Archive: 12/2010
2010-12-01
- Obama administration seeks to criminalize WikiLeaks
- Financial markets increase pressure on Spain
- Plan to deploy British mercenaries in Somalia
- Canada to create new class of political refugees with far fewer rights
- Thirty US college presidents take in over $1 million in 2008
- After the Irish bailout: The financial wolf pack targets new victims
- US Congress allows extended jobless benefits to expire
- New Zealand government announces inquiry into mine disaster
- Spain’s middle-class “left” parties and the French pension struggle
- Impact of Hungary’s toxic mud disaster
- Portland teen ensnared in FBI sting operation pleads not guilty
- Corporate executive pay hits “stratospheric new heights” in Australia
- Australian government joins persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Afghan trainee kills six US troops
2010-12-02
- Trotsky’s 1908 tribute to Leo Tolstoy
- UK education protests subjected to police attack
- Sri Lankan detainees “resettled” in appalling conditions
- The cancellation of AMC series Rubicon: Too close to home?
- Coalition of Resistance pledges loyalty to Labour and trade union bureaucracy
- Australia: Labor seeks to overcome High Court ruling on refugee processing regime
- Reflections on the Bolsheviks, the October Revolution, and early Soviet state building in Petrograd
- WikiLeaks cables fuel hostility to US role in Pakistan
- US Congress slams door on the unemployed
- Morning Glory: A film about American television, to no great effect
- The Italian “left” and Nichi Vendola
- Students speak on UK education cuts
- Eurozone crisis spreads: Portugal, Italy, Belgium hit by fallout from Irish bailout
- Egyptian elections marked by state violence and fraud
- Russian government warns of new arms race
2010-12-03
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Climate talks promise little, deliver less
- National Portrait Gallery in Washington bows to right-wing censorship
- Scotland and Wales reveal unprecedented budget cuts
- The persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Obama nominates for-profit prison consultant for US Marshals director
- Fed report reveals multi-trillion-dollar “shadow bailout”
- US and China in a diplomatic standoff over North Korea
- Hundreds killed in national-ethnic violence in Pakistan’s largest city
- The end of the conservative-Green alliance in Hamburg
- Australia’s economy “under-performs expectations” in September quarter
- Strike by Detroit Symphony musicians at critical point
- Obama, Congress negotiate tax cuts for the wealthy
- Brain more complex than previously thought, research reveals
- Detroit media celebrates recovery of auto industry profits
2010-12-04
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- International campaign targets WikiLeaks web site
- Staff members stood down at two Australian universities
- Aid to be slashed for the UK’s poorest
- Who is French trade union leader Bernard Thibault?
- WikiLeaks document exposes US complicity in Sri Lankan war crimes
- Spanish government sends army to break air traffic controllers strike
- Remembrance service held for New Zealand miners
- Fed report lifts lid on Great Bank Heist of 2008-2009
- Most vulnerable, poorest and socially excluded hit by Legal Aid changes, says British campaigner
- 27 million hit by US jobs crisis
- Greens remain silent on witch-hunt against Australian citizen Julian Assange
- European Central Bank promises unlimited liquidity
- Letters from our readers
- Deficit commission votes 11-7 for budget-cutting plan
- 昂山素季与缅甸民主
2010-12-06
- WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
- Detroit workers face desperate jobs crisis
- This week in history: December 6-December 12
- Arizona cuts Medicaid funding for organ transplants
- Sri Lankan government moves to evict more Colombo shanty residents
- Australia: Prysmian strikers face growing dangers as unions maintain isolation
- The threat of dictatorship in Spain
- California state workers’ pensions under assault
- FCC chairman bows to corporations on “net neutrality”
- Australia: The Labor government’s broadband scheme and the profit system
- Political lessons of the Pike River mine disaster
- WikiLeaks exposes US cover-up of Georgian attack on South Ossetia
- Year-end fund appeal: Donate now to support the WSWS
- Fair Game: Hollywood liberals treat the drive to war in Iraq
- Boston superintendent announces more school closures
- Assange lawyer hits out at Australian government
2010-12-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US escalates threats and attacks on WikiLeaks
- Australia: Visy workers strike over casualisation
- US negotiates free trade agreement with South Korea
- Arbitration brings cosmetic changes to “Stuttgart 21” rail project
- Comic Jon Stewart attacks WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Australia: Report reveals Qantas flight narrowly missed disaster
- WikiLeaks and secret diplomacy
- Obama announces deal to extend tax cuts for the rich
- State regulatory agency defends role of utility giant in Detroit fires
- Remembering film director Mario Monicelli (1915-2010)
- UK government outlines frontal assault on education
- Letters on WikiLeaks
- Spanish air traffic controller: “We are living now like under Franco”
- US-China tensions mount amid widening war exercises
- Interview with Ohio auto parts worker
2010-12-08
- Obama’s Big Lie: Tax cut for rich will benefit workers
- A reply to a letter on the Spanish air traffic controllers’ struggle
- South Australian Labor conference gives green light for austerity measures
- Free Julian Assange! Hands off WikiLeaks!
- Imperialist diplomacy exposed: Behind the witch-hunt of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- Spanish air traffic controller: “We have arrived at something akin to Stalinist Russia, the Stasi or Hitler’s SS”
- Italian students continue protests against education cuts
- Irish budget imposes savage austerity
- Hereafter: Another strangely unaffecting film from Clint Eastwood
- Sharp divisions at European finance ministers’ meeting
- Australia: Labor government opposes pay increase for community services workers
- A reply to a letter on the Spanish air traffic controllers’ struggle
- A letter on the Spanish air traffic controllers’ struggle
- WikiLeaks cables cast fresh light on coup against former Australian PM Rudd
- WikiLeaks founder jailed in London on bogus charges
- Amtrak passenger trains in Michigan hobbled by decaying infrastructure
2010-12-09
- Obama tax proposal benefits wealthiest Americans while raising taxes on the poor
- Australian Foreign Minister Rudd blames the United States for cable leaks
- WikiLeaks and Sri Lanka: Who are the real criminals?
- Australia: Unions stifle struggle by NSW nurses
- Netherlands judiciary demands extradition of Nazi war criminal from Germany
- WikiLeaks cable exposes NATO war plan against Russia
- The Mount Carmel fire and the “existential threat” to Israel
- Riots erupt in Haiti after announcement of election results
- German media responds to WikiLeaks revelations with nostalgia for the authoritarian state
- How France’s unions aided police strike-breaking at Grandpuits refinery
- UK students protest prior to parliamentary vote on increased fees
- Letters from our readers
- Canada’s richest 1 percent grabbed one-third of all income growth since 1987
- Los Angeles schools suffer more job cuts
- Australia: WikiLeaks cables reveal secret ties between Rudd coup plotters and US embassy
- Judge dismisses case challenging targeted killing of US citizens by Obama administration
2010-12-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Obama administration steps up vendetta against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
- Police brutally attack protesters as UK parliament backs university fees hike
- Sri Lankan unions accept budget cuts
- Obama’s tax windfall for the rich
- WikiLeaks documents show Shell Oil domination of Nigeria
- New Zealand: Former Pike River Coal miner hits out at lack of mine safety
- Lutte Ouvrière group defends union betrayal of French pension strikes
- India: Lessons of the Stalinist CITU’s betrayal of the Foxconn and BYD strikes
- Howl: Allen Ginsberg and American culture in the 1950s
- Egypt parliamentary elections marked by violence and fraud in second round
- Detroit Symphony management intransigent as strike continues
- Czech public sector workers strike against austerity measures
- WikiLeaks cable highlights fears in Beijing over social fragility
- 81 prisoners die in Chile penitentiary fire
- Detroit mayor plans to end services to one-third of city
- Bacteria that consumes arsenic boosts search for “alien” life
- Support builds for Julian Assange in Australia
2010-12-11
- Australian protests to defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
- Sri Lankan unions accept budget cuts
- Leaks point to US concerns over Australian role in Afghanistan
- Journalist John Pilger speaks out on charges against Julian Assange
- Spain’s air traffic controllers targeted for escalating state repression
- Human rights groups expose gross abuse of Mexican orphans and disabled
- Leaked cables show German-American conspiracy to stifle prosecution of CIA kidnappers
- US life expectancy fell in 2008
- What lies behind the liberals’ lamentations over Obama?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK student protesters denounce fees hike and police violence
- India: Victimized Foxconn and BYD workers speak out
- Two-year-old boy dies in Detroit house fire
- More letters on WikiLeaks
- 外交机密与帝国主义罪行
- Los Angeles expands charter schools in attack on public education
- British student left with brain injury after police attacks on fees protest
- US indictment of WikiLeaks founder said to be imminent
- West Virginia chemical plant explosion kills two
2010-12-13
- Obama joins attack on WikiLeaks
- Australia: Striking Visy workers arrested on picket line
- This week in history: December 13-December 19
- Police-state tactics against protesters in Britain
- Threat of renewed civil war after Ivory Coast election
- US: Georgia prison inmates strike
- The French “left” attacks WikiLeaks
- Ten years since Bush v. Gore: The stolen election of 2000
- WikiLeaks document points to US contractor role in “dancing boys” incident
- Detroit Symphony musicians’ picket forces concert cancellation
- Cancún climate negotiations end without agreement on emissions reductions
- End all utility shutoffs! Electricity and gas must be social rights
- Featured book bundle: Selected Works of Trotsky
- Another massacre of civilians in Afghanistan
2010-12-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Lawyer for Assange: US has empanelled secret grand jury against WikiLeaks leader
- Australia: Visy strikers denounce mass picket line arrests
- Court ruling protects Thai government
- Striking Detroit Symphony violinist: “No one ever imagined that we would be fighting to have a first-class orchestra in this town”
- The resurgence of nationalism in the European Union
- New Orleans police convicted in post-Katrina killing
- Political crisis in Moldova intensifies after election
- Australian media organisations, Labor MPs attack persecution of Julian Assange
- Israel constructing giant refugee camp in Negev desert
- Irish opposition parties commit to continue austerity drive
- US and Israel use sabotage and assassinations to thwart Iran’s nuclear program
- Thousands seek help in Detroit with winter utility payments
- Congressional Democrats ensure passage of Obama’s deal to extend tax cuts for the rich
- Letters from our readers
- Cables bare US operations in Brazil
2010-12-15
- Police attack Australian protests in defense of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- 维基解密与秘密外交
- Detroit residents speak on utility shutoffs
- Japan issues new defence guidelines aimed at China
- SEP Sri Lanka public meeting: Defend Julian Assange and Wikileaks!
- Ethnic violence erupts in Russia
- The WikiLeaks cables and the US-Australia alliance
- Testing scandal exposes corporate-backed “school reform” in New York
- Cables reveal US considered “state of exception” in Mexico
- Bangladesh police shoot striking garment workers
- Protesters speak out in defence of Julian Assange
- New York City, in “test,” denies housing aid to the poor
- Richard Holbrooke: Long-time operative for US imperialism
- Federal judge in Virginia rules individual health care mandate unconstitutional
- General strike hits further austerity demands in Greece
- German Left Party signals support for social austerity in state budget vote
- Connected, a 2004 collaboration between Dutch and US hip-hop musicians
- WikiLeaks reveals the dirty diplomacy of climate change
- Chile prison inmates on hunger strike
- Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi narrowly survives confidence vote
- Six die in Baltimore fire
- WikiLeaks founder granted bail, but remains incarcerated
2010-12-16
- Up to 50 refugees drown off Australian coast after authorities fail to intercept boat
- The New York Times and WikiLeaks
- Obama budget director goes to work for Citigroup
- Obama pledges more concessions to business at White House summit
- Bloody clashes with police and anti-Berlusconi demonstrators in Rome
- Leaked cables show Australian intelligence discounted Iranian threat
- Police attack protesters during Greek general strike
- Letters from our readers
- Spate of cold-related deaths in Chicago
- California budget crisis poses new attacks on teachers
- Factory fire and police killings fuel discontent among Bangladeshi garment workers
- GM CEO calls for executive pay caps to be lifted
- US spy agencies paint grim picture of Afghan war
2010-12-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: More than 70 striking Visy workers charged, but unions prepare sell-out
- Australia: Further questions raised over Labor government’s role in refugee boat disaster
- Australia: Unions betray seven-week Prysmian strike against casualisation
- Cables show Portugal’s role in secret CIA prisoner flights
- Obama’s business summit
- The Panama City, Florida school board tragedy and American social reality
- Ontario Ombudsman denounce massive police abuse at Toronto G20 summit
- Protesters denounce legal persecution of Assange
- Interior Minister de Mazière wants a “German FBI”
- Detroit Symphony cancels more concerts as strikers hold firm
- Spain’s Socialist Party government colluded with US to conceal Iraq war crimes
- Chinese leader denies any aim to replace the US as world hegemon
- Julian Assange granted bail
- Obama’s AfPak review: Endless war in face of mass opposition
2010-12-18
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- WikiLeaks founder defiant after release from British jail
- WikiLeaks cable reveals US role in 2006 Thai coup
- Obama signs tax windfall for rich
- Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan: A portrait of the artist as a tormented young woman
- Sri Lankan health union calls off nurses’ strike
- Deep cuts and fee rises threaten future of Scottish education system
- Tax law will overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy
- EU summit agrees to new rescue fund for the banks
- US drones slaughter 54 in Pakistan
- Accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning held in solitary confinement
- Madoff lawsuits charge JPMorgan and HSBC with complicity in Ponzi scheme
- Give the gift of the WSWS
- Irish government blocks bank bonuses
- Cables show US reversed Indonesian army ban for Obama visit
- Detroit Symphony management rejects new offer
- Letters from our readers
- CAUS meeting discusses the political issues behind utility shutoffs
2010-12-20
- Cables expose Washington’s contempt for international law, democratic rights
- This week in history: December 20-December 26
- Spanish parliament votes to extend dictatorial powers
- Julian Schnabel retrospective in Toronto: Art, celebrity, and the market
- France: State-backed police riot signals new lurch to the right
- Australia: Refugees stage detention centre demonstrations after boat disaster
- The end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the US military
- Massey CEO refuses to testify at hearing into Upper Big Branch mine disaster
- South Korean military exercise raises danger of war
- Repression of Italian student protests: The specter of a police-state
- US drops demand for Israel to freeze settlement building
- The “liberal” face of American imperialism
- European deputies award themselves a generous Christmas bonus
- Los Angeles area teachers, parents fight charter school takeover
- Biden brands WikiLeaks leader “terrorist” and criminal
2010-12-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: After police attack, unions betray two-week Visy strike
- US corporations move to create a part-time, contingent workforce
- Australian meat workers locked out in dispute over wages and conditions
- Washington Post details vast growth of US domestic spying
- Julian Assange and the defense of democratic rights
- Oklahoma prisoner executed with animal anesthetic
- Korean tensions ease—temporarily
- US complicit in India’s systematic use of torture in Kashmir
- Australian Prime Minister Gillard forced to retract “illegal” charge against WikiLeaks founder
- Letters from our readers on WikiLeaks
- Colombia cable: Army murder of civilians “widespread”
- Miserable compensation for children abused in German care homes
- British police training facility opened in former mining village
- Boston School Committee approves expanded closure plan
- The police shooting of Bangladesh garment workers
- 维基解密电文与美澳同盟
2010-12-22
- One third of working families in US struggling to meet basic needs
- Washington’s incendiary role in Asia
- New York Times reports US plans for military escalation in Pakistan
- WikiLeaks cables reveal commercial motivations behind New Zealand troop deployment to Iraq
- Australia: SEP public meetings defend WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- The BBC and the police attack on Jody McIntyre
- WikiLeaks and Germany’s Left Party
- Imperialist diplomacy exposed: Behind the witch-hunt of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
- Northern Irish executive announce four-year draft austerity budget
- US to resume deportations to Haiti
- German newspapers publish appeal opposing censorship of WikiLeaks
- Conservative leader holds “constructive dialogue” with Britain’s union bosses
- Julian Assange replies to media smear campaign
2010-12-23
- US Senate ratifies nuclear arms treaty with Russia
- Romania 2010: A year filled with social unrest and unprecedented cuts
- UK austerity measures to throw 1 million into poverty
- The Australian refugee boat disaster and the Labor government’s “border protection” regime
- Iranian filmmaker sentenced to six years in jail
- Secret cables reveal Washington intervened in Italy to defend CIA kidnappers
- The political significance of the WikiLeaks revelations
- Backed by Washington, South Korea stages further military provocations
- US, EU prepare military action against Ivory Coast
- Two firefighters killed, 17 injured in Chicago building collapse
- WSWS posts program of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
- Obama administration preparing executive order to authorize indefinite detentions
- Letters from our readers
- Detroit Symphony striker: “I now realize this is a big fight … a fight for what’s right”
- Britain assured US its interests would be protected in Iraq war inquiry
- More than 30 die in Bangladesh ferry disaster
2010-12-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Striking DSO musicians perform for Detroit homeless
- New York suit charges Lehman auditor Ernst & Young with collusion in fraud
- WSWS posts program of Socialist Equality Party (US) in Spanish
- WikiLeaks cables: Spanish socialist government plans to renege on election pledges
- Red Star Over Russia by David King wins Banister Fletcher Award
- Christmas in America
- WSWS/ISSE meeting discusses New Zealand mine disaster
- Australia: Union lifts work bans at Macquarie University
- Sri Lankan SEP holds a public meeting to defend WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- New species of lemur discovered in Madagascar
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- ISSE/SEP meetings in Germany defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
- Iraqi cabinet established nine months after election
- Iran imposes huge increases in fuel and food prices
- The demolition of press freedom in Hungary
- Greek parliament approves further austerity measures
- Report on collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland to be published
- WikiLeaks cables expose France’s collaboration with US imperialism
- Hailing 111th Congress, Obama prepares further shift to the right
- British working class families forced to rely on charity food handouts
- 150 years ago: The election of Abraham Lincoln touches off secession crisis
2010-12-28
- Pakistan president appeals to opposition to support IMF austerity measures
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Tourist, an artist on vacation from serious work
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of shanty dwellers to be evicted from central Colombo
- The media and Obama: Image and reality
- CIA drone strikes kill 25 in Pakistan
- The New York Times backs the attack on WikiLeaks
- Students protest collective punishment at New York City high school
- Why the FCC can’t protect net neutrality
- Australia: Union shuts down picket of locked out meatworkers
- Leon Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution now available
- Australia: NSW Labor premier prorogues parliament to block power sale inquiry
- Ivory Coast general strike call portends further foreign intervention
- Italian students protest university austerity legislation
- Critics of UK cuts warn that National Health Service “could collapse”
- Spending cuts exacerbate weather chaos in Europe
- Letters from our readers
- An exchange on the strike-breaking role of the trade unions at a French refinery
2010-12-29
- Previews for “Spider-Man” musical in New York produce a rash of injuries
- US cable demonstrates Sri Lankan government’s collusion with paramilitary death squads
- The attack on press freedom in Hungary
- Fire in abandoned New Orleans warehouse kills 8
- An interview with jazz and blues singer Mose Allison
- Malaysian opposition leader suspended from parliament
- British women workers’ 1968 strike treated, more or less, in Made in Dagenham
- US, Europe concealed organ trafficking by Kosovo Liberation Army
- Oil tycoon Khodorkovsky convicted in Moscow trial
- Guatemala escalates drug war with a declaration of martial law
- Australian government completes cave-in on mining tax
- WikiLeaks confirms Fatah sought Israeli-US support for attack on Hamas
- Blizzard cripples northeastern US
- UK Navy medic has Afghan conscientious objector status refused
2010-12-30
- Gas explosion levels Michigan furniture store
- Sweeping cuts in UK Local Authority spending
- Police open fire as protests spread in Tunisia
- New York City services come to a halt after blizzard
- The New Orleans fire and the conditions of youth in America
- The Next Three Days: a thriller with something more on its mind
- The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange
- Australian government covers up causes of Montara oil spill
- Military tensions remain high on Korean peninsula
- Raul Castro sought “political channel” to Washington
- Letters from our readers
- Huge rise in wounded Afghan civilians
2010-12-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The first spintronic transistor
- WikiLeaks cables expose US hostility to Rudd’s Asia Pacific Community plan
- Washington’s “humanitarian” war and the KLA’s crimes
- Holiday sale extended to January 10
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Tirupur suicides: The human cost of India’s capitalist expansion
- Wave of garment-worker suicides in Indian “boom” town
- German steel boss calls for “German raw materials corporation”
- US foreclosures soar, housing prices slump
- Commodity price surge sets stage for global food crisis in new year
- Australia: Major flooding hits hundreds of thousands of Queensland residents
- Falsifying history and repudiating democratic rights: Floyd Abrams’ attack on WikiLeaks
- Labour Party and trade unions seek to bring UK education cuts protests under control
- Detroit Symphony strike now longest in orchestra’s history
- Letters on the Nation and WikiLeaks
- Central Falls, Rhode Island teachers face renewed attacks
- The East Coast blizzard of 2010: One traveler’s experience
- Best films of 2010
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