Archive: 01/2012
2012-01-03
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- This week in history: January 2-8
- US appeals court dismisses suits against telecom firms over warrantless wiretapping
- The new year begins
- Report calls for rollbacks in California public pensions
- New York City police arrest another 68 Occupy Wall Street protesters
- Sri Lankan ex-lefts boost rightwing UNP
- Obama signs police state legislation
- Wave of firebomb attacks on Muslim targets in New York City
- Israeli government mounts major attack on democratic rights
- Increased risk of poverty for German retirees
- A further discussion on human evolution
- Care for the elderly in UK faces collapse
- Who’s who on Detroit’s financial review panel
- Britain deports Sri Lankan asylum seekers
- Another year of death and destruction in the AfPak War
2012-01-04
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- London trial reveals corrupt dealings of Russian oligarchs
- 2012 opens with mounting war threat in Persian Gulf
- High Court ruling paves way for closure of 600 UK libraries
- Romney, Santorum in virtual tie in Iowa Republican caucus
- Australia: Victorian hospital workers speak on government cuts
- Petty-bourgeois “left” applauds betrayal of French airport strike
- Europe plunging into recession
- Egyptian military junta raids, shuts down political organizations
- Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned: Damned if you do
- Signs that China’s property bubble is imploding
- Caterpillar locks out Canadian workers
- US backs Taliban office in Qatar in bid for Afghanistan deal
2012-01-05
- Wisconsin budget cuts target higher education
- Blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011): “Feel the soul and the pain”
- Spain’s Popular Party government announces unprecedented budget cuts
- Iraq Veterans Against the War director speaks on Haditha massacre
- Australia: Qantas engineering union imposes sell-out deal
- Texas police kill 15-year old student at school
- The return of mass poverty to Europe
- France’s New Anti-Capitalist Party backs imperialist intervention in Syria
- Italian government attacks labour protection laws
- The 2012 US presidential campaign begins: A cynical exercise in duping the people
- Haiti’s President Martelly seeks to bring back military as internal police force
- Military trial begins for Marine charged in Iraq massacre
- Rally against emergency manager law: A conspiracy against Detroit workers
- Letters from our readers
- The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
- Australian Treasury warns of economic volatility
2012-01-06
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Union imposes real wage cut on Australian Toyota workers
- Washington pressures Arab League to move against Syria
- Romanian unemployment climbs as companies move abroad
- The scaffolding of an American police state
- General strike called as protests spread in Nigeria against gas price hike
- New Italian government tilts foreign policy towards Washington
- EU oil embargo heightens tensions in the Gulf
- Panel recommends state takeover of Highland Park, Michigan schools
- David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Fijian military government announces end to emergency laws
- Six weeks into battle, Cooper Tire workers remain determined
- London, Ontario locomotive workers in showdown with Caterpillar
- Family of slain Texas teen condemns police shooting
- The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
- Research on deadly flu virus prompts US government censorship
2012-01-07
- US, Canadian workers locked out for opposing wage cuts
- Obama unveils war strategy focused on China
- Several thousand layoffs imminent at German press manufacturer Manroland
- Stephen Lawrence murder convictions used to exonerate UK police
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- White House hails tepid job growth in December
- Bombings in Iraq intensify sectarian tensions
- Bitter dispute among Indian elites ignores vital dam safety issues
- Protests against new Hungarian constitution
- Unelected prime minister demands more sacrifices from Greek workers
- David N. Gibbs, historian and author, discusses threat of US war against Iran
- Australian government under mounting pressure to deliver workplace “reform”
- The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
- The Egyptian Revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood and the apologetics of the Revolutionary Socialists
- The Artist: An amiable gimmick
2012-01-09
- This week in history: January 9 - January 15
- US presses for Arab League finding against Syria
- Illinois teacher commits suicide citing working conditions
- TNA drops opposition to Sri Lankan war crimes whitewash
- Theater of the absurd in Republican presidential debates
- US-China rivalry behind fresh corruption charges in the Philippines
- The Pentagon’s strategy review: A blueprint for world war
- Benefit cuts to make 800,000 more UK homes unaffordable
- Ford closes Minnesota truck assembly plant
- US acquires ninth Predator drone to patrol borders
- Strikes erupt in China’s Sichuan province
- Proposed Chicago anti-protest laws to be permanent
2012-01-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Landslide in Philippine mining community kills at least 36
- The Republican primary campaign
- Ohio’s hidden housing crisis
- Lockout of New York City Opera performers begins after mediation breaks down
- General strike over fuel hike paralyzes Nigeria
- Malaysia’s opposition leader acquitted
- The Iron Lady: What were they thinking?
- Serious overcrowding in Irish hospitals
- Reports of falling unemployment in Germany conceal growing poverty
- Australian maritime union delivers “productivity” demands to DP World
- Two die in Detroit house fire
- Letters from our readers
- Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment
- Afghanistan signs oil contract with Chinese giant
2012-01-11
- Court finds Washington state in violation on education funding
- Australian government steps up secret surveillance of protests
- Detroit-area CEOs rake in millions while city prepares further cuts
- South Africa’s ANC at 100: A balance sheet of bourgeois nationalism
- Police attack peaceful anti-racist protesters in Germany
- Romney wins New Hampshire Republican primary
- LA schools agreement to give unions greater role in imposing cuts
- US renews military threat against Iran
- Profit drive leads to shortage of critical drugs, deaths in US
- Daley resigns as White House chief of staff
- Israel and foreign aid
- Neo-fascist Breivik warned Norwegian authorities of plans for mass murder
2012-01-12
- Lawsuit demands that Obama administration release Guantanamo torture tapes
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank chief calls for more IMF aid
- Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935
- Bank of New York-Mellon seeks to evict Occupy Pittsburgh
- US prepares for war against China
- Nigerian general strike escalates as government steps up repression
- Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in Tehran
- As Europe tips into recession, France and Germany call for more austerity
- US resumes drone missile attacks in Pakistan
- US Coast Guard to escort grain ship against dockworkers’ protest
- Letters from our readers
- Protests in Clermont-Ferrand, France over man’s death after beating by police
- Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and American capitalism
2012-01-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Former Turkish army chief of staff arrested
- Russia warns US, allies planning for war in Syria
- SeaFrance cross-channel ferries liquidated
- Manroland employees in Plauen: “We have been lied to and cheated”
- Scores injured, arrested in housing demolition in the Philippines
- Guantánamo: A decade of US torture and repression
- Pakistan faces creeping military coup
- Miliband commits UK Labour to long-term austerity
- Libya: TNC releases anti-democratic draft electoral laws
- US job cuts hit financial, IT, manufacturing sectors
- Iran’s Green Opposition endorses imperialist intervention in Syria
- Cooper Tire workers speak on struggle
- Obama’s new war doctrine fuels debate in China
- US marines desecrate Afghan dead
2012-01-14
- New York transit agency demands draconian worker givebacks
- New studies show growth of poverty, class tensions in US
- The US and its Middle East proxies
- Nigerian unions suspend general strike
- Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol: It might have been worse
- Presiding officer calls for Bradley Manning to face court-martial
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US doubles aircraft carriers near the Persian Gulf
- Foxconn workers threaten suicide protest in China
- Australian government rejects any dole increase
- French, European credit ratings slashed as Greek debt talks collapse
- Unemployed workers denounce Labor’s poverty-line benefits
- Illinois Caterpillar workers discuss London, Ontario lockout
- Canada to revive anti-democratic “counter-terrorism” powers
2012-01-16
- US Department of Agriculture to close 259 field offices
- This week in history: January 16-21
- Protests in Tunisia greet one-year anniversary of Ben Ali’s overthrow
- KMT retains presidency in Taiwanese elections
- Impeachment trial of chief justice opens in the Philippines
- Washington’s crimes against Iran
- Strikes resume in Nigeria after collapse of talks between unions and government
- Germany: Manroland workers protest job cuts
- Japanese PM reshuffles cabinet to push tax hike
- Occupations and lockouts in Ireland
- Germany: The Lübeck arson attack and the Zwickau neo-Nazi terrorist cell
- Australia: Government platitudes at Queensland flood memorials
- Obama seeks power to merge agencies, slash jobs
2012-01-17
- Strikes spreading in China
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- New York City transit contract expires without a strike
- Torture charges dropped against UK intelligence officers
- Social tensions rise as South African economy slows
- Quebec: Lockout of workers at Rio Tinto Alcan smelter in third week
- S&P downgrades and social counterrevolution in Europe
- Nigerian unions suspend general strike as army deploys in cities
- Indian economy buffeted by mounting crisis
- Ex-General Otto Perez Molina to expand drug war as Guatemala’s new president
- Unemployment soars in small Florida cities
- ElBaradei abandons Egyptian presidential candidacy
- Eleven dead, 29 missing as cruise ship runs aground in Italy
- Letters from our readers
- The way forward for locked-out Ontario Electro-Motive workers
2012-01-18
- One million signatures filed to recall Wisconsin governor
- UK Unilever workers strike over pensions
- Wikipedia shuts down to protest censorship bills
- Sri Lanka: Support the struggle of plantation workers against higher workloads
- South Carolina governor unveils plan to slash corporate income taxes
- Demonstrations spread in Romania against austerity policies
- The Bain Capital debate
- Michigan gives green light for charter school expansion
- Ireland facing a decade of austerity
- Economic, military pressures on Iran escalate global tensions
- Socialist Party pledges austerity after France loses AAA credit rating
- Chicago officials deny antiquated fire code caused woman’s death
- UK library closures and the High Court decision on Brent Council
- Australia: Deportation of Pakistani student
2012-01-19
- World economy set for another major downturn
- Obama backs regime change in Syria amid calls for intervention
- French “social summit” prepares attack on social security
- Tories and Scottish National Party argue over terms of independence referendum
- SOPA, PIPA and the freedom of the Internet
- Paltry fine against UK Coal for miner deaths
- Australian mental health workers maintain bans over wages and conditions
- Death toll likely to rise in Italian cruise ship tragedy
- Letters from our readers
- Rhode Island food bank director: “We’ve seen an incredible, dramatic increase in need”
- Millions poured into South Carolina primary campaign
- US upgrades diplomatic relations with Burma
2012-01-20
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- The bankruptcy of Kodak
- Thousands in Pennsylvania to lose food stamps due to asset test
- US government shuts down file-sharing site MegaUpload
- Media campaign targets German president
- Mass layoffs hit German printing press industry
- Latin American governments “apologize” for dictatorships’ crimes
- US, Israel coordinate strategy against Iran
- Spain’s judge Baltasar Garzón on trial for investigating Franco crimes
- A look at 3 Cohens’ Family album
- Australia: Banks warn of “painful” recession
- Mayors report: US cities remain mired in slump
- California budget proposal promises more cuts
2012-01-21
- Yemen’s “unity” cabinet provides immunity for Saleh regime
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Washington state schools, teachers under fire
- Infighting in South Carolina presidential primary
- The betrayal of Nigeria’s general strike
- UK pseudo-left covers for unions’ public sector pensions betrayal
- Occupy London faces eviction as police trash Parliament Square protest
- 1,500 Oakland, California city workers to be laid off
- Germany: Manroland is broken up with the help of the union
- Human rights groups charge NATO with war crimes in Libya
- French media attack Damascus after French journalist dies in Syria
- Texarkana Cooper Tire local to vote on settlement while Findlay workers remain locked out
- Some hard truths about the unions’ “Day of Action” for Ontario Electro-Motive workers
- Occupy Bristol served eviction notice by church and council
- New Zealand port threatens to sack striking workers
- Ten NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
2012-01-23
- China: Wukan protest shut down
- War Horse—All heart and no head
- This week in history: January 23-29
- Sri Lanka’s defence secretary targets workers and youth
- Gingrich wins South Carolina Republican primary with right-wing, pseudo-populist appeal
- Protests in Romania enter their second week
- Twenty-five years since the Mendiola massacre in the Philippines
- US-NATO war crimes in Libya
- Oppose extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the US!
- New York’s Democratic governor continues attacks on workers in second budget
- Thousands rally to support Ontario Electro-Motive workers
- Iraq war veteran accused of killing four homeless men in Southern California
- Banks and EU leaders pressure Greece for more austerity
- German government sets up neo-Nazi database
- UK Prime Minister Cameron attacks “culturally rewarding” cinema
- “We need every worker from around the world to have a day of action against Caterpillar”
2012-01-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government loses support of independent MP
- California food workers union reaches agreement with Food 4 Less
- Russian Prime Minister Putin appeals to middle-class protesters
- Police repress protest against tuition hikes at UC Riverside
- US Senators escalate tensions in Southeast Asia
- The unions and the lockouts at Cooper Tire and Caterpillar
- Johnny Otis, R&B’s renaissance man, dies at 90
- Famine devastates states of northern Mexico
- New Zealand judge defers bail decision on Megaupload arrests
- Bostonians decry transit fare hikes and service cuts
- Sri Lanka: SEP/ISSE meeting to demand release of political prisoners
- Italian truckers, taxi drivers mount national strike against social cuts
- European Union imposes oil embargo on Iran
- Anti-democratic actions by the US Supreme Court
- Letters from our readers
- Australian government car subsidies spark rift in corporate circles
2012-01-25
- US budget cuts devastate shelters for victims of domestic violence
- Toyota Australia slashes 10 percent of workforce
- Arab League calls for Syria’s Assad to step down
- Obama’s State of the Union address: War and wage-cutting
- Republican presidential candidate Romney reports income of $21 million a year
- One year of the Egyptian Revolution
- Nigerian government uses terror bombing to justify clampdown
- German government report highlights Nazi past of public officials
- Manroland: WSWS article unleashes debate in local newspaper
- The French political establishment and Gilles Jacquier’s death in Syria
- Australian jobs fall for first time in 20 years
- UK: Breast implant failures threaten health of thousands
- IMF warning on global downturn
- Illinois continues to shed jobs
- No prison time for Marine charged in Haditha massacre
- Detroit Democrats continue cynical campaign against Emergency Manager law
- Croatia: Referendum paves way for EU accession
- Unions isolate Cooper Tire workers in Ohio
- Petition: The Court of the Complainants—a potent Chinese documentary about injustice and state repression
- The 84th Academy Awards nominations—uneventful, for the most part
2012-01-26
- Two dozen arrested in San Francisco, California Occupy march
- Cargo ship grounded in New Zealand breaks apart
- United States Postal Service ends negotiations with two unions
- The State of the Union address
- Montenegrin unions agree to pay and job cuts
- Turkey threatens intervention into Iraq
- “Sing like your life depends on it”: Etta James—1938-2012
- Renewed mass protests mark anniversary of Egyptian Revolution
- Social and political crisis hangs over World Economic Forum in Davos
- Letters from our readers
- Connecticut police charged with brutalizing Hispanics
- Aluminum giant Alcoa closes plant in Sardinia
2012-01-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The Cooper Tire lockout and the lowering of US wages
- Pakistani elite preparing to restore full cooperation with US in Afghan War
- Trustees endorse Unilever attack on UK workers’ pensions
- Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis reported in Mumbai
- Insolvency of Schlecker drugstore chain threatens 47,000 jobs throughout Europe
- Child poverty map of UK paints a bleak picture
- Military mutiny in Papua New Guinea
- Washington to expand military presence in the Philippines
- Social protests spread in Eastern Europe
- The death of Joe Paterno and the Penn State scandal
- US militarism and Obama’s State of the Union address
- Democrats seek to defuse opposition to Detroit library cuts
- Kazakh elections take place amid rising social tensions
- Striking truckers, fishermen clash with Italian government
- Israel prepares for war against Iran
- Unilever worker says: “It’s like we have gone back a hundred years”
- The death of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos
- Australian protesters denounced as “ugly mob”
2012-01-28
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Cooper Tire workers in UK express solidarity with Ohio struggle
- Sri Lankan prison guards shoot protesting inmates
- The trade unions and Obama’s State of the Union speech
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Sri Lankan army instigates violence against Jaffna SEP members
- Scottish nationalists outline independence referendum
- Early elections in Saarland, Germany: CDU, SPD to form grand coalition
- Papua New Guinea: Dozens dead and missing in landslide
- Mounting social struggles cast shadow over Davos economic summit
- Obama outlines plan to put higher education on rations
- Canada’s Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum
- France rules out rapid Afghanistan withdrawal
- Letters from our readers
- Arkansas Cooper Tire local ratifies contract
- US CEO pay reaches new heights
2012-01-30
- This week in history: January 30 - February 5
- The Adventures of Tintin: A generic boy scout travels a computer-generated world
- US, Arab League push for UN action against Syria
- Indian foreign minister visits Sri Lanka
- The capitalist crisis and the radicalization of the working class in 2012
- US tightens the military noose around China
- Obama’s Jobs Council promotes pro-corporate policies
- Hundreds arrested in police crackdown on Oakland protests
- New York Mayor Bloomberg backs police commissioner in uproar over anti-Muslim film
- New Zealand court refuses bail in Megaupload case
- A friendly response to William Whitlow’s comments on Thomas Kuhn
- Berlin calls for EU-run bankers’ dictatorship over Greek economy
- European Central Bank averted global financial freefall
- Unite’s sabotaging of UK electricians dispute aided by ex-left
- London march against Academy status for schools
- London primary school mounts legal challenge over academy status
2012-01-31
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian media furore over Canberra protest
- Hands off the SEP! Defend SEP members in Jaffna!
- Forty arrested at Cape Town Occupy
- UK bank bonuses and the lie of “shared sacrifice”
- The “Workers Party” and the sell-out of Philippine Airlines workers
- The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran
- Occupy DC protesters ordered to end camps
- The French petty-bourgeois “left” and the rise of the neo-fascist vote
- Britain’s National Health Service faces wholesale privatisation
- Composer Gustav Mahler: A centennial appreciation
- Obama administration prosecutes CIA whistleblower for exposing torture
- Ireland’s United Left Alliance meets with EU-IMF-ECB “troika”
- US military preparations for war on Iran
- As EU crisis summit opens: 23 million unemployed across continent
- Letters from our readers
- Canada: Conservatives’ reactionary “tough on crime” bill soon to become law
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