Archive: 05/2011
2011-05-02
- This week in history: May 2-May 8
- Storm death toll continues to rise in US South
- Spain: Telefónica slashes jobs and offers multimillion bonuses to its chief executives
- Sri Lankan union abandons victimised workers
- Police make “pre-emptive” arrests before Royal wedding
- Australia: PPG paint workers remain on strike as union pushes two-tier wage cut
- The killing of Osama bin Laden
- The Fight for Socialism Today conference held in New York City
- Oppose cuts to Manchester hospitals
- Massachusetts: Democrats attack municipal workers’ health care
- Gaddafi family members murdered by US and NATO
- Fukushima radiation levels rise to highest levels yet
- Six die in Vancouver, Washington, house fire
- European Union steps up measures to ward off refugees
- The Conspirator: Film on Lincoln assassination trial misses the mark
- Canada: NDP will abet big business in imposing its class war agenda
- Behind election smokescreen: Canada’s elite prepares all-out assault on Medicare
- Democrats, Republicans escalate attack on public employees
- Michigan’s anti-democratic emergency financial manager law takes effect
- Eyewitness reflections on the storms in Alabama
2011-05-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- War on US workers drives stock market rise
- Ugandan police open fire on protesters
- Source Code and Hanna—two new Hollywood thrillers
- Wave of violence against Roma in Hungary
- Gulf allies: A record of repression and torture
- Unanswered questions on US raid that killed bin Laden
- Australia: Queensland flood inquiry raises questions about state government’s response
- Tensions escalate over the South China Sea
- The killing of bin Laden and the “war on terror”
- Britain: National Health Service cuts target jobs and patient care
- US, NATO defend air strike that murdered Gaddafi family members
- Japanese PM faces political crisis over nuclear disaster
- US motorists express anger over skyrocketing gas prices
- Letters from our readers
2011-05-04
- Yemen president torpedoes agreement to leave office
- What attitude should British workers take to the May 5 Alternative Vote referendum?
- A discussion with film historian Joseph McBride about Steven Spielberg: A Biography―Part 1
- UN report details Sri Lankan government war crimes
- The killing of Osama bin Laden: Obama’s “historic moment”
- Australian government affirms support for Afghan war after bin Laden killing
- Living costs soar in New Zealand
- Rome meeting to consider further military action against Libya
- 86,000 Michigan households hit by utility shutoffs this winter
- An exchange of letters on the CGT union’s role in France’s anti-worker port reform
- Obama urges bipartisan unity to impose austerity measures
- $3 billion stock option bonanza for American CEOs
- Canadian elections set stage for intensified class conflict
- Brazil’s poor evicted to make way for Olympics
- Atlanta, Georgia rally opposes anti-immigrant bill
- Workers in Ardwick, Manchester speak of growing poverty and hardship
2011-05-05
- Socialist Equality Party responds to PCS union’s “There is an Alternative” campaign
- International finance presses for counter-revolution in Tunisia
- Syrian government widens crackdown
- A discussion with film historian Joseph McBride about Steven Spielberg: A Biography—Part 2
- The attack on the working class and the fight for socialism
- Elections in Scotland, Ireland and Wales conceal extent of austerity cuts
- Canada on the brink of mass social struggles
- Washington’s official story unravels, confirming extra-legal execution of Bin Laden
- Worker killed in New Zealand tornado
- Mississippi River floods threaten cities in many states
- Sheffield “anti-cuts” hustings: Ex-left line up with Labour Party/TUC
- How to win the strike at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- May Day marches in France held amid rising neo-fascist influence
- “The Socialist Equality Party is the leadership workers in Britain need”
- Growing wave of strikes in Egypt
- Letters on the killing of Osama bin Laden
- Thousands of hospital workers demonstrate in Berlin
- Australia: Business demands more cutbacks after Victorian state budget
- Assault on US workers’ rights accelerates
2011-05-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Police gun down two people in Melbourne
- British inquest jury rules Ian Tomlinson unlawfully killed by police officer
- No to imperialist war in Libya! Withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan!
- For the international unity of the working class!
- Important new work on historical foundations of Socialist Equality Party (Germany) now available in English
- Draconian austerity measures a condition of Portuguese bailout
- Obama at Ground Zero
- After bin Laden killing, US intensifies pressure on Pakistan
- Mediterranean Anti-Capitalist Conference aids counter-revolution in North Africa
- Defence lawyers demand acquittal of Malaysian opposition leader
- Washington funnels confiscated Libyan assets to “rebel” leadership
- One in seven Americans receiving federal food assistance
- Democrats and Republicans work on compromise plan to cut social programs
- Alabama residents struggle in storm’s aftermath
2011-05-07
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Friday demonstrations in Syria met with violent repression
- Socialism is the way forward for young people!
- Defend democratic rights!
- No prospect of global “economic recovery”
- In wake of Bin Laden killing: US targets American citizen in Yemen
- US football player targeted for criticizing celebration of Bin Laden killing
- The Juilliard Orchestra performs Mahler’s Ninth Symphony in New York City
- The war against Libya and the German Left Party
- US jobs report points to protracted downturn
- Credit rating agencies press Japan for budget austerity
- Detroit food stamp recipients speak
- Italian unions deal another blow to Fiat autoworkers
- Liberal Democrats hammered in UK elections
- More letters on the killing of Osama bin Laden
- Soaring dollar adds to Australian Labor government crisis
2011-05-09
- This week in history: May 9-May 15
- Tunisian regime imposes curfew amid protests over coup threat
- SEP/ISSE May Day meeting in Colombo
- The growth of the extreme right in Europe
- Saab deal with Chinese automaker paves way for job cuts, outsourcing
- The Pacquiao phenomenon in the Philippines
- The death agony of American democracy
- New York City to lay off teachers, close fire companies, cut social programs
- Mississippi floods pose disasters for multiple states
- Mine explosion in Mexico: Unsafe conditions and government corruption
- Threat of war crimes charges levelled against Gaddafi and son
- Unions sabotage strike at Berlin’s Charité hospital
- Folksinger Hazel Dickens dies at 75
- California schools face continued budget uncertainty
- Despite mining boom, Australian economy in trouble
2011-05-10
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Australia: What next in the struggle against NAPLAN?
- Sri Lanka: Opposition web site suspended
- Mehring Books announces spring sale
- Europe one year after the bailout of Greece
- Pakistan warns US “unilateralism” could have “serious consequences”
- Obama on “60 Minutes:” A political assessment
- An interview with Greg Near, Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra musician
- Mississippi River flood looms over Memphis
- How the Mediterranean Anti-Capitalist Conference defended French imperialism
- NATO ships, planes left African refugees stranded in Mediterranean to die
- Greens and Social Democrats in Stuttgart, Germany, seal coalition pact
- Behind Ford’s latest mass layoffs in Australia
- Florida approves far-reaching cuts to unemployment benefits
- French Football Federation considers racial quotas
- The trade unions and the ex-left: A reply to a British union official
- Letters from our readers
- US carmakers profit from wage-cutting, speed-up
2011-05-11
- The killing of Bin Laden and the threat of a wider war
- Reports highlight threats to women’s health in poorest countries
- Mexico: Opposition to government militarization of “drug war” grows
- US student loan delinquency rises
- New threats emerge at Japanese nuclear plants
- Greek crisis triggers fierce conflicts in Europe
- Australia: Fairfax Media demands far-reaching job cuts
- Sectarian conflict in Cairo between Muslims and Coptic Christians
- EU stability plan to bring poverty, inflation to Bulgaria
- Republicans, Democrats escalate budget-cutting campaign
- Bahrain tries 21 activists on trumped-up charges
- 18th ASEAN summit held amid growing geopolitical tensions
- Australian Labor government’s budget targets welfare recipients
2011-05-12
- Union betrays Berlin hospital workers’ strike
- ASEAN summit fails to resolve Thai-Cambodian conflict
- Scottish National Party forms majority government in Holyrood
- Australian government plans to deport refugees to Malaysia
- Philippine president proposes to evict 500,000 slum residents from Manila
- The flooding in the US South
- Death squads reportedly assassinating Libyan regime figures in Benghazi
- City University of New York restores honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner
- Detroit area jobless speak out
- Pivotal elections in five Indian states
- European Union presses Finland to support bailout of Portugal
- Beijing cancels debate on 1911 revolution
- Education is a social right! Unite teachers, students and workers against all cuts!
- Why is the NPA’s Olivier Besancenot sitting out the 2012 French presidential race?
2011-05-13
- Yemen security forces kill dozens more protesters
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Syrian government widens crackdown
- Sri Lankan plantation workers speak to the WSWS
- The ex-left apologists for Scottish nationalism
- Former billionaire hedge fund manager convicted of insider trading
- Australia: Chaotic official response during Queensland flood emergency
- The social counterrevolution in America and the tasks of the working class
- Einstein’s theory of gravity confirmed by NASA probe
- Mississippi towns submerged in floodwaters
- Meltdown of Japanese nuclear reactor confirmed
- Protesters, police clash in Athens demonstration
- Nationwide doctors’ strike in Egypt
- CEO pay in US tops pre-crisis levels
- Video: Students and staff denounce the threat to close Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy
- Canada’s NDP gave private assurances to Bay Street
2011-05-14
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The political tone at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival
- Creation of “bad bank” heightens prospect of Spanish bailout
- Singapore election reflects anti-government groundswell
- British Sunday Times Rich List: Austerity? Not for the elite
- Financial chaos sounds a warning
- Thousands march on Wall Street to oppose New York City budget cuts
- Students and teachers speak out against Bloomberg’s budget cuts
- NATO air raid kills Libyan civilians in Brega
- Italy’s role in the war on Libya
- Mississippi floods highlight decay of US infrastructure
- India: Stalinist-led Left Front suffers debacle in state elections
- Letters from our readers
- Video: Catherine Ferguson Academy students and teachers speak on school closures and social inequality
- White House, Republicans use debt deadline to prepare historic cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
- Australian budget debate highlights deepening political crisis
2011-05-16
- Yonkers, New York facing crippling cuts to education
- Yonkers students denounce school cutbacks
- This week in history: May 16 - May 22
- Syrian regime continues to use lethal force against protests
- Microsoft and the future of Skype
- Tensions in Kremlin continue to mount
- The Sydney Harbour Bridge protest: an insight into the level of social frustration
- Victims of Mississippi flood must be made whole
- Obama announces steps to boost oil drilling and industry profits
- New Zealand SAS troops implicated in Afghan war crimes
- Mississippi River flood spills into central Louisiana
- Israeli troops kill unarmed Palestinian protesters on borders
- International Monetary Fund chief arrested on sexual assault charges
- Video: Thousands line up for jobs in Hamtramck, Michigan
- Danish government introduces border controls
- California teachers and students denounce cuts in public education
2011-05-17
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government budget cuts welfare
- Tunisian regime creates electoral commission amid mass strikes
- Israel’s border massacre and human rights hypocrisy
- Obama preaches individual responsibility in flooded Memphis
- Michigan legislature slashes taxes for business
- ICC prosecutor demands arrest warrant against Gaddafi
- IMF head held without bail on sexual assault charges
- Three Japanese nuclear reactors underwent meltdown
- The royal visit to Ireland
- Illinois education “reform” bill passes with bipartisan support
- German newspapers call for pay cuts
- Florida to restructure Medicaid to benefit insurance industry
- Letters from our readers
- White House, Republican discussions target federal workers’ pensions
2011-05-18
- Massey refused to address ventilation problems at Upper Big Branch Mine
- UK: Official guidelines to deal with suicide by the jobless
- Sri Lankan government praises Bin Laden killing
- Australia: Union prepares sell-out of PPG paint workers
- PPG workers speak to the World Socialist Web Site
- The International Criminal Court and Gaddafi
- School districts throughout Detroit area face cuts
- Pakistani, NATO forces clash amid rising US-Pakistani tensions
- NATO warplanes step up attacks on Libya
- US manufacturing rebounds on lower wages
- Mississippi flood spreads across Louisiana
- European financial leaders postpone a new bailout for Greece
- New Chicago mayor outlines austerity agenda
- Demjanjuk Nazi war crimes trial ends in Munich
- Unions agree to $1.6 billion in concessions for Connecticut state workers
- Social inequality and the Yangtze River drought
2011-05-19
- Pakistan’s President Zardari visits Moscow
- Unions call off strike on British Airways and London Underground
- Australian government shifts to corporate-controlled job “training”
- US Supreme Court gives green light to warrant-less searches of homes
- Republican right sets the tone for bipartisan assault on Medicare
- The serious questions raised by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair
- Former IMF economist installed as Ivory Coast president
- Illinois to balance budget by cutting social services
- Guantanamo: My Journey—David Hicks exposes torture and government criminality
- Ex-French resistance members make reactionary nationalist appeal
- New “super bug” threatens Australian hospitals
- Pro-cuts rally attempts launch of British “Tea Party”
- Letters from our readers
- Wikileaks cable exposes Canadian duplicity in Iraq war
- Afghans killed in protest over NATO night raids
2011-05-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US spars with China over “human rights”
- Strauss-Kahn resigns as IMF chief, indicted in New York
- Protestors occupy city squares in Spain after mass demonstrations Sunday
- Border scandal exposes Romanian union corruption
- Britain’s National Health Service faces destruction
- Pakistan: Military sponsored-PML (Q) joins PPP-led coalition government
- Mississippi flood cripples river communities
- US banks involved in money laundering operation for Mexican mafia
- Obama's Middle East speech: “democratic” rhetoric cloaks predatory policy
- Judge endorses prosecution case in Malaysian opposition leader’s trial
- Louisiana residents speak on flood disaster
- Executions in Alabama, Mississippi and Ohio
- Mining boom shatters myth of “Australian exceptionalism”
2011-05-21
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Texas plans drastic cuts to education, health care, and social services
- Tens of thousands protest throughout Spain, defying government ban
- Australian government denies basic rights to refugees
- US and the Philippines: naval ships and ‘historical ties’
- Behind the battle over new IMF chief
- Democrats, Republicans agree to four-year extension of Patriot Act powers
- Netanyahu snubs Obama over 1967 border remark
- Public education is a social right!
- Hungarian trade unions line up behind Orban government
- White House budget attacks higher education for working class students
- Hesher: The problem of the foreground and the background
- Egyptian “left” parties seek alliance with bourgeoisie
- Detroit City Council targets public transportation, arts and fire department
- Letters on the Strauss-Kahn affair
- Britain plotted regime change in Iraq as early as 2001
- UK Afghan troop draw-down points to future deployments
2011-05-23
- Teachers, parents and students protest school cuts in Yonkers, New York
- This week in history: May 23-May 29
- US union head Trumka at the National Press Club
- Protests continue in Spain as ruling Socialist Party suffers electoral defeat
- Sri Lankan university teachers demand pay rise
- Labour in Sheffield: Cuts worse than under Thatcher
- Obama affirms “ironclad” support for Israel
- Pakistan and China strengthen ties after Bin Laden assassination
- Thousands gather in Michigan to oppose education cuts
- Death squad attacks in Libyan “rebel” capital
- The American “left” and the Strauss-Kahn affair
- South Korean president reshuffles cabinet after by-election defeats
- Change of chairs at the top of the German Free Democratic Party
- Scientists see increasing floods with changing climate
- California Democratic governor releases proposal for continued budget austerity
- Bitter leadership rivalries re-emerge within Australian opposition
- Argentine victims of dirty war to sue Daimler Benz in US Court
2011-05-24
- Gun battles erupt in Yemeni capital after Saleh refuses to step down
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Report reveals “corporate culture” of safety violations before fatal blast at West Virginia mine
- Director Lars von Trier at Cannes: Playing with social dynamite
- Tornado kills at least 116 in Joplin, Missouri
- The social conditions behind the deadly US tornado outbreak
- Rwandan general sentenced for role in 1994 genocide
- The Libyan war and American democracy
- Brutal state budget cuts hit schools in Philadelphia
- The way forward in the fight against budget cuts in California
- “People depend on these government programs just to sustain life”
- Quake disaster renews debate over Japan’s relations with China
- Housing report points to growth of UK inequality
- Australia: Union enforces job cuts at Fairfax Media
- As popular opposition grows, European ruling class demands austerity
2011-05-25
- Following more budget cuts, tuition to increase at California’s public colleges
- Massive security preparations for the G8 meeting in France
- Spain: Local and regional elections show mass dissatisfaction
- The Joplin, Missouri tornado
- Indiana lawmakers attack reproductive health services
- Nevada budget deficit highest in nation
- NATO bombing of Tripoli kills 19 civilians, wounds 150
- As more storms move in, death toll rises in Joplin, Missouri
- Japanese nuclear company confirms meltdowns in three reactors
- India: Rightwinger Banerjee becomes West Bengal’s new chief minister
- Anti-government protests continue in Georgia
- Split erupts within Fijian military regime
- Alabamans speak on aftermath of April tornadoes
- University of Nottingham suspends professor in major assault on free speech
2011-05-26
- Death toll rises in Joplin as more tornadoes hit US Midwest
- From Shakespeare to comic books: Kenneth Branagh directs Thor
- Report on US mine disaster: An indictment of American capitalism
- Obama addresses UK parliament: A joint agenda for austerity and war
- Australian waterfront company steps up provocations against dock workers
- A letter in response to “A discussion with film historian Joseph McBride about Steven Spielberg: A Biography”
- US Defense Secretary Gates urges post-2011 occupation of Iraq
- Georgia governor signs anti-immigrant bill
- Police officer shoots benefit claimant in German unemployment office
- Explosion at Foxconn’s new China plant
- Finnish parliament approves Portuguese bailout
- Letters from our readers
- Growing resistance to union sell-out of Berlin hospital workers
- Republicans lose House seat in special election
- US budget talks target $1 trillion in cuts
- Charges dropped against Australian soldiers over Afghan civilian killings
2011-05-27
- Death toll soars in fighting in Yemeni capital
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- WikiLeaks cables reveal Chinese vice president’s secret visit to Fiji, in defiance of Australia
- Video: Hundreds of Michigan families seek assistance in Southfield
- Tunisian interim prime minister visits France ahead of G8 summit
- Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose dies, aged 62
- Qantas prepares offensive on Australian workforce
- US Supreme Court decision exposes barbaric conditions in California prisons
- What way forward for Spain’s “angry ones”?
- New York City budget will decimate libraries
- New York Times reporter subpoenaed in leak case
- California teachers and students protest against education cuts
- G8 summit: major powers discuss how to contain “Arab Spring”
- New US jobless claims top 400,000 for seventh straight week
- Germany’s Bremen state election: A vote against the federal government
2011-05-28
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Win Win: Recognizably and unusually human
- Syria becomes centre of struggle for regional influence
- Sri Lankan free trade zone workers demonstrate against pension bill
- Police beat anti-austerity protesters in Barcelona, Spain
- White House unveils corporate deregulation scheme
- A revealing prison “escape” in the Philippines
- Amidst divisions, G8 meeting pledges austerity and war
- Obama signs extension of Patriot Act spy powers
- A letter on the Joplin tornado and Wal-Mart
- Joplin, Missouri tornado death toll rises to 132
- Mass protests demand “second revolution” in Egypt
- Australian waterfront union capitulates, calling off industrial action
- Letters from our readers
2011-05-30
- This week in history: May 30-June 05
- Obama in Joplin: More empty promises to disaster survivors
- Three men jailed over Tongan ferry disaster
- Cuts in US welfare programs hit hundreds of thousands of poor families
- Trade unions collaborate in attacks on Scottish teachers
- The jobs crisis in America
- Deep budget cuts ahead of New Zealand election
- The Aboriginal “intervention” in Australia: four years on
- Spain’s M-15 protests continue
- The war in Libya and the crisis of the European Union
- Tom Jacobson’s The Chinese Massacre (Annotated)…or Massacred History (Restored)
- “If things carry on like this, there won’t be work for any of us,” say Spain’s indignados
- Germany’s new military doctrine of “national self-assertion”
- Twelve children killed in another US massacre in Afghanistan
2011-05-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- United Nations report warns of dollar "collapse"
- UK pay gap widens, millions in dire straits
- Australian government rejects UN criticism of refugee abuses
- Egypt’s “second revolution”
- Obama administration seeks to block legal challenges to Medicaid cuts
- Spanish anti-austerity protests spread to more cities
- Two-thirds of US mining disaster victims had black lung
- The war in Libya and the crisis of the European Union
- Banks demand savage austerity measures in Greece
- German insurance bankruptcy threatens the elderly and sick
- Chinese patrol boats confront Vietnamese oil exploration ship in South China Sea
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