Archive: 11/2009
2009-11-02
- Australian government’s “Indonesian Solution” in disarray
- “It was industrialised slaughter on an unimaginable scale”
- The “No” vote at Ford
- Pakistanis challenge Clinton over drone attacks, US bullying
- Michigan makes drastic cuts to education, social spending
- Germany: Trial opens of former SS member Heinrich Boere
- FBI has 400,000 people on terrorism “watch list”
- Australian imperialism, the 1999 East Timor intervention and the pseudo-left
- “People’s needs go unmet—it’s just inexcusable”
- Afghanistan election debacle deepens as Abdullah pulls out of runoff
2009-11-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Network Rail threatens mass sackings
- A socialist perspective for public sector workers in Sri Lanka
- The meaning of Europe’s “step change” in Afghanistan
- The postwar novelist in regression: Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
- New Feature: This Week in History
- The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 1
- Ford reports $1 billion in third quarter profits
- Australian government’s industrial “cop” prosecutes union over Qantas strikes
- “Pressure politics” at Sydney protest over asylum seekers
- A letter on debt and debt collectors
- US business lender CIT files for bankruptcy
- CAW rams through concessions at Ford Canada
- Afghan election farce ends, escalation to begin
2009-11-04
- European Trotskyists mark seventieth anniversary of World War II
- FBI knew of CIA torture, considered prosecution
- Scotland: Growing calls for tuition fees as universities face funding crisis
- US executives’ pensions soar in value
- Australia: Latest refugee deaths—the Rudd government’s SIEV X
- Transit workers strike in Philadelphia
- One year since the election of Barack Obama
- Julian Moti defence counsel attacks Australian government’s “politically driven prosecution”
- Michigan woman dies after Medicaid dental care is cut
- Japan’s new government seeks to refashion US alliance
- Workers’ wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
- The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 2
- Video: Ford workers speak on contract rejection
2009-11-05
- Sri Lankan government resettles Tamil detainees in prison-like conditions
- Sri Lankan public meeting: Lessons of the plantation workers’ struggle
- Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings
- Britain: Reports state CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights landed in UK
- Hillary Clinton gives Obama’s Middle East game away
- A betrayal of GM employees in Europe
- 70 years since the outbreak of World War II—Lessons and Warnings
- Merkel pledges support for Obama administration foreign policy
- The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions
- Virginia, New Jersey elections: A blow to Obama and the Democrats
- Letters from our readers
- Statement of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, October 18, 1989—Part 1
- Jane Campion’s Bright Star: The story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne
- Unanswered questions in FBI killing of Detroit Mosque leader
2009-11-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Philadelphia transit worker killed as SEPTA strike enters third day
- End the persecution of Tamil asylum seekers by Sri Lankan and Australian governments
- The US government’s double standard on extradition: CIA agents vs. Roman Polanski
- The political-financial scandals in France
- Britain: Labour government sacks chief drugs adviser
- Music Review: The Monsters of Folk
- Documents reveal SEC complicity in Madoff Ponzi scheme
- Julian Moti case: Enormous sums paid by Australian police to alleged victim’s family
- Italian court convicts US agents in CIA rendition case
- US Army major kills 12 at Fort Hood, Texas
- Australian Labor “left” bestows medal on General Petraeus
- Statement of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, October 18, 1989—Part 2
- Wall Street bonuses to rise by 40 percent
2009-11-07
- US unemployment rate surges to highest level in 26 years
- Wall Street banks go to the front of the line for H1N1 shots
- Australia: Qantas aircraft engineers vote for industrial action
- Britain: Communication Workers Union sabotages postal strike
- Mass shooting at Fort Hood: collateral damage from Iraq and Afghanistan wars
- Opel workers in Germany protest threatened mass redundancies
- Unanswered questions over Australian offshore oil spill
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany military welcomes new defence minister
- Fire Brigades Union capitulates to South Yorkshire management
- Fiji expels Australian and New Zealand diplomats
- Letters from our readers
- France: The affairs the Clearstream trial aims to suppress
- The Clearstream trial: a conflict in the French bourgeoisie
- Statement of the Bund Sozialistischer Arbeiter, October 18, 1989—Part 3
- After troop deaths, British establishment rallies behind Afghan war
- The Christian Democrats celebrate Kohl, Bush and Gorbachev
- Student protests in Austria
2009-11-09
- Video: Thousands line up for Swine Flu vaccine in Michigan
- Sri Lanka’s top general emerges as possible presidential candidate
- British government mounts world’s largest bank bailout
- Tamil asylum-seekers reject Australian government demands
- Quebec’s Liberal government to impose draconian spending cuts, fee hikes
- The fall of the Berlin Wall
- Honduras: Republicans praise Obama for “reversing” policy
- This Week in History: November 9-15
- US House passes health care bill
- Canada: Chaotic response to swine flu pandemic highlights government indifference
- The Ford vote and the UAW’s defenders
- Obama will send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan
- A letter and reply on Theodor Adorno
2009-11-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ratification of Lisbon Treaty provokes crisis for Britain’s Conservatives
- Making the “voice of the people” heard again: 70 years of Topic Records
- Sri Lankan government attempts to dupe voters by delaying budget
- Transit workers end strike in Philadelphia
- Obama’s attack on abortion rights
- End the war in Afghanistan
- Australia: Julian Moti defence closing submission outlines “oppressive and unfair” prosecution
- The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man
- US: Experts warn of dementia risks from football injuries
- Speculative recovery sows seeds of an even greater economic crash
- Letters from our readers
- California’s Gov. Schwarzenegger backs new tax breaks for the rich
- Germany: The Left Party in power implements massive job cuts
- The 2009 elections: the two parties of the billionaires
- US appellate court blocks lawsuit against extraordinary rendition and torture
2009-11-11
- The execution of John Muhammad: another gruesome moment in America
- Sri Lankan police forcibly drown a young Tamil man
- In The Service of Historical Falsification: A Review of Robert Service's Trotsky
- Mehring Verlag publishing house presents its redesigned web site
- London postal workers condemn strike sell-out by Communication Workers Union
- The plunder of Iraq’s oil
- Obama exploits Fort Hood massacre to promote US wars
- Mt. Clemens, Michigan school bus drivers strike
- Lockerbie: Human rights lawyer states Megrahi was framed
- Not enough information: The Informant! directed by Steven Soderbergh
- France: Former president Jacques Chirac to stand trial for corruption
- California finances plummet less than three months after budget passage
- Australia’s “rock solid” banks: the financial crisis one year on
2009-11-12
- Right-wing campaign against Brown to ensure Afghan escalation
- Ten US states face budget disaster
- Educators discuss impact of Michigan cuts
- Obama and the jobs crisis
- Historians in the service of the Big Lie
- German defence minister defends Kunduz massacre
- Naval clash between two Koreas as Obama heads to Asia
- New Japanese government under pressure to slash social spending
- Australian Pabloites prepare NPA-style dissolution
- Letters on the shooting at Fort Hood
- BBC poll shows widespread disaffection with capitalism
2009-11-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Trial by media in Australian terrorism case
- US, British media transform tragedies into war propaganda
- Almost 200 million children undernourished in poor countries
- Veterans Day 2009: a letter
- Obama announces fraudulent “jobs” summit
- Former US diplomat Peter Galbraith grabs hundreds of millions in Iraqi oil money
- Australia-Sri Lanka deal for joint crackdown on Tamil asylum seekers
- US-China tensions overshadow Obama’s trip to Asia
- Abbas threatens resignation and collapse of the Palestinian Authority
2009-11-14
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Attendees complain of lack of real jobs at fair
- Ten Guantánamo prisoners to face US trial
- Britain: Socialist Workers Party colludes in postal strike sellout
- As vaccination shortage continues, US swine flu deaths mount
- Sri Lanka: “Independent” public sector unions kowtow to Rajapakse
- Opel, General Motors and German-American relations
- Germany: Chancellor Merkel follows the lead of employers and the FDP
- Detroit job fair draws thousands
- Iraqi election law passed after protracted delay
- India: Union calls off militant Rico strike
- Foreclosures rise, consumer sentiment falls in US
- Letters from our readers
2009-11-16
- Thai-Cambodian tensions escalate over Thaksin appointment
- German Social Democrats invoke failed and abandoned reformist program
- Obama seeks to boost US influence in Asia
- New Zealand university administration calls police on protestors
- US House health care bill would slash Medicare services
- This Week in History: November 16-22
- Britain: The Cambridge review
- China continues its aggressive pursuit of Africa’s resources
2009-11-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Solomon Islands: parliamentary report rubberstamps Australian-led RAMSI intervention force
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting on lessons of World War II
- Once again: The New York Times and Obama’s attack on health care
- Wave of bombings hits Pakistan’s north west
- Moon experiment shows presence of water
- For an independent working class movement to defend education
- A record 49 million Americans faced hunger in 2008
- Illinois teaching and research assistants strike
- Food Summit in Rome presents “watered down” goals
- Sharp rise in birth defects in Iraqi city destroyed by US military
- Courtroom murderer sentenced to lifelong imprisonment in Germany
- Letters on Robert Service’s Trotsky
- Credit ratings agency gives verdict on British economy
- Washington’s crisis over Afghanistan deepens
2009-11-18
- Student protests continue in Austria
- Sri Lankan president invokes emergency powers against workers
- US bailout inspector general faults windfall for AIG’s creditors
- An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 1
- Obama blocks climate change agreement
- World War Two: Lessons and Warnings
- Myths and legends about World War II exposed at Australian SEP public meetings
- Denial of breast cancer screenings will have deadly consequences
- Single mother arrested for refusing deployment to Afghanistan
- UN abandons hunger reduction target
- US workplace injuries underreported, study shows
- US-occupied Iraq, Afghanistan among world’s most corrupt countries
- The US-China summit highlights sharp schisms
- Indonesian police shoot two refugees trying to reach Australia
2009-11-19
- Top Sri Lankan general touted as presidential candidate
- Sweden: Further delays in Koenigsegg takeover of Saab
- Romania: Presidential elections at a time of crisis
- An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 2
- Cancer and class
- The NPA and France’s political-financial scandals
- Considering Norman Mailer and his work: a letter
- Rising Indian influence in Afghanistan worries US and Pakistan
- Goldman’s mea culpa
- Students and school pupils protest across Germany
- As US debt tops $12 trillion, Obama calls for austerity
- Letters from our readers
- Huge contradictions behind China’s stimulus-driven recovery
2009-11-20
- Saudi Arabia bombards Yemeni rebels in policing role for US imperialism
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- California students protest massive fee hike
- Aesthetic choices: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun
- Twenty years since the fall of the wall—from Stalinism to capitalism
- An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist
- Obama’s China trip
- US prepares contingency plans to seize Pakistani nuclear triggers
- Michigan job seekers speak to WSWS
- Karzai inaugurated amid state of siege in Kabul
- Germany: Union agrees to wage cuts and store closures at Karstadt
- Obama warns of new sanctions against Iran
- US home foreclosures at record high as jobs crisis deepens
- Canada complicit in torture of hundreds of Afghan detainees
- Australia: Defiant stand by Oceanic Viking refugees triggers political crisis
2009-11-21
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A conversation with organizers of the Toronto film festival protest
- Civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart ordered to prison
- Obama’s public education race to the bottom
- “There is no safe haven from the crisis”
- New York City homeless population at an all-time high
- Obama leaves Asia empty-handed
- German government plans sweeping social attacks
- European Union selects president and foreign minister
- Letters from our readers
- Why are women being told to forgo cervical cancer screenings?
- New fashions in Canadian politics: Guide for immigrants promotes the monarchy and the military
- University protests continue in California
- Royal Mail strike: Britain’s Socialist Party defends union capitulation
2009-11-23
- This week in history: November 23-29
- Sri Lanka: SEP/Balmoral Action Committee hold plantation workers meeting
- US Senate votes to open debate on cost-cutting health care plan
- Australia: Engineers place bans, defying Qantas intimidation
- EU appointments reflect growth of national conflicts in Europe
- Civil war spreads across north west Pakistan
- Chinese mine explosion kills more than 100
- Unemployment rises in 29 US states
- Egypt hit by wave of strikes and protests
- Britain: Brown and Miliband seek in vain to regain support for Afghan war
- British government rejects inquiry into new allegations of Iraq abuses
2009-11-24
- Where the Wild Things Are—a thoughtful, sensitive look at childhood
- Demonstration against closure of Abbeydale Grange School
- Australia: The second anniversary of the Rudd Labor government: appearance and reality
- Australian Labor’s refugee detention regime triggers Christmas Island riot
- Once again: Obama and the jobs crisis
- Double-digit unemployment fuels growing social crisis in Oregon
- New Zealand bus drivers reject union-backed pay deal
- For a working class movement to defend higher education!
- Parents, pupils speak out over Abbeydale Grange closure
- Deepening economic crisis in Eastern Europe
- Hundreds of students rally against budget cuts in Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Oppose the closure of Abbeydale Grange! Defend public education for all!
- Four more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
2009-11-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Russia: Economic crisis fuels differences within Kremlin
- Britain: Labour government sets out its election manifesto
- China’s mine deaths: The brutal face of global capitalism
- Ireland: 300,000 public service workers strike
- Another Indonesian ferry disaster claims dozens of lives
- India: Inquiry finds BJP and RSS responsible for 1992 pogrom
- Politicians, media strive to contain student protests in Austria and Germany
- France: Teachers and students mobilise to defend education
- Obama to announce Afghanistan surge of over 30,000
2009-11-26
- Iraq occupation beset by constant tensions between US and UK
- Sri Lankan government calls early presidential poll
- The Palestinians and the perspective of Permanent Revolution
- US: Michigan school districts in turmoil over education cuts
- British documents detail US and UK plans for Iraq war
- The Men Who Stare at Goats: US military goes for the paranormal
- German politicians, media warn about the next global financial crisis
- Australia: Bipartisan carbon trading deal transfers $6 billion from households to corporate polluters
- Letters from our readers
- In guise of reform, Democrats further weaken financial regulation
2009-11-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Manmohan Singh admits Indian state has failed tribal peoples
- Sri Lankan government announces “release” of Tamil detainees
- Europe backs Afghanistan strategy aimed at “regionalization”
- Britain: Family of Jean Charles de Menezes forced to accept derisory compensation award
- US: Massachusetts public sector unions agree to contract concessions
- Thousands of students demonstrate in Leipzig
- Corruption scandal creates major crisis for Indonesian president
- AfPak War and geo-political tensions cast long shadow over Indo-US summit
- Washington endorses gunpoint election in Honduras
- Deepening economic crisis in eastern Europe
2009-11-28
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- A grim journey through Sri Lanka’s war zone
- Sweden: Koenigsegg pulls out of Saab deal
- Abstention and fraud mark first round of Romanian elections
- Film director Roman Polanski to be freed on bail
- US imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq war
- GM Europe announces 9,000 job cuts
- New York: Wall Street profits soar, education and health care face the ax
- Australia: Carbon trading legislation triggers Liberal party “meltdown”
- Obama administration continues Bush policy on land mines
- International Paper shuts three mills, laying off 1,600 workers
- Vincere—the tragic life of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s first wife
- US food charities overwhelmed by demand
- Dubai’s $59 billion default sends tremor through global financial system
2009-11-30
- Uruguay: On the first-round victory of the Frente Amplio
- This week in history: November 30-December 6
- America the hungry
- Bank of England made secret £62 billion loans to bankrupt banks
- German government crisis over Kunduz massacre
- Revised Iraqi election law alienates Sunni minority
- US pushes through IAEA censure of Iran’s nuclear programs
- What does Iceland’s “national assembly” represent?
- ISSE shows historic film Tsar to Lenin
- Asia’s asset bubbles fuel global financial instability
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