Archive: 07/2010
2010-07-01
- German government receives a drubbing in the presidential election
- Video series: The Gulf oil spill
- Aquino installed as Philippine president
- G20 summit exposes deep trans-Atlantic differences
- US Congress withholds billions from Medicaid, jobless benefits
- Spain: Striking Metro workers face military intervention and union betrayal
- Hurricane Alex sends oil onto shores of Gulf states
- Supreme Court ruling encourages right-wing campaign on gun possession
- Signs of new recession throw stock markets into turmoil
- Letters from our readers
- Fears of a Chinese economic slowdown
- The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism
- Global corporations compete for West African minerals
2010-07-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US telecom Verizon to cut 12,000 jobs this week
- BP oil spill now worst ever in Gulf of Mexico
- German presidential election: A warning shot for Merkel
- Supreme Court nominee Kagan placates Republican right at confirmation hearing
- Report highlights political persecution in Indonesia
- BP “claims czar”: No compensation for most victims of oil spill
- Who is Kenneth Feinberg?
- China: Strike erupts in Japanese-owned electronics plant
- British National Health Service faces life-threatening cuts
- Australia: Clean sweep for mining giants as Labor government capitulates on tax
- Bipartisan backing for US escalation in Afghanistan
2010-07-03
- Video series: The Gulf oil spill
- Sri Lankan budget imposes IMF austerity demands
- Slovakia: new right-wing government announces austerity program
- British unions block struggle against government austerity plans
- BP oil disaster at 75 days
- West Virginia miner killed in Massey operation
- Mehring Books 2010 Summer Sale
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US jobs report points to deepening slump
- From Karl Marx to the Fourth of July
- Pharmaceuticals impose embargo on Greek health service
- New Australian prime minister pledges support for US alliance and Afghan war
2010-07-05
- Video series: The Gulf oil spill
- Canada: Steelworkers union finalizing concessions contract at Vale
- This week in history: July 5-July 11
- Prime Minister Zapatero forced to defend Spain’s solvency
- How the French railway workers strike was betrayed by the unions
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 1: Increased attendances but no real signs of a revitalised cinema
- Mass dismissals in the global printing press industry
- A government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich
- Tentative pact by Minnesota nurses’ union gives up safe patient ratios
- Crisis intensifies for German government
- Mehring Books 2010 Summer Sale
- Harsh new US penalties against Iran
- Bangladesh government cracks down on protesting garment workers
2010-07-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Globalization and its human consequences: The Red Tail
- Polish presidential election: Komorowski’s victory augurs massive social attacks in Poland
- General Petraeus takes command as killing in Afghanistan escalates
- Censorship and cover-up in the Gulf oil disaster
- An interview with Dawn Mikkelson, co-director of The Red Tail
- Low voter turnout in Mexican state elections
- An interview with Melissa Koch, co-director of The Red Tail
- Britain’s Housing Benefit changes will increase social misery
- Oil industry benefits from billions in tax breaks
- Letters from our readers
- California pension system seeks $700 million in state funds
- New Australian PM put “on notice” by global markets
2010-07-07
- Oil spill reaches Texas and Lake Pontchartrain
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 2: Last Train Home and The Most Dangerous Man in America and two less successful documentaries
- The international significance of the political coup in Australia
- Oregon budget cuts, recession darken outlook for unemployed
- Army charges soldier for leaking video of US massacre in Baghdad
- Germany: Left Party bows before SPD and Greens
- Biden’s Baghdad mission: Securing “long term strategic” US interests
- A conversation with Judith Ehrlich
- Spending cuts in British government departments may top 40 percent
- State of Emergency declared in Chester, Pennsylvania
- Bettencourt tax-evasion scandal rocks French government
- June was deadliest month for foreign troops in Afghan war
2010-07-08
- 27,000 abandoned oil wells in Gulf of Mexico
- Thai government extends emergency rule
- Sri Lankan nurses’ unions call off pay protest campaign
- Australia: Prime Minister Gillard unveils harsh new measures against refugees
- Austerity for workers, tax cuts for business—Europe’s class policy
- Pennsylvania budget deal cuts education, human services
- Sri Lanka: Government-backed protesters besiege UN office over war crimes investigation
- Obama endorses Netanyahu as “man of peace”
- Indian Stalinists join BJP in one-day strike against fuel price hikes
- US anti-immigrant campaign spreads beyond Arizona
- US government files suit against Arizona anti-immigrant law
- Heat wave exposes decrepit infrastructure in US, Canada
- Britain: Doncaster Council taken over by government fiat
- California governor seeks reductions in state worker pay
2010-07-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lankan government speeds up slum evictions in Colombo
- SPD, Greens, Left Party groomed for new role in German politics
- US opposes Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline
- Union forces hospitals’ demands on Minnesota nurses
- CNN fires senior Mideast editor over comments on cleric
- IMF forecasts slower growth for world economy
- Illinois budget cuts gouge education, social services
- Workers pay the price for Germany’s health care “reforms”
- US appeals court rejects moratorium on deepwater drilling
- Greece: Sixth general strike as PASOK passes austerity package
- Australian PM Gillard and the reactionary nostrum of “border protection”
- Britain: Attack on civil service redundancy pay anticipates massive job losses throughout public sector
- Coast Guard media liaison works for PR firm hired by BP
2010-07-10
- BP workers exposed to chemical linked to Exxon Valdez spill illnesses
- New York City subway and bus cuts take effect
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 3: Thai-style magic realism, Chinese history and poverty in the Philippines
- Australia’s political coup leaders and their big business connections
- Obama’s “jobs program”: Poverty wages and mass unemployment
- More oil contaminates parts of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana
- Mass arrests in Oakland protests against court verdict
- Germany: Coalition deal in NRW means cuts in jobs and services
- Brillante Mendoza discusses Lola
- Thousands of Colombo slum dwellers rounded up by Sri Lankan military
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Suffering and struggle: Six months after the Haitian earthquake
- Denmark’s Conservative-Liberal coalition imposes major spending cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Bogus wage rises fuel anger among Chinese workers
- British Sangin pull-out evidences deepening crisis of US Afghan intervention
2010-07-12
- This week in history: July 12-July 18
- Greece: What is behind the right wing-split from SYRIZA?
- Oil companies complicit in Sudan civil war, report alleges
- General who says “It’s fun to kill people” picked to oversee US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq
- While BP replaces cap on well, millions of gallons of oil flow into Gulf
- New Zealand government attacks beneficiaries
- Dare more dictatorship! Professor Münkler praises authoritarian rule
- Steelworkers union forces end to year-long Vale-Inco strike
- Fijian military junta suppresses media
- California proposes to eliminate CalWORKS welfare program
- French National Assembly debates burqa ban
2010-07-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Syria deregulates its economy to further rapprochement with Washington
- Mass roundup in Sri Lankan capital: a sharp warning to the working class
- Solitary Man: But what made this man solitary?
- Growing poverty in Syria
- Swiss authorities decide against extraditing Roman Polanski
- American imperialism and the Haitian catastrophe
- Coal miner killed in Illinois mine
- Massachusetts budget makes deep cuts to cities and towns
- “The system itself is failing and we can’t really afford to wait around”
- Australia: The political calculations behind Prime Minister Gillard’s “Timor Solution”
- European economy slowed by sovereign debt, banking crises
- Letters from our readers
- Australian SEP conferences discuss Gillard coup and the global economic crisis
- National Commission on oil spill covers up for BP, government
2010-07-14
- Obama, BP seek new “turning point” with well-capping effort
- Der Spiegel defends the Afghan war
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 4: If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and How I Ended Last Summer
- Sarkozy television interview: a brazen defense of the financial aristocracy
- The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism
- The new normal
- Latest edition of WSWS Perspectives now available
- Casual labour on the rise in Germany
- Australia: Incompetent surgeon jailed for manslaughter
- Half a million Israelis live on stolen West Bank land
- Irish government facing electoral rout
- BP cuts benefits to victims of Gulf oil disaster
- Obama makes recess appointment of new chief of Medicare and Medicaid
2010-07-15
- What was Washington’s role in the coup against Australian prime minister Rudd?
- Presidential commission denounces deep sea drilling moratorium
- Mining executive’s speech points to key role in Australian coup
- Penn State tuition up 5.9 percent
- North Rhine-Westphalia: Left Party plays key role in facilitating SPD-Green coalition
- The global economic crisis and the political coup in Australia
- Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan
- BP abruptly suspends testing on new well cap
- Armed confrontation with Gaza aid ship narrowly averted
- Fiji expels senior Australian diplomat
- Germany and France use loans to Greece to push for major arms deals
- Afghan attacks kill 12 US, British troops in 48 hours
2010-07-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Utah vigilante group releases undocumented immigrant hit list
- Trade tensions loom over US and China
- US jobless benefit cutoff to hit three million
- Sri Lankan government uses emergency laws to charge former presidential candidate
- Hundreds of school rebuilds scrapped by British government
- The crisis of German democracy and calls for a “left” government
- American capitalism’s decline and the tasks of the working class
- BP begins two-day pressure test of new capping device
- Australia: Gillard touts her economic “reform” credentials but coup questions persist
- Media demands France prepare for world war
- Detroit house fires kill one, injure two
- Imprisoned for debt in America
- Researchers predict oil spill could reach Atlantic Ocean
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier files petitions for Michigan state election
- Major seabird nesting area in Louisiana contaminated by oil
- Obama’s toothless banking overhaul to become law
2010-07-17
- Australian union bosses seek to protect superannuation posts
- Judge sentences US civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years
- Britain’s Rowntree Foundation: The poor are getting poorer
- Britain: Why did the police man-hunt of Raoul Moat end in death?
- The “Berlin Club”: Germany plans to put Europe on rations
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- IMF tells Japanese government to raise consumption tax despite election defeat
- HBO’s Hung: Exploring social desperation, among other things
- Gulf economy in ruins
- Settlement in fraud case against Goldman Sachs: A cover-up of Wall Street crimes
- Present historic: Carlyle, Robespierre and the French Revolution
- Detroit fires kill two, injure one
- Michigan farm workers die from inhaling fumes in silo
- US stocks plunge on signs of renewed slump
- Indian Stalinists split over what right-wing course to follow
- Letters from our readers
- 20 workers injured in US Steel blast
2010-07-19
- This week in history: July 19-July 25
- Sri Lanka: Mattakkuliya slum dwellers denounce police-military repression
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 5: Corruption, war in the Middle East, poverty in the US and other issues
- Australia: Socialist Equality Party announces its 2010 election candidates
- Prime Minister Gillard calls snap Australian election
- Scientists directly image an extra-solar planet’s orbit around a young star
- Obama postures on unemployment benefits while defending Wall Street
- Workers angry over decision to subtract “cleanup pay” from claims
- German Chancellor Merkel visits Russia, Asia as criticism of foreign policy grows
- Seepage found near BP’s capped Macondo well
- Egypt: Protests mount over police murder of Khaled Said
- Czech government announces drastic economic measures
- Australia: The political issues in the University of NSW work bans dispute
2010-07-20
- West Papuan protests voice discontent with Indonesian rule
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- United Farm Workers launches reactionary “Take Our Jobs” campaign
- French police use live ammunition against riots over police killings
- A lie exposed
- New York State budget crisis will mean draconian cuts for public education
- A revealing political line-up in Australian election campaign
- An exchange with a reader on “Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan”
- US government bows to BP on well cap
- Cameron’s “Big Society:” Thatcherism’s new guise
- Bulgaria: European business calls for harsher measures
- UK plans stepped-up offensive under new head of armed forces
2010-07-21
- For-profit universities thrive on unemployment
- Russian government to slash budget deficit
- Australia: Election slogans spark wave of disgust
- SEP candidate calls for political struggle against Labor’s anti-strike laws
- Over 160,000 Michigan utility shutoffs from January to May 2010
- The Gulf oil disaster and capitalism
- US Senate advances stripped-down jobless benefits bill
- Israel land-grab escalates in East Jerusalem
- India’s latest train crash kills 66 in West Bengal
- Germany: Resignation of Hamburg mayor deepens crisis for Merkel and the CDU
- BP considers “static kill” procedure
- The Oscar Grant verdict: some political lessons
- Job losses in Gulf region could reach 100,000 or more
- Avandia controversy highlights broken pharmaceutical regulatory system
- Unions deflect anger over Labor’s prosecution of South Australian construction worker
2010-07-22
- The Shirley Sherrod firing: Once again, the Obama administration cowers before ultra-right
- “This fight is first and foremost a political struggle against the Gillard government”
- Government resignation deepens crisis of Swiss democracy
- Sri Lankan protest reveals discontent over wages
- Spain: Unions force pay cut on Madrid Metro workers
- From stimulus to austerity: An international class-war policy
- Zardari's visit strengthens Pakistan-China relations
- Socialist candidate’s open letter exposes attempted political censorship at UNSW rally
- Australia: Xstrata launches new provocations against Tahmoor miners
- Illinois construction workers end three-week strike
- “Everything is for the rich people, and the poor people are just hurting”
- Public health crisis looms in Gulf
- China: Protracted strike at Honda parts supplier
- Cameron negotiates BP-Libya minefield in Washington
- The social crisis in Appalachia
- Afghan conference endorses indefinite occupation
2010-07-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Sydney Film Festival 2010—Part 6: Two classics and one that might have been
- Merkel’s trip to China
- Deepwater Horizon workers knew of problems before explosion
- Massey shut off methane detectors at deadly mine
- Fishermen on strike against BP
- Finland targeted for EU/IMF austerity demands
- Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima
- Australia: Electrical union members disaffiliate from Labor
- US jobless claims, housing data point to worsening economy
- Detroit: Jobs scarce as home foreclosures hit record
- Australian election: The Labor government’s childcare backdown and the profit system
- Michigan governor signs law witch-hunting workers for “energy theft”
- Social crisis in California deepens for millions
2010-07-24
- Venezuela breaks with Colombia over guerrilla accusations
- Sri Lankan government pushes university privatisation
- British deputy prime minister admits Iraq war was illegal
- Ontario Liberals push wage freeze scheme
- Most oil industry lobbyists in US worked for government
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US naval exercise heightens tensions in Asia
- “When your kids go hungry—you’re going to find a way to get some money”
- Australian PM Gillard’s climate change speech—another admission of bankruptcy on the environment
- Germany’s ex-defence minister warns of a “cold military putsch”
- Britain: Local authorities face devastating cuts and rationalisation
- Letters from our readers
- The social crisis in Appalachia
2010-07-26
- Yonkers, New York slashes schools, services
- 1,500 layoffs at Pittsburgh health system
- This week in history: July 26-August 1
- Stress test whitewash of European banks
- Australia’s political coup and the role of the ex-left
- On Wall Street, crime pays very well
- The socialist alternative to austerity, social inequality and war
- Australia: Gillard and Abbott stage sham election debate
- SEP candidate to be placed on the ballot in Detroit
- Alarm on BP oil rig disabled prior to explosion
- Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war
2010-07-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- I am Love and The Leopard: Italian cinema new and old
- Police cleared of all charges in death of London G20 victim Ian Tomlinson
- Sri Lankan government enlists services of former LTTE leader
- The refoundation of Spain’s United Left: A turn to the banks
- The Sherrod affair and American social reality
- Mass teacher firings in Washington, DC
- An insider’s critique of education “reform”
- Report reveals systematic brutality against child offenders in Britain
- A record of war crimes
- Implications of Rudd coup discussed at SEP meeting in Newcastle
- Germany: 20 dead and hundreds injured at techno music festival
- “Massey has destroyed the wells and the water”
- Letters from our readers
- Crowding, rising tuition at Michigan community colleges
- BP attempts to buy silence of Gulf Coast scientists
- The social crisis in Appalachia
- Leaked documents expose imperialist war in Afghanistan
- Australian election: The fraud of Labor’s “Work Choices” scare campaign
2010-07-28
- British politicians and media dismiss WikiLeaks details of Afghanistan war crimes
- The New York Times and the Afghan documents
- BP to take $10 billion tax write-off for cleanup
- “Priority Schools” in Detroit: A thin disguise for charters and privatization
- Australian election takes place in a ‘parallel universe’
- Ontario Liberals push wage freeze scheme
- Australia: Labor’s mental illness plan and the healthcare crisis
- Indian security forces crack down on Kashmiri protests
- IMF and EU step up the pressure on Hungary
- BP’s Hayward out, with golden parachute
- Congress ratifies Obama escalation of Afghanistan war
2010-07-29
- Sri Lankan students protest against police over university death
- SEP (Australia) relaunches party web site
- Support the socialist alternative to war, social inequality and attacks on democratic rights! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
- The Afghanistan documents and the struggle against war
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold a public meeting against police-state measures
- A somber look back: Mad Men, Season 4
- The German Love Parade disaster: Not a tragic accident, but a crime
- 800,000 gallons of oil spilled into Michigan river
- Report exposes journalist killings in Honduras
- Gulf oil spill: 100 days of disaster
- Australia: Prime Minister Gillard answers damaging leaks with display of “steel”
- The “new normal”: More than one in five Americans at risk of destitution
- Letters from our readers
- Judge blocks main provisions of Arizona anti-immigrant law
2010-07-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pentagon retaliates against WikiLeaks, Pvt. Manning
- Michigan oil spill forces evacuations
- Young people disenfranchised in Australia’s snap election
- Russia to expand military aid to US occupation of Afghanistan
- Returning to the scene of the crime
- French parliamentary commission approves pension cuts
- UN court upholds Kosovo’s declaration of independence
- Italy’s Berlusconi government racked by scandals and growing tensions
- EU, Australia and Canada impose tough sanctions on Iran
- “If you got hurt and took an ambulance, you would die”
- Corporate media downplays Gulf oil spill
- Democrats, Republicans posture as friends of small business
- An interview with Richard Brenneman, journalist who covered the Polanski trial
- The social crisis in Appalachia
2010-07-31
- The American left and the WikiLeaks documents
- Sri Lanka: The JVP’s cynical posturing as a defender of democracy
- Rhode Island ACLU expands lawsuit over Chinese immigrant’s death
- Australia: Labor’s punitive industrial legislation in action
- Europe’s class policy: A blank check for the banks, austerity for workers
- Techno music festival disaster—those responsible deny all charges
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraq establishes special court to prosecute journalists
- “Nothing will ever be the same”—interview with an eyewitness
- In Defense of Leon Trotsky by David North now available
- As BP winds down cleanup, environmental impact spreads
- Greek truck drivers defy government
- New York police to continue stop-and-frisk onslaught despite new law
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party considers role in government
- Duisburg protesters demand resignation of mayor
- The wage-cutter in chief visits Detroit
- As casualties in Afghanistan rise, Army suicides, drug use set new records
- Dozens arrested in Arizona demonstrations against anti-immigrant law
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