Archive: 10/2010
2010-10-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Even the Rain and the need for dealing with complexity
- Teacher ranked “less effective” by the Los Angeles Times takes his own life
- Scottish National Party defers independence referendum
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- The stench of dictatorship
- Pakistan shuts key Afghan war supply-route
- Detroit residents blame DTE Energy for September 7 fires at regulatory hearing
- US Medicaid enrollment climbs to 48 million
- India-China relations strained
- German Social Democrats take up racist program of Thilo Sarrazin
- Cambodian garment strikers victimised as unions enter talks
- Brazilian election points to continuity of “Lulaism”
- Australian soldiers charged over civilian killings in Afghanistan
2010-10-02
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Second round of strikes set for London Underground
- Sri Lanka: SEP meeting in Jaffna on anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination
- New York Times publishes scurrilous attack on Marxism
- Poverty, segregation and discrimination for the Roma in Germany
- Twenty years since the reunification of Germany
- Emanuel resignation highlights crisis of Obama administration
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- The rising danger of US-China trade war
- Pakistani attacks on NATO tankers deepen US crisis in Af-Pak war
- Indian High Court abets Hindu supremacists with Babri Masjid ruling
- Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment, war and repression
- Elections in Latvia—austerity course to be continued
- British Labour Party’s new leader pledges to support cuts and suppress strikes
- Commonwealth Games spell major crisis for Indian elite
- Ecuador shaken by police, military uprising
- Utilities must be a social right!
- Spanish general strike shuts down Barcelona
2010-10-04
- Pro-Democratic Party rally shows bankruptcy of US unions
- This week in history: October 4-October 10
- Police action against demonstrators opposing “Stuttgart 21” rail project
- Siemens management and union close ranks in Germany
- US frame-up victim Affia Siddiqui sentenced to 86 years
- Rubicon: On the other side of the secret door
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- 20 years since the reunification of Germany: What was the GDR?
- Ireland moves closer to state bankruptcy
- Washington moves to thwart Sadrist role in a new Iraqi government
- Australia: Government and unions complicit in death of undocumented Korean worker
- Millions march in France against austerity as opposition to Sarkozy grows
- China’s growing army of unemployed graduates
- New austerity budget in California
- More revelations into US military atrocities in Afghanistan
2010-10-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Video: DSO musicians speak on strike
- Unions isolate London tube struggle as government prepares anti-strike legislation
- US issues terror alert for European cities
- Sri Lankan president jails political rival
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- The assault on culture and the crisis of American capitalism
- Letters on the Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
- US agency exploited Guatemalans for lethal medical tests
- Steps toward a two-class health system in Germany
- Detroit Symphony musicians strike
- Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik speaks to WSWS
- Australia: Finance Department “razor gang” commits to savage spending cuts
- US Supreme Court opens 2010 term with pro-corporate agenda
- Letters from our readers
- Workers Party candidate fails to win first-round victory in Brazil
- Letter from Balmoral plantation workers to Indianapolis rank-and-file committee
2010-10-06
- American fiction
- Australian terrorism trial produces evidence of police entrapment
- US: Tennessee home left to burn over $75 fee
- China and Russia strengthen strategic ties
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- US corporate profits soar on layoffs, wage cuts
- US threatens wider war in Pakistan
- Tens of thousands of distressed homeowners line up for assistance in Los Angeles
- German youth report finds increasing social polarization
- The Detroit News and the DSO strike
- D’Artagnan Collier campaigns among Detroit workers and students
- Security guard in Wales cleared of manslaughter in death of shoplifter
- UAW, GM slash workers’ wages by half at Michigan plant
2010-10-07
- Waiting for Superman
- Oliver Stone returns to Wall Street
- Universal benefits under fire as Tories announce further UK welfare cuts
- ICJ report accuses Sri Lankan government of violating human rights
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- Supreme Court to review order to slash California’s prison population
- UAW expands drive to cut auto workers’ pay
- US banks fake documents to rush foreclosures
- US mine safety agency did not enforce regulations, audit shows
- French National Assembly debates anti-immigration law
- European politicians deny US claims of terror threat
- Detroit symphony management pursues hard line
- Corporate cash floods US congressional elections
- For an independent working class movement to defend public education!
- Australia: Labor government appoints new construction watchdog chief
2010-10-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- Reports expose White House cover-up of BP spill
- Arthur Penn, American filmmaker (1922-2010)
- US apologies for killing troops fail to halt Pakistan blockade
- US tightens economic blockade of Iran
- Mass anti-government protests in Iceland
- Toxic sludge catastrophe in Hungary
- White House sanctions employers’ cut-rate health plans
- Global currency, trade conflicts dominate IMF meeting
- Residents denounce DTE and Detroit officials for September 7 fires
- Australian PM’s visit to Afghanistan paves way for military escalation
2010-10-09
- New government coalition in the Netherlands
- Pakistani, European officials charge US manufactured terror scare
- Australia: Police use Tasers as “weapon of choice”
- The real issues in the “Stuttgart 21” rail project dispute
- Cheerleaders for the AFL-CIO
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- Currency wars: Another phase in the capitalist breakdown
- Pakistan: Popular discontent, military intrigue rise after August floods
- Dismissal of Moscow mayor reveals tensions in Russian ruling elite
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Judge bars torture evidence in ex-Guantánamo detainee trial
- US loses 95,000 jobs in September
- US Army court martial recommended over Afghan civilian killings
2010-10-11
- This week in history: October 11-October 17
- New York City transit fare increased for third time in three years
- Sri Lankan shanty dwellers form committee to fight evictions
- Thousands of homeowners seek help in Sacramento, California
- The Historical Foundations of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit
- Traditional parties take beating in Peru elections
- The New York Times defends assassinations
- Marseille strike hits Mediterranean shipping, oil supplies
- For a united movement of the working class to oppose concessions and job cuts!
- Differences widen at IMF meeting
- Far-right party wins Hungarian municipal elections
- Japan-China tensions over disputed islets unresolved
- Six more Boston public schools threatened with closure
2010-10-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Over 200,000 UK students denied university places
- Economist Joseph Stiglitz warns of malaise “with no end in sight”
- No cost-of-living raise for 59 million US elderly
- Nobel Peace Prize: Another exercise in political cynicism
- Republican House candidate took part in pro-Nazi group
- Marseille bosses call for army, police to break dockers’ strike
- Coup threat reported as Iraq government deadlock drags on
- Report documents health impact of social inequality in Australia
- Obama Administration boasts of increased repression of immigrants
- Letters from our readers
- Support for striking Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians at weekend concert
- US cover-up exposed in killing of Afghanistan aid worker
2010-10-13
- Roger Waters’ The Wall Live tour: A comment from a reader
- Sri Lankan government to intensify austerity measures
- Demagogy and duplicity: The Democrats in the 2010 elections
- UK housing benefit cuts threaten thousands with homelessness
- Pentagon chief asserts US “national interest” in China seas
- Mass protests shake French government
- New Zealand government uses earthquake to enact sweeping new powers
- Scientist awarded Nobel Prize for developing IVF treatment
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier offers support to striking DSO musicians
- US corn prices surge
- Claude Chabrol: A brief appreciation
- California budget cuts billions from social programs
- Wall Street firms dole out record pay to executives
2010-10-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Westpac plans to axe thousands of jobs
- University tuition fees to more than double in UK
- What does it mean to take reality seriously?
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in political rights case
- Tens of thousands demonstrate in Germany against railway project
- ANPO: Art X War—Art and opposition in postwar Japan
- Subpoenas rescinded for antiwar activists raided by FBI
- Political issues in the struggle against Sarkozy’s cuts
- New York Republican candidate attacks gays amid mounting hate crimes
- Whither France by Leon Trotsky and French Workers in Revolt by David Walsh
- Poor safety condemned by workers at San Jose mine
- Obama lifts moratorium on deepwater oil drilling
- For Committees of Action―Not the People’s Front
- Millions demonstrate in France against pension cuts
- Letters from our readers
- Chilean miners rescued after ten-week ordeal
- Charging of Australian soldiers for Afghan crimes provokes frenzied reaction
2010-10-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sri Lanka: Opposition front formed to protest Fonseka’s jailing
- The Social Network: “Dot-com” myth-making
- Seattle Schools win federal grant for teacher merit pay
- Leading German politicians take up Thilo Sarrazin’s anti-Islamic campaign
- The White House and the US mortgage racket
- How the NPA disorients the struggle against Sarkozy’s cuts
- More letters on the Indianapolis GM Stamping Rank-and-File Committee
- Two officers convicted for killing 15-year-old Greek student
- Strikes continue as French government defends pension cuts
- Australia: Austerity agenda hidden as Victorian state election campaign begins
- US jobless claims rise
- French Constitutional Council approves burqa ban
- Strikes erupt over public worker pay cut in Romania
2010-10-16
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Protests continue against South Australian job cuts
- Great interest in lecture by Professor Rabinowitch in Berlin
- Quebec to prohibit women wearing Muslim veil from receiving public services
- Hungary’s toxic sludge disaster and the case for socialism
- UK companies selling pensions take 80 percent in fees and commissions
- Haiti presidential elections to be held at gunpoint
- Greek culture ministry workers end strike after police attack
- Sarkozy mobilizes riot police to break French oil strike
- The crisis in Detroit: The socialist response
- Letters from our readers
- Obama administration allows premium hikes for sick children
- Wall Street, White House blame homeowners in foreclosure crisis
- US backs “peace talks” as violence soars in Afghanistan
2010-10-18
- This week in history: October 18-October 24
- East Timorese president frees men jailed over alleged assassination attempts
- Walking around and near the problems
- Top Sri Lankan official defends mass eviction plans
- Australia: Labor government lifts ban on processing Afghani refugees
- Growing workers’ rebellion against the UAW
- French government, unions try to end strikes against pension cuts
- Democrats embrace right-wing austerity policies
- US policies intensify world currency, trade conflicts
- Cleveland Orchestra players support striking DSO musicians
- The New York Times’ Roger Cohen attacks French workers
- Chile mine rescue exposes precarious working conditions
2010-10-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: NSW government extends “sunset clause” in terrorism law
- Scenes from the “Day of Action” in France
- The French strike wave: A new stage in the class struggle
- Lead poisoning kills hundreds of children in Nigeria
- US agencies had warnings before Mumbai terrorist attack
- “What is happening to the DSO is a poster child for what is happening to the arts in America”
- Hilton hotel workers end three-day protest strike in Chicago
- Confrontation builds between French workers and Sarkozy
- WSWS speaks to French workers on protests
- Government announces massive cuts ahead of UK public spending review
- Letters from our readers
- At least 32 dead in Chinese mine disaster
- Solomon Burke (1940-2010): a great inventor and innovator of the “soul” sound
- Anger builds in Boston over school closures
2010-10-20
- Obama administration moves to strengthen wiretapping law
- Western Australia: Children’s deaths expose health crisis
- Nobel Prize physicists protest British immigration restrictions on scientists
- Hunger in the Philippines as President Aquino cuts food subsidies
- The strike wave in Europe and the decay of bourgeois democracy
- Tory multimillionaire witch-hunts welfare claimants
- Major cuts throughout Britain’s National Health Service
- With White House backing, banks resume foreclosure evictions
- Supreme Court to review “war on terror” claim against Ashcroft
- Millions march in France against pension cuts
- 诺贝尔和平奖: 又一次犬儒式的政治操作
- UK arts funding faces savage cuts
- Australian prime minister commits to Afghanistan war for next ten years
2010-10-21
- Ken Loach’s Route Irish: the Iraq war comes home
- Sri Lankan police attack protesting students
- Seventy years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Another decade of neo-colonial war in Afghanistan
- Paris workers speak to WSWS on October 19 day of action
- How riot police broke the occupation of the Marseille oil depots
- A conversation with Ken Loach
- UAW deal paves way for 100 percent low-wage workforce at Michigan GM plant
- Journal de Montréal workers reject union surrender
- Berlin meeting marks 70th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination
- French President Sarkozy moves to break strikes against austerity measures
- US moves to normalise relations with Fiji’s junta
- Chicago budget sets stage for long-term austerity
- British government announces unprecedented social cuts
- Aircraft workers reject IAM-backed concessions contract
- Investment firms, New York Fed demand Bank of America buy back mortgages
2010-10-22
- Zambian miners shot by Chinese mine owners
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier speaks to Wayne State students in Detroit
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Major gains for far-right Freedom Party in Vienna election
- Teachers’ democratic rights under attack in US
- Gillard commits to indefinite war: End the occupation of Afghanistan!
- Workers face a struggle for power in France
- Australian prime minister denounces opposition to workplace safety cuts
- Chilean workers protest San Jose mine’s closure
- German chancellor agitates against immigrants
- Obama’s 2010 campaign: Fake populism and right-wing policies
- Australian Greens: No principled opposition to Afghan war
- Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
- Chinese premier warns of global consequences of currency wars
- Right-wing consensus in California gubernatorial elections
2010-10-23
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- National Public Radio fires Juan Williams
- Sri Lanka: JVP unions submit budget proposal to government
- Australian government expands refugee detention
- US mortgage crisis: The case for public ownership
- Seven million without shelter months after Pakistan floods
- India: 13,000 contract workers strike at lignite mine and power-company
- Cholera epidemic kills 150 in Haiti
- French Senate votes pension cuts over mass opposition
- Egyptian opposition decides to take part in elections
- Letters from our readers
- US Justice Department abandons murder case against Blackwater contractor
2010-10-25
- WikiLeaks releases documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq
- Australia: Support the socialist alternative in the Victorian state election
- This week in history: October 25-November 1
- New York Times tries character assassination against WikiLeaks founder Assange
- Six months of the Gulf oil disaster
- New York Philharmonic musicians back DSO strike
- The Afghan peace talks and the “war on terror”
- G20 meeting papers over conflicts
- Strikes continue in France against pension cuts
- Government seeks to crush strike of Foxconn workers in India
- France: New Anti-Capitalist Party academic advocates surrender to Sarkozy’s cuts
- General strike in Argentina over killing of left-wing youth
2010-10-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Minority government formed in Sweden
- Pope creates Australia’s first “saint”
- The WikiLeaks documents and the rape of Iraq
- Angolan asylum seeker killed during forced British deportation
- Haiti cholera epidemic reaches Port-au-Prince
- Once again on the Australian Greens and the Afghan war
- French government, unions seek to limit strikes against pension cuts
- Cleveland Orchestra musicians join striking DSO players for support concert
- Letters from our readers
- 法国罢工潮:阶级斗争的一个新阶段
- Chinese leadership meeting squashes talk of political reform
2010-10-27
- Small Australian towns face devastation under river “rescue plan”
- Sri Lanka: War widows left in poverty
- French strike movement at a crossroads
- Activist assaulted by Rand Paul supporters in Kentucky
- Opel’s auto works in Antwerp to close by end of year
- Child soldier Omar Khadr coerced into plea-bargain
- WikiLeaks reveals private security contractors killed Iraqis with impunity
- New York gubernatorial campaign centers on pledges to attack state workers
- Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Obama to the right
- Australia: Victorian government covers up desalination plant costs
- Debtors' prisons on the rise in the US
2010-10-28
- Michigan: Washtenaw Community College faculty face privatization
- Falling overseas enrolments compound funding crisis for Australian universities
- Revelations of “systemic” torture by British military
- Right-wing populist Ford elected Toronto mayor
- Tariq Aziz faces judicial murder in Iraq
- More letters to the Indianapolis GM Stamping Rank-and-File Committee
- Hundreds dead after two Indonesian disasters
- Australian Labor government pushes pro-business austerity agenda
- French strikes continue as parliament approves pension cuts
- Cost-cutting yields surging profits for Ford
- Arizona execution proceeds after Supreme Court lifts stay
- Letters from our readers
2010-10-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US government undervaluing losses on AIG bailout
- Australia’s central bank chief highlights rise of China
- The 2010 elections, the working class and the Democratic Party
- Moldova before the elections
- Key witness in Khadr case based testimony on work of anti-Muslim bigot
- Incentives in US health care bill for employers to drop coverage
- Millions march in France against pension cuts
- Sino-Japanese relations remain tense
- Capitalism and the Chilean miners
2010-10-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Victorian government buries toxic dump as election issue
- Security alert ties up US air cargo shipments
- Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment and war
- Sri Lanka: UNP mounts bogus campaign against slum evictions
- Aquino government blocks strike at Philippine Airlines
- Canada’s role in the persecution of child soldier Omar Khadr
- Halliburton tests warned of cement problems before BP well blowout
- Trade union bureaucracy strangles French oil strike
- London fire fighters strike against mass dismissals
- EU steps up pressure for austerity measures
- GDP report heralds still higher US unemployment
- The WSWS speaks to workers on October 28 day of action in France
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