Archive: 07/2011
2011-07-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: Labor’s “welfare quarantining” trials target unemployed
- Young and jobless in Chicago
- Public sector strike hits across Britain
- Stalinist union ends occupation at Suzuki plant in India
- US states slash spending, cut jobs
- Sri Lankan army attempts to block SEP meeting in Jaffna
- Britain’s rail union calls off strikes, agrees to curtail future strikes
- The anti-worker program of the new “Right Cause” party in Russia
- Further evidence of lack of safety at New Zealand mine
- The US policy of assassination
- Kabul hotel attack shakes US occupation regime in Afghanistan
- Germany: Greens agree to Merkel’s nuclear phase-out
- How the SWP in Britain cover for the betrayals of the trade union bureaucracy
- The criminalization of the Canadian postal strike and the role of the unions and NDP
2011-07-02
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US-China rivalry compounds Thai election tension
- Australian airline foreshadows major restructuring and shift to Asia
- The assault on public education in America
- Miner killed in Harlan, Kentucky
- France arms anti-Gaddafi forces
- New York rape case against former IMF chief collapses
- Northern Ireland: Ulster Volunteer Force instigates sectarian riots
- Democratic Party in California passes austerity budget
- Bank of America agrees to $8.5 billion settlement on fraud claims
- Banks secure own interests at Greece’s expense
2011-07-04
- Young and jobless in Chicago
- This week in history: July 4 - July 10
- Syrian protests spread against Assad regime
- Washington boosts military ties with the Philippines
- Political lessons of the Strauss-Kahn affair
- Minnesota state government shuts down in budget crisis
- Protests, strikes continue against military junta in Egypt
- One in six junior school children streamed in England
- Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team files for bankruptcy
- Connecticut workers oppose union-backed concessions
- Global markets nervous about China’s mounting debt
- CEO pay in US soared 23 percent in 2010
- One year after the police ran amuck at Toronto’s G20 summit
- Germany’s phase out of nuclear power: The pathos of national unity
2011-07-05
- Obama administration shuts down investigations into Bush-era torture
- Pro-Thaksin party to form next Thai government after election win
- New school and medical center in Riverside, California to remain closed
- Private schools boom in Germany
- Ninety years since the founding of the Chinese Communist Party
- Upper Big Branch mine operator hid safety problems before disaster
- Military stalemate in Libya heightens US-NATO crisis
- Britain’s Independent advocates nationalist populism
- Iceland’s former prime minister charged with negligence over financial crisis
- Letters from our readers
- European think-tank warns: Insurgency strengthening in Afghanistan
2011-07-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Saudi Arabia bans maids from Indonesia and the Philippines
- The political lessons of Greece
- US teachers’ union endorses Obama for 2012 election
- US women charged with murder following miscarriage
- Poor nurse staffing leads to rising hospital-acquired illness in US
- Famine threat in the Horn of Africa
- Fifty years since the death of Ernest Hemingway
- After Fukushima: Massive global expansion of nuclear industry under way
- New Zealand: Entire suburbs to be abandoned after earthquakes
- Egyptians protest state defense of police violence
- New wave of state worker layoffs begins in New York
- Young and Jobless in Chicago
- Canada’s foreign affairs minister meets with Libyan rebels
- The “snap back” in the global art market
2011-07-07
- ExxonMobil oil spill befouls Yellowstone River
- Australian parliamentary inquiry whitewashes refugee disaster
- Hacienda Luisita and the farce of Philippine land reform
- Obama’s budget summit
- The New York Times and the presumption of guilt
- News of the World phone hacking scandal escalates
- Another series of coal mine disasters in China
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon selected as the French Communist Party’s presidential candidate
- Israel prepares brutal response to Gaza flotilla ship
- Letters from our readers
- SPD in Berlin appoints hardliner as new police chief
- American Axle to close Detroit complex
- US air strikes kill women and children in Afghanistan
2011-07-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Default looms as Portugal’s bonds downgraded to “junk” status
- After the Thai election: A warning to the working class
- Devastating cuts to state Medicaid programs
- General Motors closes Indianapolis stamping plant
- Australian Greens assume balance of power in the Senate
- Germany offers bombs and military technology for war against Libya
- A comment on Peter Falk’s finest moments: Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence
- Texas sends Mexican national to death in violation of international law
- Mass protest in Egypt calls for “second revolution”
- Obama puts Social Security on chopping block
- 120,000 students, teachers march in Chile against attacks on public education
- Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- The acquittal of Casey Anthony
2011-07-09
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The illegal state murder of Humberto Leal Garcia
- Pakistani military launches offensive into Kurram agency
- Former top aide to British prime minister arrested in Murdoch hacking scandal
- Slave labour conditions in New Zealand’s fishing industry
- Mass protests mark “Friday of Determination” in Egypt
- US jobs report points to renewed downturn
- Five days after Detroit storm, thousands languish without power
- Letters from our readers
- New York Times questions spending on “Extremely Expensive Cancer Drugs”
- SYRIZA leader offers his services to the European political elite
2011-07-11
- “Michigan charters are like a runaway train”
- This week in history: July 11-July 17
- Former Taiwanese president indicted for embezzlement
- Anti-Assad protests as “national dialogue” launched in Syria
- Murdoch and the rule of the oligarchy
- Youth face jobless summer in New York City
- Hands off Libya!
- Malaysian government cracks down on electoral reform rally
- Obama’s hypocrisy on the corporate jet tax loophole
- PSA auto workers protest plant closures in France
- Charter schools in the US: Wall Street’s education model
- UK elderly care report pushes private insurance
- Australian Labor government unveils carbon tax
- White House begins new push for social spending cuts
2011-07-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The 2018 Winter Olympics: Money and power
- Partition of Sudan prepares way for further conflicts
- China’s mountain of debt
- Why is the New Anti-Capitalist Party silent on the Libyan war?
- Five New Orleans police officers stand trial for post-Katrina killings
- Netherlands budget cuts hit social services
- Minnesota state budget shutdown in second week
- Financial markets target Italy
- Press under attack in Haiti
- Australian treasurer warns of global economic “contagion”
- Obama toes Wall Street line in debt talks
- Letters from our readers
2011-07-13
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts promote illusions in Tamil National Alliance
- The dramatic effect of poverty on death rates in the US
- The US jobs crisis
- UK hacking scandal yields new reports of criminality by Murdoch press
- Another Kentucky coal miner killed
- French government manoeuvres for resolution to Libyan war
- US Internet service providers join big media in copyright crackdown
- WikiLeaks has provided evidence of war crimes, say Assange supporters
- UN report hits German social policies
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fights extradition to Sweden
- Documents prove Australian complicity in Iraq war crimes
- Killing of Karzai’s brother deepens US crisis in Afghanistan
2011-07-14
- New Thai government faces pressure to ditch election pledges
- The Murdoch hacking scandal and class “justice”
- Oranges and Sunshine: the story of Britain’s “child migrants”
- Terrorist attack in Mumbai kills 21
- US defense secretary visits Iraq to extract new troop agreement
- 39 dead from US heat wave
- In bipartisan vote French parliament continues war in Libya
- Wall Street demands action on debt ceiling, deficit
- Letters from our readers
- The New York Times’ Roger Cohen lavishes praise on Rupert Murdoch
- Canada’s military to establish base in Kuwait in push for global presence
- California State University raises tuition
- UK judge defers judgement on extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange
2011-07-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Top US and Chinese generals exchange words over South China Sea
- Attacks on US and French embassies used to step up pressure on Syrian regime
- Wage cuts and job losses at UK’s Southampton council
- Where Obama’s axe will fall
- US suspends aid to Pakistan
- WSWS/ISSE meeting discusses austerity measures in New Zealand
- FBI to investigate allegations News Corp. hacked 9/11 victims’ phone records
- Massachusetts budget slashes spending
- Berlusconi doubles cuts in Italian austerity program
- UFCW prepares betrayal of California supermarket workers
- Obama campaign raises record sums from the wealthy
- Fissures deepen over European debt crisis
- Remote control murder: Afghan drones operated from Nevada and Virginia
- US Fed prepared for more “stimulus”
2011-07-16
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Michigan welfare benefits cut to 48 months
- States axe higher education budgets, hike tuition
- German arms to Saudi Arabia
- The European debt crisis and the threat of dictatorship
- As military operations stall, US recognises Libyan rebels
- Horrible Bosses: It’s true, most Americans hate those they work for
- Widening health inequalities match UK poverty patterns
- Australian PM promotes carbon tax as pro-business reform
- Mass protests continue against Egyptian regime
- Obama presses case for “something big” on social spending cuts
- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Murdoch’s News International operated a “criminal-media nexus”
2011-07-18
- This week in history: July 18-July 24
- Australian Greens embroiled in Tasmanian school closures debacle
- Britain’s police chief resigns over relations with News International
- The International Socialist Organization’s perspective in tatters
- State repression stepped up as strike wave grows in South Africa
- The voice of the ruling class
- US delegation tours Pacific island states
- Minnesota budget agreement slashes social spending
- EU concludes negotiations over Croatia’s accession
- Need overwhelms Southern California food pantries
- Obama, Congress move towards deal on budget cuts
- Arrest of Rebekah Brooks takes hacking probe one step closer to the Murdochs
- BBC journalists’ strike hits all UK service’s major news programs
2011-07-19
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama passes over Elizabeth Warren to head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Sri Lankan media voices concerns about Rajapakse’s pro-China orientation
- Obama administration operates illegal torture compound in Somalia
- The class politics of the US debt ceiling crisis
- UAW president calls for elimination of pay increases
- Letters from our readers
- British Prime Minister Cameron’s position under threat in Murdoch scandal
- Commercial rivalries underlay conflict with Murdoch’s media empire
- Growing poverty for children and youth in Berlin
- Global economic crisis intrudes into Australian carbon tax “debate”
2011-07-20
- Notes on the US social crisis
- The US recognises Libya’s Transitional National Council
- UK Parliamentary Select Committee continues cover-up of Murdoch scandal
- Mexico’s former ruling party, the PRI, gains in governors’ races
- An Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism: Tony Kushner looks at the decay of the “left”
- An interview with Florida attorney Viletta Coombs
- An interview with George Coling of the National Fuel Funds Network
- Why did UK police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”
- Greece and the euro crisis
- Utility Affordability Conference in Florida: Increased need, decreased support
- Australian bank warns of fallout from global turmoil as consumer confidence crashes
- Dawn spacecraft reaches the asteroid Vesta
- Bookseller Borders Group to liquidate, eliminating over 10,000 jobs
- Second Karzai ally assassinated in Afghanistan
2011-07-21
- UAW abandons wage increases
- Financial crisis deepens at New York City Opera
- Australian government deepens Northern Territory “intervention”
- Rising longevity masks growing life expectancy inequalities in Britain
- Sri Lankan ruling party resorts to violence in northern elections
- Hungarian government agrees to forced labor for the unemployed
- New York City slashes aid to homeless
- Fierce tensions in run-up to euro-zone emergency summit
- Letters from our readers
- Labour gives Cameron kid gloves treatment over Murdoch scandal
- Democrats, Republicans vow trillions in US spending cuts
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, residents in shock over Borders’ imminent closure
- Canada blocks UN from declaring asbestos a “hazardous” substance
2011-07-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Deaths mount in US heat wave
- Tunisian police attack anti-government protests
- Washington steps up confrontation with China in the South China Sea
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 1: Social complexity versus the trivial
- Australian TV mini-series provides glimpse into refugee experience
- The Murdoch scandal
- Pakistan Peoples Party budget imposes further IMF-dictated austerity
- New York State employee union surrenders to layoff threat
- Ferndale, Michigan residents speak on power outages
- Egyptian military delays election as opposition mounts
- Financial markets fear Chinese economic instability
2011-07-23
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The crisis of the Murdoch empire and its implications for the working class
- The Philippine ex-left and the South China Sea
- Europe’s crisis
- Bombing, mass shooting kill at least 87 in Norway
- An interview with Christopher Newton, director of the Shaw Festival’s Heartbreak House
- Murdoch’s News Corporation scrambles to defend its media interests in Australia
- Malaysian government cracks down on opposition protesters
- British media quick to dismiss death in Murdoch phone hacking case
- US heat wave preys on poor
- The Shaw Festival’s 50th Season: George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House
- Executions this week in Arizona, Texas and Georgia
- Profits soar amid mass layoffs
- Connecticut governor, unions to make state workers revote on concessions deal
- Obama steps up campaign for “tough choices” on Medicare, Social Security
- Saving Bombardier jobs means mobilising against Britain’s Tory-Lib Dem government
2011-07-25
- Sharp decline in income of Germany’s low-wage earners
- This week in history: July 25-July 31
- Why the Scottish Socialist Party is opposed to reopening the case of Tommy Sheridan
- The slaughter in Oslo
- Germany: One year after the Love Parade disaster
- Bombardier protesters speak to WSWS
- Australia: Inquest told that authorities could have prevented Christmas Island refugee disaster
- Hundreds wounded in crackdown against antigovernment protests in Egypt
- Trial of Khmer Rouge leaders underway in Cambodia
- Democrats, Republicans push for deeper US spending cuts
- UK: Thousands protest in Derby against job cuts at Bombardier
2011-07-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York students hit with tuition hikes
- Notes on the US social crisis
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 2: An eclectic selection with a few valuable moments
- Sydney Film Festival: Filmmaker Ivan Sen speaks to WSWS
- US imperialism and the South China Sea crisis
- Fascist killer appears in Norwegian court
- James Murdoch’s evidence to British parliamentary committee challenged
- Fears of China’s “imbalances” add to concerns in Australian corporate elite
- Letters from our readers
- A new wave of factory closures threatened in China
- Obama returns to the fraud of “equal sacrifice”
- UAW, Detroit carmakers prepare new attacks on US auto workers
2011-07-27
- WikiLeaks documents shed light on US-backed intervention in Libya
- Scottish public services face profound cuts and privatisation
- The political establishment and the Oslo massacre
- Hunger strikes spread in Montenegro
- Michigan Education Association complicit in passage of anti-teacher law
- Australian government signs punitive refugee deal with Malaysia
- Union seeks to ram through pro-market deal at Australia’s Macquarie University
- Italy: Centre-left opposition supports austerity measures
- Born This Way and the Lady Gaga phenomenon
- Wall Street steps up pressure for deal on budget cuts
2011-07-28
- Anti-Assad protests enter fifth month in Syria
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 3: Global warming, village life, and other documentaries
- Deadly crash raises question mark over China’s bullet trains
- 3,700 US post offices targeted for closure
- UK Arts Council slashes poetry funding
- Imperialist powers seek exit from Libyan war
- Legal victory for victimised German nurse
- Unanswered questions in Norway terror attack
- Fascist war crime trial in Hungary ends in acquittal
- WikiLeaks cables detail US military designs on Haiti
- More than 5 million households had their wealth wiped out since 2005
- Rising corporate dissatisfaction with Australian Labor government
2011-07-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Africa & Middle East
- Singer Amy Winehouse dead at 27
- Workers struggle in “boom” state of Western Australia
- Thai parliament to convene next week
- US-China rivalry drives corruption scandal in the Philippines
- Obama and the debt ceiling
- Mass protests sweep Israel
- Australian government moves to confiscate book royalties from former Guantánamo prisoner
- French neo-fascist officials endorse Norway atrocities
- Democratic mayor rolls out Detroit downsizing plan
2011-07-30
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US-backed forces launch military offensive in Somalia as aid is used as a weapon of war
- Sri Lanka: University teachers union sells out wage campaign
- Sydney Film Festival 2011—Part 4: A conversation with Shelly Kraicer about Chinese independent cinema
- The Israeli protests and the unity of Arab and Jewish workers
- The ideological roots of the Oslo atrocity
- New moves by British parliament to shield the Murdochs
- Australian High Court prepares to hear Julian Moti appeal
- General's killing sparks crisis in Western-backed Libyan TNC
- US economy stalls as growth rate drops to 1.3 percent
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser goes public
- Jack Layton’s right-wing record
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