Archive: 02/2010
2010-02-01
- Prosecutor appeals Villepin’s acquittal in France’s Clearstream Affair
- This week in history: February 1-February 7
- Sri Lankan government widens witch-hunt against opposition
- US frame-up of Aafia Siddiqui begins to unravel
- America’s secret prisons for undocumented immigrants
- Obama courts the Republican right
- January edition of WSWS Perspectives journal now available
- Iran’s Green Revolution leaders seek compromise with Supreme Leader
- US halts military flights to evacuate Haiti earthquake victims
- Eurozone unemployment increases to 10 percent
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns EPDP thuggery on Kayts
- Tony Blair and the “2010 question”
- Perspective and tasks of the Socialist Equality Party in 2010
- Afghanistan: Record winter casualties for US-led occupying forces
2010-02-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- A wave of post-election violence in Sri Lanka
- J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): An appreciation
- Sweden: Spyker announces last-minute purchase of Saab
- Australia: Inquest evidence shows Rudd government policies caused refugee deaths
- US exonerates authors of Bush torture memos
- The Crisis in American Filmmaking and Cultural Life
- Spacecraft Kepler discovers five extrasolar planets
- Greek PM promises to “draw blood” to salvage economy
- Behind rapid growth, US GDP figures reveal bleak economic situation
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down order to repatriate Guantánamo detainee
- French parliamentary commission advocates banning the burqa
- Obama budget: War, debt and cuts in social services
- US group charged with child trafficking in Haiti
2010-02-03
- US trade union membership at lowest level in more than a century
- British postal union seeks to deliver management’s agenda
- Australia: Unions called in to sell-out Pluto construction workers
- Obama’s budget reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
- Political and social crisis grows as Clinton condemns Nigeria
- Iraq: Animosities grow over banning of election candidates
- India nervously watches post-election Sri Lanka
- German government prepares to implement two-tier health care system
- Youth protest against French police after fatal scooter chase
- Pressure mounts for Australian rapprochement with Fiji
- Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber
- TARP inspector says bank bailout has increased danger of new financial crisis
- Obama’s surge: killing spree on both sides of AfPak border
2010-02-04
- Australia: Labor’s My School web site launches new attack on public education
- Major symphony orchestras in US face funding crisis
- Sri Lankan SEP replies to the United Socialist Party
- Sri Lanka: Post-election witch-hunt extends into workplaces
- Bankers defiant at Davos World Economic Forum
- Pamphlet on Haitian history available in French
- GM: More Opel factories in Europe threatened with closure
- Northern Ireland: Still searching for agreement in talks over policing
- One in eight Americans needs emergency food assistance
- Haiti: Three weeks after earthquake, angry protests over aid delays
- Strikes as Greece imposes EU-backed austerity programme
- Successful launch of In Defence of Leon Trotsky at Sydney’s Gleebooks
- French government backs US occupation of earthquake-stricken Haiti
- Utility shutoffs responsible for another death in Detroit
- In defence of Trotsky’s “immense and enduring historical significance”
- Letters from our readers
- AIG pays out $100 million in bonuses
2010-02-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain: Labour government cuts deny university access to 200,000
- Sri Lankan opposition parties protest over election results
- Protests erupt across Pakistan over torture victim’s frame-up
- Sri Lankan SEP establishes trilingual web site
- A dangerous rise in US-China tensions
- New details on Kunduz massacre disprove German government claims
- Kansas jury convicts murderer of abortion doctor George Tiller
- US and EU powers greet Iranian offer with threats and bullying
- Sovereign debt fears trigger plunge in global markets
- US intelligence chief claims right to assassinate Americans overseas
- Academy Award nominations: Hollywood plods on
2010-02-06
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lankan president sets out agenda of “economic war”
- US to launch Fallujah-style attack in Afghanistan
- Oregon voters approve higher taxes for wealthy and corporations
- Anger toward UAW erupts at California auto workers meeting
- Opposition mounts to Michigan education cuts
- Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
- 20,000 jobs lost in US as official unemployment rate falls
- Israel’s crisis deepens over Gaza war crimes report
- With US backing, court rejects candidate ban in Iraq
- British Labour presides over increase in inequality
- Letters on J.D. Salinger
- What’s at stake in the Canadian intervention in Afghanistan?
- Rio Tinto Borax locks out 570 California mine workers
2010-02-08
- US youth unemployment soars
- This week in history: February 8-February 14
- Sri Lankan government purges the military
- Russian economic crisis fuels political tensions
- Portugal: Public sector workers protest pay freeze
- After the defeat in Massachusetts, Democrats lurch to the right
- Spanish Communist Party seeks to re-found United Left
- US-China tensions continue over Google
- Obama budget threatens funding for poor school districts
2010-02-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The “Tea Party” movement in the US: A right-wing media creation
- Sri Lankan government arrests opposition presidential candidate
- Government debt: a new stage in the global financial crisis
- Trial of Malaysian opposition leader begins
- Australia: Opposition leader unveils slush fund for corporate polluters and agribusiness
- Los Angeles, California mayor orders elimination of 1,000 city worker jobs
- International Students for Social Equality meetings in Britain
- Tensions worsen between Israel and Syria
- Northern Ireland: Policing and justice agreement heralds assault on living standards
- Haiti: hunger sparks growing protests
- Deutsche Bank nets €5 billion profit in 2009
- Letters from our readers
- Connecticut power plant explosion kills five, injures dozens
- Bank executives get multimillion-dollar bonuses
2010-02-10
- One year since Australian bushfires: communities abandoned as government cover-up continues
- Jazz drummer Ed Thigpen dies at 79
- Spain: Government and unions conspire to impose austerity measures
- EU moves to end preferential imports from Sri Lanka
- Unite New York City teachers, students, workers to stop school closings and cuts
- The class divide between US auto workers and the UAW
- Why the media silence on the Flight 253 bombing hearings?
- Los Angeles votes on school restructuring initiatives
- US pushes for new sanctions against Iran
- Housing crisis deepens in New York City
- Goldman Sachs made billions by pushing AIG to bankruptcy
- Witch-hunt against the unemployed in Germany
- Victorian bushfire survivors continue to face uncertainty and devastation
2010-02-11
- Britain: Universities slash jobs, close campuses
- Australian teachers condemn Labor’s My School web site
- Sri Lankan SEP condemns opposition candidate’s arrest
- Police attack opposition protest in Sri Lanka
- Greece under European Union diktat
- Vancouver Olympics: Public anger over security measures and free speech limits
- Obama pleads for Republican support at White House meeting
- Letters from our readers
- Criminal probe in Connecticut power plant explosion
- Chicago Transit Authority fires workers and cuts service
- East Coast blizzard lays bare social crisis of US cities
- Obama doesn’t “begrudge” bankers their multi-million-dollar bonuses
- Greek public sector workers strike against austerity measures
- Australia: Labor boosts new agency to attack construction workers
2010-02-12
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, parents, school employees initiate fight to defend education
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Toyota recall highlights crisis in global auto industry
- Australia: TAFE teachers challenge Labor’s education reforms, defying strike ban
- Britain: Students mount 24-hour occupation at Sussex University
- EU leaders fail to calm fears of Greek sovereign default
- Sri Lankan election announced amid climate of fear and intimidation
- An appreciation of the life of Paula Claire Schuman (1948-2010)
- Honduras: The making of a death squad “democracy”
- Munich Security Conference steps up threats against Iran
- Letter to the editor: Photography notes
- Iranian regime mounts display of “national unity” on anniversary of anti-Shah revolution
- Australian High Court overturns workplace safety law
- Detroit to close 40 more schools
- US military noose tightens on Afghanistan town
2010-02-13
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US-China trade tensions escalate
- Political turmoil continues in Ukraine after presidential election
- Australian military vehicle responsible for elderly woman’s death in East Timor
- Sri Lanka’s top court to hear challenge to candidate’s arrest
- America, the land of inequality
- White House projects long-term mass unemployment
- India and Pakistan to resume long-stalled talks
- European officials demand further cuts in Greece after bailout pledge
- Germany: Verdi union prepares sellout of public service workers
- Letters from our readers
- The Binyam Mohamed case: Top UK judges find US and Britain guilty of torture
- US and UK courts ensure BAe’s Saudi deals remain secret
2010-02-15
- Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
- This week in history: February 15-February 21
- New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital threatened with closure
- Sri Lankan official accuses US of supporting opposition candidate
- Sri Lankan government prepares new Internet restrictions
- South Africa 20 years after Mandela’s release
- Obama affirms right-wing, pro-business policies in interview
- Mexico: growing crisis over failed drug war policy
- Iraq: US military raid on “Iranian-backed terrorist organisation”
- Flint, Michigan fire kills four children
- New reports of multi-million dollar payouts to US bankers
- More civilian deaths as US launches offensive in southern Afghanistan
2010-02-16
- Australia: Queensland trials scheme to punish parents of truants
- Britain: Court revokes terror conviction of Scottish student
- Québec Solidaire and the dead end of Quebec independence
- The international significance of Sri Lanka’s emerging police state
- The unnecessary death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili
- New York mayor unveils plan to cut jobs, services
- Haiti’s elite eyes profits as millions face disease and hunger
- German army given green light to kill civilians in Afghanistan
- European countries renew demands for social cuts in Greece
- Letters from our readers
2010-02-17
- Sri Lanka: Government campaign of victimisation in workplaces
- A Single Man: Despite everything…
- Afghanistan: Obama’s escalation begins
- Britain: Unemployment continues to rise despite official claims
- The US puts “regime change” in Iran on agenda
- French government cites European debt crisis to slash spending
- New York Times history lesson on civilian control of the military: Why now?
- Chicago fire claims seven young lives
- California teachers’ pension fund faces $43 billion shortfall
- Bolshevism and the avant-garde artists (1993)
- Britain: Government crisis deepens over Binyam Mohamed torture revelations
- Belgian rail workers take wildcat action over safety fears after fatal collision
- Bangladesh: The execution of Mujibur Rahman’s killers
- Australia: Large anti-Labor swing in Victorian state by-election
2010-02-18
- After 4 million jobs lost, White House declares stimulus a success
- Sri Lanka’s debt crisis worsens
- Shannon Jones: “One of the best short political biographies of Marx and Engels ever written”
- Socialism and the Greek debt crisis
- Mounting evidence Mossad behind Dubai assassination of Hamas leader
- Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg—Part 1
- Majority of US children suffer chronic health conditions, study says
- Illinois stops payments to university system, mass furloughs result
- Germany: Hartz IV welfare legislation ruled unconstitutional
- Haiti disaster is worst in modern history
- Signs of Chinese financial instability provoke market nervousness
- “Bipartisan” campaign targets US working class
2010-02-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Mounting fiscal crisis of US states and cities
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still in detention camps
- US health insurers reap record profits in 2009
- Obama appoints panel to slash social programs
- Nowhere Boy: No surprises in John Lennon biopic
- North Korean currency reform fuels social tensions
- Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg—Part 2
- Canada’s Supreme Court rules foreign policy trumps citizens’ rights
- Sharp rise in new US jobless claims
- As academic year begins: ISSE to hold meetings in Australia and New Zealand
- Amid preparations for India-Pakistan talks, deadly bomb blast in west India
- Mass protests greet Sarkozy visit to Haiti
- Greece: Strikes continue as EU demands more severe austerity measures
2010-02-20
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Total refinery workers go on indefinite strike in France
- US: Software engineer crashes plane into IRS office
- Sri Lankan SEP press conference condemns government’s anti-democratic measures
- Rising unemployment fuels social tensions in Russia
- Australia: Construction unions move to sell out Pluto workers
- Iran’s Green movement in disarray
- Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg
- US states slash Medicaid
- The Last Station: Not a film about Tolstoy
- Los Angeles City Council approves 3,000 city worker layoffs
- Israeli human rights groups face state repression
- India: Unions shut down two-month jute workers strike
- German government minister prepares new attacks on the unemployed
- US Federal Reserve raises discount rate
- US super-rich get five times more income than in 1995
- Letters from our readers
- Boron, California mine workers denounce company lock-out
- Australia: Labor government ends bank guarantee
2010-02-22
- This week in history: February 22-February 28
- US Justice Department report clears authors of Bush torture memos
- Sri Lanka: Release of opposition supporters undermines “coup” claims
- German pilots strike against Lufthansa
- The Binyam Mohamed case and the threat of dictatorship
- Dutch government collapses over military deployment in Afghanistan
- Iraq: Sunni party announces election boycott
- Australian government scraps home insulation program
- How To Make It In America on HBO: “Anything is still possible”
- Alexander Haig (1924-2010): Long-time enforcer for American imperialism
- Obama ignores China’s warnings and meets Dalai Lama
- Large Hadron Collider to resume operations at CERN
- Britain: Top economists demand austerity measures
2010-02-23
- Huge increase in Canadian youth unemployment and student indebtedness
- Australian coal miners’ strike at a turning point
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- San Francisco transit workers reject concessions contract
- The Austin airplane suicide and the political crisis in the US
- Sri Lanka: Opposition candidate challenges election result
- Scotrail workers face strike-breaking operation
- Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis & War The Fight for a Socialist Alternative
- Nick Beams: “A brilliant introduction to dialectical and historical materialism”
- For a socialist movement to defend education!
- Long Beach, California school board approves 755 layoff notices
- Australian government sets new precedent in Aboriginal land grab
- IG Metall deal paves way for austerity campaign against German workers
- Obama unveils health plan ahead of bipartisan summit
- Britain: Last steel plant on Teesside mothballed
- Letters from our readers
- US airstrike kills Afghan civilians
2010-02-24
- California town to charge residents for 911 emergency calls
- France: Trade unions call to end strike at Total
- German leftist think tank: The SPD’s right-wing agenda in a new garb
- Sri Lanka: Supreme Court refuses to release Fonseka
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds founding Congress
- The capitulation of the German pilots’ union
- Military coup in Niger
- Record demand for heating assistance in US
- Australia: Sacked metal workers continue 13-week long picket
- The lessons of the 1974 Borax strike
- Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, a new version of Metropolis, and other matters
- Britain: Government’s flagship academy schools failing
2010-02-25
- A letter from a reader on “(500) Days of Summer: The eternally sunlit paradise that is Los Angeles”
- Somalia: Troop surge in support of US-backed puppet government
- Banks demand austerity measures against “profligate” countries
- GM’s recovery plan for Opel: Death by a thousand cuts
- Obama courts US corporate elite
- UAW holds nationalist rally at NUMMI plant in California
- Nick Beams report to SEP founding congress—Part 1
- US has “Plan B” to keep combat troops in Iraq after August
- The UN nuclear agency, the US and Iran
- Workers and youth at Athens protest speak to the World Socialist Web Site
- Indian Supreme Court sanctions police occupation of university campus
- Canada’s prime minister uses Haiti visit to promote “hard power”
- The social situation in Greece
- Two million Greek workers strike against austerity measures
- French air traffic controllers’ strike strengthens on second day
- The Dexter Avenue fire: Utility shutoffs and the social crisis in Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Three New York police officers acquitted in brutality case
2010-02-26
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US jobless claims rise again
- Senior military officers arrested in Turkey
- Unprecedented sentences in Australian terrorism trial
- Health care summit promotes Obama’s pro-business agenda
- The decay of parliamentary democracy in Sri Lanka
- Spanish unions offer meek protests against pension reforms
- A turning point in Europe
- Nick Beams report to SEP founding congress—Part 2
- Australian government prosecutors appeal Julian Moti verdict
- Pentagon chief condemns European “pacifism”
- Moloch Tropical and Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
- Britain: Strike mandate at British Airways put “on hold” by Unite union
- Many unanswered questions as FBI closes anthrax case
2010-02-27
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US: Virginia lawmakers prepare billions in cuts
- France: Total workers in Dunkirk continue walkout after CGT calls off national strike
- Sri Lanka: IMF loan delay signals deep assault on living standards
- Abuse of immigrant workers in South Korea
- San Francisco school district prepares to lay off 900 workers
- Obama’s health care agenda and the case for a socialist alternative
- Democrats vote to renew Patriot Act
- Opening report to the SEP (Australia) Founding Congress
- Germany: Left Party, Greens cancel appearances by historian Norman Finkelstein
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 1
- The Greek trade unions: Partners in the government’s austerity program
- Letters from our readers
- US Federal Reserve chairman calls for austerity plan
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