Archive: 03/2010
2010-03-01
- This week in history: March 1-March 7
- French unions end air traffic controllers’ strike
- Jobless benefits cut off for a million US workers
- Indonesian bank bailout exposes split in ruling coalition
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 2
- German parliament approves new Afghanistan strategy
- Spain: Fascist Falange allowed to join prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón
- More details emerge on assassination of Hamas leader in Dubai
- Chile earthquake death toll tops 700
- Rhode Island school district seeks to tear up teachers’ contract
- Locked-out California Borax mine workers oppose concessions
2010-03-02
- Wall Street Journal cites Chilean earthquake to praise Pinochet
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- For a socialist policy to defeat the attacks on mass transit!
- Obama applauds firing of Rhode Island teachers
- SEP public meeting in Colombo to launch election campaign
- SEP stands in Sri Lankan parliamentary election
- The Dubai assassination and the “war on terror”
- New York State announces cuts in public parks, historic sites
- Opel unions and works councils collaborate in job losses
- Interview with Dr. Michael Ong: A response to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
- NUMMI autoworkers denounce UAW intimidation
- February 2010 edition of WSWS Perspectives now available
- British oil drilling off Malvinas escalates tensions with Argentina
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 3
- Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry: Sister of victims speaks on utility shutoffs
- The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care study: Shoddy science in support of health care cuts
- Not quite golden, but still valuable
- An interview with Dr. Richard Cooper, critic of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care research
- Government declares martial law in central Chile after earthquake
2010-03-03
- Sri Lankan election: Tamil party splits in four
- Australian Labor government releases terrorism “White Paper”
- Study shows steep rise of poverty in Germany
- US Postal Service moves to cut 50,000 jobs
- The Ukrainian election and the demise of the “Orange Revolution”
- India and Pakistan talk, but “composite dialogue” not resumed
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 4
- Iceland: Vote “no” in IceSave referendum
- New strikes called as more social cuts are prepared in Greece
- Violent storms cause 52 deaths in France
- Massive military mobilization in Chile
- Kanikosen: a Japanese “proletarian novel,” updated
2010-03-04
- Interviews with neighbors of fire victims
- US Supreme Court stalls Guantánamo appeal, upholds lethal injections
- 500,000 Portuguese public sector workers set to strike
- Obama’s assault on public education
- Mass protest by immigrants against Italian government’s racist policies
- For a working class movement to defend education!
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 5
- Icelandic government seeks renegotiation of Icesave deal as economic crisis continues
- Obama urges swift passage of his cost-cutting health care plan
- Greece: Papandreou announces deeper budget cuts
- Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot dies
- Three children perish in Detroit house fire
- Military occupation of earthquake-ravaged region expands in Chile
- Will Canada join Israel’s next war?
- Bangladesh: Factory fire kills 21 garment workers
- Australia: Unions launch campaign to secure Rudd’s re-election
2010-03-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Construction unions to pay record $1.3 million fine
- Germany: Public service union agrees to sellout contract
- Sri Lanka: A reactionary alliance between the JVP and Fonseka
- Class and justice in America: The Supreme Court and Enron felon Jeffrey Skilling
- Students and staff protest against education cuts in US
- Portuguese public sector workers in 24-hour national strike
- The European strikes and the trade unions
- US presses for new UN sanctions against Iran
- India’s budget: Concessions to business, new burdens for workers
- Canada: Sudbury miners’ strike enters eighth month
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 6
- A further comment on Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer
- Deadly house fires in Detroit: Who is responsible?
- AFL-CIO pledges all-out backing for Democrats in 2010 elections
2010-03-06
- Pakistan: Zardari and his PPP-led government weakened by clash with judiciary
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- ISSE members speak at San Diego rallies
- Video: Neighbors of Detroit fire victims oppose utility shutoffs
- State attempts to victimize mother of fire victims
- Sri Lanka: End the state of emergency!
- Australia: Unions push through sell-out deal at Pluto
- Finance capital and the Greek debt crisis
- Britain: Railworker Graham McMillan imprisoned
- Cover-up exposed in post-Katrina police killings
- US payrolls shrank by 36,000 in February
- Thousands rally in San Diego, California against education cuts
- Irish unions seek new partnership with government-employers against working class
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 7
- Papandreou pledges to impose austerity plan in meeting with German PM
- Woman severely injured in Detroit house fire
- Letters from our readers
- Boeing Australia to close Sydney plant and axe 350 jobs
- 60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 4
- The role of the government in Detroit’s deadly house fires
- Australia: Rudd government unveils plan to cut health spending
2010-03-08
- This week in history: March 8-March 14
- THAW, United Way: No help for utility shutoffs
- Australia: Labor’s war on public education
- Sri Lankan SEP launches election campaign
- New England supermarket unions approve new contract
- After the March 4 protests against education cuts
- Netherlands: Racist Geert Wilders increases his vote in municipal elections
- China: National People’s Congress reflects regime’s fears of social instability
- Patrick Martin: “A deeply rewarding intellectual journey”
- More teachers and “failing” schools targeted by Obama education policy
- Iraqi election for a new US puppet regime
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 8
- Who are the real criminals behind the Detroit house fires?
- Britain: Civil servants strike for two days
- Earthquake exposes social chasm in Chile
- Britain: Brown defends Iraq war at Chilcot Inquiry
2010-03-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US-Turkey tensions mount over resolution on Armenian genocide
- Australia: The Rudd government and the new stage of the economic crisis
- The liberals’ lament: What’s wrong with Obama?
- Sarkozy echos Germany’s hard line on Greek debt crisis
- Germany: The significance of the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections
- The Truth Behind the Mack Avenue Fire
- Los Angeles sends layoff notices to 5,200 teachers
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 9
- Iceland: Overwhelming rejection of Icesave bill in national referendum
- Hong Kong: Two social worlds in one city
- US: Georgia legislators prepare deep budget cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Conservatives initiate anti-working-class austerity drive
- Mayor plans to relocate poor residents to “downsize” Detroit
- Gates visits Afghanistan to prepare US offensive against Kandahar
- The 82nd Annual Academy Awards: Hollywood celebrates itself, undeservedly
2010-03-10
- Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island: Mysterious and sinister, but headed where precisely?
- The German media’s chauvinist campaign against Greece
- Obama administration backs Greek austerity measures
- Pittsburgh officials shift blame for steelworker’s death to paramedics
- Russian President Medvedev signs strategic, business deals in France
- Lucky Country scriptwriter Andy Cox speaks with the WSWS
- Superintendent plans to close nearly half of Kansas City schools
- Stampede at Indian temple kills 63
- Illinois budget crisis deepens
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 10
- Britain: Stafford General Hospital inquiry exposes impact of assault on NHS
- Obama stumps for his cost-cutting health care overhaul
- A photographic exposé of the social crisis in Detroit
- Britain: Dartington College of Arts to close
2010-03-11
- Dexter Avenue fire victim's son speaks to the WSWS
- US arms sale compounds political tensions in Taiwan
- Britain: Six University of Sussex students suspended following occupation
- Sri Lankan government boasts about low level of strikes
- Germany: Prominent feminist Alice Schwarzer agitates against Clara Zetkin
- Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry to hold press conference Thursday in Detroit
- Acquittal in East Timor marks collapse of official “coup” story
- No letup in attack on jobs
- Britain: Murdoch’s News of the World censured for bugging on an “industrial scale”
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)—Part 11
- The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war
- New Obama administration program: no aid for distressed homeowners
- Opposition deepens to austerity programme in Greece
- Elderly woman dies in Detroit house fire
- Letters on the Academy Awards
- US banks and corporations announce huge pay packages for 2009
- Romania, Bosnia, and the problems of immigrants
- Congressional Democrats back expanded war in Afghanistan
2010-03-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Citizens’ Inquiry chairman and family member speak at press conference
- Australia: Teachers’ union pushes through TAFE sell-out
- Somalia: US backs puppet government’s planned military offensive
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) Statement of Principles
- Haitian president at White House: US military occupation to continue
- US and Europe drift toward trade war
- Kansas City school board votes to close 28 of 61 schools
- Greece: Millions join general strike against government austerity package
- French regional elections: Socialist Party splits in Languedoc-Roussillon
- World’s billionaires grew 50 percent richer in 2009
- Press conference held by Detroit Citizens Inquiry
- Sri Lankan parliament again ratifies emergency powers
- Czech Republic: Trade unions call off transport workers strike
- Irish airline Air Lingus sacks hundreds of workers
2010-03-13
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Neighbor discusses Dexter Ave. fire, utility shutoffs
- Britain: Reimprisonment of Jon Venables sparks right-wing media campaign
- Australian unions contract out recruitment of members
- Sri Lankan army charges opposition candidate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory―an eye on the Sun
- Obama spearheads nationwide assault on public schools
- The Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
- Papua New Guinea report highlights illegality of Moti arrest
- The revolutionary perspective of Trotskyism
- Hounded by Hindu right, India’s best-known painter takes Qatari citizenship
- Russian family commits suicide after being denied asylum in UK
2010-03-15
- This week in history: March 15-March 21
- Sussex University students protest police attacks
- Britain: ISSE addresses rally in support of six suspended Sussex University students
- Sri Lankan election: SEP campaigns at irrigation workers’ quarters
- WSWS posts founding document of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
- Lehman bankruptcy report exposes Wall Street criminality
- The 1993 Mack Avenue fire inquiry
- An exchange on “The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war”
- Iraq election entrenches communalist divisions
- German trade union boss to celebrate birthday in the chancellery
- Funeral held for Detroit children killed in Bangor Street fire
- A letter on the political career of British Labour “left” Michael Foot
- Obama education plan to push competitive funding
- New Chilean president to continue military occupation of earthquake ravaged regions
- Boston cuts target community centers, libraries
- Australia: Parental leave plan provokes outrage in business circles
2010-03-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The deadly consequences of utility shutoffs
- Mass protests in Thai capital as political crisis continues
- An exchange of letters concerning the state repression of India’s Telangana agitation
- Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting on Karainagar Island
- Former legislator Juanita Goggins freezes to death in South Carolina home
- Pittsburgh: WSWS speaks to family of steelworker left to die
- Britain’s Chilcot inquiry: A whitewash of war crimes and Iraq war
- The crisis of American filmmaking & cultural life
- Hundreds die as factions struggle for power in Nigeria
- Ann Talbot: Charting a revolutionary perspective for the Spanish working class
- The Hurt Locker and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war: New York Times journalists weigh in
- US military created private spy and murder squad in Afghanistan
- French regional elections: Ruling party defeated amid mass abstention
- European finance ministers divided over Greek bailout
- Britain: Communication Workers Union sells out postal workers
- Letters from our readers
- Glasgow: March protests asylum deaths
2010-03-17
- Tensions over Togo election
- Obama’s cynical pursuit of health care “reform”
- Political standoff in Nepal over constitution
- Greek trade unions close ranks behind PASOK austerity measures
- Georgia: “Invasion” hoax used to whip up anti-Russian fears
- France: teachers, students march against education cuts
- The Greek debt crisis signals a new stage in class conflict
- Senate Democrats unveil toothless bank regulation bill
- Detroit firefighters discuss impact of utility shut-offs and budget cuts
- German executives awarded themselves millions in 2009
- Detroit to close 45 more schools
- The jurist Fritz Bauer and Germany’s Nazi past
- Afghanistan violence escalates as US forces prepare Kandahar assault
2010-03-18
- Sri Lanka: Military trials of Fonseka begin
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold series of election meetings
- US-China tensions threaten to ignite trade war
- Unelected multi-millionaire takes charge in New York budget crisis
- The crisis of American filmmaking & cultural life
- Invictus, Clint Eastwood's uncritical tribute to Nelson Mandela
- Greek workers insist “The economic crisis was not caused by us”
- Illinois budget crisis sharpens
- Greece: Fake left lines up behind union sabotage of anti-austerity struggle
- Germany: Young refugee commits suicide in deportation centre
- Fiji hit by destructive cyclone
- Britain: Protests against closure of elderly care homes
- DTE, Wall Street profit from utility shutoffs
- Video: Dexter Avenue area residents express anger over utility shutoffs
- Letters on The Hurt Locker and the Academy Awards
- US/NATO death squads killing indiscriminately in Afghanistan
2010-03-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Legal witch hunt against Sylvia Young collapsing
- Greece: WSWS speaks to students in Athens
- Tensions between UN and Sri Lanka over war crimes
- Detroit media, politicians back corporate plan to privatize education
- Ted Phillips: “Thousands of people are living without lights, water or gas”
- Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States
- Works councils and unions implement GM’s European “restructuring” plan
- Kucinich throws his support behind Obama health care bill
- Green Zone: Some very belated questions timidly posed
- Divisions between the US and Europe widen over Greek bailout
- Detroit—a model for nationwide assault on public education
- Trial in killing of Rachel Corrie opens in Israel
- Chinese premier warns of economic instability and US protectionism
- Canada: Vale Inco steps up scab operation
- Australia: Boeing unions seek to impose Sydney plant closure
- British Airways strike provokes fury in media and political establishment
2010-03-20
- Court appointed guardian pursues neglect charges against Sylvia Young
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sri Lanka: Condemn the EPDP attack on SEP members in Jaffna
- Spanish airport strikers face imprisonment for sedition
- Scotland: Spending cuts across the education sector
- Australia: Rudd government steps up anti-refugee measures
- Appeal by Polanski’s lawyers exposes new details of judicial misconduct
- Greece: The pseudo-left and the trade unions
- The crisis of American capitalism and the war against Iraq
- US prepares for military confrontation with Iran
- US Congress poised to pass Obama’s cost-cutting health plan
- French regional elections: NPA defends Socialist Party
- Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain
2010-03-22
- Britain faces a possible Greek scenario, European Union warns
- This week in history: March 22-March 28
- Sri Lanka: Leaked state intelligence hit list
- British soldier jailed for refusing to redeploy to Afghanistan
- An attack on health care in the guise of reform
- Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire holds first hearing
- Mass protest in Washington demands rights for immigrant workers
- Australian court allows Guantánamo torture compensation case to proceed
- Arizona budget cuts education, health care for the poor
2010-03-23
- Video: Director of Detroit free medical clinic denounces utility shutoffs
- Unemployment on the rise in virtually every US urban area
- Sri Lanka: Permanent military occupation of the North and East
- Quebec public sector workers protest government concessions drive
- Russia and India improve relations
- The role of the government in deadly US house fires
- The significance of the Dexter Avenue Fire Inquiry
- Immigrant workers protest raids, deportations under Obama
- The New York Times and the Obama health care plan
- Sweeping cuts in German cultural facilities
- French regional elections: second round confirms rejection of ruling party
- European Union wracked by divisions over Greek crisis
- Australia: Labor Party suffers substantial losses in state elections
- Letters from our readers
- Ireland: Trade unions paved way for mass sackings at Aer Lingus
2010-03-24
- Vincere—the tragic life of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s first wife
- DTE Energy holds public relations event as utility shut-offs continue
- Trotsky the subject of cultural events in Russia
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government thugs attack plantation workers
- Germany: Siemens to cut another 4,200 jobs
- Quebec public sector workers confront a political struggle
- Obama health bill sets the stage for assault on Medicare and Social Security
- US, Mexico in crisis talks on “drug war”
- Japanese government reveals secret nuclear agreement with the US
- Trial begins in killing of Ecuadorean immigrant in New York suburb
- Washington dictates terms to devastated Haiti
- France: Over a million people strike against Sarkozy’s austerity policies
- Utility shutoffs: Who profits?
- Australia: Labor and Liberal leaders stage phony healthcare debate
- In a visible voice: Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
- British Airways strike: What happened to the pledges of international solidarity?
- Protest group covers for Obama and the Democrats
2010-03-25
- Deindustrialization, the UAW and the Decline of Detroit
- Hearing of the Citizens Inquiry into the Dexter Avenue Fire
- US and Pakistan hold “strategic dialogue,” but frictions persist
- For socialist policies and a workers’ and farmers’ government
- Netanyahu defies Washington on settlements
- California: NUMMI auto workers railroaded into severance package
- Nevada budget cuts worsen the social crisis
- Make Way for Tomorrow: Remarkable Depression-era film released on DVD
- Japanese economy plagued by deflation and debt
- Iceland to commence EU accession talks
- New York Times fashions “egalitarian” defense of Obama health plan
- Australian government announces plan to train more doctors
- Europe split over Greek crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Bing demands smaller, more exploited Detroit
- Activist group ACORN collapses following witch-hunt
- Obama signs anti-abortion executive order
2010-03-26
- Vendetta continues against mother who lost three in Detroit fire
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan SEP holds election meeting in Jaffna
- A tense election campaign in the Philippines
- The conviction of ex-Nazi Boere and Washington’s war crimes
- Germany: Rapid increase in poverty for pensioners
- New Jersey budget targets workers, services
- Britain expels Israeli diplomat over Mossad assassination of Hamas leader
- Malaysian government plays the communal card
- Britain: The business of education under Labour—Part 1
- US jobless claims, home sales point to protracted recession
- The Blind Side: No one-eyed man or woman in this kingdom
2010-03-27
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama administration pushes for more war funding
- Pro-imperialist Global Tamil Forum inaugurated at British Parliament
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government mob attacks media network offices
- Left Bloc offers its services to Portuguese capitalism
- Australia: Report details police attacks on African immigrant youth
- In the aftermath of the health care vote
- New release from Mehring Books
- The Lacuna, or what’s missing
- The NPA’s Alain Krivine speaks in Germany
- Decline in 2009 personal income reveals impoverishment of US population
- White House announces bank-friendly housing assistance modifications
- Obama cuts to home energy assistance to have devastating consequences
- European summit proposes bailout and austerity plan for Greece
- Britain: The business of education under Labour—Part 2
- Letters from our readers
- A socialist program to defend education
2010-03-29
- DC public schools lead in reactionary education “reforms”
- This week in history: March 29-April 4
- Fifty years since the Sharpeville Massacre: The nature of post-Apartheid South Africa
- Australia: Union ends print workers’ picket
- The struggle against the EU’s financial diktats is a class issue
- Former CIA asset Allawi touted as next Iraqi prime minister
- Washington ratchets up war threats against Iran
- An American liberal looks at health care systems around the globe
- Britain: The business of education under Labour—Part 3
- New York Times continues cost-cutting campaign with “doctors thoughts”
- BA strikers: “It is time to stop this rush to the bottom”
2010-03-30
- Ypsilanti, Michigan, board votes to close schools, impose layoffs
- US Congress allows jobless benefits to expire
- Sri Lanka: Urban poor deprived of proper housing
- Scotland: Aberdeen University students oppose spending cuts and tuition fees
- For a working class movement to defend public education!
- Train bombing in Moscow kills dozens
- Australia: Unions try to head off public anger over Queensland privatisation plan
- Philippine presidential candidates to cut budget deficit
- Is a US attack on Iran imminent?
- Britain: Government suspensions forced by lobbying revelations
- Indian government continues its offensive against Maoist insurgents
- Health and health care services in the poorest US city
- Letters from our readers
- Poverty and health care in America: the unavoidable facts
- Obama’s visit underscores US crisis in Afghanistan
2010-03-31
- Two deaths highlight Sri Lanka’s terrible social crisis
- Obama education plan boosts privatization, victimizes teachers
- The impact of poverty on utility shutoffs
- The growing danger of trade war
- Ontario announces spending cuts, public sector wage freeze
- Greek trade unions line up behind government austerity measures
- German arms exports more than double
- Germany: Who is behind the neo-Nazi march in Duisburg?
- Creation: When Darwin was writing his groundbreaking work
- Banks named as “co-conspirators” in municipal bid-rigging
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