Archive: 12/2011
2011-12-01
- Syrian crisis draws in regional and major powers
- Over two million UK public sector workers strike
- Quebec Solidaire abets big business assault on workers
- The bankruptcy of American Airlines and the case for public ownership
- Cricketer Imran Khan’s party: A dead end for opposition to US war in Pakistan
- Police attack Occupy camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting 350
- Mehring Books launches holiday sale
- Protesters storm British embassy in Tehran over new sanctions
- Australian government to end ban on uranium sales to India
- Mass layoffs in Greece’s public sector
- Bitter rivalries dominate Durban climate summit
- Occupy UC Davis protesters adopt resolution calling for break with Democratic Party
- Central banks seek to avert global meltdown
2011-12-02
- Yemen to install “national unity” government
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Michigan holds sham review process on welfare cuts
- Police helped plan vandalism at Toronto G20 summit
- SEP-ISSE meeting to demand release of Sri Lankan political prisoners
- US Senators back law authorizing indefinite military detention without trial or charge
- The way forward in the fight for social equality
- Pakistan protests mount as Obama rejects apology for US strike
- Australia: Residents denounce Orica cover-up
- Australia: Another serious chemical leak by Orica
- Britain: Anger over pensions feeds into widespread opposition to government and the bankers
- German Greens: A policy of social devastation in the name of ecology
- Italy’s Fiat terminates collective bargaining agreements
- European “left” supports EU institutions
- Emergency Meeting: Stop Detroit Budget Cuts! Billions for jobs, education and housing!
- Norway’s neo-fascist mass murderer Breivik declared insane
- Occupy Boston: Order barring eviction remains in effect for now
2011-12-03
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Legal advocate speaks on cuts to Michigan welfare aid
- US Senate backs military detention of American citizens
- Pakistani elite plunged into crisis over reputed secret offer to US
- Police arrest 29 Occupy Tampa protesters
- Australia: Nurses’ union announces sham “community campaign”
- Police confiscate tents from Minneapolis protesters
- Former Tripoli Brigade leader Mahdi al-Harati outed as US asset
- Campaign deals expose French Greens’ subservience to big business
- UK public sector pension strike: Demonstrators in Peterborough and Cambridge describe social conditions
- Hungarian debt downgraded to junk status
- Federal judge rejects Harrisburg, Pennsylvania bankruptcy filing
- US jobs report: No relief from mass unemployment
- Letters from our readers
- Manufacturing slowdown in China triggers more strikes
- Clinton in Burma: Another US move against China
2011-12-05
- Study documents desperate conditions facing the unemployed in America
- This week in history: December 5-11
- New York City workers protest inequality and layoffs
- Report exposes brutality of Saudi Arabian regime
- Police arrest 19 Occupy Portland protesters
- No letup in US aggression following military withdrawal from Iraq
- Childhood poverty and hunger deepen in Oregon
- UK schools threatened with closure or privatisation
- Australian nurses’ union holds first “community rally”
- Former Australian senator accuses Murdoch executives of offering a deal
- West Bengal government orchestrates murder of top Maoist leader
- Australian Labor Party to enforce dictates of Washington, financial markets
- Chilean prosecutor charges ex-US officer in 1973 murder of American journalists
2011-12-06
- Workers’ Struggles: The Americas
- Washington state protesters disrupt special legislative session
- US-Russian tensions mount
- Australian Labor Party conference endorses plans to expel refugees
- The New York Times and the privatization of Medicare
- Germany: Angry Manroland workers protest against job losses
- Los Angeles police infiltrate Occupy LA
- Italy: Technocrat Monti introduces new drastic austerity package
- WikiLeaks “is shining light on the crimes that go on behind the scenes”
- Manroland: The defense of jobs and the role of the German trade unions
- Australia: Bushfires raise questions over emergency resources
- Democrats, unions conspire against Detroit city workers
- Occupy DC: Police arrest 31, demolish protest structure
- Letters from our readers
- Basketball team owners prevail as NBA lockout ends
- WikiLeaks’ Assange given green light to appeal extradition order before UK Supreme Court
- Bonn conference on Afghanistan dominated by crisis and pessimism
2011-12-07
- Bad as Me—a new album from Tom Waits
- Australian unions commit to Labor’s austerity program
- New York City transit workers meet as contract deadline looms
- Mounting evidence of US involvement in Syrian crisis
- Russian parliamentary elections highlight growing popular discontent
- The gutting of the US Postal Service
- 2012 Olympics: Police-state measures for London as super-wealthy party
- Social inequality spreads in industrialized countries
- Mexican workers face no alternative in 2012 vote
- US spy drone downed in Iran
- Thousands protest austerity measures in Hungary
- Merkel and Sarkozy plan a Europe of austerity
- Low turnout for run-offs in first wave of Egyptian elections
2011-12-08
- Texas student’s suicide highlights desperate plight of undocumented immigrants
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Report concludes British riots provoked by police brutality and poverty
- Germany: Thousands of Postbank workers strike
- Obama plays the populist card
- Police arrest over 70 in attack on Occupy San Francisco encampment
- Musicians may strike at New York City Opera
- Australia: Letter on the Victorian nurses’ struggle
- Australian High Court blocks frame-up charges against Moti
- Gay marriage “victory” diversion at Australian Labor Party conference
- Indian government puts retail sector restructure on hold
- Letters from our readers
- The rise and fall of Herman Cain
- US generals balk at Obama’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan
2011-12-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Justice Department drops criminal charges against Massey for deaths of 29 miners
- New York’s Cooper Union announces plans to charge tuition
- Striking electricians oppose Unite union’s efforts to isolate dispute
- American military sent hundreds of soldiers’ remains to garbage dump
- US officials threaten Russia amid post-election protests
- Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage supports SEP campaign for release of political prisoners
- Obama administration blocks access to emergency contraception for young women
- EU summit prepares new attacks on the working class
- Cooper Tire workers fight wage cut demands in northern Ohio
- City threatens to clear Occupy Albany encampment
- New Zealand: Pike River Coal charged over miners’ deaths
- Mumia Abu-Jamal to leave death row
- Labour and Fine Gael impose savage cuts in Ireland
- US condemned for arming Egyptian regime
- Obama’s visit prompts rancorous Australian foreign policy debate
2011-12-10
- “Workers must unite internationally”
- Slovenian election brings businessman to power, more cuts promised
- SEIU, pro-Democratic Party groups stage protests in DC
- Australian state government to privatise electricity generators
- Signs of a new strike wave in China
- My Week With Marilyn: Another look at the postwar American film icon
- Germany: Fierce debates at Manroland in Offenbach
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US covert operations threaten war with Iran
- Greek government imposes new austerity budget
- Flint, Michigan emergency financial manager begins imposing cuts
- Brussels summit ends with isolation of Britain inside the EU
- The Dover mortuary scandal and America’s disposable soldiers
- White House asks Supreme Court to block suit of man arrested for criticizing Cheney
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian report shows growing political alienation
2011-12-12
- Video: Detroit City workers speak on planned layoffs
- This week in history: December 12-18
- Washington continues campaign for Syrian regime-change
- Thousands protest against Kremlin regime
- CIA prison exposed in Romania
- Portuguese workers hit by massive austerity package
- Occupy Pittsburgh ordered to empty camp
- The unreality of the US presidential campaign
- Australia: Labor to extend NT “intervention” for a decade
- Indian hospital fire death toll rises to 92
- Detroit house-fire season begins amid cuts in firefighting
- City of Boston shuts down Occupy encampment
2011-12-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Regional cuts intensify Detroit transportation crisis
- The Nation backs Obama after anti-Plan B contraception ruling
- European workers face austerity and dictatorship
- Federal investigation finds Upper Big Branch mine disaster “entirely preventable”
- Obama and Maliki discuss continued US operations in Iraq
- UK family face eviction as collective punishment
- New York governor packages tax cut for rich as “reform”
- New Croatian government to implement big business measures
- Letters from our readers
- Cooper Tire workers in Ohio determined to fight pay cuts
- Trial of Khmer Rouge leaders underway in Cambodia
- California governor to enact midyear trigger cuts
- In defense of Shakespeare—a conversation with veteran Australian actor and director John Bell
- US Supreme Court to review Arizona immigration law
- Australia: Ambulance services under pressure to cut costs
2011-12-14
- US-China tensions loom over Taiwan’s presidential election
- Russian billionaire announces presidential run against Putin
- Renting a home in the UK unaffordable for many
- West Coast demonstrations target port operators
- The Iraq withdrawal and the continuing eruption of US militarism
- Bakery union sells out Park Cakes fight
- The Australian pseudo-lefts and the betrayal of Victorian nurses
- Contract workers denounce low wages in US auto industry
- Supreme Court intervention in Arizona anti-immigrant law poses threat to democratic rights
- Cooper Tire workers expose sweatshop conditions at Ohio factory
- Bulgaria: Strikes and protests against layoffs and austerity
- Grenade attack on Belgian city square leaves six dead, 123 wounded
2011-12-15
- Australian Labor government shuts down port workers’ dispute
- Peruvian crisis shifts Humala government to the right
- Mobilize the working class behind the Cooper Tire workers!
- Papua New Guinea locked in constitutional crisis
- German government seeks to ban neo-fascist NPD
- Obama administration backs bill authorizing indefinite military detention of US citizens
- Martin Scorsese’s Hugo: A rather drab and disjointed fairytale
- US child homelessness soars
- New fears of Greek default and new austerity demands against Greek workers
- Australian PM reshuffles ministry to deepen corporate assault
- UK Liberal Democrats pledge support for coalition over EU summit crisis
- Detroit mothers speak on wintertime utility shutoffs
- Obama at Fort Bragg: A hypocritical embrace of a criminal war
2011-12-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Tennessee plant where five workers died found rife with dangers
- One man’s campaign to expose corruption in Spain’s health service
- US hunger, homelessness soar amid cuts in social spending
- Pontiac, Michigan firefighters fight cuts
- Obama, Congress back legalization of a police state
- French bank Crédit Agricole to cut 2,350 jobs worldwide
- Far-right fanatic guns down immigrants in Florence
- Police besiege village land protest in China
- Australian government pursues anti-China relations with India
2011-12-17
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Seattle students walk out against education cuts
- Putin dismisses election protests
- Three more jailed for Facebook comments on UK summer riots
- Children’s reading levels determined by poverty, UK survey finds
- PNG crisis eases as Australia hints at military intervention
- Imperialism and the Khmer Rouge trials
- Bipartisan proposal targets Medicare for privatization
- German trade unions, management work to break up Manroland
- Army hearing begins against accused whistleblower Bradley Manning
- Journalist, scoundrel Christopher Hitchens dies at 62
- Fijian junta imposes draconian anti-union laws
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian government drops lawsuit against U.S. Steel
2011-12-19
- This week in history: December 19-25
- Australia: Refugee boat disaster claims over 180 lives
- Philippines: Hundreds dead and missing in flash flooding
- Bradley Manning and the attack on democratic rights
- New York City: Over 50 protesters arrested during attempt to establish new occupation site
- Australian nurses’ union announces “mass resignation” stunt
- Australia: SEP meetings discuss the US-Australia alliance against China
- Mass job losses and privatisation on London Underground
- Police massacre striking oil workers in Kazakhstan
- Egyptian military cracks down on peaceful protesters
- SEP and CAUS hold meeting to oppose Detroit budget cuts
- Sri Lankan opposition party backs Colombo slum evictions
- Obama, Congress ratify social spending cuts
- UK’s Supreme Court will hear Assange appeal against extradition
- Constitutional crisis erupts in the Philippines
2011-12-20
- Chinese village protest gains wide support
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Children of welfare recipients in California forced to pay for welfare debt
- On the picket lines at Cooper Tire
- Cooper Tire struggle at the crossroads
- New York City postal workers speak out on layoff, closure threats
- Germany’s Pirate Party debates new programme
- The Philippine ‘left’ and the constitutional crisis
- The Democratic Party and the assault on Medicare
- New York City targets 19 more schools for closing
- North Chicago police beating death sparks public outcry
- The death of Kim Jong-il
- Irish ex-left reaches out to Labour and Sinn Fein
- Banks demand deeper cuts following EU summit
- Letters from our readers
2011-12-21
- Pakistan continues to halt the supply of US forces occupying Afghanistan
- Unilever’s UK plants strike against pension attack
- Spain: Regional governments step up attacks on living standards
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of farmers protest against new law
- Diego Rivera at the Museum of Modern Art: Then and now—revolutionary art for revolutionary times
- Obama’s “Car Czar” says workers should have taken deeper cuts
- PNG constitutional crisis: O’Neill consolidates as PM
- The reality of the Iraq War
- Mexican students in Guerrero gunned down by government security forces
- Leon Trotsky on Mexican painter Diego Rivera (1938)
- UK unemployment on track for 3 million mark
- On the death of Václav Havel
- New revelations on 2005 Haditha massacre in Iraq
- Thousands of women march in Cairo against military junta
2011-12-22
- US House votes down extension of unemployment benefits
- UK: TUC moves to sell out fight against public sector pension cuts
- Québec Solidaire seeks electoral pact with big business Parti Québécois
- Russ Russell of Forgotten Harvest speaks on hunger in Detroit
- The lamentations of the rich
- New Zealand government prepares deeper austerity measures
- Poor conditions in US for-profit nursing homes
- Iraq lurches toward sectarian warfare
- Hunger in Detroit area on the rise
- Troika demands Greece make billions more in spending cuts
- French government prepares to deploy security forces to break airport strike
- That Deadman Dance—an imaginative story about indigenous Australians and European settlers
- Letters from our readers
2011-12-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Washington State deepens austerity measures
- Retrenchments hit Australian universities
- Rising demands for military intervention in Syria
- Sri Lanka: SEP and ISSE hold meeting on political prisoners
- The Russian Socialist Movement—a political trap for the working class
- Union prepares to sell out Australian port workers
- Waterfront workers disgusted by Australian government’s intervention
- Death toll in Philippines flooding over a thousand
- Christmas of crisis in America
- Russian President Medvedev appeals to free-market parties amid protests
- Young Goethe in Love: In fact, just another love story
- Disabled man killed in Detroit-area apartment fire
- A Christmas bonus for European financial elite, austerity for the masses
- Michigan politicians prepare new assault on Detroit workers
- Central Falls, Rhode Island: Retiree pensions slashed, but bondholders get paid
- Bombings heighten sectarian tensions in Iraq
- Cameron visits Afghanistan as UK prepares further interventions in region
2011-12-24
- Occupy Tampa activist released from jail after protests
- Sri Lanka: Protest in Jaffna over “disappearances”
- The siege of Wukan village in China
- US admits partial blame in deaths of Pakistani soldiers, but defends airstrikes
- New Zealand meat workers, wharfies locked out
- Germany: Neo-Nazi terror and the secret service
- Manning prosecution lays basis for terror charge against WikiLeaks founder Assange
- UK: Struggling families face astronomical interest on loans
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ivory Coast elections bolster French recolonization plans
- US Congress passes two-month extension of jobless benefits and payroll tax cut
- Letters from our readers
- Canadian imperialism preparing for war in the Middle East
- California nurses strike against cutbacks and concessions
- Occupy Albany encampment brutally attacked by police
2011-12-27
- What is behind the Wulff affair in Germany?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Gingrich, Perry fail to qualify for Virginia Republican ballot
- US-China military talks fail to resolve tensions
- This week in history: December 25-January 1
- Poetry review: Carol Ann Duffy’s The Christmas Truce
- Pro-market opposition holds Moscow rally
- UK police to use live rounds, plastic bullets and water cannon in future riots
- Portland teachers protest principal’s removal of Occupy speakers
- Iraq’s tragic encounter with US imperialism
- New research may show that Neanderthals did not go extinct
- The Nation and the National Defense Authorization Act
- French unions seek to end airport security workers strike
- Letters from our readers
2011-12-28
- Australian state government announces 3,600 public sector job cuts
- Congress seeks legal framework for Internet censorship
- Deadly shootings over Christmas holidays in the US
- Government of the rich, by rich and for the rich
- Mass opposition rally heightens political crisis in Pakistan
- Vita Cortex factory occupied in Cork, Ireland
- Jazz drummer Paul Motian (1931-2011)
- Hungarian government passes authoritarian new laws
- Hundreds of Sears, Kmart stores to close
- Democrats and Republicans conspire to impose cuts on Detroit workers
- Unions pave way for jobs and services bloodbath in UK councils
2011-12-29
- New Swiss government installed
- Sri Lankan commission whitewashes war crimes
- Second recession looms in Spain
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- “Understatement never won a war”: British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011)
- Obama’s global Murder, Inc.
- The Economic Crisis and the Return of History
- A personal perspective on the UK Occupy Movement
- Call for US intervention into Iraqi crisis
- Indonesian police kill three protesters during anti-mine protest
- Debt-burdened Illinois gives tax breaks to large corporations
- Tantalizing evidence of the Higgs boson
- Slideshow presentation: Afghan refugees in Paris speak out
2011-12-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Sparrows Point, Maryland mill suspends steelmaking operations
- Schweppes Australia locks out workers
- UK poverty entrenched and deepening
- Australian State Coroner reports on three refugee suicides
- Poverty in Germany persists despite economic growth
- 75 years since the Flint sit-down strike
- Oakland police shut down new Occupy encampment
- US menaces Iran over Strait of Hormuz
- House fire caused by space heater kills three in Ohio
- Best films of 2011
- Strikes escalate in China
- France prepares ban on denying a Turkish genocide of Armenians
2011-12-31
- Yemen “unity” government shaken by mass protests
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US unions aid in corporate wage-cutting campaign
- Cooper Tire lockout in second month
- Arab League mission to Syria becomes focus of demands for military intervention
- Pop and rock music in 2011
- US threatens war in the Persian Gulf
- New Zealand: Occupy Auckland evicted from city square
- Contract settlements announced between nurses and two New York medical centers
- A blow against the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
- For-profit company hosts “job fair” in Detroit area
- Favorite jazz recordings of 2011
- New York building cleaners oppose two-tier wage system
- Rising tensions as actions of ultra-Orthodox Jews spark Israeli protests
- Advocates for people with disabilities speak out on Detroit transit cuts
- Letters from our readers
- The ISO and the Cooper Tire lockout
- California Democratic Governor enacts “trigger cuts,” promising continued austerity
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