers of the secret police
- Germany: Incoming government prepares attacks on working class
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