Archive: 04/2011
2011-04-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Inside WikiLeaks—an attack from a former supporter
- Australian government imposes new punitive measures on the unemployed
- Syrian president delays reforms, demands national unity against protests
- Sri Lankan plantation workers must launch an independent wage struggle
- The case of Professor Juan Cole
- Ohio governor signs law attacking public employees
- New Hampshire protest hits budget cuts, anti-worker measure
- US-NATO bombings kill civilians in Tripoli
- Indian army general praises instigator of 2002 Gujarat pogrom
- Massachusetts: Economic pressures close in on the hungry
- London School of Economics was hub of relations between British elite and Gaddafi regime
- US, Britain press two-track policy in Libya war
- Gillard sets out the road to pain
- No end in sight for Japan nuclear crisis
- Detroit financial manager announces drastic school closing plan
- British government seeks new powers to ban demonstrations
2011-04-02
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Rock band White Stripes breaks up: a look back
- Stalinists threatened in West Bengal election, after “pro-investor” policies
- Clashes follow Friday prayers in Syria
- Big business deems Quebec’s austerity budget not austere enough
- Nationalist candidate Humala rises in Peru election polls
- The war on Libya: a new eruption of imperialist rivalry
- The agents of Washington and Britain within Libya’s opposition leadership
- Australian Labor Party installs new leader in NSW
- Signs of crisis and internal conflict in US-NATO war on Libya
- Situation at Japanese nuclear plant still “very serious”
- French, UN forces back military takeover of Ivory Coast, citing Libya war precedent
- Germany: No end in sight for Envio toxic pollution scandal
- Sluggish US job growth points to continued mass unemployment
- Letters from our readers
- California public employee unions line up against workers
- Video: Albany rally hits attack on education
- New York students and teachers protest draconian budget cuts
2011-04-04
- Protests, repression continue in Bahrain and Yemen
- This week in history: April 4-April 10
- The corporate looting of America
- House Republican budget proposal takes aim at Medicare and Medicaid
- Two workers killed in Louisville, Kentucky, plant explosion
- Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels
- Japanese authorities warn nuclear crisis to continue for months
- Civilians massacred by Western-backed forces in Ivory Coast
- UK: Homelessness to rise dramatically following funding cuts
- South Pacific countries defy Australian government and back Fijian military regime
- Over one hundred thousand protest military rule in Egypt
- For a new strategy to defend the social rights of the working class
- Anti-American rioting sweeps Afghanistan
2011-04-05
- US-backed regime in Yemen carries out new slaughter of protesters
- US workers face widening economic insecurity
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Syracuse Symphony suspends remainder of season
- Shanghai: Grinding poverty amid corporate opulence
- China’s execution of Filipino drug couriers highlights mounting regional tensions
- The war against Libya and the eruption of European imperialism
- Obama begins bid for second term: A president of war and social reaction
- US and allies gear up for protracted war in Libya
- Japan’s tsunami victims left struggling to cope
- Irish government raids pensions to give banks €24 billion
- A response to “Elizabeth Taylor and the melodrama of American life in the 1950s and 1960s”
- Tentative contract agreement in strike by DSO musicians
- Letters from our readers
- Fuselage rupture in Southwest jet exposes crisis in airline industry
2011-04-06
- The resignation of Guido Westerwelle as Free Democratic Party chairman and German vice chancellor
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) launches council election campaign
- The two Americas
- Libya and the myth of humanitarian interventionism: A reply to the pro-war “left”
- British government presses US over treatment of Bradley Manning
- US, NATO allies join scramble for Libya’s oil
- US Supreme Court issues temporary stay of Texas lethal injection
- Divisions erupt within Australian Labor government
- Obama administration to try accused 9/11 plotters by military commission
- Japan: TEPCO dumps radioactive water in sea
- UN investigator repudiates Gaza war findings under US and Israeli pressure
- BP asks permission to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico
- The Socialist Equality Party’s candidates for Manchester and Sheffield
- US budget talks drag on as Democrats offer even larger cuts
2011-04-07
- After sellout of Wisconsin struggle unions hail vote for state judge
- Two workers killed in Tennessee sewage treatment plant collapse
- Sri Lankan government announces a Colombo municipal corporation
- Republican budget sets stage for expanded assault on US workers
- One hundred and fifty feared dead in Mediterranean boat tragedy
- US report points to serious dangers at Japanese nuclear plant
- France intervenes in Ivory Coast’s civil war
- Ex-singer tied to death squads named winner in Haitian vote
- Musicians to take large pay cuts in Detroit Symphony contract deal
- Letters from our readers
- Closures, mass layoffs and cuts announced for Chicago-area schools
- Canadian elections: Deafening silence on Libyan and Afghan wars exemplifies all-party support
- With US government shutdown looming, Democrats offer more spending cuts
2011-04-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Thousands of teachers protest against the Berlin Senate
- Sri Lankan SEP/ISSE meeting on war in Libya
- Portugal requests EU-IMF bailout
- The German Greens as a party of war
- Ontario workers need a socialist strategy
- New Orleans Police Department rocked by scandals
- Plans to privatise Britain’s National Health Service stall
- The Lincoln Lawyer: A morally “gray” attorney and his discontents
- Obama makes clear US opposition to ceasefire, insists on regime change in Libya
- Major parties in Japan move closer to “national unity”
- In visit to Iraq, Gates indicates US troops to stay
- Australia: Hundreds more retail jobs threatened as Colorado Group collapses
- Partial shutdown of US federal government threatens layoff of 800,000
- Teachers in Berlin face political tasks
- US Army clears “kill team” brigade commander of responsibility
2011-04-09
- Republican judge leads Wisconsin vote after new ballots are found by political ally
- New York Times demands escalation of killing in Libya
- Australia: Qantas gears up for major assault on airline workers
- Portugal: Massive austerity measures to follow bailout
- Portugal’s bailout: European banking crisis deepens
- Social disaster deepens following New Zealand earthquake
- High Court agrees to hear Julian Moti appeal
- US Senate discusses sending troops to Libya
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Large aftershock hits northern Japan
- Fiat deal being used to gut collective bargaining rights throughout Italy
- Letters from our readers
- Obama hails deal to impose record cuts in social spending
- New films about former East Germany: Elke Hauck’s The Prize and Annekatrin Hendel’s Traitor to the Fatherland
- Japan promotes its nuclear industry at special ASEAN summit
2011-04-11
- This week in history: April 11-April 17
- State crackdown claims scores of lives in Syria
- Supreme Court rules against New Orleans’ frame-up victim, upholds religious school credits
- Sri Lanka: Opposition web site editor arrested
- Obama embraces Republican assault on social programs for workers and the poor
- European Union prepares to send ground troops to Libya
- France and UN bear responsibility for massacres by Ouattara forces in Ivory Coast
- Medical researcher: “Our chance of solving health problems will be significantly smaller”
- Fireworks explosion kills five workers in Hawaii
- Germany does an about-face on Libya war
- France re-establishes border controls with Italy amid dispute over African migrants
- Egyptian military kills protesters in Cairo
- The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in Ann Arbor
- Australian government plans substantial cuts to health care
2011-04-12
- Workers Struggles. The Americas
- Workers buried alive in Vietnamese quarry disaster
- Socialist Party in Britain encourages illusions in a Conservative “plan B”
- Scandinavian and other “neutral” states support assault on Libya
- CIA terrorist Posada Carriles acquitted in immigration trial
- Japan’s nuclear cover-up
- New York state budget slashes education, health care and taxes on the rich
- Socialist Equality Party (UK): Local authority elections campaign meetings
- African Union’s Libya ceasefire rejected by opposition and NATO powers
- France helps seize Gbagbo in Ivory Coast
- Australian media attacks Greens over criticisms of Israel
- Egyptian military storm peaceful protest in Tahrir Square
- Letters from our readers
- Conference delegates speak with the WSWS
- Obama to propose cuts in Medicare, Medicaid
2011-04-13
- Yale goes global—university plans “liberal arts college” in authoritarian Singapore
- Push for comprehensive military reform continues in Russia
- Thousands rally against Australian Labor government’s spending cuts to medical research
- Peru elections pit Humala against Fujimori in second round
- One hundred and fifty years since the US Civil War
- US blocks UN torture investigator from seeing Bradley Manning
- Divisions at European Union summit on Libyan intervention
- Medical workers and students speak against pending spending cuts
- Greetings from Indianapolis auto worker to Fight For Socialism Today conference
- Why does Britain’s Guardian insist there is mass support for austerity and cuts?
- German executive pay, company profits rise sharply in 2010
- Israel steps up aggression against Gaza
- Severity of Japan’s nuclear disaster raised to highest level
- A letter from a Detroit Symphony Orchestra musician
- French union campaign on undocumented workers ends in expulsions, few legalisations
- Conservatives misled Canadian parliament on $1 billion in summit expenses
- Budget cuts to hit public education in California
- White House budget deal imposes cuts in health care, education, home heating aid
- Biutiful: A father’s tragic destiny
- Detroit mayor outlines plan to gut services, attack city workers
- US-backed Bahrain regime tortures, murders critics
2011-04-14
- Conflict intensifies in Syria
- State-level Democrats deepen attack on public education
- Sri Lankan government shuts down three universities to block protests
- British government to expand powers of regional administrations
- Class issues in the Portuguese bailout
- IMF report points to global economic fragility
- Mubarak and sons detained as Egypt’s military continues crackdown
- Contact Group meeting in Doha plans imperialist carve-up of Libya
- Michigan workers protest budget cuts
- Untrained labourers working in Japan’s nuclear industry
- Australian Labor PM Gillard launches war on welfare
- Letters from our readers
- Egyptian junta steps up violence as protests and strikes continue
- Obama proposes trillions in spending cuts
- Britain’s banks given free pass by Vickers Commission
2011-04-15
- Mass protests continue in Yemen, as official opposition conspires with US, Gulf states
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- One year since the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia
- “CAUS says utilities should be a right, not a luxury”
- Zapatero asks for funds while claiming Spain needs no bailout
- Fears of a looming Philippine rice crisis
- Liberalism and capitalist austerity
- Divisions deepen as NATO digs in for a prolonged war against Libya
- UK rail unions refuse to defend jobs
- Mary Tillman condemns Obama’s appointment of McChrystal to head military families commission
- Senate committee details Wall Street criminality
- Quake disaster shakes Japanese economy
- Wildcat strike continues at GM India plant in Gujarat
- Strikes and protests by Egyptian workers
- Detroit Symphony musicians ratify contract, return to Orchestra Hall
- Drone attacks trigger fresh crisis in US-Pakistani relations
- Australian government makes bogus pledge on household compensation for carbon tax
- Bolivian workers strike against government salary decree
- Bloomberg insider Cathleen Black forced out as New York schools chancellor
- Rising social protests in the Balkans
2011-04-16
- Sri Lankan government deepens IMF austerity measures
- Saudi protests against Bahrain invasion, repression
- The Libyan war and the deepening inter-imperialist conflict
- US House of Representatives votes to abolish Medicare
- Obama demands regime change in Libya
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese local elections reveal widespread voter alienation
- Soaring gas, food prices hit US families
- Illinois Senate unanimously passes right-wing education reform bill
- Iceland voters reject IceSave agreement
- Australia: Ford and Toyota announce job and wage cuts
- Fifty years since the first manned spaceflight
- Letters from our readers
- Manchester’s Ardwick ward blighted by poverty and inequality
- “Sleeping on the job” scandal reveals exploitation of US air traffic controllers
2011-04-18
- UK government pledges increased funds for Libya war
- This week in history: April 18-April 24
- Tornadoes kill dozens in US
- Vote Simon Walker, Socialist Equality Party for Walkley, Sheffield
- European Union divided over refugee question
- US public university presidents’ pay soars
- Philadelphia Orchestra files for bankruptcy protection
- Senate report on Wall Street crash: The criminalization of the American ruling class
- Imperialist powers prepare escalation of Libyan war
- The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in Los Angeles
- Japan’s reactor shutdown to take at least six months
- Economic summits marked by great power divisions and concerns over class conflict
- France enforces burqa ban
- BRICS summit denounces “use of force” against Libya
- Australian defence scandal reveals military-government rift
2011-04-19
- More violent attacks on protesters in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama campaigns for austerity
- Australia: Maritime union calls off industrial action by port workers
- France, Britain step up drive for deployment of ground troops in Libya
- Idaho silver miner missing after cave-in
- Election manifesto of the Berlin Greens announces more austerity
- Ratings agency S&P downgrades outlook for US government debt
- Letters from our readers
- Libyan war accelerates Chinese debate over “non-intervention”
- Spain: Catalan Greens vote for war with Libya
- Workers strike at French retail giant Carrefour
- Canadian election leaders’ debates: A smokescreen for intensified class war
- UK Prime Minister David Cameron beats the anti-immigrant drum
- California’s Democratic governor targets public pensions
- US occupation in Afghanistan hit by string of bombings
2011-04-20
- Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
- Australia: Anger mounts as Labor governments abandon Queensland flood survivors
- The S&P debt warning: Wall Street extortionists demand savage cuts
- Nigerian vote leaves country deeply divided
- SEP candidate speaks at children and family centre in Ardwick, Manchester
- Masses of US workers apply for low-wage jobs at McDonald’s
- Pentagon rehabilitates Gen. McChrystal
- Sidney Lumet, director of 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, dead at 86
- Britain and France escalate war in Libya
- Calls for Japanese PM to resign over nuclear crisis
- Italy plans to step up its participation in the war against Libya
- France blocks train carrying Tunisian refugees from Italy
- All 5,466 Detroit teachers sent layoff notices
- One year since the BP oil spill: Covering up a catastrophe
2011-04-21
- US seeks to exploit anti-Assad movement in Syria
- UN report verifies Sri Lankan government war crimes
- Sri Lankan SEP and ISSE to hold May Day meeting
- Qantas CEO escalates provocative campaign against workforce
- Australia: PPG paint workers strike against 43-percent wage cut
- As Obama reassures financial markets, public opposition grows to budget cuts
- Former colonial powers send military “advisers” to Libya
- Report from anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo
- Bradley Manning to be transferred to Army prison in Kansas
- An exchange on “Reject TUC’s phoney war”
- Social catastrophe follows French imperialist intervention in Ivory Coast
- Documents confirm Iraq invasion was a war for oil
- 12-year-old Michigan girl charged with attempted robbery needed cash for family’s mortgage
- Medical “expo” reveals health disaster in Detroit
- Plan to restructure Greek debt reveals deep rifts in Europe
- NDP platform mimics Liberal “Red Book”
- Canada: NDP leader Layton concedes he has no substantive differences with big business Liberals
- One year since the BP oil spill: A colossal failure of the “free market”
- Bahraini regime pursues savage repression
2011-04-22
- Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US budget cuts threaten scientific research
- Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
- Good Friday crucifixions in the Philippines
- Budget austerity and democracy
- Further legal action possible in News of the World phone hacking scandal
- Obama sends drones to Libya as Britain readies troops
- Workers at Berlin hospital vote for indefinite strike
- Croatian conviction casts light on US responsibility for war crimes
- Australia: Shell to close Sydney refinery at the cost of almost 500 jobs
- Kentucky drug overdose deaths soar
2011-04-23
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Thai government prepares for early election
- Florida man dies after police Taser him
- Dozens killed in Syrian protests
- “I spend all my time worrying how to make ends meet”
- Question mark over role of US dollar
- Pakistan: CIA drone kills 25 on eve of mass protest against US missile strikes
- Obama pushes budget-cutting plan in California tour
- Inquiry into New Zealand mine tragedy begins on “no blame” basis
- Mounting Libyan death toll from US-NATO bombings
- Rising energy, food prices spark global protests
- Detroit house fire kills child, injures another
- Nationalists gain in Finland vote
- Britain’s national debt: Where did the money go?
- Letters from our readers
- One year since the BP oil spill: The environmental disaster continues
2011-04-25
- New effort to force Yemeni president from office
- This week in history: April 25-May 1
- Portugal’s intelligence chief accused Australia of “fomenting unrest” in East Timor
- Syrian regime extends crackdown on protests
- Britain: Most universities to charge maximum tuition fees
- Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
- UAW sets benchmark for wage-cutting in global auto industry
- Pakistan: IMF demands brutal restructuring in return for further funding
- US senators call for Gaddafi’s assassination
- Japan’s nuclear evacuees face bleak future
- Australia: Villawood riot sparks protests at other immigration detention centres
- Education policy of SPD and Left Party in Berlin: A devastating balance sheet
- Democrats and Republicans escalate campaign against health care programs
- Britain: Bristol riots provoked by police
- Human rights groups condemn repression in Bahrain
2011-04-26
- Enterprise Zones introduced across England
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Shanghai truck drivers strike over rising costs
- US steps up pressure against Syria
- One year since the BP oil spill: Obama “claims czar” provides no relief for the people of the Gulf
- US, NATO attempt assassination of Gaddafi
- Indiana: Notre Dame university appeals state fine in death of student worker
- Manchester spending cuts hit most vulnerable
- Japan’s nuclear crisis far from over
- India’s corruption scandals and the clamor for a “Jan Lokpal” Bill
- Body of Idaho silver miner recovered
- Hungarian parliament passes authoritarian constitution
- Recordsetting homelessness in New York City
- Guantanamo documents reveal US brutality and lawlessness
- Letters from our readers
- California governor campaigns for budget cuts, regressive taxes
- Burkina Faso shaken by widespread protests
2011-04-27
- Renewed fighting on Thai-Cambodian border
- European powers discuss sanctions against Syria
- Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting on Libyan war
- Oppose university tuition fee hikes
- 500 Afghan insurgents escape from high-security Kandahar prison
- Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
- White House, US media stonewall on Guantanamo
- US, UK plot Libya war escalation
- Los Angeles: Budget crisis used to press attack against city workers
- Australian government announces new laws to punish refugees
- Detroit parents and teachers denounce school closings
- Australian Labor government crisis deepens over carbon tax
- Dirk Lütter’s The Education: what today’s youth face
- More violent storms kill seven in Arkansas
2011-04-28
- Chavez deports opposition journalist back to Colombia
- Australian PM tours North East Asia as mouthpiece for Washington
- Racist politician Thilo Sarrazin remains in the SPD
- 25 years ago—The first US attempt to murder Gaddafi
- The Bolsheviks in Power―The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd: Guest lecture by Prof. Alexander Rabinowitch in Vienna
- General Petraeus and the CIA
- US, NATO defend policy of targeting Gaddafi
- iPhone secretly records location of users
- UN Gaza report co-authors reject Goldstone’s capitulation to Israel
- Franco-Italian summit calls for suspending European accords, closer corporate ties
- Letters from our readers
- “Surge” in support for social-democratic NDP changes campaign dynamic
- Bolivian unions end strike against Morales government
- Federal Reserve chairman outlines class war policy
- Guantánamo dossiers confirm Australian government criminality
- Nine US military personnel killed in Afghanistan airport shooting
2011-04-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Tornadoes kill at least 290 in US South
- France Télécom employee immolates himself
- Sri Lankan government denounces UN war crimes findings
- Michigan governor outlines assault on public education
- SEP candidate visits picket line at Sheffield College, Hillsborough
- The royal wedding and the myth of national unity
- Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
- Australia: Queensland flood inquiry exposes inadequate emergency services
- The Kabul airport killings: What are US troops dying for?
- Scientists find evidence of cannibalism in Palaeolithic Britain
- Federal appeals court orders new sentencing hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- HBO’s Mildred Pierce: A Depression-era drama aimed at a contemporary audience
- NATO bomb attack on Libya kills Misrata “rebel” fighters
- Southern California grocery workers authorize strike
- German government attacks long-term unemployed
- Oil bosses rake in record profits as US economy stalls
- Canada’s Globe endorses Conservatives, lauds Harper’s “bullheadedness”
2011-04-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US South devastated by most destructive tornadoes on record
- Syrian demonstrators shot in protests over crackdown
- Swedish automaker Saab nears collapse
- Australia: Refugee protests continue as long-term detentions soar
- The implications of the Shanghai truckers’ strike
- Obama’s 2012 budget deepens attack on public education
- Fatah, Hamas reconciliation part of broader strategic realignment by Egypt
- Outrage at inquest verdict on Dublin mother’s death from hypothermia
- Deutsche Bank posts second highest ever quarterly profit
- CGT union defends anti-worker reform of French ports
- Obama, Congress renew push for austerity measures
- Bahraini military court sentences four protesters to die
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