Archive: 09/2011
2011-09-01
- The Libyan war and “Germany’s disgrace”
- Outsourcing education: The rise of virtual schools
- Video: Youth discuss Australian steel job cuts
- Sri Lankan government ends emergency, but police state continues
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- The breakdown of capitalism and the tasks of the working class
- NATO prepares bloodbath in Sirte
- Thirty years since the PATCO strike
- Workers speak at Fight for Socialism Today conference in Melbourne
- WikiLeaks cables reveal Australian government divisions over Fijian junta
- UK families face growing hardship
- Letters from our readers
- Top US corporations paid CEOs more than they paid in taxes
- California schools: Billions more in cuts
- London neighbourhoods terrorized by police raids
- “Understanding Berlin”: The election campaign of the Social Democrats
2011-09-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- ISO ignores every question of principle in Strauss-Kahn affair
- Youth and the fight for socialism
- The economic and political crisis in Australia and the building of the SEP
- Obama’s phony “jobs” plan
- Fight axing of BlueScope steel jobs!
- “Friends of Libya” meet in Paris for imperialist carve-up
- Prolific songwriter Jerry Leiber dead at 78
- Pakistan: KESC security guards and Karachi police open fire on protesting workers
- Thousands line up for jobs fair in Los Angeles
- Power outages, flooding continue in wake of Hurricane Irene
- Indian Stalinists and the anti-corruption Lokpal movement
- Australian High Court overrules refugee “Malaysia solution”
- Glasgow University student occupation ends
- France announces emergency budget
- Sharp slowdown in world manufacturing
- Australia: Steel unions impose BlueScope job cuts
2011-09-03
- Australian PM visits city facing devastating steel job losses
- Sri Lankan SEP meeting discusses rising class struggles
- Obama cancels smog regulation opposed by big business
- A new constituency for imperialism
- French political establishment tries to bury the Oslo neo-fascist massacre
- Police arrest 15 Muslims in clash in New York suburb
- US lagging behind in prevention of newborn deaths
- Report details corporate plundering in Iraq, Afghanistan
- German Left Party in crisis
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US added no net jobs in August
- UN issues apologia for Israeli massacre on Gaza aid ship
- China legalises secret detention
2011-09-05
- Video: Hastings residents condemn Australian steel job cuts
- Unions preparing to agree to concessions at Verizon
- This week in history: September 5- 11
- Western powers have Syria in their sights
- Labor Day 2011: The failure of capitalism and the Obama administration
- New York Times hails “humanitarian” war in Libya
- Maoist leader elected as prime minister in Nepal
- Documents expose intimate ties between Libyan torturers and CIA, MI6
- German Left Party campaigns for Eurobonds
- Israel’s largest ever protests oppose inequality
- India: Comstar workers’ strike in fourth week
- Texas households struggle to cope with costs in record heat wave
- Letters on the ISO and Strauss-Kahn
- Protests continue against US-backed Bahraini dictatorship
2011-09-06
- Britain: Lessons of the Southampton council strike
- Australian union to pay compensation to resources giant for strike
- What do the repressive measures imposed in the UK portend?
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party applauds Libya war
- Germany: Record abstention in state elections in Mecklenburg-Pomerania
- Libyan opposition lays siege to pro-Gaddafi strongholds
- Regulator says banks lied about assets sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- Workers and youth speak at Detroit Labor Day
- Obama on Labor Day: No measures to address historic jobs crisis
- US-backed monarchy loots Jordan amid continuing protests
- Presidential photo-op in storm-ravaged New Jersey
- WikiLeaks cable confirms reports of US massacre of Iraqi civilians
- Australia: BlueScope job cuts begin in Hastings
- SEP candidate Christoph Vandreier speaks on German television
- Australian government crisis deepens after High Court’s refugee ruling
- Motown songwriter Nick Ashford dies at 70
2011-09-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australia: NSW government launches public transport carve-up
- US Postal Service demands right to slash jobs
- What way forward for mass social struggles in Israel?
- Australia: Two whitewash inquiries into Orica chemical leak
- Reject the NSW budget cuts! A socialist strategy to defend jobs and conditions!
- Sharp increases in British youth without jobs or education prospects
- Libyan humanitarian disaster deepens as NATO, opposition continue offensive
- The fight against rent increases, welfare cuts and poverty requires the building of a new political party
- An unstable new government in Japan
- One-day national strike in Italy against austerity measures
- Economic downturn intensifies global currency conflict
- Disability benefits under threat in UK
- Letters from our readers
- Berlin election: SEP holds rally to demand affordable housing
2011-09-08
- Virginia imposes stricter regulations on abortion providers
- Swedish Left Party leader announces resignation
- Russia officially recognises the National Transitional Council in Libya
- US auto workers face historic struggle
- Five million ravaged by floods in Pakistan
- New Zealand universities cut staff and courses
- Nike faces allegations of worker abuse in Indonesia
- Germany’s Left Party and Nichi Vendola offer their services to the European Union
- Israel makes military preparations for UN vote on Palestinian state
- Washington plans to keep thousands of US troops in Iraq
- Shell confirms Sydney refinery closure
2011-09-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- University in UK being closed off to the working class
- Republican presidential debate highlights further shift to the right
- NATO-backed Libyan regime persecutes black Africans
- Washington intervenes in Pacific Islands Forum
- Obama outlines right-wing program in “jobs” speech
- Australia: Thousands rally against NSW budget cuts
- Marchers discuss political issues raised by Sydney protest
- Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, speak on jobs crisis
- French government admits to wiretapping journalists in Bettencourt scandal
- Flooding causes havoc in eastern US
- Growing conflicts over euro crisis
- Egyptian military junta deepens ties to NATO-backed Libyan opposition
- Persecution of Roma in the Czech Republic
- Britain: Bristol’s street art project sidelines social comment
2011-09-10
- Video: Australian steel and maritime workers denounce BlueScope job cuts
- Ugandan President Museveni proposes land giveaways to international business interests
- New York, Washington in security lockdown on 9/11 anniversary
- India: Police support Maruti Suzuki lockout, occupy plant
- Spanish parliament passes constitutional amendment capping public deficit
- Berlin election: What lies behind the hype for the Pirate Party
- Obama’s jobs fraud
- Sharp tensions in Indonesian Papua following failure of “peace conference”
- James Murdoch knew of widespread phone hacking, UK Parliament told
- A transparent attempt to rebrand Labour
- Detroit residents protest plans to close local library
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian prime minister visits Bangladesh
- Illinois to close mental health facilities, lay off 1,900
- A political trap for Chinese workers
- Mass protests in Egypt against US-backed military junta
- Wildcat strikes shut down Washington docks for one day
2011-09-12
- This week in history: September 12-September 18
- Growing tensions between Turkey and Israel
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- The record of the World Socialist Web Site on 9/11
- Southern California power outage exposes decay of US infrastructure
- 9/11, ten years on
- Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director—a new biography of a major American filmmaker
- A transparent attempt to rebrand Labour
- Japan: Six months after the triple disaster
- Riot police battle austerity protesters in Greece
- Euro crisis divides European Central Bank
- Egyptian junta declares state of alert after storming of Israeli embassy
- Hundreds attend funeral for Mark Duggan, murdered by UK police
- Western media accuse China of selling arms to Gaddafi
2011-09-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Imperialist powers increase threats against Syria
- Sri Lankan government holds belated local council elections
- London family subject to brutal police raid speaks out
- Political tasks of the Egyptian Revolution
- Deadly explosion hits French nuclear waste disposal plant
- Gage Inquiry into Mousa death whitewashes British Army once again
- A transparent attempt to rebrand Labour
- Over 100 dead, others horribly maimed in Nairobi pipeline explosion
- European markets, banks staggered as Greece slides toward default
- European workers rally against cuts in social welfare, war and racism
- Australia: Jeld-Wen workers locked out in pay-cutting dispute
- Letters from our readers
- Images of a dictatorship: La Cantuta in the Jaws of the Devil
- Bank of America layoffs overshadow Obama’s phony “jobs” bill
- Maintenance of low wages key to US auto profits
- Australian government rushes to circumvent High Court refugee ruling
2011-09-14
- Wildfires devastate Texas following historic drought
- Tacoma, Washington teachers strike
- WikiLeaks cables reveal US role in Australia’s “regime change” in Solomon Islands
- Scottish writers lined up to endorse nationalism
- Record number of Americans in poverty
- A socialist answer to the euro crisis
- California teachers’ pension system labeled “high-risk issue” by state auditors
- French NPA prepares international betrayal of auto workers’ struggles
- Protests continue over Detroit library closures
- Italy moves to secure its share of the booty in Libya
- Guantanamo lawyers speak out on decade of torture and abuse
- Australian government’s cuts opposed by public sector workers
- Canada: NDP leadership campaign begins
- UAW plan for autoworkers: Back to sweatshop conditions
- US embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul under fire
2011-09-15
- Sri Lankan government revives emergency powers in a new guise
- UK’s “free schools” accelerate privatisation
- In wake of British riots, Australian government preparing for youth unrest
- America: The land of poverty
- NATO’s client regime in Libya confronts divisions as military offensives stall
- New York Times’ Keller on Iraq: The confession of a “liberal” hawk
- Maruti Suzuki India sacks workers, hires strike breakers
- Greek workers plunged into social misery
- Demonstration in Berlin against data retention and the surveillance state
- French bank downgrade increases pressure for austerity across Europe
- Republicans win US by-elections in New York, Nevada
- Atlanta dialysis patients left to die
- Letters from our readers
2011-09-16
- Mass Viking grave identified in southern England
- Toronto Mayor moves to gut city jobs and services
- Tacoma teachers defy court order, vote overwhelmingly to continue strike
- The interests behind Romania’s Roşia Montana project
- Corporate media promotes Republican ultra-right
- Obama’s assault on health care
- NATO admits killing BBC journalist in Afghanistan
- 30,000 children face destitution from welfare cut in Michigan
- Sarkozy and Cameron in Tripoli: Scramble for Libya is on
- Detroit residents denounce library closures
- Indian government to hang men convicted over Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination
- Berlin elections: 5,000 demonstrate for better education
- Right-wing demonstrations against Roma in the Czech Republic
- Chile’s student struggle and the legacy of 1973
- Australia: Lessons from the closure of the Newcastle steel plant
- Newcastle residents voice concern about BlueScope job losses
- For a united fight by all auto workers! No to job and wage cuts!
2011-09-17
- Britain’s Trades Union Congress threatens November strikes over pensions
- China’s list of billionaires expands again
- Britain and France lead the colonial charge into Libya
- Four miners killed at private coal mine in the Swansea valley, Wales
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India: Maruti Suzuki struggle escalates as company hires more strikebreakers
- Australia: Steel workers in Hastings kept in the dark as layoffs hit
- The German government’s “pension reform”: A travesty for pensioners in poverty
- European finance ministers delay loan, press Greece for deeper cuts
- Federal judge finds Washington dockworkers union in contempt
- Former Colombian secret police chief convicted of murder
- Youth and families targeted for collective punishment over UK riots
- Berlin elections: What does the “BIG Party” represent?
- An exhibition of Russian and Soviet modernism makes its way across Europe
2011-09-19
- Yemeni government cracks down on opposition protesters
- This week in history: September 19-25
- Georgia parole board meets to decide fate of Troy Davis
- German carmaker finds cheap labor platform in America
- Philippine economy decelerating amid global turmoil
- Demagogy in defense of the rich
- Pennsylvania’s capital faces possible financial takeover
- Britain: James Murdoch to be quizzed again over phone hacking
- As Libyan “rebel” offensive stalls, NATO bombs kill hundreds
- Danish elections bring Social Democrats to power
- Berlin election deals blow to federal coalition government
- Further rollback for workers in UAW-GM deal
- Australian Labor government repudiates international law on refugees
2011-09-20
- Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers—reconsidering a hip hop “classic”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Grocery workers union signs agreement with Southern California supermarkets
- Georgia parole board hears evidence of Troy Davis’s innocence
- Toyota Australia executives threaten shutdown after strike
- UAW-GM deal sanctions exploitation of temporary workers
- Credit rating agencies threaten to downgrade Spain
- The carve-up of Greece
- Obama’s budget plan: Cut social spending, lower tax rates for the rich
- French New Anti-Capitalist Party’s summer school marks new rightward lurch
- Investigation launched into deaths of four Welsh miners
- Australian media “inquiry” designed to protect Murdoch empire
- Maruti Suzuki India lockout: After talks fail, union leaders arrested
- Germany’s Left Party leaders reveal extent of their austerity policies
- Case of jailed Americans highlights infighting in Iranian regime
- Turkey’s Erdogan tours North African capitals
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: SEP holds meetings to fight BlueScope Steel sackings
- Socialist Equality Party (PSG) vote in the Berlin election
- Abolish two-tier wage and restore pay and benefit concessions!
2011-09-21
- Saleh urged to resign as Yemeni regime kills more protesters
- Mass protest in Tokyo against nuclear power
- Australia: Qantas uses Labor’s laws to lock out thousands of workers
- The significance of the Berlin elections
- Public anger mounts as floods again engulf Pakistan
- Local residents speak on Welsh mining tragedy
- NATO powers indifferent to Libyan refugees
- UK students priced out of university education
- Troy Davis set to die by lethal injection
- Peter Schwarz addresses Berlin election campaign rally
- UAW: We’d “love to see” 40 percent of GM workers making tier-two wages
- Australian government’s anti-refugee laws blocked in parliament
- Canada’s Conservatives invoke back-to-work legislation to help airline extort concessions
2011-09-22
- Australia’s “finance minister of the year”
- Spanish teachers and students protest education cuts
- Poverty soars among young families in US
- Obama backs slashing of postal jobs and benefits
- The execution of Troy Davis
- Support for Labour slumps ahead of New Zealand poll
- The California nurses strike and the right to health care
- Maruti Suzuki India workers challenge cheap-labor regime
- Trotskyist candidate in Berlin elections addresses European workers rally
- Fed moves to increase cheap credit for business
- Britain: Irish Travellers fight Dale Farm eviction in Essex
- University of California prepares huge tuition hikes
- Bourgi affair exposes French imperialism’s criminal activities in Africa
- Obama at the UN: The arrogant voice of imperialism
- Assassination of top Afghan negotiator undermines “peace talks”
2011-09-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Photo story: The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Julie Hyland addresses Berlin election campaign rally
- Wealth and poverty in America
- Police retreat from attack on Guardian over Murdoch phone-hacking scandal
- Japanese government proposes major tax increases
- Ex-general set to win Guatemalan presidency
- Greek workers strike, protest against brutal austerity measures
- New hominin fossil finds in South Africa may fill a gap in the record of human evolution
- World stock markets slump as Europe moves into recession
- Australia: Jeld-Wen strike into third week
- Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant sets new standard for low wages
- Opposition to UAW-GM deal grows
- Australian big business steps up campaign for more “flexible” industrial relations laws
2011-09-24
- Tensions escalate as Yemen’s president returns
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Autistic man sentenced to prison in UK for Internet “trolling”
- Tacoma, Washington teachers union pushes through concessions
- Report cites BP responsibility in Gulf blowout
- Slovenian government ousted by vote of no confidence
- French car workers strike against 23 percent wage cut
- Palestine and the UN: The dead-end of the “peace process”
- California health care workers oppose concessions
- Lessons of the Southampton council workers strikes
- Letters on the execution of Troy Davis
- European workers rally: The French “left” and the building of a new revolutionary party
- US SEP’s greetings to European workers rally
- European powers discuss possible bankruptcy of Greece
- Police force UK broadcasters to hand over footage from London riots
- Specter of global depression haunts IMF, World Bank meetings
- Australia: Mounting job losses in basic industry
- Michigan students denounce Troy Davis execution
- Letters from our readers
2011-09-26
- New York City police arrest scores at anti-Wall Street protest
- This week in history: September 26-October 2
- Sri Lankan military attacks Tamil villagers
- Swedish court grants Saab bankruptcy protection
- What can be expected from the Pirate Party in Berlin?
- The many frauds of the “Buffett rule”
- US, European corporations rush to secure cut from Libyan war
- The deaths of three hockey “enforcers:” The tragic contradictions of professional sports
- No new proposals from IMF on European debt crisis
- Contagion, the latest from Steven Soderbergh
- Widespread opposition and abstentions in UAW-GM contract vote
- Forty years since the Attica uprising
- United Nations attempts to stall Palestine statehood bid
2011-09-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- German President Wulff addresses Verdi congress and thanks the unions
- Rolling strikes continue at Toyota Australia
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Detroit Science Center shut down, faces permanent closure
- Philippine Airlines to sack 2,600 ground staff
- The Welsh mining tragedy and the return to Dickensian-style exploitation
- India: Stalinist union works to impose company demands on locked-out Maruti Suzuki workers
- Britain’s Liberal Democrats: The political walking dead
- Social inequality worsening in South Korea
- Strikes and protests mount against austerity in Greece
- Governor-appointed official moves to dismantle Detroit public schools
- Letters from our readers
- Democrats agree to no additional disaster aid in US budget dispute
- Bolivian government violently represses indigenous protest
2011-09-28
- Yemen edges closer to civil war
- Australian steel unions finalise sell-out deal with BlueScope on jobs
- Scottish budget sets out cuts in jobs, wages and public services
- Sri Lanka: Book launch honours the life of Piyaseeli Wijegunasinghe
- The euro crisis: Major powers plan new bank bailout
- Leon Trotsky’s remarkable work Problems of Everyday Life
- Half of Americans cannot afford prescribed medications
- Report warns of deepening global jobs crisis
- Imperialist powers prepare to keep UN forces in Haiti
- The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Britain) now available
- Electricians in the UK protest threatened wage cuts
- Egyptian elites demand end to strikes
- Yemen edges closer to civil war
2011-09-29
- Growing anger over police attack on Wall Street protesters
- Australia to shut northern TB clinics
- Toronto demonstration opposes municipal cuts
- Sarkozy loses his majority in the French Senate
- US becomes a center of poverty-wage manufacturing
- Mass killing and humanitarian disaster in NATO siege of Sirte
- Miner killed, another injured after roof collapse at UK colliery
- Union pushes through contract on Southern California grocery workers
- Greek parliament approves “property tax” as PASOK pledges more pain
- The political tasks arising from the Egyptian Revolution
- Unite the working class to defend public education!
- Two dead in shooting at CIA headquarters in Kabul
2011-09-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Obama administration seeks first death penalty via military tribunal at Guantánamo
- The world at large and closer to home
- Riots erupt in southern China over land sales to developers
- Pope Benedict speaks to German parliament against majority rule and “ungodly” laws
- Libya: “the jewel in the crown”
- More evidence of criminality by Murdoch’s media empire
- Italy prepares “left” government of austerity
- University of California students convicted for protesting Israeli ambassador’s speech
- French teachers protest against savage reduction in teaching posts
- German parliament approves increase in European bank bailout fund
- Obama fundraising drive targets the wealthy
- Canada’s Conservative government promotes militarism, monarchy, and reaction
- The significance of the 40-year struggle by the German Trotskyists
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