Archive: 02/2011
2011-02-01
- MSHA’s “working theory” of explosion that killed 29 Massey miners
- Australia: Newly-installed Tasmanian Premier pledges deep spending cuts
- Sri Lankan government blocks key local elections
- More evidence of police infiltration of UK political groups
- Ten workers die in construction accident in the Philippines
- The Egyptian Revolution
- West Virginia teen is first US coal mining fatality of 2011
- Country singer Charlie Louvin dead at 83
- On the US “left” and the Egyptian Revolution
- The anti-socialist politics of Tunisia’s official “opposition”
- Egyptian uprising grows despite regime’s reform gestures
- British government consolidates two-tier education system
- Letters from our readers
- German Supreme Court fails to defend right to asylum
2011-02-02
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tunisian uprising continues
- 突尼斯群众起义与不断革命观
- Los Angeles School District works with ACLU to deny teachers’ seniority rights
- New York state and city universities face tuition hikes, cutbacks
- The Egyptian working class needs new forms of mass organization
- The New York Times and “living within our means”
- Opposition emerges to Australian government’s flood tax package
- King Abdullah replaces Jordanian cabinet
- Japan under growing international pressure for austerity measures
- Indian human rights activist jailed for life on frame-up charges
- Italian union calls eight-hour strike at Fiat
- Obama backs Mubarak’s bid to retain power
- One third of Americans are diabetic or prediabetic
- WikiLeaks cables reveal crimes of French imperialism in Africa
2011-02-03
- Record pay for Wall Street executives in 2010
- Australia: Final SEP Broadmeadows election campaign meeting on Sunday February 13
- Ten people die in German train crash
- Sri Lankan guards shoot protesting prisoners
- Australia: Goodna flood victims explain their plight
- Obama backs bloodbath in Egypt
- The New York Times’ Bill Keller on WikiLeaks: A collapse of democratic sensibility
- New York State takes control of Nassau County finances
- Moroccan government fears outbreak of mass protests
- Rallying round the flag: The King’s Speech
- Police agent Mark Kennedy was active throughout Europe
- Federal judge rules Obama health care law unconstitutional
- Deadly crackdown against Egyptian protesters
- WikiLeaks exposes Washington’s dollar diplomacy
- Cyclone Yasi causes extensive damage across north eastern Australia
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Working people severely hit by Brisbane floods
2011-02-04
- Tens of thousands rally in Yemeni capital
- Australia: Report leaves unanswered questions on refugee deaths
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Auto bosses, UAW press ahead with “pay-for-performance” scheme
- Obama administration indicts ex-CIA whistleblower
- Arson attack on Sri Lankan opposition web site
- The CGT and Sarkozy’s pension “reform”
- Obama’s crocodile tears over Egypt’s violence
- French media gives glowing coverage of new National Front leader
- Video: Queensland floods: “The government left us for dead”
- Australia: Grantham—a community devastated
- Australian cyclone contributes to renewed flooding in Victoria
- Heroic resistance in Cairo to state-orchestrated repression
- SEP Australia public meeting: The Egyptian Revolution and its political implications
- Previously eradicated diseases reemerge in US
2011-02-05
- WikiLeaks: Cables reveal connivance of US government with Mubarak dictatorship
- Defend Julian Assange! Behind the witch-hunt of WikiLeaks
- Egypt, Tunisia and the perspective of permanent revolution
- Oppose US-backed “transition” in Egypt
- Video: Queensland floods: “It's all about the corporate dollar”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US payroll growth slowed to four-month low in January
- EU leaders discuss further austerity measures
- EU summit lines up with Washington on Egypt
- Massive anti-government protest on Egypt’s “day of departure”
- Letters from our readers
- Reply to a reader on the Spanish air traffic controllers
- The fear of “Nile fever” in China
- Canada’s political elite wages phony war over corporate taxes
- Australia: Brisbane residents reveal ongoing impact of flood disaster
2011-02-07
- Julian Assange condemns Australian Labor government at public meeting
- WSWS speaks to London protesters
- This week in history: February 7-13
- Social tensions worsen as south of Sudan votes for secession
- Spanish trade unions and Zapatero agree to pension cuts
- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An obituary
- Imperialism and Egypt’s “democratic transition”
- Australia: Flood victims’ property destroyed during official “recovery” operation
- The burying of the Financial Crisis Inquiry report
- Socialist Equality Party holds election meeting in Broadmeadows
- Egyptian regime begins US-backed talks with opposition parties
- International demonstrations support Egyptian revolution
- Two Colombia mine explosions kill 26
- Quebec: Shutdown of Electrolux plant threatens 1,300 jobs
- Chicago shut down by blizzard
2011-02-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tunisian regime seeks emergency powers against mass protests
- Video: Queensland floods: “They totally destroyed anything I could salvage”
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court upholds Fonseka convictions
- Obama’s cold-blooded defense of Egyptian regime
- Obama tells corporate leaders US will be “best place to do business”
- Munich exhibition documents German army atrocity in Afghanistan
- AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million: So much for America’s “progressive” media
- Australia: Gillard government prepares assault on social welfare
- One in seven Americans on food stamps
- Egyptian protesters face mounting violence and repression
- Trade unions seek to politically disarm opposition to UK education cuts
- Full extent of Australian cyclone disaster emerges
- Letters from our readers
- In effort to limit BP payout, compensation fund head says gulf recovery imminent
- Julian Assange legal team makes devastating critique of Swedish extradition attempt
2011-02-09
- Thai-Cambodian border clash driven by internal political tensions
- Omar Suleiman—longtime collaborator with Israel and US
- Britain’s prime minister whips up anti-Muslim sentiment
- Pakistan: Red Cross warns of Tunisia-style unrest in wake of floods
- Munich Security Conference defends the Egyptian regime
- Democrats on the Mubarak payroll
- Italian politicians fear spread of “Egyptian fever”
- Iowa prepares massive cuts to social spending
- Former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib speaks with WSWS
- French government embarrassed by its ties to North African dictatorships
- Mass protests and strikes escalate as Egyptians reject “orderly transition”
- The Company Men: what the economic crisis has wrought
- The Australian Labor Party and its property developer candidate for Broadmeadows
- Extradition hearing against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to reconvene
2011-02-10
- A reply to the falsifications of the ACTU and pseudo-lefts on the Swift meatworkers’ struggle
- Spain’s air traffic controllers union backs military policing of its members
- State criminalizes family victimized by DTE and poverty
- Donald Rumsfeld publishes memoirs of an unrepentant war criminal
- The Egyptian working class moves to the forefront
- Hamas and PLO suppress solidarity action for Egypt
- US bullying Pakistan to release “diplomat” who killed two in Lahore market
- Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”
- Australia: Facing landslide defeat, NSW Labor issues “fairness” package
- Nearly 30 percent of US homeowners now “underwater”
- Strikes and demonstrations spread across Egypt
- Detroit Symphony management escalates threats as musicians continue strike
- Vietnamese Communist Party opens its arms to the capitalist elite
- Build rank-and-file committees to lead the struggle
- Letters from our readers
- Chicago mayoral candidates promise intensified attacks on working class
- Protests shake Algerian regime
2011-02-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Amazon drought highlights impact of global warming
- Mubarak’s speech: only revolution can oust regime
- The downfall of Hosni Mubarak
- New Zealand government outlines spending cuts, asset sales
- New York City closes 22 more public schools
- NPA meeting in Paris backs imperialist policy on Egypt, Tunisia
- The Egyptian revolution and the German Left Party
- Israel staggered by Egypt protests, social tensions at home
- New York City teachers and students voice opposition to school closings
- Video: Queensland floods—“I’ve lost everything”
- Obama’s proposed budget to slash funding for historic preservation, National Park Service
- Protesters in Gabon call for president to step down
- Australia: Union enforces sweatshop conditions at Foxconn’s Sydney plant
- French prime minister faces scandal over all-expenses paid Egyptian vacation
- Mubarak resigns, military claims power in Egypt
- Egyptian military tortured, “disappeared” thousands of demonstrators
- Natural gas explosion kills 5 in Eastern Pennsylvania
- Afghan president confirms US demand for permanent bases
2011-02-12
- Video: Wanda Scott tells her story
- The “friends” of the Tunisian masses: the example of the French Independent Workers Party
- Sri Lankan president foreshadows further economic hardship
- Solomon Islands government accuses Canberra of destabilisation drive
- The downfall of Hosni Mubarak
- Mubarak resignation staggers Obama administration
- Popular anger boils over in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama to slash home heating assistance for low-income families and seniors
- German parliament votes to extend participation in Afghan war
- Mubarak resigns, military claims power in Egypt
- Toronto announces privatization of municipal workforce
- The TUC is no friend of the Egyptian working class
- Indian Maoists declare support for right-wing Trinamool Congress
- WikiLeaks: Verdict on Assange extradition due February 24
2011-02-14
- This week in history: February 14-February 20
- Wisconsin governor threatens to call National Guard on state workers
- Video: Queensland floods—“The government is not supporting us”
- Referendum on privatisation of Berlin’s water supply
- The Egyptian Revolution enters a new stage
- New Zealand government outlines spending cuts, asset sales
- Egyptian military asserts authority as strikes, protests spread
- Thousands protest, clash with police in Yemen and Algeria
- Egyptian revolution discussed at Socialist Equality Party’s final election meeting in Broadmeadows
- UK libraries face devastation
- Obama to propose more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction
- Britain’s bankers given a free rein by government’s “Project Merlin”
2011-02-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US House committee hearing takes aim at public sector pensions
- Obama’s budget and the rot of American capitalism
- Obama budget to hit low-income students and families
- Crisis-ridden Palestinian Authority calls elections
- Australia: Reject the New South Wales nurses agreement
- Mass protests spread in Middle East as Washington reassures Israel, Arab dictators
- Irish general election campaign: All main parties committed to savage cuts
- Australia: Gillard health plan to slash spending
- Florida Governor proposes drastic cuts in social programs
- Australian prime minister rules out funds to rebuild local infrastructure
- Strikes, workers’ protests spread throughout Egypt
- Letters from our readers
2011-02-16
- Unite workers and youth to defeat Wisconsin budget cuts
- Thousands in Wisconsin demonstrate against cuts
- The resignation of German Federal Bank President Axel Weber
- WSWS posts Marxist Voice statement from Pakistan in Urdu
- Victorian government releases another whitewash of Tullamarine toxic dump hazard
- SEP/ISSE meeting in Colombo on the Egyptian revolution
- Sri Lankan government undermines public education
- Iran and the Egyptian revolution
- US: Three natural gas explosions, one fatal, in Ohio-Pennsylvania area
- What did the US and Britain know prior to the July 7 London bombings?
- Tuberculosis: Canadian Arctic tragedy, growing global threat
- Histadrut calls off Israeli general strike
- Egyptian military repeats demands for end to strike wave
- The Eagle: a Roman centurion travels beyond “the end of the world”
- Detroit News continues its slanders against Detroit Symphony musicians
- Obama pledges cuts in entitlement programs
- Protests continue in Bahrain and Yemen
2011-02-17
- Video: Workers, students speak on budget cuts in Madison
- Tens of thousands demonstrate against attacks on government workers in Wisconsin
- US security firms planned smear campaign against WikiLeaks
- Israeli workers and the Egyptian revolution
- Ohio workers protest attack on collective bargaining
- Major new protests in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Iraq
- Teachers battle riot police as violence flares in Mexico
- Japan and Russia in diplomatic row over disputed Kuril Islands
- Socialist Equality Party speaks to workers in Broadmeadows by-election
- Runoff election campaign begins in Haiti
- Germany: Temporary workers face poverty wages
- Australian government hypocrisy over refugee funerals
- Egyptian workers step up strike offensive
- Egyptian military commands a vast business empire
- New York budget to slash health, education spending
2011-02-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Obama’s cynical posturing on Wisconsin protests
- WikiLeaks cables reveal closer US-Japan intelligence relations
- Vote 1 for Peter Byrne, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Broadmeadows
- Stardust spacecraft gives second glimpse of comet Tempel 1
- Sri Lankan bank workers strike to demand pension rights
- The Wisconsin protests and the re-emergence of the American working class
- Massive service cuts in Pennsylvania budget
- Diplomatic crisis intensifies over US operative who gunned down Pakistanis
- Video: Madison, Wisconsin demonstrations gain strength
- Libyan regime attempts to crush uprising
- Protests spread throughout Iraq
- Madison protesters denounce attacks on public workers, social spending
- New York: Elderly woman killed in blaze after fire department cutbacks
- Worker demonstrations, walk-outs spread in Wisconsin
- Italy’s Berlusconi indicted on prostitution, abuse-of-power charges
- Lethal crackdown in Bahrain is “Made in the US”
- German student arbitrarily detained in Afghan prison
2011-02-19
- Wall Street Journal flaunts its support for dictatorship
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Protests, teacher walkouts mount in Wisconsin
- Scottish local authorities plan compulsory redundancies
- Dealing with tragedy and grief in the Rabbit Hole
- Full support to Wisconsin workers!
- Minnesota to cut health, education budgets
- Western Wisconsin students, workers oppose cuts
- Popular uprisings spread across Middle East despite brutal crackdowns
- United Left Alliance responds to Irish austerity programme
- Protestors in Madison denounce attack on public employees
- Germany: SPD expects victory in Hamburg state election
- Mass celebrations in Egypt one week after Mubarak downfall
- Canada and US launch continental “security perimeter” talks
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denounces Australian Labor government
2011-02-21
- Huge protest march opposes Wisconsin cuts
- This week in history: February 21-27
- UN rejects intervention in Thai-Cambodian border tensions
- The struggle of Wisconsin workers enters a new stage
- Video: In fifth day of Wisconsin protests, largest showing yet
- Libyan government massacres demonstrators as uprising spreads
- Private providers skim millions from UK health budget
- Rising food prices threaten 1 billion with chronic hunger
- DSO musicians reject “final offer”
- Anti-government action spreads to Djibouti
- Proposed California budget slashes education
- “In Search of a Job—Any Job”
- US House approves drastic social spending cuts
- Protests by students and workers in Algeria and Morocco
2011-02-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- As Wisconsin protests continue, teachers union ends walkouts
- US threatens “military option” against China over space arms race
- The Wisconsin struggle and collective bargaining
- Australia: Mining giants post record profits, on top of tax victory
- New protests rock Tunisian government
- Michigan governor proposes massive cuts to fund business tax cut
- Uprising spreads to Libyan capital
- Eye-witness report from Libya
- Sri Lanka: Alongside the A9 highway to war-torn Jaffna
- Israel’s sabre-rattling against Iran
- India: Sanmina workers strike for higher wages and union recognition
- SPD wins Hamburg state election in Germany
- DTE Energy 2010 profits soar as utility shutoffs increase
- Detroiters speak out on DTE’s phony “customer assistance”
- Detroit Symphony management threatens to replace striking musicians
- Letters from our readers
- Broadmeadows by-election highlights growing hostility towards Australian Labor Party
- Bolivia’s Morales confronts general strike over food prices
2011-02-23
- Wisconsin protests continue
- Australia: Qantas pilots vote for industrial action to defend jobs
- Libya and the bankruptcy of Arab nationalism
- Columbus, Ohio rally against anti-worker legislation
- Another earthquake devastates New Zealand’s second largest city
- New York City budget to cut services, lay off teachers
- US admiral tours Persian Gulf as protests spread
- Gaddafi threatens mass killings as popular rebellion spreads
- The International Socialist Organization gushes over unions’ role in Wisconsin
- More news of ties to North African dictators roils French ruling elite
- Egyptian junta clamps down on strikes
- World oil prices soar, stocks tumble on fears of widening unrest in North Africa and Middle East
- Cedar Rapids: Does Hollywood know much about American life?
- UK’s PM Cameron talks “democracy” while peddling arms to Gulf despots
- Prichard, Alabama: 14 deaths follow pension cutoff
- Dozens slaughtered by US forces in Afghanistan-Pakistan air attacks
2011-02-24
- Protests continue as Wisconsin politicians debate attack on public employees
- Train drivers strike in Germany
- Tasmania’s Labor-Green coalition government threatens to axe 10 percent of public sector jobs
- Democrats and Republicans target state employees
- Obama and the Libyan crisis
- US and Europe weigh up Libyan intervention as oil prices spike
- Greek workers mount eighth general strike
- Borders bankruptcy, falling US home prices point to deepening slump
- Striking DSO musicians picket Detroit mayor’s state of the city speech
- Pakistan: Tensions rise as Raymond Davis revealed to be a CIA operative
- Letters from our readers
- Cook County, Illinois to cut jobs and social services
- Christchurch earthquake likely to be New Zealand’s worst natural disaster
- Berlin opera musicians strike against casual labour contract
- Libyan protests outside BBC: “An amazing revolution is taking place in the Middle East”
- Mass protests continue in Bahrain
2011-02-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Wisconsin governor threatens to cut 12,000 jobs
- The significance of the SPD victory in Hamburg
- Class struggle emerges in Saudi Arabia
- One-sided war in Wisconsin
- Notes on the Egyptian Revolution
- Fossil discovery confirms “Lucy” walked upright
- Calls mount for military intervention in Libya
- Greens back Australian government’s cost-cutting floods package
- Labour seeks coalition with Fine Gael in Ireland
- Iraqi officials fear national “day of rage” protest
- Video: Queensland floods—Goodna residents speak out
- Obama aide Rahm Emanuel elected mayor of Chicago
- Australian union leader stokes anti-Chinese chauvinism as he launches protectionist campaign
- Judge rules WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden
- Top Argentine union leader arrested in murder of left-wing worker
- US political establishment escalates attack on abortion rights
2011-02-26
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Wisconsin state assembly passes anti-worker bill
- Sri Lankan government to slash spending to pay for flood damage
- Slideshow: The demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin
- Death toll rises to 145 in New Zealand earthquake
- Petraeus to probe claim that army attempted “psy-ops” against US senators
- Defend Julian Assange!
- Canada’s union-backed NDP angling for budget deal with Conservatives
- Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
- From Egypt to America: Revolution, class struggle & the return of history
- US and Europe step up preparations for intervention in Libya
- US vetoes UN resolution criticising Israel
- Iraq “day of rage” protests shake US occupation regime
- New mass protests against US-backed regimes in Egypt and Yemen
- US downwardly revises fourth quarter GDP
- State of Michigan gives the green light to close 70 more Detroit public schools
- Bulgarian railway workers plan strike
- US retreats from strategic Afghanistan valley
2011-02-28
- After demonstration of 100,000, union officials prepare to end Wisconsin struggle
- This week in history: February 28-March 6
- Tunisia prime minister resigns amid mass demonstrations
- The political issues in the fight against budget cuts
- Police crackdown against protests in Egypt, Oman
- Massachusetts governor leads attack on health care for public and private workers
- As Libyan rebels close in on Gaddafi, US and Europe ramp up intervention
- Massive anti-government vote in Ireland
- Wisconsin workers and youth speak out
- University of Glasgow makes £20 million cuts
- North African uprisings force French foreign minister to resign
- Education conference in Denver: A conspiracy against teachers and the public schools
- German defence minister adopts the political style of Italy’s Berlusconi
- Australian Labor government stakes pro-business credentials on new carbon tax
- California’s budget crisis: a historical overview
- Twenty-third Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
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