Archive: 05/2010
2010-05-01
- Spain: Prime Minister pledges tough austerity measures “whatever the cost”
- May Day 2010
- BP oil spill hits Gulf coast
- The victims of the Deepwater Horizon explosion
- Oakland, California teachers participate in one-day strike
- Britain: SEP candidate barred from hustings by Manchester University Students Union
- Britain’s leaders debate on the economy: Evasion, lies and anti-immigrant rhetoric
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India: West Bengal government forms industrial security force
- Democrats outline anti-immigrant proposal
- Four California children die in blaze at home without electricity
- Greece, the euro crisis and the issues confronting the European working class
- Letters from our readers
- Pentagon paints bleak picture of Afghanistan war as more civilians die
2010-05-03
- Jersey City high-school students defend April 27 walkout
- This week in history: May 3-May 9
- Sri Lankan workers face austerity measures
- Transference, the new album from Spoon
- The Gulf oil spill: An American Chernobyl
- UK: All political parties plan attacks on public sector pensions
- Massive oil spill was foreseeable
- Australia: Sacked workers rally over unpaid entitlements
- Tens of thousands demonstrate on May Day in defense of immigrants
- May Day demonstrations in Europe marked by low turnouts and clashes with bureaucrats
- Britain: Correspondence on the SEP’s election manifesto
- BP oil spill threatens environmental catastrophe on US Gulf Coast
- Europe-IMF bailout, social cuts announced in Greece
- Fear of property speculation grips Chinese leadership
- Democrats call for deployment of National Guard in Chicago
2010-05-04
- Thai prime minister issues election offer to protesters
- Deadly storms, flooding hit US mid-South
- Australia: Government unveils pro-business tax reforms
- Pressure from US ensures Sudanese poll goes ahead, despite fraud
- Sri Lankan SEP holds May Day meeting
- SEP candidate Robert Skelton speaks on DM Digital TV’s “Spotlight”
- Maliki’s secret detention site in Baghdad
- Roman Polanski releases statement denouncing legal witch-hunt
- Socialist internationalism and the defense of immigrant workers
- Obama seeks to contain anger over BP oil spill
- Austerity in Latvia: a warning to the international working class
- Forty years since the Kent State massacre
- Funerals begin for workers killed in oil rig explosion
- Letters from our readers
- Mehring Books announces spring sale
2010-05-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York Times minimizes Gulf oil spill
- Free clinic exposes health care crisis in Los Angeles
- Britain: Post workers accept rotten agreement
- The Times Square bombing attempt
- Global labour figures point to rising tide of joblessness
- Nepali Maoists call general strike against government
- Britain: SEP campaigns at University of Manchester
- Macau police attack May Day demonstrators
- Video: Lawyer for family of worker killed in blast says BP guilty of negligence
- Germany: Union leader warns of working class radicalisation
- European, world markets plunge on Greek debt fears
- Indian coal workers to strike against privatisation
- Video: 20,000 march for immigrant rights in Chicago
- An appeal to DTE workers
2010-05-06
- Thai protest leaders agree to government deal
- Britain: Scottish and Welsh nationalists back hung parliament
- SEP (Australia) public meeting resolution
- After the General Election: Where is Britain going?
- The Pacific offers character and emotions but little understanding
- Obama’s Predator joke—no laughing matter
- SEP public meetings oppose Australian government’s assault on public education
- Iran, the US and the UN nuclear conference
- Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement
- The Green Party in Britain: advocates of “green capitalism”
- Greek workers strike against austerity measures
- Political biography and the historical lie: An examination of Robert Service’s Trotsky
- Deepwater Horizon survivors told to take drug test before being allowed to call families
- Committee Against Utility Shutoffs launches campaign
- Canada: No concessions strike against Vale Inco in jeopardy
2010-05-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- New York judge temporarily delays mass transit layoffs
- Australian teacher unions call off NAPLAN boycott
- Sri Lankan government extends state of emergency
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 1: A few introductory words on this year’s event
- Hacienda Luisita haunts Philippine presidential candidate Aquino
- The Shanghai World Expo: capitalist extravagance on top of social misery
- Lockout at the Journal de Montreal approaching 475th day
- Ireland: Public sector union leader demands workers accept austerity
- Greek Parliament approves deep social cuts in face of mass opposition
- BP spill threatens vulnerable ecosystems with destruction
- Obama widens drone attacks in Pakistan
- US Senate moves towards passage of financial “reform” bill
2010-05-08
- Sri Lanka: State-owned newspaper publishes death threat against SEP
- Protests grow in Romania
- Fear of election failure in the Philippines dominates lead up to Monday’s voting
- The BP oil spill and American capitalism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- April WSWS Perspectives available
- US jobless rate climbs to 9.9 percent in April, despite 290,000 more jobs
- Lessons of Iran’s May Day
- “Strange Fruit” by Kenan Malik: A polemic against racism and identity politics
- BP oil spill to devastate Gulf fishing industry
- Political instability follows inconclusive British elections
- Fears over Greek crisis continue to drive down global markets
- Letters from our readers
- No One Knows About Persian Cats: The struggle of young Iranian musicians
- Drop in California state revenues exacerbates budget crisis
2010-05-10
- This week in history: May 10-May 16
- Video: Louisiana workers denounce BP’s oil spill response
- This week in history: May 10-May 16
- Sri Lankan defence ministry begins evicting poor in Colombo
- The international significance of the Greek general strike
- Obama administration blocked efforts to stop BP oil drilling before explosion
- Gulf oil spill threatens public health
- Oakland, California teachers authorize a strike
- New York City budget calls for mass layoffs
- Australia: Mining companies declare war on new resource tax
- Large Hadron Collider accelerates particles to record energy level
- Obama administration backs stripping “terror” suspects of Miranda rights
- Britain: No agreement yet on coalition government
- Britain: David O'Sullivan replies to election correspondence
- Stalinist union calls off Indian coal strike
- German parliament agrees loans to Greece
2010-05-11
- Scientist says Obama administration policy contributed to Gulf Coast Spill
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 2: Susa—The type of life that requires illusions
- Class struggle in Greece: The second stage of the global financial crisis
- Ninety feared dead in Russian coal mine explosions
- Britain: Legal challenges likely after thousands turned away from polls
- Record levels of long-term unemployment in US
- Obama administration helped BP quash environmental challenges to Gulf drilling
- Election in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia—Preparation for a government of confrontation
- Obama picks Solicitor General Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
- The social crisis facing students: For a working class movement to defend education
- France: NPA promotes Socialist Party’s austerity agenda
- Dispersants no cure for oil disaster
- Letters on Strange Fruit by Kenan Malik
- Britain: Brown announces resignation amid talks on coalition
- China: School attacks point to rising social tensions
- Australia: Unions help close Tasmanian paper mills
- Stock markets surge on €750 billion European bailout
2010-05-12
- Britain: The Tory press and “democracy”
- In cynical gesture, Sri Lankan president pardons journalist
- US Senate begins oil spill cover-up
- Seattle police beating caught on tape
- Noynoy Aquino wins Philippine presidency
- US warns Pakistan of “severe consequences”
- New York governor plans furloughs for 100,000 state workers
- Nashville, Tennessee struggles in flood’s aftermath
- Federal officials block open hearings into West Virginia explosion
- Iraq: Bloodiest day this year deepens political crisis
- Imperialism and the political economy of the Holocaust
- The ghost of Thomas Hobbes
- Australian government boasts of budget “buffering” economy from world turmoil
- Britain: Labour brings Tory-Lib Dem coalition to power
- US continues to detain, torture prisoners at secret Afghan base
2010-05-13
- DTE Energy holds another public relations stunt in Taylor, Michigan
- Thai government’s deal with protesters breaks down
- Sri Lankan military takes over urban development
- Lessons of the Sodimatex sell-out in France
- Australian government’s refugee policy claims more innocent lives
- Euro aid package inaugurates offensive against working class
- US military faces “hard fighting” in Afghanistan war
- Lena Horne, 1917-2010
- Greek government announces major pension cuts
- Greek workers protest pension cuts
- Where is Britain going?
- Egypt gripped by social unrest
- Letters from our readers
- California nursing homes received millions in state funds as staff, services cut
- Britain’s Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition plans attacks on social programmes
- Gulf oil spill compounded by BP’s control of “cleanup”
2010-05-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Video: Friend of Detroit fire victim denounces utility shutoffs
- Steelworkers officials dismantle blockade at Vale Inco
- What caused the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon?
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 3: War, and more war
- US home repossessions set record in April, foreclosures plateau at “very high level”
- US media demands Greek-style austerity for American workers
- New Orleans: Demolition of homes to make way for new medical complex
- China’s plans to open up North Korea for foreign investment
- India and Pakistan to resume long-stalled peace dialogue
- Two men perish in Detroit house fire
- Drastic social cutbacks unveiled throughout Europe
- New Jersey Governor presses attack on public employees and education
- Germany: The Berlin Senate, the Left Party and international hedge funds
- South African transport workers strike hits rail, ports
- Australian unions’ desperate attempt to bolster Labor
2010-05-15
- Louisiana residents and fishermen denounce oil spill response
- Ten dead as Thai military lays siege to protesters
- The task facing British workers
- Sri Lanka: Residents protest against demolition of homes
- Obama’s “anger and frustration” at the BP oil spill
- Mid-South flood survivors speak to WSWS
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Gulf oil spill at least 10 times larger than previous estimate
- Greek workers speak out against Papandreou’s cuts
- US mid-South faces long term flood impact
- Australian government pushes rapid expansion of gas projects
- Afghans protest over US massacre of civilians
- Marxism and the Holocaust
2010-05-17
- This week in history: May 17-May 23
- Trash Humpers: Another of Harmony Korine’s exploitive freak shows
- Thai military escalates crackdown
- Scientists detect miles-long streaks of submerged oil
- Police attack student strikers at University of Puerto Rico
- The specter of catastrophe returns
- Minnesota nurses rally against concession demands
- Germany: Clashes in Left Party over draft programme
- Rival factions continue to vie for power in Kyrgyzstan
- SYRIZA rally: the reactionary politics of the middle class “left” in Greece
- Detroit police kill seven-year-old child
- California Governor outlines new budget austerity program
- Australia: Government culpability in 2009 Victorian bushfires
- Bushfire testimony on tragic cost of electricity privatisation
- Brockton, Mass.: Pink slips for 430 teachers
- Management and pilots’ union attempt to block British Airways strike
2010-05-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Thai demonstrators defy government ultimatum to end protest
- IMF dictates shock program to Romania
- Portugal’s Socialist Party government imposes new round of austerity
- Sri Lanka: One year after the LTTE’s defeat
- Greek debt crisis hits small businesses in Athens
- Tensions build in wake of Russian mine disaster
- US Supreme Court limits some juvenile sentences
- Iron Man 2 and the sad state of American filmmaking today
- Economic crisis makes “very difficult” situation for Greek families worse
- Family denounces Detroit police murder of seven-year-old child
- Deepwater rig owner wants to pay workers a fraction of its own insurance payout
- Letters from our readers
- US military’s private spy and murder ring continues to operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan
- BP oil spill likely picked up by Gulf currents
2010-05-19
- Detroit resident speaks on utility shutoff
- ICG report exposes Sri Lankan government’s war crimes
- Pfizer to lay off 6,000 workers
- US death toll in Afghanistan tops 1,000
- Britain: Lib Dem conference backs coalition with Tories
- The media and utility shutoffs in Pennsylvania
- Indonesian finance minister appointed as World Bank director
- BP disaster spreads oil pollution across the Gulf of Mexico
- Noam Chomsky barred from entering West Bank
- Fired Rhode Island teachers to keep jobs in concessions deal
- CAUS denounces police murder of Aiyana Jones
- High court outlaws strike at British Airways
- Slideshow: The gulf coast oil spill
2010-05-20
- George Will: a pompous defender of wealth and privilege
- Mixed results from primary elections in four US states
- Miners trapped underground in Turkish coal disaster
- Thai military crushes Bangkok protest
- Jaffna: One year after the end of the war in Sri Lanka
- “Snarlin’ Arlen” Specter—the ugly face of American big business politics
- An exchange on NAPLAN and the role of Socialist Alliance
- Once more on the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- One month since the Deepwater Horizon blast
- After the election in North Rhine-Westphalia: Preparations for a grand coalition
- Behind the “Proximity talks” between Israel and Palestinians
- US presses ahead with UN sanctions against Iran
- India’s government tables loophole-filled anti-torture law
- Letters from our readers
2010-05-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Workers rally in support of Puerto Rican students
- Heavy military presence continues in Bangkok
- Global markets plunge as eurozone crisis deepens
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 4: An Indian masterpiece
- Scotland: Savage education cuts imminent
- Facing record loss of revenue, US states gutting essential services
- Obama administration backpedals on oil spill response
- Report finds deepening poverty in Illinois
- Greece: Fourth 24-hour strike against austerity measures
- How the Greek Communist Party covers for Papandreou’s cuts
- “Anti-speculation” measures sharpen euro crisis
- Figures reveal US slump is sustained, deepening for the working population
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
- The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism
- Opposition parties abet cover up of Canada’s Afghan war crimes
- Lawsuit filed against Detroit police in killing of Aiyana Stanley-Jones
- US military strategy unravelling in Afghanistan
2010-05-22
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Half a million people affected by floods in Sri Lanka
- Thousands of Slovenian students protest attacks on their conditions
- Bangkok’s bloody events: a warning
- New York and New Jersey workers face unprecedented cutbacks
- Trapped miners found dead in Turkey
- Britain: How the ex-left groups politically disarm the working class
- New company, court attack on Vale Inco strikers
- As oil blankets Gulf Coast, further evidence of BP’s criminality
- German trade union congress closes ranks with employers and government
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Political divisions deepen over budget measures
- Ban on strikes at British Airways overturned, but dangers persist
- US intelligence director forced to resign
- US Senate rubber-stamps the dictatorship of the big banks
2010-05-24
- This week in history: May 24-May 30
- Thai government maintains state of emergency
- Sri Lanka: IMF insists on severe austerity measures
- The profit system and the BP oil catastrophe
- Jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on hunger strike
- New Zealand universities move to cut admissions
- Minnesota nurses reject hospital concession demands
- Tens of thousands rally against New Jersey budget cuts
- Britain: Middlesex University authorities close down student occupation
- Michigan teacher pension “reform” attacks public education
- Germany: Left Party prepares for government
- The social and economic impact of the Gulf oil spill
- Markets stabilise but “smell of fear” is in the air
- Readers’ responses to recent film reviews on the WSWS
- Australian government rejects human rights charter
2010-05-25
- Music review: Peter Wolf’s “Midnight Souvenirs”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama administration defends BP response to oil spill disaster
- SEP Australia meeting in Perth: The second stage of the global financial crisis
- Obama’s financial reform bill: Wall Street breathes a “sigh of relief”
- NAPLAN testing and My School: Rudd’s free market education agenda
- South Korea imposes penalties on North over naval incident
- Book bares Israeli nuclear arms deals with apartheid regime
- Australia: Tasmanian Greens in government and “opposition”
- Thousands pay tribute to seven-year-old murdered by Detroit police
- Detroit Disassembled: A visual exposé of Detroit’s decline
- British coalition government announces attack on public sector
- Another US-NATO base targeted in Afghanistan
2010-05-26
- Vale Inco strikers and supporters in Sudbury, Ontario speak
- Michigan teachers protest state education cuts
- A comment on Tatlin in London today
- Sri Lankan military presses cases against Fonseka
- Britain: Tories and Lib-Dems push “fiscal autonomy” for Scotland
- Exposure of Australian government’s policy on Sri Lankan refugees
- Britain: Queen’s speech announces pro-business anti-worker legislative agenda
- Secret order prepares new US wars in Middle East and Central Asia
- Obama continues assault on teachers
- Interim government moves to consolidate power in Kyrgyzstan
- White House admits BP disaster worst spill in US history
- Australian Ford workers strike against regressive agreement
- Global markets gyrate on fears of Europe’s spreading financial crisis
- Greek debt crisis exacerbates problems in Eastern Europe and Balkans
2010-05-27
- The political lessons of the Thai protests
- BP had prior warning of Deepwater Horizon blowout
- Gulf oil spill: Why is BP in charge?
- Constitutional crisis looming in Nepal
- Report chronicles school cuts in western Michigan
- Retired driver blames budget cuts for fatal accident on Detroit school bus
- Letters from our readers
- British 10-year-old boys convicted of attempted rape
- Obama orders troops to Mexican border
- Unite bureaucracy seeks to end British Airways strike on management’s terms
- Australian think-tank recommends military build-up in Indian Ocean
2010-05-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US college graduates face bleakest job prospects in decades
- Sri Lankan government exploits flood disaster to evict slum dwellers
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2010 Part 5: The small pictures that still dominate
- Lies and evasions in defense of BP
- China signs $23 billion oil deal with Nigeria
- Miners and families denounce Massey and government inspectors for West Virginia mine disaster
- Tense standoff between two Koreas
- Jamaica state of siege: Scores dead, hundreds detained
- “Top kill” has yet to stop Gulf oil flow
- The profit motive and utility shutoffs
- Australia: Mining tax battle intensifies
2010-05-29
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Thai government widens political witch hunt
- Obama makes PR stop on Gulf Coast
- Canada to mount largest-ever security operation for G8/G20 summits
- Austerity measures throughout Europe
- Judge Baltasar Garzón suspended for investigating Franco’s crimes
- France: Day of action highlights chasm between workers and established parties
- British government outlines plans to dismantle welfare
- More revelations point to criminality of BP, Transocean
2010-05-31
- This week in history: May 31-June 6
- Failure of BP’s “top kill” means oil will continue to flow for months
- A wave of mine disasters
- New Zealand government brings down austerity budget
- Nepal: Constitutional crisis temporarily averted
- Students and staff oppose suspensions following Middlesex University occupation
- German CDU leader Roland Koch resigns
- Irish state bankruptcy looms as unions push through strike ban
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