Archive: 04/2010
2010-04-01
- UAW membership continues to plummet
- Election violence ahead of Sri Lankan poll
- Attend the WSWS/SEP Emergency Conference!
- Political Biography and the Historical Lie: An Examination of Robert Service’s Trotsky
- Britain: Legal challenge to planned Network Rail strike
- Obama’s Afghan visit: laying down the law to a US puppet
- “Left Alliance” defeated in Italian regional elections
- US escalates threats against Iran
- Obama opens US coastlines for oil drilling
- Another Chinese coal mining tragedy
2010-04-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Virginia: Hampton Roads schools face major budget cuts
- Sri Lanka: The TNA and the program of “self determination”
- Unions isolate struggle at British Airways
- Ahmadinejad retreats in clash over Iran’s budget
- Australia: Media demands stricter health care “rationing”
- Top US hedge fund managers took in $25.3 billion
- Washington asserts colonial-style control of Haiti at UN donors’ conference
- Socialist Party leaders call for austerity policies
- A week of coal mine disasters in China
2010-04-03
- “Rajapakse’s era not golden for us”—Sri Lankan plantation workers
- Spanish airport strikers given two-year probationary sentences
- Refinery explosion in Washington state kills three, wounds four
- The “paradigm shift” in German foreign policy
- Australia: Students boycott farcical NUS “Day of Action”
- Findings of the Citizens Inquiry into Dexter Avenue Fire
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- March jobs report points to protracted US downturn
- Greenberg: Not the most important problems in life
- Google shuts down search services in China
- Detroit firefighter speaks before Dexter Avenue Inquiry
- Letters from our readers
- Life imprisonment for SS man Heinrich Boere
- Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed “a million innocent civilians”
2010-04-05
- A letter on the closure of two schools in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Video: Head of legal services nonprofit speaks before Dexter Avenue Inquiry
- Britain: Unofficial general election campaign underway
- This week in history: April 5-April 11
- Sri Lankan government campaigns to entrench autocratic powers
- Parents, students, teachers speak out against Detroit school closures
- British High Court blocks rail strike
- “8 Mile”: images from a Papua New Guinea shanty town
- Tensions mount between Washington and its puppet in Kabul
- Pakistan battered by inflation, anemic growth and power cuts
- Music review: Yonder Is the Clock by the Felice Brothers
- Australian government to ration diabetes care
2010-04-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Toledo, Ohio to impose further cuts on employees
- Australia’s wealthiest executives “back in the money”
- Quebec budget attacks Medicare and other vital public services
- The international significance of the Sri Lankan election
- Federal judge slams Obama administration lawyers’ defense of illegal wiretapping
- Shostakovich’s The Nose finds its way to the opera stage
- West Virginia mine disaster kills 25, 4 missing
- Socialist Equality Party Manifesto for the 2010 British general election
- Oppose furloughs and all school cuts! For a working class movement to defend public education!
- Letters from our readers
- US Special Forces covered up massacre of Afghans
2010-04-07
- New York City forum denounces FBI entrapment of Muslims in US
- Anti-government protests continue in Thailand
- Sri Lankan SEP holds final election meeting
- Moscow underground bombings linked to crisis in North Caucasus
- No economic recovery for the working class
- Massey Energy and the United Mine Workers union
- Leaked video shows US military killing of two Iraqi journalists
- 25 dead, 4 missing, in West Virginia mine explosion
- China’s growing social polarisation
- Obama nominates cost-cutting advocate as Medicare and Medicaid chief
2010-04-08
- The New York Times fingers whistleblower WikiLeaks
- Sri Lankan election: Vote for the Socialist Equality Party
- Obama orders assassination of US citizen
- New US nuclear doctrine targets Iran, North Korea
- New Zealand government imposes economic austerity measures
- Details emerge of deadly conditions prior to West Virginia mine explosion
- Latest edition of Perspectives now available
- Kyrgyz government falls
- Indian Stalinists’ “jail bharo”: a political stunt
- Greece moves to borrow from Wall Street
- Letters from our readers
- China maintains discriminatory measures against rural migrants
2010-04-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Britain: Election campaign focuses on economy
- Thai government imposes state of emergency, but protests continue
- Australia: Greens-backed minority Labor government installed in Tasmania
- New York Times distorts research on statin drug therapy
- A tense election day in Sri Lanka
- The West Virginia mine disaster and the collapse of the United Mine Workers
- Rescue attempt suspended at West Virginia mine
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meetings: General Election 2010
- Death on the Picket Line: The Story of John McCoy
- Struggle for power continues in Kyrgyzstan
- Defence Minister Guttenberg: Germany at war in Afghanistan
- West Virginia workers speak on mine disaster
- New study demands sweeping cuts, privatization for Detroit
2010-04-10
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Miners speak on safety violations at Upper Big Branch Mine
- US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to retire in June
- Sri Lankan election result sets stage for class conflict
- Iraq’s communal, anti-democratic election
- Miners doomed by collusion between regulators and coal companies
- Los Angeles faces insolvency
- Kyrgyz opposition struggles to consolidate power
- South Korea: Kumho Tire workers reject sell-out agreement
- Four more miners found dead in West Virginia explosion
- Right wing expected to win election in Hungary this weekend
- Thousands in Detroit face utility shut-offs with end of “winter protection plan”
- DTE profits soar in first quarter
- US Supreme Court deals further blow to separation of church and state
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s security forces refuse to release their files on long dead CCF-NDP leader
- Boston Public Library trustees vote to close four branches
2010-04-12
- This week in history: April 12-April 18
- Thai military crackdown on anti-government protest leaves 21 dead
- Murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche destabilises South Africa
- Sri Lanka: A revealing breach of the constitution
- French President Sarkozy’s visit to Rwanda
- Australian government suspends refugee applications
- The life and career of actor Corin Redgrave
- Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash
- Emergency bailout plan for Greece: A new stage in world economic crisis
- Families begin to bury 29 killed in West Virginia explosion
- Franco-Italian summit makes strategic deals, calls for bailout of Greece
- The second stage of the global capitalist crisis
2010-04-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- China sentences Rio Tinto executives to lengthy jail terms
- Sri Lankan writer arrested for offending Buddhism
- IMF head dictates terms to Romania
- Repo Men lingers on all the wrong things
- Ireland: Public sector unions agree four-year strike ban
- Washington nuclear conference promotes US campaign against Iran, North Korea
- Slideshow: The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
- Slideshow: The Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster
- More evidence of violations in West Virginia mine explosion
- Polish president Lech Kaczynski (1949–2010)—from Solidarity advisor to right-wing politician
- Australian government releases final terms of health takeover
- Findings of the Commission
- Letters from our readers
- US troops attack Afghan bus, killing four and wounding 18
2010-04-14
- Thai government shaky as mass protests continue
- “Crime is common. Logic is rare”: Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes
- Philippine port workers sold out by unions
- Mine disaster exposes the brutal reality of American capitalism
- Oxford East: Industrial decline and rising unemployment
- Australian teachers’ union makes empty threat to boycott NAPLAN testing
- Report cites staggering level of US maternal mortality
- Manchester Central: A picture of poverty and social deprivation
- Britain: Another legal Rubicon—“juryless trials”
- Gujarat Chief Minister interrogated about his role in 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom
- Right wing wins large majority in Hungarian election
- Fabcon workers in Minnesota fight company attacks
- Dexter Avenue inquiry announces findings
- France: Continental offers €137-a-month jobs in Tunisia
- Hundreds killed in Rio de Janeiro mudslides
2010-04-15
- Britain: Observer exposes police spy in the Socialist Party
- New York, New Jersey governors tie school aid to teachers’ concessions
- Australia: Unions to collaborate in Australia Post restructuring
- The class struggle in Thailand
- Federal regulatory system sanctions deadly conditions in US mines
- State repression beats back Jammu and Kashmir public sector strike
- Canada: Vale-Inco strike now longest in Sudbury Basin history
- Harlem School of the Arts shuts down in face of financial crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Detroit meeting indicts DTE in fatal house fires
- Earthquake hits impoverished Chinese region
- Catholic Church in crisis over sexual abuse reports
- US Fed chief demands austerity plan
2010-04-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Britain’s Liberal Democrats warn of “Greek-style” unrest
- The rescue at China’s Wangjialing mine
- Who is Davitt McAteer?
- Australia: Miner killed at BHP Billiton nickel mine
- JPMorgan Chase profits jump 55 percent in first quarter of 2010
- US pushes for new sanctions against Iran
- German chancellor’s military adviser a sympathiser of Nazi jurist
- US jobless benefit filings, foreclosures up sharply
2010-04-17
- Referee throws out case against Sylvia Young
- Welcome from France: A compassionate exposure of anti-immigrant measures
- Thai government prepares new crackdown on protests
- A letter on “The life and career of actor Corin Redgrave”
- Signs of discontent as China’s earthquake toll rises
- Sri Lanka’s low voter turnout: A sign of coming class battles
- Britain: Official parties pledge austerity, cuts, militarism and war
- An interview with Philippe Lioret, director of Welcome
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kyrgyz president flees country
- Severe tropical storm strikes eastern India
- Bush CIA head agreed to destruction of torture videotapes
- German air traffic controllers prepare strike
- Massey drove up production prior to West Virginia mine disaster
- Britain’s Party Leaders Debate: An exercise in political engineering
2010-04-19
- Video: SEP participates in Oxford East hustings on electoral reform
- This week in history: April 19-April 25
- Britain: What exactly is the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition?
- Sri Lankan government revives law to suppress student protests
- Scotrail strike isolated by RMT, attacked by SNP government
- Following death of Kaczynski, great powers vie for influence in Poland
- The Goldman Sachs indictment
- Liberian students protest increase in university fees
- No agreement at Madrid summit on measures for Greek crisis
- SEP Emergency Conference advances strategy for struggle against social crisis and war
- Australia’s two-speed economy: the reality behind the “new golden age”
- Four more German soldiers killed in Afghanistan
2010-04-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Volcanic ash cloud leaves hundreds of thousands stranded in Europe
- Britain: SEP candidate responds to written questions from Manchester Stop The War Coalition
- How France’s ex-left betrays the undocumented workers’ strike
- On Detroit fires and the West Virginia mine explosion
- For an emergency jobs program! For the nationalization of the banks and the redistribution of wealth!
- Australian government to reopen remote refugee detention camp
- Ireland: Quinn Insurance in administration
- Jacques Audiard’s Un prophète: An extreme case of making a virtue out of necessity
- Rumblings of new war in the Middle East
- Britain: SEP candidate Robert Skelton speaks at Manchester Stop the War Coalition hustings
- New documents link Kissinger, Bush senior to Letelier assassination
- Report highlights escalating social and political tensions in Hong Kong
- Fallout from Goldman Sachs indictment spreads
- Letters from our readers
- Indian Telecom workers commence national strike
2010-04-21
- Socialist Equality Party receives warm response in Manchester and Oxford
- Military menaces anti-government protesters in Thailand
- Video: Mother of young children killed in Detroit house fire speaks
- Sri Lankan defence secretary proposes further security laws
- Break with the Democrats and Republicans! For an independent socialist movement of the working class!
- Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!
- For the international unity of the working class!
- The house fires in Detroit and the West Virginia mine disaster
- French government prepares new pension cuts
- Australia: Academics’ union makes key concessions at University of Western Sydney
- WSWS verifies Massey’s threat to fire miners who took off work to attend funerals
- Political instability continues in Kyrgyzstan after president flees
- Indian government suffers reversal in its war on Maoists and tribals
- Greek strikes, debt crisis intensify fears of economic collapse
- Australia: Greens form coalition state government with Labor
- Mounting international impact of European air traffic crisis
- Emergency Conference attendees speak to the World Socialist Web Site
- Britain: What will a 20 percent cut in public spending mean for workers?
- Canada subcontracted torture of Afghan detainees
2010-04-22
- Students at Warren, Michigan high school protest firing of principal
- One hundred years since the death of Mark Twain
- Layoff notices sent to thousands of US teachers
- New York’s St. Vincent’s Hospital announces closure
- SEIU chief Andrew Stern to resign
- The Scottish Socialist Party: Cheerleaders for nationalism
- Break with the Democrats and Republicans! For an independent socialist movement of the working class!
- On the youth and education
- Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!
- The European air traffic crisis
- Pakistani air strike kills more than 70 civilians
- Eleven workers missing after Louisiana oil rig explosion
- Britain: Details of hundreds of students handed to CIA
- Indian telecom unions sell out major strike
- The return of German militarism: Colonel Klein goes unpunished
- Detroit News runs to the aid of DTE Energy
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: State Labor governments sign on to Rudd’s regressive health agenda
2010-04-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US soldier on Baghdad massacre: “Not out of the ordinary in Iraq”
- New parliament opens in Sri Lanka
- Australian government’s policy sparked fatal refugee boat fire
- Resolutions of the Conference on Social Crisis & War
- Studies reveal Americans’ declining living standards and increasing anger
- Obama reassures Wall Street on bank regulation bill
- Oxford East voters speak following SEP candidate’s appearance at election hustings
- The Chancellor’s lies
- NAPLAN testing and My School: Rudd’s free market education agenda
- Introductory remarks: On the capitalist crisis and the economic “recovery”
- Israel: Whistleblower faces espionage charges for exposing IDF assassinations
- Ex-CEO, regulators trade blame for Lehman collapse
- Greek public sector workers strike to oppose austerity measures
- DTE Energy launches PR campaign to deflect anger over utility shutoffs
- Arizona legislature passes police-state measures against immigrants
- US soldiers issue apology over killings in Iraq
- Afghanistan: Another massacre as a bloody summer looms in Kandahar
2010-04-24
- Obama administration spending billions on new global strike weapons
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
- Sri Lanka: New cabinet installed to implement austerity program
- US: Forty years since the national postal strike
- Vindictive prosecution of Polanski continues
- The Greek crisis and the fight for the United Socialist States of Europe
- Search ended for eleven workers missing in Louisiana oil rig explosion
- European trade unions agree to closure of GM plant in Belgium
- Police beating of Maryland student caught on video
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- What is the situation facing immigrants and asylum seekers in Britain?
- Britain: Workers must oppose prejudice against immigrants and asylum seekers
- Britain’s leaders’ debate: A fraud in three acts
- Letters from our readers
2010-04-26
- Britain: SEP candidate addresses Greenpeace hustings
- This week in history: April 26-May 2
- Arizona immigration bill: A frontal assault on democratic rights
- Britain: David O’Sullivan addresses hustings in Oxford East
- Obama preaches reconciliation with coal bosses
- Miners and friends at memorial service speak on mine explosion
- Germany prepares to deport 14,000 refugees to Kosovo
- Unexplained naval sinking produces political crisis in South Korea
- European officials demand new cuts following Greek bailout request
- Google publishes figures on government requests for data
- Climate scientists exonerated in hacked emails inquiry
- “Casemix”: The model for cutting Australian hospital spending
- Indian writer Arundhati Roy threatened with prosecution under anti-terrorism law
2010-04-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Political stalemate continues in Thailand
- Sri Lanka: Opposition parties unanimously back new parliamentary speaker
- On the road to ruin: The Runaways
- Obama’s phony banking “reform”
- New York City: Luxury housing market recovers as homelessness rises
- Israel expels first Palestinians under new military edict
- Indian Stalinists stage one-day protest strike
- SEP candidate speaks at comprehensive school hustings in Oxford East
- Hungary: Right-wing Fidesz wins two-thirds majority
- Detroit mayor appoints DTE executive to top post
- A letter on Witnesses to Permanent Revolution
- Sarkozy proposes total ban on the burqa in France
- US military escalates its dirty war in Afghanistan
2010-04-28
- Video: SEP candidate addresses Oxford Union
- New Jersey: Thousands of high school students walk out to protest education cuts
- Puerto Rican students occupy four universities
- Charges dropped over Philippine political killings
- German chancellor steps up pressure on Greece
- Hidden toll of US wars: 18 veterans commit suicide daily
- Fundamental Problems of Marxism by Georgi Plekhanov
- World markets plunge as Greek credit downgraded to “junk” status
- Obama seizes on Arizona law to push repressive immigration overhaul
- Britain: Tragic suicide highlights plight of young unemployed
- The hardcore composer: Gang Starr’s Guru dies at 48
- Goldman Sachs executives defend deceptive marketing of securities
- US soldier in WikiLeaks massacre video: “I relive this every day”
- British press calls for election debate on budget cuts
2010-04-29
- David King’s Red Star Over Russia now available in German
- Sri Lanka: The political decomposition of the LSSP
- Sunday Times Rich List shows fortunes of British super-rich soar by a third
- Obama’s blueprint for austerity
- SEP campaign in Oxford East: Cowley Road residents interviewed
- Oil spill from BP explosion spreads in Gulf of Mexico
- Unite the working class to defend public education!
- New York City: thousands line up for a handful of jobs
- Japan: Mass protest against US base on Okinawa
- Expanded Greek bailout discussed as credit crisis engulfs Europe
- DTE profits soar in first quarter
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s Speaker rebukes government for withholding Afghan detainee documents
- Australia: Workers rally against Labor government’s building industry watchdog
2010-04-30
- Senate hearing covers up role of government in West Virginia mine disaster
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Uneasy standoff in Bangkok after violent clash
- Sri Lanka: New government threat against the media
- US soldiers’ stories: The terrible cost of Washington’s wars
- University of Pittsburgh: Striking Cafeteria workers ordered back to work by SEIU
- Britain’s general election: An historic political shift
- Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental catastrophe
- German state election reveals an all-party coalition against the population
- New Jersey students punished for participating in school walkout
- Australia: Labor government rejects inquiry into impact of mining on health
- Jan van der Marck, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, dies
- Two miners killed in Kentucky mine collapse
- Full rights for all immigrants! For the international unity of the working class!
- Greek government agrees to deeper cuts in return for expanded bailout
- US Supreme Court deals further blow to separation of church and state
- California: San Juan Capistrano teachers union calls off three-day strike
- BBC Radio Manchester interviews SEP candidate Robert Skelton
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