Archive: 01/2010
2010-01-01
2010-01-04
- This week in history: January 4-January 10
- CIA base in Afghanistan hit by suicide attack
- A socialist program to fight for social equality and democratic rights
- The new decade begins
- Mehring Books launches new web site
- Letters in response to “Best films of 2009 and the decade”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- British fire service faces downsizing and privatisation
- In praise of George Eliot’s Adam Bede on its 150th anniversary
- Britain: Council signs contract with IBM for service privatisation
- California requests $8 billion in federal aid
- Questions mount over attempt to bomb Detroit-bound jetliner
- Charges dropped against Blackwater mercenaries in 2007 Baghdad massacre
- The human cost of the AfPak War
2010-01-05
- US warns Yemen to be focus in “worldwide” war
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Virginia, US: $2.3 billion in budget cuts target education, state workers
- Up in the Air and the social calamity in the US
- Britain: Government announces £400 million education cuts for new year
- Australia: Telstra unions call limited action over enterprise agreement
- New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
- US drone missiles slaughtered 700 Pakistani civilians in 2009
- Special discounts and new features available at Mehring Books online
- Sri Lankan elections: JVP in sordid alliance to back Fonseka
- US surge in Afghanistan exposes dilemma of German foreign policy
- Letters from our readers
- China jails leading dissident
- Three top Wall Street banks to award $49.5 billion in year-end bonuses
2010-01-06
- Britain: Groundbreaking wealth survey exposes social polarisation
- Suicide claims more US military lives than Afghan war
- Sri Lanka: Report details Rajapakse’s abuse of public resources in presidential election
- The White Ribbon: Michael Haneke’s pessimistic study of society
- Britain lines up behind US aggression in Yemen
- Obama: US agencies had intelligence to foil airline bomb plot
- India: All-Party meeting fails to staunch crisis over Telangana
- US home sales plummet, personal bankruptcies soar
- Three die in Detroit house fire
2010-01-07
- SEP presidential candidate speaks in southern Sri Lankan city
- Sri Lankan SEP campaigns in Galle city
- Russia announces expansion of nuclear capabilities, sanctions pre-emptive nuclear strikes
- Six million in the US with no income but food stamps
- Indian-held Kashmir continues to simmer over deaths of two women last May
- Australia: Queensland crisis points to lack of flood mitigation and basic infrastructure
- Family members denounce deaths in Detroit fire
- Two US senators quit reelection race: Democratic Party in crisis
- Photographer Roy DeCarava, chronicler of African-American life (1919-2009)
- CIA and mercenaries plotted murder of German citizen
- Letters from our readers on the airline bombing attempt
- US cold snap highlights depth of social crisis
- CIA takes revenge with missile strikes in Pakistan
- Failed Detroit bombing used to justify crackdown on British universities
- Sri Lankan Tamil refugee dies—a victim of Australian government policy
- In line with US demands, Afghan parliament rejects cabinet proposals
2010-01-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The airplane bomb plot: Obama continues the cover-up
- Why is Sonic Youth’s The Eternal such a disappointment?
- Sri Lankan plantation unions split over presidential candidates
- The US to turn up heat on Iran
- Iceland’s president vetoes IceSave law
- Chicago hospital emergency rooms strained by uninsured patients, budget cuts
- Unanswered questions about attack on Danish cartoonist
- US court sharply limits rights of Guantanamo prisoners
- Children’s deaths spark anti-US outrage in Afghanistan
2010-01-09
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Solomon Islands’ parliamentarian denounces WSWS during debate on Australian intervention force
- In wake of Detroit airplane bomb plot, new security measures in Europe
- Western Saharan activist admitted into Morocco
- US-China rivalry intensifies
- Miami public hospitals end payments for dialysis treatment of the indigent
- US loses 85,000 jobs in December
- France: CGT congress confirms orientation to Sarkozy
- Les Automatistes: Revolt and modern art in post-war Montreal
2010-01-11
- This week in history: January 11-17
- Earthquakes, tsunami destroy villages in Solomon Islands
- Sri Lankan election: Tamil politicians line up behind warmongers
- Europe in crisis
- Senate Democrat calls for vast expansion of “no-fly” list
- Australia: Employers using Labor’s laws to impose lockouts
- Move to block major Sunni-based party contesting Iraq election
- France accused of attempted assassination in Guinea
- Germany: Unemployment set to climb in 2010
- Cold snap in Europe takes hundreds of lives
- Canadian press denounces Conservatives’ shutting down of parliament
- Black lung on the rise among US coal miners
2010-01-12
- Proposed British anti-war march prompts demands for clampdown on rights
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UN confirms authenticity of Sri Lankan war crimes evidence
- The United Mine Workers of America and the resurgence of black lung disease
- New sale bundles available at Mehring Books!
- Germany’s highest labour judge defends sacking workers for next to nothing
- Italian police incarcerate 1,300 migrant workers after Calabria protest
- Emails implicate Treasury Secretary Geithner in cover-up of AIG deal to bail out the banks
- Wave of cold-related fire deaths in the American South
- Letters from our readers
- US: White House seeks to block new environmental regulations on coal ash
- China and ASEAN create free trade bloc
2010-01-13
- Sri Lankan SEP launches election web site
- Sri Lanka elections: SEP campaigns for Hatton meeting
- Sri Lanka: SEP candidate addresses plantation workers
- New Romanian government prepares massive social attacks
- Millions more US children in poverty
- Thirty years of the German Green Party
- World Socialist Web Site announces launch of new perspectives journal
- British government promises Israel it will end war crimes arrest warrants
- Iranian scientist assassinated as US steps up war threats
- Australian government in damage control after murder of Indian student
- Obama meets with AFL-CIO to push for cost-cutting health care overhaul
- Major earthquake devastates Haitian capital
- Much further reading required: Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, by Rick Geary
- UK government slashes funding for astronomy and physics
2010-01-14
- Sri Lankan election: The two faces of the United Socialist Party
- California Governor Schwarzenegger promises billions more in cuts
- Australian government denies visas to five Tamil refugees
- The banks and socialism
- AfPak war claimed over 12,500 lives in Pakistan during 2009
- Join the International Students for Social Equality!
- Hundreds of thousands feared dead in Haiti
- Major trade unions provide vital backing for German government
- Hundreds attend funeral for victims of Detroit house fire
- Letters from our readers
- Wall Street CEOs testify before financial crisis commission
- Afghans shot down while protesting US occupation
- Diane Sawyer and ABC News pay tribute to remote control drone killings
2010-01-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Clinton speech underlines US-China tensions
- Sri Lankan election: The crisis in public health
- Sweden: Saab workers protest as GM begins winding down operations
- The history that “binds” the US and Haiti
- Death toll mounts in Haiti
- The death of Miep Gies (February 15, 1909—January 10, 2010)
- Anti-burqa campaign marks turn away from democratic rule in France
- Obama’s “gentle bank tax”
- British Army exploits recession to step up youth recruitment
2010-01-16
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Widespread disaffection in lead-up to Ukrainian presidential elections
- Germany: Erika Steinbach dispute fuels conflict in government
- Sri Lankan election: General Fonseka’s anti-working class agenda
- The career of French film director Eric Rohmer
- Liberalism and Wall Street
- Yemen: Toward another US quagmire
- Britain: Another failed Labour leadership challenge against Brown
- Iran to eliminate price subsidies, threatening mass impoverishment
- Record US foreclosures in 2009
- Haiti: US troops deployed as popular anger mounts
- Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?
- A letter on George Eliot’s Adam Bede
- France: Victimised Continental workers lose their appeal
- Pay at top Wall Street firms estimated at $145 billion in 2009
2010-01-18
- This week in history: January 18-24
- Sri Lankan election: Widespread campaign violence
- Bush, Clinton and the crimes of US imperialism in Haiti
- New York City: opposition mounts to Bloomberg’s closures of public schools
- Northern Ireland Assembly gripped by crisis
- Michigan community colleges struggling to meet demand
- Australian government counts on union to end maritime strike
- What is behind the power struggle in the German Left Party?
- US military tightens grip on Haiti
- Germany: New trial in death of asylum seeker
- Egor Gaidar (1956-2009): Architect of capitalist restoration in Russia
- Egypt joins Israel in blockade of Gaza
2010-01-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan election: Rajapakse promises “economic war”
- Obama, Democrats in crisis over Massachusetts Senate race
- Britain: Network Rail mounts strike-breaking operations against signal workers
- European bankers demand unprecedented austerity measures
- Taliban attacks in Kabul deepen crisis of US occupation
- Japanese finance minister quits
- Anti-Islamic measures in Britain threaten democratic rights
- US military to enforce state of emergency in Haiti
- More “missed clues” in the Northwest Flight 253 bomb plot
- Irish report indicts Catholic Church, authorities for child sex abuse
- Jyoti Basu: elder statesman of Indian Stalinism dies at 95
2010-01-20
- What does particle physics tell us about the nature of matter?
- Turkish foreign policy: growing conflicts with the West
- No criticism of Labor as Australia rejects Tamil refugees
- SEP takes its presidential election campaign to Matara
- Rail union overturns strike ballot on London Underground
- One year since Obama’s inauguration
- Republican wins Massachusetts Senate race
- Washington shuts door on Haitian refugees
- Four Australian movies: Van Diemen’s Land, Beautiful Kate, Last Ride and Lucky Country
- FBI illegally obtained thousands of phone records
- In Defence of Leon Trotsky: David North to speak at Sydney’s Gleebooks
- Chilean right returns to power for first time in 20 years
2010-01-21
- Ukraine election marks declining US influence in region
- SEP campaigns in Jaffna
- Final SEP election meeting in Colombo on January 23
- Haiti’s tragedy: A crime of US imperialism
- David Walsh: Reading Voronsky on art today is to breathe fresh air
- Sri Lanka SEP holds successful meeting in Jaffna
- The Democratic debacle in Massachusetts
- Many German local authorities nearing bankruptcy
- “We should work to unite Tamil and Sinhala people”
- Iceland to hold referendum on international debt repayments
- US military operations block relief efforts in Haiti
- Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter
- Tenants of Detroit apartment building living without utilities
- Crazy Heart and unnecessarily narrow pictures
- Letters on the Haiti earthquake
- California pension funds paid millions to former insiders working as middlemen investors
- US: Democrats agree on commission to cut Social Security, Medicare
- US Senate begins whitewash hearings on Northwest Flight 253 bomb plot
2010-01-22
- Workers struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vote for Wije Dias, SEP presidential candidate
- The lessons of the Massachusetts election
- Another toothless bank “reform” from Obama
- US commander demands increased military commitment from Germany in Afghanistan
- Germany: The Left Party and the parliamentary Defence Committee
- The social and political roots of the Haiti earthquake tragedy
- Dutch inquiry finds Iraq war illegal
- Haitians dying by the thousands as US escalates military intervention
- South Yorkshire firefighters strike against threats of mass dismissal
- Oil, the Dutch Iraq inquiry on the Iraq war, and the missing letter
- US Supreme Court abolishes restrictions on big business political spending
- New York: Mayor Bloomberg hands out $2.4 million in bonuses
2010-01-23
- Sri Lankan Tamil political prisoners stage hunger strike to demand their release
- The Supreme Court ruling on corporate political spending
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israel threatens Hezbollah and Lebanon
- As US prepares long-term occupation, Haiti’s quake victims still without aid
- US to hold 50 Guantanamo prisoners indefinitely
- All-party conspiracy of silence on German army role in Afghanistan
- US employment situation worsens
- Letters from our readers
- US plans to harness Internet to its hegemonic goals
- Sri Lankan union endorses SEP presidential candidate
- A socialist policy to defend democratic rights
- University of California students suspended for protesting budget cuts
- Israeli government supports continued prosecution of filmmaker Mohammed Bakri
2010-01-25
- Me and Orson Welles, but too much of the former
- Walmart to cut 11,000 jobs at Sam’s Club subsidiary
- US telecommunications giant Verizon plans more layoffs
- This week in history: January 25-January 31
- Spain: Youth unemployment tops 40 percent
- SEP concludes presidential election campaign with successful Colombo rally
- Romania: Education system on the verge of collapse
- The nationalist poison of the trade unions
- GM to close Antwerp Opel plant
- After Massachusetts: Obama fakes anti-Wall Street stance
- The Nation praises US intervention in Haiti
- US: Minnesota to cut two health care programs for the poor
- Haiti: Rescue effort ended as people still emerge from rubble
2010-01-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lankan election sets stage for deep political crisis
- “Reconstructing Haiti” on starvation wages
- Sri Lankan election: the NSSP’s electoral cretinism
- Existing US home sales fall at record rate
- Criticism mounts over US response to Haiti disaster
- How big business financed a radical right-wing party in Austria
- Harper’s Magazine exposes Guantánamo cover-up
- A socialist programme needed to defend education in Britain
- Thousands protest Conservatives’ shutting down of Canadian parliament
- Fallout from Washington crisis rattles world markets
- Britain: Abbeydale Grange School’s closure agreed by Sheffield Council
2010-01-27
- Sri Lankan government threatens to disqualify opposition candidate
- US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism
- Obama to impose freeze on social spending
- US Supreme Court rules against Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Pamphlet on Haitian history available from Mehring Books
- Massachusetts governor promotes charter schools as districts face budget crisis
- The Sri Lankan election, the LTTE and Tamil nationalism
- Britain: Dr. David Kelly death evidence suppressed for 70 years
- Southern California homeless shelters struggle to cope with economic crisis
- New York Times columnist worries over Obama’s “credibility gap”
- France’s Socialist Party calls for pension cuts
- Germany: Demjanjuk trial sheds light on Nazi crimes
- Armored, but not bulletproof
2010-01-28
- Venezuela: Two students killed in clashes
- Obama’s State of the Union Address: Cynicism, clichés and a call for austerity
- Tensions high as incumbent wins Sri Lankan presidential poll
- Sharp rise in British child poverty before recession’s onset
- German government falls in behind US strategy for Afghanistan
- A socialist program to defend jobs at Opel
- US firms Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, announce 21,000 job cuts
- Troops fire on starving crowds in Haiti
- Letters from our readers
- China’s credit tightening exacerbates global financial instability
- Britain: Illegality of Iraq war dominates Chilcot inquiry
- Belgium: Opel plant to close in Antwerp
2010-01-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Villepin acquitted in France’s Clearstream trial
- Mehring Books promotional sale ends Monday
- Australia: Striking construction workers defy Rudd government’s laws
- Behind Sri Lanka’s political infighting: US-China rivalry
- New York: Police brutality revealed in courtroom, on tape
- Mexican prints: revolution on paper
- Tom Eley: The Revolution Betrayed is among the greatest political works of the 20th century
- The resignation of Oscar Lafontaine and the crisis of the Left Party
- Haitian president says 170,000 bodies recovered
- Geithner stonewalls in AIG bailout hearings
- US economic indices and layoff announcements point to protracted slump
- London conference on Afghanistan: Occupation will last for years to come
2010-01-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Further questions raised in East Timor “assassination” trial
- Sri Lankan government cracks down on opposition
- The real state of the union in 2010
- Obama’s guilty silence on Haiti
- New York City: In the face of intense opposition, Bloomberg closes 19 public schools
- Britain: Unions lobby Parliament to line up behind Labour
- New York students and teachers speak out on school closings
- City union prepares capitulation to Detroit mayor
- Letters from our readers
- Pennsylvania: Braddock hospital closes its doors for good
- Tony Blair, war criminal, testifies before inquiry
- First “bad bank” set up for Eastern Europe
- US: Republican activist behind Acorn smear campaign faces felony charges
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