Archive: 10/2011
2011-10-01
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Video: US college students speak on unemployment and budget cuts
- German trade unions back European Stability fund
- US-Pakistani relations worsen following accusations and threats from Washington
- Death toll mounts in the wake of typhoon in the Philippines
- Wall Street hails UAW-GM deal
- Devastating floods threaten famine, disease in Pakistan
- Labour Party conference commits to austerity, cuts in pay, jobs and welfare
- Israel announces new settlements in East Jerusalem
- Michigan: Meeting on power outages exposes DTE Energy negligence
- Egypt’s “independent” unions seek to end strikes, prop up junta
- Obama boasts of assassinating American citizen in Yemen
2011-10-03
- New York City police arrest over 700 anti-Wall Street protesters
- This week in history: October 3 - October 9
- “Sweet and Sad”: An honest, probing look at life on the anniversary of 9/11
- Spain: PSOE and PP collude to rush through austerity legislation
- French foundry workers vote to continue their struggle against wage cuts and sackings
- The slaughter in Sirte
- Wall Street protesters: “The whole system is broken”
- Listeria outbreak claims 15 lives in US
- Letter on the death of four miners at Gleision colliery, Wales
- UK Coal and miners’ union close ranks after pit deaths
- French president’s associates charged in “Karachigate” scandal
- “If we challenge the health and safety then we are seen as stopping the job”
- Greece to miss deficit target and impose more cuts on workers
- Chinese manufacturing contraction points to deeper economic trouble
- US sells arms to Bahraini dictatorship as repression continues
2011-10-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Mayor Bloomberg backs mass arrests of Wall Street protesters
- Reject the union sell-out at BlueScope Steel
- SEP launches campaign to release Sri Lankan political prisoners
- Private finance contracts threaten UK health care
- How to fight Wall Street
- Unions, Stalinists force Maruti Suzuki India workers to accept company’s demands
- NATO assault on Sirte inflicts more Libyan civilian casualties
- Northwest Detroit residents continue to fight library closure
- Reports document housing crisis in London
- Majority of US college students never get degrees
- Berlin: The Left Party and the fake left SAV group
- White House urges Supreme Court to approve health care “reform” and deepen attacks on democratic rights
- Letters from our readers
2011-10-05
- Unison colludes in pay cuts at Scottish care charity Quarriers
- Crimes and upheavals past and present
- Sri Lanka: IMF demands currency devaluation
- Union abandons Philippine Airlines ground employees
- The political issues in the fight against Wall Street
- Anti-Wall Street protesters camp out at Los Angeles City Hall
- Nearly two thirds of US student borrowers behind on repaying loans
- Another NATO-backed interim government in Libya
- US Congress blocks Palestinian aid after UN statehood bid
- UAW reaches sellout agreement with Ford
- House fire in Detroit suburb kills three in multi-generation home
- European markets plummet on fears of a new banking crisis
- UAW bars World Socialist Web Site from press conference
- “Occupy Boston” protesters set up tent city
- SPD, Greens prepare for coalition in Berlin
2011-10-06
- Mass march backs anti-Wall Street protest
- Russia and China veto UN resolution on Syria
- Tensions continue to mount in South China Sea
- Saudi Arabia cracks down on protesters
- Michigan child poverty surges
- Socialism and the global economic crisis
- New York governor says layoffs will follow rank-and-file contract rejection
- Wall Street protesters speak out: “America is long overdue for a revolution”
- Tens of thousands strike in Greece as military threatens to intervene against anti-austerity protests
- Abolish two-tier wage and restore all pay and benefit concessions!
- Veteran utility company worker killed in Detroit-area gas pipe collapse
- Letters from our readers
- Ontario elections serve as smokescreen for coming big business offensive
- Tony Blair cashes in on Iraq War
- India-Afghan pact further poisons Afghan-Pakistan relations
2011-10-07
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Anti-Wall Street protests spread across the US
- Low-level Massey employee convicted in Upper Big Branch mine investigation
- Violence against Roma in Bulgaria
- Portland: “The government does not represent the people”
- Anti-China rhetoric raises threat of war
- New York City: “The banks are selling our future”
- Romania: Closure of Nokia plant leaves 2,200 jobless
- The Nation, ISO seek to channel Wall Street protests back to the Democratic Party
- Costs of UK’s colonial war in Libya spiral
- Fears of an economic meltdown in China
- Chicago auto workers denounce UAW-Ford deal
- Boston: “If you don’t have money it shouldn’t be a death sentence.”
- Australian columnist found guilty of breaching Racial Discrimination Act
- Australian steel unions impose BlueScope job destruction deal
2011-10-08
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Plans for anti-Wall Street protests spread across US and globally
- Ann Arbor: “End the influence of corporate money in politics”
- San Diego: “Why has no one gone to jail for the financial crisis?”
- Australia: Victims’ families question police shootings in Sydney
- Poland: Outcome uncertain in Sunday’s election
- Occupy Wall Street and the Democratic Party
- Mayor Bloomberg slanders Wall Street protest
- Minneapolis: “We need to establish a redirection of the flow of wealth”
- Michigan welfare cuts threaten thousands with destitution
- Another miserable US jobs report
- European Union prepares for Greek state bankruptcy
- Letters from our readers
- “Occupy Chicago” protests continue into second week
- BAE Systems to cut 3,000 jobs across England
- From Tunisia to “Occupy Wall Street”: Who is the AFL-CIO’s Stuart Appelbaum?
- A decade of neo-colonial war in Afghanistan
2011-10-10
- Protests building momentum as they enter fourth week
- Anti-Wall Street protesters rally in Norfolk, Virginia
- This week in history: October 10 - October 16
- Thailand: Hundreds dead as floods threaten Bangkok
- Australian corporate elite calls for tax cuts, austerity at Labor summits
- Unions lead Southampton council workers strike into blind alley
- Putin to run for Russian presidency
- Six workers die in Subic shipyard in the Philippines
- Economic crisis heightens global tensions
- New York: Kentucky college students send delegation to Wall Street protest
- Minneapolis protesters continue occupation of county government center
- NATO and anti-Gaddafi forces in Libya step up bombardment of Sirte
- Occupy LA protests enter second week
- Italian government closes refugee camp on Lampedusa
- Southampton council workers criticise union
- Electricians occupy London’s Oxford Street
- Interview with Detroit Symphony violinist: “We went on strike because we didn’t want the orchestra to be destroyed”
- Australia: Union calls off Jeld-Wen strike
- The legal implications of the al-Awlaki assassination
- Obama administration asserts right to assassinate Americans
- Draconian anti-immigrant law stokes fear among Alabama’s undocumented population
2011-10-11
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington anti-Wall Street rally: “This country has slipped out of the hands of the people”
- Occupy Wall Street protests spread to hundreds of cities
- Video Report: Youth speak on the Democratic Party and socialism
- British Conservatives pledge continued austerity
- Hundreds join Occupy Toledo rally
- Spain’s main parties attempt to re-introduce censorship of public broadcasting
- Workers’ incomes plummet during the Obama “recovery”
- Obama ramps up pressure on Pakistan
- New York: “At this point a social revolution is necessary”
- New Zealand government amends surveillance laws after “anti-terror” case collapses
- Merkel, Sarkozy want to give the banks more capital
- India: Wildcat strike erupts anew at Maruti-Suzuki plant, thousands walk out in sympathy
- A letter from Charlotte, North Carolina on the anti-Wall Street protest
- Opposition to UAW-Ford deal
- European Conference against Austerity seeks to rescue capitalism
- US-backed Egyptian junta massacres peaceful protesters
- Pseudo-left “Unity List” backs new right-wing Danish government
- Letters from our readers
- President Piñera unleashes repression against Chile’s student movement
- Student march backs Occupy Boston
- Berlin social democrats seek coalition with the conservatives
2011-10-12
- An interview with Bryan Wizemann, director of Think of Me
- The drama of everyday life
- Sri Lankan ruling party defeated in Colombo local election
- Occupy Portland protests expand
- Boston police arrest 100 anti-Wall Street protesters
- Poland: Tusk government begins second term
- The euro crisis: Billions more for the banks
- Occupy Wall Street marches on millionaires’ row
- Obama administration alleges Iranian terrorist plot
- Ex-SDS leader seeks to herd Wall Street protest behind Obama
- Hunger on the rise in UK
- Unite seeks to stifle UK electricians’ pay dispute
- Occupy Detroit holds first meeting
- Burma suspends Chinese dam construction
- Occupy Boston: “They came down with dogs, batons, riot gear, scare tactics”
- UN report documents systematic torture of Afghan detainees
2011-10-13
- Video report: Wall Street protesters express the grievances of American workers
- Dozens of anti-Wall Street protesters arrested in Sacramento
- Russian Prime Minister Putin visits Beijing
- Conflicts deepen over European bailout
- Occupy Wall Street protesters condemn US political establishment
- France’s NPA joins in anti-democratic media hysteria over Strauss-Kahn affair
- Occupy New Orleans enters seventh day
- Opposition mounts to Detroit library closures
- Israeli cabinet approves whitewash report on social crisis
- US steps up sanctions and threats against Iran over alleged terror plot
- India: Maruti Suzuki and Congress government prepare police attack on occupation
- Greece’s health system faces collapse
- Financial officials increase pressure on Greece
- Indonesian police open fire on striking miners in Papua
- School districts and administrators sue California over budget
- Letters from our readers
- UAW signs Chrysler pact as opposition to Ford deal grows
- Australian government passes carbon tax through parliament
2011-10-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ship grounding creates New Zealand’s worst environmental disaster
- Sri Lanka: JVP heading for another split
- UK unemployment reaches 17-year high
- Washington and Iran: The reckless policy of provocation
- American liberalism attempts to corral Occupy Wall Street movement for Democrats
- Occupy Wall Street protesters resist expulsion from Liberty Plaza in New York
- Anti-Wall Street occupation continues in Lexington, Kentucky
- Police reign of terror intensifies at Los Angeles County Jail
- Politics and the international Occupy movement
- German state deploys illegal spy software
- Chicago Ford workers vote down UAW sellout
- Egyptian junta defends massacre, launches fresh attacks on strikers
- Lockout at Bosch plant in Bangalore, India now two weeks old
- Eight arrested in Occupy Portland protest
- Union scuppers Air Canada strike, in response to fresh Tory attack
2011-10-15
- The permanent, painful search for truth
- The political economy of quantitative easing
- Occupy Pittsburgh: “The corporations just get bailed out, while the people suffer”
- The way forward in the fight against Wall Street
- New York police fail to clear park after thousands gather to defend Occupy Wall Street
- Obama touts South Korean trade deal at Michigan auto plant
- University of Michigan hospital nurses protest concessions contract
- Sirte’s fall to usher in mass repression by Libya’s National Transitional Council
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Famine threatening millions in North Korea
- Growing strike wave in Greece
- French Socialist Party presidential contenders embrace right-wing policies
- Strong turnout for first Occupy Detroit protest
- Letters from our readers
- Support builds for Occupy Chicago protest
2011-10-17
- US deploys Special Forces troops to central Africa
- This week in history: October 17-23
- Tunisians distrust upcoming Constituent Assembly election
- San Diego: “The revolution is worldwide, not just in the US”
- Australian Labor government threatens Qantas airline workers
- Hundreds of thousands protest internationally against social inequality
- Pittsburgh, Penn.: “They don’t treat us as humans”
- A day of international action against Wall Street
- New York City: “We are looking for equality”
- New Zealand: Occupy protests in six cities
- India: Maruti strike continues after occupation ends under police threat
- US hunger rate triple that in China
- DTE Energy turns out the lights on Highland Park, Michigan neighborhoods
- Europe: Protestors speak out in the UK and Germany
- Chicago: As anti-Wall Street protests grow more than 175 arrested at Grant Park
- Canada: Occupy Wall Street movement hits twenty cities
- WikiLeaks documents expose disaster created by the US and EU in Bosnia
- France: LyondellBasell unions betray Berre refinery strike
- Australia: Demonstrations held in every capital
2011-10-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: Occupy London and Edinburgh protesters speak
- Syracuse, N.Y.: “Democrats or Republicans, they’re not listening to the people”
- Seattle: “The Democratic Party is not doing anything for the people”
- UK police to be given greater repressive powers after riots
- Portland, Oregon: “A democracy run by the wealthy is a plutocracy”
- G20 meeting: Upbeat assessments mask deep rifts
- Occupy Wall Street enters second month amid global protests
- State government inquiry whitewashes Australian chemical leak
- Obama, Martin Luther King and the Occupy Wall Street protests
- NSW public sector workers face onslaught on jobs and conditions
- Norfolk, Virginia: “The international eruption of these protests gives me hope”
- Nashville: “I’m fed up with the way corporations are controlling the American government”
- Video Report: Protesters discuss social inequality in Melbourne, Australia
- Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya
- A letter on Occupy Toronto
- Las Vegas: “I have so many friends and family out of work”
- Ithaca, N.Y.: “The people need to control the money and the wealth”
- Germany's low-wage earners remain trapped in poverty
- UAW seeks to ram through Ford sellout
- Letters from our readers
- Columbia, South Carolina: “I think we need a social revolution”
- Buffalo: “This movement does not support the current political system”
- Job losses at BAE Systems to devastate towns
2011-10-19
- Video: Kentucky students join Occupy Wall Street protest
- Did the Australian government deliberately allow 353 refugees to drown?
- Captured soldier Gilad Shalit freed in Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange
- Indian government seeks to lower official poverty line to 50 cents per day
- The destruction of Sirte
- Neglected Pakistan flood victims left to survive on their own
- New York Governor Cuomo rejects Wall Street protest demand over “millionaires’ tax”
- Los Angeles: “Being out of work for two years is being called the ‘new normal’”
- Detroit: “This system is rigged for a very few”
- Obama promotes token jobs plan in campaign-style tour of North Carolina, Virginia
- Near fatality in UK mine
- “Walk-To-Work” protests shake Ugandan capital city
- George Clooney’s The Ides of March: What a great many people already know (and perhaps less)
- Greek refuse workers threatened with army intervention on eve of general strike
- Freeport shuts Papuan gold mine in new strike-breaking bid
- Unite move to bring UK electricians’ dispute behind union
- Boston: Democratic governor’s visit to protest prompts opposition
2011-10-20
- India: Maruti Suzuki workers’ struggle must spearhead working-class political offensive
- Poverty up sharply in US South
- Slovak government collapses
- Australia: Ongoing conspiracy of silence over SIEV X tragedy
- Romania: Nokia trade unions in the pocket of management
- UK: Citizens Inquiry covers up real reasons for Tottenham riots
- Profit system unleashes misery on young and old
- Video report: Protesters speak out at Occupy Sydney, Australia
- British historical document now available at Mehring online
- Long Beach, California: Anti-Wall Street protesters speak out
- Detroit library closings face angry opposition
- “We need the help of workers in Europe,” says Athens protester
- US deports a record 400,000 immigrants
- Massive protests on first day of Greek general strike
- New wave of job cuts at Italian Fiat plants
- Letters from our readers
- China economy slows amid fears of credit bust
- Atlanta: Mayor postpones eviction of anti-Wall Street protesters
2011-10-21
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australian government appeals to anti-refugee sentiment after migration bill collapses
- Occupy Pittsburgh: “Transportation shouldn’t be a privilege, it is a right”
- What lies behind the rescue of the Euro?
- Occupy Wall Street in second month: $10 billion in bonuses for Goldman Sachs
- IG Metall union and German government reaffirm their collaboration
- Mortgage stress rising in Australia
- Five thousand register for the free health care clinic in Los Angeles
- PASOK approves further austerity measures for Greece
- US and NATO murder Muammar Gaddafi
- France’s Socialist Party nominates “Mr. Normal” as its presidential candidate
- The high cost of executions in California
- More than 100,000 protest in Athens
- UK: Police make brutal attack on Irish traveller camp
- Reject UAW sellout at Chrysler! Establish rank-and-file committees to prepare strike action!
- Woman as animal: Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River
- Widespread opposition to Chrysler-UAW contract
- Protest strike hits Airbus in Germany
2011-10-22
- Yemen regime massacres dozens as Saleh considers immunity deal
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Turkey preparing military intervention in Syria
- Video: Sydney protesters discuss international Occupy movement
- Sri Lankan SEP campaign for release of political prisoners:
- The “liberation” of Libya
- Occupy Washington DC protesters speak out
- Critical political issues raised by the Occupy movement
- Two US coal miners killed
- Australian police attack Melbourne protest
- Demonstrators denounce police brutality at Occupy Melbourne
- Majority in US earn near-poverty wages
- German-French conflicts deadlock European Union summit
- Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks speaks with the World Socialist Web Site
- Letters from our readers
- Australian political crisis deepens over pro-business carbon tax
- Bristol, UK: “We are sick to the teeth of being robbed”
2011-10-24
- Russia signs trade deal with former Soviet republics amid growing regional tensions
- This week in history: October 24-30
- Millions impacted as floods engulf Bangkok
- Finance minister proposes “Swedish model” to solve European debt crisis
- The US and Gaddafi: The murderer calls for an investigation of the crime
- Occupy Albany protests outside New York state capitol building
- Occupy Wall Street: Dozens arrested as New York mayor warns of more prosecutions
- India: Unions scuttle Maruti Suzuki strike again
- Germany's Left Party offers its services as a bulwark against revolution
- Obama announces US troop withdrawal from Iraq
- No answers from European summit meeting
- UAW seeks to push through Chrysler contract over worker opposition
- Chicago police arrest over 130 occupy protesters
- Burmese president visits India
- Australia: Riot police evict Occupy Sydney
- New questions raised over 2001 anthrax attacks
2011-10-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Turkey launches anti-Kurdish raids into northern Iraq
- Philippine gunboat rams Chinese fishing vessel in South China Sea
- US government panel recommends an end to prostate cancer screening
- The way forward in Greece
- Stepped-up repression against anti-Wall Street protesters
- Sri Lankan NSSP repudiates socialism and the October Revolution
- Resignation of UK defense secretary reveals links between ministers and military firms
- London Occupation in second week
- Mass killings, arbitrary detention under new Libyan regime
- Letters on the murder of Gaddafi
- Professor Cole gloats over Gaddafi’s murder
- Widespread opposition as voting on UAW-Chrysler deal concludes
- Occupy Boston: Noam Chomsky speaks, but offers no way forward
- Mayor steps up intimidation of Occupy Atlanta protesters
2011-10-26
- Death toll rises in Turkish earthquake
- Britain’s Conservatives suffer worst ever back-bench revolt over Europe
- The defense of Iranian filmmakers, and their artistic decline
- Sacramento, California: “Democrats are tied to the corporations that caused the crash”
- Saab nears bankruptcy as restructuring plan collapses
- Grounded ship threatens to break-up off New Zealand coast
- Occupy Wall Street movement at a crossroads
- UK bakery workers union ignores ballot for strike
- Riots erupt over Pakistan’s chronic electricity cuts
- Violent crackdown on Occupy protesters in Oakland, California
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: Occupation targets banks
- Floods threaten Mexico and Central America with famine
- Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: Equality and the Fight for Socialism
- US-backed Kenyan forces invade Somalia
- India: Maruti and Suzuki workers discuss their two-week strike
- Obama’s mortgage relief fraud
- Official report confirms growing inequality in Australia
2011-10-27
- Video: Warren, Michigan Chrysler workers speak on contract vote
- Business leaders oppose Thai government’s rice price scheme
- Obama offers a drop in the bucket for student loan crisis
- Unite’s strike ballot for UK electricians only covers Balfour Beatty
- Government report says richest 1 percent doubled their share of US national income
- Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq: Prelude to wider war
- New York: DA will not drop charges against hundreds of Occupy protesters
- Amidst police crackdown, widespread public support for Occupy movement
- Occupy Detroit: “People will possibly be killed if this keeps up”
- Thousands march to denounce police brutality against Occupy Oakland
- New Zealand: Students protest against university cuts
- Sinn Fein’s McGuinness stands for Irish presidency
- Germany’s Left Party holds its congress: Verbal radicalism combined with calls for a strong state
- Poverty and hunger on the rise in Hungary
- Thousands flee flooding in Thailand
- Debt crisis splits Europe
- UAW imposes contract on Chrysler workers
- The Occupy movement and the rightward lurch of musician Billy Bragg
2011-10-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Growing anger over state repression of anti-Wall Street protests
- Canada: Steelworkers union imposes pension cuts to end Hamilton lockout
- Occupy Wall Street: The ISO promotes the unions against workers’ interests
- Islamists claim victory in Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly elections
- Solomon Islands: Australian police accused of bribing witnesses
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court rejects petitions against new anti-democratic laws
- The UAW and the “reincarnation” of the US auto industry
- Germany: Kickbacks for union bureaucrats at Opel
- Occupy Oakland votes for general strike
- Moneyball, and the uneven playing field of professional sports
- Thomas S. Kuhn, post-modernism and materialist dialectics
- Massive security for Commonwealth meeting in Western Australia
- Spain: Basque separatist ETA declares end of armed struggle
- Occupy Atlanta: Protesters speak after forcible eviction from park
2011-10-29
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York governor picks right-wing Republican to head transit agency
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Police raid Occupy San Diego, make 51 arrests
- Social deprivation led to UK riots, figures show
- Occupy Portland threatened by Oregon’s leading newspaper
- Occupy Pittsburgh: “The rich own both the Democrats and Republicans”
- Twenty thousand displaced as Philippine government bombs Mindanao
- Brussels summit intensifies national conflicts in Europe
- New York City Mayor steps up harassment of Occupy Wall Street protesters
- Documents reveal how UK backed Gaddafi’s repression
- Whirlpool cuts 5,000 jobs, other US companies prepare for economic slowdown
- Record low mobility reflects US social crisis
- Letters from our readers
- Half a million students strike over education law in Colombia
- Sri Lankan SEP campaign to release political prisoners: Plantation detainee and relatives speak to WSWS
- Australian government aligns with Washington’s anti-China stance in Asia
2011-10-31
- Police victimise London protest against deaths in custody
- This week in history: October 31-November 6
- Ten years on: The SIEV X tragedy and the assault on democratic rights
- Who owns Qantas?
- Qantas Airways grounds fleet to impose far-reaching restructuring
- A portrait of America in decline
- Police attack Occupy protests in Denver, Colorado
- Protesters rally in Melbourne, Australia after police violence
- Church and City move to evict Occupy London camp
- Occupy London protesters: “This is a global movement”
- Fresh protests in Israel
- US plans buildup in Persian Gulf to offset Iraq withdrawal
- Occupy Bristol, UK: Mounting threats to clear camp
- Betrayed: An American liberal looks at the disaster he helped bring about in Iraq
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